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A07415 Philotimus. The warre betwixt nature and fortune. Compiled by Brian Melbancke student in Graies Inne Melbancke, Brian. 1583 (1583) STC 17801; ESTC S109987 173,818 238

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Orestes Agamemnons sonne at the altars side was in adoration of his vertue and worthy recompence of vnseasonable death euery fourth yeare in the same cittie duely honoured with a deuout sacrifice But if thou chaunce to dye at this present I will not sacrifice to thy soule which is superstition but I will praise thy loyalty that loued so well and curse my hard hap that mought not requit it and so waile thy obit with dolefull teares and himnes that if sorrowes can do thee honour thou shalt pass Neoptolemus Talemon I humblye thancke your ladyship for your honorable curtosie I am almost as much behoulding to you as Boristines Adrians horse was to his maister for this horse being verye ready foe hunting that he would staye and make ready as dothe a man when he vnderstoode the chase coming and therewithall runing very surely downe the hill and verye swiftlye vp the hill Adrian loued him so well that when he was dead he not onely caused him to be buried with solemnizing his obseq●ies with great pomp but commaunded arich sepulture of marble to be erected for him Nay madam better a 〈◊〉 dogge then a dead Lion If in my life I obtaine no remorse my pleasure wil be little after my death O madam your counsaile is not currant you giue me the deuill to drinke and bids me beware poison firste kills me and then bids me fly death Deny not your abilitye to the indigent and needye Cannot she that kills willingly saue if she will yes sure you can as quicke and good and wilfull will is eke to quicke to shed my gi●●les bloude But I must lige depriued of you and then go seeke for other booties No sure hereof be sure my life were so vn●ure though I liue yet so to liue were better death endure When I behould this corps of yours and your celestiall feature the windowes of mine eies are glazed with such delight as ech new face semes full of faults that blazeth in my vewe Our stately dames in ●ourt then years do weare about their neckes to beautifie themselues but you whom I dostrue your pearls do weare closed in your mouth and smiling showe the same O Lord what foultringe of my tonge I feele what sodeine vulnes of my wi●t when I begin thy praises I know the cause Dame Pallas enuious at thy fame and full of angrie garboile hath well forecaste to dash deuice as oft as I indite it I cannot greatly blame her for if my Ladies gifts were knowne Pallas should loose her praise of price Were not I than more foolish to abandon thy companye then the priest Calasiris which being in loue with Rhodopis forsooke his countrie gods his countrie soyle and frendes and lands and all to auoid the concupiscence that might grow other presence A Beare blinded becometh fearrer and I not seeing thee should waxe more eger These thy medicines therefore are as much to the purpose as that good wiues who hauing learned of the phisition that her husband must get anappetyte got him straightwaye an ape and tied it to his bed thinking that would heale him or hers who beinge taught to giue her fraude bugloss gaue him blew glasse that killed him If thy husband loued thee not the contrarye whereof I knowe this were a reuenge and if he loue thee the facte shal be pardoned Tertia Aemilia perceiuing her husbande Scipio African to loue one of her handmaides dissembled the matter and would not see it for that shee would not seme to blame her lord of incontinencie yea after her husbands decease she made her free and married her to one of her freemen and thy Lords being of as good a nature why should he not vse thee same manner Sweete than put pleading out of place and in his roome enstall sweete peace Yet if I must réedifye my sute with newe coi●ed soothings exemplifie you some by whose imitation you shall not onely be pardoned but also hent fame by this lite deceite call to minde the Lady Fiametta who was so earnestlye courted of a noble man that shee had no vent to voide his sute but by the inioyninge of this impossibilitye If he would exhibit her the sight of a gardeine odoriferous with the smell of all sorts of freshe fragraunt flowers in the moneth of Ianuarie shee would yeelde him his borne and for the gage of it her faith should be the burrowe The gentleman forechusing the euent of all hard auentures before the losse of his Lady like Dioclesian which would rather die of poison by his owne hands ministred then he would liue depriued of his Empire tooke her offer for performaunce of which hauing trauerced many a nation to search cunninge all in vaine at last met by chaunce with a sorcerer to whom deploring with vaporous eyes his burdurus taste and enfeoffing him in a deed of gift in the one moity of his landes for some remedye the sorcerer both promised and in short space performed this execution Fiametta seing that shee looked not for a gardeine in this season with herbes flowers ar bours and euery thinge agreaunte neither able by couenaunt to defeate the gentlemā nor willing by loyalty to defile her husbands bed tould to her spouse the whole matter The good man her husband pōderinge the gratefull goodwill of the gentleman reuoluing eft his endles triuious labours to which the desire of his Ladye did summon him bad her with expedition returne to her frende and paye her promise with supplye of his pleasure A kingdome is as proper to an heire apparaunt by succession as a wife to her husband by espousall promise Yet the Inhabitaunts in the Isle of Nerae which bordereth on the riuer Nilus elect their prince not by regard of parentage but by a reuerent aspect or representation of personage and by the opinion of his vertue and valure Antiochus the sonne of Kinge Seleucus fallinge in loue withe Stratonica his fathers wife and his mother in lawe and very sicke with concealinge it close to him selfe had by the pollicie of Eristrates the kinges phisition his disease bewrayed to his father the immoderate heate of whose passion Seleucus considering with animaduersion and the daunger immiment to the defeature of his desire frelye forewent his proper interest and bestowed his wife vpon his sonne Then let me atteine thy loue though I susteine it with sorrow and depart from it afterward with my annoyaunce Whereas thou doest comfort me in mockage with a promised celebration of magnificall funeralls when I am dead I sweare that in lieu of a former beneficence which I hope for at thy hands I will not onely publishe thy clemencie whiles I liue but when thy soule shall leaue thy body as is forefined thy sepulchre shal be ingrauen with a more glorious epitaph thē that kinges which was writ in foure pillars placed vpon the mounteine Arcadio in the I le of Cipres so much renowned of M. Aurelius and of him recited But if my sighes and
the wit and stunts the stomacke Follie aduauncing herselfe in that best book of Erasmus his Encomion moriae bragging her to be the mistris of al noble exploits will admit none but monsters into her muster small men are scarse sufficient for a foote garrison to watch the walles not able to endure one nightes colde without a well defencing shelter She leuieth her army of huge boisterous hobs wel be●eming for their vnderstanders to bee the ofspringe of Giauntes who not onely will couragiously forrige vppon their enemies but durste and would for their bignes and follie lay a seconde siedge to the hould of the Gods The politicke Prince Agamemnon was of a middle pitche widly Vlisses of somwhat lesse stature whose woords came forth like winter snow such store he had as good Antenor describs him in Homer Those therefore of hot composition and of mean rate in stature liuelye neate and nimble doe as Virgil speaketh of Bées in the fourthe of his Georgickes within that little corpes of theirs right noble stomackes beare For though they be not so rash and feareles as they of the other sorte yet by reading or reason experience or pollicie they dare in time doe as much as they and for the others one matter well compassed with successe they will bring ten thowsand to happie end if lucke be aunswerable Lycurgus not one clad with the stuntliest courage of all other and far beyond Aereithous in strength I meane that Aereithous that bare the massy club wherewith he fighting got such praise that hee christened himselfe by the name of Clubber slue him tho by sleight to whom he found himselfe inferiour in force and Ereuthalion that mightie champion was slaine by good foresight of the wi●e Nestor I haue red that in an old smokie authour which thē I thought worthie noting and here I meane to insert and this it is in our vulgar tongue I haue seldome sene a long man wise or a lowe man lowlie Nowe this aspiring haughtines is vsuallye ioyned with an excelling wit whereof it proceedes For hauing a sharp capacitie wherein he doth most resemble the Gods he desireth to be seated in some exalted throne neare to the Gods and therfore saith one of Alexander if he had had a quantitie of body measured out to the qualitie of his minde with the one hande hee had caught the East and with the other he had raught the West I meane not to make an Inuectiue against goodlie corporall men of whom for my part I thinke very substancially nor think not but that as Aristotle saieth great heades if they be not too great haue the best capacities so great men if they be not monsters haue no want of wit For Paulus Eginetus I remember in his first booke De medicina saith that a verie litle heade is a certaine signe of a weake iudgement want in quantitie of braine and I suppose that if their frame and match be euen and equall Nanes and Dwarfes muste needes be topped with such heades I can vse no sharpe aunsweres to excuse my selfe to these huge Polyphems neither haue I any sound argumentes to polishe the praises of such as be of the litle reasonable sise but this I can aledg drawen frō Naturall Philosophie that the wittiest sconce hath the greatest inclination to Venerie wherewith beginning to dallye too soone though for a season it helpe the grouth yet doth it preuēt the naturall grouth and if Apolloes Phisicke be not wouen with Apolloes wit cuttes of the course of his yeares before the fates haue halfe runne their date vnlesse his peragons had the power of Dan Aurora who prolonged the youth of her frende Tithonus with supply of her moisture Yet this may be his comfort that though hee wante Paris his personage which is common to manie hee may haue parte of Achilles his prowesse which hath fellowship with few and be endewed with Vlisses his wit which I will not say is appropriate to himselfe The hilles are not fertile nor the valleyes barren The Sun in the highest delighteth in the shadowe which is shortest nourisheth the Trée whose roote groweth deepest not whose toppe springeth loftiest Naythelesse that seasonable aire and bréeding vp and worthie race may quallifie a coward with courage and portcolize the pate with pollicie Aiax Telamon was wont to say and I assent And therefore those 9. worthies of the Greekes who at Hectors challenge to combat with anye one single man offred themselues to wage battaile ech of them seuerallie had not onelie braund boisterous bodies but well bumbast also with acute pollicie I dare not be too vehement against these champions bycause as they be fooles so commonly they bee fortunate whereas the other sorte their co●riualls in the former comparison are God knoweth more loftie then luckie Which howe it comes to passe I know not but that we see ragged walles haue painted clothes when sound marble is naked a crooked backe must haue a bumbast dublet when a streight body weares no suche bolsteringes that ill woodes grow apace when good hearbes sproute at ease and that Nick Noddie hath the lucke when Welladay Wit liues in lacke Bellerophon whose shape wit and mind were more méete for a demy God then for a mortlinge whose semine race and patrie bréede foreheld deaurate scepters in Ephyra of Argos I le with how manie forraies of enemies was he afronted and worse thē any driuill assailed with azerd steele to reaue his life by stealth What monsters had he ministred to be his combatantes What veins of lanes enforced to thréede but that God whome he implored to be his gardaine renforced him with armipotente and impugnable marte to bringe the palme away and proue them dastard parnels He spending his young yeares with a Kinge in Graece the hight Proetus had caught not cautele of it in his loue the Queene Andia to whose disloialtie bycause he would not cōsent she bare her husband in hand that he sought her dishonour besought him to reueng it with austeritie of punishment Proetus woulde not murther him in hugger mugger in his owne house but forged letters of guile wherwith he sent Bellerophon to his Father in law King Rheon the Lycian prince with this tenure to reiourne the bearers returne from time to time and by some occasion to put him to death Rheon to giue good enterteinment to his sonne in lawes entreatie inioynes this Bellerophon to slay the dire monster Chimere a ghastfull thing and for no man to doe as he supposde The heade and brest of him were like a Lyon the middle like a goat behind like a Dragon his breathinges terrible flames him after much tiring toyle Bellerophon slue That done the Solymes downe he hackt Then the King appointed him to trye with manie an Amazon but stil he was so steeld with hardie heart that he laid the life of these Amazons in morgage with Pluto for his fauour at such atttempts At length to make a sure
though it be but a trifle fooles bables may serue to make wisemen sport search it to the sinews trie out his entrails though his stature be smal his heart may be big leaue what you like not beleue what you list you haue scope to scape harmles It is my theames bidding to be dainty in chusing respect or reiect to your priuate contentmentes Thus vnder protectiō of your frendly beneuolence vndoubted ascertaunce of willing attention I will proue my purpose manifestly by discoursing dispersedly through al or the most creatures extant in the world least I incur that idiots fault which intending to write the life of Priamus began many degrées of with his great graūdfathers predecessor and so spent his pith ere he came to his purpose to auoide the like néedles superfluitie I begin as followeth BE sure to those to whom you plight troth but be slow to trust any with reposed confidence for he that makes breach of his passed protestation is far worse then Pythius the deceitful Siluersmith of Syracusa and he that trustes too far though vpon some tryall is like the foolish Beara●d which hauing tamde his Beare will thrust his hand into his iaws or venter so far within his gripes that sometimes he is vrged to crie for helpe ARct seemes the knot indissoluble the bond of mutuall good-will twixt the parent the child Yet Tullia Tarquins daughter for couetize of the empire not onely berefte her father of life but in spite made her couch to be drawen ore his body and with her trampling Iades brused his corpes Seruius Tullus was molested of his children Zan●ppus persecuted his Father Pericles Oedipus was imprisoned of Eteocles and Polinices Bassianus sought the death of his father Seuerus Although Aristotle say S. Ethicke● that Loue descendes rather th●n ascendes that parents loue children more then they requite it ●et doth not this loue alwayes indiuidually concomitate and follow parentes Iustinus the abridger of Trogus Pompeius writeth that the wife of Demetrius for desire she had to reigne betrayeth one of her sonnes who was an obstacle to her enterprise and by that horrible facte dismissing all motherly affection when another sonne of hers named Grippus had recouered his fathers dominions she as though she had bene imbased by this conquest attempted to embrew her handes in the bloud of him although it happened most diametrically opposite for offering him a cup of deadly poison when he came thirstie from exercise he of duetiful curtesie desired her to begin and vrged her so far that hee founde but great proofes of her intended purpose wherewith the Quéene being ouercome poisoned herselfe with the potion which she had prouided for her sonne Phaenix deflowred a damosell whom his father Amintor kept in cube and did affectionat for which cause his sire thundering bitter curses inuoking the fell condemned furies bequeathinge to his hire the hatefull harmes of Hell and wishing such a sonne might neuer be sire or beget babes to be his nephewes whom he might cherishe in his bosome he fled from his fathers malediction and left the hope of all his welth in Hellade where then Amintor raigned Meleager when the turretts of his natiue Cittie Calidon were battered by crewes of Cu●et land could not hauing taken a litle displeasure either be cal●●ed with the Lordes faire offers or be entreated with the Cleargies prayers or be induced by his Fathers beseechinges kneeling on his knées to saue the Cittie till time paste time almost not for their socour sake but of his owne disposition the toy tooke him in the head If that were lawe nowe which was lawfull in Sophocles his time for children to disposesse their doating parentes we should finde I doubt not no small multitude that with Sophocles his sonnes would goe about to proue their fathers fooles that they might enioy their landes and goods I cannot forget here to insert the condemnation of these children reluctant to nature by the char●e pietie of the storke to their dams who relieue them in age with foode of whom in youth they receyued satiate sustentation the godlie duetie of a poore woman who as Valerius writeth hauing her mother deliuered by the Praetor vnto the Iayler to be executed in the prison as a malefactour and a straight mandate giuen that none should visit her sauing that her daughter by the gentlenes of the Iayler got leaue to come to her who notwithstanding was narrowlie searched that she brought no foode bycause he purposed to kill her with famine a great while aslaked her mothers hunger with the milke of her brestes the Iayler merueyling how she liued so long at length perceiued the honest guile and reporting the straung fact to the Counsel procured her pardon When the broode of the Pellycane waxeth hore haughty they violently smite their dams and gréeuously wound them Nero made a funerall corse of his naturall mother and this Tiger Nero a straung begotten swaine was preferred by Claudius to the Imperiall throne before his owne sonne Britannick BRethren descending from the same loynes hauing copulation of neare consanguinitie should not me thinketh degenerate from kindnes and turne natiue Loue to defiant Hostilitie It were straung in these dayes to see their natures peruerted but that it hath bene so among our forefathers yet it was no woonder in their golden daies for so it hath bene from the worldes first foundation Petosiris the Iunior sonne of Calasiris Priest at Memphis by guyle ment to defraude his elder brother Thyamis of the succession of his Fathers Priesthood for the which they sought a combat or at least should haue fought if Petosiris his héeles had not serued him better then both his handes and heart were able to doe The Empire of Rome being left in euen moytie to the two brethren Bassianus and Geta Bassinus to the intente to haue the sole regiment fraudulentlie butchered his brother Geta. Abimilech slewe thréescore of his brethren that he might raigne alone when onelie Ionathas by Gods prouision scapte the sckowring Record the quarrells of Marcus and Lucius Titus and Domitian Tyberius and Germanicus Numitor and Amulius Saturne Titan who vpon the point of commaundement gouernment were not as though they had bene brethren but mainteined wars as most cruell enimies Ouid saith in the first of his Metamorphosis that the violence of the boisterous winds which brothers are by kind are so turmoilous and so cruell that euerie one is pent pur partiewise in sundrie place and therefore to the gray Morning and to the realme of Nabathie and Persis and other landes far vnderneath the morning starre did Eutus take his flight the setting of the Sun and shutting in of nighte belong to Zephyr that braies his balming breath the blastes of blustering Boreas raigne in Scithia and in other landes vnder Charlsis wayne to Auster is appendaunt all the Sotherne coast who beareth showers and mists continually in his mouth FEw Husbandes marrie wiues vnlesse