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A02073	Alcida Greenes metamorphosis, vvherein is discouered, a pleasant transformation of bodies into sundrie shapes, shewing that as vertues beautifie the mind, so vanities giue greater staines, than the perfection of any quality can rase out: the discourse confirmed with diuerse merry and delightfull histories; full of graue principles to content age, and sawsed with pleasant parlees, and witty answeres, to satisfie youth: profitable for both, and not offensiue to any. By R.G.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1617 (1617)	STC 12216; ESTC S105886	48,526	77

faire creatures if I stand in a maze sith the sight of your surpassing beauties makes me doubt whether I should honour you as earthly ladies or adore you as heauenly goddesses for no doubt Paris neuer saw fairer in Ida. But now noting with déep insight the figure of your diuine faces I acknowledge your honours to bee sisters to our prince whom I reuerence as allyed to my souereigne and offer my sernice as a seruant euer deuoted to such faire and excellent saints The ladies hearing this strange and vnlooked for salutation began to smile but Fiordespine frowning as halfe angry he should presume into her presence with a coy countenance returned him this answere If sir Telegonus for so I suppose is your name your eye-sight be so bad perhaps with péering too long on your bookes or your selfe so far beside your sences as to take vs for Nymphes I would wish you either to read lesse or to prouide you a good Physicion else shall you not iudge colours for me and yet since I would you should know wee count our penny good siluer and thinke our faces if not excellent yet such as may boote compare Telegonus taking opportunity by the forehead and thinking to strike the yron at this heat made reply Maiden hee might be thought either blinde or enuious that would make a doubt of Venus beauty and he be déemed either frantike or foolish that cannot see and say as you are superior to most so are you inferiour to none Pardon Madam if my censure be particular I meane of your sweet selfe whose fauours I haue euer loued and admired though vnworthy to set my fancy on such glorious excellency Fiordespine hearing her self thus praised was not greatly displeased yet past she ouer what was spoken as though her eares had beene stopt with Vlisses but Eriphila the second who was as wise as her sister was beautifull desired Telegonus to rest him by them on the grasse and that they would at their departure aske him as a guard to the court Telegonus as glad of this command as if he had been willed by the gods to haue béen chamberlaine to Venus sa●…e downe with a mind full of passions hauing his eye fixed still on the beautie of Fiordespine which Eriphila espying thinking to be pleasant with Telegonus she began thus to prattle Your late passionate speech Telegonus to my sister Fiordespine makes me think that Venus is your chiefe goddesse and that loue is the lord whose liuery you weare if it be so neighbour take heede for fancie is a Shrew many like that are neu●…r loued Apollo may cry long after Daphne before she heare him and Troilus may stand long enough on the walls before Cresida waue her gloue for a salue I speak Telegonus against our selues take héed we be coy and wily we with our lookes can change men though Venus will weare the target and Mars the distaffe Omphalo handle the club and Hercules the spindle Alexander must crouch and Campaspe looke coy women will rule in loues howsoeuer men bee l●…fty in courage Indeed Madam quoth Telego●…us him whom no mortall creature can controle loue can command no dignity is able to resist Cupids deitie Achilles was made by his mother Thetis invulnerable yet wounded by fancie Hercules not to be conquered of any yet quickly conquered by affection Mars able to resist Iupiter but not to withstand beautie Loue is not onely kindled in the eye by desire but ingrauen in the minde by destinie which neither reason can eschew nor wisedome expell the more pittie I confesse Madam for poore men and the greater impietie in the gods that in giuing loue free libertie they grant him a lawlesse priuiledge but since Cupid will bee obeyed I am contented to bowe especially seeing I haue chanced to set my affection on so excellent a creature And who might that be I pray you quoth Fiordespine taking the matter in dudge●… that Telegonus should make report that is of such great excellencie dwelleth shee in Taprobane In Taprobane Madam replied Telegonus but with such a peale of sighes bewraying his loues in silence that Eriphila smiling sayd I see fire cannot bée hidden in the Flaxe without smoke nor Muske in the bosome without smell nor loue in the brest without suspition I perceiue in faith neighbour by your lippes what lettice you loue the saint that you account of such excellency whose perfection hath so snared your sences is my sister Fiordespine I quoth Fiordespine filling her Iuory browes full of Shrewish wrinkles I hope the young lord Telegonus knowes what Suters I haue shaken off and therefore not inferring comparisons because they bee odious I may giue him his answere with an c. There are more Maydes then Maulkin and more birds for the Faulcon to pearch with then the Eagle the Lyon is a bloudy beast for that he knoweth his strength I will not conclude but lord Telegonus if I be the woman you mean cease from your sute for in faith so well I doe loue you that you cannot more displease mee then in seeking to please mee for if I knew no other cause to mislike yet this might suffice that I cannot loue At this flat and peremptorie answere Telegonus sate nipped on the pate like to them which taste of the fish Mugra whose operation maketh them for a time sencelesse which Eriphila espying thinking to iumpe euen with the Gentleman pittying his passions in that Fiordespine was so coy to so courteous a Youth sayd You may see now Telegonus that Venus hath her frownes as shee hath smiles that Cupid hath arrowes headed with ●…ead to procure disdaine as well as with golde to increase loue heare mee that am a Uirgin as dutifull to Vesta as reuerent to Venus The paines that louers take for hunting after losse if their mindes were not confirmed with some secret inchantment were able to keepe their fancies for being inflamed or else to coole desire alreadie kindled for the daies are spent in thoughts and the nights in dreames both in danger either of beguiling vs of that wee had or promising vs that wee haue not The head fraught with fantasies fiered with ielosie troubled with both yea so many inconueniences waite vpon loue as to reckon them all were infinite and to ta●…te but one of them were intollerable being alwaies begun with griefe continued with sorrow and ended with death for it is a paine shadowed with pleasure and a ioy stuffed with misery So that I cōclude that as none euer sawe the altars of Busiris without sorrow nor banqueted with Phoebus without surfetting so as impossible it is to deale with Cupid and not either to gaine speedie death or endlesse danger As I was ready in defence of loue to make reply there came a little page from their lady mother to call them home to dinner wherupon they all rose and would haue taken their leaue but boldly I stood to my tackling and told them Ladies you passe not so for

Uirginitie inuiolate without spot so thy choice may bee without blemish know this it is too late to call againe the day past therefore kéepe the memorie of Meribates as needfull but not necessarie like him whom thou shalt haue occasion to loue and loue where thou hast tried him loyall vntill then remaine indifferent When Eriphila had vttered these words she straight to auoide all dumpes that solitarinesse might breede came to me and her sister and there passed away the day in prattle Thus these two louers passionate and yet somewhat patient for that hope had ministred lenitiue plaisters to their new wounds passed ouer two or three daies onely with glances and lookes bewraying their thoughts with their eyes which they could not discouer with their tongues Venus taking pitty of her patients found them out so fit occasion that as Eriphila with her sister Marpesia were walking alone in the garden gathering of flowers at that instant guided by loue and fortune Meribates went into the garden to be solitarie where straight he espied his mistris walking with her sister now Meribates was driuen into an 〈◊〉 with the extreme pleasure hee conceiued in the sodaine sight of his goddesse insomuch as hee stood amazed for feare and necessity found a deadly combate in the mind of Meribates he doubted if he should be ouer bold to giue offence to Eriphila and so spill his pottage But the law of necessitie saith Plato is so hard that the gods themselues are not able to resist it for as the water that by nature is cold is made hot by the force of fire and the straight tree pressed downe groweth alwayes crooked so nature is subiect to necessitie that kind cannot haue his course and yet if there be any thing which is more forcible then necessitie it is the lawe of loue which so incensed Meribates that casting all feare aside he offered himselfe to his mistresse with this courteous parle Gentle women if my presumption do trouble your muses yet the cause of my boldnesse deserueth pardon 〈◊〉 where the offence proceedeth of loue there the pardon ensueth of course I stood in a maze at the first ●…ght for mee thought you resembled Pallas and Iuno departing away from Venus after shee had wonne the ball you Madam Eriphila like the one for wit and Marpe●…a like the other for maiestie but hows●…euer sweet saints you grace this Garden with your presence as Diana doth the Groues and honour mee in admitting 〈◊〉 vnworthy a man into the company of such excellent personages Eriphila hearing Meribates in these tearmes●… giuing a glory to her face by staining her cheekes with a vermillion blush both sharply and shortly made this reply It is neuer presumption lord Meribates that fortune presents by chance and therefore no pardon where is no offence our musing was not great onely gathering flo●…res which wee like by the hiew but know not by the vertue herein resembling louers that aiming at the fairest oft stumble on such as are little worth If you haue made vs any fault it is in giuing vs so kinde a ●…umpe with your vnlikely comparison I being as vnlike to Pallas in wit as Vulcan to Mars in property and shee as far different from Iuno in maiestie as olde Bawcis was to Venus in beauty but you Gentlemen of Massilia haue the habite of iesting and therefore since it is a fault of Nature we brooke it and beare with it Meribates hearing so courteous and witty an answere swilled in loue as merrily as euer Iupiter did vertue so that delighting to heare his mistresse prattle hee prosecuted his talke thus As I am glad Madam that my rashnesse was no occasion of offence so I am sorrie you take what I vttered in earnest to be spoken in sport my comparison as I i●…erred it so by your pa●…ience I ●…re maintaine it if not able by reasons for that I ●…no Scholler yet by loue for that I shall drawe mine arguments from fancie which hath set on fire a poore strangers heart that he deemes your sweet selfe not only like Pallas but Pallas her selfe so that had I in this humour beene Iudge for Paris in the vale wit not beauty had gotten what they stroue for I but sir quoth Marpesia from whence will you drawe your arguments to prooue mee in maiestie like Iuno you dare not say from reason in regard y● the persons are without compare and from loue if you argue you proue your selfe double faced like Ianus and double hearted like Iupiter to haue two strings to a bowe and two loues at one time Yes Madam quoth Meribates my common place in this Enthymema shall bee also from loue for in affecting so dearely your sister I cannot but déeply honour you if not in loue as my Paramour yet in friendly affection as her sister You harpe still answered Eriphila on one string which is loue if you be in earnest looke for a frowne as I gaue you a fauour beleeue me lord Meribates there is nothing easier than to fall in loue nor harder than to chance well therefore omitting such serious matter as fancie for that I am vowed to Vesta tell mee will you prouide you as we of a Nosegay And if you be so minded tell me of all flowers which like you best Those Madam that best fit with my present humour And what bee they quoth Marp●…sia Penses Madam answered Meribates for it is a prettie flowre and of sundrie colours seeding the eye with varietie which is the chiefest pleasure to the sight especially I like it for the agnonimation in that the word comming from France signifies fancies Now how I am contented with fancies I would you could as well see as I feele One while imagination presents vnto me the Idea of my mistris face which I allow with a fancie another while a thought of her beautie wakens my sences which I con●… with a ●…ie straight her vertue sayes shee is most excellent which I gratifie with a fancie then to seale vp what may bee sayd her ra●…e and supernaturall wit sayes her conceits are diuine which auowed with a catalogue of solemne oathes I set downe as a maxime with a fancie Thus are my thoughts sed with fancies and to be brief my life is lengthned out by fancies then Madam blame me not if I like Penses well and thinke nothing if I set no other flowre in my nosegay And truly lord Meribates answered Eriphila you and I are of one mind I meane in choice of flowres but not sir as it is called a Pense or as you descant on fancie but as we homely Huswiues call it Hearts-ease for of all contents I thinke this the greatest for in naming this word Hearts-ease I banish as with a charme the frownes of fortune and the follies of loue for the partie that is toucht by the inconstancy of the one or the vanitie of the other cannot boast hee meaneth hearts ease seeing then it ●…eedeth such rest vnto the minde

and such quiet to the thoughts we will both weare this flowre as a fauour you as a Pense bat I as Hearts-ease As these two louers were thus merrily descanting vpon flowres I came into the Garden and found this young lord and my daughter at chat no whit displeased in that I knew the honour of his house his great possessions and parentage I winkt at their loues and after a little ordinary parle called them in to dinner where there was such ●…anding of ●…es and amorous lookes betweene Meribates and Eriphila as a blinde man might haue seene the creeples hault well dinner being ended as Meribates entred into the conūderation of Eriphilaes wit so shee more impatient as the horse that neuer hauing felt the 〈◊〉 runneth at the first pricke so she neuer hauing felt before the like flame was more hot and 〈◊〉 wearie than if before she had beene scorched with affection Now she called him in her thoughts beautifull saying that the fayrest and 〈◊〉 herbes haue the most secret operation shee sayd hee was well proportioned and so the reddest Margarites had the most precious vertues that hee was 〈◊〉 and then shee called to minde the olde verse Gratior est pulchro veniens è corpore virtus But when shee weighed his wise and witty arguments that he vttered in the garden how they not onely sauored of wit but of mirth then Omnia vincit amor nos cedamus a●…ori Shee could not but in her conscience sweare that hee should be the saint at whose shrine she would offer vp her deuotion These two louers thus liuing the more happily for that they rested vpon hope it pleased my sonne and mee to walke abroad into a parke hard ●…ining to the Court and with vs my two Daughters and forget the strangers we could not pacing thus abroad to take aire when wee were in the greene meades Meriba●…s and my daughter had singled themselues and he taking time while she proffered opportunity began boldly to court her in this manner It is an olde saying Madam holden as an Oracle that in many words lyeth mistrust and in painted speech deceit is often couered Therefore I sweet mistresse whose acquaintance with you is small and credit lesse as beeing a stranger dare vse no circumstance for feare of mi●…rust neither can I tell in what respect to bring a sufficient triall of my good will but only that I wish the end of my loue to be such as my faith and loialtie is at this present which I hope tract of time shall trie without 〈◊〉 Thy wit Eriphila hath bought my fréedome and thy wisedome hath made me captiue that as he which is hurt of the scorpion séeketh a salue from whence he receiued the ●…ore so you onely may minister the medicine which procures the disease The burning feuer is driuen out with a hot po●…on the shaking palsie with a cold drinke loue onely is remedied by loue and fancie must be cured by continuall affection Therefore Eriphila I speake with teares outwardly and with drops of bloud inwardly that vnlesse the mi●…ing showres of your mercy mitigate the fire of my fancy I am like to buy loue repentance with death but perhaps you will obiect that the beasts which gaze at the Panther are guilty of their own death that the mouse taken in the trap deserueth her chance that a louer which hath free-will deserueth no pittie if he fall into any amorous passions Can the straw resist the vertue of the pure Iet or flaxe the force of the fire can a louer with stand the brunt of beauty or fréeze if he stand be the flame or preuent the lawes of nature weigh all things equally and then I doubt not but to haue a iust iudgement and though small acquaintance may bréede mistrust and mistrust hinders loue yet tract of time shall inferre such tryall as I trust shall kindle affection And therefore I hope you will not put a doubt till occasion be offered nor call his credit in question whome neyther you haue found nor heard to be halting what though the Serpentine powder is quickly kindled and quickly out yet the Salamander stone once sette on fire can n●…uer bee quenched as the sappie Myrtle tree will quickly rotte so the Sethim w●… wil neuer be eaten with wormes though the Polype changeth colour euery houre yet the Saphyr will cracke before it will consent to disloyalty As al things are not made of one mould so all men are not of one minde for as there hath beene a trothlesse Iason so there hath béene a trustie Troylus and as there hath béen a dissembling Damocles so there hath beene a loyall Lelius And sure Eriphila I call the gods to witnesse without fayning that sith thy wit hath so bewitched my heart my loyaltie and loue shall bee such as thy honour and beautie doth m●…rite Sith therefore my fancie is such repay but halfe so much in recompence and it shall bee sufficient Eriphila hearing this passionate speech of Meribates made him this answere Lord Meribates it is hard taking the fowle when the net is descried and ill catching of fish when the hooke is bare and as impossible to make her beleeue that will giue no credite and to deceiue her that spieth the fetch When the string is broken it is hard to hit the white when a mans credite is called in question it is hard to perswade one Blame me not Meribates if I vrge you so strictly nor thinke nothing if I suspect you narrowly a woman may knit a knot with her tongue that shee cannot vntie with all her teeth and when the signet is set on it is too late to breake the bargaine therefore I had rather mistrust too soone then mislike too late I had rather feare my choice then rue my chance for a womans heart is like the stone in Egypt that will quickely receiue a forme but neuer change without cracking If then I feare thinke mee not cruell nor scrupulous if I be wise for my selfe the Wolfe hath as smooth a skin as the simple sheepe the sowre Elder hath a fairer barke then the sweete Iuniper where the sea is calmest there it is deepest and where the greatest colour of honestie is there oftentimes is the most want for Venus vess●…ls haue the lowdest sound when they are most emptie and a dissembling heart hath more eloquence then a faithfull minde for truth is euer naked I will not Lord Meribates runne from my particular comparison Thus I cast all these doubts and others haue tryed them true yet am I forced by fancy to take some remorse of thy passions Medea knew the best but yet followed the worst in choosing Iason but I hope not to finde thee so wauering Well Meribates to be short and plaine thou hast wonne the castle that many haue besieged and hast obtained that which others haue sought to gaine it is not the shape of thy beautie but the hope of thy loyalty which inticeth me not

vertues glorie which in her remaines After I had read ouer the verses Alcida sayd sonne I perceiue thou dost muse at this tombe set in so vncoth a place hard by the steepe-downe cliffes of the Sea especially furnished with Enigmaticall posies yet hast thou not considered what after thou shalt finde and therefore let vs sit downe vnder the shadowe of this Rose tree which thou seest ●…orished in this barren place so faire and beautifull and I will driue thee out of these doubts by discouering the fortune of my daughter Marpesia I desirous to heare what the meaning of this monument seated so prospe●…iue to Neptune should be sate mee downe very orderly vnder the Rose tree and began to settle my selfe very attentiue to heare what old Alcida would say who began in this manner The third Historie of MARPESIA of Taprobane MY two daughters beeing thus metamorphosed and transformed for their follies into strange shapes I had left mee onely my youngest daughter Marpesia in face little inferiour to her eldest sister Fiordespine for shee was passing bea●…ll wise she was as not second to Eriphila but other speciall vertues she had that made her famous through all Taprobane and as the burnt childe dreads the fire and other mens harmes learne vs to beware so my daughter Marpesia by the misfortune of Fiordespine feared to be proud and by the ●…nister chance of Eriphila hated to be inconstant insomuch that fearing their natiuities to be fatall and that hers being rightly calculated would proue as bad as the rest Shée kept such a strict method of her life and manners and so foregarded all her actions with vertue that she thought shee might despise both the fates and fortune Liuing thus warily I and her brother conceiued great content in her modestie and vertue thinking though the gods had made vs infortunate by the mishappe of the other two yet in the fortunate successe of Marpesias life amends should bee made for the other mishap Perswaded thus it fortuned that my sonne intertained into his seruice the son of a Gentleman a bordering neighbour by a youth of greater beauty then birth for hee was of comely personage of face louely and though but meanly brought vp as nusled in his fathers house yet his nature discouered that hee was hardie in his resolution touching courage and courteous in disposition as concerning his manners This youth called Eurimachus was so diligent and dutifull towards his lord so affable to his fellows and so gentle to euery one that hee was not onely well thought on by some but generally liked and loued of all Continuing in this method of life hee so behaued himselfe that in recompence of his seruice my sonne promoted him not onely to higher office and some small pension but admitted him into his secret and priuate ●…amiliarity Liuing thus in great credit it chanced that Venus seeing how my daughter Marpesia liued carelesse of her loues and neuer sent so much as one sigh to Paphos for a sacrifice shee called Cupid complaining that shee was atheist to her deitie and one opposed to her principles whereupon the boy at his mothers becke drewe out an inuenomed arrow and leuelling at Marpesia hit her vnder the right pappe so nigh the heart that giuing a grone she felt she was wounded but how or with what she knew not as one little skilfull in any amorous passions yet shee felt thoughts vnfitting with her wonted humor for noting the person of Eurimachus which she found in property excellent and admiring the qualities of his minde co-vnited with many rare and precious vertues which she perceiued to bee extraordinarie she fell to conceiue a liking which for the basenesse of his birth shee passeth ouer as a toy but the blinded wagge that suffers not his wounds to bee cured with easie salues nor permitteth any lenitiue plaisters to preuaile where hee pierceth with his arrowes put oyle in the flame and set fire to the flaxe that she felt her fancy scarce warme to grow to such a scalding heate as euery veine of her heart swet passions feeling this new lord called loue to be so imperious shee stooped a little and entred into deeper consideration of Eurimachus perfection and so deepe by degrees that although shee coueted with the Snaile to haue her pace slow yet at length she waded so farre that she was ouer her shooes so that feeling her selfe passing into an vnknowne forme shée fell into this doubtfull meditatiou What flame is this Marpesia that ouer heateth thy hart what strange fire hath Venus sent from Cipres that scorcheth thee heere in Taprobane hath Cupids bowe such strength or his arrowes such flight as being loosed in heauen hee can strike here vpon earth a mighty goddesse is Venus and great is Cupid that work effects of such strange operation make not a doubt Marpesia of that is palpable dreame not at that which thou seest with thine eyes nor muse not at that which thou feelest with thy heart then confesse and say thou art in loue and loue in thee so deeply as Pumice-stones of reason will hardly raze out the characters In loue thou art young Marpesia so is Cupid a very childe a maid so was Venus before shee lost her Uirginitie and yet for her lightnesse shee was the goddesse of loue but with whom art thou in loue with Eurimach one of base birth and small liuing of no credite a meane Gentleman and thy brothers seruant Consider Marpesia that loue hath his reasons and his rules to settle fancy and gouerne affections honour ought not to looke lower in dignitie nor the thoughts of Ladies gaze at worthlesse persons Better is it for thee to perish in high desires then in lowe disdaine oppose thy selfe to Venus vnlesse her presents be more precious say loue is folly except her gifts be more rich count rather to dye in despising so meane a choice then liue in liking so vnlikely a chance what will thy mother thy brother thy friends nay all Taprobane say but that thou art vaine carelesse and amorous but note this Marpesia loue is a league that lasteth while life thou art in this to feede thine eye not thine humour to satisfie the desire of thy heart not the consideration of their thoughts for in marying either a perpetuall content or a general mistike is like to fall to thy selfe what though he be poore yet hee is of comely personage though he be base of birth yet he is wise what hee wanteth in gifts of fortune hee hath in the minde and the defect of honours is supplied with vertues Venus her selfe loued Adonis Phoebe stooped from heauen to kisse a poore Shepheard AEnone loued Paris as hee was a Swaine not as the son of Priamus loue is not alwaies companion to dignity nor fancy euer lodged in kings Palaces Then Marpesia looke at Eurimachus for hee is courteous and loue him as he is vertuous supply thou his want with thy wealth and increase his credite with thy

countenance but how dare he motion loue that is so low or enterprise to attempt so great an assault Neuer stand in doubt Marpesia giue him thou but fauors and loue and fortune will make him bold Marpesia hauing thus meditated with her selfe sought by all meanes possible how to make him priuy to her affections she vsed in her salutations affable courtesie and somwhat more then ordinary her lookes were full of fauours her glances many and milde he vsed no exercise but she did commend nor performed any thing which shee sayd not to be excellent The young Eurimachus was not such a Nouice but hee could espie a pad in the straw and discerne a glowing coale from colde cinders hee noted her glances her looks her gestures her words examining euery particular action in the depth of his thoughts finding by the touchstone that all tended vnto meere loue or extreme dissimulation for whatsoeuer she did was in extremes Well hope put him in comfort that shee was too vertuous to dissemble and feare that she was too honorable to loue so base a man yet supposing the best he tooke her passions for loue had a desire to return a liking with affection but the consideration of his parentage of his small possessions of her honour his lords disfauour and the impossibility of his sute was a cooling card to quench the hottest flame that Cupid could set on fire with his inchanted brand but Venus had pittied the fondling gaue him such precious comfortiues to incourage her champion that he resolued to attempt whatsoeuer his fortune were thus in suspence he began to debate with himselfe It hath béene an old saying Eurimachus suckt from his mothers ●…eate that it is good to looke before thou leape and to sound the Ford before thou venter to wade too farre sith time pa●… cannot be recalled nor actions performed reuoked but repented gaze not at starres lest thou stumble at stones looke not into the Lions denne le●…t for thy presumption thy skinne be pulled ouer thine eares In loues thoughts are to be measured by fortunes not by desires for Venus tables are to be gazed at with the eye not to be reacht at with the hand In loue Eurimachus why it fif●…eth not with thy present estate fancy is to attend on high lords not on such as are seruile it were meeter for thee to sweate at thy labours then to sigh at thy passions to please thy lord then to dote on thy mistresse busie then thy hands to free thy heart bee not idle and Venus charmes are to a deafe Adder Cedit amor rebus res age tutus eris But Eurimachus Phidias painteth loue young and her garlands are made with the bads of Roses not with withered flowres Youth holdeth the fire and fancy puts in the oyle but age carries the colde cinders now that heate of young peeres hath yeelded therefore if thou refuse to loue when wilt thou finde time to fancie wrinkles in the face are spelles against Cupid and Venus starteth backe from white haires then now or else neuer ●…oue is a greater lord then thy master for hee hath deity to counteruaile his diguitie Thou tattlest Eurimachus of loue but say who is the obiect thy thoughts ayme at no lesse nor no lower than Marpesia sister to thy lord a Princesse by birth faire and beautifull full of honourable and vertuous qualities sought by men of high parentage to say all in one w●…rd the flowre of Taprobane fond foole thinkest thou the Kite and the Eagle will pratch on one tree the Lyon and the Wolfe lye in one denne Ladies of great worth looke on such worthlesse pesants No thinke her disdaine will bee greater then thy desire and assure thee this if thou presume shee will reuenge why is Cupid blind and shoots he not one shaft at random may he not as soone hit a Princesse as a Milk-maid truth but his arrowes are matches he shoots not high with the one and low with the other hée ioynes not the Mouse and the Elephant the Lambe and the Tiger the Flie and the Faulcon nor sets not honor in any seruile roome yet Omphi●…a the queene of the Indians loued a Barber Angelica Medes a mercinary souldier Yea Venus her selfe those a Blacke-smith Women oft resemble in their loues the Apothecaries in their art they choose the weed for their shop when they leaue the fairest ●…owre in the garden they oft respect the person more then the parentage and the qualities of the man more then his honors fee●…ing the eye with the shape and the heart with the vertues howsoeuer they liue discontent for want of riches but build not Eurimachus on these vncertaine instances nor conclude on such premises lest thy foundation faile and thy Logike prooue not worth a lowse what reason hast thou to perswade thee ouce to aime a thought at Marpesia such as Venus if she heard them pleaded would allow for Aphorismes if fauors be a signe of fancie what glances haue I had that haue pearced deep what looks as discouering loue what courteous speeches to my face what praises behind my backe Nay what hath Marpesia done of late but talke of Eurimachus and honor Eurimachus what of this young Nouice are not women Arch-practisers of flattery and dissimulation lay they not their lookes to intrap when they meane to keepe the fowle for tame fooles haue they not desire in their faces when then haue disdaine in their hearts did not Helena kisse Mene●…aus when shee winked on Paris did not Cresida wring Troylus by the hand when her heart was in the tents of the Grecians euery looke that women lend is not loue euery smile in their face is not a prioke in their bosome they present Roses and beate men with Nettles burne perfumes and yet s●…ifle them with the blacke speak faire and affable when God wot they meane nothing lesse If then Eurimachus thou knowest their wiles feare to make experience of their wits rest thee as thou art let Marpesia vse fauors cast glances praise and dispraise how she list thinke all is wanton dissimulation and so rest In this melancholy humour he left his loues and went to his labours Loue espying how in the day he withstood her face with diligence she caused Morpheus to present him in his sléepes with the shape of his Mistresse which recording in the day hee found that where fancie had pierced deepe there no salue would serue to appease the Maladie that from these light paines he fell into extreme passions As he could take no rest he sought alwaies to be solitary so to féed his thoughts with imaginations that like Cephalus he delighted to walke in the Groues and there with Philomela to bewaile his loues Cupid pittying his plaints sent opportunity to find her who brought it so to passe that as on a day he walked into a place hard adioining to the parke hauing his Lute in his hand playing certaine melancholy dumpes to mitigate his pinching humor Marpesia