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A02111 Greenes neuer too late. Or, A powder of experience: sent to all youthfull gentlemen to roote out the infectious follies, that ouer-reaching conceits foster in the spring time of their youth. Decyphering in a true English historie, those particular vanities, that with their frostie vapours nip the blossoms of euery ripe braine, from atteining to his intended perfection. As pleasant, as profitable, being a right pumice stone, apt to race out idlenesse with delight, and follie with admonition. Rob. Greene in artibus Magister. Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592. 1590 (1590) STC 12253; ESTC S105832 90,698 165

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loue●●earing that of all the Cities in Europe Venice hath most semblance of Venus vanities I goe thether not onely to see fashions but to quip at fol●●es that I may drawe others from that harme that hath brought me to this hazard The Gentlewomen of Venice your neighbours but vnknown to me haue more fauours in their faces than vertue in their thoughts and their beauties are more curious than their qualities be precious caring more to be figured out with Helen than to bée famozed with Lucrece they striue to make their faces gorgeous but neuer seeke to fit their minds to their God and couet to haue more knowledge in loue than in religion their eyes bewray their wantonnesse not their modestie their lookes are lures that reclaime not Hawkes but make them onely bate at dead stales As the Gentlewomen so are the men loose liuers and straight louers such as hold their conscience in their purses and their thoughts in their eyes coūting that houre ill spent that in fancie is not mispent Because therefore this great Citie of Venice is holden Loues Paradize thether doo I direct my pilgrimage that seeing their passions I may being a palmer win them to penance by shewing the miseries that Venus mi●eth with her momentarie contents if not yet I shall carrie home to my countrimen salues to cure their sores I shal see much heare little and by the insight into other mens extreames returne both the more warie and the more wise What I see at Venice sir and what I note there when I returne back I meane to visite you and make you priuie to all The héedfull Host hauing iudiciallie vnderstoode the pitifull report of the palmer giuing truce to his passions with the teares he spent and resolued to requite that thankfullie which he had attended heedfullie gaue this Catastrophe to his sad and sorrowfull discourse Palmer thou hast with the Kitrell foreshewed the storme ere it comes painting out the shapes of loue as liuely as the Grapes in Zeuxis Tables were pourtraied cunningly thou hast lent youth Egle eyes to behold the Sunne Achilles sword to cut and recure leauing those medicines to salue others that hath lost thy selfe and hauing burnt ●hy wings with t●e 〈…〉 dallying too long with th●●●re● thou hast bequeathe● other● a lesson with the Unicorne to preuent poyson by preserues before thou tast with the lippe The onely request I make in requit●ll of my attention is that thou leaue certaine testimonies on these walles where●n whensoeuer I looke I shall remember Francescos follies and thy foresight The Palmer estéeming the courteous replie of his hos● and desirous to satisfie his request drawing bloud from the vaine Cephalia on an arch of white Iuorie erected at the ende of an Arbour adorned with Honysuckles and Roses he wrote thus with a pencell In greener yeares when as my greedie thoughts Gan yeeld their homage to ambitious will My feeble wit that then preuailed noughts Perforc● presented homage to his ill And I in follies bonds fulfild with crime At last vnloosd thus spide my losse of time As in his circuler and ceaseles ray The yeare begins and in it selfe retu●nes Refresht by presence of the eye of day That sometimes ni● and sometimes farre soiournes So loue in me conspiring my decay With endles fire my heedles bosome burnes And from the end of my aspiring sinne My paths of error hourely doth begin Aries When in the Ram the Sunne renewes his beames Beholding mournfull earth araid in griefe That waigh●●eliefe from his refreshing gleames The tender flockes r●ioycing their reliefe Doo leape for ioy and lap the siluer streames So a● my prime when youth in me was chiefe All Heifer like with wanton horne I playd And by my will my wit to loue betrayd Taurus When Phoebus with Europas bearer bides The Spring appeares impatient of delaies The labourer to the fields his plow swaynes guides He sowes he plants he builds at all assaies When prime of yeares that many errors hides By fancies force did trace vngodly waies I blindfold walkt disdayning to behold That life doth vade and yong men must be old Gemini When in the hold whereas the Twins doo rest Proud Phlaegon breathing fire doth post amaine The trees with leaues the earth with flowers is drest When I in pride of yeres with peeuish braine Presum'd too farre and made fond loue my guest Wi●h frosts of care my flowers were nipt amaine 〈◊〉 height of weale who beares a careles hart R●pents too late his ouer foolish part Cancer When in Aestiuall Cancers gloomie bower The greater glorie of the heauens dooth shine The aire is calme the birds at euerie stowre To tempt the heauens with harmonie diuine When I was ●irst inthrald in Cupids powre In vanei I spent the May-month of my time● Singing for ioy to see me captiue thrall To him whose gaines are griefe whose cōfort smal Leo. When in the height of his Meridian walke The Lions holde conteines the eye of day The riping corne growes yeolow in the stalke When strength of yeares did blesse me euerie way Maskt with delights of follie was my talke Youth ripened all my thoughts to my decay In lust I sowde my frute was losse of time My hopes were proud and yet my bodie slime Virgo When in the Virgins lap earths comfort sleepes Bating the furi● of his burning eyes Both corne and frutes are firmd cōfort creepes On euerie plant and flowre that springing rise When age at last his chiefe dominion keepes And leades me on to see my vanities What loue and scant foresight did make me sow● In youthfull yeares is ripened now in woe Libra When in the Ballance Daphnes Lemman blins The Ploughman gathereth frute for passed paine When I at last considered on my sinnes And thought vpon my youth and follies vaine I cast my count and reason now begins To guide mine eyes with iudgement bought with paine Which weeping wish a better way to finde Or els for euer to the world be blinde Scorpio When with the Scorpion proud Apollo plaies● The wines are trode and carried to their presse The woods are f●ld gainst winters sharp affraies When grauer yeares my iudgements did addresse I gan repaire my ruines and decaies Exchanging will to wit and soothfastnesse Claiming from Time and Age no good but this To see my sinne and sorrow for my misse Sagittarius When as the Archer in his Winter holde The Delian Harper tunes his wonted loue The ploughman sowes and tills his labored molde When with aduise and iudgement I approue How Loue in youth hath griefe for gladnes solde The seedes of shame I from my heart remooue And in their steads I set downe plants of Grace And with repent bewailde my youthfull race Capricornus When he that in Eurotas siluer glide Doth baine his tresse beholdeth Capricorne The daies growes short then hasts the winter tide The Sun with sparing lights doth seem to mourn Gray is the green the flowers their beautie hides When as I see that I to death was borne My strength decaide my graue alreadie drest I count my life my losse my death my best Aquarius When with Aquarius Phoebes brother staies The blythe and wanton windes are whist still Colde frost and snow the pride of earth betraies When age my head with hoarie haires doth fill Reason sits downe and bids mee count my dayes And pray for peace and blame my froward will In depth of griefe in this distresse I crie Peccaui Domine miserere mei Pisces When in the Fishes mansion Phoebus dwells The dayes renew the earth regaines his rest When olde in yeares my want my death foretells My thoghts praiers to heauē are whole addrest Repentance youth by follie quite expells I long to be dissolued for my best That yong in zeale long beaten wi●h my rod I may grow old to wisedome to God The palmer had no sooner finished his circle but the Host ouer read his conceipt and wondering at the excellencie of his wit from his experience began to suck much wisedome beeing verie loath to detaine his guest too long after they had broken their fast and the goodman of the ●ouse courteouslie had giuen him thankes for his fauor the Palmer set forward towards Venice what there he did or howe hee liued when I am aduertised good Gentlemen I will send you tidings Meane while let euerie one learne by Francescoes fall to beware least at last too late they be enforced to bewaile FINIS
Her starrie lookes her Christall eyes Brighter than the Sunnes arise Sparkling pleasing flames on fire Yoakt my thoughts and my desire That I gan crie ere I blin Oh her eyes are paths to sin H●r face was faire her breath was sweete All her lookes for loue was meete But loue is follie this I kn●we And beautie fadeth like to snowe● Oh why should man delight in pride Whose blossome like a deaw doth glide When these supposes toucht my thought That world was vaine and beautie nought I gan sigh and say alas Man is sinne and flesh is grasse The Palmer hauing ended this Ode sat in a great dump in the garden when his Host accompanied with his wife desirous to heare out Francescos fortune were come into the place and gaue him the bon iorno thus Courteous Palmer a kinde salute to waken you from your mornings meditation I see you keepe the prouerbe for a principle to bed with the Bée and vp with the Larke no sooner the Sunne in the Skie but you are at your Orysons either ruminating passions or penance either some old remembrance or some newe reuerse Howsoeuer gentle Palmer t is no manners to enter to● farre into your thoughts and therefore leauing your secrets to your selfe Com● stat● la vos●ra signoria quest a matina The Palmer that had learned a little broken Italian seeing his honest host in such a merie moode made this answer Io sto bensignior di● merce ringratiando●i sonnamenti di vostra grande cor●esia holding it fi● for my fortunes to haue many cares and little s●eepe that my pennance may be great sith my sinnes are many long slumbers are for idle persons not for penitent Palmers and sweete dreames are no instances of hartie deuotion therefore doo I watch with the mouse to argue my selfe miserable and enioyne my selfe to much paines because I am combred wi●h many passions This morning entring into this garden● I sawe by the workes of nature the course of the world for when I sawe Floras glorie shut vp in the soldes of I●is frownes I began to consider that the pride of man was like the pompe of a flower that to day glories in the field and to morrowe is in the furnace that we be like the flies Hemerae that take life with the Sunne and dye with the deaw that our honors are compared to the blossomes of a Cedar which vanish ere they begin to burnish and al our triumphs like caracters written in snowe that printed in a vapour at the least Sunne shine discouer our vanitie for they are as soone melted as our pleasures are momentarie Tied by Fates to this ti●kle state wee haue nothing more certaine than to dye nor nothing more vncertaine than the houre of death and therefore when I call to minde the follies of my youth how they haue been tickled with vice I eouet in the flower of mine yeares to repent and amend for Nunquam sera est ad bonos more 's via You doo well sir quoth the Gentleman in al your actions to consider the end for he that forerepents foresees many perrills● Had I wist is a great fault and after wits are bitten with many sorrowes therefore such as gréeue at their follies couet to preuent dangerous fortunes they which take an antidote of grace against the deadly aconiton of sinne and with present remorse preuent ensuing vanities such indeed as they liue well shall dye blessed But leauing this humour till another time you may see by our earely rising how my wife and I were delighted with your euenings par●ie for trust me sir desire of Francescos further fortunes made vs thus watchfull and therefore seeing the morning is gray and our longing great and yet a good while to breakefast if your leisure may affoord so much I pray you sit downe and tell vs what was the ende of his loues and the effects of his repentance The Palmer verie willing to pleasure his courteous host sat him downe in an Arbour and began thus The Palmers tale of Francesco AS soone as Francesco awak● from his slumber and began to enter further into the consideration of Infidas cousenage his heart throbd at his follies and a present passion of his great misfortunes so payned him that all perplexed he began againe to sing his former song and to say that womens thoughts were like to the leaues of a Da●e tree that change colours with the wind● in a moment figuring out sorrowe with teares and in that instant deciphering pleasure with smiles neither too resolute with the Stoickes to yeeld to no passions nor too absolute with the Esseni to surfet with ouer much chastitie their desires quoth he resemble Aeolus forhead that next euery storme contains a calme their déedes are like Almanacks that decipher nothing but vncertaintie either too scrupulous with Daphne to contemne all or too voluptuous with Venus to desire all and straight neither flesh nor fish as the Porpus but time pleasers to content themselues with varietie of fancies In this humorous melancholie hee arose vp and raunged about the Citie despayring of his estate as a man pennylesse and therefore impatient because he knewe not how to redresse his miseries to relie vppon the helpe of a Curtizan he sawe by experience was to hang hope in the ayre to stand vpon the fauour of friends that was bootelesse for he had fewe in the Citie as being but a straunger there and such as he had were wonne with an Apple trencher friends ●nd therefore to bee left with the puffe of the least blast of aduersities To goe home to his wife to faire Isabel that was as hard a censure as the sentence of death for shame of his follies made him ashamed to shewe his face to a woman of so high desarts In this perplexitie he passed ouer three or foure daies till his purse was cleane emptie his score great and his hostesse would trust him for no more money but ●hreatned him if present payment were not made to lay him in prison This newes was hard to Francesco that knewe not how to auoyd the preiudice only his refuge was to preuent such a misfortune to carrie his apparell to the Brokers and with great losse to make money to pay for his diet which once discharged he walk● vp and downe as a man forlorne hauing neither coyne nor credite Necessitie that stingeth vnto the quick made him set his wits on the tenter and to stretch his braines as high as Ela to sée how he could recouer pence to defray his charges by any sinister meanes to salue his sorrowes the care of his parents and of his owne honor perswaded him from making gaine by labour he had neuer been brought vp to any mechanicall course of life Thus euery way destitute of meanes to liue he sight out this olde sayd sawe Miserrimum est fuisse beatum yet at last as extremities search very farre he calde to minde that he was a scholler and that