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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02154	Philomela The Lady Fitzvvaters nightingale. By Robert Greene. Vtriusque Academiæ in Artibus magister.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1592 (1592)	STC 12296; ESTC S105870	43,149	70

that was resident in Palermo and desired that he might see the Gentleman that had done the murther but the Gayler would not suffer him but inquired what country man he was he answered a Uenetian and that is the reason quoth hee that I am desirous to haue a sight of him Philomela hearing that he was a Uenetian asked him what newes from Uenice The Sayler for so hee was discoursed vnto her what late had chaunced and amongst the rest he discouered the ●ortunes of Philomela and how she was wrongfully accused by her husband the Earle how her Father came to Uenice and hauing her accusers two slaues examined they confest the Earle suborned them to the periurie wherupon Philippo was banished and now as a man in dispaire sought about to finde out his wife Philomela hearing these newes thanking him tooke her leaue of the Sailer and went home where getting alone into her chamber she began thus to meditate with her selfe now Philomela thou maist see heauens are iust and God impartiall that though he defers he doeth not acquit that thogh he suffer the innocent to be wronged yet at last hee persecuteth the malicious with reuenge that time hatcheth trueth and that true honor maye be blemisht with enuye but neuer vtterly defaced with extremitie now is thy lyfe laid open in Uenice and thy fame reuiued in spight of Fortune now maiest thou triumphe in the fall of thy Ieliouse husband and write thy chastitie in the characters of his bloode so shall he die disgraced and thou returne to Uenice as a wonder Now shal thine eie see his end that hath sought to ruinate thee and thou liue content and satisfied in the iust reuenge of a periured husband Oh Philomela that worde husband is a high tearme easily pronounced in the mouth but ●euer to be banished from the hart knowest thou not that the loue of a wife must not end but by death that the tearme of marriage is dated in the graue that wyues should so long loue and obey as they liue and drawe breath that they should preferre their husbands honor before their owne life and choose rather to die then sée him wronged Why else did Alcest die for Admetus Why did Portia eate coales for the loue of Brutus if it were not that wiues ought to end their liues with their loues Truth Philomela but Philippo is a traytour hée hath imblemisht thy fame sought to ruine thine honour aimde at thy life condemnd thée both to diuorce and banishment and lastly hath stainde the high honors of thy Fathers house And what of all this Philomela hath not euerie man his fault Is there any offence so great that may not bee forgiuen Philippo did not woorke thée this wrong because he loued some other but because he ouerloued thee t'was Ielousie not lasciutousnes that forst him to that follie and suspition is incident onely to such as are kind hearted louers Hath not God reuengde thy iniurie and thy Father punisht him with the like penaltie that thy selfe doest suffer and wilt thou now glorie in his miserie No Philomela shew thy selfe vertuous as ere thou hast béene honorable and heape coales on his head by shewing him fauour in extremitie If he hath slain the Dukes sonne it is through despaire and if hee had not come hither to séeke thée hee had not fallen into this misfortune The Palme trée the moreit is prest downe the more it sprowteth vp the Camomill the more it is troden the swéeter smell it yéeldeth euen so ought a good wife to be kind to her husband midst his greatest discourtesies and rather to venture her life then suffer him incur any preiudice and so will I doe by Philippo for rather then hée shall die in the sight of Philomela I wil iustifie him with mine owne death so shall my ende bee honorable as my life hath béene wonderfull With this shee ceased and went to her rest till the next day morning that the Dukes and the states gathered togither to sit in iudgement whether came Lutesio and the Duke of Millaine disguised to see what he was that being a Uenetian committed the murther there also was Philomela and the saylers wife At last the County Philippo was brought foorth whome when the Duke of Millaine sawe iogging Lutesio with his hand he whispered and said see Lutesio where man fauours yet God doth in extremitie reuenge now shal we see the fall of our enemie yet not touched with his bloode whispering thus amongest themselues At last the Duke of Palermo began to examine him if he were he that slew his sonne he answered that hee was the man would with his blood answer it what moued you saies the Duke to do the murther an oulde grudge quoth he that hath béene betweene him and me euer since he was in Uenice and for that cause reuenge was so restles in my minde that I came from thence purposly to act the tragedy and am not sory that I haue contented my thoughts with his bloode at this his manifest confession the Duke full of wrath arose and said it was booteles further to impannell any Iurye therefore vpō his words he would pronoūce sentence against him Then Philomela calling to the Duke and desiring she might be heard began thus to plead O mighty Duke staye the censure least thy verdict wrong the innocent thou condemne and earle through his owne disparing euidence I see and with trembling I feele that a guiltye conscience is a thousand witnesses That as it is vnpossible to couer the light of the Sunne with a Curtaine so the remorse of murther ca● not be concealed in the closet of the most secrete conspirator For standing by and hearing thée ready to pronoūce sentence against the Innocent I euen I that committed the déede though to the exigent of mine owne death could not but burst foorth into these exclamations to saue the sacklesse Knowe therefore that he which standeth héere before the Iudgement seate is an Earle though banished his name is Countie Philippo Medici my husband and once famous in Italie though héere he be blemisht by Fortune At this all the companye lookt vpon her Philippo as a man amazed stood staring on her face the teares trickling downe his chéeks to see the kindenes of his wife whome so deepely he had iniured and the Duke of Millaine her Father with Lutesio were in as great a wonder Last she prosecuted her purpose thus It were too long worthye Scicilians to rehearse the wronges this Philippo hath vsed against me distressed Countesse through his extreame iealousie onely l●t this bréefely 〈◊〉 hee subor●ed his 〈◊〉 to sweare I was séene in the act of Adultery they were beléeued I deuorced and banished and héere euer since I haue liued in contented patience But since my exile time that is the reuealer of truth hath made the slaues bewraye the effect of the matter so that this present Earle is found guiltye mine honour saued he banished and now

extreamly distressed Consider the Sicilians if this County my husband hath offred me such wrong what reason I had to plead for his lyfe were it not the guilt of mine owne consci●nce forceth to saue the innocent who in a dispairing humor wearie of his lyfe confesseth himselfe author of that murther which these handes did execute I am the womā the infortunate Countesse Sicilians who suborned by a Sicilian gentleman whome by no tortures I will name first practised by witchcraft Arnaldos death but séeing that would not preuaile I sought to méet him alone which I did yesterday by the groue and there offring him a humble supplication and he stouping to take it courteously I stabd him and after mangled him in that sort you found him This is trueth this is my conscience and this I am by God informed to confesse Then worthie Duke saue the innocent Earle and pronounce sentence against me theoffender I speake not this in that I loue the Countie but that I am forst vnto it by the remorse of mine owne conscience Héere she ended and all they stoode amased and Philippo beganne againe to reply against her that she did it to saue him but in vaine were his wordes for she alledged such probable reasons against her selfe that the Duke was ready to pronounce sentence against her and the Duke her father at the point to bewray himself had it not béene that Arnaldo Strozzo the Dukes so comming home and méeting certaine plaine countrimen heard this newes how the Duke was sitting in Iudgement against one that had murthered his sonne which newes as it droue him into a wonder so it made him ha●te speedily to the place to know the effect of the matter and he came thither iust at the beginning of Philomelas oration Seeing therefore two pleading thus for death hée himselfe being alyue and his father ready to condemne the innocent he commaunded the companye to giue way came and shewed himselfe and said maye it please your grace I am héere whome these confesse they haue slaine At this the Duke start vppe and all the ●●anders by were in a mase At last to dryue them out of their dūps he toulde them that hee thought that the man that was murthered and taken for him was a slaue with whome the day before he had changed apparell The Duke for ioye to sée his son was a great while mute At last hee beganne to examine the matter why these two did plead themselues guilty Philippo answered for dispaire as weary of his lyfe Philomela said for the safetie of her husband choosing rather to die thē he any wayes should suffer preiudice The Sicilians at this looking Philomela in the face shouted at her woundrous vertues and Philippo in a sound betwéene gréefe and ioy was carried awaye halfe dead to his lodging where he had not lyen two houres but in an extasie he ended his lyfe The Duke of Millaine discouered himselfe who by the Duke of Palermo was highlye intertained But Philomela hearing of the death of her husband ●ell into extreame passiones and although Arnaldo Strozzo desired her in marriadge yet shee returned home to Uenice and there liued the desolate widdow of Philippo Medici al her lyfe which constant chastety made her so famous that in her lyfe shee was honored as the Paragon of vertue and after her death solemnely and with wonderfull honor intombed in S. Markes Church and her fame holden canonized vntil this day in Uenice FINIS AT LONDON Printed by E. A. for Edwarde VVhite dwelling at the little Northe doore of Paules Church at the Signe of the Gunne Anno. 1592.