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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02652	Vlysses vpon Aiax. Written by Misodiaboles to his friend Philaretes	Misodiaboles.; Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612.	1596 (1596)	STC 12782; ESTC S103777	27,309	79

VLYSSES vpon Aiax Written by Misodiaboles to his friend Philaretes Printed at London for Thomas Gubbins 1596. Misodiaboles the worshipfull to Misacmos the right worshipfull MIsacmos I haue spent 3. daies in idle houres to examin the months of your meditations on a lothsom Aiax and I finde them so vnsauerie as it is impossible for you to be a sauer by thē your pen hath dropt excrements and you cannot wipe them cleane with your witte Alas that so long filed should so filthily be defiled you haue spent labour without reason and are seene for a spectacle of follie to those that cannot see without their spectacles Because the world laughes you thinke it applaudes but the most part that outwardly smile doe inwardly pitie A good wit and a grosse subiect so much I allow you but if your ambition must needs clime it is more comely in a courteors habite then in a fooles antique That I see your imperfections I make your selfe iudge that I pitie your errours my sparing reproofe may assure you That I am ambitious as your selfe I protest it with discretion yet it greeues mee that two good wittes should wrestle for a dunghill Come come wittie Misacmos ouerlooke howe I haue lookt ouer you If this Aprill shower clense you I will forbeare the tempest For as I am a Germane in nature who hate detractions so can I be both a Molossian Melitean dog as occasions are offered me Would Misacmos be famous why I yeeld him the meanes he is a courtier in regard I a courtier in hope he riche in ancient demeasne I in good demesne he sprightly and wittie I diligent pleasant a ladie blest his children and God and our Lady my Lady mothers sonnes he a Lincolnes Inne man I belonging to Lincolne If any oddes be he hath the interest of mony I of Rea ding Nowe sir if from the meanes of a priuie he will become a publicke gentleman after this assault let him burie his Aiax in a dunghill Then perusing his bookes walking in his sute of Abrizetta eating fat Capons Venison and drinking pure hypocras let him make election of his readings and chuse out a probable Subiect haue with him from a fart to all artes I refuse no encounter let vs iest like gentlemen argue like schollers be pleasāt without ●…ailing that good wittes may gather treasures from our trauels our selues eternitie by well deseruing If you rise by my fall I thinke my fall happie to make you rise and if it be your destinie to sincke in the incountry though the desert be wholy mine I giue you the half of the glorie If Aiax were the froath of your wit let it die as to weak for my forces and if one Cullis of conceite be left yet play not the gormand let the world haue parte with you Take the choice of the weapon I offer euery aduantage if you wil striue in wit I am merrie without detraction but if you play the scolde in steede of a scholler I protest it will greeue me for I know the Eccho of my wrongs will make double report in your eares for renuing my disgrace you may liue in your dishonors Come let's walke through Vertues temple and so sacrifice to Honour and if Romains obserued that custom let Christians vse it Otherwise both of vs may say as the duke of Northumberland did to the lord Gray as they rid through Shordich The people presse to see vs but none say God speede vs Pauca sapienti I leaue you to your sops and muscadine Protesting that if any offence come it shall be by your seeking Misodiaboles Misodiaboles and his opinion of Misacmos and his metamorphosed Aiax written to his deere and learned friende Master Philaretes PHilaretes vpon your intreatie and in satisfaction of my promise I haue perused Misacmos and his metamorphosed Aiax and not onely pleasantlie ouerlookt it and laught at it my selfe But also communicated and commended the worke to the censure of many learned and discreete gentlemen who to be plaine with you after they had red and conceited it thought it worthy no better vsage then the brides haue among the Nasamones a people of Africa who the first day of their mariage are both vsed abused and defiled by all the guestes and straungers that accompany the festiuall One said as Apollidorus did of Chrisippus workes that if other mens sentences were taken out of his booke the rest would be fit for nothing but wast paper An other that he had plaide as mad a prancke as the malcontented fish wife in Bouchet who vnder pretence to shame others that had shrowdelie angred her turnd vp her naked taile in the market place to shewe the dominicall letter B in her buttockes An other said that as according to Aubanus Aethiopia was moūtainous toward the west sandie in the midst and desert in the east So this booke was full of ostentation and protestation in the ende barraine in the middest and dull in the beginning Another compared it to Horace crow deckt with many sethers An other to the herbe Ferula which is onelie a pleasant foode for asses but a poyson to all other beastes There were some that said that Misacmos wit was lighter then Archestratus bodie yet both Aelian and Atheneus say this of him That beeing taken by his enemies and wayed in a ballance he and his prophecying spirite were lighter then a halfpenny All which iudgementes as I commend them not for true so I condemne them not for false but onely leaue them to his defying and defyning who woulde faine sweeten A●…iax by his wit and authoritie Touching mine owne opinion because you expect it and the worlde may throughlie knowe it I will obserue Platoes lawe in it and so apply my woordes to the subiect that I may rather seeme an apt and modest pleasant in writing trueth then a foule mouth Criticke in reprouing bitterlie not beeing vntaught by Gregorie descreetelle to spare and aptlie to reprehende offences Yet woulde Philaretes shoulde knowe because these times expect it that as I will forbeare 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and detraction as a faulte so in as much as the obscenitie of the subiect will suffer me will I obserue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pleasant and scholler-like vrbanitie which was admitted amonge the Grecians and commended in Cicero Thus therefore in shorte touching this mouldie Metamorphosis It is an affecta tion of singularitie a fruite of discontent a superfluitie of wanton wit a madding with reason a diligence without iudgement a worke fit for Volumnius the iester not Misacmos the cour teour In forme contrarie to all rules of science In matter vndecent filthy and immodest and touching the authorities they are so weake and so wrested as no chast or christian eare may in reason endure them which if I prooue not by reason as I professe in wordes let Philaretes disclaime me for his friend and Misacmos shake hands with me for a fool This is

worlds iudgments vse Pericles custom who determining to speake any thing publikely desired the immortall Gods that no improuident worde shoulde passehys mouth Away with this serious talke let vs turkish this text into a merrier colour One turn frō Leaden hal corner into Gracious streete and so haue with you to West minster Why into Gracious street Because of al streets in Londō you haue thought this the best market to make proclamation of cuckcoldry Now sir what Iohn of himself or Iohn by constraint know you there that hathinheritance in Cornhil whō you so pretilie iutitle to Hornden Mum budget not a worde In an inuentory of such housholde stuffe it is ill falling to perticulers such vniuersall propositions or prepositions require noi●…ance If a gentlewench haue inuited you to a banquet of Turnups be not too talkatiue least suting your selfe in pure rash your loue repent her lying abrode and you your speaking too broadly In hādling your common places shut vp your tongue least being Plenus ●…arum as Parmeno said of him selfe you be naroly lookt into O Misacmos since all men may bee cuckolds actu vel potentia it is dangerous to talk of thē but if you will needs bite on this morsel beware to be offēsiue for to general terms none but the guilty take exception Should I play at this weapō what should let mee to hit hōe yet obserue the lawes of humanity show wiht witout profe●…g wrōg As thus in a pleasant Irone to disfigure a householder in a figure The man hath a great charge and therefore this deere yeere it is good hauing Cornucopia in his householde This is a iest without gall and this no lesse pleasant then the former If it bee true that Phisitions say that the perfume of borne is a soueraigne medicine against the Pestilence how happie shall many mens neighbors be that haue hornes of their owne to burne and driue the plague out of their Chambers This is a forme I informe you of because I knowe some exceptions taken against your other deformed obseruation Mend it mendit or burne your booke as the desperate Zanthians did theyr Cittie least from the Babell of your pride men say you deriue your babling Harke what a tale I heard in Gratious streete of an vngratious turne which was return'd vpon a gentlewoman A pleasant wēch of the country who beside Chaucers iest had a great felicitie in iesting incountring in a morning with a farmour of hir husbands who came that Michaelmas day to pay his quarters rent beside a dozen of powtings for my Lanslady his mistres seeing him scrape his curtesies a farre off and very loath to come neere and salute her pleasantly said thus Come neere Thomas be not afraid I neither fling nor bite T the poore felow gathering heart of grace on this encouragement returned her this answer Bith masse mistris and you be so gentle you are the fitter beast to be ridden heere is quid pro quo a girde for a gibe beware of mocking plaine fellowes lest after this sort in plain termes they thus mocke you Go to Menippus in wit God keepe you from his fortune Vse citizens wel And though you bee as familiar with some of their wiues as Tullies epistles yet to the husbands reade nothing but his Offices lest they preferre you to an office or officer I haue to talke with you for the Markams too my worthy worshipfull and beloued friends and therefore prepare new we apons for I must wring you for wronging them Though their desert can out●…ue your disgrace yet shall your disgrace liue by your disgracing them get therefore the grim sire to seale you a pardon of Course or my second Course shall be so currant that I will course you out of breath these are but easie tricks as wrestlers vse before they begin their vtmost The other shalbe labored like your own as ready to moue laughter as Naptha to take fire which til you meet make a register of your best conceits for I meane to make triall of the vtmost of your learned corage Enough of this till the feast of enough follow They say Once warned well armed thanke me kindly for these courtesies What remaineth now but in few words to counsell Misacmos first if he pretend to iest to obserue the custome of the Spartans in auoyding scurrilitie next in the modest carriage of his wordes to become an Athenian who had a custome to couer and colour obscenities and filthinesse with apt and decent names according as Solon taught them Adubber to crie Mother goe cacke when hee is able to trusse himselfe is vndecent Remember what your grand mother taught you Misacmos and make your Bookes more mannerly Lastly in correcting learne of Phitaroh to doe all things in way of commiseration and not in contempt for who reproueth in derision defaulteth in humanity iudgement To be short instead of the salt of bitter language let Misacmos learne to seeke the salt of wisedome for as the one is fretting galling and a sucker of bloud so the other as saieth Gregory Acquiritur per pacem is gotten by peace breedeth peace nourisheth vertue instructeth errour and maketh the life sauery which appeareth in that of the euangelist Marke Habete in vobis sal pacem habebitis inter vos Haue salt among you and you shall haue peace among you To conclude with Misacmos let mee teach him twoo receits and so leaue him First to auoyde euill smelles let him get him a cleane tongue and a sweete breath for that is pleasing to gentlewomen let him vse the incense of prayer to kill the stinking venome of serpents lurking in his heart lette him put lesse worme woode in his incke and more continence in his thoughtes and if his tongue will not leaue clacking let him learne to light the candle of charity before him as Gardners are wont to set lampes by lakes sides to put croking and troublesome frogges to silence Finally to purge his lunacie of wit I neither prescribe him Turbith Agaric Sarcocolla nor a dramme of Scammony according to Dioscorides neither rhubarb of Pōtus nor manna of Calabria but an ounce of good thought mixt with a scruple of Pythagoricum silentium which shall so purge him of ambition heale the inflamations of his tongue and exhale the venome of his heart that when he next meetes mee he shall say I am the happiest of Physitions of whom Bouchet iestingly speaketh in the person of a bon Drole or Francatripe that the sunne beholdes their good cures and the earth couereth their greeuous faults Thus kindly leaue I Misacmos with his cure which if he requite with choller let him resolue himselfe that I haue wit and learning enough to make him as tame as Crassus lamprey For hauing truth on my side and diligence my friend I neyther fear his grim looks nor his Martials pen. Let him write neuer so soone I will become nouus homo