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A02152	Penelopes vveb VVhere, in a christall mirror of feminine perfection represents to the view of euery one those vertues and graces, which more curiously beautifies the mind of women, then eyther sumptuous apparell, or iewels of inestimable value: the one buying fame with honour, the other breeding a kinde of delight, but with repentance. In three seuerall discourses also are three speciall vertues, necessary to be incident in euery vertuous woman, pithely discussed: namely obedience, chastity, and sylence: interlaced with three seuerall and comicall histories. By Robert Greene Master of Artes in Cambridge.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1601 (1601)	STC 12294; ESTC S103424	24,622	40

he presently dispatched messengers to his sonnes in their seuerall Prouinces y● they particularly accompanied with their wiues should méete him at Delphos with generall commaund also y● his Nobillitie should make hastie repaire to that Cittie The Kings commaund being put in execution his sonnes to signifie their duetifull obedience sped them to y● Court where being come before their father Ariamenes after he had sit a while in a muse with himselfe fell into these spéeches Nature Sonnes the perfect mistris of affection tyeth the father to his childrē with such a ●●rickt league that loue admieteth no partialitie nor fancy brooketh any difference but a ●ust proportiō of good will is ministred if the parties haue 〈◊〉 in their vertues Maicus Po●●i● Cato who was a father 〈…〉 childrē was wont to say that the loue of a father as it was Royall so it ought to be impartiall neither declini●g to y● 〈◊〉 nor to y● other but as 〈◊〉 doe merite 〈…〉 who ha● sixteene children of his owne bodie at his de●th made equal distribution both of goods lands alike to them 〈◊〉 being dem●unded why he did not giue his eldest Sonne y● greater portion made this answer And is not the youngest also the sonne eate To auorde which supposition you referre his Highnesse to the generall fame of the Countrey y● aboue the rest you excéede in obedience and chastitie Take héede Sister fame hath two faces and in that resembleth time readie as well to backbite as to flatter therefore they which build their vertue vppon report doe alledge but a bad proofe But leauing your reasōs to his Highnesse consideration thus for my self I set not my good name at so small a price as to hazard it vpon the chaunce of the tongue that of al other members is most vncertaine although I am sure my bordring neighbours of estéeme of my doings as they take my vertues for a president of their actions but I hope your Highnes doth consider y● such trée such fruite that the liuely pourtraiture of the parents is as in a Christall manifested in y● children that nature is the best touchstone of life that educatiō and nurture are as good as the Chrisocol to discerne Minerals so they of maners Then right mightie Prince I first for proofe of my vertuous disposition lay downe the honorable happie life of my Parents so wel ordred that ●ame and enuie blusheth to staine them with any spot of infamie what care they had to bring me vp in my youth with what instructiōs they passed ouer my tender yeares I referre to your Maiestie as by willing your second sonne to match in so meane a famely since the rites of mariage were celebrated my husbands dispositiō shall manifest The eldest Sister hearing how cunningly yet crookedly this prettie Oratresse aimed at the matter could not suffer to heare so long a tale without replye and therefore went thus roundly to the purpose Sister ill might Phillis haue blamed Dido for her folly sith she her self intertained stragling Demophon for a friend The Cynicks that inueighed against other mens faults were seldōe culpable in the same crime they which will haue their censures peremptorie must not build their reasons on vncertain principles therefore wipe your nose on your owne sleeue and if you spie where my shooe wrings me looke to the length of your own last for in obiecting selfeloue to me you fall a sléepe in the swéet conceipt of your owne praise which indéed wisely you frame to hazard on the chance of fame sith your deserts are so small as report is blind on y● side which lookes to your vertues the force of your reasons drawne from the authority of propagation alledging nature and nurture for proofes of your vertues are too light to counterpaise with a Crowne for we oft sée that Natures onely error is found in the dissimilitude of linage so that the trée bringing foorth faire blos●omes yet the blomes may either hée nipped in the bud with vntimely weather or hindred with catterpillers that it neuer proue good perfect fruite The Cedar trée is faire of it self but the fruite either none or very bad T is no opinion to say a good father a good child in that time oft maketh an alteration of Nature But your husband was cōmanded to haue pleaded your interest mary I feare his conscience tels him the Crowne hangs too bye for his reach sith he must be faine to attaine to it by your vertues The yongest Sister hearing how vnreuerently they brabled before the King began to blush which Ariamenes espying noting in her face the very purtraiture of vertue demanded of her why hearing her sisters so hard by the eares for a Crowne shée said nothing her answere was thus briefe and pithy He that gaineth a Crowne getteth care is it not folly then to hunt after losse The King looking for a longer discourse and seeing contrary to his expectation that she was onely short and swéete prosecuted still inquestioning and demaunded what vertues she had that might deserue so royall a benefit This quoth she that wh●● others talke yet being a woman I can hold my peace Ariamenes and all the Nobility of Delphos wondred at the modestie of the young Lady that contrary to her naturall disposition could so well bridle her affections Therfore dehating the matter betwixt them which of the thrée were most vertuous although they found by proofe that the other Ladies were both obedient and chast yet for that they wanted silence which sayd Ariamenes comprehended in it all other vertues they mist of the cushion and the King created his youngest Sonne heire apparant to the Kingdome PEnelope hauing ended her tale the olde Nurse greatly commended the discourse and b●b●cause she wold be pleasant at the parting blow knowing that Isme●a was a quicke wench of her tongue tolde her that this tale was a good president for her to direct her course séeing silence was so profitable Tush quoth Ismena feare not you Madame for when I haue such a proffer as a Crowne I will gaze so fast at that that I will forget my prattle but in saith my lippes are too course for such Lettice and so hye hangs the Grapes that the Foxe will eate none Well Madame I know your meaning but for all t●e cracke my penny may be good siluer sith silence is a vertue amongst women but yet I sée no reason of necessity séeing nature hath béene so niggardly in that ●auour It may séeme quoth the Nurse that she hath béen rather too prodigall for thy tung wants no mettall As thus they were about to part with these merry quips a messenger came hastily rushing in who tolde Penelope that Vlisses was arriued that night within the port of Ithaca This word so amazed them all with sodaine ioy that lea●ing the endlesse Web Penelope●●lled ●●lled for her Sonne and that night sent him in post to the Sea where what news he heard of his father I know not But thus abruptly this night was the discourse broken off but for that fell out after his home comming I referre you to the Paraphrase which shortly shall be set out vpon Homers Odissea till when let vs leaue Penelope attending the returne either of her Husband or Sonne or of both FINIS

commaund may be a constraint to the sonne I charge thée that thou shew her the same obedience that belongs to a Princesse and thy fathers wife Philarkēs y● sonne of Psamnet●chus●beyed ●beyed Rhodope whom his father raised from a common courteza● to a Princesse Antiochus the sonne of Demetrius buil●ed stately Sepulchres for his fathers Concubines Reuenge son ought not to go in purple but in white the salue for iniuries i● not choller but patience for myne owne part Garinter I set thée down no precept but y● which my self meane to hould for a principle and thou by imitating thy mothers actions shew thy selfe to be duetiful which if thou performe I will continnually pray to the Gods of thy good otherwise if for my cause thou intend reuenge I wish thy ill so wishing to thy father as to my soueraigne to the Princesse as to one honored with a Diademe I take my leaue at that Court as wel cōtent with my aduersitie for y● it is the kings cōmaund as euer I was wi●h prosperitie And with this the Princesse departed leauing both her sonne and the Nobles passing pensiue for her present disgrace The Souldan not satisfied with this iniurie caused presently Proclamatiō to be made that the Princesse should haue no reliefe but what she earned with her hands that her ladies should be labour and her maintenance no other then her owne indeuour could prouide This edict commaunded to be published the King solempnised his marriage with sumptuous showes and triumphes Garinter that he might shew how carefull he was to obey his mothers last command broght in Maskes and comicall delightes to finish vp the solempnitie of y● nuptials The festiual time being past Olinda puffed vp with a swéete conceipt of her prosperitie so ruled and ouerruled in her gouerment vsing such tiranny in words and perswading her Husband to such disordred actions that she generally fell in hate of all the people in so much that the Souldan himselfe grudged at her ambitious presumptions Well leauing her to her follies againe to the Lady Barmenissa who fallen from a Crowne to a Cottage and from a Scepter almost to a Scrip stil salued her want with labour and her pauertie with patiēce bearing as princely a mind in aduersitie as she did in prosperity neither grudging at iniury nor gaping after reuenge staied thus vpon this vertuous founda●ion The happy fates thy sor●ows haue withstood By syning want and pouerty thy share For now content f●nd fortune to despight VVith patience lows thee quiet and delight Barmenissa had no sooner ended her madrigale but that she heard a great noise which at the first amazed her but at the last she perceiued it to be the voice of men desirous therfore to bée a partner of their secrecy she kept her selfe silent wtin the thicket when she perceiued certaine of the nobles of Aegipt y● were retyred to that solitary place to confer of the ambitious supremicy that Olinda vsed since her Coronation and amongst the rest one of the Lords whose name was Egistus burst foorth into these tearmes Egistus Oration to the Lords of Egipt IT is not vnknowne right Honorable Lordes of Aegipt not onely to vs but to the whole Empire how the King seduced by the flattering allurements of a Strumpet hath not onely violated the law of our Gods in prophaning the nuptiall Bed made sacred by the holy law of Matrimony but also the law of Aegipt which forbiddeth diuorce wtout cause but sith in a Monarchy the willes of Princes may abide no ch●ck but their reasons how soeuer vnreasonable are the principles y● may not be infringed it resteth only for vs to complaine but not to redresse 〈◊〉 ayming more at y● weale of our coūtry thē our own liues we set our rest on the hazard and so desperatly throw at al. First let vs consider that Saladine the mighty Souldan of Aegipt puffed vp with the Highnes of his Maiesty and number of his ●errisories subiect to his gouernment hath been so tyrannous to his commons from his first Coronation that vnlesse his unmod●●ate pride and presumption had bin mittigated by the verteous clemency of his wife the burthen of his cruelty long time since had béen intollerable but now hauing deposed that péerelesse Princesse whose vertues made her famous and vs happy and maried a Concubine whose vanities bréedes her enuy and our mishap we are to look for no other euent but our particuler ill fortune and the generall ruyne of the weale publicke Then my Lords least we should be spotted with the staine of ingratitude in suffering the Princesse iniury vnreuenged and least we should séeme to be borne more for our selues then our Country let vs attempt the restitution of the Queene and the fatal ouerthrow of the insolent Concubine although death and daunger were the end of our enterprize The plot my Lords I haue laid by impoysoning her cup at the next supper but with this prouisō that no intent of treachery shall so much as in thought bée pretended to the person of our Soueraigne whom next vnder the Gods we are bound to loue reuerence This my Lords is my purpose wherto if you consent I meane this night to put it in practise otherwise to craue that my spéeches may bée buried in silence Egistus hauing ended his Oration the Lordes not only gaue their frée consent but also sware to be secret and to be ayders in his defence if any iniury should be offred for his enterprise and vpon this resolution they departed Barmenissa who all this while held her self close in the Couert hauing heard their determination was surprised with such sodaine ioy that at last shée burst foorth into these spéeches Now Bermenissa thou séest that delay in reuenge is the best Phisicke that the Gods are iust and haue taken thy quarrel as aduocates of thine iniury now shalt thou sée wrong ouer ruled with patience and the iuyne of thine enemy with the safety of thine owne honour time is the discouerer of mishap and Fortune neuer ceaseth to stretch her strings til they cracke shame is the end of trechery and dishonour euer forerunnes repentance Olinda hath soard with ●ca●us is like to fall with Phaeton sooner are bruses caught by reaching too hye then by stooping too low Fortune g●udgeth not at them which fall but enuy bytes thē which climbes now shall the Lords of Aegipt by reuenging dound to both your contentments and then she made manifest the pretence of those Noble men Olinda amazed at this sodaine newes as base myndes are euer fearefull desired the Souldan that they might hye home least some treason in that place were intended for quoth she I knowe whatsoeuer she saies that Barmenissa was the author of this treacherie whose life how long so euer it be is the continuance of my sorrows The Souldan whom cōscience began now to sting at the very hart turned his backe without farewell and no sooner came at the Court but