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A11237	Certaine worthye manuscript poems of great antiquitie reserued long in the studie of a Northfolke gentleman. And now first published by I.S. 1 The statly tragedy of Guistard and Sismond. 2 The northren mothers blessing. 3 The way to thrifte	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; Stow, John, 1525?-1605.; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone. First tale of the fourth day.	1597 (1597)	STC 21499; ESTC S103713	21,082	80

fulfill with my power and might All thing requisite to thy mortuarye And after all is done by custom and right I shall yeild my selfe to death tributarie Suing thy fearefull trace for sooth I shal not tary But among other in deathes wofull daunce Following next thy hond as is my fatall chaunce In whose felowship or whose comitiue Might I better passe that painefull iourney Than in his whom I loued most on liue And also he tarryeth for me I dare well say Wherefore sith his partner was alway Of pleasure I shall take part of his payne Death shall not vs disseuer thus in twayne And anon with that her chere she gan to turne Her eyne in weping ran like showrs ofrayne Till she had wash'd the hart filling the vrne By the stilling water of her eyne twaine And after she had ceas'd weeping againe Beholding the hart againe with deadly chere With sobbing voice she saide as ye shall here O ioyfull hart ô amiable mirrour Now lacks there nought required of duty Vnto deadly fine and funerall honour Saue only this that I might follow thee But for it seemith that death disdaineth mee I shall therefore my selfe with violent force Disseuer my spirit fro his wofull corse Alas my wofull penne sorroweth to write That lamentable end of this Tragedy Who couth without weeping this matter indite To se so faire a creature dy so wretchedly Of beauty surmounting and well of curtesy Shee tooke alas the viole with the potion That she had made afore dranke vp the poyson After she had dronke that pestiferous drought Desunt nonnulla So came he in with pale affrighted chere Saying sweete Sismond be of good sembland If ye thus mourne it will bring mee to dispaire Thus he supposed to loose her of her band With his wordes of cōfort but death was at hand Crampesing her limes and gone was her sight Yet she answered againe her fader as she might And saide Tancrede bestow better if thou can Thy tears for they stand mee in no effect Thou resemblest him that first slew the man And after him repenting sore bewept Had it not be better him to haue kept Thy sorrowfull doughter with ioy then liuing At hir owne pleasure secretly a man louing Than to see by thy cruell execution Her hard death to thine endles languor The which death shall bee a direction Giuing open knowledge of this error The which was secret but now the rumor Shall make the thing which was not fully knowen Through all the wide world to bee ouer sowen And in so much shee might no lenger speake Nor throwes of death no lenger would delay She holds the cup till her hart gan to breake Yelding vp her spirit to God euer and aye There was but Alas Alas and welaway Some wept cryed and some fell in sownd It was a piteous sight and a piteous sound The wofull fader so sory in that stound Seing his most ioy in this world ygon He made a great shrike falling to the ground No moe wordes spake he but dead as any stone Thus was there griefe on griefe mone vpō mone Wherefore it hath be spoken long agoe That an hasty creature wanted neuer woe Vpon this Prince thus may be verifyed Which was too hasty and furious certaine Without iudgment causing the man that he dyed Whose cruell death hath his doughter slayne And for her death he tooke such sudden payne He dawed neuer good day but he was dead And all the world wondreth at his folyhede Ensample of this euery wise man take What it is to be cruell in violence And of a secret thing a wonder to make Through hasty ire wanting of prouidence Euery man remember his owne negligence And vice into vertue to plant or to root For truly against loue there is no manner boot For certes it is of true louers the guise When their vexation is most sharpe and sore Then loue they each other in most hartie wise An hundred fold more then they did before Youth will to youth loue will to loue euermore And shortly in my minde this processe to conclude Each thing will draw to his similitude As betwixt these louers plainely did appeare Which were both young and in flowring age For their great trouble they loued better yfeare And passed of death the dreadfull viage Alas the letting of their mariage Was cause of this mischeefe and their fall Lo what it is to be agen spousall Wherefore that prince standeth in great perill That to the law of wedlock nold incline But as a tirant ouer feirce and fell Caused Guistard be put in mortall fine Of whose soule if I should determine I trust to God his faithfull intention Hath furtherd him to his saluation For why he thought none harme of earthly wight But to the will of Sismond did assent Notwithstonding that I trust to God almight Shall be to his soule none impediment For to haue bee maried was their intent Then recken the sorrow shee had withall And great contrition to her end finall That as I trust she is in blesse celestiall As of faith and troth all louers surmounting See was a mirrour vnto women all Example of true and stedfast loue giuing Wherefore I beseech him that is of all thing Lord and gouernour and comfort agen bale Graunt all louers ioy And thus endeth my tale Explicit Guistard and Sismond FINIS THE NORTHREN MOTHERS BLESSING The way of Thrift VVritten nine yeares before the death of G. Chaucer DEVS IMPERAT ASTRIS LONDON Printed by Robert Robinson for Robert Dexter 1597. The Northren Mothers Blessing GOD wold that euery wife that wonnyth in this land Wold teach her doughter as ye shal vnderstand As a good wife did of the North countré How her doughter should lere a good wife to bee For lack of the moders reaching Makes the doughter of euill liuing My leue dere child My doughter gif thou be a wife wisely thou werke Looke euer thou loue God and the holy Kirke Go to Kirke when thou may and let for no rayne And then shall thou fare the bet when thou God has sayn Full well may they thriue That seruen God in their liue My leue dere child Gladly giue thou thy tithes and thine offrings both To the poore at thy gate be thou neuer loath Gif hem of thy good and be not ouer hard Seldom is that house poore there God is steward For that is best I spende That for Gods loue I lend My leeue deere childe When thou sits in the Kirke thy Bedes shalt thou bid Therein make no iangling with friend ne sib Laugh not to scorne no dir old ne young Be of good bering and haue a good tongue For after thy bering So shall thy name spring My leeue dere child Gif any man with worship desire to wed thee Wisely him answere scorne him not what he be And tell it to thy friends and hide thou it nought Sit not by him nor stād not that sin mow

clothis blake Things artificiall that be violent Wrought or ellis made by cause accidental May not euer indure for when the cause is shent The effect thereof shall sone faide and fall Why should this woman then lenger feynt or pall Syth the cause of her mourning is fro her mind ycast The death of her Husband is so fer-since past If still she bide and dwell euer still In wofull care to continue and indure Within short time she should her selfe spill For sorrow is a poyson which no man may cure It bringeth hearts proude full low vnto the lure It maketh strength to faide and also Beautè It is the greatest malady that to man may be So she still bided in hir faders house Young and coragious also in high degree With affluence of all thing that was delicious But when at last she gan perceiue and see That for loue hir Fader intendeth not that she Should neuer more none other husband haue But still to dwell with him to he be dead in graue Thus then hath her Fader determind vtterly Neuer to procure for her no marriage And her selfe to axe it her seemed velonye She thought therfore to take her best aduantage Gife she mought espy a man of good linage So that he gentil were to take her owne choyce And in the electiō her Fader should haue novoice Now this noble Tancrede had in his houshold As in a Princes Court is wont for to be Both Lords and Knights couragious to behold Som gentlemen som yemen some of low degre Among these she began to looke and see If she can any finde that were to her pleasure Whome she would euermore loue while she might endure So dayly in her minde she was full diligent For to note ech man in his demeanance But Guistard to loue is only her intent And he right well knew by the apearance Of her chere and her chaunged countenance That of brennyng loue she daunced in the trace Which hath bound her heart with his goldin lace But where she set her loue he wist in no case Till ones he fortuned to stond before this Lady And she beholding him with deadly pale face Not speaking o word she sighed greatly And anon with that she can withdraw her eye Casting downe her looke farre vnto the ground So womanly shamfast she sat a greate stound And when this young louer now brought in loues daunce Of her entent had such experience He was not dull of wit but gaue attendance Her to serue and please he did his diligence Cupid hath smitten him with so great feruence Of loue that their hearts be together bound Both perished with one dart two louers with one wound Right ioyfull he was that he stode in such grace Of this faire Lady But euer he drad fortune Alas he seyth thy where turneth in litle space Thy double chere vnstable neuer will continue More variant then is the flitting Lune I feare that thou will cause my Lady soueraigne Vpon my simple birth of daunger to disdaine Yet know I her heart so true and so stedfast And shee began also to proffer loue Why should I then feare or ellis be agast Or put default in her O mercie god aboue For all treasure in earth it would not me behoue That my hearts ioy my ladie hereof wist That I shuld put in her any such mistrist And percase that if shee loued mee not Yet would I in her seruice still perseuer Mee nead not by reason argue for I wot Loue hath her heart imbrast me to loue euer What should I shortly say for they had leuer Ych of hem die than to part fro other More feruently they loued than sister or broder So betweene hem both that loued on this wise They desired only for their great pleasaunce By some sottle meane how they mought deuise For to speake togeder and haue their dalliaunce They will not put noe trist ne noe affiaunce To any on liue their matter for to tell But euer to hemselues they kept it counsell Till it fell on a time of a sudden aduise The Lady found a mean that was a great cautell As oft it faris that women bin sone wise And in a sudden case they bee right suttell Shee tels him her intent by wrighting euerie deale And the letter closed in a reed-spyre Shee tooke it to Guistard for to stur the fire Guistard remembred well that for som priuie cause The reed was take to him he did it sone on close And when he saw the letter made a little pause Sitting in a studie and anon he rose And to reade this letter can himselfe dispose The which the Ladie made of her owne inditing She was her own secretarie it was her owne writing The tenor of this letter was this and all the effect I send you greting with hart loue entere Not bold by rehersall my counsell to detect For dredful shamfastnes Wherfore this messēgere Shal do this enterprise whose coūtenance chere Changeth for no sham therfore these letters blake I pray you disdaine not to read them for my sake Certefying you all my herts pleasaunce All my worlds rest my ioy and comforture That my life my deth as in a balance Dependith and hangith only in your cure In you alone is put mine Auenture Wherefore I require you that you be not strange For I ensure you verily my hert shall neuer change And I trow certaine that your gentill hert Disdeineth not my loue nor is not dangerous Considering your birth and your great pouerty And I a Ladie both young and beauteous For Cupid knoweth right well his moder Venus That only for your vertue and your gentilnes I set my loue on you and for no great riches But because also my Fader hath made an othe That I shall neuer wed while he is liuing To suffer me depart from him he is loth Yet lustie youth like as the fire brenning Hath chose you for my souereyn all my life enduring And also fortune of her high fauour Hath shewed me the meane to saue all our honour Remember there is fast by my faders place A dungeon deepe strong farre vnder ground The which at his entry has no more space But an hole aboue that litle is and round And because it is not vsed ne is found With bushes and briers it is ouergrow So that the dungeon deep ther may no man know Out from thilke pit is there a secret way By a posterne dore that stands full preuely Strong bars and posts both with locke and key That leadith to the Chamber where as I Am wont of custom in sleping for to lye And by great dis-use this way is out of minde This little dore this posterne can no man finde Till at the last loue to whome nought is hid The which for euery sore can finde a remedye This way into my minde sone hath reducid But shortly I taried not but hastly did me hie To vnbarre and vnlock I can

and she to her women Her wofull fader would tarry there no more But home he went in hast and callyd for his men Of which he sent a certain to the den For to take Guistard when he should goe hence And so to present him to the Kings presence When this man come vp anon they him arrest With dread and pale visage for dread he shooke All they had ruth on him both most and least But forth in that Aray they there him tooke They brought him to the Prince he did on him loke For great wrath and anger very pale of chere Seying vnto Guistard as ye shullen after heare Guistard he seyd my loue and tender fauor The mekenes gentyll hert that I haue shewd to you Hath nothing deserued so great a dishonor To mee and mine as ye haue doe right now Seing my selfe all thing what ye did and how That truly so I mought my worship keepe and saue I would I were dede and beryed in my graue This great rebuke and contum ele went euen to the hert Of Guistard that for shame cannot speake o word Till at the last with corage forth he stert Saying no more but this Remēbreth wel my Lord Experience I trow will to my sentence accord The mightie power of Loue is a stronger bond Then other ye or I am able to withstond But all his excuse was euin samfayll So was his mind with malice and Ire obumbrate Alas where malice reigneth may non excuse auail A great abusion is a ruler to be passionate O ye princis therefore to whom of high estate The guiding is committed of noble nations Well ought ye take heed to rule your passions Permit not your willfull Sensualitè Geinst wisdoms councell for to put restreant Be not ruld only by your voluntè Oppressing by power him that is weak and feynt Whereby your noble fame is hurt and attaynt It causeth your people also in tyme of your distresse To withdraw their fauour and herty faithfullnes To euery glosing tale giue no credence Let not hasty cruelnes guide your iudgment Remember well or ye define your sentence What shal be the end and what the hole intent Rule your selfe discretly by good auisement Remember the prouerbiall seying long agoo A cruell hasty man shall neuer lack of woo Preeued wellby Tancredes cruell hastinesse Committing Guistard anon to close preson Putting him in Irons and in great distresse As a traytor guiltie of false prodicion And afterwards alas agein all reason This innocent was do to deth so cruelly That ech man abhorrith to here that tyranny What man of his wit is so dull and herd That cannot think herby of sorrow augmentatiō The gret thought this Lady had for her Guistard Sore trobled in her sleep by fearefull vision Her mind was set on him with such oppression That both of we le and wo all his auenture Was shewed her in sleep by a feyned figure I trow she see full dreadfull visions and dreamis When her loue was presoned in that wofull night In weeping her eyne waterid like two streemis And euer she thought Guistard stood in her sight Holding a cup of gold with an hert al blody dight Himselfe eke sprent with blood did her salue Seying Farewell Sismond thys is my last adieu She thought her answere was to him anone Alas will ye so sone make a departure And voyd of comfort leue me thus alone Ye shall not so dere hert For certain I ensure I shall but once drinke and do my besy cure To go with you euer how so your Iourney turne Mine hert and yours shall ay togeder soiourne And sodenly with that out of her slepe she stert As a woman from her self she was so sore dismaid She thought of very deth the sword went to her hert And thus weeping by her selfe she prayed O myrror of all women Mary she seyd From all shame and velony my loue me defend And helpe that my dreme to me none pretend All these and many mo thing is conuenturall May well be ymagined by persuation But all this is feyning as dreme fantasticall And therof mine Author makith no mencion So that I think to make no manner digression Encreasing any thing that is not pertinent To my first purpose or to mine entent Wherefore I will proceede to speake of Sismond Which of Guistards duresse had no notice Saue only by her dreams till after a great stound Tancrede to her chāber com as was his old guise And she anon with reuerence did again him rise Welcoming her fader with obeysant lowlines The which seyd vnto her as I shall expresse Doughter Sysmond he seys your womanly Ap port Your vertuous talke and carefull demenaunce Your stedfast hert and guidance gaue me such cōfort Trusting in your hert with hole affiaunce That ye of voluptuous Venus the lusty pleasance Without assent giuen I meane of mariage Would not haue take your selfe leaue for all your corage But well I see my wit was dull and blynd For sure I would haue demid the great occasion Shuld sooner haue dryed flaming agein kinde Thē ye wold euer haue thought to be a mis-womā For had I not seen the deed in what place whā Shuld neuer man haue causit me haue supposaill E re that you would so done but in your spousaill Remember well what hurt therefore and damage Ye did vnto your birth and blood royall When ye like women of brothel and prostrage Toke what com to hond as the chaūce would fall It seem is ye put no difference twixt Get Christall All one to you a flint and a Diamond Peasin as good as Perles orient and round From all womanhode you be degeneraunt Which of worshipps souerance is euer desperous But ye peruert all this ye be so variaunt Taking in steed of worship lust voluptuous And sike●ly the offence were not so grieuous Hadye taken such as had be commendable To your noble birth or elis conuenable But in all this region yt seemith by your choyce Lord knight ne squire was none to your pleasure Of royall blood in whome ye couth reioyce Saue only poore Guistard whose birth auēture Fortune of disdain hath take no thing in cure Which for great pouert in time of misery Without my releife had dyed for penury So that my creuell deth dayly doth renew Death nay more then deth I may call it truly Percing my brest ay fresh new and new By the shamefast sword rebuke and velony Which you haue do Sismond to all our Ancetry Chusing such one to be my Londs inheritaunt As is by birth ignoble and poore mendicant Wherefore I verely purpose to represse His great inhaunced pride and great presumtion Condemning for his ●yot in payne and duresse Intending the law shall haue due execution Shortly shall he die this is the conclusion Vtterly I am determined for his great offence But of you Sismond I giue yet no sentence For I may resemble as in my