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A02157	Planetomachia: or the first parte of the generall opposition of the seuen planets wherein is astronomically described their essence, nature, and influence: diuersly discouering in their pleasaunt and tragicall histories, the inward affections of the mindes ... Conteyning also a briefe apologie of the sacred and misticall science of astronomie: by Robert Greene, Master of Arts and student in phisicke. 1585.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1585 (1585)	STC 12299; ESTC S105841	74,857	119

by her wincking and to feare that the old Pandar suborned by some lewde mate had attempted to perswade her to some vnlucky match so that at the first she refused the letter til at last forced by the earnest intreaty of Clarista to take it she put it vp in her pocket promising if it conteyned nothing preiudicial to her honor she would the next day redeliuer an answere And with that being both satisfied they went agayne to Pandina who all that while was walking alone in the gallerye passing away the after noone in such endles chat as women when they meet can discourse of till the night drawing on Clarista tooke her leaue and departed Pandina and Pasylla being presently calde to supper where hauing taken the●● repast with the Duke they withdrew themselues to their lodgings Pandina into her bedde chamber and Pasylla into her closet where she no sooner came but in hast she vnripped the seales and found the contentes so straunge and vnlookt for that she both mused and marueiled at Rodentos sodaine passion and Claristas fond perswasion laughing at her foolish attempt and at his as she thought dissembled affection thinking that the young Gentleman inflamed with a secreat hate sought to spoile her honestie vnder the couloured pretence of Amitie and with the crocodile to weepe Rose water at the first and to spitte venome at the last For she knewe that there had beene such mortall hatred betwixt the Counte Coelio and her Father that as the flames of Eteocles and Polynires did part in their funerals so there coulde neuer growe any perfect affection betweene her Rhodento Yet the fame of his exquisite perfection and vertuous qualities the renowne of his valiant prowesse and bountifull courtesie was so blaz●e abroade throughout all Farrar● that as his friends had cause to commende him for his valo● so his verie foes could not condemne him because of his vertues Pasylla calling to minde the perfect proportion of his person was halfe tickled with a consenting affection so that if her will might haue stand for a lawe Rodento had not mist of his loue but as fancie forced her to listen to his sute so duetie dr●ue her to denie his request yet with such modest curtesie as the young Gentleman shoulde haue no great cause to unslike of her answere being in this good minde she tooke pen and Inke and writ him a letter to this effect Pasylla to Rodento Coeli● wisheth as shee ought IT is impossible Rodento with musicke to allure Vlysses because with Perill he hardly escaped the Syrons melodie when the Eagle sluttereth Doues take not their flight neither will the Deare stand at the viewe of a dogge though he feare not to gaze at the sight of a boult where hateful suspition breedeth enmitie there it is hard with painted shadows to procure amitie Synons mouth sauored of Hony when his hart was seasoned with Gall. Cassius had a dimple in his cheeke when he had a daggar in his hande and they which couet most bitterly to betray must first seeke most sweetely to intrappe I speake this Rodento because I see thy infectious poison presented in rich plate thy filthie drosse couered with gold and thy crooked meaning with a coloured motion Can the house of the Coelii fauour Valdracko or canst thou loue where thy father hath alwayes sought to hate Nay shall Pasylla be so madde to thinke thy glozing truth other then guilefull treacherie or thy sacred desire to obtain other then a feere at despight to reuenge if she should thou mighest well haue great occasion to laugh but she farre more cause to repent It had been good Rodento to haue halted but not before a Cripple and if thou wouldest needs flatter fancie thou saist to haue drawne the plot for some other person for thou mightest think if I spied no deceipt I were too fonde and if I doubted no dissembling too creedulous si●h then thy hooke being bare thou canst catch no fish thou maist sit downe and play with thine Angle But put case Rodento doth loue shall therefore Pasylla begin to like no she hath learned to be blinde at profers and deafe at promises to heare little and beleeue lesse least in harkning to the charmer she hap to be inchanted It is not for fools to play with swords nor for maides to dallie with loue least the one haue cause to crie and the other to repent There is nothing sweeter then libertie nor any thing more sooner lost which men seeke to obtaine with flattery and to rewarde with falshood yet I will imagine Rodento doth loue and Pasylla could loue will Valdracko grant he shoulde enioy his daughter no hee had rather preuent her with vntimely death then pretend such an vnlikely demaunde he would sooner consent to payn her with some hellish miserie then place her in such a haplesse marriage But alas what is this to the purpose Rodento doth loue and must enioy his loue or else poore soule die for loue Truely either the mans minde is very weake that will pine away with such a passion or his bodie verie feeble that wil perish for so small a maladie but sith your stomacke Rodento is so queasie I will giue you this comfortable principle that as it is harde for women not to consume with care so it is impossible for men to die of a conceit the ones minds melting like waxe the others hardned like Adamant And yet howsoeuer the case stands though I neither can nor may loue thee Rodēto yet I wil not hate thee but wish that our parents were as assured friends as the children might be perfect louers and so farewell Her owne and not possible to be yours Pasylla PAsylla hauing thus finished her letter feeling her cyes to be halfe closed with drowsie sleepe went to her bedde thinking to beguile the long night with swee slumbers but it fell out otherwise for Venus willing to fauour such a forward champion as Rodento thought to yoke the neck which as yet neuer yeelded and to fire that fancie with a lusting desire which hitherto hadde beene frosen with a chaste disdaine shee therefore presented vnto Pasylla the beautie and young years of Rodento the vertuous disposition of his minde wherein he was simple and the perfection of his outwarde shape wherein hee was singular in the one excelling most in the other inferior to none which duelie considered draue her to debate thus doubtfullie with her selfe Ah vnhappie Pasylla whose minde is pained with vnacquainted passions and whose heade is troubled with vnequall thoughts shall thy Uirgins ●●ate ●e stained with fonde desires or thy younge yeares darkened with Cupides shadowes Tis fitte for thee Pasylla to spende thy youth in laboures not in loues to pace solemnelye after Vesta not to gadde wantonlye after Venus Maydes muste haue denyall in their mouth and disdaine in their hearts so ●ha● they 〈…〉 securely despise fancie Diana is painted kissing 〈◊〉 and spotting beau●ies face with a Penfel Uirgi●s 〈◊〉

chylde prohybite thee from suche hellishe practises But why do●st thou prattle Pasilla thou seest they could not Graunt not to the trecherous wre●th then so much ●auour as to let him inioye one moment of life but reuenge his wickednesse and 〈◊〉 thine owne woe And with that Valdracko was about to speake but Pasilla incensed with a furious 〈…〉 vp the sword and wounded him sore and after many bloody ●low●s he yeelded vp the ghost When she had thus cr●c●y murthered her father yet iustlye requited the iniu●y she to●k pen and incke and wrote the effect of this tragicall discourse that al might know the cause of this bloody fact whiche fini●hed ●●e fell groueling on the sword and so ended both her life and her miseries Saturne Iupiter Mars Sol Venus Mercurie Luna VEnus had no sooner ended her tale but Saturne rising out of his seate as one in a chafe fell into these Collericke tearmes Saturne Venus you play like them which seeking to shoote against the starres are wounded with their owne Arrowes in the fall or like the enuious Porcuntine who coueting to strike others with her pennes leaueth her selfe void of any defence you haue here tolde a tale of Valdracko which sheweth not my crabbed influence but your owne crooked constellation for it was the wilfull forwardnesse of Pasylla in her do●ing fancies and her lasciuious loue in liking her fathers enimy that procured those haplesse euents yea it was the vnbridled affection of staylesse youth not the careful wisedome of setled age that wrought this Tragicall discourse Venus Saturne if old men could blush no doubt all the gods should perceiue thou wert more ashamed in defending so false a cause then in hearing me rehearse the case but I will not say you doate because you are old but dissemble because you are wise so shall I both excuse your fondnesse and commend your wit but this I hope I may say without preiudice that your arguments sauour as much ●f reason as Luna doth of constancie Luna You might haue said Venus as you do of honestie and so all the gods would haue thought his arguments of small force but were his reasons as full of substance as you of light qualities it were against Aristotle to deny either premises or conclusion Venus You learned this Logicke Luna of End●mion but let that passe and seeing Sol is appointed Moderator in this our controuersie I thinke he cannot but say that the haplesse and tragicall euents of this history came by the predominant influence of Saturne for was it not the Melancholy disposition of Valdracko that nourished so long the glowing sparkes of reuenge toward the Conte Coelio and his Saturnine constitution that with a coulored shewe of amitie repayed most faithfull friendshippe with cruell enmitie did hee not carry in the one hande breade and in the other a stone and preferre his priuate iniuries before publike credite or honesty yea did not such melancholicke impressions pester his minde as hee was the cause of the most tragicall and bloodie Massacres Mercurie Truth Venus such is the crabbed disposition of Saturne as they which are borne vnder his influence delight in tragicall treacheries performed with most subtill and secreat attempts so that Caesar feared more the two Saturnists Brutus Cassius then all his forraine foes of any other constitution Iupiter Mercurie you speake without commission I am glad you are so greatly beholding vnto Venus indeede she cannot want counsellours nor champions she allowes them such large fees But I pray you wherein is my Father Saturne so greatly to be blamed was not Valdracko forced by the disordinate affection of his daughter Pandina to his enemies sonne Rodento rather to preuent mishappe by some synister meanes then to bring his hole house and famelie to most miserable decay and ruine Mars Iupiter if large fees may make bolde champions or brawling counsellers you haue greatest cause both to fight chide in Venus behalfe she hath giuen you many a fat present as Europa da●as Alcmena I haue named ynough I think to stoppe your mouth Luna Mars what Iupiter hath gotten I knowe not but what Vulcan got with his net we al know not a fish but a God But it is wel you defend not her honestie but her arguments Sol. Cease from these biting quips they are fit for brabling Sophisters not for the gods and heare my verdict I am of this minde that the hapelesse euentes of this tragical discourse came by Saturnes synister influence that Coelios death proceeded of a malicious and secreat hate that Rodentos balefull mishap spronge from a Saturnine reuenge predominant in the configuration of Valdrachos natiuitie imprinting in his aged minde a melancholie despight which brought to passe this wofull and vnnaturall tragedie This is my censure but nowe sith Venus hath ended her tale Luna I charge you to report her Astronomical description because Saturne will speake more of ran●or then of reason Saturne Sol we haue agreed that your sensure shal stand for a sentence and therfore I wil not inueigh against your verdict but am content to beare the blame of Valdrachos ill nature yet that you the rest of the gods may know that there commeth more harme by disordinate lawlesse Venus then by me I will rehearse an historie wherein you shall easily perceiue that loue sotteth the senses infec●e●h youth destroyeth age and is the very plague both to the minde and body Lunas Astronomicall description of Venus THe starre of Venus right mightie gods is so simplie called as Tullie auoucheth quod ad res omnes veniat and the auncient Arabians call it astrum genitale or prolifioum for the temperate moisture and fauorable influence that it distilleth vppon all humaine bodies for the nature of Venus is to infuse into all inferiour substances while they are ingendered or nourished a certaine Humidatum sucoum or delicate moisture yet notwithstanding so thinne and subtile that it shall 〈…〉 and f●llow more the nature of 〈◊〉 then of showers which natural● and proper qualitie in my iu●gement caused the a●ncient Poets 〈◊〉 attribute this Epitheton vnto Venus A●●a ab alendo Now as concerning her other qualitie of 〈…〉 note that ●●we h●●e in naturall he●●e placed 〈◊〉 that doth cherish and nourish as is Sol and his irra●i at starre Iupiter so we haue set down● another which doth burne and scortch intempera●ely as doeth Mars with his adult and y●llow chollar so likewise in the nature of co●●nesse we doe appoint Venus to be ●om●o●ate and fauorable and Saturne with his melancholy humor to be infortunate and maligna●● of the which opinion are Prolomeus Galen and the Chaldes saying that amongst the Planets there are two fauourable wel affected and friends to nature namely Iupiter and Venus and two Saturne Mars ●●holsome bitter lucklesse and yll affected To confyrme the which I will rehearse Ptolomeus owne sentence●● the end of his first Apotellosma●●● There are foure humours saith he or first