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A15035	Aurelia. The paragon of pleasure and princely delights contayning the seuen dayes solace (in Christmas holy-dayes) of Madona Aurelia, Queene of the Christmas pastimes, & sundry other well-courted gentlemen, and gentlewomen, in a noble gentlemans pallace. A worke most sweetely intercoursed (in ciuill and friendly disputations) with many amorous and pleasant discourses, to delight the reader: and plentifully garnished with morall notes, to make it profitable to the regarder. By G.W. Gent.; Heptameron of civill discourses	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?	1593 (1593)	STC 25338; ESTC S119821	126,076	172

ill vsed a beautie in the Chest a bondage to the minde and a blot in the soule but a couple vnited by this affection for a little Fleabiting of worldly penury suck Nectar betwéene their lips cram Manna into their Bowels possesse heauen in their harts How farre Master Doctor argueth from the opinion of ancient Philosophers and famous Schoolemen these authorities witnesseth A ioy of true loue Ouid Nigidius Samocratius Petrarke and others in their life time adored Beauty with their bookes honored her by their deaths eternized her glory But for that her vertues be diuine and Maister Doctor is soyled with slannder blasphemy and mallice he is vnworthy to be perfected with one thought of her excellency which ignorance maketh him so obstinate The yonger company began to take hart in hearing of this tale so that the Gentlewomen strengthened Bargetto with good countenances for for modesties sake they were silent and the Gentlemen succoured him with their best reasons but all this hope proued but a lightning ioy for Doctor Mossenigo double enraged partly for the check he receiued partly for the countenance the company gaue his aduersary but chéefely for to beholde a new Dye set vpon a stained matter so sharpely refuted Bargetto as he had no delight to reply nor his supporter desire to succour him Quoth he Ouid dreamed of a diuinitie in beauty but neuer tasted other then a swéete venime to procéede from her He loued Iulia Augustus daughter and enioyed her but with what fortune Sundry famous Philosophers and Poets punished for their loues Cause of rash Mariages marry he was stript of his liuing and spoyled of his liberty for her sake Nigidius an ancient Romaine and in great fauour with the people for this folly tasted of Ouids fortune which was to dye in exile Samocratius was in youth so prodigall of his Loue as in age hated of his fréends he died in prison with famine And as for frantick Petrarke I feare me Madonna Laura smiled more often in reading of his follies then he him selfe did with the swéet recompences of his fancies All these were men learned wise and in their other actions for their grauitie were admired and onely for their lightnesse in loue liue to this day defamed For your other authorities your owne remembrance of their deaths shew a vengeance sufficient for the contempt of their children But where you say Beauty Loue and Frée-choyse lade the Maried with such pleasures that they endure pouertie as a Fleabiting Indéede want will so quicken them as the husband will leap at a crust and the wife trot for her dinner But suppose the best thus maried whose loues are indifferent with patience doo indure the afflictions of Fortune their agréement is no generall warrant The greater number of these Mariages are not solemnized through equalitie of liuing The couetous Marchant with no more delight heareth the passing bell of his rich neighbour which promiseth him the first loppe of his sonnes liuing then the poore Gentleman eyeth the able heire with desire to match him perhaps with his faire proud daughter Then as pleasant baites baineth Fish as counterfeit Calles beguileth foules and as Crocodiles teares intrappeth fooles to like destruction lures are throwne to lime this gallant fréendly vsage shall intice him good wordes shall welcome him curtesie shall chéere him Beauty shall bewitch him and faire promises shall altogeather beguile him Newe vessels are apt for any liquour and yong heads empty of experience are seduced with easie subtilties to be short he shal be betrothed by cunning An vnfortunate Mariage his promise once past for that in delay is danger the Mariage must be in poste haste and the misliking at leasure but in most of these matches the sorrow beginneth before the solemnity of the Mariage endeth The father hearing of the indiscretion of his sonne galleth his hart with gréefe the mother spoyleth her eyes with teares and the fréend occupieth his tung in bemoning of his kinsemans folly There is yet a further sorrow bitter to the father and vnbeneffciall to the sonne The father that thought to bestowe his daughter with the Mariage money of his sonne is forced to diminish his inheritance for her aduauncement and by this meanes the ioy which begun in the beauty of his wife is like to ende in the beggerye of himselfe and since these vnsauery effects growe from the vertue of beauties diuinitie let Mounsier Bargetto burne in his heresie But Doctor Mossenigo will holde himselfe happie neuer to be warined by her fire Bargetto had not a woord more to say A Gentleman in his reuenge ought not to offend a ciuill company but angerly looked vpon his swoord with a countenance that promised vengeance vpon the Doctors blasphemous tung had he not béen staied with a reuerent consideration of the company In the end because Maister Doctor should not be too proud of his conquest nor Bargetto ouermuch apalled with his defeate quoth Segnior Fabritio Iudge of the controuersies in a single controuersie the argument of the one is to be allowed as truth and the cauilling of the other to be reiected as error but for that this hath béene a double contention as in defence and reproofe both of Beauty and Frée-choise of mariage Madona Isabella and I pronounce sentence with Bargetto in the behalfe of Beauty for Beauty is a blessing and if she worke euill effects in some their naughty disposition and not Beauty is to be blamed and with Doctor Mossenigo we likewise giue iudgement in reproofe of rashnes in Mariage This iudgement pleased Quéene Aurelia and the whole company who were glad that they were thus forewarned of the inconuenience of Frée-choyse in Loue which they a little fauoured but yet were moreglad of the triumph of beauty whom they all affectedly honoured Vertue commendeth heselfe and therefore quoth Quéene Aurelia good wine néed no Iuie Bush fine Marchādise are sold without a Signe and beauty is sufficienly commended by her own excellency and therefore we will spare Bargettos ready seruice vntill oportunitie present further imployment But for that your triumph shal haue his full right we licence you to tel some one historie to confirme your reasons The Doctor glad of this liberty who although he had receiued no disgrace yet he repined that he had not that whole honour of the disputation determined in his history a little more to nettle that fauourers of beauty with which intent vpō Quéen Aurelias commaundement he reported as foloweth The History in reproofe of rash Mariages reported by Doctor Mossenigo BEsides Capo Verdo in times past the capitall Citie within the kingdome of Naples sometime dwelled a forward yong Gentleman called Marco Malipiero Beauty half a Dowry in a woman the sonne heire of Caualiero Antonio Malipiero in his youth renowned for many valiant seruices This yong Gentleman in the pride of his youth became inamoured of a most faire Gentlewoman named Felice the Daughter

of brauerie whom the whole troupe reuerently saluted and honorably accompanyed vnto the Chappell After Seruice Dinner and all were solemnly ended Quéene Aurelia with a chosen company Musick refresheth the wit retyred her self into a pleasant drawing Chamber to execute the reported ordenaunce But to quicken the Spirites of the company before they entred into discourse she commaunded a faire Eunuche Boy to sing some one song as he thought good who obaying her commaundement with a heauenly note vnto the Lute sung this louing lay NO ioy comes neere the heauenly ioy of loue When we imbrace the wish of our desire All pleasures els that kinde or Art may moue To loue are like the heate of painted fire Loue is the roote whereon sweet thoughts do growe Loue is the sowrce from whence content doth flow When I beholde my Misterisse in the face Loue from her eyes a thousand Graces throwes But when in armes I doe her selfe imbrace One smiling looke exileth all my woes Then straight our lips prepare themselues to fight And on ech kisse loue sets a new delight What would you more I wish me in my graue Were but my soule with halfe these pleasures crownde And heare on earth to be my Misterisse slaue I holde me free and others to be bound Wherefore I sing which I in solace proue There is no heauen to life bestowed in loue The swéet deliuery of this sonet so inchanted the harts of the hearers as for a space their sences gaue place to the contemplation of their soules In the end Madona Isabella by this motion made the whole company a passage for spéech If Loue be so swéet a passion quoth she I muse from what cause procéedeth the complaints of Louers who with showring teares bedewe the earth with misty sights dimme the aire and with shrill outcries pearse the heauens The cause quoth Soranso procéedes of our fleshly imperfectiōs which corrupts the nature of good things and not of any defect in loue Loue simply is good for loue is a simple deuine vertue and hath his being in the soule whose motions are heauenly I haue read quoth Isabella that there be sundry kindes of loue The vse of loue are diuers quoth Soranso as in zeale towards God The distinctions of loue in duety towards our Country in obedience towards our parents and in affection towards our fréends All which motions procéede foorth of one loue although some are more vehement then the other euen as many Riuers doo run out of one Spring whereof some haue a more swift course then the other But of that passion which we ordinarily call loue the wish either tends to Mariage or wantonnes There is matter of disputation in Mariage quoth Franceschina Knowne euik are not to be defended because the estate is honorable and yet subiect to crosse fortunes But touching your conclusion of wantonnes deserues to dye in silence for known euils are to be chastened without allowing their defences Madame quoth Faliero vnlesse you reuoke this sentence we wil haue you indited at Rome as an heretick for by the Popes Canons Priests may not marry and they haue a custome among themselues not to liue chaste Well quoth Franceschina if the Pope for this opinion burne me as an heretick good men will cannonise me for a vertuous Virgin These digressions quoth Quéen Aurelia are the meanes rather to worke a confusion of our memories A necessary note then to conclude any beneficiall matter for our instruction And therefore I hold it to greater purpose substantially to handle one argument thē sieightly to ouerrun many causes where the doubts we leaue vnresolued wil be more dangerous vnto the hearer then the counsels we vse profitable vnto the follower Madame A contention whether Mariage or the single life is the worthier quoth Fabritio I hold it good we obey your direction And for that Mariage is the most honourable euent of Loue and that a Single life is the greatest testimony of Chastity A ciuill Contention to proue which is the most worthy of the two would conclude much contentment For as Yron and Flynt beat together haue the vertue to smite fire so mens wits encountring in doubtfull questions openeth a passage for imprisoned Truth Quéene Aurelia Argument decideth doubts and the rest of the company liked very well of the Subiect and studying who were the fittest to deale in this controuersie Aurelia with a glauncing eye behelde that her seruant Ismarito witsafed no greater token Wise silence worketh more regarde then foolish talke that he tooke delight in these actions then sometime the secret bestowing of a modest smile whereupon she forethought that as Floods when they are most highest make least noise euen so perchaunce his still tongue was gouerned by a flowing wit and desirous to sound his sufficiencie she quickned him with this crosse surmise Seruant quoth she your sober lookes promiseth a hope that you will vndertake Dianaes quarrell but which will serue in this question I feare me you commaund Loue so much A fault in many trauellers as you contemne Mariage And the greater is my suspicion in that you are a Trauailer the nature of which sort of people is to swell with a monsterous disdaine of Mariage The reason is say they their affections are paysoned with the knowledge of womens so hamous euils as they dare not venter of that vocation But my opinion is they haue learned so many subtilties to deceiue a shiftles woman as dandled with the imbracements of sundry Loues they forsweare Mariage who bindes them to one only wife And if you be infected with the humour of these sorte of Trauailers you may well vndertake this charge All vnmarried passe vnder the name of chast for Venus though she loue not Diana yet is she the sworn enemie of Iuno And if you be sound from this infirmitie the little haste you make to marry witnesseth you honor Hymen with no great deuotion and therfore I commaund you to vse all your possible proofs in the Defence of a Single life and for your assistance I do appoint you Lucia Bella whom this charge cannot mislike because as I vnderstand she means to be a professed Nun You are to encounter the opinions of many and therefore arme your selues with as good reasons as you may Madame quoth Ismarito I am so deepely bound vnto your commaundement as I am driuen to leaue your suggestions not answeared and my owne innocency vnexcused and only attend the incounter of him that wil maintain Mariage to be more worthy then a Single life which vocation of Mariage though I reuerently honour yet I so zealously affect the other as I hope where the Iudges are indifferent to make the glory thereof to shine as the faire white aboue euery other colour Sir Defences of Mariage quoth Soranso though white be a faire colour yet are the choyse of all other colours more rich and glorious so though

vp the roots so though I dissemble till oportunitie Sicheus shall féele my hate to death and though I endure a space I will redéem my dying life and perseuering in this resolution Elisaes thoughts The Diuell is the executioner of vengeance that were lately drowned in sorrow now flamed with desire of Reuenge and the Deuill who is the Executioner of Vengeance presented her forth with this vngratious meane A yong Gentleman named Chion among a troupe of other Ladies and Gentlewomen beheld faire Elisa with such a burning affection as he foorthwith dispossessed his owne hart to make his bosome the seate of her imagined Image so that his soule that continually eyed her beauty and his hart at the direction of his Mistresse gaue such a heat to his desire that had he béene sure to haue receiued Ixions torments for his ambitious attempting of Iunoes loue he could neither haue left to loue An extreame passion of loue nor haue forborne to séek for grace so that follow what would he foorth with presented his affections in this ensuing Letter ❧ Chions Letter to Elisa FAire Mistresse had I vertue to perswade you to ruth as you haue power to make me loue the discouery of my blazing affections would melt you were you a Mountain of Ice to pittie But for that Loue is more vehement in the hart then in the toung I appeale to your owne motions for grace if you haue euer loued if not I hope for such iustice at Venus hands as you shall loue and yet thus much I say although I affye nothing in my perswasions because they be but words I presume of my indeuours for that I haue vowed my life to death to do you seruice of which you can haue no better assurance then imployment nor I a hyer fauour then to be imployed Good Madame martyr me not with ordinary doubts in that my affections are not ordinary For as your beauty excelleth al other Dames as the faire Rose each Garden Flower euen so the full power of Loue hath made me in the estate of flaming flaxe that is presently to receiue grace or in a moment to perish Thus longing for your sweet answere I somewhat succour my torments with the imagination that I kisse your gracious hand No more his owne Chion This Letter sealed and subscribed was deliuered to so cunning a Messenger as néeded no instructions in Chions behalfe The letter presented and aduisedly read by Elisa surprised her with an vnmeasurable ioy not so much for that she had purchased her selfe a faithful Louer as procured her Husband a mortall enemy A naturall feare in a woman surpriseth many of their euil affections of which Chions Letter gaue her not so great assurance as the disposition of his countenaunces in a former regarde and thereupon pursuing Sicheus with more hate then minding Chion with affection she mused vpon a number of mischiefes inuented by desire to be reuenged and suppressed by feare to be defamed In fine remembring that she had read Loue quickneth a mans wit although it burieth Reason To trie if he could define what seruice she desired she returned Chion a Briefe wherein he had a light to mischiefe and might be read without blemish of her honour the effect whereof was this While SICHEVS doth liue ELISA cannot loue CHION receiued this Scrowle but yet before he presumed to read the Contents he kissed and rekissed the same holding an opinion that comming from his mistresses hands it deserued such honour although it contained Sentence of his death not vnlike the foolish Mahometians An example for Christian Subiects who vpon their Emperours Commaundements are ready Exerutioners of their owne liues But to my purpose Craft hath many times his wil with an opnion of honestie when Chion had throughly perused this strange aunswere were it Sicheus his heauy Destinie or a iust scourge for his foretrespasses accursed that he was he became too iust an Executioner of Elisaes wicked will but yet with this interpretation that the loue she bare her husband directed her in this answere Insomuch as ouercome with a furious hate towards Sicheus as the barre of his welfare like a Lyon that bites the Iron grate which holdes him from his pray sodenly with this salutation he sheathed his Sword in Sicheus ntrailes SICHEVS shall not liue To hinder CHIONS loue The fact was so fowle and withal so publique Wilfull faults deserue no pardon as the Officers of Iustice immediatly seased vpon Chion and for that his bloodie swoord was a witnes of the trespas there was no Plea to saue him for wilfull faults may be pittied but deserueth no pardon and to say trueth neither did he destre to liue because Elisa the vertue of his life by the charge of law was bound to sue him to death who followed the processe with an apparance of sorrow such as if her Couscience had béen without scruple of guiltinesse or her hart a thousand degrées from ioy when God knowes she was puffed with the one and the other so that the wonder at her dissimulation equalled the reproch of her notorious hatred To be short A fauour euill bestowed this was the Iudges sentence Chyon should be behaded as amends for Sicheus death and the Widdow should be endowed with his goods for the dammage done vnto her but God which knoweth our secret faults when Iudges though they rule as Gods know but what they heare and sée as men not willing to hide such an hainous offence This Iudge is not partiall for fauour gaine or feare First amased all the hearers with an vnknown voice Elisaes hart is as guiltie as Chions hand and there with all thundred this following vengeance vpon the cleared malefactor The Infant in Elisaes wombe as it were ingendred of the Parents malice at the very instant not obeying the course of Nature so tirannised her Intrailes as with very agony she dyed and withall remaineth an opinion that the Husband Wife and Sonne by the appointment of the Gods were Metamorphosed into Vipers which venimous Beastes are thrall to these curses The female after she hath engendred The curses giuen vnto a Viper murdreth the Male because she will not be ruled as an inferiour and the yong eate themselues forth of their Dams intrailes because they will not be bound to the obedience of Nature Well quoth Soranso though your Metamorphosis be vnlikely yet it is not vnnecessarily applyed For for the most part those which are forced to Mariage agrée little better then Vipers But it séemeth to me Segnior Faliero you haue too fauourably reported this History in Elysaes behalfe considering the mortall venime she tempered in her hart O quoth Faliero long fowle wayes Breuitie is best in passionate matters and affectation in pleasant both tyreth the Horse and wearieth his Rider where both the one and the other ouercommeth the length of faire passages with pleasure Euen so in a ruthfull History ouer plenty

violent saue that I holde Caesars to be the harder for that hee was murthered in the Armes of Prosperitie and Pompey at the féete of Disgrace but being both dead vnto their Monuments Writers adde this Opinion Caesar in his life was more fortunate then Pompey and Pompey more honest then Caesar A proofe that some disgrace is the ground of Good Reporte and some good Fortune the Trumpe of Infamie therfore let no man yéeld to Aduersitie nor affie too much in Pompe and paynted Prosperitie for the one is but vexation the other vanitie and both in short time vanish A sodaine alteration as me thought made me to contemplate of these causes for that comming out of my lodging somewhat timely I entred the great Chamber with as strange a regarde as he that commeth out of a House full of Torch and Taperlights into a darke and obscure corner knowing that at midnight about which time I forsooke my company I left the place attyred like a second Paradise the earthly Goddesses in brightnesse resembled Heauenly Creatures whose Beauties dasied mens eyes more then the Beames of the Sunne The swéete musicke recorded the Harmonie of Angels the strange and curious deuices in Maskers séemed as figures of diuine Misteries And to be shorte the place was a verie Sympathie of an imagined Paradise And in the space of one slumbering stéepe to be left like a desart wildernesse without any creature saue sundry Sauage Beastes portrayed in the Tapistrie hangings imprest such a heauy passion in my minde as for the time I fared as one whose sences had forgot howe to doe their bounden offices In the ende to recomfort my throbbing heart I tooke my Citterne and to a solemne Note sung this following Sonet which I a little before composed vpon a quiet thought I possessed after my reading of Boetius of the consolation of Philosophie translated into Italion by Cosimo Bartoli FArewel bright Golde thou glory of the world Fayre is thy showe but foule thou mak'st the soule Farewel proud minde in thousand Fancies twirld Thy pompe is like the stone that stil doth roule SISIPHVS ¶ Farewel sweete Loue thou wish of worldly ioy Thy wanton Cups are spiste with mortal sin Farewel dyre Hate thou doost thy selfe annoy Therefore my heart no place to harbour in ¶ Enuy farewel to al the world a foe Like DENNIS BVLL a torture to thy selfe Disdayne farewel though hie thy thoughts doe flow Death comes and throwes thy Sterne vpon a shelfe ¶ Flattery farewel thy Fortune doth not last Thy smoothest tales concludeth with thy shame Suspect farewel thy thoughts thy intrails wast And fear'st to wound the wight thou faine wouldst blame ¶ Slaunder farewel which pryest with LYNX his eyes And canst not see thy spottes when al are done Care Care farewel which like the Cockatrice Doost make the Graue that al men fayne would shun ¶ And farewel world since naught in thee I finde But vanitie my soule in Hell to drowne And welcome Philosophy who the minde Doest with content and heauenly knowledge crowne During the time that my thoughtes swounded with the charme of my passionate Musick The Sunne decked in his most gorgious Rayes gaue a bon Giorno to the whole troupe and so many as were within the sound of my instrument were drawen with no lesse vertue then the Stéele vnto the Adamant In so much of the sodaine to beholde thē statelines of the presence I was driuen foorth of my muse with a starkeling admyration not vnlike vnto him that sléeping ouer a dying brand is hastelie wakened with the lightening of a thousand sparckles The offices of Curtesie discharged on euery part Segnior Soranso saied the Poets fayned not without reason that Amphions Harp gaue sence vnto stone Walles For so deuine quoth he are the operations and vertues of Musick A commendation of Musick as he that shall be bound to declare her particular Graces shall be no lesse troubled then the painter Zeuxes was in the counterfetting of Cupid Who after much trauell was driuen to draw him blinde for otherwise he had vnder taken Sisiphus taske because the twinckling reflections of Cupids eyes A faining how Cupid came to be called blind threw a thousand Beauties vpon his face and shadowed the worke of the Painter Thus through ignorance Cupid hath euer since béen reputed blinde and for his owne perfection is honored with the title of the God of Loue. The name of Loue gaue a large occasion of discourse but for that another time was appointed for those disputations and the morning was wholly dedicated vnto the seruice of God the question drowned in Soransos suggestion and the whole company silent in such affaires attended Quéene Aurelias comming who in change of gorgious and rich apparrell kept her accustomed howre to goe vnto the Chappell By that time seruice was ended and euery mans deuotion done dinner was ready to bée set vpon the Tables with such choice of delicate Viands as vnto the bountie of the feast there might nothing be added After that Quéene Aurelia and the rest had taken their ordinary places euery one helped the disgestion of their meate either in inuenting some ciuill merriment or in hearing it reported by another Bargetto all this while was neither heard to speake nor séene to smile Which perceiued by Franceschina Sancta his Mistres she moued with the spirit of compassion studied how with iustice shée might reuoke her sentence and vnstring her seruants tongue and to that end she demanded how thrée good turnes might be vnrewarded thrée offences pardoned A question to trie a quicke wit thrée iniuries left vnreuenged and in euery of these Iustice preserued This question passed through the table and returned without his true resolution In the end quoth Segnior Philoxenus Monsier Bergetto what is your opinion Sir quoth Bergetto my mistresse hath locked the tongue that should pronounce it Why quoth Franceschina these be no questions of loue and therefore you haue libertie to speake No Lady quoth Bergetto but his vertue may appeare in the answere Well quoth his Mistresse if you can cleare your trespas by one of these questions I must doo no iniurie to Iustice and therefore say your pleasure Vpon this warrant quoth Bergetto to your first thrée I answere Three good turnes may be receiued vnrewarded A Captaine may betray his charge which is a benefit to the enemie but the betrayer is not to be receiued as a friend for hée that will fell his countryman may not bée held assured to a stranger Secondly a Théefe that peacheth his fellowes dooth good to the common wealth and yet deserueth no reward for he that may priuiledge his owne theft in bewraying other mens will euer more steale vpon presumption Thirdly to win a mans money is a good turne and yet the loser is not to bée recompenced for his intent was to win the winners To your second thrée questions Three offencesmay with Iustice be pardoned a man may