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A18509	Delectable demaundes, and pleasaunt questions, with their seuerall aunswers, in matters of loue, naturall causes, with morall and politique deuises. Newely translated out of Frenche into Englishe, this present yere of our Lorde God. 1566	Landi, Ortensio, ca. 1512-ca. 1553. Quattro libri di dubbi.; Chartier, Alain, 15th cent, attributed name.; Painter, William, 1540?-1594.	1566 (1566)	STC 5059; ESTC S119276	122,665	210

wherwith he was diseased ¶ What difference is there betwene beautie and ill fauourednesse The one geueth and increaseth the other taketh away and diminisheth the maiestie of the person which caused Pericles and Hiponax although they were two worthye personages to be despised bicause they were deformed and ill fauoured ¶ Wherfore did Bupalus and Anterinus most excellente ingrauers hange them selues by the throte Through an extreme disdaine conceued for certaine Sonettes and Iambicall verses written against them by the Poete Hiponax not without desert wherefore Plato admonisheth that in any wise we shoulde not prouoke the displeasure of Poetes and the merye Poete Horace merelye writing of Poetes hath this verse Vatum irritabile genus ¶ What moued Socrates at the age of .lxx. yeres to geue him selfe to Musicke Musicke moueth the vertues of the mind chaseth away euill thoughts and sweteneth the trauell of men ¶ What indured Lycurgus the lawe maker of Lacedemon to establish Musicke specially in the fielde His experience that Musicke made man cherfull and redie to fight lustie to supporte all disaduenture and daunger of the warre ¶ What made Achilles to be so valiaunt The obseruation of the discipline and instruction of Phoenix and Chiron For Philip of Macedon was instructed by Epaminondas Alexander through his master Aristotle Alcibiades by the diligence of Pericles and Arifron tutors left vnto him by his father Clinia although he had greatest ayde and helpe by Socrates ¶ Why were the Scithians and Thratians the most sober people of all Gretia The ignorance of vice prouoked vertue more then all the knowledge of the Grekes ¶ Shamefastnes either in man or womā what is it properly The bridle and bitte that restraineth their appetites ¶ Poesie what maner of thing is it It is the daye watche of vertue the morning foode of a redie witte the euening banquet of a well disposed minde and the midnight bel of the studious which was well experienced in the noble captaine Leonidas the Spartan who being Lieutenant generall in the warres against the Messenians neuer ceased to peruse and reade the workes and poesies of Tirteus the Poete ¶ What vices blotted the great liberalitie and pacience in aduersitie of Marcus Antonius Playe Dronkennes Surfecting and to much familiaritie with his householde seruauntes ¶ What made Iulius Caesar the first Emperour of Rome so beloued of his souldiors The not telling and counting of his Souldiors praie causing euery of them to take what he list ¶ What moued the Athenians to cause the dedes and actes of Thesius the first founder of their noble Citie to be recited which were written by Caunidias his Scholemaster hauing dayly before their ●ies the portratures and ymages of Silamon Parasius The writinges of wise men do represent vnto vs the true ymages of them of whom they be written better without all comparison then coulours or painting which haue no felinge The forme and factes of whom cannot be so well expressed ¶ What moued Polign●tus to cause at his owne costes and charges the whole warres of Troye to be painted The ardent desire he had to immortalizate his name ¶ Wherefore was Aurelius that excellente Painter in Rome counted to be infamous Bicause he mingled Hores and drabbes among the heauenly Goddesses so farre was he enamored with their Mere trix ¶ Why would not Agesillaus in any wise suffer him selfe to be counterfaited Bicause he wold leaue behind him after his death his dedes factes to serue for his ymage cōnterfaite which in very dede do more diuinely represent y e affections of the mind thē portratures of corporall Phisnogmies ¶ wherfore was Philip of Macedon estemed a mā of so litle braine Bicause he spake much and many times to small purpose ¶ Which is the most honest excercise for a Prince Reading after he hath ended his other exercises which made the Poete Homer to bring in the God Iupiter who making a feast caused the victory that folowed in Ethiopia had against the Giantes to be song in verses to Apollo Alcinous also king of the Pheacians vsed the like Quene Dido in the feast that she made to Aeneas caused Iopas vpon his Citron to singe the course of the Starres and the beginning of the world ¶ What was the cause of the greate estimation of Pirrhus King of Epirus The eloquence that he had learned of Cicneas together with the great liberalitie and magnificence that he vsed towardes them that assisted him in his enterprises ¶ Why is it so much requisite to chose a good nurse for y e child Bicause the bodie doth not onely receaue the substance of the milke but the spirites also do fele it ¶ Wherof commeth it that the Romanes did not see their children vntill they were of the age of .vii. yeres Bicause they would not that they should come home to them before they had learned to honor them The French men were more diuerse for they wold not see their childrē vntil they wer estrong to handle wepons ¶ Why did they forbid their children the company of Ruffians gesters bablers and all such Ribaldes To thintent they should not learne to geue theym selues to dishonest pleasures and to forgette the good nature wherewith they were indued which in the ende would be the destruction both of their body and soule What ought the tales and communications be that are had with children They ought to haue some semblance of truth and aboue all thinges they must not be fearefull vnto them nor supersticious ¶ Why were the pensions receued of princes abolished in many Cities Bicause there is nothing y e doth soner corrupt the person then gifts for they engender gret suspitio in thē that do receiue them Demosthenes for receuing of bribes of Arpalus king of Persia was chased out of Athenes Why were Coriolanus and Themistocles so much against their owne countrye For the ingratitude of their citizens who denied thē both their due honours Cesar also because hys country men denied him his well deserued triumphe became enemy to his country ¶ Why was Cato of many men compted a foole Bicause he rather chose voluntary death then to yelde himselfe into the hands of Cesar who sought no other thing of him but frendship and was ment to pardon him al his iniuryes past ¶ Why did Scipio take such hede of going rashlye to the skirmishe and cumbat He knewe well that by his natiuitie he was appointed to be generall of armies and not a simple souldior wherfore he behaued him selfe according to the Maiestie of that office and not like a priuate souldior ¶ Why was Demetrius reprehēded whē he desired to haue the surname of him that had broken the first ranke of his enemies The true title of a prince is rather to be iust then mightie and oughte rather to resemble God by vertue then the Lion by force ¶ Why did Plato refuse to reduce the common welth of the Cirenians into good order and discipline Bicause the abundaunce

commeth the custome that the Grekes do eate a confection made of Quinces commonly called Marmalade the first night of their mariage Bicause they feare to disease and werie their spouses at the first recountre and meting ¶ Whereof commeth it that manye be in loue with Gard●ners Their simplicitie perchaunce is the cause Or els because gardens be dedicated to Venus and those that be continually within them do sauour of Rosemarye Margerome or of some other swete herbe ¶ Howe chaunceth it that the newe maried women the first night of their mariage go so vnwillingly to bedde and do rise the next day so lustie and ioyfull That commeth of the perfection that they haue receiued of the man for then they knowe that they be women in dede ¶ Wherfore doeth agrement in loue cause thinges to please vs which otherwise should not so doe Loue of necessitie doth enflame For we seing many to pursue the thing we loue the opinion which we haue of her beautie doeth increase in vs. ¶ Why doeth a woorde many tymes more allure the harte then longe seruice Bicause seruice was not inployed to the purpose and the worde was spoken to effecte ¶ Howe commeth it that women touched vpon the Nauell be incontinent prouoked with a desire to enter the fielde There be certaine vaines in the mawe wherof the Nauell is made and the mawe is the very seate of voluptuousnes It is no meruaile then if they be moued therevnto when they be touched vpon the same ¶ What is the cause that some louers be better pleased with the Melancholike then with the liuely and lustie Louers be easelie induced to beleue that they be beloued and perceiuing their Ladies to be Melancholike and heuie they esteme that to come of the care that they do take of them and of their affaires but it maye be that it commeth of the agrement and similitude of complexion ¶ Why be riche women more geuen to loue then the poore Idlenes is the cause who is the mother of all superfluitie I leaue to speake of the delicate meates and the good wines that the riche doeth vse without hauing any griefe or vexation which troubleth their braine ¶ Why is loue most commonly painted with his eyes bound vp Bicause he blindeth poore Louers and maketh them so like vnto beastes that they cannot at all deserne the imperfections of their Ladies ¶ Whye do Louers delighte to heare amorouse histories of Loue discribed aswell by aunciente writers as the histories written by aucthours of our time By the conformitie of their passions and likelihode of their affections ¶ Why be women well content when they be told that other women be in loue as well as they Bycause theyr faulte semeth the lesse not beyng alone spotted with that vice ¶ Wherfore do stepmothers loue their sonnes in lawe and hate their doughters in lawe They hate their doughters in Lawe because they drawe all the substaunce from their sonnes and they loue their sonnes in lawe as the principall goodnes and solace of their owne doughters ¶ Why is loue better liked in the Cuntrie then in the To●● Bycause in villages there is not so great respect and for that all commodities and thinges are not to be founde there Louers be constrained to applye themselues one to another Moreouer the pleasure of gardines of hunting fyshing and other Cuntrie delightes doe moost commonly cause men to kepe themselues at home and to forgett the toyes and follies of Townes and Cities ¶ Wherof commeth it that amourouse women be more ticklishe then other Women prone to loue be delicate for the moost parte whose skinnes be lose and softe more easie to be tickled ¶ Why do women loue them moste earnestly that had their Maydenhede and men cleane contrary hate those women whō fyrst of all they embrased Women by the coniunction of the man doe gayne perfection and the man therby maketh him selfe vnperfect bicause the woman is a creature vnperfect and as the Philosophers say a creature caused not complete ¶ Why be some hard to be perswaded that they be beloued Bicause they perceiue not themselues amiable and because they know that in them there is nothing that may incite other to loue them ¶ Wherfore do Louers many tymes write to their Louers with the Ioyse of Onions or of Leamondes Bicause the thing which is written with suche ioyse should not appeare manifest except it be neare the fyre and they do so to kepe their loue secrete ¶ Why do not Louers subscribe their letters which they write to their Ladies and Paramoures The reason and cause is aboue mentioned beyng assured that yf their Loue ●ere disciphred they should haue lesse pleasure Besides this away shuld be opened for false tonges to impeach lett their mindes purposes ¶ Why do Louers write one to another amorouse sonnets in ryme rather then in prose Poetrie is the frend of Loue. And all the praise belonging to loue was alwaies more swetely songe and celebrated by Poetes then by Orators ¶ Wherfore do women so willingly beholde them selues in Glasses To contemplate and beholde their beautie to esteme the same as it is worthie Or els it procedeth of a certeine lightnes that is in them ¶ But wherfore vse they more willingly glasses of Stele then of Christall Stele is of a more sounde substaunce conforting with his glimse or reuerberation the sight more then Christall doeth ¶ Wherfore doe we present women with glasses gloues ringes chaines Iewels and pretie fannes to coole their faces or defende the same from the fyre Glasses do serue them to see their beautie fannes refresh and cole them cheynes to signifie that they be foles and had nede to be cheyned gloues to lett their handes from snatching still ready and proper to the spoyle Ringes that they may consider thende with the beginning and to thinke vpon the tyme present and to come ¶ What is thoccasion that many women haue liued chastely in their youthe and approching to age haue geuen them selues ouer to wantonnes It may be that in their youth they laboured muche for trauell is enemie to loue Or els they were so well loked vnto that they had no leasure or tyme to attempt that enterprise ¶ Wherof doeth it c●me that louing and amorouse women be geuen to bable and prate more then other If loue be not to excessife it rendreth and maketh folkes ioyfull lustie and well speaking And commonlie it semeth that heauines stoppeth the Orgaines and conduictes of the voyce contrariewise Ioye and gladnes of the harte doeth open and vnlose them ¶ What is the cause that many rapt with loue doe vpon the soudein lose this loue All they which be of hote complexion be subiect to soudeine mutations and chaunges and runne hither and thither without any reste ¶ Wherof cōmeth it that Louers lose their eating or appetite The amorouse passions doeth disparse their hartes into sundrie parts and their liuely and vitall spirites be vnproper to

fishe called Polpo which taketh his colour of the Sande where he grauelleth or groundeth him selfe ¶ Upon what reason did Homere call certaine people of Thracia halfe men and why did he saye that the house of Protesilaus was imperfecte Bicause the people of Thracia liued without women and in the house of Protesilaus there were none but men The like affirmeth Menander of the Geti or Gothos But what good can an housholder do without a woman surely in mine opinion I speake i● not to please women no more then a man can liue without meat or continue without clothing ¶ Who was the first that taught a man to liue an Actiue liue Socrates and as Cicero saieth suche life is verie agreable to God ¶ What is vertue It is an Armonie or pleasaunt accorde of Nature with other good thinges agreyng thervnto ¶ What is the chiefest goodnes according to the Philosophers opinion To fele no kinde of sorrowe as Hierom Rhodiotto saieth albeit that the Stoiques and Epicurians affirme the contrarie ¶ Why is Lycurgus amongs al y e law makers estemed the best Bicause he did obserue and kepe that which he him selfe commaunded ¶ Why did the Poetes faigne that Prudence was borne or conceiued of the braine of Iupiter To declare that witte and vnderstanding wherof Prudence doeth spring whiche causeth vs to foresee all thinges is deuine ¶ Wherfore do the Poetes faigne Philoctetes to be banished from his cuntrie and to wandre by hilles and dales dailye weping and sighing To declare that there is no sorrowe nor accident howe weightie soeuer it be which ought to induce man to violate nature or to kill himselfe ¶ Wherin consisteth true force To abide and supporte all harde thinges and not to imbase his harte in aduersitie ¶ Wherfore did the Auncientes wash before they did sacrifice To declare that all disordinate thoughtes proceding of beastly affections be displeasaunt to Godde ¶ For what reason did the auncient Romanes tearme God to be Optimum Maximum so muche to saye right good and verye great And wherfore did they place Optimum before Maximum The one Epitheton signifieth vertue and the other puissaunce or might yet vertue was alwaies preferred as the chiefest ¶ What moued Anaxagoras to giue all his goodes to his frends The more frackely to playe the parte of a Philosopher to yelde vnto heauen our true cuntrie Wherof we do take our beginning and yssue the first fructes of our mindes and sprites ¶ What was the cause that Ac●ius the Poet did make a Comedie intituled Il Cauallo Troiano in English the Troian horse A desire he hadde to reprehend those that are slowe of vnderstanding that wer ignoraunt to vse tyme before necessitie and not afterwards when 〈◊〉 fortune did succede Wherof rose the prouerbe Sero sapiunt Phryges ¶ Wherfore did the Romanes terme Fabius Maximus to be the Target of the Romane people and Marcellus the Sworde Bicause the one gaue him selfe to mainteine the common welthe but the other was eagre and sharpe to reuenge the enemies of the same And yet bothe they were se●te together by the Senates order that the grauitie of the one might moderate the hardines of the other ¶ Wherfore did Caesar ordeine two Legions or bandes of souldiors to be enterteined at Rome well armed and furnished That the Citizens should not be surprised vnwar and noted of negligence Euery Legion was deuided into tenne Cohortes or companies in euery Cohors was L. bandes or squares euery Square had .xxv. soldiors the Legio commonlie conteineth .vi. thousand footemen and .vii. C. xxxii horsemen but Liuie in many places of his Decades declareth the same to be sometimes more and sometimes lesse yet our common accompte of the Legio comprehendeth the numbre and diuision aforesaide ¶ Wherfore is Pompeius reproued by certeine Historiographers not to be skilfull and wise enough Bicause at the iourney of Pharsalis which he loste he lefte in an Islande called Corfu a puisaunt armie wherwith he might haue stopped the passage of Cesar. ¶ What was the cause of the deathe of the Emperour Otho The hazardinge of the battell his enemies beynge as it were in dispaire ¶ What difference is there betwene Prudence and viuacitie of witte otherwise called pregnancie of minde or Sagacitie Prudence geueth good Councell and the pregnaunt witte comprehendeth and iudgeth the councell which is moost requisi●e the one being very necessarie for the other ¶ Wherfore was Paulus Minutius the companion of Fabius estemed so prudent and wise Bicause he toke Councell of himselfe in that which he knewe and followed the councell of others in that which he did not vnderstand esteming him to be a sotte and beaste which had not good aduise in him selfe and would not obey them that hadde experience ¶ What is the duetie and propertie of them which be accompted to be fyne witted To vse their wittes to eche diuise and qualitie lyke vnto the fishe Balena whiche is a great fishe in the Sea hauing a hole in his hedde wherby he taketh ayer thrusting forth therat great aboundaunce of water some times here and sometimes there ¶ Why was Lysandre so ●louted and mocked of his owne people Bicause he vaunted and bosted him selfe to be the kinseman of Hercules not doing any signe or token of vertue but all that he did was by tromperie and deceipt ¶ Wherfore was Helanicus of Epirus so greatly estemed for his subteltie Bicause all that he did was for the publike wealthe and not for his owne perticuler profite ¶ What is Equanimitie a vertue so muche praised It is a certeine purenes and constancie of minde wherwith we continue alyke in prosperitie and aduersitie not being puffed vp with pride or abbasing our minde Socrates the Philosopher and Antoninus Pius the Emperour were excellent in that vertue ¶ Where is the seate of the affections in our bodie Ioye resteth in the splen A●gre in the gall Feare in the harte Lecherie in the lyuer ¶ What maner of thing is modestie It is a moderation of our appeties which obeyeth reason ¶ For what respect did Antiochus geue so greate thankes vnto the Romaines that leauing him so little a Countrye whiche before was a Kinge so mightie and prince puisaunt His modestie didde him to vnderstande that he was discharged of a great burden which hindred him before often times from slepe from e●ting and drinking ¶ Wherin did Tiberius moste of all declare his modestie In that beinge desired to taxe his people he sayde that it was the office of a good Sheperde to shere his shepe and not to pull of theyr skinnes Dionisius of Siracusa wherein didde he shewe himselfe praise worthie For beinge so modest that althoughe he were come to the estate of a Kinge Yet he would not alter the maner of apparel which he ware when he was a priuate man ¶ What maner of thinge do ye call shamefastens It is a certaine passion which maketh the person blushe speciallye in anye good and honest matter and