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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07415	Philotimus. The warre betwixt nature and fortune. Compiled by Brian Melbancke student in Graies Inne	Melbancke, Brian.	1583 (1583)	STC 17801; ESTC S109987	173,818	238

olde vaine meaninge neuer to leaue it while their tongues were sharp inough and their backs broad inough to cut with their floutes and beare eche others frumpes Philotimus séemed newlye enchaunted with Aurelia neyther without good show of reasō For what colour appeareth by Phaeb his broken beames directly shining vpon the cloudes or marke the colour of the morning cloudes before the Sunne doth showe or or as the cluster ere the grapes be ripe with orient purple red are striped here and there such sanguine glowed in her face In my mind quoth Philotimus Grea the chamberer of Helen was not so happie as thy maid Antigone that may enioy thy companye And at his depature he brake out into this exclamation With thée is Phaeb in loue more then he was with the nimphe Leucothoe on thée alone he fastneth those eies that hee oweth all the world sometime more rath he riseth in the East sometimes hee makes it late before hee goe to reste and for desire to looke on thée he doth prolonge the Sommer daies His lighte sometime doth faile amonge the fancie of his faultie minde infectes his feble sighte and makes mens hartes afraid by daunting of his shining Parmenio his tongue was very fine and voluble to run ouer his masters whole life this time of vacation from his mistris wherein he showed her that she onelie had the regally preheminence of his hart to queme at her pleasure Trulie I thanke you alwaies said Philotimus to him for your good remembraunce I thinke thou kepest a notarie of my doinges Trust me quoth Parmenio it is smal reason you should kepe a dog and barke your selfe As they were wending to their lodging Philotimus doting on his mistris what saist thou said he Parmenio to my choise of Venus It is not that beggerlie whorish Venus whom Iupiter begot on Dion but Venus whose maiestie is engrossed among the gods as Plato deuides them in his Symposion O Parmenio if thou diddest sée with mine eies and couldest discerne with my iudgement the inestimable vertues of Aurelia then seinge wouldest iudge Aurelia to bee pearelesse and iudging wouldst honour her as thy princesse By my troth quoth Parmenio if I had no better capacitie to conceiue then you I would cut of my head and goe a vowing with my shoulders Well said Philotimus it is like to bee a fruitfull yeare when boies be so saucie Philotimus was in great fauour with Aurelia for the time as francke he was as the Princes sonne of Athens who woulde not enclose his granges that the fruites thereof mighte lie common to the gathering of the poore and would neuer walke without a masse of money to giue to the lame impotent in the stretes and kepte an ordinary table for all suche as had no sustenaunce But two contrary planets can neuer abide iointly in one house nor prosperitie and prodigalitie long agrée In briefe aspiring Philotimus sparing no horseflesh had néede for his spéed and a gulfe for his port Neither had he landed wher he leueled neither could he launch towardes his hauen when his Argent by a straung kind of Alcumisticall art was countercoyned to open beggerie and Dauie debte stoode watching with a mace at the doore ready to arrest him without bale or mainprise of any frend in the world One Cornelius a stale hacking Courtier who had long fed his fancie on Aureliaes well thewed shape but hitherto had bare cōmons for that Philotimus had wiped all the fat from his bearde gubd Aurelia with golde to make his fare better and backt Philotimus with rebukes to ioynt him of his iointer Now did Aurelia flie and follow both at once as euerie waue driues other forth and it which commeth behinde both thrusteth and is thrust it selfe so shee beloued of Philotimus avoideth his demerites and louing Cornelius pursued his possessions Philotimus winding Aurelia to haue munched on this carri● mouze no more on his poore meat trotted to her lodging once or twise where she would not be sene flying the lighte bycause shee had done euill whereupon he wrote this letter following Philotimus to his dearest Aurelia WOe worth the man whose welth consists in wishing curst be the wretch who knowes not what to wish him the one wasts his wind rowls a restles stone the other spēds his sprites and quencheth thirst with teares But if my chaunce be both as both God knowes it is then let all mortall wightes resigne to mee their sighes and damned soules in Hell reioice to haue scapt my snares And why I doe complaine giue eare say your mind I beard of late a tale too late and yet too soone of falshooode in Aurelia and Treason to Philotimus Wherein I quickly wished yet I knew not which to wish that the broker of it had either bene dum or I the hearer had haply bene deafe Is it true Aurelia that you are reuolted whose constancie hitherto Brute it selfe hath blushed to blame Or is it false Aurelia you haue reuersed your iudgement to deface flying Fame with your stedfast faith The fame is spred that yow are sped and chaungd your pasture for better commons my mistrust is groūded vpon loue and may be coniectured by probable surmises It was my wil of late to visit thy lodging wher I foūd the shrine but not my Sainct the next day after I came againe knockt at the gates till my knockolls were sore but none would open yet thinking that gaines would recompense paines in time conuenient not vnlike Baalls priests that thought to wake the stock Baal with vncessant crying no longe space after I came againe then my mistris was a sléeping If our long acquaintaunce the triall of my seruice the oth taken betwene vs to cōfirme our cōtract cānot moue you yet my swete Aurelia let thy plighted faith by chast Diana thy couenāt sealed in presence of Iuno thy vengeaunce denounced to the breakers of faith euen by thine owne wordes to the greate God Iupiter defende the from periury the greatest impietie that maye be committed What is the action thou commencest against me excepte too great loue Or wherein did I euer offend thy person excepte with straining my golden string I haue stretched it so farre till all is broken My strongest accusation is a brainsicke prodigalitie my greatest discredit a few foolish debtes The one too true an Argument of a good mind the other a common sicknes which in time may be recured My matching with you shall recouer some credit and your endowment shall stoppe their mouthes I know how honourablie they thinke of Aurelia and when I haue something they will graunt me respite hoping that the interest of my good husbandry in time will be able to disburse their discharge The Birde which findes her nest despoiled of her yonge ones oft lets her food downe fall much like my selfe which frustrate of thy presence am much appauld O Aurelia if thine eare bee tied to euery lying tongue which wisdome

abilitie can affoord The vine which we sée growes about the elme wil not wither and leaue to grow when the elme doth die but after the elmes decaying keepes his growth as before and with clasping about it embraceth his elme Certes the fine golde conserueth his quallities in the quicke furnace It maye bee that as the Rauen-leaueth her yongeones for thrée daies till she see whether their colour be congruent to hers so thou laidest aloofe for time of tryall which mighte bee a touchstone to trie my promis howsoeuer the matter was whether disdaine tooke delight in dalliaunce or procrastination was for som purpose let that slip in thore daies I wearied thee with my wel-willing and yet I am not tired to procure thy wellfare I professe to thy person Pilotimus that as I haue euer bene enemie to none so haue I only frend to one When I hard of thy ruinous destinies I could not hold my handes from shaking nor my lunges from sighing nor mine eies from weping so that I thought as it is the greatest nigardize of all nigardizes when a man may doe much and will doe litle so it is the greatest infortune of all infortunes when a man may doe litle and would doe much It is indeed impossible to make sinewes of bloud of veynes to make bones of a craggie rocke a plaine way and to geue absolute counsaile in a case without c●ntrolment so that I cannot tel whether is more dolorous to me thy vnhappie heauines almost past propitiation or my debilitie and impotencie insufficient to helpe thée Augustus dreamed on a night how he was warned by Phillip his phisition that he should be killed in his pauilion wherevpon he auoyded and in very déede the nexte day after the soldiers of Brutus entering his tentes stabbed many holes with their puncheons in his couch thinking he had bene there Before the battaile against the Phillippians a certaine soldiour thought in his sléepe that Iulius Caesar bad him tell Octauius he should fight the luckier if he carried something about him that Iulius had worne whiles hee was heade gouernour Octauius vnderstanding this got the ringe wherewith he vsed to seale letters and the same he wore and ouercame his enemies These presidentes endoctrine great matters He that hath bene brought vp with flesh cannot feede on bones and you whose burgeyning and springing tyme hath bene nousled among the wisest in Italy wil think your gold soone chaunged to copper to bee shored and propped vp with my Paradoxes Notwithstanding here thou séest the two regall Emperoures directed by their seruantes and so dyrected as they had cause to thanke the Gods for their mercifull prouision and to rewarde their seruantes for their luckie perswasions So it is Philotimus if thou wilte take a little paines at my entreatye and for thyne owne ease I would haue the come the tenth of this moneth to the house of one Carnus in a litle village named Merio distant from the Citie about thrée leagues there I will méete thée and tell thée suche traynes as by inquisition I haue founde to bee layde for thée We will confer by what meanes thou maiest shun them which is onely by flying Howe and when that flight must bee I will then showe thee and furnishe thee with such money as may relieue thy necessity Returne mee an aunswere by this bearer what then wilt doe In the meane time the Gods of their goodnes geue thee that thou desirest and then haue I all I doe desire Thyne to vse Archaretos Philotimus without pawsing resent him these wordes Philotimus to his most faythfull frend Archaretos NEuer was trauaile more toothsome to thee nor legacye sente with quicker ambassage then the deliuery of thy letters was consolation to me which shall bee accomplished with acceleration If thou haddest seene which thou sawest not what sorrowes I susteynd then shouldest thou know which thou knowst not what solaces surprise me My spirite was betwixt the Anuile and hammer readie to be throwen into Vulcans flames and thou haste swaged my rages greater then the furies of Bacchus his priests conducted my esperaunce to a restfull paradise Bycause I cannot thanke thee as I thinke of thee take Archaretos the whole Alphabet of letters and coyne suche thankes by their coagmentation as possibly thou canst by the ayde tf thy eloquence Then think that faine I would vtter those in words and doe mutter much greater in secrete thought Doubt not Archareios but I wil come to the place of appointment if my lasie leggs were ioyntles and for that should deny to make this voiage my hearte would repute and holde them for rebells and substitute my handes to be their vicegerentes In the meane season I meete thee in minde and greete thy person with ten thowsand salutations whiche bycause they are neyther so many as thou deseruest nor so hartelye written as I doe wishe them I leaue space of paper for the to write more making a signe where I cannot singe Farewell Archaretos whose bountie hath quayled my disquiet And as Possidonius saieth of the rainbow that it is a glasse wherin we may see the Sun bicause in it are his beames refracted by whose reflection more manifest apparition of his clearenes is séene so those that haue not earst knowen thee shall vew thy magnificence in mee and with ferlye himnes herrie thy praises Thy poore frend to commaund to his small power Philotimus NOw Sir Philotimus began to recounte Archaretos his letters to take account of his passed life howe he should deserue his passing goodwill hee pondered what might bee the cause of the renuing of his goodwill which hee thought had bene obsolete and abolished I muse quoth he yet know not I meuaile yet cannot coniecture He was guilty of former contempt in regard of Archaretos and fearfull of present guile to rewarde his proud haughtines he did well know his méeknes in maners yet did he feare least he mocked his miseries he had proued his true meaning in the effect of his dealinges yet doubted least his perswasions were a mean to deceiue him he had experienced his frendly affectiō yet did expect that Archaretos being expert of his pouertie would be procurde by this allurement to repay his peuishnes Alas quoth he thus quoting these surmises will hee worke me this despite because I haue despised him he may if he will but the valure of his might is nothing the more The streyuing of a gnat is not swallowing of a cammell an action got in law by a false inquest is no lawfull commense nor lawdable cōqueste it is easie to striue with him that sitts in the stockes and small manhood of a capteine to breake the skull of a dead man laugh not when other mens houses be on fire least the glaring sparkles light on thine owne Pentheus for mocking an olde blinde father had a cold prophesie verisied on him I haue heard that the hardest blocke commeth soonest to a knocke that the common est