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A20408	Greene in conceipt New raised from his graue to write the tragique historie of faire Valeria of London. Wherein is truly discouered the rare and lamentable issue of a husbands dotage, a wiues leudnesse, & children of disobedience. Receiued and reported by I.D.	Dickenson, John, romance writer.; Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1598 (1598)	STC 6819; ESTC S105352	46,384	71

then at their childrens good weigh not on what rockes of daunger through incontinencie and reproch they cast them whome they couple with those that abound in coine though hauing nought else of worth Farre more nobly minded was Themistocles which in bestowing his daughter preferred the vertuous and able poore before the sottish impotent rich whereof being demanded the cause he made this generous answer I had rather quoth hee choose a man without mony then money without a man wherein doubtlesse hee meant not onely that he is worthie the name of a man which imbraceth vertue but also that hee is not to be thought a man which can not performe the act of a man where it iustly is required What can be more vnnaturall then such inequalitie of yeeres and inclination which granted howe I pray you can that be pleasing to God which is so directly repugnant to the course of nature whome hee at first created in most absolute perfection of proportionall regarde and hath euer since and will till the ende of this worldes times preserue fron●… confusion by vpholding this equalitie Thinke you that Myrobolan Trees brought from Sunne-scorcht Susa can prosper if planted in frozen Scythia or that the Northern pride of Flora can diaper the Southerne fieldes Would you deeme that gardiner skilfull whome you should see setting Colewortes neare the vine which shunnes them so much by nature that it windes another way and soone doth wither Can that match bee lesse vnmeete where greene youth is yoakt with groning age I haue hearde that Licurgus the Spartane Lawgiuer did not ouely permitte but commaund it as a seruice much meritorious to the Common-wealth that a vigorous man knowing an able woman matcht with an husband impotent through yeares or some naturall defect might lawfully demaund and no lesse lawfully vse her companie to raise vp issue in the others behalfe which he must acknowledge as his own Had Giraldo and you been Spartans liuing in these times then had you enioyed this pleasing priuiledge your husband beeing now past procreation and hee if discontent in vaine had muttered who if hee would needes marrie should haue wedded some ancient matrone the widow of two or three husbands which might by custome knowe how to fitte the humour of his yeares and brooke quietly the loath some accidents of his age by feeling in her selfe like insufficiencie baiting his eares with counter-coughes and presenting to his eyes like nastie obiects of filth and flegme Breach of medlocke had beene in her a crime inexpiable but where the state and person of the offendour is changed there likewise the qualitie of the offence is altered nor can the crime bee so directly pertinent to you which being a child must obey as to Theodoro which being your father might and did commaund Bethen couragious boldly to imitate the infinite examples of former times nor are you now alone which haue for presidents me and such my friends as seeke with mee abroad what is not afforded vs at home If herein you consort with vs you shall likewise share with vs your part of pleasures you shall be furnisht with store of fauorites ech of gallant goodly personage and which most is of rare agilitie in acting that secret sweet seruice which wee most affect This onely is required that you remunerate with coine the authours of your intent bolstring vp with your bags their impouerishing braueries Here Valeria halfe weeping halfe wishing her self vnwedded seemd doubtful wheron to resolue but the other following her aduautage gaue not ouer till she had assured y e conquest To be short there was a time place determined for entering Valeria into y ● order meane while the whole crue was summoned there to assemble at the day appointed being likewise throughly acquainted with the cause The meetest corner for this couent was thought a gardin-house hauing round about it many flowers and within it much deflowring Were not this age fruitfull in stranger miracles I should haue deemd this an high maruell that so small a plot of ground could be so deuowring a gulfe of some mens gettings yet who knowes not that extortions fruite hath seldome fayrer ende But I procede the day presign'd being come no default was through absence made by any there met they with their mynions each hauing stopt hir husbands mouth with a feined talc coynd extempore Valeria not slacke to such deuotion came with the first seeming to her selfe most fortunate in becoming a sister of that society They had there a costly banquet made at their common charge so fraught with dainties so furnisht with varietie of choycest delicates that by their diet there dispositions might bee well discerned for this is the fewell which feedes and cherisheth the fyer of lust Sine Cerere Libero friget Venus When they had stoutly carowsed and throughly pampered themselues with these prouoking preparatiues the table being now vncouered they fell from quaffing to discoursing then one of the dames and shee most impudent if this their excesse admitted any such degree of difference calde for her lute which fingering too fitly for so vnfit a purpose shee accorded thereto with hir voice and bewrayed as followes in a Canzon the occasion of there meeting Happie lot to men assign'd Hartes with harts in loue combinde Loue the some of earthly sweetes Where with mutuall loue it meets Not consisting all in lookes Like to Idols lay-mens bookes But who tryes this true shall proue Action is the life of loue Why slacke we then to bath in sweet delight Before our day be turn'd to endlesse night Fairest things to nothing fade Wrapt in deaths eternall shade Hence I proue it beauties crime Not to reape the fruits of time Time which passeth swift as thought Time whose blisse is dearely bought Dearely bought so soone to faile vs Soone that should so long auaile vs. Why slacke wee then to bath in sweete delight Before our daye be turnd to enlesse night Loue and beautie fade together Fickle both as changing weather Age or sicknes wastes the one That doth faile when this is gone Let vs then while both doth last V●…e them both eare both be past Sport we freely while wee may yet a while it will be daye Oh but this day drawes on to endlesse night And with our life still weares our loues delight Soone ah soone was Adon slaine Bashfull boy how faire in vaine Fram'd by nature to be loou'd Fram'd but why himselfe not mou'd Dide hee not in prime of youth Prime of beautie pray to ruth Dye he did himselfe preuenting Sorte vnworthy all lamenting Oh thinke on him which changing safe delight For certaine danger turn'd his day to night But me thinks I talking see How each minute slippes from me Losse I deeme the least delay Hast we then to this sweete play Whence is suckt the sappe of pleasure Such as loue by time doth measure Loue that gardes his mothers forte Peeping oft to see the sport A sport how rare

who coulde so kindly comfort me or would so willingly attende mee as a louing wife which would sit by me sigh for mee share with me my sorrowes and vse all meanes to procure my safety If death should seaze on mee wiuelesse as I am and childelesse leauing my goodes to vnkinde or vnknowne heires with what discontent shoulde I breath out my drooping spirit But to your selfe I appeale which haue in part experemented this facilitie what ioye it were ●…uen in death to behoulde the fruite of my owne bodie the continuer of my name liueing to possesse what I leaue knowe you not that beastes voide of reason doe perpetuate their seuerall kindes by procreation and shall men iuriched by reason be herein exceeded by beastes if all were such as you counsaile mee to continue where were the hope of posteritie And that taken away where the spurre of vertue deserts guerdon the taske of fame sounding to succeding times true honours trophes in euerliuing notes I omit to alledge that nature and my countrye claime mariage of me as a debt The Sparta ns among other lawes made by Licurgus had this one that the younger sorte should at all times and in all places reuerence there elders But to those of great Age wanting yssue this preueledg was not due So that Brasidas a valient chiefetaine neuer maried laden with many yeares but honored through more victories passing by a young man which sat still not vsing to haue any shewe of reuerence by mouing his bodie or his bonet and deeming it a great indignitie receiued this answere Thou hast not quoth he a sonne which may doe the like to me if liuing to thy age But whether runne I in so large a fielde of mightie reasons warranting my resolution beyond all compasse of contradiction Sith then to marry it is not onely seemely for any but likewise necessary for all in disswading mee from it you highly iniury mee That I haue hetherto abstained it was my fault To persist in like humor were deeperfolly Better is little then nothing late then neuer not to bee then in vaine to bee Nascitur is frustra per quem non nascitur alter Hauing thus said and fearing to bee vrged with a fresh reply he brake of there conference by a feined occasion of businesse leauing his well wishing friende in a deepe amasement no lesse petying his daunger then wondering at his do●…age But no soner had Aurora in her next vprise moystn'd with her earely teares transform'd Adonis and cherisht the forward springing of other flowers then Giraldo mounting on his horsse gallopt on the spurre in that gladsome season of the yeare toward his harts wished harbor where Valeria whom leauing he so languished made hir residence By whose father his asured friend he there alighting was by so much the more louingly welcomed by how much the lesse his coming was then lookt for which yealded in outwarde shewe no other likelihoode of coniecture but to be a bare iourney of recreation till he impatient of all delay did fully though in feawe wordes deliuer the soomme of his desire which was to espowse Valeria whereto the soner to induce hir father to whom onely he now communicated his affectious secrets he promised to make hir a large ioynter craueing of him no other dowery then what himselfe would willingly assigne Theodoro such was the others name haueing much vsed-the father and long knowne the sonne of whose vertue besides his breath he was no lesse certaine then of his wealth assured and perhappes somewhat mou'd by the voluntary offer of so large a ioynter yealded him his full consent promising moreouer to worke herein so effectually with his daughter adding to his words the weight of a fathers authority that shee likewise whom it most concerned should grant his demaunde or deny hir duety Which promise he faild not to performe moueing the matter to Valeria in such sort that the wily gerle which could by little gather much and by a sillable co nceiue a sentence was nothing ignorant of his entent herein whom fearing to displease hoping by this match to raign as Mistrisse of all for well she knew the myldnesse of Geraldos nature though at the first for fashions sake somwhat sticking at his age concluded hir answere with the offer of her obedience in yeelding her selfe wholly to her fathers disposing To bee shorte Giraldo and shee were solemnly contracted Valerias dowrie assigned her ioynter set downe all things confirmed and they soone after openly espoused Now seemed hee to himselfe infinitely happie solacing in an earthly heauen of imaginarie ioyes a Paradise of thought-exceeding pleasures But between seeming and beeing there hath euer beene a large difference Cadmus seemed happie but his liues sequell dasht his felicities vaine Hourish with a Chiliade of crosse Fortunes Ante obitum nemo supremaque funera foelix Had great Pompey with his third triumph finished his then-victorious life hee had not famous'de Pharsalia through his foile nor made Egypt fatall through his fall Had Giraldo beene extinct in this the prime of his seeming happinesse hee had not afterwarde dyed most happelesse But to proceed the Nuptials beeing ended and Giraldo on his returne vnto the Citie whither hee purposed to take with him his beauteous Bride at the instant of their departure Theodoro whose misgiuing heart did make him heauie taking aside his daughter thus grauely bespake her Valeria thou now must leaue mee and learne with all another course of life then thou hast ledde with mee thou must with thy estate change thy thoughtes no lesse earnestly nowe endeauouring to please thy husband then earst warily shunning to displease thy father Oh let it not be saide of thee which is too truely saide of many That liuing vnder their parents awe they make shewe of admirable vertue but beeing exempted from that obedience they vnmaske their abhorred vices resembling in this change the Corall which growing vnder the water is of exceeding softnesse but taking once the Aire takes therewith a stone-like hardness These may to their shame learne duetye of sillie creatures wanting reason Young Storkes feede their olde dammes which else should famish The Turtle hauing lost her mate by death ioyes not in the companie of any other Lo in the one a precept of pietie to the parents in the other a myrrour of loue and loyaltie towarde the husband And thinke withall that naked beautie not adorned by vertue is like the Tree Daphnoides whose leaues are white but the berries beeing ripe are blacke Presume not then on the fairenesse wherewith GOD hath sufficiently graced thee that must fade beeing onely the bodies gift but if while it flourish it be ill applyed what more is it then a painted tombe a golden sheath closing a leaden Sword or wherein is it more esteemed by the wise then wisdome by the foolish From the Countrey a place of small resort thou must now into the Cittie where thou shalt finde sundry sortes of companie and customes as

lines with purpose there to deliuer thē which might fully intimate his forg'd affection The time came the maskers in their disguise appeard when Arthemio hauing first taken his mystris to the measures and then withdrawing hir the daunce being ended briefely whispered in hir eare his name and conueyed in to hir hande these lines which done he left her Shee finding that night an opportunitie for shee could commaunde occasions haueing hir husbande at controlement perused his slight passion which followes thus As when a waue-bruisd barke long tost by the winds in a tēpest Straies on a forraine coast in danger still to be swallow'd After a world of feares with a winter of horrible obiects Heau'n in a weeke of nights obscur'd day turnd to be darknes The shipmans solace faier Ledas twinnes at an instant Signes of a calme are seene and seene are shrilly saluted So to my drooping thoughts when sorrow most doth await me Your subduing lookes in fayrenesse first of a thousand Staine to the brightest star that gildes the roofe of Olimpus Calm'd with a kind of aspect vouch safe large hopes to releue me Such is your bewty which makes your boūty so powrful Such to mee your beawty which makes your bounty so blisful Whose each worth to relate my worthlesse pen is vnable Haires of a goldlike hewe not purest gould so refulgent Pearle-like piercing eyes not purest pearles so relucent Cheekes of a maiden dye with a snow white circle adorned That rosy-redde as a rose this Lillie white as a lillye Not such a red such a white to be seene in a Rose or a Lillie Euery part so repleat with more then could be required That to behold hir worke eu'n Natures selfe was amased Muse not then that I loue but muse that I liue if I loue not Muse that I draw my breath mine eyes not drawne by thy bewty Yet shal I loue in vain in vain such bewty beholding Deem'so to loue so to looke that lok●s loue be rewardles Better it is to be dead by death from cares to be cleered Cares the records of loue sowre loue when slightly regarded Grant me then o fayrest assurance so to be fancied That nor I droope dismaide nor doubt not fully resolued Valeria hauing red this toy smilde to thinke how hee which had on hir so mighty a●… aduantage was held by hir at such a bay because not priu●…e ●…o his owne prerogatiue Thus did they both dissemble hee in feining great affection where little was she in making shewe of little where much was Upon occasion of this toye Valeria at thier next meeting thus saluted him Seruant you are welcome from the Sea what newes I pray you among shipmen Arthemio smelling hir drift and liking well the motion but dissembling it replyde thus Mistres it were strange hee shoulde be welcome from the sea which neuer ●…aw the sea But more strange quoth shee that land men should in stormes be driuen to expect ayde from starres sith to them the greatest tempestes are meere trifles if we weigh the seas huge tossing Yet quoth Arthemio such may the storms be such the starres that the one may be as ruthfull and the other as requisite That you meane quoth shee by the sandy sea where men are oft drownde in dust and their bodies remnants become drugges But it seems by your short returne and sound complexion that you were not a passenger in those pa●…s Hereto Arthemio thus answere●… the sea wherein I yet do saile readie still to sinke if not supported by your fauour is no lesse strange then that of ●…and for amidst the flambe I freise such are my feares amidst the floode I flame such is the feruor of my affection my shippe floats yet not on water the waues which beat on it are sobbes It sailes yet on no fea the windes which breath on it are sighes But by your leaue replyed Valeria are you still a sea-man and not yet o●… shore then was my welcome ill bestow'd before your selfe were well arriu'd but to vnmaske this misterie me thinks your sea is very me●…aphoricall I muse that where the lymi●…s are so ●…raight the danger can be so extreame It is quoth hee generally obserued that the floode is roughest where most restrained And no lesse generally noted quoth shee that the Sea is of Elements the most vncertaine whose waues are by each gale of wind raisde in billowes If then your application hold as generall I rather commend your Metaphors conceit their your 〈◊〉 constancie But it were said hee iniustice to charge the Patient with the Agents fault Although my thoughtes my fancies Sea tost twixt vaine hopes and feares plunge my heart in dire perplerities yet that my sillie shippe ranging in this rockey Ocean of despaire though not hauing still one Current striues still to keepe one course and amidst so many changes remaines vnchanged though tirde with troubles which are some say loues surest trialls Accuse not then much lesse condemne that of dissoyaltie whereto life shall sooner faile then it to loue and which sooner may by death be broke●… then breake those 〈◊〉 bondes wherein your beautie making through mine eyes a breach holdes it inthrald But why talke I as if in me it rested to repeale my passions which doe share with the stone Abeston his retentiue vertue For as that being once hote is neuer after colde so my fancie fettered in affections chaines by your souleintangling fairenesse is now not capable of libertie Or rather quoth Valeria your thoughtes masked vnder your deceiuing lookes disguise resemble the Camelion and as that can in a moment be clad with any colour but retaines none so your fancie can at the view of euery pleasing face forge new passions but persist in none Hereat Arthemio guiltie to himselfe did bite the lippe because knowing she spa●… the truth yet comforted in that shee meant it not a truth but onely as tearmes of course whereto as he would haue answered other companie brake off their conference and they with the rest fell from loose talke to 〈◊〉 toying dreading nothing lesse then that their leudnesse could be discouered His second humour was this Against Valerias birth-day hee had of purpose pend this following Dittie and on the verie day sent it her by that trull through whose counsell shee was first seduced and into whose familiaritie hee had of late insinuated because knowing how much Valeria did loue and trust her Shee comming as a friend and neighbour and beeing with all a notable hypocrite had both easie accesse and priuat conference without suspition for it seemd a thing not to be doubted of that the subiect of their talke was onely some gossips matter as among women it is ordinarie Beeing thus alone with her after a large preface of Arthemios deepe affection for so had he before concluded shee deliuered her on his behalfe this welcomepresent which Valeria forthwith vnfolding read as followeth Let others vse what Calenders they please And celebrate their