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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

sundrie pleasures For his or her disposition was very strange that in that company could not finde both a Companion and sporte that pleased his humor The first Nights Pastime AMong wise men these Orders haue euermore béen obserued or allowed In the Church to bée deuoute in place of Iustice to be graue at home to be affable Deuotion and at meales to be merrie for in the Church we talk with God who séeth our hearts and hateth hypocrisie Grauitie in Iustice we sit to chasten light demenours then great were the shame that our countenances should contemne our selues At home we rule and commaund then were it Tyranny to vse seuerity there where is no resistance Affabilitit At meales to be merrie digesteth meate and refresheth the wit then is he an enemie vnto himselfe that contemneth the rule of health and the helper of knowledge Mirth Howsoeuer the thrée first precepts were obserued Segnior Philoxenus and his honourable guestes duly executed the last who in the midst of supper hearing of Doctor Mossenigos pennance hasted the execution The Doctor séeing there was no remedy openly confessed that he had praysed women against his wist for which he was condemned to 〈◊〉 Ab renuntio and to make satisfaction by some other meanes And as he thought the contrarie was the amends of euery trespasse and therefore whereas he had praysed them against his will hée was ready to desprayse them with his will Subtilty beateth true meaning with his owne sword Quéene Aurelia would haue taken exceptions to these wordes but that the company cryed The Doctor speakes Law which she could not with Iustice violate whereupon Mossenigo reported as followeth Doctor Mossenigo his Satisfaction for praysing women against his will IN the famous Citie of Vienna in Austria sometimes dwelled a simple Sadler named Borrihauder who was maried to an olde crabbed shrew called Ophella the agréement of this couple was so notable as the Emperour Charles the fift commaunded his Paynter Parmenio to drawe their counterfeits as a monument of furie Parmenio comming to doe the Emperours commaundement found Borrihauder wéeping with the agonie of his wiues stripes and Ophellas chéekes as red as fire with the heate of her tongue which straunge sight chaunged his determination into a pleasant conceipt and in place of their Counterfeits in a fayre table he drew an Element troubled with lightening and vnder writ Ophella and in another Table fastned to the same hée likewise drew an Eloment darkened with raine and vnder writ Borrihander Parmenio presented this trauell vnto the Emperour The Emperour séeing the two names and not the shape of those he commaunded to be drawne demaunded the Painters meaning herein who plesantly answered that he could not take the view of Ophellas face for feare of being fiered with the lightening of her tongue and that Borrihauder was drowned with teares which as showers of rain followed the thunderclaps of his wiues Fistes But in good time had she died this Demideuil Orphella fel so extreamely sick as in euery mans iudgement it was néedful to giue Phisick to her soule but bootelesse to bestow any of her Body Borrihauder séeing her as he thought at a good passe was so accustomed to sorrow as he determined to knole her passing bel with this counterfeit mone Ah deare God quoth he how vnhappy am I to lose my louing wife my good wife my swéete wife O howe happy were I that as we haue liued together so wee might nowe die together This pittious sound of her husband so melted the dying hart of Ophella that like a candle consumed that leaueth a little smoke in the wéeke she lay both spéechlesse and sencelesse saue that the pangs of death somtimes threw a weak breath out of her mouth but like vnto wilde fire that burneth in water the Corsiue that would haue killed the diuel in her case recouered her to health which was her husband out of feare of her life in despight of the iniurie of time past fell to kisse and coll his Maide which watched his gasping wife before hée tooke order with the Clarke to ring her knell which Ophella as dim as her sight was perceiued and Furie which was the last motion that accompanied her in life like a whirle wind that w e a sodain violence draweth things into the ayre so fired her heart with malice to sée her husband in this iollitie with her mayd as madnes gaue her the strength to crie Ah ah Traytor I am not yet dead ah villaine villaine I am not yet dead and through this passion choller so dried her Catar as shortly after she perfectly receiued her health and so canuassed her husband Borrihauder as by the motions of sorrow and payne hee hung himselfe in a Crabtrée O quoth Katherina Trista it was great dammage that Thymon of Athens was not in the towne to shew all malitious men that trée The diuell might haue p●t in their mindes to haue hanged themselues This sodaine answere of Katherina Trista tickled all the company with a laughter a good parte whereof A cunning answere taketh away the grace of a shrewd tale were ready to scandall women with a froward nature being by this example more fostered with despight then good vsage who now for feare of their owne reproch amplifted not Master Doctors tale with any other spightfull authorities For the History of Thymon of Athens dogged nature Thymon of Athens was the sworne enemy of humanitie was so well knowne to euery Gentleman as the remembrance of his name assured them that there neuer liued woman of so froward a condition neither is it possible that euer any man againe should be so great an enemy to humanitie And thereupon quoth Falerio Thymon of Athens was without heyre or successour and therefore is no able example to blame vs. Neither had Ophella for any thing wee heare either heire or successor quoth Aluisa Vechio then by your owne reason is of no authority to stander our sexe This one quip for another although more mildely handled of the Gentlewomens side according to their naturall modestie quieted either part In so much as Doctor Mossenigo humbly desired to bée receiued into the grace of women againe Nay quoth Quéene Aurelia you deserue to be euermore banished the presences of women Alas good Madame quoth he I did but your commaundement and thereupon I appeale to the report of the company Yea A dutiful subiect is bound to obey his Princes words and not linger vpon the effect but quoth she my meaning was otherwise O Madame quoth hee Subiects are bound to execute their Soueraignes wordes and are not priuiledged to interpret their charge to their owne fancie I sée well quoth Quéene Aurelia that there is no dealing with a Lawyer for they can defend their owne trespasses with the same sworde A fained frend is better then a dangerous open enemy wherewith they punish other mens offences and therefore better to haue