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heart_n	affection_n	know_v	love_n	3,601	5	5.2122	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20408	Greene in conceipt New raised from his graue to write the tragique historie of faire Valeria of London. Wherein is truly discouered the rare and lamentable issue of a husbands dotage, a wiues leudnesse, & children of disobedience. Receiued and reported by I.D.	Dickenson, John, romance writer.; Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1598 (1598)	STC 6819; ESTC S105352	46,384	71

ill companie corrupt hir Earely buddes are soone blasted young sprigs do with the winde bende euery way The flower-rith spring is natures ●…thorne but not heire of Autumnes ripenesse Say you she is faire then prowde for as the herbe Fesula taken in wine causeth the vaines to swell so beautie in women doth enhance the thoughtes I omitte to inferre hir store of fauorits which will not faile to seduce hir if coyne or counsaile may subdue hir Is she wittie then wilie fraught still with new deuices to circumuent you But shee can daunce singe finger a Lute and all excellently doe not these argue hir wanton education or can you for these so highly fancie hir then what other instance neede I saue your selfe to prooue that loue is blinde Loue which hath the power of Lethe to induce obliuion the windinges of a Labyrinth to entrappe the minde the shape transforming iu●…e of Circes in chanting cuppes to change thoughtes as shee could alter bodies Loue which for a minute of pleasure yealdes a million of paines for a dramme of Hunny an ounce of gall resembling that tree in America whose Apples are to the sight exceeding faire but to the tast deathes foode Cease then betimes friende Giraldo least you repent to late and sigh in vaine to thinke on my sayings when your supposed ioyes shalbe smothered in surmising Ielousie There is for euery sore prouided a salue yet no simple for hartes sorrow But as the bay tre alone is neuer hurt by lightning so wisdome euer vnstain'd by wantonnesse which is in you the ground of that woe Against poysons we haue preseruatiues Storme-beaten seamen wrestling with the furye of windes aud waters ioy in the sight of Ledas twinnes but thought sicke louers haue onely reason their soueraigne refuge deuine reason the sole phisicke to cure loues follye which straies from it so farre that where the one raignes the other cannot rest For Amare sapere vix deo conceditur Heere he paws'd and Geraldo thus replide your counsaile sauours much of good will little of conceipt yet for your curtesie I thanke you and for your kindnesse I wil think of you as of a well entending friend You deeme it strange that I thus olde though not so olde as you vrge should now resolue on mariage haueing before shaped a contrary course of life True it is that whilome my sole delight was to liue single but who knowes not that ould opinions are ofte concealed by new occasions Must I be etter ill aduised because once not well aduertised Is loue in oulde men so vnseasonable in youth onely yf at all commendable or rather as the herbe Moly tempered with newe wine doth much distemper the braines and infeeble the whole bodye the same mingled with olde wine doth soner effect the contrary and releeue the ouer charged sences So is affection in greene yeares full of perils vrging young-men to extremes which cannot moderate their passions but in riper yeares doth cheer the thoughts glad the hart awake the sences halfe dul and drooping Admit the wants the weakenesse and whatsoeuer disabling defects incident to age Tell mee I pray you who more needes comfort then they which want it or what greater comforte to men then kinde women How can you then with reason deny that to age which doth ease the toylfull burthen of age or terme that needlesse which is so necessarie but you growing to farther dislikes condemne myne haste which resolue with speede to dispatch my purpose know you not that delay is fraught with daungers that occasion is balde behinde that they which deferre are ofte preuented and so circumuented Such as obserue not there times do iustly faile in there deserued cryalles On the lilie-garnisht bankes of Cephisus there springes a flower of rare effectes yet merely forcelesse if not applide at the instant when Phebus do●…h in fiery maiesty touch the meridian In like sort young virgines fancies prone to affection by yeares and nature must be assailed while time ●…oth serue for their fauour once rooted a thinge easily performed can neuer bee recal●…e by threates of parents or worldes of pr●…ffers Speaking then betimes I may perhaps speede but deferring the one I must dispaire of the other Good wine needes no Juic bush Faier women want no woers hereto you reply that you condemne not so much my age as Valerias youth to haue wo ed and wedded an auncient woman had bene a match more meet and this equalitie of yeares caried more likelyhood of mutuall loue For answere to which obiection I cra●…e no greater instance then your owne experience y ● widowes are wily and wilfull that many scarse holsome morsels do often vsurpe the attyre and gestures of honest matrons heer is a Lerna of euils a sea of dangers which to encounter I haue no courage to conquer no fortune But in one yet neuer matched how can deceipt be setled or how is shee acquianted with wiles which throughly knowes not the world That Valeria is young I yealde nor am I very ould but you will say that though a while I may entertaine hir with delight yet I shalbe past begetting when she is in the prime of bearing hereon you vrge that giftes and pleasures are mighty tempters women and they young fraile vesseles and therefore weake resisters Yet doubt not I that with a gentle minde the knowen kindnesse of a louing husband shall more preuaile then the doubtfull counsailes of deluding strangers That shee is fayer I graunt also that therefore prowde I deny It suffiseth not with Ouid to say partially fastus inest pulchris sequitur que superbia formam vnlesse you learne of Aristotle to proue the consequence by a stroug coherence It followes not that all are faultie because some offend but rather as the birde Rintaces bred in Persia liueing by ayre and deawe onely hath no excrements so natures perfections polished by vertuous education brooke no excesse For where shoulde inwarde graces be more resident then where outwarde giftes are most resplendent ●… That shee is wittye in discourse expert in dauncing singing and well fingering of a Lute I confesse that therefore wilye or more apt for wantonnesse I may in no sort graunt The best things may be wrested to bad vses Such recreations not misintended hinder melancholy and hurt not modesty Thus haue I answered what you obiected shewing reason the ground of my affection Say then my friendes what they list censure the world what it will I am resolute to attempt nor doubt I to attaine that for which my●… soule doth long and my heart languish Stoicks are stockes sencelesse teachers that publish their owne follies by denying that to wise men which the sences worke in all men Till now I knewe not what it was to liue because I felt not the power of loue Haue not Planets their con●…unctions the elements their mixtures both their cooperant motions which argue that nothing can be of it selfe sufficient Say that sicknesse should enfeeble me

then at their childrens good weigh not on what rockes of daunger through incontinencie and reproch they cast them whome they couple with those that abound in coine though hauing nought else of worth Farre more nobly minded was Themistocles which in bestowing his daughter preferred the vertuous and able poore before the sottish impotent rich whereof being demanded the cause he made this generous answer I had rather quoth hee choose a man without mony then money without a man wherein doubtlesse hee meant not onely that he is worthie the name of a man which imbraceth vertue but also that hee is not to be thought a man which can not performe the act of a man where it iustly is required What can be more vnnaturall then such inequalitie of yeeres and inclination which granted howe I pray you can that be pleasing to God which is so directly repugnant to the course of nature whome hee at first created in most absolute perfection of proportionall regarde and hath euer since and will till the ende of this worldes times preserue fron●… confusion by vpholding this equalitie Thinke you that Myrobolan Trees brought from Sunne-scorcht Susa can prosper if planted in frozen Scythia or that the Northern pride of Flora can diaper the Southerne fieldes Would you deeme that gardiner skilfull whome you should see setting Colewortes neare the vine which shunnes them so much by nature that it windes another way and soone doth wither Can that match bee lesse vnmeete where greene youth is yoakt with groning age I haue hearde that Licurgus the Spartane Lawgiuer did not ouely permitte but commaund it as a seruice much meritorious to the Common-wealth that a vigorous man knowing an able woman matcht with an husband impotent through yeares or some naturall defect might lawfully demaund and no lesse lawfully vse her companie to raise vp issue in the others behalfe which he must acknowledge as his own Had Giraldo and you been Spartans liuing in these times then had you enioyed this pleasing priuiledge your husband beeing now past procreation and hee if discontent in vaine had muttered who if hee would needes marrie should haue wedded some ancient matrone the widow of two or three husbands which might by custome knowe how to fitte the humour of his yeares and brooke quietly the loath some accidents of his age by feeling in her selfe like insufficiencie baiting his eares with counter-coughes and presenting to his eyes like nastie obiects of filth and flegme Breach of medlocke had beene in her a crime inexpiable but where the state and person of the offendour is changed there likewise the qualitie of the offence is altered nor can the crime bee so directly pertinent to you which being a child must obey as to Theodoro which being your father might and did commaund Bethen couragious boldly to imitate the infinite examples of former times nor are you now alone which haue for presidents me and such my friends as seeke with mee abroad what is not afforded vs at home If herein you consort with vs you shall likewise share with vs your part of pleasures you shall be furnisht with store of fauorites ech of gallant goodly personage and which most is of rare agilitie in acting that secret sweet seruice which wee most affect This onely is required that you remunerate with coine the authours of your intent bolstring vp with your bags their impouerishing braueries Here Valeria halfe weeping halfe wishing her self vnwedded seemd doubtful wheron to resolue but the other following her aduautage gaue not ouer till she had assured y e conquest To be short there was a time place determined for entering Valeria into y ● order meane while the whole crue was summoned there to assemble at the day appointed being likewise throughly acquainted with the cause The meetest corner for this couent was thought a gardin-house hauing round about it many flowers and within it much deflowring Were not this age fruitfull in stranger miracles I should haue deemd this an high maruell that so small a plot of ground could be so deuowring a gulfe of some mens gettings yet who knowes not that extortions fruite hath seldome fayrer ende But I procede the day presign'd being come no default was through absence made by any there met they with their mynions each hauing stopt hir husbands mouth with a feined talc coynd extempore Valeria not slacke to such deuotion came with the first seeming to her selfe most fortunate in becoming a sister of that society They had there a costly banquet made at their common charge so fraught with dainties so furnisht with varietie of choycest delicates that by their diet there dispositions might bee well discerned for this is the fewell which feedes and cherisheth the fyer of lust Sine Cerere Libero friget Venus When they had stoutly carowsed and throughly pampered themselues with these prouoking preparatiues the table being now vncouered they fell from quaffing to discoursing then one of the dames and shee most impudent if this their excesse admitted any such degree of difference calde for her lute which fingering too fitly for so vnfit a purpose shee accorded thereto with hir voice and bewrayed as followes in a Canzon the occasion of there meeting Happie lot to men assign'd Hartes with harts in loue combinde Loue the some of earthly sweetes Where with mutuall loue it meets Not consisting all in lookes Like to Idols lay-mens bookes But who tryes this true shall proue Action is the life of loue Why slacke we then to bath in sweet delight Before our day be turn'd to endlesse night Fairest things to nothing fade Wrapt in deaths eternall shade Hence I proue it beauties crime Not to reape the fruits of time Time which passeth swift as thought Time whose blisse is dearely bought Dearely bought so soone to faile vs Soone that should so long auaile vs. Why slacke wee then to bath in sweete delight Before our daye be turnd to enlesse night Loue and beautie fade together Fickle both as changing weather Age or sicknes wastes the one That doth faile when this is gone Let vs then while both doth last V●…e them both eare both be past Sport we freely while wee may yet a while it will be daye Oh but this day drawes on to endlesse night And with our life still weares our loues delight Soone ah soone was Adon slaine Bashfull boy how faire in vaine Fram'd by nature to be loou'd Fram'd but why himselfe not mou'd Dide hee not in prime of youth Prime of beautie pray to ruth Dye he did himselfe preuenting Sorte vnworthy all lamenting Oh thinke on him which changing safe delight For certaine danger turn'd his day to night But me thinks I talking see How each minute slippes from me Losse I deeme the least delay Hast we then to this sweete play Whence is suckt the sappe of pleasure Such as loue by time doth measure Loue that gardes his mothers forte Peeping oft to see the sport A sport how rare

Crocodiles teares thereby entic'd him to intangle him and preuailed for as the Hemlocke of Attica tempered with wine is of all compounded poysons the most deadly so of all enticements that is most dangerous where wit and beautie lodg'd both in one subiect are so employed All this while sate poore Valeria at home surcharg'd with sorrow not ruminating as yet so much on repentance of former wantonnes as drooping through despight of present wants for now wrathfull heauen setting wide open the gates of vengeance showrd downe on her sinfull head heapes of deserued euils infinitely exceeding the number of her yeares yet not equalling her dire-offences whose estate was not herein onely haplesse to be as earst restrained from companie and from the libertie of her woonted walkes but likewise in each respect most abiectly miserable her allowance in attire and at the table scarse the shadow of what it was and hardly fitting the basenesse of her present fortune her lust dieted with troubles leauings her earst-imperious humor set all on soueraigntie stoopt to the lowest steppe of slauerie and shee that whilome control●… the master was now subiect without redresse to the checks and taunts of her owne seruants which thereto authorised by Arthemios order limited so straightly her very lookes that had she glanc'd her eye on any though the meanest obiect it forth with bred suspition and that no small complaint yet must she in no sort if louing her owne case cast on them an angry countenance to argue her offended mind much lesse bewray in wordes her deepe-setled discontent least he in a fitte of furie thundering forth an Alphabet of vgly othes should amaze her with his affrighting menaces nor did he so containe his outrage but oft martyring with blowes her tender bodie left on her bruised limmes for lasting monuments the irremooueable characters of his barbarous crueltie so to verifie the tenour of his threates and repay with heaped measure those her markes of thanklesse remembrance which shee earst-mercilesse had lent and laid on silly Iockies shoulders I omit the daily obiecting of former leudnesse and Giraldos death continually vpbraided At the memorie of which so many miseries the silly wretch did in sighes and teares discourse her sorrowes lamenting iustly the fortune of her change but more the f●…lly of her second choice Now thought shee on her husbands wordes which then she weighed not when hee spake them Now felt shee in her selfe the issue of his too true prediction and as the wearie Mariner seeing from farre a storme knowen by the seas loud rore and flocking togither of birds prepares himselfe with courage and patience to entertaine the perill so she whose mind weande thus from wantonnesse reuolu'd with restlesse motion forepassed woes and in her fortunes mappe viewd the yetclouded tracts of following troubles addressed her selfe to ●…eare quietly these deserued crosses and made nature scholler to necessitie but as yet womans frailty could not fully digest the sower precepts of such saint-like patience which that she might the lesse endure he slackt not his indeauour still deuising by what meanes he most might vexe her and had therefore changde his former custome into an order far more impudent for in stead of banketting his harlots abroad he now feastes them at home She was the drudge to prepare their dainties and scarse thought worthy of the lowest roome when all their delicats were seru'd in Then would hee in her sight kisse his queanes and toy with them thus daring her to impatience that thereon he might coine some seeming cause to tyrannize with his fist for well hee knewe that the tongue the hearts herald womens chiefe instrument of reuenge and ease could then hardly or not at all by her be bridled Continuing this custome he once inuited his most affected Trull to feast her priuatly with extraordinarie cost when after the banquet ended and the table vncouered taking his Lute he sang to a pleasing note this following dittie more to crosse his wife then to content his wanton Mistresse Waue-tossing windes characterizing feare On marblefurrowes of the threatfull deepe Rousde from their caues the lowring aire to teare And force the welken floods of showers to weepe Though stormie blastes doe scatter common fire Burne midst their stormie blastes in hote desire Wind-tossed waues which with a gyring course Circle the Centers ouerpeering maine And dare heau'ns star-bright turrets in their source Can yet not ease their finnie regents paine But though the floud the fire in nature quench They burne amidst the flouds which them do drench Oh whereto then in drooping hearts distresfe Shall I a silly man my thoughts conforme Which can no more themselues themselues redresse Then may some guidelesse Pinnace in a storme Encounter safely barking Scillas rocke And safely dare Chari●…s to the shocke Where force doth faile the weaker needs must yeeld Seing submissiue that his smart may cease Yet maist thou gaine a ●…arre more glorious field Deigning to graunt my care-fraught hearts release The conquest this t'excell in sauing one Loues irrelenting God which saueth none Here Valeria all enragde and scarse able to forbeare so long flew on y ● others face taking with her hands such sure hold that the bloud trickled down amaine which seeing at sight there of insulting she addes this bitter scorne Now iolly mistres vanc if you list your beauties conquest Are you that daintie peece the riuall of my right this the face that hath wrested my husbands fancie Then turning to Arthemio shee thus proceeds Bonster of inhumanitie speake if thou canst without remorse wherein haue I deserued these many iniuries this of all the most intollerable was it for louing thee yea therein chiefly haue I deserued them yet not frō thee which hast thence receiued thy making Canst thou but here Arthemio interrupted her words with blows then pausing hee thus replide Slanderous strumpet say if thou canst without blushing but that thou canst too well what greater wrong herein sustainst thou then thou hast offerd to thy other husband How then darst thou terme iustice iuiurie but sith this sight is so offensiue Ile hereafter to greeue thy heart glut thine eies w t more abhorred obiects now tame so thy tongue deuilish fingers that henceforth thou shalt haue cause to curse the vse of them This said hee fell againe to blowes nor ceast he from beating till shee had ceast from shrewish answering Soone after to effect his first menace therin to effect the second he proceeded more insa tiatly in heaping wrong on wrong euen to y ● carnal vsing of his wh●… before her face whose presence hee enforc't making her the vnwilling baud vnto their beastlines yet shee remembring his late outrage the markes whereof she had yet still to shewe bare more quietly this the greatest iniurie then those other which he before had offered Now had shee learnd to smooth her lookes with signes of mildnesse although her care-worne heart were big with malice now did she