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A15035	Aurelia. The paragon of pleasure and princely delights contayning the seuen dayes solace (in Christmas holy-dayes) of Madona Aurelia, Queene of the Christmas pastimes, & sundry other well-courted gentlemen, and gentlewomen, in a noble gentlemans pallace. A worke most sweetely intercoursed (in ciuill and friendly disputations) with many amorous and pleasant discourses, to delight the reader: and plentifully garnished with morall notes, to make it profitable to the regarder. By G.W. Gent.; Heptameron of civill discourses	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?	1593 (1593)	STC 25338; ESTC S119821	126,076	172

no hurte to the common weale your petition shall be signed The rascall Théefe hearing this seuere iudgement as the Italians are naturally quick witted replyed If chiefe Magistrates should set their hands to this Iustice There would be more Lawyers hanged for stealing of houses then Rogues for robbing of hedges The answere of the Doctor and the replie of the poore fellow made the company so merry that for the pastime the trespasser had made them they remitted the punishment of his offence The laughter quieted in the commendation of his countreymans capacitie quoth Soranso Master Doctor this poore Snake spake true Italian Yea quoth the Doctor but he lackes the vertues of the ancient Romanes Italians are wise but euill conditioned couertly expressing thereby that their wits were good but their conditions were euill Bargetto enuying the fauours Ismarito receiued and for some priuate grudge Enuy euermore quarelleth with those that are fauoured about crossing in argument sought by some pleasant scoffe to raise an vnkind quarel and with that intent quoth he Segnior Ismarito I drinke vnto you with a better affection than I bare you in my sléepe for I dreamed with my Rapier drawne I chased you to your Chamber Ismarito quickly answered Quarellers seek their owne miscerefe I pleadge you Segnior Bargetto but with lesse feare then you supposed to be in mée when you were asléepe for men after they are awake expound dreames by contraries Bargetto deceiued of his expectation was driuen by patience to salue the wound he had giuen himselfe But Segnior Philoxenus A wise foresight in a Gentleman to take away the cause of after kindnesse reaued the company of leasure to iudge of Bargettoes quarelling dreame or of Ismaritoes crosse exposition by kéeping of them exercised with a new deuice Indéede quoth he Dreames are vncertaine and therfore not to be regarded but there is a true kinde of diuination in Palmestrie and so in looking in Maria Belochies hand Palmestrie a prety idle qualitie for a Gentleman he vsed certaine names of Arte and gaue a voluntarie pleasing Iudgement which fiered all the Ladies and Gentlewomen with an earnest desire to know their fortune and by this meanes theremembrance of former questions was taken away Wherein Segnior Philoxenus wisdome may be a president for other Gentlemen that heare quarels a bréeding to smoulder them in the shell for men that bee angry A necessary note for a Gentleman are bound to their passion when such as are not moued haue liberty to pacifie with discretion Thus with their spirites well pleased Quéene Aurelia and the rest of the companie rose from the Table and after ordinarie curtesie ended they paused a time by the Fire to put their wits in order for the following disputation who at the ordinary houre entered the drawing Chamber where the Eunuch ready to discharge his duety vnto the Lute sung this following Sonet REgarde my loue but not my frosty hayres Although faire Dame the least may moue content For Loue Fayth Zeale stands firme in aged yeares When light greene youth is fickle in intent The aged knowes the leaues and fruite of youth The leaues they leaue and with the fruit doe loue The sayings of olde age are indged trueth Let loue and trueth misliking then remoue What though my chin be clothed all in white White in your cheekes the chiefest colour is Which fayre dye doth make you seeme so bright As men holde you the source of beauties blisse Sweete Mistresse then of all the fayre the Flower Let not condemne what doth your selfe commende Ruth seemes your face let rigor not deuour His loue and life that liues and dyes your friend This Sonet moued the company to smile not because the inuention was vnwittie but in that it was the fruits of Doctor Mossenigoes Muse who to reuenge vpon himselfe all the iniurie which he had done to the sexe of Women became enamoured of Katherina Trista the waspishest Damosel among the whole troupe of Gentlewomen But knowing the Doctors Philosophie could not so subdue his affection but that time would make them all sporte and him smarte they dissembled their knowledge of his folly as déepely as he couered the passions of his fancy notwithstanding to raise some spéech and to set the Doctor a worke with hope Quoth Aluisa Vechio this Sonet prophesieth a happie life to a young woman and much comfort to an olde man if their fortunes be so good as to be maried together And if I had as good a passage for my opinion as I haue Reason to mayntayne the same I would thinke to prooue this couple worthy of a place in Platoes Paradise Among so many good Orators quoth Quéene Aurelia you cannot want an aduocate Whereupon Katharina Trista with a false eye coniured the Doctor in this question to maintaine his Lone who thus enioyned tooke vpon him to maintaine Aluisa Vechioes opinion Quéene Aurelia licensed him and no aduersary appeared to discourage him whereupon quoth he where an old man marieth a yong woman the contentment séemes to be much Defences where an olde man marieth a yong woman and the comfort more my reason is the olde man hath not onely chosen a wife to recreate him as a companion but a Cooke to prepare chosen meates for his impaired appetite and a Staffe to sustaine his Age. The yong wife also may holde her selfe happie in this fortune for she hath chosen one whom she may not onely rule but commaund and for a little paines who will leaue her possest of a great deale of liuing And this is most certaine that cruel and wilde Creatures do most hurt where their will is most resisted and haue great compassion where they finde no proffer of repulse The Lyon in his greatest hunger hurts not the wounded Shéepe the Crocadile with teares washeth the blood from a murthered man and the raging Sea refresheth the yéelding Réede much more a woman that by nature is beautified with pittie if she rule without checke will glory in the good vsage of her Husband and this is in dayly vse that the olde man in assemblies findes his yong wife modest in her spéech bashfull in her lookes and nice in occasion of suspition and whether this behauiour procéeds of desire to be praised or of feare to be blamed I conclude the cause with her commendation for that to do well in hope of praise comes of the incouragement of vertue and to do well for feare of reprehension is the signe of a good inclination By Saint Anne Sir quoth Soranso you well deserue a Fée especially Reproofe c. of the yong wife in that you so cunningly haue coloured her ouersight and so Clarkely haue commended her good vsage of her olde Husband but your Suggestion tends to as small effect as the Fortune is euill of a couple thus vnequally matched for that common reason will refute your weake opinion and dayly experience recordes the miseries of the

you a fayned friend being so dangerous then an open enemie wherfore we pardon you By this time Supper and euery seruice of the Table ended Wherupon Quéene Aurelia and the whole company rose and saluted one another with a ciuill reuerence The Musick summoned the young Gentlemen and Gentlwomen to dauncing for this night they expected no other pastime vnlesse it were dicing carding or such like vnthrifty sportes And therfore as the night grew on or they waxed weary vntill the next morning they committed one another a dio MADONA AVRELIA Her second daies pleasures Containing with many other necessary Questions a large discouery of the inconueniences of forced Mariages AVrora had no sooner forsaken her husband Tithons bed A Description of the sunne rising but that Phoebus ashamed of his ouer drowsy sléeping in the darke Caues of Tartessus hastely harnesed vp his Horses in his fierie Chariot climed the mountaine Oeta the painfull trauel whereof made brighte Pyrois and sparkling Phlegon Pyrois and phlegō fained to be two of the Suns Cock horses breath flames like the burning Furnace wherein Vnlcan forgeth the Thunderboltes of Iupiter In so much as Phoebus golden rayes which beautifieth the Heauens and comforteth the earth pearced through euery small passage into Segnior Philoxenus Pallace and glimmering in the young Gentlemens faces wakened them with an imaginatiō of their mistresse beauties The bed resembleth the Graue who scorning their beds as graues which buried the one half of their pleasures the Cannapies as cloudes that shadowed the brightnes of their Load Stars now started vp to honour and salute the Images of their hearts delight to waken the Ladies gentlewomen who of the sodaine could not be attyred the tingling of a smal Bel gaue them warning of a Sermon Insomuch as by nine of the clocke Quéene Aurelia and her stately attendants entered the Chappell in such Equipage as I thinke the Preacher Laureta commonly called Loretto the great pilgrimage of Italy where is a small Chappel sometimes made by the cunning of certaine Friers and the consent of some of the Citizens of Racanati onely to bring Fraffique to their Citie destroyed by the Gothes and Vandals and in the night stole it out of the towne and spread a rumor that our Lady by Angels had brought it out of Iury the mansion house wherein she there liued which Fable a number holde for a trueth Frier Bugiardo imagined our Lady was come from Loretto to honor Segnior Philoxenus Altar and therefore to welcome her the more he so extolled our Ladies vertues and the good and pitifull woorkes of our Cannonized Matrons and Virgins if the Crowne of Heauen had stoode vpon our Ladies head and that the earth chiefely Italy was blessed for pittifull womens sake of which they could haue no greater testimonie then that our Lady by miracle had possessed them with her earthly Mansion which she dayly visiteth with a thousand blessings And therefore quoth he repaire her Churches cherish her Priests pray before her Aulters your finnes whatsoeuer shall be forgiuen O she is pittifull as a woman and can rule her sonne as a Mother and with such like olde tales Ignorance Caue the hie way to hell Tapers he lighted the people as they thought to Heauen but in very truth into blinde Ignorance Caue from whence the diuell carried them to Hell Ismarito smiled to heare the subtiltie of the Frier and sorrowed to sée the simplicitie of the people in causes that appertaine vnto the soule Italians a most subtil kind of people who in the affaires of the flesh are as wilie as Serpents whose countenance when Philoxenus beheld hée pleasantly demaunded how Ismarito liked Frier Bugiardo his sermon Ismarito merely answered it was pittie that Iudas had not heard the like after he had betrayed his Master Christ it might haue béen vpon these large promises of forgiuenes he would not so desperately haue hanged himselfe Then quoth Philoxenus these pleasing sermons bee not vnnecessary in this countrie where sinne is so grose for were not the people in hope Sinne cannot indure to hear of Gods Iustice that our Lady of pittie would pardon them anumber would follow Iudas in despayre with feare that Gods Iustice would condemne them It séemeth reason quoth Ismarito that the people beléeue what is said in the Pulpit for they vnderstand not what is read in the Church A tiranny ten times more cruel then Phalaris Bull. In this especiall case quoth Philoxenus all our crosses are curses So that our first restraint from reading the Scriptures could not but come from as accursed a spirit as his Alcaron a law that forbids the Turkes to dispute of Mahomet that first inuented the Turkes Alcaron for by the paine of the one Mahomets Idolatry is vnreprehended and through our ignorance in the other the Popes blasphemie is in vs vnespyed and thereby both God is dishonoured and many a Soule destroyed so that happie and thrise happie Turks to dispute of Mahomet A diuine blessing are you of England that haue the sacred Bible and the hard passages of Scripture expounded in vulgar language that your common sorte howsoeuer your Prelates liue vnderstand whether they erre or no in their doctrine And since the subiects of the Emperor Alexander Seuerus honoured their soueraignes vertues with these acclamations NOble Alexander we pray the goddes that they haue no lesse care of your Maiestie then you haue of vs A token of louing Subiects most happie be we that we haue you among vs. Noble Alexander the gods preserue you the goddes defende you proceede forth in your purpose wee ought to loue you as our Father to honour you as our Lorde and to admyre you as a God here among vs. And thereunto added Noble Emperour take what you will of our Treasure and substance to accomplish your purpose onely for building of three Hospitalles to succour the sicke bodies of the poore By how much more zeale ought you the good Quéene of Englands Subiectes adde to this Prerogatiue Doe gratious Queene Elizabeth what shall seeme to you good for your most blessed nature cannot erre or do any thing amis that you purpose who by diuine inspiratiō hath vnlocked the fountaine of grace so that the thirstie soules both of her rich and poore subiects may freely drinke the water of life Segnior Philoxenus so affected this spéech as Ismarito could not but imagine his heart abiudged him a strunger to grace and vnworthie life that was her vassaile and said not therevnto Amen The end of Fryer Bugiardos clawing Sermon Reconciliation may take away reuenge but not grudge from enemies harts broke off this priuate talke and the Gentlewomen proude of the commendation of their pytifull sexe now wished that Doctor Mossenigo had béen vnpardoned his yester-nightes trespasse towards women that the holy Frier might haue cited him before our Lady of Loretto who the greater part of dinner time

your Maiestie quoth Andrugio and disconering himselfe shewed the preuidence of God and the meane of his escape and tendring his Sisters comfort aboue his owne safetie he prostrated him selfe at his Maiesties féete humbly to obey the sentence of his pleasure The King vpon the report of this strange aduenture Princes are bound to their word after good deliberation pardoned Promos to kéep his word and withall holding an opinion that it was more beneficiall for the Citizens Of two the least euill is least dangerous to be ruled by their olde euill Gouernour new reformed then to aduenture vpon a newe whose behauiours were vnknowne And to perfect Cassandras ioye he pardoned her brother Andrugio with condition that he should marrie Polina Thus from betwéene the téeth of danger euery partie was preserued and in the end established in their harts desire Madame quoth Soranso your good conclusion hath likewise preserued vs from a great danger Ruthfull tales raiseth remorce in the hearers for had you ended with the sorrow you began we had béen al like to haue béen drowned in teares Indéed quoth Katharina Trista you men haue had cause sufficient of sorrowe by hearing your kinde reproched with such monstrous euils By example of euill the euill are feared By example of the good the good are strengthened and we women frée passage to lament in beholding none but crosse fortunes to succéed the good indeuours of a vertuous Lady It is true quoth Fabritio but to participate of their ioye we men haue learned out of Promos example of euill for feare of his like punishment of euill to doo well and you women by example of Polinas vice and Cassandras vertue are both warned and incouraged to weldooing Indéede quoth Quéene Aurelia there are many Morall precepts in either Historie to be considered Good order is to be kept among such as haue beene late sick which I hope the company haue so regarded as there néedeth no repetitition And further because I will not be too bolde of the victory ouer my late distemperature we will héere end And therewith she arose and retired into her Chamber with charge that the company should attend her in the same place vntill Supper who obeying intertained time euery one with their speciall fancy The question that arose at Supper vpon the fourth daies exercise MAny prettie nippes passed betwéene the retyred Company this night at Supper as well on the Gentlewomens parte as of the Gentlemens insomuch as presuming vpon this Daies honour when the Table was readie to be taken away Aluisa Vechio tooke vpon her to maintaine a woman to be a creature euery way as excellent and perfect as man Comparison breedeth contention For naturall shape quoth she they are more beautifull of a better temperature and complection then men In valiant exploytes what difference was there betwéen Semiramis and her Husband Ninus betwéene the Amazon women and Alexander For constancie of minde Excellent vertues in women did not Loadice imbrace death with lesse feare then Mithridates her Husband Asdruballes Wife then Asdruball himselfe And what man hath kept a constant resolution of death so long as Lucretia In Vertues you men that read Histories and Cronicles of all ages shall finde women renowmed for learning gouernment and pollicie In Mecanicall Artes there are Women likewise experienced In the vertue of Diuining what man hath come néere the Sibils To be short what man hath béen so perfect in any vertue but histories make mention of a woman as perfect Yea quoth Dondolo but there be so fewe of these women Cauillers neuer answere directly as an easie wit may remember them But it will cumber your tung to report them quoth Katharina Trista The other Gentlemen although they were willing to giue place vnto the Gentlewomen in small matters A disgrace in honour a Gentleman may not beare with yet this comparison of equall soueraignty nettled them a little In as much as Soranso answered Madame Aluisa you haue made a bolde comparison and but a bare proofe Where you vaunte to be more excellent in shape and more delicate in substance then men It is an ouer ruled question that Women receiue perfection by Men Aristotles problemes and Men imperfection by Women then by how much the vertue is of more emprise that is simply of it selfe then that which is compound of an other by so far we excéede you in this perfection Your honour of valiātnes died with your examples and although there hath béen Women learned and experienced in Mecanicall craftes Extraordinary things are not to be compared with ordinary yet to heare a Woman plead at the Barre preach in a Pulpit or to sée her builde a house is a wonder and no example in vse How short your diuining Sybels come of the credit of the Prophets in the olde Testament is no question disputable Life is precious For your constancie at death you know not how precious life is which maketh you rash and not constant and in truth what you haue frowardly determined you will not be forbidden As she that had her Tung cut for calling of her husband Théefe would yet notwithstanding make the signe of the gallows Well sir quoth Quéene Aurelia Epicarias obstinacy Epicaria in the trembling pas sage of death was constant who endured to be rent in péeces before she would confesse the conspiracy against Nero would haue béene holden for a vertue of staidenesse in a man And what say you of Leena PLIN. Lib. 34. Cap. 2. that bit off her tung and spit it in the Tirant Hippias face because she would not bewray a conspiracy against him Madame with your fauour quoth the Doctor had she not had this foresight An enuious Suggestion it had béen like the Athenians should haue béene driuen to haue made a brazen bell as a Monument of her talk rather thē a tungles Liōnes as they did in honour of her silence for had she not mistrusted her imperfection she would neuer haue committed that tiranny vpon her self Had her tung béene venomed with your mallice it is like quoth Quéene Aurelia that the Athenians had verified your slaunderous opinion herewith she looked a skawse vpon her fauoured seruants as who would say I check the omission of your dutie in not defending of my right Vpon which warning and especially for the excellencie of this sex A man may praise a woman without reproching a man quoth Ismarito a man may doo iustice vnto an other without iniury to himselfe and sure without the reproche of men a man may commēd the excellencie of women in whose behalf although I wil not cōdemne Sir Soransos reasons yet in my opinion he erred in the first Article where he toucheth the perfection of Men and the imperfection of Women for neither of themselues are perfect Chaste talke ought especially to be vsed in the presence of women Aris. Prob. nor may haue