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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

being the ordinarie whippes with which they scourge thē for their impieties but it is themselues that are causes of their owne sorrowes because they driue away sage Reason from them who is of might sufficient to deliuer and set them free The franticke Bedlem that wilfully killeth himselfe can he dying accuse any other of his disaster or complaine of a straunger when he hath murthered himselfe No more can a fond Louer hurting himselfe be angrie with the heauens who was not the cause thereof but he himselfe And herein they resemble little children that hauing done a fault lay the blame thereof either vpon their play-fellowes or vpon something else being neuer willing to confesse that they haue done amisse Fuen so they themselues hauing felt one burning in their brests the furious fire which in the end consumeth and destroy eth them condemne the powers aboue for the same But small reason haue they so to doe for they that vse it are rather counted to be full of rage and giuen to murmure then esteemed as wise and prudent persons And yet I cannot denie but that the heauens narurally doe as it were seeme to be bound to doe vs good but the accident oftentimes corrupteth the Nature The Parent by Nature is bound to loue his child yet if his his owne flesh shall be peruerse and ill giuen becomming a mortall enemie vnto his Father this right of Nature ceaseth and he is no more bound to doe any thing for him no more than for a straunger There is a iust law grounded vpon this reason which permitteth the Father being iustly offended with his Sonne to dishinherit him of his lands this being the very same punishment that the children of Sophocles suffered for that they most maliciously accused their Father to dote for age and to be out of his right wits onely because they would haue depriued him of his possessions and goods Brutus likewise stucke not to prosecute the death of his too forward sonne most cruellie and with great disgrace also because he had done as well against the Common-wealth as contrarie vnto his owne command So therefore although the heauens I speake all this against my selfe as well as thee Coribant for that I am as wretched a Louer as thy selfe art in euerie degree be our common Father and for that cause is naturally bound to doe vs good yet notwithstanding is he not bound to shewe vs this kindnesse if we shall gricuously and willingly offend him as the Accidence of the offence shall be more violent and strong then the naturall Right is which by reason of this quite ouerthroweth the other For as water quencheth the fire and maketh it cold as any Ice which by nature is hote burning and full of heate So the discourtesies and iniuries which we offer vnto such as by Nature were prouided to be our protectors and defenders drowne and extinguish all their deuoire and Right altering their good mindes from vs quite contrarie vnto that it was at the first A man that is by kinde borne vicious and bad and such a one as bringeth forth of the wombe of his mother wickednesse with him into the worlde may per Accidence through good education and bringing vp become vertuous and wise Euenso the Accident of iniuries and displeasures may chaunge and alter the curteous inclination of a kinde friend sowring and sharpning the same against vs as the Lees and dregs doe the sweetest wine And this mischiefe falling vpon our heads wee cannot condemne anie for it but our owne selues who are the chiefe and efficient cause thereof And therefore we are much in the wrong to lay the blame on him whom through our owne meere follie we haue made him our soe although he be slow and slacke to helpe vs we being falne into miserie although before he by nature was bound to lend vnto vs his helping hand and to assist vs in what he could certainely if we were well and godly giuen and without prouoking or tempting the Eternall Power aboue would we but confirme our selues in all our actions according vnto his desire keeping vs with the bonds of his commandements there is no doubt but he would aide vs hearing vs when we should call vnto him and would nor sticke to raine downe Manna as he did for the children of Israel nourishing vs in the wildest Desarts that be But what law can force or constraine him to shew vs this mercie when we shew our selues to be his mortall enemies going about to increase his wrath euerie houre against vs. But say that he were willing and readie as we are most vnworthie thereof to helpe vs and that it would please him to haue this pittifull and fauourable regard ouer vs yet may you be well assured he would neuer take any charge nor euer make any account of Louers for their griefes is not numbred amongst the plagues of other miscrable creatures the second cause whereof the heauens oftentimes are our sinnes being the first Loue being seene to be but a verie meere follie and therefore neuer moueth the heauens with compassion to heale them A great and grose error therefore it is amongst Louers to imagine that the heauens are the Authors of their paine but a farre greater fault is it in them to require their aide and assistance for Loue is not any kind of contagious disease causing men to die cutting off one after another and for that cause hath reason to implore the heauens for aide to helpe them as they doe when any great mortalitie or plague rageth amongst them but it is a sickenes that continueth still without dying with which onely sensuall persons and sooles and none else are infected This is the reason that we haue neuer knowne any Louers to haue bene cured through miracle whereas we find written in diuers learned bookes that the bodies of many men being dead haue bene restored to life againe and that many haue bene cured of incurable discases onely this vaine sicknes is vnworthie of remedie and reliefe because it proceedeth not neither through the anger of the heauens nor by reason of the contagion of other diseases but onely through our owne foolishnes Now as that amitie cannot be firme and strong betweene man and woman where they answere not one another in desires and affection although naturally they are bound to loue one another euen so the heauens cannot be accused of crueltie in not scourging mortall creatures if the cause which should drawe them vnto this charitable endeuour be taken away from them Let vs then no more exclaime against the Celestiall Power aboue but let vs thanke our owne selues that we deserue no better of him our sinnes being the cause he giueth vs ouer As the fellon cannot blame the Iudge that condemneth him to death nor accuse him of ouermuch seueritie in that he dieth but rather his owne bad liuing that brought him vnto so vntimely an end for he is not to be thought ill of who doth rightly

I must needs tell thee that he that deuoteth his yeares and life vnto the seruice of this common wealth is more to be commended then that vertuous man who withdraweth himselfe to liue priuately and alone without the companie of men For herein he taketh paines but for himselfe his firends nor countrie reaping no commoditie by the same We are not borne only for our selues but as well for our Coūtrie friends and parents who for this cause may chalenge a certaine interest in vs. Cincinalus and Fabritius two worthie Romanes had more respect vnto the good of their Citie then thou who being chosen commanded to shew their best seruice for the same most ioyfully and willinglie gaue ouer their house of pleasure in the countrie with all their quiet ease and delights to follow the dangerous march of tumultuous warres taking infinite paines therein without ceasing If euerie one were of thy humor what comoditie profit or aduantage should our natiue soyle get by bringing vs forth good turnes don kindlie must be recompenced with curtesie which if we cānot doe by the helpe of Fortune because we want the meanes yet ought we by our seruice to shew our affectionate good wills For the Murtherers yea the very Homicide is not so much to be detested abhorred as is the vngratefull wretch How rightly and iustlie may that father complaine of his children who in steed of doing their duties vnto him and succoring him in his old age leaue him being not able to helpe himselfe vnto the rage of fortune to the vncharitable times of this hard world A Similie Such children are by the Law depriued of their inheritance How much more then are we obliged vnto the deuoire and seruice of our countrie For it is our first Parent without whom neither our predecessors nor we our selues could euer haue enioyed this life May that childe which may stand in steed to helpe his distressed Syre retire himselfe apart vnto his priuate pleasures forsaking and absenting himselfe from him without his permission and leaue I thinke none will say he can Indeed I will not denie but that the liuing in solitarie places and in the sweete Ayre of the wholesome countrie is far more pleasing more blessed and more godlie then that of the cities But yet in all our actions we must haue this consideration that a publike good is to be preferred before a piruate A Sentence For the good we doe for the cōmon-wealth extendeth vnto the benefit of many persons it being both godly and immortall whereas that which we doe for our selues dieth with vs because nothing is found to succeed vs but what ought or should be bound to leaue some good memoriall of the same after we are dead and gone Vertue it selfe consisteth not alone in leauing the field vnto vice and in withdrawing her selfe from thence because she dareth not combat with her But it is her part rather patiently and openly to encounter with the same For those are properly said to be without courage in vertue who dare not offer themselues before vice and who flie in what they may to auoyd the fight with her But as the Sunne is discerned euen in the thickest of the clouds so is vertue perceiued and knowne although in the middest of vice Neither can he be holden for vertuous that hauing no bad subiect to trie himselfe withdraweth himselfe all alone out of the listes because vertue doth spring from danger and those that wage battaile carrie away the prize And seeing he cannot be accounted vertuous indeed but rather faint-hearted and white-liuered who for feare to encounter with vice doth relinquish both the defence of his owne countrie and of truth it selfe For it is not enough to say that a man is fortunate and contented because he is so vnto his owne selfe onely seeing he cannot rightly attaine vnto that title vntill such time as vertue hath first brought him home vnto his countrie by such happie meanes Nor is he worthy the name of vertuous who seeth vice to call and challenge him vnto the Combat and yet dareth not for his life to trie his valour with her It is not vertue but rather selfe-loue and liking for one to procure his owne proper ease but when he forsaketh all his pleasures to come to res●ue and succour his common-wealth troubled with viciousnes and disorders then is it vertue indeed Had not Hercules An Example left his owne home and as a Knight Errant ventured abroad in the world he had not left such remembrance of his wonderfull valour as he did making euery Land and Region acquainted with his honourable exploytes And therefore he tooke the best course searching and seeking out in euery place for the enemies of his vertues to the end he might trie his force with them making himselfe glorious by their ouerthrow rich by their defeit and as it were immortall by their fall and deaths The torch which the traueller carrieth in the night if he lighteth not the same to guide him in his way doth rather hinder him then helpe him Euen so vertue is found more hurtfull in a man then reuerend and worthie of praise if he doe not employ the same for the publicke commoditie of all and for the foundation and strengthning of his owne glory and renowme A braue man at armes A Similie taketh no little pride to be counted valiant to shew his strong limmes and warlike bodie yet if he fight not with his foe neither goeth about to shew some proofe of his valour he shall not be accounted neither couragious nor valiant No more shall he be esteemed as vertuous who withdraweth himselfe from the societie and fellowship of men to liue priuately and alone without hauing once dared to combat with vice whereby he might giue a signe and testimonie of his assured vertue Cato could haue giuen ouer the Romane common-wealth spoyled and corrupted with vitiousnes and vilde disorders An Example if he had would and might haue addicted himselfe wholie vnto his ease But he the more he saw that it had neede of stoutnes and vertue to resist those enormities the more he exposed thrust himselfe forward in her quarrell animating himselfe the more resolutely to take her defence vpon him and to lay all the burthen vpon his owne shoulders Whereas on the other side Lucullus was to be much discommended who being glutted with voluptuous pleasures and possessed of infinite riches left all the care of his countrie to liue without trouble not so much as once to thrust forth his hand as it were to saue the common-wealths vessell from daungerous Shipwracke And if that Souldiour which the vniust lawe of warre hath brought to liue as a slaue vnder the yoke of a strange maister cannot depart from him without his permission and loue Then farre lesse reason haue wee to giue ouer the seruice which we owe vnto our Natiue soyle wee going about to discharge our selues from the same at

had Paris of his Host Menelaus Clytemnestra of Agamemnon her husband and Tarquine of the good name and fame of Lucretia To be short it is an accursed kinde of Rage that breaketh all Alliance and kinred all Amitie and good friendship Faith and hospitalitie ouerthrowing topsituruie all the buildings of Reason Talke not then vnto mee of this pernitious LOVE The burnt childe dreads the fire and I haue somewhat felt the flame thereof and therefore I will resolue rather to die then to be ouertaken by so furious an Enemie Ah faire Shepheardesse replyed the Shepheard how much art thou deceiued herein when amongst all mortall respects whatsoeuer LOVE is esteemed the chiefe and carryeth away the prize before them all For what is he that is more warie and circumspect then the constant Louer it towards his Dame Whom feareth he so much to offend as her and how willingly would he offer his life to besacrificed rather then he would so much as once moue or displease her The same LOVE being the reason that shee alone is not respected but as well all such of her well-willers as goe about to aduance and honour her There is nothing that teacheth men better the Adoration of the Gods then Loue for that seruice which Louers yeeld vnto their Ladles hath a kinde of resemblance vnto the reuerent worshipping of the Gods who are not displeased that wee should attribute such respect vnto such a beautifull thing which they haue made to the intent it should be honoured For were it not for LOVE what account or difference can there be made betweene an excellent and exquisite kinde of beautie and that which is but meane But that God that hath taught vs to discerne the faire from the foule and esteeming of the one to Loue and refuse the other maketh vs to loue and couet faire faces setting on fire thousands of Inuentions in our soules which reuiueth vs with liuely effects to the end wee may satisfie and content our desire But answered the Shepheardesse these effects are for the most part wicked and bad as are the Childern of a leaude and ill-giuen Father resembling the off-spring of such as be crooked who are borne with crooked backes as their Parents had before them Now if such effects are contrarie to Lawe and Reason it were farre better they should be stifled as dead then being suffered to liue they should growe to be mischieuous and vnfortunate But if it be necessarie that to driue away all smne wee condemne the sinner to the ende that afterwards it may finde no fit instrument to put in practise so vngodly a force So if wee will take away all the bad effects of LOVE wee must despoyle and banish himselfe and his enticing allurements also For in vaine doth the Gardener goe about to kill or destroy any bad and noysome weede or plant if without pulling vp the roote hee doth but onely breake the tender leaues thereof Let vs men Shepheard ●nue away this pestisent Loue from vs. As for mine owne part I ve we neuer willingly to follow the same For marching but a while vnder his Ensigne I haue alreadie suffered more then thousands of hard misfortunes and terrible crosses So saide the Shepheardesse when as the Shepheard was answering her they might vnderstand the voyce of another Shepheard speaking as followeth ECCO O that the Gods of these huge Woods would shew me fauour such But for to heare my Fortunes hard ore Fortunate by much O that they would but marke how I doe nought but waile and crie I doubt not then but they their eares would lend mee by and by Might I but them so courteons finde to listen to my mone I would adore and honor still their Maiesties each one Then with a voyce like Lightning flash I soone would thunder forth And shewe with sighing in my verse their bountie and their worth Of them alone then would I fing and of their great renowne Whist that my tongue should neuer linne but still their praises sonne Their kindnesse my soule vnto them should binde in to be so fast As nere I would forget the same as long as life should last Ah then shall I obtaine of Mistris mine this happie Bonne To yeeld me liking when will shee will it be long or soone ECCO Soone What may I hope for when I thus fight vnder Cupids Banner Whilst I consume my selfe thereby and worke mine owne dishoner ECCO Honer What may I of my FAIRE expect when as the Gods I finde To crosse me in my amorous sute vnlesse she will be kinde ECCO She will be kinds Who is of power this gloomy Cloud from off mine eyes to moue ●●nd to repaire my late fallen helpe quite ruined by Loue ECCO Lous Then i st not hee that courtcously after our grieuous woe Our Fancie brings to happie Port I now perceine t' is so ECCO T' is so But are the gentle Heauens content importunde without cries To yeeld to vs poore worldly wights our wish in courteous wise ECCO In conrteous wise If so what shall become of that quicke Fire which burnes so bright Within my bowels languishing shal't be extinguisht quite ECCO Extinguisht quite What shall become of this mine ill which in my Coarse doth stay Shall it increase my farther care or shall it soone away ECCO Soone away Shall I for any good ere hope to come from her my griefe Who holds my heart fast tide and plagues my soule without reliefe ECCO Re●efe Say then hath Lone acquainted yet my Mistris cruell Hart With this my woes hath she as yet felt of my paines some part ECCO Some part Then sacred Gods I le hope the best and as an Oratle I le looke one day that this to mee may fall out veritable Not doubting but that fore I die I may that sweete fruit reape In Ioy which I haue sowne long since in anguish and in sweate Meane time with these your answeres kinde I le satis fide returne Assuring me through fauours yours I shall giue ore to mourne For whilst your comfortable beames shall shine vpon me bright My hart shall liue sreed from all feare enfrancht from danger quite Then heauenly Powers remember what your promise is to me Who trust repose in you that I deceiued may not be of men are taxt for Farth not kept you menit farre more blame S●●te you our deeds brightly adorne as glistering Sunny flame Vpon this the Shepheard being maruellously well satisfied in his minde beganue to speake thus vnto himselfe If wee haue any reason to giue credit vnto the Oracles of the Gods then out of doubt I h●ue no other cause but to hope well For manie times through thousands of such answeres haue they assured mee that I shall enioy that which I most desire and couet And yet alas alas this is a great and grosse error in me to belieue them For God onely who alone is without beginning and ending knoweth what is to come whereas these Diueis

condemned for the same Had Iupiter neuer loued the earth had neaer bene clensed nor purged of such monsters as much did trouble it for then the mightie Hercules had neuer bene borne Marke I beseech you how much wee all are beholding vnto Loue. Many times when men fall a discoursing and from words to quarrels so farre is Loue off from being the author thereof as quite contrarie were it not for his presence contentious Discord would animate one against another euerie one to murther his companion acquaintance for where Loue is there neuer is seene any disagreement at all And therefor is Loue the father of concord and peace and not of brawling and strife A Historiz yea and so puissant and forcible is hee as his power also extendeth to force wilde beasts to be milde as was that Lyon which was brought before Titus the Emperor which in steed of deuouring the poore slane who was flung vnto her to staunch her exceeding great hunger gently fell downe at his feete stroking him doing him all the reuerence that might be and louing him most deerely by reason that this slaue flying away from the seuere crueltie of his maister and lighting into a wood where this beast was had pulled out a great thorne out of his foote which most pitiouslie did grieue him Now if brute beasts are taught to loue out of doubt then such men shall be much condemned as will not follow the like example The graue Spartans put in practise this counsell to the intent to haue children in as much as they imagined that such as were begotten through a firme and passing kinde of good liking would prooue farre more valiant and couragious then such as were borne of the husband and wife without louing one an other And surely we see by experience that such children are more gallant and of a brauer spirit then those that are brought forth into the world lawfully whether it is either because the loue of such persons is more affectionate and passionate that are the cause of their byrths or whether it be for that they see by reason that they are Bastards they are depriued of their Parents inheritance and therefore the more willingly thrust forth themselues to seeke their owne aduancement Iefpha the Iudge of Israel and William surnamed the Conqueror that got the Crowne of England were of this number with infinite other braue personages So that by this we may gather that Loue not onely bringeth forth honor and profite vnto men but also an vnspeakable kinde of comfort withall They that haue tryed the pleasure thereof can better iudge then I For the delight that Loue affordeth is so sweete so gentle and so delightfull as it is not possible to set downe no nor scarce to conceiue the same in anie thoughts So that in comparison of that all other mortall ioyes are but A Bomparison as it were small sparkles and like vnto litle stars in respect of this which for the glorie thereof may be compared vnto the splendent Sunne Heerewithall Coribant kept silence leauing Arcas to follow this discourse and to make an end of this disputation which he did in these termes following If it be lawfull for one to say something and to argue of that which wee cannot see as of a Deitie or Godhead then must we reason by the effects of the same But these which exceede our humane capacitie and conceit giue vs a most certaine and sufficient testimonie that we ought to belieue that there is a certaine puissance and power farre greater then is our owne which we cannot attribute vnto anie other then vnto GOD. As in a wildernes the houses there built testifie that men be dwelling therein because they are the worke of mens hands So may we say of Loue and so it is with him for neuer hath any person seene him nor viewed him at any time yet notwithstanding A Similie euery one is able to talke and to discourse of him by reason of the wonderfull effects which proceed from his diuine power and might Where you say that Children borne out of marriage are valiant and couragious At that I maruell nothing at all for Loue being a Bastard as the sonne of Mars and Venus cannot doe lesse then like support and affect his brethren they hauing the same beginning that he hath Neuerthelesse for all they haue some particular gift incident vnto them yet are they as illegitimate depriued both by Nature and by the Ciuill Law from bearing any charge or office in the common-wealth as their birth is contrarie vnto the custome as well of honestie as of all ciuill order and Lawe Therefore Loue is not praise-worthie in this point for manie times hee confoundeth Right and maketh a gallimalfrie or a mingle-mangle of Iustice bringing such vnlawfull Brattes as these to inherit with those that are lawfullie begotten either for default that they are not knowne or taken to be such or else because their presupposed father will not publish them for Bastards for that he will not offend the honor of his wife But say the world were freed from such kinde of men and that there were no more such to be found yet for all that it should be neuer a whit the lesse honored nor lesse defended I confesse and yeelde that Loue is mightie and of great power in the procreation of such children But as all Countreyes and Realmes without the execution of Iustice are but plaine open theeueries and robberies liuing as licentious Outlawes So Loue without reason and Iustice is but a disordinate appetite trampling vnder his feete all respect all Iustice and all Law to satisfie and asswage his hote and burning passions And how much Sumiramis the nieces of Augustus the Emperour Poppea Agrippina Faustina and diuers others haue bene condemned for following such kinde of Loue and giuing ouer themselues most voluptuously vnto all sorts of people you knowe as well as I am able to report Where you say that Loue is not the author of vice but rather men who applie the same ill and abase it through the badnesse of their owne nature I answer that it is nothing so For as the prisoner cannot dispose of him who is his keeper and holdeth him captiue Euen so men are so farre off from ruling Loue according as they would that hee vseth them as he list holding them so fast in such sure bands as they can doe nothing but what shall please him There is difference betweene him and wine for a man may take heede if he will that he drinke not so much vntill he be drunke but he cannot so easilie resist Loue in as much as that reason being supprest which is in man vpon which presently Loue as a tyrant ceazeth he can then doe no more of himselfe he being constrained and compelled to follow the will and commaund of him that doth signorize ouer him For if Loue were in the free libertie at the deuotion and disposition of

Areas was the occasion of a greater benefit in deliuering Athens from such a seruile bondage as forced them to offer their prettie little children vnto the greedie lawes of that deuouring Monster To conclude much honour great glorie and infinite good hath proceeded through Loue in so much as he that hath neuer loued deserueth not the name of a man As the Shepheard had made an end of his speech the faire Nymph Orythia arriued who hauing her Lute in her hand sung in a most dulcet tune these Heroicall verses following What shall my Fortune neuer mend in which I doe languish Yet O yee Gods let me die for line without heart can I not now Cruell he that my soule commaunds doth mocke at my hard haps Curst be the flame that euery thing doth burne sane our anguish Ah shall I neuer see my life nor my Loue to be ended Neuer for these skies are cruell vnto my plainings And they doe seeme to be deafe when with my cries I doe mone them More that I liue I plague my selfe and am mine owne Hangman Cruell alone is that griefe that no remedie findeth But for to suffer without hope if destinie mine were Why was I brought into this world and why was I borne then Better nere to be than alwaies so to be tortred Woe to me hope haue I none that ere my paine will be swaged Yet no griefe there is to be found but findeth his easing Excepe such as ouer desperate onely by Loue comes Then since I needes must langnish thus content will I hold me For at last my comforts this although that I perish Yet from all these cares and troubles soone shall I rid me That man neuer feares when death doth venter vpon him When to loose this wretched life he rides in a Hauen Free from the Tempests of this world to liue euerlasting After the Nymph had with many scalding sighes deliuered these verses she thus bespake the Shepheard Arcas What time wilt thou limit vnto my sorrowes and when wilt thou make an end of tormenting me as thou doest If pittie cannot induce thee to succour me at least let these mine earnest praiers moue thee Why takest thou delight thus to be importuned and why is it a pleasure vnto thee thus to be sued vnto Ah wy doest thou not restore my heart vnto his former health and why deuiest thou to helpe him who is so much affected to doe thee seruice Cruell is that Lord that maketh his faithfull seruant to serue him still and yet yeeldeth him no recompence for his paine vniust is he and hatefull both to God and man For what vice more horrible can there be than barbarous ingratitude Ah wash from thy soule that foule fault and suffer not thy selfe any more to be reproached in that thou art hard-harted and bitter against her who onely deuoteth her selfe vnto thee After the Criminall hath his fatall sentence pronounced he is put to death presently without making him languish any more in prolonging his miserie Fuen so let me intreate thee to dispatch and giue thy verdit of life or death against me without delighting thy selfe any longer in my Disasters The fire put into the mouth of a Cannon forceth the pouder to flie out suddenly which turneth into a flame Euen so I am not able longer to endure without my griefe burst forth of my soule or that I giue vp the ghost and die But what talke I of death when it is denied vnto me No no had I but had the benefit of the same thou cruell man hadst neuer heard so many praiers come from me neuer had I made so many vowes vnto thee neither had I moued thee so often vnto compassion as I haue done for with some desperate instrument or other I had finished both my life and griefe long ere this and both at one time But alas I being immortall must endure this anguish whilest being able to helpe others I cannot heale mine owne festring wounds Not vnlike the Physition who dieth after he hath conserued the liues of other not hauing the skill to preserue his owne Were some God the cause of these my plaints and that by reason of some one Deitie or other this mischaunce had hapned vnto me I were not worthie of some excuse amongst mine equals But when I call to minde how I haue suffered my selfe to be vanquisht by a simple Shepheard and yet am not able to perswade him to haue remorse vpon me I needs must confesse I am worthie to be blamed and that rightly But alas I know not wel what I say for my Ladie the Goddesse Diana loueth a Shephcard as well as I and vnder this weede oftentimes lodgeth vertue learning and beautie Neuer was any more beautifull than Adonis none more faire than Narcissus and none more liuely than Paris when he was a Shepheard neither was there euer a Nymph more amiable than Enone the Shepheardesse Angelica the peerlesse Paragon of all beautie left many great Princes and valiant Paladines all which were suters vnto her for her Loue and accepted a poore common Souldier for her sweet heart and Loue. Loue respecteth not riches onely he hath an eie vnto the perfection of the person that is loued Then sweet Shepheard fancie me and giue me some sure proofe of thy affection towards me without putting me any more to further troubles So said the pensiue Nymph when Arcas being rauished with the contemplation of his faire Mistris as if he had bene speaking vnto her and as if Orythia had bene farre from him Began to speake thus O sacred Diana haue I not as yet giuen thee sufficient testimonie of my zealous good will towards thee considering my long and many sorrowes but wilt thou still see more and yet neuer yeeld me any recompence for the same Alas the Goldsmith trieth gold but once if it will indure the fire which he vseth to make so me excellent piece of worke withall and the Eagle is contented to carrie his little ones but once against the Sunnie Beames which if they are able to abide he suffereth them to liue making account they are his owne Why then deare Mistris art not thou content with these many proofes of my faithfull Amitie without demaunding still new at my hands If it be because I am too base a creature to be beloued and that thou thinkest me not worthie of so high a fauour Ah then I beseech thee remember Iupiter who disdained not the Loue of Europe or of Semele although they were mortall women nor Thetis who although a Goddesse yet vouchsafed to espouse Penelus an earthly man and sacred Apollo who vouchsafed to affect the Troyan Cassandra yea remember the Goddesse of all beautie who was willing to accept the Loue of Anchises to beare a child by him which was called the wandring Prince Aeneas And therefore be not angrie although I dare to loue thee for I feare not that the torment of Ixion shall euer punish me because I

their liues doe loath Worthie is hee of blaeke Night That in Cupid doth delight Gods from heauen haue chast'e and som This vile wretch vs to torment Nor are wee him to endure That such plagnes vs doth procure Worthie is hee of blaoke Night That in Cupid doth delight Then most wretched him I deeme That of this blinde Boye doth steeme Worser Plague there 's not of ills That consumes still yet nere kills Worthie is hee of blacke Night That is Cupid takes delight If this Song did astenne me driuing me into a heauy dump you may caslly iudge For I assure you I began now to giue ouer all hope to haue any more ioyfull dayes in this world and I was of this opinion that my Ladit had for the nonce deliuered the same in my presence to the end I should not looke for any fauour at her hands and that by this Song she had as it were bidden me farewell For such women as are wise and of diseretion haue a thousand deuises to take their leaues and to be rid of their Louers whome they esteeme not as well to shadow their cruell mindes with the same as to be free and cleare from them without reproach or blame For what need had my Mistris to bid me Adieu since I neuer was worthie nor accounted to be one that shee should loue No no I was not a man good enough to heare of a beautie so perfect so much as this one small word Goe thy wayes But haughtie and high minded LOVE vseth to distribute his pride amongst his followers in such sort as you shall seldome or neuer see a Louer but that hee is insolent and proud promising farre more vnto himselfe then hee is like to obtaine Hee that is a seruant will be alwayes sure to haue one qualitie or other of his Maisters as a newe vessell retaineth still the sent of that liquor with which he hath bene first seasoned And so I before this time beganne to thinke better of my selfe then I had cause but my vain-glorious humor was quickly taken downe resembling the Lightning flash which no sooner is borne but that it dyeth or a buble of water which is no sooner come but that it is gone againe presentlie The Dance ended my Ladie came straight towards mee demanding and enquiring of me what that Monster and that Maide were and what became of them I tolde her all as I did vnto you without forgetting any thing describing vnto her with all the best cunning I had both the vglinesse of that deformed beast and the beautie of the Damosell that did encounter with him As that braue Caualier whome his enemie doeth dare to Combat standeth musing within himselfe sometime before hee doeth answere debating in his minde whether he should accept or refuse the Combat so stood my Mistris mute and still at my speeches studying a great while before she spake any one word In the end she sitteth her downe when hauing willed vs to sit by her shee beginneth with a most sober and sadde looke thus to deliuer her minde Seeing Shepheard that this Monster is called Pride thou couldest not describe so fowle a Beast and so horrible bad de enough neither must thou speake too much in the praise of so sweete so faire and gentle a Virgin as that Damosell was because shee is Humilitie For what thing is there in the world more vglie then Pride What more disagreeing from the Nature of Gods and men what so great an aduerfarie vnto Vertue and what more contrarie vnto the glorie of mankinde Pride was first placed in heauen amongst the Angelicall spirits which the Almighty God had made beautifull immortall and without corruption An excellēt discourse against Pride but this Monster hauing defamed and disgraced them was with them throwne downefrom thence from whence he came to inhabit in the terrestriall Paradise There did this damned wretch poyson our first Parents perswading them The fall of Lucifer through Pride that they should be like vnto their Creator if they would by transgressing his sacred Ordinance cate of the forbidden Tree These poore soules belieued him but they ouerthrew themselues for hauing hearkened vnto him God driuing them out of that dainty Paradise condemned them to die The fall of our first parents Adam and Eue through Pride after they had in much sorrow and care finished their naturall liue With them was this Serpent hunted away who retired himselfe amongst mortall men liuing heere in the world and fewe were there of the sonnes of men which did not entertaine and make much of him Caine nourished this hell-hound a long time being induced through him to kill his humble and meek-harted brother who could not abide this insolent Dragon Afterward The fall of Caine through Pride as men grew increased so hath this Monster done both in power and credit insomuch as he counselled the children of the earth to build a Tower which might reach vp into heauen These vaine fooles belieued him busying themselues about their high Turret and taking great paines to accomplish and effect this rash and haughtie enterprise But the HOLIE ONE of Syon ouerthrew their building The ouerthrow of the Tower of Babylon throgh Pride destroyed the worke of their owne hands and brake their audacious attempts driuing the Monster himselfe almost out of his wittes to see such an alteration and chaunge Hereof was it that the first Poets fained That those huge Giants the Tytans being sonnes of the earth went about to set hill vppon hill and mountaine vppon mountaine that they might scale vp to heauen and that therefore Iupiter destroyed them with Lightning by the ayde and assistance of Minerua the Goddesse of wisedome ouerthrowing their prefumptuous action with his foresaid Thunderbolts Since when this Monster hath entered into the Courtes of Princes and Kings impoysoning them so strongly with his accursed venome The ouerthrow of the Pe●sian Kings through Pride as they grew to be exceeding proud causing themselues to be worshipped and adored of men as the Kings of Persia did he giuing addresse vnto some of them that they should imitate Iupster making his Thunder to roare and to cast Lightning abroad as he vsed This proud Conceit was entertained in the Pallace of Alcxander the great after he had brought the Empire of Persia vnder subiection The ouerthrow of Alexander the great through Pride For hee grewe so arrogant and so high minded as he would needs be adored by his people but death quickly extinguisht both his glorie and his life after hee grewe to be odious amongst his owne followers through his insolent Pride So would Nabuchadonozar be worshipped causing his Image to be set vp he commaunding euerie one to offer sacrifice and prayer vnto it The fall of Nabucadnezar through Pride as vnto a God But the three Children of the Iowes refused this vniust law who for that cause were cast into a hote burning Ouen they being neuerthelesse taken forth