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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21132	Two tales, translated out of Ariosto: the one in dispraise of men, the other in disgrace of women. VVith certaine other Italian stanzas and prouerbs. By R.T. gentleman	Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533.; Tofte, Robert, 1561-1620.	1597 (1597)	STC 749; ESTC S114456	15,396	32

excuse to hide it from his sight But when he sawe he was as one with Chile To know his ill he saide her faith once plight She breake should ere he gone was forth one mile Not forc'te by Praiers or Beauty in this case But fouly being corrupt by gaine most base Ioynde to first feare and doubt he had as now The threatnings of the angry Heauens aboue How he did feele himselfe imagin thou If such like chance hath hapned thee in Loue Yet that which makes his heart to burst and bow And most of all his galled minde doth moue Is for to know orecome with Auarice Shee le sell her Honor at a worthlesse price Now to preuent what possible might be That into Errors such she might not fall For Want makes men the Alters oft we see To robbe that they may liue from needy Thrall Such iewels and gold as he had vnder key For he had mountaines to her gaue he all Rents Leases Debts Reuenues of his land And all he had he put into her hand With leaue quoth he not onely thou this Wealth For thy expenses as shall like thee take But as thou please sell spend this paltry Pelfe Waste and consume and hauocke of all make Nor other count I le haue ere of thy selfe So as I leaue thee I may louing Mate Find thee the same so such I find thee may Sell House Farme Liuings Lease and all away Besides when he shall part he her doth pray She would to the Country to her Mannor wend. And not within the noysome cittie stay Where she might liue more free from troubles pend All this saide hee because he thought not ay Those country Swaines who beasts and plows do tend Could ere corrupt by subtile shifts most rife The chaste desires of his beloued Wife Meane while Argia doth with armes embrace And hangs her fearefull husbands necke about And doth with pearly drops bedew that face Which forth from eies as from a fountaine sprowt It grieues her she is blamed in this case As if already she had causde him doubt And that from hence suspition his vniust Did spring bicause her Faith he did mistrust Orelong it were all here for to be pend Which at his parting said was by them both At last quoth he mine Honor I commend To thee and so doth wend his way though loath And surely then his life seemde for to end When horse he turnes and riding from her goth She him lookes after till he is out of sight Sweete teares distilling from Loues Lymbecke bright Meane while wretched Adonio pale and wan And as I said before much changde to see Towardes country his his iourney tooke poore man Hoping he should not knowne of any be And by that Lake hard by the cittie came Where he the Snake from country Boore did free Who her besieging in the hedge had pent And meant to kill her ere away he went Arriuing there bout dawning of the day For yet the skies some starres cleere shining bare He saw to come in princely garments gay Towardes him alongst the shore a Lady faire And though nor Man nor Maide with her did stay Her presence shewd she was Persnage rare Who him accosts with sweete and gratious cheare And after him salutes as you shall heare Although sir Knight to you vnknowne I am Yet I your Parent hight much to you bound For both of vs from worthy Cadmus came And to descend from that same line are found The Fairy Manto am I of whose name Because to build this Cittie I in ground The first stone laide it Mantua called is As oft th' ast heard vnlesse my markes I misse Of Fairies one am I and of our fatall starre Cause it importes vs to thee shew I will In such a time borne were we as we are Excepting death subiect to eu'ry ill But so to be immortall worse is farre Then for to die for liuing die we still Since each of vs each seuenth whole day is sure From Fate to Snake changde so that time to dure To see our selues closde in so foule a skin And crawling creepe so loathsome is a sight As to the world no vglier thing can seeme And curse we do the houre we first sawe light How I beholding to thee much haue beene For I will shew thee whence this comes aright Know then that whilst in snakie shape we lurke We are in danger of great harmes and hurt No liuing thing on earth is hated so As Serpents are and we which haue their forme If we be spide do suffer wracke and woe Each one assailing vs with furious storme If we some hole finde not wherein to goe Our skinnes with blowes are all to beate and torne And better a thousand times to die it were Than maimde and lame such plages stil for to beare Much am I bound to thee for on a time As thou didst passe along this pleasant Shade From country Carle thou sau'dst this life of mine Who in this place me dead for feare sore fraid And had't not bin for thee this heauy signe I borne had on my backe who loade on laid Or at the least had made me ' smembred lie Though t was not in his power to make me die For whilst we traile like Snakes our breasts on ground The Planets which vnto vs subiect are At other times now contrary are found We wanting force their power from vs they barre At other times the Sunne by vs is bound Still for to stand more darke than Darkenesse farre The earth to moue and turne in strangest guise The Ice to flame and fire to melt like Ice Now am I come to thanke thee for thy paine And this good turne done me to recompence Aske what thou wilt nor ask't shalt thou in vaine For now I am free from Vipers shape and sence Thrice richer than thy father did remaine I will thou be before thou goe from hence Nor though thou wouldst thou ere more shalt be poore But still the more thou spendst rich shalt be more And for bicause I know th' art still in loue Where first thou wast nor change canst thy desire A way I le shew thee forthy best behoue How thou maist to thy wished will aspire I will foorthwith this counsell mine thou proue For iealous Husband is from home not by her Thou to the Country where she bides shalt wend And I to help thee wil on thee attend And therewithall she gan most cunningly To teach him how himselfe he should present Fore Lady his how her to tempt and trie What Weeds to weare to further his intent And doth bethinke what shape most fittingly She take should for her selfe for this attempt For but the terme whilst she liude as a Snake She might what forme she pleasde vpon her take In habite of a pouer Pelegrine She him doth change which begs from doore to doore Her selfe into a little Dog so small and fine As Nature n'er had made the like before With curld haire

hauing done amisse Then maist thou rightly say she honest is With such strange speech and to the same much leeke Th'enchantresse subtill egges me onward stil That I to know my Ladies faith will seeke By proofe to see hap to me good or ill Suppose quoth I the nuptiall bands she breke Which I cannot beleeue beleeue nor will How may I afterward my selfe assure If praise or shame she merites to endure Melissa answered I le bestowe on thee A Cup to drinke in of rare Vertue strange Morgana's worke that brother hers might see How oft from faith Geneuora did range Who a wife hath chaste drinke in 't may frank free But he cannot if she be giuen to change For when he thinkes the wine to drinke therein It spils and spurts in bosome strait of him Before thou part I will the same thou proue And without shedding drop thou drink it shall For I do know thy wife 's yet true in loue As soone thou this effect see plainely shal But if at thy returne thy hart thee moue Triall to make I doubt what will befall For if not shedding in bosome drinke thou can Then I le count thee the happiest married man This proffer with the Cup she doth bestowe On me I do accept and put in vre The proofe and finde as I desirde to know My louing Mate chaste to me constant pure Melissa saith alittle from her go A month or two to stay from home endure Then turne againe and trie if in this Cup Thou without spilling canst the wine drinke vp To me it seemde a death to go my way Not that I doubted of her faith so much As cause a day I could not form her stay No not an houre my loue to her was such I le make thee finde the trueth of this did say Melissa if thou wilt by other touch Change shalt thou speech and wotdes for this intent And like another fore her thy selfe present Hearke how The Po a citie doth defend Which stands here by with fierce and threatning Horn Whose iurisdiction doth from hence extend To the place where Sea his ebbe and flow doth turne For auncientnesse it yeeldes but doth contend With others richnes such doth it adorne The Troyans Ofspring there first plot did lay Which scaped from the scourge of Attila In treasure rich a louely youthfull Knight This Cittie bridle doth with lordly raine Who after Falcon ranne which did alight One day by chance in pallace thine amaine Where he thy wife sawe who so at first sight Pleasde him as signe in heart doth still remaine And many shifts he vsed afterward To his desire to make her bowe too hard Yet her repulses sharpe so bitter were That he his sute gaue ore as desperate But yet her beauty which Loue drawne had there Within his minde he helde and n'er forgate Melissa so me flattered in mine eare As I content was she should lay this plat And me she changde but how I know not I Like him in speech and fauour sodainely I had before vnto my wife yfainde That towardes the Leuant I parted was to goe But in this youthfull louer being changde In gate in voyce in habite and in show I with my Witch returnde who still remainde With me and tooke of Page the shape as tho And gemmes of price had which as we did faine From th'Indians and the Eritreans came I which did know ech doore of pallace mine Boldly entred Melissa following me And found my Woman then at such a time As man nor maide I there with her could see I shew my griefe and then with cunning fine The Spurres of euill if so she will agree I offer Rubies Diamonds Emeraulds such As would haue moude a minde more chaste by much And tell her this is but a trifle small To such rare Iewels as afterward shall come The opportunitie she hath withall I shew her sith her husband is from home Then as she knew I prayde to mind to call How I to be her Louer still haue showne And that I louing her with loue so chaste Well worthy was of some rewarde at last Much was she grieude at first these words to heare Nor would she heare me speake but blusht for shame But seeing those costly gems which shone more cleare Than fire her stubberne hart strait meek became And answered with a soft and fainting cheare That which to thinke on makes me dead remaine That if she were assurde none might this know She ready was this pleasure me to show This speech to my heart as poisned dart did come Through which my soule me thought transfixed was Through euery ioint a sodaine cold did run My speech remaind twixt iawes nor forth could passe Melissa who her Chauntments had vndone Turnde me into my proper shape and face Imagin how she lookte when found by me Her selfe she sawe in so fowle fault to be Both of vs pale became as death most like Both of vs speechlesse with our eyes on ground Scarce had my faltring tongue such force and might Thus to crie out griefe so my heart did wound And wouldst thou then betray me shamelesse wight When who would buy mine honor thou hadst found To this no answere gaue she me at all But teares like orient pearles on cheekes let fall Great was her shame her coller more not lesse To see me gainst her worke this strange disgrace And so increast as last in headinesse As rage and deadly hate in her tooke place Seeking to flie from me with speedinesse And when the Sunne had run his wonted race She to the riuer steales where all the night In Barge she rowes away with maine and might And in the morning doth her selfe present Before that Knight who her long time had lou'de Vnder whose habite false and shape I went When witlesse gainst mine honour I her mou'de Iudge you how welcome she and her intent Was to him who n'er thoght such ioy t' haue prou'de Thence word she sent me which as death doth gore That n'er she would be mine nor loue me more Wo is me from that day vnto this in ioy She liues with him and iesteth at my griefe And I thankes to my selfe in this annoy Do pine away and no where finde reliefe Still growes it and iust t is it me destroy And little now remaines my dayes to briefe Nor scarce I thinke the first yeere had I liuen But that one thing to me hath comfort giuen The comfort 's this that of so many men Which here for ten yeeres space y-lodged be For I this Cup doe offer all of them Not one sauns sheading drinke I yet could see To see as mine so many with like wem Vpon their cheeke some comfort is to me Thou onely done amongst so many hast Wisely for to refuse so dangerous taste My curious will which made me search to know More than I ought the manners of my Wife Makes care and griefe fresh in me still to grow And forceth me to