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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15035	Aurelia. The paragon of pleasure and princely delights contayning the seuen dayes solace (in Christmas holy-dayes) of Madona Aurelia, Queene of the Christmas pastimes, & sundry other well-courted gentlemen, and gentlewomen, in a noble gentlemans pallace. A worke most sweetely intercoursed (in ciuill and friendly disputations) with many amorous and pleasant discourses, to delight the reader: and plentifully garnished with morall notes, to make it profitable to the regarder. By G.W. Gent.; Heptameron of civill discourses	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?	1593 (1593)	STC 25338; ESTC S119821	126,076	172

lack of loue in the Children cast vs behinde hand another day we imagined that frée choyce in the children would haue directed vs to happinesse in marriage but want of maintenance and frowardnes in the parents marred this match In lofty loue we found danger in base loue lothesomnesse and inconstancie and where there is inequalitie of yeares fume and smoke of hell so that now wée shall be driuen to renounce our profession and run away with the Banckrout least if he stay as he is chopped vp in pryson so we if wée procéede any further be drowned in the riuer Stix If you frauaile with as much pleasure as you report your aduentures with ease quoth Segnior Philoxenus I wonder but a little though error carried you to hell gates but to incourage you to perseuer in your first purpose let this comfort you that things when they are at the worst begin againe to amend The Feauer giueth place to health when hée hath brought the pacient to deaths dore The Bée when he hath left his sting in your hand without danger may play with your eye lidde so when all the inconueniences of mariage are in your eares you may very well receiue her into your heart The thriuing vnthrift proues the best husband and to conclude your benefite with your owne example there is no such husband as the vnthrift when he fasteneth vpon the world for in spending of other mens goods he learned how to spare his own when he gets them so in the pleasant beating out of these inconueniences you knowe what maketh mariage bitter and the griefe known the remedy is easie With your fauour Sir quoth Dondolo to bée sicke is common to all men but to restore to health vnder God is the office of the Phisition so wée all knowe by our owne trauaile the infirmities of mariage but to finde out the blessings must procéede from your sound directions which fauour to obtaine we are all earnest suters Your request is so iust quoth Segnior Philoxenus that if I were able as I am not to better your iudgements I would not be daintie in this pleasure but for that the more the opinions are in the end the more profound the sentence is I wil too morrowe in part to satisfie your demaunde ioyne with you in your ordinarie swéete exercise Perchance you haue ended all the inconueniences in the olde yere and I may begin the new yeare in helping to bloome the blessings of mariage Quéene Aurelia and the rest of the company affectionately thanked Segnior Philoxenus for this high fauour and so rose from the Table who after a little pausing dansing and deuising at their pleasures went vnto their lodgings MADONA AVRELIA Her seuenth daies pleasures Containing a Discourse of the excellencie of Marriage with many sound Lawes and directions to continue loue betweene the married with the rare Historie of Pyrigeus and Pieria reported by Segnior Philoxenus and other good notes of regarde LIke as when the royall Armie lies incamped before a Towne of warre the sound of Trumpets noyse of Drums and neying of Horses dooth awake the Souldiors Citizens before Aurora bée willing to leaue the swéet embracements of her husband Tithon so euen with the departure of the day star in honour of the New yeare the Trumpets Drummes and Flutes sounded through euerie small passage into the lodgings of Segnior Philoxenus Pallace such shril salutations as the company enuying the confusion of night broad waking attended the mornings light to apparell themselues who in their most braue and sumptuous aray by nine of the clock made the great Chamber resemble a faire Garden in Maye In the imbroderies of whose Garments Flowers and fancies were so naturally and artificially wrought some of Pearle some of golde some of Bugle euery one according to their owne humor moreouer euery Gentlemans head was armed with his mistresses fauor and euery Gentlewomans hart was warmed with her seruants affection In the most soueraigne place of the great Chamber Ianus God of Time as the Poets faine was hung vp in the likenes of a Serpent winding his body into a circle holding his tayle in his mouth The yeare endeth and beginneth in 〈◊〉 selfe expressing vnder this figure his reuolution who through his continual motions inuironing and compassing the world retourneth into himselfe and endeth beginneth in himselfe and in ioyfull token of the new yeare he was garnished with many swéete flowers garlandes and deuices some artificiall liuely counterfeited Segnior Philox. although he hated superstitions ceremonies shund them yet he honoured ancient laudable customes Ancient ●ustomes are to be kept and kept them who according to the custome of the countrey presented euery one of his guestes with a rich newe yeares gift which explayned some morall vertue The vertues of the mind are more glorious then any outward garment Custome in Italie in giuing of new yeares giftes contrary to the custome of England The originall of new yeares gistes Among the rest he gaue his sister Quéene Aurelia a fayre playne tablet which opened represented the picture of a fayre Ladie garnished with many precious stones couertly expressing thereby that gorgious apparell was but base and counterfeit in respect of the braue vertues of the minde This order the Italians vse the best giueth new yeares giftes to his inferiour friends and in England cleane contrary the tenant giueth his Lord the mean Gentlemen to Knights Knights to Barons Barons to Earles Earles to Marquesses and Dukes to their soueraigne Prince But it séemeth the Englishmen obserue this custome more néere the originall then the Italians for the founders thereof were the auncient Romanes who bound their Knights the first day of Ianuarie in the Capitoll to present their new yeares giftes to Caesar Augustus were he absent or present but so many countries so many customes And to my purpose Segnior Philoxenus thus bountifully solemnized the vse of his owne Countrey This memorable courtesie perfourmed Segnior Philoxenus with some of the grauer company went before vnto the Chappell and Quéene Aurelia and her attendants followed with such a glittering shew as the Priests néeded no other Tapers to sée to say seruice by then the glimmering reflexions of the Gentlewomens eyes and the precious stones they wore in their Iewels and in my opinion God was better pleased and more honoured with the brauerie of the company then with the babling and ceremonies of the Priest who in the honour of the New yeare sets forth his relikes to the best shew By that time Seruice was ended and the company returned the Tables were furnished with many daintie dishes to wreake her hunger of some fewe whereof Quéene Aurelia tooke her Royal place and the rest of the companie as they pleased This Dinner was spent in discourse of certaine ceremonies and olde rites vsed in times past in the celebrating of God Ianus feast too tedious and withal impertinent for this discourse When dinner and a little other