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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02122	Gvvydonius The carde of fancie wherein the folly of those carpet knights is decyphered, which guyding their course by the compasse of Cupid, either dash their ship against most daungerous rocks, or els attaine the hauen with paine and perill. Wherein also is described in the person of Gwydonius, a cruell combat betvveene nature and necessitie. By Robert Greene Master of Arte, in Cambridge.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.; Labé, Louise, 1526?-1566. Debat de folie et d'amour.	1584 (1584)	STC 12262; ESTC S105817	96,964	176

of his minde He was so endued with vanitie and so imbrued w t vice so nursed vp in wantonnesse so nusled vp in wilfulnesse so carelesse to obserue his Fathers commaund and so retchlesse to regard his counsell that neither the dreade of Gods wrath nor the feare of his fathers displeasure could driue him to desist from his detestable kinde of liuing Nay there was no fact so filthy which he would not commit no mischiefe so monstrous which he wold not enterprise no daunger so desperate which he would not aduenture no perill so fearefull which he would not performe nor no action so diuellish which he would not execute So immodest in his manners so rude in his iestures yea and so prodigall in his expences as mines of golde were not able to maintaine such witlesse prodigalitie This loathsome lyfe of Cwydonius was such a cutting corasiue to his Fathers carefull conscience and such a haplesse clogge to his heauie heart that no ioye could make him inioye anie ioye no myrth could make him merrie no prosperitie could make him pleasant but abandoning all delyght and auoyding all companie he spent his dolefull daies in dumpes and dolors which he vttered in these wordes NOw quoth he I proue by experience the saying of Soph●cles to be true that the man which hath many children shall neuer liue without some myrth nor dye without some sorrowe for if they be vertuous he shall haue cause whereof to reioyce if vicious wherefore to be sad which saying I trie performed in my selfe for as I haue one childe which delights me with her vertue so I haue another that despights me with his vanitie as the one by dutie brings me ioye so the other by disobedience bréeds my annoy yea as y e one is a comfort to my mind so the other is a fretting corasiue to my heart for what griefe is there more griping what paine more pinching what crosse more combersome what plague more pernitious yea what trouble can torment me worse then to sée my sonne mine heire the inheritour of my Dukdome which should be the piller of my parentage to consume his time in roysting and ryot in spending and spoiling in swearing and swashing and in following wilfullye the furie of his owne frantike fancie Alasse most miserable lamentable case would to God the destinyes had decréed his death in y e swadling clouts or y ● the fates had prescribed his end in his infācy Oh y ● the date of his birth had ben the day of his burial or y ● by some sinister storme of fortune he had ben stifled on his mothers knées so that his vntimely death might haue preuēted my ensuing sorowes and his future calamities for I sée that y ● young frie will alwayes proue olde frogges y ● the crooked twig will proue a crabbed trée that the sower bud will neuer be swéete blossome how that which is bredde by the bone wil not easily out of the flesh that he which is carelesse in youth will be lesse carefull in age that where in prime of yeares vice raigneth there in ripe age vanitie remaineth Why Clerophontes if thou séest the sore why doest thou not applie the salue and if thou dost perceiue the mischiefe why doest not preuent it with medicine take away the cause and the effect faileth if Gwydones be the cause of thy ruth cut him off betimes least hée bring thée to ruine better hadst thou want a sonne then neuer want sorow Perhaps thou wilt suffer him so long till he fall sicke of the Father and then he will not onely séeke thy lands and liuing but life and all if thou preuent not his purpose yea and after thy death he will be through his lasciuious lyfe the ouerthrowe of thy house the consumer of thy Dukedome the wracke of thy common weale and the verie man that shall bring the state of Metelyne to mischiefe and miserie Sith then thy sonne is such a sinke of sorrowes in whose life lies hid a loathsome masse of wretched mishaps cut him off as a gracelesse graft vnworthie to growe out of such a stocke Alasse Clerophontes shalt thou bee so vnnaturall as to séeke the spoile of thine owne childe wilt thou bée more sauage then the brute beasts in committing such crueltie no alasse the least misfortune of our children doth so moue vs that as the Spider féeleth if her web be prickt but with the point of a pin so if they be toucht but with the least trouble we féele the paines thereof with prickking griefe to pinch vs. Why hath not nature then caused loue to ascend as wel as to descend and placed as dutifull obedience in y e child as louing affection in y e father with that he fetcht such a déep sigh y ● it was a signe of y e extreame sorrow he conceiued for his sons witlesse folly But as he was readie againe to enter into his doleful discourse to aggrauate his griefe the more and increas● his care certaine complaints were brought him by sundrie Citizens of the outragious behauiour of his sonne Gwydonius which being attentiuely heard he in great cholar called for his sonne against whom he thundered out such threatning reproches laying before his face the miserie that would insue of such recklesse mischiefes promising that if he directed not his course by a newe compasse and leuelled his life by a new line he woulde not onely repay his folly with the penaltie of the lawe but also by consent of his Commons disinherite him of his Dukedome that Gwydonius greatly incensed with the seuere censure of his Father broyling with furious rage sturdely burst foorth into these stubborne tearmes SIr quoth he if Terence his Menedemus were aliue and heard these your fond and fantasticall resons he would as readely condemne you of crabbednes as he accused Chremes of currishnesse for as he by too much austeritie procured his sonnes mishappe so you by too much seueritie séeke to bréed my misfortune You old men most iniustly or rather iniuriously measure our stailesse moode by your stayed mindes our young yeres by your horie haires our flourishing youth by your withered age thinking to direct our dooings by your doatings our wills by your wits our youthfull fancies by your aged affections and to quench our fierie flames by your dead coales and cinders yea supposing that the Leueret shuld be as skilfull in making of a head as the olde Hare that the young Cubs shoulde as soone tapish as y e old Fox that y ● young Frie shuld as wel auoid the net as the olde Fish and that the young wantons shuld be as warie as the old wysards But this sir is to make fire frost to chaunge heate to colde mirth to mourning singing to sadnesse pleasure to paine and to tye the Ape and the Beare in one tedder sith then young stemme● will not be set on a withered stocke that the young twigge liketh not vnder the old trée that the toyish

such tumbling waues such fearefull surges such roaring stremes such hideous goulfs as it made the passage séeme a thousand times more perillous This terrible sight was such a cooling Card to my former conceits as hope was turned to feare blisse to bale supposed happinesse to assured heauinesse And yet my fancie was not quenched but rather far the more inflamed my desire was not diminished but augmented my liking no lesse but rather inlarged so that to liue in loue without hope was loathsome to séeke redresse was losse of life to want my wish was horror to inioy my will was hell to liue in care without comfort was calamitie to séeke for cure was more th● miserie not to possesse y e pray was hellish daunger to venture for the prize was haples death Thus crossed with cares daunted with such diuers doubts desperate hope so repulsed direfull feare y ● incouraged by ventrous desire I hadde either obtained my wish or wanted of my will if your Ladyshippe had not so sodainely wakened me out of my slumber Thus madame Castania you haue heard my dreame now the doubt is whether it had ben better to haue ventured vppon the brickle bridge and so either desperatly to haue ended cares with death or else valiantly to haue inioyed desire with renowme or still like a fearefull dastard to haue ended my dayes in lingering loue with myserie Castania hearing the surmised dreame of Gwydonius both smelled the fetch and smiled at the follie of this young youth knowing that these fantastical visions and presupposed passions would in time if he tooke not héed proue but too true to preuent therefore such imminent perills shée nipt her young nouice on the pate with this parle GWydonius quoth shée I haue listened to thy drousie dreame with déep deuotion by so much the more desirous attentiuely to heare it by howe much the more I finde it straunge and wonderfull yea so straunge as if I my selfe had not wakened thée out of thy slumber I would either haue thought it a fained vision or a fantasticall inuention but sith these Gentlemen héere present mine owne eyes are witnesses thine owne tongue a testimonie of thy talke suffice I beléeue it though I can not diuine it to giue a verdit where the euidence is not vnderstood is vanitie to yéeld a reason of an vnknowen case is méere folly and to interpret so straunge a dreame without great practise is but to skip beyond my skill and so lay fast in the mire Yet least I might séeme to promise much and performe nothing I will decide your doubt if you please to take my doome for a censure It is a saying Gwydonius not so common as true that the hastie man neuer wantes woe and that hée which is rash wythout reason seldome or neuer sléepeth without repentaunce To venture amiddest the Pikes when perills cannot bée ●schewed is not fortitude but folly to hazarde in daungers when death ensueth is not to bée worthely minded but wilfully mooued Uertue alwayes consisteth betwéene extremities that as too much fearefulnesse is the signe of a quaking coward so too much rashnesse betokeneth a desperate Ruffian Manhoode Gwydonius consisteth in measure and worthynesse in fearing to hazard without hope But to giue a verdite by thine owne voyce I perceiue thou art guiltie of the same crime for when the bricklenesse of the Bridge portended death and the surging Seas inferred losse of lyfe yet desire draue thée to aduenture so desperate a daunger Better it is Gwydonius to liue in griefe then to die desperatelye without grace better to choose a lingering lyfe in miserie then a spéedie death without mercie better to bée tormented wyth haplesse fancie then with hellish fiends for in lyfe it is possible to represse calamity but after death neuer to redresse miserie Tully Gwydonius in his Tusculans questions discoursing of the happinesse of life and heauinesse of death sayth that to lyue we obtaine it of the louing Gods but to die of the vnluckie destinies meaning heereby that lyfe though neuer so loathsome is better then death though neuer so welcome whereby I conclude Gwydonius that to liue carfully is better then to die desperatly Gwydonius perceiuing that Castanias parle was nothing to the purpose and that shée toucht not that point whereof hée desired most to bée absolued but meant to shake him off wyth a flée●elesse aunswere beganne to drawe her to the Trappe wyth this traine MAdame Castania quoth he I confesse that rashnesse neuer raigneth without repentaunce nor hastie hazarding without haplesse harmes that he which aduentureth desperate daungers is a foole he that passeth ineuitable perills is worse then an Asse Yet from these so generall rules Madame I exempt these perticular exceptions namely Loue Necessitie which two are tied w tin no bonds nor limitted within no law for whom y e diuel driues he must néedes run be the passage neuer so perillous and whom Loue or Necessitie forceth he must venture be the daunger neuer so desperate for as there is no enterprise so easie which to an vnwilling man séemeth not verie hard to bée atchieued so there is no incounter so combersome where will wisheth that séemeth not passing easie to bée perfourmed nowe this will is with nothing sooner pricked forwarde then either with the force of Loue or sting of necessitie So that whosoeuer aduentureth in a daunger though neuer so desperate is not to be blamed if inforced by fancie or incouraged by affection and especially where the perill is in possibilytie to bee passed without death and in the performaunce thereof the possession of such a prise as the passionate person more estéemeth then lands limmes or lyfe it selfe bée it neuer so swéete In which case madame my cause consisteth For the Ladie who was an heauenly obiect to my glasing eies was so beautified with the giftes of nature and so perfectly pollished with more then naturall perfection that with the only view of such diuine beutie my sences were so besotted my wit will so inueigled my affection so inflamed any fréedome so fettered yea Loue alreadie had made so greate a breach into the bulwarke of my breast that to obtaine so gorgeous a Goddesse I thought death no daunger though neuer so direfull nor losse of lyfe no torment though neuer so terrible In déed Gwydonius quoth Thersandro I agrée with thée in this poynt that there is no carpet Knight so cowardly that wold not passe most perillous pikes to possesse so liuely a Dame as thou doost decypher nor no dastard so daunted with dread which would not greatlye indanger himselfe to inioy so louely a damsell in y ● fruition of whom consisteth nothing but ioy blisse rest contentation of minde delight happinesse yea all earthlye felicitie And yet Sir quoth Gwydonius your sister Castania condemnes me of follye in ventring for so precious a price when as hope perswaded me that no hazarde could be haples and assured me that Loue