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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

he presently dispatched messengers to his sonnes in their seuerall Prouinces y● they particularly accompanied with their wiues should méete him at Delphos with generall commaund also y● his Nobillitie should make hastie repaire to that Cittie The Kings commaund being put in execution his sonnes to signifie their duetifull obedience sped them to y● Court where being come before their father Ariamenes after he had sit a while in a muse with himselfe fell into these spéeches Nature Sonnes the perfect mistris of affection tyeth the father to his childrē with such a ●●rickt league that loue admieteth no partialitie nor fancy brooketh any difference but a ●ust proportiō of good will is ministred if the parties haue 〈◊〉 in their vertues Maicus Po●●i● Cato who was a father 〈…〉 childrē was wont to say that the loue of a father as it was Royall so it ought to be impartiall neither declini●g to y● 〈◊〉 nor to y● other but as 〈◊〉 doe merite 〈…〉 who ha● sixteene children of his owne bodie at his de●th made equal distribution both of goods lands alike to them 〈◊〉 being dem●unded why he did not giue his eldest Sonne y● greater portion made this answer And is not the youngest also the sonne eate To auorde which supposition you referre his Highnesse to the generall fame of the Countrey y● aboue the rest you excéede in obedience and chastitie Take héede Sister fame hath two faces and in that resembleth time readie as well to backbite as to flatter therefore they which build their vertue vppon report doe alledge but a bad proofe But leauing your reasōs to his Highnesse consideration thus for my self I set not my good name at so small a price as to hazard it vpon the chaunce of the tongue that of al other members is most vncertaine although I am sure my bordring neighbours of estéeme of my doings as they take my vertues for a president of their actions but I hope your Highnes doth consider y● such trée such fruite that the liuely pourtraiture of the parents is as in a Christall manifested in y● children that nature is the best touchstone of life that educatiō and nurture are as good as the Chrisocol to discerne Minerals so they of maners Then right mightie Prince I first for proofe of my vertuous disposition lay downe the honorable happie life of my Parents so wel ordred that ●ame and enuie blusheth to staine them with any spot of infamie what care they had to bring me vp in my youth with what instructiōs they passed ouer my tender yeares I referre to your Maiestie as by willing your second sonne to match in so meane a famely since the rites of mariage were celebrated my husbands dispositiō shall manifest The eldest Sister hearing how cunningly yet crookedly this prettie Oratresse aimed at the matter could not suffer to heare so long a tale without replye and therefore went thus roundly to the purpose Sister ill might Phillis haue blamed Dido for her folly sith she her self intertained stragling Demophon for a friend The Cynicks that inueighed against other mens faults were seldōe culpable in the same crime they which will haue their censures peremptorie must not build their reasons on vncertain principles therefore wipe your nose on your owne sleeue and if you spie where my shooe wrings me looke to the length of your own last for in obiecting selfeloue to me you fall a sléepe in the swéet conceipt of your owne praise which indéed wisely you frame to hazard on the chance of fame sith your deserts are so small as report is blind on y● side which lookes to your vertues the force of your reasons drawne from the authority of propagation alledging nature and nurture for proofes of your vertues are too light to counterpaise with a Crowne for we oft sée that Natures onely error is found in the dissimilitude of linage so that the trée bringing foorth faire blos●omes yet the blomes may either hée nipped in the bud with vntimely weather or hindred with catterpillers that it neuer proue good perfect fruite The Cedar trée is faire of it self but the fruite either none or very bad T is no opinion to say a good father a good child in that time oft maketh an alteration of Nature But your husband was cōmanded to haue pleaded your interest mary I feare his conscience tels him the Crowne hangs too bye for his reach sith he must be faine to attaine to it by your vertues The yongest Sister hearing how vnreuerently they brabled before the King began to blush which Ariamenes espying noting in her face the very purtraiture of vertue demanded of her why hearing her sisters so hard by the eares for a Crowne shée said nothing her answere was thus briefe and pithy He that gaineth a Crowne getteth care is it not folly then to hunt after losse The King looking for a longer discourse and seeing contrary to his expectation that she was onely short and swéete prosecuted still inquestioning and demaunded what vertues she had that might deserue so royall a benefit This quoth she that wh●● others talke yet being a woman I can hold my peace Ariamenes and all the Nobility of Delphos wondred at the modestie of the young Lady that contrary to her naturall disposition could so well bridle her affections Therfore dehating the matter betwixt them which of the thrée were most vertuous although they found by proofe that the other Ladies were both obedient and chast yet for that they wanted silence which sayd Ariamenes comprehended in it all other vertues they mist of the cushion and the King created his youngest Sonne heire apparant to the Kingdome PEnelope hauing ended her tale the olde Nurse greatly commended the discourse and b●cause she wold be pleasant at the parting blow knowing that Isme●a was a quicke wench of her tongue tolde her that this tale was a good president for her to direct her course séeing silence was so profitable Tush quoth Ismena feare not you Madame for when I haue such a proffer as a Crowne I will gaze so fast at that that I will forget my prattle but in saith my lippes are too course for such Lettice and so hye hangs the Grapes that the Foxe will eate none Well Madame I know your meaning but for all t●e cracke my penny may be good siluer sith silence is a vertue amongst women but yet I sée no reason of necessity séeing nature hath béene so niggardly in that ●auour It may séeme quoth the Nurse that she hath béen rather too prodigall for thy tung wants no mettall As thus they were about to part with these merry quips a messenger came hastily rushing in who tolde Penelope that Vlisses was arriued that night within the port of Ithaca This word so amazed them all with sodaine ioy that lea●ing the endlesse Web Penelope●●lled ●●lled for her Sonne and that night sent him in post to the Sea where what news he heard of his father I know not But thus abruptly this night was the discourse broken off but for that fell out after his home comming I referre you to the Paraphrase which shortly shall be set out vpon Homers Odissea till when let vs leaue Penelope attending the returne either of her Husband or Sonne or of both FINIS

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

Loue yet the Phisition by reading oft knoweth the nature of the Simple as well as the Gardner that planteth it he which séeth Fortune standing on a Globe may iudge she is fickle though he try not her incōstancy many speak of the Crocadiles teares that neuer felt her deceipts and diuers condemne Diogenes for a sinick that saw not his Tub The Shoomaker corrected Appelles picture yet he kn●w not the vse of the Pensell I may by your honours patience talke of Venus Temple that neuer smelt the fume of her Sacrifice but to say what I haue heard thus to the matter Anacreon Menander and Ouid with others who were studious in this amorous Philosophy haue as they set down principles so penned down precepts wherby the fond and variable effects of loue is manifestly deciphered calling it by the name of a God as vnder that tytle bewraying the forceable efficacie that by a predominant quality it doth infuse into humane minds other whiles a Fury as discouering the sorrows griefes and disquiets that procéeded from such a furious humour pain●ing Cupid blind as noting the selfconceipt in choice like a little boy as figuring small gouernment not leueled by the proportion of reason winged as absolutely pourtaying inconstant and fickle passions of Louers whose thoughts are variable whose ioyes are momētary like to the shadows which Iuno presented to the Giants bringing forth like the Ceader trées faire leaues but no ●●ui●es and as the Date hauing soft rindes but with in stones as hard as stéele This loue Madame presented by Venus as an inueagle obiect no sooner entreth the eye but he pierceth the heart not accompanied with vertue to perswade but armed with the outward hew of beauty to constraine which what effect soeuer ensueth waxeth at last sorrow and repentance Such was the loue of Dido to Aeneas that séeing the curious forme of the dissembling stranger through too ouer hasty affection did both ruinate herselfe and her Kingdome Ariadna by crediting the swéete tales of Theseus Med●a of Iason Phillis of Demophon and infinite other which entring into this passion runs headlong after endlesse repentance This loue is like the Baaran Leafe which séene pleaseth but touched pierceth the skinne this loue is that which ouerruling yong heads sotteth the sences dulleth the wittes hindreth quiet and maketh a passionate confusion in the minde of man called by the title of loue which indéed is méer● lust and vanity wheras true and perfect loue hath his foundation vpon vertue onely ayming at the inward perfection of the mind not at y● outward complection of the body which decreaseth not but increaseth with time vniting the harts with such strickt leages of amity that it ●ccounteth all labour a pleasure to shew endles desire by effects as Madam to infer your self for an instance who not po●sessed with this fond fury which mē faine to come from Venus but that settled fancy which we are sure procéedes from vertue although the Prince Vlisses hath ten yéeres béen absent at the siedge of 〈◊〉 and report in this space hath made sundry and time nor pretence of loue can euer be able to reconcile where De●●●pita 〈◊〉 olde age whom diseases hath tyed to the Crouch will now with the babe returne to the Cradel that stoo●ing to the graue by burden of ouer many yéers wil yet offer a toothles Sacrifice to Venus for a young husband this well may becalled a mariage of Labour where the maried couples so inequall in match are continually troubled with a spirit of dissention for as the fower Elements are different in their properties so are these disagreeing in their manners the earth ayre are not placed well in one ballance the fire and water brookes not the selfe ●amelimites age and youth may conioyne in law but not in loue sith the sanguine complection of the one the melancholye saturnine cōstitutiō of the other are alwaies in thoughts effecte and desires opposite ex dyametro so that by the opinion of Aristotle they be as it were immediat contraries which Dyonisius the elder noted very well when séeing his Mother passing old and ouer growne with age desirous to mary a yong stripling told her that it was in her power to violate the lawes of Syracusa but not the lawes of nature this affirmeth Plato in his Androgina agréeth to the censure of Dionisius affirming that marriage in olde Women is with the Giants bellum ger●●e cum Diis which the Romane Lady Valeria well noted who alwaies had this saying in her mouth that her husband dyed to others but liued to her foreuer And héerin can I commend my good daughter Penelope that hating such marriages of labour doth intend both toliue and dye to Vlisses Nay good Nurse quoth Penelope le ts heare your last distinction I meane the mariage of griefe t is Madam quoth she where the old prouerb is sulsil'd better one house troubled then two I meane where a bad husband is coupled with a bad wife where the one striueth to ouercome the other not in vertuous actions but in disquiet and murmurings I cannot thinke quoth Penelope that there is any husband so bad which the honest gouernment of his wife may not in time reforme especially if she kéep those three speciall points that are requisite in euery woman Obedience Chastity and Silence thrée such graces Nurse as may reclay me the most gracelesse husband in the world and because my mayds are young and may in time trie the fortune of mariage we wil this night discourse of this poynt to discouer the effects and efficacie of obedience which for that I wil be first in this newe deuised disputation I will take in hand to discourse of that both we may beguile the night with prattle and profite our mynds by some good and vertuous precepts The maides hearing their Lady in so good a vain were glad and therfore setting their hands to the Web and their eares to hir talke Penelope began in this manner Zenobia the wife of Radamysius King of Armenia being demanded of a Lady in her Court how she procured hir husband so déepely to loue hir as he feared in any wise to offer her occasion of displeasure answered by fearing ot displease him meaning that the chiefest point of wisdome in a good wife is to make a conquest of her husband by obedience Aristides the true and perfect Iusticiari● of his time caused the portraiture of a woman figured on her knées to be caried before y● Brydes at their espousals to signifie that they meant now to obey submit not to rule or command for quoth he such fond and fanastick women as make choise of effeminate Husbands thereby to challenge a soueraine superiority ouer them may rightly be compared to chose presumptuous fooles y● had rather be masters of blind men then seruants to the discréete and learned which caused Plato in his Androgina to say that a wise woman ought to thinke hir husbands

maners the lawes of her life which if they be good she must take as a forme of her actions if they be bad she must brooke with patience His reason is thus As a looking glasse or Christal though most curiously set in Ebonie serueth to small purpose if it doth not liuely represent the proportion and lineaments of the face inspicient so a woman though rich beautifull deserueth smal prayse or fauour if the course of her life be not directed after her husbands compasse And as the Mathematicall lines which Geometricians doe figure in their carracters haue no motiō of them selues but in the bodies wherin they are placed so ought a wife to haue no proper nor peculiar passion or affection vnlesse framed ans prouiding Soldiours money and Munition took her iourney as farre as Athens where she receiued letters from Anthony to returne backe to Rome which she with great obedience performed sending him al the forenamed necessaries although she perfectly knew that Cleopatra was with him in the fielde But when the warres betwixt him and Augustus were ended he sent straight to commaund Octauia that she should depart from his house which she did so obediently that Rome after her death would haue erected an Image in her praise but that Augustus would not suffer it kéeping Anthonies children that hée had by his first wife with such care and diligence as it did wel note to the world her loue and obedience To confirme which more at large I will rehearse a pleasant history Penelopes Tale. SAladine the Souldan of Aegipt who by his prowesse had made a generall conquest of the Southeast part of the world tooke to wife Barmenissa the onely daughter and heyre of the great Chan who amongst sundry Sutors not inferiour to him in parentage and progeny yet made such a carefull choyce of this yong Aegiptian Prince not for his beauty for that Nature had denied him that fauour but for his vertue fith he was wise and valiant that imprinting the perfection of his mind with a déep insight into the déepest place of her heart and sealing the knot of fancy with y● signet fo mariage she neuer so much as in thought crost him with any discourtesie yet for that men are the subiects of Fortune and therfore variable and the true disciples of time and therefore momentary he began to loath that in the fruite which he loued in the bud to spurne at that in the saddle which he secretly vsed in the cradle repaying the faith of Bermenissa not with flattery to inueagle her but with foule language t●e better to manifest his hate which although Nature forbad her to brooke yet obedience the Heralt y● best imblazeth loue taught her that against such sorrow there was no better salue then patience that reuenge in a woman was not to be executed by the band but by the hart and yet not with rigour but with clemency persisting in this opinion Olinda the Concubine which Saladine so greatly loued sent a letter to this effect Olinda to Saladine health IF the inward affects of the minde be manifested by outward effects or the brow the bashful bewrayer of secrets and yet the true discouerer of thoughts may bée credited the Emperour of Aegipt in his loues resembleth the Pyne trée whose leaues remaine in one colour but one day Well might the censures fo wise Clarks haue bin caueats of my likely misfortune for they say Princes affections as they are glorious so they are brittle that he fauour of Kings hangs in their eye lids ready with euery winke to be wiped out that as they are full of Maiesty and aboue law so they are full of incōstancy because without law this which other spoke by proofe now I alledge by experience for your Highnes abridgeth me of my wonted allowance not onely in expence but in lookes so that I account that day happy when Saladine but glanceth at Olinda The mistris of my mishap is thy iniurious wife Barmenissa to whō I wish thy ill fortunes my miseries she with a fained obedience séeketh to inueagle thée with a conceipt of her loue who if shée did loue could not content for she wants the eye pleasure beauty thou tickled with an inconstant humour dost listen to the melody of the old Syren whose necke shadowed with wrinckles affoords but had harmony Kéep not Saladine fire and water in one hand in running with the Hare hold not with the Hound beare not both a Sword and an Oliue Paris gaue sentence but on Venus part affection brooketh no diuision therefore if thou loue Olinda hate Barmenissa follow the example of Anthony who after his choyce of thy Countriwoman neuer fauoured Octauia t is beauty that mertis a Crowne and as well would the Diadem of Aegipt beséeme they Lemons head as thy wiues I should and yet were loth to flatter in saying what I would not but if I may haue free libertie to speake what I think my verdit shall be soone giuen I confesse that what pleaseth the father ought to content the sonne and therefore I count the will of Saladyne a lawe to Garinter yet as obedience wisheth a consent so Nature willeth with a friendly denyall to diswade from things that offende not onely men but y● are euen hatefull to the Gods I say therefore that Saladyne should get more honour by exyling Olynda not onely from Babylon but out of all the confines of Aegipt then if he had obtayned more tryumphes then that inuincible Caesar. No doubt your Grace shall soone nay I feare to soone finde my words to be true that in hoping to get a swéete content you gayne a sower mislike like to them which pleased with the colour of the trée Lotos are poysoned assoone as they taste of the Apples Barmenissa hearing how sharply her sonne shooke vp the Emperour with a modest countenance as nothing grudging at the iniurie of fortune at her last farewell gaue him this charge Although sonne the law of nature willes thée to be partner of thy mothers misfortunes yet the Gods whose lawes are aboue nature commaunds that thou gainsay not the Edict of thy father For as Proclus the Academick affirmes there is nothing which we ought more to regard then duetie and obedience the commaunde of the father is not to bée limited by the conceipt of the child for as their superiority is without proportiō so their wils ought to be without denials first the frowne of a father saith Epictetus is like the eleuation of a Commet which foreshewes euer some fatall and finall ruine Then Garinter offend not thy father in thought least the gods grudging at thy secret disobedience plague thée with an open reuenge further sonne thou art his subiect and be thy soueraine what duetie is due to such a mighty potentate thou must by law and conscience offer vnto him And séeing by the consent of the Aegiptian lawes I am deposed and O●●nda inuested with the regall crowne if a mothers