daughter of a King for know Saladyne I am not Aliena but Alinda the daughter of thy mortal enemie Torismond At this all the company was amazed especially Gerismond who rising vp tooke Alinda in his armes and said to Rosalynd is this that faire Alinda famous for so many vertues that forsoke her fathers court to liue with thee exilde in the country The same q. Rosalynde Then quoth Gerismond turning to Saladine iolly Forrester be frolick for thy fortunes are great thy desires excellent thou hast got a princesse as famous for her perfection as exceeding in proportion And she hath with her beauty won quoth Saladyne an humble seruant as full of faith as she of amiable fauour While euery one was amazed with these Comicall euentes Coridon came skipping in told them that the Priest was at Church and tarried for their comming With that Gerismond led the way the rest followed where to the admiration of all the countrey swains in Arden their mariages were solemnly solemnized As soone as the Priest had finished home they went with Alinda where Coridon had made all things in readines Dinner was prouided the tables being spread and the Brides set downe by Gerismond Rosader Saladyne Montanus that day were seruitors homely cheare they had such as their country could affoord but to mend their fare they had mickle good chat and many discourses of their loues and fortunes About mid dinner to make them mery Coridon came in with an old crowd and plaid them a fit of mirth to which he sung this pleasant song Coridons Song A blyth and bonny country Lasse heigh ho the bonny Lasse Sate sighing an the tender grasse and weeping said will none come woo mee A smicker boy a lyther Swaine heigh ho a smicker Swaine That in his Loue was want on faine with smiling looks straight came vnto her When as the wanton wench espide heigh ho when she espide The meanes to make herselfe a bride she simpred smooth like bonny bell The Swaine that saw her squint eied kind heigh ho squint eyed kind His armes about her body twind and faire Lasse how fare ye well The country kit said well sorsooth heigh ho well forsooth But that I haue alonging tooth a longing tooth that makes me crie Alas said he what garres thy griefe heigh ho what garres thy griefe A wound quoth she without reliefe I feare a maid that I shall die If that be all the shepheard said heigh ho the shepheard said He make thee wine it gentle mayd and so recure thy maladie Hereon they kist with many a oath heigh ho with many a oath And fore God Pan did plight their troath and to the Church they hied them fast And God send euery pretie peate heigh ho the prety peate That feares to die of this conceate so kind a friend to helpe at last Coridon hauing thus made them merry as they were in the midst of their iollitie word was brought in to Saladyne Rosader that a brother of theirs one Fernandine was ariued and desired to speake with them Gerismond ouerhearing this newes demaunded who it was It is sir q. Rosader our middle brother that liues a scholler in Paris but what fortune hath driuen him to seek vs out I know not With that Saladine went and met his brother whom he welcommed with all curtesie Rosader gaue him no lesse frendly entertainment brought he was by his two brothers into the parlour where they all sate at dinner Fernandine as one that knew as many maners as he could points of sophistry was aswel brought vp as well lettered saluted them all But when he espied Gerismond kneeling on his knee he did him what reuerence belonged to his estate and with that burst forth into these speaches Although right mighty Prince this day of my brothers marriage be a daye of mirth yet time craues another course and therfore from daintie cates rise to sharpe weapons And you the sonnes of Sir Iohn of Bourdeux leaue off your amors fal to arms change your loues into lances and now this day shew your selues valiant as hitherto you haue been passionate For know Gerismond that harde by at the edge of this forrest the twelue peeres of France are vp in arms to recouer thy right and Torismond troupt with a crue of desperate runnagates is ready to bid them battaile The armies are ready to ioyne therefore shewe thy selfe in the field to incourage thy subiects you Saladine and Rosader mount you and shew your selues as hardy soldiers as you haue been harty louers so shal you for the benefit of your Country discouer the Idea of your Fathers vertues to be stamped in your thoughts and proue children worthy of so honorable a parent At this alarum giuen him by Fernandine Gerismond leapt from the boord Saladyne and Rosader betooke themselues to their weapons Nay q. Gerismond go with me I haue horse and armor for vs all then being well mounted let vs shew that we carry reuenge honor at our fanchons points Thus they leaue the Brides full of sorrow especially Alinda who desired Gerismond to be good to her Father hee not returning a word because his hast was great hied him home to his lodge wher he deliuered Saladyne Rosador horse and armour and himselfe armed royally led the â—â—y not hauing ridden two leagues before they discouered 〈◊〉 a valley both the battailes were ioyned Gerismond seeing the wing wherein the Peeres fought thrust in there and cryed S. Denis laying on such load vpon his enemies that he shewed how highly he did estimate of a crowne When the Peâ—rs perceiued that their lawful king was there they grew more eager and Saladine Rosader so behaued themselues that none durst stand in their way nor abide the furie of their weapons To be short the Peers were conquerors Torismonds army put to flight and himself slain in battaile The Peers then gathered themselues together and saluted their king conducted him royally into Paris where he has receiued with great ioy of all the citizens Assoone as all was quiet he had receiued againe the crowne he sent for Alinda Rosalynd to the court Alinda being very passionat for the death of her father yet brooking it with the more patience in that she was contented with the welfare of her Saladyne Wel assoone as they were come to Paris Gerismond made a royal feast for the Peers and Lords of his Land which continued thirtie dayes in which time summoning a parliament by the consent of his nobles he created Rosader heire apparant to the kingdome hee restored Saladyne to all his fathers Land and gaue him the Dukedome of Namours he made Fernandine principall secretarie to himselfe and that Fortune might euery way seeme frolicke he made Montanus Lord ouer all the Forrest of Arden Adam Spencer Captaine of the Kings Gard and Coridon Maister of Alindas flocks HEere Gentlemen may you see in Euphues golden Legacie that such as neglect their fathers precepts incur much preiudice that diuision in nature as it is a blemish in nurture so tis a breach of good fortunes that vertue is not measured by birth but by action that yonger brethren though inferiour in yeares yet may bee superiour to honors that concord is the sweetest conclusion and amity betwixt brothers more forceable than fortune If you gather any fruits by this Legacie speake wel of Euphues for writing it and me for fetching it If you grace me with that fauor you incorage me to be more froward assoon as I haue ouerlookt my labors expect the Sailers Kalender FINIS
were more prodigall in deciphering the riches of their bounties Wise he was as holding in his head a supreme conceipt of pollicie reaching with Nestor into the depth of all ciuil gouernement and to make his wisedome more gratious he had that salemingenii and pleasant eloquence that was so highly comâ—ended in Vlisses his valour was no lesse then his witte nor the â—roke of his launce no lesse forcible than the sweetnesse of his tonâ—ue was perswasiue for he was for his courage chosen the principâ—ll of all the Knights of Malta This hardy Knight thus enrichâ— with vertue and honour surnamed Sir Iohn of Burdeux hauing passed the prime of his youth in sundry battailes against the Tirkes at last as the date of time hath his course grewe aged his haires were siluer hued the map of his age was figured on his forhead Honour sate in the furrowes of his face and many yeares were pourtrayed in his wrinckled lineaments that all men might perceiue his glasse was runne and that Nature of necessitie chalenged her due Sir Iohn that with the Phenix knewe the tearme of his life was now expired and could with the Swan discouer his end by her songs hauing three sonnes by his wife Lynida the very pride of all his forepassed yeares thought now seeing death by constraint would compel him to leaue them to bestow vpon them such a Legacie as might bewray his loue and increase their insuing amitie Calling therefore these yong Gentlemen before him in the presence of all his fellow Knights of Malta he resolued to leaue them a memoriâ—l of all his fatherly care â—nseâ—ting downe a methode of their brotherly dueties Hauing therefore death in his looâ—es to mooue them to pittie and teares in his eyes to paint out the depth of his passions taking his elâ—est sonne by the hand he began thus Sir Iohn of Burdeaux Legacie he gaue to â—is Sonnes OH my Sons you see that Fate hath set a period of my years and Destenies haue determined the final ende of my dayes the Palme tree waxeth away ward for hee stoopeth in â—is height and my plumes are ful of sicke feathers touched with age I musâ— to my graue that dischargeth all cares and leaue you to the world that increaseth many sorrowes my siluer haires conteneth great experience and in the number of my yeares are pende lowne the subtleties of Fortune Therefore as I leaue you sone fadingâ— pelfe to counterchecke pouertie so I will bequeath yon â—nfallible precepts that shall lead you vnto vertue First therefore into thee Saladyne the eldest and therefore the chiefest piller of mâ— house wherein should bee ingraued as wel the excellency of thyfathers qualities as the essentiall forme of his proportion to theâ— I giue foureteene ploughlands with all my Mannor houses and richest place Next vnto Fernandine I bequeath twelue ploughlands But vnto Rosader the youngest I giue my Horse my Armour and my Launce with sixteene ploughlands for if the inwarde thoughts be discouered by outward shadowâ—â— Rosader wil exceed you all in bountie and honour Thus my Sonnes haue Iparred in your portions the substaÌ„ce of my wealth where in if you be as prodigall to spend as I haue beene carefull to get your friendes wil greene to see you more wastfull then I was bountifull your foes smile that my fal did begin in your excesse Let mine honour be the glasse of your actions the fame of my vertues the Load-starre to direct the course of your pilgrimage Ayme your deedes by my honorable endeuours and shew your selues fiens worthy of so florishing a tree least as the birdes Halcyones which exceede in whitenesse I hatch yong ones that exceed in blacknes Climbe not my sonnes aspiring pride is a vapour that a scendeth hie but soone turneth to a smoake they which stare at the starres stumble vpon the â—â—ies and such as gaze at the Sunne vnlesse they be Eagle eyed al blinde Soare not with the Hobbie least you fal with the â—aâ—e nor attempt not with Phaeton least you drowne with lâ—â—râ—sâ— Fortune when shee wils you to flye tempers your plumeâ— witâ—waxe and therefore eyther sit stil and make no wing or else bewaâ—e the Sunne and hold Dedalus axiome authentical Medium tunere tutissimum Low shrubs haue deepe rootes and poore Cottages great patience Fortune looks euer vpward and enuy asireth to nestle with dignitie Take heed my sonnes the meane i sweetest melodie where strings high stretch eyther soone crack or quickly grow out of time Let your Countryes care be yoâ— hearts content and thinke that you are not borne for your selue but to leuell your thoughts to beloyal to your prince careful fothe common-weale and faythful to your friendes so shal Frauce say these men are as excellent in vertues as they be exquise in features Oh my sons a friend is a pretious Iewell within hose bosome you may vnload your sorrowes and vnfold youiecrets and he eyther wil releeue with counsaile or perswade whreason but take heed in the choyce the outward them makes it the inwarde man nor are the dimples in the face the Calendâ—s of truth When the Lyquorice leafe looketh most dry then it â—most wet when the shoares of Lepanthus are most quiet themey forepoint a storme The Baaran leafe the more fayre it lookâ— the more infectious it is and in the sweetest wordes is oft hidâ—ost trechery Therefore my sonnes chuse a friend as the Hiperorei do the mettals seuer them from the ore with fire let theâ— not bide the stampe before they be currant so trie then trust â—â—time be the touchstone of friendship then frends faithâ—â—â—â—â—y them vp for iewels Be valiant my sonnes for cowardise is the enemy to honour but not too rash for that is extreme Fortitude is the meane and that is limited within bonds and prescribed with circumstance But aboue al with that he fetcht a deep sigh beware of Loue for it is farre more perillous then pleasant and yet I tel you it allureth as ill as the Syrens Oh my sonnes fancie is a fickle thing and beauties paintings are trickt vp with times colours which being set to drie in the Sunâ—e perish with the same Venus is a wanton and though her laâ—es pretend libertie yet there is nothing but losse and glistering miserie Cupids wings are plumed with the feathers of vanitiâ— and his arrowes where they pierce inforce nothing but deadly desires a womans eye as it is pretious to behold so is it preiudicial to gaze vpon for as it affoordeth delight so it snareth vntâ—â—eath Trust not theyr fawning fauours for their loues are like tâ—e breath of a man vppon steele which no sooner lighteth on but sleapeth off and their passions are as momentary as the colour of a Polipe which changeth at the sight of euery obiect My bâ—eath waxeth short and mine eyes waxeth dimme the houre is coâ—â— I must away therefore let this suffice women are wantons â—nd yet men cannot want one and
againe reconciled and put vp all forepassed iniuries with a peaceable agreement liuing together for a good space in such brotherly loue as did not onely reioice the seruantes but made all the Gentlemen bordering neighbors glad of such friendly concord Saladine hiding fire in the straw and concealing a poysoned hate in a peaceable countenance yet deferring the intent of his wrath till fitter oportunity he shewed himselfe a great fauorer of his brothers vertuous endeuors where leauing them in this happy league let vs returne to Rosalynd Rosalynd returning home from the tryumph after she waxed solitary Loue presented her with the Idea of Rosaders perfection and taking her at discouert stroke her so deepe as she felte her selfe grow passing passionate shee began to cal to minde the comlinesse of his person the honor of his parents and the vertues that excelling both made him so gratious in the eies of euery one Sucking in thus the hony of loue by imprinting in her thoughts his rare qualities shee began to surfet with the contemplation of his vertuous conditions but when she cald to remembrance her present estate and the hardnesse of her fortunes desire began to shrink fancie to vale bonnet that betweene a Chaos of confused thoughts she began to debate with her selfe in this maner Rosalynds passion INfortunate Rosalynde whose misfortunes are more than thy yeares and whose passions are greater then thy patience The blossoms of thy youth are mixt wich the frosts of enuy the hope of thy ensuing fruits perish in the bud Thy father is by Torismond banisht from the crown thou the vnhappy daughter of a King detained captiue liuing as disquieted in thy thoughts as thy father discōtented in his exile Ah Rosalynd what cares wait vpon a crown what griefs are incident to dignity what sorrows haunt royal pallaces The greatest seas haue the sorest stormes the highest birth subiect to the most bale of al trees the Cedars soonest shake with the wind smal Currents are euer calme lowe valleys not scortcht in any lightnings nor base men tyed to anie baleful preiudice Fortune flies if she touch pouerty it is with hir heele rather disdaining their want with a frown then enuying their welth with disparagement Oh Rosalynd hadst thou beene born low thou hadst not falne so high yet beeing great of blood thine honour is more if thou brookest misfortune with patience Suppose I contrary fortune with content yet Fates vnwilling to haue me any waies happy haue forced loue to set my thoughts on fire with fancie Loue Rosalynd becommeth it women in distresse to thinke on loue Tush desire hath no respect of persons Cupid is blind and shooteth at random assoone hitting a ragge as a robe and piercing assoone the bosome of a Captiue as the brest of a Libertine Thou speakest it poore Rosalynd by experience for being euery way distrest surcharged with cares and ouer growne with sorrowes yet amidst the heape of all these mishaps Loue hath lodged in thy heart the perfection of yong Rosader a man euery way absolute as wel for his inward life as for his out ward lyniaments able to content the eye with beauty the eare with the report of his vertue But consider Rosalynde his fortunes and thy present estate thou art poore and without patrymony and yet the daughter of a Prince he a yonger brother and voyd of such possessions as eyther might maintaine thy dignities or reuenge thy fathers iniuries And hast thou not learned this of other Ladies that louers cannot liue by looks that womens ears are sooner content with a pound of giue me then a dram of heare me that gold is sweeter than eloquence that loue is a fire and wealth is the fewel that Venus coffers should be euer ful Then Rosalynd seeing Rosader is poore thinke him lesse beautiful because hee is in want and account his vertues but qualities of course for that he is not indued with wealth Doth not Horace tell thee what methode is to be vsed in loue Querenda pecunia primum post nummos virtus Tush Rosalynd be not ouer rash leape not before thou looke either loue such a one as may with his landes purchase thy libertie or els loue not all Chuse not a faire face with an empty purse but say as most women vse to say Si nihil attuleris ibis Homere foras Why Rosalynd can such base thoughts harbour in such high beauties Can the degree of a princesse the daughter of Gerismond harbour such seruile conceites as to prize gold more than honor or to measure a Gentleman by his wealth not by his vertues No Rosalynd blush at thy base resolution and say if thou louest eyther Rosader or none and why because Rosader is both beautiful and vertuous Smiling to her selfe to thinke of her new intertained passions taking vp her Lute that lay by her she warbled out this dittie Rosalynds Madrigall Loue in my bosome like a Bee doth sucke his sweete Now with his wings the playes with me now with his feete Within mine eyes he makes his nest His bed amidst my tender brest My kisses are his dayly feast And yet he robs me of my rest Ah wanton will ye And if I sleepe then pearcheth he with pretty flight And makes his pillow of my knee the liuelong night Strike I my lute he tunes the string He musicke playes if so I sing He lends me euery louely thing Yet cruell he my heart doth sting Whist wanton stillye Else I withroses euery day will whip you hence And binde you when you long to play for your offence Ile shut mine eyes to keepe you in Ile make you fast it for your sinne Ile count your power not worth a pinne Alas what hereby shall I winne If he gainsay me What if I beate the wanton boy with many a rod He wil rapay me with annoy because a God Then sit thou safely on my knee And let thy bower my bosome be Lurke in mine eies I like of thee O Cupid so thou pittie me Spare not but play thee Scarce had Rosalynd ended her Madrigale before Torismond came in with his daughter Alinda many of the Peers of France who were enamoured of her beauty which Torismond perceiuing fearing least her perfection might be the beginning of his Preiudice and the hope of his fruit ende in the beginning of her blossomes he thought to banish her from the court for quoth he to himselfe her face is so ful of fauour that it pleads pittie in the eye of euery man her beauty is so heauenly and deuine that she wil proue to me as Helen did to Priam some one of the Peeres wil ayme at her loue end the marriage and then in his wiues right attempt the kingdome To preuent therefore had I wist in all these actions shee tarryes not about the Court but shall as an exile eyther wander to her father or else seeke other fortunes In this humour with a sterne countenance
view of thy present valour I perceiue thou hast redressed my fortunes by thy courage and saued my life with thine own losse which tyes me to be thine in all humble seruice Thankes thou shalt haue as thy due and more thou canst not haue for my abilitie denies me to performe a deeper debt But if any wayes it please thee to commaund me vse mee as farre as the power of a poore Gentleman may stretch Rosader seeing hee was vnknowne to his Brother woondered to heare such courteous words come from his crabbed nature but glad of such reformed nurture he made this answere I am sir whatsoeuer thou art a Forrester and Ranger of these walkes who following my Deere to the fall was conducted hither by some assenting Fate the I might saue thee and disparage my selfe For comming into this place I saw thee a sleepe and the Lyon watching thy awake that at thy rising hee might pray vppon thy carkasse At the first sight I coniectured thee a Gentleman for all mens thoughts ought to bee fouorable in imagination and I counted it the part of a resolute man to purchase a strangers reliefe though with the losse of his owne blood which I haue performed thou seest to mine owne preiudice If therefore thou be a man of such worth as I value thee by thy exteriour liniaments make discourse vnto me what is the cause of thy present misfortunes For by the furrowes in thy face thou seemest to be crost with her frownes but whatsoeuer or howsoeuer lette mee craue that fauour to heare the tragicke cause of thy estate Saladyne sitting downe and fetching a deepe sigh began thus Saladynes discourse to Rosader vnknowne ALthough the discourse of my fortunes be the renewing of my sorrowes and the rubbing of the scarre will open a fresh wound yet that I may not prooue ingratefull to so courteous a Gentleman I wil rather sitte downe and sigh out my estate then giue any offence by smothering my griefe with silence Knowe therefore sir that I am of Bourdeaux and the sonne and heyre of Sir Iohn of Bourdeaux a man for his vertues and valour so famous that I cannot thinke but the fame of his honours hath reacht further than the knowledge of his personage The infortunate sonne of so fortunate a Knight am I my name Saladine who succeeding my Father in possessions but not in qualities hauing two Brethren committed by my Father at his death to my charge with such golden principles of brotherly concorde as might haue pierst like the Syrens melodie into any humane eare But I with Vlisses became deafe against his Philosophicall harmony and made more value of profit than of vertue esteeming gold sufficient honour and wealth the fittest title for a gentlemans dignitie I sette my middle brother to the Uniuersitie to bee a Scholler counting it enough if he might pore on a booke while I fed on his reuenewes and for the yoongest which was my Fathers ioye yoong Rosader And with that naming of Rosader Saladyne sate him downe and wept Nay forward man quoth the Forrester teares are the vnfittest salue that any man can apply for to cure sorrows and therefore cease from such feminine follies as should drop out of a womans eye to deceiue not out of a Gentlemans looke to discouer his thoughts and forward with thy discourse Oh sir quoth Saladyne this Rosader that wrings tears from my eyes and blood from my heart was like my father in exteriour personage in inward qualities for in the prime of his yeres he aymed all his acts at honor and couered rather to die than to brooke any iniury vnworthy a Gentlemans credite I whom enuy had made blinde and couetousnesse masked with the vayle of selfe-loue seeing the Palme tree grow straight thought to suppresse it being a twig but Nature wil haue her course the Cedar wil be tall the Diamond bright the Carbuncle glistering and vertue wil shine though it be neuer so much obscured For I kept Rosader as a slaue and vsed him as one of my seruile hindes vntil age grew on and a secret insight of my abuse entred into his minde insomuch that he could not brooke it but coueted to haue what his father left him and to liue of himselfe To be short sir I repined at his fortunes and he countercheckt me not with abilitie but valour vntil at last by my friends and ayde of such as folowed gold more than right or vertue I banisht him from Bourdeaux and hee poore Gentleman liues no man knowes where in some distressed discontent The Gods not able to suffer such impietie vnreuenged so wrought that the King pickt a causelesse quarrel against me in hope to haue my lands so hath exiled me out of France for euer Thus thus sir am I the most miserable of almen as hauing a blemish in my thoughts for the wrongs I profered Rosader and a touch in my estate to be throwne from my proper possessions by iniustice Passionat thus with many griefs in penance of my former follies I go thus pilgrime like to seeke out my brother that I may reconcile my self to him in all submission and afterward wend to the holy Land to ende my yeares in as many vertues as I haue spent my youth in wicked vanities Rosader hearing the resolution of his brother Saladyne began to compassionate his sorrowes and not able to smother the sparkes of Nature with fained secretie he burst into these louing speeches Then know Saladyne quoth hee that thou hast met with Rosader who grieues as much to see thy distresse as thy selfe to feele the burthen of thy misery Saladyne casting vp his eye and noting well the phisnomy of the Forrester knew that it was his brother Rosader which made him so bash and blush at the first meeting y t Rosader was faine to recomfort him Which he did in such sort that hee shewed how highly he held reuenge in scorne Much a doo there was betweene these two brethren Saladyne in crauing pardon and Rosader in forgiuing and forgetting all former iniuries the one submisse the other curteous Saladyne penitent and passionate Rosader kynd and louing that at length Nature working an vnion of their thoughts they earnestly embraced and fell from matters of vnkindnesse to talke of the Country life which Rosader so highly commended that his brother began to haue a desire to taste of that homely content In this humor Rosader conducted him to Gerismonds Lodge and presented his brother to the King discoursing the whole matter how all had hapned betwixt them The King looking vpon Saladyne found him a man of a most beautifull personage and sawe in his face sufficient sparkes of ensuing honors gaue him great entertainment and glad of their friendly reconcilement promised such fauour as the pouertic of his estate might affoord which Saladyne gratefully accepted And so Gerismond fell to question Torismonds life Saladyne briefly discourst vnto him his iniustice tyrannies with such modestie although
fauour and in her selfe to commende his personage and his vertue holding him for a resolute man that durst assaile such a troupe of vnbrydeled villaines At last gathering her spirits together she returned him these thankes Gentle sir whatsoeuer you bee that haue aduentured your flesh to relieue our fortunes to haue as many hidden vertues as you haue manifest resolutions Wee poore Shepheards haue no wealth but our flocks and therefore can wee not make requitall with any great treasures but our recompence is thankes and our rewards to our friends without faining For rannsome therefore of this our rescue you must content your selfe to take such a kinde gramercy as a poore shepheardesse and her Page may giue with promise in what wee may neuer to prooue ingratefull For this Gentleman that is hurt yoong Rosader hee is our good neighbour and familiar acquaintance weele pay him with smiles and feed him with loue-lookes and though he be neuer the fatter at the yeares ende yet weele so hamper him that he shall hold himselfe satisfied Saladyne hearing this shepheardesse speake so wisely began more narrowly to pry into her perfection and to suruey all her liniaments with a curious insight so long dallying in the flame of her beautie that to his cost he found her to be most excellent for Loue that lucked in all these broyles to haue a blow or two seeing the parties at the gaze encountred them both with such a veny that the stroke pierst to the heart so deep as it could neuer after be raced out At last after hee had looked so long till Aliena waxt red he returned her this answere Faire Shepheardesse if Fortune graced me with such good hap as to doo you any fauour I hold my selfe as contented as if I had gotten a great conquest for the reliefe of distressed women is the speciall point that Gentleman are tyed vnto by honor seeing then my hazard to rescue your harmes was rather duty than curtesie thankes is more than belongs to the requitall of such a fauour But least I might seeme either too coy or too carelesse of a Gentlewomans proffer I will take your kinde gramercie for a recompence All this while that he spake Ganimede lookt earnestly vpon him and sayd Truly Rosader this Gentleman fauours you much in the feature of your face No maruell quoth he gentle Swayne for tis my eldest brother Saladyne Your brother quoth Aliena and with that she blusht he is the more welcome and I hold my self the more his debter and for that he hath in my behalf done such a piece of seruice if it please him to do me that honor I wil cal him seruant and he shal cal me mistresse Content sweet mistresse quoth Saladyne and when I forget to call you so I wil be vnmindfull of mine owne selfe Away with these quirkes and quiddities of loue quoth Rosader and giue me some drinke for I am passyng thirstie and then will I home for my woundes bleed sore and I will haue them drest Ganimede had teares in her eyes and passions in her heart to see her Rosader so payned and therefore stept hastily to the bottle and filling out some wine in a Mazer shee spiced it with such comfortable drugges as she had about her and gaue it him which did comfort Rosader that rysing with the helpe of his brother hee tooke his leaue of them and went to his Lodge Ganimede assoone as they were out of sight led his flocks downe to a vale and there vnder the shadow of a Beech tree sat downe and began to mourne the misfortunes of her sweet heart And Aliena as a woman passyng discontent seuering her selfe from her Ganimede sitting vnder a Lymon tree began to to sigh out the passions of her new Loue and to meditate with hir selfe on this maner Alienaes meditation AYe me now I see and sorrowing sigh to see that Dianaes Lawrels are harbours for Venus Doues that there trace as well through the Lawnes wantons as chast ones that Calisto be she neuer so charie wil cast one amorous eye at courting Ioue that Diana her selfe will chaunge her shape but shee will honour Loue in a shaddow that maydens eyes bee they as hard as Diamonds yet Cupide hath drugs to make them more pliable than waxe See Alinda how Fortune and Loue haue interleagued themselues to be thy foes and to make thee theyr subiect or els an abiect haue inueigled thy sight with a most beautifull obiect Alate thou didst hold Venus for a giglot not a goddesse and now thou shalt bee forst to sue suppliant to her Deitie Cupide was a boy and blinde but alas his eye had ayme inough to pierce thee to the hart While I liued in the Court I held Loue in contempt and in high seats I had small desires I knew not affection while I liued in dignitie nor could Venus counterchecke me as long as my fortune was maiestie and my thoughtes honour and shall I now bee high in desires when I am made lowe by Destenie I haue heard them say that Loue lookes not at low cottages that Venus iettes in Roabes not in ragges that Cupide flyes so high that hee scornes to touch pouertie with his heele Tush Alinda these are but olde wiues tales and neither authenticall precepts nor infallible principles for experience tels thee that Peasauntes haue theyr passions as well as Princes that Swaynes as they haue theyr labours so they haue theyr amoures and Loue lurkes assoone about a Sheepcoate as a Pallaice Ah Alinda this day in auoyding a preiudice thou art fallen into a deeper mischiefe being rescued from the robbers thou art become captiue to Saladyne and what then Women must loue or they must cease to liue and therefore did Nature frame them faire that they might be subiect to fancy But perhaps Saladines eye is leuelde vpon a more seemlier Saint If it be so beare thy passions with patience say Loue hath wrongd thee that hath not wroong him and if he be proud in contempt be thou rich in content and rather dye than discouer any desire for there is nothing more pretious in a woman than to conceale Loue and to die modest He is the sonne and heire of sir Iohn of Bourdeaux a youth comely enough oh Alinda too comely els hadst not thou been thus discontent valiant and that fettered thine eye wise else hadst thou not been now wonne but for all these vertues banished by thy father and therefore if he know thy parentage he wil hate the fruit for the tree and condemne the yoong sien for the old stocke Well howsoeuer I must loue and whomsoeuer I will and whatsoeuer betide Aliena wil thinke wel of Saladyne suppose he of me as he please And with that fetching a deep sigh she rise vp and went to Ganimede who all this while sat in a great dumpe fearing the imminent danger of her friend Rosader but now Aliena began to comfort her her selfe being ouer growne with sorrowes and