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A02103	Greenes, groats-vvorth of witte, bought with a million of repentance Describing the follie of youth, the falshoode of makeshifte flatterers, the miserie of the negligent, and mischiefes of deceiuing courtezans. Written before his death, and published at his dyeing request.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.; Chettle, Henry, d. 1607?	1592 (1592)	STC 12245; ESTC S117579	22,155	46

otherwise a pesant if ye liue thus obscurely Besides which I had almost forgot and then had al the rest beene nothing you are a man by nature furnished with all exquisite proportion worthy the loue of any courtly lady be she neuer so amorous you haue wealth to main taine her of women not little longed for wordes to court her you shall not want for my selfe will be your secretarie Bréefely why stand I to distinguish abilitie in perticularities when in one word it may be said which no man can gainsay Lucanio lacketh nothing to delight a wife nor any thing but a wife to delight him My yoong maister being thus clawd and pufft vp with his owne praise made no longer delay but hauing on his holidaie hose hee trickt himselfe vp and like a fellowe that meant good sooth he clapt hys brother on the shoulder and said Faith brother Roberto and ye say the worde lets goe seeke a wife while tis hoat both of vs together Ile pay well and I dare tourne you loose to say as well as any of them all well Ile doo my best said Roberto and since ye are so forwarde lets goe nowe and try your good fortune With this foorth they walke and Roberto went directly toward the house where Lamilia for so wee call the Curtizan kept her hospitall which was in the suburbes of the Citie pleasantly seated and made more delectable by a pleasaunt garden wherin it was scituate No soner come they within ken but Mistris Lamilia like a cunning angler made readye her change of baytes that shee might effect Lucanios bane and to begin she discouered from her window her beauteous enticing face and taking a lute in her hand that shee might the rather allure shee soung this sonnet with a delicious voyce Lamilias song Fie fie on blind fancie It hinders youths ioy Faire virgins learne by me To count loue a toy When loue learnd first the ABC of delight And knew no figures nor conceited phrase He simply gaue to due desert her right He lead not louers in darke winding wayes He plainely wild to loue or flatly answerd no But now who lists to proue shall find it nothing so Fie fie then on fancie It hinders youths ioy Faire virgins learne by me To count loue a toy For since he learnd to vse the Poets pen He learnd likewise with smoothing words to faine Witching chast eares with trothles tungs of men And wronged faith with falshood and disdaine He giues a promise now anon he sweareth no Who listeth for to proue shall find his changings so Fie fie then on fancie It hinders youthes ioy Faire virgins learne by me To count loue a toy While this painted sepulcher was shadowing her corrupting guilt Hiena-like alluring to destruction Roberto and Lucanio vnder her windowe kept euen pace with euery stop of her instrument but especially my yoong Ruffler that before time like a birde in a cage had beene prentise for thrée liues or one and twentie yeares at lest to extreame Avarice his deceased father O twas a world to see howe hee sometyme simperd it striuing to sett a countenance on his new turnd face that it might seeme of wainscot proofe to behold her face without blushing anone he would stroke his bow-bent-leg as if he ment to shoote loue arrows from his shins then wypt his chin for his beard was not yet growen with a gold wrought handkercher whence of purpose he let fall a handfull of Angels This golden shower was no sooner raind but Lamilia ceast her song and Roberto assureing himselfe the foole was caught came to Lucanio that stood now as one that had stard Medusa in the face and awaked him from his amazement with these wordes What in a traunce brother whence springs these dumps are ye amazd at this obiect or long ye to become loues subiect Is there not difference betweene this delectable life and the imprisonment you haue all your life hether too indured If the sight and hearing of this harmonyous beautie worke in you effects of wonder what will the possession of so deuine an effence wherein beautie Art dwell in their perfectest excellence Brother said Lucanio lets vse fewe wordes and shee be no more then a woman I trust youle helpe me to win her and if you doe well I say no more but I am yours till death vs depart and what is mine shall be yours world without end A men Roberto smiling at his simplenes helpte him to gather vppe his dropt gold and without anye more circumstance led him to Lamilias house for of such places it may be said as of hell Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua ditis So their dores are euer open to entice youth to distruction They were no sooner entred but Lamilia her selfe like a seconde Helen court like begins to salute Roberto yet did her wandring eie glance often at Lucanio the effect of her intertainment consisted in these tearmes that to her simple house Signor Roberto was welcome his brother the better welcom for his sake albeit his good report confirmde by his present demeaner were of it selfe enough to giue him deserued entertainement in any place how honorable soeuer mutuall thankes returnd they lead this prodigall child into a parlor garnished with goodly portratures of amiable personages nere which an excellent consort of musike began at their entraunce to play Lamilia seeing Lucanio shamefast tooke him by the hand and tenderly wringing him vsed these wordes Beleeue me Gentleman I am very sorie that our rude entertainment is such as no way may worke your content for this I haue noted since your first entering that your countenance hath beene heauie and the face being the glasse of the hart assures me the same is not quiet would ye wish any thing heere that might content you say but the word and assure ye of present diligence to effect your full delight Lucanio being so farre in loue as he perswaded himselfe without her grant he could not liue had a good meaninge to vtter his minde but wanting fit wordes he stood like a trewant that lackt a prompter or a plaier that being out of his part at his first entrance is faine to haue the booke to speak what he should performe Which Roberto perceiuing replied thus in his behalfe Madame the Sunnes brightnesse daisleth the beholders eies the maiestie of Gods amazeth humane men Tullie Prince of Orators once fainted though his cause were good and hee that tamed monsters stoode amated at Beauties ornaments Then blame not this yoong man though he replied not for he is blinded with the beautie of your sunne darkening eies made mute with the celestiall organe of your voyce and feare of that rich ambush of amber colored dartes whose poyntes are leueld against his hart Well Signor Roberto said shee how euer you interpret their sharpe leuell be sure they are not bent to doo him hurt and but that modestie blindes vs poore maydens from vttering the inward

GREENES GROATS-VVORTH of witte bought with a million of Repentance Describing the follie of youth the falshood of makeshifte flatterers the miserie of the negligent and mischiefes of deceiuing Courtezans Written before his death and published at his dyeing request Foelicem fuisse infaustum LONDON Imprinted for William Wright 1592. The Printer to the Gentle Readers I Haue published here Gentle men for your mirth and benefite Greenes groates worth of wit VVith sundry of his pleasant discourses ye haue beene before delighted But nowe hath death giuen a period to his pen onely this happened into my handes which I haue published for your pleasures Accept it fauourably because it was his last birth and not least worth In my poore opinion But I will cease to praise that which is aboue my conceipt leaue it selfe to speak for it selfe and so abide your learned censuring Yours VV. VV. To the Gentlemen Readers GEntlemen The Swan sings melodiously before death that in all his life time vseth but a iarring sound Greene though able inough to write yet deeplyer serched with sicknes than euer heeretofore sendes you his Swanne like songe for that he feares he shall nener againe carroll to you woonted loue layes neuer againe discouer to you youths pleasures How euer yet sicknesse riot Incontinence haue at once shown their extremitie yet if I recouer you shall all see more fresh sprigs then euer sprang from me directing you how to liue yet not diswading ye fro● loue This is the last I haue writ and I feare me the last I shall writ And how euer I haue beene censured for some of my former bookes yet Gentlemen I protest they were as I had speciall information But passing them I commend this to your fauourable censures that like an Embrion without shape I feare me will be thrust into the world If I liue to end it it shall be otherwise if not yet will I commend it to your courtesies that you may as well be acquainted with my repentant death as you haue lamented my careles course of life But as Nemo ante obitum felix so Acta Exitus probat Beseeching therefore so to be deemed heereof as I deserue I leaue the worke to your likinges and leaue you to your delightes GREENES GROATES-VVORTH OF WIT. IN an Iland bounded with the Ocean there was somtime a Cittie situated made riche by Marchandize and populous by long peace the name is not mentioned in the Antiquarie or els worne out by times Antiquitie what it was it greatly skilles not but therein thus it happened An old new made Gentleman herein dwelt of no small credit exceeding wealth and large conscience hee had gathered from many to bestow vpon one for though he had two sonnes he esteemed but one that being as himselfe brought vp to be golds bondman was therefore held heire apparant of his il gathered goods The other was a Scholler and maried to a proper Gentlewoman and therfore least regarded for tis an old sayd saw To learning law thers no greater foe than they that nothing know yet was not the father altogether vnlettered for he had good experience in a Nouerint and by the vniuersall tearmes therein contained had driuen many a yoong Gentleman to séeke vnknowen countries wise he was for he boare office in his parish and sat as formally in his foxfurd gowne as if he had been a very vpright dealing Burges he was religious too neuer without a booke at his belt and a bolt in his mouthe readye to shoote through his sinfull neighbor And Latin hee had some where learned which though it were but little yet was it profitable for he had this Philosophye written in a ring Tu tibi cura which precept he curiously obserued being in selfeloue so religious as he held it no poynt of charitie to part with any thing of whiche hee liuing might make vse But as all mortall thinges are momentanie and no certaintie can bee-found in this vncertaine world so Gorinius for that shall bee this vsurers name after manye a gowtie pang that had pincht his exterior partes many a curse of the people that moūted into heuens presence was at last with his last summons by a deadly disease arrested wher-against when hee had long contended and was by Phisitions giuen ouer he cald his two sonnes before him and willing to performe the old prouerb Qualis vita finis Ita he thus prepard himselfe and admonished them My sonnes for so your mother sayde ye were and so I assure my selfe one of you is and of the other I will make no doubt You se the time is com which I thought would neuer haue aproched and we must now be seperated I feare neuer to meete againe This sixteene yeares dayly haue I liude vexed with disease and might I liue sixteene more howe euer miserably I should thinke it happye But death is relentlesse and will not be intreated witles and knowes not what good my gold might doo him senseles hath no pleasure in the delightfull places I would offer him In briefe I thinke he hath with this foole my eldest sonne been brought vp in the vniuersitie and therefore accounts that in riches is no vertue But thou my son laying then his hand on the yongers head haue thou another spirit for without wealth life is a death what is gentry if welth be wanting but bace seruile beggerie Some comfort yet it is vnto me to thinke how many Gallants sprunge of noble parents haue croucht to Gorinius to haue sight of his gold O gold desired gold admired gold and haue lost their patrimonies to Gorinius because they haue not returned by their day that adored creature How manye Schollers haue written rymes in Gorinius praise and receiued after long capping and reuerence a sixpeny reward in signe of my superficial liberality Breefly my yong Lucanio how I haue beene reurenst thou seest when honester men I confesse haue been sett farre off for to bee rich is to bee any thing wise honest worshipful or what not I tel thee my sonne when I came first to this Citie my whole wardrop was onely a sute of white sheepe skins my wealth an old groat my woonning the wide world At this instant o greefe to part with it I haue in ready coine thréescore thousand pound in plate and Iewels xv thousand in Bondes and specialties as much in land nine hundred pound by the yeere all which Lucanio I bequeath to thee only I reserue for Roberto thy wel red brother an old groat being y e stocke I first began with wherewith I wish him to buy a groats-worth of wit for he in my life hath reprooud my manner of life and therefore at my death shall not be contaminated with corrupt gaine Here by the way Gentlemen must I digresse to shewe the reason of Gorinius present speach Roberto being come from the Academie to visit his father there was a great feast prouided where for table talke Roberto knowing his father

them Blacke is the remembrance of my blacke workes blacker than night blacker than death blacker than hell Learne wit by my repentance Gentlemen and let these few rules following be regarded in your liues 1 First in al your actions set God before your eies for the feare of the Lord is the beginning of wisdome Let his word be a lanterne to your féet and a light vnto your paths then shall you stand as firme rocks and not be mocked 2 Beware of looking backe for God will not bee mocked and of him that hath receiued much much shal be demaunded 3 If thou be single and canst abstain turne thy eies from vanitie for there is a kinde of women bearing the faces of Angels but the hearts of Deuils able to intrap the elect if it were possible 4 If thou bee married forsake not the wife of thy youth to follow straunge flesh for whoremongers and adulterers the Lord will iudge The doore of a harlot leadeth downe to death and in her lips there dwels destruction her face is decked with odors but she bringeth a man to a morsell of bread and nakednes of which my selfe am instance 5 If thou be left rich remember those that want so deale that by thy wilfulnes thy selfe want not Let not Tauerners and Uictuallers be thy Executors for they will bring thee to a dishonorable graue 6 Oppresse no man for the crie of the wronged ascendeth to the eares of the Lord ney ther delight to increase by Usurie least thou loose thy habitation in the euerlasting Tabernacle 7 Beware of building thy house to thy neighbors hurt for the stones will crie to the timber Wee were laid together in bloud and those that so erect houses calling them by their names shall lie in the graue lyke Sheépe and death shall gnaw vpon their soules 8 If thou be poore be also patient and strine not to grow rich by indirect meanes for goods so gotten shal vanish like smoke 9 If thou bee a Father Maister or Teacher ioyne good example with good counsaile else little auaile precepts where life is different 10 If thou be a Sonne or Seruant despise not reproofe for though correction bee bitter at the first it bringeth pleasure in the end Had I regarded the first of these rules or béene obedient to the last I had not now at my last ende béene left thus desolate But now though to my selfe I giue Consilium postfacta yet to others they may serue for timely precepts And therefore while life giues leaue I will send warning to my olde consorts which haue liued as loosely as my selfe albeit weaknesse will scarse suffer me to write yet to my fellow Schollers about this Cittie will I direct these few insuing lines To those Gentlemen his Quondam acquaintance that spend their wits in making plaies R.G. wisheth a better exercise and wisdome to preuent his extremities IF wofull experience may moue you Gentlemen to beware or vnheard of wretchednes intreate you to take héed I doubt not but you wil looke backe with sorrow on your time past and indeuour with repentance to spend that which is to come Wonder not for with thée wil I first begin thou famous gracer of Tragedians that Greene who hath said with thée like the foole in his heart There is no God shoulde now giue glorie vnto his greatnes for penetrating is his power his hand lyes heauie vpon me hee hath spoken vnto mee with a voice of thunder and I haue felt he is a God that can punish enemies Why should thy excellent wit his gift bee so blinded that thou shouldst giue no glorie to the giuer Is it pestilent Machiuilian pollicy that thou hast studied O peeuish follie What are his rules but meere confused mockeries able to extirpate in small time the generation of mankind For if Sic volo sic iubeo hold in those that are able to commaund and if it be lawfull Fas nefas to do any thing that is beneficiall onely Tyrants should possesse the earth and they striuing to exceed in tyrannie should each to other be a slaughter man till the mightiest outliuing all one stroke were lefte for Death that in one age mans life should end The brocher of this Diabolicall Atheisme is dead and in his life had neuer the felicitie hee aymed at but as he began in craft liued in feare and ended in despaire Quàm inscrutabilia sunt Dei iudicia This murderer of many brethren had his conscience seared like Caine this betrayer of him that gaue his life for him inherited the portion of Iudas this Apostata perished as ill as Iulian and wilt thou my friend be his disciple Looke but to me by him perswaded to that libertie and thou shalt find it an infernall bondage I knowe the least of my demerits merit this miserable death but wilfull striuing against knowne truth exceedeth all the terrors of my soule Defer not with me till this last point of extremitie for litle knowst thou how in the end thou shalt be visited With thee I ioyne yong Iuuenall that byting Satyrist that lastly with mee together writ a Comedie Sweet boy might I aduise thee be aduisde and get not many enemies by bitter wordes inueigh against vaine men for thou canst do it no man better no man so well thou hast a libertie to reprooue all and name none for one being spoken to all are offended none being blamed no man is iniured Stop shallow water still running it will rage or tread on a worme and it will turne then blame not Schollers vexed with sharpe lines if they reproue thy too much liberty of reproofe And thou no lesse deseruing than the other two in some things rarer in nothing inferiour driuen as my selfe to extreme shifts a litle haue I to say to thee and were it not an idolatrous oth I would sweare by sweet S. George thou art vnworthy better hap sith thou dependest on so meane a stay Base minded men all three of you if by my miserie you be not warnd for vnto none of you like mee sought those burres to cleaue those Puppets I meane that spake from our mouths those Anticks garnisht in our colours Is it not strange that I to whom they all haue beene beholding is it not like that you to whome they all haue beene beholding shall were yee in that case as I am now bee both at once of them forsaken Yes trust them not for there is an vpstart Crow beautified with our feathers that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you and beeing an absolute Iohannes fac totum is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey O that I might intreat your rare wits to be imploied in more profitable courses let those Apes imitate your past excellence and neuer more acquaint them with your admired inuentions I knowe the best husband of you all will neuer