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A02122	Gvvydonius The carde of fancie wherein the folly of those carpet knights is decyphered, which guyding their course by the compasse of Cupid, either dash their ship against most daungerous rocks, or els attaine the hauen with paine and perill. Wherein also is described in the person of Gwydonius, a cruell combat betvveene nature and necessitie. By Robert Greene Master of Arte, in Cambridge.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.; Labé, Louise, 1526?-1566. Debat de folie et d'amour.	1584 (1584)	STC 12262; ESTC S105817	96,964	176

she might staye still in the chamber of presence whether presently Thersandro was sent for who curteously and curiously dooing his obysaunce to the Duke deliuered his Embassage in this manner WHere-as ri●ht worthie sir O●lanio the Duke of Alexandria more vnwittingly then wil●ully denyed certaine tribute which hée confesseth both hée and his predeces●ours haue paide to you and your aun●est●urs Hearing that heerevppon your grace meanet● rather to wage battaile then to loose anie parte of your due although he feareth not your force as one able euery way to withstand it nor passeth of your puissaunce as a Potentate sufficient to resist your power Yet the care hée hath of his subiectes safetie and the loue hee hath to preserue the life of his commons the regard he hath to paie and performe that which conscience and custome requireth and lastly meaning with Tully Iniquissimam pacem iustissimo bello anteponere Hée hath sent mée both to sue for conditions of peace and to pay the tribute which if your grace shall refuse of force he must put his hope in the hazard of Fortune THersandro hauing thus pythelye performed his charge Clerophontes tolde him that vpon a sodaine he woulde not dispatche so waightie a matter but meant first both to consulte and take counsaile of his Nobles which done within thrée dayes hée shoulde haue an aunswere In the meane time hée commaunded Lucianus the Steward of his house verie courteouslye to intreate both Thersandro and his traine and to feast them with such sumptuous fare as they might haue cause most highly to extoll his magnificence But leauing Clerophontes to consult with his learned counsaylours and Thersandro to companie with the lustie Courtiers againe to Lewcippa who while this young youth was telling of his ●ale neuer markte the matter but the man nor regarded not the parle but respected the person neuer noted the contents but viewed his countenance In such sort that shée was so scorched with the fire of fancie and so scalded with the flame of affection so bewitched with his beautie and so inueagled with his bountie as hée was the onelye man that made her checke at the praie bate at the Lure and wyllingly yéelde to the first assaulte of fancie And on the other side Fortune so fauoured that Thersandro printing in his heart the perfection of Lewcippas person felte his fréedome so fettered by the viewe of her heauenly face and so snared in the beames of her amorous glaunces that hée wisht that eyther this discention had neuer growen or that hée hadde not béene the deliuerer of the message for hee felt his heart alreadie so ouergrowen wyth good-will towardes this younge Princesse as no salue but her selfe was able to mittigate his sorrowe no medicine but her courte●●e was able to cure his calamitie and hée thought to preferre his sute to his professed foe was follie to linger still in loue was death and miserie to séeke for helpe at her handes neyther woulde the present state permitte him nor time suffer him to prosecute his purpose daunted with these diuerse doubtes to auoyde the melancholike motions that molested his minde hée presently went from his lodging to the Court that by companie he might driue awaie these dumpes where hée found in the great chamber diuerse Ladies and Gentlemen passing awaie the time in pleasaunt parle amongst whom was that pearelesse Paragon princely Lewcippa who after due reuerence done to the Gentlewomen in generall was singled out by Thersandro and courted in this wise MAdame quoth hée if anie creature hath iust occasio● to accuse either Nature or the Gods of iniustice man onelye hath the greatest cause to make this complaint for there is none eyther so depriued of reason or deuoide of sence which by some naturall instinct dooeth not skilfully presage of perills before they come and warily preuent ere they be past The Goates of Lybia knowe certainelye when the Canicular dayes beginne wherein commonlye they fall blinde and therefore by eating the hearbe ●olopodium they prouidentlye preuent their disease When the Lyon leaueth his Lawnes and raungeth in forraine Desertes hée alwayes foresheweth a drought When the Fish called V●anascapos sinketh downe to the bottome of the Sea hée bewrayeth greate tempestes to bée imminent But man is so farre from this secrete foresight that not onelye hée cannot deuine of these ensuinge daungers but rather wilfullye or willing pusheth himselfe into most manifest perills which madame I speake as féeling my selfe distressed with this want For if I had bene indued with this sacred prescience perfectly to presage of ensuing perilles I had not ben crossed with such cares as I am like to incur nor hadde cause to repent this my present arriuall But sith lacke of such skill hath procured my losse and that when the hurt is had it is too late to take héede though reuealing of my mishappe cannot heale my miserie nor repeating of my paines redresse my sorrowe yet I meane to participate my passions to your good grace that though you cannot or will not mittigate my maladie yet you maye pittie my estate which will somewhat ease my heauinesse I came to your Fathers Court madame a frée man of Alexandria and am lyke to retourne a captiue of Metelyne I arriued deuoyde of care and am lyke to departe drenched with calamitie I landed frée from affection but feare to passe hence fraught with fancie my charge was onely to parle of peace but my chaunce is to discourse of passions Yea your beautie hath so fettered my fréedome and so snared my heart in the linkes of your loue that it shall neuer bée raced out by anye sinister meanes of Fortune although I sée it is almost impossible to obtayne it For I doubte our parents are lyke to proclaym● themselues professed foes and the vrgent necessitie of my affayres forceth mée to departe so spéedelye as want of time wyll not suffice to make tryall of my loue whereby I might claime a sufficient guerdon for my good wyll yet howsoeuer the matter shall happe whether my hope be voide or my happe be vaine I meane madame to remaine yours for euer Lewcippa tooke such delight in hearing Thersandro discourse so louingly as she could scarely kéepe her countenaunce from bewraying the pleasure she conceiued in this parle séeing that her loue was requited with lyking and her fancie incountered with the like affection Yet least Thersandro should thinke her too curteous if she shuld come at the first call and very light of loue to like at the first looke she framed him this aunswere SIr quoth she if of your sute for conditions of peace there insue no better successe than the reuealing of your passions shall reape pittie at my handes or if the intreatie for truce be as lightly respected by my Father as either your person or petition is regarded by me you are like to carrie home cold newes to your coūtrey and to vaunt that you bad faire but bought little that your Haruest was long

loued Helena Sparta had neuer reioyced nor Troy ben brought to ruine But did not I cause him to goe to Menelaus vnder coulour of Embassage to Court vnto his wife to leade her awaie by force and after to defend his vniust quarrel against all Greece Who had spoken of the loue of Dido if he had not deuised to goe a hunting that she might haue the better commoditie to communicate with Aeneas that by such priuate familiaritie he might not be ashamed to take from her that which long before most willingly she would haue giuen him I beléeue no mention had béene made of Artemizia if I had not caused her drinke the cynders of her husbands dead carcasse for else who had knowen whether she had loued her husband more then other women The effect and issues of things alwayes make them to be praised or dispraised If thou makest men to loue yet I am oft times the chiefest cause But if any straunge aduenture or greate effect chaunceth in that thou hast no part but the onely honour belongeth vnto me Thou rulest nothing but y ● heart the rest I gouerne yea I leade thée I conducte thée and thine eyes serue thée to no more vse then the beames of the Sunne to a blinde man But to the ende thou knowe mée from hence foorth and that thou mayst giue mée thankes for conducting thée carefullye Beholde nowe howe greatlye thine eyes dooe profite thée Follie putteth out Cupids eies Loue. Alasse Iupiter O my mother Venus what auayleth it to bée thy sonne so feared so redoubted both in heauen and in earth if I be subiect to bée iniured as the most vile slaue in the worlde Alasse haue I thus lost mine eies by an vnknowen woman Folly Take héede sond foole another time to rayle vppon those who perhappes are of more force and puissaunce then thou Thou hast offended the Quéene of men thou hast outraged her who gouerneth the heart the braine and the minde Under whose shadowe euerie one once in his lyfe shroudeth himselfe and ther remaineth either long or short time according to his merite thou hast displeased her who procureth thy renowme thou hast contempned her who hath aduaunced thée and therfore hath this misfortune fallen vpon thy head Loue. Alasse how is it possible for me to 〈◊〉 her whom I neuer knew or to reuerence that person whom before I neuer sawe but if thou hast borne me such great good will as thou saist pardon this my offence and restore me my sight Folly To restore thée thine eyes is not in my power but I will couer the place to hide the deformitie Folly couereth Cupids face with a Scarfe and giueth him wings And in liew of this haplesse lucke thou shalt haue these wings which shal cary thée whether thou wilt wish Loue. But where hadst thou this vaile so readie to couer my deformitie Folly It was giuen me as I came hether by one of the destinies who told me it was of that nature that if it were once fastned it could neuer be vnloosed Loue. How vnloosed am I then blinde for euer O vile and traiterous wretch coulde it not suffice to pull out mine eyes but to take awaie the meanes that the Gods cannot restore them now I sée the sentence verified on my selfe that it is not good to take a present at the hande of an enimie O cruell destinies O cursed daie shall not the heauens the earth and the seas haue cause to waile sith loue is blinde But why doe I complaine héere in vaine it is better for me to sue to the Gods for reuengement The second discourse Loue goe●● from the Pallace of Iupiter lamenting to himselfe his mischiefe Loue. Alasse in what miserable case am I what can eyther my bowe or mine arrowes auaile me nowe can I not cause whom I 〈…〉 ●oue but without respect of persons euerie one is in daunger of my darts Hetherto I haue onely caused daintie damsells and young youths to loue I did choose out the brauest blouds and the fairest and most well featured men I did pardon vile and base persons I excused the deformed creatures and let olde age remaine in peace But now thi●king to hit a young gallaunt I light vpon some olde ●●●ting lecher in stéed of some braue Gentleman I strike some filthie foule lurden And it shall happen I d●●bt that they shall bée most fortunate in their loue so that by patrimonie presence or wealth they shall soonest winne the fauour of women and by this meanes my kingdome shall come to ruine when men sée in it such disorder and euill gouernment Venus hauing long sought Cupid now meeteth him I haue carefully long sought thée my deare sonne meruailing what the cause shoulde bée that thou hast not bene present at the banket of Iupiter Who is greatly incensed against thee not onely for thy absence but for the complaintes which are 〈◊〉 out against thée by sundrie poore artificers labouring men pesaunts slaues hand maides olde men and toothlesse aged women crying all vnto Iupiter that they loue thinking themselues greatly iniured in this respect that the passion which is proper to worthy and noble men should be inflicted vpon them which are of the base and vildest sort Loue. Had not the great misfortune which is chaunced vnto me happened I had neither bene absent from the banquet nor these gréeuous complaints had not bene inferred against mée Venus Why and art thou hurt Who hath thus vailed thine eies Loue. Folly hath not onely pulled them out but also hath put this bande before mine eies which can neuer be taken away Venus O cursed enimie of all wisedome O haplesse wretch vniustly called a Goddesse and more vnrightly tearmed immortall hast thou depriued me of my chiefest delight and felicitie O disaster loue O dissolute mother O wofull Venus who séest thy sonne thy ioy and onely care thus cruelly depriued of his sight Well since thy mishap is so great I vowe that euerie one that shall loue what fauour or happie successe so euer he shall haue shall not be without some care trouble or calamitie that hée vaunt not himselfe to be more happie then the sonne of Venus Loue. Cease off good mother from these sorrowfull complaints redouble not my griefe by these your dolorous discourses suffer mée to beare mine owne misfortune and wish not euill vnto them which shall bée my subiectes Venus Well let vs then goe to Iupiter and complaine of this cursed inchauntresse The third discourse Venus If euer thou hadst pittie of my plaintes most iust Iupiter when thou sawest me labour to saue my son Aeneas from the furie of the raging Seas and to defend him from other daungers in the which he was present at the siege of Troy If my teares for the death of my deare Adonis moued thée to compassion The surpassing sorrow that I doe conceiue for the great iniurie offered to Cupid I hope shall moue thée to pittie If teares wold suffer me I would

conceipts of youth are vnfit for the testie cogitations of age I meane for your satisfaction and my solace to departe from the Court and to spend my dayes in trauell Clerophontes no sooner heard this determination of his sonne Gwydonius but his sorrow was halfe salued and his care almost cured thinking that by trauell hée should either ende his life or amend his lewdnesse and therefore both hearted and hastened his sonne in this his newe course least delay might bréede daunger or time by some toye cause him tourne his tippet furnishing finishing all things necessarie for his sonnes iourney who readie to goe more willing to trauell than his father to intreate him had this friendly farewell giuen him by Clerophontes SOnne quoth he there is no greater doubt which dooeth more déepely distresse the minde of a young man then to determine with himselfe what course of life is best to take for there is such a confused Chaos of contrarie conceipts in young wits that whiles they looke for that they cannot like they are lost in such an endles Laberinth as neither choice nor chance can draw thē out to their wished desires for so manie vaines so many vanities if vertue draweth one way vice driueth another way as profit perswades thē so plesure prouokes them as wit weigheth will wresteth if friends counsell them to take this fancie forceth them to choose that so that desire so long hangs in doubt as either they choose none or els chaunce on the worst But in my opinion the fittest kind of life for a young Gentleman to take who as yet hath not subdued the youthfull conceipts of fancie nor made a conquest of his will by witte is to spende his time in trauell wherein he shall finde both pleasure and profite yea and buy● that by experience which otherwise with all the treasure in the world hée cannot purchase For what chaungeth vanitie to vertue staylesse wit to stayed wisedome fonde fantasies to firme affections but trauell what represseth the rage of youth and redresseth the witlesse furie of wanton yeares but trauell what tourneth a secure life to a carefull lyuing what maketh the foolish wise yea what increaseth wit and augmenteth skill but trauell in so much that the fame Vlysses wonne was not by the tenne yeares hee laye at Troy but by the time he spent in trauell But there is nothing Gwydonius so precious which in some respecte is not perillous nor nothing so pleasaunt which maye not be painefull the finest golde hath hys drosse the purest wine his lées the brauest rose his prickles each swéete hath his sower each ioye his annoy each weale his woe and euerie delyght his daunger So trauaile Gwydonius is a course of life verie pleasant and yet very perillous wherin thou mayst practise vertue if thou take héede or purchase discredite if thou béest carelesse where thou maist reape renowne if thou béest vertuous and gaine reproch if thou be vicions whereout doo spring wisedome and folly fréedome and bondage treasure and trash fame and discredite honour shame according to the dispotion of him which eyther vseth it to his profit or abuseth it to his discommoditie Sith then thou shalt beare sayle in such perillous Strayghtes take héede least thou dash thy ship agaynst most daungerous Rockes It is a saying Gwydonius not so common as true that hée which will heare the Syrens sing must with Vlysses tye himselfe to the mast of a ship least happely he be drowned Who so meanes to be a sutor to Circes must take a Preseruatiue vnlesse he will be inchaunted He that will fish for y ● Torpedo must annoynt his hand with the oyle of Nemiphar least he be charmed who so meaneth to enter combat with vanitie must first surely defence himselfe with the target of vertue vnlesse hée meane to be a captiue to care or calamitie I speak this Gwydonius by experience which afterwarde thou shalt know by proofe for in trauell thou shalt finde such subtill Syrens as will indaunger thée such sorcering Cirees as will inchaunt thée such poysoned Torpedos as will not onely charme thy hand but thy heart if by my experience and other mens perils thou learn not to beware First Gwydonius be not too sumptuous least thou seeme prodigall nor too couetous least they compt thée a niggard for by spending in excesse thou shalt be thought a vainglorious foole and by too much sparing a couetous pesant Be not wilfull in thy dooings that they count thée not witlesse nor too rash that they think thée not deuoyd of reason be not too merrie that they count thée not immodest nor too sober least they call thée sullen but shew thy selfe to be an olde man for thy grauitie and a young youth for thy actiuitie so shal all men haue cause to praise thée for thy manners and commend thée for thy modestie Be not too curious Guydonius that they déeme thée not proud nor too curteous least they call thée counterfaite Be a friend to all a foe to none and yet trust not without triall nor commit any secret to a friendlye stranger least in too much trust lye treason and thou be forced by repentaunce to ●rie Peccaui The swéetest Muske is sower to be tasted the finest Pils most bitter to be chewed and the flattering friend most tickle being tried then beware least faire words make fooles faine glozing spéeches cause had I wist come too late Lende not Gwydonius a listning eare to the Alarums of loue nor yéeld not thy fréedome to the assault of lust be not dazeled with the beames of fading beautie nor daunted with the desire of euery delicat damsell for in time such blisse will proue but bane and such delightfull ioye but despitefull annoye Lust Gwydonius will prooue an enimie to thy pursse and a foe to thy person a canker to thy minde and a corasiue to thy conscience a weakner of thy wit a molester of thy minde a besotter of thy sences and finally a mortall bane to all thy body so that thou shalt find pleasure the pathway to perdition and lusting Loue the load-stone to ruth and ruine Séeke not then Gwydonius gréedely to deuour that baite where-vnder thou knowest a hurtful hook to be hidden frequent not y ● plesure which wil turn to thy poyson nor couet not y ● cōpanie which will conuert to thy confusion least through such follye thou haue cause in time to bée sadde and I to be sorrowfull Now Gwydonius that thou hast heard the aduertisement of a louing father follow my aduice as a duetifull Childe and the more to binde thée to perfourm● my former preceptes that this my counsaile be not drowned in obliuion I giue thée this Ring of gold wherein is written this sentence Praemonitus Praemunitu● A Posie pretie for the wordes and pithie for the matter shorte to bée rehearsed and long to bée related inferring this sence that he which is fore-warned by friendlye counsayle of imminent daungers is fore-armed

be no difference betwéene the Noble and the pesaunt betwéene the Infidell and the Moore the Turke and the Iewe the Ladie the Mistresse and the hand-maide But ther shall insue such a confused inequalitie that the faire shal not be matched with the wel featured but shal be oft times ioyned with fowle and deformed persons Great Ladies and noble Dames shall fall in loue with them whome before they would disdaine to accept as their seruants And when the loyall and faithfull Louers haue long languished in the loue of some beautifull Dame whose mutuall good will they haue gayned by deserte then Folly will cause some fickle false flatterer to enioye that in one hower which in all their life they coulde not attayne I passe ouer the continuall debates and quarrells that shall ensue by Folly whereof shall spring woundes massacres and most fearefull murthers And I greatly feare that wheras Loue hath inuented so many laudable sciences and brought foorth so many commodities that now he will bring great idlenesse accompanied with ignoraunce that he will cause young Gentlemen to leaue feates of armes to forsake the seruice of their Prince to reiect honourable studyes and to appplye them selues to vaine songs and sonnets to chambring and wantonnesse to banketting and gluttonie bringing infinite diseases to their bodies and sundrie daungers and perills to their persons for there is no more daungerous companie than of Folly Behold O souereigne Iupiter the mischiefes and miseries that are like to insue if Folly be appointed companion to Loue. Wherefore I in the person of all the Gods beséech your Maiestie to graunt that Loue maye not be ioyned with her and that Folly may gréeuously be punished for the outrage she hath done to Cupid As soone as Apollo had ended his Oration Mercurie in defence of Folly beginneth to speake in this wise Mercurie WHereas right worthie Iupiter Apollo hath with his painted eloquence set out the praises of Loue and hath sought with his filed phrases to discredit Folly I hope when your Maiestie shall throughlye heare the cause decyded you will commende his Eloquence more than his reasons For it is not vnknowen vnto you and all the Gods that Folly is no whit inferiour vnto Loue and that Loue should be of no force without her neyther could his kingdom indure without her help ayde and counsayle I praye you call to remembraunce how Folly incontinently after Man was placed in Paradise beganne most imperiously to rule and hath euer since continued in such credite as neuer any Goddesse had the like raigning and ruling amongest men from time to time from age to age as the onely Princesse of the worlde Insomuch that who haue bene more honored than fooles Who was more subiect vnto Folly than Alexander the great which féeling himselfe to suffer hunger and thirst to be subiect to sorrow and sicknesse not able to kéepe himselfe from dronkennesse yet would be honoured for a God What kinde of people hath bene in greater credit than Philosophers and who more fooles Did not Aristotle most foolishly dye for sorrowe because he knewe not the ebbing and flowing of the sea Did not Crates in casting his treasure into the sea commit a wise déede What folly shewed Empedocles by his straunge coniectures what say you to Diogenes tunne and to Aristippus flatterie Who so throughly considereth their opinions shal finde them subiect to the state of Folly How many other sciences are there in the world which are altogether foolish and yet the professors of them had in high reputation amongest men They which are Calculators of Natiuities makers of charecters casters of figures are they not Friers of this fraternitie Is it not Folly to be so curious as to measure the heauen the height of the starres the breadth of the earth and the deapth of the sea and yet the professors heereof are highly estéemed onely by the meanes of Folly Nay how could y ● world continue if the daungers troubles calamities and discommodities of mariage were not couered by folly Who would haue coasted the seas if Folly had not ben his guide to commit himselfe to the mercie of y ● winde the waues to liue in daunger of fearefull surges and and perillous Rockes to trafficke with sauage and barbarous people onely incensed by the meanes of Folly And yet notwithstanding by this meanes the common wealth is maintained knowledge and learning augmented the properties of hearbes stones and birdes beastes perfectly searched out What Follye is it most daungerously to passe into the bowels of y e earth to dig for yron and seeke for golde How many Arts and occupations shuld be driuen out of the world if Folly were banished truly the most part of men should either beg for want or dye for hunger How should so many Aduocates Procurators Sergeaunts Atturneyes Scriueners Imbroderers Painters and Perfumers liue if Lady Folly were vtterlye exiled Hath not Folly inuented a thousand deuices to drawe a man from idlenesse as Tragedies Comedies Dauncing schooles Fencing houses wrastling places and a thousand other foolish sports Hath she not made men hardie venterous to fight with Lyons Boares Bulles onely to gaine honour to passe other in folly What did Antonie and Cleopapatra when they straue who should spend most in beastly banketting What caused Caesar lament that he had not begun to trouble the world●in that age wherin Alexander had conquered the greatest part Why did diuers séeke to fill vp the valleyes to make plaine the mountaines to drye vp riuers to make bridges ouer the sea as Claudius the Emperour did What made Rhodope build the Pyramides and Artemisia frame the sumptuous sepulcher but Folly In fine without this Goddesse man should be carefull heauie and whollye drowned in sorrow whereas Folly quickeneth his spirite maketh him sing daunce leape and frame himselfe altogether to pleasure It is not possible that Loue shuld be without the daughter of youth which is Folly For Loue springeth of sodaine and sundry causes by receyuing an Apple as Cydippe by looking out at a Windowe as Scylla by reading in a Booke as the Ladye Frauncis Rymhi some fall in loue by sight some by hearing but all liuing in hope to obtane their desires And yet some haue loued without anye naturall cause as Pigmalion who fell in Loue with his marble picture I pray you what Sympathia could there be betweene a lyuely youth and a dead stone what was it then but Folly that kindled this flame what forced Narcissus to fall in Loue with his owne shadowe but Folly Yea what aduenture is passed in loue without Folly For the Philosophers define Folly to be a depriuation of Wisedome and Wisedome is altogether without passions of the which when Loue shall be voyde then no doubt the sea shall be without waues and the Fire without heate Consider but a young man which onely placeth his delight in amorous conceiptes decking dressing and perfuming himselfe most delicately who passeth out