view of thy present valour I perceiue thou hast redressed my fortunes by thy courage and saued my life with thine own losse which tyes me to be thine in all humble seruice Thankes thou shalt haue as thy due and more thou canst not haue for my abilitie denies me to performe a deeper debt But if any wayes it please thee to commaund me vse mee as farre as the power of a poore Gentleman may stretch Rosader seeing hee was vnknowne to his Brother woondered to heare such courteous words come from his crabbed nature but glad of such reformed nurture he made this answere I am sir whatsoeuer thou art a Forrester and Ranger of these walkes who following my Deere to the fall was conducted hither by some assenting Fate the I might saue thee and disparage my selfe For comming into this place I saw thee a sleepe and the Lyon watching thy awake that at thy rising hee might pray vppon thy carkasse At the first sight I coniectured thee a Gentleman for all mens thoughts ought to bee fouorable in imagination and I counted it the part of a resolute man to purchase a strangers reliefe though with the losse of his owne blood which I haue performed thou seest to mine owne preiudice If therefore thou be a man of such worth as I value thee by thy exteriour liniaments make discourse vnto me what is the cause of thy present misfortunes For by the furrowes in thy face thou seemest to be crost with her frownes but whatsoeuer or howsoeuer lette mee craue that fauour to heare the tragicke cause of thy estate Saladyne sitting downe and fetching a deepe sigh began thus Saladynes discourse to Rosader vnknowne ALthough the discourse of my fortunes be the renewing of my sorrowes and the rubbing of the scarre will open a fresh wound yet that I may not prooue ingratefull to so courteous a Gentleman I wil rather sitte downe and sigh out my estate then giue any offence by smothering my griefe with silence Knowe therefore sir that I am of Bourdeaux and the sonne and heyre of Sir Iohn of Bourdeaux a man for his vertues and valour so famous that I cannot thinke but the fame of his honours hath reacht further than the knowledge of his personage The infortunate sonne of so fortunate a Knight am I my name Saladine who succeeding my Father in possessions but not in qualities hauing two Brethren committed by my Father at his death to my charge with such golden principles of brotherly concorde as might haue pierst like the Syrens melodie into any humane eare But I with Vlisses became deafe against his Philosophicall harmony and made more value of profit than of vertue esteeming gold sufficient honour and wealth the fittest title for a gentlemans dignitie I sette my middle brother to the Uniuersitie to bee a Scholler counting it enough if he might pore on a booke while I fed on his reuenewes and for the yoongest which was my Fathers ioye yoong Rosader And with that naming of Rosader Saladyne sate him downe and wept Nay forward man quoth the Forrester teares are the vnfittest salue that any man can apply for to cure sorrows and therefore cease from such feminine follies as should drop out of a womans eye to deceiue not out of a Gentlemans looke to discouer his thoughts and forward with thy discourse Oh sir quoth Saladyne this Rosader that wrings tears from my eyes and blood from my heart was like my father in exteriour personage in inward qualities for in the prime of his yeres he aymed all his acts at honor and couered rather to die than to brooke any iniury vnworthy a Gentlemans credite I whom enuy had made blinde and couetousnesse masked with the vayle of selfe-loue seeing the Palme tree grow straight thought to suppresse it being a twig but Nature wil haue her course the Cedar wil be tall the Diamond bright the Carbuncle glistering and vertue wil shine though it be neuer so much obscured For I kept Rosader as a slaue and vsed him as one of my seruile hindes vntil age grew on and a secret insight of my abuse entred into his minde insomuch that he could not brooke it but coueted to haue what his father left him and to liue of himselfe To be short sir I repined at his fortunes and he countercheckt me not with abilitie but valour vntil at last by my friends and ayde of such as folowed gold more than right or vertue I banisht him from Bourdeaux and hee poore Gentleman liues no man knowes where in some distressed discontent The Gods not able to suffer such impietie vnreuenged so wrought that the King pickt a causelesse quarrel against me in hope to haue my lands so hath exiled me out of France for euer Thus thus sir am I the most miserable of almen as hauing a blemish in my thoughts for the wrongs I profered Rosader and a touch in my estate to be throwne from my proper possessions by iniustice Passionat thus with many griefs in penance of my former follies I go thus pilgrime like to seeke out my brother that I may reconcile my self to him in all submission and afterward wend to the holy Land to ende my yeares in as many vertues as I haue spent my youth in wicked vanities Rosader hearing the resolution of his brother Saladyne began to compassionate his sorrowes and not able to smother the sparkes of Nature with fained secretie he burst into these louing speeches Then know Saladyne quoth hee that thou hast met with Rosader who grieues as much to see thy distresse as thy selfe to feele the burthen of thy misery Saladyne casting vp his eye and noting well the phisnomy of the Forrester knew that it was his brother Rosader which made him so bash and blush at the first meeting y t Rosader was faine to recomfort him Which he did in such sort that hee shewed how highly he held reuenge in scorne Much a doo there was betweene these two brethren Saladyne in crauing pardon and Rosader in forgiuing and forgetting all former iniuries the one submisse the other curteous Saladyne penitent and passionate Rosader kynd and louing that at length Nature working an vnion of their thoughts they earnestly embraced and fell from matters of vnkindnesse to talke of the Country life which Rosader so highly commended that his brother began to haue a desire to taste of that homely content In this humor Rosader conducted him to Gerismonds Lodge and presented his brother to the King discoursing the whole matter how all had hapned betwixt them The King looking vpon Saladyne found him a man of a most beautifull personage and sawe in his face sufficient sparkes of ensuing honors gaue him great entertainment and glad of their friendly reconcilement promised such fauour as the pouertic of his estate might affoord which Saladyne gratefully accepted And so Gerismond fell to question Torismonds life Saladyne briefly discourst vnto him his iniustice tyrannies with such modestie although
his fathers and the vertues of himselfe then doo I say that fortune and the fates are most iniurious to censure so hard extreames against a youth of so great hope Oh Rosader thou art in the flower of thine age and in the pride of thy yeares buxsome and full of May. Nature hath prodigally inricht thee with her fauours and vertue made thee the myrror of her excellence and now through the decree of the vniust starres to haue all these good partes nipped in the blade and blemisht by the inconstancie of fortune Ah Rosader could I helpe thee my griefe were the lesse and happie should my death be if it might bee the beginning of thy reliefe but seeing we perish both in one extreame it is a double sorrow What shall I doo preuent the sight of his further misfortune with a present dispatch of mine owne life Ah despaire is a mercilesse sinne As he was readie to go forward in his passion he looked earnestly on Rosader and seeing him chaunge colour hee rose vp and went to him and holding his temples said What cheere maister though all faile let not the heart faint the courage of a man is shewed in the resolution of his death At these wordes Rosader Iifted vp his eye and looking on Adam Spencer began to weep Ah Adam quoth he I sorrow not to dye but I grieue at the maner of my death Might I with my Launce encounter the enemy and so die in the field it were honour and content might I Adam combate with some wilde beast and perish as his praie I were satisfied but to die with hunger O Adam it is the extreamest of all extreames Maister quoth hee you see me are both in one predicament and long I cannot liue without meate seeing therefore we can finde no foode let the death of the one preserue the life of the other I am old and ouerworne with age you are yoong and are the hope of many honours let me then dye I will presently cut my veynes and maister with the warme blood relieue your fainting spirites sucke on that till I ende and you be comforted With that Adam Spencer was ready to pull out his knife when Rosader full of courage though verie faint rose vp and wisht A. Spencer to sit there til his returne for my mind giues me quoth he I shall bring thee meate With that like a mad man he rose vp and raunged vp and downe the woods seeking to encounter some wilde beast with his Rapier that either he might carry his friend Adam food or els pledge his life in pawn of his loyaltie It chaunced that day that Gerismond the lawfull King of France banished by Torismond who with a lustie crue of Outlawes liued in that Forrest that day in honour of his birth made a feast to all his bolde yeomen and frolicke it with store of wine and venison sitting all at a long table vnder the shadow of Lymon trees To that place by chance Fortune conducted Rosader who seeing such a crue of braue men hauing store of that for want of which hee and Adam perished hee stept boldly to the boords end and saluted the company thus Whatsoeuer thou be that art maister of these lustie squiers I salute thee as graciously as a man in extreame distresse may know that I and a fellow friend of mine are here famished in the Forrest for want of food perish wee must vnlesse relieued by thy fauours Therefore if thou be a Gentleman giue meate to men and to suche as are euerie way woorthie of life let the proudest squire that sits at thy table rise and incounter with mee in any honorable point of actiuitie whatsoeuer and if hee and thou prooue me not a man send me away comfortlesse If thou refuse this as a niggard of thy cates I will haue amongst you with my sword for rather wil I dye valiantly then perish with so cowardly an extreame Gerismond looking him earnestly in the face and seeing so proper a Gentleman in so bitter a passion was mooued with so great pitie that rising from the table he tooke him by the hand and badde him welcome willing him to sit dowae in his place and in his roome not onely to eat his fill but the Lord of the feast Gramerry sir quoth Rosader but I haue a feeble friend that lyes hereby famished almost for food aged and therefore lesse able to abide the extremitie of hunger then my selfe and dishonour it were for me to taste one crumme before I made him partner of my fortunes therefore I will runne and fetch him and then I wil gratefully accept of your proffer Away hies Rosader to Adam Spencer and tels him the newes who was glad of so happie fortune but so feeble he was that he could not go whereupon Rosader got him vp on his backe brought him to the place Which when Gerismond his men saw they greatly applauded their league of friendship and Rosader hauing Gerismonds place assigned him would not sit there himselfe but set downe Adam Spencer Well to be short those hungry squires fell to their victuals and feasted themselues with good delicates great store of wine Assoone as they had taken their repast Gerismond desirous to heare what hard fortune draue them into those bitter extreames requested Rosader to discourse as it were not any way preiudicall vnto him the cause of his trauell Rosader vesirous any way to satisfie the curtesie of his fauourable host first beginning his exordium with a volley of sighes and a fewe luke warme teares prosecuted his discourse told him from point to point all his fortunes how hee was the yongest sonne of sir Iohn of Bourdeaux his name Rosader how his brother sundry times had wronged him and lastly how for beating the Sheriffe and hurting his men hee fled and this old man quoth he whom I so much loue and honour is surnamed Adam Spencer an old seruant of my fathers and one that for his loue neuer fayled me in all my misfortunes When Gerismond heard this he fell on the neck of Rosader and next discoursing vnto him how he was Gerismond their lawfull King exiled by Torismond what familiaritie had euer been betwixt his father sir Iohn of Bourdeaux and him how faithfull a subiect hee liued and how honourably he dyed promising for his sake to giue both him his friend such curteous entertainment as his present estate could minister and vpon this made him one of his forresters Rosadar seeing it was the King craude pardon for his boldnesse in that hee did not doo him due reuerence and humbly gaue him thankes for his fauourable curtesie Gerismond not satisfied yet with newes beganne to enquire if he had been lately in the Court of Torismond and whether he had seene his daughter Rosalynd or no At this Rosader fetcht a deep sigh and shedding many teares could not answere yet at last gathering his spirits togither he reuealed vnto the Kyng how Rosalynde was banished
the tongue the match is not yet so surely made but hee may misse of his market but if fortune be his friend I will not be his foe and so I pray you gentle Mistresse Aliena take it I take all things well quoth she that is your content and am glad Rosader is yours for now I hope your thoughts will bee at quiet your eye that euer looked at Loue will now lende a glaunce on your Lambes and then they will proue more buxsome and you more blyth for the eyes of the Maister feedes the Cattle As thus they were in chat they spyed olde Coridon where he came plodding to meet them who told them supper was ready which news made them speed them home Where we will leaue them to the next morrow and returne to Saladyne All this while did poore Saladyne banished from Bourdeux and the Court of France by Torismond wander vp and downe in the Forrest of Arden thinking to get to Lyons and so trauaile through Germany into Italie but the Forrest beeing full of by pathes and he vnskilfull of the country coast slipt out of the way and chaunced vp into the Desart not farre from the place where Gerismond was his brother Rosader Saladyne wearie with wandring vp and downe and hungry with long fasting finding a little caue by the side of a thicker eating such fruite as the Forrest did affoord and contenting himselfe with such drinke as Nature had prouided and thirst made delicate after his repast he fell in a dead sleepe As thus he lay a hungry Lyon came hunting downe the edge of the groue for pray and espying Saladyne began to ceaze vpon him but seeing he lay still without any motion he left to touch him for that Lyons hate to pray on dead carkasses and yet desirous to haue some foode the Lion lay downe and watcht to see if he would stirre While thus Saladyne slept secure fortune that was careful of her champion began to smile and brought it so to passe that Rosader hauing striken a Deere that but lightly hurt fled through the thicket came pacing down by the groue with a Boare speare in his hande in great haste he spyed where a man lay a sleepe and a Lyon fast by him amazed at this sight as he stoode gazing his nose on the sodaine bledde which made him coniecture it was some friend of his Whereuppon drawing more nigh he might easily discerne his visage and perceiued by his phisnomie that it was his brother Saladyne which draue Rosader into a deepe passion as a man perplexed at the sight of so vnexpected a chance maruelling what should driue his Brother to trauerse those secrete Desarts without any companie in such distresse and forlorne sorte But the present time craued no such doubting ambages for he must eyther resolue to hazard his life for his reliefe or else steale away and leaue him to the crueltie of the Lyon In which doubt hee thus briefly debated with himselfe Rosaders meditation NOw Rosader Fortune that long hath whipt thee with nettles meanes to salue thee with roses and hauing crost thee with many frownes now she presents thee with the brightnesse of her fauors Thou that didst count thy selfe the most distressed of all men maiest account thy selfe the most fortunate amongst men if fortune can make men happy or sweet reuenge be wrapt in a pleasing content Thou seest Saladyne thine enemie the worker of thy misfortunes and the efficient cause of thine exile subiect to the crueltie of a mercilesse Lyon brought into this miserie by the Gods that they might seeme iust in reuenging his rigour and thy iniuries Seest thou not how the Starres are in a fauorable aspect the planets in some pleasing coniunction the fates agreeable to thy thoughts and the destinies performers of thy desires in that Saladyne shall die and thou bee free of his bloud he receiue meed for his amisse and thou erect his Tombe with innocent handes Now Rosader shalt thou retourne vnto Bourdeaux and enioy thy possessions by birth and his reuenews by inheritaunce now mayest thou triumph in Loue and hang fortunes Altars with garlands For when Rosalynde heares of thy wealth it will make her loue thee the more willingly for womens eyes are made of Chrisecoll that is euer vnperfect vnlesse tempred with gold and Iupiter soonest enioyed Danae because hee came to her in so rich a shower Thus shall this Lyon Rosader ende the life of a miserable man and from distresse raise thee to be most fortunate And with that casting his Boare speare on his necke away he began to trudge But hee had not stept backe two or three paces but a new motion stroke him to the very hart that resting his Boare speare against his brest hee fell into this passionate humour Ah Rosader wert thou the sonne of Sir Iohn of Bourdeux whose vertues exceeded his valour and the most hardiest Knight in all Europe Should the honour of the Father shine in the actions of the Sonne and wilt thou dishonour thy parentage in forgetting the nature of a Gentleman Did not thy father at his last gaspe breath out this golden principle Brothers amitie is like the drops of Balsamum that salueth the most daungerous sores Did he make a large exhort vnto concord and wilt thou shew thy selfe carelesse Oh Rosader what though Saladyne hath wronged thee and made the liue an exile in the Forrest shall thy Nature bee so cruell or thy Nurture so crooked or thy thoughtes so sauage as to suffer so dismall a reuenge what to let him be deuoured by wilde beastes Non sapit qui non sibi sapit is fondly spoken in such bitter extreames Loose not his life Rosader to win a world of treasure for in hauing him thou hast a brothâ—r and by hazarding for his life thou gettest a friend and reconcilest an enemie and more honour shalt thou purchase by pleasuring a foe than reuenging a thousand iniuries With that his Brother began to stirre and the Lion to rowse himselfe whereupon Rosader sodainly charged him with the Boare speare and wounded the Lion very sore at the first stroke The beast feeling himselfe to haue a mortall hurt leapt at Rosader and with his pawes gaue him a sore piuch on the brest that he had almost faln yet as a man most valiant in whom the sparks of Sir Iohn of Burdeaux remained he recouered himselfe and in short combat slew the Lion who at his death roared so lowd that Saladyne awaked and starting vp was amazed at the sudden sight of so monstrous a beast lying slaine by him and so sweet a Gentleman wounded He presently as hee was of a ripe conceipt began to coniecture that the Gentleman had slaine him in his defence Whereupon as a man in a traunce he stood staring on them both a good while not knowing his Brother beeing in that disguise at last he burst into these tearmes Sir whatsoeuer thou be as full of honour thou must needes be by the
are a great Philosopher in Venus principles els could you not discour our secret aphorismes But sir our Countrey amours are not lyke your Courtly fancies nor is our wooing lyke your suing for pore shepheards neuer plaine them till Loue paine them where the Courtiers eyes is full of passions when his heart is most free from affection they court to discouer their eloquence wee wooe to ease our sorrowes euery faire face with them must haue a new fancy sealed with a fore finger kisse and a farre fetcht sigh wee heere loue one and liue to that one so long as life can maintaine loue vsing few ceremonies because we know fewe subtilties and litle eloquence for that we lightly accompt of flattery onely faith and troth thats shepheards wooing and sir how lyke you of this So quoth Saladyne as I could tie my self to such loue What and looke so low as a Shepheardesse being the sonne of sir Iohn of Bourdeaux such desires were a disgrace to your honors And with that surueying exquisitely euery part of him as vttering all these wordes in a deepe passion she espied the paper in his bosom whervpon growing iealous that it was some amorous Sonnet she sodeinly snacht it out of his bosome and asked if it were anye secret She was bashfull and Saladyne blusht which she perceiuing sayd Nay then sir if you waxe redde my life for yours tis some Loue matter I will see your Mistresse name her praises and your passions And wich that she lookt on it which was written to this effect Saladynes Sonnet If it be true that heauens eternall course With restlesse sway and ceaselesse turning glides If aire inconstant be and swelling sourse Turne and returns with many fluent tides If earth in winter summers pride estrange And Nature seemeth onely faire in change If it be true that our immortal spright Deriude from heauenly pure in wandring still In noueltie and strangenesse doth delight And by discouerent power discerneth ill And if the body for to worke his best Doth with the seasons change his place of rest Whence comes it that inforst by furious Skies I change both place and soyle but not my hart Yet salue not in this change my maladies Whence growes it that each obiect workes my smart Alas I see my faith procures my misse And change in loue against my nature is Et florida pungunt Aliena hauing read ouer his Sonnet began thus pleasantly to descant vpon it I see Saladyne quoth she that as the Suâ— is no Sun without his brightnesse nor the Diamond accounted for precious vnlesse it be hard so men are not men vnlesse they be in loue and their honors are measured by their amours not their labors counting it more commendable for a Gentleman to be ful of fancy than full of vertue I had thought Otiasi tollus periere Cupidinis arcus Contemptaeque iacent sine luce faces But I see Ouids axiome is not authenticall for euen labour hath her loues and extremitie is no Pumice stone to race out fancy Your selfe exiled from your wealth friendes and country by Torismond sorrowes inough to suppresse affections yet amidst the depth of these extremities Loue will be Lord and shâ—w his power to bee more predominant than Fortune But I pray you sir if without offence I may craue it are they some newe thoughts or some olde desires Saladyne that now saw opportunitie pleasant thought to strike while the yron was hotte and therefore taking Aliena by the hand sate downe by her and Ganymede to giue them leaue to their Loues found her selfe busie about the foldes whilest Saladyne fell into this prattle with Aliena Faire Mistresse if I be blunt in discouering my affections and vse little eloquence in leuelling out my loues I appeale for pardon to your owne principles that say shepheards vse few ceremonies for that they acquaint themselues with few subtilties to frame my selfe therefore to your country fashion with much faith and litle flattery know bewtifull Shepheardesse that whylest I liued in the Court I knew not Loues comber but I helde affection as a toy not as a malady vsing fancy as the Hiperborei doo their flowers which they weare in their bosome all day and cast them in the fire for fuell at night I lyked all because I loued none and who was most faire on her I fed mine eye but as charily as the Bee that assoone as shee hath suckt honny from the Rose Flies straight to the next Marigold Liuing thus at mine owne list I wondred at such as were in loue and when I read their passions I tooke them onely for poemes that flowed from the quicknesse of the wyt not the sorrowes of the heart But now faire Nymph since I became a Forrester Loue hath taught me such a lesson that I must confesse his deitie and dignitie and saie as there is nothing so pretious as beuty so there is nothing more piercing than fancy For since first I arriued in this place and mine eye tooke a curious suruey of your excellence I haue been so fettered with your beautie and vertue as sweet Aliena Saladyne without further circumstance loues Aliena I could paynt out my desires with long ambages but seeing in many words lyes mistrust that truth is euer naked let this suffice for a country wooing Saladyne loues Aliena and none but Aliena Although these wordes were most heauenly harmony in the eares of the Shepheardesse yet to seeme coye at the first courting and to disdaine Loue howsoeuer she desired Loue she made this reply Ah Saladyne though I seeme simple yet I am more subtile than to swallow the hooke because it hath a painted bayt as men are wily so women are wary especially if they haue that wyt by others harmes to beware Do we not know Saladyne that mens toongs are like Mercuries pipe that can inchant Argus with an hundreth eyes and their words are preiudiciall as the charmes of Circes that transforme men into monsters If such Syrens sing we poore women had need stoppe our eares least in hearing wee proue so foolish hardy as to belieue them and so perish in crusting much and suspecting litle Saladine Piscator ictus sapit hee that hath been once poisoned and afterwards fears not to bowse of euery potion is worthy to suffer double pennance Eiue mee leaue then to mistrust though I doo not condemne Saladyne is now in loue with Aliena hee a Gentleman of great parentage shee a Shepheardesse of meane parents hee honorable and shee poore Can Loue consist of contrarieties Wyll the Fawlcon pearch with the Kistresse the Lyon harbor with the Woolfe Wil Venus ioyne roabes and rags togither Or can there be a simpathie betweene a King and a begger Then Saladyne how can I belieue thee that loue should vnite our thoughts when Fortune hath set such a difference betweene our degrees But suppose thou likest of Alienaes bewtie men in their fancy resemble the waspe which scornes that flower from which she
were more prodigall in deciphering the riches of their bounties Wise he was as holding in his head a supreme conceipt of pollicie reaching with Nestor into the depth of all ciuil gouernement and to make his wisedome more gratious he had that salemingenii and pleasant eloquence that was so highly comâ—ended in Vlisses his valour was no lesse then his witte nor the â—roke of his launce no lesse forcible than the sweetnesse of his tonâ—ue was perswasiue for he was for his courage chosen the principâ—ll of all the Knights of Malta This hardy Knight thus enrichâ— with vertue and honour surnamed Sir Iohn of Burdeux hauing passed the prime of his youth in sundry battailes against the Tirkes at last as the date of time hath his course grewe aged his haires were siluer hued the map of his age was figured on his forhead Honour sate in the furrowes of his face and many yeares were pourtrayed in his wrinckled lineaments that all men might perceiue his glasse was runne and that Nature of necessitie chalenged her due Sir Iohn that with the Phenix knewe the tearme of his life was now expired and could with the Swan discouer his end by her songs hauing three sonnes by his wife Lynida the very pride of all his forepassed yeares thought now seeing death by constraint would compel him to leaue them to bestow vpon them such a Legacie as might bewray his loue and increase their insuing amitie Calling therefore these yong Gentlemen before him in the presence of all his fellow Knights of Malta he resolued to leaue them a memoriâ—l of all his fatherly care â—nseâ—ting downe a methode of their brotherly dueties Hauing therefore death in his looâ—es to mooue them to pittie and teares in his eyes to paint out the depth of his passions taking his elâ—est sonne by the hand he began thus Sir Iohn of Burdeaux Legacie he gaue to â—is Sonnes OH my Sons you see that Fate hath set a period of my years and Destenies haue determined the final ende of my dayes the Palme tree waxeth away ward for hee stoopeth in â—is height and my plumes are ful of sicke feathers touched with age I musâ— to my graue that dischargeth all cares and leaue you to the world that increaseth many sorrowes my siluer haires conteneth great experience and in the number of my yeares are pende lowne the subtleties of Fortune Therefore as I leaue you sone fadingâ— pelfe to counterchecke pouertie so I will bequeath yon â—nfallible precepts that shall lead you vnto vertue First therefore into thee Saladyne the eldest and therefore the chiefest piller of mâ— house wherein should bee ingraued as wel the excellency of thyfathers qualities as the essentiall forme of his proportion to theâ— I giue foureteene ploughlands with all my Mannor houses and richest place Next vnto Fernandine I bequeath twelue ploughlands But vnto Rosader the youngest I giue my Horse my Armour and my Launce with sixteene ploughlands for if the inwarde thoughts be discouered by outward shadowâ—â— Rosader wil exceed you all in bountie and honour Thus my Sonnes haue Iparred in your portions the substaÌ„ce of my wealth where in if you be as prodigall to spend as I haue beene carefull to get your friendes wil greene to see you more wastfull then I was bountifull your foes smile that my fal did begin in your excesse Let mine honour be the glasse of your actions the fame of my vertues the Load-starre to direct the course of your pilgrimage Ayme your deedes by my honorable endeuours and shew your selues fiens worthy of so florishing a tree least as the birdes Halcyones which exceede in whitenesse I hatch yong ones that exceed in blacknes Climbe not my sonnes aspiring pride is a vapour that a scendeth hie but soone turneth to a smoake they which stare at the starres stumble vpon the â—â—ies and such as gaze at the Sunne vnlesse they be Eagle eyed al blinde Soare not with the Hobbie least you fal with the â—aâ—e nor attempt not with Phaeton least you drowne with lâ—â—râ—sâ— Fortune when shee wils you to flye tempers your plumeâ— witâ—waxe and therefore eyther sit stil and make no wing or else bewaâ—e the Sunne and hold Dedalus axiome authentical Medium tunere tutissimum Low shrubs haue deepe rootes and poore Cottages great patience Fortune looks euer vpward and enuy asireth to nestle with dignitie Take heed my sonnes the meane i sweetest melodie where strings high stretch eyther soone crack or quickly grow out of time Let your Countryes care be yoâ— hearts content and thinke that you are not borne for your selue but to leuell your thoughts to beloyal to your prince careful fothe common-weale and faythful to your friendes so shal Frauce say these men are as excellent in vertues as they be exquise in features Oh my sons a friend is a pretious Iewell within hose bosome you may vnload your sorrowes and vnfold youiecrets and he eyther wil releeue with counsaile or perswade whreason but take heed in the choyce the outward them makes it the inwarde man nor are the dimples in the face the Calendâ—s of truth When the Lyquorice leafe looketh most dry then it â—most wet when the shoares of Lepanthus are most quiet themey forepoint a storme The Baaran leafe the more fayre it lookâ— the more infectious it is and in the sweetest wordes is oft hidâ—ost trechery Therefore my sonnes chuse a friend as the Hiperorei do the mettals seuer them from the ore with fire let theâ— not bide the stampe before they be currant so trie then trust â—â—time be the touchstone of friendship then frends faithâ—â—â—â—â—y them vp for iewels Be valiant my sonnes for cowardise is the enemy to honour but not too rash for that is extreme Fortitude is the meane and that is limited within bonds and prescribed with circumstance But aboue al with that he fetcht a deep sigh beware of Loue for it is farre more perillous then pleasant and yet I tel you it allureth as ill as the Syrens Oh my sonnes fancie is a fickle thing and beauties paintings are trickt vp with times colours which being set to drie in the Sunâ—e perish with the same Venus is a wanton and though her laâ—es pretend libertie yet there is nothing but losse and glistering miserie Cupids wings are plumed with the feathers of vanitiâ— and his arrowes where they pierce inforce nothing but deadly desires a womans eye as it is pretious to behold so is it preiudicial to gaze vpon for as it affoordeth delight so it snareth vntâ—â—eath Trust not theyr fawning fauours for their loues are like tâ—e breath of a man vppon steele which no sooner lighteth on but sleapeth off and their passions are as momentary as the colour of a Polipe which changeth at the sight of euery obiect My bâ—eath waxeth short and mine eyes waxeth dimme the houre is coâ—â— I must away therefore let this suffice women are wantons â—nd yet men cannot want one and