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A06165	Euphues shadow, the battaile of the sences Wherein youthfull folly is set downe in his right figure, and vaine fancies are prooued to produce many offences. Hereunto is annexed the deafe mans dialogue, contayning Philamis Athanatos: fit for all sortes to peruse, and the better sorte to practise. By T.L. Gent.	Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.; Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1592 (1592)	STC 16656; ESTC S109569	72,106	104

d●…cease of our freends our excesse of teares are our surfets of follie Thou wilt say that each things according to nature is good for so sayd Tullie since then nothing is more naturall then to die why mourneth Harpaste for the losse of Claetia caust thou recouer hir by thy teares that is impossible if thou canst not as I am sure thou maist not beleeue me this greefe is superfluous fondnesse not zealous pietie she was not borne in vaine in that she dyed but in that she liued improfitably she died vnh●…ppily Oh my Harpaste discharge these furrowes dismisse these follies death is the porte life the sea of trouble life the storme death the securitie life the corrisiue death the comfort death the end of sorrow life the beginning Socrates deuising among his familiars newes was brought him that his sonne Sophriniscus was dead and what followed he couered not his face with a vaile but confirmed his heart with vertue and in steed of bewayling him he sayd come l●…t vs burie him wilt thou mourne because thy friend hath out gone thee in thy iourney or for that hee hath attained the end for which he liued oh Harpaste this were mcere ignorance this is immoderate follie for euen as they are worse then Idiots that beate the sunne in that it shineth so are they ouer simple that lament th at for a maime which is the aime of nature nature thou saist hath robd thee of a Neece and did she not giue hir thee thou hast lost hir in hir prime she was to loose to be pyttied who greeueth to see the Rose blasted in the bud when he knoweth the Rose is but a dayes tasting who greeueth to see that weakened that was borne to waine Fabianus sayth that those who lament the dead are like such as weepe because they waxeould and Philimon that such as are sorrie for the deceased seeme to condempe nature which bringing many things to a prime must needly haue some thing perish If thou will needly weepe Harpaste for that thy Claetia is to be buryed why waylest thou not in that she was borne for had she not liued she had not beene so lewd and had she not beene so lewd she were not to be lamented and good Lord in dying how much detriment hath she escaped since death is euery mans end manies remedy some mens vow and wretched mens welfare she hath now no cause to beweepe hir inconstancie to wayle hir losse of friends to sigh hir change of fortune in briefe in one storme she hath escaped all tempests for as nothing is more seuere in showe 〈◊〉 death so 〈◊〉 nothing more sweete in substance death setteth the 〈◊〉 at libertie in dispight of his maister death deliuereth the Captiue from his Chaine the Prisoner from his pen●…ie the condempned from his dungeon Death teacheth the exile to forget his countrie Death maketh all things common in breefe Death leaueth nothing carefull and death is that which C●…aetia hath tasted and for hir death it is that Harpaste lamenteth Oh ignorant of euill thou makest houey gall thou accomptest Antimony Egrimonie the Be an●… Ba●…ll the Hearbe-grace Hemlock the pleasure poison consider Harpaste and considering counsaile thy selfe that opinion maketh miserie and that if thou wert not peremptorie in thy weeping th●…u ca●…t yeeld no proofe of wretchednes Liuia lost hir sonne yet lamented not for seeing the father was gone before she knew the sonne must follow after then greeue thou not since Claetia is seazed by that which thou must ●…uffer neither sigh thee for feare the wiser sort accuse thee of enuie who sorrowest in that shee hath ouergone thee in happinesse in briefe Harpaste die to these toyes and drie by thy teares striue thee to amend that wherein she liued misgouerned so shall I reioyce at thy vertue and then inioye the fruites of my counsaile Thine in all vertue PHILAMIS Philamis hauing finished his letter both signed sealed it and sent it away spending all his other indeuors in meditation of his mistres and comforting his Philamour who poore Gentleman tossed in the s●…as of sorrow like a ship without a helme grew so wan with weakenes pale with pensiuenesse that euery one who beheld him thought him more fit for his funerals then meete for his mariage Philamis who preferred the safetie of his friend before his owne sollace in midst of his dumpes assailed him with this aduice How now my Philamour what wilt thou be so spent with griefe as to be past gouernment so giuen ouer to mone that thou wilt forget thou art a man ●…oderate teares are like immesurable showers which in steed of feeding the plants with forwardnes ouerflow thē with furie these weeping asswage not but incite g●…iefe which with the Aspis pricking but the arme pierceth the hart thy disease is not sicknes but want of foresight neyther any fauor but fancie a graft of thine owne eyes planting a griefe proceeding from thy owne idlenes The Tortuse ●…eping in the sun is soonest surprised the Mullet strained by the gill is sonest betraied in briefe your 〈◊〉 beuers are like y e trouts fish caught with tickling consumed by fancie because you will be foolish Fie my Philamour let reason teach thee that loue is but a sightly sweet not a substantiall shadowed in the shape of a woman to show hir wantonnes painted in the figure of a flying Child to show his fleeting inconstancie If thy reason had as great power as it ought and were thy opinions restrained by good perswasions thou shalt cōfesse that time spent in loue is time lost in life then which before God there is nothing more foolish then which the more griefe there is not any thing more followed There is nothing can be vertuous that endeth in repent what then loue is more repented when it is possessed the ioyes are no soner attempted then ended a little kindnes maks him who was as hote as a tost as coole as a clock But say thou loue a Penelope euen in this chaste loue thou shalt haue some crosse a woman to kill thee with weepings Laertes to trouble thee with his lothed age Telemachus to try thee with his childish teares riuals to tempt thy wife if she wilbe wanton roisters to reuel in thy hall in briefe this one wife is the occasiō of many woes this one Penelope the cause of much preiudice say she be a Helena oh thou ●…happy that must weare Vulcans badge on thy browe and beare the seales of hir shame thy scant foresight Be●… Philamour as there is no shadow without a substance no Leopard without his spot no Liz●…d without his staine no sweete without his sower so is there no Woman without hir fault no Lady without hir imperfections may be faulse say she 〈◊〉 wise she will be wilfull say she 〈◊〉 an ideot she is a burthen how so euer she be she 〈◊〉 chuse but bee a woman which from their in fancie follow new fanglenesse say thy wise

true Sheapheard to followe Sathan betrayed theyr soule to serue theyr bodyes who are become the bondeslaues of sinne and the seruauntes of vnrighteousnesse who serue 〈◊〉 and refuse God whose portion after death is the bottomlesse pitte where in steede of laughing they shall lament insteed of solacing they shall sigh and whilst the righteous shall clap theyr hands for ioy in heauen they shall foulde theyr armes for sorrowe in hell oh theyr horror oh theyr miserie oh that men can be so peruerse and God so propitious who calleth all and will succour sinners who wil ease the heauy laden comfort the comfortlesse giue 〈◊〉 euen to the murmurers oh whither am I carryed with these contemplations into what Oceans of delight wherein I behold as it were in a mirrour the indignitie of man the mercies of God the miseries of this life and the fruits of death of which when I begin to to thinke my Philamis I beholde these writhen lims as saylers doe theyr brused barke at the entrance of the hauen reioycing that I haue past my perils to enioy my paradise Oh happy death of those saith Cicero who being borne mortall haue so well liued as to enioy eternitie This is the last medicine of all euils saith Sophocles the way that leadeth vs to al beatitude as witnesseth Leonidas This bringeth vs through the stony way to the pleasant path this healeth vs in all infirmities to this were wee borne being by nature sent abroad to learne experience lyke yong sonnes to the ende we may with iudgement entertayne happy death as our best heritage Phil. Why pauseth Celio or what holdeth thee in suspence Ce. Oh Philamis I contemplate the true life and as trauellers by the beauty of the coast coniecture the benefits of the country so in describing the commodities of death and weighing the fruit thereof I gather the happines of heauen to which the spirit would flye were it not hindered by fleshly infirmities Phi. Leaue these contemplations good Celio and prosecute your discourse It were pittle your studies should preuent mine instructions I pray you let vs know why som men since death is so sweet account it so sower and why other men take that for pleasure which some esteeme to be their vtter perdition Ce. Truly Philamis thou hast propounded a quaint question which auayleth much to knowledge of death and causeth the better sort to reioyce thereat the worser to prepare them in worthines to receiue it That sort of men which feare death are they that li●…e in darknesse whose liues are worldly who consider not the iudgementes of God but are like Oxe and Mule in whom there is no vnderstanding these are not touched with 〈◊〉 ●…owledge of God but are very hypocrites in his church these proceed from euil to worse and their practises are often frustrate these seize vpon the widows gleanings and perseuer in their wickednes these are happy in seruing the deuill and hardened against the seruice of GOD these are they that thinke their sinnes are vnseene and who perseuering in their wickednes shall perish these are they against whome Micah crieth out whose iust condemnatiō is death these shal sigh in the day of iudgement whose blindnes is more thā Cimar●…an w●…o shall haue portion with Sodom these are they whose company is to be eschewed who make teares dwell on the widowes cheeks and deuoure the fatherlesse desolate these are they who in stead of prayers make purchases whose indentures are their deuotions whose priuy seales bee theyr prayer bookes these are they that spende in wast what poore men want and bestow that on hounds they should giue to the hungry and imploy that on brauery they should vouchsafe the begger these are they as Bernard saith that are made riche by poore mens farms whose sin shall be reuenged in hell fire these feare death because they hope no better life and flie the graue in that they are fallen from grace And this sort of sinners haue many swarmes of attendants some more vehement some more desperate all damnable as are they who incounter violent death after their wicked liues and such as being adiudged for offence make the separation of soule and body adesperate laughing game These are they of whome Ezechiel speaketh the soule that sinneth shall die Examples of these sorts of men are infinite among which Saul may first exemplifie who being rent from his kingdome reft himselfe of lyfe Iudas who hauing betrayed his Sauiour hung him selfe in despayre Brutus who hauing murthered Caesar slew himselfe miserably with his owne sword Carundius Tirius w●…o hauing made a Bedlam lawe endured a bloudie end Oh too many too maruellous are the examples of suche men who in theyr desperatenes haue made death damnable and in theyr dissolutenes fearefull W●…at are they that take pleasure in death oh blessed men oh happy pleasure Such as shine lyke the Sunne in theyr sinceritie such as ack●…wledge their deliuerance from God such as are f●…ythfull in afflictions and humble them in persecutions such as a●…e godly in patience and patient in godlinesse such as are obedient in dutie and stedfast in doctrine such as haue faith with the leaper confidence with the blind-men zeale with the woman of Canaan acknowledge them ●…infull with the sicke of the palsie prouing rather Cornelius a souldiour to beleeue than Simon Magus an inchaunter to lye such as looke for the promises of God and thirst after righteousnesse such whom the zeale of the Lordes house swalloweth vp such as suffer for persecution sake such whose faith is not wauering and whose vowes are in heauen though the body be on the earth such as are faithful and not fearful that trust in ●…od and mistrust not his promises such as are persecuted with Paul and beleue with Paul such as desire to indure for the truth not to be indurate against the truth the number is too many to tell them yet wold my numbring might breed more so that with Mo●…s I might pray O blot me out of the book of life so they may liue so they may increase so they may florish these also haue folowers who thoe they deserue not to sit on the throne with the elders may wait vpon the lamb as their shepheard for my fathers house hath many dwelling places But let vs now consider of death for he craues constructiō ther is a diffe●…ence to die with Socrates in innocence and Ouid in exile there is a death to dy for euer there is a de●…th to liue for euer the one pertaineth to the nocent the other to the innocent the one to the impugner the other to the penitent the one to the merciles the other to the merciful the one to the blasphemer the other to the righteous among the righteous sort some may fal to arise for the righteous sinneth seuen times a day some fal to perish the examples are manifest let the learned dilate them Among the wicked some from Saul becommeth

well Yes Madame said he and would haue pleaded better had he chosen his owne pulpet oh said she quid Graculo cum fidibus play vpon them if he had cunning replyed Philamour Stop the fludgates sayd Eurimone wee abound in to much follie all are follies in them madam answered Philamis whose best desert is but offences I but howe blest is hee that offends and findes fauour sayd Harpaste as blest quoth he as he that angleth without a baite and catches a Breame why not beauty replyed Eurmome pointing at Harpaste yes beautie if you please said he pointing at Eurinome Thus tossed they the discourse too and fro till at such time as Harpaste was ready to speake hir opinion there entered the hall a faire and beautifull Ladie neerely allyed to Nicrosion the Lorde of that place attyred all in mourne full coulours of black ●…ir goulden haire scattered along hir goodly shoulders in the o●…e hande shee bare a light Taper in the other a naked Sw●…de who after she had amased the whole assembly with her 〈◊〉 hauing attayned silence began thus The lamentable and pittifull torments of a constant louer seruing a cruell Ladie with the strange and wofull penance and death she endured NOble Princes and renowmed Ladyes could teares discouer tragedies and sighes report sorrowes I would weepe more and speake lesse and grone with such vehemen●…ie as you should gre●…ue to behould my heauinesse but since the cause requireth termes not teares discourse and not sighes if so you shall vouchsafe mee fauourable attention I will open that vnto you which will make the marble heart melt to heare it and mooue the 〈◊〉 thoughts to lament my estate when he vnder standeth it I am haplesse Claetia you Nobles Neece to Nicrosion allyed to Harpaste wh●…me the pride of Passan for beautie now the byword of the world for barbarous cruelty It is not vnknown vnto you and too well knowne by me howe Rabinius was a braue Gentleman of this Cittie of high reputation among the wisest of greatest regarde among the warriours hee had Caesars fortune in armes Ciceroes forwardnes in artes hauing the benefits of nature accompanyed with such bountie of the minde that his perfection exceeded all reporte In breefe I may bouldly say with Tully that this man hath not onely surmounted the glory of the best deseruers of this time by his vertue but also all the memories of antiquitie by his valew But why praise I him who perished by me and why in reporting his excellence rip I vp my owne insolence ah Claetia this is nought els but to rubbe on the gall to kick against the prick The sent of Basil draweth Scorpions vnto it the herbe Squilla charmeth Sorceries Ros Lawrell killeth Dogges and the memorie of griefes being renewed reuiueth more sorrowes killeth all ioyes and confoundeth all solace But I must tell my Tragedy since I meane to enact an other heere making a melancholie pawse she hanged downe her head along time at last be●…ing awaked as it were out of a dreame she in these termes prosecuted hir purpose Alas whether am I transported your Nobles who had neede d●…ting Senecios hote troope of staues to put me in remembrance But you may pardon the imperfection if you please to heare the passion This noble Rabinus vnhappilie beheld me and more vnfortunately loued me leauing no practise vnattempted no seruice vnperformed whereby he might manifest his humilitie or I be notified by humanitie But as Eleborus healeth some madnesse and maketh some more moodie so his submission which might haue mortified the hearts of other and molified the mindes of the floutest made me more seuere for like the steale hardned by much melting I grew harde harted by his many wecpings carrying in my lookes the poysen of Sardania which maketh shewe of smiling when there is shrowded greatest seueritie Fiue yeares and more with importunate sutes did he solicite me haunting continually the place of my habitation thinking himselfe happy to kisse the Couslip wheron his Venus had troden forced at last by his importunitie and egged forward by mine owne pride I vouchsafed him the oportunitie to discouer his affections where after many lamentable complaints with little compassion he at last required this onely fauour to kisse my hand protesting any seruice to attaine to so great felicitie wretched that I was I wholy enclined to seueritie returned him this aunswer that at such time as he had atchieued three combates in honor of my name slaine three monsters in Libia and brought me three heads and finally rid him of life that most troubled my delights he should enioy his wishe and show his worth cruell that I was ouer cruell that I was I not only tied him by words but bound him by othes he more constant then aduised preferring my loue before his owne life prosecuted his pretence neither agreeued at the impossibilitie of my demaunds nor grut●…hing at the perrill of his estate ●…o be breefe I repaired to my fathers grange bounding vpon Danubie he taking his horsse and locked in his armes wholy intended his determinations Long and tedious were his iourneys and trauailing continually by vn●…racted waies he tooke no other comfort then to thinke on 〈◊〉 oft in his solitarie walkes when trauell had weakned his 〈◊〉 and trouble wounded his thoughts he alighted from his 〈◊〉 and turning him into conuenient pasture began to renew his penciuenesse oft when he sawe a barren Oke dryed vp by age depriued of leaues with many bitter sighes he thus cryed out Oh happie plant that suffrest this waste in thy waine where I perrish in my prime thou art dispoyled of thy leaues I of my loues eld hath reft thee of thy pith enuie hath robd me of my pleasure thou hast calme after storms I stormes without calm thou art strong in thy roote though disturbed in thy bowes I stung at the heart roote despised by beau●…ie oh happye tree or haples man Oft 〈◊〉 he beheld a sweet spring he thus sighed and thus sighing said faire fireame without disturbance thou art fruitfull in thy waters I frustrate in my weepings t●…y sunne playeth with thee my sunne plagueth me no windes afflict thee much wretchednes foloweth me thou Christall I I comfortles Thus applied Rabinius al things according to his own cogitations feeding onely on the roots of the desarts stanching his thrust with fountain water at last after he had passed thorow a thick wood he entred a shady plot of ground in midst wherof there was placed a tombe of white marbel on which sat a knight armed at assaye all saue his head who espying Rabinus so mounted and addrest betoke him to his horse buckled his helme drew neere him saluting him in this sort Knight Lord trauelling prince or whatsoeuer vnfortunately hast thou entred this desart for either must thou combate with me in honor of thy mistres euē●…o the 〈◊〉 or lose thy right hand which I must fixe on yonder sepulchre Knight replyed Rabinius let

lyes in the estimate of worldly eye they are onely wretched in being happy in worldly iudgement Dionisius a tyrant let him speake there is no princely happynes sayth hee but in death Phi. What deemest thou of nobilitie Ce. As of the ●…nowes of the body they are the linkes of the state yet haue they flatterers to seduce them ambition to depriue them desires is corrupt them in breefe they do dayly but begin to liue in that they feare to dye Phi. What of Lawyers Celio They are miserable for they get with care they thriue by contention they are all in the quantity not in qualitie you know the predicaments Philamis I may not preach further they are good members of a weake bodye who if they spend as much s●…uddie in learning God as they do in the liues of the kings thou would amend some qualities and leaue some quidities Philamis What of Merchants Celio They are studious to loose theyr wealth and weepe when they haue lost it carefull to get good but ready to forget God It is easier for a Camell to passe through a needles eye then for a ritche man to enter the kingdome of God if this be true as it is most true what is theyr life miserie what is theyr felicit●…e miserie what is their end miserie Is it not strange that these men should be miserable liuers yet hate miserie all is vanity saith the wiseman and Solons words are true Ante obitum nemo foelix Phi. Haue they not charitie Celio Yes charity painted in theyr walles not in theyr hearts Quilibet quippe euery Dog his loafe though we may be liberall at his funerals Phi. I see you then make no life but ful of languishing as there is no night without darkenes what deeme you of Poets Celio To run on the letter they are pennilesse studious to make all men learned and themselues beggars and whilst they lament al mens want of science they are supplanted by all men in substance they wright good tales and reape much taunts and are answered with oh it is a proper man but neuer a rag of money Philamis And why is that is it not for theyr corrupt life Celio Seest thou that pad in the straw truly Philamis thou sayst well some are excellent of good capicitie of great learning whose paster all pleasance includeth much wit and merits much reward but for the rest I would they might shift more and shif●…t lesse Philam. How meane you this shift me thinks it needs some syfting Celio I would they had more shift in shirts and lesse shift in subtilti●… in briefe Philamis their liues is miserable looke on euery mans way it is eyther wickednes or wretchednes Phila. What thinke you of the deuine Celio Why this is Husteron Proteron the Cart before the horse this figure was not appoynted by Susenbrotus in this place this is a ●…euerend profession wherein the infirmities of lyfe are most healed a happye course in this worldlye wildernesse where mens thoughts are thornes to wounde theyr conscience these seeke theyr benefits in Gods booke yet haue they theyr maimes in lyfe theyr dayes and yeares are but miserie for in that they long after a further ioye theyr comfort is imperfect leaue we to discend to perticulars Philamis the end is there is no content in earth but this worlde is the onely pageant of inconstancie neyther hath man any thing whereof he may truly boast or wherein onely he d●…oth excell if he haue gnifts of the body they are blemished by sicknesse they are determined by death if of the minde they are weakened by the wantonnes of the flesh discend we in to those perticulars which are in our selues and rippe we vp our originals ground wee not vppon the benefite of reason the beautie of our soule where●…y we learne to know God and discerne good from euell what goods haue we that beasts pertake not with vs We haue health so haue Lyons we are faire so are Peacocks we are swyft so are Horsses yea and in all these well nye are we ouercome by vnreasonable creatures Let vs now see what is greatest in vs we haue boddyes so haue trees we haue forces and voluntary motions so haue beasts and woormes we haue voyces but how shriller haue Dogges how sharper Eagles how deeper Bulles howe sweeter and delyuer Nightingales why boaste we then of that wherin we are ouercome and is not this misery of lyfe to be by them in these things ouercome Philamis But by your patience Celio heere is confusion growne in this discourse els are many learned men deceyued I haue read in Epictetus that a lyfe ioyned with vertue is felicitie so all lyfe by this meanes cannot be miserable Celio I wyl rid thee of all these doubtes cleere thee of al these clowdes confirme thee in all these controuersies There is good in apparance and good in deed felicitie in shadow and felicitie in substanc●… the onely intermedium of which is death which kylleth the corruption of the one and furthereth vs to the frui●…ion of the other hee onely good is God for hee is onely good as the Scripture teastifieth the good in shelve is this vertuous vniting of life and ●…arning which taken by it selfe is a sollace and compared with GOD is but a shadowe the true felicitie is to know God the fained is that which was Platoes Idea Aristotles summum bonum the 〈◊〉 Virtus the Epicures sensuall telicitie the one the inuention of man the other an inspiration from God As touching a lyfe led in vertue if it bee taken morrally according to the meaning of the E thnicks it may be termed felicitie who had not light in the darkenesse that doore that vine we haue to illuminate let vs in and refresh vs in our worldly trauell Cicero d●…emed Catoes 〈◊〉 lyfe Uertue his end happie so did Seneca so Caesar his enimie yet knew we it was myserie his life irreligious his end desperate Seneca himselfe talking grauely in his life time wrighting constantlye of death and touched somewhat with the thought of immortalitle made a sicknesse of a sigh and in his end shewed some ouer stoic all resolution but we that haue attayned the cleere day and are in the sunny lyght of the Gospell what shall we terme this vertuous life naught els my Philamis but a combate of the flesh with the spirite our time of temptation where we warre to haue victorye and by fayth attaine the crowne of immortalitie This is the path our flesh the hinderance D●…ath the hauen where wearied wee rest vs and being dissolued attaine the direct fulnesse of our ioye Oh ioye without compare oh little daunger oh great crowne or waye to true lyfe Now seest thou Philamis what thou soughtest these doubtes are decided and the conclusion that followeth of all thys controuersie is that lyfe is miserable euery wayes but most miserable to them that lyue ill whose hope is dead whose faith is falsified who haue forsaken the