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duty_n	master_n	servant_n	wage_n	1,026	5	11.4895	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08838	The palace of pleasure beautified, adorned and well furnished, with pleasaunt histories and excellent nouelles, selected out of diuers good and commendable authors. By William Painter clarke of the ordinaunce and armarie; Palace of pleasure. Vol. 1	Painter, William, 1540?-1594.	1566 (1566)	STC 19121; ESTC S110279	360,745	608

in his shirt fel downe at the Presidents fete crauing pardon his wife on the other side began to wéepe To whome the President sayde For so much as the thing which thou hast done is suche as thou maist well consider that I cannot abide my house for thée in this sort to be dishonored the daughters which I haue had by thée to be disaduaūced and abased Therfore sayd he leaue of thy wéeping and marke what I shall doe And thou Nicolas for that was his Clarks name hide thy self here in my closet and in any wise make no noyse when he had so done he opened the dore and called in his olde seruant and said vnto him Diddest not thou warrant and assure me that thou wouldest let me sée my Clark and wife in bedde together And vpon thy wordes I am come hither thinking to haue killed my wife and haue found nothing to be true of that which thou diddest tell me For I haue searched the chamber in euery place ● I will shew thée And with that he caused his seruant to loke vnder the beddes and in euery corner And when the seruant founde him not throughly astonned he sayd to his maister Sir I saw him goe into the chamber and out he is not gone at the dore And so farre as I can sée he is not here Therefore I thinke the Diuell muste néedes carrie him away Then his maister sayde vnto him Thou art a very villaine to set suche diuision betwene my wife and me wherefore I doe discharge thée from my seruice for that which thou hast done me I will pay thée thy duty with the aduantage Therefore get thée hence and take hede that thou doest not tarrye in this towne past .xxiiij. houres The President for that he knewe him to be an honeste and faythfull seruant gaue him fiue or six yeares wages and purposed otherwise to preferre him When the seruant with ill will and weping teares was departed the President caused his Clarke to come out of his Closet And after he had declared to his wife and him what he thought of their yll behauiour he forbad them to shewe no likelyhode of any such matter and commaunded his wife to attire and dresse her selfe in more gorgeous apparel than she was wont to weare and to haunt and resorte to company and feastes willing the Clarke to make a better countenaunce of the matter than he did before but whensoeuer he rounded him in the eare bad him to departe he charged him after the cōmaūdement not to tarry .iiij. houres in the town And when he had thus done he retourned to the pallace as though there had no such thing chaunced And the space of .xv. dayes contrarie to his custome he feasted his friendes and neighbours and after the banket he caused the ministrels to play to make the Gentlewomen daunce One daye seing that his wife did not daunce he commaunded his Clarke to take her by the hande and to leade her forth to daunce who thinking the President had forgotten the trespasse paste very ioyfully daunced with her But when the daunce was ended the President fayning as though he would haue commaunded him to doe some thing in his house badde him in his eare to get him away and neuer to returne Now was the Clarke very sorowful to leaue his Ladye but yet no lesse ioyfull he was that his lyfe was saued Afterwardes when the President had made all his friendes and kinsefolkes and all the coūtrie beleue what great loue he bare to his wife Upon a fayre day in the moneth of May he went to gather a sallade in his garden of such herbes that so sone as she had eaten of them she liued not past .xxiiij. houres after whereof he counterfayted such sorrow as no man could suspect the occasion of her death And by that meanes he was reuenged of his enemy and saued the honor of his house I wyll not by this Nouell sayd Emarsuitte prayse the conscience of the President but herein I haue declared the light behauior of a woman and the gret pacience prudence of a man Praying you good Ladies all not to be offended at the truth If al women quod Parlamente that loue their Clarkes or seruauntes were forced to eate such sallades I beleue they would not loue their gardens so wel as they doe but would teare and pluck vp all the herbes both roote and rinde to auoyd those things that by death might aduaunce the honor of their stocke and ligneage If sallades be so costly q Hircan and so daungerous in May I will prouoke appetite with other sawses or else hunger shal be my chiefest Of a Ialous Gentleman A Gentleman of Perche suspecting iniurie done vnto him by his frende prouaked him to execute and put in proufe the cause of his suspicion ¶ The Lviij Nouell BEsides the cuntry of Perche there where two Gentlemen which from the tyme of their youth liued in such great and perfecte amitie that there was betwéene them but one heart one bed one house one table and on purse Long time continued this perfecte friendship betwéene whome there was but one will and one worde no difference in eyther of them In so much as they not only semed to be two brethren but also they appeared in al semblances to be but one man One of them chaunced to marry Notwithstanding they gaue not ouer their friendship but perseuered in their vsual amitie as they were wont to doe And whē they happened to be strayned to straight lodging the married gentleman would not sticke to suffer his friende to lye with him and his wife But yet you ought for friendship sake to consider that the married man lay in the middes Their goodes were common betwene them that for al the mariage no cause did hinder their assured amitie But in processe of tyme the felicitie of this world which carieth with it a certayne mutabilitie could no continue in the house which was before right pleasaunt and happie For the married man forgetting of the faithfull fidelitie of his friend without any occasion conceyued a great suspicion betwéene him and his wife from whō he could not dissemble the case but sharpely tolde her his mynde She therewithall was wonderfully amazed Howbeit he commaunded her to doe all thinges one thing excepted and to make so muche of his companion as of himselfe Neuerthelesse he for bad her to speake vnto him except it were in the presence of many All which she gaue her husbandes companion to vnderstand who woulde not beleue her knowing that he had neyther by thought or déede done any thing whereof his companion had cause to be offended And likewise bicause he vsed to kepe nothing secrete from him he told him what he had sayd praying him to tell him the truth of the matter bicause he purposed neyther in that ne yet in any other thing to giue occasion of breach of the amitie which of lōg time they had imbraced The maried

haue proued that mischiefe and am yet in the greatest excesse and pangues of my disease I féele alas a diuersitie of anguishes a Sea of troubles whiche tormente my minde yet I dare not discouer the occasiō seing that the thing which is the cause of my grief to be of suche desert that my seruice past all that is to come is not able to giue the proofe if one speciall grace and fauor doe not inlarge the litle power that is in me to counteruaile the greatenesse and perfection of that cause whiche thus doeth variat and alter bothe my thoughtes and passions Pardon me madame if I doe speake obscurely for the confusion of my mynde maketh my wordes correspondent to the qualitie of the same Notwithstandyng I will not kepe silente from you that whiche I dooe suffre and muche lesse dissemble what passiō I indure beyng assured aswel for your vertue gentlenes that you moued with compassion will succour me so much as shal lie in you for preseruacion of the life of hym that is the best and moste obedient seruaunt emōges them all that doe you humble seruice The Ladie whiche neuer thought of the wickednesse whiche this insensate man began to imagine answered him very curteously I am sory truely for your mishappe and doe merueile what should be the effecte of that passion whiche as you saie you fele with suche dimunicion of that whiche is perfecte and accomplished in you For I doe sée no cause that ought to moue you to so straunge infirmitie whereof you tolde me wherwith I had alredie found fault although you had said nothyng I would to GOD I knewe whiche waie to helpe you aswel my lorde my husbandes sake who I am sure doeth beare you good will as for the honestie which hetherto I haue knowen to be in you which as I thinke all men resemblyng you for vertue and good condicions doe deserue that accōpt and consideracion He that thought her alredie to be taken in his nettes seyng so faire a waie open and cleare to disclose that whiche he had kept couert so long tyme in the depth of his harte answered Ah madame are ye ignoraunt of the forces of Loue how much his assaultes can debilitate the liuelihode of the bodies and spirites of men Knowe ye not that he is blinde and naked not caryng whether he goeth manifestyng hymself there where occasion is offred Alas madame if you haue not pitie vpon me and doe not regarde that whiche I doe suffer for the loue of you I knowe not how I am able to auoide Death whiche will approche so sone to cutte of and abridge my yeres as I shall vnderstande a refusal of that whiche the extreme Loue that I beare you madame forcethe me to require whche is to receiue a newe seruice of your aunciente and faithfull seruiture who inflamed by the bright beames of your diuine face knoweth not now how to chaunge the affeccion muche lesse to receiue helpe but of that place where he receiued the pricke Excuse madame I beseche you my rashenesse and pardon my follie accusyng rather either your celestiall beautie or els that tiraunt Loue who hath wounded me so luckelie that I esteme myne euill fortunate and my wounde happie sithe by his meane my thoughtes and cogitacions doe onely tende to doe you seruice and to loue you in myne harte whiche is the Phenix of the faireste and moste curteous ladies within al our Prouince Alas that excellencie whiche thus maketh me your seruasit shall one daie be my ruine if by your good grace speakyng it with wepyng teares you doe not fauor hym whiche liueth not but to obeie you and whiche lesing your good grace will attempte to depriue hymself of life whiche being depriued through your crueltie will goe to complaine himself of his bolde attempt and also of your rigor emonges the ghostes and shadowes of thē that be alredie dedde for like occasions The chaste Ladie was so rapt of wittes for the straungenes of the case and for the grief whiche she conceiued to sée the vnshamefast hardinesse of the varlette that she could not tell how to make hym answere But in the ende breakyng silence and fetchyng a great sighe from the bottome of hec harte her face slained with a fresh Uermilion rudde whiche beautified her colour by reason of disdaine conceiued against this impudent Orator she answered hym verie seuerely O God who would haue thought that from a hart nobly brought vp and deriued from an honourable race a villanie so greate could haue taken roote and spryng vp with suche detestable fruicte What maister Stewarde Haue ye forgotten the duetie of a seruaunt towarde his lorde and maister Haue ye forgotten I saie the duetie of a vertuous gentleman well nourished and trained vp towarde suche and so greate a Ladie as I am Ah These and Traitour that thou art Is this the venime whiche thou kepest so couert and secrete vnder the swetenesse of thy counterfaicte vertue A vaunte varlette a vaunte Goe vtter thy stuffe to them that be like thy self whose honour and honeslie is so farre spent as thy loialtie is lighte and vaine For if I heare thee speake any more of these follies bee assured that I will mortifie that ragyng flame whiche burneth thy light beleuyng harte and will make thée feele by effecte what maner of death that is wherein thou reposeste the rest of thy trauell As this deceued Oratour was framyng his excuse and aboute to moderate the iuste wrathe of his Ladie displeased vpon good occasion she not able to abide any more talke saied further And what signes of dishonestie haste thou séen in me that moue thée to perswade a thing so wicked and vncomely for myne estate yea and so preiudiciall to me to my frendes the house of thy maister my lorde and spouse I can not tell what it is that letteth me from causyng thée to bée caste for the emong the Lions cruell and capitall enemies of adulterie emonges thē selfes sithe thy pretence is by violatyng my chastite to dishonor the house wherevnto thou owest no lesse then all the aduauncemente thou haste from the taste whereof thou haste abandoned Uertue the best thyng wherewith thou were affected Auoide now therefore let me heare no more of this vpon paine of thy life otherwise thou shalt féele the rewarde of thy teinerite and vnderstande the bitternesse of the litle pleasure whiche I haue conceiued of thy follies So the good ladie helde her peace reseruyng in her harte that whiche should be her helpe in tyme and place howbeit she said nothyng hereof vnto her husbande aswell for raisyng offence or slaunder as for prouokyng her husbande against him whiche susteined the punishement himself sithe that this refuse did more straungely pinche hym more nere at the harte then euer the Egle of Caucasus whereof the Poetes haue talked so muche did tier the mawe of the subtil these Prometheus And yet the vnhappie