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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

vnto his il-willers in as much as his obligation is like to be forfaited the summe neuer likely to be paide when hee shall receiue so great a benefite of his enemie who is least bound to doe the same good vnto him of all others Thus saide the sorrowfull Arcas who hauing ended his discourse was chosen as ludge betweene the old man and the Knight about their first Argument But when he vnderstood how these Pirats of the Seas changed so lately into Trees and bruit beasts and would haue offered violence vnto the faire Shepheardesse hee then gaue his Censure that they were worthily punished confirming this his Decree to stand as authenticall in the presence of the Shepheardesse her selfe whom hee presently knewe to be loucly Delia who was not a little comforted and reuiued when shee so happily found Arcas and other her olde acquaintance in this place Euen as banished persons cheare themselues in their exile beeing maruellouslie ioyfull when in a straunge land they met one with another Wherevppon the Shepheard demaunded of her the cause of her comming into this vncoth Desart and by what chaunce shee came thither As also the reason why these cruell lawlesse persons did pursue her with their naked swordes in such a straunge manner And therewithall they sat downe vpon a greene banke placing the Nymphe in the middest of them who began to tell this sad Tale following Not long since there was a certaine Noble man of an Island Delia the Shepherdesse reporteth a strange history who became amorous of a goodly Maid she being the onely child he had This Damosell had vowed her selfe vnto the seruice of the Goodesse Iuno Which her Father not knowing of pursued her the more eagerly she still denying and flying from him as much as she could calling vpon her Mistris to assist and helpe her One day amongst others hee found her at such an aduantage as he attempted by force to rauish her which shamefull deed was repugnant against all reason honor and honestie The Virgin not knowing what to doe resisted and cried out imploring for the aide of Iuno who seeing such vnnaturall vsage of a Father vnto his owne Child delayed no longer to helpe her For as the lustfull Lord thought to haue embraced his daughter and to haue had his pleasure of her in steed of holding a liuing bodie in his armes he found a cold and senslesse image of white Marble The Goddesse Iuno hauing chaunged her faithfull seruant into this liuelesseforme to preserue her chastitie vndefiled The Father wonderfully amazed at this matter but more sadde and heauie was he as well for the losse of his onely childe whom he loued as his owne soule as also to see that he was depriued from enioying of that contentment which hee hoped of was readie in a manner to kill himselfe for verie meere griefe and vexation when vppon the suddaine he found out that the Maid had vowed herselfe vnto Iuno and that that Goddesse to the ende to frustrate him of his will had turned her into this colde forme of Marble Which when he knew madde for rage and griefe against Iuno it being not the dutie of any creature to murmure or bandie against the Celestiall powers he runneth vnto the Altar plucking downe her Image and breaking it in a thousand pieces The Goddesse being iustly moued with this outrage prouoked her husband Iupiter likewise against him who tooke this iniurie done vnto his wife in as hainous a manner as if it had bene done vnto himselfe and therefore to reuenge the same he sent an infectious pestilence into this Iland of which all the land in a manner died The cruell Lord being the first man that was punished with the same whilst those fewe that remained aliue fledde presently out of that Countrey shifting as well as they could to saue themselues and came to inhabit in a certaine barren and fruitlesse foyle not farre off from their owne But after they had some fewe yeares bene tired with their banishment and as wearie of this hungrie and vnpleasant place where they did bide desiring and longing to see the smoake of their olde Chimneys they ventured to returne back againe into their owne Countrey where no sooner were they setled but the same pestilent disease beganne afresh to seaze vpon them taking them away as fast as euer it had done before Wherevpon they sent vnto the Oracle of Apollo to know how they might be freed of this plague who returned them answer that to appease the wrath of Iuno they must sacrifice a young Virgin vnto her shee being euery way as faire in beautie as that Virgin was which Iuno had chaunged into a picture of Marble They heating this began to bethinke themselues what they should doe in this case for their Iland brought forth no such comely creatures and therefore they determined to scoure all the Coasts neere about to see if they could finde anie such Now after the damnable Fiend Discord with her breath like brimstone her wings like a Dragon and her pawes all of fire had driuen that gratious and goodly companie out of the sweet Groues of Arcadia euery one highing him vnto his owne home after the death of that valiant Lord Phillis so much bewailed and lamented of euery one I alone amongst the rest resolued with my selfe not to stirre one foote from thence but to take my Fortune patiently as it should happen not vnlike vnto a Lamb that is reserued for Sacrifice In the meane time Report had blasted abroad the beautious faces of all our Shepheardesses which sometime were biding in this happie Desart carrying the same tyed vnto his wings brought it vnto the eares of the men of this cruell Hand who no sooner heard it but that they took shippe minding to take one of the fairest Maidens there and to sacrifice her vnto the Goddesse of Riches Comming then a shore vpon our Iland and not finding any more to please their fancie then my poore selfe they tooke me perforce and brought me prisoner into their ship hoping that I should be a remedie to mittigate the anger of the Goddesse and not because I was saire enough for their purpose But such as desire any thing are contented with little Like vnto right Gamesters who rather then they will be excluded from play will play at small stakes and holde the candle vnto the rest So they imagined any beautie were it neuer so simple would serue well enough for their turne and purpose I seeing my selfe thus taken like vnto a sillie Partridge seazed vpon by the gryping Faulconer and sore doubting what the other Virgin feared lifting vp my deawy eyes vnto the heauens I made mine humble and hartie prayer vnto the Almightie to assist me in this extremitie and to deliuer me out of the hands of these monsters whom I doubted sore because of mine honor And no sooner had I made intercession vnto him but hee as a most mercifull Father heard my prayers gaue eare

bestowe it cheerfully on her For in giuing her that which is thine owne thou shalt deserue as well at her hands as those who are farre mightier then thy selfe vnto whome the heauens haue giuen better meanes to succour their Countryes then they haue vnto thee For euery one is discharged after he hath payd what he doeth owe and hauing performed what he can to the vtmost of his power But it is not a sufficient discharge for the bad debtor An example to say he hath nothing and yet in the meane time can find wealth enough to supplie his own need Change then thy mind take thy iourney with me and I will thinke my selfe fortunate if I may restore thee vnto thy Countrey againe because of the great want she hath of such of her children as are good naturall faithfull and valiant Amongst which number I account thee as one of the chiefe To this speech Arcas was about to replie when the sound of a most pittious voyce ouerdrowned his so that to vnderstand the same he was husht and silent This voyce sighed forth this Sonnet following Accursed wretch and shall my blubbered teares Nere mollifie my Mystris flintie heart O no for these strange heats my bodie beares My teares to fire doe change to breede my smart Shall I no more behold her beautie bright Which wonted was alone me so to please No no for now I liue withouten light Since her I see not cause of my disease In double wise alas I finde my griefe Whilst trebble still surmounteth my disgrace First cause I am a Thrall without reliefe And next for that I see not her faire face Thrise blest the dead far happier then my selfe Death makes an ende of all their martyring paine But I still toyling keepe on sorrowes shelfe Then is my life the worser of the twaine Halfe dead halfe liue I languishing doe lie Vnder the beautious eyes of my proud FAIRF Whilst I more cruell finde my destinie Exilde from her the essence of my care Oh what colde passions in strange vncoth wise Thy wofull absence breeds through woes dispences Since that thy sight made smile my weeping eyes The losse whereof depriues me of my sences DEARE what am I poore I withouten thee But like a coarse quite void of vitall breath Accursed Fate that such a Law should bee To force men liue against their wills on earth Of thousand griefes the least and smallest crosse A Louer louing doth in Loue indure Is worse by ods then is of life the losse Which we by gentle death our friend procure Compar'd vnto the passions which I feele O happie Fate that so would'st ende my life To rid me of my troubles euery deele A Cordiall wore and comfort passing rife What shall I not from these plagues be releasde Neuer before expir'd be my lifes date Of blessings all t is not t is not the least To die whom Heauens whilsts that the liues doth hate O heauens when will you gainst me quiet cease And for a while take truce to doe me spight No no I see with me you 'l haue no peace Yet vertue after stormes doth shew most bright You then doe meane thus still my heart to racke On tenters yours to sound my constancie But to what ende doe you the same alacke When I it know and beare it patiently Then cease yee Gods to grieue me still with plagues Ah whither carrie you my vexed soule But t is no matter shew your vtmost rage Not you my dame alone can it controule As long as she to accept it please in shewe You cannot hau 't nor for you shall it care For dutie lesse to heauens and Gods I owe Then to my lifes sweet death my cruell FAIRE He that sung this was the Shepheard Coridon whome as Arcas wilfull banishment had brought by chance into this Desart and who calling to mind his Loue sung this dolefull Dittie which being ended and perceiuing Philistell Arcas and the old man together he runneth strait vnto them and most ioyfully saluteth them praying them to heare a certaine wofull historie of the truth of which his owne eyes had bin witnesses in this his traualie Wherupon they graunted his request and euery one of them taking their places to sit downe they began to listen vnto him most attentiuely when the Shepheard spake as followeth The Tragicall ende of chast Floretta Although the Almightie through his diuine prouidence hath most prodigally bestowed vpon the soule of man many faire and goodly perfections making him capable to know and vnderstand euery thing Neuerthelesse if there be not some striking motion to awake him or some strange accident to pricke him forward he remaineth oftentimes as senselesse without shewing any effects of his power and might at all For a horse although he be by nature quicke light and full of life yet if he be not spurred forward well he will neither runne orderly nor yet keepe any pace rightly at all Now the sharpest spurres of the soule are Glory and Loue being the first deuisers of his actions and the chiefest causes of all his enterprises A braue Generall or Commaunder of a field egged forward with desire of glory will with the price of his blood amidst thousand of dangers in despite of all hazards venture to shew a proofe and signe of the brauenes of his minde A witnes wherof is Themisticles who was enuious of the glory of Milliades So likewise a Louer will make shew of a thousand proofes of a gallāt spirit deuising all the best meanes he can to bring himselfe in credit with his Mistresse to the ende he may thereby obtaine the sooner his desire And of such inuentious Iupiter is found to be the first inuenter Warre then and Loue are the two most necessarie spurres for the minde although they are sharpe and violent as a comfortable potion though bitter to heale the sickelie body And when by chaunce the spirit of man is toucht vnto the quicke with these two hot spurres together thē is the time whē we shal see the same to discouer all her perfectiōs worthy qualities at the full For when the valiant champions begin once to loue then doe they become most rare and admirable in their actions as well by their valiantnes to get the good will of their Ladies as also because they lesse esteeme of their liues then they haue done heretofore Of which number were Hercules Troylus Achilles infinities of other more And if the Romane writers speake truely we find not any braue caualier without a Ladie or Mistris This being the occasion that I haue vsed this little preamble before I come vnto my historie which is a mixt discourse both of Mars and Venus For you shall vnderstand that a certaine Duke of Banier had not long since a most faire and vertuous daughter but yet most vnfortunate as most commonly the vertuous are because they being enuied for the same alwaies find a number of enemies to conspire and worke