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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

what armes on the behalfe of iustice doth maintaine and rightly maintaine that merely of it selfe Beauty is the maintainer of Valour TO THE RIGHT HONOrable the Earle of Pembroke Third Position Faire Ladie was neuer false RIGHT HONORABLE THe temperature of the mind follows the temperature of the bodie Which certaine axiome sayes that sage Prince of Philosophers Aristotle is euer more infallible Then doe not I a little maruell what arrogant spleen of malediction with teeth of iuyceles enuie durst to detract frō the worthines of Beauty terming it a particular blessing bestowed for a more general curse Terming it fickle deceitfull incōstant when if the sawes of authority be authēticall nothing can be more precious nothing in it selfe so vertuous Faire Ladie was neuer false Oh sayes some curious impostor Euge hominem a goodly theame much witt no doubt expected few proofes produced who will not sweare the contrary who will not beleeue the contrarie as his Creed vaine fondlings as many as so beleeue doubtlesse shall be so deceiued and doe penance for their errour in the gall of their distrust For if the temperature of the mind follow the temperature of the bodie text it is then without controuersie as the outward shape is more singular so the inward vertues must be most exquisite Nature is but the handmayd to heauen Beautie is the rarest workemanship of Natures power So questionlesse where the hand maid of heauen hath imparted her art the blessings of the Gods are plentifully abounding Neither will they make that lame which nature hath framed perfect For why can falshood lye hidden vnder the raritie of fairnesse no more than vice can lurke vnder the plumes of vertue which is meerely impossible Beautie is but a faire Inne to lodge more fairer guests within It is but the liuely colour of an excellent tasting wine It is the greatest good in it selfe that heart of humanitie can wish for If deformitie be the dreg's and scum of earths disgrace if it be as it is the curse of the Parents transgression layd vpon the child then contrarily must beautie be the immediate testimonie of heauens fauor why were people in times past called Giants Monsters but for the vgly appearance of their shapes Neither were they in body so mishapen as in conditions odious So then euen in them it is manifestly verified that foulest enormities harbour in fowlest formes then it followes that firmest vertues are shrowded in the fairest complexions Some indeed oppose an argument that Beauty of it selfe is a great good but the abuse most wretched common Yea so common that the very face of beautie is a presumption yea more a warrant of inconstancie to such is easily replyed Such abuse proceeds not from perfect beautie but from the adulterate counterfeit of beautie art Of this nature are those that being intemperately wanton striue with artificiall cunning to couer the defects of nature For true beautie as it is of it selfe a good so is it in it selfe simple innocent and harmelesse Into which no thought of vnkindnesse can penetrate and being once subiect to loue can neuer will neuer be tempted to loosnesse O strange sayes one oh heresie cries another palpably false falsely absurd do not Poets the pillars of your folly affirme that Venus forsooth your only Deity of your passions the queen of your thoughtts the boast goddesse of your loues was absolutely false to her husband else had Cupid been vnborne Aenoeas vnbegotten And yet lady was neuer faire false was not Helen of Greece made a Troian stale a scorne to posterities whose verie name is ominous to cuckolds Do not all chronicles of antiquity shew not only that the faire but the fairest haue prooued lightest and yet faire ladie was neuer false True the Poets say so who being thēselues lasciuiously addicted thought it great inhumanity at least iniurie that Beautie should be ingrost to the proper vse of one alone man Besides if Poets are to be credited Venus was a Goddesse not framed by nature but yssuing from the Gods therfore aboue humane apprehension Poets speak truth to warrant their writs and so was Venus faire they deuise fictions to approoue their wits so was she immodest with this Caueat that she was Venus was a troth that she was trothles a fiction Also Helen was counted faire because many affected her procur'd by her enticing wantones inuiting allurements Curteous I thinke she was therfore beloued faire neuer for then not fickle Indeed I acknowledge old writers being themselues past the youth of loue sunke into dotage haue inueighed against the dignity of that sex not vpon knowledg but mere supposition deming that because the worst are haunted of the worst for their lewdnes condemne the fairest for being faire as the principall inchantment Now so much differēce is there betwixt the wantō the faire as the wantō may be beloued but the faire wil not be wanton It is to be supposed that such as inclined to the loose ficklenesse of change are not of that excellent temper oftrue bewty because then they knowing their own merit as women of that nature do wold be by how much the more noted by so much the more tender of the preseuatiō of their honors report And somewhat precizely pardon troth prize their own value Scire tuū nihilest nisi te scire hoc sciat alter To be faire not admired is as a hiddē minerall yet to be admired not preserue that admiratiō is an vnvalued indignity But as ladies are fair so are they wise as they are both faire and wise constant Alas most know many fele that bewty is not easily woed to loue many bitter conflicts of oppressed griefs are to be indured ere they are won to listē to affection And at length being persuaded they were not so obdurat before to be sued to as they are now most constant in their loues most sincerely firme to their choice Experience teacheth it that stele is not soon hot yet being once fired is lesse easily cooled An exāple or two shal warrant the credit of the rest who could bee more industrious to his ladie thā Theseus was in gaining Ariadne who being conquered was euer most fast to him though iniuriously yea perfidiously forsaken of him Portia so inderely reuerenced Cato as she would for his preseruatiō swallow coles Alcest wold die for Admetus And Penelope the mirror of the Greeke matrons both for constancy Bewty wold neuer falsify her faith to Vlisses I my self shuld account such proofs inconuenient did not the proofe of my defence rely vpon former instances compared both with present latter times Diana renowned for beauty was more renowned for chastity insomuch as singularly truly fairest ladies cōtended to be her nymphs if trust to writers may be attributed rara praeclara according to the prouerbe that the fairest are the fairest that is the best best to be estemed what is more to be vrged for the

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

such who doe frigescere ad ignem I do desist to inueigh against their cold spirits onely in this I hate them that I pitty them He who will striue to please each curious eye Must freeze in sdence But I care not I Let better fauours fauour mine indeuour The vulgartaunting shall affright me neuer May it please you to whom it is intended Then T' is glory to deserue though not commended Non omnibus studeo non maleuolis FINIS THE Monarchs meeting Or The King of Denmarkes welcome into England NOw had the haruest of the yeare brought forth The blessed frute of long expected hope And leueld with the toile of labours worth The crop of fatnesse to the trad's-mans scope Now were the blossomes ripened to the hand Of well deseruing sweat when all anon The mighty ruler of a peacefull land Began to take his wisht progression Calme was the sea and gentle gustes did blow A whistling gale vnto the flagges of peace Full were the streames and smooth soft tides did flow And gaue assurance of contented ease When on the bubbling beauty of fayre Thames Vrg'd by the princely loue of amitie A Christian King in state and maiestie Was entertain'd with sundry showes of games The siluer Christall streame was proud to beare The burthen of a person each way graced With all the rites of humane Loue and Feare In whose high lookes honour was liuely placed Much welcome was the tydings of this newes Vnto the royall eare of worthy Iames Preparing with all speed that speed might vse With his owne presence to ennoble Thames Looke how did Ioue salute the minor Gods Inuiting all in heauen at a feast Where no more awe was reuerenc'd no odds Betwixt his proper person and the rest So did these Princes meet in whose first meeting Ioy was aboundant in the truce of loue Each inter-changing a concordant greeting Which in the peeres of both did comfort moue Ambitious was the riuer of this honour Knowing the value of the weight she bore Grac'd that such fauour Kings bestow'd vpon her Bearing a richer burthen nere before Kings met and Kings saluted one another Eyther reioycing in the others sight Princes with Princes brother ioy'd with brother Each solacing the other with delight A goodly view of Maiestie it was To see such intimated league betwixt them They striu'd in kindnesse how they might surpasse Sporting the season which the tide prefixt them Like to a Prince in euery point aright He came and like a Prince was entertained With all the tipes of dignity bedight with all the friendship friendship could haue claimed O what a gladsome sight of ioy it is When monarches so are linkt in amitie How strengthened are those Empires with safe blisse Where two such Princes ioyne in vnitie Great both are in dominions yet more great In being vertuously religious Fresh blooming piety doth praise beget In godly zeale Let tyrants be litigious What He amongst the stoutest of contempt Full in command and fuller in disdaine Durst any threats of en'mity attempt Or to oppose himselfe against those twaine Those twaine so firmly are they matcht together So euerlastingly affectionate So indiuidually combin'd together As they loue none of both who do one hate Power with power realme with realme vnited hearts ioyn'd with hearts and hand imbrac'd in hand Should all the world of nations be excited Yet all the world could scarse those two withstand Nor is it faining shew of smooth pretext But doubtlesse troth of loue which brought him hither Let none with such suspition be perplext For then they neuer had thus come together Nor can it be suppos'd a Prince so mighty so worthy in himselfe so absolute Who hath so large a rule a charge so weighty would leaue his countrie but for meere repute Puissant is the Danish King and strong In all the sinews of approued force Valiant and able for to right the wrong That should proceed from any eager course It is no common thing seene euery day Scarce in an age to see so great a state From out his countries boundes to come away For visitation of an neighbouring mate It is no common honour that is done Vnto our happy land by his arriuing Much worth thereby and glory haue we won Our home-bred hearts with stranger loues reuiuing Two Kings in England haue beene rarely seene Two Kings for singularitie renowned The like before hath hardly euer beene for neuer were two with more honour crowned This may we boast and after times report How much the King of Denmarke grac'd our age A King of so much eminence such port By his arriuall did his loue ingage England with Denmarke Denmarke eke with vs Are firmely now in league conioyned in one Seauen Kingdomes now againe vnited thus Are strength'ned so as stronger can be none Then as a certaine and welwishing greeting We thus applaud the monarchs happy meeting HAyle Princely stemme of great magnificence Issue of royall blood who dost commence True instance of thy fast vndoubted loue And by thy comming certainely approue The pledge of peace thus low in humblest heart Regreetes vnto thy truce doe we impart With fit applause our thankes deuoutly running Giues welcome to the honour of thy comming Time cannot rase nor amity surcease Betwixt our realme and thine a long liu'd peace Whiles thoughts are vndefil'd and credit true From age to age this league will still renue And thou thy selfe great King of Danes wilt ioy Counting the hazards which thou didst imploy Daungers of thankes by tasting approbation Of spotlesse friendship with our willing nation We are not subtile French to fawne and flatter Nor Spaniards hot in shew yet cold in matter Trothlesse Italian fleeting Irish wiles Whose trust when most protesting most beguiles We deeme dishonour Germaine policies Or euer changing Indian sopperies We spurne Know we are English hating wrongs Bearing our thoughts decipher'd in our tongs Rather the sunne may in his courses alter Then we in true-meant trust our promise faulter Which of our chiefest emulating foes Can iustly taxe vs but we euer chose To die with fame then liue with infamy Purchas'd with disesteemed trechery What needs an instance rumor will auow VVe haue our troth ingrauen in our brow Who are in nature false ye free in name Are seruile slaues to feare and fooles to shame VVhat more we are thy friends and thou art our Thy loue is ours and our force thy power Long may this happy thred of faith be wouen And nere haue dissolution but with heauen Fatall and ioyous doth the knot begin Then who doth breake it first commits first sin Lo then great monarch with what words of zeale Thy comming wee imbrace and hopes reueale Of linkt coniunction prest to gratifie That loue which thou with loue dost ratifie Here speakes the clamour of a publicke voyce Which speaking all do publikely reioyce Thy safe arriuall England thankes the honour Which by thy presence thou bestowest vpon her Sounding lowd Ecchoes of thy Kingly fame And making trophees to adorne thy name The Clarions breath thy welcome Bells do ring Praise shoutes whiles all thy friends thus sweetly sing The applause Song for the King of Denmarkes arriuall IN the most happy season of the yeare When fayrest sun-shine glistered on the earth The royall King of Denmarke did appeare And tun'd the hearts of England full with mirth In goodly maiesty and princely cheere Euen in the fullest crop of haruest's birth When birdes with pleasant notes did sweetly sing To giue a hearty welcome to the King Prettily prettily With musick sweet Did Philomele merily and ioyfully and euer prettily The noble King of Denmarke greet Welcome to England Prince of high degree And all our song shall euer welcome be Our King himselfe reioyced in his sight His presence to the Court did breed delight Blithe was the country and the Citty proud Cornets with trumpets shrill did blow and lowd To welcome to our land With hearty greeting By our Kings command The Monarches meeting Which we fulfilling With loue and mindes willing Ioyn'd together Welcome hither Friendly and euer kindly The Danish King a Prince of high degree For all our song shall euer welcome bee To welcome all our notes and loue doth tend In that sence we began with that we end Cantibus carmine FINIS