affoordeth no reward inconstant Venus whose lawes are tyrranies whose fauors misfortunes strumpet as thou art I disdaine to call thée Goddesse thou and the bastard brat thy sonne now show your power your deity and take reuenge on me for how ere your colours be my calamities cannot be more and merciles women whose faces are lures whose beauties are baytes whose lookes are nets whose words are charmes and all to bring men vnto ruine and last yet most Calipolis borne of a Tigar nursed of the Wolfes in Siria beautifull yet ouer base fayre but vnfit louely yet not to be loued of Solinar Thus rowing in the tempestious seas of his appetites guided by a Marriner that delights in the shipwrack of those hee carrieth perplexed with a thousand cogitations so extreame was the force of loue and the sparks so cruell that patience could not extinguish the vaparous heate nor salt teares quench the fiery flames that wanton loue had kindled in his breast So on the suddaine he betooke him to his couch in hope that sléepe would haue qualified his newe come passions So laying his head vpon the carefull pyllow intending to nod his head fell to hammering another matter plotting a secrete meanes to obtaine his new come loue so restlesse turning from side to side though his bones aked not his head was brused and his wits were a wooll gathering Thus tumbling no long space on the restlesse pillow but vp he got and taking his Lute first framed out some dolefull tune and hauing fitted his purpose he fingered his pen and in a perplexed humor he writ this ditty Solinars Dittie LIngering in loue and like to die hey ho hey ho my poore hart I freeze amaine and yet I fry Now fie vpon this extreame smart What pleasing paines is paltry loue hey ho hey ho that 's my greefe I still condemne but neuer proue a froward way to finde releefe Delight prognosticates my death hey ho hey ho woe is mee Pangs doe stop my vitall breath comfort is fled no ioy I see Accursed were mine eyes to gaze hey ho hey ho worse lucke mine Her beauty made mee stand amaze so gay did glaunce her glorious eyne Vpon her browes did Venus play hey ho hey ho Mars did cry If poult foote Vulcan were away then Mars in loue would make a try But Vulcan lay slumbring on her lap hey ho hey ho blacke is he Could I but catch her in a trap full sure tormented Vulcan should be For he is blacke and would become hey ho hey ho the Cuckolds horne T is quickly said but were it done Venus would the Black-smith scorne Hauing finished this Ditty and finding opportunitie as the saying is The Cat béeing away the Mouse will play hee setled himselfe vnder her Chamber window and so warbled foorth this Ditty The siluer strings of the Lute was so heauenly that the eccho of the swéet sounde awaked the Saint from her sléepe and mounting from her night couch opened the casement and vttered these words What sweete melodious tunes are these that ecchoes sweet harmony to my dying soule Ah say sweete haplesse friende what 's cause of all your dolefull tunes Mee thinkes they increase a second heauen in my hart then blush not man take courage and comfort your selfe and if your helpe bee in mine hands assure your selfe to obtaine salue for your sore be it no impeach to my honest name Solinar ouercloyed with ioyes at the fauourable words vttered by Calipolis fetching a heauie sigh frō the center of his hart curtained his face with a suddaine blush and replied in this sort Farre be it from my hart to think of such base vilanies as might in question Lady call your name yet is the matter of such consequent standing vpon the credite of my state too affected with zeale and secrecie as should I speake and faile in my expectation it would redownd greatly to my preiudice Calipolis knew by the shoe where the foote was pinched for loue cannot be hidden day appeares at little holes and the least sparke of wilde fire setteth a house on flame The sting of loue woundeth deadly to the hart therefore shee encouraged him in this manner fayning as though she perceiued nothing Sweete friend if the cause of your complaints be according to the tennor of your protestations assure your selfe to receiue comfort to your owne content and to pacifie your passions with pleasant ioy therefore frolike in thine attempt speake thy fill if thou faile in thy desire imagin I am either too coy or thy selfe too curious Shee hauing vttered these wordes Solinar in breefe began to breathe out his passions but Fortune who is constant in nothing but vnconstancie alwaies inclined to crosse mens courses did breake them from their chat in this manner Baltegar one that had beene of long continuance a friendly fauorite to Calipolis Fortune so spightfully thwarted his endeuours that he could neuer obtaine personally to speake to her til the Fates had plotted this time and place of opportunitie and finding Solinar so conuersant with her he so highly fauoured Loue that Tyrant so stirred his stomack that hardly coulde hee holde his hands from murther yet at last he began in this manner Presumptious Solinar whose peremtory attempts deserues the gurdon of death darest thou presume to court that Saint in whom I haue shrined my hart the Goddesse whom I adore accounting of her as my second selfe therefore hands of or els behold thy death drawing his ponyard These hard euents amazed Solinar greatly yet putting on good courage he replyed to this effect Good sir quoth he are you priuiledged in loue or so tied to the beauty of a woman that no man may looke vpon her but your selfe had the Gods fauoured me with such a priuiledge I durst aduenture without request to shew it To this replied Baltegar suffiseth beauty is my priuiledge if that suffise not inquisitiue Solinar heere is my weapon to authorise it With that Calipolis as one amazed at these hard euents beeing a woman so constant as no Circes with all her charines nor Calipsoes inchantments could once preuaile a iote to blemish her affection shée was constant Silera and not a dissembling Helin shée estéemed more of an ounce of honestie then a pound of paltry stuffe so wrincking her browes beautifying her face with an angry blush beganne in thys manner What meanes these vaine ambages t is not vnknowne to the better of you both that Calipolis is trothed Spouse to Mountgramet and such a one as scornes to staine her marriage rites with such base reproch or the vertue of an honest name with the infamous slaunder of a naughty Packe or a wonder to the worlds sole eye Baltager impatient to heare her prattle enforced by loue broke forth into these speeches Mistresse quoth he fayre Helens nuptials of Greece were solemnized yet prooued shee vnconstant to Menelaus and forsooke the delicates of Sparta and what enforced that but loue Admit she did sayd Calipolis
yet haue I vowed my selfe to the contrary as constant to my Mountgramet as euer that fayre Dido was to her Vlisses and rather shall the running streames of Exanthoes recoyle or the world turne to a Chaos whence it came then will Calipolis once falcifie her faith to Mountgramet Solinar frying in loue like the Salamander in Aetnas flames taking her by the hand beganne as followeth By your leaue Mistris giue me leaue to reply Windes often vary and who resembles them but women Baltager breathing it out like a Braggart thus said Sirra who gaue you authoritie to make comparisons t were not amisse to make thee eate thy words or with my ponyard thrust them downe thy throate Whilst thus they were at controuersie trying each others title in loue Fredericke King of Denmarke being lately come to the Court of Fraunce accompanied with King Lewis fortuned to behold this heauie aspect wondring what it should prognesticate insomuch that entring somewhat neerer King Lewis began in this manner Base pesants auoyde our presence and get you packing With that they both departed with mickle sorrow fetching many a heauy sight but marke what after happened Loue that respects no difference of state kinled such flames in Fredericks breast that hanging downe his heade towards the earth not a merry word for a million he stood all a mort Then Lewis whose loue did ballance Fredericks affection plucking vp a small courage from a conquered hart taking Frederick by the hand fell to these words It seemes my Lord the blinded boy hath played the wagge with you in loue at the first looke if he haue escaped Lewis thou art stung Can beautie bring you to such a bane that is but a bauin blast Hebay blossoms that open with the dew and shut with the sunne Roses garded with prickles flowers subiect to the Northerne blasts the beautifull blossoms in Parthia that perish in their prime or the apples of Tantalus that touched turne to ashes the comly skinne that clothes the hatefull Snake the Box tree whose leafes are alwaies gréene and the seedes poyson abollish this fond determination extend the Tyrant out by force for entring at the eye it harbors at the hart loue is more perrilous then precious affording delight with desire but death with deniall Lewis beeing wringed with the same shoe was presently strooke with a contrary obiect in thys manner In amour il ny ade fauta why rage I beyond reason she is beautiful and therefore worthy to be loued shée is comely and deserues to be accounted on How now Lewis hath loue turned thy launce to a Poets penne to paynt out thy passions is Armour turned to amor What is Mars able to resist Iupiter and not to with stand beauty is it Venus must were the Target and Mars the distaffe Omphale handle the Club and Hercules the Spindell must Alexander crouch and Campaspe looke coy this verifies the old prouerbe to be true women will rule in loue howe euer men are lustie in courage no dignitie is able to resist Cupids deitie Loue enters by seeing women and works not by hearing their words therefore seeing Cupid must be obeyed I am content to bow Nullis herbis amor est medicabilis So fetching a sigh began to say my Lord there is one thing on the suddaine greatly troubles me which is this that both you and I shoulde ioyne our harts in such vnlooked for passions Not so my Lorde sayd Fredericke I hope you doe but iest Iest said he nay would I did then were my griefes the lesse Nere grieue my Lorde quoth Frederick for sith the cause is such to ioyne our harts in such a simpathy all enuy set aside let vs agree to yeelde to each others fortune in our choyce Content sayde Lewis and wh◠so ere befall shake handes my Lorde and Fortune thriue a◠all Thus after much prattle they concluded that Lewis should giue her the first onset who taking her by the hand beganne as followeth Mistres of my harts sole affection brighter then siluered Luna or Sol amidst his Horizon shee whom the Gods hath appointed to ransack my entralls and robed me of my hart it were enlesse to rehearse the inward griefe I haue sustayned since I fixed mine eyes on that admirable Comet whose beautifull rayes staineth stately Iuno in Samos or Diana in Delos Minerua in Athens It were vaine to boast of Sibillas beautie or Egipts fayre Isius Cassandra Troyans pride bright Penelope or Romish Cornelia Sabo shunne to shewe thy face Lucrecia lurke Hebe blush Sephronia stoope Sapho knéele and Laura yéeld the pride of beauty to this blazing lampe whose rayes hath kinled fire in my breast Calipolis hauing listened to the Syrens song and cloyed her eares with the praises of her beautie armouring herselfe with the plated coate of constancie in this maner broke him from his vaine similitudes I beséech your Maiestie if the earnest entreatie of a poore Merchants wife may molifie your hart or the teares of a constant Spouse may desire your fauour vpon my knées grant me liberty to speake for a womans tongue is her best defence quoth she Lewis that was so stung with loue that had she asked his Diademe it could not haue béene denied granted her liberty who framed her spéech in this sort Dread Soueraigne the scandalist reproch that can befall a woman is to bée stayned with the infamous blotte of disloyaltie and more welcome to me is the newes of death then the name of Concubine to a King were it the Monarch of the world and more quoth shée what might Mountgramet thinke of mée how would the Quéene your bedde-mate looke on mée to see a Pesant borne possesse the place of a Princes Pardon dread King your request extends to such defamation that I rather desire death then lyfe if it stand not with your liking vnlesse you extinguish this laciuious loue and set me at liberty King Lewis being impatient because perplexed in minde to heare such a cooling carde began as followeth Heauenly Iuno quoth he Dianas branch fedde with Pallas paps it forceth not what Isabella saith what Mountgramet coniectures Lewis is a King and may commaund and more to requite thy loue if Isabella die I le gyrt thy temples with a Diadem brighter thē the morning starre more precious then the Carcanet the Emerald Rubie or the Carbuncle the Onix Saphir and the Christolet the Topace Iasper and the Adamant Calipolis not respecting these large proffers cut him of in this manner quoth she who liues to weare a dead mans shooes I haue heard it saide may gaule his féete with going bare-foote Lewis replied admit sayd he I make thée Quéene and banish Isabella I sayd she so to gaine a Crowne might heape a thousand cares vpon my head therefore swéete Prince quoth shée were it to beare Atlas burden on my backe to roule the restlesse stone with Siciphus I would rest at your commaund rather then to impeach my honest name with any title of
Lewis ouer-cloyed griefes will cause thy hart to burst hadest thou first dyed when first thou gazedst on the Bassalisk then hadst thou perished before desire begunne but now begunne I heere expect but death nay worse then death Deniall of that Saint in whom I haue shrowded my affection that Goddesse whom I in heart adore Could I but gayne her loue then Lewis were thrise blessed aboue all yea but I feare she wil not loue why Lewis is a King therfore may coÌ„maund Foolish man abollish this fond determination trampell loues branches vnder thy féete least they sproute vp to thy heart bridell thy affection for entering at the eye it harbors at the hart and hauing â—â—oke good hand-fast it indangers the whole body That Ciceâ—â—es tongue cannot preuaile nor Circes charmes Calipsoes inchauntments Archimedas circles Rhombus rifraffe bee a medicine for that malady Fond man whilst thou sits drawing of Mathematicall fictions the enemy stands with a sword at thy breast and he that talketh much and dooth little is like to him that sayles with a side winde and is borne with the tyde to a wrong shore After he had bewayled his passions and could not abollish that fond determination hee pulled out a letter charging his Page to poste with it vnto Calipolis where nowe I le rest and come to King Fredericke who had kindled such hote coales as al the water in the world coulde not quench who vttered these spéeches wrapt in a world of woes consumed in a Laborinth of cares Poore soule I tosse I tumble too and fro one while I think on this another while I pause on that and so twixt hope and dread I liue though liuing die and loue is the cause of this calamitie Fickle Fortune still froward vnto me desembling fauors with so kinde a friend fancie is entertained at my hart affection lodgeth in thys tender breast delayes deludeth mee from my deere delight and loue is cause of all this cruel spight Imps of reuenge yée fatall sisters thrée come Atropos vntwist my thread in twayne and by your Destinies come worke mée thys despight robbed of the swéet that rauished my soule I starue with Mydas and thirst with Tantalus burning like the vnquenchable flames of Aetna ouerflowing like Nilus in thy loue I search I séeke and yet I cannot gaine and loue alas hath wrought mée all this paine Whilst hee was thus breathing out his passions came the Page with the Letter who questioning with the boy after certaine communication had shewed King Fredericke the Letter who looking on the superscription opened the same and ouerlooked the secrets therein which tended to this effect The Letter SWéet Goddesse of my harts sole affection brighter in beauty then Auroraes blush that beautifies the siluered skyes fayrer in glory then the turkish Carbuncle or the rar shyning Christolit from whose inchaunting face a thousand charmes descends thorowe the imperiall Orb and makes men liue a subiect vnto loue no sooner had my eyes beheld Dame Natures workes and with the Eagle gazed against the sunne but loue had giuen such a brauado to my breast as nought but death can alter my affection Therefore know sweete Saint that the sting of a Hornet is to be healed a pricke with the bone of a Dolphyn is healed by musick but he that is wounded with the Scorpion must be healed by the same Therefore sweete deeme not of my loue otherwise then I deserue for I haue heard it sayd there is more content in a Countrey Cottage then a Kings Pallace Solinus the Turkish Emperor made more account of a poore milke-mayde then the King of Hungaries Daughter Diogenes commended one in a home-spunne gray gowne more then one that shyned in silken robes alluding to the Lapidarians that choose not stones for beauty but vertue the Diamond is bright yet a deadly poyson the glorious coate hides the venemous Snake the gréenest trées the fuller of Caterpillers the Bassaliske lurketh in the clearest fountaine the sweetest wine the most filthy dregs the fuller of beauty the flower is the emptier of vertue resembling the beautifull Roses in Barbary that perrish in the prime or the hearb Soli that being croped looseth both colour and vertue the apples of Tantalus that touched turne to ashes But to be briefe swéete loue you know my estate to be restlesse such is louers content and if thou hast reason to deeme of snow by the whitenes or trees by the blossomes thou mayst easily perceaue by the furrowes in my face which deciphers the sorrowes of my soule that thou art she yea thou art onely she is mistresse and commaunder of my heart my Diadem and all I haue Were it to win thy loue and make thee Empresse of the world I would vndertake the taske with Alexander Thus restlesse flowing in the tempestious seas of my loue I rest at your friendly liking the procurer of my life or your deniall the finisher of dayes Yours for euer though neuer Lewis King of Fraunce Fredericke hauing read the Letter vnderstood the lines and marking the meaning of euery minnom began in this manner deliuering the Letter backe to the Page and commaunding him to make spéed Amorous man thys kinde writing shewes thy interior affection the painting of these fine phrases deciphers an inward dissembling What Kings are to gaze at starres and not to stumble on stones Stay Fredericke therein thou pinchest thy selfe by the elbow Medium tenere tuissimum est the meane is sweete melody strings high stretched eyther soone cracke or quickly grow out of tune Attempt not with Phaeton least thou drowne with Icarus a homely place harbors more content then a Kings Court Vertue is not shrowded vnder beauties wings it is often shadowed with the home-spunne coate Fonde Fredericke what hast thou done eaten with the Deare against the winde or yéelded with the Harts in Calabria that knowing Dictanum poyson still bruse it with greedines or grazed against the bowe till thou art striken with the boult Hast thou sored with the Eagle against the Sunne till thou art dazeled Foolish man thy rash dooing is more preiudiciall then thy forward affection Thou hast made thy friend thy foe encurred Lewis his displeasure by ouer-looking his secrets Whilst hée was thus solitary vnloding his secrets came the Page back who brought worde of Calipolis death which heauie tyding was such a corrosiue to Fredericks hart that taking his pen in hand after hée had vttered these lines folowing hee framed a mournfull Dittie of her death and so béeing wardly gréeued he departed from Fraunce Héer 's heapes of newes vnto a wounded hart Calipolis in whom I ioyed most is dead Dead is that ioy wherein I tooke delight Fled is delight and sorrow takes the place Sorrow gins to harbor at my hart Hart swels with vnexpected greefes Greefe is begunne all pleasure bids adiew Adiew to worlds content on earth Earth all earthly ioyes are fled my hart And care hath compast euery little part And more to adde
THE Garland of a greene Witte ⧠Discouering the constancie of Calipolis A precious spectacle for wanton Wiues fit to be read of all sorts if oportunitie serue Profitable to some and pleasant to all saue the enuious By R. Turnar Tout ce qui luict ne pas ore AT LONDON Printed for William Kirkham and are to be solde at the little North doore of S. Paules Church at the signe of the black Boy To his approoued good friend Maister Iohn Short R. Turnar wisheth health THinking my worke as safe vnder your Patronage from carping as Vlisses vnder the shield of Aiax I haue entered my barraine Garden and there gathered such greene flowers as so small a plotte affoordes and because of the Spring-time I haue made them in a Graland according to my promise to present you withall Pardon my branches that buds but in Sommer with the Mulberie for I am one of those Poets that came to Homers bason to lap vp that hee dooth cast vp It sufficeth me to be a water bough not a top bud so I may be of the same roote to be yron not steele so I be of the same blade Vinegar not VVine so I be of the same caske to grinde colours for Apelles though I can not garnish I haue aduentured with the young VVrestler at the games of Olimpus to receiue a fall or at least a foile if I be pricked with a bramble I le thrust my hand into the whole bush VVhen Bucephalus was paynted Apelles craued but the iudgment of Alexander whē Iupiter was carued Prissius asked the censure of none but Lisippus neither greatly craue I any but one the Patroner of my pamphlet Momus must mocke the Serpent Porphirius is full of poyson yet hurteth hee none but himselfe the Hearbe Moly hath a flower as white as Snow but a roote as blacke as Inke the Palme-persian Fig-tree beareth as well Apples as Figs the Easterly winde maketh the blossomes to blast and the buddes to blow the Bee carrieth honey in her mouth and a sting in her tayle some disclose subtill secrets that are the Authors of the same and in touching others take themselues by the elboe But the saying is Little sayd is soone amended I le keepe a meane and medle with no man and though I be kissed with Hiparchion or forbidden to sell wine with the Vintner in Venice I will aduenture to put forth a Garland those that loue wines will commend my good will Thus resting at his liking to whom I present my Garland I end resting at his commaund R. T. To the curteous Readers GEntle Readers misconster not my writing as the Schollers did Theodorus father censure aright then rashly t is but a Garland and though some flowers be sweete looke not that all should haue the like sauour weedes are glorious and perhaps ouer-sight hath tyed them in my Garland crop where you like and carpe not at those you leaue for the least in value will comprehend the Gardinaries labour Account not cheese chaulk because both are white nor the full Moone a messe of curds least I think of you as those curst curres that bark at all but their friends snatching vp bones in open streets and eating them madly in secret corners The sharp winds pierce subtiller in narrow Lanes then in open Fields but sith I haue no authority to bridle their tongues nor reason in them to rule their owne talke I am contented to suffer their taunts requesting those my fauorites to take my Garland friendly and when my Garden is full of sweete flowers I le pluck out the weeds and place them in my Garland Yours R. T. I In chiefest time of Sommers spring O Our Gardens then we make H Hearing how cherping Birds doe sing N No pleasure els we take  S So hauing set but sundry sprinks H Hearbs flowers in their kind O Of friendship had my Muse still thinks R Reason driue it in my mind T This Garland then I made with flowers E Each branch sprung vp with Aprill showers FINIS Constant Calipolis of FRAVNCE ⸪ IN the dayes when Lewis swayed the Scepter of Fraunce ruled in great pompe and dignitie a man ingenious ful of valencie wearing with Pallas both the Launce and the Bay Which Lewis continued long time in mortall warres with Frederick King of Denmarke which enuie continued the space of twentie yeeres in which time many bloody stratagems were performed so time that tryes all things so weakened theyr forces and impaired their furniture the want of which draue them to conclude a league for certaine yeeres with which I le rest and come some-what bréefer to the matter In those dayes in the Citty of Paris dwelt a rich Merchant named Mountgramet who had to wife Calipolis a woman for beauty surpassing all because none so beautiful and not so highlie adorned with Natures works as richly graced with Venus amorites so beautified with the gifts of both that Nature her selfe blushed at the beautie of her owne workes hayre like the golden wier Iuory browes cheekes stained with Vermilion tinckture eyes like the Lampes that guides the heauenly Sphere or lightens Luna to her siluerd Couch lips like the Cherrie in his chiefest prime a necke like the Lillies on the banks of Po or icie hayre that growes on Boreas chinne her pretty paps resemble Christ all knobs or Egypts fountaines that ouer-flowes with milke a body were it framed of Virgins waxe by all the cunningst Artists of the world a belly white and soft much like the Downe vpon those Swans that on Meander swims her legge and foote with Venus might compare and to be briefe for beauty such a one as would force Troyalus to be trothlesse Therefore meruaile not for loue respects no difference of state so beauty serue to stirre affection Cupid shootes as well at a rag as a robe the mightiest Potentates vailes their colours where Cupid comes in place and yéeldeth at his commaund without controle But setting a side these vaine ambages it fortuned one Solinar a young Gentleman walking in the stréete chaunced to glaunce his eyes vpon Calipolis and in such sort that Cupid lying in ambush catched him in his clawes and made him not onely pensiue but passionate and so perplexed with a sodaine selfe conceit that he had much adoe to quaile the extreame heate that loues flames had kindled in his breast so with the Salamander bathing in Aetnas flames he hasted to his Chamber and there solitarily hauing none but the walls to witnes his woe he broke foorth fetching a heauy sigh in this manner Vnfortunate Solinar because vnfortunate in thy loue hadest thou perrished at thy birth or beene stifled in thy swadling clothes the Fates had domed thee with desert for nowe growne to ripe yeeres thou féelest more miseries then thou hast liued moments A loue the laborinth that leadeth men to worser danger then the Minator in Gréece or newes of death vnto a damned man infortuned loue that kindleth desire yet
ships against wind or tide Ichnemon a little worme ouer-comes the Elephant the Viper slayes the Bull the Weasell the Cockatrice and the weakest Waspe stingeth the stoutest man of war The height of heauen is taken by the staffe the bottome of the Sea sounded with lead the farthest Coast discouered by Compasse the secrets of Nature searched by wit the Anatomy of man set out by experience and the abuses of women discouered by their dissembling therefore resolue thy selfe Calipolis shall dye I le 〈◊〉 the Author to deuise her death thou the factour to performe the déede Maister quoth Anthony I knowe women in qualities reâ—â—mble an arrow which getting liberty with wings is carried beyond our reach kept in the Quiuer it is still at commaund or a dog let him slip and he is straight out of sight but hold him in a lease and hee neuer stirres or a Colt giue him the bridle and he flings at liberty but rane him hard and you may rule him or a shyp hoyse the sayles and it runnes on head let fall the Anchor and all is well He runnes farre that neuer turnes and a fault pardoned procures the offender from working displeasure All these similitudes mixed with sighes salt teares could not in any case alter Mountgramets intent so the one resolued she should die the other constrained to commit the déed I will rest and come to the poynt Calipolis accompanied with Anthony had not gone past a mile out of the Citty but Anthony hammering a thousand dispaires in his head procured by her intended death burst foorth into teares Calipolis turning aside her head espyed the teares trickling downe his chéeks Who amazed at the sight desired to know the cause Who fething a heauy sigh and wiping away those streames of teares began as followeth Mistris quoth hee I am forced by nature and loue to disclose to you the sum of my Maisters secrets which are to this effect He eyther suspecting or told some tatling tale touching disloyalty a blemish to marriage rites hath solemnly sworne that nothing should serue nor pardon passe but the losse of your life pay raunsome for so foule a deede And none but I the vnhappiest of all creatures am commaunded to be the instrument of your death therefore good Mistris quoth hee forgiue me though I commit the fact that am giltlesse of the fault Calipolis could no longer abide but burst foorth into these speeches Vnfortunate Calipolis on whom the sun of Fortune neuer shone but Plannets ruled by retrogard aspects Dissembling Ianus didst thou betray me with a Iudas kisse to mount mee to thy chayre of state and now displayes displeasure with the worldâ— sole hate Wherein did I offend Mountgramet in my constancie which hee hath wrested to disloyalty Heauens will witnes my giltlesse hart I thought that no man lyuing equalled Mountgramet in my harts affection so did I loue him well and faithfully for which I am rewarded most vnthankfully Cruell Destinies that determines the end of dayes with such reproch Let any lyuing creature but once obiect and say I did commit the least tytle of defamation to my nuptiall rites and then I rather wish death to pay the raunsome of that misdéed then pardon in hope of after mends But is it Mountgramets minde Calipolis should dye Perhaps it was yet now it may be turned Hard-harted man wherein haue I offended thée in resembling the constant Diamond though thou accountest me a dissembling Demaphou or a Wether-cock that turnes with euery wind Vnnaturall man doost thou weigh downe my good will with vntimely death or present mee with a ponyard that perfumes thée with Roses Whence springs these frantick seats of bedlam iealousie Why should he menace death to her that well deserues What néeds these vaine ambages it is the Fates decrée and they haue swore my death the cruell Destinies haue cut my twisted thred and brought my former blisse to fatall bale Dissembling fortune that smilest at my fall After she had vttered these playnts she desired him to finish the end of her dayes Who hearing the swéete soule willing to receaue the stroke of death began as followeth Mistris quoth he should I commit so foule a deede it were death to my selfe the flying fowles will disclose my villany yea my guilty conscience will bewray my selfe Therefore good Mistres quoth he of two euils the least is to be chosen alter your attire change your state and try your fortune in some forraine Land Perhaps the Fates being thwarted in theyr déeds may turne their frownes to a friendly smile and grace you vnexpected fauours Such is the rigour of my Maisters setled malice that to craue mercy were bootelesse and to séeke for lyfe were labour lost in vaine Therefore to escape the heauy stroke of your vntimely â—eath and my discharge of promise and also displeasure of the Almighty change your attire alter your state become like a Page to get safe passage ouer the Sea shroud your life vnder the wings of Fortune and though it be distresse yet account of it aboue an vndeserued death After hée had vttered these spéeches the teares distilling like Nilus downe her chéekes and after a thousand thanks she gaue him a kindly salute and committed her fortune to the Fates She had not gone a mile after her departure from Anthony but she framed this wofull farewell Calipolis farewell to Fraunce FRaunce with teares adue Mountgramet is vnkind I was to him so true as man could wish in mind But now I proue in vaine I did loue for nothing I am regarded Woe is me alas how comes it to passe my loue should be so rewarded Fond iealous man whence springs this same Thou seekes my discredit staineth my name Heauens will witnes aright I loued Mountgramet so That nothing could content my sight but that which he would doe But all was in vaine though I did remaine so iealous a head had he That had I beene fleeting it seemes by his greeting he could not more suspected me Vnnaturall man why didest thou so Mistrust without cause and nothing didst know Fie on thee false in hart I loued thee ouer-well Though thou doost cause my smart and makes my hart to swell Fie on thee froward crabed and vntoward that condemnes without crime She needs not to mend that nere did offend in all her dayes and time Vnkind in thy loue I breath thee adew This hard-harted dealing will cause thee rew Yeeld Phoebus teares amaine come groane yee Graces three The louing wight is slaine in hart the more pitty Some obscure cloud fayre Phoebe shroud whilst I depart from Fraunce Be darke the day that vnseene I may be bewayle my haples chaunce All pleasures past I must forsake All the glories once I did in pleasure take She hauing ended this Dittie committed her fortunes to Neptune ship and wind seruing for the purpose with which I le rest and come to King Lewis who being passionate fell to these speeches Ah