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A02122	Gvvydonius The carde of fancie wherein the folly of those carpet knights is decyphered, which guyding their course by the compasse of Cupid, either dash their ship against most daungerous rocks, or els attaine the hauen with paine and perill. Wherein also is described in the person of Gwydonius, a cruell combat betvveene nature and necessitie. By Robert Greene Master of Arte, in Cambridge.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.; Labé, Louise, 1526?-1566. Debat de folie et d'amour.	1584 (1584)	STC 12262; ESTC S105817	96,964	176

bewraie the cause of my sorrow but behold my sonne in what plight he is and thou shalt easily perceiue the cause of my complaint Iupiter Alasse my deare daughter what doe these teares preuaile knowest thou not what fatherly affection I haue alwaies borne thée what doest thou distrust that I wyll not succour thée or that I cannot Venus No I neither doubt the one nor distrust the other I onely demaund iustice against Folly the most outragious furie in the world which hath thus grieuously abused Cupid Folly Most mightie and soueraigne Iupiter beholde I am héere readie to answere to Venus complaints and to debate my right against Cupid Iupiter Folly I will neither accuse nor excuse thée vntill I haue heard the defence of the one as well as the plaint of the other least I should be thought parciall neither for the more auoiding of iniustice in the matter wil I suffer you to plead your owne causes but Venus choose you one of the Gods and Folly take you an other Venus I choose Appollo to defend my cause Folly And I Mercurie to maintaine my right Iupiter Then Apollo Mercurie prepare your selues to plead well in your clients cases and Apollo since you take the plaintiefes part let vs heare what you can say Apollo THe common people right soueraigne Iupiter although their minds be sotted almost sēceles yet they haue al way had loue in such sacred estimation y ● they haue carefully rewarded thē w t the titles of honor dignity which haue excelled in y ● holy affection estéeming this only vertue if so rightly it may be tearmed sufficient of a mā to make one a God The Scithians for this cause canonized Pilades Orestes erecting temples vnto thē calling thē the Gods of amitie Castor Pollux were made immortal by this meanes not in y ● they were brothers but in y ● which is rare their loue was inuiolable Howe hath fame blazed abroad y ● loue of Dauid Ionathas y ● amitie of Pithias Damon of Titus Gysippus But y ● better to make manifest y ● force of loue amitie I will alledge the saying of Darius who opening a Pomgranat being demanded wherof he would haue as many as ther were graines within answered of Zopyres this Zopyre was his faithful friend by the meanes of whom he conquered Babylon I remember also a certaine Syrian demanding a maide in marriage and being willed to shew of what wealth he was said that he had no other riches but two friends estéeming himself rich inough with such possessions to craue y ● daughter of a great lord in mariage Did not loue cause Ariadne saue Theseus life Hyperminestra redéeme Linceus frō danger Medea frée Iason from perill Haue not many poore soldiers ben aduanced to high dignities by y ● meanes of loue yea doth not all pleasure profit procéed to man by loue causing him to looke w t an amiable countenance to speake pleasantly and to be curious in his ieastures although by nature he be dull sottish of a fierce looke What causeth a man to go braue fine in his apparell séeking euerie day new fashions but loue What procureth Gentlewomen to haue their haire frizeled crisped and embrodered with golde to be dressed after the Spanish French or Italian fashion but Loue. Painting their faces if they be foule with liuely colours But if they be faire they so carfully kéepe their beautie from the parching heate of Summer from the chilling colde of Winter from Wine raine and age as they remaine almost euer young not so much as forgetting to haue their shooes made fine and neate because the curiousnesse of men is such as they leaue not to looke from the crowne of the head to the soale of the foote to haue their iemmes iewells ouches ringes perfumed gloues and what not In fine what beautie or brauerie is in the apparell eyther of man or woman all proceedeth of Loue. Shall I saie that Musicke was onely inuented by loue yea truely for eyther it mittigateth the passions wherewith men are perplexed or else augmenteth their pleasure so that dayly they inuent diuerse kindes of instrumentes as Lutes Citrons Uiolls Flutes Cornets Bandoras whereon they plaie Madrigalis Sonnettes Pauins Measures Galiardes and all these in remembraunce of Loue as he for whom men doe more then for anie other What causeth men to iust tourney runne at tilt and combat but loue Who caused Comedies shews Tragedies and Masks to be inuented but Loue. Wherof commeth it that men delight to rehearse their amorous chaunces and straunge passions and to relate them to their companions some praising the courtesie of his Ladie another condempning his mistresse crueltie yea recounting a thousande mishappes which happen in theyr loues as Letters disclosed euyll reportes suspitious iealousie sometimes the husband comming home sooner than either the louer would or the wife doeth wish sometimes coniecturing without cause and other times beléeuing nothing but trusting vppon hys wiues honestie To be short the greatest pleasure after loue is to tell what perillous daungers are passed But what maketh so many Poets in the worlde is it not Loue the which séemeth to be the plaine song whereon all Poets doo descant yea there is few which write vppon any serious matter but they close vp their worke with some amorous clause or els they are the worse accepted Ouid hath celebrated the fame of Cupid Petracke and Virgil Homere and Liu●us Sapho yea that seuere Socrates wrote somewhat of his loue Aspasia Tush who rightly can denye that Loue is not the cause of all the glorie honour profite and pleasure which happeneth to man and that without it he cannot conuenientlye lyue but shall runne into a thousande enormities All this happie successe came by Loue as long as hée had his eyes but now being depriued of his sight and accompanied with Folly it is to be feared nay certainly to be beléeued that he shall be the cause of as manie discommodities mischiefes and mishaps as hethertoo hée hath bene of honour profit and pleasure The noble men which loued their inferiours and the subiects which dutifully serued their Lords shall be meruailously chaunged by the meanes of folly for the master shall loue his seruaunt onely for his seruice and the seruaunt his master onely for commoditie Yea there is none so addicted vnto vertue but if once he loue he shall presently commit some foolish touch and the more straight and firme loue is the greater disorder there shall be by the meanes of Folly There will returne into the world more then one Biblis more then one Semyramis then one Myrrha then one Canace then one Phaedra There shall be no place in the world vnspotted The high walls and tre●lissed windowes shall not kéepe the Nunnes and Uestall Uirgins in sauegard Olde age shall tourne her aged affections into fond fancies and wanton desires Shame shall lyue as an exile There shall

onely an ordinarie kinde of liking towards Gwydonius Who bathing thus in the streames of blisse and safely harboured in the hauen of happinesse wanting nothing which might content his minde eyther for plesure or profite thought it a poynt of méere folly eyther to seeke or wish for more than inough knowing that to strayne further than the sléeue would stretch was but to make the arme bare and to skippe beyonde a mans skill was to leape but not to knowe where to lyght to auoyde therefore hastinesse in hazarding hée fell a slumber in the carelesse seate of securite But as it is impossible for a man to sléepe by the Uiper and not bée inuenomed to gaze vppon the Cockatrice and not be infected to stare vppon the Sunne and not bée dazeled to looke vpon Medusas head and not be transformed to wade in the waues and not bée drenched to handle coales and not be scorched so it was as impossible for young Gwydonius to gaze vppon the beautie of Castania and not bée galled to fire his eyes vppon her feature and not bée fettered to sée her vertuous qualyties and not bée inueigled for her courtesie hadde so incountered him her modestie hadde so amazed him and her charie chastitie so inchaunted him that whereas hée came to Orlanio his Courte frée from affection hée was nowe become a seruyle Slaue to Fancie before a foe to Lust nowe a friende to Loue yea hée felte such an alienation of his senses and such a straunge Metamorphosis of his minde as reason was tourned to rage myrth to mourning ioye to annoye delight to despight weale to woe blisse to bale in fine such contrarye passions so perplexed this doubtfull Patient as maugre his face he yéelded the Fort to fancie and pulde in the former flagge of defiaunce intreated for truce and beganne to enter parle with Cupide on this manner O Gwydonius quoth hée what straunge chaunce naye what rare chaunge what sollempne motion naye what sodayne madnesse what foolish frensie or rather what franticke affection hath possessed thée Is thy lawlesse lybertie tourned to a slauish captiuitie Is thy fréedome fettered Are thy sences besotted Is thy witte inueygled Werte thou of late a defier of Venus and arte thou nowe a defender of vanitie Diddest thou of late renounce beautie as a foe and wilt thou now imbrace her as a friende Is this the carefull keeping of thy Fathers commaundement or is this thy diligent duetie in obseruing the counsayle of thy olde Sire Clerophontes Hast thou so soone forgotte his fatherlye precepts or committed to oblyuion his friendlye aduertisement Did hée carefully warne thée to beware of Loue and wilt thou carelessely wedde thy selfe to Lust Did he shewe thée what poysoned ban● is hidden vnder the painted baites of beautie and wilt thou be haled to the hooke O haplesse case naye rather if the charye charge thy Father gaue thée will be no constraint if his counsayle will not commaunde thée if his warning wil not make thée warie nor his aduice be thy aduertisement yet let imminent perills and insuing daungers bée a precious preseruatiue against future calamities Consider with thy selfe Gwydonius what difference is betwéene fréedome and bondage betwéene libertie and captiuitie mirth and mourning pleasure and payne rest and care happinesse and heauinesse and so farre dooth he which is frée frō affection differ from him which is fettered in fancie Why but Gwydonius why doost thou thus recklesly rage against reason Why doost thou thus fondly exclayme agaynst thine owne welfare Why doost thou condempne thy selfe of that crime whereof thou art not guyltie Thy Father warned thée to beware of fickle fancie but this thy lyking is firme affection Hys counsayle was to perswade thée from leawde lust but not from lawfull loue from vanitie not from vertue yea his will was to wish thée from lykeing such a lewd minion who had neither birth welth nor vertue but a little fading beautie to be either her credite or thy countenance not to warne thée from louing such a chast maiden nay a péereles Princesse whose birth may countenaunce thy calling whose power may promote thée whose liuings may inrich thée whose vertue maye aduaunce thée yea in obtaining whome thou shalt gaine both honour and perhaps the inheritaunce of a Dukedome Doost thou thinke then Gwydonius in winning so worthie a péece to purchase thy Fathers displeasure nay assure thy selfe he will not onelye be content with thy chaunce but he will thinke thou hast runne a happier race than Hyppomanes did in winning Atlanta Content with thy chaunce Why Gwydonius art thou so fonde a foole as to count the Castle conquered that as yet thou hast not compassed to suppose the Citie sacked which thou hast not beséeged to thinke the bulwarke beaten which as yet thou hast not battered or to count the Ladie wonne whome as yet thou hast not wooed Nay Gwydonius if thou weigh thy case in the equall Ballaunce thou hast more cause of feare than of hope of doubte than of assuraunce of myssing thy pretence than of obtayning thy purpose The Fawlchon Gwydonius seldome perketh with the Merlyne the Lyon seldome lodgeth with the Mouse the Hart seldome féedeth with the Pricket Aquila non capit Muscas and a Dame indued with Nobilitie vouchsafeth not to match with a man of meane Gentilitie Of meane Gentilitie Gwydonius yea truely for Castania rather thinketh thée sprong of some poore peasaunt than of anye princely personage Besides alas Fortune her selfe denieth me anye such fauour my good will as yet hath deserued no suche gwerdon my desire is farre aboue my deserts my ambition aboue my condition and the poore staye of wandering Gwydonius farre vnfit for the princely state of worthie Castania But put case she did will as I did wish that she wer pricked in y e same veine caught in the same snare trapped with the like traine fired with the like fancie yet the Duke her father will neither condescend to her mind nor consent to my motiō neither think well of her liking nor of my loue nay if he shoulde but once heare of such recklesse folly as he hath wrought my promotion so he would worke my confusion as hée hath bene my friend so he would be my foe and in troth Gwydonius not without cause for art thou so voide of vertue or vowed to vice so nursed vp in vanitie or nusled vp in villanie as to requite his liberalitie with such disloialtie to returne the trust which he reposeth in the● with such treason Tush Loue is aboue Lord or Lawe friend or faith Where Loue leadeth no master is made account off no king cared for no friende forced off no dutie respected but all things done according to the qualitie y ● is predominant Why Gwydonius what doubts are these that thou thus dreamest on Why dost thou cast beyond the Moone and feare before thou art in daunger to fall knowing that Loue and Fortune desireth not them that are dastards nor careth not for them