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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21106	Orlando furioso in English heroical verse, by Sr Iohn Haringto[n] of Bathe Knight.; Orlando furioso. English	Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533.; Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612.; Cockson, Thomas, engraver.; Porro, Girolamo, 1520-1604, ill.	1607 (1607)	STC 747; ESTC S106841	721,901	456

wit was theare But yet ere backe their iourny they disposed The holy Prophet brought Astolfo wheare A pallace seldome seene by mortall man Was plast by which a thicke darke riuer ran 87 Each roome therein was full of diuers fleesis Of woll of lint of silke or else of cotten An aged woman spun the diuers peecis Whole looke and hew did shew her old and rotten Not much vnlike vnto that labour this is By which in Sommer new made silke is gotten Where frō the silke worme his fine garment taking They reaue him of the clothes of his owne making 88 For first in one large roome a woman span Threds infinite of diuers stuffe and hew Another doth with all the speed she can With other stuffe the distanes still renew The third in feature like and pale and wan Doth seuer faire from foule and old from new Now who be these the Duke demands his guide These be the fatall sisters he replide 89 The Parcees that the thred of life do spin To mortall men hence death and nature know When life must end and when it must begin Now she that doth deuide them and bestow The course from finer and the thicke from thin To that end works that those that finest grow For ornaments in Paradise may dwell The course are curst to be consum'd in hell 90 The Duke did further in the place behold That when the threds were spent that had bin spun Their names in brasse in siluer or in gold Were wrote and so into great heaps were donn From which a man that seemed wondrous old With whole loads of those names away did run And turn'd againe as fast the way he went Nor neuer wearie was not euer spent 91 This aged man did hold his pase so swift As though to runne he onely had bin borne Or had it giu'n him as a speciall gift And in the lappet of his cloke were borne The names of men with which he made such shift But now a while I craue to be forborne For in the booke ensewing shal be showed How this old sire his cariage ill bestowed In this xxxiiij booke is to be noted in the tale of Lydia the punishment of ingratitude and what an odious sin the same is in the sight of God and the world also here are to be obserued many kinds of ingratitudes as first of her despising of Alcestes long seruice and approued good will and secondly of the fathers ingrate recompences for his great deserts by seruices in the wars in which kind it is not onely slanderous but dangerous for a Prince to show a niggardly mind and much more a contemptuous disposition For though indeed no subiect rightly considering his duety ought to be moued by any ingratitude or iniury of his seueraigne to forget his allegeance yet seeing the nature of most men and specially of braue and resolute minded men is subiect to the passion of reuenge and can hardly bridle the same when they shall find themselues as they thinke disdained or their seruices not well regarded therefore the wisest and safest way and sittest for the Maiestie of a Prince is to be liberall in rewarding or at least thankfull in accepting such mens seruices and to consider that loue and bountie are stronger bands of allegeance then feare and dutie Concerning the Historie of this booke I have quoted some briefly by the side and some is so plaine it expounds it selfe onely I meane to ad a word or two what at I have read concerning that which is here deliuered by mine author about the Assumption of S. Iohn First how far the Scripture toucheth the same in the Gospell euerie one knoweth and how vpon the speech of our Sauiour if I will be tary till I come what is that to thee it was noysed among the Disciples that that Disciple should neuer see death After this as other of good credit haue deliuered S. Iohn liued till he was an hundred yeare old and then made himselfe a tombe and entred thereinto aliue in presense of many and on the sodaine a light shone all about the place and tooke the tombe for the time quite from their sights but the light being gone the coffin was found empty and the body of that Saint was no more seene vpon the earth Whereupon it was certainly thoughtthat he was taken vp into heauen or Paradise as Enoch and Elias were Though this of S. Iohn be not recorded in the Scripture nor no more is the assumption of the blessed virgin and consequently no man is bound to beleeue it as an article of our Creed Yet for mine owne opinion I thinke it may be verie true and I would in such cases beleeue a great deale more then I need rather then anything lesse them I ought for the tone if it be a sinne is surely pardonable but the other doubtles is verye damnable But I will briefly note the Allegorie that is meant hereby First whereas Astolfo washeth himselfe in a christ all well of cleare water before he can fly vp to Paradise it signifieth that after a man shall by remorse and deuout consideration weigh and behold the filthinesse of his sinne he must then wash himselfe with the cleare spring water of prayer and repentance and then and not before be may mount to Paradise which may here be vnderstood the comfortable peace of conscience the onely true Paradise of this world And whereas Astolfo commeth to S. Iohn whose name signifieth grace to receiue by his helpe Orlandos lost witts for so it is set downe that that was the secret cause why he was guided thither though vnawares to himselfe thereby it is to be vnderstood that no hope nor means is left for any man that hath lost his wit with following the vanities and pleasures of this world as diners carelesse christians do in forgetting and omitting their duties to God which is the verie highest point of follie I say there is no meane for them to recouer their wit againe but onely by the helpe of this S. Iohn that is this grace of God which can miraculously restore it againe In the description of S. Iohns apparell His gowne was white but yet his Iacket red The tone was snow the tother lookr as blood c by the red is signified charitie which burneth with Zeale and seruentinesse of loue by the white is meant virginitie and purenesse of life All those things that he saines to have beene showed Astolfo in the circle of the Moone are but similitudes and likenesse of such follies as he that will marke them well shall easily discerne The old man that ran away so fast with the Printed names of men and flang them in the darke streame figureth time as in the next booke mine author verie artificially explanet bit affirming in the person of S. Iohn as if it were as our prouerbe faith as true as the Gospell that the onely defence against the malice of time is the pen of