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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04887	Loues load-starre Liuely deciphered in a historie no lesse commendable than comfortable, for all those that in their louely affections, haue by the enmitie of their friends, bene molested with the menacing meteors of crossing misfortunes. Leading also all kinde and true louers, that in their choyces are frownd at by froward parents, vnto the portfull paradise of pleasurde patience, and patient pleasures. By Robert Kittowe, student.	Kittowe, Robert.	1600 (1600)	STC 15026; ESTC S119664	47,205	78

with paces as swift as their distempered féete could support they hasted both to their seuerall homes Don Andrea Alizandra considering this vnexpected chaunge through so vnfortunate a chaunce set downe his censure as a principle that Omnia humana mutabilia But what saith he should I that from my infancie haue bene attendant on the buckelings of couragious Mars now séeme to muster in sentences vnder the correction of graue Minerua Victa est fortuna ferendo I haue indurde and so haue ouercome They are but Fortunes nouices that cannot with patience oppugne any inconuenience A death is due to nature and the sooner that we die the sooner are our debtt's satisfied Men may not be mortall then would the creature aduance him beyond the Creator As Prometheus would attempting to steale the fire of eternall life from heauen for which cause Iupiter adiudged him to be tyed at colde Caucasus and there eternally to haue his limmes deuoured by a Uulture Contentus sua sorte beatior Policrate I I a contented minde is all in all Did we not sometime taste the sowre we should not well perceiue the swéet were we not now and then crost with misfortunes we could not know what it were to be fortunate Peace is the mother of securitie and securitie the nurse of pouertie and pouertie the author of infamie for nil habet infoelix paupertas durius in se quam quod ridiculos homines facit And yet must we gratefully welcome all that the supernall Gods do send to worke our triall and happie yea thrice happy is that man that so may be purified Hauing thus contemplated with himselfe on the foresaid accidents to driue off that encreasing melancholy passion he tooke in hand his Lute and thereon recorded this Dittie Men gainst Gods once did warre Which should haue preheminence But the end of their iarre Bred mans fall for his offence Men ought not to fall at oddes In any case with th' immortall Gods Aspiring minde brought Phaëton To all extreames of wretchednes The like endur'd Bullerophon Through his audacious venterousnes The one would gouerne Phoebus carres The other mount vp to the starres Rest content in your estates Be they high or be they lowe Shun you shall then debates That on mindes distempered growe Still take heed by others fall A minde content surpasseth all Contentus esto esto foelix By this time were Pierro and Bartolo come home and made eye-witnesses of their former supposed mishappes Iaconim sawe his sonne shiuering as it were surprized with a quartane feuer Bartolo beheld his daughter shaking and quaking as though she were set on by the falling sicknesse Both of these patients made shews gaue signes and tokens to the amazement of all that were present in their bed-chambers and so much the more because they spake no word but were alwaies silent Some said this miraculous maladie of these yoonglings was bred by ill sight some said they were Plane● strooken some againe saide they were straungely bewitched Scinditur incertum studia in contraria vulgus c. euery one vttered diuersly what their mindes gaue them to excogitate But the wofull parents hauing on both sides visited and reuisited these miserable Orphanes had the skilfullest Doctors sent for with all spéed possible all preseruatiues prouided that had vertue cureable leauing nothing vnsought nor meanes vnmade that might be deuised auaileable Yet nought released them of their extreame traunces nor mitigated their perillous maladies Which encreased the sharper sorrowes of the parents the griefe of their noble kindred the vexatiō of their friends and the discomfort of all the people of Palermo Sic variat Fortuna vices You that haue séene a Merchant standing on the hatefull shore beholding the Uessell which on the seas remaineth fraught with his whole venture in hazard of sincking and lifting his eyes to the heauens crieth out O Gods I am vndone ●tterly vndone In the like passion or a more vehement may you suppose all present to remaine for these two distressed and diseased members For if men take heauily common contrary casualties as the husbandman receiuing an vnfruitfull haruest the craftsman deceiued of his substance by beguilefull debters the shepheard hauing his flocks pestered though the infection of some scabiosum pecus and such like disparaging inconueniences how may it happen otherwise but that fathers take tenne times more grieuously the losse of their onely children vnlesse they had the incomprehensible Faith of the auncient Patriarch that obeying his makers commaund was content to sacrifice his onely sonne of whom he had tryple promise from his God there should procéed so many renowned Tribes and nations multiplied in such number as incomparabilitie shuld equal the innumerable starres of the resplendent heauens Now generous Readers must my pen shew the cunning of a Painters Pencil as this with shadowes and colours of varietie so that with some proper deciphering spéeches to portraie a reuiuing noueltie The Destenies had not yet cancelled the date of those Louers dayes nor Atropos knife was yet preparde to cut the twist wheron hung the tenurs of their liues The scars which both of their brests had receiued as ●mpression of wanton Cupids shafts stucke so neare their tender hearts as for a while till the stintie sting and pricking wound thereof was delaied their whole bodies in euery ioynt continued distemperate and their hearts panting and disconsolate For the euening before that nights regiment when both their Parents as is before rehearsed were feasting with Don Andrea Alizandra these two prittie peates méeting eache other at their Fathers doore for the two dwelling places the beauteous building of that flourishing Citie were ioynde hard the one with the other attended on both sides with hansome hand-maides and propper Paces for their yeares had not yet brought them to the state of man and woman for he was then but a youth and she but a girle both of some twice fiue yeares of age as faire a couple as were the two beauties of the Goddes Sapho and Phao where after gentle salutations imparted according to theyr kinde dispositions bestowed on them by bountifull Nature at their births they accorded taking with them so many of their young followers as they thought conuenient to walke into a groaue which stood on the Westerne side of the Citie accounting such sheltring vallies farre more pleasaunt in the winters season than are the plaine fields What parley they had walking on the way it were tedious to recite onely thus much would I wish you to note that euery step of theirs traced now towards that company whose presence they in manner reiected because as vnbidden guests they came into their company disexpected As they were walking by the groaues side listning to the murmurings of a bubling brooke Katherina espied a Uermin that with gréedie gaping mouth was pursuing his praie which she shewing to Iacomin for her name was Katherina also he was calde Iacomin after his Father and hée perceiuing it to has●en