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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06673	The second part of the historie, called The nature of a woman contayning the end of the strife betwixt Perseus and Theseus. Compiled by C.M.	C. M., fl. 1596.; Middleton, Christopher, 1560?-1628, attributed name.	1596 (1596)	STC 17127; ESTC S119676	23,507	44

THE SECOND PART OF THE HISTORIE CALLED THE NATVRE OF A WOMAN Contayning the end of the strife betwixt Perseus and Theseus Compiled by C. M. AT LONDON Printed by the Widow Orwin for Clement Knight and are to be sold at his shop at the little North-doore of S. Paules Church 1596. To the curteous and friendly Reader AS it fares in the estate of al things that are so changed from their first as if the Fathers of the first world liued to reuise this last they should hardlie learne to know that wherein then they liued So fares it in this vse of these triuiall toyes which men were wont to cal by the names of some personages whose liues or deaths were deciphered therein but now framing their fancies to a new fashion they will needes haue them named according to their natures Sicut trahit sua quemque voluntas And for my selfe was loath to breake square I haue intituled this Historie The nature of a VVoman which though therein it answer not euerie mans priuat expectation in what they meane yet could not I fit it better to the matter containing indeede nothing but the enuious practises of two wicked women wherein if any take offence let him for this time winke at my fault as rather affecting to frame my selfe to the new fashion that it should be accounted new stuffe then following the old be esteemed as too stale Yours C. M. The second part of the Historie called the nature of a VVoman contayning the trauaile of Perseus after he had fled from his Armie CHAP. 1. AFter that the vnconstant state of neuer stayed fortune had throwne downe these vnfortunate people from the height of those heauēly pleasures which before they inioyed in prosperitie downe euen to the lowest degrée of blacke bottomles aduersitie First in rooting out the hope of their succéeding remembrance likely to liue long after they should dye in their happie children Then with y e eating canker of al vndoing enuie seuering asunder by their warres their well grounded commonwealth which they so long had gouerned in peace And lastly laying vpon themselues that which their dissention had ouerloaded their poore countrimē withall the hard sentence of exiles extremitie more grieuous then the coldest kind of bitter pinching pouertie a more dismall diuorsiue sentence then is the separation of a secure soule from an earthly blessed bodie for that the one ends all aduersitie the other begins their after miserie the one changes the stinking state of this lothsome life into the neuer dying ioyes of heauenly felicitie but the other with a countermanding course puls backe the forwarde fortune of mens still mounting mindes whom nature feedes with the hope of more and more happie blessings into the despayring gulfe of all vndoing extremitie This is the bridle where with foule fortune bindes in the strong headed state of many mightie Monarchies when neither loue of vertue nor hate of vice feare of their friends ill nor care of their owne weale plagues at home nor other punishment abroad can pull backe to behold the wicked waies they haue ouer walked then suffers she them to perseuer in their peeuish penance meriting purpose till vnawares they bee assayled with the enuious incounters of vnlooked for exile where they must weare out their age with sorrow whose youth was wasted in all ioy and learne to eate the bitter bread of banishment abroad that could not satisfie themselues with the abundant pleasures of their countries content at home and let their death conquering déedes dye in desolation which should after death eternize their euer-liuing names to their yet vnthought of generation where no pen shall paint out their perfect picture nor any tongue shall tell their true stories but dye like the soule wanting bodies of brutish beasts the processe of whose forespent life no mans memories admits Such was the harmefull hap of these now hopeles Kings who whilest with the sun-shine of their luckie loue they blessed the furthest borders of this their then thrice renowned regiment made fortune proude that it lay in her power to aduance them But now they vnaduisedly haue broake downe the force of their brotherly affections entring as nakedly into woe as whilome when they were borne into the world gins like a guideles shippe to turne with euery tossing sea that were wont to stand steady like two sturdie rocks till at length seuered asunder to goe seeke their seuerall punishment Perseus that for his safegard had tane his way to the desert hils that with their height compasses that countrie wasting many a wearie day in the sad remembrance of his shipwrack gins now by the sowre sawce of fortunes aduersitie iudge with himselfe the pleasure of his former prosperitie and like a man that setled with himselfe to trie the hardest brunts of this enuious ill lucke now in stead of comfortable companie to whom he might complaine his case expels sorrow with sorrowe and quench the fire of his inwarde foggie sighes by vttering to the eares of those vnacquainted ecchoes the harsh historie of his ill ending daies delighting in stead of the replie of a fauourable friend to heare the aggrauating eccho resounding from the craggie caues of those hollowe hils the sorrowfull sound of woe ending words Whereat the poore soule sate downe and sighed till the ouer-charged burthen of his heart forcibly breaking out in abundance of christall teares did with sacietie of sorrowe make shew of ease to euill which indéede had no ende whose daylie plaints moued with their mo●es as the Thracian with his musicke the hard and ruinous rockes that vnderpropped the skie-brauing tops of those mightie mountaines to melt their marble sides into the shew of melting teares plaining of him that could not pitie himselfe and in stead of helping hands moues their senceles heads as willing though wanting power to ease his agonie Many dayes did he spend in this careful course cutting out in capital letters vpō the barks of those adioyning trées the dismall discourse of this his pitifull plight writing the records of his woes in the stony tables of hard marble rocks that might incite the eyes of euery trauailer to teares and pitie his woes whose wracke they could not preuent At last when euen wearie with wéeping though still full of teares as is the nature of man gréedie of nouelties gins with himselfe deuise how in despite of that distresse he might inuent some new-found forme to lament whose sorrows might satisfie the effect of his intēt and change the outwarde semblance of his sorrowfull shewe and sitting him sadly downe by a bubling spring wherein he might see the reflexe of his sorrowfull face he thus begins in a song to braue the hard brunts of his haples heart that still affoorded new fuell for his sorrowes fire fresh springs of teares for his watrie eyes and still replying words for his tragick tatling tongue Ye merrie Muses whose delightfull wits Busied in framing seuerall pleasing songs Come here and dwell by

without offering her violent iniurie which is a thing not commonly found in their kind sets her safely down in her caue where she quietly kept her till such time as her companion came in to whom with her fayre wonted fawning she presents her prize The woman better imboldened at the shewe of a man then she was of the still fearfull sight of the beast begins somewhat to recouer her lost colour and with fearefull cryes gins suddenly implore his ayde against the enuie of that her naturall enemie At whose sight the man somewhat ioyfull to see the shape of another in whom was represented the shew of himselfe gins with his ordinarie intertainment to welcome her to that homely house telling her that such was the extraordinary nature of that beast that she would neuer harme any creature and then falling into further talke he begins to enquire of her what drowe her downe into those melancholy meades where saue himselfe seldome or neuer comes any such creatures To whom she begins to relate a contrary course of her foreled life fearing least the very sound of her voyce in reiterating the remembrance of her death-meriting deedes would not onely incurre his anger but stirre vp that senceles beast to wreake their woes whom she so vnworthily had wronged and therfore tels him that she was a woe wearied woman that in her melancholy moodes bad left the poore place where shee dwelt to soiourne in some vncoth vnfrequented shade where no delightfull day might solicite to her sad memorie the loue of her forepassed life no chéerefull sunne might cherish her cold chilled limmes nor pleasant newes of neuer dying ioy might bring her backe againe to her former felicitie At which tale the wild man though himselfe had neuer felt the force of powerfull passions that winds mens bodies like a workmanship in waxe yet pitying that in her he neuer tasted in himselfe tels what trueth tolde him that hard was her hap to change her chéerefull consorting companie of friends to desolations sad discomforture amongst her foes to come from whence she was first brought vp to that place where she was finally cast downe except quoth he you can frame your fancie to vndergoe the beastly behauiour of these vnciuill creatures amongst whom I now liue and with whom I meane to dye for such a rumour heare I to runne of the inconstant course of mightiest monarchies which also in some I haue seene true that from the highest braunch they are oft bowed downe euen to the lowest barke of the bulke that I finde more swéete content in this vnchangeable stay then they in their stedfastest state In which talke they beguiled the time till night ouertaking them both admits no more interpassage of friendly spéech where he to his ordinarie rest and she to her accustomed complaints betakes themselues shée telling in secret to her sad heart the heauy burthen of her groaning griefes whose heauy soule melted with the inforciue furie of her still crying sorrow destils in amber teares sometimes she thinkes of her husband and then hope helpes her vp with this thought that though long yet they shall againe méete at last Then remembers she the children as well that of her owne as the other that by her meanes was massacred supposing heauens had heaped iust vengeance vpon her for her former sinnes And lastly when shée thought vpon her selfe then comes dead death with his crasie coloured countenance and inforces her not to blush for shame as doe the outward shewes of offenders but looke pale for pitie as the vse of such guiltie guides that not onely leades themselues into that recureles gulfe of neuer recouering griefe but also intises other into a world of woes from whence there is no retiring Thus did she preuent that which euer was assaying to preuent her the all stilling state of secure sléepe where her thought was still stumbling of some sinne whose iust iudgement was likely to insue vpon her after life till in the secret of the silent night there suddenly sounded ouer their heauie heads y e noyse of a fearefull pursute as though some angrie beast had insolently risen vpon another simpler sort where suddenly into the Caue where they then lay descends downe the likenes of a liuely creature not such as was wont to accompanie them in their Caues but others that elsewhere with vntimely disturbance waken the sleeping wits of watchfull men at which they were all affraid The Lionesse for that she these many daies had neuer béen in any such sort disturbed the man for that since his first comming thither hee neuer viewed any such thing the woman for that she dreamed of some extraordinarie euent that should insue of that sudden vprore but as euery wonder becomes at last more ordinarie then it shewes at the first so in the end by the shadow searching Moone they might more easily espie that which had driuen them all into this extraordinarie doubt the substance of the other sister whose fault was equal with the first and so was her repentance as readie as any of the rest But how sudden sorrow ouertooke her heauie heart in finding that in the ende from which she fled in the beginning a Lyon from whose clawes she thought she had cléered her selfe But as it fares in the euer swelling surges of the senceles seas that the weary water working men fall from the gréedie gripe of Sillaes shiuering shores into the couert of Charibdes cruel course so fares it with her that flying from the bare shew of death was fallen into darknes it selfe Where when she saw so many contraries coupled in one subiect as crueltie with curtesie fell inforciue furie with friendly for bearing fellowship reasonable caitiues there subiect to vnreasonable creatures soule possessing bodies with sauage professing beasts But at lēgth she satisfied with the shew of them and they glutted with gazing on her the sauage man as curteously begins to welcome her as he gaue gentle gréetings to the other and with such wordes as his yet vnkindly curtesie did affoord intertaines her And for that the trouble some time of the night did not afford such shew of further fauour as by his promise he purposed to performe in the day she by the other softly sits downe her selfe betwixt whom you must now imagine such dumb demeanes of friendship for feare to procéed as whilest they were well could not come from curteous loue There doe these two with outwarde shewes display ones plaints to the others passions Many dumbe demeanes passed betwixt these two till after long lingering shewes that with their dissembling shadowes had lulled againe into a slumber these two careles creatures whose nature suspecting nothing els but naked trueth without all further inquisition fals againe fast asléepe which when these two wofull women had warilie weyed they taking this aduantage of time gins quickly one to murmur to another the euents of their seuerall iournies And here must I now leaue further to enuey against their