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cause_n	lord_n	love_n	love_v	2,989	5	6.7075	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

hir fauors Well hast thou not then Terentia a noble gentleman of Rome Lord Lentulus to bee thy husbande a man whose youth is filled with honours and whose spring time ●●orisheth dignities hath he not triumpht ouer the Parthians in conquest boūd fortune to his temples with wreathes of victorie Is not his parentage one of the greatest families in Rome Is he not for beautie like the fayre Gréekes Paramour For wisedome like wise Vlisses that Cyrces could not inchant For courage Hector Aud of such reuenewes as may maintaine thee with the most gorgeous dames of Italie But the chiefe of his graces is he not enamored of Terentia and sues for hir fauour This I confesse Sed deteriora sequor Loue ah that foolish passion which we tearme loue allowes nothing excellent but what it likes It shadowed begarie in Crates For Hipsycratea thought him rich in that he was vertuous deformitie in Vulcan for Venus would not beléeue hee had a poult foote Loue hath no lacke and lesse reason yet must I loue and whome ah Tullie swéete Tullie from whose mouth flows melodie more inchaunting then the Syrens on whose lips the muses make a newe Parnassus in whose thoughts rest Platos diuine spirites and in whose heade is contayned the subtil● witte of Aristotle Is not hee as glorious in Rome for his eloquence as thou for thy beauties Doth not the Senators wounder at his learning as at thy perfection Why should not then both our singularities be lincked in the vnion of Loue why shoulde not Terentia liue to Tullie and Tullie to Terentia Ah but he is base the first of his kyn that tasted of honour I but he is vertuous and famous for his eloquence graces that counteruaile the meanesse of his parentes I sée loue hath reasons béeing out of reason still to argue against reason therfore without further pro contra in mine owne passions I wil loue Tullie therfore thus to Lentulus With that taking vp hir penne she wrote him this aunswere Terentia to Lentulus health WHen I red Lorde Lentulus thy letters and spied thy loues I blusht at mine owne thoughtes and sorrowed at thy fortunes I serch not the cause of thy loue for it sufficeth to me thou doest loue if it lay in me either to graunt thy desire or satisfie thy passions Thy reasons are sufficient to moue were it not my vowe and my destines direct my minde to contrary thy affections Thy honours Lentulus knockes at the closet of my heart thy victories sue for their lordes libertie thy loyaltie enters pele mele with my thoughtes and giueth a sore assault to my setled resolutiō all these put in their pleas to purchase fauour for young Lentulus But Vesta hard harted Vesta that makes hir virgings pliant to hir owue properties commaunds that I shut mine ears against such alluring Syrens I count my selfe greatly honoured with the loue of so worthie a Romayne and euer will Terentia co●et to prooue as thankfull as he affectionate onely in loue pardon me for that either I neuer meane to loue or if I doe loue my thoughtes were fixed before Lentulus came from Parthia Wade not there where the ford hath no footing barke not with the Wolues of Syria against the Moone looke not to clim● Olimpus way not at impossibilities but pacifie that with patience which thou canst not obtaine with beeing passionate If thou suest to my Father and he graunt to conclude a mariage yet shalt thou want a bride for I will first die before I violate my resolution Séeke not then by my preiudice to aime at thy owne content which be it euery way yet it shall neuer be in my loue not that I hate Lentulus but that my fortunes forbides me to loue Lentulus If thou thinkst these denials be but words of course and perswadest thy selfe that women will bee first coy and then courteous as the marble that drops of raine do pierce Thou shalt déepely deceiue thy selfe and highlie wrong me but I challenge thy promise that howsoeuer I fr●strate thy expectation thou wilt burie thy conceipte in silence In which hope gréeuing that thy showers came in Autumne I wish quiet to thy thoughts and an ende to thy loues Thine euer but in loue Terentia TErentia hauing thus ended hir letter and newe begun hir loues the one directed to Lentulus the other deuoted to Tullie she went straight to hir two friends Cornelia and Flauia shewing them the contentes of the letter Cornelia saide she was too seuere and stoicall in sending such a peremptorie aunswere to so braue a gentleman Flauia ouercharged with ioy praysed the resolution of Terentia wishing that all maides were of hir minde mis●iking that which shée most loued thinking by retreating Terentia from the chace to be mistresse of the game hir selfe Well this letter at last was sealed and deliuered to Eutrapelus who hying him fast to Tullies lodging founde Lentulus and him in secrete and serious discourse and all god wot was about Terentia Lentulus hauing receiued the letter entring with Tullie into his study read the contents No sooner had he viewed reuiewed ouer hir cruell determination but in a great extas●e of minde he cried out Dulcior est mors quam Amor. And with that flinging out of his study he fell into bitter and extreame sorrows Tully grieuing at his friendes harde fortune sought with plausible perswasions to appease his furious melancholy wishing him whatsoeuer Terentia wrote stil to thinke hir a woman that would one while thrust out fancy with a finger and straight interteine loue as a friend that either time or his constancy woulde make hir stoope to the lure of his desires Thus sought Tully to wrest him from his passions but in vaine for hir resolution confirmde with such effectuall and perswasiue determinations so quatted the conceit of his former hope that going passing melancholy to his bed he fell into an extreame feuer which aggrauated with the inward anguish of his minde grewe to be so dangerous that Asclapo the physit●on excellent at that time for his facultie iudged the disease ●o be mortall The Senatours hearing of Lentulus sickenesse sorrowed as fearing Roome by death shoulde bee depriued of such high ensuing hope his friends f●ocked to his lodging to visite him who noting the heate of the ague and the passions of his minde his sodaine starts his gash lookes and his abrupt answeres iudged the extremity of his sickenes had halfe brought him to a lunacy all séeking by counsaile to cure that which neither counsail nor medicine could mitigate Frustrate of their expectatiō they wished his weal and returned with grief Only Tully whose setled friendship no misfortune could remooue still day and night as a second Esculapius wayted vpon this perplexed patient But as the depth of his passion pierced into the center of his heart so the feuer increased that generally Roome began to sorrow so braue a warriour shoulde bee cut off in the very prime of his fortunes insomuch

this madame I speake as a familiar of Lentulus and no enemy to Terentias honour If he be a Romaine that Terentia loues let him either be more honourable more valiant more affable more excellent euery way then Lentulus nay more louing then the poore gentleman or else discarde him for a man insufficient either to tast of Terentias beauty or to be corriual with Lentulus in his loues Terentia had yéelded at this fierce assault had not loue laide an instance before hir of hir resolution For the more Tully pleaded for his friend the more was Terentia enamoured so that shée made him this answere If I knewe howe to certifie Lentulus of this dayes discourse he should highly reward you for playing so wel the Orator But I maruaile Cicero that being young and of such eloquence we heare not of your loues I feare you reach so hye that you thinke no maides in Roome honorable inough for your paramour Were I a man and had Tullies grace and his tongue I would plead for my selfe and vse one word for my friend and two for my selfe So madame quoth he shoulde men account mee a faithlesse friend and a flattering louer But leauing these suppositions madam how answere you my last reason With loue quoth shée and that is without reason for how might the gentleman to whom I finde my selfe affectionate thinke himselfe wrongd if without cause I should be inconstant Graunt I my loue to the meanest citizen a monarch shall not make conquest of my thoughts Suppose syr it were your selfe and that Terentia loued Tully coulde you brooke an other to braue you in your affections I would madame quoth Tully if it were no supposition And how then quoth Terentia if it were not Then would I quoth hee become Esculapius to Lentulus and sweare his disease shoulde not be incurable for I woulde coniure you by the rightes of loue by the sacred lawes of Venus and by the affection that were imprinted in your thoughtes to bestowe what y●u would impart vpon me to my only ioy Lord Lentulus But women cannot make loue voluntary Tush madame what cannot women doe for loue Any thing quoth Terentia but change loue Therefore concealing the party that I loue I will say and sweare Tully is my loue and so say to Lentulus With this Terentia blusht and for very griefe that Tully woulde not sée into hir thoughtes the teares stoode in hir eies which Tully spying it so prickt him to the heart that it neuer after was rased out To smooth therefore his rough methode with a fewe fine filed phrases hee salued the matter thus It is madame impossible to driue fire downeward or to make heauy things to mount Nature will not bee wrongd nor loue drawne out by constraint therfore I will leaue any more at this time to sue for Lentulus hoping the consideration of his martirdome will at length make battery into the bulwarke of your breast whereas you will sweare Tully is your l●ue you knowe madame we haue in ou● twelue tables a lawe against periury but if you vouch to grace me that title in all duty I wil rest your euer bounden seruant Why then seruant quoth shée let vs to yonder two Ladies that for want of a companion are faine to make an amarous knight of my page Flauia séeing they were halfe agréed ●earing Tully by his eloquence had perswaded Terentia waxed pale and incountred them thus What news quoth shée doth Lentulus winne or loose Neither madame quoth Tully but his cause hanges still in suspence the next court day I will end my oration and then the Iudge shall giue verdict As they were ready to haue gone forward in some pleasant prattle they espied a horseman making towards them with the greatest spéede that might bee When he came within ken Tully knew it to be Lentulus man and before he had leysure to do his message he demanded how his master did passing sicke syr quoth hee and hath sent that you be with him presently Tully who was toucht at the quicke with this newes put foote in the stirrop and mounted yet as one forgetting himselfe hee vsed these words Pardon Ladies if I passe manners and promise in leaping vp without leaue and returning in such post without your company It is for Lentulus whom you all loue and therefore I hope to rest blamelesse Now madam Terentia what shall I say to Lentulus No more quoth shée then what I saide to Tullie but how concludes Tullie of his last premisses that quoth hee Terentia shall frame the argument and so with this darke Aenigma he tooke leaue of the Ladies who after his departure fell in talke of his perfections Terentia so déepely praysing the man that hir companions easilie perceiued hir loues smilde that in forsaking a flower shée light vpon a wéede Well tracing still amongst the medows they chanced into a valley most curiouslie decked with Floras delicates in which were such varietie of flowers that nature séemed there to haue planted the storehouse of hir prodigalitie Adioyning to this valley was a pleasaunt riuer and a groue that gaue a grace to Cloris excellencie delighted with the scituation of this place as they passed along they met●e a shéepheard who doing reuerence to the dames Terentia demaunded of this swaine what the name of this pleasaunt place was Madam quoth he we shéepehardes here call it the vale of Loue And why so quoth Cornelia Although madam quoth he my flocke hath no guide but my dog and now in yeaning time the wolues are verie busie yet for that I see you are Senators daughters and with all passing courteous I will shew the reason and with that leaning on his staffe the Ladies sitting downe he began thus The Sheepheardes tale NOt many yeares since here in Arpynatū dwelt a shepherdise called Phillis so famous for hir beauty that the Senators sonnes which you cal Pretextati not only came to féed their eyes with hir fauours but to satifie their fancies with hir loues in so much that she was courted of manie braue Romaine Gentlemen But shee that helde loue at the staffes end although hir parentes had left hir rich yet to banishe Cupid with labour she vouchsaft to be kéeper of hir owne flockes fearing the pride of the beautie if s●e should marrie with one of Rome would proue an enimie to hir humble thoughtes Liuing as chast as shée was inrouled for a Vestall and quoted by Diana for one of hir speciall followers hir excellencie was bruted abroad through all Italie But shee who feared to gase at starres for stumbling at stones laide hir thoughtes lowe and made choice of hir companie with countrie maydes and homely shepehards yet was hir attire rich as diuers that traueled this way tooke hir rather for a Nymphe the follower of some goddesse then a maide and daughter of a poore swaine While thus she liued ladie of the field there was in the same village one Coridon sonne to a simple shéepeharde