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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31020	An apologie for Paris for rejecting of Juno and Pallas, and presenting of Ate's golden ball to Venus with a discussion of the reasons that might induce him to favour either of the three : occasioned by a private discourse, wherein the Trojans judgment was carped at by some and defended / by R.B., Gent.	Baron, Robert, b. 1630.	1649 (1649)	Wing B888; ESTC R11456	29,594	112

the likings of Io Semele Latone Alcuma c. And made him Metamorphose himselfe for Europa into a Bull and put himself to graze that he might lick her hands who fed him with flowers for Danae into a storme of Gold in which shape he stormed Acrisius his Tower and here he made Iuno Gold serve Venus Love for Astrea into an Eagle for Leda into a Swan for Antiope into a Satyr for Aegina into a Flame for Mnemosyne into a Shepheard for Dois into a Serpent for Calisto into a Wood-Nymph or Nun so much hee esteemed his pleasure above his state So as Lucians Iuno call'd him Ludus amoris Cupids Whirlegig I need not here insert how Bacchus became a Grape for Erigone or remember the rest of the Gods stealths it 's sufficient to prove Aphrodite the potentest of them all in that all vaile to her and her sonne she to none Wisely therefore did Paris to dispose of the Ball so as hee made the Ruler of the triple world his friend with it Secondly I applaud his judging for the Sea-born Queen when I consider the quality of the gifts that the three goddesses were Mistresses of The one could lade his head with Starry Crownes the Badges of the gods and ambition of men but why should his great mind stoop to that Lure which even a Cynick could disdaine Did not Diogenes preferre his Tub before the Luculent Throne of Alexander the Great the whole worlds terror which proud humility so pleased that mighty Hero as hee thought that carelesse Snails condition better than all mens but his owne wherefore he broke out into such expressions I could wish to be Diogenes of I were not Alexander but he and they that stand upon the pinacles of State need not boast their slippery height but remember they walke not upon a Helix that still enlargeth but upon Fortunes wheele whereof having reached the top they must descend to the lower spokes as did Darius the Potent Osman the Proud whom a Ianizarie dispatched Belizarius the valiant Crasus the rich Priamu● the faire Nero the cruell Seianus the haughty cum multis aliis quae nunc c. More wretched in the evening of their lives than Irus for miserum est fuisse felicem Had I wist is an idle speech Whether doe these Crowns and Scepters the worlds magnalia but indeed the bals and rackets of Fortune hurri● men through how many restlesse nights and lesse restfull thoughts doe they chase these sweet bitter joyes as the more we grasp the theevish sands the faster they steale through our fingers so is content the farther from them the more they seeke it in the fading glories of the world which like an Ignis fatuus first lead them through wild untrodden paths then by vast aiery thoughts to that Precipice whence they fall and are torne like Absyrtus Iuno could also have made him Master of inexhaustible mines of gold the soul of the world the price of lives and Lawes the Terminus ad quem to which most actions are byased but why should a Prince make that his Ruler which Plato banisheth from his Common-wealth as the mother and nurse of vice and an envious spirit exciting to sacriledge and murder This was too poore a bait to take Nobilitie which was sleighted even by the Shepheards of Arcadia a happy people wanting little because they desired not much But this meanes Paris kept himselfe from the fever of avarice for such is the sacred hunger of gold that who so enjoyes most of it seeks Volpone like by sordid penury to accumulate more But is it not the height of folly to live poore all a mans life to die rich The other Goddesse could have decked his head with ever springing bayes and fill'd his hand with triumphant Palme the price of bloud and sweat I confesse it was some unhappinesse that he looked upon these with so transient and carelesse an eye eye said I had it been in the power of his Opticks to have reached such objects as Prowesse the metall and Knowledge the varnish of a man it would have removed all hesitations and scruples from him and made him have devoted himselfe to the Lady of such treasure and Lovelinesse Non per Deos aut Pictor posset Aut Statuarius ullus fingere Talem pulchritudinem qualēPallas habet Nor Gods nor rare Vandicke nor Raphael brave Nor nice Pyrgoteles that in Pearles did grave Can feigne such Beauty as Arts Prowesse have But how could he be taken with this amability since it was not visible since Aristotle Natures great Secretary affirmes Nemo amore capitur nisi qui fuerit ante forma speciéque delectatus no man loves but he who was first delighted with the comlinesse and formositie of the object The true Idea of valour and wisedom Paris could hardly forme in his mind but he might easily throng his head with thoughts of tedious marches dangerfull attempts sleep-breakings night-watchings mortall wounds and thousand other Gorgons heads that sense held out to deterre him so that who could imagine he should aspire to that as a reward of the perill and trouble whereof he had a full prospect and but an eclipsed glimpse of the glory He saw but the thornes that hid the Roses and even this glimpse was much clouded by the refulgence of the third Deity the beames of whose eyes those twinnes of light so dazzled his as he could looke at no other object so fares it with a man that forces his eyes against the Sun The eye and the eare be the Cardinall senses of inquisition and though the eare is the conduit-pipe of Faith which as sacred Rolls report comes by hearing yet certaine it is that the eye takes in the perfecter notions and presents the truest Idea's to the mind and that one ocular witnesse is worth ten auricular Suppose a couple of Apples were profered to a child the one as faire as any in Sun-burnt Autumns store as beautuous as that which tempted Eve but of no extraordinary operation the other but of an indifferent rind and somewhat withered with lying but restorative and of an excellent vertue would any one blame the child seeing he cannot see the intrinsique worth of the other for chusing that which gave a pleasant taste to the eye before it was seized by the teeth No more cause have we to chide with Paris for rejecting of Pallas for Venus since he could not discerne the worth and beauty of the one it being hid in the secret Cabinet of her soule but might of the other since his eyes were full Masters of the rare object of her exquisite Phisnomy and divine feature with which sweet looks she caught all her beholders by the eye-lids and being so rarely faire he might well thinke her as rarely vertuous for vultus index animi the frame and composition of the mind doth follow the frame and composition of the body so where the bodies furniture is beauty the minds must needs be vertue grace

and beauty are so wonderfully annexed so sweetly and gently allure our soules that they confound our judgment and cannot be distinguished which made the ancient Poets put the three Graces still in Venus company as attending upon her and holding up her traine Neither is the reward that Venus could have bestowed on Paris to be set in the reere but deserves to be ranked in the first file of desert and if we consider Paris as Paris and not as a Prince hers of all the rest was most necessary for him she could restore his rib to his side which who so misseth wants halfe of himselfe His fortune might play her selfe and suffer one that had more yron than he to take away all his gold for fortune is like April in raine or the Moone in the last Quarter it will soone change but Venus could throw into his armes a friend without change a Play-fellow without strife that after his thoughts had kept full Terme and been drowned in the deep Idea's of State could have brought him cheerfull and vacant intervalls and proved the best Heleborum against Melancholy Did he desire to extend his life beyond his life and make the Ages to come his owne she in requitall of his Princely embraces could yeeld him reall fruits of his love little living Pictures of himselfe that should alwayes carry him about them and transmit him to posterity they to eternity Thus might he swallow time its selfe and outlive himselfe Euen Iuno afterwards thought this the most prevalent Argument and therefore the chiefe motive she used to Aeolus to let loose his destructive breath upon Aeneas and his fragments of Troy as he was transporting of Ilium over the angry Sea to Italy was that she would give him Deïopeia for a Salary Incute vim ventis submersasque obrue puppes Aut age diversas disjice corpora ponto Sunt mihi bis septem praestanti corpore Nymphae Quarum quae forma pulcherrima Deïopeiam Connnbio jungam stabili propriámque dicabo Omnes ut tecum meritis pro talibas annos Exigat pulchra faciat te prole parentem Lend crosse winds strength to make the capring brine To kisse the Moon and swallow every Pine A beavie of twice seven faire Nymphs are mine Bright Deïopeia that the rest outshine As far as they doe others shall be thine And her to thee with Nuptiall bands I 'le twine She for such merits shall spend all years with thee And make thee Sire of a faire Progenie And it s more than probable that Iuno would have used this Argument to Paris but that she knew she should have been outbidden by the Queen and Monopolist of Beauty Thirdly I cannot but subscribe to Paris his sentence when I ruminate upon the penalties that either of the Deities could inflict upon him for rejecting of them Iuno could damme up the rich streams of yellow Tagus whose foame is Amber and gravell Gold from running into his coffers but no matter for how could he know want that enjoyed Ioves daughters fair hair and the freshest Corall alas too meane a word the rubies of her Lips and her Sunny eyes the staine of Diamonds the two centers of beauty wherein all the lines of Love met In tota rerum Natura nihil forma divinius nihil augustius nihil pretiosus saith Isocrates In all Natures treasure there is nothing so divine and sacred nothing so precious and Majesticall as Beauty its Natures Crowne Gold and Glory bonum si non summum de summis tamen non infrequenter triumphans Minerva might make her Mysteries of Philosophy strangers to him and unlock her secrets to more quicksilver'd spirits who yet were below his envy for how many Princes break their sleep with the Qui●iti● of Ens or poring upon Aristotles intricate questions in the realitie of Numerus And yet their governments miscarry not they having the most refined wits and mature judgements to be their Participes curarum and band opinions with them for the safety of their Monarchies As for her other gift Conquest he desired rather like a good Patriot to have his Land deckt with Peace and the child of Peace good husbandry than watred with his enemies bloud or glutted with their fat knowing that the shining title of a Conquerour did indeed little help to the happinesse of life But what if he had been strong as Hercules valiant as Hector could his force have ransomed Troy from ruine or nnderpropt the proud Palaces of Priamus No said his excellent Brother that dyed laden with so many trophies of Honour Si Pergama dextra Defendi possunt etiam hac defensa fuissent If any Hand could have defended Troy This hand had stav'd off her annoy Few Columnes are gilded with the Memorials of any victory obtained only by the Generals single Valour But Venus that had his heart in her hand could have made the torrent of his affections run in what channel she pleased and doted upon some deformed Mopsa some rotten trunke and rusty face the spoile of Age and triumph of uglinesse whom when the scales were fallen from his eyes he should have discovered to have been a Beldame foule as the beast that suckled him then would her harsh haire which once he thought finer than flax appeare near allyed to Foxes Furre her complexion Cousin germane to the swart Indian or tawney Moore her breath which once he thought fragrant as the West wind should then smell like an Obolet able to blast a flower and her whole composition prove the torment of his eyes and this plague he could no way fly Quo fugis ah demens nulla est fuga tu licet usque Ad Tanaim fugias usque sequetur amor Ho whither Lover no flight is left for you Clime heaven sound hell stil will your flame pursue Or Venus in revenge might have transfixt his heart with a golden shaft his Mistresses with a leaden one to make her hate her that might have carried life in her looks death in her mouth Iune in her eyes Ianuary in her heart and what a torment this would have proved let the pale cheeks of Apollo and Petrarch testifie 4. Another reason that induceth me to stand to his award is because he judged for the most innocent and blamelesse of the competitors her whose life was not stained with so many spots as the others Iuno had a black soule in her not faire body No visor can maske her cruelty to Pious Aeneas and his weather-beaten Navy which the high hand of Providence had pluckt as firebrands out of Troyes flames and to poore Io whom her anger transformed to a heifer and committed to so rigorous a Guardian as boorish Argus who bound her yvory necke with an unworthy halter and fed her with bitter sallads who deserved Ambrosia and watred her at the brook which when she went to tast she oft ran back as afraid of her owne face who merited Nectar and allowed her the earth only not alwayes