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A02111	Greenes neuer too late. Or, A powder of experience: sent to all youthfull gentlemen to roote out the infectious follies, that ouer-reaching conceits foster in the spring time of their youth. Decyphering in a true English historie, those particular vanities, that with their frostie vapours nip the blossoms of euery ripe braine, from atteining to his intended perfection. As pleasant, as profitable, being a right pumice stone, apt to race out idlenesse with delight, and follie with admonition. Rob. Greene in artibus Magister.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1590 (1590)	STC 12253; ESTC S105832	90,698	165

the readie way to Dunecastrum Where hee no sooner came but fortune meaning to dally with the olde doteard and to present him a boane to gnaw on brought it so to passe that as he came riding downe the towne he met Francesco and his daughter comming from the Church which although it piercte him to the quicke and strainde euerie s●ring of his heart to the highest noate of sorrow yet he concealed it till he tooke his Inne and then stumbling as fast as he could to the Mayors houle of the towne he reuealed vnto him the whole cause of his distresse requiring his fauour for the clapping vp of this vnruly Gentleman and to make the matter the more hamous hee accused him of felonie that he had not onely contrarie to the custome bereft him of his daughter against his wil but with his daughter had taken away certaine pla●e This euidence caused the Mayor straight garded with his Officers to march downe with Fregoso to the place where Isabel and her Francesco were at breakfast little thinking poore soules such a sharp storme should follow so quiet a calme but fortune would haue it so And therefore as they were carrowsing each to other in a swéete frolicke of hoped for content the Mayor rusht in and apprehended him of felonie which draue the poore perplexed louers into such a dumpe that they s●ood as the pictures that Perseus with his shield turnde into stones Francesco presently with a sharpe insight entred into the cause and perceiued it was the drift of the olde foxe his father in lawe wherefore he tooke it with the more patience But Isabel séeing her new husband so handled fell in a swownd for sorrow which could not preuaile with the Serieants but they conueyed him to prison and her to the Mayors house As soone as this was done Fregoso as a man carelesse what should become of them in a straunge Countrey tooke horse and rode home hee past melancholy and these remained sorrowfull especially Isabel who after shee had almost blubbred out her eyes for griefe fell at length into this passion Infortunate Isabel and therefore infortunate because thy sorrowes are more than thy yeares and thy distresse too heauie for the prime of thy youth Are the heauens so vniust the starres so dismal the planets so iniurious that they haue more contrarie oppositions than fauourable aspects that their influence doth infuse more preiudice than they cā inferre profite Then no doubt if their motions be so maligne Saturne conspiring with all his balefull signes calculated the hower of thy birth full of disaster accidents Ah Isabel thou maist sée the birds that are hatched in Winter are nipt with euerie storme such as flie against the Sunne are either scorched or blinded those that repugne again nature are euer crost by fortune Thy father foresaw these euills and warned thée by experience thou reiectedst his counsaile and therefore art bitten with repentaunce such as looke not before they leape ofte fall into the ditch and they that scorne their parents cannot auoyd punishment The yong Tygers followe the braying of their olde sire the tender Fawnes choose their foode by the olde Bucke These brute beasts and without reason stray not from the limits of nature thou a woman and endued with reason art therefore thus sorrowfull because thou hast been vnnaturall Whether now Isabel What like the shrubbes of India parched with euerie storme Wilt thou resemble the brookes of Caruia that drie vp with euerie Sunne-shine Shall one blast of Fortune blemish all thy affection one frown of thy father infringe thy loue toward thy husband Wilt thou bee so inconstant at the first that hast promised to bee loyal euer If thou béest daunted on thy marriage day thou wilt be fléeting hereafter Didst thou not choose him for his vertues and now wilt thou refuse him for hi● hard fortunes Is hee not thy husband yes and therefore more déere to thée than is thy Father I Isabel and vpon that resolue least hauing so faithfull a Troilus thou prooue as hatefull a Cressyda sorrowe Isabel but not that thou hast followed Francesco but that Francesco by thée is fallen into such misfortunes séeke to mitigate his maladies by thy patience not to incense his griefe with thy passions courage is knowen in extremities womanhood i● distresse and as the Chrisolite is prooued in the fire the diamond by the anuill so loue is tried not by the fauour of Fortune but by the aduersitie of Time Therefore Isabel Feras non culpes quòd vitari non po●es and with Tully resolue thus Puto rerum humanarum nihil esse firmum Ita nee in prosperis la●itia gost●s nec in aduersis dolore concides With this she held he● peace and rested silent so behauing her selfe in the Mayors house with such modestie and patience that as they held her for a paragon of beautie so they counted he● for a spectacle of vertue thinking her outward proportion was farre inferiour to her inward perfection so that generally she wan the hearts of the whole house in that they pitied her case and wished her libertie Insomuch that Francesco was the better vsed for hir sake who being imprisoned gréeued not at his owne sinister mishap but sorowed for the fortune of Isabel passing both day and night with manie extreame passions to thinke on the distresse of his beloued paramour Fortune who had wrought this tragedie intending to shewe that her frunt is as full of fauours as of frown●s and that shee holdes a dimple in her chéeke as she hath a 〈◊〉 in her brow began thus in a Comicall vaine to bee pleasant After manie daies were passed and that the Mayor had e●●red into the good demenor o● them b●th noting that it procéeded rather of ●he ●ispleasure of her father than for anie special ●●sart of felonie seeing youth would haue his swinge and that as the mineralls of Aetna stooue fire as the leaues in Parthia burne with the Sunne so yong yeares are incident to the heate of loue and affection will burst into such amorous parties He not as Chremes in Ter●nce measuring the flames of youth by his dead cinders but thinking of their present fortunes by the follies of his former age called a Conuenticle of his Brethren and séeing ther was none to giue any further euidence thought to let Francesco lose Hauing their fr●e consent the next day 〈◊〉 Isabel with him hee went to the Iayle where they heard such rare 〈◊〉 of the behauiour of Francesco that they sorrowed not so much at his fortunes as ●hey wondred at his ●ertues for the Iayler discourst vnto them how as he was greatly passionate so he vsed great patience hauing this v●●s oft in his mouth Fortiter ille f●cit ●q●i miser esse po●est That he was affable and courteous winning al and offending none that all his house as they greeu●d at his imprisonment would be sor●ie at his enlargement not for enuie of his person but for sorrowe

Athenians coūted such men vnworthie their Common wealth as were ingratfull and Plato seeing an vnthankefull man prosper said see men of Greece the Gods are prooued vniust for they haue laden a thistle with fruite VVhen right VVorshipfull these reasons entred into my reach and that I sawe how odious in elder time ingratefull men were to all estates and degrees least I might be stained with such a hatefull blemish hauing receiued many friendly nay fatherly fauours at your ●ands I resolued to indeuour how I might shewe the depth of my affection towards your VVorship I found my abilitie was not ●●swerable to my desires to proportionate equall requitall to your deserts so that I onely thought to make thankes my pay mistris and so passe ouer your good turne with the old prouerb God and Saint Francis thank you Yet when I perceiued great men had taken little gifts I tooke heart at grasse and imboldened my selfe to present you with a Pamphlet of my penning called my Nunquam sera est which your VVorship so gratefully accepted measuring my will more than the worth that hauing made my second part wherein is discoursed the sequell of Francescoes further fortunes I thought to shrowde it vnder your patronage I haue discouered herein the other follies of his youth and how at last repentance stroke in him such a remorse that his sorrowe for his sinnes were more than the pleasures conceipted in his vanities I haue from the loue of a lasciuious Curtizan brought him to the VVife of his youth the storie necessarie for yong Gentlemen and not offensiue vnto graue eares for the most seuere Stoick of all that seekes a knot in a rush may herein finde some sentence woorth the marking And though you as Virgill hold Ennius yet you may out of his drosse gather some golde They which thinke there is no God to their Goddesse may here finde that wanton loues are the readie paths to preiudice and that effeminate follies are the efficient causes of dyre disparagement and that there is no Iewel like the gift of an honest wife But whatsoeuer it is all is shrowded vnder your fauour which hoping you will as gratefullie patronage as the former I wish your VVorship as manie good fortunes as your self can desire or I imagine Your Worships adopted sonne in all humble dutie to commaund Robert Greene. ●o the Gentlemen Readers health IF Gentlemen I had not promised the further discourse of Francescos fortunes this Pamphlet had not come to the presse but seeing promise vvas debt and sundrie made challenge at the Stationers shoppe that I should bee a man of my word To satisfie therefore al my well wishers I haue written what befell Francesco after he had forsaken his Infida no great aduentures but you may see plotted downe many passions full of repentant sorrowes and reade many of his Sonnets that hee made in remorse of minde such as they bee they are yours or what my pen can doo but looke for it in more deeper matters Yours Robert Greene. In laudem Authoris THough wanton Horace writ of Loues delite And blythlie chaunted of his lasse Bonny and bright as any glasse Yet did the Poet Odes and Satyres write Wherein he taught fond youth That follie hatchethruth And with his toyes Mixt vertues ioyes So by his workes he reapt immortall praise Let him that writes the fall of Louers fits Of beautie and her scortching fires And fancie and her fond desires If vnto vertues l●re he wrest his wits And pen downe follies fall Whereto yong youth is thrall Haue honor then To grace his pen But enuie liues too much in these our daies Richard Hake Virtutis comes inuidia R. S. THe Bee is praisde for labour not for ease The more she workes the richer is her hiue The little Ant that teacheth man to thriue Is fam'd for that her labours neuer cease The more the fruite more precious is the tree The more the fish more valued is the streame The sweetest night when many stars doo gleame● The better ground that brings most graine we se● The more it workes the quicker is the wit● The more it writes the better to be steemed By labour ought mens wills and wits b● deemed Though dreaming dunces doo inueigh against it But write thou on though Momus sit and frowne A Cart●rs Iigge is fittest for a Clowne Bonum quo communius eo melius Greenes Neuer too late Nunquam sera est ad bonos more 's via NO sooner did Phoebus burnish the heauen with his brightnesse and deckt in a glorious diadem of chrisolites had mounted him on his Coach to lighten the Lampe that makes Flora beauteous but the Palmer was vp and at his Orysons beeing as deuoute in his thoughts as hee was mindfull of his trauels walking in the garden all alone and seeing the Sunne new peeping out of the East he began to meditate with himselfe of the state of man comparing his life to the length of a spanne or the compasse of the Sunne who rising bright and orient continueth but his appointed course and that ofttimes shadowed with so many Clowdes and strainde with a sable vale of such thicke fogges that he is more darkened with s●ormes than beautified with light and if it fortune his shine is without blemish yet he setteth and that more oft in a folde of Clowdes than in a cléere Skie so man bor●●●n the pride of beautie or pompe of wealth bee his honors equall with his fortunes and hee as happie as Augustus yet his life hath but his limittes and that clogged with so many cares and crosses that his daies are more full of miseries than of pleasures and his disas●er mishaps are more than his prosperous fortunes but if the starres grace him with all fauourable aspects and that hée liue full of content in many honours and much wealth yet his prime hath his Autum his faire blossomes turnes to tawnie leaues age will shake him by the shoulder and nature will haue his due that at last he must set with the Sunne and perhaps in such a clowde of sinne as his rising may be in a storme of sorrowes Thus did the Palmer meditate with himselfe ●éeing penitent for the follies of his youth that at last thinking to be as musicall to himselfe as the birds were melodious he chaunced out this O●e The penitent Palmers Ode Whilome in the winters rage A Palmer old and full of age Sat and thought vpon his youth With eyes teares and harts ruth Being all with cares yblent When he thought on yeares mispent When his follies came to minde How fond loue had made him blinde And wrapt him in a ●ield of wo●s Shadowed with pleasures shoes Then he sighed and said alas Man is sinne and flesh is grasse I thought my mistris haires were gold● And in their lockes my heart I folde Her amber tresses were the sight That wrapped me in vaine delight Her Iuorie front her preti● chin Were stales that drew me on to sin

loue●●earing that of all the Cities in Europe Venice hath most semblance of Venus vanities I goe thether not onely to see fashions but to quip at fol●●es that I may drawe others from that harme that hath brought me to this hazard The Gentlewomen of Venice your neighbours but vnknown to me haue more fauours in their faces than vertue in their thoughts and their beauties are more curious than their qualities be precious caring more to be figured out with Helen than to bée famozed with Lucrece they striue to make their faces gorgeous but neuer seeke to fit their minds to their God and couet to haue more knowledge in loue than in religion their eyes bewray their wantonnesse not their modestie their lookes are lures that reclaime not Hawkes but make them onely bate at dead stales As the Gentlewomen so are the men loose liuers and straight louers such as hold their conscience in their purses and their thoughts in their eyes coūting that houre ill spent that in fancie is not mispent Because therefore this great Citie of Venice is holden Loues Paradize thether doo I direct my pilgrimage that seeing their passions I may being a palmer win them to penance by shewing the miseries that Venus mi●eth with her momentarie contents if not yet I shall carrie home to my countrimen salues to cure their sores I shal see much heare little and by the insight into other mens extreames returne both the more warie and the more wise What I see at Venice sir and what I note there when I returne back I meane to visite you and make you priuie to all The héedfull Host hauing iudiciallie vnderstoode the pitifull report of the palmer giuing truce to his passions with the teares he spent and resolued to requite that thankfullie which he had attended heedfullie gaue this Catastrophe to his sad and sorrowfull discourse Palmer thou hast with the Kitrell foreshewed the storme ere it comes painting out the shapes of loue as liuely as the Grapes in Zeuxis Tables were pourtraied cunningly thou hast lent youth Egle eyes to behold the Sunne Achilles sword to cut and recure leauing those medicines to salue others that hath lost thy selfe and hauing burnt ●hy wings with t●e 〈…〉 dallying too long with th●●●re● thou hast bequeathe● other● a lesson with the Unicorne to preuent poyson by preserues before thou tast with the lippe The onely request I make in requit●ll of my attention is that thou leaue certaine testimonies on these walles where●n whensoeuer I looke I shall remember Francescos follies and thy foresight The Palmer estéeming the courteous replie of his hos● and desirous to satisfie his request drawing bloud from the vaine Cephalia on an arch of white Iuorie erected at the ende of an Arbour adorned with Honysuckles and Roses he wrote thus with a pencell In greener yeares when as my greedie thoughts Gan yeeld their homage to ambitious will My feeble wit that then preuailed noughts Perforc● presented homage to his ill And I in follies bonds fulfild with crime At last vnloosd thus spide my losse of time As in his circuler and ceaseles ray The yeare begins and in it selfe retu●nes Refresht by presence of the eye of day That sometimes ni● and sometimes farre soiournes So loue in me conspiring my decay With endles fire my heedles bosome burnes And from the end of my aspiring sinne My paths of error hourely doth begin Aries When in the Ram the Sunne renewes his beames Beholding mournfull earth araid in griefe That waigh●●eliefe from his refreshing gleames The tender flockes r●ioycing their reliefe Doo leape for ioy and lap the siluer streames So a● my prime when youth in me was chiefe All Heifer like with wanton horne I playd And by my will my wit to loue betrayd Taurus When Phoebus with Europas bearer bides The Spring appeares impatient of delaies The labourer to the fields his plow swaynes guides He sowes he plants he builds at all assaies When prime of yeares that many errors hides By fancies force did trace vngodly waies I blindfold walkt disdayning to behold That life doth vade and yong men must be old Gemini When in the hold whereas the Twins doo rest Proud Phlaegon breathing fire doth post amaine The trees with leaues the earth with flowers is drest When I in pride of yeres with peeuish braine Presum'd too farre and made fond loue my guest Wi●h frosts of care my flowers were nipt amaine 〈◊〉 height of weale who beares a careles hart R●pents too late his ouer foolish part Cancer When in Aestiuall Cancers gloomie bower The greater glorie of the heauens dooth shine The aire is calme the birds at euerie stowre To tempt the heauens with harmonie diuine When I was ●irst inthrald in Cupids powre In vanei I spent the May-month of my time● Singing for ioy to see me captiue thrall To him whose gaines are griefe whose cōfort smal Leo. When in the height of his Meridian walke The Lions holde conteines the eye of day The riping corne growes yeolow in the stalke When strength of yeares did blesse me euerie way Maskt with delights of follie was my talke Youth ripened all my thoughts to my decay In lust I sowde my frute was losse of time My hopes were proud and yet my bodie slime Virgo When in the Virgins lap earths comfort sleepes Bating the furi● of his burning eyes Both corne and frutes are firmd cōfort creepes On euerie plant and flowre that springing rise When age at last his chiefe dominion keepes And leades me on to see my vanities What loue and scant foresight did make me sow● In youthfull yeares is ripened now in woe Libra When in the Ballance Daphnes Lemman blins The Ploughman gathereth frute for passed paine When I at last considered on my sinnes And thought vpon my youth and follies vaine I cast my count and reason now begins To guide mine eyes with iudgement bought with paine Which weeping wish a better way to finde Or els for euer to the world be blinde Scorpio When with the Scorpion proud Apollo plaies● The wines are trode and carried to their presse The woods are f●ld gainst winters sharp affraies When grauer yeares my iudgements did addresse I gan repaire my ruines and decaies Exchanging will to wit and soothfastnesse Claiming from Time and Age no good but this To see my sinne and sorrow for my misse Sagittarius When as the Archer in his Winter holde The Delian Harper tunes his wonted loue The ploughman sowes and tills his labored molde When with aduise and iudgement I approue How Loue in youth hath griefe for gladnes solde The seedes of shame I from my heart remooue And in their steads I set downe plants of Grace And with repent bewailde my youthfull race Capricornus When he that in Eurotas siluer glide Doth baine his tresse beholdeth Capricorne The daies growes short then hasts the winter tide The Sun with sparing lights doth seem to mourn Gray is the green the flowers their beautie hides When as I see that I to death was borne My strength decaide my graue alreadie drest I count my life my losse my death my best Aquarius When with Aquarius Phoebes brother staies The blythe and wanton windes are whist still Colde frost and snow the pride of earth betraies When age my head with hoarie haires doth fill Reason sits downe and bids mee count my dayes And pray for peace and blame my froward will In depth of griefe in this distresse I crie Peccaui Domine miserere mei Pisces When in the Fishes mansion Phoebus dwells The dayes renew the earth regaines his rest When olde in yeares my want my death foretells My thoghts praiers to heauē are whole addrest Repentance youth by follie quite expells I long to be dissolued for my best That yong in zeale long beaten wi●h my rod I may grow old to wisedome to God The palmer had no sooner finished his circle but the Host ouer read his conceipt and wondering at the excellencie of his wit from his experience began to suck much wisedome beeing verie loath to detaine his guest too long after they had broken their fast and the goodman of the ●ouse courteouslie had giuen him thankes for his fauor the Palmer set forward towards Venice what there he did or howe hee liued when I am aduertised good Gentlemen I will send you tidings Meane while let euerie one learne by Francescoes fall to beware least at last too late they be enforced to bewaile FINIS

In a surcoate all of gray Such weare Palmers on the way When with scrip and staffe they see Iesus graue on Caluarie A hat of straw like a swaine Shealter for the sonne and raine With a scollop shell before Sandalls on his feete he wore Legs were bare armes vnclad Such attire this Palmer had His face faire like Titans shine● Gray and b●●some were his eyne Whereout dropt pearles of sorrow Such sweete teares Loue doth borrow When in outward d●awes she plaines Harts distresse that Louers paines● Rubie lips cherrie cheekes Such rare mixture Venus seekes When to keepe hir damsels quiet Beautie sets them downe their diet Adon ' was not thought more ●aire Curled lockes of amber haire Lockes where Loue did sit and twine Nets to snare the gazers eyne Such a Palmer nere was seene Lesse loue himsel●e had Palmer been Yet for all he was so quaint Sorrow did his visage taint Midst the riches of his face Griefe decyphred hi● disgrace Euerie step stra●●d a ●eare Sodaine sighes shewd his feare And yet his feare by his sight Ended in a str●nge delight That his passions did approue We●des and sorrow were for loue Thus attired in his trauelling roabes and leueld out in the lineaments of his Phis●●mie not seeing me that lay close in the thicketh h●●●ate him downe vnder a Beech tree where after he had taken vp his seate with a sigh he began thus to point out his passions Infortunate Palmer whose wéedes discouers thy woes whose lookes thy sorrowes whose sighes thy repentance tho● wandrest to beway●e thy sinne that hereto● fore hast not wondred at the greatnesse of sinne and seekest now by the sight of a strange Land to satisfie those sol●●es committed in thy Natiue home Why is there more grace in the East than in the West●● is God more gracious in ●ewrie than mercifull in England more fauourable to Palmers for their trauell than pi●ifull to sinner● for their penaunce No bee not so superstitious least thou measuring his fauour by circumstaunce hee punish thy faultes in seueritie Ah but the déepest vlcers haue the sharpest corasiues some sores can not be cured but by Subl●matum and some offences as they beginne in content so they ende in sack●loth I weare not this Palmers gray to challenge grace nor seeke the holy Land to counteruaile the Lawe nor am a Pilgrime to acquittance sinne with penaunce but I content mee in this habite to shewe the meeknes of my hart and trauel through many countries to make other men lear●e to beware by my harmes for if I come amōgst youth I will shew them that the finest buds are soonest ●●p● with frosts the sweetest flowers sores● eaten with canckars the ripest yong●st ●its soonest ouergrowen with follies if I chance among Courtiers I wil tel thē ●hat as the star Artophilex is brightest yet setteth soonest so their glo●●es b●ing most gorgeous are dash● with sodainest ouerthrowes if amōg schol●ers I wil proue that their Philosophical axiomes their quiddities of Logicke their aphorisms of art are dissolued with this definit peri●d Omma sub sole vanitas ● If amongst Louers and with this the teares fell from his eyes and the sighes flew from his hart as if all should split again If quoth he and he doubled his words with an Emphasis I fall amōgst Louers I will de●ypher to them that their God is a boy as fond as he is blinde their Goddesse a woman inconstant● false flattring like the windes that rise in the shoares of Lepanthus which in the morning send forth gusts frō the North and in the Euening calmes from the West● that their fancies are like Aprill showers begun with a Sunne shine ended in a storme their passions déep hels their pleasures Chimeraes portraitures sodaine ioyes that appearing like Iuno are nothing when Ixion toucheth them but duskie fading clowdes Here he stopped and tooke his scrip from his backe and his bottle from his side and with such cates as he had as limons apricocks and oliues he began a palmers banquet which digesting with a cup of wine well tēpred with water after euerie draught he sighed out this Nunquam sera est ad bonos more 's via When he had taken his repast casting vp his eyes to heauen as beeing thankfull for his benefites and sorrowfull for his sinnes falling into a déepe meditation after hee had a while lien as a man in a Traunce he started vp sodainly and with a halfe chéered countenance song out this Ode The Palmers Ode OLde Menalcas on a day As in field this shepheard lay● Tuning of his o●en pipe Which he hit with manie a stripe Said to Coridon that hee Once was yong and full of glee Blithe and wanton was I then Such desires follow men As I lay and kept my sheepe Came the God that hateth sleepe Clad in armour all of fire Hand in hand with Queene Desire And with a dart that wounded nie Pearst my heart as I did lie That when I wooke I gan sweare Phillis beautie palme did beare Vp I start foorth went I With hir face to feede mine eye There I saw Desire sit That my heart with Loue had hit Laying foorth bright Beauties hookes To intrap my gazing lookes Loue I did and gan ●o woe Pray and sigh all would not doe Women when they take the toy Couet to be counted coy Coy she was and I gan court She thought Loue was but a sport Profound Hell was in my thought Such a paine Desire had wrought That I sued with sighes and teares Still ingrate she stopt hir eares Till my youth I had spent Last a passion of Repent Tolde me flat that Desire Was a br●nd of Loues fire Which consumeth men in thrall Vertue youth wit and all At this sawe backe I start Bet Desire from my hart Shooke of Loue and made an ●th To be enemie to both Olde I was when thus I fled Such fond ●oyes as cloyde my hea● But this I learnd at Vertues ga●e The way to good is neuer late Nunquam sera est ad bonos more 's via As soone as he had ended his Ode he fell to his old principle Nunquam sera est and confirming it with a sigh he rose vp was ready to depart towards Bergamo to take vp his lodging for the s●nne was declining towardes the West But I desirous to search further into this passionate Palmer crost him the way with this salutation Palm●r for so thy appar●ll discouers and penitent if thy inward h●art agree with thy outward passions if my ques●ions may not aggrauate thy griefe nor my demaund be tedious to thy trauels let me craue of curtesie whither thou dost bend the end of thy pilgrimage that if thou beest stept awry I may dir●ct thee or if thou knowest the countrey I may wish boone fortune to thy iou●ney for I haue all my life time coueted to be faithful to my friends and curteous to strangers The Palmer amazed at my sodaine salutation stept

backe and be●● his bro●es as if he feared some preiudice or were offended at my presence but when h●e saw me weaponlesse and without companie and yet so affable in words a●d debonaire in exterior curtesi●s as might importe a Gentleman he deuoutly mooued his bonnet of gray and m●de this reply Gentleman for no lesse you seeme if the flower may be knowen by smel or the man by his words I am a Palmer discouered by my gray and a penitent if you note my griefe which sorrow is as effectuall as my attire is lit●le counterfeite the direction of my iourney is not to Ierusalem for my faith telles me Christ can d●aw as great fauour downe in England as in Iericho and prayers are not heard for the place but in the b●h●lfe of the person hartilie repentant My natiue home is England the ende of my iourney is Venice where I meane to visit an olde f●iend of mine an Eng●ishman to whome I haue beene long time indebted and nowe meane partely to repay with such store as I haue bought with hard expe●ience This night I will r●st in the next vill●ge and thus I hope sir you rest sa●●sfied This auswere of the Palmer made mee the more desirous to enquire into his state that I intreted him I might be hoste to such a guest and seeing I was resident in Bergamo where that night he mean● to harbour such lodging as a country Gentleman could affoord and such che●re as such a village might on the sodaine yéelde should be at his commaund Well coulde this Palmer skill of courtesie and returning mee many thankes voucht of my proffer and was willing to take my house for his Inne As wee past on the way wee chaunced to fall into prattle thus Sir quoth I if I might wi●h many question 's not be offensiue I woulde faine be inquisitiue to knowe as you haue passed along France Germanie the Rine and part of Italie what you haue noted woorthie of memorie Moouing his cappe as a man that was passing courteous he answered thus I tell you sir quo●h he as a foolish ques●ion merites silence so a familiar demaunde craues a friendly replie of duety although Zeno the philosopher counted it more honour to be a silent naturall●st than an eloquent Oratour But as I am not a Gymnosophist to iangle at euery Sophisticall Obiection so I am not a seuere Stoicke to answere but by Syllables and therfore thus to your question After I had cut from Douer to Calice I rem●mbred what olde Homer writte of Vlysses that he coueted not onely to sée strange Countries but with a déepe insight to haue a view into the manners of men so I thought as I passed thorough Paris not onelie to please mine eie which the curious Architecture of the building but wi●h the diuerse disposition of the inhabita●tes I f●unde therfore the Court for I aime first at the fayrest to haue a King fit for so royall a Regiment if hee had ●eene as perfect in true Religion as pollitique in Martiall Discipline th● Cour●●ers they as Aris●ippus faw●de vpo● Dyonisius turning like to the Cameleon into the likenesse of euerie Obiect that the King proff●red to their humorous conceits for if the king smiled euery one in the Court was in his iollitie if he frownd their plumes fell like the peacocks feathers so that their outward presence depend●d on his inward passions Generally so but particularly thus the French Gentlemen are amorous as soone perswaded by the beauty of their mistresse to make a braule as for the maintenance of religion to enter ●rmes their eyes are like Salamander stones that fier at the sight of euery flame their hearts as queasie as the mineralls of Aetna that burne at the heate of the sunne and are quencht with the puffe of euery winde They count it Courtlike to spende their youth in courting of Ladies and their age in repen●ing of sinnes yet more forward in the one than deuout in the other They bandy glaunces vpon euery face and as though they would approoue euery passion for a principle they set downe the p●riod with a deepe sigh yet as the breath of a man vpon st●●le no sooner lighteth on but it leapeth off is the beginning and ending of their loues Thus much for th●i● amour● Now for their a●ms they be hardy souldiors and r●s●l●●e For their faith friendship religion or other par●icular qualities for there is a league betwixt vs them I wil spare to speak least in b●ing Satyricall I should plod too far with Diogenes or in flattering their faults or their follies I shold claw a fooles shoulder with Dauus in Terence skipping therefore from them to the Germans Nay stay sir quoth I before you passe the Alpes giue me leaue to holde you an houre still in Lions for though you be a Palmer and religious yet I hope such deepe deuotion rested not in you but an ounce of Venus fauours hung in your eies and when you had sp●nt the morning in orisons you could in the afternoone lend a glaunce to a faire Lady The egle soares not so hie in the aire but ●e can spie a little fish in the sea the sunne in Cancer goes retrograde the coldest clime hath his summer and Apollo was neu●r so stoicall but sem●l in anno he could let fall a smile and the most seuere p●lgrime or palmer hath an eye well 〈◊〉 a heart and a looke to lend to beauty as a thought to bend to Theology Therfore I pray you what thinke you of the French women at this question although his grauity was great y●t with a pleasant countenance he made this reply although fire is hote as well in the coldest region of the North as in the furthest Southerne paralell the grasse of the same colour in Egypt as it is in Iewry and women wheresoeuer they be br●d be mala necessaria yet though their general essence be all one as comming from Eua and therefore froward inconstant light amorous d●c●itfull● and quid non better desciphered by Mantuan than I can make description of yet as the Diamonds in India be more harde than the Cornish s●on●s in England as the margarites of the west are more orient than the pearles of the Sou●h so womens affections are ●ffected after the disposition of the clime wh●rein they are borne although Auycen in his Aphorismes settes downe this conclusion that thornes no where growe without prickes nor nettles without stings but leauing off these preambles thus to your qu●stion The women in France generally as concerning the exteriour ●iniam●nts of their outward perfection are beautifull as being westernly seated neere great Brittaine where nature si●s hatcheth beauteous paramours yet although natur● naturans hath shewed her cunning in their purtraiturs as women that thinke nothing perfect that Arte hath not pollished they haue drugges of Alexandria mineralls of Egypt waters from Tharsu● paintings from Spaine and what to doe forsooth To make them more beautifull than v●rtuous and more