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B13592	Honor triumphant. Or The peeres challenge, by armes defensible, at Tilt, Turney, and Barriers In honor of all faire ladies, and in defence of these foure positions following. 1. Knights in ladies seruice haue no free will. 2. Beauty is the mainteiner of valour. 3. Faire lady was neuer false. 4. Perfect louers are onely wise. Mainteined by arguments. Also The monarches meeting: or The King of Denmarkes welcome into England.	Ford, John, 1586-ca. 1640.	1606 (1606)	STC 11160; ESTC S115119	19,652	46

Deuoted to their Ladies deere commaund Then what man of reason is he who would be so vnreasonable in his owne desires to wish himselfe obstinatly foolish or thinke himselfe foolishlie wife by ●●●●…ining his owne dissolute infranchisment in the boundlesse limitts of his owne frantick wilfulnesse such and of such nature are they who in the rancorous spleenes of an vnpreuailing rancour durst not onelie in the mallice of their tongues to speake but in the venome of their hearts to copy out whole pamphlets against the dignitie of the female sex either without respect that they themselues came from a woman or without regard that a woman wrought the peace for their weak-ballac't soules oh but say such had not a woman beene the tempter and efficient of our fall we had not needed a redemptions alas sillie betrayers of your owne follie wretched blasphemers against the perfection of nature can ye not or will yee not vnderstand that the blessing of this fall is saluation assurance of heauen certainty of ioyes yes it is doubtlesly probable that women are Natures pride Vertues ornaments Angels on earth worthy to be serued Saints in heauen Memorable to be registred Ne ij sunt amore digni Quos indignos reijcit amor Would any man liue happie in content of mind fortunate in prosperitie of content singular in the repute of account blessed in beeing inriched with earths rarest blessing let him then ennoble his deserts by deseruing to be beloued of whome of popular opinion or vnstable vulgar dependances no but of loue it selfe a woman Would any be miserable let him be excluded from the fauour of beauty it is a misery incomparable a torment vnspeakable a death yea a hell insufferable How then comes it to passe that some vaine oppugners of loue thinke that by seruing of a ladie they themselues both honour in their loue and ought to be honoured for louing of their beloued it is easily answered by the imperfection of their manhood and pride of their grosse erronious folly For this in the rules of affection is text Whosoeuer truely loue and are truly of their ladies beloued ought in their seruice to employ their endeuours more for the honour and deseruing the continuance of their ladies good will than any way to respect the Free-will of their owne heedlesse dispositions else are they degenerate Bastards and Apostates reuolting from the principals and principall rules of sincere deuotion It is not ynough for any man that hath by long suit tedious imprecations ieopardous hazard toyle of bodie griefe of mind pitifull laments obsequious fawnings desperate passions and passionate despaire at length for a meed or requitall to his vnrest gained the fauourable acceprance of his most and best desired ladie it is not I say then ynough for such a man to thinke that by his pennance in obtayning he hath performed a Knights seruice hauing obtained but he must thenceforth as much employ his industrie to preserue For well sayd the Poet whosoeuer sayd it Non minor est virtus quam quaerere parta tueri Perfect seruice and seruiceable loyaltie is seene more cleerely in deseruing loue and maintaining it thā in attempting or laboring for it How can any one be sayd truely to serue when he more respects the libertie of his owne affections than the imposition of Ladies command to attaine happinesse and then neglect it is but an vnhappie negligence a negligent vnhappinesse it is an vnthankfull ingratitude than which nothing can be to heauē more hainous in the regard of men more detestable Herein are certaine chuffes differing from the glorious nature of gentilitie who hauing stumbled vpon the raritie of beautie are cloyed in their owne delicacies not prizing the invaluable iewell of what they possesse not esteeming the benefit of their precious felicitie but like swine touze pearle without respect when as generous spirits glorie in their ample fortune and subiect themselues to their chiefest glorie for to be a deseruing seruant to a deserued ladie is liberally to enioy heauen on earth If therefore the scope of mortalitie consist in the fruition of imparadised content or a contented paradise how requisite is it that Knights for vnder these titles of honour doe I conclude true louers should loose the freedome of their owne wils to be seruiceable to the wils of their choycest ladies who can serue two Masters who can be a master of himselfe when he is a seruant to his ladie but either he scornes the humilitie due to her or affects a singularitie to himselfe if the one he is no seruant if the other an vnfit louer Why for because a true louer must frame his actions to the behestes of his ladie and magnifying her worthinesse Hence is it sayd and truely sayd Knights in ladies seruice haue no free-will that is they ought not to be their owne nor subiect to their owne pleasure vnlesse to please themselues in the recreation which tendeth to their ladies honour How pithily sayd a wise man Non amare decet at amari praestat To loue is common to sensualitie but to be beloued is the crown of desert they best deserue to be beloued who deserue loue and they principally deserue loue who can moderate their priuate affection and leuell the scope of desert to the executing their ladies commaund and adorne their names by martiall feates of armes As for instance Paris defended Hellen with the losse of his life Troylus would fight for Cresseida Aenaeas wonne Lauinia with the dint of his weapon and sweat of bloud Paelops hazarded his life for Hippodamia yea what better example than of late in our owne territorie that noble vntimelie cropt spirit of honour our english Hector who car'd not to vndergoe any gust of spleene and censure for his neuer-sufficiently admired Opia a perfect Penelope to her ancient knight Vlisses he an vnfained Vlisses to her for whose sake neither the wiles of Circes or inchauntments of Syrens or brunt of warrs could force or intice to forgetfulnes But examples may seeme rather tedious than conuenient I leaue the certainty of them to their authours with this prouiso that what is manifest needs no commentarie Now then considering the perfections of ladies haue been both informer and moderne ages so resonant through euery climate of the world what dull spirit what leaden apprehension hath he that would be more curious to vndertake the yoake of their seruice then forward to participate their beauties Lentulus the Roman warrior after all his conquests abroad was willingly captiu'd and conquered at home insomuch as at the first veiw of Terentia hee fear'd not to say Non bellum non fortuna Fate cannot limitt warre cannot subdue the efficatie of loue The fleeting pashions of disloyall minds Proceeds from wrong directed scope of lust Inconstant chaunge beseems grosse-feeding hindes In whose deserts is neither faith or trust When noble spirits in the bonds of dutie Pay tribute to the excellence of beautie For gentle temper of a freer

blood Counts bondage to a ladie willing pleasure Adoring seruice of best worthy good And deeme their toile for fauour pleasing leasure Not reckoning commaund seruilitie But true performance true nobilitie To talke conuerse or dailie is not loue But amorous wantonnesse of idle play Brunts of defence doth firme affection proue Who would not fight when beutie is the prey Then who is he who would not think hee 's free When hee 's inthral'd to loues captiuitie Loues captiuitie is freedoms infranchisement and whosoeuer is a prisoner to the merrit of fairnesse is absolutely naturalized a denizen to happines To conclude for in knowen verities many proofes are needlesse a true and truely louing knights libertie ought to be inchained to the disposure of his ladie her will must be to him a law and that law not penall but irrefragable The sincerity of his tryed affection must bee an obstacle to wilfulnes with due consideration that although he be bound to vndergoe her pleasure so he shall vndertake no shame that may displease For from the faire proceeds nothing but what is faire Ladies are mild and fearefull to impose dangers wise and will preuent them especially such daungers as either may threaten inglorious dishonour or likely perill to their beloued Timorous they are of the worst carefull and in that care ambitious for the best Nature made them Females vertuously kinde women angelically vertuous horror befits not their sex or vnthankefulnesse their beauties for although warre defends the right of loue yet loue cannot brooke the seueritie of warre Dalliance in chambers harmelesse play and sport Doe with the sweetes of loue much better sort Since then ladies are moulded of this temper and tempered in the mould of loue mildnesse and kindnesse what is that Knight that would not be their captiue insomuch as the bluntest cynicke must in reason avow that it is most reason that Knights in Ladies seruice haue no Free-will TO THE RIGHT Honourable the Earle of Arundel Second Position Beautie is the Maintainer of Valour RIGHT HONOVRABLE IT is no preiudice to the precious claritie of knowledge euen in vndoubted truthes to make truth more doubtles for in matters of wrong arguments doe confound sence when in explanation of right they doe senceably approoue it T is good Mysterie in demonstration is a confused nicenesse So knowne is the certainty of this Positiō Et domi et foris that whosoeuer would seeme ignorantly strange would but bewray his strangely rude ignorance in seeming so Beautie say we is the maintayner of Valour Who is so blunt as knowes it not who is so blockish as will not and may with iustice defend it an instance euen in the entrance shall bee no absurditie In the infancie of the Romane Empire as Plutarch to the purpose rehearseth the Romanes violently seazed vpon the Sabines ladies by violence they wonne them by valour they iustified their winning insomuch as euer after betwixt these warlike Nations began both increase of hatred and defiance of hostilitie In which times Kissing had his first originall deuised by the Sabine ladies as an earnest-peny of desart to the guerdon of the Romanes desperate toyle For although in the eyes of some more Stoicall censures Kissing seems but a needlesse ceremonie yet in the feeling of loue it is the first tast of loue the first certaintie of hope the first hope of obtaining the first obtaining of fauour the first fauour of graunt the first graunt of assurance the first principallest assurance of affection the first shadow of the substance of after contented happinesse happy pleasure pleasing heauen but to our matter Men for the most part some more heroycall inclinations by nature excepted are in the frailtie of their humanitie so fearefull of harmes and so desirous of the preseruatiue of life as although not the discouragement of cowardise yet proper instinct of mortalitie will deter them from wilfull and imminent running into perill Some againe are of that frozen and cold temperature of disposition as according to the prouerbe they esteeme it prouident safetie to sleepe in a whole skinne Of this imbecilitie are many who haue only enioyed the lazie softnesse of vitious ease and neuer felt at least neuer conceited the touch of any miserie no not of gentilitie The selfe alone meanes therefore that were to bee ordayned for a prouocation and incitemēt to liuelyhood of manhood was the quintessence raritie yea rare quintessence of diuine astonishment Beautie vpon whose al-perfection the greedy eye of desire euen in spirits of clay and mud being sixt hath stir'd vp such a rauishment of possession as they now esteeme all dangers weake nay all impossibilities facilities to possesse it That Cardinall-vertue of inuincible fortitude had long since ben leuel'd with cowardise had not beauty the alarum to magnanimitie rent the distrust of weaknes and strengthened it with contempt of precedencie aemulation of desert Say then how probable is it how indubitate hereditary is the dependance of Valor to the merit of beauty Beautie which prickes on the slowest encourageth the faint-harted sharpens the dull commaundeth the stowtest recreateth the wearie and guerdoneth the deseruing Beautie the largesse of the Gods the comfort of men the bounty of heauen the prize of earth the paradise of glory the Vialactea to felicitie the wonder of it selfe beautie This is that Achilles impenetrable shield which euerie Vlisses pleads for euery Aiax fights for this is that golden fleece which the Argonautes sued to find which Iason toyling enioied This is that famoused Trophey which Philip would haue his sonne Alexander in the games of Olympus to wrastle for How much are they deceiued I mean these fainter bloods who vainly imagine that souldiers fight for spoile only Generals hazard their persons for greedines Sea-men traffique for auarice Knights wander for prey or that any ieopards his life chiefely for lucre Does not the marchant venture ship-wrack to returne with a present that may purchase his Ladies liking and in her liking his owne blisse does not the souldier fight abroad to preserue his ladie in safety at home does not the generall commaund that hee may returne with victorie gracious in his Ladies eyes does not the Knight errant attempt threatnings of horrour aduentures of dread thunder of death it selfe onely to rumour his fame in the cares of his ladie does he not range for the succour of beautie for the freedome of beautie for the ioy of beautie and all spoyle that the souldier bleedes for all the greedinesse that commaunders sweat for all the auarice that the Marchant trades for all the prey that the Knight aduentures for all the benefite that euerie one and all of these hope wish pray contend for is the fruition of Beautie than which nothing can be more gratefull nothing is so acceptable Valour Through streames of blood and massacres of death I spend the troubles of a glorious breath In feates of armes and lifes dread desperation I touze to gaine me Fame and Reputation