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A68144	Foure letters, and certaine sonnets especially touching Robert Greene, and other parties, by him abused: but incidently of diuers excellent persons, and some matters of note. To all courteous mindes, that will voutchsafe the reading.	Harvey, Gabriel, 1550?-1631.	1592 (1592)	STC 12900.5; ESTC S103854	40,293	78

noble Lordeship I protest I neuer meante to dishonour with the least preiudicial word of my Tongue or pen but euer kept a mindefull reckoning of many bounden duties toward The-same sincein the prime of his gallātest youth hee bestowed Angels vpon mee in Christes Colledge in Cambridge and otherwise voutsafed me many gratious fauours at the affectionate commendation of my Cosen M. Thomas Smith the sonne of Sir Thomas shortly after Colonel of the Ardes in Ireland But the noble Earle not disposed to trouble his Iouiall mind with such Saturnine paltery stil continued like his magnificent selfe and that Fleeting also proued like the other a silly bullbeare a sorry puffe of winde a thing of nothing But a strong imagination pierceth deepely and the Paper Fleete will not bee so aunswered Iesu what would such notable fellowes write or rather would they not write if they could probably say or fantastically surmize by me as I can euidently proue by them But I seeke not the condemnation of the deade or the disgrace of the liuing but the good amendement of the one by the naughty example of the other And for mine own farther iustification in the premisses or otherwise I had rather my larger writings and other actions should plead for mee then this or any slighte Letter wherein I am not to infourme pregnant conceits that may imagine more by a little or to addresse any peece of mine own history though wiser men in case of vnworthy reproch haue not made nice to vndertake their owne defence and euen to labour their owne commendation The plausible Examples of Tully Cato Marius Scipio diuers such vertuous Romanes and sundry excellent Greekes are famously knowen but not greatly fit for euery mannes imitation Were other of my disposition small time should be lost in auenging or debating verball iniuries especially to my selfe who can verie well suffer poore spite to shoote at mee and to hitte himselfe and sometime smile at the silly flie that will needs martyr it selfe in my candle But me thinkes the wildest head and desperatest mind should consider they that speake il must not looke to heare well the worlde is not giuen to pocket vp infamies who cannot returne-home a Quippe or requite one libell with an other nothing more common in bookes or more readye in mouthes then the Inuectiue vaine and the whole Arte of railing some schollers haue choyce of nimble pennes smooth tongues at cōmandement there was a time when paraduenture I coulde speake with them that talked we me Though the case be altered and I now none of the hastiest to striue for those bucklers yet a general a special a glowing a piercing indignitie may rekindle some little sparkes of courage and affection wil be affection though not in proper reuenge yet the common duetie I am not to dispute the nature of Force or the force of nature who knoweth not how violentlie force prouoketh force or how mightilie nature worketh in compatible natures But how far publike obiectiōs or famous imputations require publike aunswers or how insufficient the formallest Iudiciall remedie in any one Court may seeme in case of a printed diffamation that with the wings of Mallice in some of Enuie in more and of Leuity in most flieth through the Realme and ouer the Sea bee it indifferentlie decided by euerie discreete iudgement or reasonable consideration Especially when the guiltie part is deceased and the iniury not the lesse but the more notorious The best is the persons abused are not altogether vnknowen they haue not so euell a neighbour that euer reade or hearde those opprobrious villanies it is too-mild a name for my brother Richardes most abhominable Legend who frameth himselfe to liue as chastely as the leawde writer affected to liue beastly but hath presentlie broken out into some such earnest or more passionate speeches ô pestilent knauery who euer heard such arrant forgeries and ranke lies A mad world where such shameful stuffe is bought and sould and where such roisterly Varlets may be suffered to play vpon whome they lust and how they lust Is this Greene with the running Head and the scribling Hand that neuer linnes putting-forth new newer newest bookes of the maker If his other bookes bee as holesome geere as this no maruaile though the gay-man conceiue trimlie of himselfe and statelye scorne all beside Green vile Greene would thou wearest halfe so honest as the worst of the foure whom thou vpbraidest or halfe so learned as the vnlearnedst of the three Thanke other for thy borrowed filched plumes of some little Italianated brauery what remaineth but flat Impudencie and grosse Detraction the proper ornaments of thy sweete vtterance I alleadge not mine owne inuentions who cannot forget the two Athenian Temples of Impudencie and Calumnie when I remember him I could nominate the Gentlemen and substantiall Yeoman Gentlemens fellowes that vttered much more by his life and can hardlie for beare him since his death and who of acquaintance with him or them whome hee depraueth could either partiallie excuse the one or reasonablie accuse the other Their liues effectually speake for themselues and he that liued not to see nine and twentie yeares died not till the Vniuersitie of Cambridge had bestowed vpō him a grace to bee a Doctor of his facultie and till hee was reputed in Northfolke where he practised phisicke a proper toward man and as skilfull a Phisition for his age as euer came there how well beloued of the chiefest Gentlemen and Gentlewomen in that Shire themselues testifie That is gone to Heauen cannot bee recouered on Earth it is our comfort that he liued in good credite and died in good minde I must euer remember some of his notable sayings for in deede so they were and can neuer forget that sweete voice of the dying Cignet ó frater Christus est optimus Medicus meus solus Medicus Vale Gal●ne valete humanae Artes nihil diuinum in terris praeter animum aspirantem ad coelos That best and his onelie Phisition knoweth what spiritual phisicke I commended vnto him when I beheld in his meager and ghastly countenance that I cannot rehearse without some fit of compassion Wee must in order follow him that shoulde in nature haue gone before him and I know not by what destinie hee followed him first that foled him last How he departed his ghostly mother Isam can truliest and will fauourabliest report how he liued London remembreth Oh what a liuelie picture of Vanity but oh what a deadlie Image of miserie And oh what a terrible Caueat for such such I am not to extenuate or preiudice his wit which could not any way be great though som way not the least of our vulgar writers mani-waies very vngracious but who euer estemed him either wise or learned or honest or anyway credible how many Gentlemen and other say of him Let the paltry fellow go Lord what a lewde Companion was hee What an egregious makeshift

shine like Sunne To liue in motion and action hoat To eternize Entelechy diuine Where Plutarches Liues where Argonautiques braue Where all Heroique woonderments concurr Oh Oh and Oh a thousand thousand times That thirsty Eare might heare Archangels rimes SONNET XV. A continuation of the same Petition THen would I so my Melody addoulce And so attune my Harmony to theirs That fellest Fury should confesse her selfe Enchaunted mightily with charmes diuine And in the sweetest termes of sacred Leagues With pure deuotion reconcile her rage Meane-while I seeke and seeke but cannot finde That Iewell rare of precioussest worth Gentle Accord and soueraigne Repose The Paradise of Earth and blisse of Heauen Be it in Earth ô Heauen direct my course Be it in Heauen alone ô Earth Farewell Or well-fare Patience that sweetens sowre And reares on Hellish Earth an Heauenly Boure SONNET XVI His professed Disdaine to aunsweare vanity in some or to enuy prosperity in any SOme me haue spited with a cruell spite But Fount of Mercy so reclense my sinne As I nor them maligne nor any wight But all good mindes affect like deerest kinne Small cause I haue to scorne in any sort Yet I extreamely scorne to aunsweare some That banish Conscience from their report And ouerwantonly abuse the dumme God keepe Low-Countrymen from high Disdaine Yet I disdaine with haughtiest contempt To enuy any persons Fame or Gaine Or any crooked practise to attempt Iesu that we should band like Iohn Oneale That tenderly should melt in mutuall zeale SONNET XVII His exhortation to attonement and Loue. O Mindes of Heauen and wittes of highest Sphere Molten most-tenderly in mutuall zeale Each one with cordiall indulgence forbeare And Bondes of Loue reciproquely enseale No rose no violet no fragrant spice No Nectar no Ambrosia so sweet As gratious Looue that neuer maketh nice But euery one embraceth as is meet Magnes and many thinges attractiue are But nothing so allectiue vnder skyes As that same dainty amiable Starre That none but grisly mouth of Hell defyes That Starre illuminate celestiall Harts And who but Rancour feeleth irkesome smarts SONNET XVIII Iohn Harueys Welcome to Robert Greene. COme fellow Greene come to thy gaping graue Bidd Vanity and Foolery farewell Thou ouer-long hast plaid the madbrain'd knaue And ouer-lowd hast rung the bawdy bell Vermine to Vermine must repaire at last No fitter house for busy folke to dwell Thy Conny-catching Pageants are past Some other must those arrant Stories tell These hungry wormes thinke long for their repast Come on I pardon thy offence to me It was thy liuing be not so aghast A Foole and Phisition may agree And for my Brothers neuer vex thy selfe They are not to disease a buried Elfe SONNET XIX His Apology of himselfe and his brothers YEt fie on lies and fie on false Appeales No Minister in England lesse affectes Those wanton kisses that leaud folly steales Then Hee whome onely Ribaldry suspectes Were I a foole what man playes not the foole The world is full of fooles and full of sectes Yet was Iohn neuer spoyled with the toole That Richard made and none but none infectes The third is better knowne in Court and Schoole Then thy vaine Quipp or my Defence shal be Whose Eie but his that sitts on Slaunders stoole Did euer him in Fleete or Prison see Lowd Mentery small confutation needes Auaunt black Beast that sowes such cursed seedes SONNET XX. His Apology of his good Father AH my deere Father and my Parent sweete Whose honesty no neighbour can empeach That any Ruffian should in termes vnmeete To your discredite shamfully outreach O rakehell Hand that scribled him a knaue Whome neuer Enemy did so appeach Repent thy wicked selfe that so didst raue And cancell that which Slaunders mouth did teach Nor euery man nor euery trade is braue Mault haires and hempe and sackcloth must be had Truth him from odious imputations saue And many a gallant Gentleman more bad Foure Sonnes him cost a thousand pounds at lest Well may he fare and thou enioy thy rest SONNET XXI His charitable hope and their eternall repose LEt memory of grose abuses sleepe Who ouer-shooteth not in recklesse youth Were sinnes as redd as reddest scarlet deepe A penitentiall Hart preuenteth ruth Well-wishing Charity presumes the best Nothing impossible to powrefull Trueth Body to Graue and Soule to Heauen addrest Leaue vpon Earth the follies of their youth Some Penury bewaile some feare Arrest Some Parmaes force some Spanyardes gold addread Some vnderly the terrible inquest Some carry a Ielous some a climing Head We that are dead releas'd from liuing woes Soundly enioy a long and long Repose SONNET XXII L'enuoy or an Answere to the Gentleman that drunke to Chaucer vpon view of the former Sonnets and other Cantos in honour of certaine Braue men SOme Tales to tell would I a Chaucer were Yet would I not euen-now an Homer be Though Spencer me hath often Homer term'd And Monsieur Bodine vow'd as much as he Enuy and Zoilus two busy wightes No petty shade of Homer can appeere But he the Diuell and she his Dam display And Furies fell annoy sweete Muses cheere Nor Martins I nor Counter-martins squibb Enough a doo to cleere my simple selfe Momus gainst Heauen and Zoilus gainst Earth A Quipp for Gibeline and whip for Guelph Or purge this humour or woe-worth the State That long endures the one or other mate Robertus Grenus vtriusque Academiae Artium Magister de Seipso I Lle Ego cui risus rumores festa puellae Vana libellorum scriptio vita fuit Prodigus vt vidi Ver AEstatemque furoris Autumno atque Hyemi cum Cane dico vale Ingenij hullam plumam Artis fistulam Amandi Ecquae non misero plangat auena tono Gabriel Harueius desideratissimae animae Ioannis fratris AT Iunioris erat Seniori pangere carmen Funebre ni Fati lex violenta vetet Quid frustra exclamem Frater fraterrime Frater Dulcia cuncta ab●unt tristia solamanent Totus ego Funus pullato squallidum amictu Quamuis caelicolae flebile dico Vale. To the right worshipfull my singular good frend M. Gabriell Haruey Doctor of the Lawes HAruey the happy aboue happiest men I read that sitting like a Looker-on Of thisworldes Stage doest note with critique pen The sharpe dislikes of each condition And as one carelesse of suspition Ne fawnest for the fauour of the great Ne fearest foolish reprehension Of faulty men which daunger to thee threat But freely doest of what thee list entreat Like a great Lord of peerelesse liberty Lifting the Good vp to high Honours seat And the Euill damning cuermore to dy For Life and Death is in thy doomefull writing So thy renowme liues euer by endighting Dublin this xviij of Iuly 1586. Your deuoted frend during life Edmund Spencer FINIS