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A16257	Thirtene most plesant and delectable questions, entituled a disport of diuers noble personages written in Italian by M. Iohn Bocace, Florentine and poet laureate, in his booke named Philocopo. Englished by H.G. These bookes are to be solde at the corner shoppe, at the northweast dore of Paules; Filocolo. English	Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.; Gifford, Humphrey.; Grantham, Henry, fl. 1571-1587.	1571 (1571)	STC 3181; ESTC S109327	66,026	176

to gainstande Cupide hauing taken heart to bring me into the number of his thrals was taken before I knew how For one day being allured abroade thorow the fresh renued time walking all merry and for my delight gathering of shel fish vpon the salt sea bankes it happened as I turned mine eyes towards the glittering waues I sodenly saw a little Barke comming towardes me wherein with one onely mariner were foure yong Gentlewomen so faire as it was a maruellous thing to beholde the beautie they séemed to haue They now béeing approched somewhat néere vnto me and I not hauing as yet turned mine eye frō them saw in the middest of them an excéeding great light wherin as my estimation gaue me me thought I saw the figure of an Angell very yong and so faire as I neuer behelde thing more fairer whō as I thus eyed me thought he sayde vnto me with a voyce farre discrepant from ours O yong foole persecuter of our power and being therwith arriued I am come hither with foure yong damsels let thy eye make choyse of hir for thy maistresse that best liketh thée I when I heard this voyce abode all appalled and deuised both with eye and heart to auoyde that which heretofore I had many times fled but al was bootelesse for the strength of my legges fayled me and byside he had bow and wings to ouertake me quickly wherevppon I in gazing among them espied one so faire so benigne of cheare and so piteous of semblaunce as I imagined to make choyse of hir as of a singuler maistresse saying to my self This damsell presenteth hir selfe so humble to my eyes as assuredly she wil neuer become enemy to my desires as many others haue ben to them whō I haue in beholding ful of troubles always scorned but she shall rather be a chaser away of my annoys and hauing thus thought I forth with answered The gracious beautie of that yong damsel that O my lord sitteth on your right hand makes me me desire to be both to you and hir a most faithfull seruant I am therfore redy to obey your will do with me as shall best like you I had not ended my tale but that I felt my lefte side wounded with a shining shafte shot from the bow which he bare as me thought the same was of gold And assuredly I saw him as he turned towards hir to strike hir with an other of leade And thus I being in this sort taken abode in the snares I had of long time fled This yong damsel hath doth so much content mine eye as all other plesure is very scarce in cōparison of this Which she espying of lōg time shewed hir self contēt but after that she knew me to be so taken with this delight as not to loue hir was a thing impossible incontinent she discouered hir guile towards me with an vndeserued disdayne shewing hir selfe in apparance a most cruel enemie always turning hir eye the contrary way as she happened to espye me and with words on my parte vndeserued alwayes dispraysing me by occasion wherof I haue in sundry sortes endeuoured my selfe both with prayers and humilitie to appease hir crueltie but being vnable I oftentimes bewéepe and lament this my hard fortune neither can I any wayes withdraw me from louing hir but rather how much the more I finde hir cruell so muche the more me thinketh the flame of hir pleasure doth set my sorowful heart on fire As I through these occasions one day being all solitarie in a garden bewayled my hap with infinite sighes accompanied with many teares there came vpon me a singuler friend of mine to whō part of my griefs were discouered who with pitifull words began to comfort me the best he could but I giuing thervnto no eare at all answered him that my misery excéeded all others Whervnto he made me this answere A man is so much the more miserable said he as he either maketh or reputeth himselfe a miser but assured I haue greater cause to lament than hast thou I then at angry turned towards him with a disdainful loke saying And how who can haue greater cause than I Do not I for good seruice receiue euil recompence Is not my faithfull loue rewarded with hatred So that any may be as sorowful as I but more he can not be Truely sayde my friend I haue greater cause of grief than hast thou and heare how It is not vnknowen to thee but that I haue of long time and yet vs loue a Gentlewoman as thou knowest neither was ther euer any thing that I thought mighte pleasure hir whiche I gaue not my selfe with all my witte and power to bring to effecte And truely when she vnderstoode the summe of that I desired she made me a gracious gifte the which as I had receiued and receiuing it at what time it pleased me me thought none by a great way to haue a life comparable to myne in gladnesse only one thing pricked me that I could not make hir beleue how perfectly I loued hir Further than this she perceiuing me to loue hir as I said passed lightly for me But the gods that will graunt no worldly good turne without some bitternes to the ende that the heuenly may be the better knowen by consequent the more desired to this they gaue me an other corsey without cōparison noisome that is that it hapned one day as I abode with hir al alone in a secret place seing without being againe sene who passed by espied a proper yong man of a pleasant coūtenance to come along by vs whom she behelde as I perceiued with a fixed eye and being past she fette a pityfull sighe the whiche I espying sayde Alas do you so soone repent as that ye now sighe for the loue of an other She whose face was throughe this occasion paynted with a new rudde swearing by the power of the high gods beganne with many excuses to endeuor hir selfe to make me beléeue the contrary of that which I had conceiued through the sighe but all was to no purpose bicause she kindled my hert with an anger so excéeding fierce as she made me then almost ready to chide with hir but yet I withhelde me therefrom And certainly it will neuer out of my mynde but that she loueth him or some other better than me and all those perswasions the whiche at other times heretofore she vsed for my helpe that was that she loued me better than she did any other I now esteme them all in contrary imagining that she hath fainedly sayd done al that she hath heretofore wrought whereby I endure intollerable griefe neither dothe any comfort at all preuayle therein but bicause shame oftentimes doth bridle the will I haue rather to sorrowe me than glad me I doe not continue my bitter grief so as I make any apparaunce therof but brieflye I am neuer withoute cares and cogitations the whiche bring me far greater

therefore I shoulde thus saye that as you sayde the yong woman did very wisely not defining it for all that as you haue don but in this maner She knowing that she was very well loued of two yong men and that she could not loue mo than one for that loue is an indiuisible thing she would rewarde the one for the loue he bare hir to the ende that suche good will should not be vnrewarded and so gaue him hir garlande in requitall thereof To the other whom she loued she thought she woulde giue courage and assured hope of hir loue taking his garlande and decking hir selfe therewith in token wherof she playnly shewed to be beholding vnto him for the same And therfore in my iudgement she loued better him from whom she toke than him to whom she gaue To whom the Quéene thus made answere Your argument should haue pleased vs right well if your selfe in your tale had not condemned the same Sée how pillage and perfect loue can agrée togither How can ye shew me that we loue him whom we spoyle better than him to whom we giue According to the Question propounded to the one she gaue a garlande and from the other she toke a garlande neither had she too whome she gaue ought giuen hir and that which we see euery day for example may here suffise as is commonly sayde They are of gentlemen farre better loued on whom they bestow fauour and gifts than those that are by them depriued of them And for that cause we lastly holde opinion concluding that he is better loued to whom is giuen than he from whom is taken We know very wel that in these our reasonings much might be obiected agaynst this our definition much also answered to the contrary reasons But lastly such determination shall remayne true And bicause time now serueth not to staye with this our talke vpon one matter only without moe we will giue eare to the rest if it please you To whom Philocopo sayd That it pleased him right wel and that very well suffised suche a resolution to his demaunded question and so helde his peace The second Question proposed by LONGANO NExte to Philocopo was placed a curteous young man and gracious to beholde whose name was Longano who no sooner than Philocopo had left thus beganne Most excellent Quéene so trim hath ben the first question that in my conceipte mine shall bring no delight at al. Yet to the ende not to be seuered from so noble a company foorth it shall and thus he followed saying It is not many dayes past that I abiding all solitarie in my chamber wrapt in a heape of troublesome thoughts sprong frō an amorous desire the which with a fierce battayle had assaulted my heart by happe heard a piteous plaint wherevnto bicause I iudged it by estimation néere vnto me intentiuely I layde mine eare and therby knew that they were women by occasion whereof I sodaynly rose to sée who and where they were and loking forth at my chamber window I heard ouer agaynst the same in one other chamber two yong women the same being sisters adorned with an inestimable beautie there abiding without any other company whom as I saw making this sorowfull plaint I withdrew my selfe into a secret place without beeing of them espied and so behelde them a long while neither was I able for all that to vnderstande all the words that they through griefe vttred in teares but that the effect of suche plaint according to that I coulde comprehende séemed to me to be for loue wherefore I through pitie and so swete an occasion offred being thus close as I was began to shead my trickling teres And after that I had in their gréefe perseuered in the same a good space forsomuch as I was their very familiar also their kinsman I purposed to vnderstand more certayne the occasion of their sorow and so went vnto them who had no sooner espied me but all bashfull they withhelde them from teares endeuoring them selues to do me reuerence To whom I sayde Gentlewomen trouble not your selues neither let this my comming moue you to restrain your inward grief for your tears haue bin now a good space apparant vnto me It shall be therefore needelesse to hide you either yet thorow bashfulnesse to hide from me the cause of thys your plaint For I am come hither to vnderstand the same And be you assured that ye shal not receiue by me either in word or déede any euill requitall but rather helpe and comfort in what I may The women greatly excused themselues saying that they sorrowed for nothing but yet after I had coniured them and they seing me desirous to vnderstand the same the elder thus began to say It is the pleasure of the Gods that to thee our secretes be discouered thou therfore shalt vnderstand that we aboue al other women haue alwayes resisted the sharpe darts of Cupide who of a long season in casting the same was neuer yet able to fastē any one of them in our hearts But now lastly being further inflamed and hauing determined to ouercome that his childishe enterprise tooke of newe with his yong arme of his best and dearest shaftes and with so great force wounded the heartes so sore infeebled through the sundry blowes before receiued as the heades thereof pierced deepe so as they made a farre greater wound than if resistance had not bene made to the other former had like to haue bene And thus for the pleasure of two most noble yong Gentlemen we are become subiectes to his deitie folowing his pleasure wyth more perfect faith and seruent wil than euer any other women haue done Now hath Fortune and the loue of them as I shall declare vnto you left vs both comfortlesse First I before my sister héere was in loue and through mine endeuor beléeuing wisely to ende my desire so wrought as I got the loued yong Gentleman at my pleasure whome I found as greatly enamored of me as I of him But truely nowe hath not the amorous flame through such effect ceassed neither hathe the desire lessened but eache one more vehemently increaseth and more than euer I doe nowe burne in hys fire And what tyme seeing howe I might best mitigate assuage the kindled flame thereof holding it inwardly secrete it after hapned that the horned Moone was no sooner come to hir perfect roundnesse but that he at vnwares committed a fault for the which was adiudged him perpetuall exile from this citie whervpon he dreading death is departed hence without hope euer to returne I sorowfull woman aboue all others more now enflamed thā euer am without him left both dolefull and desperate By occasion whereof I sorrow me and that thing that most increaseth my sorrow is that on euery side I see the way barde from béeing able to follow him Thinke therfore now whether I haue cause to playne me or no. Then sayd I and this other why

be kept the begon order And he whose subiects we are pardon vs the words that we as cōst rained through force of Iudgement shall more sooner than willing say against his diuine maiestie least thereby his indignation do fall vpon vs And you that likewise as well as we are his subiect with a bolde minde giue eare vnto them neither do you for all that chaunge your purpose at all And to the ende that so much the better and with a more apparant intendment our words may be receiued we wil somwhat digresse frō our matter returning againe therevnto as briefly as possible we may and thus we say Loue is of thrée sorts thorow which three al other things are loued some thorow the vertue of one some throw the power of an other according as is the thing loued and likewise the louer The first of the which .iij. is called honest loue This is the good vpright loyall loue the which of all persons ought to be receiued This the high first creator holdeth linked to his creatures them h●tieth therwith vnto him Through this the heauens the world realmes prouinces and cities do remaine in their state thorow this we do merite to be eternall possessors of the celestiall kingdome and without this is lost al that we haue in power of well doing The seconde is called loue for delight And this is he whose subiectes we are This is our god him we do worship him we do pray vnto in him do we trust that he may be our contentation and that he may fully bring our desire to passe Of this is put the question whervnto we shall duely answere The thirde is loue for vtilitie of this loue the worlde is replenished more than of any of the other thinges This is coupled with Fortune whilest she tarieth he likewise abideth but if they parte he is then the waster of many goods And to speake reasonably he oughte to be déemed rather hate than loue Now as touching the propounded question we néede to speake neither of the first nor of the last we will speake of the second that is of loue for delight to whom truely no person that desireth to leade a vertuous life oughte to submit him selfe bicause he is the depriuer of honours the bringer of troubles the reueler of vices the copious giuer of vaine cares and the vnworthy occupier of the libertie of others a thing aboue al things to be helde most deare What is he then regarding his own wealth being wise that will not flée suche a gouernment Let him that may liue frée following those things that doe euery way increase his liberty and let vicious gouernours gouerne vicious vassals I did not thinke sayde Galeone then to giue occasion through these my words to the lessening of this our disport nor to disquiet the regiment of our lorde loue neither yet to trouble the minds of any others but did rather imagine you defining it according to the intente of me many others that ye might therby confirme those that are his subiects with a valiaunt minde and inuite those whiche are not with a gréedy appetite but I sée that your intent is all contrary to mine bicause you with your words do shew to be thrée sortes of loue of the which thrée the first and the last I consent they be as you say But the second whiche answereth to my demaunde ye say it is as muche to be fled as I holde opinion it is as the increaser of vertue to be folowed of him that desireth a glorious end as I beleue to make apparant vnto you by this that followeth This Loue of whom we reason as it may be manyfest to all the worlde bicause we proue it doth worke this propertie in humayne hearts that after that it hath disposed the mind to a thing which pleaseth it spoyleth the same of all pride and of al fiercenesse making them humble in eche doing as it is manyfest vnto vs by Mars whome we finde that in louing Venus became of a fierce and sharpe Duke in battayle a moste humble and pleasaunt Louer It makes the gréedie and couetous liberall and curteous Medea the most carefull hider of hir arte after she felte his flames liberally yelded hir self hir honour and hir arts to Iason Who makes men more diligent to high attempts than he And what he can do behold by Paris and Menelaus Who furthereth forwarde the angry fiers more than doth he He sheweth vs how oftentimes the anger of Achilles was quieted thorowe the swéete prayer of Polixena He aboue all others maketh men couragious and strong Neither know I what greater example may be giuen vs than that of Perseus who for Andromaca made a maruellous proofe of his vertuous force He decketh all them that are by him aparelled with excellent qualities with ornate talke with magnificence and with pleasantnesse He I say bestoweth vpon al his subiects finenesse and gentlenesse Oh how many are the good things whiche procéede from him Who moued Virgill who Ouid who the other Poets to leaue of them selues eternall fame in those their holy verses the which if he had not ben shold neuer haue comen to our eares but he What shall we say further of his vertues but that he was able to giue suche a swéetenesse to Orpheus harpe as after that he had called to that sounde all the woods standers about and made the running streames to stay to come into his presence in milde peace the fierce Lions togithers with the faint hearted Hartes and all other beasts he made likewise the infernal furies quiet gaue rest and swéetenesse to the troubled soules and after all this the sound was of such vertue as he attayned to haue agayne his lost wise Then is he not the chaser away of honour as you say neither the giuer of vnsitting troubles nor the prouoker of vices nor the disposer of vayn cares nor the vnworthy vser of the libertie of others So that euery one of whom he maketh none accompt and is not as yet his seruaunt ought with all their wit and diligence to endeuour and to occupie them selues in the attayning the fauour of suche a Lorde and to become his subiect since throw him he becometh vertuous That which pleaseth the Gods and men of greatest strength ought likewise to please vs Let suche a Lorde therfore be loued serued and liue alwayes in our minds Greatly deceyueth thée thine opinion sayd the quéene and it is no maruell bicause as farre as we vnderstande thou art so farre enamoured as none the like and without doubt the iudgement of the enamoured is méerely false bicause as they haue lost the sight of the eyes of their minde so haue they banished reason as their vtter enemie And for this cause it shall be conuenient that we agaynst our will speake of loue the whiche gréeueth vs since we be his subiects But yet to pluck thée from thine error we shall turne our silence to

a true report and wil therfore that thou know that this loue is nothing else than an vnreasonable will sprong of a passion entered the heart through a wanton pleasure that is opened to the eyes nourished with idlenesse by the memorie and thoughts of foolish minds and many times in how much it multiplieth so much it taketh away the intent of him in whom it abideth from things necessarie and disposeth the same to things vnprofitable But bicause that thou through example giuing dost endeuour thy selfe to shew that all goodnesse and all vertue doth procéede from him we will procéede to the disprofes of thy prooufes It is no part of humilitie vniustly to bring to a mans selfe that whiche belongeth to an other but rather an arrogancie and an vnsitting presumption The whiche thing Mars whome thou makest throughe loue to become humble assuredly vsed in taking away from Vulcan Venus his moste lawfull wife And without doubt this humilitie that appeareth in the face of louers doth not procéede of a benigne heart but taketh roote from guile and deceipt neither makes this loue the couetous liberal but when as such abundance as thou laiest to haue ben in Medea doth abound in the heart and doth depriue the same of the sight of the minde and most foolishly is become prodigall of things heretofore duly estemed deare and not giuing the same with measure but vnprofitably casting them away beléeueth to please and displeaseth Medea nothing wise of hir prodigalitie in short time repented very muche without vtilitie and knew that if she had modestly vsed those hir dere gifts she should not haue comen to so vile an ende And that soliciting that purchaseth or worketh hurt to the soliciters as it seemeth to vs ought not any ways to be sought for for must better it is to stand idle than worke harme although that neither the one nor the other is to be praysed Paris was a solicitour to his own destruction if he beheld the end of his soliciting Menelaus as reson was became diligent not for loue but to recouer his honor lost as eche discrete person ought to doe Neither yet is this loue a meane to mitigate anger but the benignitie of minde the brunt being paste that induceth it makes it to become nothing and remitteth the offence agaynst whom it is angry And yet louers and discrete persons were wont at the prayers of the person loued or of some friend to forgiue offences to shew them selues curteous of that which cost thē nothing and to make the crauers thereof beholding vnto them And in this sort Achilles many times shewed himselfe to expell from him this congeled anger Likewise it séemes that this makes men couragious and worthy But therof I can shew you the contrary Who was a man of greater valour than Hercules and yet béeing enamoured became vile forgetful of his force so that he did spin thréede with the women of Iole Assuredly in things wherein occurreth no daunger a most hardy people are the enamoured and wherin daunger hapneth they shew themselues in apparaunce hardie and put themselues forwarde neither dothe loue but little wit allure them so to do to the ende they may after haue glory in the sight of their loues although it hapneth very seldome bicause they doubt so much the losing of the person loued that they are rather content to be helde vyle and of little courage than to giue themselues to perill And yet we doubt not but this loue reposeth all swéetenesse in Orpheus harpe We agrée that it is true that thou hast shewed that truly in generall loue ladeth the tongs of his subiects with such a swéetenesse and with so many enticements as they many tymes would therby make the stones turne vp side downe so that to entice is not onely the propertie of wauering and inconstant men but of vile men How shal we say that suche a lorde ought to be followed throughe the good propertie of the follower Assuredly he in whom he abideth maketh wise and profitable counsels to be despised For it was euill with the Troians that those of Cassandra were not heard of Paris He maketh likewise his subiects to forget and despise their good fame the which ought to remayne to vs all on earth after our deathes as an eternall heire of our memorie And how much these aforesayd did contemne the same Egistus may suffise for an example Although Scylla wrought no lesse hurt than Pasiphe Is not he the occasion that breaketh sacred bonds of the promised pure faith Yet truely what had Ariadna done to duke Theseus whereby contaminating the matrimonical bands and giuing himselfe and his promised fayth to the winds he shoulde abandon hir poore miser among the desert rockes A little pleasure in gasing in the eyes of Phedra was occasion to celerate so much euill and of suche requitall for the receiued honor In him also is found no law and that it is true may be séene by the doings of Tereus who hauing receyued Philomena from hir pitifull father and carnally knowen hir made no staye to contaminate the moste holy lawes matrimonially contracted betwéene hym and Progne the sister of Philomena This also calling and causing himselfe to be called a God occupieth the reasons of the gods Who coulde euer fully with words shew the iniquitie of him He to speake briefly leadeth them that follow him to all euilles and if by happe his followers do any vertuous acte whiche happeneth very seldome with a vicious beginning they beginne it desiring therby to come very quickly to the desired ende of their lothsome willes the which may be rather sayd vices than vertues forsomuche as that is not to be héeded onely whiche man dothe but with what minde it is doone and so according to the will of the worker to repute the same vicious or vertuous bicause that neuer of an euill roote sprang a good trée nor from an euill trée good fruite This loue then is leude and naught and if he be naught he is to be fledde And who that fleeth things euill of consequent followeth the good and so is bothe good and vertuous The beginning of this loue is none other thing than feare the sequels is sinne and the ende is griefe and noy it ought then to be fled and to be reproued and to feare you to haue him in you bicause he is violent neither knoweth he in any of his doings to kepe measure and is altogither voyde of reason He is without all doubt the destroyer of the minds the shame anguishe passion griefe and plaint of the same neuer consenteth that the hearte of whome that lodgeth hym be withoute bitternesse who will than prayse that he is to be followed but fooles Truely if it were lawfull we would willingly liue without him but of suche an harme we are to late awares and therefore it is conuenient for vs since we are caught in his nettes to follow his life vntil what time as that light which