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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02152	Penelopes vveb VVhere, in a christall mirror of feminine perfection represents to the view of euery one those vertues and graces, which more curiously beautifies the mind of women, then eyther sumptuous apparell, or iewels of inestimable value: the one buying fame with honour, the other breeding a kinde of delight, but with repentance. In three seuerall discourses also are three speciall vertues, necessary to be incident in euery vertuous woman, pithely discussed: namely obedience, chastity, and sylence: interlaced with three seuerall and comicall histories. By Robert Greene Master of Artes in Cambridge.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1601 (1601)	STC 12294; ESTC S103424	24,622	40

a Prince as wel to study in Pallas as to cry Alarum with Mars that as great honour dyd depend in the Scepters as in the sword tha the gréene Lawrell in the Senate house was as pleasing an obiect to y● eye as glittering armour in the field Consideratiō ther preuenter of bad I wist tyed him so to the performing of these forenamed premisses that causing his weather Ships to be warped out of the Hauen assoone as they were made tyght rigged and trimmed able to brooke winde weather be ●oysed sayle and thrust into the mayne conuerting his course toward Ithaca but Fortune the enemy to prosperous resolutions willing to bewray her selfe hauing commission from angry Neptune to shewe her inconstancy kept him still in the Court of Ithaca for that Nature had made her beautiful by a superficiall glory of well proportioned lineaments and vertue had made her wise by ayming after fame with wel ordred actions thse two perfections the speciall friend to fancy armed with the long absence of Vlisses with many rumors of his death brought all the Péeres of Ithaca to become sutors to Penelope She whom Loue had arested for a subiect but neuer brought to any seruile obedience whom the Idea of Vlisses printed in her thoughts had resolued to dye the wife of so good a Prince refused their proffers with the warrant of her chastity sought to appease their humorous perswasions But the Noble men whom delay and tyme had made impatient of denyall fell in to flat tearmes and craued an answer Penelope seeing that fortune had conspyred her mishap by breeding such a restlesse importunity to her wooers was driuen to seeke a knot in a Rush and with policy to preuent that which the honest and honorable pretence of her chastity was not able to defend She therfore beguiling time with labour hauing begun a webbe wherein she spent the day to keep her selfe from ydelnesse knowing that Otia si tollus 〈◊〉 cupidinis arcus gaue answer that when her worke was finished she wold make a choice of some one of them for her husband The Noble men who knew that as the work was not great the dated time could not be long contented themselues with this reply which somewhat eased the mind of Penelope but when she fell into consideration with herselfe that the longest Sommer hath his Autumne the largest sentence his Period and the greatest labour his performance she began to be melancholy til Loue had learned her a shift to make her work endles by vntwisting as much in the night as shée woue in the day this policy put in practice for that the night the friend of sweet and golden sléepes grudged that her benefits should be despised by the restlesse labour of such a politick huswife she determined accompanied with her Nurse and two Maides to passe away the time in parle thinking thus both to further her content and procure paine to bée mittigated by such pleasing delights seeing therefore that her Nurse began to nodde and her Maides to winke she wakened them out of their dreames with this mercy chat I can but smile Nurse to sée how time maketh a distinction of ages by affections and the disposition of the sences followes truely the temperature constitution of theyr bodies as a particuler instance makes manifest for the time of the night growing to rest summons both you and my Maydes to sleepe yet though the affect is al one the effects are diuers for age whom nature hath stored with imperfection and disease and therefore fréed from the taxe of disquieted thoughts teacheth the sences by the desire of sleep how the number of your yeres are dated vnto death that with Antisthenes wee may say how the bed r●sembleth the graue and the closing of the sences the dissoluing of life my maides whō youth perswades vnto rest and want of care prooues that the blacke Oxe neuer troade on their féete onely cares how to serue time for that no other care hath yet bitten them by the héele so resoluing their minds in quiet by such content séekes to pleasure the sences by swéet slumbers but I poore soule whom fortune hath set as a subiect wheron to worke the variable points of her inconstancy finde my sences so countermanded with disquieted thoughts as desire of content drawes mée into a laborinth of restlesse passions Eubula one of her Maides that was most familiar with her Lady made this pretty and pithy reply I remember Madam that Ph●dias drawing the counterfaite of youth f●gureth labour as the task-master of his actions ease as the paymaster of his deserts meaning as I can coniecture by the Embleame that as it behoueth youth to spend the day in worke whereby to auoide the sugred snares that idlenesse layeth to intrap the sences so the guerdō for such forward inde●ours is to consume the night in swéet and quiet slumbers least the vitall spirits ouercharged with too much labour should either grudge at too sore an impost or else fall to inconuenience by ouerlong toyle and watchings Extremity is euer a vice too much in euery thing is hurtful and the greatest prodigality is the expence of the eye I meane not Madame in gazing want●nly but in watching ouer niggardly which when I consider how prodigal your honour is in this point I cannot but as euer I haue done merua●le at your wisdome and vertue so now to wonder at your loue and constancy forthinking with my self that your Grace is seated in a Throne of Maiesty adorned with a Scepter and a Dyadem honoured with the possession of a Kingdome the tytle of a Quéene rich beautifull and young the very aduocates of vanity and séeing that the affection your Highnes beares to Vlisses the loue to your Husband the vow to your Lord though in long absence still qua●●●fies the forenamed pleasures with the swéet deaw of a modest chastity I must Madame without flattery say that in requitall of such constant affection the Gods in iustice must crowne you with immortality and the world reward you with fame and honour Indéed quoth Vygenia for so was her second Maide called when I sée maiesty a contented copartner with labor and a resolute farewell to ease the chosen companion to a Quéene I cannot thinke but loue is a great Lord that in a womans affections worketh such straunge effects Take héede quoth Ismena which was the last and youngest of the thrée that in this word loue you deceiue not your selfe for there is an Amphibological equiuocation in it which drowneth y● hearers oft in a laborinth of perplexed conceipts As how quoth Penelope let vs heare you make this distinction Ismena that was young and very quicke witted willing to content her Ladies humour by beguiling the night with prattle applying as well her fingers to the web as her tongue to the tale went forward thus in her description Although Madame experience hath not taught mée to set downe the diuers effects of