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A20408	Greene in conceipt New raised from his graue to write the tragique historie of faire Valeria of London. Wherein is truly discouered the rare and lamentable issue of a husbands dotage, a wiues leudnesse, & children of disobedience. Receiued and reported by I.D.	Dickenson, John, romance writer.; Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1598 (1598)	STC 6819; ESTC S105352	46,384	71

then at their childrens good weigh not on what rockes of daunger through incontinencie and reproch they cast them whome they couple with those that abound in coine though hauing nought else of worth Farre more nobly minded was Themistocles which in bestowing his daughter preferred the vertuous and able poore before the sottish impotent rich whereof being demanded the cause he made this generous answer I had rather quoth hee choose a man without mony then money without a man wherein doubtlesse hee meant not onely that he is worthie the name of a man which imbraceth vertue but also that hee is not to be thought a man which can not performe the act of a man where it iustly is required What can be more vnnaturall then such inequalitie of yeeres and inclination which granted howe I pray you can that be pleasing to God which is so directly repugnant to the course of nature whome hee at first created in most absolute perfection of proportionall regarde and hath euer since and will till the ende of this worldes times preserue fron●… confusion by vpholding this equalitie Thinke you that Myrobolan Trees brought from Sunne-scorcht Susa can prosper if planted in frozen Scythia or that the Northern pride of Flora can diaper the Southerne fieldes Would you deeme that gardiner skilfull whome you should see setting Colewortes neare the vine which shunnes them so much by nature that it windes another way and soone doth wither Can that match bee lesse vnmeete where greene youth is yoakt with groning age I haue hearde that Licurgus the Spartane Lawgiuer did not ouely permitte but commaund it as a seruice much meritorious to the Common-wealth that a vigorous man knowing an able woman matcht with an husband impotent through yeares or some naturall defect might lawfully demaund and no lesse lawfully vse her companie to raise vp issue in the others behalfe which he must acknowledge as his own Had Giraldo and you been Spartans liuing in these times then had you enioyed this pleasing priuiledge your husband beeing now past procreation and hee if discontent in vaine had muttered who if hee would needes marrie should haue wedded some ancient matrone the widow of two or three husbands which might by custome knowe how to fitte the humour of his yeares and brooke quietly the loath some accidents of his age by feeling in her selfe like insufficiencie baiting his eares with counter-coughes and presenting to his eyes like nastie obiects of filth and flegme Breach of medlocke had beene in her a crime inexpiable but where the state and person of the offendour is changed there likewise the qualitie of the offence is altered nor can the crime bee so directly pertinent to you which being a child must obey as to Theodoro which being your father might and did commaund Bethen couragious boldly to imitate the infinite examples of former times nor are you now alone which haue for presidents me and such my friends as seeke with mee abroad what is not afforded vs at home If herein you consort with vs you shall likewise share with vs your part of pleasures you shall be furnisht with store of fauorites ech of gallant goodly personage and which most is of rare agilitie in acting that secret sweet seruice which wee most affect This onely is required that you remunerate with coine the authours of your intent bolstring vp with your bags their impouerishing braueries Here Valeria halfe weeping halfe wishing her self vnwedded seemd doubtful wheron to resolue but the other following her aduautage gaue not ouer till she had assured y e conquest To be short there was a time place determined for entering Valeria into y ● order meane while the whole crue was summoned there to assemble at the day appointed being likewise throughly acquainted with the cause The meetest corner for this couent was thought a gardin-house hauing round about it many flowers and within it much deflowring Were not this age fruitfull in stranger miracles I should haue deemd this an high maruell that so small a plot of ground could be so deuowring a gulfe of some mens gettings yet who knowes not that extortions fruite hath seldome fayrer ende But I procede the day presign'd being come no default was through absence made by any there met they with their mynions each hauing stopt hir husbands mouth with a feined talc coynd extempore Valeria not slacke to such deuotion came with the first seeming to her selfe most fortunate in becoming a sister of that society They had there a costly banquet made at their common charge so fraught with dainties so furnisht with varietie of choycest delicates that by their diet there dispositions might bee well discerned for this is the fewell which feedes and cherisheth the fyer of lust Sine Cerere Libero friget Venus When they had stoutly carowsed and throughly pampered themselues with these prouoking preparatiues the table being now vncouered they fell from quaffing to discoursing then one of the dames and shee most impudent if this their excesse admitted any such degree of difference calde for her lute which fingering too fitly for so vnfit a purpose shee accorded thereto with hir voice and bewrayed as followes in a Canzon the occasion of there meeting Happie lot to men assign'd Hartes with harts in loue combinde Loue the some of earthly sweetes Where with mutuall loue it meets Not consisting all in lookes Like to Idols lay-mens bookes But who tryes this true shall proue Action is the life of loue Why slacke we then to bath in sweet delight Before our day be turn'd to endlesse night Fairest things to nothing fade Wrapt in deaths eternall shade Hence I proue it beauties crime Not to reape the fruits of time Time which passeth swift as thought Time whose blisse is dearely bought Dearely bought so soone to faile vs Soone that should so long auaile vs. Why slacke wee then to bath in sweete delight Before our daye be turnd to enlesse night Loue and beautie fade together Fickle both as changing weather Age or sicknes wastes the one That doth faile when this is gone Let vs then while both doth last V●…e them both eare both be past Sport we freely while wee may yet a while it will be daye Oh but this day drawes on to endlesse night And with our life still weares our loues delight Soone ah soone was Adon slaine Bashfull boy how faire in vaine Fram'd by nature to be loou'd Fram'd but why himselfe not mou'd Dide hee not in prime of youth Prime of beautie pray to ruth Dye he did himselfe preuenting Sorte vnworthy all lamenting Oh thinke on him which changing safe delight For certaine danger turn'd his day to night But me thinks I talking see How each minute slippes from me Losse I deeme the least delay Hast we then to this sweete play Whence is suckt the sappe of pleasure Such as loue by time doth measure Loue that gardes his mothers forte Peeping oft to see the sport A sport how rare

common holidayes My rules for time my times of ioy and ease Shall in my zeale blaze thy perfections praise Their names worth they frō thy worth shal take And highly all be honoured for thy sake That day shall to my thoughts still holy be Which first vouchsafde thy beautie to mine eyes That day when first thou deigndst to fauour me And each from some peculiar grace arise But mongst them all my dutie shall attend This more then all on which they all depend Haile happie day to whome the world doth owe The blissefull issue of that influence Which from the force of best aspects did growe In luckiest house of heau'ns circumference Haile happie day that first didst shewe this aire To her whom Fairenes self doth yeeld more faire Nere be thy brightnes dimd by wind or raine No cloud on thee forestall Hyperions light On thee no doome pronounc'd of death or paine No death or paine endurde no bloudie fight But be thou peacefull calme and cleare for aye Let feasts and triumphes choose thee for their day On thee I vowe to rest from all affaires To giue large almes to poore distressed men Not to profane thy ioy by fretting cares To send my saint some tribute of my pen And when thou dawn'st deuoutly still to say Haile happie holy high and heau'nly day Such and so long may be to me her loue As Ile this vow religiously maintaine So may my plaints her heart to pittie mooue As from my heart I speake let false hearts faine Haile happie day but then how happie shee Who makes this day thus happie vnto me Gentlemen you need not doubt that Valeria whose ouersoothing humor made her interprete flatterie for truth was no lesse proude of this then of the former howsoeuer she dissembled her inward content euen to her sinnes owne secretarie and chiefe directour least Arthemio should by her meanes lay holde on that assurance which by himselfe hee could not gather But marke I pray you how thicke a mist of dotage Giraldos good nature had cast before his eyes As the trull was readie e●… depart he would neede●… force her to tarrie dinner telling her merily that this was his wiues birth-day whereon he had prouided an extraordinarie dish and thought none so meete as her selfe to taste thereof beeing so kinde and louing a neighbour requesting her withall to repayre oftener to his house to visit and passe away the time with his wife and when she walked abroad to beare her company They hearing these wordes did in their lookes argue each to other their high content grounding though falsly on his simplicitie the safe continuance of their delights as being thereby exempted from all dread and danger os discouerie But the highest flood hath the lowest ebbe the hottest Sommer pre●…ignifies the coldest winter tempestes in the prime of Autumne are least dreaded but most dangerous Shame sinnes guerdon is then nearest when through selfe-soothing securitie the feare thereof is fardest And as the fish Remora though little can stay the greatest shippe and the Crocodile though in the shell one of the least prooues afterwarde the greatest Serpent that haunts the shore os Nilus so not seldome in this worldes accidentes the detecting of deepest crimes springs from the lightest and most vnlikely occasions for proofe of which assertion I neede no farther instance than this subiect whereon I intreat Giraldo among other seruants had one named Iockie a sillie boy borne in the North of Albion and employed in basest errands such commonly as concerned the kitchen It chaunced on a time that as Valeria had left the house gone foorth of purpose to sport with her companions immediatly after her departure this Iockie was sent abroad when straying in a boyish humor to gaze on the gayest obiects in some other street hee espied suddenly his Mistresse before him and stept backe as halfe amazed but recalling forthwith his courage and noting more exactly one of her company whose lewde and dissolute life was commonly known he began knau●…hly to suspect that eeh of her other mates were likewise of the same mould To confirme or confute which imagination he followed them aloofe yet so warily that hee saw them housde himselfe not seene and closely houering neere the dore espied their minions entering in order with other such apparant likelihoods as hee now no longer suspected but certainely beleeued that Giraldo his master was as soundly armde for the head as either Capricorne or the stoutest hornd signe in the Zodiacke Hauing made this triall he departed doubtfull what to determine for on the one side hee foresawe his owne most assured daunger in reuealing what hee had discouered sith well hee knewe that one of his mistres wordes could ouerweigh one of her teares wipe out a volume of accusations by him produc'd which graunted what then might follow but this that the guerdon of his tongues lauishnes should be laide on his shoulders Besides his Mistresse by this meanes irreconciliable for women which by nature imbrace extreames beeing therein onely constant persist not so in any as in malice and what mischiefe that might effect he though young had for his owne part experience enough But on the other side well hee sawe that his Masters credite alreadie stainde and his disgrace daily augmented would spread so it selfe still gathering force by going forward that if not now restrained it must needs at last to his then greater shame and incurable sorrowe either by others be detected or of it selfe breake forth for neuer yet was sinne long in league with secrecie Tender twigges may with ease be bowed the full growen tree sooner broken then bent The now-detecting of Valerias crime might recall her and preuent Giraldos future reproch but her offence if longer cherished by sin-noursing silence would in the end become inexpiable In regard hereof Iockie couragiously resolu'd to ouerpeaze the feare of danger with the care of dutie In which vaine returning home and ●…eeing accusde of loytering by such as sent him he appealed to his master by whome likewise being sharply demanded y ● cause of his long tariāce he reuealed to him in secret what he had seene proou'd to himselfe a true prophet in receiuing for his thanklesse seruice that guerdon which before hee iustly feared For Giraldo ayming amisse at his inclination deemed this a villanous deuice forg●…e by the boy to breed discord between him and his wife wherof this was no sleight presumption in that Valeria was euer sharpe to him But when lockie which would not cowardly giue ouer hauing thus entred continued his discoueries still furnisht with more friendly opportunities did oft constantly offer vpon the hazard of y e whip to make his master eye witnes of that whereof his eares deignd no acceptāce Giraldo at last deeply reuoluing in his pensiue thoughts the boies large proffer and much desirous to know at full the state of his own forehead wherein he seemd to feele alreadie some alteration agreed