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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02129	Mamillia A mirrour or looking-glasse for the ladies of Englande. Wherein is disciphered, howe gentlemen vnder the perfect substaunce of pure loue, are oft inueigled with the shadowe of lewde lust: and their firme faith, brought a sleepe by fading fancie: vntil with ioyned with wisedome, doth awake it by the helpe of reason. By Robert Greene graduate in Cambridge.; Mamillia. Part 1	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1583 (1583)	STC 12269; ESTC S119748	60,462	82

al the contrarieties of loue wil work their contrary passions on whom Venus will vaunt for her vaine bassall as one ready to strike at euery stale to come at euery cal to light on euery lure yea and almost scase on the emptie fiste neyther regarding the ware nor the price but leauing the force for the first assaulte of fancye Oh Gods how foolishly doe I fable how my talke enforced by rage is altogether without reason can I striue agaynst that which is styrred by the Starres can I peruert that which is placed by the Planettes can I driue out that which is decreed by the destinies ●or shewe force in that which is fixed by the fates No no Pharicles assure thy selfe this thy chaunge is by the charge of the Gods and thy newe lyking to some greater ende perhappes they will preuent by the meanes of Publia some greate inconuenience which should light vpon thee in matching with Mamillia Aeneas had he not setled his minde vpon Dido yea and celebrated the rites of matrimonys was bee not warned by the Gods in a dreame to falsefie his fayth● lay his loue vpon Lauinia who did more for Iason thē Medea yet hee was driuen by the destinies to forsake her and fixe his fancy vpon Creusa to whome he was constant to the ende 〈◊〉 Theseus by the admonition of Bacchus left Ariadne and was forced by the fates to fancy Phechia with whome hee remayned as loyall as light vnto the other so perhaps I am forced by nature and destinie to loth Mamillia and like Publia and if it bee so all is well for Aristotle saieth that nature nor fate neuer framed any thing amisse and though I offend in lyking the one lightly yet I wil make amends in louing the other more firmly if the world shal wonder at my faining to the one they shal meruail as much at my fayth to the other if abmen talk of my trechery to Mamillia they shal speak as much of my troath to Publia Now haue I surely setled my self neuer frō henceforth to lend a louing looke to Mamillia Publia shalbe the planet wherby to direct my doings she shalbe the star shal guid my compas she shal be the hauen to harbor in the saint at whose shrine I meane to offer my deuotion I wil now put al fear aside for a faint hart was neuer fauoured of fortune the coward that feareth y e crack of the canon will neuer proue a couragious captaine nor vaunt himself of victory the dastard that dreadeth the noyse of the drum will neuer come in the skirmish nor were y ● flag of triumph the louer that heareth such a calm conscience as for fear of his credit dare not match vnder the dissēbling stādard of Cupids camp shal neuer be proclaimed heire apparāt to Venus kingdō Therfore sith I haue setled decreed I will make no delay for feare the grasse be cut from vnder my feet but either by words or writing sēd an answer to my new mistres and with that he tooke his pen and sent her this Letter Pharicles to Publia THe phisitiō mistres Publia y t letteth the sicke patient blood for the Plurysie when tracte of tyme hath made the disease incurable defendeth the walles when the Citty is ouerrunne salues seldome helpe an ouerlonge suffered sore it is too late to bring the ruine of battery whē the wals are already broken that shower cōmeth out of time when the corne is rype too late it is to dist●ge loue out of ones breast whē it hath before infected euery part of the body The surgion when the festring Fistuloe hath by long continuance made the sound flesh rotten can neither with le●●●iue plaistets nor cutting corasiues be cured so loue craueth but only time to bring the body mind to bondage So your seemely self seeing me fettred in y ● chain of fancy fast boūd in the bāds of your bewty haue sent me pils of hard disgestiō to asswage y e force of my loue mitigate the firmnes of my fancy but as the byting of a viper ranckleth rageth til he hath brought the body bittē to bain so the sight of your cōely persō hath so pearced euery vain w t the sting of loue y t neither the sowernes of the sauce nor sharpnes of the salue can in any wise preuaile onely the milde medicine of your mercy may salue the sore cut away the cause of my careful disease Sith therfore mistres Publia it is in your power either to exalt me to y e highest degree of happines or driue me down to the deepest bottom of bitter bale to place me in the princely pallace of earthly paradise or plunge me in the pit of perplexity way my cause equally in the scales of honesty equity yeeld me but according vnto iustice which am a careful client at bewties bar that is to giue according to my desert and the desert of loue is loue againe And although the shortnes of time hath made no trial to procure anye great trust yet I hope the clearnes of my conscience in that case the firmnes of my faith will in time force the trueth to flame bright amidst the darkest mists of distrust againe the scalding sighes piteous plaints praiers that I haue powred out to the Gods that they might chang your hart settled vow of chart●tie I hope when they shal take effect that they wil be witnesses of my good wil. For since the receit of your letters if my words cānot be taken for witnesses yet the praiers processions pilgrimages offers vowes that I haue made vnto the Gods if they graūt my petition wil testifie the ioy I conceiued in the curteous clause of your letters although I was almost foundred for fear couered with care daunted with dread at the rigorous sight of your first lines But as I was neuer of that minde to count him a couragious captain that at the first shot of the canon would yeeld the ke●es of the citie so was I euer in that opinion that the more harde the combat were the more hauty wer the conquest the more doubtful the fight the more worthy the victory y e more paine I should take about the battery the more pleasure to win the bulwork of your brest which if I should abtain I would count it a more rich price then euer Scipio or any of the nine worthy won by conquest And y ● these words be vritie not vanity troath not trifling I appeale to your good grace and fauour minding to be tried by your curtesie abiding either the sentence of consent vnto life or mal●● vnto death Yours euen after death Pharicles PVblia hauing receiued this letter perceiuing the constāt mind of y ● young gentleman by rubbing afresh her half healed sore with the remēbrance of his person wage of his perf●●nos framing in her mind a mirour of his modesty as it were viewing in a