meritorious and though it be glorious to ouercome by battell yet is it more glorious to be ouercome by pittie For alas shall men whom nature hath endued with reason and vnited in originall amitie by occasion of any corrupt accident continue more malitious than vnreasonable or sencelesse creatures Doth not the Plantane profit the toade in disburdening her of the superfluitie of poyson and the same neuerthelesse stand vs in steede to many good purposes or doth it derogate any thing from vertue if by our industrie wee better the vitious or shall wee cut of those limbes that are now sound because the same were once sore Well if remembring what we haue bene you wil not conceaue what we would be if our humble submission be thought an insufficient reconciliation if you feare vs that haue neither will nor power to harme you if you wil not which is the summe of our sute deliuer vs from hence that of our own accord are falne into your handes if I say it be your pleasures that we shall not weepe for vnexpected kindnesse whom you shall not enforce to dread for any practised torments then assure your selues you cannot be more tirannous then we patient and our death shall be more dishonourable to you then our graues discontenting to vs. The only thing we craue is to be conuaied out of this Iland a small petition and easily performed the poizinesse of twaine will not be burdenous to your barke and the hyer for our passage shall lighten your hartes But to what purpose should I vse more speeches if you bee mercifull enough is sayd if mercilesse much more wil not serue Cap. 3. HOw rufully these wordes were vttered by the miseble Meade and how effectually the same wrought in the hartes of the Assirians the passioned gestures of the one did testifie and the pittifull regards of the other witnesse Let it suffice that the sillie soules were pitied their pensiuenesse comforted their bodies appareled al former enmitie pardoned and libertie promised But see what an euill euent followed so good an hansel In the night before the Assirians should depart Sorares calling diuers the cheefe of his soldiors to suppe with him in his cabben enuited amongst the rest the two Meades and after supper ended he intreated the miserable Duke to declare by what mishap they chanced into that harborlesse Iland wherevpon Arbaces proceeded in this maner Albeit good Sorares and you the rest of our benefactors the remembraunce of our passed sorrowes will bee little lesse then a present death to our spirits the whiche without anguish we cannot rehearse nor you without pittie heare yet shall you not find vs daintie to aunswere your request whom we haue found so forward to yield vs releefe Aboue two hundred yeares of mine age are alreadie passed a short time if not lengthened out with continuall sorrowes the roote therof chiefly springing from Assiria and yet good Sorares thinke not that hauing cause to curse your countriemen that banished vs into this Iland that therfore we will cease our prayers for you by whom our deliuerie is promised seeing why wee should malice you we can render no reason but why we should honour you we haue good occasion The purportie of this my speeche is to be construed to this purpose that as we are not to accuse you for our receaued iniuries at the handes of your predicessors so is it not necessarie that in malice you become their successors for if we shall make their olde controuersies our newe quarrels it will followe that first the worlde and all thinges shall cease to be before strife and discorde shall cease to grow But hitherto I haue bene rather tedious to your eares then aunswering to your demaundes yet pardon my beginning and with patience carrie an ende It is a worlde to note the wondrous alteration of all thinges euen of late dayes for omitting to speake of the time before the generall deluge I will onely glaunce at the superfluitie of this our present age It hath bene yea within the time of my rememberaunce that men thought themselues more sure in their wilde Caues then now safe in their walled Castles better contēting themselues with the vnforced fruitfulnesse of the earth then now satisfied with their fruitlesse compounds enforced by art the simplicitie of nature prescribed vnto them an absolute law but ouermuch curiositie now subuerteth both law and nature What speake I of part when it is manifest that no sooner golde and siluer the Ambassadors from hell had insinuated themselues into the hartes of men but that a generall subuertion was made of all Nemroth then taking vpon him an vnknowne title not euer heard of before in all the world much lesse in Caldia became a king in Babilon who by suttletie hauing wone the harts of the vnpollitick people by that meanes got them vnder the yoke of seruitude Nemroth being dead his sonne Belus hunting after greater superioritie than was by his father newly exacted pretended by warres to dilate his dominions whose dreadfull purpose being by death made frustrate his sonne Ninus your late Emperor and our then persecutor did execute Making his new inuention of warre battell not only terrible to those that did taste it but horrible to vs whiche as yet did not feele it After a while it came to passe that we who hetherto did only heare much mischiefe of warre reported did now suffer the effects of that which of long time we feared for Ninus landing an armie of soldiours in Media obtayned an easie victorie against vs bad warriours and in respect of holdes armour and artilerie a people vtterlye naked Ninus being thus conqueror we conquered our king Farnus his wife and vii children murdered cōtinual likelihoods of an vniuersal slaughter still appearing the desolation of the whole countrey being generally expected for diuers Nobles of Media and others not of the basest calling to the nūber of 100 vpwards of y t which nūber the whole number now liuing we two are hauing conuayed into a shippe the gold and cheefest treasure of our slaughtered king and rather trusting to the incertaintie of the seas then to the inhumanitie of the Assirian soldiors in an vnluckie hower hoisted vp our sailes leauing with teares our wasted countrey as men compelled to search after some new habitation The seas we passed were numberlesse the sorrowes we suffred were greeuous the daungers we escaped were perilous how farre we had sayled we account not howe farre we should saile we knew not where to ariue wee were ignoraunt and all places if farre enough from the Assirians seemed to vs indifferent In the end being no lesse vnfortunate in our seafaring then vnexpert in the new art of nauigation seing our vittels to waste our vessel to leake and our tackling to faile such was then our comfortlesse dispaire that hauing no hope at all to escape the threatning waues it did only forthinke vs that we forsooke our natural graues in our
the Hound as I fearing pursued them flying with purpose at lest by falling into their hands to haue died from such miseries in casting my eye aside I perceiued y e Caâ—â— and carcase of a Beare the whiche these men had newly slaughtered and vpon whose dismeÌ„bred limbes as might seeme I had euen now seene them feeding This facte of theirs as it seemed to participate a fearce and bestiall courage so such their food did argue in them a defect of humane conditioÌ„s and both it and whatsoeuer else I here beheld presented ouer skatheful sights to mee euen nowe so wealthie and wanton a Lady Thus hitherto did I salute penury at the Threshold seeming to me an intollerable hansell But whilste I thus lingered a dying life Night the discomfortable Register and Remembrencer of all miseries had taken place of the opposite and ouershadowed all this Countrie then fleeted many thoughts in my minde not only of present ieoberdies but also of passed ioyes and by how much more nise and delicate education or to bee exact from so royall parentage made once to happinesse by so much more penurie and distresse added nowe to perplexitie and impatience for what thing can happen more vnkindly then that pleasaunt and good causes should varie in peruerse and bad effects or what leaue wee with more greefe then what we possessed with most ioy I that lately had all or more than I could readily aske could not aske now any one needefull thing I might possibly haue but as in better times I had superfluitie with supplies so in this change of fortune I suffered necessitie with decrease Beggers know in what and by whome to bee releeued but alas euen beggerie did by so muche better mine infortune by howe much I neither knew to begge nor found of whome to receiue and whereof Beggers are not restrained it lay not in my choise to make chaunge of the place whatsoeuer in charitie I founde in the people But by that time the torture of two or three of these dayly terrors and nightly torments had racked Uertue â—â—om Necessitie I tried this Crosse both possible to happen and founde the same in euent profitable for as the Horse late pampered vp at the full manger and anon turned out to grasing doth not willinglye forsake his bare pasture againe to returne to his sweete Prouendor so I although my sufferaunce came at first by constraint yet constraint growing to a custome and custome to a confirmation of patience vsed the Libertie of these Woods as a Supersedias against the World yea when my Fleshe was mortified and my Spirits quickned I coulde then consider that Uertue and Riches sieldome couple in one body and when I was so farre secluded from the vain delights of the world that neither mine eyes might see theÌ„ mine eares heare them nor my hart hope for them I then easily deuerted from the Compounds of Education and reuerted to the Simples of Nature and in so needye a life I remembred my naked byrth and conceiued the like of my graue Thus profite we in diuine Uirtue when we decay in humaine presumption and herein onely differ we from brute beasts that they naturallye knowe not themselues but such ignoraunce in vs worketh vnkindly to brutishnesse Now credit me Arbaces all seemed thâ—â— vaine whiche before time I had in most value for I remember and I thinke the world is as it was that in our Heads Heares Habbits and behauiours Uarietie so squared out Fashions according to our own Fantasies that whilst Nature seemed a Dotarde and Arte an Infant too-bad became a Brauerie that our faces so borrowed of Phao his Box that the interest exceeding the loan Beautie with some became a Banquerupt that our Feete proud Fooles so trâ—ad vpon the earth as if earth disdained to touch earth But smile I must to remember how some with a Maske a Scarfe or a Plume could as formally keepe their olde or black and bad faces from sight as didde others their beautie from Sunne-burne neyther coulde ought beâ— tollerated in yong fayre and noble Dames for their preâ—rogatiue that was not anon taken vp by olde foule and meane Drosels for pride so that we becomming May-ladies they would anon counterfeit Maid-marians and yet these Apes in purple in our fashions gate and nicenesse followed vs in nothing so effectuallye as did some men effeminatelye whose lockes were so like trimmed beautie so tended and all their ornaments so woman-like tempered that onely to haue taken their Swordes from their sides and then to haue giuen them Fannes in their hands had bene altogether to resemble with whom they did altogether desemble women This did I then remember and the vanities â—hereof seemed most ridiculous alas would I thinke to my selfe that sometimes was as nice as the nicest with what foolishnesse frequent we our bodies to costly balmes and curious ornaments which after a few dayes Death presenteth to the Graue and the Graue to the Wormes and why are we remisse carelesse in beautifying our soules fit presents for the Gods themselues with incorruptable vertues If more thâ—â—kefully be it now spoken than the same was then accepâ—ed aduersity would offer vnto other Ladies or to whomsoeuer the same oportunitie to contemplate and consider of the World as was and is alotted to me Beautie would seeme Uanitie the losse of Riches the recouery of quietnesse a Ransome from Fortune and a discouerie of our selues and wee our selues shoulde appeare to our selues no other then Examples of weaknes Spoiles of Time the Game of Fortune Patternes of inconstancie Receptacles of miserie Markes for Enuie in conception loathsome in birth helpelesse in youth witlesse in age wretched of life vncertaine of death sure and consequently wel shall they that thus say Post hominem vermis post vermem fâ—tor horror Sic in non hominem vertitur omnis homo Cum fâ—x cum limus cum res vilissima simus Vnde superbimus ad terram terra redimus Therfore should we behaue our selues here not as though we liue only for our bodies but as though we coulde not liue without bodies neither so to follow the worlde that we also fall with the world which being ours we are not our own But hitherto haue you not heard how I fell in with these Ilanders the order whereof I shall now tell you Cap. 58. THese considerations my deare Arbaces at the fyrste vrged of necessitie and then vsed as necessarie besides the place it selfe whiche seemed a seconde Elysium or of pleasure and plentie Nature her Store-house wherein eche Hill might seeme a Parnassus eche Ualley an Edon eche Groue a Tempe and eche Water a Tagus and more-ouer which did not a little delight with these the people also the men and nimble Ladds of this Ilande vnto whom if wee graunte their then Attire and wildnesse and from these other except their 〈◊〉 like Members and Manners they shoulde seeme righte Fani or Satirs or rather in respecte of their personages
see homely yea and I speake now of the best not of the most that lacke of thus well and yet like as well not wanting any thing that content themselues with euery thing pouertie yeelding vs this aduauntage that whereas for wealth other nations be inuaded with warre the lacke thereof keepeth vs at home in peace Neither feare we to fight if occasion shall serue for although we shunne all causes of controuersie yet know we howe to reuenge proffered iniuries and that can all Asia well witnes whom we euen we the Scythians haue three times in open fieldes conquered and our bowes made them three times vnto vs tributorie All this while the two breethren continue dismayed by reason of the sightes they had lately behelde taking taking small delight in those his speaches whereuppon their gentle hoste brake of his former argument spake to his guestes as followeth Cap. 9. WEre it not gentlemen that I my selfe am paâ—tlye priuy to some sufficient cause of your sadnes I could not but iudge you either verie sollitarie or somewhat sullen but trust me my selfe a straunger in an other place as you are here and seeing that which you haue here seene coulde not but imagine and feare asmuch or more then you haue feared but the reason why I haue suffred these your dumps and not resolued your doubtes was because I gladly woulde haue ouerpassed that in silence which will be more greeuous to me in resitall then what you here behelde hath bene to you dreadfull herewithall the water stoode in his eyes and adding a small pause to the sheddinge of a fewe teares he thus proceedeth You shall vnderstande qd he that the cursed owner of yonder same dismembred quarters was almost from his cradell to me and mine a vowed enemy by whom I often receaued much skaeth but coulde neuer acquite my selfe of his enuie Know ye also that the same Ladie whom you behelde euen now in this place was without superstition bee it spoken the adored goddesse of mine amorous deuotions the emperious Mistresse of my martired heart and the onely shee that helde me in loyaltie whose beautie was my blysse whose sweete countinaunce was my sole comforte and to whome more then to my owne selfe I liued â—hall I tell you for her sake was I paciente of all labourâ—â—enterous of al dangers careles of all cumbats and desperate of all deathes for in loue is nothing dificile but as the Hunter plyeth his Houndes the Falkner his Hawkes and the Fisher his Angle forgetting the paine through delight of the pastime so the louer prosecuteth his loue esteeming all labours and troubles but trifles in respect of the inning hope of his amarous haruest yea and by howe much deeper loue hath taken foundation by so much the more sweeter is it in operation sauâ—ring altogether honie and not senting gaule What shall I say so pleasaunt and stedfast was our mutuall loue vntill on her parte violated that it might haue bene made a question whether of vs was the louer or which the beloued our two heartes being as it were to either bodie common But as good Ladies are sometimes ouer lightly affiansed so light wantons are often ouer firmely fantasied nay alas it is commonly seene that trust hath the fayrest tract leading to treason and that in security we finde greatest sorrow This yonkar whose guile hath bene thus rewarded with a deserued guerdon when nowe no farther hope was left for the exercise of his malicious madnes against me applyed then mine owne weapons to worke vnto my selfe woundes solliciting secretly by louing nay lustfull tables this wicked woman Wicked may I well terme her and wo-man for that sext is an apte Etymologia Ah gentlemen or euer I passe to my penaunce which will be the ripping vp of Thetis her inconstancie either suffer me to chewe vppon my melancholie and perhaps choke or else giue passage to my choler so happely to ease mine heart with a chafe which chafe I wishe may be to you a caution as the cause thereof is to me a corasiue for though Thetis is not euerie woman yet followeth it not but 〈…〉 woman may proue a Thetis and then were 〈…〉 other Philosophie but implication yet womâ—â— might iustly be termed monsters in nature as some how cuÌ„ningly or curiously I iudge not doe note them But what talke I of their natures that can tell much more of their maners O that I had bent more carefull in auoyding their companie and lesse cunning in deciphering their conditions What else are they I accuse not all and may not excuse a many but ineuitable plagues conuenient noysances naturall temptations couited calamities housholde hostilitie and dilectable detramentes whom wee cannot want without offence to the gods nor holde without damage to our owne parsons if shee be fayre shee is wooed and reddily checketh if foule she wooeth and euer chooketh Good wine lacketh no tasters nor fayre women sutors with an easie price and an iuie bush bad wine also is vttered if she be poore then ouer chargeable to him that shall keepe her and then shee flincheth if rich ouercurious for him that shall catch her and then shee fleeceth outwardly with arte is shee pullished howsoeuer inwardly polluted her face painted her beautie borrowed her haire an others and that frissed hâ—r gestures enforced her lookes premeditated her backe bolstred her brest bumbasted her shoulders bared and her middle straite laced and then is she in fashion when most out of fashion Besides her attire eies hath shee to entise teares to excuse lookes to attract smiles to flatter embracements to prouoke resistaunce to yeelde frownes to delay becâ—es to recall lippes to inchaunt kisses to enflame and all these to poyson applying thus to euerie member and motion a seuerall arte Se prieth in her glasse like an Ape to pranke her in 〈◊〉 gaudes like a puppet but being pruned as shee 〈◊〉 to the purpose yet doth shee but hurte nature with arte and marre forme with fashion and is like to the gloe worme that is bright in the hedge and blacke in the hande Shee discouereth that sometimes willingly which shee woulde seeme to haue done vnaduisedly shee promiseth one thing and performeth an other professeth chastitie but practiseth the contrary loue hir and you loose hir make straunge and you winne hir offer and she disdayneth denie and shee dyeth prayse hir and she pranketh dispise her and shee powteth but O diuell if taken tardie then hir tongue vttereth such arte that either shee auoydeth cunningly the suspition or leaueth the matter doubtfull in suspence Teares hath shee at commaundement and those of two sortes weeping often for anger and seldome for sorrow of hir two extremes Loue and Hate hir loue is a minute but hir hate a monument As redily doth shee leaue as rashly shee doth loue being as prone to mutabilitie as desirous of variety changing for pleasure but chusing for profit and if at one time shee hath twentie sundrie â—lyantes yet can shee please
eche man with a contrarie countinance and dismisse them all at hir pleasure hauing sotted their sences and soaked them of their substance For small goodnes shee claymeth great commendations but for great euill hateth any controulemente hauing charge ouer all shee complaineth of seruitude being abridged of parte shee exclaymeth of mistruste if shee be wise at the least in her owne conceite then with a preâ—â—se singularitie shee will ouerrule all if foolish then with a peeuishe simplicitie shee will not bee ruled at all the first will be to brauely minded the latter to baselie manered the one opinionate the other obstinate but both combersome Politicklie is shee wone and peeuishly is shee 〈◊〉 either doth not the rich mans daliances feede 〈…〉 or the poore mans diet fitte hir dalyaunces 〈◊〉 imperious impatient importunate selfewilled thankelesse and full of reuenge Shunne yong men I say shun except out of golden cuppes you will drinke poisoned draughts to be guests in the guiles of these sweete sower Panthars otherwise make account to find them such waiward fooles to please and such foolish wantons being pleased that if in winning they did trauell you in wearing they will vtterlye tire you But see lauish fellow how rashly hath my tongue run counter ouermuch choler I feare me hath so mistempered my wits that it is doubtfull whether I haue vsed decorum in words If therefore any modest matron wife or maiden had bene here present either I would thaÌ„ haue spoken in the booke or could be contented to beare a Fagot for any probable heresie and no doubt they woulde pardon my glibbe toung in respect of my gauled hart for blamelesse may loosers chaufe Well best is no women are here to trauerse my cholerick alligations for hardly finde wee any pleading so formall wherein the iudge especiallye if labouring the cause cannot or at the leasâ— doeth not assigne errors Cap. 10. THis my digression gentlemen qd the Scythian Lord hath longer detained your teeth from your victuals then y e discourse it selfe might haue displeased your eares for the villanie and yet would I borrow your patience a little farther for as I haue spoken some what of the infirmitie of the feminine sexe being the matter wroughte so would I breefely touche the impietie of lust the meane woâ—â—â—ng by both whiche I haue bene wronged and by 〈…〉 you may be warned From his freating frenzie though of most vile and base condition neither the mightie Potentate nor the meane pessant the valiant victor nor the cowardly curle haue ben or be exempted And the reason why it so easilye ouercommeth and so extremely outrageth is for that it promiseth to them trust whom it killeth with blindnesse leading men euen with willing cordes to the pleasaunt court of vanitie being garded thether by conducte of Aboundaunce and Prosperitie in which courte Gluttonie doth dyet them Letcherie doth chamber them Pride doth apparell them Sloth doth accompanie them and Follie in all thinges followeth their humours But whilste Tediousnesse doeth here perswade that none maye come to heauen vnlesse they iournie barefooted vpon sharpe pointed booking Securitie dryueth on his sleepie Chariote and bringeth them to Hell as it were on softe Feather-beds Like as fire worketh wood altogether into fire so Lust wholy alienateth man into lasciuiousnesse for if once it entreth the eye it anon scaleth the head and at length sacketh the heart and then alas the heart by degrees readily delighteth consenteth fulfilleth continueth despayreth confirmeth commendeth and not but too too late repenteth the act This lasciuious passion I saye besides that that it bringeth wealth to want great possessions into smal purses it also effeminates the mind enfeebleth the body slandereth the person endangereth the soule yea it leaueth the body in such debilitie that it maketh the same altogether vâ—apt to any good action and so infeâ—teth the mynd that it vtterly dishaboreth euen the least motion to ameÌ„dment so that body mind and man become wholy vitious Lust hauing forerunners Heate and Wantonnesse companioÌ„s Scurilitie Uncleannesse pursuers Gâ—erfe and RepeÌ„tance whose matter is Gluttonie whose 〈◊〉 is Pride whose sparckles is Ribaldrie whose 〈…〉 Infamie whose ashes is Filthinesse and whose ende is Vâ—râ—is vmbra flagillum frigus ignis Demonis aspectus celerum confusio luctus And albeit the pleasure passeth away in a triâ—e no soone done but forgotten and the punishment is permanent yet so delightfull is the present sweete that we neuer remember the following sower Cap. 11. FRom whence then may we fetche tried medecine to applie to this vntoward maladie when Agnus Castus is so geason to cure and Mandragora so commoÌ„ to procure beleeue me my guests for the auoiding both the mischiefe it selfe and the inconuenience growing thereby six rules are especially to be obserued as maximies The first whereof is Sobrietie in diet for it is often 〈◊〉 that in wine many thinges are done vnaduisedlye Saturitie working accesse to venerie and they haue ben at a wanton banquet willingly conquered that but euen now disdained parlie with the assailent The seconde is some bodily labour or studious excercise in some honest action wherby is preuented all such lewd toyes and vaine meditations wherevnto the minde neuer but well or ill occupied is easily entised for ydlenesse is to a liuing man a sepulcher but labour the minds medicine The third is decentnesse in attire and outwarde ornaments the which we are to vse for colde not for colour as couerings of our nakednesse not as allurements to licentiousnesse for with the Gods to intend is to trespasse to will is to worke and in either the offence all one The fourth is discreetely to restraine the libertie of our sences not so to looke on the sunne that we dim our eyes with the brightnesse not so to touch the berrie that wee 〈◊〉 blood with the brier not so to taste home that wee blessâ—â—g of the Bee not so to heare melodie that we neglect modestie nor so to smell sweet odours that wee senâ—e not vnsauer is ordoures but so to see touche taste heare and smell the intising lullabies of beautie and flattering preparatiues to Venus that by forecasting the inconuenience we may the easilier escape the mischiefe for repentaunce was neuer but a looser The fift is Sieldome wordes and those with sobrietie not by euill speeches to corrupte good manners for what contenteth the eare to that readilye consenteth the hart And because if for no other cause he that is still accustomed to speake ill is by good reason suspected not to doe well Ribaldrie is therefore not slightly to be reprooued for well it is sayde that the mindes image is the toung and sometimes of wordes spoken but in meriment haue proceeded occasions working to a mischiefe The sixt and last is To conquer opportunitie whensoeuer we are offered the executing of our purposed lewdnesse for albeit we find the person pliant to performe the place apt for performaunce and the time conuenient for performing
yet at that very instant should we remember that we ought not to doe all that we would nor so muche as wee maye but onely that whiche is lawfull and honest But my good guest for so much as I cannot but confesse that this inordinate petulancie delightfull euil and sweet poison Lust is far more easie to be controled of all then corrected of any one as an infirmitie naturally if I may so say proceeding from our corrupt flesh and the opposite thereof more currant in praise then conuersante in practise I will therefore here lay a straw and proceede to the matter from which I haue thus far digressed Cap. 12. ARmatrites and Thetis for Armatrites was his name what by sending and resending of often tables and tokens as I began to tell you had concluded vpon their dishonest enterprise and making sure of minâ— absence had many meetings at this my castle where not simplie contenting themselues with shamelesse coiture they had also sorted the platforme how to haue murthered me The nighte came wherein my death was determined in which Stratagem disloyal Thetis should haue none execution But as we lay aâ—bed amorously â—oying as is the trade of Louers shee suddenlye fetched a deepe sighâ— great plentie of teares then also brasting from out her eyes whereat I no lesse amazed then greeued as he thaâ— esteemed himselfe so long distempered whilste I deemeâ— her in any thing disturbed making my preparatiâ—n with a payre or leash of kisses did earnestly demaund the cause of such her passions but shee not able of a long tyme to vtter any worde for weeping at the length clasping her armes about my neck and repaying my kisses with more then double interest shifted mee off with this â—leeuelesse aunswere Ah my louing Lord qd she for so much as to disclose the cause of these mine extraordinarie teares the whiche priuately concerne mine owne selfe and nothing at all touch you would be but the new remembrance of an olde sorrow the which by scilence may be in time suppressed by resightall in memorie the deeper impressed maye it therefore please you of pardon in that I am vnwilling to rehearse that which I would if it might be so willingly forget I being blinded with loue and ouertaken with her dalyaunces and not minding to vrge her any father then should stand with her own contentinent questioned with her no longer as touching this matter but for that I perceaued her mind to be perplexed I my selfe was woonderfullye disquieted and so laye musing of all that nighte withoute sleeping anye one winke 〈◊〉 beleeue me if euer any man were beholding to sorrow theÌ„ I of al other haue best cause to coÌ„mend sorrow which kept me awake and waking aliue For albeit heâ— mischieuous mind I wot not howe relenting did seeme now almost reclaimed from suche her murtherous intent yet as she her selfe afterwardes confessed her new and erreuocable zeale to Armatrites had so ouermastred reason that after a long combat betwixt pietie and crueltie as she that would not haue attempted any thing to the annoying of me could she otherwise haue attained to the inioying of him was fully resolued to haue finished my life if happely of all that night she had taken me napping But I not doubting at all any such wrong measure hauing ouer night appointed with my huntesmen to bee early stirring as soone therefore as day appeared taking a louers leaue an hundred times at her lips leauing her a bed departed towards the desart where by a straunge chaunce I got intelligence of such their false packing Cap. 13. ARmatrites had a very beautifull concubine who I know not by what meanes finding out y e new hauÌ„e that her sweete hart vsed to Thetis seing her self as it seemed to be now scanted of that pleasure which before time she possessed and therefore not meanely offended at suche his trecherie when by no meanes she could intise home againe Armatrites waxed then starke madde with anger and not minding to die in his debt that so discurteouslye had giuen her the gleeke but enuying alike both him and his new chosen trâ—ill sought opportunitie to reuenge her on them both Scarcely had I gon three furlonges but that I mette her posting toward this place and although before time I knew her very well yet anger had now estranged her countinaunce but she with â—hese homely salutations thus renewed our old acquaintance Thinke not thou Wittole qd she that thy gay titles or thine vsed or rather abused auctoritie amongst vs in these partes shall so hinder my tongue but that I dare to tel thee a troth how commeth it to passe that thou which oughest to be a punisher of offeÌ„ders art now becom a fautor of offences that thou which art so zelous in doing iustice abrode art so partiall in winking on vices at home If the law maker may also be a law breaker it will bee to small purpose that I accuse thee of the often meetings of Armatrites and Thetis at thy castell thy countinaunce bolstring their incontinency But if the breach of lawe in the magistrate is more offensiue then in the meane subiect for that by his course the vnskilfull companie are chiefely directed then tell me thou Pandar how canst thou excuse thy selfe of iniustice or auoyd the reproche of this trumperie What is it possible that the auntient enmitie so long time continued betwixt Armatrites and thee shoulde thus suddenly be grown to so familiar an attonement as that thou canst be contented not only of an olde foe to make a new friend but also so kind harted as to hold Thetis with him in coparcinerie thou challenging thy propertie by night and he chaÌ„bering her as properly by day it is belike his office to keepe her warme in bed whilst thou as warrantable for thy head as thy game for their hornes art hunting abrode And lookest thou man so grimme as if thou wert offended I should charge thee so deepely doest thou blush as if but euen nowe ashamed of the bawderie or arte thou dumme as if thou wouldst pleade ignoraunce in a matter so manifest if thou art offended I am carelesse of thy displeasure if ashamed it is not without good occasion if thou hast bene or diddest counterfeite to be ignorant now say not but thou art sufficientlye warned yea so warned that euen now the time serueth for triall What therefore doth let vnlesse thou art well ynough pleased with such patcherie to proceede in punishment against so detestable harlots Oh that I had the slitting of the strumpets nose and these nayles of mine the scratching out of their eyes Cap. 14. WHilst she yet persisted in harping forth this and suche like vntunable hermonie I neither rashly crediting the vnsuspected accusation neither yet obstinatelye yielding to the partialitie of mine owne affection leauing her in the middle of this her mad musick returned home long or euer I was looked for and rushing suddenlye into the chamber I founde the
not yet liuing did languish neuer wer men wrapped in more miserie or distressed so vnmeasurably This alas is greeuous ynough that you haue heard but harder was our hap than thus Whilst we stoode rufullye gazing one vppon an other more like to ghosts departed than men liuing our good Generall Menophis a noble Duke and victorious Captain vnder whose fortunate conduct we had diuers times before preuailed in many a hot Encounter being now 〈◊〉 of an vnhappie Embassage froÌ„ India into Cicyona looking as ghost-like as any other and supporting his weake body with a shorte Iauilin pight in the middle of the Hatâ—hes spake to vs as followeth Cap. 18. WEre it so my euermore couragious but now comfortlesse companioÌ„s that we once again were in y e champion fields of India enclosed with the warlike bands of Semiramis though fiue times doubled yet would I put you in hope either to march after them in a second pursuite or at the least to make from them the first escape but alas small is the councel that I am now able to giue yet somwhat the comfort that therby you may gaine but no conquest at al is here to be got knowing that to intreate or threaten the churlish surges were more than Follie. Onely giue me leaue in this my last I say my last and vnaccustomed exhortation to preuaile and then assure your selues that if this aged carcase of mine sufficiently instructed not to feare death to be solde into perpetuall bondage or to suffer death it selfe might be in ought availeable to you I would account such bondage a freedome and such death a flea-biting for how I haue bene am affectioned towards you may well appeare in this that I a Duke by birth and your General by assignmeÌ„t was notwithstanding the first before the meanest here that did want to eate not the last of this company that did feele the famine and yet were you eased of this miserie I should not be impatient of much more sorrowe Listen therefore I say how I your careful Captaine not occasioned nowe as often times heretofore to instruct you how and in what manner you ought to fight am at this time after a far differing sort to admonishe you how and in what manner you are to die It either needes not or bootes not to be offended with Fortune that can be no other then mutable by name and nature neither is Fortune whom it pleaseth the irreligious people to intitle a blinde Goddesse any other in deede then a by-name drawne from the Originals and Euents of our mortall actions but it is the vndoubted gods theÌ„selues whom we haue by some meanes vnaduisedly offended it is they that punish and them must we pacifie as those of whose aide we should neuer dispaire for though persecution procureth a death to the bodie yet a conscience dispairing assureth death to the soule miserable is distresse more miserable distrust but most miserable then to feare when we cannot hope Neuerthelesse let vs not make our case so desperate but that whatsoeuer shall betyde vs life or death we laie hold-fast on patience the onely touch-stone of vertue being pleasure vnto paine comfort to correction wealth vnto want and death vnto death vanquishing altogether with suffring and not with striuing then which is nothing more victorious no not death it selfe for who are those that death conquereth euen such fooles as dreade him and vnto whom the onely remembraunce of death is an horrour such I say as willingly become Ghostes whilst they feare their graues fearing more in sence then they may feele in substance and not thinking their paine will be either not great or not long What shoulde be the cause that men hauing Nature their vndoubted Author Reason their assureâ— Instructor Experience their continuall Perswader should neuertheles or euer death commeth little better then die through the onely feare they conceiue of death vnles doting to much on their wealth which they are loth to leaue or else hoping to little of the mercifull gods who then forgiue an ill life when they find a good ende with whom it shalbe neuer to late too shake haÌ„ds as esteeming whatsoeuer is done wel enough to be done soone ynough Yea the rather my louing companions haue we no cause to dreade death or wish life that are to die at the appointment of the gods and not by the iudgement of men for to the Person worthely condemned death is a double death it being farre more miserable to deserue it then to suffer it and yet though it be in the power of men to iudge men which I also thinke to happen but at sufferance of the gods Nature doth assure death vnto al not graunting to any one his life by pattent but at pleasure and that in such sorte that not the wysest man lyuing can say there then or thus I shall die and yet sure he is that die he shall Seeing therefore my good friendes that death is so certaine as nothing more sure and the order of his comming so vnsure as nothing lesse certaine and that an honest death is the goale of our liues howe happie are we if we could conceiue of our happinesse that shall die with such fauourable opportunitie of repentance well deseruing of our countrie lamented for of our friendes not laughed at of our fooes yea then when life is yrkenot some vnto vs that not on Ieobets as do Malefactors not in Prisons as doe Captiues not in Corners as doe Cowardes not in Quarrels as doe Cutters not in Chaines in our enemies Triumphes neither yet suddenly then which no death is more dreadfull but in a ship which doth argue vs venterous in the Seas not to be subdued by CoÌ„querours in our Prince his affaires as loyall subiectes with famine which confoundeth MoÌ„sters with fame of former prowesse and by prayer which shall reuiue vs. What can we wish more of the gods or what should I say more to you whose deliuerie is not desperat but eueÌ„ to sence vnpossible and vnto whom forlorne Soules death the ende of all wretchednesse ought especialy to be welcome Certes no more remaineth but to intreate you whom henceforth I shall neuer more exhort to be patient without grudging penitent without wauering prepared without dispayring dying to the flesh and lyuing to your soules yea lastly remember I beseech you that we are no sooner borne into the worlde but that wee liue to die from the world therfore ought rather to loue whether we must necessarily then from whence we must of necessitie Thus not able to comfort you as I woulde but willingly to counsell you as I may no more resteth but that I wish the continuance of so grieuous a life to haue deliueraunce by a godly death This said y e noble Duke turneth his face we might perceiue how the teares trilled down his cheeks at sight wherof we that did alwaies reuereÌ„ce him for his Grauity obay him for his Authority loue him for
promise he dispatched the before named Duke Menophis to Cicyona from thence to safecoÌ„duct his betrothed Lady sending by him great store of treasure part whereof presents for King Selchim part gifts for diuerse of his Nobility the residue for the honorable furnishing of Pheone But by that time the warres at home were appeased and as you haue heard our daungerous sailing auoided and after so long famishment and bad diet our selues in health and strength recouered the time before appointed on was expired and yet of all this while Pheone hearde no tidings from Staurobates wheresoeuer supposing y t he had ben vnmindful of his promise or at y e least purposed to giue her the slip it is said she fel into these ExclamatioÌ„s Cap. 21. ANd is there no remedy vnfortunate foolish forsaken wench but that thou must answere so deere an interest for the cheape loue of his so momentarie loue must it follow of necessity because thou wert creduleÌ„t that he therfore must be inconstant is such the euent of his lameÌ„table lookes smooth words and often othes ah Staurobates Staurobates who would haue thought so youthfull a Leacher could haue couÌ„terfaited so artificially a Louer but I perceiue alas to late I perceiue that men make not their false hearts priuie to that which their faire tongues seeme rufully to pleade therfore nature hath left our weake sex in most wretched condition suffring vs ouer-feruently to loue and giuing it to men euen kindly to chaung making vs as wyers for their wresting waxe for their working and fooles for their flouting Howbeit before they obtaine then we who but we onely we are Idols worthy their sacrifices they plie vs with pitifull epistles they prouoke vs with premeditated eloquence they attyre them by the booke speake not but in print what haue we they praise not nay what lacke we praise-worthy they faine not why our gloues yea our slippers nay the verie earth wheruppon we then tread hath say they vertue or else know we they flatter a simple kisse on our haÌ„ds is theÌ„ restoritiue to ther harts but good gods for a louers fee at our lips they daunce in the Aire they cast down their GauÌ„tlets they couch their Speares they spur their Steedes they enter y e Lists yea we rather want wherein to imploy their labours than they in what to please their Ladies But Dissemblers though they leuel at our parsoÌ„s they shoot at our portioÌ„s And be it so that they preuaile then whether they loue still as doe a few a little as doe many or not at all as doe most what other reckoning can we cast-aways make but that the first day of their recouery is y e last date of our libertie that the ielous eyes of the hote louer shall be ouer attendant the emperious mind of the luke-warme ask too much attendaunce and the third sort hauing deceaued shall leaue vs to our Cares as Rauens hauing disclosed do their young to the Aire sauing that Rauens after a while returne as reuoked by loue where these would neuer retaine vs at all if not resisted by law Thus play they Foxes and we proue flattered they Scorpions and we stinged they Diuels and we tempted but who worser than thou Staurobates and yet wert thou present changing Churle I know thou couldst aleage no cause of such strangenesse nor I for any crime of mine except perhaps for trusting thee too much be iustly chalenged as for my beautie had it bene somtimes baser my fortune had bene at this time farre better Ah Pheone desolate Pheone how mayst thou wind thy selfe out of these euils or finde redresse for such iniuries complaine to thy brother why admit by warre he enforce Staurobates to wed thee yet no war can enforse Staurobates to loue thee and then much better martired so then maried shouldst thou resolue which thine ouermuch folly will not suffer to accept his disloialtie as an acquittance of all loue yet so deepe is he in thine hart that for his losse thou couldst not but languish and more than so and too much by so much who then should father the fruit of thy growing wombe but only Staurobates whome thou rash wanton ouer credulent of vowes didst entertain simply as an husband but not as the heauens can witnesse willingly as an adulterer howbeit through this thy beastly foolishnesse were the crime apparant as it may not be here concealed my selfe am shamed mine Honour stained and my death in law deserued What doth it alas aduauntage me now to haue ben Daughter to the famous King Aegialeus the Sister of Selchim or that my beautie education and entertainment haue heretofore allured mightie Kinges Wooers worthy personages Suters and the Worlde wonderers that must now liue obscurely the Gods wot where and how poorely the most wretched Relict of so notorious a Dissembler or else die a shamefull death for my violated chastitie O well had I bene if happily interred or at least wise by so infamous an Epitaph not suruiued But what beate I the ayre with succesâ—esse wordes Why doe I not rather conuay my selfe into India where perhaps when I shall manifest vnto Staurobates the distresse wherein I am here left when I shall humbly prostrate my selfe at his feete whome I neuer wittinglye offended when he shall beholde the teares continually gushing from out those eyes which once he loued when my tongue shall discourse a lamentable tale and my sorrowfull gestures affirme the same to be credible when I shal charge him with his promises and vowes and lastly wheÌ„ I shall disclose my follie but his fault my great belly Then whiche I shall account amends for all wronges Loue Pitie Feare or Shame shall againe winne for whom I now wish But foole what wordes are these wilte thou herein also bewray thine error troth it is Pheone the gods accept the humble complaints of oppressed soules but Staurobates not therefore will conferre with poore Suters the Gods be mercifull but he maiestical and ouer-proud a Phisition to minister vnto so meane a Patient doth he not now disdaine of thee that art his equall and shall he not then as a Runagate forbid thee his presence as frantike commaund thee to scilence as offensiue enioyne thee punishment or as combersome adiudge thee death O succourlesse estate of mine O worlde not loued but for my wombe and it the Mappe of al my sorrowes for which neuerthelesse and not else I yet liue as expecting a comfortable childe in place of so vnconstant a Father And yet Staurobates thou canst not worke to Pheone such ill but that Pheone wisheth vnto thee so well as not for her greatest wrongs to craue the meanest reueÌ„ge yea to pleasure thee yet more as my loue is alreadie remote froÌ„ thine heart so of my person I henceforth deliuer thine eyes O vnkinde Staurobates ah vnhalowed Pheone With such like passions as these being tormented with ielosie though in deede not threatned any such ieoberdie did Pheone a
while driue forth the time vntil in the end not able any longer to hide that swelling sicknesse which she knew to be other than a Tympany one morning betimes she secretly windeth her selfe from out the Court in disguised apparel not to be recouered by any searche or heard of by any inquirie After which her departure within lesse than a seuen-night Duke Menophis and we ariue at Cicyona but intelligence being there had of this euill newes making short tariance there we resaile with sorrow ynough to India and certifie to Staurobates our euill aduentures on the seas with the heauie tidings of Pheone her missing Staurobates who had pitifully heard the report of our mishaps and tooke most patiently the losse of his so great treasure hearing now such newes of her whom he loued as his own life fetching pitifull sighes and eftsoones falling into perilous sownes could hardly be reuiued wanting little but that he had presently died and long after remained at point vtterly to haue forsworne wiuing by reason that Fortune had euen then so awkly adnihilated his Commencing whē hauing already his Grace he accounted himselfe a Graduate Cap. 22. BUt what is it that time doth not determine or at least wise diminish diuers yeares after he yet continuing a broken batchiler when his pensiuenes was grown from a wound to a skarre he ariued at Cicyona there familiarly to visite his old friend and brother in law that might haue bene King Selchim who gladly gaue him entertainment answerable to his magnificence During the time of Staurobates his now abode in Cicyona Marpissa King Selchim his only daughter and heire a perfit blossome of beautie a matchlesse Paragō for personage perfected by Nature and pullished by Nurture and one whome Enuie it selfe could not in any wise impeach occcupied so great a portion of now more hers than his own hart that Pheone was thē diszeased but Marpissa seazed the Aunt dismissed but the Niece admitted the one lacked but the other loued Staurobates therefore firste mouing Selchim of this match and there preuailing did secondlye make loue to Marpissa but there fayled howbeit like a wilie wenche she finely smootheth him off with such delatorie answers that cunningly she leaueth her selfe at liberty and giueth to him neuerthelesse cause to play on the bridle for hee assured himselfe of nothing more than that he had gotten a wife when she perswaded herselfe of nothing lesse then to take him for husband There was at that time in the Court attendaunt vpon a young Duke which Duke had bene in vaine a long suter to the Princesse one Crisippus knowne to be no other than a ritche Marchants sonne of the same Citie where the Court than lay but yet a youthful Gallant and a brauing Courtier he at the commaundement and in the behalfe of the Duke his maister vsed often repaire to Marpissa and had much conference with her as touching the same Duke his loue But shee careleslye neglecting the curteous proffers of the master did contemplatiuely respect the comly personage of the man who being scarcely xviii winters old both for actiuitie maners and well making was at y e least wise in her eye not second to any This Crisippus I say this affiansed factor fauoured Soliciter was the only sleping Endimion secretly kissed of Phoebe so far-forth as her loue wanting a second consent might extend it selfe to Galatea an Acis to Venus an Adonis and to Marpissa the first of her loue or the last of her life Wherfore after that she had with earnest long endeuour sought to resist vndesistable loue at the length taking courage boldly to persist she entreth with her-self into these Arguments What reason hast thou Marpissa to contend with Loue that is both restlesse and vnreasonable adding so to fire fewell or what standest thou vppon these ouer-curious points thy fathers displeasure Crisippus his Pettigree or thine own Modestie when the first may be pacified or else by meanes auoided for from whom we are deriued by birth to thē what can we more returne than reuerent mindes but to whome wee are driuen by loue from thē what may we lesse with-hold than our own parsōs yea Marpissa thou maist also reuerēce as a daughter and loue as a wife and yet the later not preiudicial to the first Secondly and as concerning Crisippus his Pettigree or Pouertie what is that to be respected seeing thou doest delight in his parsonage not descant of his parentage whose vertue doth counteruaile the want of Nobilitie for better the man lacking wealth then wealth lacking the man Thirdly what shouldest thou bee more nise than wise that art therefore to be pardoned because in loue and who is ignorant that loue respecteth no persons for howsoeuer in all other things hapneth a superioritie yet Nature that hath giuen to vs alone Birth one Breath and one Death in this one only thing remaineth vncorrupt and is to all alike indifferent making Phoebus a Sheapheard and Hercules a Cot-queane but admit the Discord yet mariage maketh the Concord Mariage qd I yea but all the craft in catching and cunning in keeping I marie Marpissa this was sweetly spoken if faire words might win him but Crisippus is no Pigeon to be taken with a beane nor a child to be intised with a Ball he may be perhaps a Louer but not loue for losse and will more esteeme a dowrie that is bountifull than a Kings Daughter though beautifull Alas Marpissa what dowrie canst thou bring him Ah Death if he be taken Banishment if he escape and Pouertie howsoeuer he speedeth Wherfore if thou wilt loue him then leane to loue him but that alas will neuer be except thou also leaue to liue Nay rather moue the question and afterwards dispose of thy selfe according to his answere they are more than miserable that seeke a sword to perish on the point before a salue to applie to their paine the vexed parson that in most anguish crieth out to be deliuered of greefe the same would not with the least violence be then dispatched of life speake Marpissa nowe or else neuer speede sue to him for loue that perhaps would but feares to attempt thee in the like thou shalt no doubt obtaine he is neither discurteous nor timerous so constāt a Partner shal the rather make him venterous of the perill Cap. 23. LVpus in fabula labouring yet in these passions she perceaued Crisippus dauncing attendance about the pursute of the Duke his loue whom more for that shee had now a new plea of her own to plie than vpon any will to heare the olde pleaded cause of his maister the whiche she had already both in thought by word dismissed she calleth into a withdrawing chamber where giuing him intertainment more than vsuall but yet no more than stood with modestie they enter into this Dialogue Mar. WHat newes Crisippus My Lord your Master is I hope satisfied and not offended with the returne of my late aunswere if then
missing shee what else should I imagine impatient of suche causelesse vnkindnesse hath God graunte my feare bee false eyther secretlye wrought her own distruction or else at the best which is badde ynough for euer abandoned me and mine house as the memoratiue Springes that a fresh should flow to her sorrowes by thus much your Maiestie maye conceaue more If therefore this man his treacherous Ingratitude deserueth to be punished or mine vnsupportable Calamities be worthie of pitie lette then Iustice recompence his mallace and mercye releeue my myserie Philargus thus concluded Opheltes could not auoid the Accusation and the king in this wise proceeded to seâ—â—tence Cap. 48. J Haue Philargus giuen eare and will anon giue ease otherwise Iustice should be lesse which ought to be so much thaÌ„ an IntermediuÌ„ to my scepter for whilst we rule with iustice we retaine the Tittles of kings if not we recouer the names of Tyrantes in what therefore may we better discharge such our Charge than in brideling the iawes of the mightie Oppressor and in wiping teares from the eyes of the poore-man oppressed for myne owne part I haue alwaies caried this opinion that not to do iustice to others is to bring my selfe in danger of iudgemeÌ„t knowing that the Prince ought to be the peace of his people to the Orphant a parent to the succourlesse a refuge to good men a Protector to ill men a terror and to al men indifferent who in respect of the cause shoulde reiecte the person giuing to euery man that whiche is his and for this cause are wee called Gods Euen this Preamble Opheltes ought to be fearefull to thee that are faultie to thy selfe fie gracelesse man fye doth not almost euery post in my Palace florish with these sayings Doe as thou wouldest be done vnto Shew pietie to thy Parents and loue to thy kindred Haue peace with men and warre with Uices Bee faithfull to thy friendes and to all men iust yet by so muche hath thy lewdnesse digressed from these Lessons by how much vnlike workes differ from like wordes But out of a legion I will only single a leash those are thine Ingratitude Disdaine and Adulteries If Opheltes I may say him vngratefull that is ready to receiue and carelesse to repaye and him gracelesse whome the gentle â—â—ane of a Friend of a Debtor maketh an Enemie what maye I then saye yll enough to thee who diddest franckly receaue without loane but doest falsely requite without loue forgetting that Curtesies receaued by tale should be returned in grosse that to bee gratefull for a little is a preparatiue to more that still to bee thankefull and confesse a benefite is still to strike from off the skoare with our Benefactoures and in troth then to render thankes and giue faire speeches nothing is deliuered with lesser charge or recaued with greater acceptance But certain it is a seconde Fiend hath brooded this first Furie proude Disdaine I meane whome false Honour hath begotten in dishonourable Bastardie for why that same Honour hath an imperfect or rather a prodigious bodye wherein Humilitie is not ingrafted a member whiche wanting Promotion in an euill man is contrarye to Preferment because rysing to Honour hee falleth from Uertue and dishonourable is Dignitie vsed vndiscreetelye but to bee glorious and not Uain-glorious to haue power and to wante Pride not with too muche austeritie to prouoke hate nor with too muche alacritie to procure contempt but in all thinges to affecte a meane is honourable in respecte of the man and honest in respeccte of his maners contrariwise to haue the best degree and the basest minde the maiestie of a Prince and the manners of a Pesaunt a conquering tongue and a cowardlye hande muche prattle and no proofe outwarde grauitie and inwarde lightnesse a white heade and a greene hart high Authoritie and vndiscreet Gouernment make Honour mosterous and contrarie to it selfe To thee therfore Opheltes not vnaptly may I allude the Fable of the Asse who carrying on his backe the Image of Isis and seeing the people to fall downe and worship forgetting his holy burden supposed himselfe to be so honoured and therefore in a brauerie began to yerke out at his Driuer because as the rest he did not reuerence but by that time his Maister had wel cudgeled his hide the foolish Asse could then remember that to Isis not to an Asse such honours appartained euen so Opheltes thou that doest carie the Image but not the Saint the Uisour of honour but not the vertues of honour to rebate from thy vainglorious conceit in carying of honorable Titles art by greeuous correction with the Asse to be taught y e worthie Titles without verteous Conditions are but as Pictures in respect of the Persons Think not much that so grosely I compare an Asse to a GeÌ„tleman but know that such disdainfull Gentrie is worthye so worthlesse a comparison Could Philargus whom thou hast made poore with thy wrongs poison thee with his words or was his sight to thee a SerpeÌ„t by whom thy self wert adopted a Sonne If so as thou shouldest think nothing lesse then so then neither admitting benefites and forgetting such aliance tel me Opheltes is it sufferable thou shouldst be more cruell then a Monster or lesse ciuile then a man the fiercest Monster is familier with Monsters of the same kind and what art thou for a maÌ„ that thou shouldst be fastidious of the acquaintaunce of men If thy brauery could not haue brooked his beggerie at the worst a secret Releefe might haue dispatched a bashful Begger or if couitousnes hardneth thine hart yet diddest thou degenerate from a Nygard in not shewing a courteous looke where thou wouldest not bestow a charitable almes seeing it is vsuall to euery pinche-penie rather to vaile three Bonettes then with one halfe-penie to aduauntage a Begger But wicked man Disdaine it is that hath transformed thee from a man to Diuell otherwise thou wouldest haue remembred that neuer any man lost by being humble or that anie euer wone by being haughty neither haddest thou forgotten that as Poore-men haue want to exercise their patience so Rich-men haue wealth to practise their charitie which lacking horrible is that Audiat wherein such a Rich-man is Accomptant Thou shouldest haue thought and the rather by thine owne experience that although wee flourish to day we may fall to morrow and as Stage-players chaunge our partes from the Kinges Scepter to the Beggers Scrip that the dispysed may rise and the dispiser may fall naie admit that Fortune the common flatterer should still fauour yet what else gayneth the disdaynefull person but this that his superiours point at him in the streetes his inferiours giere at him in corners his equalles figuratiuely do ride him and whosoeuer doth feare him not one doth friende him the best way therefore to be rich is to dispise riches the meane to be glorious is to contemne glorie for he that is neither proude in wealth nor impacient in