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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31020	An apologie for Paris for rejecting of Juno and Pallas, and presenting of Ate's golden ball to Venus with a discussion of the reasons that might induce him to favour either of the three : occasioned by a private discourse, wherein the Trojans judgment was carped at by some and defended / by R.B., Gent.	Baron, Robert, b. 1630.	1649 (1649)	Wing B888; ESTC R11456	29,594	112

avarous Pigmalion of his heaps of gold as little cause have we to wrangle with Paris for this amorous stealth For if we be angry with Corn-ingrossers and misers that hoord up a little worldly pelfe why should we not as well blame them that ingrosse rich beauties so much the more by how much the treasure that they ingrosse is more divine and precious than their trifling riches But some may object that Paris by this judgement made himselfe as his mother Hecuba dreamt he would prove the firebrand of his Countrey 't was he that did devast and destroy Troy sometimes strong in wealth and wals Notissima fama Insula dives opum Priami dum Regna manebant Nunc tamen sinus statio malefida carinis An Ile whose wealth as fame of old did know Within as free as Seas without did flow Whilst Priam did her flourishing Scepter sway Now rubbish and to Ships a trecherous Bay This brought seventy Kings and Kingly Peeres from Greece with twelve hundred fifty five War ships whose golden Poops did gild and staine the blew ennamell of the deep to block coop him up for ten yeares ten moneths and twice six dayes This waked the Lyon War and made eight hundred sixty thousand Greeks staine the Trojan weapons with their dearest bloud and sent six hundred fifty six thousands of Trojans fighting men besides the slaughtered at the Sack to engarrison and take up their Quarters in the Kingdome of perpetuall night omitting more of little lesser fame the noble bloud of forty Kings ran A Tilt if we allow Hector Troilus and Paris that title The free sword tooke liberty to act all that it pleased and was as familiar with entrailes as the Augures all hate had licence given it all fury had loose reines slaughter and death bestrid the streets whilst the gore he shed flowed up and stained his thighs and carried downe whole heaps of limbs and mangled bodies which the coles of their owne flaming houses roasted no sex or age escaped infants in the Porch of Life the sicke the aged that could not hope one day more from natures bounty fell some to fil up the number some to make the prey it was crime enough that they had lives Pluto's covetous boat-swaine fainted and asked a Fleet rather than a Boat to ferrie over those sad soules to the blacke world whose bodies the mawes and Dennes of Beasts could scarce containe the whole Earth became a Grave and all to satisfie a hot Lust But if this had not happened the world had lost that high Example of filiall duty and piety that Aeneas gave in burthening his shoulders with his feeble and most aged Father Anchises and leading by the hand his sonne Ascanius of the age of twelve yeares bearing him through the wastfull flames maugre the wrathfull foes into the fields of Phrygia Out of these ashes also sprung the worlds Phaenix the Roman Nation that gave Lawes to all the rest and the Brittish that performed acts of more Palme than Fame has breath to blaze And we have no reason to call Paris the Viper that eat out the bowels of his Countrey because this sad event of his judgement was hid from his eyes If Nature had made every man a Prometheus to contemplate or a Tiresias to prognosticate the event of things before the action of them or if we all had our Nativities calculated to our hands and were fore-warned of and so fore-armed against those Legions of perils that should encounter us in our lives warfare there would be no need of the veneration of Fortune or repairing to her fane to implore her Protean Deitie to be auspicious to us in the conduct of our affaires for a disease when knowne is halfe cured a wound discovered is recovered and a danger that is expected is toothlesse and halfe prevented but we are not all allyed to the Sybils nor have we the gift of divination shared amongst us because we should have our minds intense upon heroicke atchievements and still aemulari meliora and leave the sequell to vertue who never failes to elevate her patient sonnes above the reach of chance And as Ignorance is held to be the Mother of Devotion so in this point its the cause of most mens industry For if all carried their destinies inscribed on their foreheads such as were condemned to hew their livings out of the Rocks would never appeale to Fortune to divert her harsh sentence but would sit downe in despaire and sigh out with Tacitus Fortunae saevienti submittendus est animus or with Seneca Fatis Agimur cedite fatis Non sollicitae possunt curae Mutare rati stamina fusi By resolute Fates we guided be To their pleasures submit we No care can alter their decree The Median and Persian Fates are not like that pack of petty Tyrants that make Acts and Ordinances to day and vote them void too morrow no their inalterable Order is out that we should alwayes tug at the Oare nor can our anxious care contrive a way to ransome us from these hatches under which we must ever lye at dead Anchor wherfore its better for us to subject our necks to the yron yoke of servitude forged for us with Sheepish patience than like the wild Bull strangle our selves with strugling to breake that net from which we shall never unintangle our feet and so by their sighs of desperation as with bellowes they augment the fury of the inraged wind whereas if the love of Vertue could make them swell their sailes with breathings after the Cape of good Hope they might perhaps arrive at the Port of Honour E contra if men were no greater strangers to their ends than to their beginnings those that Fortune had selected for her minions would expect still to be dandled upon her knee and that the Cornucopia and redundancy of her best favours should drop into their mouths whilst they like Marcus Lepidus stretcht themselves upon Flora's green Carpet Therefore lest the ardour and breathings after fame should be refrigerated in Cadets by their despaire of soaring above the gutter though they should spread and try to flutter with their Estrich wings of faint hope or in others by their presumption of being borne up to Promotions hill on the shoulders of their smiling Fate and there to find warme lodgings which they never swet for prudent Nature lets no man know what the plot is that she intends in the severall Scenes of his life till he comes to act the Epilogue which contrary to other Comedians he usually desires to protract Some in their passage through this elementary world find their way strewed with Roses and their paths spread with butter others prick their feet with bryars and thornes and stick fast in the muddy sloughs of trouble and are compell'd like Haniball upon the Alps vel viam invenire vel facere to find or make way over the hedges and ditches of incombrance And as a Pilgrim that steeres his unknowne course to some remote shrine when he comes at a crosse way is apt to take the fairest path Semblably we when we meet with any thing ambiguous take our owne construction which is ever such as the pulse of our affections beats after and we sooth up our selves that herein we deviate not from truth for facile credimus quod volumus Thus Aeacides demanding of the Oracle what event his War with Troy should have he interpreted the Oracles answer which was Aio te Aeacides Trojanos vincere posse Aeacides to vanquish Troy I able doe pronounce Thus I Say thou art able to subdue the Trojans whereas he should have construed this Amphiboly in this wise I tell thee the Trojans are able to vanquish thee And that other Prince who enquired whether or no he should make a prosperous expedition against his enemies and had this in a scroule Ibis redibis nunquam per bella peribis Thou shalt goe thou shalt returne never war shall end thee Put the second comma where he would have had it meant viz. next that verb Redibis whereas he should have placed it next the Adverb nunquam and thus falsly animated he ingaged and breathed his last in the Attempt Thus the Ilian Prince Paris having the 3 Goddesses standing before him and pleading for the prize of beauty conferr'd it upon Venus because he conceiv'd she being the potentest of the three in that she boasted her Trophies over the chief of the rest was most able to doe him good or hurt and that he should be so perfectly felicified in what she could confer upon him as all the scruples of gall that the other two Deities could cast into his sweet messe could not be able to imbitter it FINIS