the eyes affectâously as ãâã thing desired It seemeth that hee kisseth the thought and the soule it selfe Whereof certaine Poets with good reason have written that Love borroweth his arrowes from the eyes of Lovers to serve himselfe againsâ themselves Q. What doth move the Poets to fainâ VENUS to bee of Massive Gold A That may be by reason of her raââ and excellent beauty or else because shee is so much desired as Gold some assigne the cause vpon the great summes of Gold that Lovers doe consume and spend vpon Love Q. What is the cause that Lovers doe vse to forsweare themselves A. Love doth laugh at such perjuries Lovers therefore desirous to serve their God doe sweare continually Or else it preceedeth of a certaine lightnesse caused of divers thoughts which doe rise in their minds Q. How chanceth it that men leave not to love a woman although through age or some other accident or chance shee waxeth ill favoured and foule A. That commeth of love which is blind and being blind cannot know or judge the imperfections of other But how should he take knowledge of that which he cannot blame And how can he blame that which hee is constrained to embrace and wholly to pursue Q. From whence commeth it that most commonly wee be given fervently to love not those onely of whom wee never received pleasure but those also whom wee never saw A. Every one beareth the Image of hiâ mind in his face and thereof may be gathered some signe or token of the wit and nature of the person by meanes whereoâ we may conjecture whereunto she is moââ enclined which is the very spring and beginning of Naturall amity or hatred Q. How chanceth it that divers meâ cannot obtaine the grace and favour oâ their Ladies although they doe serve them honour them and adore them A. Because as Aristotle saith there iâ nothing in them worthy to be beloved Buâ what man is so voyd of Natures grace but hath somewhat in him worthy ãâã Love Q. But what is the cause that some sââters be better beloved of their Lndies thââ other some A. The Lady enriched with beauty anâ good manners is like unto the Sunne thâ doth every where equally extend hiâ beames which notwithstanding are receââved unequally of some more of some lessâ after their capacity The starres also there in doe beare some rule so that after the saying of Diogenes the Stoique the signes common to two persons that is to say under which the one and the other shall be borne and those signes agreeing doe cause the wills of the same two persons to bee joyned and united Q. Why be these little and prety angers and fallings out which chance amongst Lovers the refreshing and renuing of Love A. That shall ever be because Love is the flame that will goe out and dry if it be not blowne and oftentimes moved Or else we may well say that the more the thing which wee desire is denied the more we desire it Q. Whereof commeth it that we be ashamed to communicate to others our desire and lust to the combate of Love and of other appetites and desires as to drink eate sleepe and such like wee be not ashamed A. Because that the same carnall affection is not so necessary nor profitable for this life as the other appetites be Q. Whereof commeth the diversity of weapons wherewith Love is wont to wound men and women fishes birds and other foure âooted beasts A. Of the divers nature of things that he assaileth Q. You will say that beauty failing love decreaseth A. J would say yea because Love is no other thing but a desire of beauty Q. Whereof commeth it that a man heing touched with Love cannot ridde himselfe of that passion by any dexterity policy or wit A. Love is a certaine estate and plighâ that doth wrap and fold the mind of manâ and with a certaine sweet motion dotâ transport him into the thing by him desired This affection riseth by the contemplation and judgement that hee hath oâ beauty which causeth him to conceive in his Spirit anâ Mind such admiration and desire that whether hee will or no he iâ caught in the Ginnes and Nets of Love Q. What reason have certaine people oâ the North parts to seeth with water ãâã certaine stone called Gagates causing theiâ spouses before they lye with them to drink thereof A. That is to know whether they havâ made any fault or not before For the proâperty of that stone is suddainly to force them to make water that have endured and suffered the act of man Q. What is the cause that women which be of very bote nature cannot conceive A. Great and vehement heat doth destroy and corrupt the seed and therefore they which be very hote are commonly fruitlesse and barren Q. Why doe some women love men that be blacke and other those that be faire and well coloured A. Women of feeble sight love them that be blacke because blacknesse doth joyne and unite the sight too much disparkled and by this meanes doth comfort the same Or else we may well say that every thing doth love and desire his like They therefore which be hote of nature love them that be blacke because they be more prone to heaâe Other which be of colder Nature doe love them that be white because they be of cold Complexion the Mother of whitenesse Q. Wherefore have the ancients compared love to drunkennesse A. For nothing else but because it maketh men which before were cold heauy and covetous lusty and liberall Q. Wherefore doe not common harlots conceive or if they doe it is very sildome A. The diversity of the seeds doth leâ conception and causeth that the same cannot be retained Q. What meaneth it that the purse of Cupido is tyed with a Leeke A. This proverbe doth declare that Love is liberall and findeth no let to put his hand in his purse Q. Which is greatest the hurt or profite that commeth of Love A. He that doth not love of himselfe esteemeth the losse to be greater then the profite Q. Thinke yee that Love hath judgement or no A. How can he with judgement cause Lovers daily as every man may see to fall into such enormities Q. Whereof commeth it that for the most part the Children which married women doe borrow or which be not lawfully be gotten commonly called Bastards doe resemble more their husbands then those that be legitimate or lawfully by them begotten A. The reason commeth of an imagination that they have to be suddainly taken or espyed of their husbands And so their husbands be alwayes in their fantasie for it seemeth to them that they be continually before their eyes and that they say to them what doest thou thou shamelesse whore Is this thy assured promise made unto me at the marriage day Q. Wherefore be young women more prompt to laugh then others A. Young women are under the safegard and tuition of Venus the Goddesse of
laughter and so they doe easily laugh It may also be said that they have tender and delicate bodies and laughter is no other thing then a spice of Joy wantonnesse or tickling Q. Doe you thinke that Love is so blind as he is painted or that his sight bee good A. Wherefore should not I thinke him blind sith amongst my neighbours I see the most ill favoured to be best beloved of the fairest Q. What people after your mind and judgement be most worthy to be beloved A. J thinke those that be learned beâcause they may give pleasure to the body profit to the Spirit and make their faââ immortall Q. Wherein is the subtilty of women mosâ discovered A. In that they seeme to love one alone and neverthelesse doe give themselves ãâã many Q. What woman thinketh her selfe mosâ worthy to bee beloved the faire or thâ foule A. Before J shall answer you shew ãâã a woman that thinketh her selfe to be foule Q. What meaneth it that the lookes oâ Ladies doe wholly turne vs from all otheâ objects and doe draw vs vnto them A. The lookes of Ladies be neere neighbour to the Image and imaginatioâ of beauty then any other thing whicâ above all things doth ravish our senses anâ they doe pleasantly bind and captivate thâ same of purpose in the end to bring theâ to subjection Q. What be the conditions that an amorous Lady ought to have A. That she be not covetous that she be courteous and easie to be spoken unto neate and secret in her doings Q. What properties be requisite in a Lady that right well may bee called faire A. That she have a faire and a comely personage a faire neck a small body a little mouth and white teeth and cleane Q. Is this a proverbe good Love him that will love thee A. Yea very good for he is a beast that will not love being beloved Q. Whether is the man or the woman more subject to love A. That question is very evident a man is sooner taken and wrapt in love then a woman For we see that the man which is borne to a thousand good and great enterprises doth for loves sake abandon all glory and honour that he may receive Q. Why have the ancient and they of these dayes painted love with wings A. To declare that the desires of Lovers be high and labour to attaine high and great enterprizes Q. Who deserveth more to bee favoured of love the faire of simple and honest meaning or the foule that is sage crafty and well advised A. Prudence is the beauty of the mindâ which continueth longer then the beauty of the body Q. Can love be without Iealousie A. I thinke not For testimony whereofâbe Ovid Virgill Plutarch and Boccaceâ who writeth in a Sonnet If Love lived without Jealousie c. Q. Why he Ladies sooner amorous of ãâã Souldier then of a learned man A. Souldiers be more liberall and not so subtill as Schollers be more easie to be allured with enticements of women There is no Souldier so brave if a woman say unto him that he hath a faire beard that his leggs be well proportioned that he is comely on horsebacke strong to encounter and overthrow his enemy but incontinently doth give over and submit himselfe unto her will and pleasure Q. What is the cause that many despising their wives be so fond vpon curtezanâ and Harlots A. The Curtezans suffer not themselves to be seene except they be first painted but wives must often be seene of their Husbands which causeth them to seeme not to be so faire Or we may say that wives continually be at their husbands backes misusing them with vile and unseemely words which maketh them to tast of other meates and causeth them to imagine a thousand other appetites and lusts Q. Wherefore have Lovers so feeble voyces A. Of the feare that they haue to displease their Ladies And therewithall the unequall motions wherewith their Spirits are moved which forceth this feeblenesse of voyce Q. VVhether doth Love shew her greatest force either in making the foole to become wise or the most wise or advised man to become a beast A. If there be more paine to breake down then to build I beleeve there shall be more adoe ' to restore wisedome to him that hath lost it then newly to make him wise For love and folly be nothing else but analienation oâ the good sense and wit Q. May a man dye through vehemeâ Love A. Of this the History of Seleucus aââ Antiochus may testifie and beare witnessâ which may be reade in the first Tome ãâã the Pallace of pleasure lately published Q. Which should bee the greatest heart breaking the Lady dying in our sight anâ presence or in our absence A. J would thinke by her presence foâ the eyes doe give greater feeling of doloâ and griefe then the eares Q. Whereof commeth it that men havâ divers judgements of the beauty of wââmen A. It is a proverbe derived from the anâcient Greekes that all faire and beautiful things be hard to be judged even so of thiâ difficulty commeth this diversity of judgeâments Q. How chanceth it that many whicâ be esteemed men of very good judgment arâ surprised with the love of foule and ill faâvoured women A. It may be that they have marked ãâã certain beauty in them which doth appearâ outwardly In like manner Painters and Musitians have judgements of draughts and ââcords whereof none doe take heed but ââch as have skill in the same Q. Doe you thinke the discovering of Love to be the cause sometime that a man âbtaineth not his desire A. That chanceth many times by reason âhat such women doe love their honesty âery much Q. Is the travell greater in secret and âoncealed love then in that which is discovered and open A. Without doubt there is greater paine in concealed love because a man cannot vent the heate of love concealed which by communicating and counselling with some other may be made more comfortable and easie Q. Whether is more constant in love the man or the woman A. The man being both of body and spirit more firme in all affaires And naturally he is more constant and of better perâwasion in love Q. Whereof commeth it that he which loveth is most commonly beloved A. That peradventure may come because our Spirits cannot resist the amorââ shots which doe proceed of the sweet looâ that Lovers doe continually cast one upoâ another Or else we will say that it is thâ property of nature to couple and joyne likâ to like and to scatter and divide the thingâ which have no proportion together Q. VVherefore doe men say that to sneeââ is a good signe in the deed of love A. Because it commeth of the braine which is as it were the little Canon and withdrawing place of all the Senses And it seemeth that all the Senses do agree and give their assent to the sentence and conclusion of Lovers Q. VVhereof commeth it that
good judgement Q. Thinke ye that women be the greatest goodnesse that is in all the world A. They that judge and esteeme so be blind and have placed their sences on earthly things but they whose minds be directly bent on high would say the contrary Q. Is there greater sweetnesse then bitternesse in amorous death A. Bitternesse in all things doth surmount and passe all sweetnesse and specially in love Q. Why doe women generally hate warre A. Because it retaineth men and thereby are deprived of their service and entertainment Q. Doe lovers live in more peace and quietnesse being neare or farre off A. They live better in peace a faâââ off that J can speake by good experiâence for it is not long agoe that I bâing servant to a Lady of Placentia ãâã City in Italy shee assured me to haââ proved in herselfe my saying and it ãâã not yet three weekes that a Lady whoââ I serve with all devotion said the liââ to my great griefe and sorrow Q. Must we be ceremonious in loveâ A. All true Lovers live in love witâ fidelity and integrity of heart withouâ any ceremonies Q. Is it more pleasure to Love ãâã to be beloved A. J beleeve to love consideringâ that it commeth and proceedeth of ãâã free and franke action and deed Q. Who is better content the Brideâ groome or the Bride when they embraââ each other A. The Bride and that it is so yeââ shall see them continually rise up merryâ and joyfull in the morning Q. What signified the antient Poetââ by causing the Girdle of virginity to ãâã unknit at Marriages A. What else but that the Bride just change her estate and signifieth âhat she was untied that is to say made âoe to this end that like a good husââ¦ife shee should not be slothfull but âoe about her house and looke to all âarts of the same Q. Which is best married the Maid âââ¦ken perforce or the man whom shee âoveth A. In the act of marriage will ruâeth and not force Q. Is Love a thiefe What is hee âccustomed to steale A. He is a thiefe and a great robber of hearts Q. Doe you thinke it theft to rob ây meane of Beauty A. Is there any greater theft Is âot Beauty the cruellest tyrant that is Q. Wherein doth the Beauty of woâen resemble the Spring-times A. For it doth soone passe away ând perish Q. Wherefore be all things more disââ¦sed to love in the Spring time then ãâã any other season A. Because that then the humâââ doe move themselves and the blâââ doth waxe hot Q. What is the greatest happinâââ that man can have in love A. To possesse and play with ãâã Lover without jealousie or suspitionâ Q. The eyes of the Lady haue ãâã such force upon the heart of the Lovââ as the beames of the Sunne have vpââ things on earth A. Yes doubtlesse if the lookes beââ morous otherwise it is cleane contrarââ Q. The time imployed about loveâ it well bestowed or is it lost A. If a man bestow his love well ãâã loseth nothing but doth rather gaineâ Q. Is loue subject to time as all ââther creatures be A. Love is free and is in propeââ above time Q. What is the greatest pleasure thââ a true Lover can feele A. To thinke that he is borne ãâã serve and please his Lady Q. Be our hearts drawne by aâââmorous woman as the Cloudes by ãâã Caecias Iron by the Adamant and straââây Awmbre A. There is farre greater force in thâââârawings and inticements of women Q. May Love be well called and ââearmed an Enchanter and Magiââian A. His effects be supernaturall and ââherefore to be esteemed a Magitian and more then a Magitian Q VVherefore have certaine wise ââen painted Love with his eyes vnââound A. To shew that nothing is hid from him and there is no craft unknowne unto him whereof hee hath not the ââounterpoiz Q. Doe ye beleeve that a true Lover ââoth thinke that he may merit the grace âf his Lady by his service A. All true Lovers doe judge and ââsteeme their Ladies to be of inestimable ârice and valour otherwise they could ââot be induced to love them And if it âe so how can a Lover be so arrogant âo thinke that for a little dured travell ââe can get such favour Q. Whereof was Love made A. He was composed of pleasure aââ displeasure Q. Wherefore be women compared ãâã Proteus A. Because of their great inconstaâcie Q. Whereof proceede so mââ⦠Bawdes A. Because many desire to depââ⦠of other rather then of themselues Q. How is it possible for poore Loveââ to end their travels A. By despaire never to be fortunaââ in Love or never to enjoy the effeââ thereof Q. Why be young Whores commââ⦠old Bawdes A. To cause other to feele the pleâsure which they whilom did feele theââ¦selves Or else because they would thââ⦠all other were like themselves that thââ might have no cause whereof to be ââ¦shamed Q. Falling into the hands of a pittâlesse woman what were best to doe ãâã absent himselfe from her and to pay over into some other Countrey Or else âo have her daily before his eyes and tââake occasion of travell A. The surest thing is to absent himselfe farre off Q. I desire to know if the ordinances of Love be reasonable or not A. The principall ordinances of Lovers are that they love equally and that betweene the Lover and his Lady there be nothing hidden And thus J esteeme the ordinances of Love to bee very reasonable seeing that he useth such equaâity in things unequall Q. Doth Love use his lawes with ââquity or with rigor A. He that understandeth them well shall find that Love continually hath âsed and doth use his ordinances with great equity Q. Be not the lawes of Love subâect to other lawes A. The lawes of Love be soveraigne above all other Q. Are they contrary to the lawes of Nature A. No they be rather conformable unto them and bee as it were ãâã thing Q. May love be called an exceâ⦠Physitian A. Nay rather a hurter of men ãâã how can he take upon him the title ãâã Physitian that cannot heale any ãâã wounds but those that he himselfe ââ keth Q. Of what power is the Scepter ãâã Love A. Able to make them liberââ hardy and patient that will follow ãâã trace Q. If Love proceed of Idleneââ how can the same make men ingeniâââ and witty A. Love hath alwayes done and ãâã doth great miracles and therefore ãâã him to doe that is no great marvell Q. How may Lovers be most trââ⦠tearmed fooles or wise men A. J will call them wise if they ãâã well set and placed their love and ãâã loving doe not lose themselves Fooâ⦠I will also esteeme them if they loveââ ãâã thing without reason and measure ãâã not worthy to be beloved Q. Whereof riseth Iealousie A. It commeth to some of the feare ââat they have to lose the thing that ââey most love To others
speaking very common to Latinists called Metaphora Q. Whereof commeth the love of two which doe equally loue each other A. Some thinke that it commeth oâ their conversation mutuall familiarity other of Angels and spirits assigned to each man And other of the concurrants and conformity of the Planets Q. Whereof proceedeth the rare beauty of women A. Some doe say that it commeth of the temperature of the elements other doe tell reasons more excellent Q. Why did Euripides say that Love was like a Tragedy A. Because that love is evermorâ accompanied with heavinesse with complaints and with a hard and bittââ end Q. Is there any difference betweene the grace of a woman and her beauty or whether be they all one A. I beleeue that there is a difference for the one hath a greater force then the other to cause a man to be content and satisfied Q. Whether is it a greater adventure to get the grace of a faire woman or else to recover it if it were lost A. Jt is a greater act to recover it as J beleeue women being of their owne nature disdainfull and stout in their opinion Q. How may a man doe to obtaine and get the favour of another A. Some do say by merit some other by fortune other doe impute it to the conformity of nature and some do attribute the same to influence or destiny Q. Whether of these three qualities be best to obtaine the grace of women Beauty Riches or Learning A. They which be faire desire to have faire servants Rich those that have wherewithall and the learned love them that be learned But most-commonly riches is best liked of women for their maintenance although with wise women learning is of greatest price Q. Is it possible that a Lover see continually the things that he loveth A. That chanceth to those specially that be not touched with Love that is to wit which can represent to themselves those which be absent by cogitations Q. How may the heart of a Lover liue that is not beloved A. He may live very well considering that it is more pleasure to love as I have at other times affirmed then to be beloved Q. May a man establish lawes to Lovers A. I thinke not but yet I will not deny that they which love by a certaine gift of nature or chance fatall lawes may be established whereunto they may subdue themselves Q. Is there any thing in the worââ that may retire and draw an amoroââ man from the thing that he loveth A. Onely disdaine may withdraw him more then any other thing Q. Why doe the ancient paint Cuâpido to force himselfe to plucke ãâã branch of Palme out of the hand of anâ other Cupido A. In ancient Bookes there is reâmembrance made of two Cupidoes thâ one chaste the other lascivious and dishonest The chaste is he that doth strongly bind and bring him that is lascivious and dishonest into subjection Q. How can a Lover dye in himselfe and live in another A. This is cleare that the heart iâ more where he loveth then where hee giveth life Q. Wherefore be the angers of Lovers of so little continuance A. Because they are angry for trifles and things of nothing Q. How many sorts of Lovers be there A. Two sorts the one after Plato celestiall and the other vulgar and terrestiall Q. How commeth love in us by judgement or by destiny A. Most often by judgement for divers times men judge before they loue Q. Is there any pleasure in the world that surpasseth the contentation of Lovers A. No for why the seede commeth ãâ¦ã the which causeth ãâ¦ã throughout all the body Q. Wherefore doe men esteeme women to be an evill like to the fire and to the sea A. Because there is no day but that by womens evils doe come an infinite of misfortunes Q. Which proceedeth most from women sweetnesse or bitternesse A. For one sweetnesse comes a Sea of sharpe sowre bitternesse Q. Whereof commeth it that men compare the state of Lovers to a ship upon the sea A. For the great dangers whereiâ they daily be Q. What would a true Lover do being a farre off when he seeth the shiâ wherein his Lady is to be in dangeâ of drowning A. He would make vowes to Love and with joyned hands beseech him tâ save her though it cost him a Tapeâ so big as the mast of the Ship to offeâ to his Godhead Q. Why doe wee love the body so much being but earth and corruptible iâ A. We love it because we cannoâ alwayes have it Q. Can the love of the body and ãâã the spirit agree together or whether bâ they contrary A. They be contrary and one aâgainst the other Q. I would know whether the body alone might content the Lover A. Not if he be vertuous gentlâ and of a good nature Q. When a woman answereth nothing to the request made vnto her is iâ a signe that she agreeth thereunto A. Sometimes yea sometimes no whereof a man can ground no certaine judgement if he pursue no further Q. Wherefore doe young women love perfumes so much A. They be all Venus children And the Greeke Poets affirme that Venus never departed from any place without leaving an exquisite perfume behinde her for witnesse of her presence Besides this all perfumes and good odours doe either open the appetite or else prouoke Venus Q. Wherefore doe men compare the beauty of a woman to a flower A. Because it is soone come and soone gone Q. Why doe men feigne that Love liveth among flowers A. Because that flowers give continuall hope of fruit and even so doth Love for hee nourisheth and entertaineth his servants continually with hope trusting to enjoy at the last the fruit longed for Q. Of two Lovers which shall wee esteeme more to be favoured him from whom his Lady shall take away a Nosegay and put it in her bosome or him ãâã whom she shall giue a nosegay that she ãâã selfe did weare A. The properties of women is ãâã take and not to give J say then that ãâã shall be best beloved to whom she shaââ give the nosegay Q. Of what colour should women ãâã most desired A. I would desire them to be of thââ colour wherewith men paint vertuââ which iâ Red but men doe desire thââ ãâ¦ã Q. Of whom have ãâ¦ã to close their eares against the suppliââcations of poore Lovers A. Of the Serpent Aspis which ãâã deafe and venemous Q. Wherefore doe men say that ãâã woman hath the looke of a Serpent anâ the eye of a Basiliske A. By reason of the great subtilty and craft wherewith they use to entraââ and draw men to their love Q. Be Hearbes medicinable for love A. Yea J have seene the experience thereof at Mantua a City in Italy alââeit Ovid cryeth out that loue can find âo remedy in hearbes Q. Wherefore is the life of a lover âot beloved compared to hell A. He that made such comparison did it by
to see that ââhich they love to love another Q. Who is most jealous the man or ãâã woman and which of them hath ââeatest occasion A. The woman is most jealous but ââe man hath the greater occasion the ââeason thereof and the cause I will keep ââlent for this time Q. Is the Iealous person blind or ââath hee a good judgement to force ãâ¦ã A. If Jealousie be moderate it sharââeneth both the judgement and sight in ââch wise as it seeth and knoweth all ââut if it exceed it is more confuse and ââlind then a Moule Q. Whom doth Iealousie become or ââhom doth it not become A. Iealousie is not comely in him that ââath experience of the faithfulnesse of ãâã is Lady but Jealousie is not uncomely ãâã him that is a new Lover Q. Think you that where love is greaâââ there Iealousie may be great also A. Many doe thinke the contrarââ because that the vehemency of loââ doth so transport the person that heââ never separated from the thing that ãâã loveth Q. Were it good for them that ãâã Iealous to dye without cause in thâââ rage what should they feare more A. It should be well imployed Q. Whereof commeth Iealousie A. Of envie and love Q. Is the Iealous man without judgâment A. Not alwayes considering thââ most commonly the scapes of Ladieâ are discovered and hee is very blinâ that cannot perceive them Q. What is the property of Iealousie A. It is to serve a thousand deaths ãâã prepare embushments for the honourââ Ladies and to mingle in the middest ãâã other pleasures poysons mischiefes aââ hatreds Q. Doe ye thinke that Love doth oneâly intrap the light and tender hearts A. I doe thinke that it intrappeth all ând there is none that is able to shut the âgate against him Q. Is it possible that a noble spirit for ãâã small matter may be entrapped A. I beleeve that it may for every gentle spirit for each little trifle is enflamed whose noble and gentle mind is subject to Love Q. Is it sufferable to falsifieâfaith in âove A. Why not sith it is nourished onely with deceit treason and falshood Q. Is the service of Love more trouble some then others A. In effect it is more weighty and troublesome but in will much more easie to be disgested Q. What is it that pacifieth Lovers in their greatest travell A. It is hope Q. Wherefore doe they faine Love to be tyed to a pillar of Iaspper with a chaine of a Diamond and To pace dipped in the floud Lethe A. To provoke women to be pudike and chast and to turne their eyes from the wanton allurements which theââ Lovers doe use towards them Q. Should the ingrate or vnkind wââman be beloved A. No because there cannot be founââ a worse vice then ingratitude Whereâfore we ought to deeme her wholly transformed into the nature of brutââ Beasts Q. Which is the truest service iââ Love A. A stedfast and a constant faith Q. The Lover that is loved is he ãâã Servant or a Master A. He is rather a Servant then a Master for so much as he is clogged with a double chaine To love and to be loved by two chaines although that the one be voluntary and the other by necessity Q. Doe you thinke that a woman without the prejudice and hurt of honor may satisfie one that hath served her a long time and season A. J dare not say without prejudice But yet I will affirme that she is to be excused if she give him some âase that hath long and faithfully served her Q. Which is the greatest ingratitude that may chance in love A. Not to reward at all his Services Q. Why is the service of Love worthy of greater rewards then other A. Because the longer one continueth therein the greater bitternesse he endureth and suffereth Q. Thinke ye that Love hath placed his principall treasure in women A. J beleeve so because it hath given them the Soveraignty above all men Q. Who is the most fortunate in love the Attendant or the possessor A. The possessor hath one contentation but the attendant hath more then a thousand Q. Is Love the cause of good or evill A. Of good seeing he maketh fooles wise Q. Why doe men say that Love is a perfect Musitian A. Because hee tuneth the spiritââ and affections which before had noââ agreement Q. Why doe men say that a faire woman is a monster in beauty A. Because it is as rare thing as Monsters be Q. Doe Courtizans love or doe they faine to love A. There be many reasons to say that they love not but experience teacheth the contrary for J knew them that be madde for love and others that dye for the same Q. Wherefore doe Lovers many timââ take vpon them long Iournies to ridde themselves from love A. Because daily travell in Iournies doe cause new and strange things to appeare able to cause a man to forget lovâ I speake nothing of the paines mâââ have nor yet of the new loves that may chance which as one naile doth drive out another so they make and cause them to forget their first Q. Whereof commeth it that many Lovers the more they be ill intreated of their Ladies the more they be inflamed in their Love A. That commeth of a certaine constancy of Nature Or we may well say that all Lovers be not masters over themselves Q. Whereof doth it come that the woman is more Iealous then the man A. Because she is more fearefull and suspicious or else because she loveth with lesse discretion then the man Q. Whether is it more difficult to flye love or to dissemble it when one iâ entangled with the same A. He that loveth not at all nor is overcome with any affections can without great paine dissemble love but where love ruleth and mastereth it hath such force that in despite of us he doth manifest and shew himselfe Q. How chanceth it that divers great amities and friendships are upon small occasion turned into great hatred and malice A. That commeth through the lightnesse and inconstancy of Lovers Q. How commeth it that he which ãâã soone taken with Love doth soone forgââ it A. Hee is like to them that ride ãâã great gallop and by and by waxââ weary Q. Why be some more given to their ââkin and of them take more pleasure theââ of other A. For the conformity of blood Q. What meaneth it that althoughâ divers women being of Nature covetous and hold-fast yet cannot givâ themselves to love those that be rich A. They doe that to shew that they will not sell their good grace but ãâã willing to give it liberally as being ãâã a noble and gentle Spirit but how many shall ye find of that mind Q Why doe they esteeme it danger oââ to love a man that is faire A. Because that such be most desired or they be of nature more proud theââ other For Beauty is the Mother oâ pride Q. Whereof commeth it
that womeâ doe greatly hate those that have forsâââken them and with greater malice if they carry away any thing of theirs A. The double losse which they receive is the cause Q. Why should we not ground our love upon those that be too young A. Because they be inconstant very bold and ever more curious of new Servants and lovers Q. How chanceth it that most commonly the beautifull desire to have servants and Lovers that be faire And the vertuous those that be vertuous A. Similitude and likenesse doth engender and breed love Q. How is it that they which have a short or dimme sight are more given to love then other A. It may be because they see not the foulnesse and imperfections so well as others Q. Whereof commeth it that âhe Country people doe love peasants better then Citizens A. Because they be more affectioned to their like Q. VVhy doe women appeare fairer by candle light then in the cleare day ãâã A. Because their painting or beauty doth glister more by candle light theâ otherwise even as our body and flesh doth shine more being in the Sunne then in the shadow Q. Which of these were it best to serve a Mayde a married woman or a widow A. The love of the maide is most constant of the widow much more pleasant and of the wedded woman more slanderous and hurtfull Q. Whereof commeth it that many be so amorous of Nunnes A. Because the hidden beauty is most desired and because they be attired and coloured with ten thousand toyes and it seemeth that all their words be so sweet as Sugar and Rose-water Q. Whereof of commeth it that those whââh be young are more amorous then other A. Because they trust to receive greater pleasure Q. Wherefore is love painted to be placed betweene slothfulnesse hatred and that Idlenesse goeth before and hatred followeth with wings A. Because Idlenesse doth engender âove and of love many times riseth haâred Q. Whereof commeth it that women which of nature be timorous be neverthelesse strong and hardy in amorous enterprises A. Because Love doth darken their understanding and in things wherein they should be most fearefull doth harden and encourage them Q. Wherof doth it come that old women for the most part are imbraced of âoung men and that sometimes old men doe sooner enjoy young women A. Old women through experience be very bold and hardy and without any regard imploy themselves upon young men Old men because they be not to be feared and that without suspition they may speake familiarly by good authority by reason of their age doe come for the most part where yong men for nothing that they be able to doe can come Q. What meaneth it that women given to Love âee more disposed charmes and enchantments then men A. Of their folly and fond beliefâ which is the thing principally requirâ in charmes and Enchantments Anâ thereof it commeth that the number ãâã women witches be greater then men Q. What is it that causeth most tââ union and conjunction of Lovers A. The diversity of complexion cauâseth the effects of Love to be divers Aââ most commonly the celestiall influences bee the causes of their union anââ conjunction Q. VVhat doth it meane that simpââ shepheards have beene taken with ãâã love of some great Lady and Priââcesse A. We evermore desire the thingââ which we cannot have But there is yââ a thing more strange to see two peââsons of divers fortune the one to dyââ for the other Reade the History of Tââcredi in the Pallace of Pleasure Q. VVhereof commeth it that youââ women which be in love are never sââtisfied in dancing and in all other things they be of feeble complexion A. Immoderate desire of Dancing is ââveneriall young women and Maidens be subject to Venus So that in such acts they never find themselves molested or wearied Q. From whence commeth it that Love maketh vs solitary and pensive A. Love as Ovid doth write is full of feare and care And it partaineth to the fearefull to bee solitary and pensive Q. What is the cause that many doe esteeme themselves not to bee well loved if Iealousie be not mixed with Love A. The feare which they have to lose âhe thing that they love doth cause the Lover to be more cherished Q. What causeth many men although they be faireâ young rich and fresh ãâã be Jealous of the least wretch they ââee A. It may come of their owne conââit Or for that they know the lightââesse of their Mistresse behaviour Q. Wherefore doe women require above all things their Servants aud ââvers to be secret A. Love being discovered there ãâã not so great pleasure besides that Loââ disclosed can bring nought else bââ damage and travell and sometimes danger of death as may be reade in the ââcond Tome of the Pallace of Pleasure almost ready to the Print Of a Lady ãâã Burgundy Q. Whereof commeth it that Loveââ delight so much in Musicke A. Musicke is a very vaine thinââ And Lovers alwayes follow after vanity Yet I will not blame all sorts of Musick but that onely which is lascivious anââ doth effeminate the spirits Q. What meaneth it that many dââ love fervently and yet cannot be belââved A. That proceedeth by reason thââ complexions cannot agree Q. How chanceth it that love dotâ make men leaâe A. Lovers be in continuall travell which dryeth up the bones by reasoââ whereof they diminish and consumââ themselves Q. What is the cause that the talke Love or fight of the effects thereof in ââinted Tables make men desirous to ââter into his snares A. The pleasures that be past are by ââch meanes brought to our memory ââd so the pleasure is double Q. VVhy doth Love blind vs from ââeing the imperfections of the thing ââhich we love A. Love is blind and doth blind oââers Q Why is a man many times amoââous of a woman vpon her onely fame A. Renowne doth evermore make ââings greater then they be And the ââind esteemeth things more great by ââearing then by sight Q. Why doth the earnest view and beholding of a person make a man amorous A. The eyes are the messengers of love ââut especially when the beames which proceed from the heart doe unite and conforme themselves to the thing viewed and looked upon Q. What is the occasion that Lovers doe stâdy to apply themselves to the imperfections of their Ladies A. It is the better to resemble them being well assured that conformity ãâã manners doth engender love Q. How commeth it that women caââ better perceive and discerne those that be amorous then men A. It may be that they are more expert in the practise of Love as being more subject unto it then men be ãâã goodly History hereof may be seene in the second Tome of the Pallace of Pleasure of Queene Anne of Hungaria Q. From whence commeth it that amorous Ladies are more liberall thââ they which resist Love A. It is the property of
the spirits removeth the understanding taketh all the memory away causeth ruine and losse of goods maketh a man weake and is the enemy of youth and the death of old age the mother of all vices the receptacle of pensive minds a thing without reason without order and stability and the whirlepoole of mans liberty Q. What are divers women of themselves A. Beasts unperfect given to tenne thousand passions and pleasures abhominable to be thought well of So that if men would doe as they ought to doe they would not follow them nor pursue them with other desire or appââite but as things inevitable which necessity doth constraine them to use Q. VVherefore be there so few women that can content themselves to love one A. Because most of them are given to lust insatiable And for this cause they care neither for number nor for any thing that is honest so that he be able to cover her skin he is welcome Q. What is the cause that love being discovered commeth sâldome to perfection A. For the lets that commeth thereby Q. Why have old men the repulse of young women A. Because they have not wherewithall to ease them of their griefe Q. Why doe women count them beasts that be over curious and diligent to serve them A. Because they know themselves unworthy of such service Q. Is it true that men say when one kisseth two mouthes one of them must needs stinke A. I beleeve so if he love perfectly Q. How commeth it that Lovers be more suspitious then others A. Because their minds be continually troubled Q. VVhy is it so noysome for a rich woman to suffer trouble A. Riches engendreth pride and insolency Q. VVhere doe noble minds commonly meete together A. Where the fairest Ladies be Q. What is required in a perfect Lover A. To feare and reverence above all things the mighty power of Love and to referre or report to him of all his thoughts and desires Q. How doe men come to the fruit of Love A. By hope and perseverance Q. What things are contrary to the Kingdome of Love A. Shame and feare Q. Who be they that doe not let to serve Love although they be otherwise pressed with affaires A. Lusty and couragious hearts which in despite of businesse doe not passe to suffer themselves to enter the yoke of Love Q. What be the paines of Love A. Hurts and wounds more then deadly that is desires full of rage extreame travell exile and banishment grievous martyrdome and pride intolerable Q. What is the meate of perfect Lovers A. Sighes and teares Q. Wherewithall doe they make sacriââ to love A. With cleane hearts which are not spotted with any covetousnesse Q. Who be the Messengers of Love A. Pleasure Travell sweete bitter warre Peace life and death Q. What are the cause of Lovers sicknesses A. Heart-breakings hurtfull fastings the hunger of Love trembling quivering and continuall travels secret dolours the extremity of vexations and great watchings Q. Which are the benefits of Love A. Playes sleepe beds pleasures rest tranquillity contentation abundance peace refreshings and other rejoysings Q. Who be most secret in love men or women A. Women be most secret no doubt because they speake lesse then men a thing likely to be true but sildomââ seene Q. Is the benefite greater by being secret in Love or the hurt by too mucâ speaking A. I thinke the hurt surmounteth Q. Thinke you that by the dexterity of the spirit men may know the secrets of Lovers A. The holy Scripture doth witnesse that the heart of man cannot be known and that GOD alone doth know the same Q. Why be the secrets of Love so easily kept A. For the great sweetnesse that men find in them Q. Is it better to love them that be faire or them that be secret A. Without doubt the secret wise are more worthy to be loved for beauty is of little continuance Q. How should men keepe themselves secret in love A. They must take heed that they passe not oftentimes by their Lovers houses or often follow their haunt but waite untill Fortune present apt occasion Q. How should our pleasures be measured A. They ought to agree with our age with our estate with the time and place where we be Q. What should be the faithfull service of a Lover A. It ought to be necessary and voluntary with the heart and the life Q. What meaneth it that women for the most part doe love them that have ââlow and unsetled heads and contemne others which have more amiable qualities A. They doe esteeme perhaps that they shall be better beloved and served of those meaner spirits because they have not such knowledge as the other which are of more understanding then they Q. How many sorts of beauties bâââhâre A. Three one in the body the other doth consist in the accord and harmony of the voyce the third in vertue Q. How may they be comprehended A. The first by the eyes the second by the eares the third by the understanding And men may also enjoy the perfection of beauty by sight by hearing and by thought Q. VVhat meane the Poets when they faine of Circes that she with her sorceries did change and transforme all them that taried with her into beasts A. They would signifie by that metamorphose no other thing but the wanton and lascivious allurements of Circe wherewith deteining all those that fell into her hands she so farre forth made them equall to brute beasts that utterly they forgot their true estate of manhood Q. From whence come the paines that men suffer in this earthly and vulgare love A. They proceed of that that we desire things which we cannot alwayes have at our will and minds Q. Doe ye thinke that desire of beauty doth hinder the rest and quietââsse of men A. No for that desire is not of any ââing Corporall Q. Wherefore doe men attribute arââââes and fire vnto Love A. To shew how ardent and full of ââolour his passions be Q. VVhy is Love painted naked A. Because that all the acts and deeds ãâã Lovers be such that they cannot be ââidden or dissembled Q. What is the greatest blindnesse in Love A. To love her whom we think canââ be contented with the love of one Q. Whether doe ye esteeme greatest the beauty or the foulenesse of those that ãâã not content themselves with the love ofââne A. The foulenesse is farre greater Q. What deserve they to be loved or ââaâed A. In my judgement they should be âaâed and eschâed as the plague Q. Which is the greatest spurre that provoketh a man to doe well and honourably A. The presence and favour of ãâã Lady Q. To what thing is the servitude ãâã Love like A. To the service of Princes Q. How should a man behave himselfe amongst Ladies A. As in the Court amongst Princes and great estates to wit that he must be bold and hardy Q. Is it very true that he must needs be bold and
dark Laberinth or Maze A. Because the entry and comming in is easie and the going out impossible Q. Wherefore doe men compare Love to a Crocadile A. The nature of a Crocadile after the mind of those that have writtââ of Naturall things is to follow thââ that flye from him and to flye from them that doe follow him and so it iâ with Love Therefore I give counsell that whosoever will enjoy the effect âf his desires that hee be not too sharpâ and eager to pursue follow his Lady Q. Beleeve yee that Love and gooâ judgement may be together A. I beleeve no for then the foulâ and deformed should never be beloved But we see not onely the contrary to happen but which is worst those thaâ be the vilest indued with most treason and least loyaltie and faith how foulâ soever they be are most commonly besâ beloved Q. Whereof commeth it that diverâ which loved fervently to have somâ comfort did sodainly lose that greaâ heate of Love A. All vehement love doth noâ long continue for within a while thâ spirit hath leysure to examine it selfe and to returne to due understanding thinking upon all things that mighâ violate and corrupt the same whereby the sensuall appetites be by this meanes restrained Q. Why doe men call Love both flame and fire A. It is not possible better to expresse how insupportable a thing it is considering the heate of the desires which it engendreth in the hearts of his fervants and the tyrannie that he useth towards those which are under his power whom hee bringeth to ruine and consumeth like fire without any pitie Q. Why are men rather amorous then women A. For that they are of hotter Complexion and their spirits more quicke and prompt Q. Why be women more firme and stedfast in Love then men A. Because things which of themselves be cold be lesse subject to mobility and inconstancy then those that be hot Q. Whereof commeth it that women be more easily perswaded to be loved then men A. Because they esteeme themselves much more then there is cause Q. But why be they angry or whâ doe they frowne and lowre when men saâ they be foule or olde A. Foulenesse most commonly comâmeth of age and age is the high-way tâ death which naturally doth annoy and displease all persons Q. Wherefore is it said that thâ Cough and the passion of Love cannot ãâ¦ã A. They be ãâ¦ã force for the cough troubling the body can scantly be concealed or hidden Loue is a passion proceeding of a certaine fiââ which by the eyes is discovered and manifesteth it selfe by the colour of the face and by all the actes of a Lover it may be comprehended and knowne so that without great paine and difficulty it cannot be hidden Q. From whence doe the amorous send forth so many sighes A. Their continuall thoughts send all the heate to the heart whereof it commeth that necessarily it is convenient for them to respire and breathe of which respiration sighings be forced whereby the coldnesse of the ayre is drawne to temper the inward heate That may also rise of the consideration of the time lost of the detestation that commeth of lecherie of the diminution of honour and reputation and finally that the successe of dishonest loue is tragicall noysome furious and miserable Q. Wherefore have the ancient painted Love holding Flowers in one hand and Fish in the other A. To shew that Loue is a Lord both of sea and land Q. Thinke you that Love doth yeeld greater force courage and strength to him that doth combat and fight in the presence of his Ladie A. There is nothing more certaine And for this cause was brought in and ordained the brave and lusty company of the errant and wandering Knights to give pleasure to Ladies by Justs and Tournies Q. Who receiueth most contentation the victorious and loving Knight or the gentlewoman for whom he hath fought A. The Knight as I suppose ought to be best contented as having cause to content himselfe with his owne act and deed of Chiualry For he that doth best is worthy of greater praise And he that runneth best for his Ladies sake is best worthy to enjoy her Q. Wherefore doe amorous Ladies impute that to fortune which chanceth contrary to their hearts desire A. Because they like rash creatureâ without due consideration esteeme all things to be ruled and governed by Fortune Q. Is it love to love the Image of ãâã woman A. Jt is not loue but rather madnesse Q. What be they that loue by a certaine destiny and influence A. They that can give no reason oâ any cause of their love Q. Doe ye thinke it to be true that the Goddes were Lovers A. You must know that the old and antient Poets were great Divines and speaking of one thing they signifiââ another True it is that there be divers well learned that cannot abide Poeticall Allegories which after my judgement have no great reason on their side Q. Wherefore was Paris desirous to see the three Goddesses naked when he was appointed arbitrator of their Beauties A. To giue better judgement by viewing the proportion of their bodies O how many faire and beautifull be there in outward appearance which vnder their sumptuous garments and crimson Robes be full foule and ill favoured that if Peter Grubbe of Belchelianger or Ioane Stubbes of Norton Follie viewed them naked as Paris did the Goddesses they should runne home for the next Gemman or Iustitian of peace to entertaine them for they would scarce vouchsafe Q. Thinke you that the beauties of Ladies is a commendable argument to dispute of A. Wherefore not seeing that the wisest haue written beauty to be a gift of God Q. What mooved the ancient to say that Love is Lord ouer gods and men A. Because all that which is made either in heaven or in earth is made for Love Remember what the Philosopher saith All things doe move that men doe love and desire Q. Which is most to be feared The bowe of Love The mace of Hercules Or the sword of Mars A. The bowe of Love and specially when hee shooteth his Arrowes of Lead But not so much when he shooteth his arrowes of Gold and Silver Q. How is it possible that Women should have faces of Angels and heads of Divels A. Be not Divels called Angels in holy writ Read the Scriptures and yee shall be resolved Q. Doe you thinke that a Lover may bee enchanted by the sight of his Lady A. If Sheepe after the mind of Virgil by a looke may be charmed How much more may delicate Love be subject to enchantments Q. Can women by any celestiall influence be made better or more rigorous toward their loving servants A. The Mathematiques Astrologians and Magitians by divers and many experiences and peremptory reasons affirme the contrary Q. How can the fire of Love not participant with any other element inflame our hearts A. It is onely a manner of
Love to causââ them to be liberall and free hearted Q. Whereof commeth it that whiââ Lovers doe talke with their Ladies spettle doth come and encrease in their mouthes A. The tongue oftentimes moved doth heate it selfe and that heate doth resolvââ into spettle Q. VVhereof commeth it that wheâ amorous Dames doe talke with their Lovers their brests seeme as though they would depart their besome doth leape and hop with such force A. That proceedeth of the great neighbourhood that the heart hath with the âpâppes from whom all the vitall spirits ãâã proceed who retiring them to the ââests be the cause of such motions Q. VVhereof commeth it that divers amorous women doe oftentimes speake evill of their Servants or Lovers A. It is to put away the suspition that men may engender of their love or else for feare that men should backe-bite them Q. Why doe men so willingly kisse the eyes of them whom they love A. The eye is the dearest part of the body and in the eye a man may see and know what is hidden in the heart or else they doe it because the eye is the beginning of Love Q. Whereoâre doe Lovers hide theâselves when they goe about to content each other A. Because of the filthinesse of the act or by a naturall shamefastnesse for thââ they seeme to doe a thing that is ãâã very honest Q. Wherefore be Lovers so curious ãâã know the name of their Ladies A. Because they suppose to findââ the names some secret thing that maââ yeeld them hope to enjoy the thing thââ they so greatly desire or else we mââ say that Lovers will not onely posseââ the bodies of their Ladies but also havâ all that is joyned thereunto and thaâ which doth depend thereof Q. Whereof commeth it that Loveâââ be so importunate to demand of their Ladies how well they love them A. It is to certifie themselves thââ more of which assurance the spirit doth appease it selfe and receiveth contentation Q. VVherefore doe Lovers delighâ to carry about them any thing that hath beene their Ladies A. To be more agreeable unto them and the better to conforme themselveâ to their desires and wills Q. Wherefore doe Lovers give their colours the one to the other A. The conformity of deeds and will doth engender and augment amiââ Besides this the colours secretly doe give to understand the thing that âân vardly we doe suffer as by signifying of ânconstancie diminution of heate mockeries travels humility highnesse we doe shew it by the colours of a yea ââow pale redde blew white gray and âncarnate Q. VVhat causeth divers Ladies esteemed wise and of good judgement to give themselves over to vile men infamous and wicked A. J have told you oftentimes that Love is blind and doth captivate the senses abandoning judgement and foresight in women specially in those that ãâã amorous whose wits be very weake and unperfect Q. VVhereof commeth the custome that the Greekes doe eate a confection made of Quinces commonly called Marmalade the first night of their Marriage A. Because they feare to disease ãâã weary their spouses at the first recoâââer and meeting Q. Whereof commeth it that maââ be in Love with Gardiners A. Their simplicity perchance is tââ cause Or else because Gardens be dedicated to Venus and those that be coâtinually within them doe savour ãâã Rosemary Margerome or of some othââ sweet hearbe Q. How chanceth it that the ãâã married women the first night of thââ marriage goe so vnwillingly to bed aââ doe rise the next day so lusty and joyfull A. That commeth of the perfectioââ that they have received of the man ãâã then they know that they be womââ indeed Q. Wherefore doth agreement in loââ cause things to please vs which otherwise should not so doe A. Love of necessity doth inflamââ For we seeing many to pursue the thiââ we love the opinion which we have ãâã her beauty doth encrease in us Q. VVhy doth a word many times more allure the heart then long service A. Because service was not imployed ââo he purpose and the word was spoken ââo effect A. How commeth it that women ââched vpon the Navell be incontinent revoked with a desire to enter the ââeld A. There be certaine veines in the ââaw whereof the Navell is made and he maw is the very seate of voluptuousâesse It is no marvell then if they bee âoved thereunto when they be touched âpon the same Q. What is the cause that some Lovers be better pleased with the Meancholike then with the lively and luâây A. Lovers be easily induced to beââeve that they be beloved and perceiâing their Ladies to be Melancholike ââd heavy they esteeme that to come of ãâã care that they doe take of them and ãâã their affaires but it may be that it ââmmeth of the agreement and similiââde of complexion Q. Why be rich women more giââ to love then the poore A. Idlenesse is the cause who is ãâã mother of all superfluity I leave to spââ of the delicate meates and the gââ wines that the rich doth use without ââving any griefe or vexation which ãâã bleth their braine Q. VVhy is love most commoââpainted with his eyes bound vp A. Because he blindeth poore Lovââ and maketh them so like unto beââ that they cannot at all discerne the ãâã perfections of their Ladies Q. Why doe Lovers delight to hââ amorous Histories written by Authââ of our time A. By the conformity of their passioââ and likely hood of their affections Q. Why be women well content ãâã they be told that other women be in ãâã as well as they A. Because their fault seemeth ãâã lesse not being alone spotted with ââvice Q. VVherefore doe stepmothers lââ their Sonnes in law and hate tââ ââughters in law A. They hate their Daughters in law because they draw all the substance from their Sonnes and they love their Sons in law as the principall goodnesse and solace of their owne Daughters Q. Why is Love better liked in the Countrey then in the Towne A. Because in villages there is not so great respect and for that all commodities and things are not to be found there Lover be constrained to apply themselves one to another Moreover the pleasure of Gardens of hunting fishing and other Countrey delights doe most commonly cause men to keepe themselves at home and to forget the ââoves and follies of Townes and Cities Q. Whereof commeth it that amoââous women be more ticklish then others A. Women prone to love be delicate for the most part whose skisâ be loose and soft more easie to be tickled Q. Why doe women love them most earnestly that had their maydenhead and men cleane contrary hate those women whom first of all they imbrââced A. Women by the conjunction of ãâã man doe gaine perfection and the ãâã thereby maketh himselfe unperfect ãâã cause the woman is a creature unperfect and as the Philosophers say a creatuââ caused and not compleate Q. Why be some hard
full of audacity A. After my opinion no but according as a man may use himselfe I say yea Notwithstanding I suppose that in the Court and traine of Princes and in the service of Ladies men ought rather to march in the steps of humility and reverence then in too much hardinesse and presumption Q. Which be the noblest hearts A. They whom Love disdaineth not to warme with his sacred heate Q. Wherefore doe some love many persons at once and yet doe not use to disclose the same A. Noble minds take great pleasure to doe so but to tell and shew it is but ââsse and shame Q. Is it true which men say that if ãâã be in love with another he then beareth affection to all those things which resemble the thing he loveth A. That is too true for they be in love even with things that be dumbe and without sense with pictures and engraven things and such like if they shew any remembrance of the thing they love Q. What is the true pledge of Love A. A pure and cleane heart Q. Why doe women very often times blame or dispraise their Lovers A. To the intent that others should praise them thereby to double their pleasure Q. Who hath the more lively spirit and better memory the man or the woman A. The man not after the saying onely of the Philosophers but also of holy Scripture Q. Who hath the better judgement of the amiable parts the man or the woman A. The man as being indued ãâã the nature of a more high underâtaâding and a spirit more subtill Q. May we love the thiâg that ãâã turne vs to dishonour A. I thinke not Q. VVhat is the greatest recompââââ that a woman can make vnto a man A. To reveale unto him her secrââ and finally to make him Lord and Master of her body and of all her thoughââ Here endeth the Questions and Answers of Love NATVRALL QVESTIONS and the Answers THE II. BOOKE Question WHerefore is not Cheese made of beasts that be toothed on both sides A. Because their milke will not curd nor creame Q. VVherefore doe men cast Smallage into Pondes A. Because Smallage doth serve fish for a medicine and also they delight to eate the same Q. VVhereof commeth it that Dââ never love to eate of the tayle or of ãâã belly of a Hart A. Because the Gall of a Hââ sometimes in the tayle and sometimâ in the belly Q. What is the cause that fat people have little bloud A. Because the grease and fatnââ doe consume it Q. Whereof commeth the saying ãâã the Ancients that he who is wont to ãâã a kind of pulse called Lentiles is ãâã the most part pleasant and amiâble A. It is because that Lentils doe caââ cold humours Q. How commeth it that we be ãâã greedy to eate when the North or Northeast wind doth blow then at othââ times A. That commeth of the cold of thââ aforesaid winds which doth unite anââ hold the naturall heate together Q. Whereof commeth it that to get ãâã stomacke men use eager and sharp things A. That is because all egre things be dry and open the stomacke which âauseth the appetite Q. What causeth that they which ââve a feminine voice be not in any ââeat estimation or of opinion among ââe wise A. Whosoever hath vpon him either ââember or marke or manner of action which is proper to any other creature whatsoever it be he is surely participant ãâã the nature of the said creature And because the woman is of small practise whosoever hath the voice like a woman esteemed of the wise to have little vnderstanding or knowledge Q. Whereof commeth it that they which be hasty of speech are of small ââstancy ill conditioned and extreameââ cholericke A. All suddaine motions come of ãâã extremity and excesse of heate âhich engendreth in men this inconââancy and lightnesse to promise withââ any performing and through choââ most commonly consider not what ãâã say Q. Whereof commeth it that thââ which have shrill voyces are most coâmonly envious and malicious A. The sharpenesse of the voyce pââceedeth from the sharpnesse of the piââ and conduites of the lungs which riseâââ through drynesse and coldnesse Such ãâã melancholike persons who being natârally fearefull dare never disclose thââ which they thinke Q. Whereof commeth it that all thââ which be extreame thirsty doe love ãâã sweet wines A. All things which may ingendââ and enflame choler are apt to make mââ thirsty and such is sweet wine Q. Whereof commeth it that divââ religious persons which naturally ãâã zealous of Chastity doe abstaine frââ wine A. Wine is hot and full of vapoââ and therefore provoketh lust his heââ dissolveth seed and with his ventosââ causeth the courage to rise Q. Wherefore did our forefather make difficulty to vse at their tableââ vers meates and sorts of dishes A. The diversity of meates cannot ãâã digested with one proportion of heat And so nature being troubled with inââestion of such diversity of meates causeth noy somnesse to the stomacke and specially when it is weake Q. Whereof commeth it that the sea is so profitable delâctable for Lazermen and such as have the Dropsie A. The sea provoketh vomit and through vomitting fleame and all other superfluous humors which cause such diseases doe avoyd And so those that be infected doe love the sea Q. Wherefore is the City of Avignionââther ââther subject to the Plague then any ââther place round about it A. The subtill aire is soone infected and soone purged of the infection conârariwise the grosse aire is not so lightly ââected nor yet so soone purged Q. How may the fine and subtill ãâã be knowne from the grosse and corâupt ayre A. The âenuity and subtilty of the ãâã is knowne for at the rising of the ãâã it is sodainly heated and waxeth colde at the going downe thereof The contrary doth chance to the groââ and vitious aire Q. VVhy is Musicke more delectable in the morning then at any otherââ times A. Because that all things be thââ in silence the sences be more lusty and waking and the mind in great moderââtion and temperance Q. VVhy âe fruits commonly believed of all men A. For the naturall sweetnesse which is in them or else because they be of thââ temperature hot and moyst Q. Wherefore is the sight above ãâã the other sences most esteemed A. Because by the sight we see thââ difference of all things Or else we mââ say it commeth by the impression ãâã Love which taketh his first force ãâã strength by the sight Q. VVhereof commeth it that thââ which have a feeble sight write smaller letters then other A. Because they write their eyes being in a manner halfe closed and shutââ Q. What is the cause that all ill facts ãâã discover themselves by the eyes and the heart A. Because the eye is the messenger of the heart It may also be said that the face being tender and open to all vapors the same may