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A02073	Alcida Greenes metamorphosis, vvherein is discouered, a pleasant transformation of bodies into sundrie shapes, shewing that as vertues beautifie the mind, so vanities giue greater staines, than the perfection of any quality can rase out: the discourse confirmed with diuerse merry and delightfull histories; full of graue principles to content age, and sawsed with pleasant parlees, and witty answeres, to satisfie youth: profitable for both, and not offensiue to any. By R.G.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1617 (1617)	STC 12216; ESTC S105886	48,526	77

as a thing vnfit for louers and be she as high of degree as any in Taprobane court her Eurimachus and if thou misse it is but the hap that louers haue As shee should haue prosecuted her talke her brother who was stalking to kill a Déere came by and espying them at so priuate and familiar chat frowned commanding Eurimachus as halfe in anger to get him home hee leauing his sport accompanied my daughter to the court These louers thus parted were not long ere they met where Eurimachus following the precepts of Marpesia began very boldly to giue the assault she very faintly for fashion sake making a womans resistance but the batterie was so freshly renewed that Marpesia yeelded and there they plighted a constant promise of their loues vowing such saith and loyaltie as the troth of two louers heart might afford In this happie content they liued along while till Marpesia blabbing the contract out to a gentleman of the court it came to her brothers and her mothers eare who taking the matter grieuously had her strictly in examination Marpesia confessed her loues and maintained them on the contrary side they perswaded with promises and threatned with bitter spéeches but in vaine for Marpesia was resolued and tolde for a flat conclusion Eurimachus was the man and none but he Whereupon my sonne seeing no means could preuaile to remoue her affection he thought by taking away the cause to raze out the effects and therfore he sent for Eurimachus whom after he had nipped vp with bitter taunts he banished from the Court. This being grieuous to the two louers yet the assurance of each others constancie and the hope in time to haue the Prince reconciled mitigated some part of their martyrdome and Marpesia to shew to the world shee was not fleeting whatsoeuer her friends said discouered the grief she conceiued by his absence openly for she went apparelled in mourning attire Well Eurimachus thus banished went home to his father who for feare of the prince durst not entertaine him which vnkindnesse had doubled his griefe that he fell almost frantike and began to leaue the company of men as a flat Timonist in which humor meeting with the Gentleman that bewraid their loues he fought with him and slew him and buried him so secretly as the care of his owne life could deuise Well Cleander was mist but heare of him they could not Postes were sent out messengers through all Taprobane but no newes so that diuerse did descant diuersly of his departure some said he was vpon secret displeasure betweene him and the Prince passed out of the land others that he was slaine by theeues some that hee was deuoured by wild beasts Thus debating of his absence he was generally lamented of all the court But leauing the supposition of his death againe to Marpesia who taking the exile of Eurimachus to her heart began to growe into great and extreme passions and for griefe of the minde to bodily disease that she fell into a Quartaine which so tormented her as the Physicians said ther was no hope of life nor no art to cure her disease vnlesse her minde were at quiet whereupon her brother fearing his sisters life recalled home Eurimachus admitted him into great fauour and gaue frée grant of his good-will to their marriage Upon this Marpesia growing into a content in short time amended After shee had recouered her health shee dayly vsed the company of Eurimachus very priuately and familiarly but she found him not the man he was before for before he was exiled no man more pleasant nor more merrily conceited now none more melancholly nor fuller of dumps vttering farre fetcht sighes and vncertaine answers so that it discouered a minde greatly perplexed Marpesia noting this being on a day all alone with Eurimachus in his chamber shee sought with faire intreaties and sweete dalliance to wring out the cause of his sorrowes protesting if shee could euen with the hazard of her life redresse it if not to participate in griefe some part of his distresse Eurimachus that loued her more than his life although hee knew womens tongues were like the leaues of the Aspe tree yet thinking her to bee wise after a multitude of mortall sighes hee discoursed vnto her how hee had ●…aine Cleander and that the remembrance of his death bred this horror in his conscience Marpesia hearing this made light of the matter to comfort Eurimachus promising and protesting to kéepe it as secret as hitherto she had been constant But shee no sooner was parted from her best beloued but shee was with childe of this late and dangerous newes laboring with great paines till shee might vtter it to her Gossips where we may note sonne I speake against my selfe that the closets of womens thoughts are euer open that the depth of their heart hath a string that stretcheth to the tongues end that with Semele they conceiue and bring forth oft before their time which Marpesia tried true for sitting one day solitarie with a Ladie in the court called Celia shee fetcht many pinching sighes which Celia marking desired her to tel her the cause of that late conceiued grief as to a friend in whose secresie she might repose her life Marpesia made it somewhat coy and charie a great while insomuch that Celia began to long and therefore vrged her extremely Marpesia could keep no longer and therfore vsing this preamble began to play the blabbe If I did not Madam Celia take you for my second selfe and thinke you to bee wise and secret I would not reueale a matter of so great importance which toucheth me as much as my life to conceale Women you know hauing any thing in their stomake long while they haue discourst it to some friend taking you therefore for my chiefest and hoping all shal be troden vnder foote know Madam that Eurimachus hath slaine Cleander and that is the cause that makes him thus melancholy Mary God forbid quoth Celia It is true Madam quoth Marpesia and therefore let whatsoeuer I haue said be buried in this place With that I came into place and they broke off their talke Celia longing to be out of the chamber that shée might participate this newes to her Gosips as soone as opportunity gaue her leaue went abroad méeting by chance another Gentlewoman of the Court calling her aside tolde her if she would be secret and sweare not to reueale it to any one she would tell her strange newes the other promising with great prot●…station to bee as close as a woman could bee Celia told her how Eurimachus was the man that ●…lew Cleander and that her authour was Marpesia They were no sooner parted but this newes was told to another that before night it was through the whole court that Eurimachus had slaine Cleander whereupon the Prince could doe no lesse though very loth for his s●…sters sake but cause him to be apprehended and cast into prison then assembling his Lords and Commons

faire creatures if I stand in a maze sith the sight of your surpassing beauties makes me doubt whether I should honour you as earthly ladies or adore you as heauenly goddesses for no doubt Paris neuer saw fairer in Ida. But now noting with déep insight the figure of your diuine faces I acknowledge your honours to bee sisters to our prince whom I reuerence as allyed to my souereigne and offer my sernice as a seruant euer deuoted to such faire and excellent saints The ladies hearing this strange and vnlooked for salutation began to smile but Fiordespine frowning as halfe angry he should presume into her presence with a coy countenance returned him this answere If sir Telegonus for so I suppose is your name your eye-sight be so bad perhaps with péering too long on your bookes or your selfe so far beside your sences as to take vs for Nymphes I would wish you either to read lesse or to prouide you a good Physicion else shall you not iudge colours for me and yet since I would you should know wee count our penny good siluer and thinke our faces if not excellent yet such as may boote compare Telegonus taking opportunity by the forehead and thinking to strike the yron at this heat made reply Maiden hee might be thought either blinde or enuious that would make a doubt of Venus beauty and he be déemed either frantike or foolish that cannot see and say as you are superior to most so are you inferiour to none Pardon Madam if my censure be particular I meane of your sweet selfe whose fauours I haue euer loued and admired though vnworthy to set my fancy on such glorious excellency Fiordespine hearing her self thus praised was not greatly displeased yet past she ouer what was spoken as though her eares had beene stopt with Vlisses but Eriphila the second who was as wise as her sister was beautifull desired Telegonus to rest him by them on the grasse and that they would at their departure aske him as a guard to the court Telegonus as glad of this command as if he had been willed by the gods to haue béen chamberlaine to Venus sa●…e downe with a mind full of passions hauing his eye fixed still on the beautie of Fiordespine which Eriphila espying thinking to be pleasant with Telegonus she began thus to prattle Your late passionate speech Telegonus to my sister Fiordespine makes me think that Venus is your chiefe goddesse and that loue is the lord whose liuery you weare if it be so neighbour take heede for fancie is a Shrew many like that are neu●…r loued Apollo may cry long after Daphne before she heare him and Troilus may stand long enough on the walls before Cresida waue her gloue for a salue I speak Telegonus against our selues take héed we be coy and wily we with our lookes can change men though Venus will weare the target and Mars the distaffe Omphalo handle the club and Hercules the spindle Alexander must crouch and Campaspe looke coy women will rule in loues howsoeuer men bee l●…fty in courage Indeed Madam quoth Telego●…us him whom no mortall creature can controle loue can command no dignity is able to resist Cupids deitie Achilles was made by his mother Thetis invulnerable yet wounded by fancie Hercules not to be conquered of any yet quickly conquered by affection Mars able to resist Iupiter but not to withstand beautie Loue is not onely kindled in the eye by desire but ingrauen in the minde by destinie which neither reason can eschew nor wisedome expell the more pittie I confesse Madam for poore men and the greater impietie in the gods that in giuing loue free libertie they grant him a lawlesse priuiledge but since Cupid will bee obeyed I am contented to bowe especially seeing I haue chanced to set my affection on so excellent a creature And who might that be I pray you quoth Fiordespine taking the matter in dudge●… that Telegonus should make report that is of such great excellencie dwelleth shee in Taprobane In Taprobane Madam replied Telegonus but with such a peale of sighes bewraying his loues in silence that Eriphila smiling sayd I see fire cannot bée hidden in the Flaxe without smoke nor Muske in the bosome without smell nor loue in the brest without suspition I perceiue in faith neighbour by your lippes what lettice you loue the saint that you account of such excellency whose perfection hath so snared your sences is my sister Fiordespine I quoth Fiordespine filling her Iuory browes full of Shrewish wrinkles I hope the young lord Telegonus knowes what Suters I haue shaken off and therefore not inferring comparisons because they bee odious I may giue him his answere with an c. There are more Maydes then Maulkin and more birds for the Faulcon to pearch with then the Eagle the Lyon is a bloudy beast for that he knoweth his strength I will not conclude but lord Telegonus if I be the woman you mean cease from your sute for in faith so well I doe loue you that you cannot more displease mee then in seeking to please mee for if I knew no other cause to mislike yet this might suffice that I cannot loue At this flat and peremptorie answere Telegonus sate nipped on the pate like to them which taste of the fish Mugra whose operation maketh them for a time sencelesse which Eriphila espying thinking to iumpe euen with the Gentleman pittying his passions in that Fiordespine was so coy to so courteous a Youth sayd You may see now Telegonus that Venus hath her frownes as shee hath smiles that Cupid hath arrowes headed with ●…ead to procure disdaine as well as with golde to increase loue heare mee that am a Uirgin as dutifull to Vesta as reuerent to Venus The paines that louers take for hunting after losse if their mindes were not confirmed with some secret inchantment were able to keepe their fancies for being inflamed or else to coole desire alreadie kindled for the daies are spent in thoughts and the nights in dreames both in danger either of beguiling vs of that wee had or promising vs that wee haue not The head fraught with fantasies fiered with ielosie troubled with both yea so many inconueniences waite vpon loue as to reckon them all were infinite and to ta●…te but one of them were intollerable being alwaies begun with griefe continued with sorrow and ended with death for it is a paine shadowed with pleasure and a ioy stuffed with misery So that I cōclude that as none euer sawe the altars of Busiris without sorrow nor banqueted with Phoebus without surfetting so as impossible it is to deale with Cupid and not either to gaine speedie death or endlesse danger As I was ready in defence of loue to make reply there came a little page from their lady mother to call them home to dinner wherupon they all rose and would haue taken their leaue but boldly I stood to my tackling and told them Ladies you passe not so for

Telegonus THough Vulcan with his polt foote presumed to couet the queene of beauty though Ixion aduentured to attempt the loue of Iuno yet lord Telegonus no offence to your person these paltring presidents are no conclusions that persons vnworthy should disgrace by their impudent and worthlesse motions the honours of excellent personages How I am greeued at your letters gesse by my sharp reply how I like of your lines examine in my writing how I disdaine them both time shall put you in euidence My beautie you say hath made an impression in your heart a man of soft metall that so soone takes the stampe a louer of great conceit that is fixed at the first looke but since it is your gentle nature to be so full of fancie I would haue the gods to make you either Venus chamberlaine or Cupids chaplaine or both because being so amorous you should not want offices you forestalled me in red letters with an obiection that many your betters haue courted me and mist then good louely lord Telegonus thinke not if I delighted not to gaze at stars that I meane to stumble at stones if I vouchsafe not to smel to most fragrant flowers that I mean to make me a nosegay of wéeds If honorable princes offered to Venus and could not be heard and sought for my fauours but found them not I thinke suppose the rest for I list not be tedious lest I should weary my selfe and grace thée with writing so much For thy loyalty keep it for thy equals for thy loue lay it not on me lest as I disdaine thy person so I reuenge thy presumption And so my hand was weary my eyes sleepie and my heart full of contempt and with that I went to bed Her owne Fiordespine of Taprobane THis letter was no sooner sealed but as women are impatient of delaies it was conueied with all possible speed to Telegonus who receiuing it kissed and 〈◊〉 it as comming from the hands of his goddesse changing colour oft as one betweene feare and hope at last vnripping the seales he read such a corasiue as cut him to the heart The Aspis stingeth not more deadly the serpent Porphirius inuenometh not more déepely neither did euer the sight of Medusas head more amaze a man than the contents of this satyricall letter did Telegonus yea it draue the poore Gentleman into so many passions that he became halfe lunaticke as if hee had eaten of the seed of sputanta that troubleth the braine with giddinesse he fell to exclaime against Venus and her deitie blaming the gods that would suffer such a gigglet to remaine in heauen repeating her lawlesse loues with Adonis and her scapes with Mauors Cupid he called a boy a fondling blind in his ayme and accursed in hitting the marke rageth against women saying they were mercilesse cruell vniust deceitfull like vnto the Crocodile in teares in sight they seeme to be Carnations in smelling Roses in hearing Syrens in taste wormewood in touching nettles Thus he rayled and raged casting himselfe on his 〈◊〉 and there forging a thousand perplexed passions one while accusing loue as a lunacie and then againe saying Beautie was diuine and the rich●… iewell that euer nature bestowed vpon men Lingring a day or two in this frenzie he thought not to giue ouer the Castle at the first repulse nor to prooue so lewd a Huntsman as to giue ouer the chase at the first default therefore he once againe armed himselfe with his pen and paper and gaue a fresh alarum to his friendly ●…oe in this manner Telegonus to faire Fiordespine of Taproban●… HOnourable Ladie the Pysicians say salues seldome helpe an once long suffered sore and too late it is to plant Engines to batter when the walls are already broken Autumne showres are euer out of season and too late it is ●…o dislodge loue out of the brest when it hath infected euery part of the body The sore when the settering fistulo hath by long continuance made the sound flesh rotten can neither with lenitiue plaisters nor cutting corasiues be cured so loue craueth but onely time to bring the body and mind to ruine Your honor séeing how déeply I am deu●…ted to your beauty and vertue hath sent mee pilles of hard digestion to asswage the force of my loue and qualifie the flame set on fire by fancy but as the biting of the Uiper rankleth til it hath brought the body bitten to bane so your exquisite perfection hath so pierced euery veins with the sting of loue that neither your bitter reply nor ●…atyrical innectiue can in any wise preuaile only the mild medicine of your mercie may salue the sore and cut away the cause of my carefull disease The extremity of my loue and the violence of my passions hath forced mee to hazard my selfe on your clemencie for I was neuer of that minde to count him martiall that at the first shoot would yéeld vp the keyes of the Citie for the more hard the rebut is the more hautie is the conquest the more doubtfull the fight the more worthy the victorie the more paine I take about the battery the more pleasure to win the bulwarke of your brest which if I should obtaine I would count it a more rich prize then euer Scipio or any of the nine Worthies wonne by conquest and that these words be verily and not vanity troth and not tri●…ing I appeale to your good grace and fauor minding to be tried by your courtesie abiding either the sentence of consent vnto life or deniall vnto death Yours euen after death Telegonus of Taprobane THis letter finished and sent vnto Fiordespine so troubled her patience for that Telegonus was importunate that she fared like the frownes of Bacchus halfe mad at this secret motion swearing reuenge if either her selfe or her friends could performe it and in this humor she sent him by her Page these few lines Fiordespine to Telegonus I Had scarce read thy letters before I rent them estéeming thy papers and thy loue a like for as I mislike the one so I disdaine the other Hath ouer-much folly driuen thee into a frensie or hath want of manners made thee impudent Wilt thou bragge with Irus the begger amongst Penelopes sutors or séeke with the smoky Cyclops to kisse Venus hand looke on thy feete and so let fall thy plumes stretch not so high vnlesse thy sleeue were longer for Fiordespine scorneth so much as to looke at Telegonus in respect of loue as Iuno did to iest with the father of the Centaures If I knew thy passions were as great as thou decipherest thy griefe and thy thoughts as fiery as the hils in Sycily I would laugh at the one as ioying at thy sorrowes and put oyle in the flame as delighting to aggrauate thy miseries Sith then thou séest my resolution to be so regorous ouer-rash youth betake thée to thy dumpes and fare how thou list for know I mislike thy sute and hate thy person and will liue

gray which houered ouer the head of Alcida as though she had saluted her with her wings I maruelled at the familiaritie of the fowle and with that she changed colours from grày to white and then to redde so to greene and as many sundry shapes as enery Iris blazed in the Firmament so that by the changing of hiewes I perceiued it to be Cameleon As thus I stood musing at the bird Alcida tooke me by she hand and sate downe at one of the roots of the Cedars bidding mee be attentiue and shee would discourse the euill fortune of her second daughter Eriphila the which I willingly consented vnto shee began her tale in this manner The second Historie of ERIPHILA of Taproban●… AFter that my daughter Fiordespine was metamorphosed by the gods in reuenge of her cruelty to Telegonus time hauing rooted out some part of my sorrowes I beganne to ●…ace my selfe with the other two daughters Eriphila and Marpesia This Eriphila was as wittie as her sister was beautifull so that she was admired in Taprobane and all the bordering regions about accounted though not in yéeres yet in wit a Sibil beeing able to answere as darke an Enigma as the subtillest Sphinx was able to propound and I tel thee sonne as she was fauoured by Pallas so Venus was not behind in her fauours for she was beautifull insomuch that these gifts co-vnited made sundrie Suters come from sundry coasts to bee wooers to such a wily Minton Amongst the rest by fortune there arriued in this coast imbarked in a small Pinace the Dukes sonne of Massilia called Meribates who comming on shoare for fresh water came to see the Court of Taprobane where being greatly welcommed by my sonne falling into talk with my daughters hee found Eriphila so adorned with a supernaturall kinde of wit as hee was snared in the sweetnesse of her answeres swallowing downe the conceit of her wisedome with such greedinesse that hee lay drunks in the remembrance of her qualities finding seuerall delayes to make stay in the country couertly causing his Mariners to crack their tackling to vnrigge their Shippe in the night that they might haue iust cause to lye there the most part of that Summer Loue beginning to make this youngster politike caught him so fast by the heart that Mars was neuer more feately intangled in Vulcans net nor the forerunners of Iason more subtilly wrapped in the labyrinth then Meribates wa●… in the snares of fancie for what he talked euen amongst the meanest of his Mariners was of Eriphila his thoughts his musing his determinations his resolutions his dayes watchings his night slumbers were of the excellent wit of Eriphila insomuch that loue lodged the Nouice vnder her Canapie where hee breathed out these passions Infortunate Meribates whom the enuious Fates haue scorned to make infortunate Hast thou mann'd thy selfe in a Barke to scoure the Seas and in this quest art thou like to lose thy sences Soughtest thou to abide the pleasure of Neptune and art faine to stand to the courtesie of loue Hast thou found flames amidst the waues Fire in the water and fancy where no affection was meant well now I see that as the Bee that flyeth from flowre to flowre hauing free choyse to choose at libertie is at last taken by the wings and so fettered In like manner●… my fancy taking the view of manie a face hath a restraint of his freedome and is brought into bondage with the wit of a stranger But Meribates w●…it thou loue so lightly shall fancy giue thee the foile at the first 〈◊〉 Shall thin cares bee the cause of thy misery Wilt thou with Vlisses heare the Syrens sing listen to their melody and runne vnto endlesse misfortune Eriphila is wise so was Helena yet shee played the wanton with Paris shee answeres like the Uirgin at Delphos and her words are as Nectar Roses are sweete yet they haue pric●…es the purest hunny Bee is not without his ●…ing wit in a woman is like Dyle in the flame which either kindle●…h too great vertue or extreme vanity Well Meribates howsoeuer it bee wit cannot bee placed so bad but it is precious What is beauty but a colour dasht with euery breath a flowrenipt with euery frost a fauour that time and age defaceth whereas wit increaseth by yecres and that loue continueth longest that is taken by the eare not by the eye yeeld then Meribates when thou must néedes consent runne when thou art called by command Pallas is wife and will not bee ingratefull to her votaries say none but Eriphila for sure if euer thou wilt bestowe thy fréedome shee is worthy to haue thee captiue If thou meanest to marrie thou canst not haue a méeter match yea but how if her heart be placed and her mind settled vpon some Gentleman in Taprobane then were I a great deale better to wayle at the first then to weepe at the last to be content with a little pricke then a deepe wound to 〈◊〉 at the brimme than at the bottome The Scorpion if he touch neuer so lightly inuenometh the whole body the least sparke of wilds fire will set an whole house on flame the Cockatrice killeth euen with his sight the sting of loue woundeth deadly the flame of fancie sets on fire all the thoughts and the eyes of a louer are counted incurable Fearefulnesse Meribates in loue is a vertue hast thou turned ouer so many bookes of Philosophy and hast thou not quoted Phocas precept to bee fruitfull that louers should procéede iu their suite as the Crabbe whose pace is euer backward that though loue bee like the Adamant which hath vertue to drawe yet thou shouldest bee sprinkled with Goates bloud which resisteth his operation If the wit of some Pallas Nymphes haue inclosed thy minde yet thou shouldest take the Dyle of Nenuphar that cooleth desire what Meribates wilt thou become a precise Pythagoras in recounting of loue No let not the precepts of Philosophy subject the will of nature youth must haue his course he that will not loue when hee is young shall not bee loued when hee is olde say then Meribates and neuer gaine-say that Eriphila is the marke thou shoote at that her surpassing wit is the Syren whose song hath in●… chanted thee and the Cyrces cup which hath so so●…ed thy senees as either thou must with Vlisses haue a spéedy remedie or else remaine transformed Consider Me●…bates the cause of thy loue lest thou faile in the effects Is the foundation of thy fancy fixed vpon her feature think with thy selfe Beautie is but a blossome whose flowre is nipt with euery frost it is like the grasse in India which withereth before it springeth What is more faire yet what more fading What more delightfull yet nothing more deadly What more pleasant and yet what is more perilous Beautie may well bee compared to the bath in Calycut whose streams flow as cleere as the floud Padus and whose operation is as pestilent as the Riuer Ormen