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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02122	Gvvydonius The carde of fancie wherein the folly of those carpet knights is decyphered, which guyding their course by the compasse of Cupid, either dash their ship against most daungerous rocks, or els attaine the hauen with paine and perill. Wherein also is described in the person of Gwydonius, a cruell combat betvveene nature and necessitie. By Robert Greene Master of Arte, in Cambridge.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.; Labé, Louise, 1526?-1566. Debat de folie et d'amour.	1584 (1584)	STC 12262; ESTC S105817	96,964	176

him as he may passe out of Alexandria without death or danger What though I héere in prison pine in pain what though I sinke in sorrowe what though I be distressed with griefe and oppressed with miserie what though I be crossed with care and combred with calamitie Tush let my Father fret and fume in his furie let my brother rage and rayle let that traitor Valericus triumph and all the Countrey most bitterly curse me yea let them martir me most miserablye let them torment me most terribly yet direful death shall not feare me as long as I know Gwydonius is deuoyde of daunger For I hope though fortune frowne though the destinies denie it though y ● fates forsweare it yea though the Gods themselues say no yet in time we shall haue such happie successe as the loyaltie of our loue and the cléerenesse of our conscience by the lawe of Iustice doo deserue And therefore Gwydonius shall be the Planet whereby to direct my dooings he shall be the starre shal guide my compasse he shall be the hauen to harbor in the Saint at whose shrine I meane to offer my deuotion Castania hauing thus discoursed with her selfe shée determined when the warres were ended if she coulde haue no hope to enioy the loue of Gwydonius to confesse her faults and to sue for mercie at the barre of her Fathers curtesie not that she meant to liue without Gwydonius or to loue or like anye other but to prolong her dayes in dolour that she might most rigorously reuenge the villanie of Valericus and by bathing in his bloude she might both satisfie her selfe and signifie to Gwydonius how intirely she loued and lyked him But leauing her perplexed with these passions againe to Clerophontes Who frying still in his franticke furie was not any whit perswaded to conclude peace with Orlanio but hauing mustred his men as speedely as might be imbarkt them and with a luckie gale arriued at the coast of Alexandria wher the borderers not able to abide his force were constrained to saue themselues by f●ight But hee as a man hauing exiled from his heart both pietie and pitie bathed his hands in guiltlesse bloud fiering euery fort battering downe euery bulwarke sacking each Citie racing downe the walles to the grounde and commaunding his souldiours vpon paine of most greeuous punishment not to haue any respect of persons neyther to regarde the hoarie haires of the aged Citizens nor the tender yeares of the sucking Infants but to imbrue their blades with the bloud of all men of what degrée soeuer Orlanio hearing how Clerophontes had inuaded hy● dominions and with what barbarous crueltie hee hadde murthered his subiects hauing also intelligence by his Scowtes that his armie was passing huge the better to resist the furious force of his enimie hyred out of other Countreyes a great multitude of Mercenarie Souldiours so that he gathered a meruailous great hoast wherin was an infinit number indued with great skill and long experience Furnished thus sufficiently both with men and munition like a wise and warie Captaine séeing that he no waye els might resist the puissaunt power of so mightie a Prince determined without further delaye to méete him and to giue him present battaile hauing meruailous affiaunce in the approoued manhoode vertue of his Souldiours Clerophontes likewise being of such a valiaunt and inuincible courage as he séemed from his infancie to bée vowed to Mars and martiall affaires manfully marched forward to méete with his enimies which he performed so spéedely that within few dayes both the Armies wer within viewe which Clerophontes séeing he began to incourage his souldiours on this sort ALthough most trustie subiects quoth he I neither doubt of your prowesse nor haue cause to feare your manhoode as hauing mine Armie fraught with the most couragious Captaines and boldest blouds of Metelyne yet I wish you to consider how desperately we haue aduentured vpon the Conquest of this Dukedome which if we atchieue we shal not onely gaine perpetual fame and renowme but reap such riches and treasure as shall sufficiently counteruaile our trauaile But to obtaine this victorie we must behaue our selues valiantly neither dreading any daunger though neuer so desperate nor doubting any perill though neuer so fearefull Before our face we haue our enimies behinde our backes the surging seas so that fight we must but flye we cannot in being couragious we winne the fielde and returne conquerours in proouing cowards we both loose our liues and the conquest if we foyle our foes we returne with triumph if we faint and flye we haue no hope of safetie but death and desperation is imminent Be then hardie to hazard and valiaunt to venture amiddest the prease of your enimies that daunted with your valour they may be forced to flye and we both triumph and inioy the treasure CLerophontes hauing thus louinglye incouraged his souldiers Orlanio on the other side séeing his men began to feare the force of the enimie and were amazed with such a monstrous multitude prickt them forward with this Parle THat mightie Monarch Alexāder y ● great who for his martiall exployts was a mirror to all his posteritie whose prowesse was such as he daunted Darius by his inuincible courage made a conquest of the whole world hearing on a time one of his Captaines to demaunde what multitude was in their enimies campe aunswered that it was not the point of a good soldier to inquire how many the enimies were but wher they were meaning that to feare the multitude is rather the signe of cowardise then a tokē of courage Which saying I wish you carefully to consider y ● the huge army of Clerophontes neither amaze your minds nor abate your valor sith y ● the equitie of our cause doth more thē counteruaile his companie He inuadeth our realme without reason we defend but our owne right he cruelly séeketh to depriue vs of fréedō we lawfully do maintain our own liberty He tirannously striueth to make vs bondslaues and we fight to frée our selues from captiuitie If he preuayle let vs looke for no pittie but that we shall be murdered without mercie we shall sée before our face our wiues rauished our daughters defloured our parents put to death our children slaine our goods spoyled our Citie sacked and our selues brought to vtter ruth and ruyne Sith then we are placed betwéene two extremities eito possesse our owne with plentie or to passe our liues in penurie let vs valiauntly venter whatsoeuer wée gaine let vs fight without feare for better it is to die with honour than to liue with shame BY that time Orlanio had ended his Oration the Armies met in a Plaine within thirtie leagues of Alexandria Where both of them ordering as became good Captaines their people there began in the breake of the day the most cruell and terrible battaile that earst was heard of considering the number on both partes theyr experience and pollicie with the valiant prowesse