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A02133	Menaphon Camillas alarum to slumbering Euphues, in his melancholie cell at Silexedra. VVherein are deciphered the variable effects of fortune, the wonders of loue, the triumphes of inconstant time. Displaying in sundrie conceipted passions (figured in a continuate historie) the trophees that vertue carrieth triumphant, maugre the wrath of enuie, or the resolution of fortune. A worke worthie the youngest eares for pleasure, or the grauest censures for principles. Robertus Greene in Artibus Magister.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.; Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.	1589 (1589)	STC 12272; ESTC S105808	62,472	98

his ewes and lambes were straggled downe to the strond to brouse on sea iuie wherfore they take speciall delight to féede he found his flockes grazing vpon the Promontorie Mountaines hardlie whereon resting himselfe on a hill that ouer-peered the great Mediterraneum noting how Phoebus fetched his Laualtos on the purple Plaines of Neptunus as if he had meant to haue courted Thetis in the royaltie of his roabes the Dolphines the swéete conceipters of Musicke fetcht their carréers on the calmed waues as if Arion had touched the stringes of 〈◊〉 siluer sounding instrument the Mermaides thrusting their heades from the bosome of Amphitrite sate on the mounting bankes of Neptune drying their waterie tresses in the Sunne beames Aeolus forbare to throwe abroad his gustes on the slumbering browes of the Sea-God as giuing Triton leaue to pleasure his Queene with desired melodie and Proteus libertie to followe his flockes without disquiet Menaphon looking ouer the champion of Arcadie to see if the Continent were as full of smiles as the seas were of fauouts sawe the shrubbes as in a dreame with delightfull harmonie and the birdes that chaunted on their braunches not disturbed with the least breath of a fauourable Zephirus Seeing thus the accord of the Land and Sea casting a fresh gaze on the water Nimphs he began to consider how Venus was feigned by the Poets to spring of the froathe of the Seas which draue him straight into a deepe coniecture of the inconstancie of Loue that as if Luna were his load-starre had euerie minute ebbes and tides sometime ouerflowing the banks of Fortune with a gracious look lightened from the eyes of a fauorable louer otherwhiles ebbing to the dangerous shelfe of despaire with the piercing frowne of a froward Mistresse Menaphon in this browne studie calling to minde certaine Aphorismes that Auarreon had penodowne as principles of loues follies being as déepe an enemie to fancie as Narcissus was to affection began thus to scosfe at Venus Deitie Menaphon thy mindes fauours are greater than thy wealths fortunes thy thoughtes higher than thy birth thy priuate conceipt better than thy publique estéeme Thou art a shepheard Menaphon who in féeding of thy flockes findest out natures secrecie and in preuenting thy lambes preiudice conceipt●…st the Astronomicall motions of the heauens holding thy sheep-walkes to yeeld as great Philosophie as the Ancients discourse in their learned Academies Thou countest labour as the Indians doo their Chrisocolla wherwith they trie cuerie mettall and thou examine euerie action Content sitteth in thy minde as Neptune in his Sea-throne who with his trident mace appeaseth euerie storme When thou see●… the heauens ●…rowne thou thinkest on thy faults and a clcere skie putteth thee in minde of grace the summers glorie tels thée of youths vanitie the winters parched leaues of ages declining weaknes Thus in a myrrour thou measur●…st thy déedes with equall and considerate motions and by being a shepheard findest that which Kings wāt in their royalties Enuie ouerlooketh thee renting with the windes the Pine trees of Ida when the Affrick shrubs wau●… not a leafe with the temp●…stes Thine eyes are vaylde with content that thou canst not gaze so high as ambition for loue and with that in naming of loue the shepheard fell into a great laughter Loue Menaphon why of all follies that euer Poets fained or men euer faulted with this foolish imagination of loue is the greatest Venus forsooth for her wanton escapes must be a Goddesse her bastard a Deitie Cupide must be yong and euer a boy to prooue that loue is fond and witlesse wings to make him inconstant and arrowes whereby to shew him feareful blinde or all were not worth a pinne to prooue that Cupides leuell is both without aime and reason thus is the God and such are his Uotaries As soone as our shepheards of Arcadie fettle themselues to fancie and weare the characters of Venus stampte in their forheads straight their attire must bee quaint their lookes full of amours as their Gods quiuer is full of arrowes their eyes holding smiles and teares to leape out at their Mistres fauours or her frownes sighes must flie as figures of their thoughts and euerie wrinckle must be tempred with a passion thus suted in outward proportion and made excellent in inward constitution they straight repaire to take viewe of their Mistres beautie She as one obseruant vnto Venus principles first tieth loue in her tresses and wraps affection in the tramels of her haire s●…aring our swains in her locks as Mars in the net holding in her forhead Fortunes Calender either to assigne dismal ●…fluence or some fauourable aspect If a wrinckle appeare in her brow then our shepheard must put on his working day face frame nought but dolefull Madrigalls of sorrowe if a dimple grace her cheeke the heauens cannot prooue fatal to our kinde hearted louers if she séeme coy then poemes of death mounted vppon déepe drawne sighes flie from their master to sue for some fauour alledging how death at the least may date his miserie to be briefe as vppon the shoares of Lapanthe the winds continue neuer one day in one quarter so the thoughtes of a louer neuer continue scarce a minute in one passion but as Fortunes globe so is fancies seate variable and inconstant If louers sorrowes then be like Sisiphus turmoyles their fauours like honnie bought with gall let poore Menaphon then liue at labour and make estéeme of Venus as of Mars his concubine and as the Cimbrians hold their idols in account but in euerie tempest so make Cupide a God but whē thou ar●… ouer-pained with passions and that Menaphon wil neuer loue for as long as thou temperest thy handes with labours thou canst not fetter thy thoughts with loues And in this Satyricall humor smiling at his owne conceipts hee tooke his pipe in his hand and betwéene euerie report of his instrument sung a stanzo to this effect Menaphons Song Some say Loue Foolish Loue Doth rule and gouerne all the Gods I say Loue Inconstant Loue Sets mens senses farre at ods Some sweare Loue Smooth'd face Loue Is sweetest sweete that men can haue I say Loue Sower Loue Makes vertue yeeld as beauties slaue A bitter sweete a follie worst of all That forceth wisedome to be follies thrall Loue is sweete Wherein sweete In fading pleasures that doo paine Beautie sweete Is that sweete That yeeldeth sorrow for a gaine If Loues sweete Heerein sweete That minutes ioyes are monthlie woes Tis not sweete That is sweete Nowhere but where repentance growes Then loue who list if beautie be so sower Labour for me Loue rest in Princes bower Menaphon hauing ended his roundelay rising vp thinking to passe from the mountaine downe to the valley casting his eye to the sea side espied certain fragments of a broken ship floating vpon the waues and sundrie persons driuen vpon the shore with a calme walking all wet and weary vpon the sands wondring at this strange fight he