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death_n	body_n	life_n	true_a	4,445	5	4.7126	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06673	The second part of the historie, called The nature of a woman contayning the end of the strife betwixt Perseus and Theseus. Compiled by C.M.	C. M., fl. 1596.; Middleton, Christopher, 1560?-1628, attributed name.	1596 (1596)	STC 17127; ESTC S119676	23,507	44

THE SECOND PART OF THE HISTORIE CALLED THE NATVRE OF A WOMAN Contayning the end of the strife betwixt Perseus and Theseus Compiled by C. M. AT LONDON Printed by the Widow Orwin for Clement Knight and are to be sold at his shop at the little North-doore of S. Paules Church 1596. To the curteous and friendly Reader AS it fares in the estate of al things that are so changed from their first as if the Fathers of the first world liued to reuise this last they should hardlie learne to know that wherein then they liued So fares it in this vse of these triuiall toyes which men were wont to cal by the names of some personages whose liues or deaths were deciphered therein but now framing their fancies to a new fashion they will needes haue them named according to their natures Sicut trahit sua quemque voluntas And for my selfe was loath to breake square I haue intituled this Historie The nature of a VVoman which though therein it answer not euerie mans priuat expectation in what they meane yet could not I fit it better to the matter containing indeede nothing but the enuious practises of two wicked women wherein if any take offence let him for this time winke at my fault as rather affecting to frame my selfe to the new fashion that it should be accounted new stuffe then following the old be esteemed as too stale Yours C. M. The second part of the Historie called the nature of a VVoman contayning the trauaile of Perseus after he had fled from his Armie CHAP. 1. AFter that the vnconstant state of neuer stayed fortune had throwne downe these vnfortunate people from the height of those heauēly pleasures which before they inioyed in prosperitie downe euen to the lowest degrée of blacke bottomles aduersitie First in rooting out the hope of their succéeding remembrance likely to liue long after they should dye in their happie children Then with y e eating canker of al vndoing enuie seuering asunder by their warres their well grounded commonwealth which they so long had gouerned in peace And lastly laying vpon themselues that which their dissention had ouerloaded their poore countrimē withall the hard sentence of exiles extremitie more grieuous then the coldest kind of bitter pinching pouertie a more dismall diuorsiue sentence then is the separation of a secure soule from an earthly blessed bodie for that the one ends all aduersitie the other begins their after miserie the one changes the stinking state of this lothsome life into the neuer dying ioyes of heauenly felicitie but the other with a countermanding course puls backe the forwarde fortune of mens still mounting mindes whom nature feedes with the hope of more and more happie blessings into the despayring gulfe of all vndoing extremitie This is the bridle where with foule fortune bindes in the strong headed state of many mightie Monarchies when neither loue of vertue nor hate of vice feare of their friends ill nor care of their owne weale plagues at home nor other punishment abroad can pull backe to behold the wicked waies they haue ouer walked then suffers she them to perseuer in their peeuish penance meriting purpose till vnawares they bee assayled with the enuious incounters of vnlooked for exile where they must weare out their age with sorrow whose youth was wasted in all ioy and learne to eate the bitter bread of banishment abroad that could not satisfie themselues with the abundant pleasures of their countries content at home and let their death conquering déedes dye in desolation which should after death eternize their euer-liuing names to their yet vnthought of generation where no pen shall paint out their perfect picture nor any tongue shall tell their true stories but dye like the soule wanting bodies of brutish beasts the processe of whose forespent life no mans memories admits Such was the harmefull hap of these now hopeles Kings who whilest with the sun-shine of their luckie loue they blessed the furthest borders of this their then thrice renowned regiment made fortune proude that it lay in her power to aduance them But now they vnaduisedly haue broake downe the force of their brotherly affections entring as nakedly into woe as whilome when they were borne into the world gins like a guideles shippe to turne with euery tossing sea that were wont to stand steady like two sturdie rocks till at length seuered asunder to goe seeke their seuerall punishment Perseus that for his safegard had tane his way to the desert hils that with their height compasses that countrie wasting many a wearie day in the sad remembrance of his shipwrack gins now by the sowre sawce of fortunes aduersitie iudge with himselfe the pleasure of his former prosperitie and like a man that setled with himselfe to trie the hardest brunts of this enuious ill lucke now in stead of comfortable companie to whom he might complaine his case expels sorrow with sorrowe and quench the fire of his inwarde foggie sighes by vttering to the eares of those vnacquainted ecchoes the harsh historie of his ill ending daies delighting in stead of the replie of a fauourable friend to heare the aggrauating eccho resounding from the craggie caues of those hollowe hils the sorrowfull sound of woe ending words Whereat the poore soule sate downe and sighed till the ouer-charged burthen of his heart forcibly breaking out in abundance of christall teares did with sacietie of sorrowe make shew of ease to euill which indéede had no ende whose daylie plaints moued with their mo●es as the Thracian with his musicke the hard and ruinous rockes that vnderpropped the skie-brauing tops of those mightie mountaines to melt their marble sides into the shew of melting teares plaining of him that could not pitie himselfe and in stead of helping hands moues their senceles heads as willing though wanting power to ease his agonie Many dayes did he spend in this careful course cutting out in capital letters vpō the barks of those adioyning trées the dismall discourse of this his pitifull plight writing the records of his woes in the stony tables of hard marble rocks that might incite the eyes of euery trauailer to teares and pitie his woes whose wracke they could not preuent At last when euen wearie with wéeping though still full of teares as is the nature of man gréedie of nouelties gins with himselfe deuise how in despite of that distresse he might inuent some new-found forme to lament whose sorrows might satisfie the effect of his intēt and change the outwarde semblance of his sorrowfull shewe and sitting him sadly downe by a bubling spring wherein he might see the reflexe of his sorrowfull face he thus begins in a song to braue the hard brunts of his haples heart that still affoorded new fuell for his sorrowes fire fresh springs of teares for his watrie eyes and still replying words for his tragick tatling tongue Ye merrie Muses whose delightfull wits Busied in framing seuerall pleasing songs Come here and dwell by