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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02124	Greenes carde of fancie Wherein the folly of those carpet knights is deciphered, which guiding their course by the compass of Cupid, either dash their ship against most dangerous rocks, or else attaine the haven with pain and perill. Wherein also is described in the person of Gwydonius a cruell combate between nature and necessitie. By Robert Green, Master of Art, in Cambridge.; Gwydonius	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.; Labé, Louise, 1526?-1566. Debat de folie et d'amour.	1608 (1608)	STC 12264; ESTC S105823	97,810	154

GREENES CARDE OF FANCIE Wherein the Folly of those carpet Knights is deciphered which guiding their course by the compass of Cupid either dash their ship against most dangerous Rocks or else attaine the haven with pain and perill Wherein also is described in the person of Gwydonius a cruell Combate between Nature and Necessitie By ROBERT GREEN Master of Art in Cambridge At London Printed by H. L. for Mathewe Lownes and are to be solde at his shop in Paules-churchyard 1608. TO THE RIGHT HONOrable Edward de Vere Earle of Oxenford Vicount Bulbeck Lord of Escales and Badlesmire and Lord great Chamberlain of England Robert Green wisheth long life with increase of Honour THat poor Castilian Frontino Right Honourable being a very vnskilfull Painter presented Alphonsus the Prince of Aragon with a most imperfect picture which the king thankfully accepted not that hee liked the work but that he loved 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 reject them in that they had a shewe of Poetrie Caesar oft times praised his souldiers for their wil although they wanted skil and Cicero as well commended stammering Lentulus for his paynfull industrie as learned Laelius for his passing eloquence Which considered although wisdom did wil me not to straine further then my sleeue would stretch I thought good to present this imperfect Pamphlet to your Honours protection hoping your Lordship will deigne to accept the matter in that it seemeth to be prose though something vnsauorie for want of skill and take my well meaning for an excuse of my boldnesse in that my poore will is not in the wane whatsoever this imperfect work do want The Emperour Traian was never without suters because so curteously hee would heare every complaint The Lapidaries continually frequēted the Court of Adobr indinus because it was his chief studie to search out the nature of stones All that courted Atlanta were hunters and none sued to Sapho but Poets Whersoeuer Mecaenas lodgeth thither no doubt will schollers flocke And your Honour being a worthie fauourer and fosterer of Learning hath forced manie through your exquisite vertue to offer the first fruits of their studie at the shrine of your Lordships curtesie But though they have waded farre and found mines and I gadded abroad to get nothing but Mites yet this I assure my self that they neuer presented vnto your honor their treasure with a more willing minde than I do this simple trash which I hope your Lord hip wil so accept Resting therfore vppon your Honours wonted clemencie I commit your Lordship to the Almightie * ⁎ * Your Lordships most dutifully to command ROBERT GREENE TO THE GENTLEMEN Readers health _●AN blowing vpon an Oten pipe a little homely Musick and hearing no man dispraise his small cunning began both to plaie so loud and so long that they were more wearie in hearing his musick than he in shewing his skill till at last to clawe him and excuse themselues they said his pipe was out of tune So Gentlemen because I haue before time rashly reacht above my pitch and yet your curtesie such as no man hath accused me I haue once again aduentured vppon your patience but I doubt so farre as to be rid of my follie you will at the last say as Augustus sayde to the Grecian that gave him oft times many rude verses Thou hast need quoth hee reward mee well for I take more paines to read thy works than 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 Almighty Farewell * ⁎ * Robert Greene. AD LECTOREM in laudem Authoris PVllulaten stirpi similis speciosa propago Aureolusque novo revirescit ramus amoris Vere tuo verèiam VERE dicandus honori Ista salus Iuueni Comiti sit gloria nosse Accepisse decus Comites vbi passibus aequis Ales amor virtusque sagax decurrere nôrunt Ventilat iste faces restinguit at illa furentes Taedas Nec taedet Puerisic taedia caeci Fallere qui caecis conuoluit viscera flammis Ergo refer grates qui deuitare cupisti Spumosos Veneris fluctus scopulosque minaces Qui fragilem tumidis cymbam mersisse procellis Possent Hàc iter est hàc dirige tutior ibis Richardus Portingtonus THE CARDE OF FANCIE THere dwelled in the City of Mitylene a certaine Duke called Clerophontes who through his prowesse in all martial exploits wared so proud and tyrannous vsing such mercilesse crueltie to his forraigne enemies and such moodlesse rigor to his natiue Citizens that it was doubtfull whether hée was more feared of his foes for his crueltie or hated of his friends for his tyrannie yet as the worst weed springeth vp more brauely then the wholsommest hearbe and as the crookedst trée is commonly laden with most fruite so this rigorous duke was so fauoured and fostered vp by fortune his estate being so established with honor so beautified with wealth so deckt with the Diadem of dignity and endued with fortunate prosperity hauing in warres such happie successe against his foes and in peace such dutifull renerence of his friends although more for feare than fauour as he séemed to want nothing that either fortune or the fates coulde allow him if one onely sore which bred his sorrowe coulde haue béen salued But this griefe so galled his conscience and this cursed care so cumbred his minde 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 Lewcippa and the other a sonne called Gwydonius this Lewcippa was so perfect in the complexion of her bodie and so pure in the constitution of her minde so adorned with outward beautie and endued with inward bountie so polished with rare vertues and exquisite qualities as shée séemed a séemly Venus for her beauty and a second Vesta for her virginite yea Nature and the gods had so beuntifully bestowed their gifts vpon her as same herselfe was doubtful whether she should make greater report of her excellent vertue or exquisite beautie But his sonne Gwydonius was so contrarie to his sister Lewcippa though not in the state of his bodie yet in the staie of his mind as it made al men maruaile how two such contrarie stemmes could spring out of the self same stock His personage indéed was so comely his feature so wel framed each limb so perfectly couched his face so fair and his countenance so amiable as he séemed a heauenly creature in a mortall carcasse But his minde was so blemished with detestable qualities and so spotted with the staine of voluptuousnesse that hee was not somuch to bee commended for the proportion of his