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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02122	Gvvydonius The carde of fancie wherein the folly of those carpet knights is decyphered, which guyding their course by the compasse of Cupid, either dash their ship against most daungerous rocks, or els attaine the hauen with paine and perill. Wherein also is described in the person of Gwydonius, a cruell combat betvveene nature and necessitie. By Robert Greene Master of Arte, in Cambridge.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.; Labé, Louise, 1526?-1566. Debat de folie et d'amour.	1584 (1584)	STC 12262; ESTC S105817	96,964	176

GWYDONIVS ❧ The Carde of Fancie WHEREIN THE FOLLY OF those Carpet Knights is decyphered which guyding their course by the compasse of Cupid either dash their ship against most daungerous Rocks or els attaine the hauen with paine and perill WHEREIN ALSO IS DESCRIbed in the person of Gwydonius a cruell Combat betvveene Nature and necessitie By Robert Greene Master of Arte in Cambridge At London Imprinted for William Ponsonby 1584. ¶ TO THE RIGHT HOnourable Edward de Vere Earle of Oxenford Vicount Bulbecke Lord of Escales and Badlesmere and Lord great Chamberlaine of England Robert Greene vvisheth long life vvith increase of honour THat poore Castiliā Frontino right honorable being a very vnskilful painter presented Alphōsus the Prince of Aragō with a most imperfect picture which the king thankfully accepted not that he liked the work but that he loued the art The paltering Poet Cherillus dedicated his duncing Poems to that mightie Monarch Alexander saying that he knew assuredly if Alexander would not accept them in that they were not pithie yet he would not vtterly reiect them in that they had a shew of Poetrie Caesar oft times praised his souldiers for their will although they wanted skill and Cicero as well commended stammering Lentulus for his painfull industrie as learned Laelius for his passing eloquence Which considered although wisdome did will mee not to straine further then my sleeue would stretch I thought good to presēt this imperfect Pamphlet to your honors protectiō hoping your Lordship will deigne to accept the matter in that it seemeth to be prose though some thing vnsauory for want of skill and take my wel meaning for an excuse of my boldnesse in that my poore wil is not in the wane whatsoeuer this imperfect worke doo want The Emperour Traian was neuer without sutors because so courteously he would heare euerie complaint The Lapidaries continually frequented the Court of Adobrandinus because it was his chiefe studie to search out the nature of stones All that courted to Atlanta were hunters and none sued to Sapho but Poets Wheresoeuer Maecanas lodgeth thether no doubt will schollers flocke And your honour being a worthie fauourer and fosterer of learning hath forced many through your exquisite vertue to offer the first fruits of their studie at the shrine of your Lordships curtesie But though they haue waded farre found mines and I gadded abroad to get nothing but Mites yet this I assure my selfe that they neuer presented vnto your Honour their treasure with a more willing minde then I doo this simple trash which I hope your Lordship will so accept Resting therefore vpon your honours wonted clemencie I commit your Lordship to the Almightie Your Lordships most dutifully to commaund Robert Greene. To the Gentlemen Readers health PAN blowing on his Oten pipe a little homely Musick and hearing no man dispraised his small cunning began both to plaie so loude and so long that they were more wery in hearing his musick then he in shewing his skill till at last to claw him and excuse themselues they said his pipe was out of tune So Gentlemen because I haue before time rashly recht aboue my pitch yet your curtesie such as no man haue accused me I haue once againe aduentured vpon your patience but I doubt so farre as to be rid of my follie you will at the least saie as Augustus said to the Grecian that gaue him oft times many rude vearses Thou hadst neede quoth he reward me wel for I take more paines to read thy workes then thou to write them But yet willing to abide this quip because I may counteruaile it with your former curtesie I put my selfe to your patience and commit you to the Almightie Farewell Robert Greene. Ad Lectorem in laudem Authoris PVllulat en stirpi similis speciofa propago Aureolusque nouo reuirescit ramus amoris Vere tuo verè iam VERE dicandus honori Ista salus Iuueni Comiti ●it gloria nosse Accepisse decus Comites vbi passibus aequis Ales amor virtusque sagax decurrere nôrunt Ventilat iste faces restinguit at illa furentes Taedas Ne● taedet Pueri sic taedia caeci Fallere qui caecis conuoluit viscera flammis Ergo refer grates qui deuitare cupi'sti Spumosos Veneris fluctus scopulosque minaces Qui fragilem tumidis cymbam mersisse procellis Possent Hàc iter est hàc dirige tutior ibis Richardus Portingtonus ❧ THE CARD OF Fancie THere dwelled in the Citie of Metelyne a certaine Duke called Clerophontes who through his prowesse in al martiall exploits waxed so proud tyrannous vsing such mercilesse crueltie to his forraine enimies and such modelesse rigour to his natiue Citizens that it was doubtfull whether he was more feared of his foes for his crueltie or hated of his friends for his tyrannie yet as the worst wéede springeth vp more brauely then the wholesomest hearbe and as the crookedst trée is commonly laden with most fruit so this rigorous Duke was so fauoured and fostered vp by fortune his estate béeing so established with honour and so beautified with wealth so deckt with the diadem of dignitie and endued with fortunate prosperitie hauing in warres such happie successe against his foes in peace such dutifull reuerence of his friendes although more for feare then fauor as he seemed to want nothing that eyther fortune or the fates could allowe him if one onely sore which bred his sorrowe coulde haue bene salued But this griefe so galled his conscience and this cursed care so combred his mind that his happinesse was greatly surcharged with heauinesse to sée the cause of his care could by no meanes be cured For this Clerophontes was indued with two children the one a Daughter named Lewsippa and the other a sonne called Gwydonius this Lewcippa was so perfect in the complection of her bodie and so pure in the constitution of her minde so adorned with outwarde beautie and endued with inward bountie so pollished with rare vertues and exquisite qualities as she séemed a séemely Venus for her beutie and a second Vesta for her virginitie yea Nature and the Gods had so bountifullye bestowed their giftes vpon her as Fame her selfe was doubtfull whether shée should make greater report of her excellent vertue or exquisite beautie But his sonne Guydonius was so contrarie to his sister Lewsippa though not in the state of his bodie yet in the stay of his minde as it made all men meruaile how two such contrarie stems could spring out of the selfe same stocke His personage indéede was so comely his feature so well framed each lim so perfectlye couched his face so faire and his countenance so amiable as he séemed a heauenly creature in a mortall carcasse But his minde was so blemished with detestable qualyties and so spotted with the staine of voluptuousnesse that he was not so much to be commended for the proportion of his bodie as to bée condempned for the imperfection