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A16255	Amorous Fiammetta VVherein is sette downe a catologue [sic] of all an singuler passions of loue and iealosie, incident to an enamored yong gentlewoman, with a notable caueat for all women to eschewe deceitfull and wicked loue, by an apparant example of a Neapolitan lady, her approued & long miseries, and wyth many sounde dehortations from the same. First wrytten in Italian by Master Iohn Boccace, the learned Florentine, and poet laureat. And now done into English by B. Giouano del M. Temp. With notes in the margine, and with a table in the ende of the cheefest matters contayned in it.; Fiammetta. English	Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.; Yong, Bartholomew, 1560-1621?	1587 (1587)	STC 3179; ESTC S102851	186,424	264

whom hee had engendred in her owne bowels and that she her selfe afterwards espoused to her vnknowne Son had by him foure children And so how almost in one howre she sawe her selfe mother and wife to this wicked Parricide whom after shée had perfectly knowne when she sawe him depriued first of his eyes and last of his kingdom and how his execrable fact and detested life was published to the whole worlde In what miserable plight her soule was then oppressed nowe wyth manie yéeres which were rather desirous of repose then méete to be diminished with restles anguish shee may well thinke and iudge who hath béene tossed with the greatest or with like gréefes of minde But yet her dispiteous and cruell Fortune heaped vppon her extreame misery greater and more bitter woes For séeing the yéerely entercourse successiue raigne of her two Sonnes with mutuall compositition deuided betwéene them And afterwardes the faithlesse brother pynned vppe in the Cittie and séeing the greatest part of Greece vnder the regiment of seauen Kings lastly after manie blooddie battailes consuming fires myserable spoyle of Virgins wiues and goods When shee behelde one of her prodigious Sons vnnaturally to embrew his sworde in his owne brothers blood and when her Husbands Sonne driuen out and exiled into an other Kingdome she sawe the auncient and olde walles of her noble Cittie builded firste by the swéete harmonie of Amphitrion his Cythern pittifullie ruinated and beaten downe And howe her late florishing kingdome was miserably diuided and vtterlie dissolued and hauing hanged her selfe left perhaps her Daughter in a most ignominous and shamefull life What coulde the angry Goddes the world froward Fortune and the malicious Hagges of hell haue conspired more against her Nothing certes in my opinion For let that gastly place be surueyed and euery torture therein duelie considered and yet I hardlie beléeue that there coulde not in the same such extreame torments and paines be founde Wherefore I approoue and say that euery least particle of her anguish and of her fault to be most gréeuous and no lesse impious And as there is no woman that would iudge that my gréefe were not to be compared to the greatnes of this so truely would I also say had not mine béene amorous For who doubteth but that she knewe séeing the abhominable crymes of her wicked house and of vnnaturall Husband worthy of the condigne anger of the Goddes that duely scanned these aduerse accidents these horrible accidents to be meritorious punishmēts for such heynous guilt and barbarous impietie None truely that would iudge her to be in her right witts And if she were but a foole shee felt her gréefes the lesse because not fully knowing the waight of them they could not so greatly gréeue her And whosoeuer knoweth her selfe woorthy of such calamities troubles that she endureth with little gréefe or none at all shee resolueth with her selfe more patientlie to passe them away But I neuer committed anie thing wherewith the Gods might iustly be offended with me hauing with continual offerings honored them and with holy victimie besought their diuine graces neuer despysing their Godheads as in times past the Thebanes most wickedly did But perhappes some one may well obiect and say Howe canst thou affirme that thou hast not deserued punishment or that thou hast not committed anie fault Why hast thou not violated the holy lawes and with an adulterous youthe defiled thy marriage bedde yes truely But if this matter bee well propounded as I haue not my selfe onely doone thys cryme so dooth it not deserue I thinke so greate punishment and such gréeuous paynes Because shée must thinke that I being a tender yong Gentlewoman was not able to gainesaye and resiste that which the strongest menne in the world nay the Gods themselues coulde not doo And as I am not the first that hath committed such a fréendly fault so am I not alone and shall not bee the laste but hauing almost all Women in the worlde my companions in this excusable errour I am not so greatly to bee condemned for the same And those lawes which I haue infringed are of common course wont fauourably to pardon a multitude My fault moreouer as it was most secrete so it shoulde not therefore be so seuerely and thorowlie punished A secrete fault is halfe pardoned And besides all this Say that the Goddes were iustly stirred vppe to wrath against mee and did seeke to giue mée sharpe corrections for my great offences were it not a greater parte of iustice and more reason to punish him who was the occasion of my fall Nowe whither burning and lawles loue He that is the occasion of sinne ought worthely to be punished or Panphilus his rare beauty braue personage and quallities induced me to corrupt the sacred lawes of wedlock I know not but knowing too too well that both the one and the other were of most great force to torment me most stranglie So that this nowe did not happen by the sinne committed but is rather a newe gréefe and sequestred from the rest more cruelly cruciating the patient and sustayner of it then anie other The which moreouer if the Goddes for my committed offence had giuen me they shoulde doo contrary to theyr right iudgment and accustomed manner in that they should not with the sinne recompence the punishment which béeing compared to the due paynes of Iocasta and to her deserued defaults and considering mine owne errors and the seuere punishment which I doo suffer for the same shee must néedes be saide to be but slightly punished and my selfe with too rigorous chastisement and vnmeasurable paine to be corrected Nor let not any take holde of this that shee was bereaued of her Kingdome depryued of her Sonnes despoyled of her Husband and last of all of her owne life and I but onely of my Louer All which truely I confesse But spyghtful Fortune caryed away with this Louer all my felicitie though that which perhappes in other mens sight and iudgment was accounted happines hath stil remained with me and which is cléene contrarie to my desires Because my Husband my parents my riches and all things els besides are a most gréeuous burden vnto mée and nothing congruant with my wished content Which things if she had taken from me as she did my Louer there had thē remained a most open way for me to haue fulfilled my desires which vndoubtedly I would haue followed By which if I could not haue brought to passe my wil then were there a thousand kinds of deathes readie for me to haue rydde me from all my woes and miseries Wherefore I iustly thinke that my paines are much more greater then any of the foresaide Hecuba Me thinkes that next after these I sée Hecuba cōming to my minde passing sorrowfull in her countenaunce who escaped from that generall ruine and suruiuing onely to behold the dolefull and destroyed Reliques of so goodly a kingdome the subuersion of such an

deceiued husband perceiued that all these drugges did helpe mee but a little or nothing at all hee being more tender and carefull of mée then I deserued by sundrye wayes and newe meanes endeuoured to purge me of this melancholick humour and to restore to mée my lost and former mirth but yet he laboured all in vaine Sometimes with comfortable wordes hee did assaie to chéere me vp saying There are swéete Ladie and my déerelie belooued wife as thou knowest well enough a little beyonde the pleasaunt hill of Falernus in the middest of olde Cuma Delectable places delectable Ilandes vpon the Sea coastes The situation of which is so swéet pleasaunt delightsome that the like I thinke is not vnder the coape of wyde heauen They are inuironed with most fayre hils full of all sortes of fruit and couered all ouer with gréene vines loaden with goodlie bunches of white redde and purple Grapes in the vallies of which there are no kinde of wilde beasts that may with pleasure be hunted but are to be found there Nor farre distaunt from thence there is a great playne full of game and fytte for all manner of flyghtes of praying and sollacing Hawkes There is the Ilande Pitycufa and Nisida abounding in Connies and the Sepulcher of great Mesenus leadinge awaie to the darke kyngdomes of Pluto There are Sibilla of Cuma her Oracles there is the Lake Auernus and the great Theator a common and auncyent place for many braue pastymes and rare spectacles There are swéet cléere Fishpondes the Hill Barbarus and the vayne and prodigall labours of the wicked Emperour Nero. All which delightes both olde and moderne cannot but greatly recreate mens mindes that neuer sawe them béefore Who for theyr pleasure and sollace goe many times to visite them And besides all this there are most healthfull and wholesome Bathes for men and women of all degrées and most swéete and goodlie ones for Ladies of honour and renowne And the ayre being verie temperate and pleasaunt there dooth continually aforde fitte tymes and good occasions and meanes to visite them There is no going thether without a merry minde nor abyding there without great feastes iollitie and pastime in such braue companies of noble men Ladyes Gentlewomen and fine and stately dames of this Cittie Wherefore I am determined that thy selfe not well as thou sayest in thy stomacke and troubled worse I feare in minde and as farre as I can gesse gréeued with déepe and melancolie passions for recouerie of eache sanitie againe shall goe thether with mée Which iourney shall not bée without great pleasure assured profitte and spéedy helpe vnto thy distempered bodie and sorrowfull minde But when I heard his words doubting least in the very middest of our sports and abroad there my déere Panphilus might returne and so might not perhappes sée him inflicted with inwarde gréefe I stayed a good while pawsing before I could answer him againe But after séeing his resolute pleasure imagining also that if he came he would séeke me out wheresoeuer I was I answered hym I was readie at his pleasure to goe whether and when he would And to bee shorte not manie dayes af-after we went thether Oh what contrarie medicines did my loouing husband excogitate and practyse for my helpelesse greefes Admitte that corporall langours were cured there yet verie sildome or neuer dyd any goe thether with a whole and sound mind that dyd returne with the same agayne whether it was the méere Situation of the place washed with the waues of the Sea the naturall place of Venus natiuitie or the time in which it is more vsed in spring tyde I meane as more fitte for those thinges that made it Neither is that truely to be maruailed at which often times appeared to me there That the most honest Gentlewomen and of best account deposing for a while theyr womenly modestie and shamefastnesse did vse in all their merrie méetinges and sportes an vnwoonted kinde of vnbrideled libertie and irrequisite familiaritie and did more lasciuiously assemble togeather in those places priuiledged perhappes for such wanton pastimes then any where else And I was not onely of this oppinion that with lesse stayne to theyr honours in those places in that companie at those times they might doo it but all those almost which were accustomed to resort to those Ilands thē as ful of mirth glée and feasts as Cypres or Cytherea were at what tyme their Ladies holidaies and diuine honours were celebrated there The greatest part of the time there was spent in ease and passed away sometime more in delightfull exercises not a fewe times in amorous discourses of Gentlewomen amongst themselues or else in company of young gentlemen and Gentlewomen altogether There were no viands but most delicious which were most deintie to be got Wine stirreth vp to Venery most noble precious olde the purest wines of force not onely to awake drousie Venus but to rayse vp to lyfe that vigour which is already mortified in any man or woman doo followe there And how much also the vertue of the bathes dooth conferre to the same they doo better knowe who haue sometimes prooued them There the coole Sea bankes and most pleasaunt gradens and euerie other place besides with diuers feastes with newe deuised sportes with most fyne and curious dauncinges with all kindes of musicall instrumentes and celestiall melodie and with amorous songes and Madrigalles made plaied and sung by those lusty youthes and swéet Nimphes did resound forth merueilous and pleasant Ecchoes Who is he therefore that can amongest so many entising pleasures there kéepe him selfe frée from Cupide his dartes who dooth without any paine or labor if I am not deceiued rule there as in the most principall place of all his kindomes and helped by so many fréendlie allectiues dooth with great ease against such willing and capable subiectes vse his strength and diuine forces Into such places most pittifull Ladies my husband was wont to carrie me to rid me of my amorous burning feuer Into which after that we were arriued looue vsed no other meanes towardes me then hee did towardes other but my soule rather which could not be wrapped in more strayght bondes of looue then it was somewhat though little enough cooler and by the long staying that Panphilus being from me had made and by many teares sustained gréefes was kindled into so great flames that I thought I had neuer felt the like before And this did not onely arise of the foresayd occasions but remembring with my selfe that I was often times there in Panphilus his companie both looue and grefe séeing my selfe without him did not a little encrease in my wounded heart I sawe not any Hill or Valley that I accompained sometimes of many and of him sometimes pitching their toiles for wild and sauage beasts sometimes leading houndes and learning water Spaniels and laying ginnes to entrappe and snare the sillie Foules of the Ayre sometimes bayting