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A15034	An heptameron of ciuill discourses Containing: the Christmasse exercise of sundrie well courted gentlemen and gentlewomen. In whose behauiours, the better sort, may see, a represe[n]tation of thier own vertues: and the inferiour, may learne such rules of ciuil gouernme[n]t, as wil rase out the blemish of their basenesse: wherin, is renowned, the vertues, of a most honourable and braue mynded gentleman. And herein, also, as it were in a mirrour the vnmaried may see the defectes whiche eclipse the glorie of mariage: and the wel maried, as in a table of housholde lawes, may cull out needefull preceptes to establysh their good fortune. A worke, intercoursed with ciuyll pleasure, to reaue tediousnesse from the reader: and garnished with morall noates to make it profitable, to the regarder. The reporte, of George Whetstone. Gent.	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?	1582 (1582)	STC 25337; ESTC S111679	129,236	194

yonge wife a Companion to recreate an olde man but he shal finde her a Corsiue that wyl consume him to death A yong man concludeth the swéetest sollace in loue with sighes it is then lyke an olde man endes it with teares And God he knowes he often wéepeth more of desire to please his wyfe then of any Deuotion he hath to wantōnesse yet is al his paynes to a fruitlesse purpose for that the Game finissheth in his griefe neither began nor endes in his wyues contentment You are too quicke in Aduauntage Segnior Soranso quoth the Doctor Oulde Wine thoughe it be dead in the mouthe yet is it warme in the Stomacks when the Newe fumes in the Heade but comforteth not the heart Dry woodde maketh a bright Fyre where gréene Bowes consume halfe awaye in Fume and Somake The Sonne riseth watrishlye and is longe before it geueth heate where in the After noone it scorcheth the face So a Yonge man deuideth his Loue into a hundreth Affections and euery fancie pleased there wyll but a little fall to his wyues share where an Olde mans Loue is settled and his fancie is fixed vpon one And as the resighted Examples in Age are in best hart so to proue an olde mans sufficiencie there is a common Prouerbe Gray Haires are nourished with greene thoughts Now to cōtent his yong wyfe she shal haue no cause to suspect his Affection abroade and shall not lacke to bée belooued at home Moreouer whiche delighteth a yong woman who naturallye is Ambitious shée shall take her place accordyng to the grauitie of her Husband and not as her yong yeares requyreth And to conclude to giue her an honourable name the most precious Iuell with which a woman may be beautified she shall receyue graue Directions from her Husbande and through the swéete delight she taketh in hearyng her good Gouernment cōmended she wyll put them in Execution Doctor Mossenigo replied not with this vehemencie for any delight he had to commende this vnequall estate in Mariage but to flatter Katharina Trista with an Ambitious Hope of great Reputation in matchyng with his aged self but she that knew a leg of a Larke was better then the whole Carkasse of a Kyte woulde none God thank him And to make him horne wood if hée perseuered in his opinion in Soransoes behalfe quoth Bergetto his auncient crosser Maister Doctor theare is more pryde in your wordes then Substance in your proofes your hartie olde Wine must be drawen out when it is broached your drie woodde is but a blaze and your hot Sunne doth but sweate for sorow that he is goyng to cowche in the dark Caues of Tartessus But as touching Old men they may well be sufficient in gréene thoughts as you terme them but I am assured that in déedes they are weake and wythered And therefore a man cannot speake too muche euill of this excesse in dotage withered Flowers are more fit for a Dunghill then méete to deck a house olde rotten Trées are néedefull for the fyre but vnnecessarie to stande in an Orchad euen so olde decaied creatures are comely in the Church but vnséemely by a yong womans side The olde man which marrieth a yonge Wyfe is sure of this sowre sauce to rellish his swéete Imaginations his beloued wife how so euer she dissembleth disdayneth hym his neighbors al to be flouteth him and soothing Parisites beguileth him common opinion will counterfeit him lyke Acteon not so much for the ficklenesse they sée in his wife as for the infirmities they know in himselfe And bréefely to conclude his ioye hée may perchaunce lyue two yeares with his faire wife but the mischaunce of his Children will remember his infamie for euer Gréene Iuy which catcheth an olde Trée maketh quicke worke for the fire and the imbracements of a faire Woman hastneth an olde man to his Graue And although it be a haynous wronge causelesse to condemne the Wyfe yet this will be the opinyon shée killed her Husband with thought to heare and sée how she trespassed both against his and her owne honour Foule fall suche a Marriadge quoth Maria Belochy where the vertuous Wife shal be slaundered through the imperfections of her Husbande It is some wrong ꝙ Fabritio but she might haue foreséene the mischiefe while she was frée Well quoth Quéene Aurelia vpon this knowledge of michaunce our companie are sufficiently warned Procéede in Iudgement as you allow eithers opinion Whereupon Fabritio with Isabella with one accord gaue sentence against D●…ctor Mossenigo in these words An olde man amourous of a yong Woman is an enemie both to his health and reputation for the causes aforesaid The rest of the companie smyled to héere this iudgement but the Doctor brake foorth many a secret sigh not for the disgace he tooke in his pleading for he defended an yll matter with colour sufficient but in that he knew this verdict would alwaies be a barre in his sute While the Doctor and Soranso argued Quéene Aurelia espyed in the Cloath of Arras a Beast fourmed like an Unicorne saue that he bare his Horne in his nose whiche beast sléeping laide his murthering Horne in a yong Maidens lap and after the question was decided shee demaunded what that Beast was and what the misterie signyfyed but the meaning was as strannge as the sight to most of the companie In the ende quoth Ismarito Madam I haue read of a gallant yong Gentleman of Naples named Rinautus that was Metamorphosed into such a Beast by this aduēture passing through the Iland Circe●…ū that Homer speaketh off which is now annexed vnto the Continent he was espied of Circes who inhabited that Ilande This wrincled yll fauoured Witch at the first sight was surprised in Loue with the goodly shape and beautie of this seemely Gentleman but for al her charmes and Inchauntments her Arte failed either to force him to Loue or to frée her selfe from louing for notwithstandinge shee was a Goddesse he disdained her ouer worne soule and wythered visage and shee presumyng of her Sorcerie powred fresh Coales vppon her kyndled desyre in hope that necessitie would force him to consent to the requeste fréewill contemned but Cupid to whom such power onely belongeth to scourge her presumption in suche sorte hardened Rinautus harte that all Circes Sute and Sorceries tended vnto a fruitlesse successe In so much as in her rage she turned him into a Rhinocerot a Beast of vnconquerable force who in his nose beareth a borne much like to the Unicorne But notwithstanding hee was thus transfourmed as King Nahucadonizer in the fourme of an Oxe retained the spirit of a man so hée in his altered shape nourished his auncient disdaine of yll fauoured Circes and so bee fully auenged with all hys force pursueth olde Creatures and such as hée ouertaketh hée goreth to death yet is he by this polycie subdued Place a faire Maide in his walke and foorth with hee will with a

louinge countenaunce repaire vnto her and in her bosome gently bestow his murthering Horne and sodainlye as one rauished with contentment hée fauleth a sléepe by which meanes he is slaine before he recouereth the vse of his force The Companie laughed well to heare this straunge Metamorphosis In the end ꝙ Quéene Aurelia I would Maister Doctor had hard this Hystorie when hée so inuayed against Beautie perhaps he would haue bene affraide of her vengeaunce seeing her power able to conquere sauage wilde Beastes But the Doctor glad of this aduantage not vnlyke the tūning Lawier that buyeth Robin hoodes penniworthes yet with some nice forfaitures threatneth the seller with continuall bondage many times bringeth backe his money and kéepeth his bargen not caring for his Concience so that hée haue a colour for his offence or as the wysest sorte of Atheistes that liue as though they hoped neyther after heauen nor feared Hel yet confesse God with their mouth hecause the contrarie woulde make them hated of men so he by this tale found out both a warrant to maintayne his former Blasphemie and to excuse his present Follie in Loue And to Aucthorize either Madame quoth he the inchaunted Beaste approoueth myne opinion of Beauties power and his Death is a greater witnesse of her crueltie then is Doctor Mossenigo who confesseth that men in vayne prescribe Remedies for the Affected or Receites to preserue men from the Infections of Beautie You are welcome vnder our Lée ꝙ Aluisa Vechio But to take awaye all hope of good intertaynment quoth Katharina Trista no no Maister Doctor you deceyue your selfe Beautie neyther retaineth the power nor poyson which you speake of and with you Ouid and all the amorous Poets are mistaken who say Affection riseth from Beautie and not of the frée wyll of man But say yon all what you please good foresight wyll contrary your opinions There is no sore but hath his salue no griefe but hath his remedie nor no daunger but may be forstoode eyther by prayer or good indeuoure In déede quoth Faliero Socrates ●…altred his inclination by the Studie of Phylosophie The Nyniuites preserued their Cittie by prayer and Virbius dubled his life by mastering of his disposission Floradin bewitched with the loue of faire Persida his deare friend Pericles Wife wrote in a table Booke fye Floradin fye shée is thy friend Pericles Wife and so often as idlenes presented him with thys passyon he read his written remembraunce and by some honest exercise remooued his imagination This is not your day Maister Doctor quoth Soranso I beléeue there is some vnkindnes betwéene Saturne and Venus by the enuious aspeckt of some other Plannet this howre It maye be quoth the Doctor by the flatterie of Mercurie who is euermore enemie to the plainnes of trueth Well quoth Quéene Aurelia let vs leaue this bye matter and consider better of Ismaritos Metamorphosis me thinks it prophesieth muche mischaunce to an Dulde Wydowe whiche marteth a Yonge man and no greate pleasure to the yonge maried Bacheler O good Madam say not so quoth Soranso for in this fortune lyeth a yonger Brothers welfare and the cause that maketh happinesse accompanie olde wemen to their Graue It may well be to their Graue quoth the Doctor but it bryngeth sorow into their House and maketh their life more vnpleasant then death and if Soranso followe this Course perhappes his day wyll be no better then Doctor Mossenigos Quéene Aurelia smilinge saide shee feared this c●…ntention woulde bring the companie to hell gates Yet quoth she In that I imagine the way will be pleasaunt I licence you to perseuer in your purpose Uppon which warrant quoth Soranso to maintaine that to be true which I haue alreadie alleadged in the commendation of this estate in marriage This further reason in my conceite you will neither disalowe nor the married couple shall haue cause to mislike which is where a fresh young Gentleman either of small liuing or farre spent with lustinesse lights of a rich olde widow for that both their desires in this fortune shall bee satisfied He shall haue plentie of Coyne the onelie Grace hee lacked and she the possession of a goodlie Parsonage the chéefest Iewel she loueth which exchaunge of Marchandise can not chuse but continue their liking and raise much coutentment Cleane contrarie ꝙ the Doctor for y e follies of a yong mā is sufficiently punished by marrying an olde womā 〈◊〉 y e sins of an olde widdow ar fully plagued in matching w t a yong man for that contrarie to your suggestion neither can inioye the cause of their Mariage without annoyance to their mindes for his lyking is fastned on her riches which she will not but by necessitie leaue her loue is setled on his person which for her pleasure he disdaineth to punish The vnfortunate yongman knowes not what gréefe hée ioynes to his gaine in matchinge with an olde widdow till that experience breakes them forth in sighes If his wife be ritche shee will looke to gouerne if shee bée poore he is plagued both with beggery and bondage If she be proude she will hide her abylytie to maintaine her pompe If she be testie he is forst to patience If she bee Ielous hée canne hardlye indure her rages And to conclude if the olde doting widdow be frée from one of th●…se faults she is tied to forty euils of lesse suf●…ce for if her Husbande commaunde her will shee straight waies sayeth her other Husband was more kinde If hée chance to dine from home she wyls him to ●…up with his harlots if he spend beyond her allowance thus she reuiles hym A Begger I fownd thee and so thou wylt leaue mee To chastice her talke setteth an edge of her tongue to suffer her in her rage maketh her raylynges irreuocable By your wordes Maister Doctor ꝙ Lucia Bella the wife is the greatest cause of this contention and yet in common opinion the Husband is most blamed Madame you are too hastie in an aduauntage I ment no such parciallytie quoth the Doctor Yea Madame quoth Bargetto M. Doctor is now so conquered as his tong is the Trumpet of your pleasure It is so quoth the Doctor to sound out those thinges which are true and in trueth the yonge Husbande often tymes maketh the euilles good in déedes which the olde wyfe vseth but in wordes for no lenger then she féedeth him with Coyne shall she enioy his companie If she rob not her Children to inrich him she shall lack no froward lookes nor fowle vsage If she put him in possession of her lyuing he straight wayes dispossesseth her of his loue for hauing what he sought he wyl els where be enamoured And vprightly to speake she lacketh neither occasion too lament nor cause to be inraged for who is so patient as can dissemble her vnsufferable passions both to be spoyled of her lyuing and to be exyled

Garden wéeded her Uines cut and in her Orcharde her fruite Trées pruned within doores her house well ordered her Maidens busied her Children instructed the fréend intertained and the Tables well furnished And in this Oeconmie many women haue so excelled as Socrates affirmeth that he learned of Women more Morrall Philosophie then naturall reason of Anaxagoras and Archelaus wherein Socrates testifyeth no more then theyr woorthy sexe deserueth for many Women gouerne theyr Families with such Prudence Temperance Pietie and other commendable vertues as may well instruct the wisest The Husband ought to beware that in the presence of his wife he vseth no filthie lasciuious talke for besides the witnesse of his owne indiscression he maketh her a passage for many an vnhappy thought The Wife ought to be nice in occasion of suspition for her husband that sée'th open cause of mistrust cannot but feare that in secret he receiueth iniurie and Ielowsie though she procéedes from excéeding loue yet is she the greatest enemie of the Married The Husband is bound to kéepe his wife in ciuill and comely apparell as well to make her ●…éeme beautifull vnto himselfe as to preuent the reproche of the neighbour for this hath béene an auncient custome among the Romaines and it is to be feared that if the Husband breake it to spare his Purse the Wife will repayre it though she gage her person The Wife that will please her Husband and make a great showe of a little though her Gownes be plaine in her lynnen she must be curtous and fine for otherwise were she attyred all in Silke if her sléeues Partlet and other Linnen be coorse torne or sluttishly washed she shall neither be praysed of straungers nor delight her Husband The Husband after householde iarres if the Wife séeme to be sorie he ought not to be sullen for if shée perceiue him of a frowarde nature it is like in other suche squares she wilbe negligent to please him The Wife if she offend her husband by some ignoraunt trespasse she must please him with a louing countenaunce least if he finde her of a crooked condition he will take delight to crosse her with continuall foule vsage The olde Husband is to accompany his young Wife with graue Matrons and to set her foorth with costly ciuill attyre that séeing the reuerence and honour that is giuen her for her Husbandes grauitie she will studdie how to please him though she displease her owne disposition The younge Wife that hath an olde Husband is bound to make much of him at home for the reputation she receaueth in his life and for the wealth she is like to haue by his deathe and abroade must be sober in her behauiours discréete in her talke and no harkener to young mens tales least her owne lightnesse make her openly infamed where her Husbands imperfections could cause her but to be secreatly suspected The young Husband is too beare with his olde Wife in her will as well for the reuerence due to her yeares as for the aduauncement the loue bringeth to himselfe least the neighbours terme his Wife an vnfortunate old Woman and himselfe a naughtie frowarde vile natured young man Theolde Wife to giue excuse to her dotage must in open assemblies commend her young Husband of modest and staied gouernement and secreatly to be louingly vsed must kisse him with Midas lippes for if she fyll not his Purse by fayre meanes with foule intreatie he will be his owne Caruer if she complayne she ioyneth but scorne to her owne mischaunce Generally the Husband ought not to forbid his Wife in assemblyes modestlie to intertaine time in deuising with the better sorte for in such ielous restraint he shall leaue a suspition that he inioyneth her this open pennaunce for some secret trespasse and so bothe slaunder himselfe and iniurie his wife The Wife should haue an especiall care to shun the company of light Women for the multitude though they can charge her with no misdemeanour yet they well condemne her honor by the known euils of her companions Many other néedefull directions may be giuen to preserue vnitie in Mariage quoth Segnior Phyloxenus too cumbersome for me to reporte and too tedious for this honorable company to héere whose patience I haue already iniured too much but finding my error I end my tale remaine ready to make satisfactiō in some other seruice Sir quoth Fabritio the end of your Tale puts vs in remembraunce of our duetie and your right which is for this honourable fauour to remaine your indebted Seruaunts to embrace your counsels and to commend and submit our reasons to your learned Censure It is your fauour and not my merit quoth Segnior Phyloxenus Sir quoth Quéene Aurelia I will beare the blame of this dayes importuning of you and you alone shall haue the honour in graunting of my requests who to the former ioyneth this one more fauour which is that you conclude this your worthy exercise with some rare Historie at large Madam quoth Segnior Philoxenus this is the least of your commaundements considering that Histories make mention of thousands who in their vnseperable looues haue sounded the excellencie of Mariage wherefore I o●…ey your pleasure ❧ The woorthy Historie of Phrigius and Pieria Reported by Segnior Phyloxenus IN the Register of Fame wherein the Monuments of the vertuous are Cronicled as presedents for theyr posteritie I reade that in the famous Cittie of Miletum in Ionia as soueraigne Prince and gouernour there raigned a worthy Duke called Nebeus who to comfort and supporte his aged yeares had to his sonne and onely heayre Phrigius a young Gentleman of such rare towardlines as it may be a question whether he weare more beholding to Nature for the perfections of his body to Vertue for the qualities of his minde or to Fortune in suffering him to be so nobly borne In Myos a neighbour Cittie to Miletum there was also a Prince of much renowne named Pythes whose Daughter and heyre was fayre Pieria by whose vertues all Ionia was renowned The auncient enuie betwéene the Cittizens of Miletum and Myos was tourned into amitie and the open warre betwéene Duke Nebeus and the noble Pithes was peaceably and honourably ended All such happie euents succéeded this following aduenture Upon the Feastiuall day of Diana the Cittizens of Myos with out the iniurie of Souldiers might lawfully repayre to Miletum to sacrifice to Diana vpon which safe conduct with many other Ladyes and Gentlewomen of Myos fayre Pieria waighted on her Mother to Dianas Temple whose rare beauty was such as dazeled the eies of the behoulders like the reflections of a Myrror placed against the Sunne Among many that looued and few or none that saw possibility of grace such was the renowne of her chasse disdaine young Phrigius beheld Pieria with such a setled eye as Dianas Temple sheelded him not against the Arrowes of Looue but as a wounded

by pacifieth contentions Vertue and vice bothe Feminine and Masculine Note Modesty an naturall vertue in a Woman The Fable of Ixion To be proude in vertues is commendable The scorge of vaine glory The soule traueleth to bring forth Diuine monuments in the heathen A discreete exordium for yong men that argue The excellencie of mā through the vertue of the soule Three dignities of the soule Man is formed straight because he should behold heauen and cōtemplate one great matters Three euils or defects of the body Three remedies against the three euils of the body The originall of all Artes and Sciences Theorique Practise Mecanicall craftes Curtesie is commendable but super fluous sauours of flatterrie The euyll of Ielousie Harde is the difference be tweene a care lesse and a ielous Husbande Ouid. Meta. lib. 10. Eurydice Preuent a Scoffer and he becōmeth a Sotte A Commendatiō of lofty Loue. The euyll of a thyng com mendeth the goodnesse Loue spareth no degre Hope to com passe great matters com forteth more then the possession of tryfles Reproofe of loftie Loue One kinsman hath an Interest in an others honor An inhumain parte Defence c. Reproofe c. A womā that abaseth her selfe in Mariage in Law loseth her reputation but not in curtesie The naturall desires of a woman Iudgement in repoofof lofty loue Men must haue regarde how they blame least they byte themselues Defence of bace loue A riche Dowrie with a woman Reproofe c Kytte wyll to kynde The fall of Maria Bianca is written by the Aucthor in his Booke intituld The Rocke of R●… garde Aucthoryties for amorous Histories Defence Reproofe c A confession is a prety Iudgement 1. Inconstancie 2. Dissimulation 3. Ignorance 4. Chastytie 5. A Dicer 6. Enuie 7. Will. 8. Hope 9. Beautie 10. Ingratitude 11. Ielosie 12. Couotousnesse 13. Pride Vertue is cōmended by vice Tamberlaine the Great in the beginnīg a Pesaunt He is not alone that hath good Bookes A Gentleman tooke aduantage of a worde to praise the good as to check the euyll A most famous librarie in the Dukes Pallace at Florence lest by Cosmos de Medicis It belongeth to a Gentleman to be sene in many things Diuinitie Phisyck Lawe Art Militarie Moralitie Cosmographie Hystoriografie Armorie Segnior Philoxenus a perfect Cour 〈◊〉 We●…en are to pitifull to be Iudges A scoffer is many times smiten with his owne 〈◊〉 pon Italions are wise but eui●… condicioned Enuy euermore quarre leth with those that are fauoured Quarrelers seeke their owne mischiefe A wise foresight in a Gentleman Palmestrie a pretye idle quallitie for a Gentleman A necessarie note for a Gentleman Defences where an old man marrieth a yonge woman Reproofe c Defence c. Reproofe c The mischaunces of an oulde man yongly maryed A yong wyfe is death to an old 〈◊〉 An honest woman is lightly slauudered by the imperfections of her Husband Repentan●… to late The wife are warned by the mischaun ces of other A Rhinocerot The Metamorphose of Rinautus a Gentleman of Naples Euyll men care not for the conscience so they haue a colour for their offences The force of Beautie No Affliction but hath his remedie Examples to be regarded Idlenes ●…oorisheth and exercise remedieth loue Flatterie the enemies of prueth Mariage com mended betwene an olde woman and a yong man Reproofe c Defence c. A good exchan●… of Marchandice The euylles in an olde wydowe PLATOES Hell in Mariage A great cause of Impatiēce Defence c. A most wicked pollysie Senecas opinion that Children were better to be dead borne then ignoraunt of good letters Thinges that are beast esteemed Reproofe c. A hard extremitie An honorable custome of Spaine Meete husbandes for aged widdowes Experience is a iudge ment it selfe A worthie lawe made by Laertius It is no st●…iung against the streame The thriuing vnthrift proues the the best husband The yeare endeth and beginneth in it selfe Ancient customs are to be kepte The vertues of the minde are more glorious then any outward garment Custome in Italye in giuing of new yeares giftes contrarie to the custome of England The originall of nevv yeares giftes Segnior Philoxenus ban queting hous Among the iust promise is kept To praise or blame is qua litie of wit but to direct is a worke of iudgement We haue interest in an other mans vertues Princes commandements must be obay ed. Of the exelencie of mariage Mariage instituted before the fall of Adam by God in the earthly Paradice A confirmation of the fyrst institution by God Man and wife are two bodies and but one flesh The ioye of of marriage shineth aboue al other delightes Children are the most rich Iuelles in the worlde This Iuell was her sonne Alexander The blessing of Children is a duble life Offices of Ius tice apartaine to the maried The sweete Sympathie be tweene the married Loue to our Parents ●…ue rent Loue to our Bretheren naturall Loue to our Friendes affectionated Loue betwen the married irreuocable A good mean to trye the loue of the married The rynge a triall of the loue betwene the married An other sygure of the rynge Christ was borne of a married woman Licurgus law for the vnmaried The Lawe of the Romains for the vnmar ried Platos lawes for the vnma ried Alexander Seuerus loue to Memmia his wife Paulinas rare loue to her Husbande Seneca The precious loue of king Darius to his wife The deuine loue of king Admetus Wife The exceeding loue of Tiberius Graccus towards his wife The wonder full loue of Queene Arti mesia towards her husbande Mausolus One of the seuen wonders of the worlde A●…l Gel. in lib de nocti atti The Lawe is a scourge to the euill and comforte to the good Marriage con sistes as well in foresight as free choyce Equallity in yeares Equallity in manners Consent in religion Free choise in satisfaction of Fancie A mans house is a pettie common weale The office of the Wife The husbandes care apperraineth to thinges abroade The wiues chatge is huswiuery within doore Morall Philosophit to be learned by women Laciuious talke to be shunned of the husband The wife ought to be nice in cause of suspition Comelye apparell the husband should giue his wife Cleane lynnen commendable in a vvife The husbād must bevvare of sollomnes The vvife must be amyable tovvardes her husband A lavve for a younge vvomans olde husband A regarde for an olde mans young vvyfe A regarde for an olde vvomans younge husband A regard for a young mans olde vvife Modest familiaritie not to be forbidden the Wife Light company to be shunned of the Wife The vengeaunce of Warre The blessings of peace The vertue of Peace The power of vertuous Loue. Enuy is murdered with his owne wepon

agree Thus happy I in Fortunes frownes long whyrld A Goddesse serue and soueraigne of the world BARGETTO lighted by a Page apparayled in his Mistresse colours Greene Carnation and Whyte followed Ismarito hauing the mouth of his Mask closed with a small Golden Lock as a witnesse of the true execution of his Mistresse Commaundement and vpon hys fist hee caried a Parrate to pratle to his Mistresse vppon pausing betwéene euery solemne Almayne and couertlye vnder the Parrats winge was hidden this passion HEnce burnyng sighes which sparckle from desyre To pitty melt my Mistresse frosen Hart Her frosen hart that Fancy cannot fyre Nor true intent perswade to rue my smart Haste haste I pray the Icye passage breake And pleade for him that is forbid to speake What though at first you faile to calme her rage Yet as the Sunne from earth doth draw the Rayne Your vertues so the stormes of scorne may swage Or feede Desyre with showers of disdayne For euen as drink dooth make the Dropsey drye So colde disdaine compels Desyre to frye Her wyll be done but I haue sworne to loue And with this vow will nourish my delight Her scorne my woe nay time may not remoue A faithful zeale out of my troubled spright Yea more then all Ile Sacrifice my blood And fyre my bones to doe my Mistresse Good SORANSO lighted by a Page in Orange Tawny Watchod and Greene was the next that presented him selfe who vppon his left side had a Harte of Crymson Granado Silke so artificyally made fastened to his du●…let as if his body had opened and his hart appéered which fell downe at his Mistresse féete vpon such a Fortune as she was bounde to take it vp which opened she might beholde the Picture of her selfe reading this submission EVEN as the Hart a deadly wounde that hath Retires him selfe with sighes to solace greefe And with warme teares his gored sides doth bath But finding mone to render small releefe Impatient Beast he giues a heauy Bray And hasts the Death that many woulde delay So I whose Loue beyond my hap doth mount Whose thoughts as Thornes yet prick me with Desire Whose sute and zeale return's with no accompt Whose hope is drye set in a harte of Fyre Holde this for ease foorthwith to spoyle the eye That lookte and lou'de then in dispaire to dye A happy Doome if it for Law might stande But men condemd them selues may not dispatch Their lyues and deathes are in their Soueraignes hand So myne in hers whose Lookes did me attache And therfore I to pardon or to kyll Must yeald my selfe the Prysoner of her wyll L'ENVOY THen Ladie faire receiue what longes to thee A fettred thralle attyred with disgrace And at thy feete his wounded hart here see And in the same the Image of thy face mone Whiche bleding fresh with throbs throwes foorth his Rueth rueth deare Dame for that I am your owne DONDOLO lighted by his Page apparayled in Tawnie Blew and Black Taffata was the fourth who vppon his Breast bare a Myrrour set the outeside inwarde and yet fastened so slope as it might receiue light with an Imagination that he showed his Hart the Beautie of his Mistresse in y t thought he wrot vpon the out side Basta che spero within whiche glasse this sonet was coningly cōuated which vpō a fit-oportunitie he presented vnto his Mistresse Lucia Bella. FRom shore to sea from dales to mountaines hie From meddowes faire amid the craggie rocke Loue doth me leade I know not whether I But euermore a passage doeth vnlocke Nowe doe I fight now weepe now death I feare In all these stormes yet loue the healme doth steare In desert woods I wander to and fro Where I wilde beastes and firie Serpentes meete Yet safe I passe Loue doth direct me so In tempestes rough my barke doth alwayes fleete Yea when Sunne Moone and starres forsake the skie Loue giues me light from my faire Mistresse eye I mount to heauen I know not with what winges I sinke to hell yet drowne not in distresse Twixt Ice and flame Loue mee in safetie bringes But to what end in sooth I cannot gesse Yet hap what shall Loue giueth me this scope In daungers mouth to liue alwaies in hope FALIERO lighted by a Page attired in Peach colour yellow and popeniay greene Taffeta was the fifte last that entred who as yf she were climynge vp his Arme caryed a whyght Turtle so artifyciallye made as it deceyued no lesse then Parrhasius paynted Table Clothe In whose Beake were fynely rowled these Uerses IF on firme Faith one Hart vncharg'd with frawd One langour sweete one wish desire dooth moue If honest Zeale a gentle breast doth lawde If wanderyng long in the Laborinth of Loue If wan pale cheekes are witnesses of woe If reaking sightes throwne from a burnyng harte If all these and thousand sorrowes moe May charme Mistrust and make you rue my smart Faire Mistresse looke but in my Meagre face And you shall reade that I haue neede of Grace In this order and with these deuises the Maskers entred and after they had saluted Quéene Aurelia and the honourable of the company they placed themselues some of the one side of the greate Chamber and some of the other obseruynge therein a more discreate order then the ordynary Maskers who at their first entraunce either daunce with them selues or rudelye sease vppon the Gentlewomen but these Maskers intertained a smal Tyme with their Musick while they had leasure to looke about and espie who were the worthyest amonge the Ladies In the ende Ismarito kyssing his hand with a Countenaunce abased humbly desired Quéene Aurelia to do him the grace to daun●… w t him Next Bergetto made choice of Franceschina Santa after him Soranso chewsed Maria Belochi Dondolo raysed Lucia Bella and last of all Faliero tooke his Mistresse Catharina Trista and thus they obserued in their choyce the same course they kepte in their entrance After this Companie had performed all the ciuill Seruices of Maskers leauyng behinde them their Mistresses honoured and the whole companie much contented they departed in the good order they entred sa●…yng that their Mistresses were possessed with their seuerall Deuices Which done the Gentlemen and Gentlewomen began to shrinck out of the great Chamber as the Starres séeme to shoote the Skie towardes the Breake of Daye FINIS The thyrd Daies Exercise Contayning sundrie Morall Preceptes With a large Discouerie of the inconveniences of Rash Mariages THE Aucthorytie is dayly Experience that prooueth how that the bitterest worldly Sorow soone endes eyther by Benefit of Fortune or violence of death neither is the firmest worldly pleasure y e of more continuance then an Imagynation whiche is straight crost with a contrary Suggestion What difference was there betwene the Fortunes of Cesar and Pompey when their endes were both violent saue that I hould Cesars to be the harder for that he was murthered in the Armes of

curtuous seruice is to be accepted with thankes acceptance of seruice inlargeth acquaintance acquaintance ingendreth familiarytie and famylia●…ie setteth al Felies abroach So that let other Married men take warnyng by Malipieroes hard fortune for if their wyues loue gadding lyke faire Felice be inconstant do want or finde in their Husbands miscontentment Twentie to one they wil pawn their honours to please their fancies Well Felice lost nothyng by these Iorneyes for some one Gallant would present her with a Ventoie to coole her selfe some other with a Mirrour to behould her selfe and some with Lawnes Ruffes Coyfes and suche necessaries to set out her selfe yet vpon no dishonorable condition but by your leaue wyth hope of an after fauour This trafique faire Felice vsed vntill amonge a number that temperately affected her Marino Giorgio the rich Orphant of Capo Verdo immoderately loued her and withall the honors of courtisie serued her But notwithstanding his lusty personage might please his louely countenaunce might intyce and his rare wit passing through a swete tongue might bewitch a woman in loue for that Malipiero was inritched with these perfections Felice regarded Marino Georgio but with an ordinary grace and had it not ben for that Archinchaunter Golde perhappes would neuer haue bene inconstant This light account of Felice inlarged the affection of Marino for as drincke increaseth the dropsies drowth s●… disdaine heapeth coales vppon desire whereof Marino Teste se ipso hath leaft an infallible aucthoritie whose torments were so gréeuous as the fire which of al flames burneth most and appeareth least burst out of his mouth the smoake of such surious sighes that where he was but late of a pure Sanguine Complection hee seemed nowe nothyng but Choller adust So that his friendes mourned and many moued his strange alteration who counsayled him to take the Physitions aduire But neither Galen Hipocrates nor their Enemie Panacelsus could skyl of his cure so that he was in daunger to haue consumed to Cinders had nat Macrello the Physition of Loue vndertaken his helth who comforted him with many swéete wordes of hope but Marino continually afflicted himselfe in recounting an impossibilytie of fauour Why quoth Macrello is not your parsonage séemely Yes but it doth not please Is not your face louely Yes but it doth not allure Is not your wyt quicke and good Yes but it can not perswade Is not Felice a woman Yes and more an Angell Well then quoth Macrello be of good comfort Angelles be not cruell nor stéelie harted O quoth Marino but Felice is constant and true to her husband who to continue her affection is graced with these and many more perfections Yea quoth Macrello but hée wanteth one of your théefest beauties What one is that quoth Marino●… Euen that that opened the double locked dores of Acrisius brasen Tower and put Iubiter in possession of his daughter Danais loue And thinke you this Goulden Beautie will not make a passage in●…o poore Malipieros Bed Camber I warrant you yeas you haue Goulde more at commaundement then I but I know the vertue better then you This short tale quickned dying Marrino as the flashe of Rose water dooth a sullen swounding Childe Wherupon quoth he Macrello if your Medicine be of no lesse vertue to restore my lyfe then your wordes to geue me hope the fortune shall be your profit as wel as my pleasure Well quoth Macrello sustaine your selfe with hope and for that your inuention is delicate deuise you some curious rich Iuell and let mée alone quoth hée bothe to charme and to present it and so with a remembraunce in the hande he lest Marino to contemplate of his loue and to consider how to recouer his lyfe who in the ende concluded to sende faire Felice the Image of himselfe in Goulde inameled blacke his face meager and pale and by a deuice the blacke mantell throwne aside for to appeare the bared Carkasse of Death with the intrayles consumed and in the seate of his lyfe to place Felice attyred with Diamonds Rubyes Emrodes and other precious Stones looking vppon his smoking harte whervppon was written these two bréefes Loue onely giues mee health Not Medicine nor wealth This Image made vnto his fancye he wrote this sollowing Letter Marino Georgios letter to Felice the fayre FAyre Mistresse if I enioyed any health I would wishe you parte but what I do possesse I acknowledge to be yours and my selfe to be but your steward And for this seruice because it is duty I craue nothing but leaue my merrit wholly to your consideration Yet least my scylence shuld rob the glory of your pitty and my death reaue you of a faythfull Seruaunt more of zeale to do you long seruice then of any desyre I haue to liue I heare present you my consumed selfe only kept aliue by the lyfe of fayre Felice who sitteth crowned in the Pallace of my heart whych bleeding at her feete showeth the meanes of my cure which if you witsafe I liue if not you see my death And thus doubtfull betweene both vntill I kisse your sweete aunsweare I remayne Vnto my latter Gaspe Your faythfull MARINO GEORGIO THis letter Sealed and Subscribed To the hands of the most faire Felice Macrello was sent for to whom Marino deliuered both the Iuell and the letter with out instructions to do his message for Protheus could not chainge himselfe into moe shapes then Macrello as well to auoide suspition as to compasse his purpose who behaued himselfe so cunningly in Marinoes errande as to be shorte vertuous Dames after many perswasions Felice returned him with this Answere ¶ FELICES Answere to Marino Georgio IAm not cruell althoughe with difficultie I consent too loue and for that your passions are so extreame I kepe your Picture in my Bosome But with what thought I blush to write though Pitie be my warrant so that I leaue the euent of our Loue to your Consideration and my yealding to Macrelloes Reporte who in bewraying your passions lette fall more teares then I could drie vp with a thousand sighes So that ouercom with rueth to see your Affection so great and your passion so daungerous I can not but commyt my loue my honour my selfe and all to the Affection and wise gouernment of Marino Georgio FELICE THis Letter was subscribed Lyfe to MARINO GEORGIO and deliuered to the faithfull Macrello with charge that he should make knowen his great Importunities before Felice woulde graunt so hye a fauour which Prouiso might haue ben spared for Macrello partly for his glorie but chiefely for his owne benefite vpon delyuerie of this Letter willed Marino to receiue it as a Conquest as hardly gotten as Hercules labours and if quoth he I had not indured your torments by Imaginatiō it had not ben impossible to haue mooued Felice to rueth Marino heard these circumstances with no better remembrance then if he had ben in an Extasie The Subscription Lyfe to

Iustice and PROMOS execution was spred abroad and by the songe of a Clowne was blowen into Andrugioes eates who tyll then lyued lyke an Outlawe in the Desart wooddes But vpon these Newes couertly in the Habyt of an Hermyt by the Diuine motion of the sowle who directes vs in thinges that be good and the Flesshe in Actions of euyll Andrugio goes to sée the Death of his Capitall enemie But on the other parte regardyng the sorrow of his Sister he wisshed him lyfe as a friende To conclude as well to geue terrour to the lewde as comfort to his good Subiectes the kyng●… personallie came to sée the execution of Promos who garded with Officers and strengthened with the comfortable perswasions of his Ghostly Fathers Among whom Andrugio was méekely offered his lyfe as a satisfaction for his offences which were many more then the Lawe tooke knowledge of And yet to say the trueth suche was his Repentance as the multitude did both forgeue and pittie him yea the King wondred that his lyfe was gouerned with no more vertue consideryng the grace he showed at his death Andrugio behouldyng this ruethfull Spectackle was so ouercome with loue towardes his Sister as to giue her comfort he franckly consented anew to emperill his own life And followinge this Resolution in his Hermyts wéede vpon his knées he humblye desired the Kinge too giue hym leaue to speake The Kyng gratiously graunted hym Audience Whervpon quoth he regarded Soueraigne if Lawe may possibly be satisfied Promos true Repentance meritteth pardon Good Father quoth the King he can not liue and the Lawe satisfied vnlesse by Miracle Andrugio be reuined Then quoth the Hermyt if Andrugio lyue the Law is satisfied and Promos discharged I quoth the King if your Praier can reuiue the one my mercie shall acquite the other I humbly thanke your Maiestie quoth Andrugio and discoueryng himselfe shewed the Prouidence of God and the meane of his escape and tendrynge his Sisters comfort aboue his owne safetie hee prostrated him selfe at his Maiesties Féete humblye to obay the sentence of his pleasure The Kinge vppon the reporte of this straunge Aduenture after good deliberation pardoned Promos to kéepe his worde and withall houldyng an opinyon that it was more benefitiall for the Citezens to be ruled by their olde euell gouernour new refourmed then to aduenture vppon an newe whose behauiours were vnknowne And to perfect Cassandras ioye he pardoned her Brother Andrugio with condition that he should marrie Polina Thus from betwéene y e téethe of daunger euerypartie was preserued and in the ende establyshed in their hartes dessre Madam quoth Soranso your good conclusion hath likewise preserued vs from a great daunger for had you ended with the sorrow you began wee had béene all like to haue bene drowned in teares Indéede quoth Katharina Trista you men had had cause sufficient of sorrowe by hearing your kynde reproched with such monstrous euils and we women frée passage to lament in behoulding none but crosse fortunes to succéede the good indeuours of a vertuous Ladie It is true quoth Fabritio but to participate of their ioye wee men haue learned out of Promos example of euil for feare of his likelie punishment of euil to doo well and you Women by example of Polinas vice and Cassandras vertue are both warned and incouraged to weldooing Indéede quoth Quéene Aurelia there are many Morall precepts in either Historie to be considered whiche I hope the company haue so regarded as there néedeth no repetition And further because I will not be to bould of the victorie ouer my late distemperature we will heare ende And therwith she rose retired into her Chamber with charge that the company should attende her in the same place vntil Supper who obaying intertained time euery one with their speciall fancy The Question that arose at Supper vpon the fourth Dayes exercise MAny prettie nyps passed betweene the retyred Companye this Night at Supper as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gentlewomens parte as of the Gentlemens 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as presumyng vpon this Daies honour when the 〈◊〉 was readie to be taken away Aluisa vechio tooke vpon her to mayntaine a woman to be a creature euery way as execellent and perfe●… Man For naturall shape quoth she they are more 〈◊〉 tifull of a better temperature and complection then 〈◊〉 In valiaunt exploytes what difference was there 〈◊〉 twéene Semiramis and her Husbande Ninus betw●… the Amazon women and Alexender For constantnesse of mind did not Loadice imbrace deathe with lesse feare then Mithridates her Husband Asdruballes Wife then Asdrubal himselfe And what man hath kept a constant resolution of death so long as Lucretia In Morall vertues you men that reade Histories and Cronicles of all ages shall finde Women renowmed for learnyng Gouernment and pollycie In Mecanycall Artes there are Women lykewise experienced In the vertue of Deuining what man hath come neare the Sibels To bee shorte what Man hath bene so perfect in any vertue but Histories make mention of a woman as perfect Yea quoth Dondolo but there be so few of these women as an easy wit may remember them But it will cumber your Tong to report them quoth Katharina Trista The other Gentlemen although they were willlinge to giue place vnto the Gentlewomē in small matters yet this comparison of equal soueraignty netteled them a lytil In as much as Soranso aunswered Madam Aluisa you haue made a bould comparison and but a bare proofe Where you vaunte to be more excellent in shape and more delicate in substaunce then men It is an ouer ruled question that Women receiue perfection by men men imperfection by Women then by how much the vertue is of more emprise that is simplye of it selfe then that which is compounde of an other by so farre wée exceede you in this perfection Your honour of valyantnes died with your examples and although there hath bene Women learned and experienced in Mecanicall craftes yet to heare a Woman plead at the Barre preache in a Pulpit or to sée her build a House is a wonder and no example in vse How shorte your deuinyng Sybels come of the credit of the Prophets in the olde Testament is no question disputable For your constancie at deathe you knowe not how precious lyfe is which maketh you rash and not constant and in trueth what you haue frowardely determined you will not bee forbidden As shée that had her Tongue cut for callyng of her Husband Théefe woulde yet notwithstandinge make the signe of the Gallowse Well sir quoth Quéene Aurelia Epicarias o●…ynary who endured to bée rent in péeces before shée woulde confesse the conspyracie agaynst NERO would haue ben holdē for a Uertue of staiednesse in a man And what say you of Leena that byt off her tonge and spit it in the Tirant Hippias face because she would not bewraye a conspiracy against him

And with that intent quoth he Segnior Ismarito I drink vnto you with a better affection than I bare you in my sléepe for I dreamed with my Rapire drawne I chased you to your Chamber Ismarito quickly aunswered I pleadge you Segnior Bergetto but with lesse feare then you supposed to bée in mée when you were asléepe for men after they are awake expounde dreames by contraries Bergetto deceaued of his expectation was dryuen by patience to salue the wounde he had giuen hymselfe But Segnior Philoxenus to take away the cause of after vnkindnesse reaued the companie of leasure to iudge of Bergettos quarrilynge dreame or of Ismaritoes crosse exposition by kéeping of them exercised with a newe deuice In déede quoth hée Dreames are incertaine and therfore not to be regarded but there is a true kinde of diuination in Palmestrie and so in looking in Maria Belochi's hand hée vsed certaine names of Arte and gaue a voluntarie pleasing Iudgement which fired all the Ladies and Gentlewomen with an earnest desire to know their fortune and by this meanes the remembrannce of former questions was taken away Wherein Segnior Philoxenus wisdome may be a president for other Gentlemen that heare quarrels a bréedinge to smoulder them in the shell for men that bée angrie are bounde to their passion when such as are not moued haue libertie to pacifye with discreation Thus with their spirites well pleased Quéene Aurelia and the reste of the companie rose from the table and after ordenarie curtesie ended they paused a time by the Fire to put their witts in order for the following disputation who at the ordinarie howre entred the drawing Chamber where the Eunuke readie to discharge his dutie vnto the Lute sung this following Sonet REgarde my loue but not my frostie haires Although faire Dame the least may moue content For Loue Faith Zeale standes firme in aged yeares When light greene youth is fickle in intent The aged knowes the leaues and fruite of youth The leaues they leaue and with the fruite doe loue The sayinges of olde Age are iudged trueth Let loue and trueth mislyking then remoue What though my chin be clothed all in white Whight in your cheekes the chiefest coulour is Which fayre dye doth make you seeme so bright As men holde you the source of beauties blisse Sweete Mistresse then of all the fayre the Flower Let not condemne what doth your selfe comend Ruthe seemes your face let rigor not deuour His loue and lyfe that liues and dies your friende This Sonet mooued y e company to smile not because the inuention was vnwittie but in that it was the fruites of Doctor Mossenigoes Muse who to reuenge vppon himselfe all the iniurie which he had done to the sexe of Women became inamoured of Katharina Trista the waspissest Damosel among the whole troupe of Gentlewomen But knowing the Doctors Phylosophie could not so subdue his affection but that time would make them all sporte and him smarte they dissembled their knowledge of his folly as déepely as hée couered the passions of hys fancy notwithstanding to raise some speach and to set the Doctor a work with hope Quoth Aluisa Vechio this Sonet prophesieth a hapie lyfe to a young woman and much comfort to an olde man if their fortunes be so good as to be marted together And if I had as good a passage for my opinyon as I haue Reason to mayntayne the same I woulde thinke to prooue this couple worthye of a place in PLATOES Paradice Among so manie good Drators quoth Quéene Aurelia you cannot want an Aduocate Whereupon Katharina Trista with a false eye coniured the Doctor in this question to maintaine his Loue who thus inioyned tooke vpon him to maintaine Aluisa Vechioes opinion Quéene Aurelia licensed him and no aduersary appeared to discourage him wherevpon quoth he where an old man marieth a yonge woman the contentment séemes too be muche and the comfort more my reason is the oulde man hath not onlye chosen a Wyfe to recreate him as a companyon but a Cooke to prepare chosen meates for his impayred appetite and a Staffe to sustaine his Age. The yonge wife also may hold her selfe happie in this fortune for she hathchosen one whom she may not onely rule but commaund and for a litle paynes who will leaue her possest of a great deale of lyuyng And this is most certain that cruel and wilde Creatures do most hurt where their wyll is moste resisted and hau●… great compassion where they finde no proffer of repulse The Lyon in his greatest hunger hurts not y t wounded shéepe y t Crocadile w t teares wassheth the blood from a murthred man and the raging Sea refressheth the yealding Réede much more a woman that by nature is beautified with pittie if she rule without checke wyll glorie in the good vsage of her Husbande and this is in dayly vse that the olde man in assemblies findes his yonge wife modest in her speache basshefull in her lookes and nice in occasion of suspition and whyther this behauiour procéedes of desire to be praysed or of feare to be blamed I conclude the cause with her cōmendation for that to do well in hope of praise cōmes of the incouragement of vertue and to do well for feare of reprehensiō is the signe of a good inclination By Sainet Anne Sir quoth Soranso you well deserue a Fée especiallie of the yonge wyfe in that you so connyngly haue coloured her ouersight and so Clarckely haue commended her good vsage of her olde Husband but your Suggestion tends to as small effect as the Fortune is euyl of a couple thus vnequallie matched for that common reason wil refute your weake opinion and dayly experience recordes the miseries of the other What likelyhood of continuance hath the House whose grounde worke is rotten although the prospect be beautifull and stronge God wotte the féeblenesse of the Foundation wyll ouerthrow the firmenesse of the vpperframe Compare this vneqaull estate in Marriage with this ouersight in building and you shall finde the discorde as great betwene the one as the ruyne and decay spéedie in the other The good and able Gouernment of the Husbande is the foundation and grounde worke of Mariage and the Beautie of the Wife the blessynge in hauynge of Children and the benefite of possessyng lyuinges are the outwarde buyldinges of Mariage And as they are pleasant in the eye of the worlde euen so they greatly please the mindes of the maryed geue a singuler Grace to this honourable vocation But if the Gouernment of the Husbande be inabled with Age as in trueth Olde Age is no other then a seconde Infancie In whose desire direction discrescion and delight there are imperfections The Beautie of the wyfe wyll be blasted with sorrowe for the insufficiencte of her Husbande euyll Education wyll accurse their blessyng in hauyng of Chyldren and negligence wyll waste their benefites of liuyng You hould a