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A15035	Aurelia. The paragon of pleasure and princely delights contayning the seuen dayes solace (in Christmas holy-dayes) of Madona Aurelia, Queene of the Christmas pastimes, & sundry other well-courted gentlemen, and gentlewomen, in a noble gentlemans pallace. A worke most sweetely intercoursed (in ciuill and friendly disputations) with many amorous and pleasant discourses, to delight the reader: and plentifully garnished with morall notes, to make it profitable to the regarder. By G.W. Gent.; Heptameron of civill discourses	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?	1593 (1593)	STC 25338; ESTC S119821	126,076	172

ill vsed a beautie in the Chest a bondage to the minde and a blot in the soule but a couple vnited by this affection for a little Fleabiting of worldly penury suck Nectar betwéene their lips cram Manna into their Bowels possesse heauen in their harts How farre Master Doctor argueth from the opinion of ancient Philosophers and famous Schoolemen these authorities witnesseth A ioy of true loue Ouid Nigidius Samocratius Petrarke and others in their life time adored Beauty with their bookes honored her by their deaths eternized her glory But for that her vertues be diuine and Maister Doctor is soyled with slannder blasphemy and mallice he is vnworthy to be perfected with one thought of her excellency which ignorance maketh him so obstinate The yonger company began to take hart in hearing of this tale so that the Gentlewomen strengthened Bargetto with good countenances for for modesties sake they were silent and the Gentlemen succoured him with their best reasons but all this hope proued but a lightning ioy for Doctor Mossenigo double enraged partly for the check he receiued partly for the countenance the company gaue his aduersary but chéefely for to beholde a new Dye set vpon a stained matter so sharpely refuted Bargetto as he had no delight to reply nor his supporter desire to succour him Quoth he Ouid dreamed of a diuinitie in beauty but neuer tasted other then a swéete venime to procéede from her He loued Iulia Augustus daughter and enioyed her but with what fortune Sundry famous Philosophers and Poets punished for their loues Cause of rash Mariages marry he was stript of his liuing and spoyled of his liberty for her sake Nigidius an ancient Romaine and in great fauour with the people for this folly tasted of Ouids fortune which was to dye in exile Samocratius was in youth so prodigall of his Loue as in age hated of his fréends he died in prison with famine And as for frantick Petrarke I feare me Madonna Laura smiled more often in reading of his follies then he him selfe did with the swéet recompences of his fancies All these were men learned wise and in their other actions for their grauitie were admired and onely for their lightnesse in loue liue to this day defamed For your other authorities your owne remembrance of their deaths shew a vengeance sufficient for the contempt of their children But where you say Beauty Loue and Frée-choyse lade the Maried with such pleasures that they endure pouertie as a Fleabiting Indéede want will so quicken them as the husband will leap at a crust and the wife trot for her dinner But suppose the best thus maried whose loues are indifferent with patience doo indure the afflictions of Fortune their agréement is no generall warrant The greater number of these Mariages are not solemnized through equalitie of liuing The couetous Marchant with no more delight heareth the passing bell of his rich neighbour which promiseth him the first loppe of his sonnes liuing then the poore Gentleman eyeth the able heire with desire to match him perhaps with his faire proud daughter Then as pleasant baites baineth Fish as counterfeit Calles beguileth foules and as Crocodiles teares intrappeth fooles to like destruction lures are throwne to lime this gallant fréendly vsage shall intice him good wordes shall welcome him curtesie shall chéere him Beauty shall bewitch him and faire promises shall altogeather beguile him Newe vessels are apt for any liquour and yong heads empty of experience are seduced with easie subtilties to be short he shal be betrothed by cunning An vnfortunate Mariage his promise once past for that in delay is danger the Mariage must be in poste haste and the misliking at leasure but in most of these matches the sorrow beginneth before the solemnity of the Mariage endeth The father hearing of the indiscretion of his sonne galleth his hart with gréefe the mother spoyleth her eyes with teares and the fréend occupieth his tung in bemoning of his kinsemans folly There is yet a further sorrow bitter to the father and vnbeneffciall to the sonne The father that thought to bestowe his daughter with the Mariage money of his sonne is forced to diminish his inheritance for her aduauncement and by this meanes the ioy which begun in the beauty of his wife is like to ende in the beggerye of himselfe and since these vnsauery effects growe from the vertue of beauties diuinitie let Mounsier Bargetto burne in his heresie But Doctor Mossenigo will holde himselfe happie neuer to be warined by her fire Bargetto had not a woord more to say A Gentleman in his reuenge ought not to offend a ciuill company but angerly looked vpon his swoord with a countenance that promised vengeance vpon the Doctors blasphemous tung had he not béen staied with a reuerent consideration of the company In the end because Maister Doctor should not be too proud of his conquest nor Bargetto ouermuch apalled with his defeate quoth Segnior Fabritio Iudge of the controuersies in a single controuersie the argument of the one is to be allowed as truth and the cauilling of the other to be reiected as error but for that this hath béene a double contention as in defence and reproofe both of Beauty and Frée-choise of mariage Madona Isabella and I pronounce sentence with Bargetto in the behalfe of Beauty for Beauty is a blessing and if she worke euill effects in some their naughty disposition and not Beauty is to be blamed and with Doctor Mossenigo we likewise giue iudgement in reproofe of rashnes in Mariage This iudgement pleased Quéene Aurelia and the whole company who were glad that they were thus forewarned of the inconuenience of Frée-choyse in Loue which they a little fauoured but yet were moreglad of the triumph of beauty whom they all affectedly honoured Vertue commendeth heselfe and therefore quoth Quéene Aurelia good wine néed no Iuie Bush fine Marchādise are sold without a Signe and beauty is sufficienly commended by her own excellency and therefore we will spare Bargettos ready seruice vntill oportunitie present further imployment But for that your triumph shal haue his full right we licence you to tel some one historie to confirme your reasons The Doctor glad of this liberty who although he had receiued no disgrace yet he repined that he had not that whole honour of the disputation determined in his history a little more to nettle that fauourers of beauty with which intent vpō Quéen Aurelias commaundement he reported as foloweth The History in reproofe of rash Mariages reported by Doctor Mossenigo BEsides Capo Verdo in times past the capitall Citie within the kingdome of Naples sometime dwelled a forward yong Gentleman called Marco Malipiero Beauty half a Dowry in a woman the sonne heire of Caualiero Antonio Malipiero in his youth renowned for many valiant seruices This yong Gentleman in the pride of his youth became inamoured of a most faire Gentlewoman named Felice the Daughter

whose deuine beauties emblemed in humane shape dazeleth the yongest sight in Ionia Then to reuile them thus thou tirannisiest nature to demaund why I loue and serue Beautie thy question is blinde and deserueth a double answere But aye me though my eyes and loueh aue doone but what is iust Fortune hath dealt too rigourously with me to render my hart captiue to his Daughter who is the riuall of my Father what hope may I giue to my affections when possibilitie of comfort is taken away the Parents are readie to sheath their Swoords in one an others entrailes is it then like the Children shall imbrace a mutuall affection O no for though milde Venus consent that they loue wrathfull Mars will seuer their affection O cruel Warre thou art not vnproperly called the scourge of God The vengance of Warre for in thée is contained a greater vengeance then might be imagined by man thou armest the Sonne against the Father the Vnckle against the Nephewe the Subiect against his Soueraigne Thy drinke is blood thy foode the flesh of men thy fiers are flming Citties thy pleasures spoyling of Widdowes rau ishment of Virgins subuersion of Lawes and publique benefite thy Iudges Tiranny and Iniustice and where thou remainest her knowne enemy is not so dangerous as the fained fréend But why exclaime I of Warre who double Crowned Alexander with the riches of Asia and Affrica who honoured Caesar with imperiall triumphes and rewarded Hanniball for the trauailes of his life with renowne after death by whom Millions of men are registred in the life booke of Fame and through whome Phrigius giueth expectation of benefite to his Countrey comfort to his aged Father and honour to his posteritie I receiued my wound in the time of peace nay in the Temple of Diana shall I then exclaime of Peace and vpbraide Chastitie fowle fall the hart that should moue and shame woorme the tung that pronounceth such blasphemie O blessed peace thou fast chainest Treason Tiranny Murther Theft and Wrath with all disturbers of common tranquilitie and in the highest dignities placest Iustice The blessings of peace Pietie Temperance Concorde and Loue with many other Morrall vartues by whome the lewde are chastened the good are cherished and Common weales prosper and flourish O Chastitie thy diuine vertues deserue a better Trumpet then my iniurious tung thy excellency is written in the browe of Pieria And is Pieria the Deputie of Diana O yes and Phrigius the seruant of Venus too true is it then impossible they should agrée in affection yea sure O vnfortunate Phrigius through peace which receiuedst thy wound before Dianas Alter and by cruell warre art seperated from the Surgion that should cure thée These sundry conflicts Phrigius had with his bitter passions which pursued their aduātage with such thornie feares as if he had not béene suddenly succoured by the aduise and comfort of Lord Miletus a fauoured Counseller to Duke Nebeus and an assured fréend to his sonne Phrigius he had béene like to haue yéelded to dispaire Miletus was glad to sée him thus affected and sorry to beholde him so dangerously afflicted for in this loue he foresawe an end of the ancient enuie and enmitie betwéene the Citizens of Miletum and Myos whose ciuill Fraies had buried more yong men in the Féeldes then aged in the Churches and Churchyardes Therefore to confirme his affection and to comfort him with hope Lord Phrigius quoth he to blame your affection were cruelty and no sound counsell for you loue Pieria the Paragon of the worlde to discomfort you with an impossibilitie of her fauour were clean against the possibilitie of your fortune for besides that your person alluringly pleaseth your authorities commaund yea Pithes cannot but reioyce Pieria consent and all Myos desire is to solemnize this Mariage My selfe and the grauer sort of the counsell will motion the matter to the Duke your Father who I trust wil holde the affection of his sonne rather to procéede from the iustice of Diana then the iniurie of Cupid Who regarding the zelous offering● o● Pieria agreed that you should be wounded that Pieria might haue the honour to cure you in whose vertues all Ionia hopeth to be blessed Therefore to make your affection knowen in some pleasing Letter to Pieria cōmend your seruice and to deale with both your Fathers refer the care to me How swéete the smallest hope of grace is to a condemned man or the least word of comfort from the Phisition to the infirmed patient the sodaine change of Phrigius mone truely manifesteth who now began to looke chéerefully and with hope appeased his passions so that imbrasing Miletus hée committed his life to the fortune of his discretion and while his passion was quick he presented both loue seruice to Pieria in this following letter Phrigius Letter to Pieria FAire Pieria sith it is a common thing to loue and a miracle to subdue affection let it not seeme strange that I am slaue to your beautie nor wonder though I sue for grace The wounded Lyon prostrateth himselfe at the feete of a man the sicke complaineth to the Phisition and charged with more torments the louer is inforced to seeke comfort of his Mistresse To proue that I loue needeth no other testimony then the witnes of your rare perfections to giue me life is the only worke of your pittie Wherefore Madame since the vertue of your eye hath drawne away my heart as the Adamant dooth the steele I beseech you that my heartles body may so liue by your ruth as I may haue strength as well as will to doe you seruice and let it suffice for more honor of your tryumph that by the power of beautie your vertues haue atchiued a more glorious conquest then might the whole strength of Myos and which is more of a puissant enemie you haue made so perfect a friend as Phrigius shall hold himselfe in no fortune so happie as to encounter with the oportunitie to do Pieria and her fauourers seruice or their enemies damage if which amends may repaire all iniuries past I shall holde the safeconduit blessed that licensed you to enter Myletum if greater ransome be demanded it must be my life which if it be your will shall forth with bee sacrificed notwithstanding in such crueltie Dianas Temple shall be prophaned before whose Aulter I receiued my wound from the eyes of faire Pieria but holding it vnpossible that a stonie heart may be enemie to so many Graces as liue in your face I Balme my wounds with hope that I kisse your gracious hand that your answer wil returne an acceptance of seruice He whose heart waighteth on your beautie PHRIGIVS THis Letter sealed and subscribed To faire Pieria Tryumph after victorie was deliuered vnto a trustie Messenger who hauing safeconduit to passe through both the Armies in good houre arriued at Prince Pythes Pallace and in the presence of her mother other friends reuerently kissing the same deliuered Pieria