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spirit_n	bird_n	feather_n	good_a	21	3	2.1572	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14277	The blazon of iealousie· A subiect not written of by any heretofore· First written in Italian, by that learned gentleman Benedetto Varchi, sometimes Lord Chauncelor vnto the Signorie of Venice: and translated into English, with speciall notes vpon the same; by R.T. Gentleman.; Lettura sopra un sonetto della gelosia di mons. Dalla Casa. English	Varchi, Benedetto, 1503-1565.; Tofte, Robert, 1561-1620. aut	1615 (1615)	STC 24593; ESTC S119026	72,936	79

Thought that vexeth and galleth as well the body as the minde of man most feelingly not vnlike a martyring kinde of sensible racke or torture e Frenzy is a distemperature of the braine through some so daine affrighting or inward conceit but Madnesse is a furious passion that taketh away the right Senses and Wits for euer whereupon one writeth thus This bedlam Madnesse for forerunner sends Mannie Frenzie to suborne her Friends Whereof the one drying the other ouer-warming The feeble braine the edge of Iudgement harming Within the Soule fantasticqly they fayne A confus'd Hoste of strange Chymera's vaine f Three things saith one breedes IEALOVSIE a mighty State a rich Treasure and a fayre Wife This Fiend a quondam kinde Acquaintance of mine Mr. Thomas Watson paynteth forth very liuely in these Verses Pale IEALOVSIE childe of insatiate Loue Of Heart-sicke Thoughts which Melancholy bred A Hell tormenting Feare no Faith can moue By Discontent with deadly poyson fed With heedlesse youth and Errour vainely led A mortall Plague a Vertue drowning Flood A hellish Fire not quenched but with Blood * Definitions of IEALOVSIE The Authors defining of IEALOVSIE g Enuy is a vice that inflicteth those most extreamely that vse itmost and it immediately succeedeth Pride by nature for a proud man so loueth himselfe that he grieues that any should excell him which when he cannot auoid then hee enuies them and this is the difference betwixt Hatred and Enuy Hate extendeth to Some Enuy to All whereupon one saith Enuy is nothing else but griefe of minde Conceiu'd that Others Happinesse doe finde 'T is Honours shame and Glories secret Foe Whose Fruits are Hate Despight sad Griefe and Woe h Francis Maria Molza borne in Modena in Lombardie was one of the best Schollers of his time as wel for Prose as Verse He was a Retayner to that great Cardinall Alexander Farnesi of whom it is constantly reported that by his great power wealth and friends hee could haue made whom hee pleased Pope in any sede vacante but for himselfe he was neuer able to doe the same so much was hee doubted and feared because of his huge meanes and great authoritie he had in Rome Of this iolly Cardinall then was this Molza as I said a Follower who bestowed a bountifull pension on him during his life as hee did on many others beside He was buryed in Modena with this Epitaph Qui lepido Veteres cantauit carmine MOLZA Hic iacet aetatu maximu● huius honos IEALOVSIE of Louers three-fold i Pleasure is of two sorts one is said to be of honest good things and the other of dishonest In respect of honest things it is called voluntas but in respect of dishonest it is called voluptas therefore very wittily saith one to this purpose Pleasures like p●asting guests make but small stay Where Griefes bide long and leaue a score to pay k There be two sorts of Delight Sensuall and Intellectuall Sensuall which taketh his sourse from Sense and Passion and Intellectuall which draweth his originall from the Vnderstanding and the Will l This Passion may be rightly tearmed some timerous conceit or strange kinde of Feare such Feare commonly bringing much griefe to the minde as one saith to this purpose thus Passionate Feare still taketh her delight In perill which exceedeth perils might m When IEALOVSIE once siezeth on such weake and resistlesse soules as Propertius was it is pittifull to see how cruelly it tormenteth how insultingly it tyrannizeth ouer them for of all the mindes diseases that is it where to most things serue for sustenance but fewest for remedy such a furious perturbation and moody Agitation it is which throweth them into Extremities altogether contrary to the cause n Property or Right is a kinde of Interest or Clayme which one challengeth to any thing as his owne and as peculiar proper to himselfe and wherein no other can truely demand any share or part Yea so peremptory are some men in this point especially if they know they may lawfully challenge this high pris'd commoditie of Loue as their owne and that they haue payed for the same as they haue cast off their Wiues and Mistresses onely vpon a meere suspicion or scandallous report of a malicious backe-biting tongue the poore women being in no fault at all but their owne fantastique and iealous Conceits and Humours for who can stop a slanderous speech when it is once spread abroad since w●o knoweth not that Reports at rand●me runne whi●st Truth they misse And s●y●onne ●onne to ' a L●ar counted is And such a one was a certaine Gentleman a friend of mine who vpon a false surmise and giddy Toy that troubled his br●ine forsooke a fayre Gentlewoman his Mistresse not so much as once vouchsafing or enduring to heare how shee could excuse and answere for her selfe hee being so peremptory in his opinion that because shee was thought to be false vnto him therefore shee must be needes so indeede as you may perceiue by these few Verses being part of a bitter Letter hee sent her which you shall finde at the ende of this Booke and these be they And where to witnesse thou dost call For thy true faith the Heauens all I tell thee Dame the Wench that I Shall like for mine owne company Shall not alone right honest be But from suspicion shall be free That all may say shee hath no Fault No not so much as she can halt So you may perceiue by this hee would haue her more fortunate than any other for what Woman or Man is there almost liuing but that hath beene eyther suspected scandalized or ill spoken of by one lewd tongue or another And it is but too true considering What Malice likes not straight disprais'd must be For Slander 's blinde and cannot Vertue see Lyes Slander flattry Birds are of one feather Forsworne false Friends they are and dwell together o Honor is the Reputation and Credit or the good name and Fame of a Man which the generous Spirit priseth at so high a rate as before hee will haue the same eclipst hee will loose all his wealth yea and his dearest life to according vnto the saying of a certaine graue and wise Gentleman Vntainted HONOR not long life the treasure is Which noble Mindes doe hold to be their chiefest blisse p The Persians were wont to be so iealous of their Wiues as they neuer suffered them to goe abroad but in Waggons close shut but at this day the Italian is counted the man that is most subiect to this vice the sallow complectioned fellow with a blacke beard being hee that is most prone as well to suspect as to be suspected about Womens matters according to the old saying To a Red man reade thy Reade With a Browne man breake thy Bread At a Paleman draw thy Knife From a Blacke man keepe thy Wife Which wee expound after this manner The Red is wise the Browne trusty The Pale enuious

I tell thee what thou find'st too true Dispayre therefore and thinke not of reliefe Thou neuer more mee in this world shalt view Too true I heard what my sicke Heart beleeu'd And euer shall for which it still hath grieu'd But to come where I left to entreate of IEALOVSIE I say that this malignant Spirit encreaseth and decreaseth according vnto the Party for whose sake we are Iealous and this we doe not alone in respect shee is well bred is pittifull of Nature proper of Personage constant wittie discreete modest of few words tender of her owne Reputation and Honour and other such like good parts in her but withall likewise consider and haue an eye euen vnto her owne Mother her Nurse her Sisters and Kindred her Familiars Acquaintance and such Neighbours as she conuerseth withall which poynt is most excellently well set downe by Boccas in many places whereupon Petrarcq his Mistresse Laura being a Saint graue wise courteous honest and fayre saith hee is not iealous of her in the end of that no lesse pleasant than hard and darke Sonnet of his beginning after this manner where he speaketh of IEALOVSIE thus L'Amor ch'incend ' il cuor d'ardente zelo c. Loue which enflam'st the troubled Heart with burning Zeale And kep'st him shut in Prison fast with icy Feare And which is most to 'th doubtfull sense dost not reueale Or Hope or Feare or Fire or Ice which he doth beare In greatest Heate I shake and burne in coldest time Full of Desire and yet is my suspect as much As if a Woman should hide vnder garments fine Some liuing man although there can be nothing such Of all these plagues the first is proper vnto mee To burne both day and night yet how this harmefull flame Is sweet in minde and pleasant seemeth for to be No thought can well expresse nor pen can write the same The other's none of mine for my fire 's of such power As goeth beyond the force of man so farre to reach Who thinkes by his flight to the height thereof to skoure F●ies but in vaine and soone a dangerous fall may catch Well may All striue this golden Ball to gaine But in the end they shall deceiu'd remaine Besides the Minde and Condition of the Louer towards the Woman whom hee affecteth importeth very much in this businesse for if he be giuen to choler or is by any other Accident discontent and displeased hee will then quickly take occasion to be angry with her and euery mote as the Prouerbe goeth is a Beame in his eye which qualitie you shall finde in many of Bocchas Nouels and in Bradamantas Humors and so againe if hee be temperate and stayed in Condition being well conceited and hauing a good opinion of the party he liketh then is the case quite altered and he is iocond and blithsome and not troubled at all and therefore is it very requisite and needfull that men should not be ouer-heady nor rash in their Humors and proceedings but rather discreet wary and coole canuasing and measuring euery action and behauiour of their Mistresses with sound discretion and iudgement and not to be ouer-forward and too much credulous or too too light of beliefe without any iust cause giuen them which is the onely reason as we daily see of many grosse absurdities springing and issuing from such like light and idle occasions as these Lastly IEALOVSIE encreaseth or abateth according as the qualities are in the partie whom the Iealous man suspecteth to be familiar with his Mistresse and therefore is iealous of him For if hee be poore or ill fauoured basely borne illitered of bad or no breeding and hath few or no friends of worth to be a countenance or credit vnto him hee then doubteth him the lesse and hath no great feare of him as contrariwise if he be rich a proper man well descended learned commendable for his qualities and withall potent and mighty in Friends and Alliance he then taketh on the more vexing and tormenting himselfe without measure and neuer giuing ouer to watch and prye into all his deuises and doings And this is the propertie of such kind of natured men and although Petrarcq as we said but euen now and as he himselfe reporteth was ordinarily neuer Iealous yet hee sheweth how by an extraordinary chance hee fell into this fit a little now and than as you shall perceiue in this his Sonnet beginning thus In mezzo di duo amanti honesta altera c. A modest and maiestike Lady did I see Betwixt two Louers of which twaine myselfe was one The other the glorious Sunne with his most brightsome glee The Sunne on th' one side I on th' other then was gone But when she did perceiue she compast was about With the hot rayes of her braue and heroycke friend She smiling turned toward me and wound her selfe thereout Ah would that she had neuer vs'd me more vnkind This made me quickly turne my Ielousie to ioy Which at the first began to grow within my hart Lest such a mighty aduersary should me noy Which he had done but that shee soone from him did part This caus'd him seeme to haue a sad and watry face Whilest that a pretty shower did compasse him each side As he did gloomy show because of his disgrace So much to be o'recome did it pull downe his pride The Sunne so grieu'd at Lauras deepe disdaine At his bright Beames were turn'd to duskie raine In this place hee calleth the Sunne by his proper name which the Latines call in such a case as this a Riuall but I must needs confesse not so properly nor so happily by great oddes as the Grecians doe which considering you know better then I can any way set downe I will giue ouer to speake any more thereof Now as concerning the second part of our former Discourse which is in respect of the place there is lesse or more IEALOVSIE concerning the qualitie of the same which may be eyther Sacred or Prophane farre off or hard by open or shut commodious or vnfit or such like or after such a manner And how much euery one of these different one from another may import and auaile a man about his amorous affaires any of meane capacitie may comprehend and the Tower wherein Danae was shut and close Prisons and Iayles can giue instance sufficient besides that common Prouerbe of ours Lodo inamorarsi in vicinanza That place I best of all commend Where nighest at hand is our fayre Friend So likewise as concerning the third which is Time there is none but may imagine that as it is available in other matters so no doubt is it of great consequence in this businesse considering that such occasions as wee may take in the Carnouall time or at Shrouetide to serue our purpose we cannot vse them in the Lent nor may wee put them in practise on Fasting dayes and so likewise