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A02096	Euphues his censure to Philautus wherein is presented a philosophicall combat betweene Hector and Achylles, discouering in foure discourses, interlaced with diuerse delightfull tragedies, the vertues necessary to be incident in euery gentleman: had in question at the siege of Troy betwixt sondry Grecian and Troian lords: especially debated to discouer the perfection of a souldier. ... Robertus Greene, in artibus magister.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1587 (1587)	STC 12239; ESTC S105910	61,311	96

their lyuings got from the boosome of Neptune And noble Gentlemen it may bee that report who is oft a false Heralte of humaine Actions hath blabbed that shee hath seene some Philosophers works in my hands you hereof suppose that I haue their principles in my heade but many handled Orpheus Harp that knew not the secrets of Musicke and dyuerse may gase into Philosophers conclusions that cannot Analuze theyr reasons Yet howsoeuer it be séeing I am enioyned I will rather be counted too forward then too froward therefore bri●fly this is my bare censure The Philosopher whom Apollos Oracle long since graced with the title of a wise man being demaunded what wysedome was made answere A diuine influence infused into the myndes of men which being metaphysicall● kéepeth them from comm●●●●g that wherevnto they are forced by sensuall appetyte Epictetus calleth it the touchstone of mortallity meaning that as reason is the difference that distinguisheth a man from a brut● beast so wysdome is that perfect ●nder that sheweth how farre one man excelleth an other in the pretious constitution of his mynde Therefore did our Poets rightly fayne Mynerua to spring from the ●rayne of Iupiter and that hee durst doo nothing without her consent but his loues and amorous meaning by this E●●gmaticall allegory that shee being the godd●ss● of wysedome was the Loadstone for Iupiter to dyrect his actions and where hee digressed there shee sealed his thoughts with a frowne The Phenicians were reported to haue their beginning from the gods● in that they were the first that found out C●racters whereby to expresse openly the hidden secretes of wysdome The inhabytants of Egypt as fame telleth vs were honored of all men sith they were the first that founded Schooles of Phylosophy And the Caldees were companions to kings so highly hath wysedome beene esteemed in all ages But to leaue antiquities and to come to our present tyme what auayleth royall Parentage and the possession of many Territories what profiteth a Crowne and stately Diadem to the maiesty of a king if to these forenamed fauours of Fortune hee haue not adioyned wisedome and learning the cyuill pollycie is not mayntained in his prime martiall discipline wanteth hir chiefest collou● courage is counted rashnesse not fortitude liberality knoweth not the circumstances how to giue if wisdome bend not their course by a right compasse so that I remember a certaine Philosopher of yours wishing ill fortune might befall on the inhabitants of Samos hee prayed onely their king might bee vnlettered and a foole thinking no greater preiudice could happen to a common wealth then to bee gouerned by an vnwyse prynce But omitting this generall discourse of wisedome sith there is none so obstynate or opposite to hir honor but will and must confesse that no humaine action whatsoeuer can rightly bee counted perfect or vertuous if not bounded within the lymits of wysedome To a more particuler proofe and to the intent of our purpose● that it is especially requisite in a Souldier A Gretian being demaunded how it happened that his countrey florished in such happy estate made answere for that our Captaynes and Generalls are Philosophers and our Philosophers made our Captaynes in warre proouing by this reason that where the martiall man was instructed in philosophy there prowesse was strengthned with pollicy and valour ●●doubled by wisedome the Senate of Sparta neuer choose any to goe foorth with their army but such as had spent many yeares in their academy as well in naturall contemplation as in morall conuersation and were as eloquent an Orator as a hardy warriour counting incouragement giuen by wysedome of as great force as a president manifested by prow●sse When Esthemius the Macedonian Monarche successour to the offspring of mighty Nymroth had thought to make a conquest of the southeast parte of the Worlde by chaunce hee made warre with a Barbarous people so fierce and strong as his forces coulde not subdue Delyghted with the sweetenesse of the soyle and s●eing prowesse was in vayne hee sent an Orator clad in riche and sumptuous attyre who so tickled their eares with the pleasauntnesse of his spéech that he reduced the Barbarians not onely to submit as vanquished but to become ciuill as ashamed of their former lyfe How necessary the knowledge of the lyberall Sciences is for a Souldier let experience manifest for what captayne shall bee able to make choice of his ground to fight with his enemy to intrench to imbattayle to leguer to pitch his Pauilions at aduantage vnlesse skilfull in Geography to know the Nature and plott of the Countrey so lately discouered● How shall he order his men or deuide them in companyes how shall hee bring them into square rounde triangle corner or any other forme vnlesse instructed in Arithmetike and Geometry The necessity of Astronomy may bee prooued by a manifest instance for Penthesilea the famous Queene of the Amazons was resident in the city of Troy making warre against Orythius hir bordering enemy as the battayles were ready to ioyne there chaunced in their fight to happen an Eclipse of the Sunne most fearefull and terrible which greatly daunted both armies but Penthesile● nothing amazed as a good Philosopher discoursed to hir Ladies the naturall cause of the Eclypse that it happened by the shadowing of the Earth and the Moone which so lightly accounted of by their Generall they incouraged set vpon Orythius who ignorant of so strang a sight and not knowing the cause of so prodigious an apparance fled● and was vanquished Sapiens dominabitur astris ● a wise man m●y gouerne the starres meaning hereby as I coniecture that if Fate and Fortune should oppose them selues to wisdome yet their attempt were in vayne therefore wisely did the Poets decipher Pallas to haue a Helmet on hir head and a Booke in hir hande and drewe hir Speares alwayes wreathed with Lawrell signifying by this Embleme that Mars and Mercurie were of one broode that a ●alyaunt mynde vnlesse guyded by wysedome rometh into many inconsidered actions which is so perilous in the state of a souldier that one foolish thought that beareth in the foreheade Had I wist maketh an ouerthrow of a whole Legion of men Wee finde written in our Annalles of Troy that Danaus the Graundfather of Pryamus making warre against the king of Hetruria when both the armyes were incamped and the battayles ready to Ioyne his men seeing so great a multitude were afraide although their prince formost in the field sought to incourage them by the example of his valour his forwardnesse nor threats no whit preuailing but they still ready to flée Apias a lame and impotent Poet stepping vppe amongst them through certayne eloquent verses that hee vttered in euery rancke so animated the Souldiers that ashamed at their cowardis● they furiou●ly ran vppon the enemy and like valiant men obtayned the victory so much doth learning and wisedome preuaile in martiall discipline I remember in deede quoth Nestor that I haue heard

the kingdome betwixt vs therefore without any more friuolous circumstances for your welcome take this of m●e wee haue it and wée will keepe it despight of him that dare gain say swearing vntill death to maintaine our right by the sword Frontinus whose courage could not brooke intreaties especially for his owne right told them that he sorrowed at their follies sith they did not with a déep● in-sight fore see their owne myseries and espy reueng that presented a fatall Tragedy of their misfortunes and with that hee turned his backe in great choller swearing before night either to weare the Crowne or leaue his Carcase in the field Or●ellius smiling at his Brothers attempt for that they had ten to one passing with Martignanus to the army set their men in array and imbattailed them with great speede the one giuing incouragment by sweete orations the other with the remembrance of his forepassed liberality Frontinus hauing ordred his souldiers and come within view by computation might coniecture that his enemies were about thréescore thowsand and séeing his men halfe frighted at y e presence of such a multitude began to hasten them forward in this manner I neede not worthy gentlemen souldiers of Africa séeke to incourage you with a long discourse vnlesse putting oyle in the flame I should ad a spur to a free horse your former valiant resolutions manifested in many battailes the honor whereof still glories your names with renowne assures me were the enemy like the sands in the sea and Mars oppo●ed against our forces yet the quarrell good our mindes armed with inuincible fortitude the vertue that dareth Fortune in hir face maugrefates and destinies we shall as euer hetherto we haue done returne with conquest And for that y e cause toucheth my selfe and you fellow partners of my fortunes I will be the first man in the battaile and the last man in the field vnlesse death giue mée an honorable quittaunce of my kingdome let mee be a mirrour this day of your magnanimity let my actions bee your presidents presse but as far as your generall courage gentlemen the victory is ours see how my sorrowful coūtrymen st●nd to receiue vs whose cowardize dare scaresly march a foote to méete I sée yea I sée in déed in their very faces the portraiture therefore God our right with that catching a strōg staffe pulling down his beuier putting spurs to his horse he furiou●ly rusht vpon y e enemy his souldiers following with such a desperat resolution that y e Egyptians amazed at y e valor of their king who like a lyon massacring whom he met ran without stop through the troupes they layed down their weapons yéelded w tout any great slaughter whervpon y ● Africans staied but Frontinus forgetfull y ● they were his natiue coūtrymen still raged till méeting his brother Martignanus hee slew him neuer left murthering till finding out Ortellius that fled in chase he gaue him his deaths wound staied at last by one of the Lords of Africa told how the battaile was ended by y e submission of his subiects who were ashamed that they had bene so forgetfull of their allegeance causing the retreat to be sounded he peaceably marched on towards Memphis where putting certaine of the chiefe offenders to the sword and interring his brethren after his Coronation he sent the Africans home well rewarded with many rich presents to their king liuing him selfe afterward most fortunate Hector hauing ended his Tragedie The Grecians noting in his Countenaunce the very counter●ayte of magnanimity and in discoursing of valour his very face prese●ted a myrrour of fortitude measuring his inward thoughts by his outwarde gestures did both commend the Hystorie and alowe of censure saying that where courage manaceth reuenge with the Sworde there it is folly to bring in wysedome in hir Purple Roabes Helenus hearing how the Grecians fauored his Brother Hectors verdite wisht them to take heede they infringed not the sacred prayse of wysedome for quoth he● as Pallas is learned so shee is martiall and Minerua hath as well a Speare as a ●en perhaps Martignanus was onely a Philosopher no souldier whereas by the sequell it is inferred that Frontinus was both wise and valiaunt so that adding to his wisedome fortitude hee did the more easely obtayne the conquest Truth quoth Nestor for Hector him selfe confest that fortitude coulde not bee without wisedome seeing being placed betweene too extréeme want of wisdome might make him offend in defect and so bee counted a coward or in excesse and bee thought too desperate If then fortitude cannot bee perfect without wisedome and yet a man may bee wise without courage it may bée cōcluded● that wisdome is the most necessary point in a souldier Wee deny not quoth Troilus but it is necessarie but not in the superlatiue degrée for wisdome supposed the cause fortitude consequently is the effect sith the one of it selfe may intend by pollicie but the other is put in practise by prowesse Still for our purpose quoth Helenus for the Logicians hold it as a principle that the cause is greater then the effects the Philosophers account a wise man onely to bee vertuous thinking that wisedome being the chiefe vertue produceth the rest as seedes sprong from so faire a Stemme for it is possible for a man to want others hauing this but to possesse none if this bee absent Hector a litle chollericke that so brauely they went about to prooue his haruest in the grasse stammered out these or such like woordes I tell you brother Helenus both you and the rest are deceiued that I will prooue against the wisest souldier in the world with my sword that Senators who sit to giue counsaile for Ciuill pollicie had neede to be wise sith their opinions are holden for Oracles Captaines valiant whose deedes are accounted peremptorie conquests put case wisedome fortitude be in a Generall yet is hee called wise as hee giues iudgement and couragious as with a hardy minde hee attempts the victories Let men haue science in their heades and no weapons in their hands and whom can they preiudice I say therefore which none rightly can gainesay that fortitude is most necessarie for a souldier sith our common phrase confirmes my reason with euidence in saying hee is a wise Senator and a hardy souldier The Grecians séeing the sparkling flames of choller to burne in the face of Achilles smiled to sée how hot he was in disputation measuring by probable coniecture that if hee met them in the field hee woulde affright them more wyth his sword the● eyther Nestor or Helenus with all theyr Bookes Vlisles merrily disposed being ready to reply the Ladies came in who broake of their talk with telling them the vnlookt for brauery of Ilium discoursing so long of the sundry sights they had séene within the walls of Troy till the boordes being couered aged Priamus rysing from his seate placed all his guests downe

weakened in many forepassed battailes ended to the honor of the Athenians although they might bee warrauntes of rest shall not priuiledge vs from hazarding our selues amidst the thickest of our enemies so that incouraged and as m●n resolued to die or within the field you will with vs issue out to put these vnskilfull Thebans from their trenches The souldiers so had y e discourteous couetize● quatted their courage as men not hearing slipt away murmuring as malecon●ent which Clitomaches espying drawing foorth his sw●od cried out vnto them how are you besotted sould●ers of ●thens why are your cares inchaunted that the wisedome of the Senate is holden friuolous For shame seeke not after dishonor behold Clitomaches your captaine will bee the first man that shall enter the trench of the enemy t●is sword this hand this heart companions shall forgard you as more willing to die then to brooke this discredit and if you be so obstinate take this blade and sacrifice my bloode that dying I may shunne that shame which for our ●owardice is like to light on our heades in vayne did Clitomaches crie out for the souldiers went their way and as melancholy men sat stragling and full of dumps in the streets longe had they not bene thus béelegard● but that newes was brought to Roxander what mishap had fallen on his country hée whom iniury nor death could not withhold from wishing well to Athens rather determined to hazard his life by breaking the Ostracisme in returning from exile then to bee thought a fearefull and base mynded cowarde passing therefore with as much spéede as might bee from Sicilia in poore and vnknowen attier he landed in the Promontorie of Lisium within thrée leagues of the Campe where hee had not wandred halfe a myle but by the scowts he was taken prysoner and caried to the Senat● of Thebes who thinking that Roxander was banished tooke him for a poore Sicilian as hee fayned him self suff●ed him to remayne quiet with frée libertie to passe and repasse at his liberty Roxander continuing thus amongst the Thebans hearing that the Citty began to want victuales and how the Souldiers mutynous were about to deliuer vp the City despight of the Senate vpon composition late in an euening getting close to the walles called to the watch and told them hee had a letter to deliuer from Roxander to the souldiers of Athens why villa●e quoth the watchman thou art mad Roxander is banished Truth quoth hée but returned and taken prysoner by the Thebans who to morrow by eight of the Clocke shall suffer death if hee be not set free for confirmation of my words deliuer this letter to his Sonne who knowing his fathers hand may both reade it and witnesse it to the Souldiers the watchman hearing such sensible reasons to perswade him tooke the letter and Roxander secretly stoale again● to the Campe No sooner did the morning starre blushing Aurora begin to course hir selfe from the bed of Ti●an ● but ●he watchman hied with the letter into the City and sought out Roxanders sonne who was of no better account then a mercenary souldier and to him imparted the whole matter who receiuing the letter ●ound that it was his fathers writing wherevpon taking the watchman with him calling the Souldiers by sounde of a Trumpet to the market place hee discoursed vnto them first whose sonne hée was secondly what had past the last night betwéene the watchman and an vnknowen man of his fathers imprisonment and the speedines of his death for proofe whereof hee red them the letter as foloweth Roxanders Letter THe distresse of my countrey bruted into Sicilia where I liued poore and exiled such was the eare I had of the common wealth as I choose rather to die by breaking the law of the Ostracisme then to bée counted slack in attempting what I might for the benefit af Athens Honors are not tied to times nor courage to places Death is sweeter then discontent and more glorious is it to perish in wishing well to Athens then in lying quiet in Sicilia The Thebans haue ouercome that greeues mee not sith it is but a braue of Fortune whose fauours are inconstaunt whose frownes are momētany whose check is the step to good hap The Athenians are vanquished what of this men are subiect to the pleasures of oportunities their actions haue not alwaies prosperity fauorable time changeth and more honor is gotten in a moment than hath bene lost in a moneth The Athenians are rampired as cowardes within walles this country men pincheth Roxander at the heart that famous Athens renowned Athens Athens that was the chieftaine of Gréece for warlike att●mpts should be stained with dishonor and cowardize yea countrymen and souldiers Roxander in bands in the hands of his enemies ready to die greeueth at this disgrace and blusheth more to heare the Thebans call you cowards then to heare them pronounce the sentence of death Once worthy souldiers you sought to frée mée from the handes of the Senat which were my friendes now seeke to rid mée from the Thebans my foes and your enemies who intend to kill Roxander onely because hee is Roxander whose liberality was ●he cause of your fauours This if I obtaine I only in recompence promise to bee thankfull Farewell Roxander the friend to Athens NO sooner had his sonne red the letter but that the souldiers showted at the very name of Roxander pulling his sonne from y e place where he stoode made him their Captaine The Senators h●aring this alarum were driuen into a maze till one of y ● Captaines discoursed to them from point to point the forerehearsed premisses whereat being astonied cōming in with Clitomaches into the market place they found the Souldiers in armes and in aray ready to march towardes the gate of the Citty Clitomache● willing to stay thē that they might not issue out without aduice could not preuayle but breaking downe th● rampiers as mad men crying Roxander liberall Roxander th●y issued out litle lookt for of the Thebans who notwithstanding standing within their trenches in defence the Athenians so valiantly gaue y ● onset that in a desperate maner as in ● contemnning death they ran vpon the pikes presently discomfit●d th●enemy with such a s●aughter as not one was left aliue to carry newes to Thebes of their losse the ret●aite sounded Roxander presented him selfe whom with such louing submission th●y receiu●d and he returning such lowly t●anks to the Souldiers that they calling to rem●mbrance ●irst the iniury the Senators offered Roxander in his banishment and their wronge at the sack of Lisium for deuision of spoyle that like men haunted with a f●rie running into the City b●fore Roxander could know the c●use of the hurly burly th●y so●ght out the Senators and Clitomaches and put them to the edge of the swoord presenting their heads to Roxander who with teares disalowing their disobedience and with threats s●●wing him selfe discontent was nothstanding maugre his teeth created againe Dictator in which estate hee liued long after in Athens Achilles Tragedie ●nded ag●d Priamus standing vp gaue his verdite vppon their discourse in this manner Although worthie Grecians I am not called to bee a Iudge in this controuersie yet friendly and freely let mee say that such a perfect diuision of qualities or rather vertues necessary and incident in a souldier hath bin so liuely pourtraied and figured foorth in such comely collours as it is hard to censure whether of them holds the supremacy for wisdome being the meanes doo dispose the army in his due order and to haue an in-sight by pollycie to preuent what the enemy can intend yet is but a shadowe drawne with a pensell vnlesse fortitude courage perfourme that in action which hath bene purposed and determined by wisedome neyther can these two haue longe continuance and good successe except liberality as a linck to knit these two in their forces presents the mindes of the souldiers captiuate by their Captaines bounty then of these premisses wée may conclud● that none can come to y e perfection of a souldier vnlesse he be both wise valiant and liberall With this graue censure of Priamus th●y res●ed all cont●nted except the Ladi●s who seeing Phoebus so fast d●clining to the West hastened on Achilles to depart he s●ttered with the loue of Polixena woulde willingly haue p●rswaded a nightly rest at Troy but that his thoughts would haue bene discerned to pr●uent therefore ●ll occasions of suspition hee made has●e so that taking his leaue of Priam●s Hector the rest of the kings and Pry●ces resident at Troi● mounting vpon Horse he● went with I●higenia and the Ladies to their pauilions ●te domum Satur● venit Hesp●rus Ite Capell●