lyghtnes make thée the bye word of the world O Lucilla Lucilla woulde thou wert lesse fayre or more fortunate eyther of lesse honour or greater honestie eyther better minded or soone buryed Shall thine olde father lyue to sée thée match with a younge foole shall my kinde hearte be rewarded with such vnkinde hate Ah Lucilla thou knowest not the care of a father nor the duetie of a childe and as farre art thou from pietie as I from crueltie Nature will not permitte me to disherit my daughter and yet it will suffer thée to dishonour thy father Affection causeth me to wishe thy life and shall it entice thée to procure my death It is mine onely comfort to sée thée florishe in thy youth and is it thine to see me fade in mine age to conclude I desire to liue to sée thee prosper thou to sée me perish But why cast I the effect of this vnnaturalnesse in thy téeth séeing I my selfe was the cause I made thée a wanton and thou hast made mée a foole I brought thee vpp lyke a cockney and thou hast handled mee lyke a cockescombe I speake it to mine owne shame I made more of thée then became a Father thou lesse of me then beséemed a childe And shal my louing care be cause of thy wicked crueltie yea yea I am not the first that hath bene too carefull nor the last that shall bée handled so vnkindely it is common to sée Fathers too fonde and children to frowarde Well Lucilla the teares which thou séest trickle downe my â—héekes and the droppes of bloude whiche thou canst not see that fall from my heart enforce me to make an ende of my talke and if thou haue any duetie of a childe or care of a friende or courtesie of a straunger or féelinge of a Christian or humanitie of a reasonable creature then release thy Father of gryefe and acquite thy selfe of vngratefulnesse otherwyse thou shalte but hasten my deathe and encrease thine owne defame which if thou doe the gaine is mine and the losse thine and both infinite Lucilla eyther so bewitched that shee coulde not relente or so wicked that shée woulde not yelde to hir Fathers request aunswered him on this manner Déere Father as you woulde haue mée to shewe the duetie of a childe so ought you to shewe the care of a parent and as the one standeth in obedience so the other is grounded vpon reason You would haue me as I owe duetie to you to leaue Curio and I desire you as you owe mée any loue that you suffer me to enioye him If you accuse mée of vnnaturalnesse in that I yelde not to your request I am also to condemne you of vnkindenesse in that you graunt not my petition You obiecte I knowe not what to Curio but it is the eye of the maister that fatteth the horse and the loue of the woman that maketh the man To giue reason for fancie were to weighe the fire and measure the winde If therefore my delight bée the caâ—se of your death I thincke my sorrowe would bée an occasion of your solace And if you be angrye bicause I am pleased certes I déeme you woulde be content if I were deceased which if it be so that my pleasure bréede your paine and mine annoy your ioye I may well say that you are an vnkinde Father and I an vnfortunate childe But good Father either content your selfe wyth my choice or let me stand to the maine chaunce otherwise the griefe will be mine and the fault yours and both vntollerable Ferardo séeinge his daughter to haue neither regarde of hir owne honour nor his requestâ— conceyued such an inwarde gryefe that in short space hée dyed leauing Lucilla the onely heire of his landes and Curio to possesse them but what ende came of hir séeing it is nothing incident to the history of Euphues it were superfluous to insert it and so incredible that all women would rather wonder at it thou beléeue it which euent being so strauÌ„ge I had rather leaue them in a muse what it should bee then in a maze in telling what it was Philautus hauing intelligence of Euphues his successe and the falshoode of Lucilla although he began to reioyce at the miserye of his fellowe yet séeinge hir ficklenesse coulde not but lamente hir follye and pittie his friendes misfortune Thinckinge that the lightnesse of Lucilla enticed Euphues to so great liking Euphues and Philaâ—tus hauing conference betwéene themselues castinge discourtesie in the téeth each of the other but chiefly noting disloyaltie in the demeanor of Lucilla after much talke renewed their olde friendship both abandoning Lucilla as most abhominable Philautus was earnest to haue Euphues â—arrie in Naples and Euphues desirous to haue Philautus to Athens but the one was so addicted to the court the other so wedded to the vniuersitie that each refused the offer of the other yet this they agréed betwéene themselues that though their bodyes were by distaunce of place seuered yet the coniunction of their mindes shoulde neither bée seperated by the length of time nor alienated by chaunge of soyle I for my parte sayde Euphues to confirme thys league gyue thée my hand and my heart and so likewise did Philautus and so shaking handes they bid each other farewell Euphues to the intent hée might bridell the ouerlashing affections of Philautus conuayed into his studye a certeyne pamphlet which hée termed a coolinge carde for Philautus yet generallye to be applyed to all louers which I haue inserted as followeth ¶ A cooling Carde for Philautus and all fond louers MUsing with my selfe béeing idle howe I myght be well unployed friend Philautus I could finde nothing either more fitte to continue our friendshippe or of greater force to dissolue our follye then to write a remedy for that which many iudge past cure for loue Philautus with that which I haue bene so tormented that I haue lost my time thou so troubled that thou hast forgot reason both so mangled with repulse inueigled by deceite and almost murthered by dysdain that I can neither remember our miseries without griefe nor redresse our mishaps without groanes How wantonly yea and howe willingly haue wee abused our golden time and mispent our gotten treasure How curious were we to please our Lady how carelesse to displease our Lord How deuoute in seruing our Goddesse howe desperate in forgetting our God Ah my Philautus if the wasting of our money might not dehort vs yet the wounding of our mindes should deterre vs if reason might nothing perswade vs to wisdome yet shame should prouoke vs to wyt If Lucilla reade this trifle she will straight proclaime Euphues for a traytour and seeing mée tourne my tippet will either shut mee out for a Wrangler or cast me off for a Wiredrawer either conuince mee of mallice in bewraying their sleightes or condemne me of mischiefe in arming younge men against fléetinge minions And what then Though Curio bée as hotte as a toast yet
nourisher of wantonnesse Had it not bene better for thée to haue eaten salt with the Philosophers in Greece then sugar with the courtiers of Italy But behold the course of youth which alwayes inclyneth to pleasure I forsooke mine olde companions to search for new friends I reiected the graue and fatherly counsayle of Eubulus to follow the brainesicke humor of mine owne will. I addicted my selfe wholy to the seruice of women to spende my lyfe in the lappes of Ladyes my lands in maintenance of brauerie my witte in the vanities of idle Sonnets I had thought that women had bene as we men that is true faithfull zealous constant but I perceiue they be rather woe vnto men by their falshood gelousie inconstancie I was halfe perswaded that they were made of the perfection of men would be comforters but now I sée they haue tasted of the infection of the Serpent and will be corasiues The Phisition saythe it is daungerous to minister Phisicke vnto the patient that hath a colde stomacke and a hotte lyuer least in giuing warmth to the one he inflame the other so verely it is harde to deale with a woman whose wordes séeme feruent whose heart is congealed into harde yce least trusting their outwarde talke he be betraied with their inwarde trechery I will to Athens ther to tosse my bookes no more in Naples to lyue with faire lookes I will so frame my selfe as al youth héereafter shal rather reioice to se mine amendmeÌ„t then be animated to follow my former lyfe Philosophie Phisicke Diuinitie shal be my studie O the hidden secrets of Nature the expresse image of morall vertues the equall ballaunce of Iustice the medicines to heale all diseases how they beginne to delyght me The Axiomaes of Aristotle the Maxinis of Iustinian the Aphorismes of Galen haue sodaynelye made such a breache into my minde that I séeme onely to desire them which did onely earst detest them Iâ— witte be employed in the honest study of learning what thing so pretious as witte if in the idle trade of loue what thing more pestilent then witte The proofe of late hath bene verefied in me whome nature hath endued with a lyttle witte which I haue abused with an obstinate will most true it is that the thing the better it is the greater is the abuse and that ther is nothing but through the mallice of man may be abused Doth not the fire an element so necessarie that without it man cannot lyue as well burne the house as burne in the house if it be abused Doth not Treacle as wel poyson as helpe if it be taken out of time Doth not wine if it be immoderately taken kill the stomacke enflame the lyuer murther the droncken Doth not Phisicke destroy if it be not well tempred Doth not law accuse if it be not ryghtly interpreted Doth not diuinitie condemne if it be not faythfully construed Is not poyson taken out of the Honnysuckle by the Spider venime out of the Rose by the Canker dunge out of the Maple trée by the Scorpion Euen so the greatest wickednesse is drawne out of the greatest wit if it bée abused by will or entangled with the world or inueig-with women But séeinge I sée mine owne impietie I wyll endeuoure my selfe to amende all that is paste and to be a myrrour of godlynes héereafter The Rose though a lyttle it be eaten with the Canker yet béeing distilled yéeldeth swéete water the yron thoughe fretted with the ruste yet béeing burnte in the fire shyneth brighter and witte although it hath bene eaten with the canker of his owne conceite and fretted with the rust of vaine loue yet beeinge purified in the still of wisedome and tryed in the fire of zeale will shine bright and smell swéete in the nosethrilles of all young nouises As therefore I gaue a farewell to Lucilla a farewell to Naples a farewell to woemen so now doe I giue a farewell to the worlde meaning rather to macerate my selfe with melancholye then pine in follye rather choosinge to dye in my studye amiddest my bookes then to courte it in Italy in the company of Ladyes It happened immediatly Ferardo to retourne home who hearing this straunge euent was not a lyttle amazed and was nowe more readye to exhorte Lucilla from the loue of Curio then before to the lykinge of Philautus Therefore in all haste with watryâ— eyes and a wofull heart began on this manner to reason with his daughter Lucilla daughter I am ashamed to call thée séeing thou hast neyther care of thy fathers tender affection nor of thine owne credite what sprite hath enchaunted thy spirite that euery minute thou alterest thy minde I had thought that my hoary haires should haue found comforte by thy golden lockes and my rotten age greate ease by thy rype yeares But alas I sée in thée neyther witte to order thy doinges neyther will to frame thy selfe to discretion neither the nature of a child neyther the nurture of a mayden neyther I cannot without teares speake it any regarde of thine honour neyther any care of thine honestie I am nowe enforced to remember thy mothers deathe who I thincke was a Prophetesse in hir lyfe for oftentimes shée woulâ—e saye that thou haddest more beautie then was conuenient for one that shoulde bée honeste and more câ—ckering then was méete for one that shoulde bée a Matrone Woulde I had neuer lyued to bée so olde or thou to bée so obstinate eyther woulde I had dyed in my youthe in the courte or thou in thy cradle I woulde to God that eyther Iâ— had neuer bene borne or thou neuer bredde Is this the comfort that the parent reapeth for all his care Is obstinacie payed for obedience stubbernnesse rendred for duetie mallitious desperatenesse for filiall feare I perceiue now that the wiâ—e Paynter saw more then the foolish parent can who paynted loue going downeward saying it might well descend but ascende it coulde neuer Danaus whome they reporte to bée the father of fiftie children had amonge them all but one that disobeyed him in a thinge most dishonest but I that am father to one more then I would be although one be all haue that one most disobedient to me in a request lawfull and reasonable If Danaus séeing but one of his daughters without awe became himselfe without mercie what shall Ferardo doe in this case who hath one and all most vnnaturall to him in a most iust cause Shall Curio enioy the fruite of my trauailes possesse the benefite of my labours enherit the patrimony of mine auncestors who hath neither wisedome to increase theÌ„ nor wit to kéepe theÌ„ wilt thou Lucilla bestow thy self on such an one as hath neither comlines in his body nor knowledge in his minde nor credite in his countrey Oh I would thou haddest eyther bene euer faithfull to Philautus or neuer faithlesse to Euphues or would thou wouldest be more fickle to Curio As thy beautie hath made thée blaze of Italy so will thy
Euphues is as colde as a clock though he be a Cocke of the game yet Euphues is content to bée crauen and crye creeke though Curio bée olde huddle and twange ipse hée yet Euphues had rather shrinke in the weeting then wast in the wearing I knowe Curio to be stéele to the backe standerd bearer in Venus campe sworne to the crewe true to the crowne knight marshall to Cupid and heire apparaunt to his kingdome But by that time that he hath eaten but one bushell of salt wyth Lucilla he shall taste tenne quarters of sorrow in his loue then shall he finde for euerye pynte of honnye a gallon of gall for euerye dramme of pleasure an ounce of payne for euery inche of mirth an ell of moane And yet Philautus if there be any man in despayre to obtayne his purpose or so obstinate in his opinion that hauing lost his fredome by solly would also lose his lyfe for loue lette him repaire hether and hée shall reape suche profite as will eyther quenche his flames or asswage his furye eyther cause him to renounce his Ladye as most pernicious or redéeme his lybertie as most pretious Come therefore to me all ye louers that haue bene deceiued by fancie the glasse of pestilence or deluded by woemen the gate to perdition be as earnest to séeke a medicine as you wer eager to runne into a mischiefe the earth bringeth forth as well Endyue to delyght the people as Hâ—mlocke to endaunger the patient as well the Rose to distill as the Nettle to sting as well the Bée to giue honny as the Spider to yéeld poyson If my lewde lyfe Gentlemen haue giuen you offence lette my good counsayle make amendes if by my folly any be alluâ—ed to lust let them by my repentaunce be drawne to continencie Achilles speare could as well heale as hurte the Scorpion though he sting yet hée stints the paine though the hearb Nerius poyson the Sheepe yet is a remedie to man agaynst poyson though I haue infected some by example yet I hope I shall comforte many by repentaunce Whatsoeuer I speake to men the same also I speke to women I meane not to runne with the Hare and holde with the Hounde to carrye fire in the one hande and water in the other neyther to flatter men as altogether faultlesse neyther to fall out with woemen as altogether guyltie for as I am not minded to picke a thancke with the one so am I not determined to picke a quarrell with the other if women be not peruerse they shall reape profite by remedye of pleasure If Phillis were now to take counsayle shée would not be so foolish to hang hir selfe neyther Dido so fonde to dye for Aeneas neyther Pasiphae so monstrous to loue a Bull nor Phedra so vnnaturall to be enamoured of hir sonne This is therefore to admonish all young Impes and nouises in loue not to blow the coales of fancie wyth desire but to quench them with disdayne When loue tickleth thee decline it lest it stiâ—fle thée rather fast then surfette rather starue then striue to excéede Though the beginning of loue bring delyght the ende bringeth destruction For as the first draught of wine doth comfort the stomacke the seconde inflame the lyuer the thirde fume into the heade so the first sippe of loue is pleasaunt the seconde perilous the thirde pestilent If thou perceiue thy selfe to be entised with their wanton glaunces or allured with their wicked guyles eyther enchauÌ„ted with their beautie or enamoured with their brauerie enter with thy selfe into this meditation What shall I gayne if I obtayne my purpose nay rather what shall I loose in winning my pleasure If my Lady yeelde to be my louer is it not lykely she will bée an others lemman and if she be a modest matrone my labour is lost This therfore remayneth that eyther I must pine in cares or perish with curses If she be chaste then is she coy if lyght then is shée impudent if a graue Matrone who can woe hir if a lewde minion who woulde wedde hir if one of the Uestall Uirgins they haue vowed virginitie if one of Venus courte they haue vowed dishonestie If I loue one that is fayre it will kindle gelousie if one that is fowle it will conuerte me into phrensie If fertile to beare children my care is increased if barren my curse is augmented If honest I shall feare hir death if immodest I shall be weary of hir lyfe To what ende then shall I lyue in loue séeing alwayes it is a lyfe more to be feared then death for all my time wasted in sighes and worne in sobbes for all my treasure spente on Iewells and spilte in iollyâ—â—e what recompence shall I reape besides repentaunce What other rewarde shall I haue then reproch What other solace then endles shame But happely thou wilt say if I refuse their courtesie I shal be accoÌ„pted a Mecocke a Milkesoppe taunted and retaunted with check and checkemate flowted and reflowted with intollerable glée Alas fonde foole arte thou so pinned to theire sléeues that thou regardest more their babble then thine owne blisse more their fruÌ„pes then thine own welfare Wilt thou resemble the kinde Spaniell which the more he is beaten the fonder he is or the foolish Eiesse which will neuer away Dost thou not knowe that woemen déeme none valyaunt vnlesse he be too venturous That they accompte one a bastarde if he be not desperate a pinche penny if he be not prodigall if silente a sotte if full of wordes a foole Peruersly do they alwayes thinck of their louers and talke of them scornfully iudging all to be clownes which be no courtiers and all to be pinglers that be not coursers Seing therefore the very blossome of loue is sower the budde cannot be swéete In time preuent daunger least vntimelye thou runne into a thousande perrills Searche the wounde while it is gréene to late commeth the salue when the sore fesâ—ereth and the medicine bringeth dubble care when the maladye is past cure Beware of delayes What lesse then the grayne of Mustarde séede in time almost what thing is greater then the stalke thereoff The slender twigge groweth to a stately tree and that which with the hand might easely haue bene pulled vpp will hardly with the are be hewen downe The least sparke if it bee not quenched will burst into a flame the least Moth in time rateth the thickest clothe and I haue reade that in a shorte space there was a Towne in Spayne vndermiâ—ed with Câ—nuyes in Theslalâ—â— with Mowles with Fregges in Fraunce in Africa with Flyes If these silly Wormes in tracte of time ouerthrowe so statelye Townes how much more will loue which creepeth secretly into the minde as the rust doth into the yron and is not perceiued consume the body yea and consound the soule Defer not from houre to day from day to month from month to yeare and alwayes remayne in misery He that to day is not willyng will to
folly and that thy nature sheweth thou lookest I should craue pardon for speaking so boldly no Philautus I meane not to flatter thee for then shoulde I incurre the suspition of â—rawde neither am I determined to fall out with thée for theÌ„ might the wise conuince me of folly But thou art in great credite in the court what then shall thy credit with the Emperour abate my courage to my God or thy hauty lookes quench my kindled loue or the gallant shew aslake my good wil hath the courtier any prerogatiue aboue the clowne why hée should not be reprehended doth his highe callinge not onely gyue hym a commision to sinne but remission also if he offend doth his preheminence in the court warrant him to oppresse the poore by might and acquite him of punishment No Philantus By how much the more thou excellest others in honors by so muche the more thou oughtest to excéede them in honestie the higher thy calling is the better ought thy conscience to bée and as farre it beséemeth a gentleman to be from pryde as hée is from pouertie and as néere to gentlenesse in condition as hée is in bloude but I will descende wyth thee to perticulers It is reported héere for a troth that Philautus hath giuen ouer himselfe to all deliciousnesse desiringe rather to be dandled in the laps of Ladyes then busied in the studye of good letters And I woulde thys were all which is to much or the rest a lye which is to monstrous It is nowe in euerye mans mouth that thou yea thou Philautus art so voyde of curtesie that thou hast almost forgotten common sence and humanitie hauinge neither care of religion a thing to common in a courtier neither regarde of honestie or any vertuous behauiour Oh Philautus dost thou lyue as thou shouldest neuer dye and laugh as thou shouldest neuer mourne art thou so simple that thou doste not know from whence thou camest or so sinfull that thou carest not whether thou goest what is in thée that shoulde make thée so secure or what can there be in any that may cause him to glorye Milo that great wrastler beganne to wéepe when he sawe his armes brawnefallen and weake saying strength strength is but vanitie Helen in hir newe glasse viewing hir olde face with a smyling countenaunce cryed Beautie where is thy blaze Craesus with all his wealth Aristotle with all his wit all men with all their wisdome haue and shall perish and tourne to dust But thou delightest to haue the newe fashion the Spanish felte the French ruffe thy crewe of ruâ—sians all thine attire misshapen to make thée a monster and all thy time mispent to shewe thée vnhappy what should I goe about to decipher thy life séeinge the beginning sheweth the ende to bée naught Art not thou one of those Philautus which sekest to win credite with thy superiors by flatterye and wring out wealth from thy inferiors by force vndermine thy equals by frawde dost thou not make the court not onely a couer to defend thy selfe froÌ„ wrong but a colour also to commit iniurie Art not thou one of those that hauing gotten on their sléeue the cognisaunce of a courtier haue shaken from thy skirtes the regard of curtesie I cannot but lament I would I might remedy the great abuses that raigne in the eies of the Emperour I feare me the Poet say to truely Exeat aula qui vult esse pius virtus summa potestas non coeunt Is not pietie tourned all to pollicie faith to foresight rigor to Iustice doth not he best thriue the worst deserueth he rule al the country that hath no conscience Doth not the Emperours court grow to this insolent blindnesse that all y sée not their folly they accompt fooles all that speake against it precise laughing at the simplicitie of the one threatning the boldenes of the other Philautus if thou woldest with due consideration way how farre a courtiers lyfe is from a sound beliefe thou wouldest either frame thy selfe to a new trade or els amend thine old mannors yea thou wouldest with Câ—ates leaue all thy possessions taking thy books and trudge to Athens and with Anaxagoras dispise wealth to attaine wisdome if thou haddest as great respect to dye well as thou hast care to liue wantonly thou wouldest with Socrates séeke how thou mightest yelde to death rather then wyth Aristippus search howe to prolonge thy lyfe Dost thou not know that where the trée falleth there it lyeth and euery ones deathes daye is his domes day that the whole course of lyfe is but a meditation of dâ—ath a pilgrimage a warfare Hast thou not read or dost thou not regards what is written that wée shall all bée cyted before the Tribunall seate of God to render a straight accompt of our stewardshyp if then the rewarde bée to be measured by thy merites what boote canst thou looke for but eternall paine whiche héere lyuest in continuall pleasure So shouldest thou lyue as thou mayst dye and then shalt thou dye to lyue Wert thou as strong as Sampson as wise as Salomon as holy as Dauid as faythfull as Abraham as zealous as Moses as good as any that euer lyued yet shalt thou dye as they haue done but not rise againe to lyfe with them vnlesse thou liue as they did But thou wilt say that no man ought to iudge thy conscience but thy selfe séeinge thou knowest it better then any O Philautus if thou search thy selfe and sée not sinne then is thy case almost curelesse The patient if Phisitions are to be credited coÌ„moÌ„ eâ—perieÌ„ce estemed is the néerest death wheÌ„ he thinketh himselfe past his disease the lesse griefe he féeleth the greater fits he endureth y wouÌ„d that is not searched bicause it a lyttle smarteth is fullest of dead flesh and the sooner it skinneth the sorer it festereth It is sayde that Thunder bruseth the trée but breaketh not the barke and pearceth the blade and neuer hurteth the scabberd Euen so doth sinne wounde the hearte but neuer hurte the eyes and infect the soule though outwardely it nothing afflict the body Descende therfore into thine owne conscience confesse thy sinnes reforme thy manners contemne the worlde embrace Christ leaue the courte follow thy study prefer holynesse before honour honestie before promotion relygion and vprightnesse of lyfe before the ouerlashinge desires of the flesh Resemble the Bée which out of the dryest and bitterest Time sucketh moyst swéet Honny and if thou canst out of the courte a place of more pompe then pietie sucke out the true iuice of perfection but if thou sée in thy selfe a will rather to goe forward in thy losenesse then any meane to goe backewarde if the glystering faces of fayre Ladies or the glittering shew of lustie gallaunts or courtly fare or any delycate thing séeme to entice thée to farther lewdenesse come from the court to Athens and so in shunning the causes of euill thou shalt soone
escape the effect of thy misfortune the more those things please thée the more thou displeasest God and the greater pride thou takest in sinne the greater paine thou heapest to thy soule Examine thine own conscience and sée whether thou hast done as is required if thou haue thancke the Lorde and praye for encrease of grace if not desire God to giue thée a willyng minde to attâ—yne fayth and constancie to continue to the ende Euphues to Ferardo I Salute thée in the Lord c. Although I was not so wittie to follow thy graue aduice when I first knew thée yet doe I not lacke grace to giue thée thankes since I tryed thée And if I were as able to perswade thee to patience as thou wert desirous to exhort me to pietie or as wise to comfort thee in thine age as thou willyng to instruct me in my youthe thou shouldest nowe with lesse griefe endure thy late losse and with little care leade thy aged lyfe thou wéepest for the deathe of thy daughter I laugh at the folly of the father for greater vanitie is there in the minde of the mourner then bitternesse in the deathe of the deceased but she was amyable but yet sinful but she was young might haue lyued but she was mortall and must haue dyed I but hir youth made thée often merry I but thine age should once make thée wise I but hir gréene yeres wer vnfit for death I but thy hoary haires shoulde dispise lyfe Knowest thou not Ferardo that lyfe is the gifte of God deathe the due of nature as we receiue the one for a benefitte so must we abide the other of necessitie Wisemen haue found that by learning which olde men should know by experience that in lyfe there is nothing swéet in death nothing sowre The Philosophers accompted it the chiefest felycitie neuer to be borne the second soone to die And what hath death in it so hard that we should take it so heauily is it strange to sée the cutte off which by nature is made to be cut or that melten which is fit to be melted or that burnt which is apt to be burnt or man to passe that is borne to perish But thou grauntest that she shold haue dyed yet art thou grieued that she is dead Is the death y better if the lyfe be longer no truly For as neither he that singeth most or praieth longest or ruleth the sterne oftenest but he that doth it best deserueth greatest prayse so he not that hath most yeres but many vertues nor he that hath grayest haires but greatest goodnes lyueth longest The chiefe beautie of lyfe consisteth not in the numbring of many dayes but in the vsing of vertuous doings Amongst plants those be best esteemed that in shortest time bringe forth much frute Be not the fairest flowers gathered when they be freshest the youngest beasts killed for sacrifice bicause they be finest The measure of lyfe is not length but honestie neyther do we enter into lyfe to the ende we should set downe the day of our death but therefore do we lyue that we may obey him that made vs and be willyng to dye when he shal call vs But I wil aske thée this question whether thou wayle the losse of thy daughter for thine owne sake or hirs if for thine owne sake bicause thou didst hope in thine age to recouer coÌ„fort then is thy loue to hir but for thy commoditie and therein thou art but an vnkinde father if for hirs then dost thou mistrust hir saluation and therein thou shewest thy vnconstant fayth Thou shouldst not wéepe that she hath runne fast but that thou hast gone so slowe neyther ought it to grieue thée that she is gone to hir home with a few yeares but that thou art to goe with manye But why goe I about to vse a longe processe to a little purpose The budde is blasted as soone as the blowne Rose the winde shaketh off the blossome as well as the fruite Death spareth neyther the golden locks nor the hoary head I meane not to make a treatise in the prayse of death but to note the necessitie neyther to write what ioyes they receiue that dye but to show what paynes they endure the lyue And thou which art euen in the wane of thy life whom nature hath nourished so long that now she beginneth to nod maist well know what griefes what laboures what paynes are in age yet wouldest thou be eyther young to endure many or elder to byde more But thou thinkest it honourable to goe to the graue with a gray head but I déeme it more glorious to be burted with an honest name Age sayste thou is the blessing of God yet the messenger of death Descende therfore into thine owne conscience consider the goodnesse that commeth by the ende the badnesse which was by the beginning take the death of thy daughter patiently and looke for thine owne spéedely so shalt thou perfourme both the office of an honestâ— man and the honour of an aged father and so farewell Euphues to Philautus Touching the deathe of Lucilla I Haue receiued thy letters and thou hast deceiued mine expectation for thou séemest to take more thought for the losse of an harlot then the life of an honest woman Thou writest that she was shamefull in hir trade and shamelesse in hir ende I beléeue thée it is no meruayle that she which lyuing practised sinne should dying be voyde of shame neyther coulde there be any great hope of repentaunce at the houre of death where there was no regard of honestie in time of lyfe She was stricken sodaynely béeinge troubled with no sickenesse It may be for it is commonly séene that a sinfull lyfe is rewarded with a soddayne deathe and a sweete beginning with a sowre ende Thou addest moreouer that she being in great credite with the states died in great beggerie in the stréetes certes it is an olde saying that who so lyueth in the courte shall dye in the strawe she hoped there by delyghtes to gayne money and by hir deserts purchased misery they that séeke to clyme by priuie sinne shall fall with open shame and they that couet to swimme in vice shall sinke in vanitie to their owne perilles Thou sayest that for beautie she was the Helen of Greece and I durst sweare that for beastlines she might be the Monster of Italy In my minde greater is the shame to be accompted an harlot then the praise to be estéemed amiable But where thou arte in the courte there is more regard of beautie then honestie and more are they lamented that dye viciously then they loued that liue vertuously for thou giuest as it were a sigh with all thy companions in the courtâ— séeme by thée to sound also that Lucilla béeing one of so great perfection in all partes of the body and so littlâ— pietie in the soule should be as it were snatched out of the iawes of so many young gentlemen
Well Philautus thou takest not so much care for the losse of hir as I griefe for thy lewdnesse neither canst thou sorrowe more to sée hir dye sodeinely then I to heare thée lyue shamefullye If thou meane to keepe mee as a friende shake off those vaine toyes and dalyaunces wyth women beléeue mée Philautus I speake it wyth salt tears trickling downe my chéekes the lyfe thou liuest in court is no lesse abhorred then the wicked death of Lucilla deâ—ested more art thou scorned for thy folly then she hated for hir filthinesse The euill ende of Lucilla should moue thée to begin a good lyfe I haue often warned thée to shunne thy wonted trade if thou loue me as thou profestest in thy letters then leaue all thy vices shewe it in thy lyfe If thou meane not to amend thy manners I desire thée to write no more to me for I will neither answere thée nor read them The Iennet is brokeÌ„ as soone with a waÌ„d as with the spurre a genâ—â—eman as well allured with a word as with a swoord Thou concludest in the end that Liuia is sick truely I am sory for shée is a madyen of no lesse comlinesse then modesty hard it is to iudge whether she deserues more praise for hir beauty with the amorous or admiration for hir honestie of vertues if thou loue me embrace hir for she is able both to satisfy thine eye for choice instruct thy heart with learning CommeÌ„d me vnto hir as I praise hir to thée so wil I pray for hir to God that either she may haue paâ—ience to endure hir trouble or deliuerance to scape hir peril Thou desirest me to send thée the Sermons which were preached of late in Athens I haue fulfilled thy request but I feare me thou wilt vse them as S. George doth his horse who is euer on his backe but neuer rideth but if thou wert as willing to read them as I was to send them or as ready to follow them as desirous to haue them it shall not repent thée of thy labour nor me of my cost And thus farewell ¶ Euphues to Botonio to take his exile patiently IF I were as wise to giue thée counsaile as I am willing to do thée good or as able to set thée at libertie as desirous to haue thée frée thou shouldest neither want good aduice to guyde thée nor sufficient helpe to restore thée Thou takest it heauylye that thou shouldest bée accused without colour and exiled wythout cause and I thincke thée happy â—o be so well rydde of the courte and to bee so voyde of crime Thou sayest banishment is bitter to the frée borne and I déeme it the better if thou bée wythout blame There bée manye meates which are sowre in the mouth and sharpe in the mawe but if thou mingle them wyth swéete sawces they yeelde both a pleasaunt taste and holesome nourishment Diuers colours offende the eyes yet hauinge gréene amonge them whet the sight I speake this to this enâ—e that though thy exile seeme grieuous to thee yet guiding thy selfe with the rules of Philosophye it shall bee more tollerable hée that is colde doth not couer himselfe wyth care but with clothes he that is washed in the rayne dryeth himselfe by the fire not by his fancie and thou which art bannished oughtest not with teares to bewaile thy hap but with wisedome to heale thy hurt Nature hath giuen no man a country no more then she hath a house or laÌ„ds or liuings Socrates would neither call himselfe an Athenian neither a Grecian but a CitizeÌ„ of the world Plato would neuer accompt him banished that had the Sunne Fire Aire Water Earth that he had before where he felt the Winters blast and the Summers blaze wher y same Sunne the same Moone shined whereby he noted that euery place was a countrey to a wise man and all partes a pallaice to a quiet minde But thou art driuen out of Naples that is nothing All the Athenians dwell not in Colliton nor euery Corinthian in Graecia nor all the Lacedemonians in Pitania How can any part of the world bée distant farre from the other when as the Mathematicians set downe that the earth is but a pointe being compared to the heauens Learne of the Bée as wel to gather Honny of the wéede as the flowre and out of farre countries to liue as wel as in thine owne He is to be laughed at which thincketh the Moone better at Athens then at Corinth or the Honnye of the Bée swéeter that is gathered in Hybla then that which is made in Mantua when it was cast in Diogenes téeth that the Synoponetes had banished hym Pontus yea sayde hee I them of Diogenes I maye saye to thée as Straconicus sayde to his guest who demaunded what faulte was punished wyth exile and hée aunsweringe falshoode why then sayde Straconicus dâ—st not thou practise deceite to the ende thou maist auoyde the myschiefes that followe in thy countrey And surely if conscience be the cause thou art banished tho court I accompt thée wise in being so precise that by the vsing of vertue thou maist be exiled the place of vice Better it is for thée to liue with honesty in the country then with honour in the court greater wil thy praise be by flying vanitie then thy pleasure in followinge traines Choose that place for thy palaice which is most quiet custome will make it thy countrey and an honest life will cause it a pleasaunt liuinge Philip falling in the dust and séeing the figure of his shape perfect in shewe Good God sayd he we desire the whole earth and sée how little serueth Zeno hearing that this onely barke wherein all his wealth was shipped to haue perished cryed out thou hast done well Fortune to thrust me into my gowne agayne to embrace Philosophy thou hast therefore in my minde great cause to reioyce that God by punishment hath compelled thée to strickâ—nesse of lyfe which by lybertie might haue ben growen to lewdnesse When thou hast not one place assigned thée wherein to liue but one forbidden thée which thou must leaue then thou béeing denied but one that excepted thou maist choose any Moreouer this dispute with thy selfe I beare no office whereby I shoulde eyther for feare please the noble or for gaine oppresse the néedy I am no Arbiter in doubtfull cases whereby I should eyther peruerte Iustice or incurre displeasure I am frée from the iniuries of the stronge and mallice of the weake I am out of the broiles of the sedytious and haue escaped the threates of the ambitious But as hée that hauinge a fayre Orcharde séeing one trée blasted recompteth the discommodity of that passeth ouer in silence the fruytfulnesse of the other So hée that is banished doth alwayes lament the losse of his house the shame of his exile not reioysing at the liberty quyetnesse pleasure that he enioyeth by the swéet punishment The kinges of