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A01514	The poesies of George Gascoigne Esquire; Hundreth sundrie flowres bounde up in one small poesie	Gascoigne, George, 1542?-1577.	1575 (1575)	STC 11636; ESTC S102875	302,986	538

from all filthie phrases corrected in all erronious places and beautified vvith addition of many moral examples To the seconde although I be sometimes constreyned for the cadence of rimes or per licentiam Poeticam to vse an ynkehorne terme or a straunge vvord Yet hope I that it shall be apparant I haue rather regarde to make our natiue language commendable in it selfe than gay vvith the feathers of straunge birdes To the thirde reason may be obiected that if I vvere so desirous to haue my capacitie knovvne I shoulde haue done much better to haue trauelled in some notorious peece of vvorke vvhich might generally haue spred my commendation The vvhich I confesse But yet is it true that I must take the Foord as I finde it Sometimes not as I vvoulde but as I may And since the ouersight of my youth had brought mee farre behinde hande and indebted vnto the vvorld I thought good in the meane time to pay as much as I had vntill it might please God better to inable me For commonly the greediest creditor is appeased if he see his debitor vvilling to pay vvhē he hath any thing And therefore being busied in martiall affayres vvhereby also I sought some aduauncement I thought good to notifie vnto the vvorlde before my returne that I coulde as vvell persuade vvith Penne as pearce vvith launce or vveapon So that yet some noble minde might be incouraged both to exercise me in time of peace and to emploie mee in time of seruice in vvarre To the fourth and last considerations I had alledged of late by a right reuerende father that although in deede out of euerie floure the industrious Bee may gather honie yet by proofe the Spider thereout also sucks mischeeuous poyson VVherevnto I can none othervvise ansvvere but that he vvho vvill throvv a stone at euerie Dogge vvhich barketh had neede of a great satchell or pocket And if the learned iudgements and honest mindes doe both construe my doings aright and take therein either councell or commoditie then care I the lesse vvhat the vvicked conceyue of my conceytes For I esteeme more the prayse of one learned Reader than I regard the curious carping of ten thousande vnlettered lettered tattlers To conclude right reuerend as these considerations did specially moue me at first to consent to the imprinting of these posies so novve haue I yet a further consideration vvhich moueth mee most earnestly to sue for this second edition or publishing of the same And that is this I vnderstande that sundrie vvell disposed mindes haue taken offence at certaine vvanton vvordes and sentences passed in the fable of Ferdinando Ieronimi and the Ladie Elinora de Valasco the vvhich in the first edition vvas termed The aduentures of master F. I. And that also thervvith some busie coniectures haue presumed to thinke that the same vvas indeed vvritten to the scandalizing of some vvorthie personages vvhom they vvoulde seeme therby to knovv Surely right reuerend I smile to see the simplicitie of such vvho being indeed starke staring blind vvould yet seeme to see farre into a milstone And the rather I scorne their rash iudgements for that in talking vvith .xx. of them one after another there haue not tvvo agreed in one coniecture Alas alas if I had bene so foolishe as to haue passed in recitall a thing so done in deede yet all the vvorld might thinke me verie simple if I vvoulde call Iohn Iohn or Mary Mary But for the better satisfying of all men vniuersally I doe here protest vnto you reuerend euen by the hope of my saluation that there is no liuing creature touched or to be noted therby And for the rest you shall find it novv in this second imprinting so turquened and turned so clensed from all vnclenly vvordes and so purged from the humor of inhumanitie as percase you vvoulde not iudge that it vvas the same tale For although I haue bin heretofore contented to suffer the publication thereof only to the ende men might see my Methode and maner of vvriting yet am I novve thus desirous to set it forth eftsoones to the ende all men might see the reformation of my minde And that all suspitions may be suppressed and throughly satisfied by this mine vnfeined protestation vvhich I make vnto you in that behalfe Finally vvere it not that the same is alreadie extant in such sort as hath moued offence I should rather be cōtent to cancel it vtterly to obliuion then thus to returne it in a nevv patched cote And for full proofe of mine earnest zeale in Gods seruice I require of you reuerende most instantly that if hereby my skill seeme sufficient to vvade in matters of greater importance you vvill then vouchsafe to employ mee accordingly Surely you shall finde me no lesse readie to vndertake a vvhole yeares trauaile in anie vvorke vvhich you shall thinke me able to ouercome than I haue beene vvilling heretofore to spende three houres in penning of an amorous Sonnet Euen so being desirous that all men generally and you especially should conceiue of me as I meane I haue thus farre troubled your lerned eies vvith this plaine Epistle vvritten for my purgation in matters vvhiche else might both haue offended you and giuen great batterie to the ramparts of my poore credite The God of peace vouchsafe to gouerne and product you and me and all his in quiet of conscience and strength of spirit Amen From my poore house at VValtamstovv in the Forest this last day of Ianuarie 1574. To al yong Gentlemen and generally to the youth of England George Gascoigne Esquire by birth and Souldiour by profession wisheth increase of knowledge in all vertuous exercises GAllant Gentlemen and lustie youthes of this my natiue Countrey I haue here as you see published in print suche Posies and rymes as I vsed in my youth the which for the barbarousnesse of the stile may seeme worthlesse and yet for the doubtfulnesse of some darke places they haue also seemed heretofore daūgerous So that men may iustly both condemne me of rashnesse and wonder at my simplicitie in suffering or procuring the same to be imprinted A yong man well borne tenderly fostered and delicately accompanied shall hardly passe ouer his youth without falling into some snares of the Diuell and temptations of the flesh But a man of middle yeares who hath to his cost experimented the vanities of youth and to his perill passed them who hath bought repentance deare and yet gone through vvith the bargaine who seeth before his face the tyme past lost and the rest passing away in post Such a man had more neede to be well aduised in his doings and resolute in his determinations For with more ease and greater fauour may we answere for tenne madde follies committed in grene youth than one sober ouersight escaped in yeares of discretion Lycurgus the good princely Philosopher ordeyned that if an olde man perceiuing a yong man to commit any dishonestie did not rebuke but suffer him the aged

calling to minde that there is a noble house of the Mountacutes in Italie and therwithall that the L. Mountacute here doth quarter the coate of an auncient English Gentleman called Mounthermer and hath the inheritaunce of the sayde house dyd therevpon deuise to bring in a Boye of the age of twelue or .xiiii. yeeres who should faine that he was a Mounthermer by the fathers side and a Mountacute by the mothers side and that his father being slaine at the last warres against the Turke and he there taken hee was recouered by the Venetians in their last victorie and with them sayling towardes Venice they were driuen by tempest vpon these coastes and so came to the mariage vpon report as followeth and the sayde Boye pronounced the deuise in this sort WHat wōder you my Lords why gaze you gentlemen And wherefore maruaile you Mez Dames I praye you tell mée then● Is it so rare a sight or yet so straunge a toye Amongst so many nooble péeres to sée one Pouer Boye Why boyes haue bene allowed in euerye kinde of age As Ganymede that pretye boye in Heauen is Ioue his page Cupid that mighty God although his force be fearse Yet is he but a naked Boye as Poets doe rehearse And many a préetye boye a mightye man hath proued And serued his Prince at all assayes deseruing to bée loued Percase my strange attire my glittering golden gite Doth eyther make you maruaile thus or moue you with delite Yet wonder not my Lordes for if your honours please But euen to giue me eare a while I wyll your doubtes appease And you shall knowe the cause wherefore these roabes are worne And why I goe outlandishe lyke yet being Englishe borne And why I thus presume to presse into this place And why I simple boye am bolde to looke such men in face Fyrst then you must perstande I am no straunger I But English boye in England borne and bred but euen hereby My father was a Knight Mount Hermer was his name My mother of the Mountacutes a house of worthy fame My father from his youth was trained vp in field And alwayes toke his chiefe delight in helmet speare and shielde Soldado for his life and in his happie dayes Soldado like hath lost his life to his immortall prayse The thundering fame which blewe about the worlde so wyde Howe that the Christian enemye the Turke that Prince of pride Addressed had his power to swarme vppon the Seas With Gallies foists and such liks ships well armde at al assaies And that he made his vaunt the gréedy fishe to glut With gobs of Christian carkasses in eruell péeces cut These newes of this report did pearce my fathers eares But neuer touched his noble heart with any sparke of feares For well he knewe the trade of all the Turkishe warres And had amongst them shed his blood at many cruell iarres In Rhodes his race begonne a slender tale yong man Where he by many martiall feats his spurres of knighthood wan Yea though the péece was lost yet won he honour styll And euermore against the Turkes he warred by his wyll At Chios many knowe how hardily he fought And howe with streames of stryuing blood his honoure deare hée bought At length enforst to yéeld with many captaines mo He bought his libertie with Landes and let his goodes ago Zechines of glistering golde two thousand was his price The which to paye his landes must leape for else he were vnwise Beléeue me nowe my Lordes although the losse be mine Yet I confesse them better solde than lyke a slaue to pine For landes maye come againe but lybertie once lost Can neuer finde such recompence as counteruailes the cost My selfe now know the case who lyke my fathers lot Was lyke of late for to haue lost my libertie God wot My father as I saye enforste to leaue his lande In mortgage to my mothers kinne for ready coyne in hande Gan nowe vpon these newes which earst I dyd rehearse Prepare himselfe to saue his pawne or else to léese his phearce And first his raunsome payde with that which dyd remaine He rigged vp a proper Barke was called Leffort Brittaine And lyke a venturer besides him séemely selfe Determined for to venture me and all his worldly pelfe Perhappes some hope of gaine perswaded so his minde For sure his hauty heart was bent some greate exploite to finde Howe so it were the windes nowe hoysted vp our sailes Wée furrowing in the foming flooddes to take our best auailes Now hearken to my wordes and marke you well the same For nowe I wyll declare the cause wherefore I hyther came My father as I saye had set vp all his rest And tost on seas both daye and night disdayning ydle rest We left our forelandes ende we past the coast of Fraunce We reacht the cape of Finis Terre our course for to aduaunce We past Marrocchus streightes and at the last descried The fertile coastes of Cyprus soile whicch I my selfe first spyed My selfe a foreward boye on highest top was plast And there I saw the Cyprian shoare whereto we sayld in haste Which when I had declared vnto the masters mate He lepte for ioye and thanked God of that our happy state But what remaines to man that can continue long What sunne can shine so cleare bright but cloudes may ryse among Which sentence soone was proued by our vnhappy hap We thought our selues full néere our friendes light in enemies lap The Turke that Tirant he with siege had girte the walles Of famous Famagosta then and sought to make them thralles And as he laye by lande in strong and stately trenche So was his power prest by Sea his Christian foes to drenche Vpon the waltring waues his Foistes and Gallies fléete More forrest like than orderly for such a man most méete This heauy sight once seene we turnde our course apace And set vp al our sailes in haste to giue suche furie place But out alas our willes and windes were contrarie For raging blastes did blowe vs still vppon our enimie My father séeing then whereto he néedes must go And that the mighty hand of God had it appointed so Most like a worthy knight though certaine of his death Gan cleane forget all wayling wordes as lauishe of his breath And to his Christian crewe this too shorte tale he told To comfort them which séemde to faint make the coward bold Fellowes in armes quod hée although I beare the charge And take vpon mée chieftaines name of this vnhappy barge Yet are you all my pheares and as one companie Wée must like true companions togeather liue and die You sée quod hée our foes with furious force at hand And in whose handes our handfull heere vnable is to stand What resteth then to doe should we vnto them yéeld And wifully receiue that yoke which Christians cannot weld No sure hereof be sure our liues were so vnsure And though we liue yet so