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A06162	An alarum against vsurers Containing tryed experiences against worldly abuses. Wherein gentlemen may finde good counsells to confirme them, and pleasant histories to delight them: and euery thing so interlaced with varietie: as the curious may be satisfied with rarenesse, and the curteous with pleasure. Heereunto are annexed the delectable historie of Forbonius and Prisceria: with the lamentable complaint of truth ouer England. Written by Thomas Lodge, of Lincolnes Inne, Gentleman.	Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.	1584 (1584)	STC 16653; ESTC S109563	53,394	94

face Like as the Gods by touch did soone displace The sowre that alterd the poore shepheards swéete When thus she gan her Corulus to gréete O louely shepheard happie be the hower In which I know not by what secret power The Gods haue sent thée hether to thy frend Alas what griefe should Corulus offend Whom fairest Nimph might well a liking lend Thy grasing Ewes with vdders full of milke With fruitfull ●leece and wooll as softe as silke Take glory in the fatnesse of this soyle And praise theyr Mastres care and busie toyle And now accuse thée of thy drooping mone Tis but enough for me to wayle alone For why Corinna onely haplesse is Poore Corulus at last reuiude by this Gan sighing silence now to interrupt And banish feare which did his hope corrupt And thus he said O Nimph of beauties traine The onely cause and easer of my paine Tis not the want of any worldly ioy Nor fruitlesse bréed of Lambes procures my noy Ne sigh I thus for any such mishap For these vaine goods I lull in fortunes lap But other gréefes and greater cause of care As now Corinna my tormenters are Thy beautie Goddesse is the onely good Thy beautie makes mine eyes to streame a flood Thy beautie breakes my woonted pleasant sleepe Thy beautie causeth Corulus to wéepe For other ioyes they now but shadowes be No ioye but sweete Corinnas loue for me Whereon I now beséech thée by that white Which staines the lilly and affects my sight By those faire locks whereas the graces rest By those swéete eyes whereas all pleasures nest Doo yéelde me loue or leaue me for to die Corinna studious for to yeeld reply With many teares bedewd the shepheards face And thus at last she spake O happie place The which the Gods appoynted for my good What blessed Nimph within this sacred wood Hath pleaded poore Corinias lawfull cause Or be they dreames that now my fancie drawes O Corulus ne reads● thou sue to me Nor spend the teares for to accepted be Since long ore this I would haue bent to bow If modest feare could well haue taught me how In happie bonds of Himen I am thine Ne plead thou grace to her that dooth incline Thus with a kisse she sealed vp the deed When as the shepheard glad of happie spéed Embracing her he had desired long Gan call for grace to her he so did wrong Confirmed thus with mutuall glad consent They finisht vp the marriage that they ment Great was the day and euery field compéere Delighted in the pleasure of his déer● Poore I alone in sad lamenting layes Depriued of the pleasure of my dayes In carefull tunes in briefe concluding thus O happie times and planets gracious When in a mirrour beautie did behold The hidden woes my muse could wel vnfold● And with a liking looke shape some replie But woe is me since fathers crueltie In changed formes hath altred termes of sute And altering place hath made my Goddesse mut● Who honouring Pan may hap the person sée Whom habit strange perswades it should be me THis delectable Aeglogue finished by the amorous Forbonius gaue occasions to Prisceria to satisfie the thoughts that then troubled her fantasie For confounded in her selfe not knowing what to conclude of that she shepheard Arualio had reported yet welnigh perswades that the reporter was he she liked off with a séemely grace not minding to incurre the lightest suspition turning toward Forbonius whose hand was on his half-pe●ie shée say thus Gentle shepheard that Nimph thou louest shuld alter from womanhood that considering thy true zeale exquisite proportions would not requite thy loyaltie with the benefit of her loue Truly Madame aunswered the imagined Arualio and I thinke my selfe gracious in this that for her whom I loue I am enioyned this torment wherevpon t●rning himselfe a side and drying vp the teares which should bewray his fancie he was at last knowen by Priscoria who altogether amazed at the presence of Forbonius forgerting weln●e the infortunacie she was intangled in cast her armes about his necke yet colouring with a séemly disdain to shadow her opinion and blindfold subtill ●otto shée sayde thus Truly shepheard if I may preuaile with thy mistres thou shalt not be vnrewarded for this curtesie Madame said Forbonius might I counsell your Ladiship you should not sorrow for that maye be compassed at your pleasure This said Sotto taking Arualio by the hand tooke his leaue of his young Mistresse thus My young Ladie I as studious of your pleasure as maye 〈◊〉 haue brought you this young shepheard to laugh at if his musick like you you shall haue euery day at the least a lay or two And héerin shalt thou doo me no small pleasure said Prisceria so with a séemly regard shaping a loth departure y ● two shepherds resorted to their flocks Arualio altogether amazed at his mistres beautie and Sotto very iocond he had fitted his young Ladies fancy so well whervpon y ● old shepheard turning to our solitarie distressed Arualio said thus What maks thee thus sollom my youthly compéere cease to gréeue thy selfe about those thinges that may be compassed if thou loue time shal eate out that which Treacle cannot and thou shalt either be fortunate in possessing hir thou desirest or in ouerpassing thy passions with good gouernment leaue loue to those that like her Arualio not to séeke of curteous humanitie gaue him this aunswere O Sotto it is not the loue that greeueth me but the meanes to compasse loue I labour not to attain loue but to possesse the profits of my long seruice in loue as for time it may worke wonders in them that are repulsed but when Cupid is gracious and occasions vnfortunate thinke you y ● this is not a bitter sowre Yea but answered Sotto if it be so Arualio plucke vp thy sprights and doubt thou not but if thou prooue dilygent in pleasing my young mistresse I meane not to be idle if I may know whom thou likest of As for that doubt not said our disguised Forbonius for since I know by thy onely meanes my loue is to be compassed I wil not stick in so slight a pleasure to profit when as by thy meanes I may onely succour my selfe In such lyke termes passing ouer their werisome walke At last they betooke themselues each of them to the folding of their sheep for it was welnie night and the Sunne was stéeped in the Ocean whervpon Arualio the shepheard becomming now Forbonius indéede hasted him home vnto his Tenaunts house making him both priuie of his happie ●ortune and concluding with himselfe howe to performe that he wished for and for that long trauayle requireth some quiet he betooke himselfe to rest where recompencing al his nights wakings with a quiet sleep At dawne of day he returned in his counterfeit habite vnto the field and vnfolding his flocke he draue them into those pastures that wer adioyning to Sottos walk who no sooner

propinquitie of their abode was such as that Priscerias chamber windowe had a prospect into Forbonius garden by which meanes the Gentleman in his meditations might beholde his mistres and Priscer●● beeing by the equitie of the destinies prefigurated to straunge misfortune might haue occasion to looke and séeing might loue but as this conueniencie was fauourable one waie so was the frowarde disposition of the parents vntoward on the other parte for Solduuius whether lead thereto by appointment or driuen to the exigent by some former mallice borne by the progenitors of Forbonius had neither a lyking to the youth nor a longing to haue his daughter marryed eyther lead by couetousnesse for that he woulde not stresse his coffers or by enuie for that he contemned Forbonius yet what is concluded secretly amidst the heauens cannot be circumuented with mans circumspection for Forbonius as one which depended onely on the fauour of Prisceria though fortune had hereft him of occasion to inioy yet would not he be seuered from the benefite to beholde her whom he loued who warmed with the same fire in increasing his flame kindled her owne fancie being as willing as the other to procure remedie to her passion with manye chaunge of coulours and sundrye swéete aspects opened that to her seruant which he wished for in his mistres who with like sorrowes requiting euerie circumstance as one willing and borne to attempt at such time as Prisceria solitarily solaced her selfe at her windowe in mournefull melodye making his Lute tunable to the straine of his voice he recorded this Sonet THE Turtle pleased with his she compeare With sweet aspects and many a turning lure Describes the zeale in tearmes should well appeare If nature were so gratious to assure The silly bird with speech as well as I Who stopt of speech by turnes my woes descrie And though perhaps my tearmes by distance be Seaioynd from thee I wis my mou●nfull mone Doth pearce thine eares and Eccho tells for me In sowre reports would she and I were one For whom I liue and whom I onely loue Whose sweet aspects my dying fancies moue And if the aire by yeelding calme consent Make sweet Prisceria priuie to my suite Vouchasafe deere sweet that beautie may relent And graunt him grace whom distance maketh ●uter So either hope shall make me climbe the skie Or rude repulse enforce my fancies flie Prisceria not altogether priuie to the report yet concluding all purposes to hir owne fantasie conceyuing by his manifolde sighes aspectes and motions wherevnto he applyed his actions with a solempne sighe as wishing him present and a séemely bent as requiting his curtesie betooke hir selfe to hir pillowe where comparing euerye accident together both of the zeale shée bare to Forbonius and of the profer he proffered to her she brake out into these spéeches Alasse vnhappie Prisceria what vntoward destinie hath befallen thée That in thy flowring yeares and prime of beautie thou art become a thrall to vncertaine pleasure neyther knowing from whence the errour first sprong nor by what Treacles it may at last bée expelled If it bée that nature enuying my perfections hath allotted mée this purgatorie that hauing at free becke all the benefites of Fortune yet I should with inwarde bondes bée inchained with the holdefast of fancie Alasse that in prefixing the torment shée hath not proffered a remedye or in bestowing an vlcer hath not vouchsafed a corrasiue Howe straungely am I martyred sillye maide that I am That by one onelye looke haue conceyued such an impression as neyther arte can alter with medicine nor time eate out with continuaunce Woe is mee that I loue yet fortunate am I that I hate not for by the one I am depriued of lybertie by the other I shall onerpasse the sorrow by surenesse Yet are thy thoughts more fauorable to thée Prisceria then the successe in thy loue will be fortunate Thou louest Forbonius and why for his vertue yet thy father hateth him vpon olde grudges with whom when rancour preuayleth what may be more lookt for then contempt and denyall But Forbonius séeketh Priscerias fauor not Solduuius friendship but Prisceria cannot enioy Forbonius without Solduuius fauor But Forbonius will by happie marriage conclude all mallice but thy father hauing an enuious mind will haue a suspitious eare Alas why imagine I wonders in my fancy hoping that those destenies which inthralled my affection wil subiect my fathers resolutions since neither reason alloweth me any probablitie to worke vpon neither hath Forbonius any motion as I sée to compasse ought well to the satisfaction of my freend and to the contentment of my sorrowing hart my freend shall know my zeale and I will continue my affection which being begun with so wonderfull causes must néedes finish with a miraculous effect With these conclusions she fell a sléepe leauing me to returne to Forbonius who being tormented with the same furie and troubled with equall fancie séeing his light to be eclipsed I meane his Mistresse vanished began heauely to complaine himselfe in these or such lyke termes Alas you destinies whose courses are ineuitable how fortuneth it that in bestowing casualities in mās life you prescribe not meanes to preuent misfortunes and onelye beginning to fester the heart prefixe no presidents whereby the humours may be expelled If all things are to be referred vnto an ende what may I wel imagine of my estate who intercepted by all occasions must either finish my misfortunes miserably or desperately O loue iustly maist thou be counted licentious whereas thou neither prescribest limites to thy selfe to inthrall nor meanes to thy subiects to attain libertie But why exclaime I on him that hath blest me with a benefit as though the fate that made Forbonius happie in louing cannot establish his successe as that it shall not be measured by misfortune I glorie in the benefit of my martirdome since a certain inward hope assureth me that diuine beautie cannot be sequested from iust pittie nor a tried seruice in loue requited with a disdainfull hate But foolish man that I am how maye it be that in séeking beautie I labour not to attaine it desiring to enioy a benefit I attempt not to make triall of my Mistresse bountie Why by last nights becke she vouchsafed some shew of acceptaunce and that may as well be of reproofe as lyking O Forbonius it is a silly hope that is conceiued by signes either attempt further or perswade thy selfe of no sauour Her father silly wretch enuieth thée and thinkest thou to compasse his daughter alas faint hope is this when as those that should build vp doo destroy when such as shoulde perswade doo diss wade when as he that dooth commaund most earnestly dooth forbid But loue hath no respect of consanguinitie but hauing onely relation to him which he fauoureth delighteth onely in the possession of his choyce yet is not Forbonius sure she loueth well I sée he that will be fortunate must hazard and that man

and euery little similitude of truth an vndoubted demonstration Did I call thine enimie fortunate Truely Father I feare me I might iustly conclude it for he poore Gentleman little dreameth on displeasures when at such time as rest should occupie your sences you most trauaile in your rancour by certaine tokens as you saie you conclude that I am affectionate and by this silly conclusion of a dreame you inferre an vndoubted trueth that I am enamoured with Forbonius and if perhaps the necessitie of the fates be such Prisceria shall finde her selfe happie in louing Forbonius by whose meanes her Father may cease rancour and take rest and his daughter satisfied with that she séeketh for be no farther troubled with dreaming fantasies Solduuius perceyuing by these spéeches the certaintie of his daughters affection as one altogether enraged calling vp his wise and raising his seruaunts left the ●illye maide all amased at his sodaine departure whereas the olde man exclaiming vppon the disobedience of his daughter and thundering out many reuenges against poore Prisceria caused his horses to be saddeled and perforce contrarie to her expectation made her bée conuayed to Farnusium a mannor house of his owne a place for the solytarinesse more fit for a Tymon then conuenient for a beautifull Ladie the onely companie there being shepheards who vpon the Vast mountaines recorded the praise of the Countrie fauourer Pan and the rurall amitie betwéene them and their Countrie lasses Thus from stately Court from the regards of her swéet friend from the plesures that follow the Citie her companions were rurall maidens her retinue forlicke shepheardes whose slight rapacitie not yéelding anie comfort to allaie the Gentlewomans sorrowings made her to her more hart griefe continue her pensiuenesse and sup vp her conceiued sorrow in silence But to repeat the moane on the other side that amorous Forbonius made when hy certain report he had notice of his mistres departure were wonderfull who béeing in himselfe altogether confounded not knowing where to finde her out which was the onely mistres of his fantasie Lord with how many sighes breathed he forth his sorrowe and compassed on euerie side with dispairing ioyes in the verie same garden where tosore hee repeated his pleasures hée in these waylefull tearmes recounted his miseries Alas vnfortunate Aegyptian whose faithful affectiōs ar● so immutable as thy naturall all colour is vnstainable How iniurious are the destinies that graunting thée life they dayly hasten thy destruction that vouchsafing thée plesure they sus●er it not to be permanent that admitting thée the benefit of beauties good grace they depriue thée of the possession and blessing of that thou desirest Alasse what shall befall mée when the glorie of my eyes are dimmed when the pleasures of my heart are determined whē she whom I loue néerest is farther off frō my presēce whē y ● iniurious repulses of y ● father makes euery attempt of Forbonius vnfortunate Wo is me what way may I imagin to make an end of my miserie Should I with dispairing rashnesse finish vp the Catastrophe of my troubles Should I béeing bereft of her by whom I liue dispossesse my selfe of that she most doth like Should I in making my selfe onelye fortunate by y ● alaie of my sorrows leaue Prisceria to her daily mournings both to lament my deceasure her frow●rd destinie no Forbonius it is but vaine quiet that is to her discontentment who béeing equally inthralled w t thy selfe will as willingly be pertaker of thy torment as thy self But why waile I thus in feminine sorow when my happinesse is to be accomplished by manly attempt Solduuius rigour hath caused Priscerias absence yet cannot the fathers displeasure determine the daughters loue she liueth to thy wish Forbonius she loueth to thy weale Forbonius she wilbe cōstant til death Forbonius why shouldest thou then leaue her vnsought for Forbonius Attempt vain man to seke out thine assured let not the distance of place disanull thy good hap Solduuius banishment is concluded within the limites of Aegypt and since it is so either Forbonius will attaine her he desireth or reuenge the vniust rigour of an iniurious Father Upon this resolution as a man quite dispossessed of himselfe he hasted to Apollonius recounting vnto him how all things haw fortuned beséeching him not without foison of t●ares to séeke but by art where Prisceria was conuersant and to direct him by counsell who altogether was confounded with dispaire Apollonius by exteriour ●●gnes conceiuing the interiour heartes-griefe and séeing the poore young Gentleman martyred so miraculously comparing times and reuolutions attained to the knowledge of her aboad and concluding in himselfe to comfort him which almost dispaired hee spake thus to Forbonius My good friend whence groweth it that neyther the nobilitie of thy auncestors nor thy forepassed attempts neither the benefit of thy mistres fauour can confirme thée but that thou wilt be carefull for that which thou hast alreadie almost compassed Pluck vp your heart my swéete Forbonius for thy Prisceria is not farre from ●hée Farnusium a mannor house of her Fathers seated East out of this Citie whereas she is so circumspectly lookt into that by anie meanes vnlesse by secret and conuenient pollicie thou canst come to the accomplishment of thy desire Thou must therefore attyred altogether like a shepheard depart this citie and by some conuenient meanes procure the kéeping of some one Farmers shéepe which is resident among those mountaines by whose meanes thou shalt fall in acquaintance with the garden of thy mistres called Sotto and hauing conuenient occasion to satisfie thy affection possesse thy selfe of y ● thou hast long desired Forbonius concluding his replie with hartie thanks sodainly departed remembring himselfe of one Corbo a tenaunt of his which had his mantion house verie conueniently seated hard by the mannor house of Soldunius he hastely shaped his iourney vnto him making him priue to y ● he desired swearing him to be constant continue secret he betooke himselfe to y ● kéeping of his tenants shéepe not forgetting to driue his flocke néere vnto the lawnd wheras Solduuius seruants grased their shéepe he so demean●ed himselfe that not onely he attayned the fauor of Sotto which he sought for but also for his curteous affabilitie was accoūted of amōg y ● whol● troup of heards men for y ● best singer y ● tunablest Musition His Aeglogs were so delectable the deliuery of them so delicate Whervpon by good fortune it so fel out y ● Forbonius vnder the coulourable name of Arualio was desired by Sotto to resort vnto y ● mānor house who informed him of all y ● hapned telling him of the careful demeanour of his sorowing young mistres who pleased with nothing but with solitarie musicke pined her selfe awaie w t melancholy not without cause said he for my old master hath forbiddē me y ● admitting of any one to her presence not suffering her to passe the limits