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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02073	Alcida Greenes metamorphosis, vvherein is discouered, a pleasant transformation of bodies into sundrie shapes, shewing that as vertues beautifie the mind, so vanities giue greater staines, than the perfection of any quality can rase out: the discourse confirmed with diuerse merry and delightfull histories; full of graue principles to content age, and sawsed with pleasant parlees, and witty answeres, to satisfie youth: profitable for both, and not offensiue to any. By R.G.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1617 (1617)	STC 12216; ESTC S105886	48,526	77

Telegonus THough Vulcan with his polt foote presumed to couet the queene of beauty though Ixion aduentured to attempt the loue of Iuno yet lord Telegonus no offence to your person these paltring presidents are no conclusions that persons vnworthy should disgrace by their impudent and worthlesse motions the honours of excellent personages How I am greeued at your letters gesse by my sharp reply how I like of your lines examine in my writing how I disdaine them both time shall put you in euidence My beautie you say hath made an impression in your heart a man of soft metall that so soone takes the stampe a louer of great conceit that is fixed at the first looke but since it is your gentle nature to be so full of fancie I would haue the gods to make you either Venus chamberlaine or Cupids chaplaine or both because being so amorous you should not want offices you forestalled me in red letters with an obiection that many your betters haue courted me and mist then good louely lord Telegonus thinke not if I delighted not to gaze at stars that I meane to stumble at stones if I vouchsafe not to smel to most fragrant flowers that I mean to make me a nosegay of wéeds If honorable princes offered to Venus and could not be heard and sought for my fauours but found them not I thinke suppose the rest for I list not be tedious lest I should weary my selfe and grace thée with writing so much For thy loyalty keep it for thy equals for thy loue lay it not on me lest as I disdaine thy person so I reuenge thy presumption And so my hand was weary my eyes sleepie and my heart full of contempt and with that I went to bed Her owne Fiordespine of Taprobane THis letter was no sooner sealed but as women are impatient of delaies it was conueied with all possible speed to Telegonus who receiuing it kissed and 〈◊〉 it as comming from the hands of his goddesse changing colour oft as one betweene feare and hope at last vnripping the seales he read such a corasiue as cut him to the heart The Aspis stingeth not more deadly the serpent Porphirius inuenometh not more déepely neither did euer the sight of Medusas head more amaze a man than the contents of this satyricall letter did Telegonus yea it draue the poore Gentleman into so many passions that he became halfe lunaticke as if hee had eaten of the seed of sputanta that troubleth the braine with giddinesse he fell to exclaime against Venus and her deitie blaming the gods that would suffer such a gigglet to remaine in heauen repeating her lawlesse loues with Adonis and her scapes with Mauors Cupid he called a boy a fondling blind in his ayme and accursed in hitting the marke rageth against women saying they were mercilesse cruell vniust deceitfull like vnto the Crocodile in teares in sight they seeme to be Carnations in smelling Roses in hearing Syrens in taste wormewood in touching nettles Thus he rayled and raged casting himselfe on his 〈◊〉 and there forging a thousand perplexed passions one while accusing loue as a lunacie and then againe saying Beautie was diuine and the rich●… iewell that euer nature bestowed vpon men Lingring a day or two in this frenzie he thought not to giue ouer the Castle at the first repulse nor to prooue so lewd a Huntsman as to giue ouer the chase at the first default therefore he once againe armed himselfe with his pen and paper and gaue a fresh alarum to his friendly ●…oe in this manner Telegonus to faire Fiordespine of Taproban●… HOnourable Ladie the Pysicians say salues seldome helpe an once long suffered sore and too late it is to plant Engines to batter when the walls are already broken Autumne showres are euer out of season and too late it is ●…o dislodge loue out of the brest when it hath infected euery part of the body The sore when the settering fistulo hath by long continuance made the sound flesh rotten can neither with lenitiue plaisters nor cutting corasiues be cured so loue craueth but onely time to bring the body and mind to ruine Your honor séeing how déeply I am deu●…ted to your beauty and vertue hath sent mee pilles of hard digestion to asswage the force of my loue and qualifie the flame set on fire by fancy but as the biting of the Uiper rankleth til it hath brought the body bitten to bane so your exquisite perfection hath so pierced euery veins with the sting of loue that neither your bitter reply nor ●…atyrical innectiue can in any wise preuaile only the mild medicine of your mercie may salue the sore and cut away the cause of my carefull disease The extremity of my loue and the violence of my passions hath forced mee to hazard my selfe on your clemencie for I was neuer of that minde to count him martiall that at the first shoot would yéeld vp the keyes of the Citie for the more hard the rebut is the more hautie is the conquest the more doubtfull the fight the more worthy the victorie the more paine I take about the battery the more pleasure to win the bulwarke of your brest which if I should obtaine I would count it a more rich prize then euer Scipio or any of the nine Worthies wonne by conquest and that these words be verily and not vanity troth and not tri●…ing I appeale to your good grace and fauor minding to be tried by your courtesie abiding either the sentence of consent vnto life or deniall vnto death Yours euen after death Telegonus of Taprobane THis letter finished and sent vnto Fiordespine so troubled her patience for that Telegonus was importunate that she fared like the frownes of Bacchus halfe mad at this secret motion swearing reuenge if either her selfe or her friends could performe it and in this humor she sent him by her Page these few lines Fiordespine to Telegonus I Had scarce read thy letters before I rent them estéeming thy papers and thy loue a like for as I mislike the one so I disdaine the other Hath ouer-much folly driuen thee into a frensie or hath want of manners made thee impudent Wilt thou bragge with Irus the begger amongst Penelopes sutors or séeke with the smoky Cyclops to kisse Venus hand looke on thy feete and so let fall thy plumes stretch not so high vnlesse thy sleeue were longer for Fiordespine scorneth so much as to looke at Telegonus in respect of loue as Iuno did to iest with the father of the Centaures If I knew thy passions were as great as thou decipherest thy griefe and thy thoughts as fiery as the hils in Sycily I would laugh at the one as ioying at thy sorrowes and put oyle in the flame as delighting to aggrauate thy miseries Sith then thou séest my resolution to be so regorous ouer-rash youth betake thée to thy dumpes and fare how thou list for know I mislike thy sute and hate thy person and will liue