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A02124	Greenes carde of fancie Wherein the folly of those carpet knights is deciphered, which guiding their course by the compass of Cupid, either dash their ship against most dangerous rocks, or else attaine the haven with pain and perill. Wherein also is described in the person of Gwydonius a cruell combate between nature and necessitie. By Robert Green, Master of Art, in Cambridge.; Gwydonius	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.; Labé, Louise, 1526?-1566. Debat de folie et d'amour.	1608 (1608)	STC 12264; ESTC S105823	97,810	154

if I speake against my selfe you may sée I am the fitter to be a Iudge because I am not partiall nor haue any respect of persons These quips Madame quoth Gvvydonius are nothing to the purpose therfore in the behalfe of my selfe and beautie thus I answere That as there is nothing that so soone procureth a man to loath as deformitie so there is nothing which sooner procureth a man to loue than beautie for the most precious stone is chosen by the most glistring hew the purest gold by the most perfect colour the best fruit by the brauest blossomes and the best conditions by the swéetest countenance so that where beautie raigneth there vertue remaineth and vnder a faire face resteth a faithfull heart Sith then beautie and bountie cannot bee parted what man is he so brutish whom the least of these will not breake or bend And whereas you condemne me of vanitie in vaunting before the victorie I saie that if Fortune had so fauoured me that I had gained the presence of my Goddesse I wold neuer haue doubted to haue obtained my desire for if shee had séene the desperate daunger which I aduentured and the fearefull perils which I passed for her sake shee could not but of conscience repaie my loue with vnfained loyaltie and my good will with trobble gaine And in troth I thinke it vnpossible that such heauenly beautie should bée eclipsed with crueltie and such perfect comelinesse bee blemisht with curious coynesse Why Gwydonius quoth she doest thou call it crueltie not to condescend to the request of euerie one that wooeth or doest thou tearme it coynesse not to yéeld to the assault of euerie flattering louer Then in my iudgment it were good for euerie woman to be both cruell and coie that by crueltie she might auoide the traine of trothlesse wooers by coynesse eschue the troupe of faithlesse sutors And so Madame quoth Valericus she should reape small comfort and lesse credit Tush Signor Valericus quoth Gwydonius it pleaseth her thus merilie to iest whereas I know she doth account more of a curteous dame than of a curious damsell and that her Ladiship so detesseth the name of crueltie that she would be loth to be thought to haue a mind deuoid of mercie And in troth to leaue these particular instances women in generall or for the most part are bountifull curteous sober chaste demure not imbrued with vice but indued with vertue so that by how much womens bodies are weaker than mens by so much their mindes are more strong and vertuous What Gwydonius quoth shee doe you thinke to be a frée man in Wales for affering a Léeke to Saint Dauie or to bring PAN into a fooles Paradise by praysing his Pipe Not so Madame quoth hee but I hope in extolling a souldiours life to haue Saint George to my friend and in giuing verdit with Venus to gaine her good will and to reape the reward that Paris had for his censure Mary sir quoth Castania if you haue no better gettings you may gaine long inough and yet liue by the losse for in obtaining one friend you shall reape two foes as Paris did who was more plagued by Pallas and Luno than pleasured by flattering Venus And yet Madame quoth hée his mishap shall not make mée to beware for if Venus would grant me but one Lady in the world whom most intirely I loue I would neyther respect Pallas luno nor Diana her selfe were shee neuer so despitefull Yes but you would quoth shée if she pinched you but with Acteons plague to pester your head with as many horns as a Hart It would cause you coniecture your new mistresse were too much giuen to the game or that you were come from Cornet●o by descent Tush Madame quoth hée doe you count Acteons hap such a great harme she onely sight in séeing Diana naked was a recompence for all his insuing sorrowes and if my selfe might inioy my wish and obtaine the heauenly dame that so heartily I desire the plague of Acteon nay the griping griefes the ghostly spirites doe suffer should not counteruaile the ioy I should conceiue in inioying so péerlesse a iewell Truly quoth Thersandro thou art worthy Gwydonius to bée a Chapman that thou bidst so well for thy chaffer and in my mind shee is not in Alexandria who for her beautie is so to bee loued or at the least would déeme thee not worthy to be liked But leauing these amorous discourses let vs hie vs in hast to the Court least in tarying Orlanio misse vs and so we bée shent The company obeyi●● the minde of Thersandro passed as spéedily as might be to the Palace were being arriued they departed euery man to his own lodging Castania had no sooner conuried her selfe closely into her chamber but her mind was moued with a thousand sundry motions and she felt such a cruell conflict in her happelesse heart by the assault of diuers contrary passions that how stoutly soeuer shée defended the walls shée found her force too weake to resist the rage of so recklesse a tyrant Nowe the prayers Valericus powred forth came to effect nowe Venus meant to be reuenged for the cruelty she vsed to hir valiant captaine Valericus who so valiantly had fought vnder the flagge of affection yet could by no meanes preuaile For Castania hearing the sugred eloquence which so swéetly flowed from the sappie wit of Gwydonius framing in her fancie the form of his face and printing in her heart the perfection of his person was so intangled in the snares of loue as she could by no reason redresse her miserie but wil she nil she fell into these bitter complaints ALas witlesse wretch quoth shée that I am what flry flames of fancie doo frie within mée VVhat desire what lust what hope what trust what care what despair what feare what furie That to be pained with these perplexed passions to me that neuer felt the force of them before is no lesse dolour than death it self be it neuer so direfull O gods where are now become those lofty lookes I vsed to Valericus Where is the disdainfull dealings the coy countenances the curious congies the causelesse cruelty yea the hard heart which so rigorously reiected the loue of him which so intirely liked mée Coulde I fond foole that I am valiantly withstand the assaultes of a worthie Gentleman and shall I cowardly yeeld to an vnknowne stranger Did I loath him whose parentage was little inferiour to mine and shall I loue another of base and vile birth Did I disdaine to looke at the lure and shall I now stoope without stall come without call yea and to such an emptie fist O lawlesse Loue O witlesse will O fancie fraught full of frenzie and furie Alas if I should be so carelesse as to consent to this frantike toie what will they say that praised me for my vertue Will they not as fast dispraise me for my vanitie Will not my father fret my kinsfolkes crie out

things are not made of one mould so all men are not of one minde as the Serpentine powder is quickly kindled and quickly out so the Salamander stone once set on fire can neuer bee quenched as the soft ware is apt to receiue euerie impression so the hard metall neuer changeth form without melting Iason was neuer so tr●uthlesse as Troylus was trustie Paris was neuer more fickle then Pyramus was faithfull Aeneas was neuer so light as Leander was faithfull And sure Madame I call the gods to witnesse I speake without faining that sith your beautie and vertue eyther by fate or for time is so déeply shrined in my heart if it please you to accept mée for your slaue or seruant and admit mée so farre into your fauour as that I may fréely enioie the sight of your sweet face and féed my fancie in the contemplation of your beautie in liewe therof I will repaie such dutifull seruice as the betrothed faith of Erasta to his Persida shall not compare with the loue of Valericus and Castania CAstania hearing these perplexed passions proceed from wofull Valericus pricked forwarde to take some remorse of his torments felt within her minde a carefull conflict betwéen fancie and the fates loue the destinies fancy perswaded her to take pittie of his paines the fates forced her to giue him the repulse loue wisht her to return his goodwil with gaine the destinies draue her to deny his request tossed thus with contrary cogitations at last she burst forth into these doubtfull spéeches VAlericus as I am not altogether to reward thy good-will with hate so I cannot repaie it with loue because fancie denies me to like to marry I meane not to retaine seruants I may not Marie to let thee eyther to loue or looke take this for an answere I neyther can nor will And with that shée went her way leauing Valericus greatly daunted with this doubtfull answere with feare and hope so fiercely assayled that being left alone he began thus to consider of his amorous conceits IF euer wofull creature had cause to complain his wofull ease then vndoubtedly may I preace for the formost place for there is no sorrow more sower no torment more terrible no grief more grieuous no heauinesse more hurtfull than to haue desire requited with despight and good will with hate then to like vpon hope of curtesse and to finde nothing but hate and hellish crueltie Alas poore Valericus is thy true loue thus triflingly accounted of is this the guerdon for thy good will Deoth thy deepe desire merite no better desert then hast thou no choice but eyther to dye desperately or else to liue loathsomly Why fond foole doest thou count her cruell that at the first giues not a frée consent Doest thou think her coie that commeth not at the first call wouldest thou haue the match made at the first motion She that is wonne with a word will bee lost with a winde the Hawke that bates at euery cast of the Lure will neuer bee stedfast on the stonde the woman that frameth her will to euery wish will proue but a wilde wanten No no Valericus let not her denials daunt thée let not the sower taste of her talke quat thy queaste stomacke conster all things at the best though her censure was very seuere yet shee knit vp her talke with a curteous close The hound which at the first default giueth ouer the chase is called but a curre The Knight that finding the first encounter combersom giueth ouer the quest is counted but a coward and the louer that at the first denyall is daunted with despayre is neyther worthy to obtaine his desire nor to enioy his desert And with that he flung out of his Chamber both to auoid the melancholy which tormented his minde and sée if he could haue a sight of his goddesse But Castania altogether vnwilling to parle with her new patient kept herselfe out of his sight which Valericus espying was no whit amazed but like a valiant souldiour gaue the fort a fresh assault with a new kinde of batterie séeking to obtaine that with writing which he could not gaine with words and therefore spéedily framed a letter to this effect Seignor Valericus to the Lady Castania health THere is no creature Madame Castania so bereaued of reason or depriued of sense which being oppressed with direfull calamities findeth not by méere instinct of nature a present medicine for his maladie man onely excepted who by reason of this want may iustly accuse the iniurious gods of iniustice The Tiger though neuer so deadly wounded tasteth the roote of Tamariske and is presently cured The Deare being strooken though neuer so déep féedeth on the hearb Dictamnum and forthwith is bealed the Lyon salueth his sicknesse by eating the Sea Woolfe and the Vnicorne recouereth his health by swallowing vp the buds of a Date trée But man being crossed with care or oppressed with griefe pinched with fancie or perplexed with loue findeth no hearbe so wholesome nor medicine so milde no plaister so perfect nor no salue so soueraigne which by their secrete vertues can appease his passions Which Madame I know by proofe now speak by experience for your diuine beautie and secret vertue the perfection of your bodie and the bountie of your minde hath kindled such a flaming fire in my haplesse heart that by no meanes it may be quenched but will turne my body into drie earth and cinders vnlesse by the droppes of your pittie it bee spéedily redressed Then Madame sith your beautie is my bale let it be my blisse since it hath wrought my woe let it worke my weale and let not my faithfull seruice and loyall loue be recompenced with such rigerous refusals Striue not for my life since you haue my libertie séeke not my death since you are the Saint to whom I offer vp my deuotion But good Madame let the swéete Balme of your beneuolence salue the sore which so painfully afflicteth my carefull conscience and with the deawe of your grace redéeme him from most hellish miserie whose life and death standeth in your answere which I hope shall be such as belongeth to the desert of my loue and the shew of your beautie Yours if he be Don Valericus Valericus hauing thus finished his Letter sent it with as much spéede as might be by his Page to Castania who finding her at conuenient leasure with most reuerent dutie deliuered it Castania at the first sight coniecturing the contents with scornful looks and disdainfull countenance vnripped the seales where séeing and reading his déep deuotion shee perceiued that his affection was no lesse in déede than he professed in word she notwithstanding would take no remorse of his torment but to driue him more into dolefull dumpes she returned him this damp Castania to Signior Valericus AS it is impossible Signor Valericus to straine moist licour out of the drie flint to procure slaming heate in that which

that he may by forewarning prenent perils if it bee possible or if by sinister fortune hee cannot esehew them yet hée may beare the Crosse with more patience and lesse griefe Keepe this King Gwydonius carefully that thou mayest shew thy selfe to respect thy owne case and regard my counsaile and in so dooing thou shalt please me and pleasure thy selfe CLerophontes hauing thus ended his discourse embracing his sonne with fatherly affection and giuing him his blessing went secretly into his Chamber the more to couer his griefe which hée conceiued for his sonnes departure vnwilling his sonne should perceiue by his sorrow how vnfeinedly he both liked and loued him VVEll Gwydonius hauing taken his leaue of his Father furnished both with counsaile and coine with aduise of wisedome and ayde of wealth passed on his iourney very solemnly vntill hee was past the boundes of his Fathers Dukedome and then as merry as might be he trauelled by the space of seauen weekes without anie residence vntill he came to a Cittie called Barutta where whether hee were delighted with the situation of the place or deluded with the perswasion of some Parasiticall persons hée securely settled himselfe by the space of a whole yeare in which time he so carelesly floated in the seas of voluptuousnesse and so recklesly raunged in licentious and lawelesse libertie thinking himselfe a peasant if he were not prodigall counting nothing comely if not costly nothing seemely if not sumptuogs vsing such monstrons excesse in all his actions that the Citizens of Barutta noted him for a myrrour of immoderate life and a very patterne of witlesse prodigalitie yea his excessiue expences daily so mercased that mines of gold had not bin sufficient to maintaine his pompons magnificence insomuch that the Magistrate of Barutta not only maruelled where hee had coine to counteruaile his expenses but also began to suspect him eyther for some skilfull Alcumist or that he had some large commission to take vp those purles that fell into lapse for want of sufficient defence whervpon béeing called before the Magistrates and strictly examined what trade hee vsed why he stayed so long in the Citie and how hee was able to maintaine so princely a port as he carried Gwydonius vnwilling to haue them priuie to his parentage began to coine a scuse yet not so cunningly but hee was trapt in his own talk and so cast in prison where he lay clogged with care and deuoid of comfort hauing not so much as one trustie friend amongst all those trothlesse flatterers which in prosperitie had so frequented his companie the ingratitude of whom so perplered his molested mind as surcharged with sorrow he burst forth into these tearms ALas quoth hee now haue I bought that by haplesse experience which if I had béen wise I might haue got by happy counsell Now am I taught that with pain and peril which if selfeloue had not besotted my senses I might haue learned with profit and pleasure that in the fairest Sandes is most ficklenesse out of the brauest Blossome most commonly springeth the worst fruite that the finest floure seldome hath the best smell that the most glistering stone hath oftentimes the least vertue and that in the greatest shew of good will lyes oft times the smallest effect of friendship in most flatterie least faith in the fairest face the falsest heart in the smoothest tale the smallest truth in the swéetest gloses most lower ingratitude Yea I sée now quoth he that in trust lies treason that fair words make fools fain and that the state of these fained friends are like to the Marie-gold which as long as the Sunne shineth openeth her leaues but with the least cloud beginneth to close like the Violets in America which in sommer yéeld an odoriferous smell and in winter a most pestilent fauour so these Parasites in prosperitie professe most but in aduersitie performe least when Fortune fauoureth they laugh when shee frowneth they lowre at eueryfull sea they flourish but at euery dead Neape they fade like to the fish Palerna which being perfectly white in the calme yet turneth passing black at euery storm to the trées in that desarts of Affrica that flourish but while the South winde bleweth or to the Celedonie stone which retaineth his vertue no longer than it is rubbed with gold Sith then Gwydonius quoth hée thou findes such falsehood in friendship and such faithlesse déedes in such paynted spéeches shake off these fawning curs with the flag of defiance and from henceforth trie ere thou trust I but quoth he it is too late to apply the salue when the sore is incurable to crie alarum when the Citie is ouerrunne to séeke for couert when the storme is past and to take héede of such flattering mates when alreadie thou art deceiued by such fawning merchaunts now thou wilt crie Cave when thy coin is consumed and beware when thy wealth is wracked when thou hast nothing wherof to take charge thou wilt be charie and when follie hath alreadie giuen thee a mate thou wilt by wisedome séeke to auoide the check but now thou tryest it true that thy father foretolde thee that so long thou wouldest be carelesse as at last repentance would pull thee by the sléeue and then Had I wist would come too late Well Gwydonius sith that which is once past can neuer be recalled againe if thou hast by folly made a fault séek by wisedome to make amendes and heap not care vppon care nor adde not griefe to sorrowe by these pitifull complaintes but chéere vp thy selfe and take heart at grasse for the ende of woe is the beginning of weale and after miserie alwaies insueth most happie felicity Gwydonius hauing thus dolorously discoursed with himselfe remained not aboue ten dayes in prison but that the Senate taking pittie of his case and séeing no accusations were inferred against him set him frée from his purgatory and gaue him good counsel that hereafter hée should beware by such witlesse prodigalitie to incurre such suspicion Theseus neuer triumphed more after he had escaped the danger of the perillous Labyrinth than poore Gwydonius did when he was set frée from this pernitious Limbo now the bitternesse of bondage made his fréedome séeme farre more sweete and his danger so happily escaped caused his deliuery séem farre more delightfull Yet he conceiued such discurtesie against the Citizens for repaying his liberal good will with such loathsome ingratitude that the next morning he departed frō Barutta not stored with too much mony for molesting his minde nor ouercharged with coine for cumbering his cōscience with too much care but hauing remaining of all his treasure onely that ring which his father gaue him trauelled very solemnely toward Alexandria Where at that time ther raigned a certaine Duke named Orlanio who was so famous and fortunate for the peaceable gouernment of his Dukedome administering iustice with such sinceritie and yet tempering the extreamitie of the law with such lenitie as hee both gayned the

which of all other inward sores requireth greatest secrecie yet vndoubtedly the more it is discouered the sooner it is cured For as the stone of Armenia being couered with Sand burneth most extreamely and no sooner taketh aire but it cooleth so the firie flames of loue raked vp in silence fry most suriously but being by discourse disclosed they soone conuert from flame to fume and smoke Wherfore good Castania impart vnto mée the matter which doth import thée so néere and I sweare vnto thee by the sacred rites of Ceres which is so honoured in Alexandria that if thou doest loue where thy friends doe not like and thy wish be contrary to their will yet I will sake all meanes possible to redresse thy sorrowe Alas good Madame rather than you should thinke mee so incredulous or suspicious as not to beléeue your oath or doubt of your secret dealing I will without delay make you priuy to the cause of my paine what perill soeuer I incurre by reuealing it So it is Melytta that the perfection of Gwydonius his exquisite qualities excellent vertues haue so fiercely assaulted the fort of my fancy as I am perforce constrained to resigne my liberty captiue vnto his curtesie to make his person the prison of my heart This lucklesse vnlikely loue Madam is the cause of my care the sum of my sorrow this frantike affection hath driuen my drooping heart to shew forth these drousie leekes this is it which hath made me an enemy to myselfe a foe to all good company and to delight in nothing but sorrow and solitarinesse yea this is the sore which if in time it be not salued will preuent by death all other miseries And is this quoth Melytta the pain that so greatly perplexeth you Is this the care that so cumbers your conscience Is this the danger which driues you into such déepe distresse Do you think so superstitiously of Gwydonius or so abiectly of your selfe that you déem this matter impossible to be brought to passe no no doubt not Castania I my selfe dare absolutely promise thee that thy loue shall sort to such happie successe as thou thy selfe doest séeke for And with that Melytta stayed by a sodaine sight she had of that Saint that Castania so hartily serued for Gwydonius was entring in at the chamber deere with a dish of delicates which Orlanio hearing his Daughter was so sick had sent her Melytta séeing that Cupid began to sauor the cause of his Clients in giuing them such fit opportunitie to discouer their cares went her waie leauing Gwydonius the first man to play his part in this tragicall comedy who séeing his goddesse thus surprised with sicknesse was so gallen with griefe so pinched with hellish passions and so tortured with extreame torments that his colour began to change he fetcht a déep sigh or two which Castania hearing she perceiued without touching his pulses the cause of these his sodain passions In fine such melancholike motions so amazed his minde that he was almost mute in his message yet at length incouraging himselfe hée presented it vnto her in this wise Madame quoth he the Duke your Father hearing of your sodaine sicknesse in token of his fatherly affection amongst all his dainties hath sent you this dish which hee thinks most méet for your diet wishing your Ladiship to let no doubtfull motions distresse your minde nor no carefull thoughts cumber your conscience for you shall lacks nothing if you reueale to him your want which either your will or wish can desire And truly Madame to manifest my willing duety if the praiers of a poore Gentleman may be heard of the heauenly Gods I wish that before you taste of this feede it may turne to Nectar whereby not only your sicknesse should be salued but your diuine beautie and vertue according to desert should be crowned with immortalitie Castania perceiuing with what fernent affection Gwydonius vttered those wordes began to chéere vp her selfe in hope that her good will should not be repaied with ingratitude taking therefore the present at his handes and liking it neuer the worse for his sake that brought it she returned him this replie Gwydonius quoth she as I haue cause most reuerently to accept of my fathers louing curtesie and to repay his naturall affection with most dutifull obedience so I haue cause to thanke thee for thy paines and to thinke well of thée for thy wish promising in recompence of thy good wil if in any respect I may pleasure thee to séeke and sue to my father for preferment Madame I account the performance of my message no paine but pleasure and I thinke my selfe as much honored by this office thrice more happy than if I should in Ganimedes place present that cup to Iupiter But Madame sith that to stop the streame is to make the floud flow more fiercelie to represse the fire is to make it flame more furiously and to restraine the force of loue is to kindle a greater flame least too long delaie should bréede too great daunger and by concealing my sorrow I should make the sore incurable I thought good either presently to heare the curteous sentence of my life or the cruell doome of my death So it is Madame that too long gazing vppon the beames of your heauenly beautie and too narrowly construing ouer your vertuous conditions I remaine so caught in the snare of your bountie and so thralled in the thréede of your vertue that the staie of my life hangeth in your hands either to driue mee downe to hellish miscrie or to boist mee vp to heauenly felicity For although I haue not heretofore by dutifull seruice made manifest the loyaltie of my loue yet since I first framed in my fancie as in a mirrour the shape of your surpassing beautie my heart hath béene crossed with such cruell Camizados for your sake as if with the Target of hope I had not wi●hst stood the furious force of such raging furies I had by despaire béene dashed against most dangerous rockes Sith then Madame the sight of your swéete face hath fast fettered my fancie in the links of loue so as without your means I can neither be redressed nor released I humbly desire you neither to resist the motion of my well meaning nor to reiect the deuotion of my good will but to accept your poore Gwydonius as a faithfull seruant Castania hearing diligentlie the faithfull discourse of distressed Gwydonius perceiuing by his sighs the pinching sorrow of his thoughts and séeing him so fast fettered in follie on a sodaine to giue her the slip had that shee desired and now her louing lookes were turned to lowring glances her delightfull curtesie to disdainfull coinesse and she thought to repaie the swéete meate wherewith before she fed him with most sowre sauee not that she misliked of his loue for it was the onelie thing she desired but to make him the more feruent in affection vttering these or such like