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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02151	The pleasant historie of Dorastus and Fawnia VVherein is discovered, that although by the meanes of sinister fortune, truth may be concealed; yet by time, in spight of fortune, it is manifestly revealed. ... By Robert Greene, Master of Arts in Cambridge.; Pandosto	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1636 (1636)	STC 12292; ESTC S103413	39,826	56

disdaine Fawnia thou art a Shepheardesse daughter to poore Porrus if thou rest content with this thou art like to stand if thou climb thou art like to fall The hearbe Anita growing higher then six inches becommeth a weed Nilus flowing more then twelue cubits procureth a dearth Daring affections that passe measure are cut short by time or fortune Suppresse then Fawnia those thoughts which 〈…〉 shame to expresse But ah Fawnia Loue is a Lord who will command by power and constraine by force Dorastus ah Dorastus is the man I loue the worse is thy hap and the lesse cause hast thou to hope Will Eagles catch at flyes Will Cedars stoope at Brambles Or mighty Princes looke at such homely Truls No no thinke this Dorastus disdaine is greater then thy desire He is a Prince respecting his honour Thou a beggars brat forgetting thy calling Cease then not onely to say but to thinke to loue Dorastus and dissemble thy loue Fawnia For better it were to die with griefe then to liue with shame Yet in despight of Loue I will sigh to sée if I can sigh out Loue. Fawnia some what appeasing her griefes with these pithy perswasions began after her wonted manner to walke about her sheep and to kéepe them from straying into the Corne suppressing her affection with the due consideration of her base estate and with impossibilities of her loue thinking it were frenzy not fancy to couet that which the very destinies deny her to obtaine But Dorastus was more impatient in his passions for loue so fiercely assailed him that neither company nor Musicke could mitigate his martyrdome but did rather farre the more increase his malady Shame would not let him craue counsell in this case nor feare of his fathers displeasure reueale it to any secret friend but he was faine to make a secretary of himselfe and to participate his thoughts with his owne troubled mind Lingring thus a while in doubtfull suspence at last stealing secretly from the Court without either men or Page hée went to sée if he could espie Fawnia walking abroad in the field But as one hauing a great deale more skill to retriue the Partridge with the Spaniels then to hunt aster such a strange prey he sought but was little the better Which crosse-lucke draue him into a great choller that hee began both to accuse Loue and Fortune But as hee was ready to retyre he saw Fawnia sitting all alone vnder the side of an hill making a Garland of such homely flowers as the fields did affoord This sight so reuiued his spirits that he drew high with more iudgement to make a view of her singular perfection which he found to be such as in that Countrey attyre shee stained all the Courtly Dames of Sicilia While thus he stood gazing with piercing lookes on her surpassing beauty Fawnia cast her eye aside and espyed Dorastus Which sudden sight made the poore girle to blush and to dye her christall cheekes with the vermillion red which gaue her such a grace as she seemed farre more beautifull and with that she rose vp saluting the Prince with such modest courtesies as he wondred how a Country maid could affoord such comely behauiour Dorastus repaying her courtesie with a smiling countenance began to parle with her on this manner FAire maid quoth he either your want is great or a Shepheards life is very swéet that your delight is in such country labours I cannot conceiue what pleasures you should take vnlesse you meane to imitate the Nymphs being your selfe so like a Nymph To put me out of this doubt shew me what is to be commended in a Shepheards life and what pleasures you haue to counteruaile these drudging labours Fawnia with blushing face made him this answer SIr what richer state then content or what swéeter life then quiet We Shepheards are not borne to honour nor beholding vnto beauty the lesse care wee haue to feare fame or fortune We count our attyre braue enough if warme enough and our food dainty if to suffice nature our greatest enemy is the Wolfe our onely care in safe kéeping our flocke in stead of Courtly Ditties we spend the dayes with Country songs our amorous conceits are homely thoughts delighting as much to talke of Pan and his country pranks as Ladies to tell of Venus and her wanton toyes Our toile is in shifting our folds and looking to the Lambes easie labours of sitting and telling tales homely pleasures our greatest wealth not to couet our honour not to climbe our quiet not to care Enuy looketh not so low as Shepheards Shepheards gaze not so high as ambition we are rich in that we are poore with content and proud onely in this that we haue no cause to be proud THis witty answer of Fawnia so inflamed Dorastus fancy that he commending himselfe for making so good a choyse thinking if her birth were answerable to her wit and beauty that shee were a fit mate for the most famous Prince in the world Hee therefore began to sift her more narrowly on this manner FAwnia I sée thou art content with country labours because thou knowest not Courtly pleasures I commend thy wit and pitty thy want But wilt thou leaue thy fathers Cottage and serue a Courtly mistresse Sir quoth she beggers ought not to striue against fortune nor to gaze against honour least either their fall be greater or they become blind I am borne to toyle for the Court not in the Court my nature vnfit for their nature better liue in meane degrée then in high disdaine Well said Fawnia quoth Dorastus I gesse at thy thoughts thou art in loue with some country Shepheard No sir quoth she Shepheards cannot loue that are so simple and maids may not loue that are so young Nay therefore quoth Dorastus maids must loue because they are young for Cupid is a child and Venus though old is painted with fresh colours I grant said she age may be painted with new shadowes and youth may haue imperfect affections but what art concealeth in one ignorance reuealeth in another Dorastus séeing Fawnia hold him so hard thought it was vaine so long to beate about the bush therefore he thought to haue giuen her a fresh charge but he was so preuented by certaine of his men who missing their matter came posting to seeke him séeing that he was gone forth all alone yet before they drew so nigh that they might heare their talke he vsed these spéeches Why Fawnia perhaps I loue thée and then thou must néeds yeeld for thou knowest I can command and constraine Tush Sir quoth she but not to loue for constrained loue is force not loue And know this Sir mine honesty is such as I had rather dye then be a Concubine enen vnto a King and my birth is so base as I am vnfit to be a wife vnto a poore Farmor Why then quoth he thou canst not loue Dorastus Yes said Fawnia when Dorastus becomes a Shepheard And with

where fancy forced friendship was of no force These suchlike doubtfull thoughts a long time smothering in his stomacke began at last to kindle in his minde a secret mistrust which increased by suspition grew at last to flaming iealousie that so tormented him as he could take no rest He then began to measure all their actions and misconstrue of their too priuate familiarity iudging that it was not for honest affection but for disordinate fancy so as hee began to watch them more narrowly to sée if he could get any true or certaine proofe to confirme his doubtfull suspition While thus he noted her lookes and gestures and suspected their thoughts and meanings they two silly soules who doubted nothing of thishis treacherouas intent frequented daily each others company which draue him into such a franticke passion that he began to beare a secret hate to Egistus and a lowring countenance to Bellaria who maruelling at such vnaccustomed frownes began to cast beyond the Moone and to enter into a thousand sundry thoughts which way shee should offend her husband but finding in her selfe a cleere conscience ceased to muse till such time as shee might find opportunity to demand the cause of his dumps In the meane time Pandostos mind was so farre charged with iealousie that he no longer doubted but was assured as he thought that his friend Egistus entred a wrong point in his tables and so had played him false play Whereupon desirous to reuenge so great an iniury he thought best to dissemble the grudge with a faire and friendly countenance so under the shape of a friend to shew him the tricke of a foe deuising with himselfe a long time how he might best put away Egistus without suspition of treacherous murther concluded at last to poyson him Which opinion pleasing his humour he became resolute in his determination the better to bring the matter so passe hee called to him his Cup-bearer with whom in secret he brake the matter promising him for the performance thereof ●to giue him a thousan● Crowns of yeerely reuenue His cup-bearer either being of a good conscience be willing for fashions sake to deny such a 〈◊〉 request began with great reasons to perswade Pandosto from his determinate mischiefe shewing him what an offence murther was to the gods how much vnnaturall actions did more displease the heauens then men and that causelesse cruelty did seldome or neuer escape without reuenge hée laid before his face that Egistus was his friend a King and one that was come into this Kingdome to confirme a league of perpetuall amity betwixt them that hee had and did shew him a most friendly countenance how Egistus was not onely honoured of his owne people by obedience but also loued of the Bohemians for his courtesie And that it hee now should without any iust or manifest cause poyson him it would not only be a great dishonour to his Maiesty and a meanes to sow a perpetuall enmity betwéen the Sycilians and the Bohemians but also his own subiects would repine at such trecherous cruelty These and such like perswasions of Franion for so was his cap-bearer called could no whit preuaile to diswade him from his diuellish enterprize but remaining resolute in his determination his fury so fixed with rage as it could not be appeased with reason he began with bitter taunts to take up his man and to lay before him two baits preferment and death saying that if he would poyson Egistus hée would aduance him to high dignities if he refused to doe it of an obstinate minde no torture should be too great to requite his disobedience Franion séeing that to perswade Pandosto any more was but to striue against the streame consented as soone as opportunity would giue him leaue to dispatch Egistus wherewith Pandosto remained somewhat satisfied hoping now hee should be fully reuenged of such mistrusted iniuries intending also as soone as Egistus was dead to giue his wife a sop of the same sauce and so to be rid of those which are the cause of his restlesse sorrow while thus he liued in this hope Franion being secret in his chamber began to meditate with himselfe in these termes AH Franion treason is loued of many but the traytor hated of all vniust offences may for a time escape without danger but neuer without reuenge Thou art seruant to a King and must obey at command yet Franion against law and conscience it is not good to resist a tyrant with armes nor to please an vniust King with obedience What shalt th●u doe Folly refused gold and frenzy preferment wisdome séeketh after dignity and counsell looketh for gaine Egistus is a stranger to thée and Pandosto thy Soueraigne Thou hast little cause to respect the one and oughtest to haue great care to obey the other Thinke this Franion that a pound of Gold is worth a Tunne of leade great gifts are little gods and preferment to a meane man is a whet-stone to courage There is nothing swéeter than promotion nor lighter than report care not then though most count thée a traytor so all call thée rich Dignity Franion aduanceth thy posterity and euill report can but hurt thy selfe Know this where Eagles build Faulcons may prey where Lions haunt Foxes may steale Kings are knowne to command seruants are blamelesse to consent feare not thou then to lift at Egistus Pandosto shall beare the burthen Yea but Franion conscience is a worme that euer biteth but neuer ceaseth That which is rubbed with the stone Galactities will neuer be hot Flesh dipped in the Sea Aegeum will neuer be swéete The Herbe Trigion being once bit with an Apsis neuer groweth and conscience once stained with innocent blood is alwaies tyed to a guilty remorse Preferre thy content before riches and a cleare minde before dignity so being poore thou shalt haue rich peace or else rich thou shalt enioy disquiet FRanion hauing muttered out these or such like words séeing either he must die with a cleare minde or liue with a spotted conscience hée was so cumbred with diuers cogitations that hée could take no rest vntill at last he determined to breake the matter to Egistus but fearing that the King should either suspect or heare of such matters hée concealed the deuice till opportunity would permit him to reueale it Lingring thus in doubtfull feare in an Euening he went to Egistus lodging and desirous to speake with him of certaine affaires that touched the King after all were commanded out of the Chamber Franion made manifest the whole conspiracy which Pandosto had deuised against him desiring Egistus not to account him a traytor for bewraying his Masters counsell but to thinke that hée did it for conscience hoping that although his Master inflamed with rage or incensed by some sinister reports or slanderous spéeches had imagined such causelesse mischiefe yet when time should pacifie his anger and try those tale-bearers but flattering Parasites then he would count him