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Choice, chance, and change: or, Conceites in their colours
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Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?
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you to remoue your melancholy for it is not agreeable to your complexion sir quoth she it may bee you haue made me blush to think what you would say to me but if my mind be not in perfect state I can not take you for a Phisician yet for your good counsaile I thanke you and that is all the fee you must looke for Ar. The wench had some wit I perceiue by her answer Tid Wit yes at will for this was but the first blowe but see what followed Lady quoth I your fee is too greate for such a small peece of Phisicke but indeede if that I did but knowe the Nature of your disease I woulde studye for your cure and deserue a fee before I woulde take it but the mynde of sickenesse is vpon so many causes that the griefe is hard to gesse without som light from the agrieued but that known he is either vnlearned or vnlucky that can minister no coÌ„fort you say well quoth she but what if it be known to be cureles what then is any counsaile without comfort Ar. Perilous Ape I feare it will proue an Vrchin Tid Oh no t is a prety creature as you will confesse when you heare more but let me tell you my replie It may quoth I seem cureles that may haue helpe and therefore good words may do good in the nature of a good wil words quoth she are good when they are wel spoken better when they are well meant good when they are well taken and better when they are well returned but for good will it is a kind of riddle that simple wits vnderstaÌ„d not for fine wits can so equiuocate that plain meaning is much abused where the misbeliefe of good words makes the ouerthrovv of a good mind Ar. Why how now man was this a wenche Tid It was a woman at least of woman kind as fayr a damsell as I thinke liues in the world but let me tell you how I went about with my witts to meete a little with her good will Lady quoth I good will grounded vpon good cause may out of a good meaning bring forth good words which working good effect in agood mind may vpon a good consideration worke a good conclusion Beauty is a good thing to the Eie vertue to the mind these work a loue in desart which is good in reason Novv loue in reason hauing a great povver in nature may make the riddle easy to be red wher knowledge vvill not dissemble ignorance Ar. Well said wag it was well put to Tid No such matter my fortune vvas yet too far from such a figure for let me tell you her ansvver and then giue your iudgment Ar. I pray thee do Tid Why Sir quoth she I perceiue you go from one Riddle to another knovvledge to dissemble ignorance is for vvisedom to bee hid in folly vvhich is a strange construction for a weak capacity if the cause of good will be misconceiued the good words may then be displaced and so the matter mistaken the time may be but mispent Beauty is but a shadow that hath no substaÌ„ce where reason may be blinded with illusion and vertue is so far from nature that it is not seen but with the eye of grace and for Loue it is grown such a lest that it is rather laughed at then beleeued in the world therfore where you find beauty do not flatter it with vertue till you see it and for vertue do not amisse conceiue it least you wrong your self in it but where in deed you find it I can not blame you to loue it Ar. Oh vnhappy theâ—fe able to rob reason of his vnderstanding but I hope thou wouldest not leaue her so Tid I think not for thus I fell vpon a replie to blame loue were a blot in kindnes and to yeelde to reason is a bond in wit to find folly in wisedom is the searche of a deep wit and to wey words in their true worth is the proofe of good vnderstaÌ„ding but to laugh at loue is no proof of good wil If therefore the vertue of your spirit in the beauty of your eies hath drawn my hart to loue will you not be as good as your word not to blame me for dooïng well for if reason faile not my conceipte let me not mooue patience in speaking truth let not truth seeme flattery where vertue hath but her due honoure so shall the riddle be soone read whose substance is but your selfe and the passion best cured wher my humble seruice may be graced Sir quoth she I hope you wil pardon my weaknes to entertain your patience with idlenes for to answere your ArgumeÌ„ts would require a better Scholar then my learning you may iudge amisse and meane well Complexions and conditions may differ and I maie beleeue and be deceiued when wordes may want their weighte in good will Loue is a dangerous spirit and where hee is snared by any subtilty doth much hurt where he is taken If I were so well acquainted with him as you woulde seeme to bee it maye be I shoulde employe him as you woulde but to leaue ridling in reason let me tell you this as I woulde not bee vuthankfull to a straunger so would I not bee straunge to my selfe as I can commend your wit I must haue care of my will til I be able to be a frieÌ„d not to admit the entertainmeÌ„t of a seruaÌ„t therfore wheÌ„ you know my disease hoping you wil be my PhisitiaÌ„ I wil follow your counsail to be as merry as I maie hauing no better fee onely I thank you for your kindnes Lady quoth I I am sory Time admits me not with your fauour to deliuer you further my minde Let it suffice you that I am youres more then I can saye thoughe I can saie no more then that I am yours if occasion in your commaundement may make triall of my trust I will attend my desart in the hope of your regarde and so hoping that loue will bee without daunger where words carry the true weight if affection may helpe a passion let me intreat you to applye my faith to your fancy and I hope my phisick will doe you good but since neither time nor place doth fitte our further conference I praie you let me intreat you thus fâ—re to honour my fortune as to wear this ring for my sake a littie hoope of gold in which was ingraued Sic fides so is faith pure and without end which with a blushinge deniall vpon such importunity shee tooke and gaue me for a fauour to weare for her sake a little Cupid of Bugle finely wroght and written ouer his eyes in black letters Caecus sictus Amor vpon the mutuall receipte of these tokens with some little shorte congey wee parted leauing her to her old passion that I knew not or to this newe passion that I had mooued but yet founde not or to smile at my folly which I doubted not and so
CHOICE CHANCE AND CHANGE OR Conceites in their Colours Imprinted at London for Nathaniell Fosbrooke and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Churchyard at the signe of the Helmet 1606. TO THE READER IF your choise chaunce to bee good change it not if your conceit chance to chuse amisse allowe it not If it carry a good colour and the cloth be naught esteem it not but if it be good and you conceite it not change your humor but keepe your choise In briefe here are conceits of diuerse colours some in graine and none but will bide the weather but if you be in loue here is a lesson for your learning where you may find passion put to her patience wit to his whirligigge the foole to his part and the better conceite to his best corner many wild Geese flie in their owne feathers and a tame duck is a pretie fowle In som there is nothing so good but may be mended nor so ill but may bee well taken kind fellowes and honest wenches I know will not be angry and if any man be out of his wits God send him well into them againe and so hoping that good conceites will chuse the best and leaue the worst I will change kind thankes for kind acceptance and so rest as I find cause Insert these words into the beginning of the eight leafe before the end of the Booke I could be glad of your fau c. A Dialogue after a friendlie greeting vpon a sodaine meeting betweene Arnofilo and Tidero as they trauailed vpon the way betwixt Mount Ierkin and the great City at the foot of the wood in the long valley Ar. TIDERO Well met of all the men in the world I would neuer haue thoght to haue seene you in these parts why how many thousand yeeres since I saw you last Tidero Not many thousand what am I become a spirite that you wonder at mee this is as good as a good yeer on you how long haue you been away and how haue you done since yesternight is a yeere or two such a time of absence as if one should come out of his graue to maze the world with miracles I must confesse I haue beene abroade and haue seene more then I haue eaten and drunke more then hath done mee good but what of that all is well that ends well and therefore hoping that you will leaue your wondering in honest kindnesse tell me how you doe and haue done euer since I saw you Ar. Sometime well and sometime so so meate whole but Tid But where is now the old shrug at that wicked but an old mezill will haue a misers tricke if you had bin where I haue bin and endured that I haue don you would leaue your shrinking of your shoulder at the burthen of ease Ar. Why but tell me hast thou been a trauailer Tid I haue walked a little ouer the great water some ten thousand of miles and yet haue found the waye home againe Ar. And for ought I see thou art welcome home and no doubt but many of thy friends will be glad to see thee for my selfe I am glad euen with all my hart to see thee so wel Tid You are glad of your eiesight and so I think are many more that after the common fashion carrye the name of friends but Ar. Tush I praye thee leaue thy But I doubte thou hast mette with some vnkinde kindred fained friende hollowe companion cogging Rascall or dogged pesaunte that hath giuen you a dry salutation bidden you to a hūgry breakfast that you are not in full true charity with all the world But put away melancholie let the Diuell goe hang himselfe one honest man is worth a hundred beggers and for my poore state thou knowest it and such as it is take parte with it goe home with mee and staie till I bidde thee goe I protest I shall bee glad of thee and for my little wealth I had rather spend it on such a companion then leaue it to a sight of Churles for thou knowest I haue no store of Heires and therefore I pray thee bee let vs be merry and let vs liue togither Tid Why how now doe you take me for a woman that you come vpon mee with a ballad of Come liue with me and be my Loue well losse of time is but ventered ware and the gaine of repentance but the greefe of vnderstanding but I will hope the best that I haue now founde a man whose breathe is not poisoned Ar. Poisoned man God forbid but say where with all doest thou meane Tid With deceit lying dissembling in effect all one kind of poison which in these days is as cōmon among men as painting among women Ar. Fy vpon it talke not of it for my wife she I am sure vseth not the one and for my self God blesse me from the other But leaue tricks to trickers and tell me I pray thee in a word what hast thou seen in thy trauaile Tid In a word variety I can not in one word better expresse the sum of all for indeed I haue seen much much variety in that I haue seene Ar. As how I pray thee Tid I haue seene the greate water called the Sea to which compared the greatest Riuer is but a little Channell and the greatest flood except that which was in the time of Noah is but as a dish of water the taste of which water is salte and in this water liue a whole worlde of straunge fishes of which I haue seen some very great some not so great and some far lesse but as vpon the Land so in the Sea I saw the great eat vp the little a Whale would hunt a whole skull of Herings and swallow down a number of them The Porpoise would hunt the Samon and the Shad the Seale would feed vpon the Whiting but the Whale would take order with a world of small fishes and so you see vpon the land among the fowles of the ayr the Eagle vpon the Phesant or the Poulte the Faulcon vpon the Mallard or the Partridge the Hobby vpon the Larke and so still the great feede vppon the small ones so in beasts the Wolfe vpon the sheepe the dog vpon the hare the Fox vpon the Lamb the greater euer makes his pray vpon the lesse and yet as in birds and beasts so in fishes haue I obserued that the sword fish and the Dolphin will be the death of a Whale a little Iacke of a Marlin will be on the neck of a Partridge and a little dog will put downe a great Beare Ar. Yea but they can neuer do it but when they haue them at aduantage Tid That is vnderstood but they doe so how euer they catche them at it Ar. Yea they do indeed but how they do it that would be knowne Tid It is not for me to looke after for I will neyther flie into the Ayr to aske the birds nor diue into the sea to aske the fishes nor