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A02136	Morando the tritameron of loue wherein certaine pleasaunt conceites, vttered by diuers woorthy personages, are perfectly dyscoursed, and three doubtfull questyons of loue, most pithely and pleasauntly discussed: shewing to the wyse howe to vse loue, and to the fonde, howe to eschew lust: and yeelding to all both pleasure and profitt. By Robert Greene, Maister of Artes in Cambridge.; Morando the tritameron of love. Part 1	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1584 (1584)	STC 12276; ESTC S105814	28,889	48

must sigh the one shewing thereby his affection to Musicke the other bewraying his passions in Loue. In deede sir quoth Peratio I remember Sylenus would alwaies leade his Asse in a string that when he waxt wearie he might ride and Amphion plaied euer best on his Harpe when he heard poore Stheneus blowe on his Oten pipe So sir you keepe me for a plaine song wherevpon to descant shewing your fine wit alwaies to be most sharp when you finde my dull head to be most grosse But Calchas neuer prophesied Darth to the Grecians but when his owne Lands were barraine Nor Tiresias had neuer giuen a verdite against Iuno but that he himself had been once a woman Thrasos age could not bereaue him of his parasiticall affections neither was Battus a lesse vlabb being olde then in his youth The whiter the Leekes head is the greener is the blade The Angelica beareth seede alwaies when it begins to wither Drie stickes are sonest consumed with fire and doating age sonest caught with fancie deuining that of others whereof they themselues doe most dreame but they followe the olde Prouerbe Similes habent labra lactucas By my faith Signior Morando quoth Madame Panthia if you haue pusht Peratio with the pike hath hit you with the Iaunce but it semes he hath bene burnt in the hand that cannot abide to here of fire Apollo would neuer willyngly avide the noise of the Crowe because he had beleued her to lightlie Sylenus was euer most angrie when any tould him of good wine because he would oft bee drunke Peratio likes not to be toucht where he is gald nor to be accused so stricktlie when his conscience feeles the crime and yet I goe too farre for it is no off●…nce to loue Yes Madame quoth Aretyno as Jupiter loued Europa crauyng onely to cropp the bud of her beautie and to spoile the frute of her honstie seekyng for the gaine of his fadynge pleasure to procure her lastyng paine Is not suche fancie a faulte when it springeth vp without honest affection Truth sir quoth Panthia but I coumpt likyng without Lawe ●…o loue but lust Was Scipio thought a frende to Numantia when he sought to spoile the Citie●… or Chronis to Caeres who robed her Temple of her treasure The Turky hauing lost his culler is of no value The fairest flower with out his smell is coumpted but a weede and the maid that by mischaunce loos●…th her virginitie though neuer so faier is most infortunate her chefest treasure is thē but trash like the Ore in the Ile Choos which is puer in the mynge but drosse in the furnace for beautie without honestie is like deadlie poyson preserued in a box of gould Consideryng this Arctyno doe you coumpt him to loue that wisheth his Ladie suche losse Madame quoth Morando you misconsture of his minde for Aretyno coumptes that what soeuer is fancie that is loue Tis good then quoth she to bringe him from his heresie for fancie is Vox aequiuoca which either may be taken for honest loue or fonde affection for fancie oftimes commeth of wealth or beautie but perfect loue euer springeth from vertue and honestie Marie quoth Peratio that is the cause that wemen loue so muche and men so little wherein by your owne iudgement thei are altogither blamlesse for wemen finde in vs honestie without wealth and we in thē beautie without vertue Sir quoth she your censure is no sentence neither can this broken coine stande for sterlyng for to excuse your selfe before you be accused is to finde a fowle crack in a false conscieuce Tis hard to couer a greate rent with a small peece or to hide Uulcans poult foote with pulling on a straight shoe Honesty is alwaies painted like a woman as signif●…yng that it is most predamynaunt in that sexe And sir to giue you a venie with your owne weapō as you saied bef●…e like lippes like lettice as the man is so is his manners cat alwaies goeth after kynde and tis harde to finde men without small houestie and great deceite Doe you speake by experience quoth Morando was your husband in the number of those that are cumbred with this consumption He was quoth she by nature but that he did amend it by nourture and yet quoth she my husbandes honestie cannot conclude generally but that there must be large exceptions I am glad Madame Panthia that you are so pleasaunt and al the rest of my good guestes so merilie disposed I hope you will not denie me of a request that generally I shall craue of you all If it bee reasonable quoth Panthia I dare promise for the gentlewemen And I quoth Syluestro for the men Why then I will haue you tell me your opinions whether this our countrey prouerbe be true or no whiche is commonly spoken Amor fa molto ma argento fa tutto Loue doth much but money doth all In men quoth Panthia and that we will proue In wemen quoth Peratio and that I will defend Two fitte champions quoth Morando to trie suche a doubtfull combate Nay sir quoth Panthia I my self refuse his proffer but my daughter Lacena shall perfourme my challenge for it is not a mourners parte to discourse of such pleasant pointes A fitte matche quoth Peratio for so honest a man and to put you out of doubt I had rather sip with your daughter then sup with you for an inche of a kidd is woorth an ell of of a cat but to leaue these cuttyng blowes how say you Lacena are you content to defende so false an heresie Sir quoth she where dutie driues there denyall is a fault and where nature infereth obedience there to resist is to war against the Gods the youg Lambe commeth at the bleating of y ● old sheepe the Signett at y ● call of the Swan the Faune followeth fast after y ● Do creatures without reason and brute beastes by mere instinckt of Nature followe their dams and should not I then obey my parentes yes no doubt or els I might be counted more brute then a beast or lesse naturall then a reasonable creature This considered if I aduentere rashely to discusse so harde a case beyng vnfit by nature and arte the duetie I hope that I owe vnto her who hath power to commānd me shall be sufficient to excuse my small skill and great interprise and the common saiyng so ●…uerally vs●…d here in our countrey doeth somwhat incorage me A ●…ure truth quoth thei neede no subtill gloze nor a cleare case a shifting Counseller Well quoth Peratio I doubt your fained simplisitie will proue a non to bee sinewishe Sophestrie and therefore thus to the purpose The case quoth he which we haue to discusse is a maxime houlden as true as a holie Oracle but the doubt is whether it is to be auerred in men or verefied in wemen If the perfection of the bodie and the constitution of the mynde forceth men to loue more then the greedie desire to gaine

surprised with sodaine sorrowe that before the tale could be halfe tolde she fell downe in a traunce being hardly brought againe to life by the cōpanie Yet at last being come to her self after she had wept so long that the very fountaine of her teares was dried vp with continuall powring out of sorrowfull plaintes she then womanlike began somewhat to listen to the comfortable counsaile of her friendes and to applie to her sore that salue that might soonest mittigate her maladie For through their friendly perswasions very shortly she began to consider that as to wishe for an impossible thing was but a signe of small wit so to sorrow without ceasing for that whiche could not bee redressed did importe but mere follie the one being a foe to desire and y ● other a friend to death She therfore resting vpon this point thought with most solemne Obsequies to celebrate her husbandes Funeralls that both the sequell of her workes might confirme her former wordes and her teares be●…●…ought to come more of care then of custome Wherevppon she framed a very sumptuous Sepulchre intombing her husbands bones with such pompous magnificence that al Italie thought Bonfadio happie for so good a wife and her worthie of so good a husband The Funeralls finished Panthia for a time liued more sorrowfullie being a widowe then merely being a wife till at last seeing her mourning Weede began to waxe bare she thought best both to cast awaie her outwarde coate and her inward care wisely waighing with her self that it is in vaine to water the Plant when the roote is dead to aske counsell when the case is distrust to wishe for raine when the Corne is ripe and to sigh when no sorrowe can preuaile The Cedar tree remaineth without leaues but twelue daies and the Date tree but seuen Cyrces loue neuer continued aboue one yeare and the Tapers in the Temple of Ianus burned onely but nine nightes the call of a Quaile continueth but one quarter and a widowes sorrowe onely two monethes in the one sad for her olde mate and in the other carefull for a newe match Panthia in this state hauing past this tearme I doe not saie with like affection thought now she had a greater care and more charge being a widowe then a wife For she had by Signior Bonfadio three daughters the eldest named Lacena the seconde Sostrata and the yongest Fioretta all so adorned with beautie and indowed with bountie so framed in bodie and fourmed in minde eche of them being both in outwarde complexion and inwarde constitution so singular as hard it was to iudge which held the Supremacie Panthia placing all her felicitie in the exquisite perfection of her three daughters sought to bring them vp so charily and chastly that all men might like them for their beautie and loue them for their vertue imitating the good Lapidaries whiche in the purest golde set the most precious stone While thus solitarily and sadly she past awaie the time amongst her children Signior Morando a Knight who in his life time had oft serued in the warres with Bonfadio betweene whom there had long been a perfect League of amitie willing to shewe in the broode h●… well he loued the olde birde was so friendly to Panthia as familiar with Bonfadio comforting her as a desolate widowe and counselling her as his friendes wife driuen to the one by conscience and to the other by curtesie Seing therefore she did wholie absent her self from companie whiche made her dreame on sondrie melancholie motions he did inuite her and her three Daughters to a graunge house of his seuen miles distant frō Bononia whether also diuers gentlemen were bidden thinking this the fittest meanes to driue her from her sorrowfull dumpes Panthia desirous to let Signior Morando vnderstande how greatly she did account of his curtesie came at the daie appointed to his house where bothe she and her Daughters were not onely well welcome to Morando but to all the rest of the companie Amongst whom was Signior Peratio Messier Aretyno and Signior don Syluestro with others who sitting downe to dinner and passing awaie the time with pleasaunt parle it chaunced after dinner as they sat talking that Signior Peratio spied hanging in the Parlera Table most curiously painted wherein both the Sea and Land was most perfectly pourtraied The Picture was of Europa the Sea of the Phenicians and the Lande of Sydon On the Shoare was a beautifull Medowe wherein stoode a troupe of daintie Damosells in the Sea a Bull vppon whose backe sat a Dame of surpassing beautie sailing towards Candie but looking to the crew of her companions from whom by Sinister meanes she was seperated The Painter by secrete skill had perfectly with his Pensell desciphered the feature of their faces as their countenance did seeme to importe bothe feare and hope For seing their pereles Princesse a praie to suche a prowling Pyrate they rusht into the Seas as willing to be partakers of their Mistres miserie as farre as feare of such fearfull surges would permit them but pushed back with the dread of present daunger they stoode vewing how cunningly and caresully the Bull transported his charge How Europa araied in Purple Roabes sat securely and safely holding in her right hand his horne and in her left his taile About him the Dolphins seemed to leape the Syrens to sing and Triton himself to triumph Cupid also in the fourme of a little boy was there most curiously painted hauing his winges spred a Quiuer by his side in one hande a flame of fire in the other a chain●… of gold where with he drewe the Bull as by constraint and turning his head towards Iupiter seemed to smile at his follie and to despise his dietie that by his meanes he had made suche a straunge Metamorphosis Signior Peratio hauing long gazed on this gorgcous Picture both praised his perfect skill that had so cūningly made a counterfait of Nature by Arte and also mused at the force of Loue that had by conquest caught so worthie a Captiue that at length as one forced by affection he sighing saied O Gods that a childe should rule both the Heauen the Sea and the Lande Don Siluestro seing Peratio so sodainly passionate with the view of a simple Picture taking occasion herevppon to enter into further parle began to crosse him on this maner Why how now Peratio quoth he doe you sigh to see Iupiter so fonde as for lust to abase his dietie or Cupid so presumptuous as by Loue to increase his dignitie the one shewing himself worse then a man for his follie the other more then a God for his power No sir quoth Morando you mistake his meaning for it fares with him as with Narcissus that was neuer in Loue but when he lookt into the water or like the Fishe Mugra which onely leapeth at the sight of the North starre Hyparchion neuer sawe any Musicall Instrument but he would sing nor he any a●…rous Picture but he

fallen out the Nimphes had neuer gotten their Cornucopia Had not Circes and Vlisses iarred his men had neuer returned to their sh●…pes Tis an ill flaw that bringeth vp no wracke and a bad winde that breedeth no mans profite Had not Syluestro and Peratio fallen out about loue wee had neuer brought it in question whether it be good to loue or no. But now wee will haue it tried out in the plaine fielde to see the euent of the battaile For truely I am of Siluestros opinion that to liue without loue is not to liue at all Sostrata who from her birth was vowed vnto Vesta and offred her Sacrifice at the Shrine of Diana hearing Morando take Siluestros pa●…te with blushing face made this maidenly aunswere Sir quoth she although I maie seeme impudent in my mothers presence to enterparle and maie bee thought halfe inmodest without commaund to come to counsell yet I hope the equitie of the cause and the necessitie of the defence will excuse me to the one and cleare me from the other To haue fonde loue honoured as a God were grosse Idolatrie to consent to suche Scisinaticall opinions were palpable Heresie therfore if it please my mother to giue me leaue I wil proue that the worst course of life is to loue Daughter quoth Panthia if you thinke your self strong enough to withstand so stou●…e an Heresie my good will shall be quickly graunted but take heede least in ventring in an vnknowne Foorde you slippe ouer the shooes T●…she quoth Peratio it was easie for Achilles to conquer Hector when he himself by the meanes of Thetis was inuulnerable and as easilie may Sostrata withstand Siluestro 〈◊〉 she is armed with the truth which maie well be assalted but neuer vtterly sacked Your good worde quoth Siluestro is neuer wanting but if Sostrata would be ruled by mine aduise she should not yeld her verdict against Venus but for my parte let her doe as she please for I am sure prattle she may but preuaile she cannot Sostrata hearing the shorte censure of Siluestro began to defende the walles with this Rampire Ouid quoth she the Maister of this Arte who busily bet his braine about setting downe of amorous principles being demaunded what Loue was aunswered that it was suche a vaine and inconstant thing suche a fickle and fonde affectionate passion that he knewe not what it was from whence it came nor to what ende it tended Onely this he was assured of by experience that to the vnhappie it was a hell and to the most fortunate at the least the losse of freedome Anacreon said that it was the forgetting of a mans self whereby his sences are so besotted and his wittes inueagled he is so suared with vanitie and so fettered with follie as he greedelie seeketh to gaine that thing whiche at last turneth to his extreme losse For who so yeeldeth himself as a flaue to loue bindeth himself in fetters of golde and if his sute haue good successe yet he leadeth his life in glistring miserie For loue according to the definition of the Philosophers is nothing els but the desire of Beautie so that the beginning middest and ende of loue is to croppe the bitter sweete bud of Beautie which how pleasaunt so euer it be in the mouth yet so perilous in the maw that he neuer or seldome digesteth it without daunger both of his purse and person Beautie the onely ●…ewell whiche Louers desire to enioye although you maie obiect against me that it is a foule birde defiles their owne neast yet conscience cōstraines me to auer the tr●…th is like to the Baaran flower which is most pleasaunt to the eye but who so toucheth it feeleth present sinarte None euer rid on Seianus horse but he came to ruine Who so possessed but one dramme of the golde of Tholossa perished He that with vnwasht handes touched the Aultar of Ianus fell downe presently dead and fewe or none whiche onely fixe their fancie vpon Beautie escape without mishappe or miserie so that I conclude the Louer in liew of his toyle getteth suche gaine as he that reapeth the beautifull Apples of Tantalus which are no soner toucht but they turne to Ashes If this trash thē be the treasure whiche Louers desire so greedily to gaine no doubt their winninges shall be muche like to his which supposing to embrace Iuno caught nothyng but a vaine vanishyng Cloude This considered he hath either his sences besotted or els is blinded with selfwill whiche seeth not the abuses in Loue and follie of Louers whose life is so pestered with continuall passions and combred with suche haplesse cares as it is to be counted nothyng but a very masse of miserie They spende the daie in dumpes and the night in dollor seeking much and finding little gaping after that which they seldome gaine and which if they get proueth at length but losse Tis true in trothe quoth Peratio for of all follies loue is the greatest fondnesse and especially in those whiche are coumpted truest Louers who if they want of their will and misse of their wishe pine awaie in hellishe pennurie and though their mistres rewarde them with hate yet they neuer make an ende of their loue but by death Such loue in my opinion no wise man either will or can commende for if to loue were good as is now in question yet tis a proued principle Omne nimium vertitur in vitium therefore if euer I loue I will keepe a meane neither to hie least I suspecte with Cephalus nor to lowe least I mislike with Minos and especially I would not exceede for I thinke of Louers as Diogenes did of Dauncers who beyng asked how he liked them answered the better the woorse This pleasant conceipt of Peratio made Morando and all the companie to laugh seeyng how bitterly he began to bob Siluestro on the thumbes who throughly chafed burst foorth into these tearmes Peratio ꝙ he you come to counsell before you bee calde and set downe your sentence before any manne craues your censure your verdit is of lesse valure Your slender opinion is not to be taken for a principle and therefore learne thus much of me that so apishly to carpe at euery cause is a signe of greate immodestie and small manners but leauyng you to your follie thus much to the purpose The Philosophers who haue sought precisely to set out the perfect Anotomie of pure loue who set downe by pen that whiche before they tried by experience weighyng wisely the straunge affectes and force of loue and feeling in them selues the puissance of his power iustly cannonised that sacred essence for a God attributing vnto it the ●…itle of dietie as a thyng woorthie of such supernaturall dygnitie For it doeth infuse into the mindes of men suche vertuous and valerous motions kindlyng in mens hartes such gowing coales of naturall affection whiche before the force of loue had touched them lay buried in the deade cindres of hate that it doeth knitt the mindes

of frendes together with suche perfect and perpetuall amitie as we may iustlie say with Socrates they be two bodies and one soule yea the common people although their myndes bee sotted and almost sencelesse yet they haue had loue in suche sacred estimation that they carefully rewarded them with the title of Honour and Dignitie whiche haue excelled in that holie affection estemyng this onely vertue if so basly it may be termed sufficient of a man to make one a God But to ayme more neare the marke if we rightly cōsider the force of loue wee shall finde that there is nothing whiche so pleasureth a man and proffitethe the Common wealth as loue Tullie beyng demaunded why the Common wealth of Rome did oft fall into many calamnities at that tyme especially when S●…illa and Marius Tyranously shed so muche innocente bloud answered because the temple of loue was defaced and beeyng demanded what caused the Commonwealth so to florish in prosperous estate answered loue Aledgyng to the olde Italian prouerbe Amor è la madre del bu●…n citta What causeth vertue to rayne and vice to come to ruine but loue What delighteth in good and despighteth ill but loue Yea what causeth a man to bee honored for a GOD but loue It maketh the valient to venture amidest moste perrilous daungers neither to bee feared with the losse of life nor to respect the dint of Death t●…inkyng no aduenture harde to bee atchiued nor encounter combersome no daunger perrilous so he be fullie armed with the shield of loue to defend hym from the furious force of his enemies So manie Grecians had neuer bene slaine of H●…ctor had not Andromache looked ouer the walles Troielus had neuer made suche a Massacre among his fo●…s had not Cr●…ssed buckled on his Helmet Nay Achilles had neuer slaine them bothe had not Briseida beene the Mistres of his thoughtes To conclude in all ages Cheualrie had neuer so brauely flowrished if Loue had not been the guerdon for their desertes Loue maketh a man which is naturally adicted vnto vice to be indewed with vertue to applie himself vnto all lawdable exercises that thereby he maie obtaine his Louers fauour He coueteth to bee skilfull in good letters that by his learnyug he maie allure her to excell in Musick that by his melodie he maie entise her to frame his speech in a perfect phrase that his Eloquence maie perswade her yea what Nature wanteth he seeketh to amende by nurture and the onely cause of this verteous disposition is Loue. And to proue this premisses with a particular instaunce I remember that our countriman Boccaee in his Decameron bringeth in one Chymon ●… Lacedemonian who was more wealthie thē wittie and of greater possessions then good qualities giuen from his birth to be a seruile drudge by nature and could not by his friendes be haled from his clownish state by nurture his delight was to toyle at y e Plough although a Nobleman borne and ciuill curtesie was the onely thing he contemned This Chimon who by no art could be brought to haue any witte by chaunce as he passed through the streetes cast his eye on the glittring beauty of a Ladyin Lacedemonia whose singuler perfection so deeply imprinted into the harte of this witlesse Chimon as he felt the flame of fancie to fric within his entrales yea the force of affection had so furiously assalted hym as perplexed with these vnaquainted passions Loue driue him so to his shiftes that he seckyng to obtaine his mistres fauour he began to applie himself to al bertuous exercises that within shorte tyme loue beeyng his loodestone of a witlesse foole he became to bee a wise Philosopher of of Clowne to become a Courtiour yea loue made suche a straunge Metamorphoses of her new Nouice that in prowesse and curtesie he exceded al the Courtiers of Lacedemonia Tushe who rightly can denie that Loue is not the cause of glorie honour profite and pleasure whiche happeneth to man and that without it he cannot conueniently liue but shall runne into a thousande enormities Whereof I conclude that not to loue is not to liue or els to leade a life repugnaunt to all vertuous qualities Well said Siluestro quoth Morando thy reason is good for in truthe he that is an enemie to loue is a fo●… to nature there is nothyng which is either so requested of men or desired of brute beastes more then mutuall societie whiche neither the one can gaine nor the other attaine without loue Is not he then more sencelesse then a beast or lesse naturall then a reasonable creature whiche would de●…pise it Yes no doubt I would count him like to a Aparmantus that had no other reason to hate men but for that they were men he himself being like a man but in nature a very Monster Sir quoth Sostrata if you weighed well what loue were you would yeeld an other verdict Is there any thyng which man esteemeth more then libertie Nay doth he not account it dearer then life and is not Loue the losse thereof and the meanes to leade him into an endlesse Laberinth Doth it not fetter him that is free and thrall the quiet minde in perpetuall bondage Is there any thyng to be found in Loue but lowring care calamitie sorrowe sighes woe waylinges complaintes and miserie What breedeth frenzie and bringeth furie but Loue What maketh the wise foolishe and fooles more fond but Loue What besotteth the senses What bruseth the braine What weakeneth the witte What dusseth the memorie What fadeth the strength Nay what leadeth a man to ruth and ruine but Loue And yet forsooth no lesse then a GOD Dido had ended her golden daies with ioye in gallaunt Carthage Phillis had neuer desperatly procured her owne death Ariadne had not miserablie died in the solitarie Desertes Medea had raigned royally as Queene of Colchos Yea innumerable others had enioyed more felicitie or tasted lesse miserie if this cruell monster Loue had not wrought their mishappe For as soone as it once inueagleth the wit and bewitcheth the sences it maketh straight a Metamorphosis of the poore Louers minde he then rageth as though he were haunted with some hellishe Hagge or possessed with some franticke Furie like one inchaunted with some Magicall charme or charmed with some bewitchyng Sorcerie yea he is perplexed with a thousande sundrie passoons first free and then fettered alatc swimming in rest and now sincking in care erewhile in securitie and then in captiuitie yea turned from mirth to mournyng from pleasure to paine from delight to despight hatyng themselues and louyng others who is the chief cause of this their calamitic Fulfillyng the saying of Propertius that to loue howsoeuer it be is to loose and to fancie how charie soeuer the choice be is to haue an ill chaunce For Loue though neuer so faithful is but a Chaos of care and fancie though neuer so fortunate is but a M●…sse of miserie Whereof I conclude that who so is intangled with the