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A07662	Honours academie. Or The famous pastorall, of the faire shepheardesse, Iulietta A worke admirable, and rare, sententious and graue: and no lesse profitable, then pleasant to pervse. VVherein are many notable discourses, as well philosophicall, as diuine: most part of the seuen liberall sciences, being comprebended [sic] therein: with diuers comicall, and tragicall histories, in prose, and verse, of all sorts. Done into English, by R.T. Gentleman.; Bergeries de Juliette. English	Montreux, Nicolas de, b. ca. 1561.; Tofte, Robert, 1561-1620.	1610 (1610)	STC 18053; ESTC S114999	543,552	396

their ouerthrow This Princes being of an excellent beautie her bringing vp being according vnto her birth and instructed in all conuenient qualities fit for so noble a Virgin grew to be famous and admirable in euery strange countrie Such one diuine Cassandra was The Pearle of Phrigian land Her learning such as it did passe Whose Sire it could not vnderstand Diuers forraigne Princes amazed at the renowmed report of this faire Ladie found themselues taken with a certaine great desire to see her amongst others was the King of Danes sonne one who was young gallant and couragious whose chiefe delight was in the sweet exercises of loue He being driuen by the same of this peerelesse Paragon to passe the Seas and to come vnto the Court of her Father to see her was receiued and entertained according vnto the greatnes of his calling with large testimonies of contentment euery way on the old Kings side for that he tooke it most kindly that the young Prince vouchsafed in his owne person to come and honour him with the noblenes of his presence Hauing seene this Princesse he iudged Fame to be enuious in that she had not bruited abroad the halfe part of her perfections being of conceit that all such rare qualities as euer haue bin were all assembled and met together in this one bodie and that Nature hath made this as a superexcellent peece of worke to bring her selfe to be admired and wondered at in the eyes of all men For the effecting of the same Thus whilst the Louer burneth in this flame No beautie 's like to that of his faire dame This caused him to think that she was to be courted with some extraordinary meanes and not with any triuiall or vsuall discretion required in such affaires Because such Maydens as are beautious both in bodie and in minde are not so easily courted and obtained with such facilitie as others are by reason a man findeth nothing to proceed from them but what is found to be graue prudent and of great vnderstanding and iudgement In the meane time loue daily grew more and more in the young Prince which was the occasion he imagined the perfections of his Mistris to encrease likewise in her A Sentence Such is the strange force of Loue as it changeth the nature of mens eyes making them behold blacke for white forcing them oftentimes to adore such a one for celestiall and diuine which amongst others generally is of no account But what maruaile is it to see him maister the eyes of our bodie if he be able to controll our very soules as he himselfe best pleaseth And herein may Louers be compared vnto such as walke in the night who can discerne nothing but what pleaseth their torche to make them see Euen so they esteeme nothing to be faire but what their Loue alloweth them to thinke of So the flame of a fire the more it spreadeth ábroad the more it maketh the fuell to burne And so the Prince the more he found his soule to be powred out vpon the beautie of his Lady the more hee still viewed and beheld her alwayes courting and deuising with her thinking still that hee should finde one new perfection or another in her Resembling herein right students who the more they reade the more they are desirous because their reading bringeth them some new contentment or pleasure causing them more and more to be rauished with the admiration of wondring at the bottomles depth of diuine Learning But the young Damsel who through some secret and inward motion of her minde prophesied the end of this Loue to be miserable although the beginning seemed to be sweete and goodly carryed herselfe herein as the wise husbandman who commendeth not the day ouermuch A Similie vntill he see the euening to be come especially when he seeth the Sun rise too timely and to burne too hote at the beginning which made her hardly to be brought vnto any thing being the cause that mooued him to vse these speeches vnto her hauing found her one day at conuenienient leisure Most excellēt Princesse the greatest contentmēt that a man can wish for in this world is to see his opinion and conceit confirmed with experience and he that beleeueth and seeth the effect of his beliefe to take place esteemeth himselfe thrice Fortunate as well of the good conceit he hath of his owne sense as for the pleasure and contentment he findeth therein when hee beholdeth his soule to be fullie assured of that which hee so much and so long desired Amongst the number of which I may well place my selfe esteeming my fortune most happy in that I hauing seene you haue seene the effect of my beliefe the full assurance of mine owne infallible iudgemēt The renowme of your rare vertues hath driuen me hither desirous to vnderstand if it were true or no But I finde it not so because it hath forgotten to speake of you as you haue deserued which parts in you are farre more commendable then all the reports that haue as yet bene made of you And this is the cause you ought not to wonder if I seeing you farre more accomplished euery way then was bruited vnto mee doe loue honour and affect you as I doe Seeing that before euer I beheld you I honoured you deepely in my heart And if the Gods recompence the pains which mortal men take to visit them to receiue their Oracles and doe answere them according vnto their desires Then deare Soueraigne of my thoughts I shall desire you I may not be frustrate of the hope which brought me hither which was to be gratiously accounted of by a faire Princesse like your selfe who being perfect in all good gifts cannot I trust want neither mercie nor mildnes And if the iust prayers of men are heard vp to the heauens though they themselues are in condition base and vnworthy to offer the same yet mine being of an other nature in that I craue nothing but what is lawfull and honest should me thinks be accepted of you Such demands as proceede from a foolish and vndecent Amitie A Sentence are to bee reiected as dishonest and beastly but such as belong vnto a sacred and vnspotted Friendship ought to be accounted of because without CHASTE LOVE both Gods and men quickly perish The praier which I most humblie desire to offer vnto you is to beseech you to entertaine me as your faithfull seruant to the end that if my loyall constant and long seruices may deserue any merrit it might please your gratious and most sacred Loue to finde some place for me in the same who hath vowed to make you and onely you the Queene of mine owne person Royall Crowne Realme For this I will be bold to say that if you shall grace me so much as to bestowe the Title of seruant on me I will not doubt but to shew my selfe worthie of some reward in that I thinke An Example hauing once obtained this

me to search once more vp and downe although I could finde nothing O foole said I vnto my selfe am I so mad to thinke that she whom I haue so hainously abused will vouchsafe to doe me good and helpe me Nay rather what reason hath shee to desire any thing so much as my destruction and ouerthrow to the intent shee may be reuenged of so vile an outrage as shee hath receiued at my hands No no it is meere follie to looke for any succour from her when nought but death can rid me of mine anguish This voice which I heare is no doubt of some wicked Spirit which would haue me turne backe into the world to liue in continuall wretchednes as I haue heretofore done But I meane not to be so deluded for die I will and so rid my selfe from all miseries as are like henceforward to light vpon me and with this minde I went once more vp to the top of that Rocke from whence without all doubt I had flung my selfe but that I espied a far of a ship tossed and tumbled with a great Tempest which withheld me as then from the same for I tooke mee thought a kind of compassionate pleasure to see how the winds maistered the leaking vessell causing it one while to reele one on side and then vpon the other tarning vp and downe as a Barrell that is emptie for the winds dryuing it with a contrarie blast cast great Billowes of water into the same touching the tops of Rocks and making the shore side white and fomie with a thicke froth striking a great terror in the mindes of the Sailers Meane space a mightie waue came flowing ouer the ship as if it would haue suncke it which made the Sailers to bestirre themselues plying the pumpe vntill they did sweat And now the Sunne began to be darkened the Cloudes to looke gloomie and blacke and the storme to encrease more and more whilest raigne and lightning fell from heauen as fast as water falleth from the Mountaines The Passengers within lay all as if they had bene dead whilest most pittious outcries wofull complaints and continuall exclaimings were heard amongst them euery bodie calleth for succor but none doth helpe the noyse of the waters and the roaring of the windes hindering the Sailers so much as they could not vnderstand one another The Pilot that held the sterne and guided the ship with a pale and dead colour one while cried out another while made signes with his hands to make them vnderstand what they should doe but what with the pittious wailing within and what with the terrible noyse abroad they could not know what he said And now the sterne grew so violent as euery one was appalled therewithall they being driuen into such a feare as they could neither heare nor gather what the maister of the ship commanded so as giuing ouer to looke vnto their ship they all began to make a most dolefull outcrie wringing their hands and tearing the haire from off their heads as if they had bene mad Which the Pilot perceiuing he likewise gaue ouer his charge for to no purpose was it for him to hold the Sterne any longer whilest some of them not many of them all well knowing what they did ran to the Rudder some to the Mast some set vp Sailes othersome pulled them downe some ran vp to the Tackling other tumbled downe from thence one ran to doe one thing and another went to doe another and to be briefe they all laboured so confusedly as they rather did hurt then good any way To conclude churlish Boreus blew more extreamly then he had done before whilest Eolus gaue leaue vnto the blustring windes to play their parts The Sea encreased in raging and the Monsters thereof appeared aboue the water the more to affright such as beheld them The Sterne of the ship bursteth and falleth in peeces The Sailes are all broken and rent the Decke or forepart of the vessell turneth vp and downe the sides of the same are left bare whilest the ship being as quite without defence able any longer to resist the violence of the outragious flotings of the Sea yeeldeth vnto the mercie thereof suffering the whirling Billowes to winde themselues within her which the Passengers perceiuing crie out aloud for mercie vnto the heauens expecting euery minute of an houre to be swallowed downe into the bottome of the Surges At last the ship runneth against that Rocke vpon the top of which I stood hauing all this long while beheld this wofull spectacle with the teares streaming downe mine cies The maister and the rest of the Sailers doe what they can poore soules to hinder her from splitting asunder but all in vaine the furie of the storme is so cruell and outragious whereupon euery man seeketh to saue himselfe a great number of them being gotten into the little Skiffe that was tied vnto the ship but the same being ouer-charged with multitude because euery one sought to get therein sunke presently drowning all those that were within her Onely one young man escaped sauing himselfe through the strength of his armes and legs he swimming so lustily as at last he got vnto the foote of the Rocke against which the vessell ran and so brake all in peeces This youth being all ouer durtie and foule looked pale for very feare and yet seemed he to reioyce in that he hath scaped the furie of Neptune Great was the pleasure he tooke to see himselfe deliuered from death and yet by little and little he began to growe heauie againe seeing himselfe in such a place as was vnhabited and like a wildernesse shroadly doubting least hunger would make an end of that which the Sea had not and that he hardly could get pardon of the earth to liue as he had before of Neptune A new griefe and a nouell terror of death assaileth him afresh whilest being thus alone he sigheth to thinke of his hard fortune He casteth his eies here and there and looketh round about to see if any would come to helpe him But he could not perceiue no such sight and he listeneth with his care to hearken if he could heare the sound of any voice but all was in vaine it would not be he knoweth not whether the firme land will be more kind vnto him then the vnstable Seas and doubteth much the same He is in dread that he shall die either through drinking too much or for eating too little little doth he thanke the heauens to haue saued him from shipwracke in the Sea seeing he is likely to die through famine on the land Now whilest he thus sigheth and lamenteth I hearing his speech straitwaies knew him by his tongue to be the miscrable Fortumo sometimes companion in my for mer Loues Whereupon I holding vp my hands vnto the skies thanked them that it had pleased them to graunt me so much fauour as I might be able to be a meanes to saue the lire of mine old friend honouring

which is to me in steed of a strong Pillar and therefore can neuer be remoued Now if that Bandite may count himselfe happie who seeth to arriue before him such as are come to restore him vnto his former honours and to bring him home againe into his wished for natiue soyle Then may I seeing thee most generous Knight halfe perswade my selfe that mine exile beginneth to ende graunting mee for thine onely sake a certaine Truce vnto my ouer-tedious griefes But tell me I beseech thee if too too importunate I be not with thee what now doth that faire Creature whose likenes thou hast heere doth her Vertues still continue pursuing to glaunce forth her diuine beames doeth her Altars as yet smoke with so manie Sacrifices which those braue Spirits offered vnto her and doth her learned vaine sigh forth such sweete verses as were wont to Enchaunt and Charme so many thousands of louely soules Ah Shepheard answered Philistel the alteration and the changing of the Planets A Similie change and turne by the selfe-same manner the nature of all creatures and the course of euery mortall thing The Prince that meaneth to remooue his Court where hee stayes causeth all his houshold likewise to doe the same because they depend whollie vpon his commaund and so are men seruants vnto the will and powerfull command of the Starres All things are altered and quite turned topsie-turuie in our Desarts of Arabia The Heauens who before regarded them with a gratious eye perceiuing how all Faith all Pietie all Iustce all Learning was banished from thence haue therefore banisht from thence all their gratious fauors rayning vpon other Countreys that sweet pearly deaw of Mercie They haue turned their sight from those parts which being vnworthy of their so great bountie they haue bestowed vpon more thankfull Lands Well doest thou know that since that time wherein men haue left the nature of men to take vpon them that of the Wolfe inuesting themselues with both skinne and conditions of that beast there hath beene no other conceit nor studie amongst them but villanie and mischiefe As those that are vertuous hunt after Glorie hauing no other thought but of Honor which they set before thē as a reward for their labors The wicked sort to doe wickedly put in practise and vse diuers meanes deuices That which they are not able to execute by plaine force that doe they performe through diuellish Treason For they hold this generall Maxime as an Oracle that the skin of the Foxe Note must couer all that part which the Lyon leaueth bare and vnhidden and that subtiltie should supplie and helpe Force Rage assist Valour and Treason support Vertue at a dead lift We are now no more of that Humor which this braue Prince was of who refused to Combat with his enemie by aduantage or subtiltie for feare least he seeing himselfe so ouercome by chaunce should once more venture to trie his Fortune againe to finde if he could as well be ouercome by Vertue as by false and slie Trecherie Deceit at this day is the chiefe ground of euery mans actions A Sentence which sheweth sufficiently that they haue no more accesse vnto Vertue that they make no more account of Glorie and that nothing which is good shou'd henceforth be looked for to proceed from them Thou knowest how Phillis hauing courteously receiued certaine miscreant Infidels to be as his companions with him and how they as iealous of his renowme and enuious of his vertue being greedie to enioy his goods and more desirous then any way deseruing his happie Fortunes most cruellie and damnably slue him on the sodaine this being the ordinarie death of the valiant valor it selfe not being able to resist the same they themselues still venturing where danger alway bideth So Iuliius Caesar the wonder of the world was traitetously slaine An Example whome the bloody hand of Mars could neuer subdue So dyed Sertorius slaine by his owne followers after he had spoyled and brought to nought the great strength and forces of Pompey of Metellus and of all the Roman people So dyed Eumenes solde most basely by his owne men he hauing so often before conquered the kings of Asia his deadly foes And in such sort dyed Dyon hauing ouerthrowne Denis the Tyrant of Siracusa finde himselfe to be massacred by his owne household seruants Thus then wee see that it is the common course of the greatest Conquerours to die after a straunge manner And although to make away anie man in this base fashion it is counted dishonest cruell and detestable yet is the same accounted of now adayes in the World it beeing as an ordinary practise daylie put in vse more then any other policie Custome is another nature and preuenteth ouermuch manie times for hardly or neuer can we reclaime a thiefe from stealing although we threaten him neuer so much So men vsing themselues as now to commit Treasons will not sticke to glorie in the same that so much and as it seemeth Deceit was the principall matter of which they were compact and made Phillis being dead his diuine sister would needes follow him shee giuing quite away so many daintie and worthy giftes wherewith she was most sweetly adorned and embelished Shee now desireth to liue no where so much as in the darke and solitary woods the companie of mortall creatures are troublesome vnto her all pleasures disagreeable all ioy refused and vnwelcome all hope displeasant and all cheerfull myrth most hatefull vnto her Salt teares are onely sweete vnto her sorrowe and heauinesse her best comforts and pittious laments are most deare and welcome vnto her Women haue no other weapons being crossed by hard destinies then bitter teares not that they are able* through weeping to remedie their griefes but because through them they shewe signes of their affected mindes and good will towards them who being persecuted by vnkind Fortune are the occasion they lamēt so much for their sakes For true teares are so dearely bought A Sentence cost so much to draw them from the moystned springs of the eyes as none can with reason thinke they distill from thence but for the losse of some one thing or other which wee tender as much as the better part of our owne selues So her drerie Muse after his death addicted her selfe vnto nothing else then to bewaile the losse of her Brother sighing forth thousands of lamentable verses and singing mournfull Anthems ouer his graue whilst shee powred forth whole Oceans of more then affectionate teares Of these mournfull Ditties had I great store but the Tempest vpon the Sea tooke them from me yet hope I one day to recall them againe vnto my former memorie at what time I meane to make thee partaker of them Not long after my parents deceasing and I being called vpon continually to returne home vnto my people was forced much against my will to take my leaue of her for a certaine time leauing her

what time she hath most neede of our helpe For force onely bindeth the Slaue whereas wee are bound both by Nature honor in a more perfect indissoluble chaine to stād in her defence Hath not that Prince iust cause to be angrie with his Vassell nay rather A similie may he not worthily put him to death who leaueth him in his most extremitie when he hath most greatest and most dangerous affaires such as concerne his whole Estate Land about which when he should be busied he getteth him away and giueth him quite ouer eyther for feare least he should be put to too much labor and taking of paines or else because he is loath to hazard his life for the safetie of his Soueraine If so then is hee worthie of farre more punishment that doth abandon his Countrey when it is in most miserie For offering our bodies vnto her wee offer but the least dutie that may bee seeing we doe but discharge vs of that debt which is due vnto her and which but for a time we borrowed Of a better minde O Codrus wert thou who to serue thy Countrey An example wert content to sacrifice thy selfe to death being willing for the good of thine owne Land not onely to loose thy pleasures thine Imperiall Crowne but also thy owne sweet and Royall selfe So likewise did Themistocles merit great cōmendations who thought it better to dispatch himselfe by swallowing downe a draught of deadly poison then to draw his sword against his natiue soyle He therefore is not worthie the name of Honor who in respect of his owne priuate contentment and safetie renounceth and abiureth the troubles of his Citie rendring by such bad meanes his vertue without fruit or profit and without any merit at all For most seriouslie shall he be punished of God who hath not employed his calling to some good vse which was lent vnto him and as a bad seruant hath hid the same vnder ground without profit at all Inasmuch as hee sheweth himselfe vnthankfull vnto God yea and deserueth no goodnes at all if hee shall not make a commoditie of that vertue good gift which he hath bountifully giuen vnto him more then vnto others Not vnlike vnto him that maketh the world laugh at his follie who beeing diseased and sicke carrieth the remedy of his maladie in his hand without once tasting or taking the same vnto the benefit of his health In olde time such as liued as vnprofitable members vnto their Common-wealths were taxed at a very great Fine to the end that if their bodies would doe no seruice vnto their Countreyes yet at the least their purses should supplie the defects of that fault For there is no reason that we should liue without bestowing somwhat of our substance vnto the reliefe of our Common-wealth Such then as for feare of taking too much paines for the Common-wealth and as loath to oppose themselues against the abuses of the same withdraw themselues apart to liue to their owne selues are much to be blamed and are farre wide from being to be called or accounted vertuous For it is not a valuable excuse to say I cannot doe any good seruice because I am of no account and reckoning No no this is not enough we must doe as much as we may to the vttermost of our power for many little fagots laide together make a huge and great Bonfire At the least we must seeke as much as in vs lyeth to quit the debt we owe. But as such slothfull men as these are to be condemned so farre more are some others to be hated and detested who sticke not as damned Traytors to conspire against the safetie of their natiue soyle raising factions in the same consuming them with ciuill dissentions and vtterly ouerthrowing them with mutinous Seditions Such vipers as these are borne to the detriment domage of the Common-wealths comming of the race of Tymon of Athens These kinde of men being onely such as the further they are off from their Countreyes the more profitable it is for the same But amongst manie children which a good Father bringeth vp it cannot be chosen but that some one or other of them must be found to be bad An example In as much as the earth it selfe producing many plants of which some are good and some are badde doeth likewise engender such strange and diuerse Natures Yet as shee teacheth the Gardner by skill to set and graft his best fruites in such a season as he may bring them to full maturitie and ripenes at their fitte time And they deuise how to cut off and to pluck vp by the roots such as be ill nothing worth So hath she also both ordained rewards and glorie for the best and most vertuous Natures in recompence of their worthie and honorable deedes and sharpe and seuere punishments for such as are badly enclined to punish them for such leaude faults as they shall commit Now as a King who is to wage battaile with a strong and puissant enemie hath need of all his Forces to gether valiantly to giue him the ouerthrowe So that Realme which perceiueth some of her owne proper children to rise and to take Armes against her seeking like the sonnes of Absolon to destroy their Father hath great neede of all her good and faithfull issue who at such an extreamity as that is neither may nor ought to leaue her naked and alone because as then such an one doth as much hurt that will not seeke to hinder this conspiracie against her and yet is of power to doe it as hee that is the first Author and motiue of the same This time then will not suffer thee my deare Shepheard to take thine ease thus thou must returne againe into thine afflicted Countrey take thy Fortune as shall happen participate with her in her miseries and saile with her in the selfe-same dangerous voyage For those are knowne to be true friends that helpe at a dead lift A Sentence and in greatest extremitie because they doe good without euer hoping for of any reward Change then thy aduise and like another Camillus returne from thine exile to bestow vpon thy Countrey these thy last deuoires depriue not thy Natiue soyle of thy bones being to be pittied as much as great Affrican was to the end that either thou being buried within the bowels of the same thou mayst leaue a glorious remembrance of thy selfe when thou shalt die Or else that thou offering thy seruice vnto her thou now bindest her vnto thee although all the seruices which wee are able to render vnto our Countrey cannot binde her vnto vs by reason wee are far●c more beholding vnto her Thinke not as yet that thou art as it were a dead tronk which is cast into the graue because it is vnprofitable and to be put to no good vse yeelde vnto thy Countrey what good thou canst and any braue qualitie thou hast to stand her in steed

a darke and gloomie cloud no more was now seene the comfortable day whilst the vnwelcome night brought with him his obscure frightfulnesse desperate danger his dispairing feare and iueuitable death his cruell amazement presenting these Tragicall shewes before the eyes of the poore distressed passengers No sweet Musicke was now heard nor no signe of ioy or pleasure was amongst them Only the Seas and the windes spake made a noyse and roared most horribly which was the cause that cold feare began as then to take possession of their soules and death to seaze vpon them whilst salt teares fell downe like swinging showers vpon their shaking hands held vp to heauen for mercie Most wofull were their cries most heauie their sobbing and groaning and most mournfull and pittifull the complaints which they made in this their extremities Their leaking ships were tossed and tumbled here and there some in one place and some in another as pleased the vncertaine windes not vnlike the conquerour who deuiseth and separateth his prisoners as he thinkes best according vnto his owne minde some of them were carried vnto one strange cost and some vnto another euery one of them hauing a contrarie fortune most of them in the ende being drowned and fewe or none of them saued and safely come to land That vessell in which the poore Princes remained was by chance cast vpon the cost of Spaine Alas how were her eyes swolne with teares her heart broken with griefe and her very soule galled with sorrow to see what hard fortune was hapned vnto her and vnto all her companie and traine 〈…〉 ●●●es were all falne into the bottome of the Sea whither she looked 〈…〉 follow after complaining most heauilie of her partiall destinies that had brought her to be a prey vnto the watrie Monsters The wearied Marriners and tired Sailers had wrought all the meanes they could both by cunning and force to withstand the rage of this storme but all in vaine for the pumpe was not able to deliuer forth one quarter of the water which the billowes of the Sea continually beate in in the ende the windes drew this ship vpon the coasts of Spaine as I said before and in such a case as was most daungerous by reason of the Rockes that were there all about which was the cause in despite of all the Sailers it ranne vpon a hard shelfe being with the blowe broken and splitted all in sunder A wofull spectacle was this to behold and as drerie a Tragedie for to report What eyes could see this and not weepe what eares can heare this and not tingle And what tonge can reade this dolefull storie and not faulter in his speech Then then euery one cried out for mercie from aboue one catching a boord an other a chest this one thing and that another and all to saue their liues their sweete liues which all doe hold so deare but yet for all that all of them in a manner notwithstanding were cast away and perished onely Iustina by the grace of God and assistance of Fortune hapned vpon a casket in which were her Iewels which she grasping fast within her armes the vnmercifull windes wearie of their cruelties through the helpe of a great waue of the Sea threw her vpon the sandie shore but yet in so miserable estate as most pitifuall it ws to behold her she being pale heauie and more then halfe dead through feare and sorrow insomuch as she moues no more then a senselesse stone representing the forme of a dead coarse rather then of a liuing creature in which dreadfulnes was found as yet some small sparke of life Thus long time did she liue as one breathlesse and liuelesse not being able to call or to recouer her vitall spirits againe In the ende though it were first long she came vnto her selfe beholding with a pittious eye so many drowned coarses to flote vpon the water and so much costly stuffe and rich treasure to be cast here and there vpon the shore and how hauing somewhat recouered her former senses lifting vp her moistned eyes and trembling hands vnto heauen she began thus O Sage Romane that rightly diddest blame such who when they might take their iournie by land will foolishlie commit themselues vnto the mercie of the waters And thou prudent Philosopher who wert of opinion that a man sailing in a boate had but two fingers as it were of life Alacke alacke too true were your words I hauing prooued the same not a little vnto my cost and misfortune O God what vice what fault or what sinne hath brought me vnto this remedilesse mischiefe into which I now see my selfe plunged ouer head and eares was this my doing or did I euer goe about to labour or seeke for this vnfortunate alliance which hath cost me and my companie so deare No no I rather sought how to resist the same to the vttermost of my poore power and to shun and auoyd as much as lay in me this fatall and ominous marriage Ah vnfortunte children from whom the respect and duetie they owe vnto their parents taketh away all the power and authoritie they haue to dispose of their owne persons as themselues doe chiefely couet and desire my minde did prognosticate this misfortune vnto me yet could not I auoyd it and as another vnluckie Cassandra I aduertised my selfe before hand of a mischiefe to come vnto me yet would I not giue credite vnto the same Woe is me woe is me because I see my selfe deliuered now from one daunger and for that I am exempt and freed from the malice of the spightfull Seas Am I therefore more happie then these breathlesse trunkes which lying before me are depriued of life by these vnmercifull Surges No no for they by this meanes are cleared from all debts and whereas I am yet to pay mine and that perhaps with greater miseries and mischiefes and after a worse manner farre by oddes then they haue any waies done For what can I hope for in this strange Countrey where I finde my selfe comfortles and alone but either to starue and die for hunger either to be dishonored by the rude inhabitants and people heere remaining or else to be deuoured with the iawes of some one wilde beast or another Yet Heauens I pray to graunt me rather that I may satisfie the famlne of these sauadge monsters then to be rauished and to loose mine Honour it being the chiefe and onely Iewell which I desire to conserue in this world O haplesse Ariadne and yet farre more fortunate then I An example for thou being left in an vncouth Iland all alone diddest doubt nothing but death being throughly assured as concerning the preseruation of thy virginitie and good fame whereas I alack feare greatly both the one and the other To whom may I vtter my complaints of whom may I intreat for comfort whom may I craue to assist me and from whom may I purchase to obtaine remedie for my so great griefe and anguish

against him No no faire Dame chast and modest writings neuer alter the honor of any Gentlewoman Many haue written of Lucretia and their discourses haue made her the more famous throughout the whole world For as the remembraunce of infamous person is much detested and hated by the Muses So is the glorie and renowne of the ven●ous installed by them in eternall memorie for euer What are men but dust if the Muses should not make them suruiue after they are dead and liue in the world againe Hee neuer leaueth this world whom the Muses doe grace so much as to paint his egregious Acts in the Temple of memorie when his successors and succeeders beholde him continuallie with great admiration and wonder by which meanes hee dieth no more then such sacred and noble minds doe who are obliged and bound vnto the Muses as Achilles and Hector were with diuers other Refuse not then gratious Nymph the commendations of my Muse although too base for thee which shall neuer cease nor giue ouer to sing of thy vertues according vnto thine owne minde and pleasure For the Muses are the waiting Gentlewomen of Vertue and are bound to reserue the memories of all such as haue liued 〈◊〉 and with honor So that if Vertue force her owne enemies to reuerence her much more can shee compell the Muses to doe the like they being obliged by dutie to be alwayes at her call and to attend vpon her Scipis the great after he had giuen ouer Rome was daily visited by the Pyrates of the Sea which men although in their owne proper nature they were cruell and wicked yet neuertheles were they forced by reason of his vertue to honor him comming so farre out of their way onely to see so famous a Captaine and kissing his victorious hands as if he had bene some great God So Casar likewise after hee was taken prisoner by certaine Rouers of the Seas was much respected of the same Theeues for his vertue although hee threatned them to hang them when hee should come on land Denie not then diuine Da●●●zell the frutes of my Muse but giue her leaue to doe her good will who hash vowed to praise thee although thou forbid the same I will not then hinder thee answered the Nymphe because I see thou art resolute Yet this I will tell thee that as it is a pleasant pastime to labour and sowe where a man may reape the fruit thereof againe with increase So is it most grieuous and intollerable when one shall toyle and sweate night and day and yet obtaine no recompence for the same When thy Muse shall haue composed thousands of verses in mine honour and when thou hast made whole volumes perined and endited at large written wholelie for my credit yet what profite doest thou hope for at my handes Or what shalt thou get thereby They say that Baccus and Cupid as they were one day going a hunting caught Minerua in their Nettes If so it were no doubt it was with her owne consent For I doe not thinke that anie can force one to loue or affect him whether the partie will or no. Neither shall thy writings nor thy perswasions euer take mee in their Trappes For where the Iudge is iust and vncorrupt there is no altering nor wresting of Iustice nor can his vertue be dimmed or abused with presents or gifts So likewise neuer looke for anie commoditie by thy studie at my hands For so should I buy them too too deare Inasmuch as nothing is to be rated at so high a price as our good Name or Fame is For euery thing that is lost may be recouered else againe but the losse of this is deplorable and altogether impossible to be obtained when it is once gone But say I should beleeue thee and yeeld vnto thee in this point that thy loue towards mee is sacred and iust yet art thou so simple to thinke that those that shall come hereafter will imagine the same and that they will iudge thy flowring youth and the spring-tide of thy life hauing bene spent in my behalfe and for mine occasion thou hast found no recompence nor guerdon of me for so great paines So that if whilst I liue I can hardly keepe mine honour from blame yet when I am dead I cannot preserue it from the suspition thereof it being become a prey vnto most venemous and slaunderous tongues For this I will tell thee Shepheard the presence of a man oftentimes withholdeth manie things from being spoken against his credit and good name which when hee is absent the mischieuous and malignant sort will not sticke to report and blaze abrode And although I know that euery kinde of friendship is not dishonest but that manie haue loued for pure vertue onely yet can wee not let euery one from speaking as they shall please and it is left vnto the conceits of those as shall be then liuing to thinke according vnto their owne humours and will and to belieue as they list because there is none to forbid them the contrarie But in the meane space how many is there in the world that will rather speake ill then well and giue forth bad speeches then once thinke good thoughts especially such kinde of people as speake of spite who because they are bad themselues therefore they will report malitiously of others that are better then themselues onely of ill will and for nothing else These reasons make mee take small taste in thy writings when they shall prooue more damageable then profitable vnto mee and chiefly if by their meanes I chaunce to be defamed any way For for glorie onely it being accompanied with vertue may mortall men account themselues worthie both of the name of men and of immorrall renowne and not for any thing else Gratious Ladie and Mistris replied Arcas is it possible that the Sunne should shine at mid-day and yet not be seene with our eyes And can anie be so blinde as to take that glorious Lampe for night seeing so many bright and glittering beames to issue from the same And so likewise do you thinke it is likely that anie one dare be so shamelesse and impudent to slaunder the spotlesse vertue of an immaculate Virgin whome euery one knoweth to be both prudent and chaste Those that are replenished with vertue can neuer blame such a one because shee is as they are and resembleth her And if the vitious and foolish seeke to backbite her then doth her glorie increase the more For that they see by daily experience that shee is nothing vnto them in as much as in malitious sort they seeke to oppugne and rise vp against her And if this which you say should be true then should the world thinke ill of so manie worthie and vertuous women who are commended in the workes of diuers Poets Then should Cassandra the Troyan Penelope Pelixena Portia Lucretia Alcesta and diuers others be but hardly thought of which neuertheles we see commended throughout the

so to doe for this onely good in that he hath procured mankinde to be borne maister of all other creatures and giuen him a soule immortall in felicitie For if the enemies of men be punished and if sometimes the Ancients ordained equall paine for one Ingrate as for a murtherer Surely the man ingrate towards Almightie God that acknowledgeth not so many blessings and graces from him ought to suffer much as worthie of most grieuous punishment Thus sayd the Shepheard to himselfe and had further discoursed vpon this subiect but that a sudden storme of raine made him runne out to goe stand vnder a thick Rock the toppe whereof saue garded him from the iniuries of heauen And being there aboue he heard a voyce which vttered this which followeth Blessed be they which are either perfectly happie without euer hauing felt griefe or altogether miserable hauing neuer made tryall of any contentment For he which suddainly cōmeth out of the Stoue findeth the aire colder then he who hauing neuer bene within hath alwayes stood without doore In like māner those which neuer felt any good during their life endure nothing so much as they which haue bin happie are afterwards becom miserable For if white maketh vs better to know and discerne black in like sort good maketh the griefe which ensueth more cruell intollerable the remēbrance of which losse terribly tormenteth our soules It greeueth not one so much to goe without cloathes who ordinarily goeth naked as well in winter as Sūmer but it would be a cumbersome hard matter for him who hath bin well and warmly clad to be stripped thrust into his shirt and forced to go all bare In like manner the miserable that haue knowne nothing but griefe are not so greatly oppressed with paine as they who haue sometimes tasted of felicitie whereof at the same instant they finde themselues depriued More cruell was king Perceus his change who of a puissant king became miserable a seruant slaue and laughing-stocke of Fortune then if hee had neuer knowne any such greatnes remaining as a priuate simple man and without a Diademe Of the selfe same now speake I by experience for more cruell at this day doe I feele the griefe to see my selfe absented depriued of my deare Diana thē if I had neuer seen her or that she had not pleased mine eies as she hath done Alas Can it be that I should remaine without her or that my soule may continue in my body being depriued of her faire and shining countenance If the bodie cannot moue without the soule Oh how can mine liue enioying no more that Sun which caused it both to liue and moue Oh my Diana in what part soeuer thou glaūcest forth thy beautifull and celestiall rayes let the heauens be alwayes fauourable vnto thee in recompence of the good thou hast done me in suffering me to behold thy countenance Farre frō thy yeares dayes let pale death flie all discontentment absent it selfe from thy soule all vexation griefe auoyd thy hart let sadnes be banished from thence to conclude let no feeling of griefe euer touch thee liuing let heauē alwaies make thy beauty durable thy chast vertue immortall thy sacred fidelitie power eternall and thy excellent glorie endles Alas if the heauens preserue thy noble perfections who vnder the Sun shall liue more perfect or happy thē thy selfe for none can equall thee in these worthie vertues vertues alas which augment misfortunes make my complaints more bitter For he hath greater cause to complain that hath lost much then he that hath endured the losse but of a small matter I haue lost thy diuine presence which only chased and droue away my obscure nights now I wander in darknes in night in horror vexation I haue lost my Sun my dayes are turned into nights Alas but haue I not likewise lost my miserable life Alas my Goddesse if thou wouldest if thou wouldest I say take my soule as thine owne retaine it with thee why takest not thou in like manner my life causing him to die which cannot liue remoued frō thy light but I must scoure both sea land to find thee out I will flie neither paine danger nor labor to see thee yet once more before death reap my sad wretched daies And then in all repose contentmēt pleasure I will yeeld this miserable carkasse to the earth shaken quashed with so many hitter griefes euen broken as it were in pieces with a thousand martyrdoms During these daies replenished with obscurity dyed in lamentation darknes In that I shall not behold thy beautifull diuine countenance my teares like streams shall poure out frō my blubbered eyes sighes shall come forth euen from my soule sad wailing mourning frō my hart No apprehension of pleasure shall dwel within me no apparāce of life to signe of pleasing delights nor any note of health Miserable will I alwaies remaine no ioyfull accident no chāge of fortune or new forme of life can administer the least consolation to my soule voyd of pleasure ioy of all good and contentment I will sigh continually while destinie moued at my long complaints together with my life cut off my teares troubles Thus spake this wretched Shepherd wretched surely miserable who neuer felt so much as one smiling glaunce of fortune miserable certainly in that he was borne to suffer neuer knew what ioy meant yet more wretched in hauing spent his years emploied his whole life offered his dayes and yeelded his time to seruice of many who permitted pouertie to swallow vp his years and manage and ouermaister his life And though he were peerles in miserie and that his state of life was onely swayed by misfortunes which held him caytif notwithstāding cruel enuie which biteth all things though they be incorporeall ceased not to make a thousand malicious iealous of that little cōmendation which his dolorous Muse acquired to his years In all cōsiderations therfore he was most wretched aboue all others But that which gaue the greatest blow and that made his griefe insupportable and fell was the absence and losse of his Diana The remembrance wherof was sufficient to forget choak quite extinguish all the mortall pleasures he could haue tasted of in this world Euery one maketh his chiefe felicity of that he best liketh things which are sometimes held for happy cōmodious of mortall men are in contēpt with those who haue placed their soueraigne good in some other matter as Louers flout at riches treasures Empires and kingdomes which mortall men propound vnto themselues for the good of their contentmēt vpon which they build their most pleasure and delight But the onely presence of their Ladies is their chiefest good for their soules be more ioyfull in beholding of them then are the eyes of a couetous mizer when they take pleasure in contemplation of the goods riches