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A02154 Philomela The Lady Fitzvvaters nightingale. By Robert Greene. Vtriusque AcademiƦ in Artibus magister. Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592. 1592 (1592) STC 12296; ESTC S105870 43,149 70

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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
vnworthy of her as she is beyond my reach to compasse Philomela who straight found the knot in the rush began to imagine that it was some married wife that Lutesio aimed at and therfore charged him by the loue that he bare to Philippo Medico that he would tell her whether it was a wife or a mayd that hée thus earnestly affected Lutesio briefly tolde her that she was not onely a wife but maide to one whome shée almost as tenderly loued as he did the Earle her husband A Ladie of honour and vertue yet a woman and therefore hée hoped might be wonne if his heart woulde serue him to be a woer Philomela ●earing this began to finde a knot in the rush and to déeme that it was some familiar of hys that he was affected to and therfore with a gentle frown as if shee loued him and yet mislikte of his fondnesse in fancie taking him by the hand she began thus to school● him Lutesio nowe I sée the strongest Oake hath his say and his wormes that Rauens will bréed in the fairest Ash and that the musked Angelica beares a deaw that shining like pearle being tasted is most preiuditiall that the holiest men in shew are oft the hollo west men in substance and where there is the greatest florish of vertue there in time appeareth the greatest blemish of vanitie I speake this by all but apply it to them who seeming euery way absolute will proue euerie way dissolute Hath not Venice held thée more famous for thy good partes than for thy parentage and yet well borne and valued the more for liuing well than wealthely and yet thy patrimonie is not small Oh Lutesio darken not these honours with dishon●stie nor for the foolish and fading passion of lust reach not at an euerlasting pennanc● of infamie As I mislike of thy choyce so I can but wonder at thy change to ●ée thée altered in maners that wert earst so modest who was est●●med amongst Ladies for his ciuill conceites as Lutesio thou wert wished for amongest the cha●test for thy choyce qualities amonges● youth for thy wit amongest age for thy honest behauior desired of all because offensiue to none and nowe if thou prosecute this ●ad purpose intend this base loue to violate the honour of a Venetian Ladie looke to be hated of all that are vertu●us because thou a●t growne so sodainly vicious and to be banished out of the companie of all that are honest because thou séekest to make one dishohonest then as thou louest thy fame leaue off this loue and as thou valuest thine honour so vale the appetite of thy dishonest thoughtes Besides Lutesio enter into the consideration of the fault and by that measure what will be the sequell of thy folly thou attemptest to dishonour a wife nay the wife of thy friend in doing this thou shalt loose a swéete companion and purchase thy selfe a fatall enemie thou shalt displease God and grow odious to men hazard the hope of thy grace and assur● thy selfe of the reward of sinne adulterie Lutesio is commended in none condemned in all and punnished in the end either with this worldes infamie or heauens anger it is a desire without regard of honestie and a gaine with greater reward of miserie a pleasure bought with paine a delight hatched with disquiet a content possessed with feare and a sinne finished with sorrowe Barbarous nations punishe it with death m●●re Atheistes in Religion auoid it by instinct of nature such as glory God with no honor couet to glorifie themselues with honesty and wilt thou that art a Christian than crucifie Christ anew by making the harbour of thy soule the habitation of Satan Oh Lutesio as thou blushest at my wordes so bannish thy bad thoughts and being created by God seeke not to despise thy creator in abusing his creatures A womans honestie is her honour and her honour the chiefest essence of her life then in seeking to blemishe her vertues with lust thou ●ymest at no lesse disgrace than her death and yet Lutesio this is not all for in winning her loue thou loosest a friend than which there is nothing more pretious as there is nothing more rare as Corruptio vnius est generatio alterius so the losse of a friend is the purchase of an enemie and such a mortall foe as will apply all his wittes to thy wracks intrude all his thoughtes to thy ruine and passe away his daies cares and nights slumbers in dreaming of thy destruction For if brute beasts will reuenge such brutish wrongs as adultery then imagine no man to be so patient that will ouerpasse so grosse an iniurie assure thy selfe of this Lutesio if her husband heare of your loues he will aime at your liues he will leaue no confection vntempered no poyson vnsearcht no mynerall vntried no Aconiton vnbrused no hearbe trée roote stone simple or secret vnsought till reuenge hath satisfied the burning thirst of his hate so shalt thou feare with whom to drincke with whome to conuerse when to walke how to performe thy affaires onely for doubt of her reuenging husband and thy protested enemie If such vnlawull lust such vnkinde desires such vnchast loue procure so great losse and so many perils reuert it Lutesio as a passion most pernitious as a shine most odious and a gaine most full of deadly sorrowes Though this he much Lutesio yet this is not all for many loue that are neuer liked and euerie one that woes is not a winner Diuers desire with hope and yet their wishes are to small effect suppose the Ladie whome thou louest is honest then is thy loue as vnlikely as Ixions was to Iuno who aiming at the substaunce was made a foole with a shadow I tell thée it is more easie to cut a Diamond with a glasse to pearce steele with a fether to tye an Elephant with a thréed of silke than to alienate an honest womans loue from her husband their heartes be harbours of one lou● closets of one contents Cel●es whereinto no amorous Idea but one can enter as hard to be pearst with new fangled aff●ction as the Adamant to be made soft with fire A Ladie Lutesio that regardeth her honour wil die with Lucrece before she agrée to lust she will eate coales with Portia before she prone vnchast she will thinke euerie miserie swéet euery mishappe content before she condiscend to the allurementes of any wanton leacher Imagine then her wh●●● thou louest to be such a one then will it qualifie thy hope coole thy desires and quench those vnbridled thoughtes that leades thée on to such follies for if she be a wanton what doest thou winne her that many hath worne and more than thy selfe may vanquish a light huswife and a lewd minion that after she hath yéelded the flower of her loue Thesius will marrie with Menelaus and then runne away with Paris amorous to euerie one because shee is humorous to all Then Lutesio séeing if thou likest an honest
must haue their longing or else I die through their ouerliking for as too swéet parfumes makes the sense to surfet and the most bright coulours soonest blemish the sight so I in gasing on the choise perfections of beauty haue dazelled mine eies and fiered my hart with desire that none but the fruition of that blessed obiect can saue me from being loues cursed abie●t Now Madam ●he rare Idea that thus through the applause of mine eie hath bewitched my hart is the beauteous image of your swéet selfe Pardon me if I presume when the extremity of loue pricks me forward Faults that grow by affection ought to bee forgiuen bicause they come of constraint then Madam read with fauour and censure with mercy for so long I dallied with the flie about the candle that I began to féele ouer much heat would breed my harme I haue playd so long with the Mynew at the baite that I am stricken with the hooke I haue viewed your beautye with such delighte and considered of your vertues with such desire that in your gratious lookes lies the only hope of my life Ah Philomela were not my loue extreame my passions passing all measure my affection to full of anguish I woulde haue concealed my thoughts with silence and haue smoothered my gréefes with patience but either I must liue by reuealing it or die by repressing it I feare thou wilte heare obiect Philippo is my friend and then I am of little fayth to profer him this wrong I confesse this is a truth and were worthy of blame were I not bewitcht by loue whoe neyther admitteth exceptions of fayth or friendshippe if it be a passion that controuleth the Goddes no woonder at all if it conquer and commande men If sonnes disobey their Fathers to haue their desires it is more tollerable to crack friendship for the conquest of loue Whie then did Nature frame beawty to be so excellent if she had tied the winning of it within exceptions If that a friend may fault with his friend for a kingdom no doub● fayth may be broken ●or loue that is a great deale more puissant then Kinges and much more pretious then Diadems chiefly if that the party be chary to haue regarde of his mystresse honour what the eie sees not Phylomela neuer hurteth the heart a secret loue impeacheth not chastitie Iuno neuer frowned when Iupiter made his scape in a Cloude Priuate pleasures haue neuer inioyned vnto them anye pennance and shee is alwaies counted chast enough that is chary enoughe then Madam let him not die for loue whome if you please you may blesse with loue It may be you will replye that Philippo is a Conte and a great deale my superiour and the supreame of your hart therefore not to be wronged with an arriual Consider Madame kinges doo brooke many vnknowne scapes Loue will play the wanton amongest the greatest Lordes Women are not made such chaste nunnes but they may let much water slippe by the Mill that the Miller knoweth not of They may loue their husband with one of their eies and fauour a friende with the other Since then Madam I haue béene stunge with the Scorpion and cannot be helpt or healed by none but by the Scorpion that I am wounded with Achilles launce and I must be healed with his Truncheon that I am intangled and snared in your beautie and must bee set at libertie onely by your loue Looke vpon my passions and pyttie them let me not die for desiring your sweete selfe but rather graunt me fauour and enioy suche a louer as will prise your honour before his life and at all times be yours in all dutyfull seruice whilest hee liues expecting such an answere as is agreeyng to such diuine beawtie which cannot bee c●uell or according vnto my d●stinie which be it s●●ister wilbe my death farwel Yours euer though neuer yours Geouanni Lutesio Hauing finished his letter thus amorousli● he remembred himselfe and although philippo● stayde for him in the garden yet he ●tept once againe to his standishe and wrote vnder this fgllowing so●net Natura Nihil frustra On women Nature did bestow two eies Like Hemians bright lamps in matchles beuty shining Whose beames do soonest captiuate the wise And wary heads made rare by Arts refining But why did Nature in hir choise combining Plant two fayre eyes within a beautuous face That they might fauour two with equall grace Venus did sooth vp Vulcan with one eie With thother granted Mars his wished glee If she dyd so whom Heimens did defie Thinke loue no sinne but grant an eie to me In vayne else Nature gaue two stars to thee If then two eyes may well two friends maintayne Allow of two and proue not Nature vayne Natura repugnare belluinum After he had ended this Sonnet he went and shewed them to Signyor Philippo who liked well of his passionate humour and desired nothinge more then to heare what answere his wife woulde make to these amarous poems therefore that he might grant Lutesio the fitter oportunitie to deliuer them he tooke a skiffe and wente with sundrye other Gentlemen his familiars to sollace himselfe vpon the waters In the meane while Lutesio who was left alone by himselfe began to enter into the least disposition of a gelous man that woulde hazard the honour of his wife to content his owne suspitious humour and whet on a friend to a fayned fancie which in time might grow to an vnfayned affection so that smyling to himselfe he began thus to murmure in his minde Is not he worthy to finde that seekes and deserueth he not many blowes that craues to be beaten Sith Philippo will buy the Buckes head is he not worthy to haue the hornes and séeing he will needes haue me court his wife in iest were it not well if he might haue the Cuckow in earnest Knowes he not that frumps amongest friends grow at last to open anger that pretty sportings in loue end oftentimes in pretty bargaines that it is il gesting with edge tooles and of all cattell worst cauilling with fayre women for beawty is a baite that will not be dallied with But I loue him to well and I honour the lady to much to motion suche a thought in earnest Though he be foolishe I knowe hir too honeste to grant loue to the greatest Monarch of the world While thus he was musing with himselfe Philomela came into the Garden with two of her waiting women whoe seeing Lutesio in a dumpe thought hee was deuising of his new loue wherevpon she stept to him and began to aske him if hee proceeded in his purpose I madame quoth he if I meane to perseuer in life and with that the water flood in his eyes whether it was that he had an onion in his napkin to make him wéepe or that hee had suckt that speciall qualitie from his mother to let fal teares when he list I know not but she perceiuing hee watred his plants began somewhat to
applause and Philippo there with teares in his eyes took leaue protesting to spend his exile contentedly in séeking out of Philomela and when he had found her then in her presence to sacrifice his bloode as a satisfaction for his Lecherie Lutesio likewise swore to make a queast for her and so did the Genouayes and the Duke her father was as forward and the Senate broke vpp and the Duke of Millaine forthwith daparted home to his own countrey where leauing him going homeward and Philippo Lutesio and the Genouais séeking for Philomela Once againe to the innocent Lady who béeing arryued in Palermo was not onely courteously intertained of the M. of the Shippe but also of his wife who noting her modesty vertue silence and other good properties rare qualities was so far in loue with her that she would not by any meanes let her departe out of her house but with a simpathie of sweete affectiones did loue like two sisters in somuch that Philomela was brought ot bedde and had a yong Sonne called Infortunatus because he was borne in the extremitie of his mothers miserie The M. of the shippe and his wife being pledges of his Christendome liuing thus obscure and yet famous in Palermo for her vertues she found that of all musicke the meane was the merriest that quiet rested in lowe thoughts and the safest tontent in the poorest cottages that the highest trées abide the sharpest stormes and the greatest personages the sorest frownes of Fortune therefore with patience she brookt her homely course of lyfe and had more quiet sleepes now in the ship-masters house in Palermo then she had in her pallace in Uennice onelye her discontent was when she thought on Philippo that he had proued so vnkinde and on Lutesio that for her sake hee was so déeply iniuried yet aswel as she might she salued these sores and couered her hard fortunes with the shadow of her innocencye While thus she liued honorablie in Palermo not for her excellent behauiour and good qualitie It fortuned that the Duke of Milaine and Lutesio both disguised like two palmers had passed throgh many places to séeke Philomela and to reduce her from banishment and at last aryued in Palermo intending to soiourne there for a while and then ot passe vp to Samagossa and so through all Sicilia to haue intelligence of the destressed Countesse While thus they stayed inquiring diligently of her and not hearing anye newes sith she was seldome séene abroad and beside that her name changed and called Abstemia It chaunced that either by Fortune or destanie there arryued at the same time in Palermo the County Philippo Medici who hauing trauailed through diuers countreyes to finde out his innocent Countesse wearied at last not so much with trauaile as with the gnawing worme of a guiltye conscience that still tormented him he beganne more and more to enter into dispaire and to thinke his lyfe loathsome vnto him wishing daylye for death so it might not come through the guilt of his own hand yet resoluing rather to bée the murtherer of him selfe then thus to linger out his daies in dispaire In this perplexed passion hee gat him into a thicke groue there the better to communicat in his melancholie vowing if hee hearde not of Philomela in that cittie to make that groue the monumēt of his graue thus desirous of death or of the recouery of his wife It fortuned that Arnoldo Frozzo sonne and heire to the Duke of Palermo being in loue with a young gentlewoman whose lodging was distaunt some three leagues from the Citie pricked forward by the extremitie of affection thought to go visite her although he was not onely forbidden by his father but watched least priuilye he might steale vnto her yet as loue can finde starting hoales he deuised this pollicie hee carried a slaue that remained in his Fathers hous● abroad to the groue with him where Philippo lay lurking and there chaunging apparell with him he got him to his desired Mistres and bad the slaue returne couertly into the Cittie and meet him the next day at the same place parting thus as he was going homewarde hee was met by a young Sicilian gentleman named Petro Salino who bearing a mortal grudge to the Dukes son in that he affected the Gentlewoman whome hee so tenderly loued seeing him alone and thinking him to bee Arnoldo Strozzo by his apparell and déeming hee came now from his beloued Mistres set vpon him and slewe him and with his rapeir so mangled his face that by no meanes he could be discerned and thereupon fled Arnaldos page missing his M. seeking abroad for him in the fieldes for that he desired oft times to be solitarie light vpon the dead body of the slaue and iudgeing it to be his M. because he was in his apparell cried out ran home and carried newes therof to the Duke his Father who as a man distraught of his wits cōmanded straight search to be made to finde out the actor of the Tragedye causing the dead corps to be conueyed with muche gréefe and many teares All the Courtiers gentlemen and others sought abroad to séeke out the author of this murther and not far of where the slaue was slain found Philippo walking vp downe vntrust his hat lying by him and his rapier in his hand the courtiers séeing a mā thus suspitious made inquirie what he was why quoth the Countie I am the man you looke for Art thou then said the Cousin of Arnaldo that bloudy traitour that haste slaine the Dukes sonne The Countie glad he had so swéete an occasion to be rid of his lyfe resolute and bréefely said I Marry am I and I will kill his father too if euer I reache him with that they laide hould vppon him and carried him to prison and as he went by the way they examinde what hee was but that by no meanes hee would reueale vnto them onely he said he was an Italian purposelye come from Uenice to act it Newes straight was carried to the Duke that the murtherer was taken who was highly glad thereof and resolued the next daye with the states of the countrey to ●it in iudgement as fame and reporte cannot be silent so it was straight noysed abroad through Palermo that the Dukes sonne was slaine by a Uenetian and how he was taken and should the next day be arraigned and executed Philomela hearing that hee was a Uenetian that had doone the déede desirous to sée him tooke the Maister of the ships wife with her and went to the prison and there by fauour of the Gayler sawe him through a windowe assone as Philomela had a viewe of him she sawe it was Philippo Medici her husband disguised hauing in his face the very signes of dispair This sight of her husband droue her into a maze yet to conceale the matter to her felf● she said she knewe not the man As thus she was standing talking with the Gayler there came a Uenetiā
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.