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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16813	VVits trenchmour in a conference had betwixt a scholler and an angler. Written by Nich Breton, Gentleman.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1597 (1597)	STC 3713; ESTC S104689	30,274	46

the spirit of our vnderstanding through the eye of our minde behold the light of that truth that may leade the care of our reason to the content of onr conceite I hope the best and though as a mist may dim the sight of the eye and dissembling the sence of the mind yet for that I will try before I doubt and commaund before I fauour let the patience of your discretion attend the pleasure of my employment and for all courses what soeuer fall out if I doe you good be glad not proud of it and open not your window to the Sunne when she hath power to sende her beames through the glasse and so not entertaining your seruice till I may acquaint you with my best content I pray you walke aside for this time For I sée a Gallant that I must talke with and will soone be rid of The good Knight vnwilliug by any motion of discontent to put out the fire that was now in kindling with humble thanks tooke his leaue and left his Lady to her new Louer who no sooner came neere her but obseruing all fine ceremonies with kissing his hand in putting off his hat with a Passa measure pace comming toward her swéet presence gréetes her with this salutation Faire Ladie the Quintescence of your beauties excellence hath so enflamed the spirit of my affection that except I haue fauour in your eyes my hart will surely consume to ashes and therefore if my seruice may haue acceptation in your contentment I will not be behind with my good will to execute the office of your commaund The Lady with a blushing smile at this wise Gentlemans formality made him this quicke and quipping aunswer Sir if your new coyned eloquence were not too farre out of the way of mine vnderstanding I would fit you an aunswere to your motion but since silence can best talke with woodden Rethoricke I pray you sir if you haue any thing to say to me let me plainely know your meaning Why quoth this Whippet if I should tell you I loue you and you beléeue it not if you beléeue it and yet regard it not if you regard it and yet confesse it not what shall I be the better to speake plainliar then I haue reason Well sir quoth the Lady to this aboundance of little wit if I did like to study vpon such Riddles I should perhaps trouble my selfe to finde out a fit aunswere for the cipher of reason But to tell you plaine your loue I knowe not your selfe I loue not your words I regard not and how you take it I care not But if you haue any thing to say to any other ende I will heare you as I thinke good and aunswere you as I sée cause Why then Madam quoth he to tell you plaine my Lord your Father saw you out of his window walking with Signor Felio and vpon the sodaine willed me to come for you Well sir quoth the Lady nothing dismaide at the message I am ready to attend his pleasure though I wish he had sent a fitter seruant to mine humour But to make as short tale as I may sending word by this odde Gallant that she would forth-with attend his pleasure calling to her a Gentlewoman that shee sawe sitting in an Ar●our somewhat néere vnto her taking her in her attendance away shee goes to her good Father who with a naturall kindnes dissembling his discontent in suspect of the talk had betwixt her and Don Felio with a smiling countenance entertained her with this welcome taking her by the hand and leading her into his Gallery he began in priuat thus to fall in talke with her My best girle whom aboue all the children that I haue I most estéeme in the true ioy of my hart and well woorthy for thy good caridge in all courses as well for thy dutie towards mée as thy reputation in the world I must confesse I neuer had cause to suspect thy discretion in anie cause of dislike but if a Fathers care prooue a kinde of iealousie excuse the error in aboundance of loue and tell me truth to a question that I wil put vnto thee The swéet Ladie not willing to delay her Father with long circumstance with a modest countenaunce not once altering her colour but keeping the care of her wit intreated his commaundement of her dutie who in kinde manner made her this speech I haue béene heere in my Gallary walking most part of this euening and looking out at one of these windowes I espied Don Felio all alone walking a turne or two in the long walke where hée had béene but a while when you found him in his Muses and entertained him or he you I knowe not with what conference The man is one that I loue and will be gladde to preferre to any honour that he deserueth but I pray thee tel mée what was the substance of your talke Truely Father quoth Madam Fianta for so was her name I would gladly tell it you if I might presume vpon her patience and not doubt your displeasure I will acquaint you with asmuch as I can remember The Duke expecting another matter then she deliuered with a dissembled countenaunce of promised content willed her boldlie to say her minde Then good Father quoth the Lady thus it is little thinking to find any creature in that walk whē fingling my selfe from my company I tooke my Booke of Da plisses in my hand and meant to contemplate some diuine contentations béeing néere vnto him ere I was aware and loth either to disgrace him with entreating his absence or vpon the suddaine to withdrawe my selfe from his companie in such good maner as it might well beseeme him he saluted me with this spéech Honourable Ladie I am sorry that it is my ill happe to become a trouble is your contentiue solitarines but howe dooth my good Ladie and your good Father Him quoth I in good health I left not long since and my selfe you sée not troubled with good cōpanie but what shoulde make Don Felio to chuse thys solemne place for his solace Alas Madam quoth the poore Knight I dare speake to your Ladiship who in the pitty of your vertue haue euer béene a good furtherer of all sutes of your Fathers seruants so ill hath béen my hap that after the spending of many yeeres loosing of no little blood and wasting of some part of my little substance nowe there is no vse for mée in his warres to make my aduenture vppon the enemie my yéeres growing to that height that I must before the declining of my best age put my wits to some worke for the better reléefe of my poore carkasse and maintaining of my meane estate hauing had a long sute vnto him which by the crosnesse of my backe friends I am almost now out of hope to enioy I am deuising not far hence néere vnto the Cittie in a large Orchard that I haue belonging to my house to set vp an Ape-baiting which beeing a

as ventring vppon the baite aunswers the hope of our labour Now what thinke you of this figure Trulie Sir quoth the Scholler I thinke that when wit is ledde away with humors reason may be intangled in repentance and the pleasing of the eye is such a plague to the hart that the worme of cōscience brings ignorance to destruction while in the Sea of iniquitie the deuill angleth for his dinner The Fisherman smiling at this aunswere fell to him with another péece of angling in this manner We haue quoth hée a kinde of flye made onely of silke which we make our baite for a fish called a Trowt with which wee often deceiue the foolish thing as well as with the flie it selfe Alas sir quoth the scholler this shewes but the vile course of the world where wit finding out a foole féedes his fancie with such illusions as makes him some-time loose himselfe with looking after a shadow as wordes are without substance when they are layd for easie beleeuers Well sir quoth the Angler sith you roue so neere the marke of an vnhappy meaning I will not yet trouble you with further disciphering of conceits but onely tell you a little cause of my pleasure taken in this cold exercise Before I had leysure to learne this lesson of patience to sit on a banke side and onely pleasing my conceit with the hope of my cunning to deceiue a silly creature of her comfort I saw diuers kinds of fishing in the world which though they were easily learned yet I had no minde to looke into at least for mine owne vse howsoeuer it profited other but of these were diuers sundry sorts and of diuers natures according to the Fishermen or the fish that they baited for of which kinds according to the permission of time I wil acquaint you with a few which I haue learned to forget as vnpleasing to put in practise One kind was substantiall an other metaphoricall and the third fantasticall The substantiall was fishing with the golden hooke which rich men onely layde in the deepe consciences of the couetous where they plucked vp such fauours as brought them a world of commoditie and yet I remember one more welthie then wise hauing made a hooke of a great waight which was swallowed by a wide mouth the great fish puld the no little foole into the water and eyther drowned him in the deepe or so swallowed him vp quick that he was neuer séene after in the world Alas sir quoth the Scholler this fellow was eyther too gréedy of his gaine or perswaded himselfe to be another Ionas that after three dayes hee shoulde bee cast out of the Whales belly and come to shore with a Muscle boat but hee was pittifully deceiued for by all that I can gesse of him he had but one sillable of his name and that was the last for he prooued himselfe but an Asse howsoeuer Ione fedde his humor Alas sir quoth the Angler there are many such mis-fortunes in the world a man may swallowe a Gudgin whilst he is fishing for a Pickrell leape a Whiting whilst he is looking on a Codshead Yea quoth the Scholler but that is foule play that a man should loose his stoole while he is looking for a cushion and be robd of his bread whilst he is reaching for butter Indeed qd the Angler you say true when one sits by ill neighbours hee had need looke to his skirts But leauing these Items let mee come to my first reckoning fishing for the great fish I tell you was wont to be with the golden hooke Let the Mermaids sing neuer so sweetly they make no reckoning of theyr musicke it is the golden hooke that they will onelie come vnto and without that it is but vaine to lay for a fish and catch a Frog Why I haue heard of fishes that haue been made drunke with a golden kinde of gum that after they haue but tasted it in theyr mouthes they haue turned vp theyr bellies Now for such great fishes as I speake of the very oyle of gold is of such vertue as the quintescence of halfe a million will so ouer-come the sences of thē that tast it that they will turne vp both backe and belly with the giddines of that operation Oh sir quoth the Scholler a vengeance on the deuill heere is a long tale quickly construed Iacke of both sides for a bagge of money where among the companie of the Brokers the deuill angleth for Usurers But I pray you sir on with your fishing and if you haue doone with your substantiall begin with your metaphoricall Sir quoth the Angler in truth my store of gold is so little that I care not if I speake no more of that hooke and nowe touching the metaphoricall fishing I found it onely by wit a conceited kind of hooke that is onely layd in the shallow sence of vnderstanding where kinde fooles are cosend with faire words of fine deuises as a foule Crowe to bee perswaded with eloquence that shee is beloued for her white bill till to feede a flattering humor shee leaue neuer a feather in her wing Oh quoth the Scholler I vnderstand you as hee that made faire wether with Vulcan because hee would make faire worke with Venus No no that is a foolish kind of fishing to fish for a Codshead and carry a knaues head to the market Oh brother quoth the scholler you are too plaine in your Aduerbs In truth answered the Angler it is not worthy the name of a Prouerb for euery note of experience is not a golden sentence and yet giue a foole a Cocks-combe and let euery honest man haue his right for my selfe I neuer loued to angle for credite with a shewe of more sober countenaunce then simple meaning for in truth brother and verily sister made the deuill daunce Trenchmore where hipocrisie blew the bagpipe Yea quoth the Scholler how catch you a Trowt but with a silken flye and can you better deceiue a foole then with a Taffatie face Oh sir laugh vpon euery man at the first sight make a curtsie of the old fashion say a long grace without booke find fault with long haire and great ruffes and tell youth of his folly and all imperfections of the flesh shall be excluded from the spirit Oh sir quoth the Scholler you shoulde haue set downe probatum a good medicine for a mad humor to take phisicke without an Apothicarie to bleede in a lither vaine Goe to sir quoth the Angler such fits of naturall philosophy put you from your booke and mee to mine angle but leauing these new tricks of an old daunce let vs fall again to our old galiard and touching angling say that a madde felow made a baite of a faire wench to catch a foule churle withall how many fauours might her sweete eyes plucke out of his sower hart In deede quoth the Scholler it is not a little treason in youth to catch age in a wheelebarrow especially when an Ape