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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

a full amendes for all these misdemeanors heedfully to obserue and followe that which I nowe shall speake not as a husband though in that name I should commaund but as a friend no lesse carefull of thy soule then thou carelesse of my safety First if thou caust conteine thy lust liue still a widowe for who heareing of thy loosenesse wil mary thee for loue and to whom is not thy shame knowen if then hee wed thee for wealth finding as needes he must thy sinne grounded on my too much sufferance how slauish shall thy life be vnder him I omit to vrge thy childrens hinderance by an vnaduised match Next I counsell thee in no sort to change thefeat of thy aboade for what else should that argue then a meer dispayre of recouering thy lost good name continue then where now thou art earnestly endeauouring to wipe out the blemish of thy former leawdnesse by imbraceing henceforth and persisting to the ende in an honest course of life so shall the same place and persons that sawe thee vicious see likewise thy returne to vertue the report whereof receiued from others might iustly be doubted but their owne witnesse to themselues must needes bee authenticall Beleeue me Valeria thou canst not otherwise weare out the impression of thy shame nor can it in such sort bee so curde that no scarre will remaine This for thee and thus breefely for thy ch●…ren sith the shortnesse of my time w●…nes mee likewise to be short in talke God lent vs three all sonnes one of which he hath taken againe vnto himselfe that the happiest Two he hath left to vs and I leaue to thee Reforme them with thy selfe see them well instructes taught to imbrace vertue and abhorre vice Such hetherto hath 〈◊〉 their education that I greeue to remember it but thou maiest ioy to better it Libertye is the bane of youth not for a time as the honny of Colchos which doth inebriate those that taste it distract with one dayes madness those that greedelye doe eate it But this soule-contami natinge poysson strengthned by custome growes incurable Purge then from this infection their tender thoughts while they yet are each way flexible That thou louest thē I doubt not but that thy loue will cherish their leawdnesse I iustly dread and therefore do thus warily admonish thee bee thou as wary and willing to performe what I requier tending so greatly to their good In hope whereof I leaue to thee aud after thee to them what so euer I possesse And on condition heereof I forgiue both them and thee all the wronges which you haue doone mee But if you f●…ile heerein then when my soule shall at the seauenth Angels sounde take againe this my bodie and you be cited before the impartiall Tribunall of y ● deuine maiesty I wil accuse you as guiltie of them all chiefely of my death whereof you ioyntly are the causers death which I imbrace so willingly that could Nature for my wordes disclame hir due and the inexorable destinies for my laments reuerse their dome limiting to my dayes a longer date yet woulde I inforce death by not suing for longer life And dye I must for now I fainte euen vnto death nowe faile my powers nowe doth each sence denye his seruice And gratious heauen seeming to exhale my soule will resume it whence I receiued it farewell Valeria thinke on my wordes as God shall thinke on thee This saide hee and seald it with a sigh then after many groanes yealded the ghost rendring his spirit to his maker But his body was no sooner ●…thlesse then Iockey was turned to his shiftes whose good seruice had not his kinde maister secretly guerdonized before his death doubtlesse his estate had beene very harde Valeria though hauing cleene forgotten hir husbandes wordes which shee markte no longer then while hee spake them prouided yet for his buriall in the best sorte and so much the rather because in his decease shee io●…ed the fulnesse of hir own desires His corpes was with funerall pome conueyed to the Church And there sollemnly enterred nothing omitted which necessitie or custome coulde claime A sermon ●… banquet and like obseruations Haueing thus laide him where shee wisht him long before ●…hee was nowe a lustie widowe and courted by that crue of gallantes whose braueries in hir husbands lifetime shee had vpheld dreining out the quintessence of his bagges to garnishe with gay robes their backes But Arthemio whose haruest of farre greater hopes then these was nowe come which he so long had loockt for and in regarde thereof woulde not with the rest make profit of hir former prodigalitie seeing nowe time and occasion smyling on him ●…acked not his affayres but to preuent the first in forwardnesse and sooner then in reason he should immediatly on Giraldos buriall sued for accesse which finding as hee expected and for his more incoragement veweing in his mistris countenance no cloudes of discontent he thus began his wooing It is a custome still in vse with christians to attend the funerall of their deceased friendes with whole 〈◊〉 of choyce quire-men singing solemnly before thē but behinde followes a troope all clad in blacke which argues mourning much haue I marueled at this ceremony deeming it till now some hidden paradox confounding thus in one things so opposite as these signes of ioy and sorrowe But your late good fortune inforst me to cancell this fond opinion for if singing do with most right belong to ioying who may then so iustly as your selfe set on worke a world of fingers to celebrate the day of your recouered liberty from the tirannous controlement of a ielous 〈◊〉 To gratulate which your good happe I haue thus aduentured nor lesse to prosecute my owne hopes doom'd to liue or dye at your disposing herein resembling transformed Clitie which as the angry Sunne doth rise or set opens or shuts silly Nimph hir saffron-coloured brest Sith then the making or marring of my hopes doth wholly rest in you deigne rather to quicken them by a gratious regard then to kill them by a disgratious repulse make me rather the mirror of your clemency then the martyre of your cruelty If you fancye any worthier then my selfe I shall droope for my defects yf any meaner then my selfe you shall 〈◊〉 from my deserts But ay mee what deserts haue I to alleadge if true affection be no deserte This saide he pawsd as feeling some deeper passion but Valeria no longer able to dissemble thus with a smile replide for weeping was alreadie out of season Seruant quoth she that true affection merits fauour reason grants that not euer barren of desert thy fortune shall yealde sufficient proofe whose desires I haue hitherto dieted with dismaying doubts thereby to make tryall of thy constancie which finding each way faultlesse I will not that through me it should be frutlesse But to make amends for tyring so thy 〈◊〉 with long suspence and to remunerate thy fancies loyalty with more

and my greeued heart doth fele But sith it is so I yet reioyce that I am able by releeuing you to shewe how deare to mee the name and memorie of my deceased master is I accept you therefore as a welcome guest assuring you of such entertainement as I can afforde and touching the wronges that you haue done me I will striue so to forget them as if I neuer had sustained them This saide hee nor saide hee more then he perform'd for immediatly he tooke hir into his house where all the time of hir aboad with him which was so long as hir selfe would tary shee had such reliefe as his poore estate could yealde afforded without grudging nor did hee euer greeue hir with the least vpbraiding of former wrongs nor suffer while hee was present or knewe of it that shee shoulde take the ●…eightest paines more then in her owne affaires But in his absence oft to ease and please his wife she would playe the tapster and voluntarily addresse hir selfe to helpe hir in all kinde of drudgeries While in this sort shee liu'd not altogether so haplesse asbefore Arthemio no longer able to continue his shifting sith he had thereby indangered his life made this his last shifte closely to shifte him selfe away sence when he was neuer seene about the cytie nor almost heard of Only some obscure reports haue past of his long scouring the westerne plaines for pursses and that being afterwarde apprehended hee dyed miserably in a common 〈◊〉 before his publique araignment so preuenting the open scandall of an ignominious death Howe so euer this bee likely in regarde of his former wicked life yet not being thereof assured I will suspend my censure nor presumptuously descant of the vnknowen proceedings of the almighty But Valeria after long residence with Iockey at last whether hoping on some better place or loath cōtinually to trouble him sith no way able to requite his kindnesse fondly left him and thereby rep●…ung'd hir selfe into hir former miseryes falling in the ende to little better then open beggery from which so abiect state of life shee nere recouered till death gaue truce to hir distresses death wherein only shee was not haplesse But if to wretched people the preuenting of any sorrow may bee term'd good happe then so was hirs in notsecing hir suruiuing childrens miserable endes such as their dissolute bringing ●…y did euer threaten and their leaud courses iustly merit of these the elder flying for some offence beyond the seas and there following armes in the ciuill tumults of distracted Belgia but soone staining the most honourable profession of a souldier by playing the traitour had his deserts paide with the halter and therein leaping desperately from the ladder he tooke his iourney into the other world The yonger confirmd so in the loue of head-strong libertie through his corrupt education that hee could not long brooke any seruice succourd by none because d●…sdaining subiection to a●…l died in the fieldes and there lay a loathsome spectacle for his stinking carkasse had no other couerture then he auens vast circumference and his vnburied limmes were seazed on by rauenous birdes who therewith glutted their carrion gorges Somewhat before his last gaspe with an oft interrupted voice he faintly groned out these bitter mones O whither shall I turne me whereon shall I hope or what shall I desire my bones ake my bowels gnawe my feet rot each limme doth shiuer and my whole bodie is full of paine life I loath thee life when lea●… thou me death why dallie●… thou with these delaies why commest thou in such degre●…s of torments thy messengers are more terrible then thy selfe yet come not death least in exchange of these my present wees thou plunge me in eternall woe O sinne how sweet is thy beginning how sower thy end O father but enough of thee for thy name doth cut my soule anew O mother but too much of thee cruell through immoderate kindnes O vnhapie brother but happie in respect of me for though thy end were likewise shamefull yet was thy carcasse couered with earth but mine must lie still in this stinking place to pollute the aire and feed the rauenous foules yet helpe me some good man who passing by may heare my mones giue me at least some shelter from this iniurie of the weather vnkind men will none relieueme yet not vnkind because Gods iustice hardens their heartes oh that is it whereon when I doe thinke I wish that I had beene borne a beast that with my life all my miseries might ende yet helpe mee O my God sith men forsake me though hell looke for me and I dare not looke on heauen though my offences be innumerable yet is thy mercie infinitely greater mercie sweete Lord father of mercie mercie it selfe O that my mother had taught mee to pray when shee taught me to reuile my father Alas I knowe no forme of praier saue this onely which my heart laden with anguish doth thus endite Mercie sweete Lorde let my soule imbrace thy mercie let thy mercie imbrace my soule But aye me my paines increase life and death doe combat in my breast this their strife doubles my torments ah but helles torments are farre greater From them and these sweet Lorde deliuer me for in thee Here as he faine would haue proceeded life failing made these his last wordes vnperfect with whose death I end this dolorous discourse THus Geutlemen haue you heard briefly related the the Tragique issue of Giraldos wooing in age and Valerias wantonnesse in youth Had I intituled this discourse A looking Glasse the Metaphor had not been wholly immateriall for herein may all sortes of readers note sundry points of weight husbandes the daunger of too much doting wiues in her fall the end of lustfull follie parents the mightie perill of soothing their children in check-free licentiousnesse children the fruit of disobedience and vndutifull dem●…r rash proceeders the great difference of good and bad counsell of honest and dishonest companie with the danger of not imbracing the one and not shunning the other and that the rather sith the force of compante hath in the effecting of either such exceeding force according to the Italian prouerbe Dimmi con chi tu vai saprò quel che fai. Ictus piscator sapit but if wee account him wise which being once hurt doth shunne a second hazard how much more iustly may wee commend their wisdome who beeing not hurt at all but learning heedfulnes at others costes gouerne warily themselues by noting the issue of their indiscretion which fore-sight and good fortuue I wish vnto you all FINIS