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A02080	Ciceronis amor· = Tullies loue VVherein is discoursed the prime of Ciceroes youth, setting out in liuely portraitures how young gentlemen that ayme at honour should leuell the end of their affections, holding the loue of countrie and friends in more esteeme then those fading blossomes of beautie, that onely feede the curious suruey of the eye. A worke full of pleasure as following Ciceroes vaine, who was as conceipted in his youth as graue in his age, profitable as conteining precepts worthie so famous an orator. By Robert Greene in Artibus magister.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1589 (1589)	STC 12224; ESTC S105897	54,105	88

barke against the Moone suffer small rest and great hunger Arrowes shot against the starres pierce downeward and the Syrens that ●ought to intrappe Vlisses perisht themselues So gentlemen I sought to make experience of Lentulus eloquence and fortune hath allotted me to discouer mine owne ignorance but least I might be counted either too stoicall or to too full of sel●e conceit for iealousie thus Archias discourse of Iealousie SUch as haue searched into the déepest Aphorismes of Anacreon or pried into the principles that Ouid sette downe in his volumes find Loue to be such a pure passion of the mind as like y ● Christal it admitteth no bruse without a cracke It groweth from the vnion of two minds cōceiued by y ● special liking of some excellent good consisting in exteriour beauty or interiour vertues or the combining of them both in one sole and singular perfection This choice of excellencie confirmed by election once imprinted in the hart is so pretious as the pearls of Cleopatra The fléece of Colchos the sands of Tagus are trash if brought into compare with this diuine and metaphysicall passion man hauing swilled in this nectar of loue is so chary that he not onely brooketh no corriual of his thoughtes but admitteth no partaker of his fauours and from this feare procéedeth that furie which men call ielousie béeing a secrete suspition that others shoulde enioy that excellencie that he hath chosen sole and singular to him self This noble Romaines is that f●end that Pluto sent to checke Cupid in his deitie this springing from hell bringeth worse torments to the minde then the stone of Sysiphus vulture of Titius or wheele of Ixion This is the cankar that fretteth the quiet of the thoughtes the moath that secretlie consumeth the life of man and the poyson specially opposed against the perfection of loue after the heart be once infected with ielousie the slepes are broken the dreames disquiet slumbers the thoughts cares sorrowes the life woe miserie that lyuing he dies dying prolonges out his life in passions worse then death None looketh on his loue but suspition sayes this is he that couetes to be corriuall of my fauours None ●n●ckes at his doore but starting vp he thinkes them messengers of fancie none talkes but they whisper of affection if shée frowne shée hates him and loues others if she smile it is because shée hath had successe in hir loues looke she frowardly on any man she dissembles if shee fauour him with a gratious eye then as a man straught with frensie hee eryeth out that neither fire in the strawe nor loue in the womens lookes can be concealed thus doth he liue restles and maketh loue that of it selfe is swéete to be in taste as bitter as gall This discouereth reuerent Senators that loue being of it selfe a most excellent passion is onely blemisht by this soule and disgraced staine of ielousie as hateful and hurtfull to the mind as the Cockatrice to the eye or hemlocke to the taste The purest Chrisolite hath his strakes the flowers in Sydon as they are pretious in the sight so they are pestilent in fauour Loue as it is diuine with loialtie so it is hellish with ielousie wherfore by an auncient Poet were written these verses When Gods had framd the sweete of womens face and lockt mens lookes within their golden haire That Phoebus blusht to see their matchles grace and heauenly gods on earth did make repaire To quippe faire Venus ouerweening pride Loues happie thoughtes to ielousie were tied Then grewe a wrinckle on faire Venus browe The amber sweete of loue was turnd to gall Gloomie was heauen bright Phoebus did auowe He could be coy and would not loue at all Swering no greater mischiefe could be wrought Then loue vnited to a ielous thought Had not Iuno béen ielous ouer Iupiter Io had not béene turned into a Heifer if suspition had not prickt Menelaus Helena had not stolne away with Paris Procris had beene aliue had shée not suspected Cephalus Then worthie Romaines we sée what a preiudiciall monster groweth from the fearefull excesse of loue that not onely shortneth the life disquieteth the minde but oft is the cause of most strange and vnnatural massacres If fortune frowne in loue we flie to patience If their happen iarres why louers braw●es are introductions to delight If pouertie why they hope vpon time thinking that there is vicissitudo omnium rerum The lowest ebbe may haue his flow and the deadest néepe his full tyde if gréefes sorrowes repulse● vnkindenes these bee but Amantium irae And t●ere●ore Amoris redintegratio but as the pumice stone 〈◊〉 the paper from spots and the fire consumeth fla●e so ●●is in●ernall plague of iealousi● rooteth raceth all true loue 〈◊〉 the heart that yéelding my censure I conclude with this Poeme Vita quae tandem magis est iucunda Vel viris doctis magis expetenda Mente quam pura sociam iugalem Semper amare Vita quae tandem magis est dolenda Vel magis cunctis fugienda quam quae Falso suspecta probitate amicae Tollit amorem Nulla eam tollit medicina pestem Murmur emplastrum vel imago sagae Astra nec curant magicae nec artes Zelotipiam Archias hauing thus ended his discourse the Senators greatly praised his description of iealousie and from that fell to other pleasant talke as occasion offred Till dinner being ended they arose and after many thankes and curtesies according to the custome of the Romanes Flaminius to honour Lentulus the more taking him by the hand carried him into a garden where Terentia sate accompanied with other Uirgins of Roome namely Flauia Cornelia and Iulia all of such exquisite features as they séemed to be the choyce Paragons of that time Lentulus amazed at this gorgious sight wondred not onely at their beauties but maruailed why Flaminius brought him so friendly into their presence At last the old man burst forth into these words Lord Lentulus I measure the thoughts of young gentlemen by the prime of my forepassed youth not being so cinicall as with Chremes in Terence to proportion young affections by the cynders of olde age but to thinke with Menedemus that the spring hath flowers and blossomes where as winter hath dried braunches and tawnie leaues We olde men ouer whom Saturnus is predominant hauing infused melancholy in our mindes couet either to sit solitarie or that our talke be serious you that are young whose thoughts aime at delight séeke to passe the time in pleasant discourses Least therefore the time might be tedious I haue brought you amongst these faire Ladies y ● you may make experience of loues as you haue done of warres Mars no sooner puts off his helmet but he salutes Venus and you come from conquest of the Parthians see how you can enter combate with passions and so Lord Lentulus I leaue you Lentulus seeing himself thus enuironed with these miracles of beautie casting his eye vpon the Goddesse

hir fauors Well hast thou not then Terentia a noble gentleman of Rome Lord Lentulus to bee thy husbande a man whose youth is filled with honours and whose spring time ●●orisheth dignities hath he not triumpht ouer the Parthians in conquest boūd fortune to his temples with wreathes of victorie Is not his parentage one of the greatest families in Rome Is he not for beautie like the fayre Gréekes Paramour For wisedome like wise Vlisses that Cyrces could not inchant For courage Hector Aud of such reuenewes as may maintaine thee with the most gorgeous dames of Italie But the chiefe of his graces is he not enamored of Terentia and sues for hir fauour This I confesse Sed deteriora sequor Loue ah that foolish passion which we tearme loue allowes nothing excellent but what it likes It shadowed begarie in Crates For Hipsycratea thought him rich in that he was vertuous deformitie in Vulcan for Venus would not beléeue hee had a poult foote Loue hath no lacke and lesse reason yet must I loue and whome ah Tullie swéete Tullie from whose mouth flows melodie more inchaunting then the Syrens on whose lips the muses make a newe Parnassus in whose thoughts rest Platos diuine spirites and in whose heade is contayned the subtil● witte of Aristotle Is not hee as glorious in Rome for his eloquence as thou for thy beauties Doth not the Senators wounder at his learning as at thy perfection Why should not then both our singularities be lincked in the vnion of Loue why shoulde not Terentia liue to Tullie and Tullie to Terentia Ah but he is base the first of his kyn that tasted of honour I but he is vertuous and famous for his eloquence graces that counteruaile the meanesse of his parentes I sée loue hath reasons béeing out of reason still to argue against reason therfore without further pro contra in mine owne passions I wil loue Tullie therfore thus to Lentulus With that taking vp hir penne she wrote him this aunswere Terentia to Lentulus health WHen I red Lorde Lentulus thy letters and spied thy loues I blusht at mine owne thoughtes and sorrowed at thy fortunes I serch not the cause of thy loue for it sufficeth to me thou doest loue if it lay in me either to graunt thy desire or satisfie thy passions Thy reasons are sufficient to moue were it not my vowe and my destines direct my minde to contrary thy affections Thy honours Lentulus knockes at the closet of my heart thy victories sue for their lordes libertie thy loyaltie enters pele mele with my thoughtes and giueth a sore assault to my setled resolutiō all these put in their pleas to purchase fauour for young Lentulus But Vesta hard harted Vesta that makes hir virgings pliant to hir owue properties commaunds that I shut mine ears against such alluring Syrens I count my selfe greatly honoured with the loue of so worthie a Romayne and euer will Terentia co●et to prooue as thankfull as he affectionate onely in loue pardon me for that either I neuer meane to loue or if I doe loue my thoughtes were fixed before Lentulus came from Parthia Wade not there where the ford hath no footing barke not with the Wolues of Syria against the Moone looke not to clim● Olimpus way not at impossibilities but pacifie that with patience which thou canst not obtaine with beeing passionate If thou suest to my Father and he graunt to conclude a mariage yet shalt thou want a bride for I will first die before I violate my resolution Séeke not then by my preiudice to aime at thy owne content which be it euery way yet it shall neuer be in my loue not that I hate Lentulus but that my fortunes forbides me to loue Lentulus If thou thinkst these denials be but words of course and perswadest thy selfe that women will bee first coy and then courteous as the marble that drops of raine do pierce Thou shalt déepely deceiue thy selfe and highlie wrong me but I challenge thy promise that howsoeuer I fr●strate thy expectation thou wilt burie thy conceipte in silence In which hope gréeuing that thy showers came in Autumne I wish quiet to thy thoughts and an ende to thy loues Thine euer but in loue Terentia TErentia hauing thus ended hir letter and newe begun hir loues the one directed to Lentulus the other deuoted to Tullie she went straight to hir two friends Cornelia and Flauia shewing them the contentes of the letter Cornelia saide she was too seuere and stoicall in sending such a peremptorie aunswere to so braue a gentleman Flauia ouercharged with ioy praysed the resolution of Terentia wishing that all maides were of hir minde mis●iking that which shée most loued thinking by retreating Terentia from the chace to be mistresse of the game hir selfe Well this letter at last was sealed and deliuered to Eutrapelus who hying him fast to Tullies lodging founde Lentulus and him in secrete and serious discourse and all god wot was about Terentia Lentulus hauing receiued the letter entring with Tullie into his study read the contents No sooner had he viewed reuiewed ouer hir cruell determination but in a great extas●e of minde he cried out Dulcior est mors quam Amor. And with that flinging out of his study he fell into bitter and extreame sorrows Tully grieuing at his friendes harde fortune sought with plausible perswasions to appease his furious melancholy wishing him whatsoeuer Terentia wrote stil to thinke hir a woman that would one while thrust out fancy with a finger and straight interteine loue as a friend that either time or his constancy woulde make hir stoope to the lure of his desires Thus sought Tully to wrest him from his passions but in vaine for hir resolution confirmde with such effectuall and perswasiue determinations so quatted the conceit of his former hope that going passing melancholy to his bed he fell into an extreame feuer which aggrauated with the inward anguish of his minde grewe to be so dangerous that Asclapo the physit●on excellent at that time for his facultie iudged the disease ●o be mortall The Senatours hearing of Lentulus sickenesse sorrowed as fearing Roome by death shoulde bee depriued of such high ensuing hope his friends f●ocked to his lodging to visite him who noting the heate of the ague and the passions of his minde his sodaine starts his gash lookes and his abrupt answeres iudged the extremity of his sickenes had halfe brought him to a lunacy all séeking by counsaile to cure that which neither counsail nor medicine could mitigate Frustrate of their expectatiō they wished his weal and returned with grief Only Tully whose setled friendship no misfortune could remooue still day and night as a second Esculapius wayted vpon this perplexed patient But as the depth of his passion pierced into the center of his heart so the feuer increased that generally Roome began to sorrow so braue a warriour shoulde bee cut off in the very prime of his fortunes insomuch