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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02122	Gvvydonius The carde of fancie wherein the folly of those carpet knights is decyphered, which guyding their course by the compasse of Cupid, either dash their ship against most daungerous rocks, or els attaine the hauen with paine and perill. Wherein also is described in the person of Gwydonius, a cruell combat betvveene nature and necessitie. By Robert Greene Master of Arte, in Cambridge.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.; Labé, Louise, 1526?-1566. Debat de folie et d'amour.	1584 (1584)	STC 12262; ESTC S105817	96,964	176

such tumbling waues such fearefull surges such roaring stremes such hideous goulfs as it made the passage séeme a thousand times more perillous This terrible sight was such a cooling Card to my former conceits as hope was turned to feare blisse to bale supposed happinesse to assured heauinesse And yet my fancie was not quenched but rather far the more inflamed my desire was not diminished but augmented my liking no lesse but rather inlarged so that to liue in loue without hope was loathsome to séeke redresse was losse of life to want my wish was horror to inioy my will was hell to liue in care without comfort was calamitie to séeke for cure was more th● miserie not to possesse y e pray was hellish daunger to venture for the prize was haples death Thus crossed with cares daunted with such diuers doubts desperate hope so repulsed direfull feare y ● incouraged by ventrous desire I hadde either obtained my wish or wanted of my will if your Ladyshippe had not so sodainely wakened me out of my slumber Thus madame Castania you haue heard my dreame now the doubt is whether it had ben better to haue ventured vppon the brickle bridge and so either desperatly to haue ended cares with death or else valiantly to haue inioyed desire with renowme or still like a fearefull dastard to haue ended my dayes in lingering loue with myserie Castania hearing the surmised dreame of Gwydonius both smelled the fetch and smiled at the follie of this young youth knowing that these fantastical visions and presupposed passions would in time if he tooke not héed proue but too true to preuent therefore such imminent perills shée nipt her young nouice on the pate with this parle GWydonius quoth shée I haue listened to thy drousie dreame with déep deuotion by so much the more desirous attentiuely to heare it by howe much the more I finde it straunge and wonderfull yea so straunge as if I my selfe had not wakened thée out of thy slumber I would either haue thought it a fained vision or a fantasticall inuention but sith these Gentlemen héere present mine owne eyes are witnesses thine owne tongue a testimonie of thy talke suffice I beléeue it though I can not diuine it to giue a verdit where the euidence is not vnderstood is vanitie to yéeld a reason of an vnknowen case is méere folly and to interpret so straunge a dreame without great practise is but to skip beyond my skill and so lay fast in the mire Yet least I might séeme to promise much and performe nothing I will decide your doubt if you please to take my doome for a censure It is a saying Gwydonius not so common as true that the hastie man neuer wantes woe and that hée which is rash wythout reason seldome or neuer sléepeth without repentaunce To venture amiddest the Pikes when perills cannot bée ●schewed is not fortitude but folly to hazarde in daungers when death ensueth is not to bée worthely minded but wilfully mooued Uertue alwayes consisteth betwéene extremities that as too much fearefulnesse is the signe of a quaking coward so too much rashnesse betokeneth a desperate Ruffian Manhoode Gwydonius consisteth in measure and worthynesse in fearing to hazard without hope But to giue a verdite by thine owne voyce I perceiue thou art guiltie of the same crime for when the bricklenesse of the Bridge portended death and the surging Seas inferred losse of lyfe yet desire draue thée to aduenture so desperate a daunger Better it is Gwydonius to liue in griefe then to die desperatelye without grace better to choose a lingering lyfe in miserie then a spéedie death without mercie better to bée tormented wyth haplesse fancie then with hellish fiends for in lyfe it is possible to represse calamity but after death neuer to redresse miserie Tully Gwydonius in his Tusculans questions discoursing of the happinesse of life and heauinesse of death sayth that to lyue we obtaine it of the louing Gods but to die of the vnluckie destinies meaning heereby that lyfe though neuer so loathsome is better then death though neuer so welcome whereby I conclude Gwydonius that to liue carfully is better then to die desperatly Gwydonius perceiuing that Castanias parle was nothing to the purpose and that shée toucht not that point whereof hée desired most to bée absolued but meant to shake him off wyth a flée●elesse aunswere beganne to drawe her to the Trappe wyth this traine MAdame Castania quoth he I confesse that rashnesse neuer raigneth without repentaunce nor hastie hazarding without haplesse harmes that he which aduentureth desperate daungers is a foole he that passeth ineuitable perills is worse then an Asse Yet from these so generall rules Madame I exempt these perticular exceptions namely Loue Necessitie which two are tied w tin no bonds nor limitted within no law for whom y e diuel driues he must néedes run be the passage neuer so perillous and whom Loue or Necessitie forceth he must venture be the daunger neuer so desperate for as there is no enterprise so easie which to an vnwilling man séemeth not verie hard to bée atchieued so there is no incounter so combersome where will wisheth that séemeth not passing easie to bée perfourmed nowe this will is with nothing sooner pricked forwarde then either with the force of Loue or sting of necessitie So that whosoeuer aduentureth in a daunger though neuer so desperate is not to be blamed if inforced by fancie or incouraged by affection and especially where the perill is in possibilytie to bee passed without death and in the performaunce thereof the possession of such a prise as the passionate person more estéemeth then lands limmes or lyfe it selfe bée it neuer so swéete In which case madame my cause consisteth For the Ladie who was an heauenly obiect to my glasing eies was so beautified with the giftes of nature and so perfectly pollished with more then naturall perfection that with the only view of such diuine beutie my sences were so besotted my wit will so inueigled my affection so inflamed any fréedome so fettered yea Loue alreadie had made so greate a breach into the bulwarke of my breast that to obtaine so gorgeous a Goddesse I thought death no daunger though neuer so direfull nor losse of lyfe no torment though neuer so terrible In déed Gwydonius quoth Thersandro I agrée with thée in this poynt that there is no carpet Knight so cowardly that wold not passe most perillous pikes to possesse so liuely a Dame as thou doost decypher nor no dastard so daunted with dread which would not greatlye indanger himselfe to inioy so louely a damsell in y ● fruition of whom consisteth nothing but ioy blisse rest contentation of minde delight happinesse yea all earthlye felicitie And yet Sir quoth Gwydonius your sister Castania condemnes me of follye in ventring for so precious a price when as hope perswaded me that no hazarde could be haples and assured me that Loue

sorrie that in paying it héeretofore he proued himselfe such a foole Wherevpon Clerophontes being fraught with raging fury was so incensed against Orlanio that taking counsaile of his nobilytie he determined with as much spéede as might bée to wage battaile against him and to obtaine that by constraint which he denyed him of curtesie As thus he was musing with himselfe whom he shuld appoint Captaine generall of his armie because he meant not in proper person to abide the hazarde of the battaile the rem●mbraunce of his sonne Gwydonius came into his minde which not onely amazed him but so molested him as hée was driuen into most distressed dolour now he called to minde his mercilesse crueltie in correcting his faults and his moodlesse rigour in rebuking his folly ●owe he bewailed his long absence and wished his spéedie presence yea he was so diuersly perplexed as he began thus dolorously to discourse with himselfe ALasse quoth he now I sée the saying of Cicero to be true that who so wilfullye peruerteth the lawes of nature séemeth to proclaime himselfe an enimie to the Gods for that Nature neuer framed anye thing amisse wherein I haue most grieuously offended For in beastly rage I haue surpassed the brute beasts and in crueltie the sencelesse creatures I haue béene more deuoyde of pittie then the fowles of the aire and more vnnaturall then the Fishes of the Sea The Birde called Apis Indica séeing the venimous Uiper readie to deuour her young ones in the neast presenteth her selfe to death to preserue them from destruction The Eagle is so carefull ouer her young that if it happe by her default one of them doe perish shée willinglye woundeth her selfe in many places with her owne beake The Lyon so louingly fostereth vp her Whelpes that shée neuer tasteth of the praie vntyll they bée fullye satisfied The Foxe is so carefull ouer her cubbes that shée willingly falleth into the Hunters handes to defende hir young from harme But I vilde wretch as though I had drunke of the Ryuer Lincestis in Bohemia which presently tourneth whatsoeuer it toucheth into stones In stéede of friendly courtesie haue abused mine owne sonne with frowning crueltie in liew of mercie I haue brought him to miserie the fatherlye affection I haue shewed him hath béene raging furie yea my rygorous Nature naye rather my vnnaturall rage hath béene such towardes him as hée lyueth a bannished exile in a straunge Countrey perhappes pinched wyth penurye oppressed with pouertie wandering in the wilde Desartes in daunger of deuouring in peryll of spoyling afflicted not onelye with the maladie of the bodie but the miserie of the minde so that no doubte hée wisheth that I had neuer béene Father to such a sonne or he neuer sonne to such a Father Alasse what ioye canne I nowe enioy when I want my onely ioye What comfort canne I haue to sée my childe in calamitie What pleasure canne I take while hée toyleth in penurie who nowe in mine age shoulde bée the staffe whereon to staie that by his valyaunt courage and warlike prowesse wherewith from his infancie hée hath béene indewed might defend mee from mine enimies and reuenge mée of my foes But alasse I lament too late the calme commeth out of time when the Shippe alreadie hath suffered shipwracke and these pittifull plaintes little preuaile where the patient is alreadie pushed into perill No no my rage hath béene too greate to heare of his hastie retourne my peruerse furie hath béene such as hée dare not abide my presence and surely my sorrowe is too greate euer to bée salued And with that Clerophontes start vp minding to reuenge these his cholarike cogitations by bloudie battaile vppon the confines of Alexandria and therefore in greate hast mustered all his men made great prouisions for the warre and caused his Nauie to bée rigged for that hée meant to conueie his armie by sea into Alexandria While thus there was no worde through the whole Dukedome of Meteline but warre warre and no newes but of the cruell conflicte that shoulde insue betwéene the two Dukes Certaine Merchauntes of Alexandria which then roade in the Hauen durst not goe a shoare to sell their commodities but as fast as Winde and weather would serue them highed them out of the harbour and coasted spéedely into their owne countrie wher they no sooner arriued but they made reporte thereof to Orlanio who driuen into a dumpe wyth this noysome newes whether he doubted of the puissant power of Clerophontes who was such a worthie warriour and in battaile so bolde that no man durst abide him or whether he feared his owne force was not able to resist the furie of his raging enimie He presently summoned all his Lordes to a Parliament where after some conference it was concluded that Thersandro should bée sent Embassadour to Metelyne to parle of peace with Clerophontes which determination was no whit deferred but with as much spéede as might be the barke wherein he should passe was prouided the charge of the Embassage was giuen him he accompanied with a traine of braue Gentlemen departed But if this newes was dolefull to Orlanio no doubt it was death it selfe to Gwidonius who hearing that his Father would bend his force against the place wherein he was Sawe all possibilitie taken awaie from obtayning his purpose For he feared death if he were knowen to Orlanio and he doubted despightfull hate at the least if he bewraide himselfe to Castania Which double dolour so distressed him as he felte himselfe diuersly perplexed with dumpish passions his mirth was tourned to mourning his pleasaunt conceits to painefull cogitations his wanton toyes to wailing thoughtes now he abondoned all good companie and delighted onely in solytarie life the wilesome woodes were his wished walkes and the secret shades the couert he chiefly coueted In fine he séemed rather a Tymon of Athens then a Gentleman of Alexandria so that all the Court meruailed at this so sodaine a chaunge but especially Castania who cōiecturing his doleful hart by his drousy looks was astonished at this his strange state casting in her mind whether she had giuen him any cause of this care or whether by her occasion he was crossed with this calamitie But alas poore soule howsoeuer she aimed she mist y e marke for Gwydonius felte his disease so secrete as hée knewe none could but himselfe deuine the cause of his maladie which no doubt was such that it woulde haue inferred present death if he had not hoped for some happie newes by Thersandro Who no sooner luckely ariued at Metelyne but Clerophontes was certified that the Dukes son of Alexandria was come to impart with his grace some waightie matters of importaunce Nowe at this instaunt when the message was brought him his Daughter Lewcippa was by who as the Nature of women is desirous to sée and bee séene thought she woulde both heare the parle and viewe the person of this young Embassadour and therefore found fish on her fingers that