Tullies
Loue
.
THere
dwelled
in
the
Citie
of
Rome
being
metropolitane
of
the
worlde
,
famous
as
well
for
martiall
Champions
,
as
delicate
for
beautiful
Ladyes
;
a
Consul
called
Flaminius
,
made
glorious
by
fortune
,
as
hauing
twise
roade
in
the
triumphing
chariot
and
worne
t●e
Lawrell
wreath
,
giuen
as
a
Palme
to
such
as
haue
béene
happie
for
manie
great
victories
.
This
consull
famous
in
the
common
wealth
for
his
martiall
exploytes
,
Fortune
whose
conceit
rests
in
extréemes
,
either
too
prodigal
in
her
fauors
,
or
preiudicial
in
her
frownes
,
to
make
this
man
the
myracle
of
her
deitie
,
lent
him
one
onelie
Daughter
of
such
excellent
exquisite
perfection
as
Nature
in
her
seemed
to
wonder
at
her
owne
workes
.
Hir
haire
was
like
the
shine
of
Apollo
,
when
shaking
his
glorious
tresses
he
makes
the
world
beauteous
with
his
brightnes
.
The
Iuorie
of
hir
face
ouer
dasht
with
a
vermilion
die
,
séemed
like
the
blush
that
lept
from
Endemions
chéekes
when
Cynthia
courts
him
on
the
hilles
of
Latmos
.
So
did
the
proportion
of
her
bodie
answere
to
the
perfection
of
the
minde
and
the
honour
of
hir
thoughtes
so
fitted
to
the
glory
of
hir
fauors
,
as
it
rested
doubtfull
whether
hir
outward
beauties
or
inward
vertues
helde
the
supremacie
.
In
so
much
that
as
men
flocke
to
Delphos
to
heare
the
Oracles
of
Apollo
,
so
diuers
resort
to
Rome
to
take
veiw
of
the
excellencie
of
Terentia
:
who
once
delighted
with
the
sight
of
hir
graces
set
downe
this
as
an
Axiome
,
that
Pallas
the
Patronesse
of
Troy
for
wisedome
:
or
Venus
the
wonder
of
Heauen
for
beautie
,
might
not
disgrace
the
dignities
of
this
gorgious
Damosell
.
Rome
swelling
with
the
pride
of
this
matchlesse
Uirgin
,
whose
thoughts
were
more
humble
then
hir
face
beautifull
:
and
yet
the
Painters
of
that
time
feared
to
attempt
hir
portraiture
,
as
finding
the
perfection
of
nature
to
excéede
the
proportion
of
Art
,
made
hir
the
Mistresse
of
their
vestals
,
as
one
that
counted
fancie
as
vn●it
for
a
maide
,
as
Alexauder
cowardize
for
a
souldier
.
Cupid
sitting
on
his
mothers
knée
by
the
fount
of
Alcydalion
,
séeing
howe
Terentia
enemie
to
his
amarous
Philosophie
,
set
loue
at
so
light
estéeme
,
and
for
a
charme
against
his
magicall
inchauntments
,
carried
the
euerburning
fire
of
Vesta
in
hir
breast
,
clasping
his
mother
wantonly
about
the
necke
he
began
thus
to
prattle
.
Séeing
mother
we
haue
left
the
places
of
our
accustomed
residence
,
to
auoid
the
troups
of
such
sutors
as
onely
end
their
loues
with
their
liues
,
&
haue
st●ln
to
this
secret
fount
here
a
while
to
be
solitarie
to
weare
away
the
time
with
some
conceited
chat
,
I
pray
you
tell
me
whereof
are
womens
hearts
made
?
I
aske
the
question
mother
for
that
I
finde
the
distinction
of
their
fa●cies
like
the
difference
of
their
faces
,
which
as
they
be
distinguisht
in
proportion
,
so
they
be
altogether
vnlike
in
properties
.
Venus
hearing
hir
son
make
such
a
waggish
demaunde
,
beganne
thus
to
reply
.
Some
say
my
boy
of
the
liuer
of
a
Camelion
,
whose
nature
is
to
bee
changeable
in
hues
,
and
women
as
variable
in
their
thoughts
.
Others
of
a
Pyrit
stone
,
which
handled
softly
is
as
colde
as
ice
,
but
pressed
betwéene
the
fingers
burneth
like
fire
:
they
which
infer
this
comparison
,
say
that
women
brooke
not
fauourable
perswasions
,
nor
may
be
woone
by
intreaties
,
but
the
readie
way
to
kindle
them
to
Desire
is
to
crosse
them
with
Disdaine
.
Some
say
their
hearts
are
of
Marble
which
being
hard
yet
drops
tears
against
euery
storme
:
Some
of
waxe
that
is
soft
,
admiting
euery
impression
,
those
women
haue
their
loues
in
their
lookes
,
which
taken
in
with
a
gase
is
thrust
out
with
a
winke
:
Some
of
Adamant
,
they
be
hard
hearted
,
and
yet
men
say
the
Lapidaries
haue
tooles
to
pierce
them
:
Others
of
golde
,
and
they
be
like
Danae
that
will
admit
no
louer
but
such
as
Iupiter
.
To
be
briefe
my
boy
,
so
many
fancies
so
many
fictions
,
euery
one
censuring
of
womens
hearts
as
his
owne
experience
hath
found
hir
froward
or
fauorable
.
Cupid
hearing
his
mother
discourse
thus
cunningly
demanded
amongest
all
these
,
whereof
was
Terentias
heart
of
Rome
formed
:
At
this
Venus
fetching
a
déepe
sigh
prosecuted
hir
former
premisses
thus
.
Well
wag
for
all
you
play
the
wanton
,
hast
thou
insight
so
far
into
thine
enemies
thoughts
that
thou
hast
coted
in
thy
tables
the
resolution
of
Terentia
,
whom
men
count
more
beautifull
then
my selfe
,
and
more
chast
then
Diana
?
Hir
heart
my
boy
is
framed
of
the
purest
Diamond
,
which
as
it
is
hard
to
enterteine
loue
,
so
it
is
cleane
,
fit
for
the
receit
of
vertue
:
I
tell
thée
Cupid
Terentia
makes
Desire
hir
drudge
,
and
Disdaine
hir
Champion
:
Shée
honors
all
the
Gods
but
thée
,
and
admits
all
recreations
but
loue
:
Shée
armeth
hir
youth
with
Contempt
of
passions
,
that
shée
may
finish
hir
age
with
Content
of
patience
:
The
prime
of
hir
yeares
are
graue
that
the
fruits
of
hir
time
may
be
gracious
,
and
shée
striues
to
be
as
full
of
honor
in
hir
life
,
as
full
of
fauours
in
hir
lookes
.
To
conclude
my
boy
shée
is
Terentia
,
who
séekes
with
labors
to
auoid
loues
,
&
indeuours
to
be
called
as
vertuous
,
as
other
Ladies
amarous
.
Thus
Venus
ended
with
a
frowne
and
Cupid
began
with
a
smyle
,
she
scorning
at
hir
honors
he
studying
on
reuenge
.
after
a
little
pause
the
choloricke
boy
burst
foorth
into
these
tearmes
:
And
shall
Terentia
offer
perfumes
to
Vesta
and
Hemblocke
to
Venus
,
shall
shee
mother
strawe
Dianaes
Lawnes
with
Roses
and
your
Pallaces
with
Nettles
?
shall
shee
set
Desire
in
ragges
and
Disdaine
in
silkes
?
No
,
Cupid
hath
his
boults
fethered
with
the
winges
of
swallowes
that
flie
swift
,
and
his
arrowes
headed
with
strong
tempered
stéele
that
pierce
déepe
,
like
to
Achilles
launce
,
that
did
wound
&
heale
,
my
shaftes
mother
are
of
sundrie
mettels
,
the
strongest
of
them
all
wil
I
aime
at
Terentia
,
and
if
my
fortune
fayle
me
not
I
will
change
hir
songes
to
sighes
and
hir
chast
prayers
to
amorous
passions
.
And
with
that
leaping
from
his
mothers
lappe
hee
bent
his
bowe
shott
an
arrowe
and
hit
Terentia
on
the
heart
,
but
it
was
of
such
proofe
as
the
boult
rebounded
and
brake
into
a
thousand
shiuers
.
At
this
Cupid
scorned
séeing
his
de●tie
counterchect
with
such
constant
chastitie
,
&
Venus
smyled
séeing
hir
sonne
in
such
a
rage
:
which
so
increased
his
chollor
that
he
discharged
all
his
arrowes
at
randon
,
carelesse
of
his
aime
so
he
might
any
wayes
reuenge
.
Amongst
the
rest
yong
Lentulus
a
Romaine
Caualier
,
vnder
whose
conduct
the
consull
sent
manie
legions
to
make
warre
against
the
Parthians
,
was
one
of
those
infortunate
men
that
Cupid
had
brused
with
his
arrowes
.
For
hauing
〈◊〉
a
set
battell
and
bought
the
victorie
with
great
l●sse
,
fresh
supplies
were
sent
him
from
Rome
.
Lentulus
●●lcoming
his
newe
come
souldiers
,
demaunded
what
:
〈◊〉
:
af●er
they
had
made
report
of
the
state
of
the
com●●●
wealth
,
they
(
then
as
a
thing
miraculous
and
superna●urall●●is●oursed
to
him
the
excellencie
of
Terentia
,
setting
out
hir
glories
with
such
Emphaticall
discriptions
t●●t
Lentulus
leaning
his
head
on
his
hand
became
a
willi●●
audit●r
to
such
pleasa●●t
philosophie
.
Smiling
thus
in
the
ouersweete
potions
that
Loue
had
tempered
like
Circes
to
bewitch
the
warie
and
warrelike
Vlysses
;
hee
caused
his
Souldiers
with
often
repetitions
of
〈◊〉
beau●ie
to
grafte
in
the
syenus
of
hys
newe
〈◊〉
sanci●s
.
In
the
day
his
heade
was
troubled
with
thoughts
of
Terentia
:
in
the
night
conceit
presented
the
visions
of
Terentia
.
Where
before
he
laid
plots
how
to
circumuent
the
Parthians
,
now
he
deuised
how
to
compasse
his
passions
:
Loue
wisht
him
to
make
light
estéem
of
war
,
but
growing
to
be
carelesse
,
he
gaue
his
enemies
occasion
of
incouragement
.
Being
thus
perplexed
with
vnacquainted
fits
,
he
began
thus
souldier
like
to
debate
with
himself
.
Haue
not
the
auncient
Romaines
whose
statues
and
trophées
hath
filled
the
world
with
wonder
of
their
Chiualry
made
the
ende
of
their
honours
to
consist
in
armes
?
haue
they
not
fetcht
Fame
from
the
heauens
with
their
swords
,
and
bounde
hir
to
their
fortunes
with
circumscriptions
of
bloud
:
haue
not
their
launces
pierst
obliuion
to
the
heart
,
and
their
martiall
déeds
registred
their
names
in
the
Cronicles
of
memorie
?
and
yet
Lentulus
dost
thou
make
light
estéeme
of
war
,
whose
very
frownes
are
honor
,
and
whose
fauors
immortall
glories
?
Blush
at
thy
thoughts
that
are
so
base
,
&
wéepe
with
Caesar
that
thou
hast
not
done
wonders
with
Alexander
.
Thou
art
elected
by
the
Consuls
as
a
choise
man
of
Rome
,
as
high
prised
for
thy
valour
,
as
thy
parentage
,
and
yet
thy
mother
was
of
the
great
Aemilij
:
thou
art
sent
against
the
Parthians
,
a
Nation
warrelicke
and
resolute
,
either
to
challenge
thy
graue
with
thy
sword
or
carue
out
their
tombes
with
thy
Courtelax
.
Darest
thou
then
Lentulus
amidst
those
glorious
thoughts
of
a
souldier
admit
the
least
passion
of
a
louer
?
shall
thy
pollicies
too
little
for
the
Parthians
,
be
imployed
in
purchasing
Terentia
?
No
Lentulus
draw
thy
Fauchion
,
brandish
it
against
Rome
,
and
if
Loue
looke
but
ouer
the
walls
menace
hir
with
thy
Martiall
weapons
:
and
yet
Lentulus
be
not
so
stoicall
as
to
reiect
such
a
mightie
Deitie
.
Haue
not
the
Romaines
erected
a
Temple
néere
vnto
Campus
Martius
?
Are
not
Knights
dubbed
to
defend
Ladies
?
Make
they
not
their
Helmes
proude
with
their
Mistresse
fauours
?
Mars
hath
his
amours
as
he
hath
his
armours
:
Alexander
gloried
in
his
loues
as
he
triumpht
in
his
victories
?
Great
Pompey
hath
his
Iulia
,
Caesar
his
Paramour
,
Souldiers
haue
loued
,
and
so
will
I.
Hauing
thus
discoursed
with
himselfe
,
the
hope
of
his
loues
draue
such
an
inuincible
courage
into
his
minde
that
he
past
not
many
daies
without
giuing
battaile
to
the
Parthians
,
in
which
getting
a
glorious
victorie
,
he
sent
great
treasure
and
many
Captiues
home
to
Rome
,
with
great
intercession
to
the
Senate
that
he
might
not
winter
from
his
owne
Countrie
.
The
Consuls
gald
to
fauour
him
with
any
reasonable
graunt
,
sent
Lepidus
to
take
his
place
,
and
recalled
Lentulus
home
to
the
Citie
:
The
fame
of
whose
high
intended
thoughts
,
his
conquest
inlarged
with
infinite
treasures
&
rich
Captiues
,
made
Rome
to
ring
with
ecchoes
of
his
matchlesse
excellency
:
Insomuch
that
passing
through
the
stréets
to
the
Capitol
,
there
to
be
inuested
with
the
honors
due
to
his
victories
,
multitudes
of
Romanes
were
placed
on
Scaffoldes
to
take
view
of
so
braue
and
hardie
a
Captaine
,
and
the
gorgeous
windowes
of
the
Citie
were
stuffed
with
troupes
of
beautiful
Ladies
tickled
with
an
earnest
desire
to
satisfie
their
sightes
with
his
Personage
.
Passing
thus
in
pompe
,
Iulius
Caesar
then
being
Dictator
after
the
solemne
rites
&
magnificent
triumphs
were
ended
bad
him
home
to
dinner
,
where
hee
feasted
him
with
such
royaltie
as
might
beséeme
the
greatnes
of
the
day
and
the
highnes
of
his
owne
thoughts
.
Thus
flewe
the
fame
of
Lentulus
through
Rome
as
the
wonder
of
this
time
,
but
all
those
triumphant
dignities
coulde
not
extirpate
the
melancholy
of
this
Romans
thoughts
inserted
into
his
minde
by
the
fond
inchantments
of
loue
,
but
as
the
wounded
Deare
wringeth
forth
teares
,
and
the
Mirtle
pierced
yeeldeth
Gumme
,
so
Lentulus
after
this
déepe
impression
of
loue
,
coulde
afforde
nought
but
sighes
and
sorrowes
.
The
Iemme
of
Terentias
excellencie
reflected
in
his
minde
like
an
obiect
in
a
Christall
myrrour
that
amiddest
his
most
serious
affaires
hée
founde
the
passions
of
loue
to
be
intermedled
.
Fortune
that
had
tied
hir
fauours
in
the
toppe
of
his
Crest
halfe
perswaded
to
become
constant
to
this
warlicke
Champion
séeing
Cupid
wrong●
him
without
cause
thought
with
a
souereign
Antidote
to
preuent
the
further
ensuing
preiudices
of
fancy
:
forcing
therfore
oportunitie
to
dance
attendance
vpon
this
hir
darling
,
it
fell
out
that
Flaminius
,
the
father
of
Terentia
séeing
howe
Lentulus
was
generally
feasted
of
al
the
senators
in
Rome
,
thought
amongst
the
rest
,
to
welcome
home
the
warrior
with
a
banket
,
&
therfore
méeting
him
at
one
Titus
Annius
Milos
house
,
he
solemnely
inuited
him
home
to
dinner
.
Lentulus
as
ful
of
curtesie
as
courage
,
after
great
thanks
,
promised
to
be
his
guest
,
whereupon
Flaminius
passing
home
made
prouision
,
&
Lentulus
stealing
to
his
lodging
being
solitary
,
conceiued
such
inward
ioy
at
this
swéete
oportunitie
,
that
leaning
vpon
his
left
hand
smiling
to
himself
,
he
breathed
out
these
words
:
viz.
Such
I
sée
well
as
Mars
honours
with
fauours
Venus
will
not
crosse
with
frownes
:
those
that
conquer
in
warres
shall
not
perish
in
loues
.
Cupid
fauours
his
fathers
followers
,
&
such
as
Fortune
smiles
on
in
ba●tail
,
shée
laughs
on
in
fancies
.
I
coueted
to
beare
charge
against
the
Parthians
,
and
the
Senate
elected
me
Lord
of
their
Legions
:
Desire
wisht
me
to
haue
a
sight
of
Terentia
,
and
hir
father
interteines
me
for
a
guest
:
I
made
conquest
of
mine
enemies
with
the
sword
,
and
why
may
I
not
win
my
loue
with
my
loyaltie
:
Feare
not
Lentulus
,
these
concluded
comparisons
are
prodigious
,
bee
Augur
then
to
thy selfe
,
and
calculate
thy
good
fortunes
by
thy
thoughts
:
Loues
and
warres
craues
courage
.
Feare
not
man
,
for
thy
intreaties
are
as
mightie
as
hir
denials
can
be
contrarie
.
As
thus
he
was
debating
with
himselfe
the
Clocke
tolde
him
it
was
time
to
goe
visite
his
Host
,
so
that
he
made
himselfe
as
sumptuous
as
might
be
,
and
at
the
parting
from
his
Chamber-dore
hée
saide
thus
.
If
Venus
(
quoth
hee
)
thou
fauour
mee
in
my
loues
,
I
will
become
thy
vowed
seruant
in
my
life
:
I
will
strewe
thy
Altars
with
Roses
,
and
set
thée
vp
shrines
at
Paphos
:
I
wil
binde
vp
my
temples
with
myrtle
bowes
,
and
for
the
Martiall
garland
weare
a
wreath
of
flowers
.
I
wil
haue
Doues
nests
in
my
Pallaces
,
and
what
belongs
to
thée
,
shall
be
some
of
my
delight
,
onely
grace
me
with
the
fauour
of
Terentia
.
Ending
this
his
vowe
hee
pased
forward
with
his
traine
towards
the
house
of
Flaminius
,
where
beeing
ariued
the
graue
Senator
intertained
him
with
such
magnificence
,
as
Lentulus
perceiued
his
welcome
by
his
honours
.
The
board
couered
and
the
company
readie
to
sit
,
Lentulus
was
placed
chiefe
at
the
table
,
who
all
this
while
hauing
no
sight
of
Terentia
,
sat
as
a
man
nipped
on
the
heade
,
although
there
were
at
the
table
to
grace
the
feast
manie
braue
&
beautifull
Damosels
.
Sitting
thus
in
a
dumpe
he
was
cheared
vp
by
all
the
companie
,
but
at
last
to
set
him
in
his
iolitie
,
Terentia
was
commanded
by
hir
father
to
bring
him
in
a
cuppe
of
Gréekish
wine
.
Shée
that
little
cared
to
be
séene
in
open
bankets
as
holding
it
contrarie
to
the
rites
of
Vesta
,
durst
not
yet
but
with
all
diligence
signifie
hir
obedience
.
Therfore
attyred
in
a
rich
roabe
of
white
,
spotted
with
starres
of
gold
;
tempering
the
porphury
of
hir
face
with
a
vermilion
blush
,
looking
like
Diana
when
shée
basht
at
Acteons
presence
,
shée
came
into
the
hall
,
where
humbly
saluting
all
the
companie
,
shée
deliuered
the
wine
to
hir
father
.
Lentulus
séeing
Fame
had
but
blemisht
hir
fauours
in
being
to
partiall
of
hir
praises
,
sate
so
amased
at
the
beauteous
excellencie
of
Terentia
,
as
did
the
Centaure
enamoured
of
Iuno
.
His
eie
made
suruey
of
hir
beauties
who
posting
them
ouer
to
the
contemplation
of
his
thoughts
,
so
set
on
fire
his
heart
with
hir
perfections
,
as
his
stomacke
shut
vp
hir
Orifice
,
to
giue
his
eies
leaue
to
wonder
at
the
serious
conceit
of
natures
cunning
:
his
lookes
beganne
to
sparkle
loue
as
did
those
of
Adon
when
he
pried
vpon
the
face
of
his
Paramour
,
the
change
of
his
colour
bewraied
his
newe
entertained
passions
which
noted
by
Terentia
half
angry
at
loues
folly
,
she
discouered
hir
collor
with
such
ablush
as
Lentulus
letting
fall
his
knyfe
on
his
trencher
saide
aloude
,
Non
fortuna
non
Bellum
meaning
that
neither
the
highest
state
of
fortune
nor
the
fatall
intent
of
warre
could
conquere
that
hart
that
her
beautie
hath
made
subiect
.
Terentia
at
this
vnexpected
exclamation
abashed
and
the
rest
of
the
companie
maruelled
:
but
Flaminius
willing
to
moue
some
table
talke
demaunded
of
Lentulus
what
hee
ment
by
this
soudaine
embleme
.
Lentulus
,
willing
to
make
flight
at
the
foule
and
yet
not
to
haue
a
bel
at
his
héele
,
answered
thus
.
Whilst
I
lay
in
legar
intrenching
the
Parthians
more
hardly
with
legions
of
men
then
with
déepe
raised
contermures
,
my
souldiers
discouered
a
castle
which
once
woone
displaced
the
strength
of
the
countrie
,
séeing
the
Romanes
had
made
mee
Uicegerente
of
their
forces
although
the
place
séemed
impregnable
béeing
as
well
defended
by
nature
situate
vpon
a
mount
,
as
by
prowesse
stored
with
men
and
munition
yet
prising
honor
more
déere
then
bloud
,
and
countries
profite
beyonde
the
content
of
life
,
I
bent
certaine
legions
against
the
castle
and
following
the
opinion
of
Quintus
Fabius
Maximus
sought
by
delay
to
driue
them
to
composition
.
For
it
was
said
of
him
,
Vnus
homo
nobis
cunctando
restituit
rem
,
Non
ponebat
enim
rumores
ante
salutem
,
Ergo
postque
magisque
viri
nunc
gloria
claret
.
Séeking
so
to
get
conquest
by
famine
which
would
haue
béen
preiudiciall
with
the
sword
,
at
last
séeing
their
forces
greatly
weakened
I
gaue
assault
and
entred
putting
the
souldiers
to
the
sword
yet
willing
to
saue
the
Lorde
of
the
castle
for
that
his
valour
discouered
his
thoughtes
,
searching
him
out
I
found
him
in
his
bed
chamber
his
wife
slaine
and
the
blade
yet
varnished
with
bloud
grasped
in
his
fist
staring
me
in
the
face
with
a
gastly
looke
,
that
stood
amazed
at
the
stratageme
he
spake
thus
.
Romain
report
in
the
Senate
house
that
where
you
excell
vs
in
pollicie
,
we
excéede
you
in
resolution
,
this
Ladie
which
thou
séest
here
weltring
in
hir
goore
is
my
wife
,
and
for
she
brokes
not
seconde
fancies
,
shee
craued
to
ende
hir
loue
with
hir
life
:
I
maried
hir
a
virgine
and
honourable
,
shee
dies
a
wife
and
honest
,
as
famous
in
Parthia
for
hir
vertues
,
as
your
Romayne
Dames
for
their
braue●ies
.
Wee
liued
without
iarres
,
for
that
the
desire
of
the
one
was
the
content
of
the
other
,
constancie
banished
ielousie
and
true
loue
helde
supition
at
the
launces
poynt
.
Our
fortunes
Romayne
thou
hast
pulde
downe
,
with
thy
prowesse
warre
hath
made
wracke
of
our
safeties
,
but
for
our
loues
this
sword
shall
linke
them
together
by
death
,
so
that
Non
fortuna
,
non
bellum
.
And
with
that
the
resolute
souldier
stabbed
himselfe
.
Astonied
at
this
peremptorie
massacre
,
although
all
stained
with
the
bloud
of
the
Parthians
:
yet
I
could
not
but
grieue
at
the
passion
of
the
man
,
and
enter
into
consideration
what
that
Loue
should
be
,
that
wrought
in
mens
mindes
such
resolued
effects
:
So
well
liking
of
his
determined
death
,
that
I
vowed
in
my
thoughts
if
euer
I
obteined
the
fauour
of
some
gracious
Damosell
to
write
in
bloude
with
the
Parthian
,
Non
fortuna
,
non
bellum
.
The
remembrance
(
honorable
Senatours
)
of
this
tragedie
made
me
to
shew
my selfe
so
passionate
.
Lentulus
hauing
ended
his
discourse
,
the
Senatours
generally
praised
the
resolution
of
the
Parthian
,
and
the
Ladies
the
constancie
of
his
wife
,
all
concluding
that
no
impression
could
be
so
déepely
inserted
into
the
heart
loue
.
Terentia
spying
the
flame
by
the
smoake
,
smyled
to
sée
howe
couertly
Lentulus
had
cloaked
his
thoughts
,
and
how
in
vowing
to
be
constant
,
he
discouered
his
conceit
,
so
that
turning
hir
backe
shée
went
into
hir
Closet
,
and
there
blamed
Venus
that
had
wrapt
so
br●ue
a
Champion
in
hir
subtleties
:
not
féeling
either
the
personage
or
perfections
of
Lentulus
to
stirre
the
staied
continencie
of
hir
minde
.
Well
the
Senators
not
willing
to
let
this
fall
to
the
grounde
,
talked
still
of
the
Parthian
,
and
amongst
the
rest
of
those
honourable
guests
that
were
there
feasted
,
Archias
the
Poet
a
man
of
a
pleasant
disposition
,
tooke
the
tale
by
the
ende
,
and
beganne
to
prosecute
it
thus
.
Graue
Senatours
I
remember
I
haue
heard
Hortensus
the
great
Orator
say
,
that
in
times
past
the
Consuls
for
recreation
would
vse
light
&
honest
pastimes
especially
myrth
at
meat
,
as
the
fittest
minister
for
digestion
,
alleaging
Scipio
&
Gracchus
,
who
coueted
to
be
as
iocund
at
their
banquets
,
as
they
were
serious
in
matters
of
estate
.
Séeing
then
(
reuerend
fathers
)
Lentulus
hath
entred
into
the
discourse
of
loue
,
producing
the
Parthian
,
who
amongst
his
other
singularities
,
boasted
that
his
fancie
had
neuer
béene
stained
with
Iealousie
a
plague
that
is
greatly
now
a
daies
predominant
in
Rome
,
might
it
please
you
to
fauour
vs
with
your
gracious
consent
,
we
woulde
intreate
Lentulus
to
discourse
to
vs
his
opinion
of
iealousie
.
The
Senatours
graunted
,
and
Terentia
,
being
come
to
giue
attendance
on
hir
father
,
smyled
.
Lentulus
casting
his
eie
vpon
his
loue
,
séeing
a
dimple
in
hir
chéeke
which
was
to
him
Cos
amoris
,
made
Archias
this
present
answere
.
Had
the
Thebans
appointed
Zetus
to
haue
discoursed
of
Musicke
,
or
they
of
Thessaly
,
Menalcas
to
haue
described
the
Court
:
The
principles
of
the
one
had
béene
as
voide
of
art
,
as
the
precepts
of
the
other
farre
from
honour
:
The
one
being
an
enemie
to
Musicke
,
the
other
a
swaine
and
a
shepheard
.
So
(
reuerend
Senatours
and
honourable
Ladies
of
Rome
)
Archias
,
how
skilfull
so
euer
in
Poetrie
,
yet
hath
faild
in
his
pollicie
,
to
request
him
to
discourse
of
iealousie
,
that
neuer
as
yet
offred
incence
at
the
Altars
of
Loue
.
If
it
had
béene
to
make
description
of
a
battaile
,
to
haue
discoursed
the
order
of
the
Phalaux
,
or
any
point
of
Martiall
discipline
,
then
could
I
as
a
souldier
haue
dilated
such
principles
,
as
warrelike
Captaines
register
in
the
field
with
their
sword
:
But
of
loue
whose
amarous
Deitie
gréeth
not
with
Drumme
and
Trumpet
,
or
of
iealousie
as
the
shadowe
of
fancie
,
it
fitteth
me
as
little
to
discourse
,
as
the
shoomaker
of
Apelles
portrature
.
But
if
euer
Venus
shall
vouch
me
that
fauour
to
grace
me
with
a
speciall
looke
from
my
Mistresse
excellencie
,
and
that
mine
eie
be
allowed
as
Paris
was
to
iudge
of
beauties
,
Archias
shal
commande
me
as
a
friend
,
in
the
meane
time
,
for
Poets
and
Painters
ought
to
haue
their
conceites
fethered
with
Mercuries
plumes
:
I
will
desire
Archias
to
supply
my
ignorance
,
and
to
describe
the
effects
of
iealousie
.
The
Senators
and
the
rest
of
the
company
,
hearing
how
cunningly
Lentulus
retorted
the
argument
vppon
Archias
,
with
a
resolute
consent
they
inioyned
Archias
to
play
the
Orator
,
who
being
pleasantly
disposed
began
thus
.
The
wolues
in
Syria
that
barke
against
the
Moone
suffer
small
rest
and
great
hunger
.
Arrowes
shot
against
the
starres
pierce
downeward
:
and
the
Syrens
that
●ought
to
intrappe
Vlisses
,
perisht
themselues
.
So
gentlemen
,
I
sought
to
make
experience
of
Lentulus
eloquence
,
and
fortune
hath
allotted
me
to
discouer
mine
owne
ignorance
,
but
least
I
might
be
counted
either
too
stoicall
,
or
to
too
full
of
sel●e
conceit
:
for
iealousie
,
thus
.
Archias
discourse
of
Iealousie
.
SUch
as
haue
searched
into
the
déepest
Aphorismes
of
Anacreon
,
or
pried
into
the
principles
that
Ouid
sette
downe
in
his
volumes
,
find
Loue
to
be
such
a
pure
passion
of
the
mind
,
as
like
the
Christal
it
admitteth
no
bruse
without
a
cracke
:
It
groweth
from
the
vnion
of
two
minds
conceiued
by
the
special
liking
of
some
excellent
good
,
consisting
in
exteriour
beauty
,
or
interiour
vertues
,
or
the
combining
of
them
both
in
one
sole
,
and
singular
perfection
.
This
choice
of
excellencie
confirmed
by
election
once
imprinted
in
the
hart
is
so
pretious
as
the
pearls
of
Cleopatra
.
The
fléece
of
Colchos
,
the
sands
of
Tagus
are
trash
,
if
brought
into
compare
with
this
diuine
and
metaphysicall
passion
:
man
hauing
swilled
in
this
nectar
of
loue
is
so
chary
that
he
not
onely
brooketh
no
corriual
of
his
thoughtes
,
but
admitteth
no
partaker
of
his
fauours
,
and
from
this
feare
procéedeth
that
furie
which
men
call
ielousie
,
béeing
a
secrete
suspition
that
others
shoulde
enioy
that
excellencie
that
he
hath
chosen
sole
and
singular
to
him self
.
This
noble
Romaines
is
that
f●end
that
Pluto
sent
to
checke
Cupid
in
his
deitie
,
this
springing
from
hell
bringeth
worse
torments
to
the
minde
then
the
stone
of
Sysiphus
,
vulture
of
Titius
or
wheele
of
Ixion
.
This
is
the
cankar
that
fretteth
the
quiet
of
the
thoughtes
,
the
moath
that
secretlie
consumeth
the
life
of
man
,
and
the
poyson
specially
opposed
against
the
perfection
of
loue
:
after
the
heart
be
once
infected
with
ielousie
the
slepes
are
broken
,
the
dreames
disquiet
slumbers
,
the
thoughts
cares
,
&
sorrowes
,
the
life
woe
,
&
miserie
,
that
lyuing
he
dies
,
&
dying
prolonges
out
his
life
in
passions
worse
then
death
.
None
looketh
on
his
loue
but
suspition
sayes
,
this
is
he
that
couetes
to
be
corriuall
of
my
fauours
:
None
●n●ckes
at
his
doore
,
but
starting
vp
he
thinkes
them
messengers
of
fancie
,
none
talkes
but
they
whisper
of
affection
:
if
shée
frowne
,
shée
hates
him
and
loues
others
,
if
she
smile
it
is
because
shée
hath
had
successe
in
hir
loues
,
looke
she
frowardly
on
any
man
she
dissembles
,
if
shee
fauour
him
with
a
gratious
eye
,
then
as
a
man
straught
with
frensie
hee
eryeth
out
that
neither
fire
in
the
strawe
nor
loue
in
the
womens
lookes
can
be
concealed
,
thus
doth
he
liue
restles
and
maketh
loue
that
of
it selfe
is
swéete
,
to
be
in
taste
as
bitter
as
gall
.
This
discouereth
reuerent
Senators
that
loue
being
of
it selfe
a
most
excellent
passion
is
onely
blemisht
by
this
soule
and
disgraced
staine
of
ielousie
;
as
hateful
and
hurtfull
to
the
mind
as
the
Cockatrice
to
the
eye
,
or
hemlocke
to
the
taste
.
The
purest
Chrisolite
hath
his
strakes
,
the
flowers
in
Sydon
as
they
are
pretious
in
the
sight
so
they
are
pestilent
in
fauour
:
Loue
as
it
is
diuine
with
loialtie
,
so
it
is
hellish
with
ielousie
,
wherfore
by
an
auncient
Poet
were
written
these
verses
,
When
Gods
had
framd
the
sweete
of
womens
face
,
and
lockt
mens
lookes
within
their
golden
haire
:
That
Phoebus
blusht
to
see
their
matchles
grace
,
and
heauenly
gods
on
earth
did
make
repaire
.
To
quippe
faire
Venus
ouerweening
pride
Loues
happie
thoughtes
to
ielousie
were
tied
.
Then
grewe
a
wrinckle
on
faire
Venus
browe
,
The
amber
sweete
of
loue
was
turnd
to
gall
:
Gloomie
was
heauen
:
bright
Phoebus
did
auowe
He
could
be
coy
and
would
not
loue
at
all
,
Swering
no
greater
mischiefe
could
be
wrought
Then
loue
vnited
to
a
ielous
thought
.
Had
not
Iuno
béen
ielous
ouer
Iupiter
,
Io
had
not
béene
turned
into
a
Heifer
:
if
suspition
had
not
prickt
Menelaus
,
Helena
had
not
stolne
away
with
Paris
.
Procris
had
beene
aliue
,
had
shée
not
suspected
Cephalus
:
Then
worthie
Romaines
we
sée
what
a
preiudiciall
monster
groweth
from
the
fearefull
excesse
of
loue
that
not
onely
shortneth
the
life
,
disquieteth
the
minde
,
but
oft
is
the
cause
of
most
strange
and
vnnatural
massacres
.
If
fortune
frowne
in
loue
we
flie
to
patience
:
If
their
happen
iarres
,
why
louers
braw●es
are
introductions
to
delight
,
If
pouertie
,
why
they
hope
vpon
time
thinking
that
there
is
vicissitudo
omnium
rerum
,
The
lowest
ebbe
may
haue
his
flow
,
and
the
deadest
néepe
his
full
tyde
,
if
gréefes
,
sorrowes
,
repulse●
,
vnkindenes
,
these
Bee
but
Amantium
irae
:
And
t●ere●ore
Amoris
redintegratio
:
but
as
the
pumice
stone
〈◊〉
the
paper
from
spots
,
and
the
fire
consumeth
fla●e
so
●●is
in●ernall
plague
of
iealousi●
rooteth
&
raceth
all
true
loue
〈◊〉
the
heart
,
that
yéelding
my
censure
I
conclude
with
this
Poeme
,
Vita
quae
tandem
magis
est
iucunda
,
Vel
viris
doctis
magis
expetenda
,
Mente
quam
pura
sociam
iugalem
,
Semper
amare
?
Vita
quae
tandem
magis
est
dolenda
,
Vel
magis
cunctis
fugienda
,
quam
quae
,
(
Falso
suspecta
probitate
amicae
)
Tollit
amorem
?
Nulla
eam
tollit
medicina
pestem
,
Murmur
,
emplastrum
vel
imago
sagae
,
Astra
nec
curant
,
magicae
nec
artes
,
Zelotipiam
.
Archias
hauing
thus
ended
his
discourse
the
Senators
greatly
praised
his
description
of
iealousie
,
and
from
that
fell
to
other
pleasant
talke
as
occasion
offred
.
Till
dinner
being
ended
they
arose
,
and
after
many
thankes
and
curtesies
according
to
the
custome
of
the
Romanes
,
Flaminius
to
honour
Lentulus
the
more
,
taking
him
by
the
hand
carried
him
into
a
garden
where
Terentia
sate
accompanied
with
other
Uirgins
of
Roome
:
namely
,
Flauia
,
Cornelia
,
and
Iulia
,
all
of
such
exquisite
features
,
as
they
séemed
to
be
the
choyce
Paragons
of
that
time
.
Lentulus
amazed
at
this
gorgious
sight
wondred
not
onely
at
their
beauties
,
but
maruailed
why
Flaminius
brought
him
so
friendly
into
their
presence
.
At
last
the
old
man
burst
forth
into
these
words
:
Lord
Lentulus
,
I
measure
the
thoughts
of
young
gentlemen
by
the
prime
of
my
forepassed
youth
,
not
being
so
cinicall
as
with
Chremes
in
Terence
to
proportion
young
affections
by
the
cynders
of
olde
age
,
but
to
thinke
with
Menedemus
that
the
spring
hath
flowers
and
blossomes
,
where
as
winter
hath
dried
braunches
and
tawnie
leaues
:
We
olde
men
ouer
whom
Saturnus
is
predominant
hauing
infused
melancholy
in
our
mindes
,
couet
either
to
sit
solitarie
,
or
that
our
talke
be
serious
:
you
that
are
young
whose
thoughts
aime
at
delight
séeke
to
passe
the
time
in
pleasant
discourses
.
Least
therefore
the
time
might
be
tedious
,
I
haue
brought
you
amongst
these
faire
Ladies
that
you
may
make
experience
of
loues
,
as
you
haue
done
of
warres
,
Mars
no
sooner
puts
off
his
helmet
but
he
salutes
Venus
:
and
you
come
from
conquest
of
the
Parthians
,
see
how
you
can
enter
combate
with
passions
:
and
so
Lord
Lentulus
I
leaue
you
.
Lentulus
seeing
himself
thus
enuironed
with
these
miracles
of
beautie
,
casting
his
eye
vpon
the
Goddesse
whose
fauourable
aspect
might
be
the
summe
of
his
fortunes
,
bashed
at
the
first
as
Paris
did
in
the
vale
of
Ida
,
and
stoode
as
the
foes
of
Perseus
when
hee
vncased
the
head
of
Medusa
,
and
turned
them
to
marble
pictures
,
so
amazed
stood
Lentulus
at
the
sight
of
such
diuine
excellencie
,
till
the
Ladies
seeing
this
Nouice
thus
in
a
quandarie
beganne
to
smile
,
which
reuiuing
a
kind
of
amorous
choller
in
the
souldiers
minde
,
he
beganne
thus
to
play
the
Champion
.
Ladies
beléeue
me
,
Loue
is
of
more
force
then
warres
,
and
the
lookes
of
women
pierce
déeper
then
the
stroke
of
Launces
,
their
is
no
Curtelax
so
kéene
,
but
armour
of
high
proofe
can
withstande
,
but
beauties
arrowes
are
so
sharpe
,
and
the
dartes
that
flie
from
womens
eyes
so
piercing
as
the
Corslet
tempered
by
Vulcan
for
Didoes
paramour
,
holdes
not
out
the
violence
of
there
stroake
.
The
Gods
tremble
when
Mars
shaketh
his
Launce
,
but
he
feareth
when
Venus
casteth
a
frowne
.
Alexander
neuer
tooke
notice
of
the
legions
of
his
enemies
,
but
he
stoode
frighted
at
the
beauty
of
the
Amazon
.
Then
swéet
saints
of
Rome
maruell
not
if
I
were
driuen
into
a
maze
at
the
sight
of
such
beauteous
creatures
whose
faces
are
Venus
weapons
,
wherewith
shée
checketh
the
pride
of
ouer
daring
warriours
:
I
cannot
(
Ladies
)
court
it
as
your
Romaine
yongsters
that
tie
their
wits
to
their
fancies
:
nor
fil
your
eares
with
amarous
discourses
as
Cupids
Apprentizes
,
that
spend
their
time
in
such
louing
philosophie
:
Nor
can
I
faine
conceited
supposes
of
affection
to
prooue
my selfe
louesicke
by
Poetrie
.
But
as
a
blunt
souldier
newe
come
from
the
warres
,
I
offer
my selfe
a
deuoted
seruant
to
your
beauties
,
swearing
to
defend
your
honours
against
all
men
with
the
hazard
of
my
bloud
,
and
in
pawne
thereof
generally
to
you
all
,
but
specially
to
one
(
as
loue
hath
his
vnitie
)
I
desire
to
bee
intertained
as
a
duetifull
seruaunt
to
the
Lady
Terentia
.
Lentulus
hauing
thus
boldly
boarded
these
louely
Uirgins
,
the
Ladies
séeing
with
what
affection
he
offred
his
seruice
to
Terentia
,
began
to
byte
the
lippe
,
and
shée
to
blush
who
séeing
hir selfe
toucht
to
the
quicke
made
him
this
answere
.
I
know
not
Lord
Lentulus
how
to
answere
of
loue
,
because
as
yet
I
neuer
knew
loue
:
ignorant
of
his
forces
because
neuer
acquainted
with
his
fortunes
.
Vesta
forbids
vs
virgins
to
name
Venus
,
as
they
of
Ephesus
hatefull
Erostratus
.
Diana
deals
not
in
Paphos
,
nor
suffers
shée
any
of
hir
maidens
to
hunt
on
Erecynus
,
least
méeting
with
Venus
mecocks
they
skippe
with
Calisto
,
and
so
séek
after
losse
.
The
lesse
you
are
priuate
to
loues
passions
,
the
more
welcome
to
our
presence
:
for
rather
had
we
still
our
eares
with
warres
fortunes
,
then
with
loues
f●llies
:
and
swéeter
are
the
teares
that
grows
from
a
constant
stratageme
,
then
a
smyle
from
a
comike
tale
of
fancie
.
For
your
seruice
Lord
Lentu●us
,
finding
my self
vnworthy
,
I
craue
pardon
:
Nor
can
wee
by
Vestas
charter
admitte
such
seruaunts
.
But
if
it
please
you
to
bee
accepted
as
a
worthy
Romaine
and
my
fathers
friende
,
looke
for
such
fauour
as
mine
honour
and
virginity
can
affoord
.
Lentulus
hearing
the
plausible
answere
of
Terentia
,
although
hir
first
insinuation
seemed
to
answere
for
his
purpose
,
as
preferring
the
lawnes
of
Diana
,
and
fiers
of
Vesta
before
loues
holy
temples
,
yet
shée
concluded
so
swéetely
as
might
stand
with
the
modestie
of
hir
honour
:
he
therefore
made
thus
his
reply
.
In
that
madame
we
are
both
nouices
in
loue
,
the
simpler
are
our
thoughts
,
and
the
néerer
should
be
the
simpathy
of
our
affections
.
Doues
match
●hen
●hey
are
young
:
Syenus
are
grafted
when
they
are
sprigs
,
the
one
part
not
but
by
death
,
nor
are
the
other
seuered
but
they
perish
.
Souldiers
are
like
virgins
,
the
one
striuing
to
liue
vertuous
,
the
other
to
die
valiant
:
both
enemies
to
loue
,
while
they
wait
on
those
which
brooke
not
loue
,
I
meane
warre
and
Vesta
:
But
both
must
loue
as
hauing
hearts
and
thoughts
,
eies
to
sée
beautie
,
and
eares
to
iudge
of
vertue
.
I
madame
while
I
thought
none
greater
then
Mars
,
was
vowed
to
Mars
,
but
séeing
womens
wits
are
worse
then
weapons
,
and
that
their
lookes
pierce
déeper
then
launces
,
I
haue
resigned
ouer
my
fortunes
at
the
shrine
of
warre
,
and
meane
to
make
proofe
of
the
swéetenesse
of
loue
:
Glad
that
in
my
first
entrance
I
haue
the
patronage
of
your
gracious
fauour
,
armde
with
the
which
Mars
well
may
frowne
,
but
not
conquer
.
But
sir
,
quoth
Terentia
,
I
graunted
my
fauor
to
Lentulus
the
souldier
,
not
to
Lentulus
the
louer
.
And
so
madame
quoth
he
I
accept
of
it
,
for
I
am
a
souldier
to
doe
you
honour
,
and
a
louer
despight
of
my self
.
Flauia
hearing
Lentulus
,
beganne
to
reason
pretily
to
the
purpose
,
being
a
Ladie
of
passing
mirry
disposition
,
whose
witte
was
as
full
of
wiles
as
hir
face
of
fauour
,
second
in
the
excellencie
of
beauty
to
the
Lady
Terentia
,
thought
to
sift
hir
souldier
in
this
manner
.
I
sée
well
Lord
Lentulus
,
that
as
women
haue
their
fauours
,
so
men
haue
their
sayings
:
the
one
prodigall
in
graces
,
the
other
polliticke
in
deceits
,
being
as
cunning
to
dissemble
loue
,
as
we
chary
to
discharge
loue
.
We
Romaine
Ladies
thought
to
haue
founde
you
a
flat
souldier
,
as
ignorant
in
loues
as
we
of
fancies
:
but
how
closely
soeuer
you
couer
the
flame
,
the
fire
wil
be
knowne
by
the
smoke
:
For
your
talke
so
sauours
of
loues
principles
,
as
we
iudg●
you
are
as
cunning
in
faining
a
passion
as
in
figuring
a
battaile
,
and
can
assoone
deceiue
a
woman
with
a
pen
,
as
slaughter
an
enemie
with
a
launce
.
This
will
make
vs
to
take
you
for
a
day
friend
,
and
what
we
like
in
you
present
to
disallowe
to
morrowe
,
swearing
if
you
bring
amongst
vs
Venus
roses
,
wee
will
beate
you
with
Vestas
nettles
:
and
therefore
if
you
will
be
admitted
as
our
souldier
,
wee
either
forbidde
you
the
name
of
loue
,
or
else
you
shall
be
out
of
our
fauours
.
Cornelia
willing
to
breake
a
iest
with
this
Champion
thwarted
Flauia
thus
.
And
what
of
that
madame
,
hath
not
warre
taught
him
patience
:
hee
hath
past
sharper
brunts
than
womens
frownes
.
But
how
your
leuell
is
without
aime
?
If
madame
Terentia
smyl●
his
peny
is
good
siluer
,
●is
hir
fauour
that
is
the
load-star
of
his
fortunes
,
and
howe
can
we
enter
into
hir
thoughts
but
by
coniectures
:
shée
ful
of
beauty
,
and
he
a
proper
yong
gentleman
.
At
this
frumpe
the
Ladies
smiled
,
and
Terentia
blusht
for
anger
.
But
Lentulus
séeing
such
a
broad
iest
,
pinde
on
his
shoulder
willing
to
make
answere
for
his
Mistresse
,
although
he
was
sore
put
to
his
trumps
as
half
set
at
a
Non
plus
,
yet
he
followed
his
fortunes
thus
.
Indéede
Ladies
thinke
I
haue
patience
to
beare
womens
frumpes
that
hath
incountred
an
enemies
blow
,
but
if
I
could
as
well
answere
the
one
,
as
quit
the
other
,
you
shuld
neither
carry
it
to
hel
,
nor
to
heauen
.
But
to
reuenge
my selfe
as
well
as
I
can
,
thus
.
First
madame
to
cleare
my
cunning
in
loue
,
I
refer
my selfe
to
the
verdict
of
your
owne
conscience
:
who
were
you
but
as
fauourable
,
as
you
are
frumpish
,
would
soone
censure
by
my
talke
how
déepe
I
am
reade
in
loues
principles
.
But
women
speake
by
contraries
,
crying
like
the
lapwing
farthest
from
their
nests
,
and
so
I
take
it
being
checkt
for
ouermuch
loue
,
when
you
sée
I
am
a
nouice
in
loue
.
Or
perhaps
madame
Flauia
you
would
haue
me
loue
,
if
it
be
so
I
will
become
more
studious
to
satisfie
your
wish
:
but
your
calling
mee
a
day
friend
that
peremptory
punishment
were
passing
sharpe
for
one
fault
to
shake
me
out
of
seruice
,
were
it
not
that
for
so
déepe
a
wound
the
Lady
Cornelia
bringeth
in
a
lenitiue
plaisture
alleadging
my
security
if
I
bee
armed
with
Terentias
fauour
.
Blame
mee
not
swéete
goddesses
if
I
aime
at
the
fairest
,
souldiers
haue
eies
that
can
iudge
of
beauty
,
though
they
haue
not
weapons
to
winne
beauty
:
&
eares
to
déeme
of
perfections
,
though
they
want
tongues
to
discouer
passions
.
The
harmony
of
loue
,
I
haue
hearde
them
say
,
consists
in
vnities
,
and
nothing
is
more
preiudiciall
to
fancie
then
plurality
either
of
thoughtes
or
of
persons
.
Amongst
many
then
am
I
charged
but
to
like
of
one
Mistresse
:
If
I
make
choice
of
Terentia
,
and
shee
vouch
to
grace
me
with
hir
fauour
,
Cornelia
concludes
truely
,
that
armde
with
the
imagination
of
hir
beauty
,
I
thinke
my selfe
able
to
brooke
your
frumps
,
and
to
withstand
the
hardy
resolution
of
Mars
.
I
maruaile
then
quoth
Flauia
halfe
in
choller
(
if
womens
beauty
be
like
Delphicus
gladius
,
of
high
proofe
to
defend
,
and
of
sharpe
edge
to
offend
)
why
the
Senatours
choose
not
out
legions
of
Ladies
,
that
with
little
cost
and
great
assurance
,
they
may
make
conquest
of
the
world
:
but
perhaps
all
souldiers
be
not
of
your
temper
,
for
they
vse
their
weapons
and
you
your
lookes
.
No
madame
quoth
Lentulus
that
is
not
the
cause
,
for
were
it
not
that
euery
woman
would
be
a
Captaine
,
and
striue
for
supremacie
,
they
had
resolued
vpon
this
long
agoe
,
but
fearing
a
mutiny
amongst
themselues
for
superiority
:
sith
euery
one
at
home
wil
be
counted
most
wise
,
&
most
beautifull
,
though
their
wits
be
meane
,
and
fauours
lesse
,
the
Senate
are
glad
to
foresée
such
an
inconuenience
.
The
Ladies
hearing
howe
cunningly
Lentulus
had
gald
madame
Flauia
on
the
right
side
,
began
all
to
smyle
,
and
shée
after
a
blush
for
very
anger
began
to
laugh
.
Lentulus
glad
that
he
had
giuen
hir
a
soppe
of
the
same
sauce
,
and
paide
hir
hir
debt
in
hir
owne
coine
:
Calling
to
his
boy
to
fetch
him
a
Lute
,
willing
to
shew
his
mistresse
he
was
not
ignorant
in
musicke
,
said
he
would
prooue
the
force
of
beauty
by
a
sonet
which
he
heard
was
made
by
Orpheus
when
he
fell
first
in
loue
with
Euridice
,
tuning
therefore
his
Lute
to
his
voyce
he
sung
this
ditty
.
Mars
in
a
fury
gainst
Loues
brightest
Queene
Put
on
his
helme
,
and
tooke
him
to
his
launce
:
On
Erecynus
mount
was
Mauors
seene
,
And
there
his
ensignes
did
the
God
aduaunce
.
And
by
heauens
greatest
gates
he
stowtly
swore
,
Venus
should
die
for
shee
had
wrongd
him
sore
.
Cupid
heard
this
and
he
began
to
cry
,
And
wisht
his
mothers
absence
for
a
while
:
Peace
foole
quoth
Venus
,
is
it
I
must
die
?
Must
it
be
Mars
?
with
that
shee
coind
a
smile
:
Shee
trimd
hir
tresses
and
did
curle
hir
haire
,
And
made
hir
face
with
beauty
passing
faire
.
A
fan
of
siluer
feathers
in
hir
hand
,
And
in
a
coach
of
Ebony
shee
went
:
Shee
past
the
place
where
furious
Mars
did
stand
,
And
out
hir
lookes
a
louely
smile
she
sent
.
Then
from
hir
brow
lept
out
so
sharpe
a
frowne
,
That
Mars
for
feare
threw
all
his
armour
downe
.
He
vowed
repentance
for
his
rash
misdeede
,
Blaming
his
choller
that
had
causd
his
woe
:
Venus
grew
gratious
,
and
with
him
agreed
,
But
chargd
him
not
to
threaten
beauty
so
.
For
womens
lookes
are
such
inchaunting
charmes
,
As
can
subdue
the
greatest
god
in
armes
.
Lentulus
hauing
sung
this
ditty
,
Terentia
willing
a
little
to
shew
hir
wit
began
thus
.
I
remember
Lord
Lentulus
,
I
haue
heard
my
father
say
that
souldiers
were
w●●nt
to
carry
fauours
in
their
helmes
,
not
fancies
in
their
heart
:
and
made
choice
of
their
mistresse
to
incourage
their
thoughts
,
not
to
inchaunt
their
affections
.
But
I
see
the
auncient
hon●ur
of
the
Romaines
is
slipt
from
prowesse
to
passions
,
and
the
men
couet
to
be
counted
rather
amorous
wooers
,
then
hardy
warriours
:
gasing
Mars
in
the
face
with
bright
armour
,
but
offring
Orisons
to
Venus
in
secrete
conceites
.
This
did
not
Quintus
Lucius
Cincinnatus
,
who
sette
it
downe
as
Crimen
Capitale
to
speake
of
loue
in
the
Armie
.
Nor
Scypio
Affricanus
the
greate
who
made
lawes
that
no
women
shoulde
bee
brought
prisoners
within
the
Campe
,
least
loue
entring
pele
mele
with
war
might
hazard
the
haughtines
of
their
houors
:
And
yet
madame
quoth
Lentulus
Cyncinnatus
ha●
a
wife
,
and
Scipio
was
marrieed
.
But
quoth
shée
it
was
in
their
age
rather
chosen
for
succours
then
amarous
passions
:
their
youth
was
wholy
spent
in
warres
as
enemies
to
loues
,
counting
fancie
as
a
dishonour
to
their
martiall
dignities
:
rightly
in
déede
with
a
déepe
insight
entring
int●●he
enormities
that
growe
from
following
to
precisely
the
court
of
Venus
.
For
beléeue
me
gentleman
Poets
and
Painters
erre
much
that
ascribe
a
dei●y
to
Cupid
,
and
were
worthy
to
beare
some
gréeuous
punishm●nt
for
such
a
newe
inuented
heresie
,
which
I
will
app●●oue
with
a
Sonet
that
one
of
Dyanas
nymphes
made
w●en
Iupiter
had
faulted
with
Calipso
.
And
so
Terentia
taking
the
Lute
in
hir
hand
beganne
to
warble
out
this
●oundelet
.
Fond
faining
Poets
make
of
Loue
a
God
,
And
leaue
the
Lawrell
for
the
myrtle
boughes
:
When
Cupid
is
a
childe
not
past
the
rod
,
And
faire
Diana
Daphnis
most
allowes
.
I
le
weare
the
bayes
and
call
the
wag
a
boy
,
And
thinke
of
Loue
but
as
a
foolish
toy
.
Some
giue
him
bowe
and
quiuer
at
his
backe
,
Some
make
him
blinde
to
aime
without
aduise
:
When
naked
wretch
such
feathred
bolts
he
lacke
,
And
sight
he
hath
but
cannot
wrong
the
wise
.
For
vse
but
labours
weapon
for
defence
,
And
Cupid
like
a
Coward
flieth
thence
.
He
is
God
in
Court
but
cottage
cals
him
childe
,
And
Vestas
virgins
with
their
holy
fires
:
Doe
cleanse
the
thoughts
that
fancie
hath
defilde
,
And
burnes
the
pallace
of
his
fond
desires
.
With
chast
disdaine
they
scorne
the
foolish
god
,
And
prooue
him
but
a
boy
not
past
the
rod
.
Terentia
hauing
ended
hir
roundelay
,
as
Lentulus
was
ready
to
replie
,
Flaminius
came
into
the
Garden
with
the
rest
of
the
senators
,
whose
graue
presence
brake
of
their
amorous
prattle
,
so
that
he
leauing
the
Ladies
taking
his
leaue
friendly
of
them
all
,
but
specially
with
a
pittiful
glancing
looke
of
Terentia
as
crauing
some
fauour
for
his
farewell
,
hee
went
to
the
Senatours
amongst
whom
he
●●●coursed
long
of
the
maner
and
custome
of
the
Parthians
,
〈◊〉
their
resolution
in
warres
,
and
of
such
serious
matters
concerning
martiall
discipline
.
Passing
thus
away
part
of
the
afternoone
,
the
company
at
last
taking
their
leaues
yeelding
great
thankes
to
Flaminius
for
their
good
chée●e
,
they
parted
to
their
seuerall
mansions
.
Lentulus
s●ipping
from
the
rest
of
the
companie
and
with
a
gratious
courage
tooke
his
adue
of
Terentia
and
the
other
of
the
Ladies
,
vowing
to
be
theirs
euer
in
any
due
honourable
seruice
,
and
so
staying
Terentia
by
the
hande
he
went
home
with
Titus
Annius
Milo
:
where
he
founde
Marcus
Tullius
Cicero
,
then
a
youth
in
Rome
about
the
age
of
twenty
yeres
&
very
priuate
and
familiar
with
Milo
.
The
fame
of
this
Tullies
surpassing
●loquence
was
so
bruted
abroade
in
Rome
as
they
counted
him
the
myrror
of
that
time
&
as
in
Greece
they
wondred
at
Demosthenes
for
his
orations
,
and
the
popular
people
fedde
their
eies
with
his
sight
,
so
as
Tully
past
through
the
stréets
they
cryed
out
,
Hic
est
ille
Cicero
:
saying
that
as
Orpheus
with
his
musicke
made
the
stones
and
trees
pliant
to
his
melody
:
so
Tully
tyed
the
peoples
cares
to
his
tongue
by
his
eloquence
:
And
that
Plato
who
for
his
philosophicall
sentences
was
called
diuine
,
in
whose
lippes
bées
rested
as
presaging
his
future
excellencie
was
inferiour
to
Tully
in
the
musicall
concord
of
his
phrase
.
Lentulus
noting
his
perfections
although
his
parentage
was
base
,
yet
thinking
his
eloquence
might
be
profitable
to
his
loues
,
grewe
to
bee
very
familiar
with
Tully
,
insomuch
that
of
vnacquainted
citizens
they
grew
to
be
deare
and
priuate
friends
,
that
their
thoughts
were
vnited
with
a
sure
league
of
amity
,
and
their
hearts
were
receptacles
for
their
mutuall
passions
,
so
that
their
most
secrete
affaires
were
frankely
participated
without
any
doubting
suspition
.
But
leauing
their
familliarity
,
conuersing
in
Milos
house
:
Let
vs
gentlemen
sée
how
Terentia
brookt
his
departure
.
Cornelius
Nepos
forgets
it
in
Tullies
life
,
〈◊〉
if
you
will
beléeue
me
it
was
thus
.
No
sooner
were
the
Senatours
and
Lentulus
departed
from
Flaminius
house
,
but
Flauia
and
the
rest
of
the
Ladies
tooke
leaue
of
Terentia
,
who
being
solitary
by
hir selfe
sitting
alone
in
an
arbour
of
roses
,
began
to
ruminate
on
the
Idaea
of
Lentulus
perfection
,
and
to
call
to
minde
his
seueral
and
singular
qualities
,
his
parentage
,
his
person
,
honors
,
and
his
great
possessions
,
but
all
in
vaine
.
Loues
poyson
was
preuented
with
an
antidote
,
and
hir
thoughts
sealed
vp
with
an
inuincible
chastity
.
For
after
shée
had
long
sate
:
At
last
with
a
smyle
shée
burst
foorth
into
these
tearmes
.
If
Venus
could
not
infuse
more
dismall
aspects
in
other
Ladies
thoughts
then
into
my
minde
,
they
should
neither
hold
hir
as
a
goddesse
,
nor
honour
hir
temples
with
presents
:
Fonde
are
those
women
that
are
inquisitiue
after
Astrologers
,
whether
Venus
be
retrograde
or
combust
in
their
natiuities
.
Had
they
but
tasted
the
swéete
fauour
of
Vestas
incense
,
they
would
abandon
hir
as
a
planet
carelesse
in
their
natiuities
:
and
not
trouble
the
Augurs
or
Aruspices
to
censure
of
their
fatall
or
fortunate
fancies
.
For
had
they
but
insight
into
the
swéete
life
of
virgins
,
how
secure
they
liue
,
if
they
liue
vertuous
,
they
woulde
neuer
intangle
themselues
with
the
inconstant
snares
of
fancy
.
Vesta
allowes
vs
frée
thoughts
,
Venus
disquiet
passions●
at
hir
Altars
we
haue
swéete
s●éepes
,
in
the
others
pallace
broken
slumbers
.
Diana
counteruailes
our
labours
with
myrth
and
quiet
,
in
Cipres
we
finde
toyle
tempered
with
care
and
sorrowes
.
Being
virgins
we
haue
liberty
:
maried
we
tie
our selues
to
the
variable
disposition
of
a
husband
,
who
be
he
neuer
so
excellent
in
perfection
,
or
exquisite
in
proportion
,
we
shall
finde
sufficient
whereof
to
gather
di●●ike
.
Then
Terentia
,
let
Lentulus
passe
with
his
honors
he
hath
subdued
.
What
though
Alexander
woone
the
whole
world
,
his
glories
are
but
fortunes
fauours
.
Account
him
then
onely
as
thou
promised
,
thy
fathers
friend
and
thine
as
farre
as
he
treats
not
of
weddi●●
and
with
this
vpon
a
sodaine
shée
start
vp
,
and
went
to
passe
away
the
time
amongst
companie
,
holding
Cupids
deity
at
disdaine
,
and
accounting
of
loue
as
the
Samnites
did
of
golde
:
which
they
sent
as
presents
to
their
enemies
,
but
banisht
from
their
owne
common
wealth
.
But
Flauia
poore
Lady
,
was
not
pierced
with
so
easie
a
passion
,
for
shée
hauing
more
déepely
imprinted
in
hir
thoughtes
his
honours
and
vertues
,
and
measuring
the
man
by
the
height
of
his
fortunes
,
fell
into
these
bitter
complaints
.
With
what
little
proportion
doth
iniurious
Loue
bestowe
his
fauours
?
With
howe
small
regarde
doth
blinde
fortune
powre
out
hir
treasures
?
Making
in
all
their
actions
contrarieties
.
that
so
they
may
triumph
in
inconstancie
.
Loue
hath
brought
Lentulus
from
the
wars
to
Rome
,
onely
to
sée
Terentia
.
Fortune
hath
brought
Flauia
to
the
house
of
Flaminius
onely
to
loue
Lentulus
,
shée
little
regarding
him
,
he
lightly
respecting
me
.
Thus
hath
the
contrariety
of
loue
and
fortune
made
Lentulus
vnhappy
,
and
me
without
hope
.
Ah
but
Terentia
though
shée
séeme
coy
at
the
first
,
will
bee
more
curteous
at
the
last
,
when
shée
hath
had
but
a
moneths
meditating
on
the
excellency
of
Lentulus
.
Then
,
oh
then
sigh
Flauia
,
and
say
oh
then
wil
Terentia
not
reiect
so
honourable
a
personage
:
When
shée
considers
his
youth
,
his
beauty
,
his
parentage
,
his
dignities
Lentulus
no
sooner
shall
wooe
,
but
shée
will
be
woonne
:
This
is
the
coniecture
of
hir
hap
,
&
the
dispaire
of
my
hope
.
And
yet
it
may
be
that
the
destinies
haue
appointed
their
disagrée
.
For
starres
are
sticklers
in
loue
,
and
fates
are
principall
fautors
of
wedlocke
.
If
my
prayers
may
serue
●o
Venus
,
if
my
incense
to
Cupid
,
if
my
vowes
to
Lucina
,
if
my
sute
to
Loue
.
Let
their
loue
perish
in
the
budde
,
and
wither
in
the
blossoms
.
Had
I
Medeas
magicke
,
the
drugs
of
Calipso
,
the
inchauntments
of
Cyrces
,
the
skill
of
Hecate
,
all
these
should
be
imployed
to
breake
the
loue
of
Terentia
,
and
Lentulus
.
Fond
Flauia
,
to
be
so
franticke
in
thy
passions
:
suppose
Terentia
hated
Lentulus
,
can
this
conclude
he
wil
loue
thée
?
No
,
his
thoughts
are
setled
,
his
rest
set
downe
,
his
vowes
made
,
his
fancy
fixed
,
&
all
vpon
the
beautiful
Terentia
:
I
there
Flauia
that
is
the
word
the
galleth
to
the
beautifull
Terentia
.
For
of
such
surpassing
beauty
is
the
Lady
,
that
as
Cynthia
brookes
no
compare
with
hir
glorious
brother
:
so
thou
must
not
enter
comparison
with
the
daughter
of
the
Senatour
Flaminius
.
But
what
is
this
to
Lentulus
.
If
shée
be
faire
,
yea
as
faire
as
euer
was
Sulpitia
:
if
shée
be
as
coy
,
and
disdainefull
as
Caelia
,
had
he
not
better
loue
homely
Flauia
,
who
will
counteruaile
with
loue
,
what
shée
wants
in
beautie
,
and
proportion
out
in
duety
,
what
shée
defects
in
dignity
.
But
what
of
this
,
loue
admits
no
exceptions
,
he
cannot
mis●ike
●ught
in
Terentia
.
Doth
not
present
examples
yea
instances
executed
in
Roome
auerre
so
much
?
Is
not
Anthonio
enamoured
of
the
blacke
Egyptian
Cleopatra
:
Doth
not
Caesar
enuy
him
in
his
loues
and
couets
to
be
corriuall
of
his
fancies
.
Affection
is
oft
blinde
and
déemeth
not
rightlie
,
The
blackest
Ebon
is
brighter
then
the
whitest
Iuorie
:
and
Venus
thought
Vulcan
at
the
first
a
proper
stripling
.
Were
Terentia
neuer
so
coy
,
Lentulus
will
count
hir
disdaine
but
chastitie
:
yet
Flauia
pray
then
she
may
liue
in
this
mislike
,
then
hast
thou
yet
some
cause
to
hope
,
otherwise
wéepe
thy
fill
,
dispaire
and
then
die
,
for
swéeter
is
death
then
to
liue
and
sée
Lentulus
enioy
the
loue
of
Terentia
.
Hauing
at
this
period
breathed
awhile
readie
to
goe
forwarde
in
passions
,
one
of
hir
waiting
women
came
in
who
breaking
of
hir
complaintes
past
away
the
rest
of
the
day
in
prattle
.
Leauing
hir
therfore
and
hir
maide
at
chat
,
again
to
Lentulus
,
who
tooke
such
inwarde
griefe
at
this
newe
conceited
loue
,
that
his
colour
began
to
waxe
pale
and
to
discouer
passions
his
sighes
many
and
often
to
bewray
his
sorrows
,
his
sodayne
startes
in
his
sléepes
,
and
his
musinges
surcharged
with
melancholie
.
These
noted
by
Tullie
his
priuate
friende
made
him
coniecture
that
somewhat
was
amisse
with
Lentulus
.
Hauing
therefore
fit
opportunitie
he
began
to
sift
him
in
this
manner
.
The
auncient
Gréetians
swéete
Lentulus
that
set
downe
principles
of
friendship
,
account
the
secrete
conuersi●g
of
friendes
,
and
their
mutuall
participating
eyther
of
priuate
sorrows
or
concealed
pleasures
,
the
principall
end
of
such
professed
amitie
.
Therefore
did
Theseus
choose
Pirithous
,
Orestes
Pylades
&
to
that
end
,
or
else
you
wronge
me
,
serues
Tullie
to
his
Lentulus
.
If
then
it
be
requisite
in
friendshippe
to
abandon
suspitious
secrecie
,
I
cannot
but
take
it
vnkindly
that
Tullie
is
not
made
partaker
of
Lentulus
passions
.
For
as
the
Carbuncle
is
not
hid
in
the
darke
,
nor
the
fire
shut
vp
in
strawe
,
so
sorrowes
cannot
so
couertly
be
concealed
but
the
countenance
will
purtray
out
the
cause
by
the
effectes
.
Thinke
me
not
then
so
blind
but
I
can
Iudge
of
coullors
,
nor
so
simple
but
I
can
deeme
of
affections
,
what
meane
these
farre
fetcht
sighes
,
broken
slumbers
,
this
newe
delight
to
be
solitarie
,
but
that
Lentulus
féeling
a
passion
that
pierceth
to
the
quick
,
yet
séekes
to
kéepe
it
secrete
from
his
friend
Tullie
.
Knowe
this
my
good
Lentulus
that
smoake
depressed
stiffleth
more
deadly
.
That
the
Ouen
the
closer
it
is
damd
vp
the
greater
is
the
heate
:
and
passions
the
more
priuate
the
more
preiudiciall
.
Stop
not
then
the
streame
,
least
it
ouerflow
.
Conceale
not
sorrowes
least
they
ouercharge
,
and
prooue
like
woundes
,
that
kepte
long
from
the
Chirurgian
growe
to
be
incurable
vlcers
:
If
it
be
a
Fathers
frowne
,
an
enemies
wrong
,
a
friendes
mishap
,
reueale
it
and
séeke
remedie
.
If
Lentulus
gréeues
hath
left
his
honours
in
Parthia
,
feare
not
,
Rome
will
haue
more
warres
and
Lentulus
new
dignities
.
If
the
Senatoures
haue
delt
ingratefully
:
Solamen
miseris
socios
habuisse
doloris
.
The
most
famous
Romaines
haue
forerunne
thée
in
such
hard
fortunes
.
Scipio
subdued
Affrica
,
what
his
rewarde
was
let
our
annualles
report
.
If
Lentulus
misliks
ought
in
Rome
,
let
him
abandon
Rome
,
and
Tullio
will
banishe
himselfe
from
his
countrie
too
with
his
friend
Lentulus
.
If
since
thy
comming
into
this
storehouse
of
natures
prodigalitie
,
thiue
eye
hath
made
suruaie
of
anie
gorgious
Damsell
,
and
so
my
Lentulus
be
in
loue
although
wisedome
wills
to
hide
amors
euen
from
amitie
,
and
to
tie
fancie
in
the
lowest
cell
of
his
heart
,
yet
reueale
it
to
thy
friende
Tullie
,
and
if
any
way
hee
may
ease
his
Lentulus
passions
,
hee
vowes
to
salue
thy
sore
,
though
with
the
hazarde
of
his
owne
safetie
.
Lentulus
hearing
his
friende
leuell
so
néere
the
marke
gaue
a
great
grone
at
the
name
of
loue
,
and
fetching
a
déepe
sighe
saide
Actna
grauius
Amor.
And
with
that
starting
from
the
place
where
hee
sat
taking
Tullie
by
the
hande
,
he
began
thus
.
Were
it
my
Tullie
that
my
passions
had
any
hope
of
remedie
,
or
that
my
wounde
were
such
as
might
bee
cured
by
counsell
,
long
ere
this
had
Lentulus
powred
his
plaintes
into
the
bosome
of
his
friende
Cicero
:
but
my
sorrows
,
as
they
are
piercing
so
I
haue
kept
them
priuate
,
as
hoping
for
no
ease
and
yet
delighting
in
my
martiredome
.
The
birde
flieth
the
snare
of
the
fouler
,
No
sooner
doth
the
woodman
bend
his
bowe
,
but
the
Déere
trippes
through
the
lawnes
:
euerie
creature
is
taught
by
nature
to
feare
his
fall
,
and
yet
wretched
Lentulus
hunteth
after
his
owne
mishappe
.
So
haue
I
described
the
furie
of
my
passions
,
as
I
can
not
but
say
it
is
loue
that
is
thus
impatient
.
Loue
my
Tullie
that
is
such
a
lord
as
ins●nuating
his
power
with
fauour
he
kéeps
possession
by
force
.
Wars
haue
their
endes
either
honors
or
death
,
and
in
battaile
prowesse
oft
makes
constraint
of
fortune
,
but
in
loue
delay
is
the
vnhappie
deathsman
that
holding
thée
vp
neither
saues
nor
killes
.
Since
my
comming
to
Rome
(
my
Tullie
)
coueting
to
conuerse
with
beautifull
Ladies
as
before
I
had
done
with
martiall
souldiers
,
amongst
manie
curious
Pearles
I
founde
one
Orient
Margarite
richer
then
those
which
Caesar
brought
from
the
western
shores
of
Europe
:
so
long
I
gased
at
the
beautie
of
this
pretious
Iem
that
I
founde
my selfe
gald
with
such
affection
,
as
well
repeat
I
might
,
but
recall
I
coulde
not
:
and
for
thou
shalt
say
she
is
loue
worthie
.
heare
how
in
discribing
hir
excellencie
I
haue
plaide
the
Poet.
Lentulus
description
of
Terentia
in
Latin
.
Qualis
in
aurora
splende
scit
lumine
Titan
,
Talis
in
eximio
corpore
forma
fuit
:
Lumina
seu
spectes
radiantia
,
siue
capillos
,
Lux
Ariadne
tua
&
lux
tua
Phoebe
iacet
.
Venustata
fuit
verbis
,
spirabat
odorem
,
Musica
vox
,
nardus
spiritus
almus
erat
:
Rubea
labra
,
genae
rubrae
,
faciesque
decora
,
In
qua
concertant
lilius
atque
rosa.
Luxuriant
geminae
formoso
in
pectore
mammae
,
Circundant
niueae
candida
colla
comae
:
Denique
talis
erat
diuina
Terentia
,
quales
Quondam
certantes
,
Iuno
,
Minerua
,
Venus
.
Thus
in
English
.
BRightsume
Apollo
in
his
richest
pompe
,
was
not
like
to
the
tramels
of
hir
haire
:
Hir
eyes
like
Ariadnes
sparkling
starres
,
shone
from
the
Ebon
Arches
of
hir
browes
.
Hir
face
was
like
the
blushing
of
the
east
,
when
Titan
chardge
the
mornings
Sun
to
rise
:
Hir
cheekes
rich
strewd
with
roses
and
with
whyte
,
did
stayne
the
glorie
of
Anchises
loue
.
Hir
siluer
teates
did
ebbe
and
flowe
delight
,
Hir
necke
colummes
of
polisht
Iuorie
.
Hir
breath
was
perfumes
made
of
violets
,
And
all
this
heauen
was
but
Terentia
.
NO
sooner
had
Lentulus
ended
his
well
written
Poem
,
and
concluded
his
cunning
with
the
name
of
his
mistresse
,
but
Tullie
hearing
Terentia
was
the
saint
at
whose
shrine
Lentulus
offred
vp
his
deuotion
,
entring
his
exordium
with
a
smyle
he
began
to
be
thus
pleasaut
.
And
is
there
no
fruit
will
serue
your
taste
but
such
as
growe
in
the
Gardens
Hesperides
,
nor
no
colour
content
your
eye
but
such
as
is
stayned
by
the
fish
Murex
.
Must
your
senses
be
fed
with
nothing
but
that
is
excellent
,
nor
your
loue
haue
no
meane
but
to
aime
at
the
fairest
.
What
Terentia
the
beautie
of
Rome
?
the
pride
of
nature
?
the
wealth
of
all
the
fauouring
graces
,
whose
excellencies
are
spreade
throught
the
triple
deuision
of
the
worlde
?
I
see
my
Lentulus
souldiers
haue
eyes
as
they
haue
hands
,
and
thoughtes
as
they
haue
weapons
,
and
that
howe
bluntlie
so
euer
brought
vp
in
the
warres
yet
they
are
curious
in
the
choises
of
their
loues
.
Well
,
be
it
Lentulus
loues
Terentia
,
an
honour
to
set
his
fancie
on
hir
,
but
hee
kept
his
loue
secret
from
Tullie
a
fault
to
be
suspicious
of
his
friend
.
But
why
gréeues
Lentulus
?
Is
not
his
parentage
greater
then
the
house
of
Flaminius
?
Is
not
his
honours
sufficient
to
counteruaile
hir
beauties
?
Why
then
is
he
so
impatient
in
so
agreable
a
passion
?
Lentulus
vpon
this
discoursed
vnto
Tullie
from
point
to
point
the
successe
of
his
loues
,
how
he
gaue
his
charge
ouer
to
Lepidus
onely
that
he
might
haue
a
sight
of
Terentia
,
and
then
recounting
what
prattle
had
past
betwixt
him
and
hir
after
dinner
:
Hir
coy
answeres
and
firmed
resolution
to
remaine
chast
:
crauing
counsell
howe
he
might
ease
the
disquiete
of
his
thonghts
:
Tullie
pittying
the
extreeme
passion
of
his
friende
,
deuised
sundrie
meanes
howe
to
make
him
lorde
of
his
desires
.
But
after
the
discourse
of
sundry
plottes
,
it
was
decreed
that
Lentulus
shoulde
write
vnto
Teren-Terentia
.
Lentulus
dispairing
of
his
owne
stile
and
methode
,
required
Tully
to
write
him
a
letter
passionate
and
full
of
familiar
eloquence
,
which
at
his
request
Cicero
contriued
after
this
manner
:
where
by
the
way
gentlemen
,
I
am
to
craue
you
to
thinke
that
Terentia
kept
the
copy
secrete
,
so
that
neither
it
can
bee
founde
amongst
Lentulus
loose
papers
,
nor
in
the
familiar
epistles
of
Cicero
.
If
the
phrase
differ
from
his
other
excellent
forme
of
writing
,
imagine
he
sought
to
couer
his
style
,
and
in
his
pen
rather
to
play
the
blunt
souldier
,
then
the
curious
Orator
,
neither
vsing
those
verborum
fulmina
,
that
Papyrius
obiects
,
nor
that
swéete
and
musicall
cadence
of
words
,
which
he
vseth
to
Atticus
,
but
howsoeuer
or
whatsoeuer
,
thus
it
was
.
Lentulus
,
Terentiae
salutem
.
QVod
natura
in
venustatis
&
formae
tuae
Idaea
formauit
(
suauissima
Terentia
)
nullo
modo
silentio
praeterire
possum
:
Ne
cum
nimis
cautus
amoris
ignem
celare
conarer
,
incautus
tanquam
Aetna
meipsum
consumens
,
in
cineres
redigar
.
Cum
inter
Parthos
versarer
,
nihil
nisi
bellum
&
arma
cogitans
,
a
Roma
vsque
formae
tuae
pulchritudo
,
morumque
integritas
à
multis
saepe
nuntiata
est
.
Cuius
rei
faema
ca
iucunditate
aures
meas
permulsit
,
vt
(
syrenum
quasi
cantu
delectatus
)
arma
abijcere
&
amorem
cogitare
coeperim
,
meque
totum
in
Terentiae
potestatem
tradere
non
erubescerem
.
Diuinae
autem
excellentiae
tuae
cogitatio
,
eos
mihi
pro
tempore
in
bellicis
negotijs
addidit
animos
,
vt
breui
deuictis
&
profligatis
Parthis
,
totam
hanc
Prouinciam
Lepido
commiserim
,
quem
vnum
tum
honoris
,
tum
fortunae
meae
participem
feci
,
Parthisque
relictis
Romam
me
contuli
,
vt
iucundissimo
fructu
tum
aspectus
,
tum
consuetudinis
tuae
frui
liceat
.
Formae
vero
&
pulchritudinis
tuae
dignitas
,
tanta
tamque
excellens
fuit
,
vt
non
modo
famam
,
sed
expectationem
meam
longe
superarit
.
Vnde
exquisitam
tuam
perfectionem
oculis
contemplans
,
&
singulares
animi
dotes
auribus
accipiens
,
excellentiae
tuae
Idaeam
in
imo
pectore
collocaui
meque
totum
amori
,
quasi
constring
endum
tradidi
.
Cum
igitur
tua
vnius
causa
(
suauissima
Terentia
)
famam
fortunasque
&
arma
proiecerim
,
verum
amantis
officium
fac
praestes
,
&
me
non
meritis
,
sed
amore
fac
metiare
,
vt
in
amore
tu
mihi
respondens
,
ego
in
omni
officio
tibi
satisfaciam
.
Taceo
genus
&
parentes
,
quos
tamen
bonos
ciues
&
senatores
fuisse
constat
;
taceo
triumphos
,
qui
quales
fuerint
Capitolium
populusque
Romanus
locupletissimi
sunt
testes
;
de
diuitijs
non
glorior
,
quas
t●men
mediocres
esse
constat
,
sed
virtutis
vim
&
amoris
constantiam
tibi
propono
,
quae
nec
parui
facienda
,
nec
ingratitudine
compensanda
sunt
.
Me
igitur
fac
redames
(
mea
Terentia
)
&
pulchritudini
comitatem
coniungens
,
parentibus
honorem
,
a●icis
fidem
,
Lentulo
amorem
tribuas
,
vt
parentibus
gaudio
,
amicis
vtilitati
,
&
Lentulo
voluptati
esse
possis
.
Non
disertè
,
vt
Orator
,
sed
peramanter
,
vt
imperator
tibi
scribo
,
quod
si
amorinostro
consentire
digneris
,
de
patris
voluntate
nihil
est
quod
dubites
:
sed
si
alieno
amore
non
nostro
delecteris
,
d●lores
meos
&
augebo
&
celabo
,
&
quamcunque
in
partem
te
flexeris
,
tibi
tum
vitam
tranquillam
,
tum
mortem
gloriosam
,
vt
fideliss
.
amator
exoptabo
.
Vale
,
plus
oculis
mihi
dilecta
Terentia
,
&
me
tui
desiderio
iam
pene
languentem
aut
ames
cito
aut
oderis
semper
,
vale
&
rescribe
.
Lentulus
to
Terentia
health
.
I
cannot
(
swéete
soueraigne
of
my
thoughts
,
and
chiefe
myrrour
of
our
Romaine
excellencie
)
smother
that
with
silence
which
nature
hath
figured
in
the
portraiture
of
my
lookes
,
vnlesse
kéeping
the
flame
too
secrete
,
I
shoulde
like
A●tna
consume
to
cinders
.
When
seated
amongst
the
Parthians
hauing
nothing
in
my
thoughtes
but
warres
and
stratagemes
,
thy
beauty
was
repeated
as
speciall
newes
from
Roome
amongst
the
Legions
:
The
melodie
séemed
so
pleasing
to
mine
eares
as
if
the
musicke
of
the
Syrens
had
inchaunted
my
senses
.
I
ceased
from
warres
to
think
of
loue
,
and
from
loue
to
doate
on
the
conceit
of
Terentia
.
The
thoughtes
of
thy
excellencie
doubled
such
courage
in
my
attempts
,
that
I
conquered
the
Parthians
,
yéelded
vp
my
charge
to
Lepidus
,
made
him
partaker
of
my
honors
,
and
fortunes
,
and
came
to
Roome
onely
to
sée
Terentia
:
whose
sight
was
so
beauteous
,
and
so
farre
beyond
the
report
of
fame
,
that
mine
eies
surueying
exquisitely
thy
perfections
,
and
mine
eares
censuring
of
thy
wit
and
vertues
both
in
league
conspired
to
present
the
Idea
of
thy selfe
to
the
contemplation
of
my
heart
,
which
gréedily
intertaining
such
rare
beauties
,
hath
euer
since
remained
a
poore
distressed
captiue
.
Sith
then
Terentia
,
thy
Lentulus
hath
left
his
fortunes
to
followe
fancy
,
and
hath
forsaken
the
warres
to
winne
thy
loues
,
holding
thée
more
deare
then
country
or
hono●r
,
shewe
thy selfe
a
Romaine
Lady
,
that
striuing
in
minde
to
be
matchlesse
,
thou
mayest
bee
more
prodigall
in
fauours
,
then
I
worthy
in
deserts
,
and
yéelde
mée
such
méede
for
my
loue
,
as
Lentulus
for
his
loyaltie
doth
merite
.
I
●oast
not
of
my
parents
,
they
are
Citizens
&
of
the
Senate
with
thy
father
.
I
speak
not
of
mine
honors
,
the
Capitol
can
witnes
what
showtes
past
from
the
Romaines
as
victors
:
what
tears
from
the
Parthians
as
vanquished
,
both
these
passions
growing
from
the
fortunes
of
Lentulus
.
My
reuenewes
are
such
as
satisfie
my
desires
:
But
all
these
are
externall
fauours
,
which
though
I
rehearse
yet
I
bragge
not
off
.
But
the
constancy
of
my
loue
,
the
loyalty
of
my
thoughts
:
These
Terentia
are
gifts
of
the
mind
,
deseruing
no
light
estéem
,
much
lesse
to
be
requited
with
ingratitude
.
Consider
then
(
swéete
goddesse
)
the
sincerity
of
mine
affections
:
weigh
howe
Lentulus
loues
,
and
so
vse
him
in
loue
,
measure
his
fortunes
by
his
fancies
.
As
thou
art
beautifull
,
so
vse
iustice
,
giue
euery
one
his
due
:
Honour
to
the
gods
,
reuerence
to
thy
father
,
faith
to
thy
friend
,
and
Loue
to
Lentulus
,
and
if
it
please
thée
to
grace
me
with
the
title
to
thy
husband
Lentulus
:
for
I
couet
to
like
honestly
,
not
to
loue
wantonly
.
I
write
Terentia
as
a
souldier
without
eloquence
,
and
as
a
louer
without
flattery
,
if
thou
satisfie
my
loue
with
thy
fauours
,
I
doubt
not
to
seale
vp
thy
content
with
thy
fathers
and
friends
agrée
.
If
either
thou
art
tied
to
former
loues
,
or
mislikest
of
mine
,
I
will
close
vp
my
sorrows
with
silence
.
Howsoe●er
it
shall
please
thée
to
returne
answere
:
Liue
with
content
,
and
die
with
honour
.
Terentias
newe
intertained
souldier
,
Publius
Cornelius
Lentulus
.
If
gentlemen
I
haue
not
translated
Lentulus
letter
verbatim
worde
for
worde
,
let
me
in
mine
owne
excuse
yéelde
these
reasons
,
that
neither
the
familiar
phrase
of
the
Romaines
can
brooke
our
harsh
cadence
of
sentences
:
nor
durst
I
attempt
to
wrest
Tullies
eloquence
to
my
rude
and
barbarous
english
:
fearing
either
to
wrong
so
worthy
an
Orator
in
displacing
or
rather
disgracing
his
phrase
:
or
in
too
far
presuming
purchase
your
frowne
,
which
I
haue
euer
in
all
duty
sought
to
auoid
.
But
howsoeuer
my
translation
séemes
wrested
,
I
haue
kept
his
.
And
so
to
Lentulus
,
who
hearing
Tully
reade
the
epistle
,
both
conceited
the
methode
,
and
allowed
of
the
manner
:
Onely
carefull
where
to
get
a
fit
and
conuenient
messenger
.
Tully
at
last
called
to
remembrance
one
Eutrapelus
,
an
especiall
friend
of
his
,
who
frequented
the
house
of
Flaminius
,
by
him
did
Lentulus
sende
the
letter
,
and
so
liuing
in
hope
of
a
happy
answere
,
he
left
Tully
in
his
study
,
and
went
to
the
Capitoll
.
Cicero
no
sooner
was
by
himselfe
,
but
calling
to
mind
the
description
of
Terentia
:
set
out
with
such
excellency
by
Lentulus
in
his
new
learnd
poetrie
,
and
weighing
how
al
Roome
woondred
at
hir
beauties
:
began
to
féele
certaine
sparkes
of
loue
kindling
in
his
young
desires
,
which
made
him
blush
at
his
owne
thoughtes
,
and
smile
that
fancy
shoulde
lie
lurking
amongst
his
library
to
take
him
at
discouert
.
But
assoone
as
he
remembred
that
Lentulus
was
in
loue
with
hir
,
the
faith
to
his
friend
,
was
a
cooling
carde
to
his
affections
:
and
hee
quenched
those
sparkes
at
the
first
,
lest
suffered
they
might
grow
to
a
greater
flame
:
yet
was
he
maugre
his
heade
forced
to
say
thus
much
.
Hast
thou
liued
fortunate
,
and
fauoured
in
Roome
?
hath
honour
raised
thée
from
a
meane
cottage
to
be
a
companion
to
the
sonnes
of
Senators
?
Doe
the
Consuls
make
thee
for
thy
learning
one
of
the
Pret●xtati
?
and
wilt
thou
for
the
hope
of
foolish
beauty
staine
all
thy
fauours
and
fortunes
with
disgrace
?
Nay
rather
Tully
it
will
be
honor
to
wooe
the
daughter
of
so
famous
a
Romaine
:
but
shame
to
thee
to
take
the
repulse
and
be
denied
.
Thinkest
thou
Terentia
will
looke
so
lowe
?
will
Eagles
catch
at
flies
?
wil
the
woonder
of
our
time
,
the
paragon
of
our
age
,
allied
to
the
noblest
houses
in
Roome
,
make
choise
of
so
base
and
meane
a
person
?
What
hast
thou
to
deserue
hir
loue
,
any
more
then
a
little
babling
eloquence
.
Womens
eares
are
not
their
touchstones
but
their
eies
:
they
sée
and
make
choyse
,
not
heare
and
fancy
.
A
dramme
of
honour
weighs
downe
a
pound
of
wit
:
and
better
is
it
to
court
with
welthy
reuenewes
,
then
with
swéete
lines
,
or
fine
coucht
poemes
.
Thou
hast
nothing
left
but
a
poore
farme
called
Cumanum
,
whose
rents
quits
not
the
charges
of
thy
studies
.
But
suppose
thou
couldst
winne
Terentia
,
suffice
shée
is
loued
by
Lentulus
:
and
therefore
from
this
day
name
hir
not
in
thy
mouth
,
nor
weare
hir
in
thy
thoughtes
,
least
thou
violate
friendship
,
which
thou
ought
to
prise
dearer
then
life
.
Thus
Tully
appeasing
his
passions
went
out
of
his
study
and
willed
Eutrapelus
to
deliuer
the
letter
with
secrecy
:
who
being
one
of
Tullies
chief
familiars
,
went
with
all
spéede
to
the
house
of
Flaminius
,
where
finding
the
Ladie
Terentia
sitting
with
Flauia
&
Cornelia
at
worke
,
he
being
homo
facetus
began
merily
to
commend
their
huswifery
&
after
some
iests
broken
betwixt
the
gentlewomen
&
him
he
craued
to
speak
with
Terentia
about
certain
serious
affairs
that
greatly
imported
hir
father
.
Wherupon
shée
rising
&
going
with
Eutrapelus
into
hir
closet
he
there
deliuered
vnto
hir
Lentulus
letter
.
Terentia
abashed
at
the
sight
blushed
as
half
angrie
with
Eutrapelus
,
that
he
made
him selfe
messenger
in
so
vaine
a
matter
,
yet
considering
it
came
from
so
honourable
a
personage
as
Lentulus
,
shée
vouchsafed
it
&
wisht
Eutrapelus
in
the
euening
to
come
for
an
answere
.
He
was
no
sooner
departed
,
but
Terentia
vnripped
the
seales
and
then
red
the
contentes
,
which
being
contrarie
to
hir
resolution
,
shée
determined
to
returne
with
a
deniall
.
But
for
that
she
would
make
hir
friends
priuie
to
hir
new
loues
passions
she
went
smiling
in
,
and
shewed
them
the
letter
.
Upon
poore
Lentulus
plainesong
they
all
began
to
descant
.
Cornelia
praysing
Terentias
fortunes
that
was
so
enterely
beloued
of
so
honourable
&
braue
a
Gentleman
,
but
Flauia
hung
the
lippe
and
saying
little
,
only
askt
what
a
louing
answere
she
would
write
.
I
know
not
howe
to
replie
quoth
Terentia
,
he
hath
written
so
eloquently
and
so
cunningly
.
But
quoth
Flauia
I
durst
pawne
my
credite
it
was
written
by
young
Tullie
,
that
braue
Orator
:
for
I
haue
red
some
of
his
Epistles
,
and
t
is
both
his
methode
and
his
verie
phrase
.
That
Tullie
,
quoth
Terentia
whom
I
haue
heard
my
Father
and
the
Senators
so
highlie
commend
for
his
witte
,
thinking
him
to
excéede
either
Crassus
or
Hortensius
?
and
with
that
sitting
downe
they
began
to
enter
into
discourse
of
Tullies
excellencies
,
concluding
all
that
he
was
as
singular
amongst
the
Romaines
,
as
euer
Demosthenes
was
amongst
the
Grecians
.
At
last
Terentia
remembring
hir selfe
,
tooke
leaue
for
a
whyle
of
hir
two
friendes
,
and
stealing
into
hir
closet
stepping
to
the
standish
shée
was
about
to
write
,
but
calling
to
minde
the
discourse
of
Tullies
perfection
,
letting
fall
hir
penne
she
fell
into
a
passion
.
Cupid
wayting
to
spie
this
vestall
at
aduantage
,
séeing
hir
halfe
at
discouert
vulosde
a
bolt
headed
with
desire
,
and
fethered
with
conceite
,
which
piercing
the
tender
briest
of
this
young
Damosell
,
he
made
hir
shrinck
at
the
blow
,
and
so
breath
out
this
complaint
.
Hast
thou
Terentia
béene
wondred
at
in
Rome
for
despising
loue
,
and
wilt
thou
now
doting
gyrle
stomble
on
desire
,
shall
fancie
eclipse
all
thy
former
glories
▪
shall
Vesta
léese
a
virgin
,
and
Venus
winne
a
wanton
?
Wilt
thou
resemble
the
buddes
of
an
Elder
trée
,
which
young
are
swéete
and
holesome
,
but
blomd
foorth
are
bitter
and
preiudiciall
:
thinke
with
thy selfe
that
Dianas
shrubs
are
more
pleasaunt
,
than
Cupids
bowers
,
the
one
harbours
chast
thoughts
,
the
other
amorous
fancies
.
Truth
,
but
Lucina
is
a
goddesse
,
loue
is
diuine
,
and
marriage
honorable
.
Cedars
are
fayre
,
but
in
yéelding
no
fruite
they
purchase
the
lesse
estéeme
.
To
be
a
virgin
is
a
glorious
title
,
but
to
liue
euer
so
,
is
to
wrong
nature
in
hir
fauors
.
Well
hast
thou
not
then
Terentia
a
noble
gentleman
of
Rome
,
Lord
Lentulus
to
bee
thy
husbande
,
a
man
whose
youth
is
filled
with
honours
and
whose
spring
time
●●orisheth
dignities
?
hath
he
not
triumpht
ouer
the
Parthians
in
conquest
&
bound
fortune
to
his
temples
with
wreathes
of
victorie
.
Is
not
his
parentage
one
of
the
greatest
families
in
Rome
?
Is
he
not
for
beautie
like
the
fayre
Gréekes
Paramour
?
For
wisedome
like
wise
Vlisses
that
Cyrces
could
not
inchant
?
For
courage
Hector
?
Aud
of
such
reuenewes
as
may
maintaine
thee
with
the
most
gorgeous
dames
of
Italie
?
But
the
chiefe
of
his
graces
is
he
not
enamored
of
Terentia
and
sues
for
hir
fauour
.
This
I
confesse
,
Sed
deteriora
sequor
.
Loue
ah
that
foolish
passion
which
we
tearme
loue
allowes
nothing
excellent
but
what
it
likes
.
It
shadowed
begarie
in
Crates
.
For
Hipsycratea
thought
him
rich
in
that
he
was
vertuous
:
deformitie
in
Vulcan
,
for
Venus
would
not
beléeue
hee
had
a
poult
foote
.
Loue
hath
no
lacke
,
and
lesse
reason
:
yet
must
I
loue
,
and
whome
,
ah
Tullie
swéete
Tullie
,
from
whose
mouth
flows
melodie
,
more
inchaunting
then
the
Syrens
,
on
whose
lips
the
muses
make
a
newe
Parnassus
,
in
whose
thoughts
rest
Platos
diuine
spirites
,
and
in
whose
heade
is
contayned
the
subtil●
witte
of
Aristotle
.
Is
not
hee
as
glorious
in
Rome
for
his
eloquence
,
as
thou
for
thy
beauties
?
Doth
not
the
Senators
wounder
at
his
learning
,
as
at
thy
perfection
?
Why
should
not
then
both
our
singularities
be
lincked
in
the
vnion
of
Loue
?
why
shoulde
not
Terentia
liue
to
Tullie
,
and
Tullie
to
Terentia
?
Ah
but
he
is
base
,
the
first
of
his
kyn
that
tasted
of
honour
,
I
but
he
is
vertuous
and
famous
for
his
eloquence
,
graces
that
counteruaile
the
meanesse
of
his
parentes
.
I
sée
loue
hath
reasons
béeing
out
of
reason
still
to
argue
against
reason
,
therfore
without
further
pro
&
contra
in
mine
owne
passions
,
I
wil
loue
Tullie
,
&
therfore
thus
to
Lentulus
.
With
that
taking
vp
hir
penne
she
wrote
him
this
aunswere
.
Terentia
to
Lentulus
health
.
WHen
I
red
Lorde
Lentulus
thy
letters
and
spied
thy
loues
,
I
blusht
at
mine
owne
thoughtes
,
and
sorrowed
at
thy
fortunes
.
I
serch
not
the
cause
of
thy
loue
,
for
it
sufficeth
to
me
thou
doest
loue
,
if
it
lay
in
me
either
to
graunt
thy
desire
,
or
satisfie
thy
passions
.
Thy
reasons
are
sufficient
to
moue
,
were
it
not
my
vowe
and
my
destines
direct
my
minde
to
contrary
thy
affections
.
Thy
honours
Lentulus
knockes
at
the
closet
of
my
heart
,
thy
victories
sue
for
their
lordes
libertie
,
thy
loyaltie
enters
pele
mele
with
my
thoughtes
and
giueth
a
sore
assault
to
my
setled
resolution
,
all
these
put
in
their
pleas
to
purchase
fauour
for
young
Lentulus
.
But
Vesta
hard
harted
Vesta
that
makes
hir
virgings
pliant
to
hir
owue
properties
,
commaunds
that
I
shut
mine
ears
against
such
alluring
Syrens
.
I
count
my selfe
greatly
honoured
with
the
loue
of
so
worthie
a
Romayne
,
and
euer
will
Terentia
co●et
to
prooue
as
thankfull
as
he
affectionate
;
onely
in
loue
pardon
me
,
for
that
either
I
neuer
meane
to
loue
,
or
if
I
doe
loue
,
my
thoughtes
were
fixed
before
Lentulus
came
from
Parthia
.
Wade
not
there
where
the
ford
hath
no
footing
,
barke
not
with
the
Wolues
of
Syria
against
the
Moone
,
looke
not
to
clim●
Olimpus
,
way
not
at
impossibilities
,
but
pacifie
that
with
patience
which
thou
canst
not
obtaine
with
beeing
passionate
.
If
thou
suest
to
my
Father
and
he
graunt
to
conclude
a
mariage
,
yet
shalt
thou
want
a
bride
,
for
I
will
first
die
before
I
violate
my
resolution
.
Séeke
not
then
by
my
preiudice
to
aime
at
thy
owne
content
,
which
be
it
euery
way
,
yet
it
shall
neuer
be
in
my
loue
:
not
that
I
hate
Lentulus
,
but
that
my
fortunes
forbides
me
to
loue
Lentulus
.
If
thou
thinkst
these
denials
be
but
words
of
course
,
and
perswadest
thy selfe
that
women
will
bee
first
coy
and
then
courteous
as
the
marble
that
drops
of
raine
do
pierce
.
Thou
shalt
déepely
deceiue
thy selfe
and
highlie
wrong
me
,
but
I
challenge
thy
promise
,
that
howsoeuer
I
fr●strate
thy
expectation
thou
wilt
burie
thy
conceipte
in
silence
.
In
which
hope
gréeuing
that
thy
showers
came
in
Autumne
,
I
wish
quiet
to
thy
thoughts
and
an
ende
to
thy
loues
.
Thine
euer
but
in
loue
Terentia
.
TErentia
hauing
thus
ended
hir
letter
and
newe
begun
hir
loues
,
the
one
directed
to
Lentulus
the
other
deuoted
to
Tullie
,
she
went
straight
to
hir
two
friends
Cornelia
and
Flauia
shewing
them
the
contentes
of
the
letter
.
Cornelia
saide
she
was
too
seuere
and
stoicall
in
sending
such
a
peremptorie
aunswere
to
so
braue
a
gentleman
.
Flauia
ouercharged
with
ioy
praysed
the
resolution
of
Terentia
,
wishing
that
all
maides
were
of
hir
minde
,
mis●iking
that
which
shée
most
loued
,
thinking
by
retreating
Terentia
from
the
chace
,
to
be
mistresse
of
the
game
hir selfe
.
Well
this
letter
at
last
was
sealed
,
and
deliuered
to
Eutrapelus
,
who
hying
him
fast
to
Tullies
lodging
founde
Lentulus
and
him
in
secrete
and
serious
discourse
,
and
all
god
wot
was
about
Terentia
.
Lentulus
hauing
receiued
the
letter
entring
with
Tullie
into
his
study
read
the
contents
.
No
sooner
had
he
viewed
&
reuiewed
ouer
hir
cruell
determination
but
in
a
great
extas●e
of
minde
,
he
cried
out
(
Dulcior
est
mors
quam
Amor.
)
And
with
that
flinging
out
of
his
study
he
fell
into
bitter
and
extreame
sorrows
.
Tully
grieuing
at
his
friendes
harde
fortune
sought
with
plausible
perswasions
to
appease
his
furious
melancholy
,
wishing
him
whatsoeuer
Terentia
wrote
stil
to
thinke
hir
a
woman
that
would
one
while
thrust
out
fancy
with
a
finger
,
and
straight
interteine
loue
as
a
friend
:
that
either
time
or
his
constancy
woulde
make
hir
stoope
to
the
lure
of
his
desires
.
Thus
sought
Tully
to
wrest
him
from
his
passions
but
in
vaine
,
for
hir
resolution
confirmde
with
such
effectuall
and
perswasiue
determinations
so
quatted
the
conceit
of
his
former
hope
,
that
going
passing
melancholy
to
his
bed
,
he
fell
into
an
extreame
feuer
,
which
aggrauated
with
the
inward
anguish
of
his
minde
grewe
to
be
so
dangerous
that
Asclapo
the
physit●on
excellent
at
that
time
for
his
facultie
,
iudged
the
disease
●o
be
mortall
.
The
Senatours
hearing
of
Lentulus
sickenesse
sorrowed
,
as
fearing
Roome
by
death
shoulde
bee
depriued
of
such
high
ensuing
hope
:
his
friends
f●ocked
to
his
lodging
to
visite
him
,
who
noting
,
the
heate
of
the
ague
,
and
the
passions
of
his
minde
,
his
sodaine
starts
,
his
gash
lookes
,
and
his
abrupt
answeres
,
iudged
the
extremity
of
his
sickenes
had
halfe
brought
him
to
a
lunacy
,
all
séeking
by
counsaile
to
cure
that
which
neither
counsail
nor
medicine
could
mitigate
.
Frustrate
of
their
expectation
they
wished
his
weal
and
returned
with
grief
.
Only
Tully
whose
setled
friendship
no
misfortune
could
remooue
,
still
day
and
night
as
a
second
Esculapius
,
wayted
vpon
this
perplexed
patient
.
But
as
the
depth
of
his
passion
pierced
into
the
center
of
his
heart
,
so
the
feuer
increased
,
that
generally
Roome
began
to
sorrow
so
braue
a
warriour
shoulde
bee
cut
off
in
the
very
prime
of
his
fortunes
,
insomuch
that
the
report
of
his
sickenes
came
to
the
eares
of
the
thrée
Ladies
.
Terentia
made
light
account
as
hauing
hir
heart
hardned
with
the
loue
of
Cicero
,
but
Flauia
grewe
passing
passionate
,
as
being
toucht
at
the
quicke
with
the
weake
disposition
of
Lentulus
,
wishing
he
might
haue
cure
for
his
malady
,
so
it
were
not
by
the
meanes
of
Terentia
:
shée
frequented
the
temples
,
offred
orizons
,
made
vowes
and
burnt
incense
to
the
gods
,
that
they
would
be
fauourable
to
hir
louer
Lentulus
,
coueting
if
possible
it
might
be
with
the
preiudice
of
hir selfe
to
haue
profited
him
:
but
in
vaine
,
Terentia
was
resolute
,
and
he
was
resolued
:
as
shée
was
dainty
,
so
to
die
in
disp●ire
.
Flauia
if
hir
modesty
might
haue
permitted
,
would
haue
accompanied
with
other
Ladies
gone
to
his
lodging
,
but
the
rights
of
Vesta
forbidding
such
familiar
conuersing
,
shée
rather
was
restrained
by
force
then
withhelde
by
reason
.
But
seeing
shée
coulde
by
no
meanes
come
to
his
sight
,
yet
to
manifest
the
sincerity
of
hir
loue
,
shée
sent
him
a
letter
to
this
effect
.
Flauia
to
Lentulus
health
.
IF
I
could
(
Lord
Lentulus
)
pourtray
with
outward
actions
,
the
secrecy
of
my
passions
,
or
force
as
many
teares
from
mine
●ies
as
there
flie
sighes
from
my
heart
:
The
anatomy
of
my
thoughts
would
discouer
a
disquiet
minde
,
and
the
source
of
mine
eies
a
fountaine
of
bitter
laments
.
But
séeing
that
barrels
the
fuller
they
be
the
lesse
sounde
they
yéeld
:
And
where
the
current
is
déepest
there
the
water
is
most
still
:
and
the
minde
surchargd
with
extreames
,
hath
least
vtterance
of
grief
:
I
leaue
you
to
suppose
of
my
sorrowes
which
I
cannot
manifest
.
But
know
Lord
Lentulus
,
that
when
the
report
of
your
sickenes
came
to
the
eares
of
your
new
intertained
friends
,
Terentia
sighed
as
pitying
with
a
common
passion
the
ill
of
hir
countryman
,
but
as
one
that
might
not
relieue
being
intercepted
with
other
loues
.
Cornelia
chid
,
as
holding
your selfe
in
highest
estéeme
,
alleaging
reasons
to
hir
that
admitted
no
reasons
,
but
hir
owne
loue
which
is
without
reason
.
My selfe
sorrowed
,
as
wishing
desert
shoulde
haue
his
due
,
where
the
honour
of
the
man
merites
no
lesse
:
we
perswaded
in
vaine
,
and
in
séeking
to
bring
Terentia
to
the
bay
,
we
indeuoured
to
quench
fire
with
swords
.
Seeing
then
your
thoughts
leuell
at
a
wrong
marke
,
and
that
no
sutes
can
diuert
hir
from
hir
froward
conceit
,
in
careles
extreames
vse
patience
,
wrestle
with
loue
,
beeing
wrongd
by
loue
:
yéelde
not
to
the
arrest
of
Cupids
mace
,
but
as
he
is
young
so
holde
him
a
boy
.
Consider
as
Terentia
is
faire
,
so
shée
is
cruel
:
and
as
shée
is
full
of
fauour
,
so
shée
is
too
too
vnkinde
.
Fly
not
with
Apollo
after
Daphnis
:
Dyana
hath
more
nymphes
as
chast
,
and
yet
not
so
coy
:
vse
loue
my
Lentulus
as
children
doe
puppies
,
which
while
they
are
pliant
and
gentle
they
cherish
vp
with
crummes
,
but
when
they
waxe
churlish
they
beate
away
with
stroakes
.
Thinke
Roome
is
the
mistresse
of
the
worlde
,
and
hath
many
faire
dames
,
if
not
of
such
excellencie
as
Terentia
yet
are
they
more
curteous
,
and
no
lesse
vertuous
.
The
curious
Herbalists
measure
not
the
plants
by
their
colours
but
by
their
properties
:
the
Lapidaries
make
estimate
of
their
stones
not
by
their
outward
hue
,
but
by
the
secrete
vertues
.
Use
then
the
auncient
custome
of
Esculapius
,
let
lillies
wither
on
the
stalke
and
weare
violets
in
thy
hand
,
the
one
faire
and
vnsauorie
,
the
other
blacke
but
of
swéete
verdure
.
Let
these
counsailes
Lentulus
confute
thée
,
apply
them
not
as
outward
plastures
,
but
as
inward
potions
:
which
if
they
profit
,
none
shall
be
more
glad
then
Flauia
,
who
wisheth
if
shée
might
in
this
hard
extreame
to
discouer
the
honour
of
hir
thoughts
,
and
the
resolution
of
a
friende
:
if
ought
rests
in
me
that
may
pleasure
Lentulus
,
commaunde
it
of
Flauia
,
as
one
knowing
Lentulus
desires
are
wholy
honorable
.
Thus
praying
thou
maiest
haue
ease
in
thy
passions
through
end
of
thy
loues
:
I
will
offer
sacrifice
for
thy
health
as
shée
that
feares
hir
owne
preiudice
without
thy
recouery
.
Thine
,
Flauia
of
Roome
.
No
sooner
had
Flauia
ended
hir
letter
,
but
shée
sealed
it
and
sent
it
away
,
and
with
as
much
spéede
as
might
be
,
it
was
conueyed
to
Lentulus
,
who
reading
the
superscription
,
and
perceiuing
it
came
from
a
woman
,
supposing
it
was
sent
from
Terentia
,
started
vp
in
his
bed
and
rent
open
the
s●ales
:
when
he
had
read
the
contents
,
and
saw
it
came
from
Flauia
,
noting
the
extremity
of
hir
loue
by
the
plaine
discouery
of
hir
passions
:
he
said
to
himselfe
.
Uniust
loue
that
settles
thy
delight
in
crossing
with
contraries
.
Some
thou
piercest
with
desire
,
other
with
disdaine
:
infusing
sundry
effectes
in
diuers
affects
.
I
couet
Terentia
and
shée
is
cruell
:
Flauia
fauours
thée
,
and
thou
art
tyed
to
other
loues
.
What
restes
in
these
extreames
but
to
curse
fancy
,
that
maketh
such
a
confused
chaos
of
hir
follyes
.
Oppose
then
reason
against
affection
,
and
admitte
not
of
loues
conclusions
vnlesse
they
be
approoued
principles
Thy
thoughts
are
deuoted
to
Terentia
,
and
shée
onely
vouchsafes
thée
the
verdict
of
hir
eares
.
Thou
art
more
honourable
then
shée
,
of
richer
reuenewes
then
hir
dowry
can
satisfie
,
hauing
as
many
desertes
as
shée
hath
beauties
:
and
yet
coy
dame
as
shée
is
,
shée
twits
thée
with
Vesta
when
God
wotte
Venus
is
the
goddesse
that
heareth
hir
orisons
.
If
thou
hast
this
insight
into
hir
thoughts
,
why
wrongs
thou
thy selfe
with
such
carelesse
passions
?
If
shée
be
so
●amage
let
hir
fl●e
and
séeke
for
a
〈◊〉
that
may
prooue
more
gentle
:
Let
hir
glory
like
Narcissus
in
hir
beauties
:
Loue
can
chastise
if
it
be
but
with
selfe
loue
.
Use
no
phisicke
Lentulus
but
the
consideration
of
hir
frowardnesse
,
Let
the
drugs
of
Apollo
serue
for
others
not
for
thée
.
Thrust
out
fancy
by
force
,
and
setting
Terentia
at
light
esteeme
,
make
choice
of
Flauia
:
Though
〈◊〉
be
not
so
beautifull
,
yet
shée
is
second
to
hir
in
graces
,
and
farre
beyo●d
hir
in
curtesies
.
Tie
not
thy selfe
Lentulus
so
strick●ly
to
a
wo●ans
face
,
beauty
is
but
times
flower
,
that
as
it
is
delicate
so
it
s●●e
withereth
:
Like
the
colours
that
Phidias
drew
in
his
pictures
,
which
shewing
most
glorious
to
the
eye
was
yet
blemisht
with
euery
breath
.
Venus
was
faire
and
wanton
:
Helen
the
myracle
of
Greece
,
but
aske
Troy
of
hir
qualities
.
Ah
but
Terentia
is
as
chast
as
shée
is
bautifull
.
So
is
Flauia
to
,
and
farre
more
louing
.
Hir
byrth
is
of
higher
discent
,
hir
wealth
more
,
hir
virtues
no
lesse
:
but
hir
loue
such
as
may
challenge
thy
affection
for
debt
.
Ah
but
Lentulus
yet
Terentia
hir
excellency
is
more
then
can
be
shaken
off
with
so
slight
reasons
:
and
with
that
he
shrunke
downe
into
his
bedde
,
falling
to
his
olde
complaints
:
yet
did
this
letter
of
Flauia
somewhat
comfort
him
,
that
he
found
it
his
best
physicke
.
But
leauing
him
in
his
bed
,
againe
to
Terentia
who
felt
the
disquiet
of
hir
minde
as
restlesse
.
For
the
Senatours
daily
repairing
to
hir
fathers
house
,
had
no
other
table
talke
but
of
the
eloquence
of
Tully
,
some
commending
his
witte
,
other
his
study
,
some
his
vertues
,
but
all
his
special
gifts
of
nature
,
that
they
put
oyle
into
the
flame
:
and
with
these
prayses
so
sette
on
fire
Terentias
fancy
,
as
nothing
tumbled
in
hir
thoughtes
but
the
excellency
of
Cicero
:
being
so
impatient
as
shée
sought
by
all
meanes
possible
to
come
to
his
sight
,
and
to
féede
hir
eye
with
that
wherwith
shée
had
inchanted
hir
eares
,
finding
no
ready
way
to
attaine
the
ende
of
hir
desires
,
vntill
loue
that
like
Mercury
is
full
of
shifts
and
subtlety
,
deuised
this
plot
.
Tully
being
borne
in
a
little
village
adioyning
vnto
Roome
called
Arpinatum
,
vsed
often
to
make
his
intercourse
betwéene
the
towne
and
the
citie
for
his
pleasure
:
Which
Terentia
hauing
learned
out
,
thought
this
the
fittest
meanes
to
haue
a
sight
of
hir
Cicero
.
So
that
one
day
to
take
the
aire
accompanied
with
hir
two
friends
Flauia
and
Cornelia
,
hauing
but
a
page
to
attend
vpon
them
,
shée
walked
abroad
into
the
fields
.
Passing
thus
in
merry
chatte
towards
Arpinatum
,
hauing
some
glances
at
the
sicknes
of
Lentulus
,
they
had
not
walked
aboue
a
mile
before
Flauia
spied
Tullie
comming
from
Arpinatum
to
Roome
.
Assoone
as
shée
had
discried
him
,
and
for
certainety
knew
that
it
was
he
,
yonder
quoth
shée
comes
that
odde
man
of
Roome
,
that
excellent
Orator
Marcus
Tullius
Cicero
,
so
highly
renowmed
through
all
our
prouinces
for
his
eloquence
,
now
shal
we
heare
from
Lentulus
,
for
they
are
the
most
familiar
friends
and
priuate
companions
in
Roome
.
Terentia
at
〈◊〉
as
one
wakened
out
of
a
dreame
gaue
a
start
,
and
casting
vp
hir
eye
espied
the
Paramour
of
hir
thoughtes
,
which
driue
hir
into
such
an
extasie
,
that
surcharged
with
ouer
much
ioy
shee
felt
an
vnacquainted
trembling
in
hir
〈◊〉
.
Being
thus
perplexed
Tully
drawing
nye
,
and
séeing
Terentia
accompanied
with
his
f●iende
Flauia
,
gaue
〈◊〉
to
oportunity
that
shee
had
so
highly
fauoured
his
〈◊〉
Lentulus
,
as
that
he
might
now
plead
for
his
safety
.
Tully
thus
incountring
those
three
Romaine
damosels
a●ter
a
curteous
Salue
which
made
Terentia
blush
,
he
began
thus
to
board
them
.
The
place
swéete
Romaines
so
aptly
agréeing
to
the
person
,
this
valley
resembling
Idas
,
and
Rome
Troy
,
I
cannot
but
bash
with
Paris
at
the
sight
of
thrée
such
god●●●ses
,
whose
deitie
surpassed
those
which
iudicially
the
shepharde
suruaied
with
his
eye
:
Humbly
therefore
saluting
you
as
Dianas
darlings
and
beauties
woonder
,
séeing
so
small
a
trayne
for
such
excellent
personages
,
although
my
affaires
be
serious
and
of
importaunce
,
yet
please
it
you
to
vouche
of
my
seruice
,
I
will
attende
on
your
walkes
and
conduct
you
safe
to
Rome
.
Terentia
féeding
hir
eyes
on
the
swéete
of
Tullies
face
,
and
swilling
downe
the
nectar
of
his
diuine
eloquence
,
stayning
hir
chéekes
with
such
a
die
,
as
did
the
fayre
quéene
of
Cartharge
courted
by
Aeneas
,
she
made
him
this
aunswere
.
Howe
you
make
compare
Cicero
of
this
valley
with
the
plaines
of
Troy
as
little
skilled
in
Geographie
or
red
in
Homers
Iliads
I
leaue
without
replie
.
For
y●
goddesse●
that
Paris
incountred
we
are
equall
with
them
in
nū●er
though
far
inferiour
to
them
in
beautie
.
For
your
seruice
we
accept
it
,
and
for
your
wages
you
shall
haue
gracious
lookes
and
hartie
thankes
.
Séeing
therefore
wee
are
merilie
minded
,
supposing
your selfe
to
be
the
shéepeharde
which
of
vs
shall
be
your
Venus
?
Not
you
madam
quoth
Tullie
aboue
all
the
rest
:
And
why
so
quoth
Terentia
?
because
quoth
Tullie
the
least
●lie
hath
his
spleane
the
smallest
ant
her
gall
,
no
haire
so
little
but
he
hath
his
shadowe
,
and
no
man
so
meane
but
he
hath
his
enuie
:
Why
then
quoth
Terentia
I
will
discarde
you
from
the
office
of
Paris
as
a
man
partiall
.
But
I
pray
thée
Cicero
wherein
shoulde
I
offende
thée
hauing
neuer
séene
thée
before
?
In
this
quoth
hée
that
Lentulus
hath
séene
you
:
with
that
she
blusht
,
and
Flauia
and
Cornelia
fell
into
a
great
laughter
,
that
Tullie
had
so
roughly
crost
hir
ouer
the
thumbs
.
Tullie
prosecuting
his
purpose
went
forwarde
thus
.
For
knowe
madam
that
Lentulus
the
richest
Trophee
that
fortune
settes
vp
in
the
Theator
of
honour
made
shipwracke
of
his
libertie
for
the
report
of
your
beautie
,
leauing
the
wars
and
the
great
hope
of
his
fortunes
to
haue
a
sight
of
Terentia
,
who
vnkinde
not
like
Venus
in
curtesie
,
though
in
fauours
;
haue
counterpoysde
his
fancie
with
mis●ike
,
and
for
the
honie
of
his
amorous
thoughts
haue
powred
him
downe
heapes
of
bitter
and
displeasing
gall
.
The
crueltie
of
Cresida
neuer
amated
so
the
hardy
Troilus
as
the
frowne
of
Terentia
hath
pierst
Lentulus
,
making
so
déepe
a
wound
as
no
phisicke
can
cure
onely
your
swéete
selfe
,
whose
resolutions
are
so
farre
from
the
properties
of
your
face
,
as
it
séemes
the
gods
wrongd
nature
in
placing
an
adamant
heart
within
a
christall
couerture
.
The
Ladies
hearing
Tully
so
sharpe
,
bitte
the
lip
and
Terentia
grieued
:
angry
shée
coulde
not
be
as
one
that
was
ouer
the
shooes
in
affection
,
but
thus
shee
cutte
him
off
.
I
cannot
iudge
Cicero
by
your
sharpe
and
peremptory
inuectiues
vpon
so
small
acquaintance
,
but
you
professe
your selfe
a
Cinicke
.
If
your
philosophy
be
such
,
I
will
br●●k
the
blowes
as
wel
as
Alexander
,
&
think
nothing
ill
that
is
spoken
from
Diogenes
.
Howsoeuer
or
whatsoeuer
Cynicke
or
stoicke
,
I
argue
thus
against
Lentulus
,
that
vowes
made
to
Vesta
are
to
be
holden
inuiolated
,
and
resolutions
to
liue
a
virgine
are
not
to
be
broken
with
marriage
.
Cornelia
and
Flauia
hearing
them
thus
farre
in
by
the
eares
,
walked
a
little
aside
and
left
Tully
to
schoole
Terentia
:
who
maintained
hir
arguments
thus
.
Suppose
Tully
it
were
not
chast
thoughts
but
newe
loues
that
forced
me
to
this
refusal
:
haue
not
trées
their
strings
&
women
their
fancies
and
affections
?
If
his
autum
showers
comming
too
late
cause
not
his
crops
to
proue
,
what
is
that
to
me
?
Loue
consisteth
in
vnity
:
the
heart
hath
but
one
string
,
the
heauen
one
sunne
,
and
the
Iris
one
property
,
and
women
but
one
loue
:
and
that
I
tell
thée
Tully
,
is
placed
on
one
that
is
as
famous
for
his
vertues
as
Lentulus
for
his
wealth
and
dignities
.
And
what
then
can
I
giue
,
or
he
rightly
challenge
?
Tully
although
hee
conceiued
in
his
thoughtes
that
Terentia
yéelded
great
reason
,
yet
hée
would
not
giue
ouer
the
chase
so
,
but
made
this
reply
.
Ah
but
madame
haue
an
insight
into
the
depth
of
his
affections
,
howe
he
aimes
not
at
your
treasures
hoping
to
be
inriched
by
your
great
dowry
,
For
Lentulus
is
of
the
welthiest
family
in
Roome
:
but
leuels
at
your
vertues
,
the
syrens
against
whom
he
could
not
vse
Vlisses
pollicy
.
If
affections
be
but
a
little
past
,
if
loue
hath
but
drawne
one
line
in
your
thoughts
with
his
pensell
:
wrastle
with
fansie
,
blot
out
loues
shadowes
,
and
helpe
Lentulus
:
who
if
you
remaine
so
cruell
shall
be
no
more
Lentulus
.
If
he
dye
for
loue
,
how
shall
the
stréetes
swarme
with
statues
of
his
constancy
?
If
you
be
knowen
the
chiefe
actor
of
the
tragedy
,
how
will
the
people
murmure
of
your
cruelty
?
Weigh
this
madame
,
I
speake
as
a
familiar
of
Lentulus
,
and
no
enemy
to
Terentias
honour
.
If
he
be
a
Romaine
that
Terentia
loues
,
let
him
either
be
more
honourable
,
more
valiant
,
more
affable
,
more
excellent
euery
way
then
Lentulus
,
nay
more
louing
then
the
poore
gentleman
,
or
else
discarde
him
for
a
man
insufficient
either
to
tast
of
Terentias
beauty
,
or
to
be
corriual
with
Lentulus
in
his
loues
.
Terentia
had
yéelded
at
this
fierce
assault
,
had
not
loue
laide
an
instance
before
hir
of
hir
resolution
.
For
the
more
Tully
pleaded
for
his
friend
,
the
more
was
Terentia
enamoured
:
so
that
shée
made
him
this
answere
.
If
I
knewe
howe
to
certifie
Lentulus
of
this
dayes
discourse
,
he
should
highly
reward
you
for
playing
so
wel
the
Orator
.
But
I
maruaile
Cicero
that
being
young
,
and
of
such
eloquence
,
we
heare
not
of
your
loues
:
I
feare
you
reach
so
hye
,
that
you
thinke
no
maides
in
Roome
honorable
inough
for
your
paramour
.
Were
I
a
man
and
had
Tullies
grace
,
and
his
tongue
,
I
would
plead
for
my selfe
:
and
vse
one
word
for
my
friend
,
and
two
for
my selfe
.
So
madame
(
quoth
he
)
shoulde
men
account
mee
a
faithlesse
friend
,
and
a
flattering
louer
.
But
leauing
these
suppositions
madam
,
how
answere
you
my
last
reason
?
With
loue
quoth
shée
and
that
is
without
reason
,
for
how
might
the
gentleman
to
whom
I
finde
my selfe
affectionate
,
thinke
himselfe
wrongd
if
without
cause
I
should
be
inconstant
.
Graunt
I
my
loue
to
the
meanest
citizen
,
a
monarch
shall
not
make
conquest
of
my
thoughts
.
Suppose
syr
it
were
your selfe
,
and
that
Terentia
loued
Tully
,
coulde
you
brooke
an
other
to
braue
you
in
your
affections
.
I
would
madame
quoth
Tully
if
it
were
no
supposition
.
And
how
then
quoth
Terentia
if
it
were
not
?
Then
would
I
quoth
hee
become
Esculapius
to
Lentulus
,
and
sweare
his
disease
shoulde
not
be
incurable
,
for
I
woulde
coniure
you
by
the
rightes
of
loue
,
by
the
sacred
lawes
of
Venus
,
and
by
the
affection
that
were
imprinted
in
your
thoughtes
,
to
bestowe
what
y●u
would
impart
vpon
me
to
my
only
ioy
Lord
Lentulus
.
But
women
cannot
make
loue
voluntary
.
Tush
madame
what
cannot
women
doe
for
loue
?
Any
thing
quoth
Terentia
but
change
loue
.
Therefore
concealing
the
party
that
I
loue
,
I
will
say
and
sweare
Tully
is
my
loue
,
and
so
say
to
Lentulus
.
With
this
Terentia
blusht
,
and
for
very
griefe
that
Tully
woulde
not
sée
into
hir
thoughtes
the
teares
stoode
in
hir
eies
:
which
Tully
spying
,
it
so
prickt
him
to
the
heart
,
that
it
neuer
after
was
rased
out
.
To
smooth
therefore
his
rough
methode
with
a
fewe
fine
filed
phrases
,
hee
salued
the
matter
thus
.
It
is
madame
impossible
to
driue
fire
downeward
,
or
to
make
heauy
things
to
mount
:
Nature
will
not
bee
wrongd
,
nor
loue
drawne
out
by
constraint
,
therfore
I
will
leaue
any
more
at
this
time
to
sue
for
Lentulus
:
hoping
the
consideration
of
his
martirdome
will
at
length
make
battery
into
the
bulwarke
of
your
breast
,
&
whereas
you
will
sweare
Tully
is
your
l●ue
:
you
knowe
madame
we
haue
in
ou●
twelue
tables
a
lawe
against
periury
,
but
if
you
vouch
to
grace
me
that
title
,
in
all
duty
I
wil
rest
your
euer
bounden
seruant
.
Why
then
seruant
quoth
shée
,
let
vs
to
yonder
two
Ladies
,
that
for
want
of
a
companion
are
faine
to
make
an
amarous
knight
of
my
page
.
Flauia
séeing
they
were
halfe
agréed
,
●earing
Tully
by
his
eloquence
had
perswaded
Terentia
,
waxed
pale
and
incountred
them
thus
.
What
news
quoth
shée
,
doth
Lentulus
winne
or
loose
?
Neither
madame
quoth
Tully
but
his
cause
hanges
still
in
suspence
,
the
next
court
day
I
will
end
my
oration
,
and
then
the
Iudge
shall
giue
verdict
.
As
they
were
ready
to
haue
gone
forward
in
some
pleasant
prattle
they
espied
a
horseman
making
towards
them
with
the
greatest
spéede
that
might
bee
.
When
he
came
within
ken
,
Tully
knew
it
to
be
Lentulus
man
,
and
before
he
had
leysure
to
do
his
message
,
he
demanded
how
his
master
did
:
passing
sicke
syr
quoth
hee
,
and
hath
sent
that
you
be
with
him
presently
.
Tully
who
was
toucht
at
the
quicke
with
this
newes
,
put
foote
in
the
stirrop
and
mounted
,
yet
as
one
forgetting
himselfe
hee
vsed
these
words
.
Pardon
Ladies
,
if
I
passe
manners
and
promise
,
in
leaping
vp
without
leaue
,
and
returning
in
such
post
without
your
company
:
It
is
for
Lentulus
whom
you
all
loue
,
and
therefore
I
hope
to
rest
blamelesse
.
Now
madam
Terentia
what
shall
I
say
to
Lentulus
?
No
more
quoth
shée
then
what
I
saide
to
Tullie
,
but
how
concludes
Tullie
of
his
last
premisses
?
that
quoth
hee
,
Terentia
shall
frame
the
argument
,
and
so
with
this
darke
Aenigma
he
tooke
leaue
of
the
Ladies
:
who
after
his
departure
fell
in
talke
of
his
perfections
.
Terentia
so
déepely
praysing
the
man
that
hir
companions
easilie
perceiued
hir
loues
,
&
smilde
that
in
forsaking
a
flower
shée
light
vpon
a
wéede
.
Well
tracing
still
amongst
the
medows
they
chanced
into
a
valley
most
curiouslie
decked
with
Floras
delicates
,
in
which
were
such
varietie
of
flowers
,
that
nature
séemed
there
to
haue
planted
the
storehouse
of
hir
prodigalitie
.
Adioyning
to
this
valley
was
a
pleasaunt
riuer
and
a
groue
that
gaue
a
grace
to
Cloris
excellencie
:
delighted
with
the
scituation
of
this
place
,
as
they
passed
along
they
met●e
a
shéepheard
,
who
doing
reuerence
to
the
dames
:
Terentia
demaunded
of
this
swaine
what
the
name
of
this
pleasaunt
place
was
.
Madam
quoth
he
we
shéepehardes
here
call
it
the
vale
of
Loue
,
And
why
so
quoth
Cornelia
?
Although
madam
quoth
he
my
flocke
hath
no
guide
but
my
dog
,
and
now
in
yeaning
time
the
wolues
are
verie
busie
,
yet
for
that
I
see
you
are
Senators
daughters
,
and
with
all
passing
courteous
I
will
shew
the
reason
,
and
with
that
leaning
on
his
staffe
the
Ladies
sitting
downe
he
began
thus
.
The
Sheepheardes
tale
.
NOt
many
yeares
since
here
in
Arpynatū
dwelt
a
shepherdise
called
Phillis
,
so
famous
for
hir
beauty
that
the
Senators
sonnes
which
you
cal
Pretextati
not
only
came
to
féed
their
eyes
with
hir
fauours
but
to
satifie
their
fancies
with
hir
loues
:
in
so
much
that
she
was
courted
of
manie
braue
Romaine
Gentlemen
.
But
shee
that
helde
loue
at
the
staffes
end
,
although
hir
parentes
had
left
hir
rich
,
yet
to
banishe
Cupid
with
labour
she
vouchsaft
to
be
kéeper
of
hir
owne
flockes
,
fearing
the
pride
of
the
beautie
(
if
s●e
should
marrie
with
one
of
Rome
)
would
proue
an
enimie
to
hir
humble
thoughtes
:
Liuing
as
chast
as
shée
was
inrouled
for
a
Vestall
,
and
quoted
by
Diana
for
one
of
hir
speciall
followers
,
hir
excellencie
was
bruted
abroad
through
all
Italie
.
But
shee
who
feared
to
gase
at
starres
,
for
stumbling
at
stones
laide
hir
thoughtes
lowe
and
made
choice
of
hir
companie
with
countrie
maydes
,
and
homely
shepehards
:
yet
was
hir
attire
rich
as
diuers
that
traueled
this
way
tooke
hir
rather
for
a
Nymphe
the
follower
of
some
goddesse
,
then
a
maide
and
daughter
of
a
poore
swaine
.
While
thus
she
liued
ladie
of
the
field
,
there
was
in
the
same
village
one
Coridon
,
sonne
to
a
simple
shéepeharde
who
as
a
Mercinarie
man
kept
shéepe
for
Vatinius
the
Senator
,
that
hath
a
Farme
hard
by
.
This
Coridon
was
a
man
of
a
pe●fect
perfection
his
haire
hung
in
tresses
and
his
face
was
beautifull
,
wise
hee
was
and
wanted
nothing
but
wealth
to
make
him
the
chiefe
of
all
the
shéepehardes
,
being
of
equal
yeares
almost
with
Phill●●
in
some
two
yeres
elder
,
he
fell
extréemely
in
loue
with
Phillis
Enamored
was
poore
Coridon
and
pensiue
by
his
flocke
sat
ruminating
of
his
passions
he
smothred
his
loue
in
silence
for
that
he
was
meanest
of
the
swaines
and
she
mistresse
of
vs
all
.
He
sat
and
sighed
and
had
none
but
echo
to
pitie
his
plaintes
his
flocke
left
their
foode
to
sée
their
〈◊〉
sorrowe
his
pipe
ceast
,
the
fol●es
were
neuer
●●re
partaker
of
his
melodie
,
and
all
these
thoughts
and
●●res
for
Phillis
.
Shée
wilie
and
spying
this
wanton
dal●●●
in
the
flame
,
looked
narrowly
into
the
perfection
of
the
man
whom
she
found
worthie
of
loue
,
if
his
parentes
had
not
bene
too
meane
and
his
wealth
none
at
all
,
suppres●ing
this
loue
with
lack●
and
quenching
the
fire
with
the
defe●●●s
she
founde
in
Coridon
.
But
Cupid
that
could
not
b●ooke
such
exceptions
pittying
the
passions
of
the
poore
sheepharde
,
pulled
foorth
an
inuenomed
b●ult
and
pierst
Phillis
so
déepe
that
Coridon
began
to
bee
maister
of
hir
thoughts
,
now
shée
praisd
his
beautie
,
his
behauiour
,
his
wit
,
his
gestures
,
●o
that
nothing
was
amisse
in
Coridon
.
If
he
pipt
,
Apollo
was
not
like
hir
Pan
,
if
hee
sung
hys
voyce
was
without
compare
,
if
he
tolde
tales
they
were
excellent
,
if
put
foorth
riddles
they
were
wittie
.
Coridon
was
the
shéepehard
that
Phillis
did
fancie
,
and
no
flockes
might
grase
by
hirs
but
those
of
Coridon
.
This
mistris
can
loue
do
,
who
thought
he
be
choisly
honoured
in
Rome
,
yet
he
finds
some
idle
time
to
dallie
amongst
shéepehards
.
Well
at
last
Coridon
spyed
Phillis
lookes
and
got
some
hope
of
fauour
,
first
hee
courted
with
his
eyes
,
and
after
natures
law
fell
to
prattle
with
interchange
of
glaunces
,
after
from
lookes
to
wordes
,
which
after
their
homely
fashion
was
verie
faithfully
performed
with
sighs
&
teares
,
such
perswasions
as
shéepehardes
vse
.
Long
had
they
not
wooed
,
but
Phillis
was
willing
and
she
was
won
,
that
after
faith
and
troth
as
soone
as
the
shéepehards
coulde
come
together
a
feast
was
made
we
kept
holiday
and
they
were
married
,
and
because
these
louers
made
this
place
the
concealer
of
their
passions
the
shéepehardes
for
perpetuall
memorie
of
Phillis
and
Coridon
call
this
the
vale
of
Loue
,
and
in
praise
thereof
we
countrie
shéephards
made
an
Ode
,
which
if
it
please
you
to
stay
I
will
rehearse
.
The
Ladies
passing
willing
,
thus
the
shephearde
gan
report
.
The
Sheepeherds
Ode
.
WAlking
in
a
valley
greene
,
Spred
with
Flora
summer
queene
:
Where
shee
heaping
all
hir
graces
,
Niggard
seemd
in
other
places
.
Spring
it
was
and
here
did
spring
,
All
that
nature
forth
can
bring
:
Groues
of
pleasant
trees
there
grow
,
Which
fruit
and
shadowe
could
bestow
.
Thick
leaued
boughes
small
birds
couer
,
Till
sweete
notes
themselues
discouer
:
Tunes
for
number
seemed
confounded
,
Whilst
their
mixtures
musicke
sounded
.
Greeing
well
,
yet
not
agreed
,
That
one
the
other
should
exceede
.
A
sweete
streame
here
silent
glides
,
Whose
cleare
water
no
fish
hides
.
Slow
it
runs
which
well
bewraid
,
The
pleasant
shore
the
current
staid
:
In
this
streame
a
rocke
was
planted
,
Where
nor
art
nor
nature
wanted
.
Each
thing
so
did
other
grace
,
As
all
places
may
giue
place
.
Onely
this
the
place
of
pleasure
,
Where
is
heaped
natures
treasure
.
Here
mine
eyes
with
woonder
staide
.
Eies
amasd
and
minde
afraide
:
Rauisht
with
what
was
beheld
,
From
departing
were
withheld
.
Musing
then
with
sound
aduise
,
On
this
earthly
paradise
:
Sitting
by
the
riuer
side
,
Louely
Phillis
was
discride
;
Golde
hir
haire
,
bright
hir
eyen
,
Like
to
Phoebus
in
his
shine
.
White
hir
brow
,
hir
face
was
faire
,
Amber
breath
perfumde
the
aire
.
Rose
and
Lilly
both
did
seeke
,
To
shew
their
glories
on
hir
cheeke
.
Loue
did
nestle
in
hir
lookes
,
Baiting
there
his
sharpest
hookes
.
Such
a
Phillis
nere
was
seene
,
More
beautifull
then
Loues
Queene
,
Doubt
it
was
whose
greater
grace
,
Phillis
beauty
or
the
place
.
Hir
coate
was
of
scarlet
red
,
All
in
pleates
a
mantle
spred
:
Fringd
with
gold
,
a
wreath
of
bowes
,
To
check
the
sunne
from
hir
browes
.
In
hir
hand
a
shepheards
hooke
,
In
hir
face
Dianas
looke
:
Hir
sheepe
grased
on
the
plaines
,
Shee
had
stolne
from
the
swaines
.
Vnder
a
coole
silent
shade
,
By
the
streames
shee
garlands
made
.
Thus
sate
Phillis
all
alone
,
Mist
shee
was
by
Coridon
Chiefest
swaine
of
all
the
rest
,
Louely
Phillis
like
him
best
.
His
face
was
like
Phoebus
loue
,
His
necke
white
as
Venus
Doue
,
A
ruddy
cheeke
filde
with
smiles
,
Such
loue
hath
when
he
beguiles
.
His
locks
browne
,
his
eies
were
gray
,
Like
Titan
in
a
sommer
day
.
A
russet
Iacket
sleeues
red
,
A
blew
bonnet
on
his
hed
:
A
cloake
of
gray
fencst
the
raine
,
Thus
tyred
was
this
louely
swaine
.
A
shepheards
hooke
his
dog
tide
,
Bag
and
bottle
by
his
side
:
Such
was
Paris
shepheards
say
,
When
with
Oenone
he
did
play
.
From
his
flocke
straid
Coridon
,
Spying
Phillis
all
alone
:
By
the
streame
he
Phillis
spide
,
Brauer
then
was
Floras
pride
.
Downe
the
valley
gan
he
tracke
,
Stole
behinde
his
true
loues
backe
:
The
sunne
shone
and
shadow
made
,
Phillis
rose
and
was
afraid
.
When
shee
saw
hit
louer
there
,
Smile
shee
did
and
left
hir
feare
:
Cupid
that
disdaine
doth
loth
,
With
desire
strake
them
both
.
The
swaine
did
wooe
shee
was
nise
,
Following
fashion
nayed
him
twise
:
Much
adooe
he
kist
hir
then
,
Maidens
blush
when
they
kisse
men
:
So
did
Phillis
at
that
stowre
.
Hir
face
was
like
the
rose
flowre
.
Last
they
greed
for
loue
would
so
,
Faith
and
troth
they
would
no
mo
.
For
shepheards
euer
held
it
sin
,
To
false
the
loue
they
liued
in
.
The
swaine
gaue
a
girdle
red
,
Shee
set
garlands
on
his
hed
.
Gifts
were
giuen
they
kisse
againe
,
Both
did
smile
for
both
were
faine
.
Thus
was
loue
mongst
shepheards
solde
,
When
fancy
knew
not
what
was
golde
:
They
woed
&
vowed
,
&
that
they
keep
,
And
goe
contented
to
their
sheep
.
The
ende
of
the
shepheards
Ode
.
ASsoone
as
the
shepeharde
repeated
his
Ode
,
Terentia
delighted
with
the
description
of
the
pastorall
loue
for
that
it
touched
hir
passions
gaue
him
heartie
thankes
and
so
the
swaine
tooke
his
leaue
and
departed
.
Terentia
and
the
rest
hereupon
growing
into
the
effectes
of
loue
that
kéepes
no
proportion
of
persons
,
wandring
on
talking
towardes
the
groue
.
And
for
that
the
sun●e
grewe
hote
and
was
risen
to
the
highest
zenith
of
the
heauens
,
seeking
for
shelter
they
went
into
the
groue
which
was
seated
hard
by
the
pleasant
current
,
finding
out
there
a
place
conuenient
,
these
thrée
Ladies
●it
them
downe
vpon
the
grasse
,
where
delighted
with
the
melodie
of
the
birdes
,
and
the
c●●lenesse
of
the
shade
they
fell
a
sléepe
.
Then
liued
in
Rome
Vatinus
the
Senator
which
was
one
of
the
most
wealthie
in
possessions
of
any
that
had
béene
consull
in
the
Citie
,
fauoured
euery
way
by
fortune
,
had
he
not
beene
thwarted
by
one
gréeuous
&
dolefull
misfortune
.
For
this
Vatinius
amongst
manie
children
had
his
eldest
sonne
as
first
in
byrth
,
so
brauest
in
proportion
,
of
such
exquisite
lyneaments
touching
the
outwarde
shape
,
as
nature
séemed
to
haue
béene
curious
in
hir
workmanshippe
:
but
otherwise
hee
was
so
foolish
and
of
clownish
capacitie
that
there
was
no
hope
of
his
future
conceipt
,
his
name
was
after
his
father
Vatinius
.
But
for
because
neither
by
the
diligence
of
anie
maister
,
nor
the
flattery
of
his
friendes
,
correction
,
or
anie
other
industrie
he
coulde
bee
made
capable
of
learning
or
ciuilitie
,
vsing
fashions
and
woordes
from
a
harshe
and
grosse
voyce
,
reresembling
rather
a
bruite
beast
then
a
reasonable
creature
,
he
was
in
derision
called
of
euery
man
Fabius
the
Foole
.
Vatinius
gréeuing
that
the
gods
had
offered
him
this
wronge
for
that
the
presence
of
Fabius
was
the
continuall
source
of
his
sorrowes
,
hée
commanded
that
hee
shoulde
goe
to
his
Farme
,
and
there
liue
amongst
his
shepheards
.
This
was
no
little
content
to
Fabius
as
one
that
delighted
more
in
the
nature
of
Clownes
and
bondslaues
then
in
the
courtly
behauior
of
libertines
&
gentlemen
.
Fabius
thus
being
in
the
countrie
applying
himselfe
to
all
principles
of
husbandrie
,
one
day
amongst
the
rest
walked
foorth
with
a
great
batte
on
his
necke
to
ouer-sée
his
fathers
pastures
,
at
last
for
that
the
Sunne
was
hie
and
shone
hote
,
he
went
into
the
groue
then
all
ouerclad
with
leaues
,
for
it
was
far
spring
,
and
féeling
a
place
wherein
at
pleasure
to
rest
himselfe
,
hee
stumbled
by
fortune
on
the
fount
where
Terentia
lay
a
sléepe
,
who
when
Fabius
espied
being
clad
in
a
robe
of
Bisse
so
thinne
as
the
whitenes
of
hir
skinne
did
appeare
,
hauing
hir
two
companions
by
hir
side
,
he
began
as
one
amazed
to
beholde
.
Leaning
therefore
on
his
great
batte
without
vttring
one
worde
,
he
stood
in
great
admiration
what
she
should
be
,
as
though
he
had
neuer
séene
so
braue
a
creature
before
.
Nowe
entring
into
his
rusticall
and
blunt
vnderstanding
(
where
neuer
before
could
be
ingrauen
any
impression
of
honest
ciuilitie
a
thought
of
fancie
which
made
him
confesse
in
his
grosse
and
materiall
spirits
that
this
mayde
was
the
●airest
thing
that
euer
could
be
censured
by
sight
.
In
this
humour
he
began
to
descant
of
hir
seuerall
beauties
,
praysing
hir
hayre
to
be
of
gold
,
hir
forehead
of
Iuorie
,
hir
lips
●oral
,
&
aboue
all
hir
two
breasts
which
then
began
to
appeare
like
pretie
tender
buddes
,
in
such
simple
sort
so
distinguishing
of
hir
fauours
that
from
a
grosse
clowne
hee
became
to
be
a
Iudge
of
Beautie
:
especially
coueting
to
sée
hir
eyes
which
heauie
sléepe
had
shut
vp
,
determining
often
to
haue
waked
hir
to
haue
contented
himselfe
with
their
sight
.
But
séeing
hir
more
faire
then
any
creature
that
before
he
had
séene
,
he
thought
hir
to
bee
some
Goddesse
.
Hauing
thus
farre
knowledge
that
things
deuine
should
be
reuerenced
more
then
humaine
,
and
therefore
durst
not
attempe
to
wake
hir
,
but
(
although
shée
had
a
sounde
and
long
sléepe
)
tooke
such
pleasure
in
contemplating
hir
perfections
that
he
would
by
no
delay
depart
.
At
last
after
a
longe
space
Terentia
awaked
before
any
of
the
rest
,
lifting
vp
hir
drowsie
eyes
shee
sawe
before
hir
Fabius
leaning
vpon
his
staffe
,
whereof
béeing
halfe
amazed
shée
asked
of
him
.
Fabius
,
what
séekest
thou
here
in
this
groue
?
Fabius
who
as
well
by
his
countenance
as
clemencie
and
for
the
nobilitie
of
his
house
,
as
the
riches
of
his
father
,
was
generally
knowne
of
all
the
Romains
,
made
no
answere
to
Terentia
:
but
séeng
hir
eyes
open
he
began
to
looke
stedfastly
vpon
them
féeling
a
pleasing
content
to
issu●
from
those
Lampes
which
sparkle
as
the
verie
flames
of
loue
:
insomuch
that
Terentia
séeing
him
gase
so
earnestly
fearing
the
sturdie
clowne
might
offer
hir
some
violence
wakened
hir
companions
and
starting
vp
said
Fabius
farwell
.
To
whome
Fabius
made
aunswere
I
will
goe
with
you
.
And
although
Terentia
refused
as
being
surprised
with
great
fear
of
his
rustical
disposition
,
yet
he
would
not
forsake
hir
till
he
had
brought
hir
to
hir
Fathers
house
,
where
bluntly
leauing
the
Ladie
he
went
home
to
his
Fathers
;
saying
hee
woulde
not
returne
ani●
more
into
the
countrie
.
Although
it
gréeued
his
Father
to
haue
his
sorrowe
continually
before
his
eies
,
yet
wondring
what
the
occasion
of
this
strange
motion
should
mean
,
he
was
content
to
let
him
remaine
at
home
in
the
Citie
.
Loues
arrowes
thus
piercing
into
the
heart
of
Fabius
whereinto
neuer
before
any
ciuill
thought
could
enter
,
made
such
a
Metamorphosis
of
his
minde
that
not
onely
his
Fath●r
&
friends
,
but
all
Roome
began
to
woonder
at
his
sodaine
alteration
:
for
he
required
to
be
apparelled
as
the
sonne
of
a
Senator
which
his
father
with
all
diligence
performed
,
then
frequenting
the
most
courteous
and
honest
young
Gentlemen
of
the
Citie
,
especially
such
as
were
amorous
,
he
to
the
great
astonishig
of
all
not
onely
learned
his
letters
,
but
became
verie
studious
,
grew
to
haue
déepe
insight
into
philosophie
,
to
be
skilfull
in
musicke
,
to
ride
a
horse
and
to
be
expert
in
all
gentle
and
manlike
actiuitie
,
to
conclude
in
short
space
he
was
one
of
the
brauest
young
men
of
Rome
.
Here
by
the
way
courteous
Ladies
and
braue
gentlemen
what
shal
I
say
of
the
transformation
of
Fabius
?
onely
in
my
opinion
this
:
That
the
high
vertues
of
the
heauens
infused
into
his
noble
brest
were
imprisoned
by
the
enuious
wrath
of
Fortune
within
some
narrowe
corner
of
his
heart
,
whose
bandes
went
a
sunder
by
loue
,
as
a
Lord
to
mightie
for
fortune
.
Cupid
the
raiser
vp
of
sléepy
thoughts
dispersed
those
vertues
into
euery
part
of
his
mind
obscured
before
with
the
eclipse
of
base
thoughts
.
Let
vs
then
think
of
loue
as
of
the
most
purest
passion
that
is
inserted
into
the
heart
of
man
.
Well
,
leauing
Fabius
studious
how
to
excell
in
all
laudable
vertues
,
againe
to
Tullie
,
who
arriued
in
post
haste
to
the
lodging
of
Lentulus
and
founde
him
passing
sicke
,
yet
somewhat
comforted
at
the
sight
of
Cicero
,
as
of
him
that
he
held
most
déere
in
the
world
.
Tullie
séeing
him
so
ill
&
full
of
passions
durst
not
tel
him
that
he
had
seene
Terentia
least
hir
froward
answere
should
augment
his
miserie
,
concealing
therfore
his
chat
that
he
had
with
the
Ladies
,
at
last
Lentulus
shewed
him
the
letter
of
Flauia
:
whereupon
they
fell
to
discourse
of
hir
beauties
and
vertues
,
howe
she
was
not
much
inferiour
to
Terentia
in
fauour
,
but
farre
beyond
hir
in
honours
,
discoursing
so
long
from
point
to
point
that
after
a
vole
of
broken
sighes
tempered
with
some
teares
hée
fell
a
sléepe
.
Tullie
glade
that
he
tooke
a
nappe
stole
softly
out
of
the
Chamber
,
and
being
by
himselfe
calling
to
minde
the
words
of
Terentia
began
to
enter
into
this
combate
with
himselfe
.
So
pliant
are
the
aspectes
of
the
foreappointing
stars
in
some
mens
natiuitie
as
they
force
fortune
mauger
hir
owne
variable
nature
to
bee
constant
.
Amongst
all
that
haue
béene
borne
in
the
poore
village
of
Arpinatum
,
thou
maist
Tullie
say
that
thy
planets
haue
béene
pleasing
,
and
thy
desires
fauorable
,
who
the
son
of
a
poore
Fermour
art
in
hope
to
make
thy
house
equal
with
the
most
in
Roome
.
Measure
but
thy
honour
and
Iudge
of
thy
fortunes
:
thy
family
base
,
yet
art
thou
companion
with
Senators
and
men
of
grauest
account
in
the
Citie
.
Honour
treades
on
thy
héele
and
dignitie
daunceth
attendance
at
thy
lookes
:
but
loue
Cicero
,
that
deitie
,
that
diuine
essence
that
sealeth
vp
content
in
al
estates
he
stoopeth
at
thy
frown
,
presentes
thée
wreaths
of
myrtle
that
thou
maist
enter
into
Paphos
without
checke
.
Terentia
the
wonder
of
Rome
,
Natures
Paragon
,
the
refined
beautie
of
the
heauens
,
she
that
seemeth
to
glaunce
on
the
Pretextati
:
she
that
makes
no
account
of
the
miracle
of
our
time
,
Lord
Lentulus
:
shée
Cicero
commaunded
by
loue
,
yéelds
hir selfe
captiue
to
the
sonne
of
a
poore
country
villager
in
Arpinatum
.
Then
Tullie
strew
Venus
temple
with
roses
,
say
there
is
no
fount
but
Alcydalion
:
no
hill
but
Erecinus
:
no
bird
but
the
doue
:
no
god
but
Cupid
.
Loose
not
oportunity
,
take
hir
by
the
foreheade
,
let
not
slip
occasion
,
for
shée
glydes
away
like
a
shadow
,
nor
loue
,
for
she
hangs
at
the
héeles
at
time
.
Nowe
Terentia
hath
put
the
iron
in
the
fire
,
strike
then
while
it
is
hot
,
pay
hir
downe
poundes
of
loue
for
drams
of
fancy
,
for
in
matching
with
the
daughter
of
a
senator
,
think
it
presageth
thou
shalt
be
a
Senator
:
so
shalt
thou
gaine
at
one
time
honour
,
dignity
,
wealth
,
and
beauty
;
but
with
that
loose
thy
faith
Tully
,
thy
faith
thou
hast
vowed
to
Lentulus
,
who
shuts
vp
his
secretes
in
thy
heart
,
and
resteth
his
thoughts
on
thy
bosome
.
Wilt
thou
preferre
honour
before
thy
friend
,
or
wealth
before
conscience
.
Ah
Tully
if
thou
be
the
man
that
Roome
woondreth
at
for
thy
eloquence
,
be
also
the
man
that
they
shall
canonize
for
thy
vertues
.
Beauty
is
but
a
bauins
blaze
,
wealth
is
but
a
fickle
fauour
of
fortune
,
dignity
is
haunted
by
enuy
:
but
friendship
that
is
the
pretious
treasure
that
neither
time
nor
fortune
can
violate
.
Why
but
Terentia
will
neuer
loue
Lentulus
,
then
Tully
hate
thou
euer
Terentia
.
I
am
a
man
and
subiect
vnto
loue
as
well
as
Lentulus
:
So
art
thou
a
man
and
being
false
to
thy
friend
art
vnworthy
all
loue
.
Abandon
Tully
these
vaine
imaginations
,
●ount
Terentia
foule
,
deformed
,
vitious
and
what
not
,
as
long
as
one
sparke
of
loue
lieth
rakt
vp
in
the
cynders
of
thy
thoughts
:
and
as
long
as
Lentulus
loues
hir
,
hate
hir
for
thy self
,
and
●oue
hir
for
Lentulus
.
Setting
downe
his
rest
at
this
period
,
he
went
into
the
chamber
to
sée
if
Lentulus
were
awake
,
but
finding
him
still
fast
a
sléepe
,
he
went
towards
the
Capitoll
,
where
he
met
with
Flaminius
the
father
of
Terentia
who
demaunded
very
heartily
how
Lentulus
did
.
Cicero
with
a
déepe
sigh
said
passing
sick
.
Wherof
quoth
Flaminius
grows
the
disease
,
I
heard
that
Asclapo
iudgeth
his
sickenes
to
be
mortall
.
Tully
thinking
to
set
all
on
the
dice
,
not
respecting
his
owne
loue
but
his
faith
to
his
friend
,
began
thus
.
Graue
Senator
,
I
néede
not
rehearse
Lentulus
byrth
,
as
beeing
a
citizen
,
nor
his
reuenewes
,
his
possessions
long
knowne
to
euery
man
,
nor
his
honours
ended
in
victories
,
for
the
Parthians
are
sufficient
euidence
of
his
well
discharged
dignities
and
valour
.
Lentulus
graced
in
the
prime
of
his
youth
with
these
fauours
,
hearing
of
the
beauty
of
a
Romaine
Lady
,
left
the
warres
and
came
to
Roome
,
where
courting
his
mistresse
not
with
wanton
poemes
,
but
with
tearmes
of
marriage
:
hee
f●und
hir
froward
,
and
his
loue
dasht
in
the
prime
.
The
impression
of
hir
beauty
grauen
with
too
déepe
a
caracter
was
too
fast
rooted
in
his
heart
to
be
thrust
out
with
deniall
:
yet
Lentulus
to
content
hir
,
plaies
like
the
phenix
,
burnes
in
his
owne
parfumes
,
rather
wishing
to
die
then
to
contrary
hir
resolution
.
This
is
the
cause
that
first
brought
Lentulus
to
his
bedde
,
and
this
ere
long
will
bring
him
to
his
graue
.
And
who
may
it
be
quoth
Flaminius
,
of
what
family
,
of
what
beauty
,
of
what
degrée
,
that
can
or
dare
deny
Lorde
Lentulus
?
Is
he
not
mighty
and
may
commaund
by
force
,
what
he
cannot
obtaine
by
intreaty
?
will
not
the
souldiers
at
his
becke
rise
in
armes
?
Feare
not
the
Consuls
themselues
to
wrong
Lentulus
?
Doth
not
all
Roome
hang
their
thoughts
at
his
lookes
?
Ah
miserable
father
that
harbours
such
a
daughter
,
and
stubborne
huswife
that
denies
so
braue
a
Romaine
.
In
friendship
Tully
tell
me
who
it
is
.
Cicero
willing
to
put
a
spurre
to
a
frée
horse
,
and
to
loose
his
owne
content
to
winne
his
friendes
quiet
,
told
him
flatly
it
was
his
daughter
Terentia
:
and
for
proofe
he
shewed
him
the
letters
that
past
betwixt
Lentulus
and
hir
.
Assoone
as
hir
father
had
read
the
contents
,
as
a
man
half
mad
he
fel
into
furious
and
frantick
tearmes
,
exclaiming
against
the
headstrong
humour
of
foolish
Terentia
.
After
he
had
breathd
out
the
heat
of
his
choller
,
he
fell
to
be
somewhat
appeased
,
and
bad
Tully
home
to
supper
,
promising
all
shoulde
sort
according
vnto
Lentulus
minde
.
With
that
departing
from
the
Capitoll
,
Tully
and
he
went
home
to
his
house
,
where
the
Cooke
being
somewhat
slacke
:
Flaminius
hearing
his
daughter
was
all
alone
in
the
garden
,
he
wished
Tully
to
try
hir
once
againe
,
and
to
perswade
hir
by
all
possible
means
to
graunt
to
the
request
of
Lentulus
.
Upon
this
Tully
went
into
the
garden
where
finding
Terentia
sitting
solitary
in
an
arbour
vp
to
the
hard
eares
in
a
dumpe
,
he
wakened
hir
out
of
hir
muse
thus
.
Vestas
chiefe
paragon
,
and
Venus
newe
interteined
darling
,
you
madam
Terentia
I
meane
,
that
sit
in
a
muse
:
are
you
offring
orisons
to
Diana
for
your
chastity
,
or
thanks
to
Cupid
for
your
loues
:
or
what
are
you
thinking
on
when
you
thinke
on
nothing
?
Terentia
turning
hir
head
and
séeing
Tully
all
alone
,
blusht
more
then
Cynthia
did
when
shée
wantond
it
with
hir
faire
faced
shepheard
,
yet
welcomming
hir
loue
with
a
smile
,
shée
tooke
him
by
the
hand
and
made
him
this
answere
.
Your
subtile
salutation
concluding
Vesta
and
Venus
in
one
Dilemma
commands
me
answere
that
I
was
dooing
my
deuotion
to
both
,
offring
prayers
for
my
olde
thoughts
&
thanks
for
my
newe
loues
:
&
scarce
had
I
saide
gramercy
to
the
goddesse
,
but
you
must
come
Cicero
to
make
my
thanks
prodigious
:
for
my
thinking
when
I
thought
of
nothing
it
was
of
mens
loues
which
are
lighter
then
the
flame
,
and
sooner
faded
then
a
flash
of
lightning
:
But
I
pray
you
say
what
winde
hath
driuen
you
into
this
coast
.
Marry
madame
the
very
sighes
that
fly
from
Lentulus
breast
grewe
to
so
great
a
storme
that
I
was
blowne
hither
to
séeke
shelter
for
the
tempest
.
You
haue
nothing
quoth
Terentia
but
Lentulus
in
your
mouth
:
I
pray
you
say
how
fares
the
gentleman
?
Ill
madame
quoth
Tully
euery
way
,
for
his
dyet
is
badde
in
that
his
stomacke
is
nought
,
and
his
health
is
doubtfull
in
that
his
thoughtes
are
disquiet
:
and
madame
it
rests
in
you
to
saue
so
honourable
a
gentleman
not
onely
from
sickenes
but
from
sorrowe
:
Aeneas
was
a
stragling
Troian
an
exile
periured
and
banisht
euen
from
the
ruines
of
Troy
,
yet
Dydo
the
famous
Carthage
quéene
made
him
hir
paramour
.
Demophoon
a
pyrat
a
robber
in
Greece
cast
vp
as
shipwrack
on
the
shore
,
yet
interteind
by
Phillis
.
Phao
a
ferryman
,
a
slaue
,
yet
fauoured
by
Sapho
.
Lentulus
the
hope
of
the
Romains
,
more
beautifull
then
Eneas
,
more
couragious
th●
Demophoon
,
more
honourable
then
Phao
,
more
louing
then
them
all
,
is
refused
and
reiected
by
Terentia
,
his
neighbour
and
familiar
.
Thinke
not
Terentia
but
loue
as
hee
hath
roses
so
hee
hath
nettles
,
as
he
hath
perfumes
so
hath
hee
hemblocke
,
and
holding
fauors
the
claspeth
reuenge
,
as
ready
to
pierce
as
to
pacifi●
.
If
you
procure
Lentulus
death
,
Cupid
hath
power
to
inforce
your
dispaire
,
and
to
cause
your
loue
to
be
as
fickle
to
you
as
you
are
froward
to
him
.
Then
madam
let
me
be
the
messenger
of
life
,
and
from
your
swéete
selfe
carry
such
conserues
to
Lentulus
as
may
recouer
his
health
and
increase
your
honours
.
This
discourse
of
Tully
did
but
sette
Terentias
heart
more
on
fire
.
For
hearing
the
pleasant
harmony
of
hir
Cicero
,
shée
likt
of
the
musicke
as
of
the
Syrens
melody
,
and
so
intangled
hir selfe
with
many
newe
conceiued
fancies
,
insomuch
that
forgetting
whose
daughter
shée
was
,
shée
burst
foorth
into
these
tearmes
.
Did
I
not
Cicero
tell
thée
twixt
Arpinatum
&
Roome
,
y●
loue
hath
but
one
cell
wherein
to
place
the
Idaea
of
the
party
loued
:
wilt
thou
haue
me
like
the
Camelion
to
haue
many
colours
,
or
like
Helena
to
intertain
many
loues
?
I
know
Lentulus
dignities
are
beyond
my
degrée
,
that
his
honors
are
more
then
my
fortunes
,
that
his
loue
is
great
,
and
so
I
holde
him
the
second
in
my
most
secrete
thoughtes
:
first
he
cannot
be
and
that
he
craues
.
Thou
doest
wring
water
out
of
the
flint
,
fier
forth
of
the
dry
sandes
,
&
immodesty
from
hir
that
hath
euer
béene
honoured
for
chastily
:
so
that
by
wastlesse
perswasions
for
thy
friende
,
I
am
forst
to
say
thou
art
the
friend
that
Terentia
hath
chosen
amongst
all
the
worthy
Romains
:
Before
I
sawe
thée
Tully
I
loued
thee
,
and
now
I
haue
setled
my
affection
,
and
thou
wrongst
me
with
discurtesie
:
but
either
cease
from
intreating
for
Lentulus
,
or
looke
to
sée
me
worse
then
Lentulus
.
And
with
this
blushing
at
hir
owne
ouermuch
loues
,
shée
poured
foorth
such
abundance
of
teares
,
as
well
might
bew●ay
the
sincerity
of
hir
affections
.
Tully
gréeuing
to
sée
the
goddesse
of
his
thoughtes
in
this
passion
answered
hir
,
mildly
thus
.
Blame
me
not
Terentia
if
I
pleade
for
Lentulus
,
séeing
his
sorrow
,
and
entring
into
mine
owne
promise
.
Then
friendship
is
no
swéeter
iewell
,
then
howe
can
I
but
labour
ere
I
loose
so
rich
a
prize
.
But
séeing
Terentia
hath
vouchsafed
of
so
meane
a
man
as
Tully
,
whose
honours
onely
hanges
in
his
studies
:
loue
béeing
the
strictest
league
of
amity
and
no
such
friendship
as
is
mariage
:
I
vowe
by
the
Romaine
gods
,
euer
to
be
a
duetifull
seruant
vnto
a
Terentia
:
and
with
my
loyalty
so
to
requite
hir
fauours
,
as
Roome
shall
more
admire
my
affections
then
they
haue
woondred
at
my
eloquence
:
yet
with
this
prouiso
(
my
swéete
Terentia
)
that
although
I
preferre
thy
fauours
before
mine
owne
life
,
yet
if
thou
canst
striue
to
loue
Lentulus
,
which
if
either
the
gods
,
loue
,
fortune
,
or
thy selfe
can
bring
to
passe
,
I
will
with
mine
owne
preiudice
conquer
mine
owne
thoughtes
to
satisfie
the
content
of
Lentulus
.
As
Terentia
was
ready
to
reply
,
one
of
hir
fathers
seruants
came
to
request
Cicero
to
come
to
supper
,
who
taking
his
leaue
of
Terentia
went
in
to
hir
father
Flaminius
,
who
sitting
downe
to
supper
,
passed
away
the
time
in
ordinary
talke
.
Their
repast
being
taken
,
Flaminius
calling
Tully
on
the
one
side
,
demaunded
what
his
daughters
answere
was
.
Peremptory
quoth
Tully
still
to
hold
Lentulus
in
mislike
.
Then
you
shall
heare
quoth
hir
father
what
I
will
say
,
and
so
report
to
Lentulus
:
so
calling
for
Terentia
they
thrée
being
together
,
he
began
thus
.
I
knowe
not
howe
Terentia
to
insinuate
my
exordium
,
whether
friendly
to
perswade
with
a
smyle
,
or
fatherly
to
admonish
with
a
frowne
:
thy
follies
are
so
great
,
and
my
care
so
tender
.
Roome
hath
hitherto
admyred
thy
vertues
,
and
I
haue
praised
thy
obedience
:
thou
hast
béene
counted
honorable
and
chast
,
wise
to
eschew
wantonnesse
,
but
neuer
coy
to
be
thought
disdainefull
:
and
shall
nowe
all
these
graces
ende
in
disgrace
?
Then
Terentia
maiest
thou
repent
hereafter
,
and
I
powre
forth
present
sorrowes
.
I
speake
thus
,
for
that
I
heare
in
the
city
what
maketh
me
to
grieue
,
and
may
force
thée
to
blush
.
They
say
Terentia
is
beautiful
and
proude
,
witty
and
ouerwéening
,
hauing
coy
disdaine
crept
into
the
place
of
curteous
desire
:
this
men
say
that
enuy
thy
follyes
,
and
grieue
at
Lentulus
fortunes
.
Now
daughter
thou
séest
the
marke
I
aime
at
,
and
maiest
iudge
of
my
shot
by
the
leuell
:
Lentulus
is
fallen
into
a
feuer
,
which
Asclapo
that
famous
Phisition
of
Patras
censures
to
be
mortall
.
Thy
frowardnes
was
the
efficient
of
the
disease
,
and
nowe
thou
deniest
cure
of
the
maladie
.
Unaduised
gyrle
,
that
neither
weighest
of
thine
owne
honours
,
nor
his
miseries
.
Lentulus
requires
Terentia
in
mariage
:
let
vs
make
compare
of
the
parties
,
and
so
examine
the
cause
of
thy
denials
.
He
is
descended
from
the
Lentuli
and
Aemilij
,
two
houses
that
euer
haue
béene
the
props
of
the
Romaine
dignities
.
His
honours
are
great
,
as
proconsul
in
his
youth
against
the
Parthians
:
His
fortunes
mighty
,
doubled
with
his
conquests
and
victories
:
His
reuenewes
such
as
he
may
with
Crassus
maintaine
Legions
.
If
like
Venus
darling
thou
séekest
to
féede
thine
eie
,
his
fauour
is
more
then
his
that
pleased
Cynthia
.
If
thou
couetest
a
souldier
,
Lentulus
in
Roome
is
as
Hector
was
in
Troy
.
If
a
Courtier
,
who
braues
it
so
in
Italy
?
To
conclude
if
Terentia
couet
to
loue
,
there
is
none
so
fit
to
loue
within
the
Romaine
Empire
as
Lentulus
.
Whereas
Terentia
is
but
the
daughter
of
a
meane
Senatour
,
hir
dowry
cannot
be
much
,
for
that
hir
fathers
wealth
is
not
great
:
Beautifull
shée
is
,
and
so
are
many
in
Roome
,
who
are
of
meaner
parentage
.
Hir
glories
are
but
fortunes
pelfe
,
that
florishe
in
the
morning
,
and
fade
before
night
.
What
then
can
mooue
Terentia
to
oppose
hir
selfe
against
Lentulus
?
vnlesse
shée
fatally
presageth
hir
owne
discredit
,
and
the
ruine
of
hir
fathers
house
.
If
then
daughter
thou
art
child
to
Flaminius
,
I
charge
thée
by
the
strickt
law
of
nature
,
which
Philosophers
call
Regius
amor
a
kingly
loue
,
if
thou
be
a
maide
,
by
the
holy
fiers
of
Vesta
:
if
beautifull
,
by
Venus
deity
:
if
a
Romaine
,
by
thy
Countryes
loue
,
that
thou
loue
Lentulus
:
which
if
thou
refuse
to
performe
,
thy
father
shall
curse
thée
,
Vesta
shall
shut
thée
from
hir
temples
,
Venus
from
hir
fauours
,
and
thy
country
from
inioying
the
swéete
content
of
honour
,
and
then
make
thée
outcast
of
all
the
Romaine
virgines
.
More
are
my
reasons
to
alleage
,
then
thy
reasons
able
to
contrary
:
but
omitting
all
and
saying
he
is
onely
Lentulus
:
Daughter
what
answere
?
Terentia
séeing
hir
father
in
such
a
choller
,
and
that
hée
was
induced
vnto
it
by
Ciceros
perswasions
in
a
furie
began
thus
frantike
.
I
not
denie
but
Fathers
challenge
loue
by
nature
and
obedience
by
duetie
,
and
both
those
sir
I
hope
I
haue
euer
performed
,
if
not
I
rest
sorrowfull
&
hartily
craue
pardon
:
but
in
loue
parentes
haue
no
priuiledge
.
For
the
liking
of
the
Father
is
no
contract
of
the
daughter
.
Venus
conclusions
growe
not
of
parentes
pr●mises
,
nor
can
affection
bee
like
the
fire
stroken
foorth
a
flint
,
for
loue
is
chosen
by
the
eye
and
confirmed
by
the
heart
,
womens
thoughtes
are
not
the
spoyles
of
Mars
,
nor
is
the
battell
of
fancie
fought
with
the
sworde
,
but
with
the
Senses
,
&
loues
arrowes
are
pointed
by
fate
and
fortune
.
Weigh
then
Terentia
,
who
hath
not
hir
loues
in
hir
hande
but
in
hir
heart
and
thereinto
none
can
make
breach
,
but
such
a
one
as
the
pleasing
constellation
of
the
stars
haue
appointed
.
I
not
denie
the
excellencie
of
Lentulus
as
well
in
exterior
shewe
of
honours
,
wealth
,
dignities
,
and
proportion
,
as
in
interior
vertues
&
perfections
of
the
minde
,
and
that
he
merittes
a
Ladie
of
farre
more
estéeme
then
Terentia
,
but
I
knowe
not
what
contrarie
aspect
either
of
the
planets
in
our
natiuities
,
or
of
loues
in
our
thoughtes
,
or
of
fortune
in
our
resolution
●o
like
,
hath
crossed
his
desire
and
my
fancie
,
but
of
all
the
Romayne
Gentlemen
I
cannot
my
Lorde
fancie
Lentulus
.
Cressida
confest
Troylus
was
the
better
knight
,
&
yet
the
Gréeke
helde
hir
louely
in
his
tent
.
Sith
then
affection
growes
from
desire
,
and
desire
is
tyed
to
destinie
,
séeke
not
sir
to
wring
water
out
of
the
pumex
,
to
couple
the
Mouse
and
the
Elephant
at
one
stall
,
to
vnite
those
loues
that
Venus
in
hir
Sinod
house
hath
expreslie
countercheckt
.
For
to
aunswere
your
obiection
,
Terentia
cannot
force
hir self
to
loue
Lentulus
.
Shée
thus
concluding
with
a
few
teares
,
hir
father
departing
from
hir
with
a
frown
,
tolde
Tullie
that
not
reason
was
sufficient
to
induce
his
daughter
to
be
affectionate
,
and
therefore
that
hee
wished
Lentulus
to
appease
his
passions
and
to
salue
such
impossibilities
with
patience
,
wherupon
they
after
interchange
of
salutations
and
common
courtesies
parted
with
a
friendlie
farewell
.
Tullie
at
his
home
comming
reuealed
vnto
Lentulus
the
whole
discourse
howe
Flaminius
had
searcht
into
the
depth
of
Terentias
thoughtes
both
with
plawsible
perswasions
and
inforced
reasons
,
and
coulde
finde
no
other
conclusion
but
that
shée
could
not
loue
Lentulus
.
Although
this
newes
pierced
the
verie
center
of
his
heart
as
mortallie
as
if
hee
had
béene
wounded
with
the
sting
of
Aspis
:
yet
chéering
himselfe
a
little
he
sat
vp
and
in
his
owne
minde
hauing
aboute
or
two
with
fancie
,
he
gaue
hir
so
deepe
a
reuie
that
hee
held
affection
at
the
swordes
point
.
But
Tullie
who
betwéene
friendship
and
loue
felt
a
furious
combate
,
allured
with
the
beauteous
perfection
of
Terentia
,
and
forbidden
that
fauour
by
the
entyre
amitie
hee
had
vowed
vnto
Lentulus
:
entred
into
so
déepe
a
melancholie
that
not
able
to
master
his
passions
,
he
fell
sicke
and
kept
his
bed
.
Lentulus
séeing
hys
Tullie
thus
distrest
gréeued
at
his
friends
misfortune
,
and
chéered
vp
himselfe
that
hee
might
somewhat
comfort
his
Cicero
that
newlie
was
crossed
with
a
distempered
sickenesse
.
He
sought
by
physicke
to
search
out
the
nature
of
the
disease
,
but
Asclapo
could
not
déeme
the
cause
by
the
effectes
,
he
sought
by
intreaties
to
wrest
out
the
occasion
of
so
sodayne
a
sorrow
,
but
in
vayne
,
Tullie
was
too
secrete
and
silent
to
make
anie
shewe
of
his
loues
though
he
bought
such
secresie
with
death
.
This
gréeued
Lentulus
who
féeling
himselfe
euery
day
to
amend
,
perceiued
that
Cicero
daylie
waxed
worse
and
worse
.
Lingring
thus
in
inward
passions
,
Terentia
that
tooke
it
discourteously
at
Tullies
hande
that
hee
should
force
hir
Father
to
inforce
hir
to
loue
Lentulus
,
séeing
shée
had
onely
deuoted
hirselfe
as
his
,
howsoeuer
fortune
shoulde
oppose
hir selfe
;
to
ease
hir
mind
of
some
choller
that
boiled
in
hir
secret
thoughts
shée
tooke
penne
and
inke
and
wrote
him
a
letter
to
this
effect
.
Terentia
to
Marcus
Tullius
Cicero
health
.
AS
my
thoughtes
are
secrete
and
my
loues
extréeme
,
so
is
vnkindenesse
bitter
and
the
more
vneasie
borne
.
Thou
playest
Tullie
with
me
,
as
doe
the
Leopards
with
there
kéeper
;
that
euer
wrong
them
most
that
giue
them
greatest
store
of
fodder
.
Are
these
Venus
lawes
to
pay
hunnie
with
Gall
,
to
make
rods
of
nettles
for
Garlands
of
Roses
,
to
hate
them
most
that
loue
most
.
The
ingratitude
of
Tullie
hath
drawen
Terentia
into
this
choller
,
and
if
I
write
sharpely
blame
me
not
that
am
vsed
so
shrowdlie
.
Before
I
euer
sawe
thy
face
I
allowed
thy
fauour
,
&
onelie
hearing
of
thy
vertues
with
myne
eare
,
I
registred
them
vp
déepely
in
my
hearte
.
Terentia
hath
béene
courted
of
manie
,
yet
neuer
made
account
of
any
:
sundry
haue
sought
my
loues
,
but
they
haue
returned
with
losse
.
Lentulus
the
terrour
of
the
Parthians
,
the
honour
of
the
Romaines
and
thy
friend
hath
long
woode
,
but
what
hath
hee
won
?
onelie
Tullie
hath
obtayned
that
which
so
many
haue
mist
,
and
yet
he
deales
with
Terentia
as
crabbedlie
as
shee
vsed
him
courteously
,
doe
louers
for
fishes
proffer
scorpions
,
or
doe
they
like
the
serpent
sting
him
which
cheerisheth
him
vp
in
his
bosome
.
I
séeke
to
fauour
Tullie
and
hee
importunate
sues
for
fauour
for
Lentulus
.
Art
thou
so
déepe
a
philosopher
,
as
to
déeme
friendship
aboue
marriage
,
or
faith
aboue
fancie
,
or
thy
Terentia
lesse
then
thy
Lentulus
?
If
it
be
so
take
héede
that
Terentia
too
much
wronged
scornes
not
both
thée
and
Lentulus
.
Womens
thoughtes
consistes
oft
in
extréemes
,
and
they
that
loue
most
,
if
abused
,
hate
most
deadlie
,
fear
this
and
beware
of
my
frowne
,
as
yet
there
is
but
one
wrinckle
in
my
brow
,
but
if
it
once
proue
full
of
angrie
sorrowes
it
will
bee
too
late
to
take
holde
of
occasion
behind
:
Thou
art
forewarnd
be
forearmd
and
so
farewell
.
Thy
Terentia
if
thou
wrong
not
Terentia
.
AFter
shée
had
written
this
Letter
shée
causde
it
to
bee
conueied
by
Eutrapelus
to
Tullie
,
who
reading
the
contentes
found
not
a
salue
to
cure
his
maladie
,
but
that
Terentia
rubbed
the
scare
a
fresh
by
shaking
him
vp
so
sharpely
,
yet
coueting
rather
to
die
with
an
honourable
minde
to
Lentulus
,
then
with
a
discredite
to
enioy
beautifull
Terentia
,
he
laide
his
heade
on
his
pillowe
,
and
with
manie
sighes
bewraide
the
depth
of
his
sorrows
.
Hauing
laide
his
letter
at
his
beds
heade
ouercharged
with
many
cares
poore
Tullie
fell
a
sléepe
and
so
sodenlie
that
Lentulus
by
the
helpe
of
Eutrapelus
got
to
haue
a
sight
of
his
letter
.
Assoone
as
the
Gentleman
saw
how
déepely
Terentia
was
affected
to
his
friende
and
perceyued
by
the
circumstances
that
he
chose
rather
to
die
then
to
falsifie
his
faith
,
such
a
secrete
loue
towardes
Tullie
so
pierced
the
closet
of
his
honourable
thoughtes
that
he
●ell
to
conceipt
but
meanlie
of
Terentia
and
to
wish
that
his
friende
Cicero
might
both
recouer
his
health
and
his
loue
.
Now
began
the
fancie
of
Lentulus
to
freze
that
earst
was
so
great
a
flame
,
and
he
that
like
the
Salamander
delighted
to
liue
in
the
fire
,
beganne
to
feare
to
accedere
ad
ignem
,
least
he
shoulde
Calescere
plus
quam
satis
.
Now
he
called
to
mind
the
resolution
of
Terentia
tempered
with
frowardnesse
,
and
with
this
he
did
proportion
the
vertues
of
Flauia
mixed
with
courtesie
,
finding
the
fauour
of
the
one
aunswerable
to
the
beauty
of
the
other
.
Then
the
faith
of
his
friend
,
his
sickenes
and
extréeme
sorrows
.
These
weighed
with
depe
consideration
he
vowed
to
séeke
by
all
meanes
howe
to
win
Terentia
wholy
for
his
friende
Cicero
.
In
this
humor
he
conuaide
the
letter
vnder
his
beddes
heade
and
rested
silent
till
occasion
might
offer
him
oportunitie
to
discouer
the
perfection
of
his
amitie
.
Thus
grewe
Lentulus
at
one
time
from
his
sickenes
&
his
loue
,
walking
abroad
&
visiting
Flaminius
who
entertayned
him
in
all
sumptuous
manner
.
But
Lentulus
séeing
the
thrée
Ladies
,
made
no
showe
to
Terentia
nor
scarse
glaunced
a
looke
vppon
hir
beautie
,
but
onely
courted
the
Ladie
Flauia
,
who
he
founde
so
agreeable
and
plyant
to
his
sutes
,
that
Terentia
and
Cornelia
might
easilie
sée
howe
depely
they
were
linked
in
the
league
of
affection
.
Leauing
Tullie
thus
sicke
on
his
bed
and
Lentulus
in
swéete
content
with
Flauia
,
againe
to
our
newe
transformed
Fabius
who
in
this
time
prooued
one
of
the
brauest
Gentlemen
in
Rome
,
and
finding
a
restlesse
passion
in
his
mind
for
the
beutie
of
Terentia
,
as
hauing
continually
before
his
eye
the
Idaea
of
hir
person
séeing
by
hir
meanes
hee
was
metamorphosed
&
brought
to
this
perfection
making
the
force
of
his
loue
priuie
to
his
Father
Vatinius
,
he
was
not
onely
praysed
for
his
good
choice
,
but
willed
to
goe
forwarde
in
the
optayning
of
his
affections
.
Whereupon
not
willing
to
make
a
long
haruest
to
a
small
crop
,
to
preuent
as
hee
thought
that
none
shoulde
cut
the
grasse
from
vnder
his
féete
,
hee
went
to
Terentias
Father
and
blunt●●
craued
his
daughter
in
marriage
.
He
knowing
him
to
be
of
honourable
parentage
and
of
rich
reuenewes
,
séeing
shée
woulde
not
condiscende
vnto
Lentulus
gaue
him
his
francke
good
will
if
he
could
créepe
into
his
daughters
fauour
,
who
taking
the
aduantage
of
the
time
went
to
find
out
Terentia
,
who
as
then
was
verie
melancholie
sitting
with
Flauia
&
Cornelia
talking
of
the
sickenes
of
Tully
.
As
they
were
thus
in
●hat
,
came
in
Fabius
who
they
streight
knew
&
wondered
at
his
strange
alteration
,
he
to
shewe
hee
coulde
as
well
court
it
as
the
brauest
young
gentleman
in
Rome
,
began
thus
curteously
to
salute
the
Ladies
.
Maruell
not
Ladies
if
a
countrie
swayne
presume
to
attempt
the
presence
of
such
rare
excellencies
séeing
Oenones
shéephearde
durst
with
his
eye
suruay
the
beautie
of
diuine
goddesses
,
and
they
to
shewe
they
were
as
gratious
and
full
of
fauours
gaue
him
the
greatest
minion
that
was
counted
the
swéetest
Peragon
of
the
world
.
Earthlie
creatures
you
be
,
fayre
Romaynes
,
but
heauenly
faces
,
whose
looks
lighten
diuine
influence
into
the
thoughts
of
such
as
dare
to
contemplate
your
affections
.
I
speake
this
as
being
the
man
that
from
the
cart
liue
in
the
court
,
thus
metamophosed
by
your
supernaturall
beauties
.
For
which
fauour
I
am
come
in
duetie
to
rest
a
bounden
voterie
to
your
swéete
selues
.
Terentia
was
so
pensiue
for
Tullyes
passions
that
shée
woulde
make
no
aunswere
:
but
Cornelia
whom
alreadie
Cupid
had
set
on
fire
with
Fabius
feature
she
returned
him
this
replie
.
I
remember
Fabius
that
sitting
in
the
groue
by
Arpinatum
a
gentle
swaine
much
like
your self
,
in
proportion
though
not
in
properties
,
séeing
wee
were
slenderly
garded
with
a
page
conducted
vs
home
to
Rome
with
his
friendlie
companie
,
if
it
be
your selfe
,
had
wee
as
braue
a
Ladie
as
Helena
was
and
were
shée
in
our
power
to
bestowe
,
wée
woulde
make
you
master
and
sole
possessour
of
hir
beauties
so
to
rewarde
your
courtesie
.
Fabius
séeing
the
marke
so
faire
thought
not
to
loose
his
shoote
,
but
aim●
his
leuell
thus
.
And
for
that
cause
Ladies
is
Fabius
come
that
his
mée●
may
not
want
his
merite
,
glad
that
Venus
dewes
downe
such
fauors
,
and
oportunitie
such
showers
of
good
fortunes
to
finde
you
all
here
in
so
fit
a
time
.
For
knowe
honorable
Romaine●
that
for
my
grosse
and
rude
nature
hating
the
ciuill
behauiour
of
the
citie
.
I
was
surnamed
Fabius
:
in
which
obscure
life
I
liued
hauing
my
senses
eclipsed
with
follie
,
till
the
gods
grudging
at
natures
spight
,
sent
you
thrée
to
bee
ministers
of
my
happines
.
For
comming
into
the
groue
where
you
lay
all
a
sléepe
casting
mine
eye
on
the
beautie
of
Terentia
:
Such
a
déepe
impression
was
figured
in
my
mind
,
that
I
felt
an
vnacquainted
motion
with
a
milde
reuerence
to
thinke
well
of
hir
perfection
:
surueying
hir
singular
beauties
,
I
fell
so
farre
in
loue
with
hir
excellencie
,
that
from
the
countrie
I
came
to
the
citie
,
&
how
since
by
hir
gratious
sight
I
haue
metamorphosed
my selfe
your
owne
eares
and
the
wonder
of
Rome
is
best
ablè
to
witnesse
.
Then
Ladies
I
count
the
renewing
of
my
life
to
come
from
the
feature
of
Terentia
,
and
that
she
not
as
Diana
chaunged
mee
from
a
man
to
bée
a
beast
,
but
contrarie
full
of
fauour
hath
reduced
me
from
a
sensuall
beast
to
a
perfect
resonable
man
.
Howe
déepely
then
I
ought
to
bée
vowed
to
hir
whose
sight
is
the
welspring
of
my
happinesse
,
let
the
greatnesse
of
my
benefite
make
manifest
.
In
so
much
as
féeding
my
thoughts
with
the
contemplation
of
Terentias
beautie
,
I
haue
béene
thus
transformed
,
but
withall
so
surprised
with
hir
loue
that
as
I
haue
gaind
a
seconde
essence
by
hir
swéete
selfe
,
so
I
haue
lost
my selfe
within
the
labyrinth
of
hir
lookes
,
that
I
remayne
hir
captiue
while
it
pleaseth
hir
to
graunt
me
libertie
.
Bee
then
braue
Romaine
Dames
,
impartiall
doomers
of
my
sute
,
whether
my
desertes
craue
not
Loue
that
thus
haue
béene
chaunged
for
hir
loue
.
My
Parentes
are
Senators
,
my
reuenewes
inferiour
to
none
,
old
Vatitinius
glad
of
my
choise
,
and
Terentias
father
thrise
happy
if
his
daughter
might
like
of
Vatinius
.
Nowe
restes
it
onely
in
Terentias
power
to
make
me
blessed
or
infortunate
.
At
this
discourse
of
Fabius
,
the
Ladies
were
astonished
,
and
Terentia
galled
to
the
quick
with
this
demaund
held
hir
tongue
,
till
Cornelia
and
Flauia
,
looking
earnestly
vpon
hir
,
asked
hir
what
answere
shée
made
to
Fabius
.
Such
quoth
shée
as
I
returned
to
Lentulus
,
for
know
syr
if
either
the
honor
of
a
Souldier
,
the
dignity
of
a
Romain
,
the
reuenewes
of
a
Senators
sonne
,
or
the
déepe
impression
of
fancy
might
haue
drawn
Terentia
to
loue
,
I
had
beene
ere
this
the
wife
&
paramour
of
Lentulus
.
But
not
the
courage
of
Hector
that
woone
Andromache
,
nor
the
wisedome
of
Vlisses
that
intangled
Calipso
,
nor
the
beauty
of
Priamus
sonne
that
drew
Greece
in
armes
to
Troy
,
these
perfections
if
combined
in
one
man
shoulde
not
mooue
Terentia
to
listen
to
the
allurements
of
Venus
:
not
that
I
make
light
estéeme
of
Lentulus
,
or
that
I
holde
small
account
of
Fabius
,
as
two
chiefe
myrrours
of
our
Romaine
gentlemen
:
But
that
either
my
vowes
are
resolute
to
Vesta
,
or
if
Cupid
hath
taken
me
by
the
héele
,
it
was
before
Lentulus
came
from
Parthia
,
or
you
from
Arpinatum
:
so
that
conclude
howsoeuer
it
is
I
cannot
become
affectionate
to
Fabius
.
At
this
reply
Fabius
stoode
so
amated
as
if
hee
had
beene
an
vnwelcome
guest
at
the
feast
of
Perseus
,
which
Cornelia
noting
,
déepely
in
loue
with
Fabius
shée
told
him
thus
.
Nor
may
you
Fabius
thinke
much
at
this
repulse
sith
Lentulus
and
you
are
in
one
predicament
,
nowe
both
become
gainers
in
liberty
,
that
haue
béene
loosers
in
loue
:
and
either
gette
the
willowe
garlande
and
so
mourne
for
your
Ladies
frowne
,
or
séeke
a
mistresse
that
may
shewe
you
more
fauor
:
For
as
for
Terentia
shée
hath
chosen
,
and
none
must
please
hir
but
Oratours
.
If
there
be
Fabius
but
one
Sunne
that
is
thought
the
beauty
of
heauen
,
yet
there
be
planets
that
though
not
in
shine
,
yet
in
influence
are
as
vertuous
:
what
there
bee
Ladies
I
meane
of
such
course
die
as
my selfe
and
Flauia
,
that
when
Terentia
is
once
married
,
looke
for
husbands
.
Fabius
hearing
Cornelia
thus
pleasant
,
noted
this
quippe
that
none
must
please
hir
but
Oratours
,
which
made
Terentia
blush
for
anger
,
and
Fabius
to
make
this
answere
.
I
knowe
no
Oratours
in
Roome
quoth
he
whose
yeares
are
answerable
to
Terentias
thoughtes
but
onely
Marcus
Tullius
Cicero
,
and
if
it
be
he
,
I
sweare
by
the
fitch
that
gaue
him
his
syrname
,
Terentia
shall
be
mistresse
of
a
goodly
Cottage
in
Arpinatum
.
Terentia
hearing
Fabius
to
giue
Tully
the
frumpe
answered
thus
.
The
more
his
fortune
if
it
be
hee
whose
vertues
hath
made
him
master
of
his
owne
desires
,
for
his
lands
in
Arpinatum
as
they
be
little
,
yet
shall
his
lacke
be
counteruaild
with
his
loues
:
and
if
he
hath
not
one
to
inrich
him
with
dowry
,
yet
I
may
perhaps
content
him
with
beauty
.
And
therefore
Fabius
to
take
away
all
suppositions
,
it
is
Tully
,
&
none
but
Tully
that
shall
inioy
Terentia
.
And
quoth
Fabius
in
great
choller
,
nor
Tully
,
nor
none
besides
Tully
,
but
Fabius
shall
inioy
Terentia
.
Whereupon
departing
without
taking
his
farewell
,
going
vnto
hir
father
and
discoursing
vnto
him
that
Tully
was
the
man
that
his
daughter
had
chosen
for
hir
husband
:
swearing
that
his
sword
ere
it
were
long
should
end
their
loues
.
Although
Flaminius
were
grieued
,
yet
he
sought
to
pacifie
Fabius
,
but
in
vaine
:
for
hee
flung
out
of
the
dores
in
a
rage
,
and
went
to
Milos
house
to
séeke
Tully
.
Where
breathing
out
many
despightfull
threats
against
the
Oratour
,
it
came
at
last
to
Lentulus
eare
.
Who
nowe
to
make
manifest
the
déepe
affection
he
bare
to
Cicero
,
trouping
himselfe
with
a
crue
of
the
Praetextati
,
and
chiefe
Romaine
gentlemen
that
had
béene
souldiers
and
trained
vp
with
him
in
the
warres
,
he
went
to
séeke
out
Fabius
:
and
found
him
with
certaine
his
companions
about
the
Capitoll
.
Lentulus
not
brooking
the
braue
of
any
,
as
carrying
the
heart
of
a
Conquerour
,
singled
out
Fabius
,
and
after
some
wordes
they
fell
to
blowes
:
but
Fabius
part
were
the
weaker
,
so
that
many
were
wounded
,
and
some
slaine
.
Upon
this
the
next
day
parts
were
taken
,
the
people
began
to
mutiny
,
and
to
fall
to
intestine
and
ciuil
iarres
:
that
as
in
the
time
of
Scilla
and
Marius
,
so
the
stréets
were
filled
with
armed
Souldiers
.
The
Senatours
séeing
what
bloudy
stratagems
woulde
insue
of
this
strife
if
it
were
not
pacified
:
sent
for
the
Consuls
,
and
charged
them
to
raise
vp
some
of
the
Legions
and
to
bring
Lentulus
,
Tully
and
Fabius
,
the
next
day
to
the
senate
house
,
with
Terentia
and
hir
father
.
They
obeying
their
commaund
put
this
charge
in
execucution
,
and
so
qualifiyng
somewhat
the
fury
of
the
people
,
brought
these
thrée
wooers
with
Terentia
before
the
whole
state
of
Roome
.
Where
being
arriued
Tully
fearefull
of
nature
and
sicke
,
yet
somewhat
strengthened
with
the
sight
of
his
mistresse
,
beeing
glad
Lentulus
was
his
friend
in
his
loues
,
after
due
reuerence
began
thus
.
Tullies
Oration
to
the
Senate
.
COnscript
Fathers
and
graue
Senators
of
Room
,
I
was
borne
in
Arpinatum
of
base
parentage
,
the
first
of
the
Ciceroes
that
euer
pleaded
in
Rostro
,
or
bare
title
in
the
city
.
If
then
aduanced
by
your
fauours
to
these
fortunes
,
I
should
aspire
without
proportion
to
clime
beyonde
my
degrée
,
let
me
be
the
first
and
last
whose
presumption
shall
grow
to
this
preiudice
.
The
temple
of
Ianus
in
Roome
hath
hir
gates
shut
,
the
s●reetes
are
full
of
armed
men
,
the
stones
of
the
Capitol
blusheth
at
the
bloud
of
Romaines
shed
against
hir
walles
:
and
all
this
mutiny
(
cry
mine
aduersaries
)
growes
from
Tully
.
Not
that
Tully
was
then
out
of
his
bedde
,
but
that
men
of
poore
families
lifted
vp
to
honor
are
soonest
bitten
with
enuy
.
I
appeale
graue
Senatours
for
my
life
to
your
owne
censures
:
if
euer
I
haue
not
béene
more
carefull
to
profit
my
country
,
then
desirous
of
preferment
for
my
labours
.
But
what
then
say
the
people
is
cause
of
such
broy●es
,
Terentia
the
daughter
of
Flaminius
,
that
firebrand
that
set
Troy
to
cinders
.
Beauty
is
like
to
bring
Roome
to
confusion
:
For
the
greatest
houses
and
families
are
diuided
,
the
Lentuly
and
Vatinij
,
and
this
for
Terentia
.
Let
the
cause
be
examined
before
the
Senators
,
and
as
they
heare
so
let
them
doome
,
Lentulus
chosen
by
the
Senate
,
was
sent
Captaine
euer
many
Legions
against
the
Parthians
,
where
he
tyed
fortune
to
his
thoughtes
:
and
by
his
great
victories
and
conquests
set
vp
trophées
of
Romaine
chiualry
.
Returning
with
glory
to
Roome
,
hauing
set
in
his
place
Lepidus
,
he
was
enamonred
not
onely
of
the
beauty
but
vertues
of
Terentia
:
the
fame
of
whose
excellency
was
spred
amongst
the
Parthians
.
Coueting
to
match
with
so
honourable
a
Lady
,
he
courted
hir
,
but
in
vaine
:
not
that
shée
disdained
Lentulus
,
but
that
shée
had
fixed
hir
fancy
before
shée
sawe
Lentulus
:
and
the
platforme
of
loue
is
able
to
receiue
but
one
impression
.
If
honours
,
if
conquestes
,
if
parentage
,
if
reuenewes
,
if
courage
,
if
goods
of
fortune
,
body
,
or
minde
,
might
haue
woonne
Terentia
,
al
this
was
vnited
in
young
Lentulus
:
But
Loue
that
liketh
without
exceptions
,
had
ouerbard
hir
heart
with
such
former
fancies
,
as
the
passionate
sute
of
Lentulus
coulde
haue
no
entrance
.
His
thoughtes
were
extreame
,
and
the
disquiet
of
his
minde
brought
a
disease
to
his
body
.
But
when
he
knew
that
Terentia
loued
his
friend
,
he
appeased
his
passions
,
and
rested
content
with
his
fortunes
.
The
vnconstant
goddesse
whose
smyles
are
ouershadowed
frowns
,
not
content
honor
should
spring
vp
without
enuy
:
sends
Terentia
to
walke
abroade
towards
Arpinatum
where
then
Fabius
liued
,
as
famous
for
his
rusticke
and
vnciuile
life
,
as
now
he
is
woondred
at
for
his
braue
and
courtly
behauiour
.
Spying
Terentia
hee
was
as
Lentulus
snared
in
hir
beautie
,
that
the
Romains
to
report
a
miracle
said
loue
made
him
of
a
clowne
braue
&
resolute
gentleman
.
The
excellencie
of
Terentia
hauing
newe
pollished
nature
in
Fabius
,
hee
sues
for
hir
fauour
,
but
hir
thoughtes
that
were
forepointed
with
other
passions
,
intreates
him
to
bridle
affection
and
to
make
a
conquest
of
himselfe
by
subduing
the
force
of
fancie
,
séeing
hir
resolution
was
directed
to
loue
none
but
one
,
and
that
was
Tullie
.
This
worde
graue
Senators
and
Romaynes
sounding
basely
in
the
eares
of
Fabius
,
caused
him
take
armes
,
and
Lentulus
to
defende
his
friend
Cicero
,
as
for
him
before
had
lost
his
loue
,
so
he
ment
to
loose
his
life
and
withstoode
him
in
the
face
.
Thus
grew
this
mutinie
not
against
beautie
for
it
is
a
cheefe
good
of
it selfe
,
nor
against
Tullie
for
hee
is
meane
and
vnworthie
to
bee
reuenged
by
armes
,
but
against
Terentia
because
shee
vouchsafed
to
loue
Tulllie
.
This
Romaines
is
the
cause
of
this
mutinie
to
suppresse
which
let
Tullie
die
,
for
rather
had
he
pacifie
this
striffe
by
death
then
sée
the
meanest
Romaine
fall
on
the
sword
.
The
common
people
at
this
began
to
murmour
,
pleased
with
the
plausible
Oration
of
Tullie
,
which
one
of
the
Senators
seeing
,
stoode
vp
and
saide
thus
.
Terentia
?
Cicero
here
hath
shewed
reasons
why
thou
shouldst
loue
Lentulus
and
Fabius
,
but
what
reason
canst
thou
infer
to
loue
so
meane
a
man
as
Tullie
.
Terentia
blushing
made
this
answere
.
Before
so
honorable
an
audience
as
these
graue
Senators
and
worthy
Romayne
Citizens
womens
reasons
would
seeme
no
reasons
,
especially
in
loue
which
is
without
reason
,
therefore
I
onely
yeld
this
reason
,
I
loue
Cicero
not
able
to
ratefie
my
affection
with
anie
strong
reason
,
because
loue
is
not
circumscript
within
reasons
limits
,
but
if
it
please
the
Senate
to
pacifie
this
mutinie
,
let
Terentia
leaue
to
liue
,
because
she
cannot
leaue
to
loue
and
onely
to
loue
Cicero
.
At
this
she
wept
and
stayned
hir
face
with
such
a
pleasing
vermilion
die
,
that
the
people
shouted
none
but
Cicero
.
Whereupon
before
the
Senate
Tully
and
Terentia
were
betrothed
,
Lentulus
and
Fabius
made
friends
,
and
the
one
named
Lentulus
as
the
Annales
make
mention
maried
to
Flauia
,
and
Fabius
wedded
to
the
worthy
Cornelia
.
FINIS
.