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A02080	Ciceronis amor· = Tullies loue VVherein is discoursed the prime of Ciceroes youth, setting out in liuely portraitures how young gentlemen that ayme at honour should leuell the end of their affections, holding the loue of countrie and friends in more esteeme then those fading blossomes of beautie, that onely feede the curious suruey of the eye. A worke full of pleasure as following Ciceroes vaine, who was as conceipted in his youth as graue in his age, profitable as conteining precepts worthie so famous an orator. By Robert Greene in Artibus magister.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1589 (1589)	STC 12224; ESTC S105897	54,105	88

woone Andromache nor the wisedome of Vlisses that intangled Calipso nor the beauty of Priamus sonne that drew Greece in armes to Troy these perfections if combined in one man shoulde not mooue Terentia to listen to the allurements of Venus not that I make light estéeme of Lentulus or that I holde small account of Fabius as two chiefe myrrours of our Romaine gentlemen But that either my vowes are resolute to Vesta or if Cupid hath taken me by the héele it was before Lentulus came from Parthia or you from Arpinatum so that conclude howsoeuer it is I cannot become affectionate to Fabius At this reply Fabius stoode so amated as if hee had beene an vnwelcome guest at the feast of Perseus which Cornelia noting déepely in loue with Fabius shée told him thus Nor may you Fabius thinke much at this repulse sith Lentulus and you are in one predicament nowe both become gainers in liberty that haue béene loosers in loue and either gette the willowe garlande and so mourne for your Ladies frowne or séeke a mistresse that may shewe you more fauor For as for Terentia shée hath chosen and none must please hir but Oratours If there be Fabius but one Sunne that is thought the beauty of heauen yet there be planets that though not in shine yet in influence are as vertuous what there bee Ladies I meane of such course die as my selfe and Flauia that when Terentia is once married looke for husbands Fabius hearing Cornelia thus pleasant noted this quippe that none must please hir but Oratours which made Terentia blush for anger and Fabius to make this answere I knowe no Oratours in Roome quoth he whose yeares are answerable to Terentias thoughtes but onely Marcus Tullius Cicero and if it be he I sweare by the fitch that gaue him his syrname Terentia shall be mistresse of a goodly Cottage in Arpinatum Terentia hearing Fabius to giue Tully the frumpe answered thus The more his fortune if it be hee whose vertues hath made him master of his owne desires for his lands in Arpinatum as they be little yet shall his lacke be counteruaild with his loues and if he hath not one to inrich him with dowry yet I may perhaps content him with beauty And therefore Fabius to take away all suppositions it is Tully none but Tully y ● shall inioy Terentia And quoth Fabius in great choller nor Tully nor none besides Tully but Fabius shall inioy Terentia Whereupon departing without taking his farewell going vnto hir father and discoursing vnto him that Tully was the man that his daughter had chosen for hir husband swearing that his sword ere it were long should end their loues Although Flaminius were grieued yet he sought to pacifie Fabius but in vaine for hee flung out of the dores in a rage and went to Milos house to séeke Tully Where breathing out many despightfull threats against the Oratour it came at last to Lentulus eare Who nowe to make manifest the déepe affection he bare to Cicero trouping himselfe with a crue of the Praetextati and chiefe Romaine gentlemen that had béene souldiers and trained vp with him in the warres he went to séeke out Fabius and found him with certaine his companions about the Capitoll Lentulus not brooking the braue of any as carrying the heart of a Conquerour singled out Fabius and after some wordes they fell to blowes but Fabius part were the weaker so that many were wounded and some slaine Upon this the next day parts were taken the people began to mutiny and to fall to intestine and ciuil iarres that as in the time of Scilla and Marius so the stréets were filled with armed Souldiers The Senatours séeing what bloudy stratagems woulde insue of this strife if it were not pacified sent for the Consuls and charged them to raise vp some of the Legions and to bring Lentulus Tully and Fabius the next day to the senate house with Terentia and hir father They obeying their commaund put this charge in execucution and so qualifiyng somewhat the fury of the people brought these thrée wooers with Terentia before the whole state of Roome Where being arriued Tully fearefull of nature and sicke yet somewhat strengthened with the sight of his mistresse beeing glad Lentulus was his friend in his loues after due reuerence began thus Tullies Oration to the Senate COnscript Fathers and graue Senators of Room I was borne in Arpinatum of base parentage the first of the Ciceroes that euer pleaded in Rostro or bare title in the city If then aduanced by your fauours to these fortunes I should aspire without proportion to clime beyonde my degrée let me be the first and last whose presumption shall grow to this preiudice The temple of Ianus in Roome hath hir gates shut the s●reetes are full of armed men the stones of the Capitol blusheth at the bloud of Romaines shed against hir walles and all this mutiny cry mine aduersaries growes from Tully Not that Tully was then out of his bedde but that men of poore families lifted vp to honor are soonest bitten with enuy I appeale graue Senatours for my life to your owne censures if euer I haue not béene more carefull to profit my country then desirous of preferment for my labours But what then say the people is cause of such broy●es Terentia the daughter of Flaminius that firebrand that set Troy to cinders Beauty is like to bring Roome to confusion For the greatest houses and families are diuided the Lentuly and Vatinij and this for Terentia Let the cause be examined before the Senators and as they heare so let them doome Lentulus chosen by the Senate was sent Captaine euer many Legions against the Parthians where he tyed fortune to his thoughtes and by his great victories and conquests set vp trophées of Romaine chiualry Returning with glory to Roome hauing set in his place Lepidus he was enamonred not onely of the beauty but vertues of Terentia the fame of whose excellency was spred amongst the Parthians Coueting to match with so honourable a Lady he courted hir but in vaine not that shée disdained Lentulus but that shée had fixed hir fancy before shée sawe Lentulus and the platforme of loue is able to receiue but one impression If honours if conquestes if parentage if reuenewes if courage if goods of fortune body or minde might haue woonne Terentia al this was vnited in young Lentulus But Loue that liketh without exceptions had ouerbard hir heart with such former fancies as the passionate sute of Lentulus coulde haue no entrance His thoughtes were extreame and the disquiet of his minde brought a disease to his body But when he knew that Terentia loued his friend he appeased his passions and rested content with his fortunes The vnconstant goddesse whose smyles are ouershadowed frowns not contēt honor should spring vp without enuy sends Terentia to walke abroade towards Arpinatum where then Fabius liued as famous for his rusticke and vnciuile life as now he is woondred at for his braue and courtly behauiour Spying Terentia hee was as Lentulus snared in hir beautie that the Romains to report a miracle said loue made him of a clowne braue resolute gentleman The excellencie of Terentia hauing newe pollished nature in Fabius hee sues for hir fauour but hir thoughtes that were forepointed with other passions intreates him to bridle affection and to make a conquest of himselfe by subduing the force of fancie séeing hir resolution was directed to loue none but one and that was Tullie This worde graue Senators and Romaynes sounding basely in the eares of Fabius caused him take armes and Lentulus to defende his friend Cicero as for him before had lost his loue so he ment to loose his life and withstoode him in the face Thus grew this mutinie not against beautie for it is a cheefe good of it selfe nor against Tullie for hee is meane and vnworthie to bee reuenged by armes but against Terentia because shee vouchsafed to loue Tulllie This Romaines is the cause of this mutinie to suppresse which let Tullie die for rather had he pacifie this striffe by death then sée the meanest Romaine fall on the sword The common people at this began to murmour pleased with the plausible Oration of Tullie which one of the Senators seeing stoode vp and saide thus Terentia Cicero here hath shewed reasons why thou shouldst loue Lentulus and Fabius but what reason canst thou infer to loue so meane a man as Tullie Terentia blushing made this answere Before so honorable an audience as these graue Senators and worthy Romayne Citizens womens reasons would seeme no reasons especially in loue which is without reason therefore I onely yeld this reason I loue Cicero not able to ratefie my affection with anie strong reason because loue is not circumscript within reasons limits but if it please the Senate to pacifie this mutinie let Terentia leaue to liue because she cannot leaue to loue and onely to loue Cicero At this she wept and stayned hir face with such a pleasing vermilion die that the people shouted none but Cicero Whereupon before the Senate Tully and Terentia were betrothed Lentulus and Fabius made friends and the one named Lentulus as the Annales make mention maried to Flauia and Fabius wedded to the worthy Cornelia FINIS

fauourable as you are frumpish would soone censure by my talke how déepe I am reade in loues principles But women speake by contraries crying like the lapwing farthest from their nests and so I take it being checkt for ouermuch loue when you sée I am a nouice in loue Or perhaps madame Flauia you would haue me loue if it be so I will become more studious to satisfie your wish but your calling mee a day friend that peremptory punishment were passing sharpe for one fault to shake me out of seruice were it not that for so déepe a wound the Lady Cornelia bringeth in a lenitiue plaisture alleadging my security if I bee armed with Terentias fauour Blame mee not swéete goddesses if I aime at the fairest souldiers haue eies that can iudge of beauty though they haue not weapons to winne beauty eares to déeme of perfections though they want tongues to discouer passions The harmony of loue I haue hearde them say consists in vnities and nothing is more preiudiciall to fancie then plurality either of thoughtes or of persons Amongst many then am I charged but to like of one Mistresse If I make choice of Terentia and shee vouch to grace me with hir fauour Cornelia concludes truely that armde with the imagination of hir beauty I thinke my selfe able to brooke your frumps and to withstand the hardy resolution of Mars I maruaile then quoth Flauia halfe in choller if womens beauty be like Delphicus gladius of high proofe to defend and of sharpe edge to offend why the Senatours choose not out legions of Ladies that with little cost and great assurance they may make conquest of the world but perhaps all souldiers be not of your temper for they vse their weapons and you your lookes No madame quoth Lentulus y ● is not the cause for were it not that euery woman would be a Captaine and striue for supremacie they had resolued vpon this long agoe but fearing a mutiny amongst themselues for superiority sith euery one at home wil be counted most wise most beautifull though their wits be meane and fauours lesse the Senate are glad to foresée such an inconuenience The Ladies hearing howe cunningly Lentulus had gald madame Flauia on the right side began all to smyle and shée after a blush for very anger began to laugh Lentulus glad that he had giuen hir a soppe of the same sauce and paide hir hir debt in hir owne coine Calling to his boy to fetch him a Lute willing to shew his mistresse he was not ignorant in musicke said he would prooue the force of beauty by a sonet which he heard was made by Orpheus when he fell first in loue with Euridice tuning therefore his Lute to his voyce he sung this ditty Mars in a fury gainst Loues brightest Queene Put on his helme and tooke him to his launce On Erecynus mount was Mauors seene And there his ensignes did the God aduaunce And by heauens greatest gates he stowtly swore Venus should die for shee had wrongd him sore Cupid heard this and he began to cry And wisht his mothers absence for a while Peace foole quoth Venus is it I must die Must it be Mars with that shee coind a smile Shee trimd hir tresses and did curle hir haire And made hir face with beauty passing faire A fan of siluer feathers in hir hand And in a coach of Ebony shee went Shee past the place where furious Mars did stand And out hir lookes a louely smile she sent Then from hir brow lept out so sharpe a frowne That Mars for feare threw all his armour downe He vowed repentance for his rash misdeede Blaming his choller that had causd his woe Venus grew gratious and with him agreed But chargd him not to threaten beauty so For womens lookes are such inchaunting charmes As can subdue the greatest god in armes Lentulus hauing sung this ditty Terentia willing a little to shew hir wit began thus I remember Lord Lentulus I haue heard my father say that souldiers were w●●nt to carry fauours in their helmes not fancies in their heart and made choice of their mistresse to incourage their thoughts not to inchaunt their affections But I see the auncient hon●ur of the Romaines is slipt from prowesse to passions and the men couet to be counted rather amorous wooers then hardy warriours gasing Mars in the face with bright armour but offring Orisons to Venus in secrete conceites This did not Quintus Lucius Cincinnatus who sette it downe as Crimen Capitale to speake of loue in the Armie Nor Scypio Affricanus the greate who made lawes that no women shoulde bee brought prisoners within the Campe least loue entring pele mele with war might hazard y ● haughtines of their houors And yet madame quoth Lentulus Cyncinnatus ha● a wife and Scipio was marrieed But quoth shée it was in their age rather chosen for succours then amarous passions their youth was wholy spent in warres as enemies to loues counting fancie as a dishonour to their martiall dignities rightly in déede with a déepe insight entring int●●he enormities that growe from following to precisely the court of Venus For beléeue me gentleman Poets and Painters erre much that ascribe a dei●y to Cupid and were worthy to beare some gréeuous punishm●nt for such a newe inuented heresie which I will app●●oue with a Sonet that one of Dyanas nymphes made w●en Iupiter had faulted with Calipso And so Terentia taking the Lute in hir hand beganne to warble out this ●oundelet Fond faining Poets make of Loue a God And leaue the Lawrell for the myrtle boughes When Cupid is a childe not past the rod And faire Diana Daphnis most allowes Ile weare the bayes and call the wag a boy And thinke of Loue but as a foolish toy Some giue him bowe and quiuer at his backe Some make him blinde to aime without aduise When naked wretch such feathred bolts he lacke And sight he hath but cannot wrong the wise For vse but labours weapon for defence And Cupid like a Coward flieth thence He is God in Court but cottage cals him childe And Vestas virgins with their holy fires Doe cleanse the thoughts that fancie hath defilde And burnes the pallace of his fond desires With chast disdaine they scorne the foolish god And prooue him but a boy not past the rod. Terentia hauing ended hir roundelay as Lentulus was ready to replie Flaminius came into y ● Garden with y e rest of y e senators whose graue presēce brake of their amorous prattle so y ● he leauing y e Ladies taking his leaue friendly of them all but specially with a pittiful glancing looke of Terentia as crauing some fauour for his farewell hee went to the Senatours amongst whom he ●●●coursed long of the maner and custome of the Parthians 〈◊〉 their resolution in warres and of such serious matters concerning martiall discipline Passing thus away part of the afternoone the company at last taking their leaues yeelding great thankes

bee constant Amongst all that haue béene borne in the poore village of Arpinatum thou maist Tullie say that thy planets haue béene pleasing and thy desires fauorable who the son of a poore Fermour art in hope to make thy house equal with the most in Roome Measure but thy honour and Iudge of thy fortunes thy family base yet art thou companion with Senators and men of grauest account in the Citie Honour treades on thy héele and dignitie daunceth attendance at thy lookes but loue Cicero that deitie that diuine essence that sealeth vp content in al estates he stoopeth at thy frown presentes thée wreaths of myrtle that thou maist enter into Paphos without checke Terentia the wonder of Rome Natures Paragon the refined beautie of the heauens she that seemeth to glaunce on the Pretextati she that makes no account of the miracle of our time Lord Lentulus shée Cicero commaunded by loue yéelds hir selfe captiue to the sonne of a poore country villager in Arpinatum Then Tullie strew Venus temple with roses say there is no fount but Alcydalion no hill but Erecinus no bird but the doue no god but Cupid Loose not oportunity take hir by the foreheade let not slip occasion for shée glydes away like a shadow nor loue for she hangs at the héeles at time Nowe Terentia hath put the iron in the fire strike then while it is hot pay hir downe poundes of loue for drams of fancy for in matching w t the daughter of a senator think it presageth thou shalt be a Senator so shalt thou gaine at one time honour dignity wealth and beauty but with that loose thy faith Tully thy faith thou hast vowed to Lentulus who shuts vp his secretes in thy heart and resteth his thoughts on thy bosome Wilt thou preferre honour before thy friend or wealth before conscience Ah Tully if thou be the man y ● Roome woondreth at for thy eloquence be also the man that they shall canonize for thy vertues Beauty is but a bauins blaze wealth is but a fickle fauour of fortune dignity is haunted by enuy but friendship that is the pretious treasure that neither time nor fortune can violate Why but Terentia will neuer loue Lentulus then Tully hate thou euer Terentia I am a man and subiect vnto loue as well as Lentulus So art thou a man and being false to thy friend art vnworthy all loue Abandon Tully these vaine imaginations ●ount Terentia foule deformed vitious and what not as long as one sparke of loue lieth rakt vp in the cynders of thy thoughts and as long as Lentulus loues hir hate hir for thy self and ●oue hir for Lentulus Setting downe his rest at this period he went into the chamber to sée if Lentulus were awake but finding him still fast a sléepe he went towards the Capitoll where he met with Flaminius the father of Terentia who demaunded very heartily how Lentulus did Cicero with a déepe sigh said passing sick Wherof quoth Flaminius grows the disease I heard that Asclapo iudgeth his sickenes to be mortall Tully thinking to set all on the dice not respecting his owne loue but his faith to his friend began thus Graue Senator I néede not rehearse Lentulus byrth as beeing a citizen nor his reuenewes his possessions long knowne to euery man nor his honours ended in victories for the Parthians are sufficient euidence of his well discharged dignities and valour Lentulus graced in the prime of his youth with these fauours hearing of the beauty of a Romaine Lady left the warres and came to Roome where courting his mistresse not with wanton poemes but with tearmes of marriage hee f●und hir froward and his loue dasht in the prime The impression of hir beauty grauen with too déepe a caracter was too fast rooted in his heart to be thrust out with deniall yet Lentulus to content hir plaies like the phenix burnes in his owne parfumes rather wishing to die then to contrary hir resolution This is the cause that first brought Lentulus to his bedde and this ere long will bring him to his graue And who may it be quoth Flaminius of what family of what beauty of what degrée that can or dare deny Lorde Lentulus Is he not mighty and may commaund by force what he cannot obtaine by intreaty will not the souldiers at his becke rise in armes Feare not the Consuls themselues to wrong Lentulus Doth not all Roome hang their thoughts at his lookes Ah miserable father that harbours such a daughter and stubborne huswife that denies so braue a Romaine In friendship Tully tell me who it is Cicero willing to put a spurre to a frée horse and to loose his owne content to winne his friendes quiet told him flatly it was his daughter Terentia and for proofe he shewed him the letters that past betwixt Lentulus and hir Assoone as hir father had read the contents as a man half mad he fel into furious and frantick tearmes exclaiming against the headstrong humour of foolish Terentia After he had breathd out the heat of his choller he fell to be somewhat appeased and bad Tully home to supper promising all shoulde sort according vnto Lentulus minde With that departing from the Capitoll Tully and he went home to his house where the Cooke being somewhat slacke Flaminius hearing his daughter was all alone in the garden he wished Tully to try hir once againe and to perswade hir by all possible means to graunt to the request of Lentulus Upon this Tully went into the garden where finding Terentia sitting solitary in an arbour vp to the hard eares in a dumpe he wakened hir out of hir muse thus Vestas chiefe paragon and Venus newe interteined darling you madam Terentia I meane that sit in a muse are you offring orisons to Diana for your chastity or thanks to Cupid for your loues or what are you thinking on when you thinke on nothing Terentia turning hir head and séeing Tully all alone blusht more then Cynthia did when shée wantond it with hir faire faced shepheard yet welcomming hir loue with a smile shée tooke him by the hand and made him this answere Your subtile salutation concluding Vesta and Venus in one Dilemma commands me answere that I was dooing my deuotion to both offring prayers for my olde thoughts thanks for my newe loues scarce had I saide gramercy to the goddesse but you must come Cicero to make my thanks prodigious for my thinking when I thought of nothing it was of mens loues which are lighter then the flame and sooner faded then a flash of lightning But I pray you say what winde hath driuen you into this coast Marry madame the very sighes that fly from Lentulus breast grewe to so great a storme that I was blowne hither to séeke shelter for the tempest You haue nothing quoth Terentia but Lentulus in your mouth I pray you say how fares the gentleman Ill madame quoth Tully euery way for his dyet is badde in that his stomacke