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A02152	Penelopes vveb VVhere, in a christall mirror of feminine perfection represents to the view of euery one those vertues and graces, which more curiously beautifies the mind of women, then eyther sumptuous apparell, or iewels of inestimable value: the one buying fame with honour, the other breeding a kinde of delight, but with repentance. In three seuerall discourses also are three speciall vertues, necessary to be incident in euery vertuous woman, pithely discussed: namely obedience, chastity, and sylence: interlaced with three seuerall and comicall histories. By Robert Greene Master of Artes in Cambridge.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1601 (1601)	STC 12294; ESTC S103424	24,622	40

Loue yet the Phisition by reading oft knoweth the nature of the Simple as well as the Gardner that planteth it he which séeth Fortune standing on a Globe may iudge she is fickle though he try not her incōstancy many speak of the Crocadiles teares that neuer felt her deceipts and diuers condemne Diogenes for a sinick that saw not his Tub The Shoomaker corrected Appelles picture yet he kn●w not the vse of the Pensell I may by your honours patience talke of Venus Temple that neuer smelt the fume of her Sacrifice but to say what I haue heard thus to the matter Anacreon Menander and Ouid with others who were studious in this amorous Philosophy haue as they set down principles so penned down precepts wherby the fond and variable effects of loue is manifestly deciphered calling it by the name of a God as vnder that tytle bewraying the forceable efficacie that by a predominant quality it doth infuse into humane minds other whiles a Fury as discouering the sorrows griefes and disquiets that procéeded from such a furious humour pain●ing Cupid blind as noting the selfconceipt in choice like a little boy as figuring small gouernment not leueled by the proportion of reason winged as absolutely pourtaying inconstant and fickle passions of Louers whose thoughts are variable whose ioyes are momētary like to the shadows which Iuno presented to the Giants bringing forth like the Ceader trées faire leaues but no ●●ui●es and as the Date hauing soft rindes but with in stones as hard as stéele This loue Madame presented by Venus as an inueagle obiect no sooner entreth the eye but he pierceth the heart not accompanied with vertue to perswade but armed with the outward hew of beauty to constraine which what effect soeuer ensueth waxeth at last sorrow and repentance Such was the loue of Dido to Aeneas that séeing the curious forme of the dissembling stranger through too ouer hasty affection did both ruinate herselfe and her Kingdome Ariadna by crediting the swéete tales of Theseus Med●a of Iason Phillis of Demophon and infinite other which entring into this passion runs headlong after endlesse repentance This loue is like the Baaran Leafe which séene pleaseth but touched pierceth the skinne this loue is that which ouerruling yong heads sotteth the sences dulleth the wittes hindreth quiet and maketh a passionate confusion in the minde of man called by the title of loue which indéed is méer● lust and vanity wheras true and perfect loue hath his foundation vpon vertue onely ayming at the inward perfection of the mind not at y● outward complection of the body which decreaseth not but increaseth with time vniting the harts with such strickt leages of amity that it ●ccounteth all labour a pleasure to shew endles desire by effects as Madam to infer your self for an instance who not po●sessed with this fond fury which mē faine to come from Venus but that settled fancy which we are sure procéedes from vertue although the Prince Vlisses hath ten yéeres béen absent at the siedge of 〈◊〉 and report in this space hath made sundry and time nor pretence of loue can euer be able to reconcile where De●●●pita 〈◊〉 olde age whom diseases hath tyed to the Crouch will now with the babe returne to the Cradel that stoo●ing to the graue by burden of ouer many yéers wil yet offer a toothles Sacrifice to Venus for a young husband this well may becalled a mariage of Labour where the maried couples so inequall in match are continually troubled with a spirit of dissention for as the fower Elements are different in their properties so are these disagreeing in their manners the earth ayre are not placed well in one ballance the fire and water brookes not the selfe ●amelimites age and youth may conioyne in law but not in loue sith the sanguine complection of the one the melancholye saturnine cōstitutiō of the other are alwaies in thoughts effecte and desires opposite ex dyametro so that by the opinion of Aristotle they be as it were immediat contraries which Dyonisius the elder noted very well when séeing his Mother passing old and ouer growne with age desirous to mary a yong stripling told her that it was in her power to violate the lawes of Syracusa but not the lawes of nature this affirmeth Plato in his Androgina agréeth to the censure of Dionisius affirming that marriage in olde Women is with the Giants bellum ger●●e cum Diis which the Romane Lady Valeria well noted who alwaies had this saying in her mouth that her husband dyed to others but liued to her foreuer And héerin can I commend my good daughter Penelope that hating such marriages of labour doth intend both toliue and dye to Vlisses Nay good Nurse quoth Penelope le ts heare your last distinction I meane the mariage of griefe t is Madam quoth she where the old prouerb is sulsil'd better one house troubled then two I meane where a bad husband is coupled with a bad wife where the one striueth to ouercome the other not in vertuous actions but in disquiet and murmurings I cannot thinke quoth Penelope that there is any husband so bad which the honest gouernment of his wife may not in time reforme especially if she kéep those three speciall points that are requisite in euery woman Obedience Chastity and Silence thrée such graces Nurse as may reclay me the most gracelesse husband in the world and because my mayds are young and may in time trie the fortune of mariage we wil this night discourse of this poynt to discouer the effects and efficacie of obedience which for that I wil be first in this newe deuised disputation I will take in hand to discourse of that both we may beguile the night with prattle and profite our mynds by some good and vertuous precepts The maides hearing their Lady in so good a vain were glad and therfore setting their hands to the Web and their eares to hir talke Penelope began in this manner Zenobia the wife of Radamysius King of Armenia being demanded of a Lady in her Court how she procured hir husband so déepely to loue hir as he feared in any wise to offer her occasion of displeasure answered by fearing ot displease him meaning that the chiefest point of wisdome in a good wife is to make a conquest of her husband by obedience Aristides the true and perfect Iusticiari● of his time caused the portraiture of a woman figured on her knées to be caried before y● Brydes at their espousals to signifie that they meant now to obey submit not to rule or command for quoth he such fond and fanastick women as make choise of effeminate Husbands thereby to challenge a soueraine superiority ouer them may rightly be compared to chose presumptuous fooles y● had rather be masters of blind men then seruants to the discréete and learned which caused Plato in his Androgina to say that a wise woman ought to thinke hir husbands

maners the lawes of her life which if they be good she must take as a forme of her actions if they be bad she must brooke with patience His reason is thus As a looking glasse or Christal though most curiously set in Ebonie serueth to small purpose if it doth not liuely represent the proportion and lineaments of the face inspicient so a woman though rich beautifull deserueth smal prayse or fauour if the course of her life be not directed after her husbands compasse And as the Mathematicall lines which Geometricians doe figure in their carracters haue no motiō of them selues but in the bodies wherin they are placed so ought a wife to haue no proper nor peculiar passion or affection vnlesse framed ans prouiding Soldiours money and Munition took her iourney as farre as Athens where she receiued letters from Anthony to returne backe to Rome which she with great obedience performed sending him al the forenamed necessaries although she perfectly knew that Cleopatra was with him in the fielde But when the warres betwixt him and Augustus were ended he sent straight to commaund Octauia that she should depart from his house which she did so obediently that Rome after her death would haue erected an Image in her praise but that Augustus would not suffer it kéeping Anthonies children that hée had by his first wife with such care and diligence as it did wel note to the world her loue and obedience To confirme which more at large I will rehearse a pleasant history Penelopes Tale. SAladine the Souldan of Aegipt who by his prowesse had made a generall conquest of the Southeast part of the world tooke to wife Barmenissa the onely daughter and heyre of the great Chan who amongst sundry Sutors not inferiour to him in parentage and progeny yet made such a carefull choyce of this yong Aegiptian Prince not for his beauty for that Nature had denied him that fauour but for his vertue fith he was wise and valiant that imprinting the perfection of his mind with a déep insight into the déepest place of her heart and sealing the knot of fancy with y● signet fo mariage she neuer so much as in thought crost him with any discourtesie yet for that men are the subiects of Fortune and therfore variable and the true disciples of time and therefore momentary he began to loath that in the fruite which he loued in the bud to spurne at that in the saddle which he secretly vsed in the cradle repaying the faith of Bermenissa not with flattery to inueagle her but with foule language t●e better to manifest his hate which although Nature forbad her to brooke yet obedience the Heralt y● best imblazeth loue taught her that against such sorrow there was no better salue then patience that reuenge in a woman was not to be executed by the band but by the hart and yet not with rigour but with clemency persisting in this opinion Olinda the Concubine which Saladine so greatly loued sent a letter to this effect Olinda to Saladine health IF the inward affects of the minde be manifested by outward effects or the brow the bashful bewrayer of secrets and yet the true discouerer of thoughts may bée credited the Emperour of Aegipt in his loues resembleth the Pyne trée whose leaues remaine in one colour but one day Well might the censures fo wise Clarks haue bin caueats of my likely misfortune for they say Princes affections as they are glorious so they are brittle that he fauour of Kings hangs in their eye lids ready with euery winke to be wiped out that as they are full of Maiesty and aboue law so they are full of incōstancy because without law this which other spoke by proofe now I alledge by experience for your Highnes abridgeth me of my wonted allowance not onely in expence but in lookes so that I account that day happy when Saladine but glanceth at Olinda The mistris of my mishap is thy iniurious wife Barmenissa to whō I wish thy ill fortunes my miseries she with a fained obedience séeketh to inueagle thée with a conceipt of her loue who if shée did loue could not content for she wants the eye pleasure beauty thou tickled with an inconstant humour dost listen to the melody of the old Syren whose necke shadowed with wrinckles affoords but had harmony Kéep not Saladine fire and water in one hand in running with the Hare hold not with the Hound beare not both a Sword and an Oliue Paris gaue sentence but on Venus part affection brooketh no diuision therefore if thou loue Olinda hate Barmenissa follow the example of Anthony who after his choyce of thy Countriwoman neuer fauoured Octauia t is beauty that mertis a Crowne and as well would the Diadem of Aegipt beséeme they Lemons head as thy wiues I should and yet were loth to flatter in saying what I would not but if I may haue free libertie to speake what I think my verdit shall be soone giuen I confesse that what pleaseth the father ought to content the sonne and therefore I count the will of Saladyne a lawe to Garinter yet as obedience wisheth a consent so Nature willeth with a friendly denyall to diswade from things that offende not onely men but y● are euen hatefull to the Gods I say therefore that Saladyne should get more honour by exyling Olynda not onely from Babylon but out of all the confines of Aegipt then if he had obtayned more tryumphes then that inuincible Caesar. No doubt your Grace shall soone nay I feare to soone finde my words to be true that in hoping to get a swéete content you gayne a sower mislike like to them which pleased with the colour of the trée Lotos are poysoned assoone as they taste of the Apples Barmenissa hearing how sharply her sonne shooke vp the Emperour with a modest countenance as nothing grudging at the iniurie of fortune at her last farewell gaue him this charge Although sonne the law of nature willes thée to be partner of thy mothers misfortunes yet the Gods whose lawes are aboue nature commaunds that thou gainsay not the Edict of thy father For as Proclus the Academick affirmes there is nothing which we ought more to regard then duetie and obedience the commaunde of the father is not to bée limited by the conceipt of the child for as their superiority is without proportiō so their wils ought to be without denials first the frowne of a father saith Epictetus is like the eleuation of a Commet which foreshewes euer some fatall and finall ruine Then Garinter offend not thy father in thought least the gods grudging at thy secret disobedience plague thée with an open reuenge further sonne thou art his subiect and be thy soueraine what duetie is due to such a mighty potentate thou must by law and conscience offer vnto him And séeing by the consent of the Aegiptian lawes I am deposed and O●●nda inuested with the regall crowne if a mothers