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A03432	Certaine tragicall discourses written out of Frenche and Latin, by Geffraie Fenton, no lesse profitable then pleasaunt, and of like necessitye to al degrees that take pleasure in antiquityes or forreine reapportes; Novelle. English. Selections	Bandello, Matteo, 1485-1561.; Fenton, Geoffrey, Sir, 1539?-1608.	1567 (1567)	STC 1356.1; ESTC S101952	453,531	632

moderacion in his pleasures the tyran and morderor moued to compassion touching the cause of thin nocent and the vnthrift reclaymed to an honest staie of lif whiche makes me of opynion that this passion giuen vs by nature albeit it be an infection of it selfe yet it serues also as a contrepoison to driue out another venym according to the propertie of the Scorpion which of her selfe and in herself carieth the sting of mortal hurte and oyntmēt of spedie remedie thoccasiō of presēt death and meane to preserue life not meaning for all this to perswade that it is of necessitie we make our selues subiect altogether to this humor of good and euill disposiciō nor allow them that willingly incurr the perill of such fre ymprisonment but placinge it for this tyme amongest thinges of indifferent tolleracion because he neither seamed blind nor void of discreciō on the behalf of those whose erāples I meane to prefarr in this historie I maye boldlie aduoche that which we call affection to be a passion resembling in som respect the condicion of true amytie and yet not muche vnlike for the moste parte the generall euill whiche the Grecians ●al Philautia and we tearme by the title of loue or vaine flatterie of our selues chiefly when we see any so frently to his desiers that to satisfye the inordinat thruste or glot of his gredie appetit he forgettes hothe honor and honestie with the respect and duetie of his conscience besides what ymages of vertue curtesie or bowntiful dispocision soeuer our louers do ymagyn in theim whom they serue dymming the eyes of the worlde wyth a miste of dissembled substance as thoughe the cause of their liberall offer of seruice were deriued of an intent of honest frendshippe yet their trauailes that way concludes we se with other end for that they hunt only the chase of pleasure procedinge of the viewe of an exterior bewtie wherin their meaninge is sufficiently manifeste in the sugred oracions discourses of eloquent stile which those amarus orators seme to prefer when their mindes occupied whollie in the contemplacion of their mistresses do commit the praise of the perfection in their Ladies to the filed fordge of their fine tongue in which what other thing do they more chiefly commend then a deuyn misterie or conninge worke of nature painted with a dy of white or redd in her face A delicate tongue to dilate of matters of fancie an entysinge countenance with a grace and behauiour equal with the maiestie of a princes al which as they argewe the vanitie of him that reapose delite in such fondnes differinge altogether from the true ornamentes of the soule or pattorne wherby the perfectiō of vertue is discerned by thunfayned workes and absolute accion So dismissing this fond philosophie not cōtending greatly whether loue be a natural corrupcion or a thing perticipating with vertue we may be bold to aduouche his power to preauile in things which seame of ympossibilitie to thother passions that be common vnto vs for what thinge can be of greater force in a man then that which constrainynge an alteracion of custome and breach of that which by contynuance hath taken rote within vs doth make as it were A new body and the mynd a meare straunger to her former cogitacions which I neither inferr without cause nor menteyne this argument without great reasō for that as of al the vices which spot the lif of mā ther is none except y e excecrable syn of whoredom which makes vs soner forget god good order then the detestable exercise of vnlawful game neither are we so hardly reclaymed frō any thing as that cutthrote delite for that it is almost as possible to conuert the crueltie of a she wolffe or lyones into a present mekenes as to mortefie the desier of plaie in him which hath bene norrished and nozelled therin frō the beginning of his yeres Euen so notwithstanding the force of loue wrought such a misterie in an vnthrist of Naples that of the mo ste prodigall and ryotous spendor that hath bene noted in any age hee made a most staide and sparing gentlemā that Italy hath brought furth of many yeres since or afore his time Albeit euen vpon the point and beginning of his new fondacion beinge redie w t all to expose frutes of his happye chang frome euill to good trade he was encowntred wyth the malice of his destinies which abridged hys felicytie and life in one moment wherof you maye discerne a manifeste profe in the sequeile of the historie folowing PERILLO SVFFRETH muche for the loue of Carmosyna and marienge her in the ende vvere both tvvo striken to deathe with a thonderbolte the firste nighte of their vnfortunat mariage IT happened not long synce in the riche and populus Citie of NAPLES who norrisheth ordinarylie an infinitie of youth of all degrees that amongest the rest of the wantons broughte vpp there at that tyme there was one named Anthonio Perillo who enioyenge a libertye more then was necessarye to one of so younge yeres and greene vnderstandyng made absolute declaracion affore the race of youthe did stopp in hym what it is to passe the yeres of correction without the awe of parentes tutour or controller for his father hauyng performed his Jornaye whiche nature appointed hym in this woorlde resigned hys bodie to earthe and his goodes and possessions to his sonne who fyndyng so manye golden cotters and chestes full of treasure to assiste his prodigal and wanton dispocision forgat not ymediatly to enter into the trade of a licencius life Wherein he founde no staye nor ympedyment to his will for that the necligence of his father had lefte hym withoute the awe or authoritie of any And albeit in the life of his father he was a continuall hawnter of the Berlea or common house of vnthriftie exercises where for wante of sufficient demers to furnishe his desier with skill in casting the three deceitfull companions of blacke and white vppon a square table he was forced often tymes to forbeare to playe and learne conynge in lokyng vppon yet tyme with his owne diligence made hym so artificiall that beyng but a cryer of awme there were fewe hable to excede his sleyghte in castinge twelue affore sixe of two dyce or tooke halfe so good accomte or regarde to the course of the cardes and yet notwithstanding he was not so wel grownded in the principles of his arte but often tymes his conyng beguilyng hym he was preuented with a contrarie sleighte and onelye his purse paide the charge of the whole companye whiche was not vnmarked of some two or three of the famyliars of hys father the respect of whose frendship and vertue with sondrie argumentes of ymynent destructiō to his sonne moued theym to enter into tearmes of admonicion layinge affore him the circumstance of his sondrie faltes but chiefly reprehendinge the greate wronge he did to his owne estimacion for that the waye to atteyne to renowne

peruersd destenie Oh lyues ay framd in mould of vvretchednes And borne to vveare the vvreath of miserie From all that earst haue felt distresse He is most cursd vvose state is so opprest That in his lyfe fyndes no one daye of rest Resigne your tearmes and tunes of auncient vvoo VVho earst haue vvept in teares of equall greeff No tvvo on lyue nor all that slepe belovve More loyall vveare aye vvantinge still relieff Then vve vvhose pictures here are placd in depe And shrovvded both vvithin the fatall sheete FINIS The argument THe tragicall chaunces happeninge toth infortunate sorte of this world albeit at the firste do present a certeine bitter tast with vnsauerye disgestion yet who Syfteth theym to the quicke construinge rightly euerye cause of their commyng and vertue in operacion wil not only iudge theim necessarie for some respectes but also discerne in theim an indifferent proffit and pleasure to all degrees of present being but specially to future posterities who may learne by the view of former illes to eschewe the like harmes in theim selues And because euery thinge is appointed his peculiar season and al actes cannot agre with euery time and al places I haue deuised that as I began my histories with a comiqual discourse So I intende to knit up with a tragicomiqual reaport treating chiefly vpon the selfe same subiect which the fonde do cōmonly prefer as a speciall couerture or sheelde of their faltes Thexperience is not straunge nowe a dayes what humor of rage doth directe our fraile youth gouerned by the planet of loue and what mortall inconuenience dothe and wold springe thereupon if reason serued not in some sorte as a moderacion of our follie euen from the cradle to the ful maturitie of our age quallefyeng besides by wholsom principles the heate of our wilfull appettites wherin like as amongest all the tyranous enemies which afflicte the bodie or mynde of man he only gloriethe of force to alter our propper nature what perfection so euer it ymporte conuerting our libertie into a disposicion of seruile thraldome guided only by the reyne of his discrecion So amon the nomber of authorities heretofore alledged for the profe of the same I haue thought good to preferr an example of ourtyme happening in a gentlemā of Catalonia who declaringe in him selfe by his togreat constancie two extremyties of loue and follie hath also painted out the picture of a gentlewoman no lesse light and inconstante then loue and such as followe his loa●e be vaine seing the small vertue whiche assistes their sonde indeuor and slender commoditie growinge by their vncerteiue seruice A WONDERFVL CONstācie in Dom Diego who for the respect of Geniuera la blonde vndertoke a harde Pennance vppon the mountes pyrenei where he ledd the lyfe of an hermytt till hèe was found out by chaunce by one of hys frendes by whose helpe he recouered both fauor and mariage of hys cruell mistres VPon the confynes of Catalonia deuydinge Barcellonia and the mountes liued not lōg since an auncient Lady the wydowe and late wife of a knight of that contrey who left her only a daughter to supplie hym in succession and giue comforte to the desolacion and old yeres of her mother in whom appered rather a fonde zeale then awfull diligence in theducation of her childe for that she semed more willinge to flatter the vaine humor of her young yeres then careful to reprehend the argumentes of wanton dispocision apperinge in the younglinge who besides her curius shapp of body and lymmes with wonderful perfection of bewtie wherein nature gloreth yet of her conninge was assisted wyth so fayre a haire fallinge by deuyne arte in to crisped lockes deuidynge theym selues as it were by appointmente that the golde purifyed and tryed by the flame of the furnaise seamed but a darke metall in respecte of the glisteringe glee of her curled haire whereby shée was called of all men Geniuera la blonde not far from whose castell or place of a bode was y e dwelling of an other vertuouse wydow of noo lesse estimation for her riches large dominions then the other and of equall honour and renowme for honeste life who hauynge only the presence of a son to restore the remembrance of her deade husbande vsed no lesse care to brynge hym vpp in the discipline of euery vertue studie of good letters together with a participation in thexercise of all noble recreacions couenient for a gentleman of his condicion and calling then the faire Geniuera reapposed felicitie in the beautie of her glorious heare wherein to assiste the natural towardines of her son she sent him to Barcelonia the chefest citie of the contrey where fortune fauoured his diligence with suche dexteritie in all thynges that vppon the eyghtenth yeare of his age his perfection in learnyng with wonderfull sleyghte in exploytes of chiualrye gaue causes of shame to all gentlemen and other degrees what so euer norrished and bredd vpp in the lyke exercises whyche sturred vpp suche contentemente in the good Ladie hys mother that she knewe not with what countenance to couer the pleasure shee tooke in the felicitie of her sonne a falte familiar enoughe to a nomber of fonde menne and a vice moste common to all mothers who glorienge in the towardenes of their children do flatter theym selues with an vncerteine hope of their future vertue wherein they do indifferente wronge to their owne ymagination and aduauncement of theyr wilfull and wanton youth who blynded with vayne perswacion of creaditt of their parentes do thynke theym selues dispensed with all frome further diligence or to expose effectes of other dutie whereuppon followeth often tymes a nomber of indifferent myshappes to theym bothe with cause of equall rebuke to the one and the other and so pursewyng the queste of my hystorye it happened in the florishynge yeares of thys younge gentleman Dom Diego that Phillipp of Austriche onely heyre to hys father newlye deceased passynge thorowe Fraunce towardes Spaine to inueste hym selfe in the Seignories of hys late father gaue warnynge of hys comynge to the Citie of BARCELONIA who for their parts entred ymediatly into deuise touchinge the pompp and magnifisence wherewith they mighte do honor to the maiestie of so great a prince as y e son of the Emperour of the Romaines amongest other solemnities they dressed a riche and curious iust furnyshynge the listes onely with younge gentlemen here to fore not greatly exsperienced in the vse of armes wherof as Dom Diego was chosen chiefe of th one parte so the kyng for a more contentement to hys subiectes beynge vppon the skaffolde to iudge the loftie corage of thies younge gallandes had onely his eyes vpon the younge DIEGO with a wonderfull admiration of his force in so younge yeres arguyng an vndowted vertue with thincrease of further age to whome onelye he awarded the glorie of the féelde with protestation that in hys lyfe he hadd not séene a medly better performed seamynge rather a

such indeuor to make declaration of the dutifull zeale he bare her that she shoulde fynde hym nothing inferior to any gentilman that euer made profession of loue or other seruice to his Ladye nor haue cause any way to mislike her choise for y t he wold neuer be so rash in promise as redie to expose an effect nor she so willyng to require as he twyse diligent to parforme thuttermost of her cōmaundements she felyng her selfe clawed in y t place that ytched most replyed with a smyling countenance that ther perience of the often breache of promisse in suche as vse to court vs simple Ladyes wyth the marchandise of loue doth argue so much thincōstancye of men saith she that for my part if I sawe a present effect of true loyaltye before myne eyes yet could I hardlye he brought to repose eyther credit or assurance in any promise seing men them selues nowe a dayes are infected wyth the ayre of such fragility that they neyther respect the honestye of their word nor the vertue in parformyng the least effect of a thousand liberal offers they make at vnwares Albeit as he y t chargeth the guyltles with the offence of the murderer doth wrong to his innocencye so I haue learned that it is a speciall vertue to be persiall in opinion toward straūgers and iudge the best of euery man wherfore for your part syr if you will enlarge the offer of your fyrst faith with this addicion that I may be bold to imploye you in one spectall affaire of mine at suche time as I shall sommon you therunto I am content not onely to put you in possession of your request But also to bynd my selfe to no lesse loyaltye on your behalfe then euer appeared in any Ladye to wards her faythful seruant The captayne that would willyngly haue sacrifised hym selfe for the raunsome of her fauor stoode not to examine what charge she would enioyne him vnto but cōfirmed an assurance with sundry sorts of othes being no lesse rashe in y e promise of euel thē hastie to performe th executiō as herafter you shal heare Here was brewed the broth or preparatyue of the fatall obsequies of her former loue the earnest penny gyuē of the blodie bargayn death of Seigneur Valpergo for she by the too liberall vnhoneste vent of her honor made him the Borreau vnnatural executioner of noble blod defacinge by y e same meanes the gentrie of his house which he ought to haue preserued til the last drop of blood in his body And remaining there al that night she made him so pleasant a bāquet of delicat kysses other exercises of y e bed that the more he tasted of y e pleasure the more he thrusted with desyre to cōtinue y e sport y e subtil Cirses for her part semed so vehemēt in loue with dissimuled arguments of vnfayned affection that in persuading himselfe of the victorye of her good wyl he thought he had made a conquest of the whole easte parte of the worlde seming so drowned in the deuocion of his new Sainte charmed with the enchauntmentes of her art which peraduenture lente her some power or assistance of legierdemain to force his humor of earnest zeale that if she had sayd the worde he had made no conscience to haue committed the whole Citye of Myllan to the mercie of fyre and gunpowder lyke as Blouse de Cume was redye to put fyer into all partes of the cytie of Rome if the Sedicius Tyberyus Gracchus had geuen it hym in charge suche is the rage and frantyke folye of youth when they suffer their amarous transport to excede the caryr of reason or discression and from this fountayn haue distilled heretofore many destructions of Realmes with subuerciōs and alteracions of monarchies wherin also may be noted a maruelous corrupt and vaine disposicion in such as wyl rather affect and haunte the companye of a publike curtysan then honor the vertue of a chast lady although she were his lawful wyfe and companion of bedd and yet those gallandes wyll not sticke to Ieste and point at the maried man gouerned sometime by the sage aduice of his lawful wife wher they seme readye at the commaundemente of a strompet or arrand whoare not only to hazarde the price of their honor but also in fauoring thinstygaciō of her wickednes to make their testament vpon a skafolde layinge their heades vnder the edge of the sworde of Iustice wherin I nede not torne ouer many bokes for copy of exāples seing you may be sufficiently satisfyed wyth y e view of the folye of this bastarde of Cardonne in performinge the suggestion and malice of this mordering corntesse who seinge her captayne sufficientlye framed to the postey of her wyll thoughte it was now time to put him in remembrance of his promise and somon him to the reuenge of them that thought no more of her cōspiracyes nor traynes of treason wherin as the howre approched that her Lasciuious trade of life shoulde be enioyned to open pennance and the wrong violacion of faith to her husbād with her pernicious intentes effectes of murders receyue theire due hyre and punishment and that the rage of destenie woulde not be appeased tyll som man weare committed to execution so for a more expedicion of the fatall ende of her miserable lyfe she entised her bastard louer into a close arbor in the gardin where only y e byrdes weare witnes of their discours and brake with hym in this sorte Yf nature Sir hath gyuen to euery one a speciall care to holde the vse of lyfe moste deare with a peculyar desyer to fauor the cours of our dayes wyth so lōg a tearme as we can how much more are we bounde to embrace and be carefull of that whiche causeth vs to lyue wyth a singuler renome from amongst the rest of the baser sort of people who lyenge alwaye in watch to marke oure order of lyuing are no lesse glad to haue an occasion of slaunder then redye to impart it to all the worlde with such percialitye of vnworthie bruit y t the greater we seame in degrée the more hainous they make our offence and mortal fautes not only scarse noted but also tollerable in meaner personages wherin as we women are most incident to the awe of that malicious clymat of people both for that they Sift vs and our doings more narrolye thē the rest and because we beinge the weaker companye are not armed with sufficient force to resiste their rage so the indifferēt sorte ought not to be rashe in iudgement on their sydes nor gyue sentence of discredit or dishonesty againste vs the rather by a sinister suggestion of suche a vulgar and barbarous crewe neyther ought we to spare or feare anye sort of reuenge whiche maye aduaunce the recouerye of that wherof we are wrongfully deuested Thus much I haue inferred syr as a preamble to the request I meane to make which I take

experience of the disposition of loue and suche as he infecteth with hys frantike poyson tryenge in like sorte the difference betwene the vanities of the worlde and the contemplacion of celistiall thinges or other vertues of diuyne operacion vpon earthe openinge as it were to all degrees of mortalytie an entrey or way to come to the glorye and honor of theuerlastinge Paradise aboue to suche I saye maye I boldely appeale for confirmaciō of thauncient opynion grounded in the stomakes of men from the beginning that the bewtie and flattering behauiour of a woman is the true and natural Adamant seing that that stoane by a certeine vertue attractiue and speciall gifte by nature hath not such power to force and drawe the heauie yron vnto it as the secret misterie hydden in the eyes and face of a woman are of authoritie to sommon and steale thaffections and hartes of men which hath wrought a resolucion or thinge of most certeintie amongest a nomber of men now a dayes that such charmes and serpentine allurementes were sente a mongeste vs frome aboue aswell to tormente our pleasure as also in sōe sort to geue ease to thafflictiō of such as are vnhappelie contrybutors to that poysoned participacion wherin as we haue long marueiled why Parys forsoke the delites of Troye to become the thrall of Helene in greece what moued one Hercules to abandon his beauye mase and clubb of conquest to depende whollye vppon the commaundement of his women frende or howe Salomon abused the gifte of his wisedome to commit follie with her who only gouerned him y t guided the whole monarkye so behold I haue to encrease your wonder with a true po●rtrayte or picture of a more force in a woman and folly in a man who with out any vse of former or hope of future fauor sauinge to fullfill the fonde appetit of his folishe mistrys habandoned the vse and benefytt of his speche for thre yeres putting on by that meanes the shapp of brutalitie betwene whom and the creatures of vnderstandinge the philosophers conclude an only difference of the vse of reason and speache A case sewer no lesse notorious for the rary●tie that waye then declaringe a singuler force of nature in the subiect vpon whom shee seames to bestowe suche prehemiuence aboue all other misteries vppon earth whereof maye serue for sufficiente proofe theffeminate alteration in Hercules the decrease of strengthe in Sampson the losse of wisedom and vnderstandynge in Salomon and the simplicitie of this gentleman whose discourse foloweth THE CRVELTIE OF A Wydowe in enioyninge her woer to a pennance of thre yeres losse of his speache the foolish loyaltie in hym in performinge her commaundemente and the meane vvherby he was reuenged of her rigour ❧ AMongeste the lymytrophall townes con ynynge the borders of Pyemount no man dowtes I thinke that the Citie of THVRYN beinge thonly lanterne to geue light to al the prouinces there about for eiuill orders and integritie of conuersacion is not also a chief rampier and sewer bulwarke to her owne countrey agaynst thincurcion of enemyes neyther is it of lesse estimacion for the naturall scituacion of the place then bewtified greatly by thin dustrius endeuor of man addinge as it seames a more decoratiō of late to that towne then eyther nature or the slender deuise of men in tymes passed colde ymagyn Somewhat without the suburbes of this riche and populus Citie is planted in a pleasant valley a little village called Montcall worthie euery way to be ioyned in neighbourhead to so great a Citie being inuironed on th one side w t the fragrant ayre of the fertil feldes al to bedewed with the sondry swete smelles of thincense of Aurora on thother side with y e loftie hilles breathing from the mouth of Zephire the ayre of health to refresh in time of nede the drowsie tenants of the valley which amongest other happie influences of the heauens semed also to haue aspecial fauor of the godes to bring furth and norish the most faire verteous curtoyse ladyes y t cold be foūd in any one corner of Europe amōgest whō not withstāding there was not long since a young widow called Zilya who declyning frō y e dispositiō of y e clymat and planet of her natiuitie became so hagarde lyke and enclyned to crueltie that she semed rather to take her begining among the desertes and craggie places of Scauoye then too sucke the brestes of the delicat norsses in the pleasante champayn refreshed by the beautifull hande of Erydan sometyme called the father of ryuers and nowe termed by the title of Po whose christall channells and siluer streames deuydynge theym selues into diuers distillinge brokes do not onelye driue men into admiration but also draw theym to become neighbours to alicour of suche delite This disdainefull wydowe and enemye to all curtesie although she hadd asyet skarcely entred into the twentie and fourthe yere of her age yet she perswaded her selfe herafter to abandon vtterly the societie of man whether it were by mariage or otherwaies aduowing to spende the remeynder of her yeres in singlenes of lyfe a resolucion truly bothe godly and commendable yf the tiklishe motions of the fraile fleshe woulde be contente to obey the wholsome exhortacions of the sprite But whereas our declynyng bodyes pampred in all delicacye together with the vnruly appetites ragynge after wilfull desier doo seme to quarrell with our chastetie and vanquishe all resistance the councell of thapostell is to bée followed who willes that we marie in christe to auoyed the daunger of the sowle and common slaunder of the world she also after she had alredie performed the due debte of her dutie to the deade bodye of her husbande whome she accompayned to the graue with abundance of teares and other funerall dule soughte not accordyng to the trade of young wydowes now adayes lefte without controlmente to abuse the benefitte of her libertie or dispose the tyme of her widowehead in other exercise then in augmentacion of the patrimonye lefte to her litle sonne and enryche her selfe by the trauell of her owne handes wherein shée became soo conetouse and gredie of gayne that cuttynge of her ydle traine of loyterers haunting commenly the houses of great men she onely reserued suche for the necessarye members of her houshold as with the sweate of their browes refused not the toile of any honest trauel neither made she consciēce to trade vp the delicate trowpe of gentlewomen attendinge vpon her in thaffaires of house keping and other honest exercises of the hande to whom she was alwayes a cōpaniō her selfe thinking nothing so well don as that which passed in the presence of her eye or with thassistance of her owne hande wherin certeynly her vertue was no lesse meritorius then her endeuour commendable For the office of a mother or mystres of families consistes not only in kepyng her seruantes to continuall trauaile or taking accompte of their doings and daies labour