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A02124	Greenes carde of fancie Wherein the folly of those carpet knights is deciphered, which guiding their course by the compass of Cupid, either dash their ship against most dangerous rocks, or else attaine the haven with pain and perill. Wherein also is described in the person of Gwydonius a cruell combate between nature and necessitie. By Robert Green, Master of Art, in Cambridge.; Gwydonius	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.; Labé, Louise, 1526?-1566. Debat de folie et d'amour.	1608 (1608)	STC 12264; ESTC S105823	97,810	154

certaine Merchantes of Alexandria which then roade in the Hauen durst not goe a shoare to sell their commodities but as fast as winde and weather woulde serue them highed them out of the harbour and coasted speedily into their owne Countrie where they no sooner arriued but they made report thereof to Orlanio who driuen into a dumpe with this noysome newes whether he doubted of the puissant power of Clerophontes who was such a worthy warriour and in battaile so bold that no man durst abide him or whether he feared his owne force was not able to resist the furie of his raging enemy Hee presently summoned all his Lords to a Parliament where after some conference it was cōcluded that Thersandro should bee sent Embassadour to Mitylene to parle of peace with Clerophontes which determination was no whit deferred but with as much spéed as might be the Bark wherein hée should passe was prouided the charge of the Embassage was giuen him and he accompanied with a traine of braue Gentlemen departed But if this newes was dolefull to Orlanio no doubt it was death it selfe to Gwydonius who hearing that his father woulde bend his force against the place wherein hee was sawe all possibilitie taken away from obtayning his purpose for he feared death if he were knowen to Orlanio and hée doubted despightfull hate at the least if he bewrayed himselfe to Castania Which double dolour so distressed him as hée felt himselfe diuersly perplexed with dumpish passions his myrth was turned to mourning his pleasant conceits to painefull cogitations his wanton toyes to wayling thoughtes now he abandoned all good companie and delighted onely in solitary life the wildesome woodes were his walkes and the secret shades the couert he chiefly coueted In fine hée séemed rather a Tymon of Athens than a Gentleman of Alexandria so that all the Court marueiled at this so sodaine a chaunge but especially Castania who coniecturing his dolefull heart by his drousie lookes was astonished at this strange state casting in her minde whether she had giuen him anie cause of this care or whether by her occasion he was crossed with this calamitie But alas poore soule howsoeuer she aymed she mist the marke for Gwydonius kept his disease so secret as he knew none could but himselfe diuine the cause of his maladie which no doubt was such that it would haue inferred present death if hee had not hoped for some happie newes by Thersandro Who no sooner luckely arriued at Mitylene but Clerophōtes was certified that the Dukes sonne of Alexandria was come to impart with his Grace some waightie matters of importance Now at this instant when the message was brought him his daughter Lewcippa was by who as the nature of women is desirous to see and bee séene thought she should both heare the parle view the person of this young Embassadour and therefore found fish on her fingers that she might stay still in the chamber of presence whither presently Thersandro was sent for who curteously and curiously doing his obeylance to the Duke deliuered his Embassage in this maner VVHereas right worthy sir Orlanio the Duke of Alexandria more vnwittingly then wilfully denied certaine tribute which he confesseth both hee and his predecessours haue payd to you and your auncestors Hearing that héereupon your Grace meaneth rather to wage battaile then to lose any part of your due although he feareth not your force as one able euery way to withstand it nor passeth of your puissance as a Potentate sufficient to resist your power Yet the care he hath of his subiects safetie and the loue he hath to preserue the life of his Commons the regard he hath to pay and performe that which consciēce and custome requireth and lastly meaning with Tully Iniquissimam pacem iustissimo bello anteponere He hath sent me both to sue for conditions of peace and to paie the tribute which if your Grace shall refuse of force he must put his hope in the hazard of Fortune THersandro hauing thus pithily performed his charge Clerophontes tolde him that vpon a sodaine he wold not dispatch so waightie a matter but meant first both to consult and take counsaile of his Nobles which done within thrée dayes he shoulde haue an answere In the meane time he commanded Lucianus the Steward of his house verie courteously to entreate 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 counsailours and Thersandro to accompanie with the lustie Courtiers againe to Lewcippa who while this yong youth was telling of his tale neuer markt the matter but the man nor regarded not the parle but respected that person neuer noted the contentes but viewed his countenance In such sort that she was so scorched with the fire of fancie and so scalded with the flame of affection so bewitched with his beautie and so inueigled with his bountie as he was the onely man that made her checke at the pray bate at the lure and willingly yeelde to the first assault of fancie And on the other side Fortune so fauoured that Thersandro printing in his heart the perfection of Lewcippas person felt his fredome so fettered by that view of her heauenly face and so snared in the beames of her amorous glaunces that he wisht that either this dissension had neuer growen or that he had not béene the deliuerer of the message for hee felt his heart alreadie so ouergrowen with good will towardes this young Princesse as no salue but her selfe was able to mitigate his sorrow no medicine but her curtesie was able to cure his calamitie and he thought to preferre his sute to his professed foe was folly to linger still in loue was death and misery to séeke for helpe at her hands neither would the present state permit him nor time suffer him to prosecute his purpose daunted with these diuerse doubtes to auoyde the melancholike motions that molested his mind he presently went from his lodging to the Court that by company hée might driue away these dumpes where hee founde in the great Chamber diuerse Ladies Gentlewomen passing away the time in pleasant parle amongst whom was that peerlesse Paragon princely Lewcippa who after due reuerence done to the Gentlewomen in generall was singled out by Thersandro and courted in this wise MAdam quoth he if any creature hath iust occasion to accuse eyther nature or the gods of iniustice man only hath the greatest cause to make this complaint for there is none other so depriued of reason or deuoyde of sense which by some naturall instinct dooth not skilfully presage of perils before they come and warily preuent ere they bée past The Goates of Lybia know certainly when the Canicular dayes beginne wherein commonly they fall blinde and therefore by eating the hearbe Polypodium they prouidently preuent their disease When the Lyon leaueth his Lawnes and raungeth in forraigne

thy vaine vaunting that euery one holdeth his life of thy mercy and that thou art the onely Lord and Soueraign both in Heauen Earth the Sea and Hell But many things are spoken which are neuer beléeued Loue. And art thou so hard of beléefe to deny that which euery one confesseth Folly I haue not to doo with other mens opinions but this I am sure that it is not by thy force and prowesse that so many miracles are wrought in the world but by my industry by my meanes and by my diligence although thou knowest me not But if thou doest cōtinue long in this thy choler I wil let thée vnderst●nd that thy bowe and thy arrowes wherof thou vauntest so much are more weak than wax if I bend not the one and temper the other Loue. Doest thou thinke by this skoffing to pacifie mine anger or by contemptuous threatning to qualifie my choler Hast thou euer fond fool handled my bowe or directed my bolts Is it thy prowesse and not my force which performeth such valiant conquests But since thou regardest me and respectest my force so little thou shalt presently féel the proofe thereof Folly maketh her selfe inuisible so that Loue cannot hit her Loue. But where art thou become How hast thou escaped mee This onely is the strangest case that euer chaunced vnto me I had thought that amongst all the gods I only could haue made my selfe inuisible But now I sée I am deceiued Folly Did not I tell thee before that thy bowe thy arrows are of no force but when it pleaseth me and that by my means thou alwaies obtainest the conquest Maruaile not if I be inuisible for if I lift the eyes of the Eagle or of the Serpent Epidaurus cannot espie me for Chameleon like take the shape of them which whom I do remaine Loue. Trulie as I coniecture thou art some Sorceresse or some Enchauntresse some Circe some Medea or some Fairie Folly Wel since thou doest thus reclesly rail vpon me know that I am a godesse as thou art a god my name is Follie I am she which raiseth thee vp and casteth thee downe at my pleasure Thou vnloosest thy bowe leftest flie thine arrowes in the aire but I place them where it pleaseth me Thou doest addresse thy selfe against Iupiter but he is of such puissance that if I both guided not thy hand tempered thy arrow thy féeble force could little preuail against his prowesse Indéed thou diddest force Iupiter to loue but I caused him to change himself into a Swan into a Bull into Gold into an Eagle Who caused Mars thy mother Venus to be taken in bed together by the limping cuckold Vulcan but I If Paris had done no other thing but loued Helena Sparta had neuer reioyced nor Troy béen brought to ruine But did not I cause him to goe to Menelaus vnder colour of Embassage to Court vnto his wife to leade her away by force and after to defend his vniust quarrell 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 opportunity to communicate with Aeneas that by such priuate familiaritie he might not be ashamed to take from her that which long before most willinglie shée would haue giuen him I beléeue no mention had beene made of Artemisia if I had not caused her drinke the cynders of her husbāds dead carkasse for els who had knowne whether she had loued her husbande more than other women The effect and issues of things alwaies makes 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 great effect chanceth in that thou hast no part but the onely honour belongeth vnto me Thou rulest nothing but the heart the rest I gouerne yea I leade thee I conduct thee thine eies serue thée to no more vse than the beames of the Sunne to a blinde man But to the ende thou know me from henceforth and that thou maiest giue me thankes for conducting thee carefully behold now how greatly thine eies do profit thée Follie putteth out Cupids eyes Loue. Alas Iupiter O my mother Venus what auaileth it to be thy sonne so feared so redoubted both in heauen and in earth if I be subiect to be iniured as the most vile slaue in the worlde Alasse haue I thus lost mine eyes by an vnknowne woman Follie. Take héede fond foole another time to raile vpon those who perhaps are of more force and puissaunce than thou Thou hast offended the Quéen of men thou hast outraged her who gouerneth the heart the braine and the minde vnder whose shadow euery one once in his life shrowdeth himselfe and there remaineth either long or short time according to his merite thou hast displeased her who procureth thy renowme thou hast contemned her who hath aduanced thée and therefore hath this misfortune fallen vpon thy head Loue. Alas how is it possible for me to honour her whome I neuer knew or to reuerence that person whome before I neuer sawe but if thou hast borne mee such great good will as then saiest pardon this my offence and restore me my sight Follie. To restore thee thine eyes is not in my power but I will couer the place to hide the deformitie Follie couereth Cupids face with a Scarfe and giueth him winges And in lieu of this haplesse lucke thou shalt haue these wings which shall carrie thee whither thou wilt wish Loue. But where hadst thou this vaile so readie to couer my deformitie Follie. It was giuen me as I came hither by one of the Destinies who tolde 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 could it not suffice to put out mine eies but to take away 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 hand of anenemy 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 here in vaine it is better for me to sue to the Gods for reuengement The second Discourse Loue goeth from the palace of Iupiter lamenting to himselfe his mischiefe Loue. Alas in what miserable case am I what can either my bowe or mine arrows auaile me now can I not cause whō I list to loue but without respect of persons euerie one is in daunger of my dartes Hitherto I haue onely caused daintie damsels and yong 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 thinking to hit a young gallant I light vppon some olde doating lecher in

Common-wealth is maintayned knowledge and learning augmented the properties of hearbes stones Birdes and beastes perfectly searched out What folly is it most daungerously to passe into the howels of the earth to digge for yron and séeke for gold How many artes and occupations should bee driuen out of the worlde if Follie were banished Truly the most part of men should either beg for want or die for hunger How should so many Aduocates Procurators Sergeants Atturneis Scriueners Imbroderers Painters and Perfumers liue if Ladie Follie were vtterly exiled Hath not follie inuented a thousād deuices to draw a man from idlenesse as Tragedies Comedies Dancing schooles fencing houses wrastling places a thousand other foolish sports Hath she not made men hardie and venturous to fight with Lions Bores and Buls onely to gaine honour and to passe other in follie What did Antonie and Cleopatra when they straue who should spend most in beastly banquetting What caused Caesar lament that he had not begun to trouble the world in that age wherein Alexander had conquered the greatest part Why did diuerse séeke to fill vp the valleyes to make plaine the mountaines to dry vp Riuers to make Bridges ouer the Sea as Claudius the Emperour did What made Rodope builde the Pyramides and Artemisia frame the sumptuous sepulchre but Follie. In fine without this Goddesse man shoulde bee carefull heauie and whollie drowned in sorrow whereas Follie quickeneth his spirits maketh him sing daunce leape and frame himselfe altogether to pleasure It is not possible that loue should bee without the daughter of youth which is Follie. For Loue springeth of sedaine and sundrie causes by receiuing an apple as Cidippe by looking out at a windowe as Scilla by reading in a Booke as the Ladie Francis Rimhi some fall in loue by sight some by hearing but all liuing in hope to obtaine their desires And yet some haue loued without anie naturall cause as Pigmalion who fell in loue with his Marble picture and I pray you what Sympathie could there be betwéene a liuely youth and a dead stone what was it then but follie that kindled this flame What forced Narcissus to fall in loue with his owne shaddowe but Follie Yea what aduenture is passed in loue without Follie For the Philosophers define Follie to be a depriuation of wisedome and wisedome is altogether without passions of the which when loue shall be voide then no doubt the Sea shall be without waues and the fire without heats Consider but a young man which onely placeth his delight in amorous conceites decking dressing and perfuming himselfe most delicately who passeth out of his lodging fraught with a thousand sundrie fancies accompanied with men and Pages passing to the place where hee may haue a sight of his Mistresse obtaining for his trauell no gaine but perhaps some amorous glance making long sutes spending his time and his treasure consuming his wit and wasting his wealth and yet reaping nothing but disdaine and discredite But if it chance that his Mistresse condescend vnto his requests she appointeth him to come at some suspicious houre which he cannot performe without great perill To come with company were to bewraie his secrets to go alone most daungerous to goe openly too manifest so that he must passe disguised sometime like a woman other times like a peasant or some vile person scaling the walles with ladders climbing vp to the windowes by cordes yea continually in daunger of death if Follie did not hold him vp by the hand It is not also vnknowne vnto you how many sundrie passions do perplexe the poore passionate Louers all which procéed of Follie as to haue ones heart separated from himselfe to be now in peace and then in warre now couering his dolour blushing one while and looking pale another fraught whollie with feare hope shame seeking that carefully which hée séemeth to flie and yet doubtfully dreading not to finde it to laugh sildome to sigh often to burne in colde and freeze in heate to be crossed altogether with contraries which be signes not onely of follie but of phrensie Who shall excuse Hercules handling so carefully the distaste of Omphale or Salomon for combring himselfe with so many Concubines Anniball in submitting himselfe to his Loue Aristotle in obeying Hermia and Socrates in yéelding to Aspasia and many other which we sée daily to bee so blinded as they know not themselues and what is the cause hereof but follie so that we see that it is she which maketh Loue to be so feared and redoubted it is she that honoureth him exalteth his name and causeth him to be counted as a God Further whosoeuer loueth must apply himselfe to the affection of his mistresse although it be contrarie to his naturall constitution if he be quiet wise and discréete yet if his louer please to haue him chaunge his state he must turne his stearne and hoise his saile to goe with another winde Zethius and Amphion could not agrée for because the delight of the one was a despight to the other vntill Amphion left his Musicke If the Ladie whom thou louest be couetous thou must chaunge thy selfe into golde and so fall into her bosome if she be merrie thou must bée pleasant if sullen thou must be sad All the seruants and sutors to Atlanta were hunters because she delighted in that sport Many Gentlewomen to please their louers which were Poets left the rocke and the néedle and tooke in hand pennes books now tell mee if these straunge Metamorphoses be not méere points of follie Doe you thinke that a Souldier which goeth to the assault marketh the trenches thinketh of his enemies or of a thousand harguebushes wherof euerie one is sufficient to destroy him No he onely hopeth to win the conquest and doth not so much as once imagine the rest He which first inuented sayling doubted not of the perillous daungers and hee that playeth neuer thinketh to become a looser yet are they all thrée in daunger to be slaine drowned and vndone But what then they neither do see nor will sée what is hurtfull vnto them So we must coniecture the like of louers for if they did sée the dreadfull dangers and the fearefull perits wherein they are how they be deceiued and beguiled they would neuer honour loue as God but detest him as a Diuell and so should the kingdom of loue be destroyed which now is gouerned by ignorance carelesnesse hope blindenesse which are all the handmaids of Folly Remaine in peace then fond Loue and séeke not to break the auncient league which is betwéen thée and Folly For if then doest thy bowe shal be broken thy darts shal be of no force Contemptęque iacent sine luce faces ¶ When Mercury had finished the defence of Follie Iupiter seeing the gods to be diuersly affected that some held with Cupid and some with Folly to decide the doubt he pronounced this sentence FOr the difficulty and importance of this difference and diuersitie of opinions we haue remitted the deciding of it vntill thrée times seuen times and nine ages be past in the meane while wee straightly commaund you to liue friendly together without offering iniury one vnto another And Folly shall guide and conduct blinde Loue whither shée séemeth best and for the restoring of his eyes after we haue spoken with the Destinies it shall be decréede FINIS AT LONDON Printed for Mathew Lownes 1608