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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02129	Mamillia A mirrour or looking-glasse for the ladies of Englande. Wherein is disciphered, howe gentlemen vnder the perfect substaunce of pure loue, are oft inueigled with the shadowe of lewde lust: and their firme faith, brought a sleepe by fading fancie: vntil with ioyned with wisedome, doth awake it by the helpe of reason. By Robert Greene graduate in Cambridge.; Mamillia. Part 1	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1583 (1583)	STC 12269; ESTC S119748	60,462	82

wrinckled mayde yet experience teacheth vs that nothing is more vnlikely than an olde withered wife The Rose dying on the stalke seemeth in better state then that which fadeth being pluckt the grasse looketh better being vncut then that which withereth with the sieth for the one fadeth by course of nature and the other by kinde of imperfection The Phenix being seldome seene the more desired the rarer the Gemme is the more esteemed The stones of Arabia because they be straunge are of greatest price so virginitie by so much the more is to be regarded by how much it is more rare then mariage for the one commeth by speciall grace and the other by common course Uirginitie among the Romanes was had in such admiration and estimation that if by chaunce the Uestal virgins walked abroad the Senators would giue them the vpper hand and all the officers shew them due reuerence Cybil the mother of the Gods was a virgin and Minerua was famous for three thinges strength wisdome and virginitie The wise woman which gaue Oracles at Delphos was a virgin being alwayes called Pythia Uirginitie alters the nature of wilde beastes for the Lyons neuer hurt a pure Uirgin and Pliny reporteth that the Unicorne will sleepe on a virgins lappe Therefore Madame your argumentes rather importe rule than reason and seemes to come from a greene witte not from a gray head but though the fowle haue fayre feathers he may haue rancke flesh the fish may haue glistering skales without and yet be rotten within so your outwarde shew of grauitie may inwardly be addicted to vanitie and old folke are twise children and perhappes though your face bee wrinckeled your minde is youthfull though your yeeres and calling argue chastitie yet you had as leefe haue husbande as wishe mee marryed and I promise you for my parte I had rather you shoulde eate of the meate then I taste of the sauce if it be not a knot of bondage but a band of libertie I would haue you once againe try that freedome But sure eyther you know more then all or els say more then you know for not onely the common people but also the most learned hath thought maryage to be such a restraint of libertie as it feeleth no sparke of freedome for both the body is giuen as a slaue vnto the will of an other man and the minde is subiecte to sorow and bound in the caue of care so that euen the name of a wife importes a thousand troubles If you call this libertie I know not what bondage is Who so is addicted to maryage findeth it easie but in one respect and that is if she chaunce on a good husband which indeede you brauely set out in his colours But so did Aristotle his happy man Tully his Orator Plato his common Wealth and in our countreye heere one of my kinsmen sets out the liuely Image of a Courtier But as these spoke of such but could neuer finde them so you haue described such a husband as can neuer be heard of Yet Madame you go further for the others spoke in generall and you for the better confirmation of your reason inferre a particular and that is Pharicles whom indeed I confesse to haue in outward shew as good qualities as any in all Italy But the hearbe though it haue a fayre hue and a sweete sappe yet being tasted it may be infectious The Panther with his paynted skinne and sweete breath hath a tyrannous heart so Pharicles may bee as foule within as faire without and if he be not he digresseth from his kind for these Gentlewomen which haue trusted to the beautie of the face haue beene deceiued with the deformitie of the mind Theseus Demophoon Aeneas Iason and Hercules were both famous for their feature and fortitude and renoumed for their inuincible valure and yet they wanne not so much fame for their prowes in warre as shame for their inconstancy in loue he that chooseth an apple by the skinne and a man by his face may be deceiued in the one and ouershot in the other Therefore Madame sith both mariage is troublesome and the choyce so doubtfull I meane not to proue the care nor try the chance but remaine a virgin still Yet thus much to your question if my minde should change to try such happe I would welcome Pharicles as well as any other Madame Castilla hearing this ouerthwartnes of Mamillia was driuen into a great mase to see the Gentlewoman so hoat with her in so much y e as old women are soone angry she tooke pepper in the nose at the sharpe reply and therefore framed her as quicke an answere MAmillia quoth she if the Phisitions rubbe the soare the patient must needes sturre touch a galled horse and he will winch so your hotte answere shewes my question toucht you in the quicke and that though you make so straunge with maryage yet if your choyce were in your owne handes you woulde giue a finall farewell to virginitie But the Fox will eate no grapes and you will not marry because you may or perhappes do loue where your friendes wil not like and your wish should be contrary to their will Sirichia the Daughter of Smald king of the Danes could not be perswaded by her father to forsake her virginitie but the third day after his death she was betroathed but to a meane Squire Manlia Daughter of Mauritius was so scrupulous of her virginitie that she altogether abandoned the company of wiues and widdowes and yet at length she tooke an husband and was so kinde harted that she woulde not sticke to sell large peniworths of her honestie Mamillia I will not make comparisons because they be odious nor infer any conclusions for feare of farther daunger But take this by the way that he which couers a small sparke in the ashes will procure a great flame And with this she departed as halfe angry leauing Mamillia very sorowfull that she had displeased her old nource and very carefull for the yssue of her new loue yet as much as she could dissembling the matter she past away the day in mery company But all this while Pharicles had a flea in his eare and a thorne in his foote which procured him little rest For as the wounded Deare stayes in no place so the passionat louer staies but without stedfastnes neuer hauing a quiet minde for if hee sayle Loue is his Pylot if he walke Loue is his companion if he sleepe Loue is his pillow so that alwayes he hath the spur in his side to procure his disquiet hauing no salue for his soare vnlesse he reap remedy at y ● hands of his aduersary which Pharicles tryed true For there passed no houre after his departure from Mamillia in which a thousand cares did not clogge his combred minde for the thought of her sharpe answere was hard to disgest in his crased stomacke then that her father and he was of no great acquaintaunce which was a cause of