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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01513	A hundreth sundrie flowres bounde vp in one small poesie Gathered partely (by translation) in the fyne outlandish gardins of Euripides, Ouid, Petrarke, Ariosto, and others: and partly by inuention, out of our owne fruitefull orchardes in Englande: yelding sundrie svveete sauours of tragical, comical, and morall discourses ...	Gascoigne, George, 1542?-1577.	1573 (1573)	STC 11635; ESTC S105691	86,900	410

I would you both fore warne When frendes or brethren kinsfolke or allies Whose hastie heartes some angrie moode had moued Be face to face by some of pitie brought Who séekes to ende their discorde and debate They onely ought consider well the cause For which they come and cast out of their mynde For euermore the olde offences past So shall swete peace driue pleading out of place Wherfore the first shall Polinices be To tell what reason firste his mynde did rule That thus our walles with forrein foes enclosde In sharpe reuenge of causelesse wrongs receiu'd As he alledgeth by his brothers doome And of this wicked woe and dire debate Some god of pitie be the equall iudge Whome I beséeche to breath in both your breasts A yelding hearte to déepe desire of peace Poli. My woorthie dame I fynde that tryed truthe Doth beste beséeme a simple naked tale Ne néedes to be with painted proces prickt That in hir selfe hath no diuersitie But alwayes shewes one vndisguysed face Where déepe deceipt and lyes muste séeke the shade And wrap their wordes in guilefull eloquence As euer fraught with contrarietie So haue I often sayde and say agayne That to auoide our fathers foule reproche And bitter curse I parted from this lande With right good will yet thus with him agréed That while the whirling wyngs of flying time Might roll one yeare aboute the heauenly spheare So long alone he might with peace possesse Our fathers seate in princely diademe And when the yeare should eke his course renue Might I succéede to rule againe as long And that this lawe might stil be kept for aye He bound him selfe by vowe of solemne oth By Gods by men by heauen and eke by earth Yet that forgot without all reuerence Unto the Gods without respect to right Without respecte that reason ought to rule His faith and troth both troden vnder foote He still vsurps most tyrantlike with wrong The right that doth of right to me belong But if he can with equall doome consent That I retourne into my natiue soile To sway with him alyke the kingly seate And euenly beare the bridle both in hand Deare mother mine I sweare by all the Gods To raise with spéede the siege from these our walles And send the souldiers home from whence they came Which if he graunt me not then must I do Though loth as much as right and reason would To venge my cause that is both good and iust Yet this in heauen the Gods my records be And here in earth each mortall man may know That neuer yet my giltlesse heart did faile Brotherly dutie to Eteocles And that causlesse he holdes me from mine own Thus haue I said O mother euen as much As néedefull is wherein I me assure That in the iudgement both of good and badde My words may séeme of reason to procéede Constrained thus in my defence to speake Chor. None may denie O pere of princely race But that thy words are honest good and iust And such as well be that song of thine Eteo. If what to some séemes honest good and iust Could séeme euen so in euery doubtfull mind No darke debate nor quarell could arise But looke how many men so many minds And that that one man iudgeth good and iust Some other déemes as déepely to be wrong To say the truth mother this minde of mine Doth fléete full farre from that farfetch of his Ne will I longer couer my conceit If I could rule or reigne in heauen aboue And eke commaund in depth of derksome hell No toile ne trauell should my sprites abashe To make the way vnto my restlesse will To climbe aloft nor downe for to descend Then thinke you not that I can yeld consent To yeld a parte of my possession Wherein I liue and lead the monarchie A witlesse foole may euery man him gesse That leaues the more and takes him to the lesse With this reproch might to my name redound If he that hath with forren power spoilde Our pleasaunt fields might reaue from me perforce What so he list by force of armes demand No lesse reproofe the citizens ensewes If I for dread of Gréekish hosts should graunt That he might climbe to height of his desire In fine he ought not thus of me to craue Accord or peace with bloudy sword in hand But with humilitie and prayer both For often is it séene and proofe doth teach Swete words preuaile where sword and fire faile Yet this if here within these stately walles He list to liue the sonne of Oedipus And not as king of Thebes I stand content But let him thinke since now I can commaunde This necke of mine shall neuer yeld to yoke Of seruitude let bring his banners splaide Let speare and shielde sharpe sworde and cyndring flames Procure the parte that he so vainely claimes As long as life within this brest doth last I nill consent that he should reigne with me If lawe of right may any way be broke Desire of rule within a climbing brest To breake a vow may beare the buckler best Cho. Who once hath past the bounds of honstie In ernest déedes may passe it well in words Ioca. O sonne amongst so many miseries This benefite hath croked age I find That as the tracke of trustlesse time hath taught It séeth muche and many things discernes Which recklesse youth can neuer rightly iudge Oh cast aside that vaine ambition That corosiue that cruell pestilence That most infects the minds of mortall men In princely palace and in stately townes It crepeth ofte and close with it conuayes To leaue behind it damage and decayes By it be loue and amitie destroyde It breaks the lawes and common concord beates Kingdomes and realmes it topsie turuie turnes And now euen thée hir gall so poisoned hath That the weake eies of thine affection Are blinded quite and sée not to them selfe But worthy childe driue from thy doubtfull brest This monstrous mate in steade whereof embrace Equalitie which stately states defends And binds the mind with true and trustie knots Of friendly faith which neuer can be broke This man of right should properly possesse And who that other doth the more embrace Shall purchase paine to be his iust reward By wrathfull wo or else by cruell death This first deuided all by equall bonds What so the earth did yeld for our auaile This did deuide the nights and dayes alike And that the vaile of darke and dreadfull night Which shrowds in misty clouds the pleasaunt light Ne yet the golden beames of Phebus rayes Which cleares the dimmed ayre with gladsome gleames Can yet heape hath in either of them both If then the dayes and nights to serue our tourne Content them selues to yeld each other place Well oughtest thou with waightie doome to graunt Thy brothers right to rule the reigne with thée Which heauens ordeyned common to you both If so thou nill O sonne O cruell sonne In whose high brest may iustice builde

Hercule had dyuers Mules Waggons and Charettes laden with diuers costly iewels gorgious furniture other things which they caried as presents passing that way to the king of Naples the which were not only stayd in Sciene by the officers whō you cal Customers but serched ransacked tossed turned in the end exacted for tribute as if they had bene the goods of a meane marchaunt Du. Whither the diuell will he is it possible that this geare appertaineth any thing to my cause I finde neither head nor foote in it Ero. O how impaciēt you are I pray you stay a while Du. Go to yet a while then Ero. I procéeded that vpon these causes the Duke sent his Chauncelor to declare the case vnto the Senate there of whom he had the moste vncurteous answere that euer was heard whervpon he was so enraged with all of that countrey that for reuēge he had sworne to spoyle as many of them as euer should come to Ferrara and to sende them home in their dublet and their hose Du. And I pray thée how couldest thou vpon the sudden deuise or imagine suche a lye and to what purpose Ero. You shall heare by and by a thing as fitte for our purpose as any could haue happened Du. I would fayne heare you conclude Ero. You would fayne leape ouer the stile before you come at the hedge I woulde you had heard me and séene the gestures that I enforced to make him beléeue this Du. I beléeue you for I know you can counterfet well Ero. Further I sayde the duke had charged vpon great penalties that the Inholders and vitlers shoulde bring worde dayly of as many Sceneses as came to their houses the gentlemā béeing as I gessed at the first a man of smal sapientia when he heard these newes would haue turned his horse an other way Du. By likelyhoode he was not very wise when he would beléeue that of his cūntrey which if it had bene true euery man must néedes haue knowen it Ero. Why not when he had not béene in his countrey for a moneth paste and I tolde him this had hapned within these seuen dayes Du. Belike he was of small experience Ero. I thinke of as litle as maye be but beste of all for our purpose and good aduenture it was that I mette with suche an one Now harken I pray thée Du. Make an ende I pray thée Ero. He as I say when he hard these words would haue turned the bridle I fayning a countenance as thoughe I were somewhat pensiue carefull for him passed a while and after with a great sighe saide to him gentleman for the curtesie that as I said I haue founde in your countrey and because youre affaires shall be the better dispatched I will finde the meanes to lodge you in my house and you shall saye to euerye man that you are a Sicilan of Cathanea your name Philogono father to me that am in dede of that countrey and citie called here Erostrato and I to pleasure you will during youre abode here doe you reuerence as you were my father Du. Out vpon me what a grosse hedded foole am I now I perceiue whereto this tale tendeth Ero. Well and how like you of it Du. Indifferently but one thing I doubt Ero. What is that Du. Marie that when he hathe bene here two or thrée dayes he shal heare of euery man that there is no such thing betwene the Duke and the Towne of Sciene Ero. As for that let me alone I doe entertaine and will entertaine him so wel that within these two or thrée dayes I will disclose vnto him all the whole matter and doubte not but to bring him in for performance of as muche as I haue promised to Damon for what hurte can it be to him when he shall binde a strange name and not his owne Du. What thinke you he will be entreated to stande hounde for a dower of two thousand Ducates by the yeare Ero. Yea why not if it were ten thousande as long as he is not in déede the man that is bounde Du. Well if it be so what shall we be the nerer to oure purpose Ero. Why when we haue done as muche as we can how can we doe any more Du. And where haue you left him Ero. At the Inne bicause of his horses he and his men shall lye in my house Du. Why brought you him not with you Ero. I thought better to vse your aduise first Du. Well goe take him home make him all the chéere you can spare for no cost I will alowe it Ero. Content loke where he commeth Du. Is this he goe méete him by my trouthe he lokes euen lyke a good soule he that fisheth for hym myghte be sure to catche a cods heade I will rest here a while to discipher him Erostrato espyeth the Scenese and goeth tovvards him Dulippo standeth aside Scena ij. The SCENESE FAVMLVS his seruaunt EROSTRATO HE that trauaileth in this worlde passeth by manye perilles Fa. You saye true sir if the boate had bene a litle more laden this morning at the ferrie wée had bene all drowned for I thinke there are none of vs that could haue swomme Sc. I speake not of that Fa. O you meane the foule waye that we had since wée came from this Padua I promise you I was afraide twice or thrice that your mule woulde haue lien faste in the mire Sc. Iesu what a blockehead thou arte I speake of the perill we are in presently since we came into this citie Fa. A great perill I promise you that we were no sooner ariued than you founde a frende that brought you from the Inne and lodged you in his owne house Sc. Yea marie God reward the gentle young man that we mette for else we had bene in a wise case by this tyme But haue done with these tales and take you héede and you also sirra take héede that none of you saie we be Sceneses and remember that you call me Philogano of Cathanea Fa. Sure I shal neuer remember these outlandish words I coulde well remember Haccanea Sc. I say Cathaenea and not Haccanea with a vengeance Fa. Let another name it then when néede is for I shall neuer remember it Sc. Then holde thy peace and take héede thou name not Scene Fa. Howe say you if I faine my selfe dum as I did once in the house of Crisobolus Sc. Doe as thou thinkest best but looke where commeth the gentleman whom we are so muche bounde vnto Ero. Welcome my deare father Philogano Sc. Gramercie my good sonne Erostrato Ero. That is well said be mindfull of your tong for these Ferareses be as craftie as the deuill of hell Sc. No no be you sure we will doe as you haue bidden vs Ero. For if you should name Scene they would spoile you immediatlye and turne you oute of the towne with more shame than I woulde shoulde befall you for a thousande Crownes Sc. I warant you I