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A discourse of the great crueltie of a widowe towardes a yong gentleman, and by what meanes he requited the same. Set forth in English verse by Iohn God
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God, John.
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1570
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STC 11927; ESTC S105738
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one stayned spot hir body did defile Whose haggard wonts churlishe deedeâ— at length did hir begile Who went astray from natures course and therby lost hir name Hir cruell gests and foolish deedes did bring hir to disdaine When Atropos hir leche liues threede with knâ—fe had cut in twaine For whom she did Lament and mournt with sorowe greefe and paine Shee bent hir selfe hir house to decke with toyling paine and greefe Is spinning carding and such like to finde hir selfe releefe Wheras before she largely gaue now she doth couet all Hir bountie great hir courteous giftes are turned now to thrall Hir maides she doth employ with worke though she possesse great lande Shee thought that nothing wel was done that came not through hir hand A thing truely of more great praise than for to viewe our dames Whose fine and daintie fingers lothe to suffer any paines Who thinke their honors to be staind if once they do but holde Their noses ouer their houshold things who wil not be controloe Wheras their hands were requisite to helpe at time of neede And they in place their businesse might be dispatcht with speede Let Lucrece life a myrror be to those which vse that rate Not running forth to feastes and games nor with yong girles to prate Not fondly gadding heere and there nor masking in the night But with hir maides to spin and carde it was hir whole delight Shee did regarde hir honor more than so to spend hir time Ill which our widow Zilia did as Poâ—tes do define She would not once at feastes be seene nor seldome come abrode Unlesse to Church she did repaire as writers do recorde Shee would not with the daintie dames to gardens once resort Nor to such place where pleasure was nor any place of sport Shee seemde as though she studied the Egiptian law to vse Bicause she would not get reproche nor yet hir selfe abuse They paint before dame Venus mouth a bright and shining kay Wherby they meane that silence did hir guide in perâ—ect way And at hir feet a Tortus plast wherby they did deuise That wandring forth and straying oft was not hir vse nor guise This practise vsed Zilia whose tong was tyde from talke Whose footestep seke were not at large abrodethe streetes to walke Shee seeemd so religious as though nought were amisse She made it straunge and very coy to yelde from hir a kisse To any wight which curtesse til this day doth remaine That women ought with chastly kisse eche wight to entertaine But let vs leaue hir for a while and marke what chanced then With snarling traps bow Cupid oft therein doth tangle men There dwelt hard by that Thurin towne a Lord of great renoune Who Philiberto had to name in welth he did abounde Of Virle Countrey he was Lord a man expert in warre By dint of sworde his foes to quel whose glory reached farre It hapned thus that at the Church where Zilia did resort This noble Lord was there likewise in comely state and port Whos 's daseling eyes by hap did view this widowes worthy face Hir liuely hewe did please his minde his port and louely grace Whose humors fed with fantasie and pleasde with Cupides game Could not withdrawe those fixed eyes from that his noble dame The venomed shaft of Cupides howe did take in him such place That all his soundest partes of minde were trapt in woful case Thus al the morning viewing wel hir grace and comely port Shee made no more account of him than of the meanest sort The seruice done he thought the Priest made very great post hast For now vpon his noble dame his eyes he might not cast But comming home of standers by he did enquire hir name Who ceased not without delay to sheâ—e to him the same Hir stubberne state and churlish deedes to tel they did not spare Hâ—r greedy minde and coyly lookes to him they do declare He hearing this was al in dumps not knowing what to say He thought his sute would not preuaile but gets him streight away And to his chamber he doth wend and layes him on his bed Ten thousande thoughtes careful greefes molest his troubled hed But bayting yet him selfe with hope and tickled eke with loue This widowes heart what so did chauÌ„ce he minded was to proue And thus he did him selfe deuise to loue hir beautie stil That through long seruice he might get at length of hir his wil. He now the Churc doth oft frequent and seemes a holy state And all to viewe the Princely port of his beloued mate At length he prickt with fiery heat tooke courage stout and bolde And in the Church to speake to hir his heart was nothing colde He often did conduct hir home that he hir heart might win But now as farre from that he sought as when he did begin For if of loue he spake to hir she strenght wold turne hir tale And talke to him of houshold things which made â—is heart to quaile Thus they of sundry mindes and diuers eke in thought Did not to others talke giue eare which he full duely sought Thus voide of hope he partes whose cheerefull lookes be dasht His reddy cheekes be turnde to pale his sprites were all agast This bashfull wight comes home and rues his woful plight Bycause he could no fauour finde before his Ladies sight Yet once againe conceiuing hope of that he did desire Constrained through the parching heat of Cupides burning fire He thus deuised with him selfe to frame his matters so Unto a woman there hard by be minded for to go Who was familiar with his dame to hir he would complaine And tel hir of his woful plight that she might ease his paine Thus thinking forth he goes and tels his woful state Unto the wight who gaue hir eare vnto his wretched fate He tolde hir al his woe his sorow greefe and paine Wherfore to be releast of those he would be glad and faine Shee marked wel his woful plight of loue shee had good skill Who knewe what meates they feed vpon that are at Venus will. Shee knewe the entermingled drugs and the deceitful wine That Cupide quastes vnto the guestes with Venus that do dine Shee therefore knowing his disease and waying al his greefe Did promise for to ease his wee and get him some releefe If shee might knowe the wight that so his hart did loue Shee would put to hir helâ—ing hand that matter for to proue Oh Zilia Zilia shee it is with doleful tune he cries Therefore with present remedy to help he hir desires And that she woulde betwixt them bothe an intercessour stande Whose paines should wel rewarded be with siluer golde or lande Mine onely hope doth rest in you my comfort and delight Dooth all depend of you he sayes to get that princely wight And I your souldiour here am prest to doe your will. In right or wrong to take your part and stil your best fulfil This saide he holdes
wight that lones you so Who as you sayde did guide your heart where so euer you did go Haue you so soone forgotten hir that was your only ioy Be all your former pleasures now conuerted to annoy Looke better once againe beholde your humble wight Do not estraunge your selfe from me worke not so great dispight Forgiue me now my former faults which once I did commit Your former greefes which I did cause out of your heart let slip I am the wight that tyde your tongue now let me loose the same And for the first inuented wrong no more repute the blame Shee seeing then this Gentleman woulde nothing say but mumme Shee curst within hir heart the houre wherin she made him dumme He did declare by outward signes that he coulde nothing speake The trickling teares then sodenly out from hir eyes do breake Shee then with armes embracing him his lippes did kisse full oft And in hir heart for present aide desâ—res the Gods aloft But he which once with sugred words did seeke hir for to please He now inuents all kinde of wayes hir person to displease Hir cares now vnto him be ioy hir greefes do glad his heart Hir sobs and signes do cheere his minde all câ—res he sets apart All hir wordes do not auaile hir plaints do profite nought Now is shee quite discouraged of that thing which she sought He waked once againe by hir which once had slaine his minde Thâ— thing wâ—ich seemed long asleepe he did assay to finde Shee more for feare of losse of life or price of the rewarde Entending by all kind of wayes hir life for to sauegarde Than for the true and earnest loue which she to him did heare Did suffer him to haue of hir that louers do desire Thus for the space of fiftene dayes they liued in great ioy But yet hir friend would nothing speake which did hir much anoy Shee humbly prayed him to shewe some fauor to hir state Protesting still while life doth last for to become his mate Or that shee might goe free â—rom either losse at hand And she would stand as truest friend that was in all that land This gay and lowly talke she had to moue the Knight But not as ye mo fauour shee could finde before his siâ—ht At length the king when that he sawe this patient would not speake He did commit her to the Iayle in prison fast to keepe That either shee should pay the summe or else hir lyfe shoulde lose When this shee heard to sobs and teares hir selfe shee doth dispose How bitter seemed this same drinke let al men beare away Who prest with paine on euery side began thus for to say Ah captiue wight that wenâ—st about an other to deceaue Hast sharpened now the vital sworde thy life for to bereaue Did it not well inough suffise for to deceiue my foe But all entangled in his snares must breede my careful wo. My fame he doth so much dispoile that euery one doth mocke My state to all so I shall be a common laughing stocke What hap had I that I was not deuoured of some beaste Which in the woodes and hils I past do take their common rest Oh what mischance had I that I brake not my necke In tumbling downe the steepie hils and so my selfe to wrecke Than heere to stande a gazing stocke to them that this way passe And on a stage to all mens eyes a common loking glasse But this O god is due rewarde for mine vngodly life My hart so fierce in crueltie delighting still in strife The Knight contented with hir plaints esteeming not hir greefe Yet at the length constrained was to get hir some releefe Hir teares did so bedew hir face that he some pitie tooke The Christall drops râ—n downe hir cheekes as from a water brooâ—e He more did waile and câ—e hir case than she hir louers did Which argued much a gentle heart within his brest was hid He theâ— repayred to the King deliting slanders by Who â—hen to heare him speake on throgs they doâ— approche him nie He vtters then before the King the whole discourse of loue Which he did beare to Zilia as is rehearst aboue And how also shee was the cause that he his speache diâ— lose But now reuiâ—de againe by hir whose heart with greefe it flowes Wherefore yet now O king quoth he this one thing let me craue That though she haue deserued death hir pardon let hir haue The king theÌ„ speakes your whole request you certes shall obtaine Although this widow do deserue to suffer greeuous paine Your most faithfull and gentle heart deserueth no lesse prayse Than hir ill deedes do merite paine whose shame will last alwayes Shee then likewise contented was aâ—d he to wife hir tooke He loued hir shee him likewyse till death them twaine forsooke FINIS â—rinted at London by Henr Binneman dwelling in Knightrider Streatt at the Signe of the Mermaid