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A02157	Planetomachia: or the first parte of the generall opposition of the seuen planets wherein is astronomically described their essence, nature, and influence: diuersly discouering in their pleasaunt and tragicall histories, the inward affections of the mindes ... Conteyning also a briefe apologie of the sacred and misticall science of astronomie: by Robert Greene, Master of Arts and student in phisicke. 1585.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1585 (1585)	STC 12299; ESTC S105841	74,857	119

chylde prohybite thee from suche hellishe practises But why do●st thou prattle Pasilla thou seest they could not Graunt not to the trecherous wre●th then so much ●auour as to let him inioye one moment of life but reuenge his wickednesse and 〈◊〉 thine owne woe And with that Valdracko was about to speake but Pasilla incensed with a furious 〈…〉 vp the sword and wounded him sore and after many bloody ●low●s he yeelded vp the ghost When she had thus cr●c●y murthered her father yet iustlye requited the iniu●y she to●k pen and incke and wrote the effect of this tragicall discourse that al might know the cause of this bloody fact whiche fini●hed ●●e fell groueling on the sword and so ended both her life and her miseries Saturne Iupiter Mars Sol Venus Mercurie Luna VEnus had no sooner ended her tale but Saturne rising out of his seate as one in a chafe fell into these Collericke tearmes Saturne Venus you play like them which seeking to shoote against the starres are wounded with their owne Arrowes in the fall or like the enuious Porcuntine who coueting to strike others with her pennes leaueth her selfe void of any defence you haue here tolde a tale of Valdracko which sheweth not my crabbed influence but your owne crooked constellation for it was the wilfull forwardnesse of Pasylla in her do●ing fancies and her lasciuious loue in liking her fathers enimy that procured those haplesse euents yea it was the vnbridled affection of staylesse youth not the careful wisedome of setled age that wrought this Tragicall discourse Venus Saturne if old men could blush no doubt all the gods should perceiue thou wert more ashamed in defending so false a cause then in hearing me rehearse the case but I will not say you doate because you are old but dissemble because you are wise so shall I both excuse your fondnesse and commend your wit but this I hope I may say without preiudice that your arguments sauour as much ●f reason as Luna doth of constancie Luna You might haue said Venus as you do of honestie and so all the gods would haue thought his arguments of small force but were his reasons as full of substance as you of light qualities it were against Aristotle to deny either premises or conclusion Venus You learned this Logicke Luna of End●mion but let that passe and seeing Sol is appointed Moderator in this our controuersie I thinke he cannot but say that the haplesse and tragicall euents of this history came by the predominant influence of Saturne for was it not the Melancholy disposition of Valdracko that nourished so long the glowing sparkes of reuenge toward the Conte Coelio and his Saturnine constitution that with a coulored shewe of amitie repayed most faithfull friendshippe with cruell enmitie did hee not carry in the one hande breade and in the other a stone and preferre his priuate iniuries before publike credite or honesty yea did not such melancholicke impressions pester his minde as hee was the cause of the most tragicall and bloodie Massacres Mercurie Truth Venus such is the crabbed disposition of Saturne as they which are borne vnder his influence delight in tragicall treacheries performed with most subtill and secreat attempts so that Caesar feared more the two Saturnists Brutus Cassius then all his forraine foes of any other constitution Iupiter Mercurie you speake without commission I am glad you are so greatly beholding vnto Venus indeede she cannot want counsellours nor champions she allowes them such large fees But I pray you wherein is my Father Saturne so greatly to be blamed was not Valdracko forced by the disordinate affection of his daughter Pandina to his enemies sonne Rodento rather to preuent mishappe by some synister meanes then to bring his hole house and famelie to most miserable decay and ruine Mars Iupiter if large fees may make bolde champions or brawling counsellers you haue greatest cause both to fight chide in Venus behalfe she hath giuen you many a fat present as Europa da●as Alcmena I haue named ynough I think to stoppe your mouth Luna Mars what Iupiter hath gotten I knowe not but what Vulcan got with his net we al know not a fish but a God But it is wel you defend not her honestie but her arguments Sol. Cease from these biting quips they are fit for brabling Sophisters not for the gods and heare my verdict I am of this minde that the hapelesse euentes of this tragical discourse came by Saturnes synister influence that Coelios death proceeded of a malicious and secreat hate that Rodentos balefull mishap spronge from a Saturnine reuenge predominant in the configuration of Valdrachos natiuitie imprinting in his aged minde a melancholie despight which brought to passe this wofull and vnnaturall tragedie This is my censure but nowe sith Venus hath ended her tale Luna I charge you to report her Astronomical description because Saturne will speake more of ran●or then of reason Saturne Sol we haue agreed that your sensure shal stand for a sentence and therfore I wil not inueigh against your verdict but am content to beare the blame of Valdrachos ill nature yet that you the rest of the gods may know that there commeth more harme by disordinate lawlesse Venus then by me I will rehearse an historie wherein you shall easily perceiue that loue sotteth the senses infec●e●h youth destroyeth age and is the very plague both to the minde and body Lunas Astronomicall description of Venus THe starre of Venus right mightie gods is so simplie called as Tullie auoucheth quod ad res omnes veniat and the auncient Arabians call it astrum genitale or prolifioum for the temperate moisture and fauorable influence that it distilleth vppon all humaine bodies for the nature of Venus is to infuse into all inferiour substances while they are ingendered or nourished a certaine Humidatum sucoum or delicate moisture yet notwithstanding so thinne and subtile that it shall 〈…〉 and f●llow more the nature of 〈◊〉 then of showers which natural● and proper qualitie in my iu●gement caused the a●ncient Poets 〈◊〉 attribute this Epitheton vnto Venus A●●a ab alendo Now as concerning her other qualitie of 〈…〉 note that ●●we h●●e in naturall he●●e placed 〈◊〉 that doth cherish and nourish as is Sol and his irra●i at starre Iupiter so we haue set down● another which doth burne and scortch intempera●ely as doeth Mars with his adult and y●llow chollar so likewise in the nature of co●●nesse we doe appoint Venus to be ●om●o●ate and fauorable and Saturne with his melancholy humor to be infortunate and maligna●● of the which opinion are Prolomeus Galen and the Chaldes saying that amongst the Planets there are two fauourable wel affected and friends to nature namely Iupiter and Venus and two Saturne Mars ●●holsome bitter lucklesse and yll affected To confyrme the which I will rehearse Ptolomeus owne sentence●● the end of his first Apotellosma●●● There are foure humours saith he or first

thoughte best to accept of his proffer and to vnite their two houses by so happy a matche Hee therefore returned him this courteous and friendely aunswere Maruel not right mighty Duke if I stand in a maze at this strange and vnlooked for motion sith at our first meeting I rather expected opprobrious wordes of despitefull enmity then any such friendly speeches of desired amity But sith it hath pleased your grace to passe ouer all former dissentions quarrelles long time continued betweene our two houses which hath bred such ciuill mutinies and secret slaughters in Ferrara I not only accept of your happy and fortunate proffer but yeeld cōdigne thankes for your Graces long desired curtesie offering my son and my selfe to rest wholly and faithfullye yours in all duety to command With that Valdracko embraced the Earle swearing that he made such account of his friendship as he wold obserue that day as the most fortunate in al his life The Senat who al this while waited when either these 2. enimies shold part or els fall into their accustomed choler seing their friendly imbracemēts were all amazed with sodain ioy driuen as it were into an extasie at this strange Metamorphosis yet greatly astonished because they were not priuy to their secrete conference which the Duke perceiuing to put them out of their musing dumps told thē how that they two which neither by the feare of authoritye nor friendly perswasions could be reconciled had nowe casting all old grudges aside renewed a perfect league of amity and to confirme the same they were agreed to vnite their houses and to marry Pasilla with Rodento This happy newes greatlye ioyed the Senators mindes and also the whole citie of Ferrara that they sorrowed not so muche before their hatefull dissention as they now reioyced at their louing agreement Wel Valdracko couering the bloodye minde of a gripe vnder the simple pennes of a Doue carried the Counte Celio home with him to dinner where the Duke intertained him with such sumptuous cheere and solemne curtesie as the poore Earle thought such heartye friendship coulde not be fained But when Pasilla saw with what intertainment her father cheered vp the Counte she marueiled at this strange courtesie and blushed at her owne conceits calling to mind her friend and louer Rodento thinking that since their parentes of enemies were become friends that the children might of dissembled foes grow to be professed louers As thus she was quickening her wits with these amorous conceits Valdracko and the Earle hauing takē their repast the Duke calling his daughter vnto him begā to make her partaker of his new determination how he meant if she could fancy to matche her with young Rodento a Gentleman of worthy parentage and comely personage endued with wit and singular qualities to conte●t her minde enriched with wealth and large possessions to maintain her estate both yong beautiful rich great gifts sufficiēt to cōtent litle godes able to command euen Vesta her self to leaue her virginity if then she coulde consent to loue like so braue a gentleman he would thinke her duetifull obedience did requi●e his fatherly prouidence otherwise if she shoulde mislike of his choyce and vpon wilful frowardnes oppose her selfe against his mind he would not onely repay her fonde mislike with the lyke despight but also disinherite her of all his possessions Pasilla who was easie to intreate tolde the Duke that the commaunde of the father was a constraynt to the childe that Parentes willes were lawes so they past not all lawes therefore she was content to frame her fancie as it pleased his Grace to dispose this duetifull and modest answere of Pasilla pleased the Duke in so muche that to strike the yron while it was hotte least any thing mighte fall out betweene the cup and the lippe they sent for Rodento who maruellyng 〈◊〉 heare that hys Father was a gueste to suche an vnacquainted host came wyth all speede and beeyng admi●ted into the chamber of presence found Valdracko his father and Pasilla in secret talk The Duke no sooner espied Rodento but hee arose from the table and imbracing him gaue him most friendlye and curteous intertainment telling him what match they had made if it pleased him with a willing consent to knit vp the bargaine Rodento halfe stifled with the ioy of this happye motion most willingly accepted their proffers taking Pasilla in his armes louingly sealed vp the match with a few sweet kisses to their their fathers happy content Well all thinges thus fortunately finished the mariage appointed to be celebrated the next spring Celio went home to his lodging leauing his sonne Rodento passing away the time in amorous conceits with his loue Lady Pasilla But Fortune grudging at this happy successe crossed their sweet and delicious fauours with bitter and despiteful frowns For Valdracko noting the prosperous estate of Celio began to thinke that vnlesse he might traiterously bereaue him of his life neither shuld his house flourish nor his mind be satisfied with reuenge To breed therfore his own content the final confusion of the Earle he determined to appoint some desperate ruffian to murther him which done he should not haue any man in Ferrara y ● would withstand him and he might vse Rodento as it pleased him passing manye dayes in this bloudy intent sometime halled from such trechery with the sting of conscience then incēsed to such vilany with the spur of cruel hate he fel at last thus to debate with him selfe What doest thou mean Valdracko to trouble thy mind with suche balefull passions or so much as in thought to intend such desperate attempts the performance wherof is so vnnatural as such bloudy actions if there be any Gods cannot escape without some deadly direful reuēge consider Valdracko thou hast promised Celio a fish and wilt thou present him a scorpiō hast thou newly sworn to be his friend wilt thou be his foe Is the son betrothed to thy daughter and wilt thou betray the father vnto death what wil Ferrara thinke at this thy trecherie nay will y ● Gods suffer thee to practise such mischief No no assure thy self Iupiter wanteth not plagues to punish such lothsome offences Tush fond foole if thou stumble at a straw thou shalt neuer leap ouer ● blocke if thou feare to practise thou shalt neuer perform● it is lawful to dissemble with thine enimy and to reuenge is cōmendable Why Valdracko is Celio thine enimy No he hath yeelded him selfe with submisse curtesie to rest at thy cōmand And hast thou not yet doating foole learned that it is better to trust an open enimy● then a reconciled friend that iniuries maye not be forgotten as long as the scarres remaine that foes muste neuer be admitted as friends in countenance Why then shouldest thou stay thy intent for Celios dissembled friendship No dispatch him and then shalt thou be sure Fortune her selfe cannot daunt thee with mishap

rather the bladder wherein the gall lyeth which the Grecians call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latins Bilis folliculum or rather Biliosi humoris armariolū And thus much briefly for the Astronomicall description of Mars Now as touching the disposition of the Martialistes They are commonly ouer rash not fearing to rush through sword and fire seeking to mooue immoueable things carying a head without a braine impatient in iniuries doing al things with preposterous aduise beeing variable in their purposes prodigall of their owne and desirous of other means enterprising great matters making of loathsome Sinckes loftie Towers lifting vp their browes euery where touching the heauen with their fingers and speaking tragically as Gyants wearing Haye in their hornes and mingling the heauens with the earth hauing their feathers farre bigger then their neasts carying Waines loden with reprochfull slaunder wearing Nettles in their nose and whetting their teeth vpon bitter Sorrell Inraged as though they were stung with a Briese and more imperious then Phalaris As cruell to them which yeeld as Wolues giuing to those which runne a spurre wearing a bodie without a breast whetting Iron with Iron and putting fire to towe quenching flames with Oyles bearing gall in their mouth fire in their hearts cutting large thongs out of other mens leather As touching the diseases incident to Martialistes they be Tertian feuers Iaundice Phrensies hot Agewes Inflammations Bloodie flix Megrimes hotnesse of Urine and such like which commonly proceede of the quantitie or qualitie of yellowe choller abounding of aduston of blood of fierie and chollericke euaporations Further they which participate of the nature of Mars haue their pulses great and swift Urine yellowe fierie and biting sweate sharpe salt and bitter deiections yellow the tongue commonly drie their dreames of fire burning slaughters strife warres armours and such like Thus I haue described Mars his maligne disposition and meane to confirme my sayinges with a tragicall historie Iupiters Tragedie IN those daies when taking the shape of a man I visited the poore house of Philemon and Baucis coasting diuers Countries happely I arriued in Scithia whereof after Tomyris was Queene beeing nighted in those partes I chaunced on a fayre and sumptuous Pallace scituated hard by the Sea side comming to the gates I found the wicket open whereon was ingrauen this Posie Enteraunce is denied to none Seing such a free passage I passed through the base Court came into y e Hall where I found a yong and beautifull Ladie accompanied with sixe Damosells all ouergrowne with griefe doing Sacrifice as I thought to some of the Gods but drawing more nye I espied the Ladie which by her porte seemed to be Mistresse to them all burning Frankensence vpon Coales and holding the heart of a man in her hand she violently stabo it through in many places which whē she had done two of her Maides presented vnto her two dead mens skulles full of wine whereof when she had drunke a little of either gushing forth aboundaunce of teares she called for a Lute whereon she plaide and warbled out this wofull dittie What more mishap can fret the minde then wish each day to dye And yet to liue in lingring greefe alas such life leade I. Whose life if life thrise worse then death is fraught with such annoy As pinde with care can neuer taste one dram of happie ioy I rue to see that most I wish most hatefull wordes I blenge● My surest ioye to weepe my fill my greatest wealth reuenge Thus doe I leade a haplesse fate Content with woe enricht with hate Assone as she had ended this mornefull Madrigale she gaue the Lute to one of her Maides and the rest ready to depart but casting her eye aside she espied me wherewith she came pacing toward the place where I stoode and with a courteous and princely countenaunce she gaue me a friendly welcome and taking mee by the hande led mee into her bed chamber where supper was alreadie prouided after we had taken our repast I desirous to knowe the straunge maner of her Sacrifice made request to know the cause of her continuall sorrow what both the pearcing of the heart and the drinking of the dead mens skulles did meane She nothing coy to condiscend to a straungers intreatie began her talke in this maner Iupiter In this Countrie of Scithia there raigned a King not long since called Euandrus who by his naturall inclination was wholy addicted vnto martiall prowesse taking such delight in blooddie wars and cruell Skirmishes as he thought himselfe vnfortunate when either his enimies for feare or he for want of some iust occasion was driuen to liue in vnwilling quiet This Euādrus had such happy successe in his attempts as by his valour courage he had made a conquest of all the kingdoms adiacent to his dominions Libia onely excepted which was possed by a cruell mercilesse Tyrant named Charaxes who seeing that fortune without any checke had long time fauoured Euandrus thought that after great calmes would ensue little stormes that low ebbes followed hie tydes that fortune after so many sweete fauours could not but shewe some sower frownes whereupon he leuied a mightie Hoast and made a suddayne inuasion into the borders of Scithia burning and spoyling all the countrey thinking by his desperate attempt to make the king shrinke and seeke for Truce But the euent fell out contrarie to his expectation For Euandrus hearing howe Charaxes had attempted the Conquest of his Countrie gathered a greate Armie to the number of a hundreth and fiftie thousand Footemen and fower thousand Horsemen manfully marching forwarde to defend his Countrie and withstand the force of his iniurius enemie Wherein Fortune not willing at this time to giue him the foyle shewed him such accustomed fauour that he valiantly discomfited Charaxes and all his Hoste yea and tooke the King himself prisoner retourning into Scythia with such triumphes that his subiects had both cause to feare and honour such a King Charaxes being thus brought prysoner into Scythia Euandrus as he was fortunate in obtayning the conquest so he was fauourable in vsing the victories thinking it as Kingly to pardon as to conquer and as great renowne to be gotten by shewing mercie to professed foes as curtesie to assured frends For he intreated not Charaxes as a wret●hed Captiue but as a worthy Prince entertaining him with such frendly familiaritie as the Lybians had great cause to extoll his clemencie Euandrus bathing thus in the streames of blisse sitting firmely on y e fickle top of prosperity had y e check giuē him by fortune on this wise Hee had by his wife which was the lately deceased three Children two were sonnes borne twinnes at one instant and in such a moment that it was almost hard to gesse which was y e eldest the one was called Fresnitus y e other Rhomphanus his daughter named Lyndana a Ladie of such exquisite perfection and singuler beautie that she stayned not