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A69037	The forrest of fancy Wherein is conteined very prety apothegmes, and pleasaunt histories, both in meeter and prose, songes, sonets, epigrams and epistles, of diuerse matter and in diuerse manner. VVith sundry other deuises, no lesse pithye then pleasaunt and profytable.	H. C.; Chettle, Henry, d. 1607?, attributed name.; Cheeke, Henry, 1548?-1586?, attributed name.; Constable, Henry, 1562-1613, attributed name.	1579 (1579)	STC 4271; ESTC S104854	80,866	158

and after the mistes of misery if any happen to assaile vs bring vs to the cleare lighte of felicitye as he did fayre Adulatia who neither for fearro● fathers displeasure or care to continue his good will for loue of Imperiall dignity or dread of any daunger no not for the fierce assaults of froward Fortune or for any other cause would forsake her Aleran but preferring his loyall loue before all worldly pleasure and his presents before al princely Ornamentes both in health and sicknesse in wealth and woe and fynally at all assayes continued hys true and faithfull companion for tearme of lyfe Be fyrme therefore my good Parmena and fayle not but as I intend stil to continue as loyal a louer to thee as euer was Aleran to his Adulatia so be thou as faithful a friend vnto me as was Adulatia to her beloued Aloran So shall no emnity but am 〈…〉 no repentance but contenentment no 〈…〉 ing but ioy be euer betweene vs and though one friendes frown vpon vs or hindred contemne vs and our Parentes reproue vs yet through patient 〈◊〉 in trace of time which breedeth chaunge in all thinges we shall by Codes helpe and our owne dilligent iudultrye recouer all former good will and fauour and after all the assaul 〈…〉 of aduerse Fortune attaine to the happy porte of rest and tranquillity with which hope I purpose alwayes to comfort my selfe wishing you also to doe the like as I 〈◊〉 you will and hartily require you to doe so neare as you can as well for your owne releefe as for the rest and comforte of him that loueth you no lesse then his owne proper lyfe Fare you well Finis The Aucthour wrighting to a friend of his that was toward mariage exhorteth her to make choyse of a wyse and verteous person THere is nothing wherein we ought to take So great aduise as sayeth 〈◊〉 wise As when we mind a mariage for to make wherein we must be carefull and presise Or else thereby great perrill may aryse Because the knot once 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 doe May not be broke whateuer chaunce in sue But some there are that will without respect Of future harmes that may to them befall The councell of their aged friendes reiect As frantick wightes to folish fancy thrall And harkening to the S 〈…〉 s●● the call Procure thereby their 〈◊〉 and decay Where else they might haue liude in lasting 〈◊〉 Yet would I not that women so attend To friendes aduice or so by them be led That fancy fixe vppon some faythfull friend They should forsake the same for feare or dread For so they may wone bring a foole to bed And being linckt to one they cannot leeke be moude amisse reuengement due to seeke Some sortes there are that welthy husbandes chuse Because they should maintaine thomsine and braue Some sortes there are that others all refuse A comely wight desyring most to haue A vallyaunt venter●ns youth some 〈◊〉 Some like of those that be most franke and free And some of those that harde and sparing be The gallant gay some chiefely doe esteeme In one that curteous is some moste delight A cunning craftes man some for best do deeme But few or none esteeme the vertuous wight By wise and prudent men they set but light Few linke for loue but all for greedy gaine Though in the ende it tourne them most to paine Bewty doth fade when crooked age creepes in And like a Flower the sommer season past Nipt with the cold when winter doth begin Doth wither soone and weare a way at last And sicknesse makes the mighty man agast And takes from him all strength and courage quighte But vertue still abides in perfect plight In welth or wo in paine or pleasure still Uertue remaines without reprofe at all Not dreadfull death that doth the Carcas kill The power of vertue may in ought appall It liues with praise and neuer perrish shall For after death his glory reflech rise That whilst he liude did leade a vertuous life Therefore my friend I friendly thee aduise To match with one that is to vertue bent For bewty brittle is and of no prise Money but muck and quickly will be spent Strength soone destroyde if sicknesse so consent But vertue still in perfect state doth stand It keepes his course as well by Sea as land Moreouer I would wish thee for to make Thy choyse thy selfe whereas thou likest best And though thy friendes perswade thee for to take Some other wight with greater wealth possest Yet if thy mind and fancy be not prest To like of him then would I thee aduise To leaue that loathsome lot if thou be wise For whereas loue doth lack twice man and wife There harred needes must harbour in their hart Where hatred hath his holde is endlesse strife where stryfe is styrde there pleasure hath no part where pleasure is displaste eare keepes the marte where care doth keepe lyfe cannot long indure Then eare thou linke let loue be setled sure Finis Of the great patience and clemency of King Antigonus WHen as Antigonus did heare His Souldiers cursing him apace Because that in an euening darke He led them through a myry place That thence they hardly could escape He came himselfe to them vnknowne And very well did helpe them out which friendship when he had them showne He sayd now curse Antigonus That led you lately in the myre But pray for him that helpt you out Acording to your hartes desyre Finis What misery and misfortunes mankinde is continually subiecte vnto WHat kinde of state can any choose but he there in shall fynde Great bitternesse and endlesse woe to mooue his troubled minde In field much toyle at home great care and feare in Forrein Lande If ought we haue by fortune lent In youth Dome Follyes hande Doth hold vs fast her she imbrace and wisedomes lore do leaue In age doth sickesse vs assayle and so our strength bereaue In marry age is vnquietnesse in lacking of a wife All sollitary we remaine and leade a loathsome lyfe If God to vs doe children sende we haue continuall care If none then are we halfe dismayde farre worser doe we fare Therefore one of these twaine is best desyred for to be Not to be borne or else to dye before these dayes we see Finis A louer hauing long concealed his loue at the last reuealeth it and craueth grace at the handes of his beloued mistresse LIke as the silly soule That feeles himself distrest With heauy burthen on his backe doth seeke to be at rest So I whome loue longtyme hath led in Captiue handes Enforced am at last to sue for fauour at thy handes That hast my hart in holde who onely mayst apply Some pleasaunt potion to a s●wage the greeuous mallady Which long with little ease and most incessaunt greefe Hath me conserude twixt life and death denoyde of all releefe But needes I must confesse There is no fault in thee That I doe want

are vsde the pleasaunt Poets fayne As how that Phlegias to his treble paine Upon a turning wheele is fixed fast which makes him lothe his lyfe that long doth last How Sisiphus doth rowle the restlesse stone which to the top attaind turnes back againe How silly Titius making mostful mone Unto a Rock fast tyde doth stil sustaine The griping greefes that rauerring byrds constraine who on his entrailes dayly feede their fill And yet he liues to trye these tormentes still How Tantalus amidst the streame that standes Up to the chin is like for drouth to dye And goodly Apples almost in his hand with hunger nipt in extreame payne doth lye How Danaus daughters doe themselues apply with pailes that bottomes want a tubbe to fill That wanteth bottome to which passeth still But all their paiues may not compared be To that which I doe euery hower abyde For all at once assembled are in me There is no torment that I haue not tryde To me the heauens haue happy ha 〈…〉 denyde The Plannets all appointed me by fate to liue and leade my life in lothsome state All day my minde with fancies fond is fraught which greatly wastes my witte and breakes my braine To no effect at all when sleepe hath caughte Some holde of me at night alas my paine Growes greater farre for dreadfull dreauies restraine My quiet rest all myrth is mone to me All pleasure paine I loth the light to see Of all the wightes that euer liude in loue was neueralone whose 〈◊〉 was lyke 〈…〉 my 〈…〉 though grefe thein gript though pain they long 〈◊〉 proue yet did they gaine their wished will in fyne Their Ladies liking did it loue ●iclyne And they inioyde their ioy and hartes delight At wished will their wretched woe to quight Though pastor Paris past the surging Seas And many perrils more for Holl 〈…〉 sake yet he at last his heauy hart to ease Enioyde her loue and reft her from her make which deede the Greelies so gréeuousely did take As Troy therefore they did to ruine bring The fittest fruicte that of such loue doth spring when Peseus had with tedsous foyle distrest The Monstet huge that laboured to deuoke Andromada that 〈◊〉 Rock did rest Fast bound with chaines expecting euery hower For dread ull death he cropt the costly flower which fancy forst him seeke with such annoy And after led his life in lasting ioy And many more such lyke a●●enge Ieoulde who after paine did 〈…〉 hase their desyre I might bring in Nastagio if I would Hippomanes that fryde in Cupids fyre And Pelops to if cause did so requyre But these will serue my faying true to trye That none for loue hath led such lyfe as I. For Ialas of all men most a 〈…〉 Haue spent much time with care and busy cure And when I thought me best my ha● was worst when safe I seemde then sate I most vnsure Not deadly dole that I did long 〈◊〉 Not trickling teares 〈…〉 could serue To purchase that which I doe well deserue When as I glaunce my glaring eyes on her She bendes ger lookes vpon some other thing When as I would with wordes my sute preferre Then angry she away from me doth fling Saying take heede the Siren now doth sing And when with pen my passyons I depaint She rentes my writ and scornes my pittious plaine If messengers I send with her to treate And pleade my caufe as they can best deuise Their wordes so set her haughty hart in heate who causelesse still doth meso much despise As when she heares me narnde her blood doth rise An when my friendes doe her present with aught She frets and fnmes as one with fury fraught Through places scarcely knowne both day and night through wods through groues marish grounds I rode Through Forrests fennes and furrowes voyde of lighte yea ouer hautye hilles where I abode Full many bitter blastes before I trode The trustlesse where I this Tiger found whose diuelish deedes doth cause my cares abound Then cursed be the hower and eake the days wherein I did to her my iorney frame I would I had bene murdered by the way Before I came to see that cruell Dame who for good will doth yield me bitter blame For then the death had me depriude of all The daungers dyre wherein I dayly fall But all to late to shut the stable dore When so saith the prouer be olde I wisely should haue thought of this before I did attempt her bewty to beholde Who hath my heauy hart so hard in holde As needes I must both loue and serue her still Though she me lothe and seeke my blood to spill you yonglinges all where euer that you be That sibiect are vnto the lawes of loue Take hede in time be wysely warnd by me On whome you looke least lookes that liking moue Ingendring loue make you more paines to proue Then I pore wretch that dayly wish to dye And yet doe liue these tormentes straunge to trye Finis A yong man being in loue wiih a fayre Gentlewoman that was but his equall desyreth to be accepted for her husband THe passyons extreme which for your sake I haue long sustained being now through continuaunce of tyme so wonderfully augmented and increased that being no longer able to collerate the extreme paine thereof I am coacted and perforce constrained in most humble wise to craue grace at your handes which is the onely meane whereby I may be cured of this moste greeuous and in fupportable mallady Refuse not therefore I pray you this my petition which is both honest and reasonable let not my good will be required with disdaine nor my curtesie with crueltie for that were a point voyde of all humanitye and far different from all maydenlike modestie Dido Queene of Carthage loued Aeneas a straunger and a banished man Euphinia Daughter to the King and heyre to the crowne of the Kingdome of Corinth matched herselfe with Acharisto her fathers dondman The Dutchesse of Malsey chose for her husbande her seruaunt Virico And Venus also if we may giue credite to the fixions of Poets who for hee surpassing hewry was cauonized a Goddesse refused noe to be the wife of lame Vulcanus Much lesse neede you then that are mortal and but of a meane progenye in comparison of the worste of all those princely Dames before repeated to thinke scorue of mee that am no Straunger but your owne natiue contreyman no wandring exile but a true and faithfull Subiect continuing in the countrey where I was first borne and fostered neither seruaunt to you nor slaue to any other but vtterly free from the yoke of seruitude and bondage vntil such time as by contemplating the bright beames of your surpassing hewry my poore hart was so captinated that I was constrained to commit my selfe wholy vnto your clemency nor yet so monstrous and mishapen a creature whereby you might haue iuste occasion so mislike of mee but God I giue him thankes for it

in his youth Brought vp a Dragon yong and of a certain truth when as he greater grne fearing his nature fell Conuaide him thence into a woode and left him there to dwell It hapned after Thoas was within that wood beset with many Theeues at which self time not making stay or let when as the Dragon heatd his voyce which he remembred tho He rushed forth and rescued him from those that wisht his wo. Finis R. D. Being inflamed with the loue of a very bewtifull Gentlewoman by a sodaine view that he tooke of her doth colourably declare his case vnto her AS late I walkte abrode for my delight To put all ●oolish fancies from my minde It was my chaunce vpon a plot to light Wherein I did great cause of comfort fynde A goodly Garden garnisht euery where with fragrant flowers of sondry sort and sent No straunge deuice could be that wanted there That euer wit of man might well inuent A goodly christall spring ran through this place whose bankes with sundry trees was brauely dec●● To shew ech thing by course would craue long space And yet some part I should of force neglect But that which made me most of all to muse was to behold ech thing so well conuaide And could not finde that any one did vse To make abode therein yet halfe afrayde Though cause were none I durst not enter in But stoode as one amasde this sight to see That whosoeuer then had present bene would not haue thought that life had lodgde in me My sences failde my feete were fixed fast My sight waxt dimme yet staring stoode I still But comming to my selfe againe at last And seing there no signe of any ill Nor none that would my passage once restraine But that the gates wide open stoode to all I banisht feare which earst procurde my paine And did determine what so should befall To enter in and view it round about And so I did in deede without anoyt For nothing was there which I neede to doubt But all thinges turnde vnto my treble ioy when as I fully had ech thing suruaide And fed my fancy as it likte me best Into an Arbour I my selfe conuaide And there lay downe to take my quiet rest Into a heauy sleepe straight wayes I fell And then me thought there did appeare in place Two gallant Dames whose bewty did excell whereof the one beholding long my face At last with stealing steppes approcht more neare And drawing forth a knyfe in dreadfull wise Did pierce the part which I esteemde most deare which done from of the ground she gan to ryse And by and by did vanish out of sight which way or how I could not well perceiue Wherewith I wakened being sore afright So much it did my quiet rest beleaue And then my naked body I behilde To sec if any wound would there appeare But euery place with flesh was fully filde No wound was seene ech place was fayre and cleare But when I rose with mind to walke from thence Such gri●ly greefe did gripe my tender hart As for a time it hindred my pretence And from that place I scarce had power to part yet as I could although my pase were slowe I at my lodging did at last ariue And layde me downe in greefe which still did grow And greater waxe and happy helth depriue I sought Phisitions helpe my hurt to heale But Phisick could no whit at all preuaile And therefore still I must the same conceale And as a wight forlorne my wee bewayle Untill the louely Dame that did the deede Uouchsafe her grace to ease my present greefe In her it lyes my bitter bale to breede Or if she please to render me releefe which if she once refuse I am right sure My lothed lyfe that hope doth now prolong Shall not long time be able to indure But die I must because she doth me wrong Finis An aunswere to a Letter that was not onely darke but also so disordered as their could no sence be perceiued in it VNloked for I did receiue of late Such lynes as led me into double doubt Fyrst whence they came and from what minyon mate And secondly I mused where about And for what cause they should to me be sent But when I had perusde them ouer well was neare the nere in knowing thy intent For such a sencelesse tale thou seemdste to tell And so confuse as what I should couceiue Of any part thereof I knew not I To stayed Studients I the same will leaue By learned skill the secrete sence to trie Unlesse that thou that didst deuise the same wilt take the paines to glose vpon the text And set to shew the figures thou didst frame Whereby it seemes thy mind is much perplext For neither doth the matter match aright Nor yet the vearce but varries euery where I speake in sport no cause I haue to spight And as thou wisht so with thy want I beare Loue is a lawlesse Lord both he and his Are free from blame what so they doe or say And therefore though they sometime rome amis That once haue leaned to his lucklesse lay The fault is in the troward fittes they feele which leades their mindes to like of many thinges And still to turne as doth the whirling wheele where of the fruicte of folly freely springs Thy worthy worke may well compared be Unto A building brauely deckt without The inward partes whereof who so shall see May finde it framde of clay and durt no doubt For on the same when fyrst myne eyes I bent The entraunce bare so braue a modesty That sure I thought some Muse the same had sent From Helicon to please my fantasy But when I had a little further past Such paltrie pelfe presented was to me As braue me into other thoughtes at last So great a chaunge so sodainly to see But borrowed ware will beare no better show Au Ape 's an Ape though robes be neare so ritche The good from bad a man may easily know This makes thee claw whereas thou doest not itch well galdback well although I rubde thee now If that thou winche I way it not a might Such cloked cunning can I not allow Halt not henceforth when Criples are in sight For trust to this thy Peacockes borrowed tayle Cannot so craftely be coucht on thee But that the fine deuice thereof will fayle If it be matchte with those that kindly be In fine I wishe thee if thy mind be moude To beare the matter more at large set out which to prouoke thou hast so blindlye proude Then make it plaine and cleare it cleane of doubt Let finenesse goe and vse no secrete slight To couer that which cannot be consealde And then will I as well pluck vp my sprightes To open that I haue not yet reuealde Finis C. L. Wrighting to a speciall Friende of his that was somewhat greeued in minde for certaine troubles that were happened vnto him geneth him such friendly consolation

presenting her selfe before him she vsed these or such lyke wordes Father for as much as froward fortune hath ordayned that according to the sētence which my Lord Maques hath pronounced against you you shall this day withoute faile suffer death and that the third part of your goods is alotted vnto them that shall doe the execution vppon you knowing the loue that you beare vnto me I hope you wil not be offended if I take vpon me to discharge that office my selfe for in so doing your goods shall not fall into the handes of straungers but remain stil to those of your own famely wherwith me thinketh you should be well contented Salard that gaue attentiue eare to his daughters wordes aunswered in this manner God blesse thee my daughter thy reasons are very good and please me right well and though before I were vnwilling to dy now would I gladly end my life doe then thy office my daughter and deferre the time no longer Then Postume crauing pardon kissing him toke the halter and put it about his neck exhorting him to take his death patiently Salard seing the sodain alteration of thinges was greatly astonished and issuing out of the prison with his hands bound behind him the halter about his neck accompanied with the bayly al the rest of the officers ministers of iustice he passed with all speede to the place of execution being come thither tourning his back towards the ladder that was set against the Gibbet hee wente leyserlye from steppe to steppe till hee came to the toppe where with a stoute courage and stable countenaunce he behelde the people on euery syde declaring treateablye and with greate deliberation why he was brought thither and then in louing and friendlye mauer crauing pardon for-al his faults and offences committed earnestlye exhorted Chyldren to bée obediente to their Parents and Elders when the people had hard the whole cause of Salards condemnation there was not one in the companye but wepte and greatelye lamented the hard hap of this pore yong man and desyred GOD to giue them the grace to take example by him Whylste these thinges were a doing his friende Frauncis that was not vnmindefull of him tooke his way to the Marques Pallaice and hauing founde fit opportunity in moste humble wise besought him that Salard mighte be broughte to his presence to aunswere for himselfe before he were put to death assuring him that he was not gilty of the crime for which hee had condemned him and there vppon pleadged his lyfe So that at the last with much adoe the Marques caused Salard to be repriued willed he should be brought vnto him with the Haltex about his neck and the hangman with him which was perfourmed accordingly So soone as Salard was come into the Marques presence whose face was yet in flamed with furye he beganne with a bolde courage and stedfast countenaunce not being any thing troubled in his mind to vtter these suche lyke wordes Syr the seruice that I haue done you and the loue that I haue borne vnto you hath not deserued the outrage and shame that you haue done vnto me in condemning mee to dye so shameful villanous a death And although the displeasure that you haue taken against my great follye if it may be termed ●olly hath prouoked you to vse such cruelty towards me contrary to your naturall disposition yet shoulde you not so sodainly condemne me to deth without hearing me aunswere in my owne behalfe for the Hawke for the which you are so much offended thinking that it is dead is yet liuing and in as good case as euer it was And thinke not Syr that I woulde presume to kill or hurt it by any meanes but this that I haue done was to make try all of certaine thinges that I was before warned of as I will manifest vnto you