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A02131	Mamillia The second part of the triumph of Pallas: wherein with perpetual fame the constancie of gentlewomen is canonised, and the vniust blasphemies of womens supposed ficklenesse (breathed out by diuerse iniurious persons) by manifest examples clearely infringed. By Robert Greene Maister of Arts, in Cambridge.; Mamillia. Part 2	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1593 (1593)	STC 12270; ESTC S105831	71,941	112

a madnesse and to waile for wealth a point of méer folly but it is Ferragus such a miserie as the sturdie Stoikes themselues which were neuer moued with aduersitie did onlie dread to be strooken with this despightfull dart of calamitie Yet amidst this my greatest misfortune thy friendly affection is such a comfortable collife to my crazed minde I find such comfort in thy frendship as I think my lands life nor libertie halfe sufficient to requite thy curtesie but promising vnto thée the like vnfained affection reposing the staie of my life in thy trustinesse I wil vnfold vnto thée the cause of my distresse The smoake Ferragus of Padua is more deare vnto mée than the fire of Saragossa and the waters of Italie doe farre more delight my taste than the most delicate wines in Sicilia and rather had I liue in a poore cottage in my natiue soyle than be pampered vp in princely pallaces in a strange country Yea it is Ferragus naturally giuen to all to choose rather to liue in aduersitie amongst their friends at home than in prosperitie among strangers abroad in so much that no greater miserie can be inflicted vppon any man than to leade an exiled life in a forraine nation This this Ferragus is the crosse wherwith I am afflicted For I must confesse vnto thée by the lawe of friendship that through the displeasure of the Emperour I am condemned to leade my life in perpetuall exile so that neither I cannot nor may not so much as once approach the confines of Italie which restraint from my natiue country is such a hell to my minde and such a horrour to my conscience as death should be thrise welcome to release me from banishment It is not the losse of my landes or liuing Ferragus which so molests my mind but the want of my faithfull and familiar friendes for wealth may bée gotten by wisedome but a trustie friend is hardly recouered so that Zeno himself was of this opinion that the losse of friends is only to be lamented Solon the Athenian being demaunded why he made no lawe for adulterers answered because there were none in his common wealth Why quoth the other but howe if there happen to be any shall hée dye No quoth Solon hée shall be banished meaning that no torture torment nor calamity is to be compared to the miserie of exile Woe is me then most miserable creature Why Pharicles quoth Ferragus wilt thou salue sadnesse with sorrow or cure care with calamitie Wilt thou wipe away woe with wailing or driue away these dumps with dith despaire No no Pharicles but to adde a salue to this sore thus I replie to thy complaint The most wise auntient Philosophers Pharicles haue bene of this opinion that the worlde generally is but as one Citie so that wheresoeuer a wise man remaineth hée dwelleth in his owne home for nature hath appointed the selfesame lawes to euerie place neither is she contrarie to her self in the furthest parts of the world There is no place where the fire is colde and the water hot the aire heauie and the earth light neither hath wit or learning lesse force in India than in Italie and vertue is had in reputation as well in the North as in the South so that Anacharsis was wont to say vnaquaeque patria Sapienti patria But perhaps Pharicles thou wilt obiect thy great possessions which thou hast lost and how thou wert of more account for thy birth and parentage among thine owne than euer thou shalt be among strangers But I say Pharicles that Coriolanus was more beloued of the Volscians among whome he liued in exile than of the Romanes with whom he was a citizen Alcibiades being banished by the Athenians became chiefe Captaine of the armie of the Lacedemonians And Hanniball was better entertained by king Antiochus than with his owne subiects in Carthage And I dare say Pharicles thou wert neuer more famous in Padua than thou art here in Saragossa Yea and the more to mitigate thy miserie consider with thy selfe that there is no greater comfort than to haue companions in sorrow thou art not the first nor shalt not be the last which haue béene exiled into forraine countries yea and such to whom thou art farre inferiour both in calling and countenance Cadmus the king of Thebes was driuen out of the selfe same citie which he had builded and dyed old in exile among the Illyrians Sarcas the king of the Molossians vanquished by Philip king of Macedonia ended his miserable dayes in exile Dionysius the Syracusan driuen out of his countrie was constrayned to teache a Schoole at Corynth Syphax the great king of Numidia séeing his citie taken and his wife Sophonisba in the armes of his mortall foe Masynissa and that his miserie should be a trumpet to sounde out Scipios tryumph ended his life both exiled and imprisoned Perseus the king of Macedonia first discomfited and then depriued of his kingdome and lastly yéelded into the hands of Paulus Aemilius remained long time a poore-banished prisoner These Pharicles without reciting any more are sufficient considering their crownes kingdomes and Maiesties to prooue that Fortune hath not onely offered the like mishap to others but also hath not done so great despite vnto thée as was in her power to haue done But perhaps Pharicles thou wilt replie that these mightie Monarchs are not in the same predicamēt for they were banished their kingdomes by open enimies and thou thy countrie by supposed friendes they were exiled by sinister enmitie of forreine foes and thou by the secrete enuie of flattering companions so that the selfe same citizens who were bound vnto thy father for his prudent gouernement being their magistrate and to thée for thy liberalitie maintaining their liberties haue repayed thy curtesie with most ingratefull crueltie To which I answere that Theseus whose famous actes are so blazed abroade through all the world was driuen out of Athens by the selfe same citizens which he him selfe had placed and dyed an olde banished man in Tyrus Solon who gouerned his citizens with most golden lawes was notwithstanding exiled by them into Cyprus The Lacedemonians béeing bounde nor beholding to no man so much as vnto Lycurgus for all his prudent policie in gouerning the citie constrained him to leade his life in exile The Romanes suffered Scipio Africanus the first which defended them from so many perils most miserablie to die in Lyntermum And the second Scipio for all that he subdued Carthage and Numantia which refused to become tributaries to the Romanes found in Rome a murtherer but not a reuenger Ingratitude Pharicles is the most auntient mischiefe which raigneth among the people béeing so déepelie rooted that it doth not as all other things waxe olde but waxeth daily more fresh so that the flower falling there followeth great store of fruite And further Pharicles for the losse of thy friendes I confesse it is the greatest cause of care and yet oftimes the fairest

in searching out the secret nature of all things assigned this as a particular qualitie appertaining to womankinde namely to be fickle and inconstant alledging this Astronomicall reason that Luna a feminine and mutable Planet hath such predominant power in the constitution of their complexion because they be phlegmatike that of necessitie they must be fickle mutable and inconstant whereas Choller wherewith men do abound is contrarie and therefore by consequence stable firme and without change so that by how much the more the bodie is Phlegmatike by so much the more the minde is fickle and where the bodie is most Chollerick there the mind is most constant To leaue these rules of Astronomie and to come to humane reason Pindarus Homer Hesiodus Ennius Virgil Martiall Propertius and many authors more whose pithie and golden sentences haue in all ages béene holden as diuine Oracles haue in all their writings with one consent auerred that the naturall disposition of women is framed of contraries now liking now loathing delighting this and now againe despising the same louing and hating yea laughing wéeping and all with one winde so that it is their naturall constitution in this one propertie to be like the Polipe that if it happen some one woman not to be variable it is not so because it is her nature but because shée hath amended her fault by nourture For the confirmation of the former premisses Madame it is not necessarie to inferre examples sith there is none héere but could report infinite histories of such dissembling dames as haue falsified their faith to their louers whereas the constancie of men is such that neither hath any authors found it faultie neither can as I coniecture if you speake as you thinke your conscience condemne them as guiltie so that to confirme the loyaltie of men were as much as to proue that which is not denyed How say you to this quoth Signor Farnese hath not Pharicles aunswered you fully to your question is not nowe my former reasons cōfirmed and yours vtterly infringed Tush syr quoth the Marquesse one tale is alwayes good vntil another is heard but all this winde shakes no corne neither is the defendant ouerthrowen at the fist plea of the plaintife The more glistring the skinne of the Serpent is the more infectious where the billowes be greatest there the water is shallowest the rotten wall hath the most néed of painting and the falsest tale hath néede of the fairest toung where the greatest showe of eloquence is there is the smallest effect of troth But to your surmised Sophistrie thus I aunswere master Pharicles that whereas you build your reasons vppon the credit of auncient authors I will lay my foundation vppon the same rocke and so thrust you on the bosome with your owne launce For as for Socrates Plato and Aristotle whom you alleage as ratifiers of your former reasons I say that both they and others who farre surpasse them in the sacred skill of Astronomie affirme as you say that the naturall constitution of women is Phlegme and of men Choller which if you consider with indifferent iudgement prooueth vs trustie and you trothlesse vs constant and you variable vs loyall vnder Luna and you mutable vnder Mars For the Phlegmatike complexion is cold and moist vtterly repugnant to the flaming heate of voluptuous desires participating of the nature of water which so cooleth and quencheth the fire of fancie as hauing once fixed the minde it resisteth with the colde moisture the frying heate of fond and fickle affection whereas the Chollerike constitution is hote drie soone set on fire and soone out easily inflamed and as easily quenched readie to be scorched with the least heate of beawtie being of the nature of fire which is the most light and mouing Element of all fiering at the first sight and yet so dry as it hath no continuance being verie violent and little permanent And though Luna is predominant in our complexion yet Mercurie is Lorde of your constitution being in his constellation fléeting inconstant variable trecherous trothlesse and delighting in change so that it is not so common as true the nature of men is desirous of noueltie And as touching Hesiodus Homer Virgil and others I aunswere that euill will neuer spoke well and that Martiall the rest of his cogging companions because they found some one halting they wil condemne all for créeples thinking by discrediting others vniustly to make themselues famous and condemning others of that whereof they themselues are chiefely to be accused Who fixeth his fancie and then changeth affection who promiseth loue and perfourmeth hate who now liketh and within a moment lotheth who wooeth one and sueth to another who loyall in his lippes and a lyer in his heart but onelie men and yet they must bée constant As for the infinit examples you could inferre master Pharicles to proue the disloialtie of women you do well to conceale them because you cannot reueale them for it is hard to reape corne where no séed was sowne to gather grapes of a barraine vine to pull haire from a balde mans head or to bring examples of womens disloyaltie which neuer committed suche trothlesse treacherie But as for your changing champiōs which challenge to defend your crazed constancie howe trustie was Theseus to poore Ariadne Demophoon dissembled with Phillis and yet she died constant Aeneas a verie stragler yet Dido neuer founde halting Iason without faith and yet Medea neuer fléeting Paris a counterfait Camelion yet Oenone a trustie Turtle Vlisses variable and Penelope most constant Yea Pharicles infinit examples might be brought which would bréed our credite and your infamie if time as well as matter would permit mée So that the inconstancie of such mutable Mercurialistes and courtly copesmates as you bée is growne to such a custom that flatterie is no fault varietie is rather imbraced as a vertue than reiected as a vice In fine the blossome of disloyaltie hath brought foorth such faithlesse fruite in your mutable minds as he that is constant is counted a calfe and he that cannot dissemble cannot liue How now Signor Farnese quoth the lady Modesta hath not the Marquesse giuen Pharicles a cake of the same dow yea hath shée not better defended the Fort than hée could assault it Now you sée Pharicles counterfait coine will go for no paiment and his rampier too weake to withstand her force and his reason not so strong but they are clearely infringed In troth quoth Farnese my Ladie Marquesse hath plaied the valiant champion and hath put in so perfect a plea to defend her clients cause that if I haue euer any case in the Court she shall be my counseller Iest how you please quoth the Marquesse I am sure mine aduersarie will confesse that howsoeuer I faltred in my tale I failed not in the truth Indéed Madame quoth Pharicles it is a fowle byrd defiles the owne neast and yet I will say my conscience that for