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heaven_n	father_n	great_a	lord_n	5,746	5	3.6147	3	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

and my greeued heart doth fele But sith it is so I yet reioyce that I am able by releeuing you to shewe how deare to mee the name and memorie of my deceased master is I accept you therefore as a welcome guest assuring you of such entertainement as I can afforde and touching the wronges that you haue done me I will striue so to forget them as if I neuer had sustained them This saide hee nor saide hee more then he perform'd for immediatly he tooke hir into his house where all the time of hir aboad with him which was so long as hir selfe would tary shee had such reliefe as his poore estate could yealde afforded without grudging nor did hee euer greeue hir with the least vpbraiding of former wrongs nor suffer while hee was present or knewe of it that shee shoulde take the ●…eightest paines more then in her owne affaires But in his absence oft to ease and please his wife she would playe the tapster and voluntarily addresse hir selfe to helpe hir in all kinde of drudgeries While in this sort shee liu'd not altogether so haplesse asbefore Arthemio no longer able to continue his shifting sith he had thereby indangered his life made this his last shifte closely to shifte him selfe away sence when he was neuer seene about the cytie nor almost heard of Only some obscure reports haue past of his long scouring the westerne plaines for pursses and that being afterwarde apprehended hee dyed miserably in a common 〈◊〉 before his publique araignment so preuenting the open scandall of an ignominious death Howe so euer this bee likely in regarde of his former wicked life yet not being thereof assured I will suspend my censure nor presumptuously descant of the vnknowen proceedings of the almighty But Valeria after long residence with Iockey at last whether hoping on some better place or loath cōtinually to trouble him sith no way able to requite his kindnesse fondly left him and thereby rep●…ung'd hir selfe into hir former miseryes falling in the ende to little better then open beggery from which so abiect state of life shee nere recouered till death gaue truce to hir distresses death wherein only shee was not haplesse But if to wretched people the preuenting of any sorrow may bee term'd good happe then so was hirs in notsecing hir suruiuing childrens miserable endes such as their dissolute bringing ●…y did euer threaten and their leaud courses iustly merit of these the elder flying for some offence beyond the seas and there following armes in the ciuill tumults of distracted Belgia but soone staining the most honourable profession of a souldier by playing the traitour had his deserts paide with the halter and therein leaping desperately from the ladder he tooke his iourney into the other world The yonger confirmd so in the loue of head-strong libertie through his corrupt education that hee could not long brooke any seruice succourd by none because d●…sdaining subiection to a●…l died in the fieldes and there lay a loathsome spectacle for his stinking carkasse had no other couerture then he auens vast circumference and his vnburied limmes were seazed on by rauenous birdes who therewith glutted their carrion gorges Somewhat before his last gaspe with an oft interrupted voice he faintly groned out these bitter mones O whither shall I turne me whereon shall I hope or what shall I desire my bones ake my bowels gnawe my feet rot each limme doth shiuer and my whole bodie is full of paine life I loath thee life when lea●… thou me death why dallie●… thou with these delaies why commest thou in such degre●…s of torments thy messengers are more terrible then thy selfe yet come not death least in exchange of these my present wees thou plunge me in eternall woe O sinne how sweet is thy beginning how sower thy end O father but enough of thee for thy name doth cut my soule anew O mother but too much of thee cruell through immoderate kindnes O vnhapie brother but happie in respect of me for though thy end were likewise shamefull yet was thy carcasse couered with earth but mine must lie still in this stinking place to pollute the aire and feed the rauenous foules yet helpe me some good man who passing by may heare my mones giue me at least some shelter from this iniurie of the weather vnkind men will none relieueme yet not vnkind because Gods iustice hardens their heartes oh that is it whereon when I doe thinke I wish that I had beene borne a beast that with my life all my miseries might ende yet helpe mee O my God sith men forsake me though hell looke for me and I dare not looke on heauen though my offences be innumerable yet is thy mercie infinitely greater mercie sweete Lord father of mercie mercie it selfe O that my mother had taught mee to pray when shee taught me to reuile my father Alas I knowe no forme of praier saue this onely which my heart laden with anguish doth thus endite Mercie sweete Lorde let my soule imbrace thy mercie let thy mercie imbrace my soule But aye me my paines increase life and death doe combat in my breast this their strife doubles my torments ah but helles torments are farre greater From them and these sweet Lorde deliuer me for in thee Here as he faine would haue proceeded life failing made these his last wordes vnperfect with whose death I end this dolorous discourse THus Geutlemen haue you heard briefly related the the Tragique issue of Giraldos wooing in age and Valerias wantonnesse in youth Had I intituled this discourse A looking Glasse the Metaphor had not been wholly immateriall for herein may all sortes of readers note sundry points of weight husbandes the daunger of too much doting wiues in her fall the end of lustfull follie parents the mightie perill of soothing their children in check-free licentiousnesse children the fruit of disobedience and vndutifull dem●…r rash proceeders the great difference of good and bad counsell of honest and dishonest companie with the danger of not imbracing the one and not shunning the other and that the rather sith the force of compante hath in the effecting of either such exceeding force according to the Italian prouerbe Dimmi con chi tu vai saprò quel che fai. Ictus piscator sapit but if wee account him wise which being once hurt doth shunne a second hazard how much more iustly may wee commend their wisdome who beeing not hurt at all but learning heedfulnes at others costes gouerne warily themselues by noting the issue of their indiscretion which fore-sight and good fortuue I wish vnto you all FINIS

who coulde so kindly comfort me or would so willingly attende mee as a louing wife which would sit by me sigh for mee share with me my sorrowes and vse all meanes to procure my safety If death should seaze on mee wiuelesse as I am and childelesse leauing my goodes to vnkinde or vnknowne heires with what discontent shoulde I breath out my drooping spirit But to your selfe I appeale which haue in part experemented this facilitie what ioye it were ●…uen in death to behoulde the fruite of my owne bodie the continuer of my name liueing to possesse what I leaue knowe you not that beastes voide of reason doe perpetuate their seuerall kindes by procreation and shall men iuriched by reason be herein exceeded by beastes if all were such as you counsaile mee to continue where were the hope of posteritie And that taken away where the spurre of vertue deserts guerdon the taske of fame sounding to succeding times true honours trophes in euerliuing notes I omit to alledge that nature and my countrye claime mariage of me as a debt The Sparta ns among other lawes made by Licurgus had this one that the younger sorte should at all times and in all places reuerence there elders But to those of great Age wanting yssue this preueledg was not due So that Brasidas a valient chiefetaine neuer maried laden with many yeares but honored through more victories passing by a young man which sat still not vsing to haue any shewe of reuerence by mouing his bodie or his bonet and deeming it a great indignitie receiued this answere Thou hast not quoth he a sonne which may doe the like to me if liuing to thy age But whether runne I in so large a fielde of mightie reasons warranting my resolution beyond all compasse of contradiction Sith then to marry it is not onely seemely for any but likewise necessary for all in disswading mee from it you highly iniury mee That I haue hetherto abstained it was my fault To persist in like humor were deeperfolly Better is little then nothing late then neuer not to bee then in vaine to bee Nascitur is frustra per quem non nascitur alter Hauing thus said and fearing to bee vrged with a fresh reply he brake of there conference by a feined occasion of businesse leauing his well wishing friende in a deepe amasement no lesse petying his daunger then wondering at his do●…age But no soner had Aurora in her next vprise moystn'd with her earely teares transform'd Adonis and cherisht the forward springing of other flowers then Giraldo mounting on his horsse gallopt on the spurre in that gladsome season of the yeare toward his harts wished harbor where Valeria whom leauing he so languished made hir residence By whose father his asured friend he there alighting was by so much the more louingly welcomed by how much the lesse his coming was then lookt for which yealded in outwarde shewe no other likelihoode of coniecture but to be a bare iourney of recreation till he impatient of all delay did fully though in feawe wordes deliuer the soomme of his desire which was to espowse Valeria whereto the soner to induce hir father to whom onely he now communicated his affectious secrets he promised to make hir a large ioynter craueing of him no other dowery then what himselfe would willingly assigne Theodoro such was the others name haueing much vsed-the father and long knowne the sonne of whose vertue besides his breath he was no lesse certaine then of his wealth assured and perhappes somewhat mou'd by the voluntary offer of so large a ioynter yealded him his full consent promising moreouer to worke herein so effectually with his daughter adding to his words the weight of a fathers authority that shee likewise whom it most concerned should grant his demaunde or deny hir duety Which promise he faild not to performe moueing the matter to Valeria in such sort that the wily gerle which could by little gather much and by a sillable co nceiue a sentence was nothing ignorant of his entent herein whom fearing to displease hoping by this match to raign as Mistrisse of all for well she knew the myldnesse of Geraldos nature though at the first for fashions sake somwhat sticking at his age concluded hir answere with the offer of her obedience in yeelding her selfe wholly to her fathers disposing To bee shorte Giraldo and shee were solemnly contracted Valerias dowrie assigned her ioynter set downe all things confirmed and they soone after openly espoused Now seemed hee to himselfe infinitely happie solacing in an earthly heauen of imaginarie ioyes a Paradise of thought-exceeding pleasures But between seeming and beeing there hath euer beene a large difference Cadmus seemed happie but his liues sequell dasht his felicities vaine Hourish with a Chiliade of crosse Fortunes Ante obitum nemo supremaque funera foelix Had great Pompey with his third triumph finished his then-victorious life hee had not famous'de Pharsalia through his foile nor made Egypt fatall through his fall Had Giraldo beene extinct in this the prime of his seeming happinesse hee had not afterwarde dyed most happelesse But to proceed the Nuptials beeing ended and Giraldo on his returne vnto the Citie whither hee purposed to take with him his beauteous Bride at the instant of their departure Theodoro whose misgiuing heart did make him heauie taking aside his daughter thus grauely bespake her Valeria thou now must leaue mee and learne with all another course of life then thou hast ledde with mee thou must with thy estate change thy thoughtes no lesse earnestly nowe endeauouring to please thy husband then earst warily shunning to displease thy father Oh let it not be saide of thee which is too truely saide of many That liuing vnder their parents awe they make shewe of admirable vertue but beeing exempted from that obedience they vnmaske their abhorred vices resembling in this change the Corall which growing vnder the water is of exceeding softnesse but taking once the Aire takes therewith a stone-like hardness These may to their shame learne duetye of sillie creatures wanting reason Young Storkes feede their olde dammes which else should famish The Turtle hauing lost her mate by death ioyes not in the companie of any other Lo in the one a precept of pietie to the parents in the other a myrrour of loue and loyaltie towarde the husband And thinke withall that naked beautie not adorned by vertue is like the Tree Daphnoides whose leaues are white but the berries beeing ripe are blacke Presume not then on the fairenesse wherewith GOD hath sufficiently graced thee that must fade beeing onely the bodies gift but if while it flourish it be ill applyed what more is it then a painted tombe a golden sheath closing a leaden Sword or wherein is it more esteemed by the wise then wisdome by the foolish From the Countrey a place of small resort thou must now into the Cittie where thou shalt finde sundry sortes of companie and customes as