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A02136	Morando the tritameron of loue wherein certaine pleasaunt conceites, vttered by diuers woorthy personages, are perfectly dyscoursed, and three doubtfull questyons of loue, most pithely and pleasauntly discussed: shewing to the wyse howe to vse loue, and to the fonde, howe to eschew lust: and yeelding to all both pleasure and profitt. By Robert Greene, Maister of Artes in Cambridge.; Morando the tritameron of love. Part 1	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1584 (1584)	STC 12276; ESTC S105814	28,889	48

then we haue wonne the feilde and you lost the combate and if wemen loue more for beautie and vertue then for wealthe and riches wee haue taken the foile and you wonne the conquest But it was harde for Achelous with his shiftes to preuaile againste Hercules because of his strength and it will be as harde for you to resist my reasons because thei be true Who so readeth the Romishe Recordes and Grecian Histories and turneth ouer the volumes filled with the reporte of passionate louers shall finde soundrie Sonnets sawsed with sorrowfull passions diuers Ditties declaryng their dumps carefull complaintes wofull wailinges and a thousande sundrie haplesse motions wherin the poore perplexed louers doe painte out how the beautie of their mistres hath amazed their mindes how their fancie is fettered with their exquisite perfection how they are snared with the fourme of her Feature how the giftes of Nature so bountifully bestowed vppon her hath intangled their mindes and bewitched their sences that her excellent vertue and singular bountie hath so charmed their affections and her rare qualities hath so drowned them in desire as thei esteeme her courtesie more then Cesars Kingdomes her loue more then Lordshippes and her good will more then all worldly wealth Tushe all Treasure is but trash in respect of her person Yea they prefer the inioying of her perfection before all the riches of fortunate Craesus Thus the poore passionate louers whose life hangeth on their Mistres loue craue onely to feede their fancies with her beautie and to please their mindes with her vertue But let the most iniurious Dame who hath best skill to breath out slaundrous speeches against men say if she can that she hath euer heard or red of any louer that hath desiphered in his ditties the earnest desire he had to entoye his Mistres or painted out his passions that he suffered to gaine his Ladies possessions now it is a fault committed of most and omitted of fewe that men in their loue looke before they leepe and therefore oftimes fall in the ditche neuer gaping after the desire of greedie gaine nor building their fancie vppon the fading goodes of Fortune so that oft they win such a wife as he maie put her Dowrie in his eye for hurting his sight and her wealth maie be cast without any great count whereby it is euident that if a man once fixe his fancie vpon any Dame no want of wealth no lacke of liuing can impaire his loue but he remaineth faithfull in despight of Fortune wearing this Posie in his Shield Non aurum sed amor In treth quoth Siluestro if I had a case in the law thou shouldest be my Counsellor for I doubt thou bast put in such a Plea as it will be hard for Lacena to a●…swere Tushe sir quoth she though the Castle be sharply assaulted it is not straight wonne and the fielde is not lost at the first Alarum Aiax valor was no whit the lesse for Vlisses v●…ine babling and though by his wordes he wonne the prize yet all men knew it was more by prating then by Prowesse so if you foile me by your subtill fallations euery one shall perceiue that it is not because I defende the wrong but because I cannot wrangle Boetius in his Bookes De consolatione noting the sondrie affections which force the minde either to mislike greatly or to loue feruently saith that in making a choyce of their loue women do most erre in that they suffer their mindes sonest to be subdued by the giftes of Nature wherein although I confesse they offend by fixing their fancies on suche a fickle subiect yet it is euident that they more respect the person then his purse and rather like his perfection then his landes and liuinges For if wemen in their choyce were more wedded vnto wealth then to wit and respected more their Louers Possessions then his person no doubt an infinite number of Damosells ●…hculd lead their liues in more plentie and lesse penurie But as the softest waxe sonest receiueth impression as the tender twigge is most easie to bend and the finest glasse most brittle so the pure complexion of wemen is most subiect vnto Loue being quickly inflamed by the force of affection but neuer quenched like to the Abeston stone which once set on fire can neuer be put out For when as Cupid a●…th to allure the minde of a se●…e maide to offer Incense at his Altar so become his subiect he seeketh not to drawe her with worldly trashe or treasure nor to perswade her with the gift of Jemmes or Jewelles but couereth his hooke with y ● sugred baite of beautie wherwith she being once blinded he carieth her awaie into perpetuall captiuitie The affection of wemen is alwaies f●…ttered either with outward beautie or inwarde bountie either builded on the perfect complexion of the bodie or pure constitution of the minde they alwaies waie his worthinesse and not his wealth his comelinesse and not his coyne and rather seeke to settle their mindes vppon his vertue then on suche fading pelfe as is not permament For after that they haue imprinted in their mindes the fourme of their Louers feature and that beautie hath so bewitched their sences as they are wholy at her becke then they carefully poore soules conslder the condition of their Louers and as they haue vewed their outward substaunce so thei deuine of their inward qualities If he bee valiaunt they loue to heare of his Martiall exploites his Prowesse pleaseth thē his manly deedes drouneth them in delight yea they are so besotted in this fonde imagination that they thinke no man so able to attchiue any enterprise as he vaunting of his victories as if she her self bad wonne the conquest If he bee wise his wit setteth them more on fire If Eloquent his sugred speeche inchaunteth them If learned his secrete skill draweth them into an endlesse Laberinth so that they wholie feede their fancies with his beautie or delight their mindes with his qualities neu●…r resepecting his riches nor weighing his wealth wher●…by oftimes when pouertie pincheth them they crie Peccaui But Signior Peratio to come more nerer to the purpose tell me but what you would thinke of her that would carefully couett that whiche she cannot at her owne will enioye or seeke greedily to gaine that thing whiche an other properly shall possesse were it not to seeme either fonde or franticke In the same case should wemen consist if they liked more for liuing then for loue For after they bee once maried is not her housbandes wealth his owne to dispose Maie he not either wisely keepe it or wilfully consume it either spare or spend at his owne pleasure Yes no doubt her Dowrie is then growne to be his due her Patrimonie wholy his proper possessiōs so that it maie consequently bee concluded that wemen are not so wi●…lesse as to wishe for that which if they get yet their gaine shall be nothing but they obserue this rule as

fallen out the Nimphes had neuer gotten their Cornucopia Had not Circes and Vlisses iarred his men had neuer returned to their sh●…pes Tis an ill flaw that bringeth vp no wracke and a bad winde that breedeth no mans profite Had not Syluestro and Peratio fallen out about loue wee had neuer brought it in question whether it be good to loue or no. But now wee will haue it tried out in the plaine fielde to see the euent of the battaile For truely I am of Siluestros opinion that to liue without loue is not to liue at all Sostrata who from her birth was vowed vnto Vesta and offred her Sacrifice at the Shrine of Diana hearing Morando take Siluestros pa●…te with blushing face made this maidenly aunswere Sir quoth she although I maie seeme impudent in my mothers presence to enterparle and maie bee thought halfe inmodest without commaund to come to counsell yet I hope the equitie of the cause and the necessitie of the defence will excuse me to the one and cleare me from the other To haue fonde loue honoured as a God were grosse Idolatrie to consent to suche Scisinaticall opinions were palpable Heresie therfore if it please my mother to giue me leaue I wil proue that the worst course of life is to loue Daughter quoth Panthia if you thinke your self strong enough to withstand so stou●…e an Heresie my good will shall be quickly graunted but take heede least in ventring in an vnknowne Foorde you slippe ouer the shooes T●…she quoth Peratio it was easie for Achilles to conquer Hector when he himself by the meanes of Thetis was inuulnerable and as easilie may Sostrata withstand Siluestro 〈◊〉 she is armed with the truth which maie well be assalted but neuer vtterly sacked Your good worde quoth Siluestro is neuer wanting but if Sostrata would be ruled by mine aduise she should not yeld her verdict against Venus but for my parte let her doe as she please for I am sure prattle she may but preuaile she cannot Sostrata hearing the shorte censure of Siluestro began to defende the walles with this Rampire Ouid quoth she the Maister of this Arte who busily bet his braine about setting downe of amorous principles being demaunded what Loue was aunswered that it was suche a vaine and inconstant thing suche a fickle and fonde affectionate passion that he knewe not what it was from whence it came nor to what ende it tended Onely this he was assured of by experience that to the vnhappie it was a hell and to the most fortunate at the least the losse of freedome Anacreon said that it was the forgetting of a mans self whereby his sences are so besotted and his wittes inueagled he is so suared with vanitie and so fettered with follie as he greedelie seeketh to gaine that thing whiche at last turneth to his extreme losse For who so yeeldeth himself as a flaue to loue bindeth himself in fetters of golde and if his sute haue good successe yet he leadeth his life in glistring miserie For loue according to the definition of the Philosophers is nothing els but the desire of Beautie so that the beginning middest and ende of loue is to croppe the bitter sweete bud of Beautie which how pleasaunt so euer it be in the mouth yet so perilous in the maw that he neuer or seldome digesteth it without daunger both of his purse and person Beautie the onely ●…ewell whiche Louers desire to enioye although you maie obiect against me that it is a foule birde defiles their owne neast yet conscience cōstraines me to auer the tr●…th is like to the Baaran flower which is most pleasaunt to the eye but who so toucheth it feeleth present sinarte None euer rid on Seianus horse but he came to ruine Who so possessed but one dramme of the golde of Tholossa perished He that with vnwasht handes touched the Aultar of Ianus fell downe presently dead and fewe or none whiche onely fixe their fancie vpon Beautie escape without mishappe or miserie so that I conclude the Louer in liew of his toyle getteth suche gaine as he that reapeth the beautifull Apples of Tantalus which are no soner toucht but they turne to Ashes If this trash thē be the treasure whiche Louers desire so greedily to gaine no doubt their winninges shall be muche like to his which supposing to embrace Iuno caught nothyng but a vaine vanishyng Cloude This considered he hath either his sences besotted or els is blinded with selfwill whiche seeth not the abuses in Loue and follie of Louers whose life is so pestered with continuall passions and combred with suche haplesse cares as it is to be counted nothyng but a very masse of miserie They spende the daie in dumpes and the night in dollor seeking much and finding little gaping after that which they seldome gaine and which if they get proueth at length but losse Tis true in trothe quoth Peratio for of all follies loue is the greatest fondnesse and especially in those whiche are coumpted truest Louers who if they want of their will and misse of their wishe pine awaie in hellishe pennurie and though their mistres rewarde them with hate yet they neuer make an ende of their loue but by death Such loue in my opinion no wise man either will or can commende for if to loue were good as is now in question yet tis a proued principle Omne nimium vertitur in vitium therefore if euer I loue I will keepe a meane neither to hie least I suspecte with Cephalus nor to lowe least I mislike with Minos and especially I would not exceede for I thinke of Louers as Diogenes did of Dauncers who beyng asked how he liked them answered the better the woorse This pleasant conceipt of Peratio made Morando and all the companie to laugh seeyng how bitterly he began to bob Siluestro on the thumbes who throughly chafed burst foorth into these tearmes Peratio ꝙ he you come to counsell before you bee calde and set downe your sentence before any manne craues your censure your verdit is of lesse valure Your slender opinion is not to be taken for a principle and therefore learne thus much of me that so apishly to carpe at euery cause is a signe of greate immodestie and small manners but leauyng you to your follie thus much to the purpose The Philosophers who haue sought precisely to set out the perfect Anotomie of pure loue who set downe by pen that whiche before they tried by experience weighyng wisely the straunge affectes and force of loue and feeling in them selues the puissance of his power iustly cannonised that sacred essence for a God attributing vnto it the ●…itle of dietie as a thyng woorthie of such supernaturall dygnitie For it doeth infuse into the mindes of men suche vertuous and valerous motions kindlyng in mens hartes such gowing coales of naturall affection whiche before the force of loue had touched them lay buried in the deade cindres of hate that it doeth knitt the mindes

of frendes together with suche perfect and perpetuall amitie as we may iustlie say with Socrates they be two bodies and one soule yea the common people although their myndes bee sotted and almost sencelesse yet they haue had loue in suche sacred estimation that they carefully rewarded them with the title of Honour and Dignitie whiche haue excelled in that holie affection estemyng this onely vertue if so basly it may be termed sufficient of a man to make one a God But to ayme more neare the marke if we rightly cōsider the force of loue wee shall finde that there is nothing whiche so pleasureth a man and proffitethe the Common wealth as loue Tullie beyng demaunded why the Common wealth of Rome did oft fall into many calamnities at that tyme especially when S●…illa and Marius Tyranously shed so muche innocente bloud answered because the temple of loue was defaced and beeyng demanded what caused the Commonwealth so to florish in prosperous estate answered loue Aledgyng to the olde Italian prouerbe Amor è la madre del bu●…n citta What causeth vertue to rayne and vice to come to ruine but loue What delighteth in good and despighteth ill but loue Yea what causeth a man to bee honored for a GOD but loue It maketh the valient to venture amidest moste perrilous daungers neither to bee feared with the losse of life nor to respect the dint of Death t●…inkyng no aduenture harde to bee atchiued nor encounter combersome no daunger perrilous so he be fullie armed with the shield of loue to defend hym from the furious force of his enemies So manie Grecians had neuer bene slaine of H●…ctor had not Andromache looked ouer the walles Troielus had neuer made suche a Massacre among his fo●…s had not Cr●…ssed buckled on his Helmet Nay Achilles had neuer slaine them bothe had not Briseida beene the Mistres of his thoughtes To conclude in all ages Cheualrie had neuer so brauely flowrished if Loue had not been the guerdon for their desertes Loue maketh a man which is naturally adicted vnto vice to be indewed with vertue to applie himself vnto all lawdable exercises that thereby he maie obtaine his Louers fauour He coueteth to bee skilfull in good letters that by his learnyug he maie allure her to excell in Musick that by his melodie he maie entise her to frame his speech in a perfect phrase that his Eloquence maie perswade her yea what Nature wanteth he seeketh to amende by nurture and the onely cause of this verteous disposition is Loue. And to proue this premisses with a particular instaunce I remember that our countriman Boccaee in his Decameron bringeth in one Chymon ●… Lacedemonian who was more wealthie thē wittie and of greater possessions then good qualities giuen from his birth to be a seruile drudge by nature and could not by his friendes be haled from his clownish state by nurture his delight was to toyle at y e Plough although a Nobleman borne and ciuill curtesie was the onely thing he contemned This Chimon who by no art could be brought to haue any witte by chaunce as he passed through the streetes cast his eye on the glittring beauty of a Ladyin Lacedemonia whose singuler perfection so deeply imprinted into the harte of this witlesse Chimon as he felt the flame of fancie to fric within his entrales yea the force of affection had so furiously assalted hym as perplexed with these vnaquainted passions Loue driue him so to his shiftes that he seckyng to obtaine his mistres fauour he began to applie himself to al bertuous exercises that within shorte tyme loue beeyng his loodestone of a witlesse foole he became to bee a wise Philosopher of of Clowne to become a Courtiour yea loue made suche a straunge Metamorphoses of her new Nouice that in prowesse and curtesie he exceded al the Courtiers of Lacedemonia Tushe who rightly can denie that Loue is not the cause of glorie honour profite and pleasure whiche happeneth to man and that without it he cannot conueniently liue but shall runne into a thousande enormities Whereof I conclude that not to loue is not to liue or els to leade a life repugnaunt to all vertuous qualities Well said Siluestro quoth Morando thy reason is good for in truthe he that is an enemie to loue is a fo●… to nature there is nothyng which is either so requested of men or desired of brute beastes more then mutuall societie whiche neither the one can gaine nor the other attaine without loue Is not he then more sencelesse then a beast or lesse naturall then a reasonable creature whiche would de●…pise it Yes no doubt I would count him like to a Aparmantus that had no other reason to hate men but for that they were men he himself being like a man but in nature a very Monster Sir quoth Sostrata if you weighed well what loue were you would yeeld an other verdict Is there any thyng which man esteemeth more then libertie Nay doth he not account it dearer then life and is not Loue the losse thereof and the meanes to leade him into an endlesse Laberinth Doth it not fetter him that is free and thrall the quiet minde in perpetuall bondage Is there any thyng to be found in Loue but lowring care calamitie sorrowe sighes woe waylinges complaintes and miserie What breedeth frenzie and bringeth furie but Loue What maketh the wise foolishe and fooles more fond but Loue What besotteth the senses What bruseth the braine What weakeneth the witte What dusseth the memorie What fadeth the strength Nay what leadeth a man to ruth and ruine but Loue And yet forsooth no lesse then a GOD Dido had ended her golden daies with ioye in gallaunt Carthage Phillis had neuer desperatly procured her owne death Ariadne had not miserablie died in the solitarie Desertes Medea had raigned royally as Queene of Colchos Yea innumerable others had enioyed more felicitie or tasted lesse miserie if this cruell monster Loue had not wrought their mishappe For as soone as it once inueagleth the wit and bewitcheth the sences it maketh straight a Metamorphosis of the poore Louers minde he then rageth as though he were haunted with some hellishe Hagge or possessed with some franticke Furie like one inchaunted with some Magicall charme or charmed with some bewitchyng Sorcerie yea he is perplexed with a thousande sundrie passoons first free and then fettered alatc swimming in rest and now sincking in care erewhile in securitie and then in captiuitie yea turned from mirth to mournyng from pleasure to paine from delight to despight hatyng themselues and louyng others who is the chief cause of this their calamitic Fulfillyng the saying of Propertius that to loue howsoeuer it be is to loose and to fancie how charie soeuer the choice be is to haue an ill chaunce For Loue though neuer so faithful is but a Chaos of care and fancie though neuer so fortunate is but a M●…sse of miserie Whereof I conclude that who so is intangled with the