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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02096	Euphues his censure to Philautus wherein is presented a philosophicall combat betweene Hector and Achylles, discouering in foure discourses, interlaced with diuerse delightfull tragedies, the vertues necessary to be incident in euery gentleman: had in question at the siege of Troy betwixt sondry Grecian and Troian lords: especially debated to discouer the perfection of a souldier. ... Robertus Greene, in artibus magister.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1587 (1587)	STC 12239; ESTC S105910	61,311	96

the kingdome betwixt vs therefore without any more friuolous circumstances for your welcome take this of m●e wee haue it and wée will keepe it despight of him that dare gain say swearing vntill death to maintaine our right by the sword Frontinus whose courage could not brooke intreaties especially for his owne right told them that he sorrowed at their follies sith they did not with a déep● in-sight fore see their owne myseries and espy reueng that presented a fatall Tragedy of their misfortunes and with that hee turned his backe in great choller swearing before night either to weare the Crowne or leaue his Carcase in the field Or●ellius smiling at his Brothers attempt for that they had ten to one passing with Martignanus to the army set their men in array and imbattailed them with great speede the one giuing incouragment by sweete orations the other with the remembrance of his forepassed liberality Frontinus hauing ordred his souldiers and come within view by computation might coniecture that his enemies were about thréescore thowsand and séeing his men halfe frighted at y e presence of such a multitude began to hasten them forward in this manner I neede not worthy gentlemen souldiers of Africa séeke to incourage you with a long discourse vnlesse putting oyle in the flame I should ad a spur to a free horse your former valiant resolutions manifested in many battailes the honor whereof still glories your names with renowne assures me were the enemy like the sands in the sea and Mars oppo●ed against our forces yet the quarrell good our mindes armed with inuincible fortitude the vertue that dareth Fortune in hir face maugrefates and destinies we shall as euer hetherto we haue done returne with conquest And for that y e cause toucheth my selfe and you fellow partners of my fortunes I will be the first man in the battaile and the last man in the field vnlesse death giue mée an honorable quittaunce of my kingdome let mee be a mirrour this day of your magnanimity let my actions bee your presidents presse but as far as your generall courage gentlemen the victory is ours see how my sorrowful coūtrymen st●nd to receiue vs whose cowardize dare scaresly march a foote to méete I sée yea I sée in déed in their very faces the portraiture therefore God our right with that catching a strōg staffe pulling down his beuier putting spurs to his horse he furiou●ly rusht vpon y e enemy his souldiers following with such a desperat resolution that y e Egyptians amazed at y e valor of their king who like a lyon massacring whom he met ran without stop through the troupes they layed down their weapons yéelded w tout any great slaughter whervpon y ● Africans staied but Frontinus forgetfull y ● they were his natiue coūtrymen still raged till méeting his brother Martignanus hee slew him neuer left murthering till finding out Ortellius that fled in chase he gaue him his deaths wound staied at last by one of the Lords of Africa told how the battaile was ended by y e submission of his subiects who were ashamed that they had bene so forgetfull of their allegeance causing the retreat to be sounded he peaceably marched on towards Memphis where putting certaine of the chiefe offenders to the sword and interring his brethren after his Coronation he sent the Africans home well rewarded with many rich presents to their king liuing him selfe afterward most fortunate Hector hauing ended his Tragedie The Grecians noting in his Countenaunce the very counter●ayte of magnanimity and in discoursing of valour his very face prese●ted a myrrour of fortitude measuring his inward thoughts by his outwarde gestures did both commend the Hystorie and alowe of censure saying that where courage manaceth reuenge with the Sworde there it is folly to bring in wysedome in hir Purple Roabes Helenus hearing how the Grecians fauored his Brother Hectors verdite wisht them to take heede they infringed not the sacred prayse of wysedome for quoth he● as Pallas is learned so shee is martiall and Minerua hath as well a Speare as a ●en perhaps Martignanus was onely a Philosopher no souldier whereas by the sequell it is inferred that Frontinus was both wise and valiaunt so that adding to his wisedome fortitude hee did the more easely obtayne the conquest Truth quoth Nestor for Hector him selfe confest that fortitude coulde not bee without wisedome seeing being placed betweene too extréeme want of wisdome might make him offend in defect and so bee counted a coward or in excesse and bee thought too desperate If then fortitude cannot bee perfect without wisedome and yet a man may bee wise without courage it may bée cōcluded● that wisdome is the most necessary point in a souldier Wee deny not quoth Troilus but it is necessarie but not in the superlatiue degrée for wisdome supposed the cause fortitude consequently is the effect sith the one of it selfe may intend by pollicie but the other is put in practise by prowesse Still for our purpose quoth Helenus for the Logicians hold it as a principle that the cause is greater then the effects the Philosophers account a wise man onely to bee vertuous thinking that wisedome being the chiefe vertue produceth the rest as seedes sprong from so faire a Stemme for it is possible for a man to want others hauing this but to possesse none if this bee absent Hector a litle chollericke that so brauely they went about to prooue his haruest in the grasse stammered out these or such like woordes I tell you brother Helenus both you and the rest are deceiued that I will prooue against the wisest souldier in the world with my sword that Senators who sit to giue counsaile for Ciuill pollicie had neede to be wise sith their opinions are holden for Oracles Captaines valiant whose deedes are accounted peremptorie conquests put case wisedome fortitude be in a Generall yet is hee called wise as hee giues iudgement and couragious as with a hardy minde hee attempts the victories Let men haue science in their heades and no weapons in their hands and whom can they preiudice I say therefore which none rightly can gainesay that fortitude is most necessarie for a souldier sith our common phrase confirmes my reason with euidence in saying hee is a wise Senator and a hardy souldier The Grecians séeing the sparkling flames of choller to burne in the face of Achilles smiled to sée how hot he was in disputation measuring by probable coniecture that if hee met them in the field hee woulde affright them more wyth his sword the● eyther Nestor or Helenus with all theyr Bookes Vlisles merrily disposed being ready to reply the Ladies came in who broake of their talk with telling them the vnlookt for brauery of Ilium discoursing so long of the sundry sights they had séene within the walls of Troy till the boordes being couered aged Priamus rysing from his seate placed all his guests downe

seeketh after dignity counsaile after gaine a pound of gold is worth a Tunne of Lead Great gyfts are little gods there is nothing sweeter then promotion nor lighter then report care not then for conscience so thou b●e'st rich if not chastly yet charely step not at a straw but prefer an ounce of dignity before a scruple of honesty And with that hee staide as halfe out of loue with his owne wicked resolution For hauing muttered out these or such like words seeing eyther hee must die with a cleare mynde or lyue with a spotted conscience hee was combred with diuerse cogitations till at last Fancie growing to bee predominant ouer vertue hée yeelded to the Alarumes of lust and seeking after oportunitie fo●nde the desiers of both their myndes satisfied Remaining thus drowned a while in this supposed pleasure doubting as feare is the companion to a guilty conscience that their wickednesse should b●e espyed they determyned as secretly and spe●dely as might bee to flie out of Ithaca into Samos that harbouring there vnknowen they might end their delights without disturbance for they knew if euer as time is a bad secretary their adulterous practises should come to the eares of Polumestor a worse mishappe then death should be allotted for their ingratefull mischiefe resoluing therefore vpon departure least delay might breede daunger and the grasse bee cutt from vnder theyr feete they seuerally setled them selues to their secret indeuours for Vortymis who was skilfull in the depth and daungers of the Hauens Por●s and Créekes about Ithaca prouided a barke and layed it ready as soone as winde and weather woulde per●●t to make way for hee had warped it downe into the mayne and let hir ride at Anker And Moedyna had gathered together a masse of Treasure all hir rich and costly Iewells yea whatsoeuer was any thing pretious in the whole Pallace which by a man of hirs who only she made priuy to this practise was conueyed into the ship Fortune willing vnder the suppose of their felicitie to hide the very substance of their myserie brought the wind about so faire for Samos that Vo●tymis giuing the Quéene intelligence passing out at a Postern gate they went downe to y e shoare where the Maryners ready with a Cockboate to set them aboorde hoysed sayles and singling into the mayne bad farewell to Ithaca These two thus fauoured as they thought by Fortune had so happy a gale that in short tyme they arryued at the desired harbour where bountifully rewarding the Maryners for th●ir paynes the Maister of the ship to couller his voyage made for an other Coaste and they remayning as straungers placing them selues in a countrey Uyllage liued peaceably a long while vnknowen But to returne to Polumestor who missing his wyfe and woondring what the cause should bée of hir long absence for that supper was ready they stayed only for hir presence made inquiry of the Ladyes where hir Maiestie was become caused diligent search to be made for y t the time of the night was not to make any longer walke Hir Ladies returned answere they knew not ●f hir departure y ● king halfe suspitious before became now a little Iealous and demaunded where Vortymis was no man could tell or make dyrect answere of his being which set the king in a furie so that posting him selfe with his Swoord drawne through euery priuy place at last not finding what h●e sought for he was constrained to vse patience perforce at so straight an exig●t and so quieted him selfe at that time vnwilling by an open discouery of his thoughts to bréede a manifest in famy to the Queene the court being thus in an vprore for this night y e next morning one of her maides of honor being stricktlie examined conf●ssed that hir grace had made conueyaunce of all hir Treasure Iewells and apparell and was secretly departed with Vortymis but whether shee knewe not Upon this the king sent dyuerse noble men to make search in euery place and in euery part if it could bee knowen of hir passage but returne was made in vayne and hee onely rested resolued that shee was ●ledde away with Vortymis Continuing thus pensiue the grief● of hir absence for that loue in excesse yeeldeth to no censure of reason so ouercharged the king with melancholy that hee fell into a quartaine Feuer and was brought so low as his subiects hoped for no life so that as men distract of th●ir wyts they passed away the tyme in bitter complaintes and sorrowes But Tyme the sweetest phisit●●n that allotteth a m●dicine for ●uerye mishap so alienated the kinges mynde with a due consideration of hir incestious behauiour that finding it folly to sett that at his heart which other set at their héele Contrary causes producing con●rary ●ff●cts loue wronged by iniury halfe turned into hate hee began to take heart at grasse so chaunging his m●lancholy into myrth waxed daylie more strong in the constitution of his body so that within y e space of a moneth he aduentured to walke abroad and to comfort him the more in his cōceipt he heard newes by a Passenger that came from Samos wh●re the Que●ne and Vortymis were how as man and wyfe th●y lyued in meane estate in Samos The king smiling at the force of 〈◊〉 lust that maketh no exception of Fortun● caused the passenger to stay in the Courte while hee shoulde consider with his counsaile what were ●es●●o doe For his minde was dyuersly p●rplexed The iniury proffred by hir adulterours departure willed him to cast out no lure to such a hagga●de as would turne taile to a ●ull fist but loue that amidst the coldest Cinders of hate had smothered vp litle sparkes of forepassed affection perswaded him to thinke no fault so great but might be salued with honest repentaunce Againe he called to minde that the Gouernor of Samos was his enemy who if by any meanes hee shoulde become priuy to this fact would not oneli● incourage his wife in hir wickednesse but as a foe laugh at his mishap houering thus in sondrie cogitations at last thus hee resolued with him selfe to send a friendlie letter to Moedyna that shee should returne with as much spe●de as might bee to Ithaca but the better to manifest Polumestors meaning as neere as I can gesse these were the contents Polumestor to Moedyna Health TO begin Moedyna with a discourse of thy follies or my sorrowes were but in p●nning downe my thoughtes to aggrauate my gre●fes and in committing such a chartell to thy view to rub a scarre halfe healed Omitting therefore such needlesse preambl●s let mee say that loue as it is variable so it is mighty inforcing his effects without deniall for as by constraint it wrought in thee a newe choyce so it hath ti●d mee perforce so partially to thinke of thy fault as iniury offering no disparagment to affection I haue vppon thy r●pentance resolued quite to forgiue forget such folly Venus hath hir charmes