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A02129	Mamillia A mirrour or looking-glasse for the ladies of Englande. Wherein is disciphered, howe gentlemen vnder the perfect substaunce of pure loue, are oft inueigled with the shadowe of lewde lust: and their firme faith, brought a sleepe by fading fancie: vntil with ioyned with wisedome, doth awake it by the helpe of reason. By Robert Greene graduate in Cambridge.; Mamillia. Part 1	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1583 (1583)	STC 12269; ESTC S119748	60,462	82

beleeue that will giue no credit to deceiue her that spyeth the fetch when the string is broken it is hard to hit the white whē a mans credit is called in question it is hard to perswade one Blame me not Pharicles if I vrge you so strictly nor thinke nothing if I suspect you narrowly a woman may knit a knot with her tongue she cannot vntie with all her teeth and when the signet is set on it is too late to breake the bargayne therefore I had rather mistrust too soone then mislike too late I had rather feare my choyce then rue my chaunce I had rather stop at the brimme then at the bottome A womans heart is like the stone in Aegypt that will quickly receiue a forme but neuer chaunge without ●racking therefore if I receiue any it shal be such a one as I shall not repent me I put an if in it because I doe not meane to chaunge virginitie with mariage for it would be too hard a bargaine for we see those women which haue bin counted most wise haue beene most chaste and so fearefull to match y ● they durst not once cal it in question Faza the princesse of Gaule when she knew her father had promysed her in mariage wept so long til she became blind Parthenia after she was maryed and had tryed by childebirth the difference betweene virginitie and mariage she would neuer after companye with her husband saying that a lasting vertue was to be preferred before a fading vanitie sith therfore the most wise haue feared and eschewed thinke me not cruell if I be wise for my self nor iudg me not scrupulous though I put a doubt before I haue cause or be in dread to buy repentance at an vnreasonable rate for if I were minded to marry I shoulde hardly find one fish among so many Scorpions or one ●eral among so many broken glasses The woolfe hath as smooth a skin as y ● simple sheepe the sower Elder hath a fayrer bark thē the sweet gineper where the water is calmest there it is deepest and where the sea is most quietthere it is most daungerous where is the greatest colour of honestie there oftentimes is the most want for an empty vessell hath a lowder sound then a full barrell and a dissembling minde hath more eloquence then a faythfull hart for trueth is euer naked I will not apply the comparison Pharicles to any particular but in generall yet if the propositions be vniuersal they may inferre in the conclusion a perticular person The Poets and paynters representing the loue of menne bring in Cupid with a payre of winges disciphering the loue of women a Tortuse vnder the feete of Venus she wing that as the loue of men is moueable and vnconstant as a byrde so the fancy of women is as firme fixed as a stedfast Tortuse And with great reason for neyther the Romishe recordes nor Grecian hystories haue made any or at the least so oft mention of the disloyaltie of women but onely how their simplicitie hath beene beguyled by the flatterie of faigned louers of whome the most renomned may beare sufficient witnes as Theseus Iason Hercules Aeneas and Demophon that the loue of men hath euer beene inconstant yet they so reioysed at their infamous deedes that the Poets canonized them not only for saints but placed them among the Gods so that others of base estate taking example by them doe vaunt of their disloyaltie as of some glorious conquest and as Herostratus fiered the temple of Diana to be spoken of so they falsifie their faith to be famous Yet it is a world to see how the deepest dissembler of them all can haue teares accommaund to deceaue a simple mayde What sighs what sobs what prayers what protestations their talke burnes as hotte as the mount Aetna when as their affectiō is as cold as a clock it is not the loue of y ● maid but y ● lust of their mind not her bountie but her bewtle so that euery face sets them on fire euery lady be she louely must be their mistres But no maruel for if mē are chollericke hot in their loue and dry in their fayth soone set on fire and soone quenched their loue is euen as lasting as the flame in the straw which is as litle permanent as it is violent or like the Apples in Arabia which begin to rot ere they be halfe rype Well Pharicles although I cast all these doubtes and others haue tryed them true yet I am forced by fancy to take some remorce of thy tormentes Medea knew the best and did followe the worst in choosing Iason but I hope not to finde thee so wauering Ah Pharicles I haue beene brought vp in the court and although my bewtie be small and witlesse yet I haue beene desired of many and could neuer fancy any thou hast wonne the castle that many haue besieged and hast obtained that which others haue sought to gaine it is not the shape of thy bewtie but the hope of thy loyaltie which enticeth me not thy fayre face but thy faythful heart not thy comely countenaunce but thy curteous manners not thy wordes but thy vertues for she that buyldes her loue vpon bewty meanes to fancy but for a while for where the subiect is fading the cause cannot be lasting Would God Pharicles I might finde thee but such a one as I will try my selfe to bee for whereas thou dost protest such loyaltie and put case it be as true as it may be yet it shall be but counterfeite respecting mine be thou but Theagines and I will try my selfe to be more constant then Cariclia no torments no trauayle no onelye the losse of life shall dimmishe my loue in liewe thereof remayne thou but constant and in pledge of my protested good wyll haue heere my hearte and hande to be thine in duste and ashes MAmillia hauing thus ended her talk I leaue you to iudge gentlemen into what a quandarie Pharicles was brought● seeing the answere of his Mistresse to be so correspondent with his demaund y ● fortune was so fauourable to his desire as she seemed to will that he did wish For if the condemned man reioyseth when he heareth his pardon pronounced or the prisoner his freedome no doubt Pharicles ioy could be no lesse sith denial was his death and consent the conserue to heal his wound the greater care the greater ioy the more doubt the more pleasure so his vnlookt for hap brought such an inspeakable contentation as forced through the extremity of his passions and incēsed by the constrant of his affection he burst forth into this talk MAmillia if where the water standeth most still there it is deepest and when the winde is lowest then the greatest tēpest is imminent so where the minde with ouermuch ioy or too much payne is surcharged there the tongue is both tyed and the countenaunce restrayned so that as the heart is not able to conceiue it

and Venus in bewtie so is there a greater distaunce betweene Vulcan and him in deformitie Then Publia yeelde when thou must needes consente run when thou art called by command for sure if euer thou wile bestowe thy freedome he is worthy to haue thee captiue if thou meanest to marrie thou canst not haue a meeter match yea but how if his heart be placed and his minde settled then were I a great deale better to wayle at the first then weepe at the last to be content with a litle pricke then with a deepe wound The Scorpion if he touch neuer so lightly enuenometh the whole body the least sparke of wilde fier sets on fire a whole house the Coeatrice killeth euen with her sight y e sting of loue woundeth deadly the flame of Fancy fireth the whole bodye and the eyes of a Louer are counted incurable yet the Elephant being euuenomed with the Uiper eateth him vp and is healed there is nothing better for burning then heat of fire nothing so soone killeth a Basilisk as the sight of a man Then Publia sith Pharicles hath giuē the wound let him salue the sore let the fire of affection driue out the flame of Fancy and sith thou art hurte by the eie be healed by the sight hope for the best for thou hast as much to be loued as he to be liked therfore remain patient til thou knowest more With y t she went out of her closet but before her returne the strangers had dined and were al descanting of the Gentlemans disease So many heads so many wits for some saide it was a feuer and proceeded of cold some the consumption of the milte whose originall was thought some burstines and ensued of flegme some one thing and some an other but all I thinke mist the marke Gonzaga who heard all their opinions sayd that if the Gentleman were not wel stricken in age whatsoeuer the disease was he would say the first cause was loue and my reason is this quoth he the oft chaunge of colours his sodaine traunces his sighes in his dreame the dead stopping of his pulses and then their beating a fresh al these are signes of an vnquiet minde of an impatient affection and to be flat of loue it selfe Signior Gonzaga quoth the sicke Gentleman eyther you are expert in phisick or els you speake by experiēce but whether you doe you misse the cushion for my disease doth not proceede of loue nor if I were wel should it for I haue felt the first dishe of so variable a tast that I wil neuer eate of the secōd I meane I felt the presence of my wife so sweet and her absence by death so sowre as I meane neuer to try the like hap But nowe sith you are all at leysure and I very gladde to heare any thing that might mittigate the paine or shorten the time I woulde craue this boone of you all in general that one of you woulde satisfie my minde in this to tel me what thing it is the common people call loue The Gentlemen of their curtesie could doe no lesse but condiscend to their hostes request yet euery one alleadging of disability so that they were forced to cast lots who shoulde discusse this hard question amongst al the chance fel vpon Pharicles which although it was some small griefe vnto him because hee doubted of his habilitye yet hee thought Fortune fauoured him in this poynt that he might shew his cunning before Publia Where I cannot but muse Gentlemen to see that such moyst licour shold turne to hard flint that the most wholsome Mithridate in twise shifting should be deadly poyson that the Reedes in Candie will of their owne nature beecome bitter gall that the loue of men should turne to hard harted that fancy should be quenched at the second sight that the affection of Pharicles should turne to frantik folly in mislyking without cause and choosing without tryall but it is not so common as true that men be fickle in their fayth brittle in their braine and luke-warme in their loue neither hot nor cold euen like the Pickerell that keepeth the baight in his mouth to cast out at his pleasure yet where doe we see any writing of loue or of any such matter but they must haue one fling at women dispraysing their nature disciphering their nurture painting out their polliticke practises and subtil shiftes declaring their mutabilitie comparing them to the Polipe stone that chaungeth colours euery houre to the Weathercock that wauereth with the wind to the Marigolde whose forme is neuer permanent but chaungeth with the Sunne and yet they themselues a great deale worse as Pharicles one of the same sect presently shal proue who fryed at euery fire and chaunged his looke at euery leeke as one that builded vppon bewtie and not bountie that did lust but not loue with which fickle feuer y e Gentlemen of our time are greatly troubled for he that cannot looke laugh and tel a tale with nulla fide they wil straight note him in ther tables for a dunce or put him in their bookes for a foole and yet they wil needes fry in frost freese in fire they see yet are blind they heare without eares they spend the day in sighing and the night in sobbes they haue heapes of care streames of teares waues of woe yea to be short they like without loue and fancy without affection that their choyce must needes chaunge because it is without reason But againe to Pharicles who seeing necessitie on the one side and his credit on the other to be two spurres in his side and that the Gentlemen were attentiue began on this manner THe Poets and Paynters fayned not fortune blinde without good cause and great reason for as her gifts are vncertaine so the lotte is doubtfull and the chaunce vnlooke for most often happeneth she imparteth wealth to the foole and pouertie to the wise she powreth water into the Sea when it ouerfloweth and giueth riches to him that is cloyed with aboundance doe we not see that were is most neede there she giueth least and the most noble men haue the woorst lucke Policrate is a mirrour of her mutabilitie by his miserable end and Abdolominus a patterne of her frailtie by his good happe and I heere may serue for a proofe of her small skill that hath layed a great burden on me which am leest able to beare it But on the small braunch hangeth oft the most fruit and on the woorst wit somtimes chaunceth the greatest charge for neither my experience by nurture nor my wit by nature hath wherof to compare with the worst of the company and yet fortune by lot hath layde the most on me so that he that woorst may must hold the candle But sith a man must needes go when the diuel driues although I know my faulte and you shall finde it yet the hope of your curtesie voyde of curiositie somewhat encourageth