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A02120	Greenes Orpharion VVherin is discouered a musicall concorde of pleasant histories, many sweet moodes graced vvith such harmonius discords, as agreeing in a delightfull closse, they sound both pleasure and profit to the eare. Heerein also as in a diateheron, the branches of vertue, ascending and descending by degrees: are covnited in the glorious praise of women-kind. VVith diuers tragicall and comicall histories presented by Orpheus and Arion, beeing as full of profit as of pleasure. Robertus Greene, in Artibus Magister.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1599 (1599)	STC 12260; ESTC S103410	40,070	64

resting in this estimation with the King preferment was no meanes to quiet his minde for loue had wounded so deepe as honour by no meanes might remedy that as the Elephants can hardly bee haled from the sight of the Wast or the Roe buck from gazing at red cloth so there was no obiect that could so much allure the wauering eyes of this Thracian called Acestes as the surpassing beautie of the Princesse Lydia yea so déepely he doted that as the Camelion gorgeth herselfe with gazing into the ayre so he fedde his fancie with staring on the heauenly face of his Goddesse so long dallying in the flame that he scorcht his wings in time consumed his whole body Beeing thus passionate hauing none so familiar as he durst make hee fell thus to debate with himselfe Is it Alcestes loue that troubles thee why thou art a Souldiour sworne to armes not to Armour to incounter foes in the féelde not to courte Ladies in the Chamber Hercules had almost performed his twelue labours ere he durst find leysure to loue and thou art scarse acquainted with Mars but thou seekest to be priuate friend to Venus away fond foole to thy Speare and Shielde manage thy horse though héere in a peaceable Countrey let not Bées hiue in thy Helmet rust inblaze the figure of sloath on thy Armour or loue call thee her milksoppe by whom warre it selfe hath approoued martiall hast thou forgotte that which thou suckest out of thy Nurses teate that to loue is to loose and fancie bee it neuer so charie is meere folly for loue how soeuer it bee is but a Chaos of cares and fancie though neuer so fortunate hath her crosses for if thou inioy the beauty of Venus thou shalt finde it small vantage if thou get one as nice as Minerua thou mayst put thy winnings in thine eye if as gorgious as Iuno thy account being cast thy sums will be rated with losse yea be shée chast be shée vertuous be shée curteous constant rich renowned honest honourable yet if thou be wedded to a woman thinke thou shalt finde in her sufficient vanity to counteruaile her vertue assure thy selfe neuer to liue lesse without disquiet nor die before thou haue cause to repent which Craterus the Emperour noted when wishing that some sinister misfortune might befall his foe he prayed vnto the Gods he might be married in his youth and dye without issue in his age accounting mariage by this wish farre more full of preiudice then of pleasure This yea all this Acestes thou knowest to be true but suppose it were not is there not sufficient to disswade beside seest thou not or hath fancy cast such a maske before thine eyes that thou wilt not sée that her beauty as it is excellent so it is high seated both in the dignity of her parentage the selfe conceite of her mind to be gazed at and so honored not to be reacht at and so enioyed thou séest she is little liberall of her lookes much lesse prodigall of her loue she couets rather a God then a man thē amongst men think she wil aime at the highest or sit still as she is Pride in her greatest pompe sits inthrond in her eyes and disdaine in her lookes that if she glaunce to so low as Acestes it is rather to grace him with a smile then to shew him any fauour beside fortune hath opposed her selfe to thy aspiring thoughts in that thy good will hath not yet deserued any such guerdon thy desire is farre aboue thy desert and the poore stay of a wandring Knight farre vnfitte for the Princely state of worthy Lidia But suppose she were pricked in the same veine and that Venus would friendly instill some drops of her inchaunted water to mollifie her hart yet y e Duke her Father will neither condiscend to her mind nor consent to my motion nay if he should but heare of such reckles folly as he hath wrought my promotion so hee would worke my confusion and in troth Acestes not without cause for art thou so voyde of vertue or vowde to vice as to requite his liberality with such disloyalty to returne the trust which hee reposeth in thée with such treachery Tush Loue is aboue Lord or law friend or faith where Loue buddeth no Maister is made account off no King cared for no friend feared of no duty respected but all things done according to the quality that is predominant Hast thou béene a Souldiour and dreamest thou of such doubts are the courtings of Venus more perrillous then the incounters of Mars or the deniall of a Lady worse then the daunt of a foe no Acestes be not faint harted as the North Ilands where the people Iberi dwell foster no venemous beast nor the Sea called Mare mortuum feedeth no Fish so are there no Cowards suffered to arriue at Paphos she is but a woman and therefore to be wone Then sound on the march aske not of what degrée she is but where she is these words Acestes carry emphasis and are more fit for a Souldier then for a Louer for loue is quesie and if it be ouer-strained cracketh at the first wrest enduring in this doubt he sat downe déepely ouercharged with melancholy passions that as he which eateth of the Goord Nutte loseth his memory and as the Elephant féeding on the Helytropian becommeth sleepy so Acestes fell into a drowsie kind of contemplature that to auoide such cogitations as combred his minde hee got him selfe into a Gallery which was built betweene the Turrets of the house and there sette himselfe downe as halfe in a traunce Loue that tooke pitty of this patient so fauourd him that he had not sat long in his dumps but that Lidia came thither all alone to be solitary who séeing Acestes sitting thus sadly slumbring determined for her owne recreation to be a little plesant with him and therfore awakened him thus Why how now Acestes is it your custome in Thracia to vse slumbers after meat for Phisick or is it some melancholy impression that thus amateth your sences trust me at the first I called to remembrance the picture that Zerxsis drew of Endimion lying vpon the mount of Erecinus who leaning his head on his hand his eyes shutte as one in a dreame yet had his face so bedued with distilling teares as his outward plaints did sufficiently bewray his inward passions and so Acestes in this thy solitary dump didst thou resemble Endimion both in countenance and colour that had teares fallen from thine eyes as thou wert in a traunce I had happily demaunded how Phebe had vsed thee So apalde was Acestes at this sodaine presence of Lidia that hee sat still as a man depriued of his sences till at the last gathering of his wittes together he start vp and his due reuerence done he made this answere I think Madam that melancholy is not particuler either to person or place but that being a complexion it followeth oft-times the quality