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A11237 Certaine worthye manuscript poems of great antiquitie reserued long in the studie of a Northfolke gentleman. And now first published by I.S. 1 The statly tragedy of Guistard and Sismond. 2 The northren mothers blessing. 3 The way to thrifte Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; Stow, John, 1525?-1605.; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone. First tale of the fourth day. 1597 (1597) STC 21499; ESTC S103713 21,082 80

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ragious minde A ship without anckre lacking sterne also In stormy rage of euery furious winde It is a thing vnstable waning to and fro Semblable now am I one of thoo My doubtfull minde is brought in perplexité And cast fro side to side twixt iustice and pité Furst iustice meueth me to do correction Rewarding euery wight to their desert Some loue some payne with great affliction But faderly pity so stirrith my tender hert That it sufferith mee not see nor aduert Your criminall offence but rather doth it excuse So that twixt both I stand a man confuse And forth with anone he fell to weping As a young infant sore scourged and bett In all worldly pleasaunce reioyced he nothing Sorrow and shame so by the hert him fret Seying nothing thus sat he still and muet Doughter he seyd gif ye will axe mercy To pardon your offence forsooth I am redy But when Sismond saw how her loue Guistard In preson was intreted kept in yron strong That fortune to her also was so cruell and hard To publish her councell that secret was so long With gentilles and rurals it was a commen song That euery man within the country round Spake of the vnhappy Guistard and Sismond Wherefore she plunged so far in pit of sorrow deep That I trow ech hart that gentill is tender If I shuld tel her payne wuld also mone wepe Full oft she wrung her fingers long and slender Seying all wordly pleasaunce here I surrendre For sithence my loue Guistard is iudgid for to dy I will doe the same I thinke not to abye Wherefore ô cursed Fortune with thy double chere All thy great malice wholly I defy Setting no thing by thy deynous daungere Thou shall vs not depart for all thine enuy For our loue togeder shall dwell perseuerantly And turnid to her fader with corage and boldnes Seying as in this booke myne Author doth witnes Tancrede she seyd Fader if I shuld ye call Nother will I denie it nor prey you of fauour The furst it will helpe me nothing at all Sith ye haue full knowledge of my Paramour But for the second to axe grace or succour I will not axe no grace for that in no wise Nor of your grace and fauour aske no benefice So that I knowlich plainly all mine entent My loue is set on Guistard hath be many a day And shal be when my spirit and soule is went From the brotle mansion of this bodies clay If nature would me helpe meane to puruey That I mought execute mine affection and will Yet would I after my deth euer loue him still And if ye thinke this Loue so great a cryme Forsooth the cause thereof was your negligence When in youth and corage my lusty prime The brenning fire of loue with so great feruence Persid myne hert And yet your cruell insolence Would not me suffer for all my great payne After myne husbands deth be marryed againe Hadye well learned the doctrine of prudence Ye wold remember your substance materiall I trow it should be imprinted in your aduertence That you bene made of matter freale and carnall Right so am I your doughter by vertue seminall I am nother of stone yron ne brasse But of flesh and blood more brekill than the glasse Altho your head be white snowid for age Your frosty lims eke be vnweldy and cold The hete ny extinct of your lusty corage Right well ought ye forsooth consider behold How hote is youth with brenning pricking manifold Assayling ech man be he neuer so haute With many a fyry dart and hote brenning assaut Aboue all thing ye shuld haue memory Tho ye haue spent most of your lusty season In arms of knighthoode and of cheualrye Yet shuld ye not foryet as seemis by reason Ease rest and dilicates what great incheason They giue to sterre a man to corage hote feruent As well in crooked age as lusty Iuuent All these occasions I had and many moo By which I meuid was so gretly desirous Borne by Natures course of flesh and blood also Of corage lusty young and amorous Fosterid also in pleasaunce and metes delicious And that that stirred most was my cheife motife The experience therof sith I was a wife But all this is ferre fro your remembrance Ye think not your youth which is past goo Ye may well resemble him in your demeanaunce Which fell into the water with others one or two But after he was deliuerid of his care and wo Thought nothing at all where he had bin beforne His fellows he rebukith laughing them to scorne And if ye haply couth rule your passions Nor set nought by their force and violence Yet mought not my frailté geinst such occasions Make no champarty nor no great defence My hert was not so big to make resistence So at last woundid at last with loues firie launce I was subdued as prisoner to Castle of Pleasaunce Nathelesse with deuour I put my diligence All sklaunders and infamie to auoid and eschew And fortune of her fauour gaue vs assistence Our lusty sport oft tymes for to renew We thought her promise had be stedfast true Blandeshing vs euer with countnaunce and chere As tho the sun of pleasaunce shuld shine euer clere But now I see right wel shee ginneth for to change Sith ye of all our counsell haue plainly notice Such is false fortune ay variant and strange But how ye come to knowledge or in what wise My wit is rude and dull I can it not deuise Whether by experience or by information By force prestigious or some superstition And wold God your knowlech were certain true Not meued ne made by false suggestion Ye wold not then your doughter thus pursue Seing that I erre in mine election Taking no sad guiding or direction But let my reuell ren at the hole chaunce I nas not so fool-hardy without deliberance For I set not my loue ne my fatall intent Of sudden hap as a comen velayne But with deliberation and auisement I gaue my loue to Guistard as my Souerayn And truly to no mo this is certayne Wherefore ye be to blame fader yt semith mee To sey my loue was to ych in like free As to the great repreeue also contriued Which alder first ayen me ye obiect Seing of pleasaunce my ship was ariued In a port that was ignoble and despect I mean that Guistard was pore and deiect Hauing no part of noblesse by discent Which maketh my fault greater after iudgment But as in this ye follow the vnstable vulge Clacking and blasting variant as the winde As fame the flying messenger can diuulge Their rude opinions ignorant and blinde Seing it is a prouerbe sufficient and kinde Hee that is not borne to habundance of good But needy for pouert is not of gentle blood Thus by fond reasons daylie talking they erre Not thinking how fortune fro her vnstable center Plongeth downe Estats fro her
looke and spy And at the last with great paine and beesy labore I haue found all the craft for to vndoe this doore Be my selfe alone I went into the caue I saw the little hole where is the entering How and in what wise ye may your selfe saue Agein all manner perils in theder comming The hight and the depenes I send you be writing So that you need not dread for no misauenture Ye know where whan you may haue your plesure And after this in her inditing There was a little clause for a conclusion As is the common vsage in each writing Whose name should be callid Subscription She wrot ther By your owne and made no mentiō Of her name till after a great stound With sighing sore she added to Sismond What maruaile now if he be not pensiue Now he hath rad this letter of comfort And from his deedly sorrow turns againe to liue Sith he has almost raught the lustie port Of pleasance lust solace and of all disport Wherefore he hasteth full besely and hieth To meet his Ladie as the letter specifieth Who now but this Guistard with his diligence To this pleasant Iourney spedith him apace Euery houre that he is out of her presence Him seemeth for to be a thousand yere of space But tho the sluggish carkasse be far fro her face Yet with the flighty wings of amorous desire He is euer in her seruice brenning as the fire A cord he let adoun anon of great length And fast vnto a Bough aboue he did it tye Fret all full of knots sufficient of strength By which into the pit he mought himself cōuey To close himselfe in ledder also he did puruey Fro bushes and fro briers to kepe him sewre And thus towards the pit he went in this armour The bright eye of the world when that the shining day Withdrawith and also Titan with his sparkling light Then this young louer takith his iourney Towards the foresaid pit abiding there al night Till on the morrow Aurora shone full bright Whē som haukith som huntith som to their labour Then gins this Ladie to com out from her towre Remembring her well when the night was gone Of their couenants made by iust appointment All her gentyl-men and maydens euerychone To her gardent to sport and play she sent Feyning her to be sick and for that intent She said to her chamber ageyn she would forth right To taken rest and slepe if she might The dores the windowes she closed anon ful sure Then towards the dungeon took she the right way Where she found Guistard her herts pleasure Ioyfully they kissed Then she gan to say Gramercy fortune that I may see this day To speake with him that is my worldly pleasaunce In whome is all my trust and affiaunce She brought him to her chāber this Lady beauteous Her fresh apparrell full Lusty was and gay Her surcote of gold furryd with Ermin precious A fayre mirror of Loue her beautie and ary So shortly for to tell I can no more say But construe if ye can louers what they did For I can no more but long they there abid And when them seemed best they parted in sondre Not long they tary ne dayly their sports vse For dayly comming maketh men to wonder And eke long taryaunce makith men to muze But cheifely womens shrewd tongues will accuse Your noble fame and sey your life is nought Tho neuer ye do offend in word ne thought Wisely they prouided to eschew infamy And for all thing secret mought be kept Into the garden went she full hastely Where that her maydens pleyd thinking she slept And at night Guistard out of the pit crept So comming thus and by night parting away Continued they their pleasure till after many a day That fortune alas by treason falsly compast Bewrayed all their counsell of misauenture All their lusty pleasance turned at the last Into cruell deth at their departing O thou false fortune that euer is on sure Bringing herts light to wo when they be well It seem is thou art not able for to rule thy whele It is next in our processe to speake of Tancrede The noble Prince her fader which of great frequēce Of tender loue Ielousy more then need So he delyted in her speche and eloquence That he vs'd of custome vnder cares pretence To come vnto the Chamber of his doughter feyre And after they had talkyd agayne home to repeyre Explicit Liber primus THE SECOND booke of Guistard and Sismond IN the mery season of Summer feyre and hot When euery thing renewith by course of nature And winter with his frosty beard and f●iesed cote Is put into exile and may no lenger dure Then Summer geuith his liuery with besy cure New clothing all the Earth in a lusty greene All browderid full of flouers right freshly to seene Sterring harts light in gardens to walke So did this Lady Sismond for her pleasaunce In this fresh season plucking flowres fro their stall She made her garlōd wherwith she thought to daūce But in the meane while alas the vnhappy chaunce Her Fader of a Custom as he was wont to do Only to talk with her is to her garden go But when he perceiuit she was in her disport Right loath he was to let her recreation He would for nothing his doughter discomfort Neither disquiet her till she had all done Forth into the chamber entred he full sone The curteyns were draw by the bed side He sat behind the curtein his doughter to abide And as he sat still sleep did him encumbre He waxed all vnlisty and also somnolent Then to the bed lened he began to slumbre O thou vntristie fortune what is thine entent To distroy this Lady it seemith thou hast ment Where thou may bewray it is not kept counsell That should be counsel kept thou tellist euery deal O princis doughter Sismond infortunate by birth O houre vnhappy when thou began to so iourne With Loue in his Palace The pleasant Sun of mirth Ys comin to his hiest beginnith to turne O slow malicious meeuer thou cursed Saturne I trow by some enuy or malicious aspect Of all this feruent loue thou hast broken the affect Poore Sismond thinking no deceyt ne guile Partid fro her maydens to her chamber went And so forth to the pit wher in a little while She found her Guistard all readye present For a little before alas for him she sent And when they wer in comin they put no mistrist They know no body there they did what they list Now when her fader see the abhominable Crime After he was out of his sleepe awake He thought haue cryed but for a litle tyme It seemed him best to let his anger slake And easily within himselfe this payne to take He made no stirring but sat euer still Till they had done their pleasure at their owne will And after that departed as before Guistard to the pit
be wrought For gif a slaunder be once raysed It is not so sone stilled My leeue dere child What man that shall wed the fore God with a ring Looke thou loue him best of any earthly thing And meekly him answere and not too snatching So may thou slake his yre and be his darling Faire Words slaken yre Suffer and haue thy desire My leue dere child Sweete of spech be thou and of milde moode True in word and dede so bids our Lord God And keepe the euer doughter fro velony and shame That men for thy doing speake the no blame Good life ends wele Be true euer as the stele My leue dere child Be of fayre sembland and of good manere Change not thy coūtnance for ought thou can here Ne fare not as a giglot what euer thee betyde Laugh not too loud ne gape not too wide Maydens should laugh softlye That men here not they bee My leue dere child When thou goes by the gate go not too fast Ne bridle not with thy head ne thy shoulders cast Be not of mony words ne sweare not to gret All euill vices my doughter thou foryet For gif thou haue an euill name It will turne the to grame My leue dere child Goe not oft to the towne as it were a gaze Fro one house to odir for to seeke the maze Ne go not to market thy barrell to fill Ne vse not the Tauern thy worship to spill For who the Tauerne vsis His thrift he refusis My leue dere child Gif thou be in place where good drinke is on loft Wheder that thou serue or thou sit softe Mesurely take thou and get the no blame Gif thou be drunken it turnes the to shame Who so loues measure and skill He shall ofte haue his will My leeue dere child Go not to the wrastling ne shoting the cock As it were a strumpet or a giglot Be at home doughter and thy things tend For thine owne profit at the latter end Mery is owne thing to see My dere doughter I tell it thee My leue dere child Acquaint the not with euery man goes by the strete When folks thee bespeaken curtesly hem grete Let hem not by the wey nor by hem doe not stond That they with velony make not thine hert bond For all men are not tristy Gif they speake to thee gayly My leue dere child Of lefe men doughter gift thou none take But thou wote wele how sone it forsake Men with their gifts wemen oregone Gif they of herts be herd as stone Bounden is he or shee That gifts takis securely My leue dere child In odur mens housen make thee no mastrye Ne blame thou nothing thou sees with thine eye Doughter I the prey bere thee so wele That all men may sey thou art true as steele For wise men and old Sayne good name is worth gold My leue c. Be thou no chider ne of wordis bold To missay thy neighburs neder young ne old Be thou not too proud ne too enuious For thing that may betyde in odir mens house For an enuious hert Procures mickle smert My leue c. Gifthy neighburs haue rich instore or tyre Therefore make thou no strife ne bren not as fire But thanke God of goods he has thee yeuen And so shalt thou doughter good life liuen For oft at ease he is That loues peace I wis My leue c. Huswifely shall thou go on the werk-day Pride rest and idlenes put hem cleane away And after on the holyday well clad shalt thou be The haliday to worship God will loue the More for worship of our lord Than for pride of the world My leue c. Mekill shame doughter shall that wife tyde That maken poore their husbond with their great pride Therefore doughter be huswife good After the wren has vaines men may let blood For their thrift wexis thin That spend more than they win My leue dere child Wisely looke thy houshold thy meynye To bitter ne to boner with hem ne bee And looke what neede is best to be done And thereto set thy meiney sone Before done deede Another may speede My leue c. Looke to thy meyny and let them not be ydell Thy husband out looke who does much or litell And he that does well quite him his meede And gifhe doe amisse amend thou him bidde And gifthe work be great and the time strait Set to thy hond and make a huswifes brayd For they will do better gifthou by them stond The worke is soner done there as is many hond My leue c. And looke what thy men doon about hem wēd At euery deede done be at the tone end And gifthou finde any fault soone it amend Eft will they doe the better and thou be nere hand Mikell him behoues to doe A good house that will looke to My leue c. Looke all thing be well when they worke leauen And take thy keyes to the when it is euen Looke all thing be well and let for no shame And gifthou so do thou gets thee the lasse blame Trust no man bett than thy selfe Whilest thou art in thy helth My leue c. Borrow not too gladly ne take not to trest But the more neede it make or the more breste Make the not rich of oder mens thing The bolder to spend the worse thriuing For at the ending Home will the borrowed thing My leue c. Giue thy meiney their hire at the terme-terme-day Wheder they abiden or els gone away Be wise euer doughter of their doing That thy friende may haue ioy of thy prouing Loose not the loue of thy frind For a litle that thou mighst spend My leue c. Now haue I taught the doughter so did my moder mee And therfore do therafter gifthou think to the Look or thou wed any mā that he haue agood name True of hand and tongue without any blame For better it is a childe to be vnborne Than for vnteaching to be forlorne My leue c. Sit not at euen too long at gaze with the cup For to wassell and drinke all vppe So to bed betimes at morne rise beliue And so may thou better learne to thriue He that woll a good house keepe Must ofte-times breake asleepe My leue c. Gif it betide doughter thy friend fro the fall And god send the children that for bread will call And thou haue mickle neede helpe litle or none Thou must then care and spare hard as the stone For euill that may betide A man before should dread My leue c. Of all thing doughter looke thou thinke Gif men wold for worship set thee on the benk Be not too statly doughter noder young ne old Forsome folk are now pore that somtime ware gold Many folk for pride After weren a naked side My leue c. Gifthou be a rich wife be not ouer hard Welcome thy neighbours that come the toward Giue hem meat and drink