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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

barbarous people that euer lyued by the Impression of Nature Mariage hath euermore ben reuerenced and honoured Muche more ciuill people ought to affecte this holy estate And where Ismarito attributes suche Glorie vnto a Single lyfe because that Daphne was metamorphosed into a Bay Trée whose Branches are alwayes gréene In my opnion his reason is fayre lyke the Bay Trée for the Bay Trée is barren of pleasant fruict his plesing words of weighty matter Furthermore what remembrance is theare of faire Sirinx coynesse refusing to be God Pans wife other then that she was metamorphosed into a fewe vnprofitable Réedes Or of Anaxaretes chaste crueltie towardes Iphis ouer then that she remaineth an Image of Stone in Samarin Many other suche lyke naked Monumentes remayne of nice contempners of Marriage But in the behalf of Mariage thousāds haue ben changed into Olyue Pomegranate Mulberie and other fruictfull-trées swéete flowers Starres and precious Stones by whom the worlde is beautified directed and noorished In many well gouerned commen wealths Sterylitie hath ben reputed so vile as the Aged was of no man honoured y e had not childrē of his own to do him reuerence Then by how much those thinges which noorish with increase are more necessarie then those things which but simply please the eye by so muche the marryed is more worthy then the single lyfe Sir quoth Ismarito it séemeth that you haue read a Leafe more then Sainct Katherynes Nun for she simply tried all thinges and you subtilly vse but what serueth your owne tourne you reproach a Single lyfe with Barrennesse commend the fertilytie of Mariage But had you showen the wéedes with y e Corne bare pasture wold haue retourned as great a benefit as your haruest The Monsters Serpents and loathsome Creatures mentioned by Ouide in his Metamorphosis were they not I praye you the fruicts of Marriage as wel as the blessings whiche you so affectedlye reported Oedippus was glad to scratch out his eyes because he could not indure to behold the vices of his Children The good Emperour Marcus Aurelius in his aged daies neuer rose that he sighthed not neuer dyned that he fretted not nor neuer went to bedd that he wéeped not to heare sée and consider the mounstrous euylls of his Children Admit the Married haue vertuous Children they may dye when they are yonge then the goodnesse of their lyues increaseth sorrowes by their deathes and where the comfort is so doubtfull it is not amisse to refuse the hazard of the gréefe neither dyeth there any of Dianas band but that their vertues reuiueth them as the ashes of the Phenix tourneth into an other Phenix It is for some Phenix sake quoth Quéene Aurelia that you thus stoutly defend a Single lyfe I doo but your commaundement quoth Ismarito You quoth shée it is at my commaundement but yet for some others merit Alvisa vechio fearing that Marriage wold receiue som disgrace if that Quéene Aurelia fauoured the Defence of a Single lyfe could not longer suppresse her affections but with a womans Impatiencie blamed the rigour of Diana who condēpned Acteon to be deuoured of his own Howndes who caused swéete Addonis to be slayne by a wylde Boare with many other cruell partes vnséemyng the naturall pittie of a woman but which might haue saued a great deale of Argument or at the least which wyll now soone ende the Controuersie compare ꝙ she Iuno and Diana together and by their callings you may easely iudge who is the worthyer Diana poore soule is but a Goddesse here on earth and Iuno is Quéene of Heauen Dianaes force is in her Bow and Arrowes Iuno bestoweth Thunderbolts vpon her enemies Diana is attyred with gréene leaues and Iuno with glorious Starres Diana féedeth on rawe Fruictes and drinketh cold water Iunoes Feastes are of Manna and her Bowles are fild with Nectar Dianes Musick is no better then the voyces of a fewe Nymphes Iuno is recreated with the Harmonie of Angelles Dianaes pastime is a foote to chace the fearefull Roe where Iuno in Phaetons wynged Chariot pursueth a thousand seueral pleasures then by how much the pompe of Iuno excéedeth the naked Triumphes of Diana by so much Mariage must néedes be more worthye then the Single lyfe Lucia Bella that shuld haue answered Alvisa Vechio not vnlyke the Marygoulde that cloaseth her Beautie when Phebus is attyred with his brightest Rayes so admyred the glory of Iuno y t as an inchaunted creature her tongue forgot her naturall office the reason was her hart was sodenly surprised with an ambitious desire of honor Which change Ismarito perceyued with the first and least her scilence shuld conclude a yealding Al is not gold ꝙ he that glistereth nor euery thyng counterfet that is not curiously garnished a smyling countenance is no full testimonie of a merie hart nor costly Garments of a rich Purse And perchance the griefe of Iunoes secret discontentmentes is greatter then the delight of her gloryous pompe where Diana who as a Diamond in the darcke shineth of her selfe needeth not the Ornaments of Iuno And as shée is symplye of a pure substaunce so her thoughtes must needes be swéete and quiet Sir ꝙ Maria Belochy our soundest iudgements are of those things that we our selues sée therfore if the apparaunce of Mariage be worthier then the apparaunce of the single lyfe if sentence be truely pronounced it must be in the behalfe of Iuno Quéene Aurelia perceyuing the increase of Ismaritos aduersaries for who can stop a streame measure the fire weygh the winde or hynder Fancyes passage and withall considering how that the controuercy was sufficiently debated commaunded the contenders to kéepe scilence and referred y e qustiō to be Iudged by Fabritio Isabella Who hauing aduisedly considered the reasons on both sydes agréed that a single chast lyfe pleased God because Chastitie is pure and also delighteth man because shée quieteth the mynde but a chast marryed lyfe bothe pleaseth and honoureth God because Marriage howrely presenteth the world with the Image of himselfe pleaseth and profiteth man because she giueth him a companyon by affection chaunged into his owne disposition of whom he hath children who in dispight of death preserueth him alyue And therefore the sentence of them both was pronounsed by Fabritio in the behalfe of Marriage who with all enlarged her prayses with the reporte of many swéet Blessinges whiche shée liberallye bestoweth vppon her Subiectes But least the company should haue ben fyred with too hasty a desyre of Marriage he cooled theyr affections with such caueats as they that had their voyces ready tuned to synge the prayses of God Himen were of the suddayne as mute as a fishe by reason whereof Fabritio had free passage for his counsellinge reporte who after many wordes to either purpose deliuered concluded with the opinion of Plato That Marriage was a Parradice on earth if her Lawes be obserued and a Hell in the House where her

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

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

this sentence we wil haue you indited at Rome as an heretick for by the Popes Cānons Priests may not marry they haue a custom among them selues not to liue chast Well ꝙ Franceschina if the Pope for this opinion burne mée as an heretick good men will cannonise mée for a vertuous Uirgin Thease Digressions quoth Quéene Aurelia are the meanes rather to worke a confusion of our memories then to conclude any beneficial matter for our instruction And therfore I hold it to greater purpose substantially to handle one Argument then sleightly to ouerrunne many causes where y e doubts we leaue vnresolued wyl be more daungerous vnto the hearer then the Counselles we vse profitable vnto the follower Madame quoth Fabritio I hold it good we obay your direction And for that Mariage is the most honourable euent of Loue and that a Single lyfe is the greatest testimanie of Chastytie A ciuill Contention to prooue which is the most worthy of the two would conclude much contentment For as Yron and Flynt beat together haue the vertue to smite fire so mens wit●…s encountryng in doutful questiōs openeth a passage for imprisoned Trueth Quéene Aurelia and the rest of the company lyked verie well of the Subieat and studing who weare the fittest to deale in this Controuersie Aurelia with a glaunsinge eye beheld that her seruant Ifmarito witsafed no greater Token that he tooke delight in thease actions then sometime the secrete bestowyng of a modest smile whervpon she forethought that as Floods when they are most hyest maketh least noise euen so perchaunce his styll tongue was gouerned by a flowyng wit●… and desirous to sounde his sufficiencie she quickned him with this crosse surmise Seruant quoth she your sober lookes promiseth a hope that you will vndertake Dianaes quarrell but which wil serue in this question I feare me you cōn●…aund Loue so much as you contempne Mariage And the greater is my suspicion in that you are a T●…auayleri y e nature of which sort of people is to swell with a 〈◊〉 ●…isdayne of Mariage The reason is say they their Affections are poyioned with the knowledge of womens so haynous euyls as the●… dare not venter of that vocation But my opinion is they ●…learned so many ●…lties to de●… 〈◊〉 lesse w●… as dandled with the ●…ments of sundry Loues they forsweare Mariage who bindes them to one only wyfe And if you be infected w t the humour of thease sorte of Trauailers you may wel vndertake this charge for Venus though she loue not Diana yet is she the sworn enemie of Iuno And if you be sound from this infirmitie the little haste you make to marry witnesseth you honor Hymen with no great deuotion and therfore I cōmaund you too vse all your possyble proofes in the Defence of a Single lyfe and for your Assistaunce I do appoin●…t you Lucia Bella whom this Charge can not mislyke because as I vnderstand she meanes to be a professed Nun You are to encounter the opinions of many and therfore arme your selues with as good reasons as you may Madame quoth Ismarito I am so déepely bound vnto your commaundement as I am driuen to leaue youre suggestions not answeared and my owne inne●…ency vnexcused only attend y e incounter of him y t wil maintaine Marriage to be more worthy then a syngle life which vocation of Marriage though I reuerently honour yet I so zealously affect the other as I hope where the Iudges are indifferent to make the glory thereof to shine as the faire white aboue euery other colour Syr quoth Soranso though white be a fayre colour yet are the choyse of all other colours more rich and glorious so though Virginitie which is the fayrest flower of a single lyfe be precious in the sight of God and in the opinion of men yet is Marriage more precious in that it is a sacred institution of God and more honoured of men the Marryed are reuerently intertained when the vnmaryed are but familiarly saluted The Maried in assemblies are honoured with the hyghest places the vnmarryed humble them selues vnto the lowest To be short Virginitie is the handmayde of Marriage Then by how much the Master is greater then the seruaunt by so much Marriage is more worthy then is single lyfe I confesse quoth Ismarito Marriage is an honourable e●…ate instituted of God and embraced of men but wheron had she her beginning vpon this cause to kéepe men from a greater inconuenience as the Lawe was founded vppon this reason to punishe the trespasses of men But if no offence had ben giuen the Law had not néeded So if man had lyued within boundes of reason whiche before any commaundement geuen was vnto him a Law Marriage might haue ben spared and therefore in the hyest degrée is but a vertue vppon necessitie where Chastitie is a deuine vertue gouerned by the motions of the soule which is immortall and perticypating of the same vertue is alwaies fresh and gréene The euer-springing Baye is the Metamorphos of chast Daphnè whom Appollo although he weare a soueraign GOD could not allure to Mariadge which prooueth Chastitie a true spark of Diuinitie whose twinkling reflexions so daseleth the eyes of imagined Gods whose powers must néedes be more great then the greatest of men as they cannot sée an ende of their incontinent desires where as the beautie of Marriadge is many times blasted by fortune or the frailtie of the Married Therfore think I by how much deuyne thinges are of greater emprise then earthlye by so much the Single lyfe is more worthy then then the maryed And in aduauntage ꝙ Lucia Bella where Soranso sayth that there is great honour done vnto the married and to the Single is giuen light regard I pray you whether are Baccus minions or the Muses most reuerensed Among men whose places are hyer then the Cleargies and amonge women whose greater then the religious Dames They haue not this preheminence ꝙ Faliero because they professe a Single life but because their function is more sacred then other mens who if their prayers to GOD bee no more zealous then their vowes to chastytie are stedfast you flye to the authoritie of a company as spotted as Labans Shéepe But where Sir Ismarito saith y t Mariage is but a verfue vpon necessytie to restrayne man from a greater euyll I approoue it an estate set downe by Nature and that man hath but amplified it with certain Ceremonies to make perfect the determination of nature For we dayly sée in vnreasonable Creatures Mariage is in a sorte worshyp ped Fowles of the Ayre I meane the he and the she cupple together flie together féede together and neast together The Turtle is neuer merie after the death of her Mate and in many brute Beastes the lyke Constancie is fownd But generally there is neuer iarre nor mislykyng betwene the Male and Female of vnpollitique creatures and among the most

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

so oft kisse the swéete lippes of his beautifull wife as he shalbe driuen to fetche bitter sighes from his sorrowfull hart Sir quoth Soranso taking Bergettos parte of two euils the least is to be chosen and it is lesse euill for a man to lyue a while hardly and satisfye his owne fancie then to liue euer discontented and please his fréendes The good behauiour of the maryed may winne the Parents to consent and amend their exhibition or death may come and put them in possession of theyr Parentes lyuing If either of these chaunce as one is shortely like to happen the penaunce that they indured wyll season theyr prosperitie and counsell the Married to kéepe within their teacher to leape within their latchet and lyue within theyr compasse The louing aduise of the husband wyll reforme the disposition of euill in the wife For as Plato sayeth there is no woman so perfect good but in some one point may be reprehended nor no man so faultlesse but that somewhat in him may be amended so that if the Husband gently reprehend the fault of his Wife and the Wife patiently suffer the offence of her Husband the abylytie of theire estate wyll sustaine a househould and their looue and agréement wilbe an especiall comfort vnto them selues and a commendable example vnto all the neighbours The best of bothe your euils quoth Doctor Mossenigo is starke naught but our question was not to chuse the least of euyls but that which is simply good notwithstanding to aunswer to the sequell of this rashenesse in Mariage you saye theyr good behauiours may recouer theyr Parents good wyll but I Prophesie that theyr euill demeanures are more likely to extinguish the affection of a Father for necessitie wyll accustome the Husband with dishonest shyftes and kéepes his fayre Wife from béeing ydle for want muste be supplyed what shame so euer ensue Then is it lykely that the Parentes which did shutte their Pursses in the beginning to punishe the contempt of their Chyldren wyll now fast locke them to be reuenged of theyr infamie And where you gaue them a hope by their parentes death I say no man dyneth worse then hoping Tantalus nor none are more wetshod then they which expect deade mens shooes and when they fall the soules perhaps wilbe worne I meane the Father in his life tyme may take order to dye euen with the worlde or at leaste leaue his liuing maimed and the most of his substaunce wasted for in a tempest at Sea what Pylote hath any care of goodes that séeth the ship at the poynte to syncke euen so what parents can haue any ioye of worldly wealth more then to defende necessytye when he séeth the heyre bothe of his labour and lyuing out of hope of weldooing so that through this rashnesse many sonnes during their fathers lyues with hard shiftes shift of necessity and after their deathes liue disinherited and not altogether so much for their owne contempt as for their wiues incontinencye truely in the fyrst although the parentes may be thought cruell yet are they not to be reputed vnnaturall for that euery offence hath his proper scourge restitution is the true payne for robbery an eye is reuenge for an eye a hand for a hande death challengeth death and disobedience in the sonne deserueth disinheritaunce by the father Touching the dishonesty of the daughter in lawe as it is great hazarde but that necessitie thus bestowed will bend her a little the seueritie is sufferable if her husbandes father shut her forth of his doores for that the honour of a mans house is so delicate as it can awaie with no staine and reseruyng your fauours vertuous dames where a strumpet entereth she stuffeth the house with slaunder as carraine infecteth the ayre with stincke yea the occasion is iust if the father spare to gette and the mother cease to saue nay if they spend that which they haue for it weare great pitty that there should be any thing leafte either of their liuyng or labour to support a harlots pride O how innumerable are the inconueniences of this timeritye in Marriage The wise by coniecture and daylye experience séeeth and the foolish with sorrowe in theyr own entrailes féeleth and therfore as a hainous offence the auncient Philosophers which without partiallitie checked Vice and cherrished Vertue punished this contempt of Chiloren Plutarke saythe the sonne that marryeth without his Parents consent among the Greekes was publikely whipped among the Lacedemonians dishearited and among the Theabanes bothe disinhearited and of his Parents openly accursed The yonger company began to feare a restraint of Freeloues libertie and their Goddesse Beauties disgrace The Doctor gaue Capitaine Bergetto such crosse blowes who though he fainted in his opinion yet like a Cocke that hath one of his eyes stricken out and his head bared to the braines yet striketh vntill he dyeth he assayled the Doctor with this one more reason Maister Doctor ꝙ he they go farre that neuer returne and the battaile is very cruell where none escapes what although a number speede yll in making of their owne choyce many haue prospered well In matches of the best foresight good Fortune hath not alwayes béene found and yet foresight is not to be blamed nor the other aduenture to be dispitefully condemned Ouid sayeth that Forma numen habet then by vertue of her Diuinitie it is like she will sustaine them in aduersity that in prosperity became her vowed Seruaunts neither dooth this stayne of the wiues behauiour often follow for where Beautie Loue Free choise maketh the Mariage they may be crossed by Fortune and yet continue faithfull Piramus and Thisbie Romeus and Iuliet Arn●…lt and Amicla and diuers others at the point to possesse their loues were dispossest of their liues but yet vnstained with dishonesty This want with which you threaten them what is it in respect of the pleasures these Louers possesse Wealth which is the contrarie what is it béeing ill vsed a beautie in the Chest a bondage to the minde and a blot in the soule but a couple vnited by this affection for a little Fleabiting of worldly pennury suck Nectar betwéene their lippes Cram Manna into theyr Bowels and possesse Heauen in their hearts How farre Maister Doctor argueth from the opinion of auncient Philosophers and famous Schoolemen these authorities witnesseth Ouid Nigidius Samocratius Petrarke and others in their life time addored Beautie with their bookes honoured her and by their deathes eternized her glorye But for that her vertues be Diuine and Maister Doctor is soyled with slaunder blasphemy and mallice he is vnworthy to be perfected with one thought of her excellencie which ignorance maketh him so obstinate The yonger company began to take heart in hearing of this Tale so that the Gentlewomen strengthened Bergetto with good countenaunces for for modesties sake they were silent and the Gentlemen succoured him with theyr best reasons

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

vertues illustreth the same through the whole worlde but to direct the maried is a la●…or of Ar●… wit and expérience in the fyrst wherof I am ignoraunt in the second vnperfect and to the thirde a Strainger so that as I am sorry to iniurie your expectation so am I loth to expose my insufficient iudgement Sir quoth Quéene Aurelia if wée were not assured of a lyberal contentment in contēplating of your waightie Censure we would receiue your modest refusall for iust excuse But for that we haue all an intrest in your vertues you should be enemie to your owne honorable cōmendation in kéeping of them close prisoners in your br●…t although you be Lord of the Pallace yet I as ●…oue raigne of the Ciuill Pleasures commaund you to giue Cerimonies a disgrace and sincerely to obay my will Madam quoth Segnior Philoxenus so stricht is your charge as I must aduenture of this waighty labour hoping that as by authoritie you commaund my opinion so by y e motion of some one of your vertues you wil pardon my errours Upon which incouragement to obay your wyll I say and approoue by sacred Authoritie that this holy Institution of Marriage was erected by God in the earthly Paradice before the transgression of Adam when he ioyned him to Eue with these wordes of blessing Increase multiply and replenish the earth Againe after Adams fall and the deluge to strengthen his fyrst institution God commaunded the good Patriarcke Noe to encrease and multiply the earth a new Moreouer God would haue no more women then men in his Ark to show there shoulde be a Sympathie in number as well as agréement in loue betwene man and wife for if the one might lawfullye haue many Wiues and the other many Husbandes how should this expresse Commaundement of God be vnuiolated You shall be two bodies in one flesh and no more Compare the Ioye honour and reuerence geuen vnto Mariage by the delight that procéedeth from any other cause and you shal sée her gleame lyke a blasyng Comet and the other but twinckle as an ordinarie Starre Gorgeous and rich Apparayle delighteth the Gasers eye and perhaps offendeth the wearers hart where Maryage in homely Attyre is euery where honored and reaueth vnquiet wandring thoughts from the Maried to abounde in riches is a glorious fortune but they charge men with a dubble care extreame in the getting and fearefull in the kéeping the married hath as great or greater ritches in their children When the stately Dames of Rome bragged of theyr Iuelles Cornelia boasted that hers excelled them all A Ladye of the company séeing her set forth with none that was precious demaunded where her Iuelles were Yonder quoth Cornelia and poynted to her children When certaine most rare and precious Iuelles of King Darius and his wiues were presented to Olympia Mother of Alexander the great she bestowed them vpon her Ladyes as to lowe prised for her wearing who was continually adorned with a Iuell in value as riche as Asia Affrica and Europa And sure Quéene Olympia and Ladye Cornelia gloried not in their Iuelles without reason for golde and precious stones set but a glose vppon beautie when vertuous children geueth a newe lyfe vnto their parentes The administration of Iustice and aucthoritie in a common weale are the proper offices of the married for that the care of wife children presupposeth them to be setled when the vnmarried though their wittes be good rayseth a suspition in the wise that their thoughtes are vagrant The vnmaried hath no agreable Companion to participate of his pleasure or to lessen his sorrowe The Maried hath a Companion of his owne flesh of his owne wyll and of his owne Spyryt so wrought to his owne Affection that betwéene them there is séene two bodies but one thought perceiued The Maried ioy alike sorrow alike are of one substāce one concord one wealth one pouertie Companions at one Boorde in one Bed The loue we beare vnto our Parents is or ought to be reuerent and duetifull because they gaue vs lyfe Unto our Bréetherne naturall because of the priuitie in blood To our frendes affectionate by certaine Motions consents of the minde Notwithstanding that these Loues be thus greate yet are there diuers causes too lessen them But betwéene the married no mischaunce or infirme Fortune is cause sufficient of hatred for none gouerned by reason is so inhumaine as to mallice his owne fleshe Compare their seuerall affections by sorrow and you shal sée the weakenes of the one in regarde of the strength of the other The greatest mone we make for the death of our Father Brother or friend appeareth in sighes or most vehement in teares whereas if wée our selues are but a little wounded we crye outright so that by howe much we excéede in sorrowing our owne mischaunces aboue another mans by the same reason so much we loue our selues more then another The Rynge that is geuen by the Husbande and put on the Wiues finger ought to be of Gould to witnes that as gould is the most precious of Mettalles so the loue of the married excéedeth all other loues To which effecte Propertius sayth Omnis amor magnus sed aperto in coniugè maior moreouer the close Ioyning of the ringe is a figure of true vnitie of the married betwéene whom there should be no diuision in desire no●… difference in behauiour To honour this holy institution of God God would haue his onely begotten sonne to be borne of a Wife perfectly married saue that shée was not Carnally soyled Licurgus the good King of the Lacedemonians so reuerenced this sacred estate as he made a Lawe that what Lacedemonian soeuer were vnmarried after the age of thyrtie and eyght yeares should be chased and hissed out of all publique playes and assemblies as one vnworthy to be séene that in the cold winter he shuld naked indure the reproches of the people and withall was bounde to confesse how he iustly suffred y t punishment as a Mispriser of Religion a contemner of Lawes and an enemie to nature The Romaines were not so seuere but yet the Aged vnmaried were condempned accordyng to their abylytie to pay vnto the Treasurer for publique vse a good Sūme of Money Plato in his Lawes enacted that the Unmaried shuld execute no honourable Office Estate nor dignytie in the Common wealth The good Emperour Alexander Seuerus although he maryed rather to geue ende to his Mother Mammeas Importunyties then as he thought to begin a more happie lyfe yet fayre Memmia his wyfe so naturally accorded with his disposition as when she died he would often renewe his Sorowe and remember her Uertues in these wordes So great a Treasure as I haue lost a man seldome findeth Death were gentle if he tooke nothyng but that whiche offendeth but oh he hath reaued