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truth_n	reason_n	young_a	youth_n	52	3	7.8913	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16255	Amorous Fiammetta VVherein is sette downe a catologue [sic] of all an singuler passions of loue and iealosie, incident to an enamored yong gentlewoman, with a notable caueat for all women to eschewe deceitfull and wicked loue, by an apparant example of a Neapolitan lady, her approued & long miseries, and wyth many sounde dehortations from the same. First wrytten in Italian by Master Iohn Boccace, the learned Florentine, and poet laureat. And now done into English by B. Giouano del M. Temp. With notes in the margine, and with a table in the ende of the cheefest matters contayned in it.; Fiammetta. English	Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.; Yong, Bartholomew, 1560-1621?	1587 (1587)	STC 3179; ESTC S102851	186,424	264

her armes with trembling handes shee wyped my face all blubbered with teares with speaking these words Yong Lady and my déerest Mistresse thy sorowes make me beyonde all measure sorrowfull and would afflicte mée more had not I warned thée of thē before But thou more wylfull then wyse forsaking my willing counsells and precepts hast headlong followed thy flattering conceits pleasures wherefore with sorrowfull chéere I sée thée vnhappily ouercome with these gréefes which must néedes be due chastisements for thy rash vnreasonable follyes But because euery one may alwayes as long as life doth last so that hee haue a willing minde to performe it decline from his wicked wayes and turne againe into the right I shall thinke it the déerest thing to me that may happen if from hencefoorth thou wouldest shake of the darke clowde from the eies of thy vnderstanding obscured by this wicked tyraunt and restore to them againe the cléere light of truth What he is the momentary delights and the prolonged gréefes which thou hast passed and dost endure for him may make thée apparauntlie knowe Thou hast like a yong and simple Woman Youth foloweth will more then reason following more thy vnbridled will then rayned reason fondly loued and in louing to that ende which is not onely expected but commonly also desired in such passions hast attained and yet as it is saide haste knowne it to be but a more shorte then swéete delight And what thing els can there be desired or looked for heereafter then that which thou haste alreadye had And yet if happily it might come to passe that Panphilus should returne againe into thine armes thou shouldest féele no other pleasure then thou wert wont to doo Feruent and hote desires are wont to be in newe things in the which many times putting a certaine kinde of hope of a false imaginatiue pleasure and thinking that that good is hydden in them which perhappes is not with great griefe doo make appassionate Louers endure their force and heate Wheras those thinges which are already knowne are wonte to bee more temperatly and but meanely liked of and not halfe so much in request But ouerruled too much with the gréedines of thy disordinate appetite and disposing of thy selfe altogether to newe and fantasticall opinions thou dooest performe the contrary Wise and discrete folks perceiuing thēselues to be in troublesome places and full of doubtful daungers are wont to retyre bake againe rather content wylling to léese their labour and trauaile which they haue endured vntill that place to the which they haue arryued and déeming it better to returne safely again then going on forwarde to endanger themselues and to gette no other ende of theyr rashe attempt then suddaine death Followe thou therefore the like example while thou mayst and place now with more modestie aduised reason before lawlesse wyll and wysely hale and helpe thy selfe againe out of thys pytte of perrill and sorrowe into the which thou hast suffered thy selfe foolishly to fall Fortune perhaps yet fauourable vnto thée if wyth aduise thou wylt take héede hath not forestalled thy passage in returning backe againe nor hath so couered and choaked vppe the same but that discerning thy footsteppes well thou mayst by the selfe same come back again from whence thou diddest firste mooue thy headlong féete and be once againe that Fiammetta which whilom thou werte wont to be That which doth principally help one from the bondage of loue Thy good name thyne honour and thy known vertues are yet vnstained and whole and whatsoeuer thou haste yet doone is not in the mindes of many secrete nor in the knowledge of any publique personne commaculated which beeing once corrupted hath béene héeretofore the onely meanes and yet is as we dailie sée an occasion to make one fall into the vttermost and déepest place of all mischiefe Procéede therefore no furder least thou contemne and waste that which Fortune hath reserued for thée Comfort thy selfe with thys imagination that thou diddest neuer sée Panphilus or els that thy husband was the same man Thy indifferent fantasy is apt to any conceit and imaginations are easily suffered to be wrought like Waxe By this way only thou mayst make thy selfe merry againe which thing thou oughtest speciallye to desire if anguish and sorrow afflict thée so much as thy words doo promise and thy countenance doth protest These words and such like not once but many times with a sorrowfull minde did I heare without making any aunswere to them againe And though I was beyond al measure troubled in minde notwithstanding I knewe them to bee moste true but yet the matter very ill disposed did receiue them without any profit at all But turning me nowe on one side and now on another sometimes it happened that mooued with rauing anger and not respecting the presence of my austere Nurce with a voice enraged with womanly gréefe and with a sorrowfull kind of complaint and greater then any of the rest I sayd thus O Megera O Tesiphon O Alecto tormenters of wicked and woful soules let your horrible and vgly haire stand vppe and incense the cruell firce Hydias with venimous anger and kindle them to newe kindes of quaking feares and with flinging your crawling Snakes in her face enter spéedely into the wicked chamber of that damned adultresse Enflame your miserable brands for her vile coniunctions that she enioyeth now with her robbed loouer and beset their delicate bedde about with them in signe of a dirie presage to wicked loouers O any els people of the blacke habitations of infernall Dis. O yée Goddes of the immortall kingdomes of Styx be present there and with your luckles lamentations smite feare and horrour into these faithlesse fréendes O miserable Scritch Owle sit and sing ouer their haplesse house And O you ominous Harpyes giue them some terrible signe of future woes O eternall Chaos and darknesse enemie to all light possesse the adulterers houses so that theyr wicked eyes may not beholde nor enioy any comfortable light at al. And let your mallice O ye reuengers of wicked thinges enter into those mindes which are so ready to chaunge and raise vp cruell contention and tragicall murders betwéene them After this casting out a hot burning sighe I added these wordes following O most wicked woman whosoeuer thou art vnknowen to me thou doost now possesse my loouer so long and so often wished for of me and I miserable woman being farre from him doo in the meane time languish in continual paine Thou doost enioy the guerdon of my trauelles and desertes and I deceiued of the fruit doo remaine still in sowing and powring forth praiers and consume my selfe in watring them with continuall droppes of teares I haue offered orisons and incense to the Gods for his prosperitie whom thou hast secretly imbeseld from mee and they were heard onely for thy profitte And now behold with what arte I knowe not nor howe thou hast rooted him out

And opening a little her purple vaile she shewed me betwéene her delicate paps the liuely image of my belooued gentleman enfolded in a fyne garment whose swéete face séemed to be full of many cares not much vnlike to mine and sayde thus Beholde young Ladye thy loouinge and loyall gentleman And wee haue not giuen thée Lista Geca nor Birria for thy loouer nor one like to any of these But being most worthy for many braue parts and a beautiful personage to be belooued of any Goddesse dooth looue thée as we haue ordained more then hymselfe and will continue the same for euer Wherefore driuing all foolish feare away addicte thy selfe ioyfully againe to his pure and deserued looue Thy meritorious prayers haue with pittie penetrated into our eares and therefore assure thy selfe that thou shalt without fayle according to thy will and workes reape no small benefit of them And thus without speaking any more she vanished sodainly out of my sight Alas poore wretch that I am could I other wise thinke trying the sequelles of her sugered suggestions and of my ensuing miseries but that this counterfaite Goddesse was rather cruell Ctesiphone then gentle Venus that thus appeared vnto me who laying aside for a while her vglie and hideous heaire no otherwise then Iuno the shining glory of her deity and taking vpon her a deuine forme as she did an olde and crooked shape represented her before my eyes as shée came to Semele giuing me as she did also her swéet counsell mixte with reueng and poysonne of my finall ouerthrowe and helplesse fall receiuing which into my miserable brest was the greatest occasion and only cause O godly fayth reuerend shame and most holy chastity to driue and banishe you from the same from that then chast I meane but nowe vnworthy and spotted brest of myne But pardon swéete vertues pardon me if due penaunce of a sinner and sustayned punishment of this guilte may impetrate any remission or fauour at all But now after the Goddesse was gonne from my sight I remayned as one resolute to followe her pleasures And although this furious passion which I passed troubled my wittes and dulled al my sences one onely sparke of all that good and wisedome which was lost and gonne kindled I knowe not for what deserte of mine a prudent counsell and knowledge of this true rule in my smothered and consumed hart To disclosed looue a happy end is sildome or neuer graunted which was that looue once discouered doth neuer or very seldome come to a happy and good ende And therefore amongest other profound thoughtes although it was harde for me to doo I intended not to prefer wil before reason in bringing such desires to theyr wished ende And though I was truely by diuers intermediate chaunces greatly constrained yet so much fauour was graunted mée that without ouercharging the marke and stoutlie enduring the gréefe I passed it well away And yet in truth the forces which I yet haue are of sufficient power to vpholde and conserue such counsayle Because although I write most true things I haue in such order set them downe that except he who dooth knowe them as well I being the occasion of them all no other were he of neuer so sharpe a witte and readie conceite could vnderstande and knowe that it was I. And euen him I pray if this little booke chaunce euer to come to his handes that for that looue which sometimes he bare me he would conceale that which in manifesting it would not turne to his honor or profitte And if hee haue taken that looue from me without any demerite of my owne part that at the least he would not dispossesse me of that honor which admit that iniustlie I haue it he cannot though he would render vnto me againe Adhering therefore to this determination and brideling my eger desires and too to foreward in their owne discouery with a strained and vnpatient rayne of sufferaunce I endeuored with all diligence and at my fittest oportunity by aluring meanes and did practise fine subtile demonstrances to kindle the young gentleman with those coales with the which my selfe was inflamed and to warne him to be as warie cunning in his proper affayres as I was wise circumspect in my actions In bringing which to spéedy effect daungerous delayes were not deferred and thought not my trauile in the same eyther to long or to great The condition of the heart is often times comprehended in these which are a like because if the true testimonie of the qualities of the hart is comprised in those which are not different in passiōs I quickly perceiued that wished effects did followe my desires whereupon I sawe him not only ful of amorous heate but very wise also and expert in pursusing his amorous enterprises which thinges did yéeld me no small ioy and great contentation With as earnest care therfore and due consideration tendring my vnsuspected honor as also to satisfie his déepe desires when time and place dyd graunt him fit oportunitie he did seriously solilicite me and as I beléeue not without great paine trying the vtmost of his skil to gaine the familiaritie of euery one that was néerest allyed did daily conuerse with me but especially and last of al to insinuate into the acquaintaunce of my husband and firmely to purchase his freendship The which he did not only obtaine but did with such shewe of great goodwill and fauour enioye it that there was nothing that might content or please either of them if mutually and loouinglie the same was not made knowen to each other I beléeue fayre Ladies that without writing it you may easily knowe or at least may imagine how greatly this pleased me For what woman is there so foolishe who would not especiallie conceiue as much This singuler and wished priuiledge I enioyed by this happy familiaritie that publiquely and in all companies I might talke with him and he discourse with me againe Who thinking it nowe hie time to procéede to matters of greater effects sometimes with some other perceiuing that I might both héere and vnderstand him discoursed of suche thinges by the which I knewe most willing to learne the principles of this newe lawe not by his talke onely Not with words onely but with actions and gesture loue may be manifested which he had with others that he could cunningly and subtillie declare his affection and finely haue an aunswer thereof againe but with diuers motions also of his handes and gesture in his countenaunce and body he coulde passing well perfourme the same And thus with pretty lessons pleasing my willing minde so much I learned also to bee so diligent and warie a scholler that I would not tell him any thing or he to me againe but by these vnsuspected meanes whereby equally and iustly we conceiued our hidden conceits Nor being yet content with these honest helpes by figuratiue spéeches and inuented names hee taught mee howe to speake in