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A20370	The mirrour of mirth and pleasant conceits containing many proper and pleasaunt inuentions, for the recreation and delight of many, and to the hurt and hinderance of none / framed in French by that worshipfull and learned gentleman, Bonaduenture de Periers ... and Englished by R.D.; Nouvelles récréations et joyeux devis. English. 1583	Des Périers, Bonaventure, 1500?-1544?; Deloney, Thomas, 1543?-1600.	1583 (1583)	STC 6784.5; ESTC S4102	71,485	102

amongst other Companie that did frequent haunt this maried mans house whome I meane not to name was a yong Aduocate who was called the Lord of Beaufort being of the cuntry of Berry who came many times to the Bar to plead the law to which Gentleman this maried mā bare great fauour loue made good chéer because they had béene familliar at y e. Vniuersities and Companions together in many places This Beaufort had not his name in vaine for he was faire of a good behauiour and therfore the yong maried Gentlewoman gaue him a louing looke he likewise to her in so much that in short time by their oftē regards they gaue a token of their secret loue good wills Now the Husband knowing fashiōs showed himself very willing to please his wife specially when things were new not greatly mistrusting his wiues youth neither doubting his fréends honesly contenting himself with the diligent care attendance of Dame Parnet Beaufort in like manner for his part could tell how to behaue himself perceiuing the great familiarity that his freend her Husbande shewed him the gentle gratious intertainement that y e yong wife made him with an outward affectiō which hée thought was more manifest to him then to another as indéed it was true and therfore he found easily an occasion in talking with her to declare the sorrow he conceiued through her loue and because she was brought vp nourished in a house of fame she could y t better vse her self and answere vnto all questions and demaunds To whome Beaufort being pricked forward with a goodwil said in this maner Gentelwoman it is easie enough to a Gentlewoman of a good minde to know the goodwill of a seruant for they alwaies bring in subiectiō and thraldome the harts of men whither they will or no therfore it shall not néede further to expresse declare vnto you y e great affectiō honor that I beare to an infinit nomber of your vertues which are indeed with such gentlen●● of the minde that the man can not otherwyse iudge 〈◊〉 think but that he was borne happy fortunate to ha●● his heart fixed in so good a place for those things that are most precious are not desired but of gentle and noble minds which therfore to me is a great occasiō to praise fortune that hath béene so fauorable as to present and offer me so vertuo●s and worthie a subiect that thereby I might haue the meane to put in euidēce the desire I haue to things precious and of a great valew And although I bée one of the leaste of those whose seruice you meryt deserue yet neuertheles I am thus perswaded that the great perfections that are in you wherat I do wonder will giue occasiō to increase in me those things y t are required to true seruice For as touching my hart it is so faithfully affectioned towards you that it is vnpossible any thing cā be more which I hope trust so to giue you to vnderstand that you shal neuer be displeased in that you haue giuen me occasion to remaine for euer your faithfull trusty seruant The yong gentle womā y t was well taught and sober hearing his pretēce would as gladly haue fulfilled his request as it was required who with a feminine voyce being somwhat bould according to her age to the which commonly Women haue respect being coupled with an honest modest shamfastnesse answered him in this maner Gentlemā although I should haue a will and a desire to loue yet will I not so ouershoot my self as to make another Louer thē he to whome I am coupled ioyned in mariadge wedlocke who loueth me so wel and doth so gently entertaine me that he kéepeth me frō thinking on any other thē on him Furthermore if it should fortune vnto me to set my hart in two places I estéeme iudge your vertue good heart to be such y t you wold not wish me to do any thing y t shal redound to my dishonor As touching the vertues graces that on attribute vnto me I will let thē passe ●nowing no such thing in my self and therfore I restore ●●m to the place frō where they came which is to you ●or now to defend my selfe otherwise would you presume to do that iniurie and wrong to him that putteth so much confidence and trust in you it séemeth to me that such a noble minde as yours is would by no means geue place to such a fact as this And then you sée besides the inconueniences so greatly to let such an enterprise that if you should obtaine your request there is not oportunitie to fulfill the same For I haue alwaies in my Cōpanie a Kéeper so that if you would consent to do euill she hath alwayes her eye vpon me that I cannot steale from her by no means Beaufort was very glad when he vnderstood this answere and specially when he felt that the Gentlewoman stayed her self vpon reasone whereof the first were some what to hard but afore the last y e yong wife did mellify their herselfe to the which M. Beaufort made answere in this order The thrée poincts that you doe alledge Gentlewoman I haue wel wayed and considered but you know y ● two of them depend and consist of your goodwill and the third lyesh in diligence good aduise For as touching the first séeing that loue is a vertue that searcheth out and séeketh the hearts and minds after a gentle nature you must well think that one day you shall lyue first or last the which thing before it be it were better you should receiue the seruice of him who loueth you as his proper life in due houre then to staye any longer to yeeld obey to y e Lord that hath power to make you pay y e interest of the time y t by you hath beene let slyp and to put you into y e hands of some dissembling man y t wold not take such regard of your honor as it deserueth As touching y ● second it is a case that hath béene long voide to thē that find me what loue is for you shall vnderstand for the affection that I beare vnto you so far am I from doing iniurie to your Husbande that rather I do him honor what I loue with a good heart that which he loueth there is no greater shew y e two hearts are at accorde but when they both loue one thinge You know well if he and I were ennemies or if we had not acquaintance one with an other I should not haue oportunitie to sée you neither to speake to you so often as I doe So then the good will that I beare towardes him béeing the cause of the great loue that I beare towardes you ought not to be the cause that you should let me die for louing you Now then as concerning the thirde you knowe faire Lady that to a willing and noble heart

them I thanke God but he tooke all that came and put all together in a great Pot that he had prouided of purpose in a corner of the kitchin At the laste came the Channons to Dinner sat downe in order according to their dignities This singing man at y e first let before them their pottage that he had put together in the great Pot but God knoweth in what order for one had sent a Capon in stued broth another Saffrō broth another Chickins in white broth an other powderd béefe and turneps an other a legge of mutton in herbe pottage some sent their meate sodden and some rosted When the Channons sawe this kinde of seruice they had no stomackes to eate but tarried ech man to see when their owne prouision woulde come in not thinking that it was on the Table before them The Querister or singing man wente to and fro very busie as one that was carefull to sée them well serued beholding alwayes their countenaunces that sat at the table The first seruice béeing somewhat too longe they could forbeare no longer but said vnto him I pray thée take away these pottages and giue vs those that we sente hyther These are yours said he Ours saide they that they are not Yes truely quoth he they are saying to one here is your turnups to an other here is your stued broth to an other here is your herbe pottage to an other here is your white broth and to an other these are your Saffrō pottage then they began ech man to know his owne pottage and to behold one an other Now truely saide they we were neuer thus vsed but is this the order to feast y e Channons now the Deuill take all I thought this foole would mocke vs. Then spake an other saying I had the best pottage that was eate of this seauen yeares And I said an other had well prouided for my dinner And my heart gaue me said the fourth that it had béene better to haue dined at home When the singing man had giuen eare a while vnto their talke he said My maisters if all your pottages were so good as ye faine they were howe can it bee possible that they should become naught in so short a time I haue kept them by the fire close couered what could I haue done better to them Yea mary saide they but where diddest thou learne to put them thus together thou mighst well know that they would not bee good béeing thus mixed Well then said hee I perceiue that which is good by it selfe alone is naught béeing mixed with other things Now truely said he I must néeds beléeue you if it be but by your selues my Maisters for when ye be ech one alone by your selues ther is nothing better then yee are you promise then mountaines but when you are together in your Chappel Court then are ye like to your pottages Thē they vnderstood wel what he meant Ha well said they we perceiue nowe to what end this thy dooing was thou hast good cause to be considered but in the meane time shal we not dine Yes that you shall sayd he better then you are worthie Then hee brought them other meate that he had prepared set yt before them where with they were pleased When they had well dyned they went away concluded from that time foorth that hee shoulde bee prouided for the which was done And thus his inuention and deuise of pottages did preuaile more then all his requests and importunate suites before time ¶ Of one that sang the Countertennor at Reymes who was a singing man a Pickard and a Mayster of Art THere was a singing man that did belonge to our Ladies Church at Reymes which is the Countrey of Champeny who had a singular good voice to singe the Countertennor but he was a man giuen verie much to vice for there escaped no day wherin he did not commit some follie with one he would fighte with an other quarrell a common gamester at Cardes and Dice always at the Tauerne with his pretie wenches of whome complaintes came daily to the Chappell Court before the Channons and maisters they would often times warn him of his faults reproouing threatning him sometimes openly sometimes secretly and he would promisse euerie time to amend and to become an honest man but when they were turned and g●ne out of sight that the wine had gotten Sir Iohn by y e braine then began he his old pranks Now the Channons were constrained to beare with him for twoo causes the one was because he sange passing well the other because hee was put to them by an Archdeacon of the Church vnto whom they bare such reuerence that they would not open the mans faultes vnto him thinking belike that he had known them aswell as they and that he did reproue him for them as in déede he did when he knew thereof but hee knewe not the one halfe of this faultes It came to passe vppon a time that this singing man committed an offence so haineus that the Channons were constrained of force to declare it to the Archdeacon shewing him that for his sake they had put vp manie greeuous offences at his handes but now seeing he vsed himself worse and worse béeing in a maner past remedy they could no longer forbeare to hold their peace Hee hath said they this night so beaten a Priest that he shal not be able to singe Masse againe this twoo Monethes if it had not béene for the looue of you we wold haue forbidden him our church long ago but for that we sée in him no remedie we pray you not to bee offended with vs for that we doo informe you thereof The Archdeacon aunswered them that they had done well that he himselfe would take order therin And incontinently he sente for the singing man who feared that there was some matter against him for hee knewe well it was not to giue him a Benefice neuerthelesse he went and was no sooner gone in but Maister Archdeacon began to sing to him an other maner of lesson then Mattins Come hither saide hee thou knowest how often those of this Church haue borne with thy insolencie and naughtie life therefore auoide and get the hence and sée that thou sée my face no more I will not hereafter bee reprooued for suche a leude Iauell as thou art for there is no amendment in thée but if I shoulde serue thée according to thy desertes I should make thee fast bread and water this twelue monethes Ye néed not aske if the singing man was cut on the heade not withstanding he was not so calmed but that he made his answere directlie and saide Sir doe you that are so well séene in men maruell though I am not wise you know Sir that I am a singing man a Packard and a Mayster of Arte. The Archdeacon at this sodaine answere could not tell whether to laughe or to be angrie notwithstanding he turned it to the beste