his frende might rather finde that hee wanted with ioy of good hap then through his good nature being ashamd to aske should wante that hee needed through his default I Néede not admonishe you to giue no credence to Loues wilâ—s whom neither law with feare nor wisdome with discretion caÌ„ restraine Agorastocles in Plautus not knowing howe to compasse his louer had counsaile to eircuument Lycus that kept her in this maner to send Colibiscus his baiâ—iffe to him who feigning himselfe to be in loue with her should giue Lycus a great summe of mony to bee shut vp with her in a chamber to haue his pleasure therewhile Agorastocles should enquire at Lycus his house for his seruaunt and thus he assured himselfe that Lycus knowing no seruaunt he had but his parasite whom he supposed he ment would deny him then the impastor Agorastocles â—aâ—â—â—king hie house and finding his seruant and his money in Lycus the house should haue him and his whole house confiscate to him by this means should be Lord of his loue How loose Loue is and howe briefly expired the sequele shall giue specialtie When Iris the common messinger and purseuaÌ„t of Ioue came to Helen in her loued sister in laws faire Laodices shape brought her word how it was pacted that Menelaus and Paris should sâ—int the strife were buskling to battaile HeleÌ„s mind was sped of her first spouse countrie towne alienated quite from her louer Paris when Venus had in a trice with a slenting sleight shifted out trick Paris in a mislie aire from the camp and brought Helen to comfort him at his chamber she bedlemlike began to raue O would to God my husbands hap had bene to dauÌ„t thy vaunting hoighes thou wontest to vaunt he durst not méete thée in the face but thou wouldest eate him at a gobbe which now hast showed a paire of leaden heeles assay his force no more if thou beest wise least that it doe thee ill apay What fumish brawles pettish tetishnes were betwixt Areitho king of Arna his pretie bulchion and louing fuds the fayre glassy eyed Philomedusa for whose loue not long sith but euen the day before the bridall he would néedes dye the louing death and bequeath his body to the â—irie feast As far in loue as Achilles was with Brisis he could be content in her absence to make sport betwixt a paire of sheetes with his swete hart Diomed the kings doughter of Lesbos cleped Phorbe this knewe the comicall beldam Misis in Terence his Andria that lustie crustie loytring loue as extinct vapoures soone remoues who gossoping with Lesbia her frende flattered her in this sorte It is euen Lesbia as thou sayest few true to women shalt thou finde It is a Prouerbe in Englande that the men of Tiuidal horderers on the english midle marches haue likers lemmoÌ„s and lyerbies THe Gods themselues will nowe and than dispence with deceite and retaile a fallacie to suche as they can and liste delude Iupiter meaning to giue Agamemnon an ouerthrow sente the God of dreames to him in his sléepe in olde sage Nestors shape whose perswasions he had euer in price subornd him to giue the Troians battaile vnder protection of Iupiter his warrante the prince obeyed the vision but had effect quite contrary for hee his garrison were both foyled The greene eyed Goddesse with her cokesing words set Pindarus a gog to infringe the compacte ystricke betwene his confederates the Pelasgians Apollo to front Aeneas from death ridded him out of the battaile to abuse the armie erected his portrayture in his wonted station amonge his soldiers as though it had bene he about which the knights of Graece Troians both that one sort spending their trauails to defend it the other bending their mights to defeate a senceles thing of life made many a widdowe and fatherlesse childe wrangling cracking Mars did sweare full stoutlie in aide of grekish crews but the selfe same day he periuredly deard them Neither are the heauenly bodyes lind with such minds as we imagine nor their strength so rath as surpasseth all puissance of million legies not to be thirlde with any thwart For admit the all the Gods Goddesses descending from the earth coulde not haile Iupiter from heauen with a golden chaine fastened to him which he insulted of himself yet Ephala Otus the sons of great Oloeus bound God Mars and imprisoned him the space of 13. moneths where he had consumed with setters and stinking had not Euribaea their mother in law besought Mercurius in his behalfe who stole him a way closelie in a braide Iuno her brest with triple headed shearing shaft was hurt by Hercules Pluto sable God of vaste infernall Tartarum did giue the hand of selfe same man a badge of his bloud in Pilie soyle among the murthered carcasses of which wounde hee was healed by Paean phisâ—ion of the Gods POrtending Sothsaings of gospelling Augures to whom the Ethnickes were tributorie in deuotion were superstitious collusions to supplant the credulous and more authorized by custome then alowed for commoditie When the Graecians were in suspence whether to march on to giue onset of battaile at that same stoure drad flakes of lightning fire were darted down from heauen which falling at their right handes were said Nestor and true he said accounted certain diuinations of prosperous lucke yet for all that their lucke was at that time to loose both man moyle and machins belonging to warre These presagings be as true as that which the schoolmaisters of Padua taught that in the instant wherein you shall see a Cuckow not hauing seene anie that yeare before you shall finde an haire vnder your right foote if you stand still remoue not wheÌ„ you sée her if this haire be blacke you shall haue euill lucke that yeare if white good lucke if gray indifferent lucke Vnreasonable therfore are their assertions which say to heare an Heron crie when thou goest on Imbacie is a signe of spéeding and yet this they ground on a place in the tenth of Homers Iliades and theirs which say to see a blacke Swine before the Sun rise is a signe of euill lucke that present day this hath his originall from a prouerb of Empodocles Then recke not of the Augures ne yet of ghostly prophesiers Eunomus prophesie was estemed a touchstone of truth yet could he not discusse to fly his fate and scape the fiste of fierce Achilles Euridomant a prophet not prophane but iudged a right interpreter by deuine infusion could not cast his sonns vnluckie fate Polidus and Abantes his whom Diomede cut in péeces Indéed it was Calchas his cunning or rather good chaunce not so much by sanctimonie of prophesie but as I thinke in flatterie of the potentates to hit the truth in vnfoulding a secrete hidde wheÌ„ the Graekes were in Aulis a towne of Beocie sacrificing to Iupiter vnder a gréene beach trée growing vpon a liuelie spring
was without respect of persons rapte with a fury of diuinatioÌ„ but whosoeuer shall like a womaÌ„ must not be rewarded with a guerdon of the like Dost not thou know that pease sowen in colde grounde turne to tares That wheaâ—e sowen in stony ground turnes to darnell That there is a kind of Rye which being caried into Fraunce chaungeth his graine Let either the beastlines of the cause or the frendship of my hushande or the honeste affection I haue alwayes borne thée bee a Supersedias to stay thy suite Goe not about to gette that with thy toyle which thou canst not but forgo with shamfull foyle Thou doest not onelye offende in a monstruous crime but deseruest a a greuous penaltie for excusing thy crime Thy suite a Gods name spiced with the gleames of of thy stailes loue muste mitigate the odiousnes of thy request Nay TelamoÌ„ the riuer Hypenis descending downe from Scithia is a water wholesome sauourie the whiche after the entraunce of a little salt springe waxeth so salt and brackishe that none can drinke of it Much vertue is blemished with a small spot of vice I haue read in Vitrunius of the riuer Chimera whose water in taste is very delectable but parting into two sundrye troughes channels the one continueth swete the other conuertes into bitternes no otherwise my husband I as long as we liue in wedlock bandes shal haue comfort of our frendes and credit in our countrie but if I disseuer this swete societie he shall kepe his honour directed with honestie and I kindle reproche detected of disloyaltie Indéed Mariners commonly sayle by night when other sléepe for that the winds that come then from the earth doe calmly fill their sailes and thou thinkest perhaps that I haue now opportunitie when my Lord is secure and vnaduised of my fetch My Lord spouse hath the vertue of a Diamond whiche is of power to trie chastitie But that shall not néede Telamon for sooner shal my soule to weightles aire ywaste and time vntwine his date azure heaueÌ„s stande still ere I recule one inch from thee O dearest Cleocritus I dare compare with the Ladye Sulpitia whose husband Lentulus Crustellio being banished into Sicilie of the Romaine Triumueri she kepte diligentlie of her mother that shee should not follow yet that her faith to her husband might not bee violated tooke vpon her a seruantes apparell with two men two women stole after him from her mother Neuer shall it be said but there is some Ladye in Italie which will be as quirie in wedlock rites as the insulans of Pteleon who in this point are accouÌ„ted most religious If I should coÌ„mit this abhominatioÌ„ not to be spoken of I were more cruel theÌ„ the widowes of Lemnos which killed all their husbands manye degrées worse then the doughters of Danaus which al saue Hipormnestra that spared Lincius the first night they lay with their new bride-groomes be reaued them of life I rather would to shield mine honour preuent his shame like valiaunt Penthisilia which with her pollar stifly stood in â—roies defence so venter life limme It is neither a showe of greate pleasure thoughe the sweetest poyson pearce the deepest and faire wordes can soonest deceiue nor all the tormentes in the world no though my soule as once was Prometheus his were pinchte and gnawne with Vultures strayned talantes that can reduce me from my constancie And canst thou thinke Telamon that Cleocritus woulde not with eger moode exulterate this iniurye whom thou knowest to loue me more then lightlye Aristomenes deigned to defende his domes of price whom he in wars had wonne and rather chose to dye in their defence then fylthye men shoulde foyle theyr chastytye then woulde Cleocritus do greater thinges then that for spousall loued wife or doest thou weene hee should not knowe it yes yes send sot canst thou or anye else ent so neere a morsell from him and hee not feele it Eratis a sheepehearde sleapinge on the mountaine amiddes his flocke was slaine by a a male goate iealous of his mate withe whiche Eratis moste abhominablye and yet verye closelye had subuerted the Lawes of Nature It is harde to blynde the eyes of him that loues who not onelye seethe more then all other men but also hathe the potence whiche noe other hathe to see in his steepe and in the absence of his louer Restrayne therefore these saluaged cogitations and sith thou fawnest frendship on my Lorde and husband and not vnworthylye showe such fidelylye in thy demeanour as sometime one Alexander did to his frende who lyinge in naked beâ— with his frends wife and by his frends graunt laide a naked sworde betwyxte them to keepe them asunder Thy fayre protestations lye prostrate at my feete any little preuaile For I neuer liked an affected finenes in an euill face nor good wordes in so bad a case If then canst bringe vnder thy gaddinge appetits and submite them to the frendshippe thou owest my husbande Cariclia was not halfe so glad that her Theagenes ouercame Ormenes in the race at Pithiaes games aâ— I will reioyce that my husbandes deserts haue daunted the force of thy illegitymate desyres and as the same Cariclia rather purposed to receiue that which is destinied to deathe then by hauinge Alcamones deceiue Theagenes so shall these handes firste pull out this tonge or a braundishe blade firste pearce this harte ere I foyle my name with so soule a consente The birde Charadrius if one that hath the kinge euill soe her healeth him that is so diseased but dieth thereof herselfe and I by this remedy rescuing thee from sorrow shal exalperate my bane with ten thousand griefs If my beauty which thou saist is glorious brede these bickeringes to my greate annoy as Dionisius and Milesius men famous in the liberall artes bycause manye prouoked by great report frequented their scholes to learne for enuie were banished by the Emperour when he had no occasion to kill them then do I wishe that either my beautye had beene lesse and my fortune more or else that my fortune be agreable to my beauty It was death among the Delphians to steale away a maide O then what death deseruest thou so disloyall a wife Refraine my company for the time for it may be that often presence setts a fether to the flight of thy affection or marrye some gentlewoman conuenient to thy callinge for so thou shalt not maculate the heroicall vertue continency and maiste by the suauitie of her societie forget other formes that are not for you or if both these mislike your humour carrie the dust about thee wherein a male sweating hath wallowed or annoint thy selfe with the stale of a mule and this thy loue will turne to hate Follow any of these prescripts aboue presâ—â—ed and if thou diest for loue though I could not loue thee wheÌ„ thou wast aliue I will honour thee being dead Neaptolemus slaine at Delphos by
bene daggers to their own throat or like that prince who for that Quintianus the sonne of a senatour was detreted of a conspiracie against him bare such immortall hatred to al the senators that whosoeuer named himselfe a senator was helde for a traitoure or like Brutus who that all the stock of Superbus and the name of Tarquinâ— might be abolished tooke the gouerment from his fellowe Collatinus Tarquinius that had bene a partner of his counsaile in expelling the kinges The graue Ephori among the Lacedomonians which were as an anticipation to the kinges that they should vse no oppression or burden the people with impositions were all ould men Natures hye derree hath appointed that yong lambes should vse their pastaunce on sunny hills when ould sheepe are lyther and lustles Sprigging flowers ar in their baine and tender groweth better for poesies to delight then medicines for diseases Therefore saie I with the yong man in Terence that those ould men haue left many a good lessone behinde them for want of learning that would haue a boye by some straunge metamorphosis conuert into an ould grandsire vsing an aldermans pace before he can wel gange and speaking at euery word a sentence of eleauen when he hath scarcely learned his Christ-crosse-rowes No man will lend a lock of haye but for to gaine a-loade then why shoulde I take paines all my lyfe and haue no more assuraunce of my promised profite but peraduenture yea peraduen nay if I chaunce to gett it bee glad I haue mine owne much like a twhackinge thresher or a thumpinge thatcher who must plye their bones all the daye stand at night with cap knee before their good maister for their three halfe-peny hyre When I haue slipt the flowere that fairest is of hew when I haue reapt my crop of corne I can be content you take the stalke and make aduantage of my chaffe Thou saist that the roote of a figtree is sowre and the fruite sweet therefore do wee vse to eate the fruite referringe the root to other necessaries The custome of feasts is as you infer for want of other proofes to begin with grosse fare and ende with banqueting dishes I say the vsers of such a methode are not so wise as the priest that eate his best plummes first and let the woorst bee mending It was prophesied to Anceus that he should neuer drinke of his planted vineyarde whiche hee to falsifie the grapes beinge ripe and prest got a bowle of wyne in his hand asking where his coulde prophets were that made such a blazon of a false supposition at that very instant one running into the house cryed a maine that the vine yarde was like to bee spoyled which hee to preueÌ„t left his wyne â— there being slaine verified the prophesy whereupon this prouerbiall adage is grounded many thinges ar betwene the cup and the lip Lucius was adopted to the Romaine Empire but before he had power to commaunde in the state of Rome he was buried in his sepulture Pills ywrapt in sugar yeeld no bitter rellishe one comming late from warminge himselfe is bettter able to abide astormie morning to which two similitudes my theame is HomogeneoÌ„ that he that hath past his time in iollity is in better case to match with misery The refuser of his meat when he is hungrie meaninge to take refection another time deserues no prayse in meede of his abstenency but as an enemie to nature is well worthy to pine Such a thinge is pleasure so glorious in shewe so noble in name so effectuall in force that all thinges at all tymes in all exploites worke for her hire bend at her becke and quaile in their attempts if she faile their expectation Well doth she resemble the Pole articke which leadeth the ship-maister and she with the Astronomer the way to all other stars and therefore must be first in euery ones intention before he begin the pursuite of his ende Verely wise were the inhabitantes of a certaine Cittie bordering a little from the prouince of Machai in the East partes which are reported to kepe holy day thrée daies a wéeke Neither is the drift of my deuise directed to an Apology of elds vnsauery pleasure which thou fondlye enduest with with a priuiledge of principallitie Heauie is their happines vnlesse they be happie bicause they are so perswaded of themselues as Tully speakes of the Epicures which lurke all their liues in mourning Tunnes constituting their felicitie in vaine speculations How many sporting houres were sorted to the Astronomer C. Gallus who like the hard old Demea which neither in the twilighte of day nor in the edge of any euening coulde euer be founde idle from his Husbandrie so neither in the vaile of night nor the heat of day would lend himself one laughing minute from dimension of his spheares Doe not you thinke that if Isocrates his Soule might rise again from death and enter into an other body as the Pythagoreans sect surmise for Pythagoras said that in the Troian warre he was Euphoâ—bus Pantheus his sonne slaine by Menelaus and that in Iunoes charge at Argos hee did see and knewe the Target which in his lefte hand there he helde whose Soule disâ—allâ—sâ— of that body did enter this in which he now was that he would redeme his mispent time with pleasure who at ninety and foure yeares of age writ the Oration Panathenaicus Muche ioye iwis had Leontinas Gorgias his maister who in the tracte of an hundred and seauen yeares neuer fadged in his infinite studies The purpose of their conceit was no pleasaunt contentation but a pining desire to reach renowne a vaine toye for so greate toyle It is disputed of all the Schoolemen in Philosophy of Arist their chieftein as I haue heard that nothing is in the intellectuaâ— part which hath not bene conducted thither by the Senses Of thiâ— I gather that your solide pleasure which you doe limitte in the mindes muses is first deriued from the exterior sences as from their fountaine Now you sée how olde ages sences be be-dimmed in so muche that they haue no tast of their meate and drinke vnlesse as it is in Zenophons symposion rorantia et minuta pocula do now than relieue them which tast of theirs is like salt water which maketh fresh béefe salt and salt béefe fresh Their eies doe looke by a paire of spectacles like one through a cazement so that beautie mighte goe a begging for their buying vnlesse there were some other courts to entertaine our curtizans When one asked Sophocles whether he did not vse to accompany Venus no quoth the oulde dizzard God forbid I haue willingly taken my flight from her as from a shrewde churlish mistris Tyresias in his doting daies for varying against Iuno was strirken blind Their eares be closed vp like the serpents with her taile that neither Naecastron who by his harmony entangled euery one with his loue nor Amphion who with melodye gathered
operation doth vse to make his Subiecte sodeine yet he coulde so well refraine his choler and make exchaunge for cheuisaunce of curtesye that these Sentences were often rowling in his mouth Arist saith that Those are fools which cannot be angry at an occasion But Plato saith that Those are more fooles which will be angry with out great occasion I well beléeue Arist for he seldome lieth but I will follow Plato for he thought it sinne to lye His body was decently made featlye framed conteyning an absolute constitution and conuenience of liniaments his head not a slope cornered but rouÌ„d globewise fashioned His haire auburne or chesten coloure so was Hectors his forehead smooth and vnwrinckled beautified with comelye eiebrowes and suche were the browes of Alcibiades and gallantly garnished with a paire of amiable eies not hollowe but delightfully standinge out cherefull to his frendes and churlish to his foes such saith Heliodorus were the eyes of Theagenes his cheeks roseall like Phebus rising in the Orientall skie of stature he was semely neither dwarfish like a man cut of at legges nor a lungis like one that standes vpon stiltes but iust in the middes wherein consisteth vertue His porte and state of body bolte vpright his gate framed to comelinesse not nicely affected nor curiously counterfayted as it were plaiers and disguised masquers who by a kind of vpstart gate vnwisely weene to win commendation In communitie of life he was verye jocund neither to baâ—latiue withe flattery nor to whust with morositie which Arist 2 of his Ethicks cap. vii tearmeth the two extremes of curteous humanitye familiar in communication with gentle mildnes seasoned with pleasure and a reuerent grauitie without pratling and tatling without biting scoffes or vpbraiding taunts pleasauntlye conceyted and merry with honestie vsing therein no filthines or ribauldrie and as he was most far from malapert scurrility and scenicall gesture so was he free from sulleyne sterne seuerity stoicall indolency This for the most part was his behauiour In tonge he was sylent in this resembling Cato Vticensis which neuer spoke but being vrged in countenaunce sad and yet not so sullen as M. Crassus which neuer but once laughed in all his life FroÌ„ company solitary but for this onely cause for which Sophocles in age would sequester himselfe vz. to quiet his mind with vntroblous coÌ„tentation and encrease the gifts of knowledg and learning And as Hermes Prismegistus saith that Plotin us the philosopher made as it were to all ornaments of vertue choose him a secrete place of rest where he might be far from humaine conuersation and bestowe his time in diuine contemplation free and feareles from all the insultes and counterchecks of fortune and that hee contemned all titles of honour and all possessions of riches accounting that true honour and wealthe whereby a garnished minde doeth knowe the oryginall of it owne authoritie euen so was Philotimus affected that trade did he trauerse and that mediocritie For he often would say that since no man might enter Dianees Temple at Craeta where Dedalus hath eternall memorie for his worthy monuments vnlesse he went in stripped naked it was probable that none were docile Disciples of learning but such as cast of the care of worldly pompe His diot was moderate his dreames not vaine reauing ioyned with idle talke as commonly theirs are which abouÌ„d with redde choller whiche Iuuenal well describes in his 7. booke With grislye dreadfull Dreames by nyghte their heades are vexte with gastly visions in their sleepe yelad with vgsom shapes For of choler are enkindled burning Agues phantasticall Imaginations doting of burninge of Townes Houses of murthers of hurlye burlies wheÌ„ the fumositie of the choller striketh into the braine The continuance of the disturbance of this is voyded by vomit sweate euacuation by siedge which may bee done with Radix pontica and suche thinges as prouoke vrine as these hearbes Alkakengie Sperage Gardeyn Parsely Annyseede Fenellseede by the forbearing of all hot fat and swete meates which are very apt to be turned into choller except reisons licoras and by eating such thinges as will quallify the heat of the bloud Sléepe also must be prouoked by Lactuce sallet hearbs that doe humect the braine and all the partes of the body Venus anger vnseasonable labour long fasting must bee auoided and sckanting our selues of victualls His Dreames were suche as after the firste sléepe the braine not stuffed with fumes doe presage some newes approching As Valentinianus dreaming that he saw his wife altered from her merrie glée weare a mourning gowne the next day had it soe brought to passe by his sodeine death And Augustus his mother dreaminge that shee broughte forth a Starre whiche illustrated the whole earth had it verified in the Actes of Augustus To prosecute the Chronicle of Philotimus be on a certeine day hearing a crew of litigious ruffiaÌ„s belching out their fuliginous fomentations against him and insulte with hatefull spite ouer some of his doinges thinking no body had hearde them but they among themselues couertly stood on the other side the wall and gently and frendly admonished them as though he had bene one of their owne companions I beseech you Sirs speake low least Philotimus heare for this is somtime his walk where he takes the ayre And arguing on a time on some Sophisticall pointes with a Gentleman named Papius who stoode very stiflye to his owne assertion ouerheated with chafinge and anger in disputing condemned Philotimus for an hereticke in Philosophy then quoth Philotimus I appeale to Papius when hee is sober to debate the dissention Which meeke aunswere appeased Papius reuolted him from his errour It was natiue to Aemilius his nature to counteruaile all iniuries with a contrary counterbuffe and neuer to die in the debt of his trespassours Herevpon would Philotimus expostulate with him What if an Asse or an Oxe should kick or spurne thée wouldest thou thinke it manhood to strike againe But I will aduise thée of a good medicine in such a case Goe to morrow morning knéele the downe beside the great Oke in Siloes wood and looke whatsoeuer it bids thée doe that doe and nothing els Aemilius thinking that Philotimus meant to worke some enchauntment went thither to sée his deuise but when he came there he heard nothing but aniayerie murmure among the Trées at his returne home Philotimus asked him what he heard Aemilius in a pelting chafe thinking himself derided aunswered I heard asmuch speach as thou hast honestie and that is asmuch as an egge hath otemeale Then quoth Philotimus say to thy complices as is coÌ„maunded thée that thou sayest is nothing at all and thoÌ„u shall neuer damnifye thy selfe with suche effluence of cholericke sominges He quoth Aemilius that will know the construction of your meaning must coniure for it before or vse suche hearbes as Cynocephalia which Apion vsed in calling vp ghostes to know of
meaning she is more venemous then the slimye Serpente Python with fiery blaring mouth and forked wagging Tongue whose combrous harme did meane to charme Latonaes seede Now Aemilius what say you to this slauÌ„der I doubt not but by this time you thinke your flattery a sainct in respect of this deuill This question was left doubtfull Cleocritus and the company rise accounting this small time after dinner well spent The vnkindly loue of Telamon to Castibula his frends wife NOw sir vnderstand that Mounser Telamon soiourninge â—nd commoning with the Lord Cleocritus had suffered his freewill to be witched and gind with the beautye of Castibula which though he sawe aduerse to all humanity yet was the heate of his lust so vnquenchable that it smouldred reason and burned with beastlines He had protracted the disclosure of it hitherto and perceiued his procrastination to be perilous Castibula hauing set sorrowe apart for the death of her children and relieued almost with her lief ould ioyes as she walked one daye in her verdurant garden alone after other ordinarie communication which he made as it were a portall and preludium to his cause he boorded her in this sort yet not in bourde as the consequence giues euidence but in hard earnest whiche was the earnest of her death Telamon O madam the mistris of my hart I haue a sute yet am I mute and dare not speake Castibula if semely it be speake on and speed if not conceale such suts commaund ought else Telamon can that vnséemely be whose graunt doth saue or whose deniall spills my life Castibula I would not with to saue my lyfe with wrongfull meanes Telamon yet giue me leaue to speake and liberty to liue Cast I geue you both if eyther I can geue Say on Tel. I will say on though loth For long I mingled bashfull shame with loue till loue at length surpassed shame One of the olde Philosophers Diogines by name an odde fellowe and full of quirkes demaunded on a time of a prodigall youthe an vnreasonable some of money The youngs man amazed at this impudent begging asked him what hee meant to craue suche a boone Truely quoth Diogines I see thée so riotous in lashing out thy money that I thoughte if at this time I had not thy rewarde thy abilitie would not longe too so decay that it could not though it woulde yeelde me succour hereafter and therefore I mente to begge once for all Euen so good Lady though my request may seme unpious in vttering extrauagant from reason and to taxe my affections with an vnhonest inclination yet if your Ladyship afford me not this blisse the shortnes of my life wil in few daies to ceme preuent all swetenes of medicinable electuaries Now good Lady if by this litle yow can iudge the whole cut of the course of my sequele proces with present accomplishment of my briefe demaund The Cat would licke milke but she will not wette her féete and I would faine haue but I dare not craue all Cast I feare I knowe not what yet ascertaine mee of my doubt Tel. I néede not at all thy Deitye hath presaged what it is and must amende it with thy pardon if oughte bee amisse If I should tell thée all my tormentes which alas I cannot and thou beleue them which I feare thou wilt not thou mightest vaunte that thou haddest the truest Seruaunte in the earthe and I not doubte but obteine the beste Mistris in the worlde Cast Iupiter foreshield these dreaded mischiefes Tel. It is is not Iupiter but Venus that hath hurte me and must helpe me With that Castibula looking wistly vpon him in furious rage â—lange hastilye from him Telamon mistrustinge noe lesse at the firste and trustinge yet to conclude this wooful Epitasis with a ioyfull Catastrophe grasped her in the middes with bothe his armes appaulde at her displeasure and scarse able to speake till comd to himselfe O Lady quoth he what mean you to shun me more like the franticke foe whom fell Erichtho hath in chase with manie her twifold turninges then one more beloued of him you haue in presence then euer Andromache was of Hector The Law forbids to doe a man to die before his cause bee heard Firste lette mee pleade at the barre of your beautie and then lette your wil pronounce his Iudgement Doome after death is rigour without reason O that you had Cassandraes gift to deserye all secrets of the hart Cast A Rat is soone iudged by her ranck smel Hiena bewraied by her counter fayt call Tel. Bulls bloud of it selfe is contagious and pestilente but in composition mixte with Eolewortes is solatarye against an opilation My bare suile of it selfe bluntlye weighed semes to auerre against all honestie but conioyned with the circumstances of my longe smothered loue and the perill of vtter perishing but ye giue me gale deliuery it may bee a warning to you to salute yt with a welcome and not to debarre his reasons of right I haue receyued enterteinment at my Lorde your husbandes handes farre better then by seruice I could demerit for the which I denie not mee more indebted then if it had bene lesse I canne euer discharge And so receiued Paris of prince Menelaus when he committed the rape of Helen I am thancklesse to my Lorde bycause I am thrall to my Lady and for that which I owe to his manifold good turnes my libertie is impaund and imprisond to yow Thinke not me graceles for laying siege to that fortresse which neuer anye before me durst attempte but thinke me more feruent then other your vassals which see your beauty peerlesse your vertue inuincible Dan Phoebus angrye that you excelled him in beautie could no otherwise haue pretexte to minister his malice but by casting his beames into your radiant eyes to dazell the lookes of all the beholders And this is the cause that all that vewe thée wishe as I doe but not able to abyde thy glittering glaunce close vp their eies for feare of blinding and geue ouer their desires ouercome with necessitie Nowe square my loue with a directe line whiche with no canuassado wil take the repulse It is natures instigation to make choyce of that to whome wee are dearest and beste beloued then giue me O Lady O giue me my iustice And here he pausinge either in meditation what to say more or expectation of her pleasure Castibula aunswered Thou lookest I should thank the for thy lawlesse loue I looke thou shouldest abate it bycause I am thanckles Thisbe a GraeciaÌ„ mayde beloued of Thermutes an Aegiptian Thiefe wrote in a letter to a frend of hers that she had rather be hated of the ciuill Graecian then he beloued of the rude Barbarian and without offence be it it spoken but vnder no correction I had rather wish the my capitall foeman then after this sort to haue the my frend It fareth not with women as with Trophonius his den into which whosoeuer entred
forepassed tournes yet will I pretermit to shewe howe chargeable thy seruice hath bene to me dismisse thee from suche reckoninges Ah Aurelia farewell for euer and I pray God giue thée better speede then thou deseruest and no worse then I wishe thee By thine and Fortunes prisoner Philotimus He receiued no aunswere of these his letters neither did hee looke for any but restles flung vp and downe neither seeking coÌ„forte nor findinge anie but in his agonie traced from place to place muche like to Bacchus Nunnes or to Cibeles braine-sicke Nymphes in Ida Mounte he ran resembling those whom Driades and Faunes doe force to flye But when he saw himselfe busy bootles nothing to preuaile he satte him downe and entred straight to this consultation Forget that pranked paramour pert and let her goe Forget her Philotimus Nay sooner shall the roaring froathie Seas ymatch the loftie Firmament in height and hellish Plutoes feltered den with starbright heauen shall sooner coupled bee and shining lighte with gloomye shades agree and with the cleare drie day the drearie night conioyne and smoaking stifling scaldinge fire conuerte to frostie ysicle snowe ere I forget whome I haue forgone ah dearest Aurelia And herewithall the teares ranne downe his chéekes apace He was dailie troubled with this Quotidian neither eating nor drinking nor sléeping but fed I thinke with Aungells food and by Gods imputation dispenced for the time from humaines vsuall conuersation He spent his time sometime studying howe to recouer wealth to win his Lady againe sometimes composing Epitaphes for his Tombe thinking he could not long liue sometime in Meeters to praise his Aurelia on whom to thinke it did him good and sometime in complaining the frowardnes of his fates among the reste these fewe that followe I thought good to insert Who looseth Loue and conquers care in lieu who pightes his paines and pines for want of food His lossfull lot and crimeles curse I rue yet would he vew my cause his case were good His hap may be to fancy yet else where ah speme spent my loue and I am done Or he may drench and die in deepe despaire O that I might for bliss enioy that boone Long haue I seru'd and well deserud some meede yet doe doe I sterue with strife and sternefull nayes My constancie was causer of my creede that crueltie is curst that trust betraies A chearles case must needes cause chilling care O pale wanhope when wanton wantes his wish No dastard to be daâ—de where dole doth deare as good to fast as feast where dearth's a dish What mettall can resist the flaming fire no heart I thinke can hate those christall eies How can a bounden thrall retire desire The Eagles force subdues ech bird that flies These rimes were made in great agony and anguish But as euerie hill hath his dale euerie tide his eb and euerie tempeste his flawe of faire weather so had he some intermission of hiâ— sobbinges though he coulde not haue remission of all his sorrowes For thus he began to straighten his affectioÌ„s with reasons rule Though he were in disgrace with Aurelia and defaced of all his frendes yet God would either sende remedie or take him to his mercie Though his body nothing proportionable to his valure were not big inough to beat his foe Cornelius yet did he see that the litle dapper carcasse was the tabernacle of wit and the louby bones a tipe of a dullard Though in the ruine of his riches hee were brought to an exigent and like to be exiled the precincts of his countrey yet did he reconsolate himselfe with his readinges and experimentes by which he found that Wit commonly wears a wallet at his backe when Follies robes be veluets and to this effect did he frame this pettie Pamphlet whereof here I make illation VVHen we haue past the day in the Sea with perrill the night of death doth take vs in at the porte of health For who hath a patterne or a lease of his life or what Obligation in this case may serue without the performance of manye a condition As ofte comes ihe lambe to the market as the elder sheepe as ofte blastes the bloome as the riper fruite and Gods ioy in garlands that be fresh and gréene Then let youth claime no prerogatiue where no priuiledge is graunted but wishe and pray for the comming of his Christ and watch and warde that he come not vnawares I haue alwaies thoughte that the guiltles prisoner with his clogged conscience lookinge for nothing but his fatal finall sentence at the next gale deliuerie is not so subiect to the summons of death as we that are out of circuit of such crimes free from the sentence of the bloudie Iudge This hath euer bene mine opinion preferring the lingring of a certaine death before the lasting of an vncertaine life And of all other the sharpest wit saith Titleman hath the shortest life Bycause heat which is the cause of quicknes hauinge preheminence in the temperature of his bodie doeth eate vp the naturall moisture which is a sustenaunce to it and so hauing nothinge to féede on burnes vp the carcasse The matter of colde haile is thin and warme saith Arist warme water sooner fréezeth then colde lycoure saith Velcurie and I auouche that the hottest constitution which by the way is most pregnant in wit is the readiest procurer of cold death Soone ripe soone rotten quickly spent that 's easely gotten bauin burnes brighte but it is but a blaze the flashinge lightening is gone at a gaze then this is my verdit As those abortiui which are borne before their time neuer proue sightlie men so these forward youthes and too forward saith M. Askam neuer proue old men If any man appose me in what sort of men I déeme this passing worke of wit for my cocke I would chuse the litle dapper Dick take Robbin Hood who list let me haue litle Iohn Be not angrie with me if I speake amisse Aristotle is my authour will aunswere all replies who makinge a bypartite diuision of all kindes of men in his bookes of Pollicie giueth the burlie boned bouÌ„sers neither good for man nor woman vnles it be to lubber-leape them the orders of seruitude and to litle timbred fellowes who want in weight if you poise them by bodies but readie in wit and quicke as a Bée the gouernment to rule the one appointing what to doe like Maister Oiconomus the goodman of the house the other taking aime at his maisters mouthe to execute his pleasure So that the maisters â—ye fattes the horse thoughe the Groome of the â—â—â—le geue him prouander The same Arist assertes the moste fooles to bee mosâ—e boulde and fierce Bycause as grosse bloud wherewith he aboundes increaseth his strength so it must necessarilie weaken the wit and make a grossum caput Contrariwise the tender bloud froÌ„ whence thin rare spirites do breath as our Philosophers clepe them enséebles the body and kepes it downe whettes
an hideous Dragon crepte from the Aultars foote with painted scales like the scarlet grape which créeping vp to the lopiest and tallest part of the Tree where he found 8. yong peping sparrows in the leaues which hee rauend vp deuouring the dam also while she lamented her yongones by and by was enrolde in another shape and of a monstruous Serpent became a stonie rocke the Graekes amased at this Calchas calculated that as the Dragon had deuoured these 9. litle ones so in 9. years space should they be tired with the proud perucke pranke Troians and as the dragon was insensuated so in the tenth yeare Saturnus heire would giue them for their hire the Troian squadrons and their batled Cittie should goe to sacke and pillage and as he saide his saying theed AStronomy is a perfect skill But as Aristotle saith in the 6. of his Ethickes that Prudens who is the absolutest politicke man though he be genarally perfite may stumble in particularities so the best Astronomers that euer I red tel most palpable grose absurdities Ptolomeus saieth that hee that is borne when the Lorde of the 7. House is in the third or ninth degree and anye euill planet behold him will sodeinlie die by falling from some building or else will die of somthing that shall fall vpon him THe sugrest tranquillitie is soonest transitory who séekes to mount aboue the mouing skies their ruine growes where most they reach to rise who whilom sat in chaire of high renowne adowne are headlong hurld to bottomles miserie Sardanapalus king of Assiria one of the richest Monarchies in the world amid his pompous eleuated royalties was miserably slaine by one Arbactus conuenable to this Cyrus king of Persia which aswell by meanes of other victories that he had obteyned as also that he had subdued Craesus king of Lydia was waxed of all others most rich and renowned when he had reigned ful thirtie yeares was himselfe discomfited and beheaded by Tamyris Quéene of Scythia After Brutus and Cassius the manquailers of Caesar were as Plutarth giues specialtie exiled by Octauian M. Antonius they for restauration conspired against their iniurours and pitched a field Of the faction of these seminaries was M. Varro a Gentleman of greate honour and fame who with the other coniurates and adherentes was likewise discomfited he then seeing the dauÌ„ger which he was opposed too incontinently disrobed himselfe of his owne apparell taking another habit who by this transmutation being reputed for a common soldiour was among other captiues soulde for a vile price to one Barbulas a Romayne Knight A good while after this one knowing him discouered him to Barbulas which without semblaunce to Varro that hee knewe anye thinge priuatelie procured pardon of Octauian who franckly enfraunchised him againe and from that time forth held him in the number of his frendes After this Anthonie and Octauian falling out to be capital enemies Barbulas leaned to Anthonie and with him was ouerrun in the feild by Octauian at which euent dreading the furious wrath of Octauian hee vsed for his owne safetie the aboue remembred pollicie of Varro that is to wit he did on him the coate of a poore soldiour Thus M. Varro for that he had not long seene him as also for that hee had chaunged his apparell among other captiues vnknowne bought him for a boÌ„d man but after short time remembring him againe practised with Octauian that hee wan him pardon of his prince and eftsoones possest him of his wonted libertie So that Barbulas which firste was good Lord and maister was now at the checke of his vnderlout vassaille and Varro which before was a bounden villaine had now prerogatiue of his awfull maister which two contrary casuall chaunces giues vs a certaine certificate how frayle and fragile the loftiest fortune is and how shortly her smiling lasteth and endureth in so much that as Philemon beholding an asse eat figges from of a table brake into such an extreame laughter that hee dyed with laughing or as Philistione a poet comicall and Denis the tyraunt of Siracusa with surpassing ioy made sodayne chaunge of life so wee not onelie when wee séeme most firmely seated in immutable prosperitie are sodeinlye beraught of our vnstable happines but often with the surplusage of aboundant pleasure as we swine afloat in middest of blisse do sinke drench in depth of bale The Thebanes banquetting with merry glee all carelesse full of chat had dole of death delt amonge them In Baldach a cittie in Armenia the lesse which lyeth toward the South there is a prince resident called Calipho which is amoÌ„g the Moores chiefe gouernour the king of the Tartars called Alan hearing that the Calipho which then reigned was meruellous rich inuaded the cittie tooke it by force being in it one hundred thowsand horsemen besides infinite number of footmen there he found a great Towre full of gold siluer and precious stones Alan appauled at this sight said vnto Calipho I much meruaile of thy auarice that diddest not giue parte of thy greate treasure to maintaine valiant men against me knowing I was thy mortall enemye and perceiuing hee could make no aunswere well quoth he bycause thou louest treasure so well I will thou shalte haue thy fill of it and caused him to bee sparred faste in the same tower where hee liued fowre daies and died miserably for hunger Prester Iohn warring a long time with Bur without anye aduauntage of him sente him 7. yonge Gentlemen to his Court shewing as though they departed from Prester Iohn in greate displeasure and offered themselues to serue the Kinge Bur who reteyned them as squires and pages in his Court after 2 years hauinge groate confidence in them the Kinge ridinge abroad for his pleasure tooke the 7. Gentlemen with him who being the distance of a mile from his Castell and perceyuing they had opportunitie to execute their purpose carried him to Piester Iohn who made him Shepheard two yeares and afterwards sent him to his Castle with horses and men as a Shepheard Niobe whose father was Tantalus her mother a sister of the Pleiades she the Lady of Phrigia lande and Cadmus pallaâ—e bewtifull in her body and endewed with seauen sons seauen daughters in somuch that shee repined Latona shoulde haue the honour of the Altar and not shee was barrenned of her twise seauen issue and shee with sorrowe chaunged into a sâ—one where vppon the Mountayne toppe in Phrigia Lande she weepeth still in stone and from the stone the drearie teares doe droppe Might I therefore be so bolde as giue them counsaile who are heaued vp to the type of dignity I would wish them often to parlie practise that which Cecilius Balbus in his Philosophers toyes writeth of Agathocles kinge of Sicilia whose discent being base would say of himselfe Though I now be a Kinge a potter was my sire Then call to minde thy base estate before thou gotst thy hire REpose not too much affiaunce
Numa PoÌ„pilius to the Romaynes and Phoroneus to the Aegiptians impera impetra apud me demaund and commaund and I will obey Archaretos made replication in this maner Indeed Philotimus Lactantius Firmianus saith that the common wealth of the Sicyonians endured longer then either that of the Graekes or of the Aegiptians or the Lacedemonians or the Romaynes bycause in seuen hundreth and fortie yeares they neuer made new lawes nor brake their olde ones so that constancie in good matters is euer commendable But he that continueth his suite to her that flyeth faster from him then the hare from the horne is much like one of the Mirundins who at Peleus his praiers were turned again to men which was so enamoured of the Suns brightnes that incessantlye hee perseuerd in trauaile and labour meaning to meete it at the end of the world there to embrace it and enioy his pleasure Thou art now to leaue the confines of thy country and with a spéedie perigrination and diligent inuestigation to seeke a mantion in some other soyle and therefore thy heart muste be on thy halfpenye and thy minde deuorced from the contemplation of Aurelia And yet thou must be of a bon couragio for no place is a banishment to vertue saith A Milo I haue no place of abode said Socrates but am a citezin of the worlde whithersoeuer thy pilgrimage shall conducte thée we are all in the compasse of one heauen protected with the prouidence of one God and once shall be vnited with one consolidation So neare neighboures are wee all that euen our Antipodes whose dwelling is opposite to vs are daily traded too for erchauÌ„g of traffique Alezander wept that there were no more earthes for him to conquer but this litle one Alas saieth Scipio Affricanus how base a thinge is populer glorye which is comprised in the earthes limitation I cannot tel Philotimus what place is best for thée to soiourne in bycause thou art furnished for any kind of seruice neither can I allot thée any residence bycause like a snayle I haue euer kept my home but search and find and if thou wilt vouchsafe to lette me know of thy staying I will not be slacke to ayd thée with necessaries Let no imaginary conceit of thy great paines appaule or dismaye thée for when thou arte once inured with them thou shalt find small difference betwixt thy good laboures and the daly sports of the greatest potentates Arsaciades his pastime king of the Bactrians was to knit nets Artaxarxes his to spin Arthabanus his king of the Huns to arme for rattes and Viantus his king of the Lydians to fish for frogges vaine pleasures God wot and far from right contentation Philotimus bespake O Archaretos no durance of daunger can affright me For her sake whom from henceforward I will not once remember I â—urst vndertake Orestes his voiage that follothe Nymphes into Hell or Hercules his enterprise that for his frendes cause brake the gates of Hell and bound the Giant Aetna and the triple headed dog Cerberus and entered combat with the triple-bodied Pluto But nowe farewell deare Countrie adew gallant courtiers farewell swete Aurelia for euermore I will accomplishe thy pleasure Archaretos and seeke an harbour for my self in some forrein nation wher I shal neuer once heare of these ah forefined miseries From 5 yeares to 5. the Samnits did solemnize their Lustra from 4. to 4. the Graekes did celebrate their Olympiades from 7. to 7. the Aegiptians did renue the Temple of Iris from ten to ten the Romaines visited their God Apollo at Delphos but I am for euer abandoned my countrie whose ioyes these eyes shall neuer renew The teares trickled downe Archaretos his chéekes Philotimus his spéeche was interrupted with extremitie of griefe At length Archaretos recomforted him hasting him forward to his iourney for feare of preuentions hee appointed him well with gold and iewells such as might well pay his charges till time of better prouision Alas good Philotimus saide Archaretos these are not thy garnished garmentes thy cloth of tinsell and gold thy braceletts chaines thy newe fashioned nouelties Well quoth Philotimus though I cannot go with the fashion yet doe I followe the fashion for in yeares of yore before pride was in prime when the purse was riche and the apparell poore this was the guise Here they gaue ech other the Bazelos manus whose dolorous departure Gentlemen pardon me though I describe it not bicause I want an heart to attempt it and words to vtter it Yet I will not forget to recounte you certaine verses which Philotimus writ immediately before his voiage and Archaretos afterward found in the chamber wher they communed and these they were Might mournfull wailing end my daies or pinching careful woe surcease Then hope might haue his wished death or life enioy his wonted ease But welth is wast and kin vnkind all luckles haps denie my ioy So direfull griefe must euer last and lingring life augment annoy In pleasant May-moone of mine age I meane the lustie gallant prime Where golden pleasure beares the sway and youthfull sportes doe passe the time Euen then alas poore wretched wight my gladsome myrth was heauy mone My new sprung Rose did scarcely bud wher straightway blasting all was gone Yet mauger frowning fortunes spite my swetest l is euer one Not neare by byrth but deare by loue and sure more faithfull neuer none His will is still as erst it was no froward chaunce can chaunge his choise In lieu where of fame sound his praise with most triumphant ioyfull voice Philotimus tooke his iourney towardes the borders of Graece inquiring warily as he wente what were the affaires of euery Iland what were the conditions enterteinment of the segniors of those territories meaning as occasion should serue to imploy himselfe in some conuenient seruice I neede not recite to you the pensiuenes of this pilgrimage when as he truly thought that whatsoeuer was about him was a circumference of dauÌ„ger and he himselfe a center of calamitie But this knowe that hee was afflicted with those casualties which commonly are wont to befal to all infortunate straungers when they trauaile in forrein nations without any protection that is to be spoyled of his money to be infected with diseases and tossed from poste to piller like an espâ—al or runnagate When he was robbed of that litle substaunce which he had destitute of frendes and acquaintaunce ashamed te beg and detesting to steale hee was vrged to relieue his gréedy hunger with the wild fruites of the wildernes and to take vp his lodging in some secrete caue or vault or amid some shrowding shrubs or vnder some trée As Heliodorus Aethiopicus reportes that in Aegipt a litle froÌ„ the riuer of Nylus there inhabited certaine heardmen whiche expelled all the righte owners of the soile liued themselues with rauine and theuedome so Philotimus was nowe hit into a place which a crewe of like companions had