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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02131	Mamillia The second part of the triumph of Pallas: wherein with perpetual fame the constancie of gentlewomen is canonised, and the vniust blasphemies of womens supposed ficklenesse (breathed out by diuerse iniurious persons) by manifest examples clearely infringed. By Robert Greene Maister of Arts, in Cambridge.; Mamillia. Part 2	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1593 (1593)	STC 12270; ESTC S105831	71,941	112

as the brauest Sepulchre cannot make the dead carkasse to smell swéete nor the most delicate ienimes make a deformed face faire so the richest attire or most costly apparrell cannot make a young minde sauour of vertue The olde Pine trée is more estéemed for the profit than the flourishing buds of the trées in the I le of Colchos for their poyson the olde Serpents Serapie are of greater account for their vertuous skinne than the yoong and glistring Euets for their inuenomed hides Age is alwaies more estéemed for his staied minde than youth for his stailesse mood That flourishing and beautifull dame Rodophe which married old Sampniticus the King of Memphis was woont to saie that she had rather be an olde mans darling than a young mans drudge that she had rather content her selfe with an old man in pleasure than féed her fancie with a yoong man in penurie that she had rather be loued of an old man euer than liked of a yoong man for a while The mind of a yoong man is momentarie his fancie fading his affection fickle his loue vncertaine and his liking as light as the winde his fancie fiered with euerie new face and his minde mooued with a thousand sundry motions loathing that which alate he did loue liking that for which his longing mind doth lust frying at the first and frizing at the last not sooner inflamed than quickly cold as little permanent as violent and like the melting wax which receiueth euery impression where as age is constant like to the Emeraulde which hauing receiued a forme neuer taketh other stampe without cracking The mind of an old man is not mutable his fancy fixed and his affection not fléeting he chooseth not intending to chaunge nor chaungeth not til death maketh the challenge The olde Oake neuer falleth but by the carpenters axe nor the affectiō of age but by the dint of death The olde Cedar trée is lesse shaken with winde than the yoong Bramble and age farre more staied than youth yea though an old man be withered in age yet he flourisheth in affection though he want the beautie of bodie yet hée hath the bountie of the minde though age had diminished his colour yet it hath augmented his vertue though youth excelleth in strength yet age surpasseth in stedfastnesse so that I conclude by how much the more the vertues of the minde are to be preferred before the beautie of the bodie by so much the more ought an olde louer to be preferred before a young leacher You haue heard Syluia what I haue said and you know I haue spoken nothing but truth If then it please you to thinke well of my part and accept of my person to requite my loyall loue with lawfull liking and my fixed fancie with feruent affection assure your selfe you shall haue Signor Gradasso so at your commaund as you in euerie respect can wish and in the pledge of this my good will I will make your feofment a thousand Crownes of yéerely reuenewes Signor Gradasso had no sooner ended but Iacques in his maisters behalfe framed his talke to this effect There is nothing quoth he which among mortall creatures is more detested than deformitie nor nothing more imbraced than beautie which aboue all the giftes both of Nature and Fortune doth make vs most resemble the gods So that where the bodie is adorned with beautie and perfection of nature there it séemeth the gods shewe most fauour and affection sith that they tooke such care in caruing a péece of so curious perfection Insomuch that they say when the gods made beautie they skipt beyond their skill in that the maker is subiect to the thing made for what made Thetis be inconstant but beautie what forced Venus to be in loue with Anchises but beautie what caused Luna to like Endymion but beautie yea it is sayde to be of so great force that it bewitcheth the wise and inchaunteth them that made it There is none so addicted to chastitie whome beautie hath not chaunged none so vowed to virginitie whome beautie hath not charmed none so seuere whome beautie hath not besotted nor none so senselesse whome the name of beautie can not either breake or bende Loue commeth in at the eye not at the eares by séeing natures workes not by hearing sugred wordes and fancie is fedde by the fairenesse of the face not by the finenesse of the spéech Beautie is the Syren which will drawe the most adamant heart by force and such a charme as haue constrained euen the vestal virgins to forsake their celles yea it so inueigleth the sight and bewitcheth the sences it so troubleth the minde and disturbeth the braine yea it bringeth such extreame delight to the heart so that as the Viper being tyed to a Béech trée falleth into a slumber so diuerse beholding beautifull persons haue stoode as though with Medusas head they had bin turned to a stone Anacharsis being demaunded what hée thought was the greatest gift that euer the Gods bestowed vppon man answered beautie for that it both delighteth the eye contenteth the minde and winneth good will and fauour of all men Pigmaleon for beautie loued the Image of Iuorie and Apelles the counterfeite which he coloured with his owne skill the picture Ganimides greatly astonished the Ladies of Cypres What made Aeneas so beloued of the Carthaginians but beautie what gayned Theseus the good wil of Ariadne but beautie what wonne Demophoon the loue of Phillis but beautie and what forced the Syluein Nimph Oenone to leaue the lawnes but the incomparable beautie of Paris The Gentlewoman which hath a husband that is endued with beautie adorned with the giftes of Nature shall haue euer wherewith to be satisfied and neuer whereof to mislike wheras contrarie the deformed man is such a monster in nature and suche a sorrowe to a womans heart as she bewailes her chaunce to haue chosen one that euery one doth loath The foulest Serpent is euer most venimous the trée with a withered rinde hath neuer a sugred sap the durty puddle hath neuer good fish and a deformed bodie seldome a reformed mind The wise Lapidaries say that the pretious stone with the most glistring hue hath alwaies the most secret vertue The pure gold is chose by the perfect colour the best frute by the brauest blossomes and the best conditions by the swéetest countenance But perhaps mistresse Syluia you will say his faire face inflameth my fancie and his beautie bewitched my sences his shape in déede doeth perswade me to requite his good will with mutuall affection but then his folly againe quaileth my stomacke and is a cooling card to quench the fire of fancie to which I answer Syluia that his follie is not so preiudiciall as profitable not so much hurtfull as commodious Aspasia the louer of Socrates being demanded what thing a woman in the worlde chiefly desired answered to rule thinking that soueraigntie was the thing that women most desire and men most feare to

should at the common assemblies and feastes sit in the lowest and vilest place as one that had committed a fact repugnant to the law of Nature calling him which was well strooken in yeeres yet enamoured that would frie in affection when he was wholie frozen in complexion not an old louer but a filthie foole and a doting old leacher and in my iudgement they had great reason so to tearme him For olde rotten strawes are more fit for doong than for the chamber withered flowers to be cast away than to be placed in a braue nosegay olde stickes more méete for the fire than for sumptuous building and aged men are more fit for the graue than to spende their time in loue Cupid Signor Gradasso alloweth none in his court but yoong men that can serue fresh and beautifull to delight wise that can talke secret to kéepe silence faithfull to gratifie and valiant to reuenge his mistresse iniuries He that is not indued priuiledged with these conditions may well loue but neuer be liked How can a yoong woman fixe her affection vppon an olde man who in the night time in stéed of talke telleth the clock crieth out of the gout complaineth of the Ciatica is combred with crampes and troubled with the cough hauing neither health to ioy himselfe nor youth to enioy her To the ende that loue be fixed sure perpetuall and true there must be equalitie betwéen the enamoured For if the louer be olde and shée be yoong he ouergrowne with age and she in flourishing youth assure your selfe that of fained louers they shal be euer professed and vnfained enemies For it is not loue but sorrow not mirth but displeasure not taste but torment not delight but despight not ioy but annoy not recreatiō but confusion when in the louer there is not both youth and libertie yea the withered straw is soone set on fire and easily quenched the olde and drie wood easily inflamed and quickly put out age soone doteth and soone detesteth now swimming in loue and presently sinking in hate like to the stone Draconites that no sooner commeth out of the flame but it is vehemently cold What a foolish motion nay what a frantike madnesse is it for him whom nature denieth any longer to liue to intangle himselfe in the snares of loue whose naturall heate is turned to frost with the match of fancie to kindle a new fire when sicknesse sommons him and age warnes him that death draweth nye than to become a clyent vnto Cupid to pleade for bountie at the cruell barre of beautie knowing that the hearbe Adiaton cannot abide to touch the withered grasse that the trées in the mount Vernese detest to be clasped of the olde Iuie and that youth greatly abhorreth to be coupled with age Further whosoeuer being yoong faire and beautifull matcheth her with a doting old louer be she as chaste as Lucretia as trustie as Penelope as honest as Turia as faithfull as Artemisia as constant as Cornelia yet her honor honestie and good name shall not onely be suspended but greatly suspected yea in so much that the olde man himselfe to kéepe his doting wits warme will couer his head with a ielous cap being very credulous to beléeue ech flying tale and suspicious euermore to iudge the woorst If his young wife be merie she is immodest if sober sullen and thinkes of some louer whom she likes best if pleasant inconstant if she laugh it is leaudly if she looke it is lightly yea he casteth beyond the Moone iudgeth that which neither she would nor could imagine restraining her from all libertie watching as the craftie Cat ouer the sillie Mouse should I than Gradasso seeing the trap follow the train spying the hooke swallow the baite and séeing the mischiefe runne wholie into miserie No no I meane not to be so foolish as the birdes of Cholchos which although they sée the nettes yet willingly strike at the stale or like the Tortuse which desireth the heat of the Sunne that notwithstanding bréedeth his destruction nor so sottish as with frée consent to crosse my selfe with perpetuall calamitie Sith then Signor Gradasso I count you being so olde not a fit match for my tender youth I pray you at this time be cōtent to take my nay for an answere And as for you Iacques which haue said so well in your masters behalf I commend you for a faithfull seruant though your reasons were to small effect I confesse Iacques that nothing sooner delighteth the eye contenteth the sense or allureth the minde of a young maide than beautie but as the stone Topason is not more loued for the outward hue than hated for the poison which secretly is hid within it or as the hearbe Nepenthes is not more liked for the pleasant shape than loathed for the poysoned sap so beautie cannot inflame the fancie so much in a moneth as ridiculous follie can quench in a moment nay as of all things wit soonest setteth the fancie on edge sharpeneth affection so follie cooleth desire and forceth loue in the lowdest gale to strike saile and be quiet What ioy can that Gentlewoman haue whose husband hath neither modestie to moderate his affection nor manner to be haue himselfe well in companie who can neither be constant because hée is a foole nor secret sith he is without sence but as the Dolphin hath nothing to couer his deformitie but a few glistering scales or as the clownish Poet Cherillus had nothing to be praised in his verses but the name of Alexander so he hath nothing to shadow his follie but a faire face nor nothing to be commended but a litle fading beautie Wheras you alledge that Venus was intangled with the beautie of Anchises and Luna with the feature of Endymion Dido with the braue shape of Aeneas I answere that Anchises was neither a foole Endymion a sot nor Aeneas witlesse for if they had they might assoone haue perswaded olde Sylenus to despise the rytes of god Bacchus as haue procured any of these thrée to yéeld to their alluremēts sith they knew that beautie in a foole is as a ring of gold in a swines snout We read that a Consull in Rome married a daughter of his to a faire foole because he was endued with great possessions who was not long married to his wife Iulia for so was the Consuls daughter called but for want of wit and lacke of wisedome he so burned in ielousie and surged in the seas of suspicious follie that as the poore Gentlewoman was stooping to pull on her shooe he espying her faire and christall necke entred into such a suspicious furie that presently he thrust her through with his sword verifying the saying of Castymachus that a foole depriued of reason is no other but a mad man bereaued of his sence Whereas you say that soueraintie and rule is the chiefest thing a woman doth desire and that by marrying a foole I shall haue the readie meanes to