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A03389	The most excellent historie of Lysimachus and Varrona, daughter to Syllanus, Duke of Hypata, in Thessalia Wherin are contained the effects of fortune, the wonders of affection, and the conquests of incertaine time. By I.H. R.	Hind, John, fl. 1596-1606.	1604 (1604)	STC 13510; ESTC S106221	70,579	101

your selfe then this if you will admit of my admonition you shall not giue him house-roome long Madame replied he it is an assured signe of a frée and friendlie minde to giue good counsaile but it is hard for one in bondage and out of his owne possession to follow it For what knowe you whether he hath alreadie taken entire possession of the house wherein he is which if it be so what wit is able to deuise a writ to remooue him from thence If sir said she he entred by order of lawe and paid you truly for it it is reason he enioy it mary your folly was great to reteine such a tenant but if he intruded himselfe by force you may lawfully exclude him by strength Indéede said he he entred vi armis forcibly but after vpon parley I was content he should remaine in peaceable possession mary as yet he paid me nothing but he promiseth so frankly that if the performance follow a house with beames of beaten gold and pillars of precious stones will not counteruaile the price thereof yet if I were placed in quiet possession of it I would thinke my selfe richer I will not say then the King but which is more then God himselfe who ruleth heauen and earth And as the hope of obteining the effect of that promise heaueth me vp to heauen so the doubt ●o be deceiued thereof driueth me downe to hell And what iollie fellow said she is this that promiseth so franklie will he not promise golden hils and performe dirtie da●es Would to God said he your séemely selfe were so well acquainted with him as I am then would I make you iudge of the worthinesse of the thing he hath promised for that you know the goodnes thereof none better The Lady smelling the drifts of his deuises and séeing the end of his talke séemed to tend to loue and that touching her owne selfe thought not good to draw on their discourse any longer but concluded with this answere As I am altogether ignorant what your obscure talke meaneth so care I not to be acquainted with any such companie as is your Landlord for so me thinks by you I may more fitlie call him then tearme him your tenant and so departed away into her lodging Valentine likewise his mistres being gone gate him to his Chamber to entertaine his amorous conceipts and being alone brake foorth into these words O friendly fortune if continually hereafter thou furiouslie frowne vpon me yet shall I all the dayes of my life count my selfe bound vnto thée for the onely pleasure which this day thou hast affoorded me in giuing me occasion to talke with her whose angels voice made such heauenly harmonie in my heauie heart that where before it was plunged in perplexities it is now placed in felicitie and where before it was oppressed with care it is now refreshed with comfort Yea euery looke of hee is able to cure me if I were in most déepe distresse of a most dangerous disease euery swéet word procéeding from her sugred lips is of force to fetch me from death to life But alas how true do I try that saying that euery commoditie hath annexed vnto it a discommoditie How doth the remembrance of this ioy put me in mind of the griefe which the losse of this delight will procure me yea it maketh all my senses shake to thinke that some other shall enioy her more woorthie of her then my selfe and yet who in this court nay in all Christendome nay in the whole world is woorthie of her No if she neuer haue any vntill euery way she haue one worthie of her she shall neuer haue any And shall I then béeing but a poore Gentleman séeke to insinuate my selfe into a place so high Shall I by my rude attempt purchase at least the displeasure of her friends and parents and perchance of hers also whome to displease would be no lesse offensiue vnto me then death Alas and must loue néedes be rewarded with hate must curtesie be counter●ailed with crueltie must good will be returned with displeasure Is it possible that bountie should not abide where beautie doth abound and that courtesie should not associate her comelinesse Yes I am sure at the least she will suffer me to loue her though her yong yéeres and high estate will not suffer her to affect me and though she will not accept me for an husband yet I am perswaded she will not reiect me for a seruant and though she will not receiue my seruice yet I doubt but she will affablie take the tendring thereof vnto her And touching her parents displeasure what care I to procure the ill will of the whole world so I may purchase her good liking Yea if I should spend the most precious bloud in my bodie in the pursuite of so péerelesse a péece I woulde count it as well bestowed as if it were shead in the quarrell of the Gods thy Prince or countrie For she is the Goddesse whom with deuotion I will adore she is the prince whome with dutie I wil obey she is the countrie in whole cause I will spend my life liuing and all that I haue Neither is there such cause why her friends should much storme at the matter for my lands and reuenewes are such as that they will not suffer me to want any thing pertaining to my estate and degrée Why Alearne a youth like my selfe being inamoured with Ardalesia daughter to the mightie Emperour Otho stole her away and married her and do I sticke to attempt the like with one of farre meaner estate though of farre more worthinesse And albeit frowning Fortune tossed him for a while in the temp●stuous seas of aduersitie yet at the length he arriued at the hauen of happie estate and was reconciled to the good grace of the Emperour againe And though at the first my ship be shaken with angrie blasts yet in time I doubt not but to be safely landed on the shore and haue my share of that which the shewers of shrewde fortune shall kéepe me from He is not worthy to suck the swéete who hath not first sauoured the sower And as the beautie of a faire woman being placed by a foule blazeth more brightly so cach ioy is made more pleasant by first tasting some sower sops of sorrow Did not the perrill which Leander ventured in the Ocean and the paine which he tooke in swimming make his arriuall to the hauen of his heauenly Hero more happie and pleasant yes no doubt of it for besides the féeling of the present pleasure the remembrance of the danger past delighteth Besides that by how much more a man hazardeth himselfe for his mistresse sake by so much the more he manifesteth the cōstancie of his soule and meriteth solace at her hands the more worthily This saying also is no lesse tried then true that fortune euer fauoureth the valiant things the more hard the more haughtie high heauenly neither is any thing

planted it in you For God and nature do nothing vainely or after a vile manner And in that some do amisse in rebelling against her their owne scrupulous nicenesse is the cause when they will impose vpon themselues heauier burdens then they are well able to sustaine and refuse those which nature hath appointed them to beare being indéede but light What talke you sir said she so much of nature and of creatures without reason as though we ought to follow either the instinct of the one or the example of the other I haue béen alwayes taught that reason is the rule whereby our actions ought to be directed and that we ought to lay before vs the déeds of creatures indued with reason to follow and imitate For if you stick so strictly to the example of brute beasts you should vse the company of women but once or twice at the most in a yéere as most of them do with their females whereto I am sure you would be loth to be tyed Madame replied he a Gentlewoman of this citie hath alreadie answered this obiection for me Why then quoth she will you condemne their doings in some points and place them for patternes to be practised by other some Yea why not said he otherwise you might generally take exception against the example of men for that some men in some matters do amisse The good euer is to be vsed and the euill reiected Doth not euery man so soone as his daughter is arriued to ripe yéeres trauaile to bestow her in marriage whereby she may enioy the fruites of loue and participate with pleasures incident to that estate whereby they plainely shewe that the cause why they beget them with pleasure and bring them vp with paine is to haue them enter into that trade of life wherein not onely themselues may liue happily abounding in all pleasure but also by the fertill fruite of their bodie make their mortall parents immortall that when they shall be blasted with age and withered away the issue of their seede may begin gréenely to growe and flourishly to spring to the great comfort both of father and daughter For what pleasure the Grandfather taketh in the sporting pastime of his proper daughters prettie children I thinke you partly vnderstand and what delight the mother taketh in the toyes of her little sonne you soone shall perfectlie perceiue if it please you fréely to followe the friendlie counsaile which I frankly pronounce vnto you For do you thinke if virginitie were of such vertue that parents would not rather paine themselues to kéepe their daughters modest maydes then straine themselues and their substance to ioyne them in Iunoes sacred bond Yes perswade your selfe if ●our mother were so assured she would rather lock you vp c●ose in her closet then suffer any to enioy the soueraigne sight of your beautie or once aspire to your spéech whereby you might be perswaded to some other kind of life But she experienced by yéeres knoweth what is best for your behoofe and would you should follow her example and make no conscience to loose that which she herselfe hath lest which except she had we had mist so rare a iewell as your séemely selfe is which what a detriment it had béen to my selfe I dare not say least you should count vertue vanitie and truth trifling flatterie But to our purpose you perceiue as I said your parents pleased with the accesse of Gentlemen vnto you whereby you may conceiue their minde is you should accept such seruice as they profer and partake with those pleasures which they prefer vnto you Why sir said she you altogether mistake the meaning of men in this matter for when fathers tender marriages to their daughters it is not for any minde they haue to haue them married but onely for feare least they should fall to follie other waies for knowing the fickle frailtie of youth and our propens●ues to grauitie and weakenesse they prouide vs marriages to preuent mischiefes and seeing of euils the least is to be chosen they count wedlock a lesse euill then the lightnes of our life and behauiour Alas good Madame said Valentine why do you so much prophane the holie state of Matrimony as to count it in the number of euils whereas the Gods themselues haue entred into that calling whereas Princes pleasantly passe their time therein whereas by it onely mankind is preserued and amisse and loue amongst men continued of the woorthinesse whereof I am not sufficient to open my lips Sir said Fuluia I speake it not of my selfe but according to the opinion of the most wise and learned Philosophers that euer liued amongst whom one Aminius so much misliked of marriage that being demanded why he would not marrie answered because there were so many inconueniences incident to that estate that the least of them is able to sley a thousand men Why Madame replied he you must consider there is nothing in this mortall life so absolutely good and perfect but that there be inconueniences as well as commodities thereby incurred by that reason you may take the Sunne out of the world for that it parcheth the Sommer gréene and banisheth away the beautie of those that therein blaze their faces But to leaue naturall and humane lawes and come to diuine precepts proceeding from Gods owne mouth doth not God say It is not good for a man to liue alone and therefore made Eue for an help and comforter Likewise in diuers places of Scripture he doth not onely commend marriage vnto vs saying Marriage and the bed vndefiled are honourable but also commaundeth vs to it saying You shall forsake father and mother and follow your wiues Why sir said she and doth not God say It is good for a man not to touch a woman And if thou be vnmarried remaine so But why alleadge you not this text It is better to marry then to burne whereby is plainely shewed that marriage is but a meane medicine for the burning in concupicence and lust But because we entred into these misteries I could refer you to an historie where it is reported that in heauen Uirgins chiefely serue God and set foorth his glorie And Mahomet the great Turke when he was in heauen said he sawe there Uirgins who if they issued from heauen would lighten the whole world with their brightnes and if they chanced to spit into the sea they would make the whole water as swéete as hony but here is no mention of married folkes Belike said he those Uirgins are like your selfe and then no maruaile though God be delighted with the sight of them which perchance is the cause he hath them in heauen to attend vpon him as first Hebe and after Ganymedes did vpon Iupiter But generally of women the histories record that by bringing foorth of children they shall be honoured and inioy a place in heauen which must be by marriage if honestly But because I am perswaded that it is only for argumēt sake that you

made no better prouision for lights and other things necessarie then such as you speake o● they might soone haue slipt into the mire but as I perceiue by your words you are disposed to iest and be merrie so I am content for this once to be made the instrument thereof thereby to ease some part of the paines which you are like to take in receiuing such troublesome guests as we are and for our cheere you neede take no thought for it shall be so much too good for vs by how much lesse we haue deserued any at all your hands After this amorous encounter he caused the company to sit downe to the banquet and so disposed the matter that Varrona sat at the table right ouer against him whereby he freely ●ed his eyes on that meat which cōuerted rather to the norishment of sicknes then to wholesome humors of health For as the finest meats by one in extremitie of sicknes resolue not to pare blood to strengthen the bodie but to watrish humours to feed the leuer and disease so though her face and lookes were fine and swéet and brought delight to all the beholders eies yet to him they wrought onely torment vexation of mind And notwithstanding he perceiued her beauty to bréed his bane and her lokes to procure the losse of his libertie that as the Cocatrice by sight only slaieth so she by curteous countenance only killed wounded his heart yet would he not refraine his eyes from beholding hir but according to the nature of the sickly patient which chiefly desireth that which most of all is forbidden him he so incessantly threw his passionate glaunces towards her that his eyes were altogether bleared with her beautie and she also at the length began to perceiue his louing looks towards her which made her looke pale in token of the little pleasure she tooke in his toyes of the great feare she had least some other shuld mark them wherby her good name might come in question The banquet being ended euery one of thē prepared themselues to heare a stage play which was thē readie to be performed But Maechander being able to play but one part which was of a poore distracted louer determined to goe forward with the tragedie alreadie begun betwéene Varrona and him and séeing her set out of her husbands sight placed himselfe by her and entered into reasoning with her to this purpose If faire Varrona this simple banquet had bene so swéet and pleasant to your séemely selfe and the rest as your sight is delightfull to me I am perswaded you would not haue changed your chéer for Nectar and Ambrosia which the Poets faine to be foode of the gods but séeing there was no cause of delight in the one the other containeth that in it which may cōtent the Gods thēselues I shal desire you in good part to accept the one and courteously to accept me worthy to enioy the other And though I haue not heretofore by dutifull seruice manifested vnto you the loyaltie of my loue yet if my poore hart could signifie vnto you the assaults which it hath suffered for your sake I doubt not but that you would confesse that by force of loue I had woon you were worthy to weare you For albeit by humane lawes your husband onely hath interest in you yet by natures lawes which being more ancient ought to be of more authoritie he ought to enioy you which ioyeth most in you which loueth you best endureth most paine for your sake And for proofe of natures lawes may it please you to consider the qualitie of the she wolfe who alwaies chooseth that wolfe for her make who is made most leane and foule by following her besides that my tytle marcheth vnder the ensign of iustice which is a vertue giuing to euery one according to his deserts that the reward of loue is onely loue againe I know you are not ignorant For all the Gods in the world are not able to requite good will the one belonging to the mind the other incident to the bodie but from the equitie of my cause I appeale to your good grace fauour and at the barre of your beautie I humbly hold vp my hands meaning to be tryed by your owne courtesie my owne loyaltie minding to abide your sentence either of cōsent vnto life or denial vnto death Varrona hearing this discourse looked one while read for shame another while pale for anger neither would disdain let her make him answer nor grief giue her leaue to hold her peace but stāding in a maze betwéene silence and speaking at length she brake of the one and burst out into the other in this sort If sir your banquet had bene no better then this your talke is pleasant vnto me I am perswaded the dishes would haue bene taken whole from the table without touching but as the one was far better thē the company deserued so the other for a far worse woman might more fitly haue séemed if your sweet meat haue such sower sawce the next time you send for me I will make you such an answere as was made to Craterus the Emperour by Diogenes when he sent for him to make his abode with him in his court who answered he had rather be fed at Athens with salt then to liue with him in all delicacie so for my part I promise you I had rather be fed at home with bread water thē pay so déerly for dainty dishes Touching the paines you haue endured for my sake I take your words to be as false towards me as you wold make my faith towards my husbād But admit they were true séeing I haue not bin the cause of thē I count not my selfe bound in conscience to counteruaile them only I am sory they were not bestowed on some more worthie your estate and lesse worthie an honest name then my selfe which being the chiefe riches I haue I meane most diligently to keepe The interest which cauellingly you claime in me as it consisteth of false premises so though they were true yet the conclusion which you infer thereof followeth not necessarilie For were it so that your loue were greater towards me then my husbands which you cannot induce me to beléeue yet séeing he by order of lawe hath first taken possession of me your title succeeding his your succession sute must néeds be cold naught for as your selfe saith of lawes so of titles the first are euer of most force and the most ancient of most authoritie Your woluish example though it shew your foxely braine yet doth it in force no such proofe to your purpose but that by my former reason it may be refelled for that the wolfe is free from the proper possession of any but therein truly you obserue decorum in vsing the example of a beast in so brutish a cause for like purpose like proofe like man like matter Your manly marching vnder the