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A15035	Aurelia. The paragon of pleasure and princely delights contayning the seuen dayes solace (in Christmas holy-dayes) of Madona Aurelia, Queene of the Christmas pastimes, & sundry other well-courted gentlemen, and gentlewomen, in a noble gentlemans pallace. A worke most sweetely intercoursed (in ciuill and friendly disputations) with many amorous and pleasant discourses, to delight the reader: and plentifully garnished with morall notes, to make it profitable to the regarder. By G.W. Gent.; Heptameron of civill discourses	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?	1593 (1593)	STC 25338; ESTC S119821	126,076	172

friend Felice as she entered so departed Who not withstanding left part of her sorrow behinde in Cornaros heart whose cheareles countenance whē Malipiero perceiued quoth hee let not the martyrdome of this woman afflict you for her fault deserueth this vengeaunce and so recounted the reported aduenture And in aduantage she wed him her prison A honourable fauour and the Anatomie of her dishonour and withall licensed him to talke with Felice to heare what plea shee had for her discharge Vppon which warrant quoth Cornaro Madame if your patience bee equall with your torment I holde you the most happy Woman of the world Felice with a countenance abased and Chéeks dewed with teares tolde him in humble words The true ensigne of sorrow that her trespasse was ten times greater then the torment which the Lord of the house whome shee was not worthy to call husband had appoynted her And therewithall the sorrow of her heart tooke away the vse of her tongue Whereupon Malipiero led the Gentleman away who rendred him affected thankes in that besides his good entertaynment hée witsafed him the honour to know so great a secresie withall moued with compassion he effectually intreated Malipiero to accept Felices sorrow True repentance is to be receiued in satisfaction of offences the true witnesse of grace and amendment as satisfaction of her offence which procéeded of frailtie and withall importuned him with such earnest reasons as Malipiero mas content to send bath for her and his owne friends Perfect loue cannot be so iniured but it will alwaies retaine some affection To be partly ruled and partly aduised by them in her behalfe The parentes and friends of euery side séeing the humilitie sorrow and patience of poore Felice were all earnest sutors for her remission The roote of auncient loue not altogether dead in Malipiero was comforted with their intercessions and quickned with the hope of amendment in so much as vpon solemne promise to be henceforth of good behauiour hee receiued her to grace and to repayre her crased honour with the fauour of both their parents he new maried fayre Felice in which holie estate A reparation of dishonour they liued loued and agréed many happie yeares afterward together And with the bones of Marino Georgio buried the remembrance of former iniuries Master Doctor quoth Fabritio you haue reported a very necessary historie for it contayneth many héedfull notes both of admonition and aduise Besides the due punishment of rashnes in Marriage For therein we may sée how hungerstarued want compelleth the best natured man to deceiue his friend and yéelde vnto his owne slaunder Againe how that monster Golde conquereth the honour of the fayrest Yea quoth Isabella corrupteth that conscience of the wisest so that this is no example of any honour to you men because Golde inticed Felice to be disloyall to her husband for it draweth many of you both from the feare and loue of God Well quoth Soranso let it passe Felice in her repentance hath made a large amends of her trespasse and I feare me if euerie like offence were so sharpely punished wee should haue Mazers of mens Skuls more ordinary then siluer Boules and pouled women more common than balde men Not so quoth Quéene Aurelia Feare of correction brideleth the affections of the euill for a few of these examples would bridle the incontinent affections both of man and woman if not for the loue of vertue for the feare of correction After these and a fewe other Moral notes were culled out of Doctor Mossenigoes History What hurteth one instructeth the other Madame quoth Dondolo if we continue this course it will be a good while before we doo finde out the Paradise that Plato speaketh of Be it so quoth Quéene Aurelia but if we still continue the way to his house Hell our errour will instruct others and since we haue yet long respite it shall not bée amisse euery day to take a sundry hie way vntil we find out the true passage And for that our Question is concluded and our houre glasse run we wil for this Day make here an end The Question that arose by beholding the Mountebanks in the third Nights Pastime AT the accustomed houre Supper was serued in with manie dayntie Dishes which were sauced with sundry short ciuill and pleasant euents of the Gentlemen and Gentlewomens wits For he or she was held of weake capacitie that either of forestudy or vpon offered occasion could say nothing of good regarde In the ende when supper was done Breuitie is best for Table talke and Quéene Aurelia and the most Honourable of the company had taken their places vpon a Scaffold made for the nonce there mounted a Mountebanke his neck bechayned with liue Adders Snakes Mountebanks of Italie are in a maner as English pedlers Eau'ts and twentie sundry kinde of venymous vermines whose mortall stinges were taken away by Arte and with him a Zanni and other Actors of pleasure who presented themselues onely with a single desire to recreate Segnior Philoxenus and his worthy company and not with the intent of common Mountibankers to deceiue the people with some vnprofitable Marchandise In the middest of this pastime an ancient Gentleman of the Societie séeing these Viperous Beasts by cunning vsage to be made so Domesticke and affable whether it were vpon an impression of his owne griefe or of the experience he had of another mans Plague I knowe not but sure I am he burst into these passions O God The strange nature of 〈◊〉 womans tung quoth he of what mettal is a womans toung which correction cannot chastise nor lenitie quiet when these dumb Serpents by the one or the other are tamed Marie quoth a pleasant companion it is made of the same mettall that Virgils Brasen Flayle was of which strooke both his friends and foes But quoth the Gentleman Virgil knew and taught others how to pacifie this engine It is true quoth the other but in teaching the secrete vnto his scruant cost him his own life So a womā knowes how to holde her tongue by hauing of her will but if a man thinke to stay it he must beate her to death A young youth named Phrisio thinking to winne the Spurres Defences for a chiding wife by building a Fortresse for women who haue no weapons but their tongues to defend and offend tooke vpon him to prooue a chiding wife though she bee a little vnpleasant both profitable and necessary his reasons were these Vnsauourie receits turne to holsome effectes The strongest Poyson is pleasant in taste and the remedie for the poysoned offendeth the mouth with tartenesse Nettles that stinges the hande maketh Pottage to comfort the heart the blood of the Scorpion cureth the biting of the Viper If poysoned vnpleasant and bitter thinges retayne a vertue for the benefite of man in my imagination quoth he an vnquiet wife is not vnprofitable though she be a little

quarrels among the kindred occupieth all the neighhours with slander so the for the most part these forced mariages engendereth sorrowes for the maried disquietnesse to both their friends kindred but which stil renueth griefe the scandal of enemies endeth in neither of their wretchednesse This being said little auayled the further proofes of the contrarie part so ful was the crie Fie of forcement in mariage so that to paint out the inconueniences therof in his proper colours Quéene Aurelia commanded Faliero to confirme his sufficient reasons with the discourse of some rare Historie Whose commandement he willingly satisfied and reported as followeth The History in the reproch of forced Mariage reported by Faltero IN the famous Cittie of Cirene in Affrick dwelled sometims a rich Marchant named Tryfo This Tryfo had a welthy neighbour called Clearches who of long time entertained one another with a neighbourly affection Tryfo to inherite all his liuings had but one onely Sonne named Sicheus and Clearches one onely Daughter called Elisa The parents to establish as they imagined an euerlasting amitie between their houses concluded a mariage for their vnfortunate Children making no doubt but that they would as well inherite their affections as their liuings of which there was hope enough if the order had béene as good to establish their Lone as the haste great to solemnize the Mariage for that in their persons appéered no signe of disagréement nor in their abilities cause of exception but loue that beholdeth no more quicknesse in a Diamond then in a dym Saphyre though he take impression by sight Loue rooteth by contemplation rooteth in contemplation which deuine exercise of the soule smally delighteth gréene youth who intertain their thoughts with a thousand vaine fancies but to my purpose The Mariage day drew néere and as at the very push of Battell the wise Captain animateth his Souldiers with some plausible oration euen so the night before the Mariage Tryfo schooled his sonne Sicheus with this following aduertisement My good sonne quoth he so great are the follies of men Aduise to a booteles purpose and so cunning the deceits of women as they most especially the yonger sort will credite their lookes without looking into their liues beléeue their words and lightly regarde their workes delight to recount their entertainments and disdaine to reckon their shrewde paiments For as the sick patient comforted with the Phisitions woords leaues to examine the qualities of his receites Euen so the wretched louer cured with the yéelding of his beautifull Mistres Loue yeelds neither to wit strength nor learning with negligence both ouerlooks his own benefite and her behauiour Salomon was deceiued Sampson subdued Aristotle derided and Hercules murthered by the illusions of errant honest women King Demetrius notwithstanding he was both wise and valiant An extreame affection was so bewitched with the wyles of the notorions strumpet Lamia as in open Schooles he raised disputations whether the loue he bare Lamia or the Iewels he bestowed vpon her were the greater or whether her merite excéeded them both or no. Yea when she dyed he caused her to be entombed vnder his bed Chamber window to the ende that with dayly teares he might worship her engraued bones who liuing was of him intirely beloued If the wisest and the worthiest be thus ouertaken in their affections what easie baites may beguile thée who in yéeres art yong of substance delicate and lustie and therefore apt to loue ready in conceit and of consideration vnperfect hotte in desire and in discretion colde My sonne by experience I know and to prenent thy ouerlikely mischaunce in choyce I haue chosen thée a wife faire to please thée rich to continue loue her Parents my assured fréends and she thy affected louer loue her well beare with her insmall faults as a woman and the weaker and bridle thy owne euill affections as a man her head and gouernour and in thus dooing God will multiply his blessings vpon you and make your aged Parents to die in peace to sée you liue in prosperitie Yong Sicheus regarded his Fathers tale as Schollers doe their Tutors who giuing them leaue to play admonisheth them with all to kéep good rule which they promise and perferme the contrary With the like affection Sicheus embraced mariage He was not so soone weary of dallying with his wife as he was ready to entertaine a Harlot so that in short space he became a common Louer and a carelesse Husband and withall grew as arrogant in defending his liberty The title of Mariage maketh youth arrogant as dissalute in his actions and behauiour If his fréends did gently aduise him he was of age to counsell himselfe if his Parents did sharpely reprehend him he would impudently aunswere he was past correction if his Wife found her selfe agréeued with his hard vsage she might well complaine but he would take no time to amend so that his dayly actions of euill tooke away all after hope of wel doing insomuch as he became odious to his fréends that beheld his lewde inclination and a plague vnto his Wife who was dayly oppressed with his monstrous vices So that the ouercharge of sorrow made her many times passage for these and such like passions O vnhappy and ouer hastie Mariage which in the pride of my youth with discontentments makest me resemble a faire Figge trée Abuse of good things worke euill effectes blasted with the after colde of an vntimely Spring but why blame I Mariage which is honourable alas because the abuse of good things worke euill effectes Roses vnaduisedly gathered prick our hands Bées vngently vsed sting our faces yet the one pleasant and the other profitable so that if there come any euill of that which is good our folly or fortune is cause thereof Ay me That which is blessing to one may be a curse to an other when I was married I was too yong to be a wife and therfore haue no reason to exclaime on folly But fortune fowle fall shée which coursest me with curses in possessing me with those things which others holde for blessings Wealth that bestoweth pleasures on many is the originall of my woe Mariage which giueth liberty to many inlargeth my Fetters and demaundeth death for my raunsome Beauty that aduaunseth many is to me a disgrace for that inioying her forme Carelesnes of the husband breedeth in the wife I am of Sicheus not fantasied of whom euery foule and common Trull is beloued But therein Fortune thou doost me no wrong for my hate towards him ouerpoyseth his light regarde of me O but my hart is continually afflicted with his euil and his finger neuer akes with my malice Yea Choller is soone quieted but forbearāce increaseth malice but Forbearance edgeth the swoord of Reuenge when Choller though it often strikes it wounds not much Raine falleth euery where yet beateth but the leaues the thunder Boult lighteth in one place but yet teareth

vp the roots so though I dissemble till oportunitie Sicheus shall féele my hate to death and though I endure a space I will redéem my dying life and perseuering in this resolution Elisaes thoughts The Diuell is the executioner of vengeance that were lately drowned in sorrow now flamed with desire of Reuenge and the Deuill who is the Executioner of Vengeance presented her forth with this vngratious meane A yong Gentleman named Chion among a troupe of other Ladies and Gentlewomen beheld faire Elisa with such a burning affection as he foorthwith dispossessed his owne hart to make his bosome the seate of her imagined Image so that his soule that continually eyed her beauty and his hart at the direction of his Mistresse gaue such a heat to his desire that had he béene sure to haue receiued Ixions torments for his ambitious attempting of Iunoes loue he could neither haue left to loue An extreame passion of loue nor haue forborne to séek for grace so that follow what would he foorth with presented his affections in this ensuing Letter ❧ Chions Letter to Elisa FAire Mistresse had I vertue to perswade you to ruth as you haue power to make me loue the discouery of my blazing affections would melt you were you a Mountain of Ice to pittie But for that Loue is more vehement in the hart then in the toung I appeale to your owne motions for grace if you haue euer loued if not I hope for such iustice at Venus hands as you shall loue and yet thus much I say although I affye nothing in my perswasions because they be but words I presume of my indeuours for that I haue vowed my life to death to do you seruice of which you can haue no better assurance then imployment nor I a hyer fauour then to be imployed Good Madame martyr me not with ordinary doubts in that my affections are not ordinary For as your beauty excelleth al other Dames as the faire Rose each Garden Flower euen so the full power of Loue hath made me in the estate of flaming flaxe that is presently to receiue grace or in a moment to perish Thus longing for your sweet answere I somewhat succour my torments with the imagination that I kisse your gracious hand No more his owne Chion This Letter sealed and subscribed was deliuered to so cunning a Messenger as néeded no instructions in Chions behalfe The letter presented and aduisedly read by Elisa surprised her with an vnmeasurable ioy not so much for that she had purchased her selfe a faithful Louer as procured her Husband a mortall enemy A naturall feare in a woman surpriseth many of their euil affections of which Chions Letter gaue her not so great assurance as the disposition of his countenaunces in a former regarde and thereupon pursuing Sicheus with more hate then minding Chion with affection she mused vpon a number of mischiefes inuented by desire to be reuenged and suppressed by feare to be defamed In fine remembring that she had read Loue quickneth a mans wit although it burieth Reason To trie if he could define what seruice she desired she returned Chion a Briefe wherein he had a light to mischiefe and might be read without blemish of her honour the effect whereof was this While SICHEVS doth liue ELISA cannot loue CHION receiued this Scrowle but yet before he presumed to read the Contents he kissed and rekissed the same holding an opinion that comming from his mistresses hands it deserued such honour although it contained Sentence of his death not vnlike the foolish Mahometians An example for Christian Subiects who vpon their Emperours Commaundements are ready Exerutioners of their owne liues But to my purpose Craft hath many times his wil with an opnion of honestie when Chion had throughly perused this strange aunswere were it Sicheus his heauy Destinie or a iust scourge for his foretrespasses accursed that he was he became too iust an Executioner of Elisaes wicked will but yet with this interpretation that the loue she bare her husband directed her in this answere Insomuch as ouercome with a furious hate towards Sicheus as the barre of his welfare like a Lyon that bites the Iron grate which holdes him from his pray sodenly with this salutation he sheathed his Sword in Sicheus ntrailes SICHEVS shall not liue To hinder CHIONS loue The fact was so fowle and withal so publique Wilfull faults deserue no pardon as the Officers of Iustice immediatly seased vpon Chion and for that his bloodie swoord was a witnes of the trespas there was no Plea to saue him for wilfull faults may be pittied but deserueth no pardon and to say trueth neither did he destre to liue because Elisa the vertue of his life by the charge of law was bound to sue him to death who followed the processe with an apparance of sorrow such as if her Couscience had béen without scruple of guiltinesse or her hart a thousand degrées from ioy when God knowes she was puffed with the one and the other so that the wonder at her dissimulation equalled the reproch of her notorious hatred To be short A fauour euill bestowed this was the Iudges sentence Chyon should be behaded as amends for Sicheus death and the Widdow should be endowed with his goods for the dammage done vnto her but God which knoweth our secret faults when Iudges though they rule as Gods know but what they heare and sée as men not willing to hide such an hainous offence This Iudge is not partiall for fauour gaine or feare First amased all the hearers with an vnknown voice Elisaes hart is as guiltie as Chions hand and there with all thundred this following vengeance vpon the cleared malefactor The Infant in Elisaes wombe as it were ingendred of the Parents malice at the very instant not obeying the course of Nature so tirannised her Intrailes as with very agony she dyed and withall remaineth an opinion that the Husband Wife and Sonne by the appointment of the Gods were Metamorphosed into Vipers which venimous Beastes are thrall to these curses The female after she hath engendred The curses giuen vnto a Viper murdreth the Male because she will not be ruled as an inferiour and the yong eate themselues forth of their Dams intrailes because they will not be bound to the obedience of Nature Well quoth Soranso though your Metamorphosis be vnlikely yet it is not vnnecessarily applyed For for the most part those which are forced to Mariage agrée little better then Vipers But it séemeth to me Segnior Faliero you haue too fauourably reported this History in Elysaes behalfe considering the mortall venime she tempered in her hart O quoth Faliero long fowle wayes Breuitie is best in passionate matters and affectation in pleasant both tyreth the Horse and wearieth his Rider where both the one and the other ouercommeth the length of faire passages with pleasure Euen so in a ruthfull History ouer plenty