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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06607	Euphues and his England Containing his voyage and his aduentures, myxed with sundrie pretie discourses of honest loue, the discription of the countrey, the court, and the manners of that isle. Delightful to be read, and nothing hurtfull to be regarded: wherein there is small offence by lightnesse giuen to the wise, and lesse occasion of looseness proffered to the wanton. By Iohn Lyly, Maister of Arte. Commend it, or amend it.	Lyly, John, 1554?-1606.	1580 (1580)	STC 17070; ESTC S106953	185,944	280

hir Let Appelles shewe his fine Arte Euphues will manifest his faithfull heart the one can but proue his conceite to blase his cunning the other his good will to grinde his coulours hée that whetteth the tooles is not to be misliked though he cannot carue the Image the worme that spinneth the silke is to bée esteemed though shée cannot worke the sampler they that fell timber for shippes are not to be blamed bicause they cannot builde shippes He that carieth morter furdereth the building though hée bée no expert Mason he that diggeth the garden is to be considered though he cannot treade the knottes the Golde-smithes boy must haue his wages for blowing the fire though hée can-not fashion the Iewell Then Ladyes I hope poore Euphues shall not be reuiled though he deserue not to be rewarded I will set downe this Elizabeth as néere as I can And it may be that as the Venus of Appelles not finished the Tindarides of Nichomachus not ended the Medea of Timomachus not perfected the Table of Parrhasius not couloured brought greater desire to them to consumate them to others to see them so the Elizabeth of Euphues béeing but shadowed for others to vernish but begunne for others to ende but drawen with a black coale for others to blase with a bright coulour may worke either a desire in Euphues heereafter if he liue to ende it or a minde in those that are better able to amende it or in all if none can worke it a will to wish it In the meane season I say as Zeuxis did when he had drawen the picture of Atalanta more will enuie me then imitate me and not commende it though they cannot amende it But I come to my England There were for a long time ciuil warres in this countrey by reason of seuerall claymes to the Crowne betwéene the two famous and noble houses of Lancaster and Yorke either of them pretending to be of the royall bloude which caused them both to spend their vytall bloude these iarres continued longe not with-out greate losse both to the Nobilitie and Eommunaltie who ioyning not in one but diuers parts turned the Realme to great ruine hauing almost destroyed their coūtrey before they could annoint a king But the liuing God who was loth to oppresse England at last began to represse iniuries to giue an ende by mercie to those that could finde no ende of malice nor looke for any ende of mischiefe So tender a care hath hée alwayes had of that England as of a new Israel his chosen and peculier people This peace beganne by a mariage solemnized by Gods speciall prouidence betwéene Henrie Earle of Ritchmond heire of the house of Lancaster and Elizabeth daughter to Edwarde the fourth the vndoubted issue and heire of the house of Yorke whereby as they tearme it the redde Rose and the white were vnited and ioyned together Out of these Roses sprange two noble buddes Prince Arthur and Henry the eldest dying without issue the other of most famous memorie leauing behinde him thrée children Prince Edward the Ladie Marie the Ladie Elyzabeth King Edward liued not long which coulde neuer for that Realme haue liued too long but sharpe frostes bite forwarde springes Easterly windes blasteth towardlye blossoms cruell death spareth not those which we our selues liuing cannot spare The elder sister the Princes Marie succéeded as next heire to the crowne and as it chaunced next heire to the graue touching whose life I can say little bicause I was scarse borne and what others say of me shall bée forborne This Quéene being disceased Elyzabeth being of the age of xxii yeares of more beautie then honour and yet of more honour then any earthly creature was called from a prisoner to be a Prince from the castell to the crowne from the feare of loosing hir heade to bée supreame heade And here Ladies it may be you will moue a question why this noble Lady was either in daunger of death or cause of distresse which had you thought to haue passed in silence I would notwithstanding haue reuealed This Ladie all the time of hir sisters reigne was kept close as one that tendered not those procéedings which were contrary to hir conscience who hauing diuers enimies endured many crosses but so patientlye as in hir deepest sorow she would rather sigh for the libertie of y e gospel then hir owne fréedome Suffering hir inferiours to triumph ouer hir hir foes to threaten hir hir dissembling friends to vndermine hir learning in all this miserie onely the patience y t Zeno taught Eretricus to beare and forbeare neuer séeking reuenge but with good Lycurgus to loose hir owne eye rather than to hurt an others eye But being now placed in the seat royal she first of all stablished religion banished Poperie aduaunced y e word that before was so much defaced who hauing in hir hand the sword to reuenge vsed rather bountifully to reward being as far from rigour when she might haue killed as hir enimies wer frō honestie when they could not giuing a general pardon whē she had cause to vse perticular punishments preferring the name of pittie before the remembrance of perils thinking no reuenge more princely than to spare when she might spill to staye when she might strike to profer to saue with mercie when shée might haue destroyed with Iustice. Héere is the clemencie worthy commendation admiration nothing inferiour to y e gentle dispositiō of Aristides who after his exile did not so much as note them that banished him saying with Alexander that there can bée nothing more noble then to doe well to those that deserue ill This mightie and mercifull Quéene hauing manye billes of priuate persons that sought before time to betray hir burnt them all resemblyng Iulius Caesar who being presented with the lyke complaints of his Commons threwe them into the fire saying that he had rather not know the names of Rebelles than haue occasion to reuenge thinking it better to be ignorant of those that hated him than to be angry with them This clemencie did hir Maiestie not onely shewe at hir comming to y e crowne but also throughout hir whole gouernmēt whē she hath spared to shed their blouds that sought to spill hirs not racking the Lawes to extremitie but mittigating the rigour with mercy insomuch as it may be sayd of y e royall Monarch as it was of Antonius surnamed the godly Emperour who reigned many yeares without the effusion of bloud What greater vertue can ther be in a prince thā mercy what greater praise than to abate the edge which she should whet to pardon where she should punish to reward where she shoulde revenge I my selfe being in England when hir Maiestie was for hir recreation in hir Barge vppon the Thames hard of a Gun that was shot off though of the partie vnwittingly yet to hir noble person daungerously which facte she most gratiouslye pardoned accepting a iust excuse before a great amends taking more griefe

farre as beautie woulde carry me I should sooner want breth to tell hir praises then matter to proue them thus I am perswaded that my faire daughter shal be wel maryed for there is none that will or can demaunde a greater ioynter then beautie My second childe is wittie but yet wanton whiche in my minde rather addeth a delight to the man then a disgrace to the mayde and so lynked are those two qualyties together that to be wanton without wit is Apishnes and to be thought wittie without wantonnes precisenesse When Lais being very pleasaunt had tolde a merry iest it is pittie saide Aristippus that Lais hauing so good a witte should be a wanton Yea quoth Lais but it were more pittie that Lais shoulde be a wanton and haue no good witte Osyris King of the Aegyptians being much delighted with pleasaunt conceiptes would often affirme that he had rather haue a virgine that could giue a quicke aunswere that might cut him then a milde speach that might clawe him When it was obiected to a gentlewoman that she was neither faire nor fortunate yet quoth she wise and wel fauoured thinking it the chiefest gifte that Nature coulde bestowe to haue a Nutbrowne hue and an excellent heade It is witte that allureth when euery worde shall haue his weight when nothing shall procéede but it shall either fauour of a sharpe conceipte or a secreat conclusion And this is the greatest thing to conceiue readely and aunswere aptlye to vnderstande whatsoeuer is spoken and to replye as though they vnderstoode nothing A Gentleman that once loued a Ladie most entirely walking with hir in a Parke with a deepe sigh beganne to say O that women could be constant shée replyed O that they coulde not Pulling hir hat ouer hir heade why quoth the Gentleman doth the Sunne offende your eyes yea aunswered shée the sonne of your mother which quicke and readie replyes being well marked of him he was enforced to sue for that which he was determined to shake off A noble man in Sienna disposed to iest with a Gentlewomā of meane birth yet excellent qualities betwéene game and earnest gan thus to salute hir I knowe not how I shoulde commend your beautie bicause it is somwhat too brown nor your stature being somewhat too low of your wit I can not iudge no quoth she I beléeue you for none can iudge of wit but they that haue it why then quoth he doest thou thinke me a foole thought is frée my Lorde quoth she I will not take you at your wor● He perceiuing all outward faults to be recompensed with inward fauour chose this virgin for his wife And in my simple opinion hée did a thing both worthy his stocke and hir vertue It is witte that florisheth when beautie fadeth that waxeth young when age approcheth and resembleth the Iuie leafe who although it be deade continueth greene And bicause of all creatures the womans wit is moste excellent therefore haue the Poets fayned the Muses to be women the Nimphes the Goddesses ensamples of whose rare wisdomes and sharpe capacities wold nothing but make me commit Idolatry w t my daughter I neuer hard but of thrée things which argued a fine wit inuētion cōceiuing aunswering Which haue all bene found so common in women that were it not I shoulde flatter them I shoulde thinke them singuler Then this sufficeth mée that my seconde daughter shall not lead Apes in Hell though she haue not a penny for the Priest bicause she is wittie whiche bindeth weak things and looseth strong things and worketh all thinges in those that haue either wit themselues or loue wit in others My youngest though no pearle to hang at ones eare yet so precious she is to a well disposed mind that grace séemeth almost to disdaine Nature She is deformed in body flowe of speach crabbed in countenaunce and almost in all parts crooked but in behauiour so honest in prayer so deuout so precise in all hir dealings that I neuer heard hir speake any thing that either concerned not good instruction or Godly myrth Who neuer delyghteth in costlye apparell but euer desyreth homely attyre accompting no brauerye greater then vertue who beholding hir vgly shape in a Glasse smyling saide This face were faire if it were tourned noting that the inward motions woulde make the outwarde fauour but counterfait For as the precious stone Sandastra hath nothing in outwarde appearaunce but that which séemeth blacke but being broken poureth forth beames lyke the Sunne so vertue sheweth but bare to the outward eye but being pearced with inwarde desire shineth like Christall And this dare I auouch that as the Trogloditae which digged in the filthy ground for roots and found the inestimable stone Topason which enritched them euer after so he that séeketh after my youngest daughter which is deformed shall finde the great treasure of pietie to comfort him during his life Beautifull women are but like the Ermine whose skinne is desired whose carcasse is dispised y e vertuous contrariwise are then most lyked when their skin is least loued Then ought I to take least care for hir whome euery one that is honest will care for so that I will quyet my selfe with this perswasion that euery one shal haue a wooer shortly Beautie cannot lyue without a husband wit will not vertue shall not NOw Gentleman I haue propounded my reasons for euery one I must now aske you the question If it were your chaunce to trauaile to Sienna and to sée as much there as I haue tolde you héere whether woulde you chuse for your wife the faire foole the wittie wanton or the crooked Saint When she had finished I stoode in a maze séeing thrée hookes layed in one bayte vncertaine to aunswere what might please hir yet compelled to say somewhat least I should discredit my selfe But séeing all were whist to heare my iudgement I replyed thus LAdy Iffida Gentlewomen all I meane not to trauel to Sienna to wooe Beautie least in comming home the ayre chaunge it and then my labour be lost neither to seeke so farre for wit least she accōpt me a foole when I might spéede as well néerer hande nor to sue to Uertue least in Italy I be infected with vice and so looking to get Iuppiter by the hande I catche Pluto by the héele But if you will imagine that great Magnifico to haue sent his thrée Daughters into Englande I would thus debate with them before I woulde bargaine with them I loue beautie wel but I could not finde in my hart to marry a foole for if she be impudent I shall not rule hir and if she be obstinate she wil rule me and my selfe none of the wisest me thinketh it wer no good match for two fooles in one bed are too many Wit of all things setteth my fancies on edge but I should hardly chuse a wanton for be she neuer so wise if alwayes she want one when she hath me I had as liefe she