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A15034	An heptameron of ciuill discourses Containing: the Christmasse exercise of sundrie well courted gentlemen and gentlewomen. In whose behauiours, the better sort, may see, a represe[n]tation of thier own vertues: and the inferiour, may learne such rules of ciuil gouernme[n]t, as wil rase out the blemish of their basenesse: wherin, is renowned, the vertues, of a most honourable and braue mynded gentleman. And herein, also, as it were in a mirrour the vnmaried may see the defectes whiche eclipse the glorie of mariage: and the wel maried, as in a table of housholde lawes, may cull out needefull preceptes to establysh their good fortune. A worke, intercoursed with ciuyll pleasure, to reaue tediousnesse from the reader: and garnished with morall noates to make it profitable, to the regarder. The reporte, of George Whetstone. Gent.	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?	1582 (1582)	STC 25337; ESTC S111679	129,236	194

And with that intent quoth he Segnior Ismarito I drink vnto you with a better affection than I bare you in my sléepe for I dreamed with my Rapire drawne I chased you to your Chamber Ismarito quickly aunswered I pleadge you Segnior Bergetto but with lesse feare then you supposed to bée in mée when you were asléepe for men after they are awake expounde dreames by contraries Bergetto deceaued of his expectation was dryuen by patience to salue the wounde he had giuen hymselfe But Segnior Philoxenus to take away the cause of after vnkindnesse reaued the companie of leasure to iudge of Bergettos quarrilynge dreame or of Ismaritoes crosse exposition by kéeping of them exercised with a newe deuice In déede quoth hée Dreames are incertaine and therfore not to be regarded but there is a true kinde of diuination in Palmestrie and so in looking in Maria Belochi's hand hée vsed certaine names of Arte and gaue a voluntarie pleasing Iudgement which fired all the Ladies and Gentlewomen with an earnest desire to know their fortune and by this meanes the remembrannce of former questions was taken away Wherein Segnior Philoxenus wisdome may be a president for other Gentlemen that heare quarrels a bréedinge to smoulder them in the shell for men that bée angrie are bounde to their passion when such as are not moued haue libertie to pacifye with discreation Thus with their spirites well pleased Quéene Aurelia and the reste of the companie rose from the table and after ordenarie curtesie ended they paused a time by the Fire to put their witts in order for the following disputation who at the ordinarie howre entred the drawing Chamber where the Eunuke readie to discharge his dutie vnto the Lute sung this following Sonet REgarde my loue but not my frostie haires Although faire Dame the least may moue content For Loue Faith Zeale standes firme in aged yeares When light greene youth is fickle in intent The aged knowes the leaues and fruite of youth The leaues they leaue and with the fruite doe loue The sayinges of olde Age are iudged trueth Let loue and trueth mislyking then remoue What though my chin be clothed all in white Whight in your cheekes the chiefest coulour is Which fayre dye doth make you seeme so bright As men holde you the source of beauties blisse Sweete Mistresse then of all the fayre the Flower Let not condemne what doth your selfe comend Ruthe seemes your face let rigor not deuour His loue and lyfe that liues and dies your friende This Sonet mooued y e company to smile not because the inuention was vnwittie but in that it was the fruites of Doctor Mossenigoes Muse who to reuenge vppon himselfe all the iniurie which he had done to the sexe of Women became inamoured of Katharina Trista the waspissest Damosel among the whole troupe of Gentlewomen But knowing the Doctors Phylosophie could not so subdue his affection but that time would make them all sporte and him smarte they dissembled their knowledge of his folly as déepely as hée couered the passions of hys fancy notwithstanding to raise some speach and to set the Doctor a work with hope Quoth Aluisa Vechio this Sonet prophesieth a hapie lyfe to a young woman and much comfort to an olde man if their fortunes be so good as to be marted together And if I had as good a passage for my opinyon as I haue Reason to mayntayne the same I woulde thinke to prooue this couple worthye of a place in PLATOES Paradice Among so manie good Drators quoth Quéene Aurelia you cannot want an Aduocate Whereupon Katharina Trista with a false eye coniured the Doctor in this question to maintaine his Loue who thus inioyned tooke vpon him to maintaine Aluisa Vechioes opinion Quéene Aurelia licensed him and no aduersary appeared to discourage him wherevpon quoth he where an old man marieth a yonge woman the contentment séemes too be muche and the comfort more my reason is the oulde man hath not onlye chosen a Wyfe to recreate him as a companyon but a Cooke to prepare chosen meates for his impayred appetite and a Staffe to sustaine his Age. The yonge wife also may hold her selfe happie in this fortune for she hathchosen one whom she may not onely rule but commaund and for a litle paynes who will leaue her possest of a great deale of lyuyng And this is most certain that cruel and wilde Creatures do most hurt where their wyll is moste resisted and hau●… great compassion where they finde no proffer of repulse The Lyon in his greatest hunger hurts not y t wounded shéepe y t Crocadile w t teares wassheth the blood from a murthred man and the raging Sea refressheth the yealding Réede much more a woman that by nature is beautified with pittie if she rule without checke wyll glorie in the good vsage of her Husbande and this is in dayly vse that the olde man in assemblies findes his yonge wife modest in her speache basshefull in her lookes and nice in occasion of suspition and whyther this behauiour procéedes of desire to be praysed or of feare to be blamed I conclude the cause with her cōmendation for that to do well in hope of praise cōmes of the incouragement of vertue and to do well for feare of reprehensiō is the signe of a good inclination By Sainet Anne Sir quoth Soranso you well deserue a Fée especiallie of the yonge wyfe in that you so connyngly haue coloured her ouersight and so Clarckely haue commended her good vsage of her olde Husband but your Suggestion tends to as small effect as the Fortune is euyl of a couple thus vnequallie matched for that common reason wil refute your weake opinion and dayly experience recordes the miseries of the other What likelyhood of continuance hath the House whose grounde worke is rotten although the prospect be beautifull and stronge God wotte the féeblenesse of the Foundation wyll ouerthrow the firmenesse of the vpperframe Compare this vneqaull estate in Marriage with this ouersight in building and you shall finde the discorde as great betwene the one as the ruyne and decay spéedie in the other The good and able Gouernment of the Husbande is the foundation and grounde worke of Mariage and the Beautie of the Wife the blessynge in hauynge of Children and the benefite of possessyng lyuinges are the outwarde buyldinges of Mariage And as they are pleasant in the eye of the worlde euen so they greatly please the mindes of the maryed geue a singuler Grace to this honourable vocation But if the Gouernment of the Husbande be inabled with Age as in trueth Olde Age is no other then a seconde Infancie In whose desire direction discrescion and delight there are imperfections The Beautie of the wyfe wyll be blasted with sorrowe for the insufficiencte of her Husbande euyll Education wyll accurse their blessyng in hauyng of Chyldren and negligence wyll waste their benefites of liuyng You hould a

7 Of the excellencie of Marriage with manye sounde Lawes and lawdable directions to continue Loue betweene the Married All which Principles are largely intercoursed with other Morall Conclusions of necessarie regarde FINIS The first Dayes exercise Chiefly contayning A ciuill Contention whyther the maryed or single lyfe is the more worthy And after many good Reasons alleadged on either parte Sentence is giuen in the behalfe of Mariage AT what tyme the Earth dismantled of her braue Attyre lamented the absence of Dame aestas company and that faire Phaebus in his Retrogradatiō entring the Tropique of Capricorne and mounting in the Zodiacke licensed naked Hyemps to powre down her wrath vpon the face of the whole worlde through dread of whose boysterous stormes euery lyuing creature by the direction of Nature retired himselfe vnto his safest succour as the Birde to his Nest the Beast to his Couert the Bée to his hyue the Serpent to his hole onely Man excepted who being beautified with a deuine spirite and armed with reason farre aboue the reache of Nature scorneth to be chayned vnto any place through the violence or iniurie of Tyme In this dead season suche were my Affayres that Necessytie sent me into a Countrey farre from home where as I was no lesse vnacquainted w t the people then ignorant of the wayes And hauing trauayled the great part of a Christmas Eue in a desart Forrest strayed out of knowledge I tooke me to a déepe beaten way which promised a likelyhood to finde out some spedie Harbour And after I had iornyed the space of an hower in a swéete Groaue of Pyne Apple trées mine eye fastened vpon a stately Pallace y e brightnes wherof glimmered through the Braunches of the younger woodde not vnlyke the Beames of the Sonne throughe the Crannelles of a walle assuryng then my selfe too receyue best Instructions of the better sort of people such was my haste as I soone arrtued at this sumptuous place but according to y e condition of time in Christmas sooner to fynde a friende feasting in the Hall then walkinge in the Féelde other then a few of ignoraunt peysauntes I could perceiue no person The delight I tooke to beholde the scituation and curious workmanship of this Pallace made mée so long forget the cause of my arriuall there as in the ende one of the well qualyted Seruaunts hauinge knowledge of my being without in a seruisable order came and presented mee with his Lordes curteous welcome and reuerently requested mée to alight and enter the Pallace I which imagined this entertainment to be but an Italion curtesie after thankes geuen by a modest excuse refused so great a fauour onely craued to be directed the rediest way to Rauenna the Seruaunt cunninglye replyed that I could not bee receiued into the Cittie without his Lordes Bollytyne and at this time hee sealed no mans safecundit without knowledge that his affayres requyred great haste in so muche as one with his importunities and ouercome with wearynesse of Trauell I commytted my Horse to the orderinge of my man and accompanied this officious Seruant towardes the Pallace and by the way ouer a lardge entraunce into a faire court I might read these two bréefes in Italion Pisano é Forresterio Entrate e ben venuto Which generall inuyting imboldned mée so far as I hardely marched towardes the great Hall the Skréene wherof was curiously fronted with clowdy Marble supported on euery side the passadges with stately Pillers of Geate and ouer the thrée Portalles stood the Images of two men the one of Allablaster Marble bare headed representing the vertue of welcome the other of blewe Marble attyred lyke a Cooke and by him were artifycially painted Pheasants Partriges Capons other costly Cates as the Figure of Bountie At the entry of this stately Hall I was receiued by the Lord of the Pallace accompanied with diuers Gentlemen of good quallytie with so ciulll and friendly intertaynment as his behauiour blazoned the true knowledge of Curtesie before we past any further I began to recount the Aduenture which brought me thither and craued his honourable fauour for my dispatch Why then quoth Segnior Phyloxenus for so for some cause I name y e Lord of y e Pallace I thanke your hard Fortune for arriuyng you here to do me this honour No hard but happy Fortune quoth I if I may liue to honouryou with my effectual seruice Well quoth he after your wéerie trauaile it is more néedeful to prouide for your repose then for a further Iorney and so lead me the way into a faire great Chamber richly hung with Tapistrie y e Roof wherof was Allablaster plaister embost w t many curious deuises in gold in sundrie places in proper colours was ingraued his deuise which was A Holly Tree full of red Beries in the same a sluttering MAVIS fast limed to the bowes with this posie in french Qui me nourit me destruit And in verie déed the beries of the trée féedeth this Bird and the barke maketh Lime to fetter her But I afterwardes learned Segnior Philoxenus vsed this Ensigne as a couert description of desire whose swéete torments nourisheth the minde but consumeth the bodie to the graue In this bewtifull place I imbraced the salutations of such a braue troupe of Gentlemen Gentlewomen as the honour of the householde might well giue enuie vnto some Princes Court. And least at my first cōming I might be abashed through small acquantance Segnior Philoxenus emboldened mee with a familiar communication and in the ende vppon a conuenient occasion demaunded of me the name of my Countrie I aunswered him I was a Gentleman of England voluntarily exiled with a burnyng desyre to sée the Monuments of other Countries the order of their gouernment and manners of the people And are you of that blessed Ile quoth he where the people liue in peace and prosperytie vnder the rule of a Mayden Quéene crowned with such deuine vertues as the whole world may hardly containe her fame Sir quoth I your good testimony of her worthynesse being a Straunger taketh all occasion from mée her dutiful subiect to inlardge her renowne O quoth he if Enuie durst detract her openly as she secretlye conspireth her ouerthrowe in these partes you should be driuen to stop your eares or endure a torment to a faithfull subiect more violent then Death But the vertue of her Shielde I meane her graue Senate hath returned the Dartes of Enuy so thick vpon her Souldiers as she hath no power to eclips her bright renowne whose vertue shineth in Enuies dispight as a Diamōd in an obscure place or as the Sunne through smal passadges into the bowels of the earth so that happy and thrice happye are you the Subiectes of the good Quéene of England whose gratious gouernement filleth your Coffers with wealth sealeth your dores with peace and planteth quietnesse in your Conscience so that

asswage A wytnesse that Vnkindnesse inlargeth Loue as the wracke of Winter dooth the beautie of Summer then although the Parents matche at first be without the fancie of the Children a reconciliation in fine will double their comforte Sir ꝙ Soranso fauouring Falieros opinion you wrest the Adage is to a cōtrary meaning for it is to be vsed but where there hath béene sometyme perfect loue and where a grounded leue is although the Married menace with their tunges they malice not with their hartes on the contrarie parte looke what rule the Louer vseth in loue the Enemie obserueth in reuenge Therefore if the Maried abhorre before Marriage they may well desemble with their tounges but wyll neuer bée delighted in their harts and where there is such a deuision in the desires of the Married fayre fained semblaunce wil soone turne to flat fowle falling out their thrift goeth forwarde as the carriage drawen by two Oxen taile to taile the Husband wyll haue no delight to get nor the Wife desyre to saue Seruauntes with negligence will waste and hyrelinges with proloyning will winne and which is worst the continuaunce of mallice will custom them with mortall hatred hatred betwéene the Married bréedeth cōtencion betwixt the parents cōtencion betwixt the parēts raiseth quarrels among the kindred quarrels amōg the kindred occupieth all the neighbours with slaūder so y t for the most part these forced Mariages engendereth sorrowes for the Married disquietnesse to both their fréends kind●…ed but which still renueth gréefe the scandall of enemyes endeth in neyther of theyr wretchednesse This béeing said lyttle auayled the further prooffes of the contrary part so full was the crie Fye of forcement in Mariage so that to paint out the inconueniences therof in his proper coulours Quéene Aurelia cōmaunded Faliero to confirme his sufficient reasons with the discourse of some rare Historie Whose commaundement he willingly satisfied and reported as followeth The Historie in the reproche offorced Mariage reported by Faliero IN the famous Cittie of Cirene in Affrick dwelled sometimes a riche Marchaunt named Tryfo This Tryfo had a wealthy neighbour called Clearches who of long time entertained one an other with a neighborly affection Tryfo to inherite all his liuings had but one onely sonne named Sicheus and Clearches one onely Daughter called Elisa The Parents to establish as they imagined an euerlasting amitie betwéene theyr houses concluded a Mariage for theyr vnfortunate Children making no doubt but that they would as well inherite theyr affections as theyr liuings of which there was hope enough if the order had béene as good to establish theyr Loue as the haste great to sollemnize the Mariage for that in theyr persons appéered no signe of disagréement nor in theyr abilyties cause of exception but looue that behouldeth no more quicknesse in a Dyamond then in a dim Saphyre though he take impression by sight rooteth in contemplation which deuine exercise of the soule smally delighteth gréen Youthe who intertaine their thoughts with a thousand vaine fancies but to my purpose The Mariage day drew neare and as at the very push of Battell the wise Captaine animateth his Souldiers with some plausible Oration euen so the night before the Mariage Tr●…fo scheeled his sonne Sicheus with this following aduertisement My good sonne quod he so great are the follyes of men and so cunning the deceits of women as the most especially the yonger sorte wyll credite theyr lookes without looking into their liues beléeue their woordes and lightly regard their workes delyght to recount theyr entertainements and disdaine to reclion theyr shrewde payments For as the sycke pacient comforted with the Phisitions words leaues to examine the quallities of his receites Buē so the wretched Louer cured with the yéelding of his beautifull Mistrisse with negligence bothe ouer lookes his owne benefit her behauiour Salomon was deceyued Sampson subdued Aristotle derided and Hercules murthered by the illusions of errant honest women Kinge Demetrius notwithstanding he was bothe wise and valiant was so bewitched with the wyles of the notorious strumpet Lamia as in open Schooles he raysed disputations whether the loue he bare Lamia or the Iewels he bestowed vpon her were the greater or whether her merrit excéeded them bothe or noe Yea when she died he caused her to be Intombed vnder his Bed Chamber windowe to the ende that with dayly teares he might worship her engraued bones who liuing was of him intirely belooued If the wisest and the worthyest be thus ouertaken in their affections what easie baites may beguile thée who in yeares art young of substaunce delicate and lustie and therefore apt to looue reddy in conceyt and of consideration vnperfect whot in desire and in discretion colde My sonne by experience I know and to preuent thy ouerlikely mischaunce in choyce I haue chosen thée a wife fayre to please theae ritche to continue looue her Parents my assured fréendes and she thy affected loouer loue her well beare with her in small faultes as a woman and the weaker bridle thy owne euill affections as a man her head and gouernour and in thus dooing God will multiply his blessings vpon you and make your aged Parents to dye in peace to sée you liue in prosperitie Young Sicheus regarded his Fathers tale as Schollers doo their Tutors who giuing them leaue to playe admonisheth them with all to kéepe good rule which they promise and performe the contrary With the like affection Sicheus embraced Mariage He was not so soone wearie of dallying with his Wife as he was ready to entertayne a Harlot so that in shorte space he became a common Louer and a carelesse Husband and withall grew as arrogant in defending his libertie as dissolute in his actions and behauiour If his friends did gently aduise him he was of age to counsell himselfe if his Parents did sharply reprehend him he would impudently aunswer he was past correction if his Wife found her selfe agréeued with his hard vsage she might well complaine but he would take no time to amend so that his dayly actions of euill tooke away all after hope of weldeeing in so much as he became odious vnto his friends that beheld his lewde inclination and a plague vnto his Wife who was dayly oppressed with his monstrous vices So that the ouercharge of sorrow made her many times passage for these and such like passions O vnhappie and ouer hastie Mariage which in the pride of my youthe with discontentments makest me resemble a fayre Fig Tree blasted with the after colde of an vntimely Spring but why blame I Mariage which is honourable alas because the abuse of good things worke euill effectes Roses vnaduisedly gathered pryck our hands Bees vngently vsed stinge our faces yet the one pleasaunt and the other profitable so that if their come any euil of that which is good our folly or fortune is cause thereof Aye me when I was married I was

louinge countenaunce repaire vnto her and in her bosome gently bestow his murthering Horne and sodainlye as one rauished with contentment hée fauleth a sléepe by which meanes he is slaine before he recouereth the vse of his force The Companie laughed well to heare this straunge Metamorphosis In the end ꝙ Quéene Aurelia I would Maister Doctor had hard this Hystorie when hée so inuayed against Beautie perhaps he would haue bene affraide of her vengeaunce seeing her power able to conquere sauage wilde Beastes But the Doctor glad of this aduantage not vnlyke the tūning Lawier that buyeth Robin hoodes penniworthes yet with some nice forfaitures threatneth the seller with continuall bondage many times bringeth backe his money and kéepeth his bargen not caring for his Concience so that hée haue a colour for his offence or as the wysest sorte of Atheistes that liue as though they hoped neyther after heauen nor feared Hel yet confesse God with their mouth hecause the contrarie woulde make them hated of men so he by this tale found out both a warrant to maintayne his former Blasphemie and to excuse his present Follie in Loue And to Aucthorize either Madame quoth he the inchaunted Beaste approoueth myne opinion of Beauties power and his Death is a greater witnesse of her crueltie then is Doctor Mossenigo who confesseth that men in vayne prescribe Remedies for the Affected or Receites to preserue men from the Infections of Beautie You are welcome vnder our Lée ꝙ Aluisa Vechio But to take awaye all hope of good intertaynment quoth Katharina Trista no no Maister Doctor you deceyue your selfe Beautie neyther retaineth the power nor poyson which you speake of and with you Ouid and all the amorous Poets are mistaken who say Affection riseth from Beautie and not of the frée wyll of man But say yon all what you please good foresight wyll contrary your opinions There is no sore but hath his salue no griefe but hath his remedie nor no daunger but may be forstoode eyther by prayer or good indeuoure In déede quoth Faliero Socrates ●…altred his inclination by the Studie of Phylosophie The Nyniuites preserued their Cittie by prayer and Virbius dubled his life by mastering of his disposission Floradin bewitched with the loue of faire Persida his deare friend Pericles Wife wrote in a table Booke fye Floradin fye shée is thy friend Pericles Wife and so often as idlenes presented him with thys passyon he read his written remembraunce and by some honest exercise remooued his imagination This is not your day Maister Doctor quoth Soranso I beléeue there is some vnkindnes betwéene Saturne and Venus by the enuious aspeckt of some other Plannet this howre It maye be quoth the Doctor by the flatterie of Mercurie who is euermore enemie to the plainnes of trueth Well quoth Quéene Aurelia let vs leaue this bye matter and consider better of Ismaritos Metamorphosis me thinks it prophesieth muche mischaunce to an Dulde Wydowe whiche marteth a Yonge man and no greate pleasure to the yonge maried Bacheler O good Madam say not so quoth Soranso for in this fortune lyeth a yonger Brothers welfare and the cause that maketh happinesse accompanie olde wemen to their Graue It may well be to their Graue quoth the Doctor but it bryngeth sorow into their House and maketh their life more vnpleasant then death and if Soranso followe this Course perhappes his day wyll be no better then Doctor Mossenigos Quéene Aurelia smilinge saide shee feared this c●…ntention woulde bring the companie to hell gates Yet quoth she In that I imagine the way will be pleasaunt I licence you to perseuer in your purpose Uppon which warrant quoth Soranso to maintaine that to be true which I haue alreadie alleadged in the commendation of this estate in marriage This further reason in my conceite you will neither disalowe nor the married couple shall haue cause to mislike which is where a fresh young Gentleman either of small liuing or farre spent with lustinesse lights of a rich olde widow for that both their desires in this fortune shall bee satisfied He shall haue plentie of Coyne the onelie Grace hee lacked and she the possession of a goodlie Parsonage the chéefest Iewel she loueth which exchaunge of Marchandise can not chuse but continue their liking and raise much coutentment Cleane contrarie ꝙ the Doctor for y e follies of a yong mā is sufficiently punished by marrying an olde womā 〈◊〉 y e sins of an olde widdow ar fully plagued in matching w t a yong man for that contrarie to your suggestion neither can inioye the cause of their Mariage without annoyance to their mindes for his lyking is fastned on her riches which she will not but by necessitie leaue her loue is setled on his person which for her pleasure he disdaineth to punish The vnfortunate yongman knowes not what gréefe hée ioynes to his gaine in matchinge with an olde widdow till that experience breakes them forth in sighes If his wife be ritche shee will looke to gouerne if shee bée poore he is plagued both with beggery and bondage If she be proude she will hide her abylytie to maintaine her pompe If she be testie he is forst to patience If she bee Ielous hée canne hardlye indure her rages And to conclude if the olde doting widdow be frée from one of th●…se faults she is tied to forty euils of lesse suf●…ce for if her Husbande commaunde her will shee straight waies sayeth her other Husband was more kinde If hée chance to dine from home she wyls him to ●…up with his harlots if he spend beyond her allowance thus she reuiles hym A Begger I fownd thee and so thou wylt leaue mee To chastice her talke setteth an edge of her tongue to suffer her in her rage maketh her raylynges irreuocable By your wordes Maister Doctor ꝙ Lucia Bella the wife is the greatest cause of this contention and yet in common opinion the Husband is most blamed Madame you are too hastie in an aduauntage I ment no such parciallytie quoth the Doctor Yea Madame quoth Bargetto M. Doctor is now so conquered as his tong is the Trumpet of your pleasure It is so quoth the Doctor to sound out those thinges which are true and in trueth the yonge Husbande often tymes maketh the euilles good in déedes which the olde wyfe vseth but in wordes for no lenger then she féedeth him with Coyne shall she enioy his companie If she rob not her Children to inrich him she shall lack no froward lookes nor fowle vsage If she put him in possession of her lyuing he straight wayes dispossesseth her of his loue for hauing what he sought he wyl els where be enamoured And vprightly to speake she lacketh neither occasion too lament nor cause to be inraged for who is so patient as can dissemble her vnsufferable passions both to be spoyled of her lyuing and to be exyled

that I am slaue to your bewtie nor wounder though I sue for grace The wounded Lion prostrateth himselfe at the feete of a man the sicke complayneth to the Phisition and charged with more tormentes the louer is inforced to seeke comfort of his Mistresse To proue that I loue needeth no other testimony thē the witnes of your rare perfectiōs to giue me life is the only work of your pittie Wherfore Madame since the Vertue of your eye hath drawen away my heart as the Adamant doeth the steele I beseech you that my hartlesse bodie may so liue by your ruth as I may haue strength as well as wil to do you seruice let it suffice for more honor of your tryumph that by the power of beutie your vertues haue achiued a more glorious conquest then might the whole strength of MYOS and whiche is more of a puissant enemie you haue made so perfect a friende as Phrygius shal hold him self in no fortune so happie as to encounter with the oportunytie to do Pieria and her fauourers seruice or their enemies damage If which amendes may repayre all Iniuries past I shall hould the Safecundict blessed that licensed you to enter Myletum If greater ransom be demaūded it must be my life which if it be your wyl shall foorth with be sacrificed notwithstandinge in such crueltie Dianas Temple shalbe prophaned before whose Aulter I receiued my wound from the eyes of fayre Pieria but houldynge it vnpossible that a stonie harte may bee enemie to so manye Graces as liue in your face I Balme my woundes with hope that I kisse your gracious hand and that your Aunswere wyll returne an acceptaunce of seruice He whose hart waighteth on your beautie PHRIOIVS THis Letter sealed subscribed To fayre Pieria Tryumph after victorie was deliuered vnto a trustie Mes senger who hauing Safecunduict to passe through both the Armies in good houre arriued at Prince Pythes Pallace and in the presence of her Mother other friends reuerently kissyng the same deliuered Pieria w t Phrygius louyng commendations his letter Who so in y e Spryngtime in one Momēt had séene rayne and Sunshine might againe beholde the lyke chaunge in Pierias troubled countenaunce who found no lesse Ioye in reading the Letter then cause of wonder in beholding the superscriptiō who by the consent of Diana to bring peace into Myletū was by loue with the selfe same Arrowe at one instant woūded in as déepe Affection as Phrygius notwithstandynge bounde to no desire so muche as to the Direction of her Parentes she shewed them this Letter who wéerie of the warres and embracynge this meane of peace After they had aduisedly considered the Contentes to comforte Phrygius without iniurie to Pieriaes chaste behauiour in her name they returned this Aunswere PIERIAS Answer to PHRIGIVS Letter SIR PHRIGIVS I receiued your Letter and as I con fesse that your prayses so far passe my meryt as I wun der at the errour of your Iudgement so I doubt whither so honourable a personage as your Lordship can yeelde your seruice to so meane a Lady or if loue were of that power whether you woulde obay to bee Seruante to her whose Fathers ryuall your parentes and you are but on the other part I entertayne a faint hope that you are not so much enemie to your honor as to leaue in your Aduersaries possession a Monument of Dissimulation Vpon which warant and your free offer of seruice I bind you by a curtuousrequest to indeuour to conclude a speedie peace that I may without danger of Hostliyty repaire to Dianas Temple In cōpassyng of which gratious League you shal receiue great glory the countreymuch quiet and I whom you wysh such welfare shalbe bownd to do you any honourable fauour PIERIA of MYOS This aunswer sealed and subscribed To my Lorde Phrygius delyuered by the handes and blessed with the louing countenaunce of Pieria was returned to Phrigius by his owne messenger who after hée had read and reread this Letter not for that the Contents gaue him any assuraunce of Loue but for because they commaunded an imployment of Seruice hée comforted his Spirit with hope that his indeuour in this charge shoulde both reaue all doubte of dissimulation by hym and smoothe Pierias Browe of Chaste disdayne and to further a happy ende of the Countries calamitie In the beginnyng of Phrigius contentment Lorde Miletus had so dealt in these affaires as in shorte time Duke Nebeus and Prince Pythes came to parle of peace and while the Counsels of either parte considered vppon the Articles of agréement Safecundit of Trafick was geuen to the Inhabitants of either Citie How swéete the friendly incounters of these aunciente enemies were is the office of him that hath béene scourged with warres who though they were but in the estate of repriued men yet the hope of assured peace lightned their hartes of former sorrowe and replenished the place with gladnesse Faire Pieria nowe safely repaired to the Aulters of Diana and Phrygius more of desire to salute his Mistris then of zeale to sacrifice to Chastetie fayned many Deuotions to visit her Temple where these Louers for the reuerence they bare to the place forbare to encounter in any spéeche of Loue Yet if Diana wolde haue publyshed their thoughts shee shoulde haue confessed that the most deuotionate of them both in their hartes honoured Iuno in the eye of her owne Image and Aulters But Diana though shée be the Soueraigne of single Nimphes yet is she friende to Iuno and y e Chast Married and only enemie to Venus and the wanton sort so that shee tooke in worth this light trespasse yea held her self honoured that her sacred Temple should bee the originall cause of Myletum and Myos peace and amytie and the ende of their auncient enuy and enmitie Wherfore to conclude the begun agreement she sent Concorde and Charitie to chayne vp Grudge and Dissention Duke Nebeus and Prince Pythes fréed from the vexation of these furies with affable and friendly intertainment reasoned of their affayres and while the Parents parled of their common profit the Children vppon lawfull oportunities deuysed of their pryuate Loues but yet with suche a dutifull regarde of their friendes consent that although their hartes were lynked together by frée choyce the clapping of hands was referred to the forsight of Parentes who burying former iniuries in the Caue of Obliuion made an Edict of Amyty sealed strengthned with the Marriage of Phrygius and Pieria Heires of eithers renowne and dignytie Beholde héere the worke of Loue grafted in the honorable hartes of the vertuous The wrath and stormes of war is turned to calm temporate peace y t blossoms of enmytie are altered into fruts of amyty and the roote of mallice grown to y e trée of pitie The Nobles in honour of this Mariage lauisht out their treasure in all their triumphes and showes to be in good equipage The meaner Gentlemen by excéeding cost lear ned

Segnior Phyloxenus seasyng on his Club and laying him on therwith said As Phallaris dyd to Perillus die with the weapon thou preparst for other In Trumph of this glorious Uictorie Diana sent down the Nymphe Chlora to salute Quéene Aurelia with this Present which was a Shield wherin was quartred four seuerall Honours The first VERT A lookyng Glasse of Christall The second AZVRE a payre of Ballance Argent The thyrd OR a Pyller of Porphier The fourth Argent a standing Cup of Ruby Rock The Muses them selues came also downe and crowned her with a Garland of Roses parted perpale ARGENT and GVLIS and electing her for their Soueraign to comfort the fiue Knights that were discōforted by ENVY two two leading a Knight between thē daun ced a statly Almain of XV. which ended thei bestowed a fauor certain Latin verses vpō euery one of the Knights returned vnto their Mount The Siluer Pen Verses deliuered by VRANIE to ISMARITO stand in the forefrunt of this Booke the rest for that they were proper vnto them selues impertinent for this matter I omit By this time the Cock was ready to sing his midnight song the company fully satisfied with pleasure departed vnto their lodgings to spende the rest of the night in Contemplation and sleepe FINIS A description of the dead of Winter Man by reson inlargeth the boundes of Nature within whose lymites euery other creture lyueth This was the Forrest of Rauenna in Italye for the most part of pine Apple trees This Pallace was 10. miles from Rauenna towardes the Riuer of Poo The custome of Christmas BOLLYTINE a warrant of health without which no man may trauell in Italy A liberall welcome Welcom and Bountie the Porters A couert description of desyre A ciuill foresight meete for a Gentleman A necessary regard for Trauelers The vertues of the Queenes Maiestie maketh the Iland of Eng lande famous through out the whole Worlde Vertue stoppeth the mou th of Enuye But fyreth her hart with mallyce The true Blazon of a noble mynd Tiuoly 12. miles from Rome where the Cardinall of Esta hath a most rare Garden Cardenal Fur nesaes pallace in Rome A necessarie obseruation for a Gentleman A worthye Custome He was a Pro testant Other straun gers arriued by the lyke aduenture A custome ge neraly vesd in Fraunce and in some places of Italy Heliogabalus a most volup tuous Emperor of Rome Courtisie vnto straungers is a marke of Gentilytie A diuision of their pleasurs Musick refresheth the wits Loue simplye is good The distinctions of loue Knowne euils are not to bee defeuded A necessarye note A contention whether Mariage or the single lyfe is the worthyer Argument decideth doubtes Wise scilence worketh mor regarde then foolish talke A fault in many trauellers Al vnmarried pass vnder the name of chast Defences of Marriage Defences of a single lyfe Defences of Mariadge The cause why the Clea gie are reue●…ensed Vnpollitick creatures reuerence mariadge Defences of a single lyfe Vertuous fame is an other lyfe The impatiencie of women will not be hidde Vaine glorious shewes bewicheth women Contentmēt neither followeth the greatest nor scorneth the meanest Sentence gyuen in the be halfe of Mariage Platoes opinion of Mariage Pleasant tal●… is good physicke for sorrowe The extreme passions of 〈◊〉 woman A GVNDELO is a litle Boat like a wherie HIEN somtimes a man and somtimes a woman The intent of euyll is to be punished Pardon is to be vsed in ignoraunce and not in wilfull faultes The punishment of great offenders dooth most good in example Deuotion Grauitie Affabilitie Myrthe Subtiltie bea teth true mea ning with his owne sword A cunnynge aunswere taketh away the grace of a shrewd tale THYMON of Athens was the swor●… enemie of humanitie A dutiful sub iect is bound to obay his Princes wordes and not linger vpon the effect A fayned friend is better then a dan gerous open enimy A Discription of the Sunne risinge Pyrois and Phlegon fained to be two of the Sunnes Coche horses The Bed resemhleth the Graue Laureta com monly called Loreto the great pilgrimage of Italy where is a small Chappell sometymes made by the cunning of certaine Fryers and the consent of some of the Cittizens of RACANATI only to bring Trafficke to their Cittie destroyed by the Goathes and Vandals and in the night stole it out of the Towne and spread a rumoure that our Ladye by Aungells had brought it out of IVRY the mansion House wherin she ther liued whych Fable an nūber hold for a trueth Ignoraunce Caue the hye waye to Hell Italians a most subtyle kinde of people Sinne cannot indure to here of Gods Iustice A tiranny ten tymes more Cruell then Dennis Bull. Alcaron a Lawe that for byddes the Turks to dispute of Mahomet A diuine bles singe A token of louinge Subiectes Reconciliatiō may take away reuēge but not grudge from enimies harts Questions aunswered by Monisillable A good reward for Flaterie A profitable Note Reason giueth man souerainty ouer al creatures There is diuersitie of cō dition ineuery kinde Reason findeth out the imperfection of nature Cause of misliking in manage Causes of comfort in mariage Experience is the best Iudge The forme deceiueth but the qualytie sheweth the creature The foresight of Parentes A reprehen sion of forced Mariage Loue vvill not be constrained The euil of rediousnes Reason and Loue are enemies An other reprehension of forcement in mariage Looue rooteth by Contemplation Aduise to a booteles purpose Looue yeelds neither to wyt strength nor learning An exstreame affection The title of Mariage maketh youthe arrogant Abuse of good things worke euill effectes That which is blessing to one may be a curse to an other Carlesnesse of the husband breedeth hate in the vvife Choller is soone quited but Forberaunce increaseth mallice The Dîucll is the Executioner of vengeasice An extreame passion of Loue. A naturall feare in a vvoman suppresseth many of their euill affections An example for Christian Subiectes Craft hath many times his will with an opinion of honestie Wilful faults deserue no pardon A fauour euil bestowed This Iudge is not parciall for fauor gain or feare The curses geuen vnto a Viper Breuitie is best in passionate matters and effectatiō in pleasaunt Sorrowes 〈◊〉 seth scilence We are boūd to showe aswell the cause as to punnish the euill Good morralitie is better then euil doctrine There is no trustinge of a reconcyled enemye The example of a naughtye nature A necessarie note A Caueller hath colours for euerie question Wemēs loue is more great thē theyr hate Wemē do amis but men are the cause Beauty ouercommeth the wisest EVRIPIDES comparison betweene Beauty and Loue. sclaunder is generally hated A Gentleman is not to shoe his passions by his attyre Men in many cases are to be priuileadged for an others merrite Ventoie a Fan. The vncertaintie ofworldly thinges Both POMPEY and CESAR died violently SISIPHVS A commendation of