A
Philosophicall
combat
betweene
Hector
and
Achilles
,
wherein
in
the
persons
of
the
Troian
and
Gretian
Lords
;
are
in
fowre
discourses
in-riched
with
fowre
delightfull
Hystories
,
the
vertuous
mindes
of
true
nobilitie
and
gentility
pleasantly
discouered
.
HElena
the
haplesse
wyfe
of
vnhappy
Menelaus
,
beawtified
from
aboue
,
to
inflict
a
mortall
punishment
vpon
men
beneath
:
honored
in
Gréece
more
for
her
beawty
then
hir
honesty
(
a
fault
which
fondlings
account
for
a
fauour
)
fulfilling
the
dreame
of
Hecuba
,
that
she
hatched
a
fierbrand
which
should
bring
Troy
to
cy●●ers
:
through
her
lawlesse
consent
to
Paris
,
so
troubled
the
quietn●sse
of
Asia
,
that
Priamus
●lowrishing
as
prince
of
●●at
part
of
the
worlde
,
was
with
his
sonnes
and
daughters
brought
to
ruine
:
(
the
ende
of
voluptuos
appetites
)
which
they
mayntained
with
the
sworde
.
For
Agamemnon
copartner
of
Menelaus
gréefe
(
as
friendship
is
the
●rind
to
reueng
)
ayded
with
all
the
Kings
,
Princes
,
Dukes
,
and
Knightes
of
Gréece
intended
a
resolute
leg●r
to
the
citie
of
Troy
,
which
conti●ued
●wo
yeares
without
truce
,
by
sundrie
assaults
,
〈◊〉
,
and
〈◊〉
,
had
d●uo●r●d
of
both
part●s
〈◊〉
my
vahaunt
captaynes
that
by
common
consent
after
a
frie●dly
par●●●
they
res●lued
vpon
a
truce
for
thirty
dayes
during
which
time
,
the
Tr●ian
Ladies
(
resembling
Proserpina
that
must
of
necessity
taste
a
gra●ne
of
the
forbidden
Pomgranate
)
namely
Andromache
,
Cassandra
and
Polixena
,
accompanied
with
Hector
,
Troilus
,
Aeneas
,
Helenus
,
and
diuers
other
of
royall
parentage
,
went
to
sée
the
Gretian
tents
peopled
with
their
enemies
.
Fame
(
the
spedy
discouerer
of
new●s
)
bewraying
their
intent
to
the
states
of
Gréece
:
Achilles
amongst
the
rest
(
●or
that
the
report
of
Polixenas
beawty
had
made
a
conquest
of
his
affections
)
in
that
the
●are
leadeth
to
the
inwarde
senses
as
well
as
the
eye
,
craued
of
the
Gouernour
and
generall
of
their
forces
hee
might
bee
honoured
with
the
intertaynment
of
the
Troians
:
his
request
graunted
accompanied
with
his
Myrmidones
,
he
went
to
meete
them
in
this
manner
.
First
marched
on
before
the
rest
,
a
hundreth
and
fifty
on
the
most
gallaunt
Coursers
that
Greece
did
afoorde
,
their
caparisons
of
Greene
Ueluet
interseamed
with
stars
of
Golde
,
about
which
was
writ●en
thus
impre●ze
,
Lux
&
tenebra
.
Next
to
these
Achilles
,
mounted
vpon
an
Arabian
courser
couler
Blacke
,
whose
furniture
was
blewe
Ueluet
fringed
with
Golde
,
whereon
was
curiously
embrodred
the
Target
of
Pallas
with
a
Gorgons
head
,
his
impreeze
.
Sic
Amor.
His
companions
weare
Vlisses
,
Diome
,
Patroclus
,
with
many
Lordes
of
great
valour
and
progenie
.
The
Gretians
thus
marching
on
in
order
met
Hector
who
was
fi●st
of
his
companie
,
whose
very
face
harboring
an
extraordinary
kinde
of
mai●stie
gaue
them
all
to
knowe
,
by
supposi●ion
,
that
this
was
he
which
by
his
valour
had
made
such
dismall
massacres
,
euen
to
their
very
Pauilions
.
Letting
him
and
the
rest
of
his
crue
passe
with
an
enuious
courtesie
,
as
feeling
in
their
mindes
th●
scarres
of
his
man-hoode
:
at
last
Aihilles
and
hee
came
within
view
,
who
neuer
hauing
seene
each
other
befo●e
,
but
in
armor
as
enemies
manacing
reueng
in
the
field
,
stood
along
time
as
men
in
a
trance
,
till
Hector
burst
foorth
into
speaches
.
Lords
of
Gréece
,
enemies
by
defiaunce
,
and
yet
frinder
vy
Fortune
,
hoping
to
finde
you
as
firme
in
promise
of
truce
,
as
resolute
in
performaunce
of
valour
,
in
that
noble
mindes
preferre
honour
before
conquests
:
The
Ladies
of
Troie
(
whose
princely
thoughts
account
none
enemies
but
in
Armour
)
noting
from
the
Walles
your
experience
in
martiall
discipline
desirous
to
prayse
vertue
in
an
enemy
,
are
come
vnder
the
conduct
of
naked
knights
(
yet
armed
by
the
lawe
of
armes
)
to
see
if
the
Gretian
pollicie
in
cyuill
court●sie
,
bée
comparable
to
their
prowes
in
warlicke
indeuours
.
This
onely
cause
hath
made
the
Ladies
thus
farre
aduenturous
,
if
they
haue
lycence
to
passe
further
,
their
sight
satisfied
,
and
the
end
of
their
desires
fauoured
with
well
construing
of
their
trauells
:
They
meane
,
safe
retourned
,
to
make
requitall
with
thankes
and
prayse
,
the
truest
tokens
of
liberalitie
,
and
surest
defensories
against
ingratitude
.
If
their
labour
bee
in
vaine
,
and
further
graunt
of
passage
denyed
,
to
make
a
counterpoyse
of
discourtesie
to
the
vtteraunce
,
I
auow
by
the
oath
of
knighthoode
to
seale
the
summe
of
such
iniury
(
the
truce
ended
)
at
the
tent
of
your
generall
maugre
Achilles
,
and
all
his
Myrmidones
,
and
for
that
you
shall
challeng
what
I
promise
in
silkes
to
bee
perfourmed
in
Armour
.
Know
I
am
Hector
.
His
chardge
giuen
him
by
the
Ladies
vttered
.
The
Lordes
of
Gre●ce
pawsing
vpon
the
magnanimity
of
Hector
that
durst
amidst
his
enemies
resolue
●ppon
reuenge
.
Achilles
whose
senses
generally
were
troubled
with
speciall
obiects
,
lending
as
well
his
eye
to
the
beawty
of
Poli●ena
,
as
his
●are
to
the
parlée
of
Hector
gathering
his
wittes
together
retourned
him
bouldly
and
briefly
this
answere
.
The
Gretians
worthy
Lordes
whose
fore
pointed
resolutions
are
euer
limited
within
the
proportion
of
Iustice
,
holde
their
woordes
as
lawes
,
and
sacrifice
their
thoughts
with
their
deedes
,
at
the
Aultars
of
equity
,
measuring
enemyes
at
the
point
of
the
Launce
and
frindes
by
perfourmance
of
league
,
vsing
their
hands
and
heartes
as
the
instruments
of
Delphos
,
which
might
not
be
touched
by
any
appeached
of
periury
:
honoring
Ladies
as
well
in
armour
as
in
Lawrell
,
and
counting
it
the
chiefe
point
of
cheiualrie
to
succour
the
oppressed
enemie
with
the
sworde
:
these
premisses
considered
in
the
behalfe
of
the
rest
,
I
confirme
specially
to
the
Ladies
as
inforced
by
duty
,
and
yet
generally
to
all
,
as
constrayned
by
promyse
a
frindly
welcome
.
For
whose
safty
I
pawne
the
pledge
of
a
prince
,
which
is
honour
.
Threts
that
are
conditionall
are
the
more
easely
broked
,
and
therefore
omitting
such
fryuolous
suppo●itions
louely
Ladies
of
Troy
and
your
attendaunts
,
I
sweare
a
hearty
welcome
:
for
performaunce
of
which
,
take
the
faith
of
Achilles
.
This
promise
past
these
two
princes
imbraced
each
other
,
the
rest
of
the
Lords
imitating
theyr
mutuall
fauors
,
interchanged
the
like
courtesies
,
so
that
ioyning
their
Troupes
together
,
they
roade
on
towardes
the
campe
.
Achilles
who
knewe
as
well
how
to
tune
the
Lute
with
Venus
,
as
to
sound
the
Trumpet
with
Mars
,
and
had
as
great
affability
in
his
tounge
to
intertayne
a
Lady
,
as
strength
in
his
hand
to
repulse
an
enemy
,
that
could
as
wel
leade
a
daunce
as
followe
a
march
:
after
generall
courtesies
past
betweene
the
Gretian
Lordes
,
and
the
Dames
of
Troy
,
he
subtelly
singled
him selfe
with
Polixena
whom
he
held
in
prattle
to
his
tent
in
this
manner
.
●
see
Madame
,
that
your
father
Priamus
is
as
pollitick●●o
make
a
conquest
,
as
his
sonnes
bee
valiaunt
to
attempt
a
victory
,
and
that
his
indeuour
to
captyuate
our
myndes
will
be
of
more
effycacie
then
their
labour
to
weaken
our
forces
,
for
that
beawtie
is
of
more
vigour
then
prowesse
,
and
affection
a
sorer
enemy
to
resist
then
fortitude
:
Hercules
found
the
sight
of
Deianyra
more
perilous
then
all
the
rest
of
his
trauells
.
Mars
had
rather
oppose
him selfe
against
all
the
Gods
,
then
enter
a
iarre
with
Venus
.
Beawty
is
metaphysicall
,
and
therefore
challengeth
a
supremacy
aboue
Nature
:
Exteriour
actions
are
tyed
to
the
Wynges
of
Fortune
,
but
thoughts
as
they
are
passionate
,
so
they
are
within
the
compasse
of
Fancy
,
I
speake
this
Madame
,
in
that
the
Senators
of
Troy
seeing
how
well
the
Greekes
are
able
to
brooke
the
force
of
Hector
and
Troilus
,
the
two
hopefull
Champions
of
Asia
,
haue
now
not
in
defiaunce
,
but
vnder
Patronage
of
Truce
sent
such
sweete
enemyes
,
as
are
able
with
their
very
lookes
to
make
a
greater
conquest
,
then
all
your
hardy
knights
with
their
Launces
;
if
then
Madame
vnarmed
as
we
be
,
beawtie
take
vs
at
discouert
,
and
make
a
Breach
ma●gre
our
teeth
into
our
rampiers
,
yet
hold
wee
our selues
good
Souldiers
in
that
her
weapons
are
inchaunted
,
and
such
as
the
more
they
are
resisted
the
more
they
pearce
.
Polixena
who
as
she
was
fayre
,
so
shee
was
wyse
,
seeing
how
clarkely
Achilles
began
to
claw
hir
by
the
Elbowe
,
willing
to
let
him
knowe
shee
was
able
to
espie
a
pad
in
the
straw
,
cut
him
of
in
the
midst
of
his
talke
with
this
aunswere
.
I
cannot
thinke
sir
but
my
father
Priamus
standeth
in
better
hope
to
fier
the
Pauylions
of
his
enemyes
with
a
Brande
then
with
a
Booke
,
and
putteth
more
assurance
in
the
valour
of
his
Sonnes
then
in
the
counsell
of
his
Senatours
,
yet
knowing
the
Goddesse
Pallas
whose
sacred
Palladium
wee
haue
in
Troy
,
vseth
as
well
a
pen
as
a
Speare
,
hee
counteth
pollycie
a
necessary
frinde
to
prowesse
,
and
a
Schollers
Lawrell
wreath
,
no
disgrace
to
a
Souldiours
steeled
Helmet
.
But
whereas
in
●●shonour
of
our
knights
,
you
alledge
hee
hath
sent
Ladyes
to
make
a
conquest
by
beawtie
that
cannot
bee
atchieued
with
the
Swoorde
:
This
were
(
good
sir
)
but
a
slender
shift
to
deceiue
him selfe
,
for
wee
knowe
that
the
eye
being
impartiall
in
censuring
of
coullers
neuer
flattereth
it selfe
in
the
emblazing
of
Beawtie
.
The
Gretian
Ladies
then
being
farre
our
superiours
in
those
fauors
which
the
Graces
gyue
,
commaundeth
vs
to
blush
at
comparisons
,
I
must
as
simple
as
I
am
suppose
your
coniect●re
dissimuled
,
sith
so
litle
probability
drawes
me
on
to
beliefe
.
But
put
case
this
supposition
beare
some
liklihood
of
truth
.
Doe
wee
not
know
our
enemies
are
Gretians
,
taught
in
their
Schoolles
amongst
their
Philosophers
,
that
all
wisdome
is
honest
that
is
profitable
,
that
theyr
heads
are
as
full
of
subtelty
,
as
their
hartes
are
of
valour
,
howe
their
thoughts
are
plumed
with
the
feathers
of
time
,
&
that
fancie
hangeth
at
their
eylids
which
neuer
maketh
so
deepe
an
impression
,
but
it
may
bee
shaken
of
at
euery
wincke
for
an
instaunce
.
Giue
me
leaue
to
alledge
Theseus
,
who
was
as
valiant
as
most
,
and
yet
saith
Helena
as
variable
as
might
bee
.
Then
sir
feare
not
our
forces
,
for
we
Ladies
come
but
to
fetch
●ier
,
neyther
to
see
as
desirous
to
choose
,
nor
to
bee
seene
as
willing
to
please
,
only
to
trie
the
Greatian
courtesie
,
and
that
wee
looke
for
by
promise
.
Achilles
amazed
with
the
checke
of
such
an
vnlookt
for
mate
,
perceiuing
that
the
Ladyes
of
Troie
had
a
deepe
in-sight
into
the
Gretian
actions
,
blusht
at
his
owne
conceiptes
in
that
he
knew
better
how
to
redouble
a
blow
vpon
his
enemie
,
then
giue
a
counterchecke
to
such
a
subtill
reply
,
yet
following
his
footing
,
thus
hee
made
answere
.
T'
is
hard
in
deede
Madame
,
to
harbour
beliefe
in
the
bozome
of
mistrust
,
or
to
blind
suspition
with
a
false
couller
,
especially
when
conceipt
standeth
at
the
doore
of
an
enemy
.
But
were
there
a
league
betweene
Asia
and
Greece
,
as
a
Flagge
of
defiaunce
waueth
ouer
the
walles
of
Troy
,
then
might
a
creple
hal●
without
checke
,
whereas
●ow
,
tread
we
neaer
so
euen
,
our
steppes
are
supposed
aw●ye
.
But
time
the
perfect
Heralt
of
truth
shall
prooue
the
Gretians
so
far
out
of
loue
with
the
God
Ianus
,
that
frowne
hee
neuer
so
much
they
will
not
offer
him
a
myte
for
a
Sacrifice
.
Your
honour
my
Lorde
(
quoth
Polixena
)
doth
but
dreame
with
Endymion
in
the
mount
.
Womens
wills
are
peremptorie
&
like
Faulcons
sometime
they
will
bate
at
a
ful
fist
.
Time
is
the
best
orator
to
a
resolute
minde
,
&
therefore
argue
not
where
a
principle
is
denied
,
for
there
the
party
is
incredulous
.
Let
loue
alone
for
we
come
not
to
feede
our
eies
with
beawty
nor
our
eares
with
passions
,
our
countrie
smoake
burnes
cleare
enough
for
vs
to
warme
vs
at
,
setting
downe
,
which
rest
,
I
pray
you
my
Lorde
whose
tent
is
this
that
appeareth
so
rich
.
Achilles
séeing
the
ston●
was
so
pure
that
his
coine
would
beare
no
touch
,
fell
from
his
amorous
prattle
and
tolde
hir
that
the
formost
of
azur●
bisse
,
topt
with
a
Dragon
,
perced
with
a
speare
,
was
the
pauilion
of
their
Generall
Agamemnon
:
what
?
the
father
(
quoth
)
Polixena
of
Iphigenia
so
famous
for
hir
wisdome
and
chastity
,
whom
the
Gretians
haue
so
honored
in
their
madrigalles
as
a
second
Diana
:
The
same
(
quoth
)
Achilles
,
and
so
madame
you
are
welcome
to
the
Greekish
host
,
leauing
of
thus
their
priuate
prattle
,
Agamemnon
accompanied
with
aged
Nestor
and
other
Lords
,
stoode
at
the
doore
of
Achilles
tent
redie
to
intertayne
the
Troians
who
with
the
rest
dismounting
from
their
horse
,
Hector
pazing
hand
in
hand
with
Achilles
,
Troilus
with
Vlisses
,
and
Helenus
with
Patroclus
,
they
were
together
with
the
Ladies
in
great
magnificence
conducted
into
the
inner
part
of
the
pauilion
:
where
Agamemnon
after
he
had
saluted
the
Lords
,
and
welcomed
the
Ladies
,
he
presented
the
Troians
wyth
as
braue
a
spectacle
,
as
they
incountred
the
Gretians
,
for
there
came
out
in
most
rich
attyre
,
Iphigenia
,
Bryseis
,
and
Cresida
,
thrée
nothing
inferiour
in
fauours
to
the
daughters
of
Priamus
:
an
interchange
of
courtesie
passed
betweene
these
Dames
,
and
some
parlée
had
which
I
ouer
passe
,
they
sat
downe
to
dynner
,
where
sumptuously
serued
,
taking
their
repast
without
any
great
talke
:
〈◊〉
tables
taken
vp
,
Vlysses
naturally
desirous
to
haue
an
inught
into
the
maners
of
men
,
began
to
break
their
silence
in
this
maner
.
I
can
but
woonder
worthy
Lords
of
Troy
at
the
madnesse
of
Paris
,
that
allured
by
the
care
,
passed
the
seas
to
possesse
him selfe
of
a
supposed
Iem
,
syth
his
owne
country
soyle
aforded
farre
more
pretious
Iewells
,
but
lesse
is
the
Margarite
accounted
of
in
the
westerne
world
where
it
is
found
,
then
the
seede
Pearle
in
a
straunge
countrey
where
it
is
vnknowne
,
thoughts
,
the
farther
they
wade
,
the
sweeter
:
and
desires
ended
with
perrill
,
sauour
of
the
greatest
delight
.
Open
prayses
are
counted
secret
flatteries
,
but
the
mouth
of
an
enemy
seldome
ouerflowes
with
good
words
,
if
then
without
preiudice
I
may
speake
of
wisedome
at
the
shryne
of
Apollo
.
Let
me
say
courteous
Knights
that
your
Dames
,
if
eyther
the
rest
be
like
these
,
or
their
daily
actions
may
be
measured
by
their
present
behauior
:
are
beawtiful●
as
fauored
by
nature
in
their
exteriour
liniaments
.
Wise
,
as
graced
with
a
diu●ne
influence
,
sober
&
silent
,
as
portending
a
temperate
&
vnfained
chastity
.
The
perfection
of
Nature
consisting
in
these
pointes
:
I
maruell
Paris
woulde
make
his
choice
of
such
a
●eece
,
and
hasard
the
welfare
of
his
father
,
countrey
,
and
friendes
,
for
a
woman
only
indewed
with
the
bare
tytle
of
beawty
,
such
a
fading
good
as
scarse
can
be
possessed
before
it
be
vanished
?
Cressida
tickled
,
a
little
with
a
selfe
conceipt
of
hir
owne
wit
,
willing
to
let
the
Troians
know
the
phrase
of
hir
speech
was
as
fayre
as
the
fourme
of
hir
face
,
&
that
womens
tounges
perced
as
déepe
as
thei●
eyes
,
interrupted
Vlys●es
in
his
talke
thus
.
And
as
great
maruell
my
Lordes
haue
we
the
Ladies
of
Gretia
,
that
Hector
and
his
brethren
,
so
famous
through
all
the
world
for
their
martiall
exploits
,
should
beare
armes
in
her
defence
,
whose
dishonesty
ruinates
both
theyr
fame
&
theyr
countrey
.
Iustice
gyuing
euery
man
his
due
,
allot●
lyttle
pryuiledge
to
de●rawde
a
man
of
his
wyfe
,
which
is
the
surest
fe●●●mple
.
The
fayth
of
a
knight
is
not
limited
by
val●●r
,
but
by
vertue
:
fortitude
consisteth
not
in
hasarding
without
feare
,
but
in
being
resolute
vpon
Iust
cause
,
Helena
is
stolen
,
a
fact
repayed
with
infamy
.
Menelaus
is
iniuried
,
a
thing
crying
for
reuenge
:
the
princely
souldiers
of
Troy
defends
such
a
misse
with
the
sword
:
a
shamefull
victory
,
if
happely
they
myght
obtaine
the
conquest
.
Hector
as
Chollericke
as
she
was
scrupulous
,
roundly
without
longer
debating
with
him selfe
,
made
hir
this
answere
.
As
Madame
,
Iustice
in
a
vertue
that
giues
euery
man
his
owne
by
equall
proportion
,
so
reuenge
the
sweetest
content
to
parsons
thwar●ed
with
iniuries
,
lookes
not
to
end
hir
actions
with
an
euen
ballance
,
but
vseth
Legem
Talio●●●
,
repaying
like
for
like
:
styrring
vp
the
fire
with
a
Swoorde
,
and
for
brasse
weighing
downe
the
scales
with
Leade
.
As
my
brother
hath
brought
a
trull
from
Gréece
,
so
myne
Aunt
,
perforce
(
a
fault
farre
surpassing
this
fact
)
was
stolne
from
Troy
,
and
from
the
Daughter
of
a
king
made
a
seruile
Concubyne
.
Nature
,
that
despight
of
tyme
will
frowne
at
abuse
and
honour
:
that
hurte
thirsteth
to
salue
hir selfe
with
reuenge
,
hath
taught
vs
(
although
wee
offer
Helena
thoughtes
fit
for
hir
offence
)
to
mayntayne
my
Brothers
deede
with
the
Swoorde
,
not
to
allowe
such
a
fact
honorable
,
but
as
holding
it
princely
,
with
death
to
requite
an
iniury
.
If
then
(
quoth
Ac●illes
)
honour
hangs
in
reuenge
,
I
hope
our
resolute
mindes
to
acquit
Menelaus
abuse
,
shall
witnesse
to
the
world
,
wee
prefer
a
princely
thought
before
a
priuate
lyfe
,
and
choose
rather
to
dy
satisfied
then
liue
dishonoured
.
Troilus
willing
to
shewe
that
the
weapons
of
Troy
were
as
sharp
ground
as
the
swords
of
the
Gretians
,
and
that
feare
had
as
litle
priuiledge
to
crepe
within
their
walles
as
to
lurke
within
the
others
tents
,
made
Achilles
this
answere
.
My
Lords
of
Greece
,
the
talke
of
a
Souldiour
ought
to
hang
at
the
point
of
his
sword
:
threats
are
not
to
be
menaced
with
the
tounge
,
but
with
the
Launce
,
&
tune
craues
a
proportion
in
all
thinges
:
wee
came
to
see
the
order
of
your
Pauilions
,
not
to
discourse
of
attempts
in
battaile
.
To
sacrifice
the
talke
of
warres
to
Mars
,
before
Ladye●
is
to
offer
a
drumme
and
Trumpet
to
dainty
Venus
for
a
present
.
Greece
complayneth
of
iniury
.
Troy
is
impatient
of
dishonour
:
both
greeued
ayme
at
reuenge
.
The
Truce
expired
,
let
the
doubt
by
the
fauour
of
the
gods
and
fortun●●e
decided
.
The
Gretians
greatly
commended
the
reply
of
Troilus
,
so
tempered
with
myldnesse
and
valour
,
as
he
seemed
to
hold
a
martiall
peace
in
his
forehead
.
Vlis●es
greeuing
that
hee
was
the
author
of
this
Iarre
,
seeking
subtilly
to
cast
the
Shackle
from
his
owne
foote
,
followed
his
former
parle
in
this
manner
.
Thinke
me
not
so
forgetfull
(
worthy
Troians
)
eyther
of
tyme
or
place
,
that
my
intent
was
to
mingle
the
bytter
potions
of
Mars
wyth
the
sweete
lyquor
of
Bacchus
,
that
I
ment
to
make
a
consort
betweene
the
Trumpet
and
the
Lute
,
or
by
rehearsing
of
Paris
loues
,
to
call
in
question
our
open
warres
:
Only
least
time
should
accuse
vs
of
niggardise
,
and
the
Ladyes
grow
to
melancholy
by
ouermuch
silence
,
by
accusing
Paris
of
folly
I
thought
to
discouer
the
force
of
fancy
,
which
partiall
in
her
Cenzures
prooueth
●●●wty
more
predominant
in
aff●ction
,
then
vertue
.
Helena
was
fayre
and
a
Queene
,
witty
and
therefore
the
sooner
woonne
,
but
yet
di●honest
,
a
cooling
Carde
to
desire
,
a
stayne
manifest
to
the
mynde
,
and
yet
so
quickly
ouerslipt
by
the
eye
,
as
it
sh●wes
how
litle
Iuditiall
the
thoughtes
bee
of
vn●ridled
affection
.
Had
the
Troians
(
quoth
Iphigenia
Academis
)
like
to
the
Gretians
,
or
were
their
cytties
peopled
as
well
with
Philosophers
as
Souldiours
,
Paris
had
learned
by
their
wise
precepts
to
haue
preferred
Uertue
before
Beawty
,
&
not
to
haue
bought
repentaunce
so
deare
.
Pallas
stands
sacred
in
Troy
,
but
Priamus
and
his
Sonnes
lookes
at
her
Speare
,
not
at
her
booke
:
they
finde
in
her
foreheade
warres
,
but
they
see
not
in
hir
Breast
the
pourtrature
of
Wisdome
,
they
pen
downe
volumes
of
martiall
discipline
,
but
knowe
not
Apian
of
morrall
Philosophy
,
which
is
the
cause
they
measure
all
their
passions
by
will
,
and
call
Ve●●●
a
goddesse
onely
for
hir
outwarde
glory
.
Andromac●e
hearing
how●
hardly
Iphigenia
did
inueigh
against
theyr
want
of
learning
,
thought
a
litle
to
be
pleasaunt
and
yet
Saty●icall
,
so
that
shee
made
hir
this
sharp
answere
.
In
deede
Madame
you
say
well
:
The
Gretians
haue
such
a
selfe
conceipt
in
theyr
wysedome
,
as
they
count
all
Barbarians
that
are
not
lym●ted
wythin
the
confines
of
Greece
,
and
so
studious
are
they
of
philosophie
that
euery
oeconomicall
state
standes
vppon
precepts
,
the
wyfe
sayes
not
Salue
to
hir
husbande
,
but
shee
hath
a
warrant
of
hir
action
from
the
Philosopher
:
our
Ladyes
like
homely
huswyfes
beguile
time
wich
the
Dystaffe
,
your
Dames
apply
their
myndes
to
their
bookes
,
and
become
so
well
lettered
that
after
long
study
they
prooue
as
vertuous
as
Helena
:
giue
mee
leaue
Madame
to
bring
hir
for
a
president
of
your
philosophicall
wysedome
,
as
well
as
you
induced
Paris
for
an
instaunce
of
our
barbarous
ignoraunce
.
Iphigenia
séeing
hir selfe
so
clarkly
ouertaken
in
hir
own
inuectiue
,
blusht
,
&
the
noble
men
smiled
to
sée
how
smoothly
Andromache
thwarted
hir
presumption
.
But
Bryses
willing
to
shew
hir
skil
,
made
Andromache
this
answere
.
And
yet
Madame
by
your
leaue
,
the
particular
instance
of
one
woman
condemnes
not
the
generall
profit
of
good
letters
,
Helenas
dishonesty
is
no
preiudice
to
the
study
of
philosophy
,
neyther
doo
our
Gretian
Ladyes
blush
at
hir
folly
,
sith
what
Greece
refuseth
as
an
abiect
,
Troy
harboreth
as
an
Idoll
,
wherein
wee
may
say
without
offence
,
that
(
such
lipps
such
lettyce
)
that
which
the
Citizens
loue
in
their
hearts
they
maintayne
with
the
sworde
:
Venus
intreated
Iupiter
for
Calisto
when
Diana
had
exiled
hir
for
a
refuse
,
and
so
Priamus
honours
hir
for
a
Goddesse
that
wee
hated
for
a
Strumpet
.
Cassandra
who
all
this
while
buried
vp
this
talke
in
silence
,
at
last
as
forced
to
speake
in
defence
of
hir
countrey
began
in
this
maner
.
Greece
in
deede
swarmeth
with
Philosophers
,
the
fathers
and
forepointers
of
wysedome
,
but
●he
learned
delyuer
that
in
precepts
,
which
the
people
neuer
put
in
pr●ctise
:
Apollo
the
glory
of
Greece
and
God
and
prophet
at
Delphos
:
saith●
that
vertue
is
not
perfit
without
action
,
that
study
and
contemplation
is
friuolous
nisi
adiungatur
actio
,
for
it
is
not
sufficient
,
as
Hermes
Tresnygistus
your
great
Philosopher
affirmes
to
spend
time
in
the
knowledge
of
any
Science
,
vnlesse
by
attayning
vnto
that
skill
wee
shewe
the
fruites
of
such
doctrine
in
our
liues
.
Then
if
action
must
of
necessity
be
ioyned
to
study
and
contemplation
,
otherwise
a
vertuous
and
happy
life
is
not
perfected
,
then
we
Barbarians
may
boast
of
our
owne
disposition
,
that
honour
vertue
in
our
deedes
,
which
you
onely
account
for
a
goddesse
in
thought
,
wee
through
ignoraunce
haue
fetcht
a
Harlot
from
Greece
,
and
you
that
are
learned
make
a
challeng
to
recall
vyce
with
the
sword
:
whose
folly
is
the
greatest
,
let
the
verdict
of
one
of
your
owne
Philosophers
witnesse
,
whose
censure
is
,
that
,
Qui
inuito
peccat
,
minus
peccat
quàm
qui
sponte
peccat
.
This
philosophicall
answere
of
Cassandra
so
satisfied
the
Gretians
,
as
they
admyred
hir
speech
,
and
held
hir
reason
for
an
Oracle
.
All
driuen
with
this
censure
into
silence
,
Vlisses
as
he
was
first
,
thought
to
be
last
,
and
therefore
made
this
reply
.
It
is
not
seene
Madame
by
your
sweete
selfe
,
but
Philosophers
are
honou●ed
in
Troie
,
that
you
haue
theyr
precepts
so
well
in
memorie
.
They
which
sacrifice
to
Neptune
can
talke
of
the
Sea
,
and
such
as
honor
Mars
,
of
warlike
discipline
:
the
stringes
of
the
heart
reach
to
the
tip
of
the
tounge
,
thoughts
are
blossomes
of
the
minde
,
&
wordes
the
fruites
of
desiers
.
Your
phisicall
reasons
bewraies
a
good
naturalist
,
&
your
opinion
of
morall
actions
,
an
in-sight
into
philosophy
:
therefore
Madame
,
to
giue
euery
one
theyr
due
,
wee
cannot
but
confesse
the
Troians
are
as
wise
as
warlike
,
&
the
Ladies
can
apply
the
eye
as
wel
to
the
booke
,
as
the
fingar
to
the
dissafe
:
yet
to
sett
truth
in
hir
prime
,
l●t
mee
say
thus
much
without
offence
,
that
neuer
haue
I
seene
lawl●sse
loue
end
without
losse
,
nor
the
nuptiall
bed
defiled
escape
without
reuenge
:
m●n
d●termine
,
but
the
god●●ispose
:
humaine
actions
are
oft
measured
by
will
,
but
the
●●●sures
from
aboue
are
iust
and
peremptorie
:
Fortune
is
a
goddesse
but
hath
no
priuiledge
in
punishing
of
faultes
:
which
one
of
our
Poets
no●ing
well
,
by
a
plague
inferred
for
some
off●nce
,
yeeldeth
this
re●son
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
it
was
the
will
of
Iupiter
.
To
con●irm●
which
,
if
the
Troian
Lordes
and
Ladies
giue
mee
leau●
,
I
will
rehearse
a
pleasaunt
hystorie
.
Wee
hard
(
quoth
Cassandra
)
before
any
B●rke
came
within
ken
of
Troy
,
that
Ag●memnon
was
full
of
Maiesty
,
Achilles
of
cour●ge
,
Nestor
of
wis●●ome
,
Vlisses
of
eloquence
,
an●
the
rest
of
th●●ordes
i●d●wed
with
sundry
and
seu●rall
vertues
:
to
make
a
proofe
of
which
,
for
that
Fame
is
oft
prodigall
in
hir
prayses
,
wee
aduentured
this
parle
:
&
therefore
,
paying
thankes
for
your
paynes
,
we
promise
to
be
silent
auditors
to
your
discourse
,
Vlis●es
taking
hir
word
for
warrant
,
séeing
how
all
the
company
setled
themselues
to
silence
,
began
on
this
manner
.
Vlisses
Tale
.
A
Tragedy
IN
our
countrey
of
Greece
,
and
in
a
prouince
called
Ithaca
,
as
the
annall
recordes
makes
mention
,
there
rayned
a
prince
named
Polumestor
,
happy
as
one
fauored
euery
way
by
fortune
:
for
hee
was
graced
with
a
diadem
as
of
royall
parentage
borne
●o
commaund
,
rich
in
possessions
,
able
to
be
liberall
in
all
his
attempts
,
wyse
,
as
sought
to
for
his
censures
,
like
a
seconde
saint
of
Delphos
,
and
martiall
,
as
accounted
one
of
the
best
Souldiours
in
his
time
:
indewed
with
these
speciall
fauours
,
and
adorned
with
sundry
vertues
,
hee
was
feared
of
his
enimies
,
as
on●
that
ended
his
quarrells
in
reuenge
,
and
loued
of
his
frinds
as
a
prince
,
limiting
no
tyme
in
frindship
,
being
euery
way
of
such
perfect
disposition
,
both
in
the
complexion
of
his
body
,
and
constitution
of
his
minde
,
as
it
was
a
question
whether
the
lyniaments
of
his
face
,
or
the
proportion
of
his
wisedome
helde
the
greater
supremacie
.
Polumestor
●●ing
thus
happy
,
for
that
nature
and
fortune
had
made
him
so
speciallie
happy
,
the
goddesse
,
whose
actions
are
measured
by
inconstancy
,
willing
to
place
him
on
the
top
of
the
highest
Pyramides
of
blisse
,
that
so
being
a
marke
for
enuy
,
the
fall
of
hir
wheele
might
be
the
end
of
his
con●ent
,
and
the
deepe
declining
to
mishap
&
miserie
,
gaue
him
in
the
prime
of
his
yeares
a
wyfe
,
by
byrth
royall
,
fayer
by
nature
,
and
learned
by
education
,
graced
with
such
sondry
excellent
&
exquisite
qualities
,
as
might
not
onely
tie
the
affection
of
hir
husband
by
endlesse
desier
to
like
and
loue
hir
,
but
also
force
fame
to
make
such
report
of
hir
supposed
vertues
,
as
the
world
should
not
onely
admyre
hir
perfection
,
but
count
Greece
happie
for
possessing
so
fayer
and
vertuous
a
creature
.
But
as
the
Panther
hauing
the
fairest
skinne
hath
the
most
infectious
breath
,
and
as
the
tree
Alpyna
is
the
more
bitter
,
the
smoother
his
barke
is
:
so
nature
hauing
drawen
such
an
absolute
counterfect
of
beawty
,
as
might
discouer
what
hir
cunning
coulde
aforde
,
yet
had
placed
in
the
midst
of
such
a
myrrour
so
imperfect
a
minde
,
as
the
staine
of
the
one
did
ad
a
disgrace
to
the
glorie
of
the
other
.
For
this
Lady
whose
name
was
Maedina
as
she
had
an
exteriour
kinde
of
discretion
so
warelie
to
moderate
hir
actions
,
as
report
coulde
not
pry
into
hir
deedes
,
so
inwardly
had
she
such
a
subtil
dissimulation
to
cloake
the
foulest
spot
of
vice
with
the
maske
of
vertue
,
that
fame
feared
to
enter
into
the
discouery
o●
hir
thoughts
,
so
equall
was
the
outward
proportion
of
hir
behauiour
.
But
time
the
Heralt
that
best
imblazeth
the
conceipts
of
the
minde
,
willing
to
make
an
Anatomie
of
hir
deceipts
,
began
his
Tragedie
in
this
manner
.
In
the
court
of
Ithaca
there
serued
a
Gentleman
of
good
Parentage
,
though
of
small
Patrimonie
,
who
coueting
to
make
a
supply
of
his
want
by
the
fauor
of
his
prince
,
indeuored
him selfe
to
all
lawdable
qualities
,
not
onely
in
the
exercise
of
his
body
,
but
in
the
deuise
of
his
minde
,
as
well
I
meane
in
wearing
the
Lawrell
with
Pallas
,
as
the
〈◊〉
with
Mars
,
being
so
courteous
both
in
duetie
to
his
superiours
,
and
in
affalibity
to
his
equals
,
as
he
was
generally
loued
and
honored
of
all
men
.
Vortymis
,
for
so
was
the
Gentlemans
name
,
lyuing
thus
fortunate
,
because
fauored
in
the
seruice
of
his
prince
,
thinking
that
the
fruite
of
time
was
●auored
with
all
one
tast
,
found
that
she
was
of
the
ofspring
of
Ianus
double
faced
,
hauing
as
well
wrinckles
in
the
one
to
prognosticate
mishap
,
as
dimples
in
the
other
to
make
assurance
of
prosperity
:
for
enuy
resembling
the
Serpent
Hydaspis
,
that
alwaies
purgeth
his
venome
on
the
fairest
flower
,
séeing
that
Fortune
had
resolued
to
make
him
a
lease
of
his
happines
.
Ioyning
in
league
with
fancie
,
the
worme
that
byteth
sorest
,
the
flowrishing
blossomes
of
Youth
gaue
him
such
a
braie
by
the
meanes
of
beawty
,
as
he
for
a
while
thinking
to
be
but
a
small
check
,
found
at
last
to
be
so
hard
a
mate
as
no
shift
,
but
misery
could
countermaund
.
For
the
princesse
whose
h●nd
sacrificed
perfumes
to
Vesta
when
hir
heart
offred
smoaking
thoughtes
to
Venus
,
noting
the
perfection
of
Vortymis
(
as
womens
eyes
delight
in
the
variet●e
of
obiects
)
seeing
that
the
sharpnesse
of
his
wit
(
a
sparke
that
soon●st
inflameth
desire
)
was
answerable
to
the
shape
of
his
body
,
and
that
his
minde
was
adorned
with
so
many
sondry
good
quallities
,
that
if
his
fortune
had
bene
equall
to
his
face
,
his
deserts
might
haue
made
him
a
prince●
she
began
so
far
to
enter
into
consideration
of
his
vertues
,
that
hazarding
too
rashlie
in
so
dangerous
a
Laberinth
,
she
felt
hir
minde
begin
to
alter
,
and
hir
affec●ions
to
stoope
to
such
a
stake
as
repent
she
might
,
but
recall
she
could
not
.
But
taking
these
thoughts
for
passionate
toyes
that
might
bee
thrust
out
at
pleasure
,
cursing
loue
that
attempted
such
a
chaunge
,
&
blaming
the
basenesse
of
hir
minde
that
would
make
such
a
choice
to
auoide
the
Syrene
that
inchaunted
hir
with
such
deceiptful
melody
,
she
called
to
one
of
hir
maides
for
a
Lute
,
whereupon
singing
a
solemne
madrygale
shee
thought
to
beguile
such
vnacquainted
passions
,
but
finding
that
musike
was
but
to
quench
the
fier
with
a
sworde
feeleth
assaultes
to
bee
so
sharpe
,
as
hir
minde
was
rea●●
to
yeelde
as
vanquished
,
shee
began
with
diuerse
considerations
to
suppresse
this
frantike
affection
,
calling
to
mynde
that
Vortymis
was
but
a
meane
G●ntl●man
,
one
for
his
byrth
not
worthy
to
bee
looked
at
of
a
princesse
,
much
lesse
to
be
loued
of
such
a
mighty
Potentate
,
thinking
what
a
discredit
it
were
to
hir self
,
what
an
infamy
to
hir
husband
,
what
a
griefe
to
hir
frindes
,
yea
what
a
mighty
shame
should
bee
guerdon
for
such
a
monstruous
fault
,
blaming
Fortune
and
accusing
hir
owne
folly
,
that
should
be
so
fond
as
but
once
to
harbour
such
a
thought
as
to
fals●●ie
hir
faith
to
hir
husband
,
or
stoope
so
low
a●
one
of
the
meanest
of
hir
subiects
.
As
thus
shee
was
raging
against
hir selfe
,
Loue
feared
,
if
shee
dallied
long
to
loose
hir
champion
,
step●
more
nigh
,
and
gaue
hir
such
a
fresh
wound
as
pearst
hir
at
the
very
heart
,
that
shée
wa●
faine
to
yéelde
maugre
hir
former
considerations
,
and
forsaking
all
company
to
get
hir
into
hir
priuy
Garden
,
where
being
sollempnly
set
in
a
coole
Arbour
,
she
burst
forth
into
these
passionat
teares
.
Infortunate
Moedyna
,
hath
Fame
hetherto
feared
to
speake
ill
of
thy
thoughts
,
&
shall
report
now
dare
to
misconstrue
of
thy
actions
?
hath
Greece
honoured
thee
for
thy
vertues
?
and
shall
the
whole
world
at
last
abhorre
thee
for
thy
vanities
?
shall
the
Ladies
of
Ithaca
,
who
alledge
thée
for
a
president
of
chastity
,
blush
when
they
heare
of
thy
vnbridled
fancy
?
Nay
shall
Polumestor
,
who
desired
thée
for
thy
honorable
qualities
,
haue
cause
to
loath
thée
for
thy
dishonest
conditions
?
No
Moedyna
,
thinke
this
,
there
is
no
swéeter
frinde
then
fame
,
nor
worse
enemy
then
report
:
Princes
thoughts
as
they
are
royall
,
so
they
ought
to
looke
no
lower
then
honor
.
More
is
homely
Bawcis
accounted
of
for
hir
honesty
in
hir
poore
Cotage
,
then
Venus
withall
hir
amours
in
hir
sumptuous
Temples
:
And
yet
Moedyna
,
Loue
is
deuine
,
feare●
of
men
,
because
honored
of
the
Gods
:
not
to
bee
suppressed
by
wisedome
,
because
not
to
bee
comprehended
by
reason
:
without
law
,
and
therefore
aboue
all
lawe
.
And
why
fond
woman
doost
thou
blase
that
with
pra●●es
,
which
thou
hast
cause
to
blaspheme
with
curses
:
offer
not
Doues
to
Venus
,
but
hemblocke
:
seeke
not
to
extinguish
the
flame
with
oyle
,
but
temper
the
sweetest
potions
with
the
sharpest
Uinegar
:
yea
Moedyna
,
blush
at
thy
fortune
,
thy
choice
,
thy
loue
,
sith
thy
thoughts
cannot
bee
conceiued
without
secret
shame
,
nor
thy
affections
vttered
without
open
discredit
:
farre
are
these
fancies
,
or
rather
f●llies
,
vnfit
for
thy
birth
,
thy
dignities
,
thy
kingdomes
:
hast
thou
not
heard
as
an
oracle
from
Apollo
,
that
it
is
better
to
perish
with
high
desires
,
then
to
liue
in
base
thoughts
?
Daphne
chose
●ather
to
loose
hir
humaine
shape
,
then
to
make
shipwracke
of
hir
honesti●
.
But
yet
Vo●tymis
is
beawtifull
,
a
fauour
fond
foole
,
framed
to
feede
the
eye
,
not
to
●etter
the
heart
,
hee
is
wise
,
so
thinke
he
is
vertuous
and
will
censure
of
thy
actions
according
to
desert
,
not
desire
:
Tush
,
being
both
beawtifull
and
wise
,
why
should
hee
not
be
loued
:
wilt
thou
so
farre
forget
thy selfe
Moedyna
,
as
to
suffer
affection
to
suppresse
wisedome
,
&
loue
to
violate
thine
honor
.
Let
consideration
(
the
enemy
to
vntimely
attempts
)
tell
thee
that
repentance
in
infamy
is
no
amends
,
that
there
is
no
salue
against
the
hurt
that
cometh
,
from
report
that
honor
lost
biddeth
a
farrewell
to
hope
,
feare
then
to
hasard
that
for
the
gaine
of
a
momentary
pleasure
as
is
so
pretious
,
that
once
crackt
it
can
neuer
bee
recouered
:
how
dismall
would
the
fact
bee
to
thy
husband
,
how
sorrowfull
to
thy
subiects
,
how
greeuous
to
thy
frinds
,
how
gladsome
to
thy
foes
,
the
greatest
greefe
of
all
,
sith
the
smile
of
a
foe
that
proceedeth
from
enuie
,
is
worse
then
the
teare
of
a
frinde
that
cometh
of
pittie
.
These
premises
then
duely
considered
,
prefer
not
a
barlie
corne
before
a
pretious
Iewel
,
set
not
a
fading
content
before
a
perpetuall
honor
,
suppresse
thy
affections
,
and
cease
to
loue
him
whom
thou
couldst
not
loue
vnlesse
blind●d
with
too
much
loue
.
As
thus
shee
was
perplexed
with
sondry
passions
,
one
of
hir
Ladies
came
into
the
Arbour
wherevpon
shee
ceased
hir
complaintes
,
hoping
that
time
would
weare
out
that
which
fond
Loue
and
Fortune
had
wrought
,
calling
for
her
worke
,
that
with
easie
labou●●
she
might
pass●
ouer
hir
new
conceiued
●mours
.
But
see
the
olde
saying
.
Naturam
expellas
furca
tamen
osque
reccurr●t
.
Nature
hath
such
a
predominant
power
ouer
the
minde
as
the
ramage
Hawke
will
hardlie
be
reclaimed
,
the
Tygre
will
neuer
bee
tamed
,
the
Snayle
cannot
be
inforced
to
bee
swi●●
:
Nor
,
a
woman
that
resolueth
possible
to
b●e
perswaded
by
reason
,
which
Moedyna
prooued
true
,
●or
so
did
the
remembrance
of
hir
late
conceiued
Loue
alienate
hir
thoughts
from
hir
woonted
disposition
:
that
shame
and
dishonor
the
greatest
preuenters
of
mishap
,
were
no
meanes
to
diswade
hir
from
hir
determined
●ffection
:
i●
so
much
that
n●t
possible
to
hide
fier
in
straw
,
nor
to
smother
vp
fancie
in
youth
,
she
bare
such
a
fauorable
countenan●s
to
Vortymis
,
that
not
only
hir selfe
but
the
rest
of
the
court
marueiled
at
hir
submisse
familiarity
:
yet
in
that
hir
grace
had
heretofore
troden
hir
shooe
so
euen
,
as
no
step
was
so
much
as
thought
awry
,
they
construed
all
to
the
best
,
and
thought
hir
fauours
toward
Vortymis
proceeded
as
a
rewarde
for
his
vertues
,
not
from
a
regarde
to
his
beawtie
.
But
at
last
being
Venus
scholler
,
&
therefore
daring
with
hir
to
danc●
in
a
Net
,
shee
so
manifestlie
discouered
hir
affections
as
all
Ithaca
spake
of
hir
fancy
,
and
the
Gentleman
him selfe
began
to
blush
at
hir
follie
.
For
wheresoeuer
hee
was
resident
shée
made
it
hir
Chamber
of
presence
,
his
words
were
musike
and
conserued
with
proportion
,
his
lookes
were
Kalenders
of
hir
thoughts
,
for
if
hee
smyled
shee
could
not
but
laugh
,
&
euery
frowne
of
his
,
made
a
wrinckle
in
hir
foreheade
,
hée
did
nothing
but
if
shee
were
present
past
with
a
plauditie
:
to
bée
breefe
,
shée
noted
the
s●quell
of
his
life
by
the
censure
of
his
owne
doings
.
Which
well
marke●
by
Polumestor
hée
began
to
be
a
litle
Ie●lows
,
●ut
measuring
in
his
consideration
hir
fore passed
life
,
hee
began
thus
for
his
owne
suspicion
to
inu●igh
against
him selfe
.
Shamest
thou
not
Polumestor
to
bee
so
inequall
a
Iudge
,
as
to
reward
vertue
with
distrust
,
or
to
b●e
suspicious
where
no
occasion
of
doubt
is
offred
.
Knowest
thou
not
that
●mong
all
the
passions
wherewith
human
mindes
are
perplexed
,
there
is
none
that
gal●eth
with
restlesse
despight
as
th●t
infectious
,
s●●re
of
iealowsie
,
for
al
other
greefes
are
to
be
appeased
with
sensible
perswasions
,
to
be
cu●ed
with
holesome
counsaile
,
to
bee
relieued
by
want
,
or
by
tract
of
time
to
bee
worne
out
,
Iealowsie
onelie
excepted
,
which
is
s●
sawsed
with
susities
,
doubtes
and
pinching
mi●trust
that
who
so
seekes
by
frindly
co●ns●●●e
to
race
out
this
hellish
pass●on
,
forthwi●h
suspecteth
that
hee
giueth
this
counsaile
to
couer
his
owne
guil●inesse
:
yea
,
who
so
is
pay●ed
with
this
restlesse
torm●nt
doubteth
all
,
distrusteth
him self
,
is
alwaies
frozen
with
feare
&
fiered
with
suspition
,
hauing
that
wherein
consisteth
all
his
Ioy
t●
be
the
breeder
of
his
misery
.
Yea
Polumestor
it
is
such
a
heauy
enemy
to
that
holy
estate
of
matrimonie
,
sowing
betwéene
the
married
couple
such
deadly
seedes
of
secret
hatred
as
loue
being
once
raced
out
by
sacklesse
distrust
thereof
,
through
enuy
e●sueth
blooddy
reuenge
.
If
then
Iealowsie
be
such
a
fiend
as
pes●ureth
the
mynde
with
incessant
passions
,
suffer
not
Polumestor
such
a
Saturnine
infusion
of
melancholie
to
bee
predominant
in
thy
thoughts
,
oppose
the
proofe
of
thy
wyues
vertue
as
a
de●ensorie
to
withstand
suspition
,
think
hir
priuate
familiaritie
with
Vortymis
,
is
an
honest
●ourtesie
that
springs
from
a
royall
courage
,
not
from
a
dishonest
Concubine
:
suppose
the
best
,
least
in
vrging
a
blamelesse
minde
,
shee
begin
to
hate
and
indeuour
to
reuenge
.
And
in
this
resolution
Polumestor
rested
vsing
his
Ladie
with
such
good
and
woonted
fauour
as
might
haue
drawen
hir
from
hir
fool●sh
determination
,
for
seeing
hir
giuen
to
bee
solitarie
and
sad
,
hee
prouided
shewes
,
triumphes
,
maskes
and
other
pastimes
●o
recreate
hir
minde
,
but
loue
that
att●mpteth
a
secr●t
Ioy
with
an
open
greefe
gaue
no
content
,
but
a
pens●●e
musing
of
the
successe
of
hir
newe
thoughtes
:
which
thus
fondly
layed
to
the
viewe
of
euery
one
.
Vortymis
not
so
blinde
but
he
could
Iudge
of
coullers
,
espied
by
the
halfe
,
what
the
whole
ment
,
and
therefore
puffed
a
litle
vp
in
conceipt
with
the
fauor
of
a
princesse
,
séeing
oportunitie
layed
hir
hayrie
forehead
on
his
lappe
,
hee
began
somewha●
pertly
to
pry
into
the
exquisitnesse
of
hir
perfection
,
séeing
shee
was
passing
beawtifull
,
&
that
maiesty
added
a
grace
vnto
Nature
,
&
being
of
royall
Parentage
,
beawtie
decked
Nature
with
dignitie
:
this
interchang
considered
,
so
charmed
the
poore
Gentlemans
affections
,
that
faine
hée
would
haue
made
requitall
of
hir
fauours
with
like
courtesie
,
if
hir
princely
state
,
had
not
quatted
his
presumption
with
feare
:
houe●●ng
thus
betwene
two
streames
,
at
last
he
brast
foorth
into
these
bitter
complaints
.
Doost
thou
not
knowe
poore
Vortymis
that
actions
wrought
against
Nature
reape
despig●t
,
and
thoughts
aboue
Fortune
disdaine
:
that
what
byrde
gaseth
ag●inst
the
sunne
but
the
Eagle
,
waxeth
blinde
,
and
that
such
as
step
to
dignitie
,
if
vnfit
●all
,
that
thoughts
are
to
bee
measured
by
Fortunes
not
by
de●iers
,
how
falls
come
not
by
sitting
lowe
but
by
clyming
high
:
shall
therefore
all
feare
to
aspire
because
some
hap
to
fall
,
no
Vortymis
thou
art
fauored
:
yea
&
fancied
of
a
princesse
whose
dignity
may
shi●lde
thée
from
mishap
,
ah
fond
man
doost
thou
counte
euery
dimple
in
the
Chéeke
a
Decree
in
the
heart
,
euery
laugh
a
warrant
of
Loue.
Venus
lookt
on
more
then
she
loued
,
or
els
she
was
passing
amoro●s
:
womens
smyles
are
oft
more
of
custome
then
of
courtesie
,
and
princes
are
prodigall
with
their
eyes
when
they
are
nygards
in
thoughtes
,
for
thinke
not
fond
man
that
Eagles
wil
catch
at
f●●es
,
Cedars
stoope
to
brambles
,
or
mighty
princes
looke
at
such
homelie
peasaunts
,
no
,
no
,
thinke
hir
disdaine
is
greater
then
thy
desir●
,
shee
is
a
princesse
that
respecteth
hir
honour
,
thou
a
beggers
bratt
that
forgettest
thy
calling
,
cease
then
not
onely
to
say
but
to
thinke
shee
loues
thee
.
Vortymis
with
these
pythie
perswasions
somewhat
appeasing
the
sparkling
flames
of
loue
that
had
alreadie
warmed
his
brest
,
applyed
him selfe
to
his
woonted
exercises
,
in
hunting
,
hawking
,
running
at
tilt
,
and
other
pastimes
wherein
the
king
tooke
chiefest
delight
:
suppressing
his
affections
with
the
due
consideration
of
hir
Maiesty
and
his
meane
estate
,
and
counting
it
frenzie
not
fancie
,
to
cou●t
that
which
the
very
Destynies
would
deny
him
to
obtaine
.
But
Moedyna
was
more
impatient
in
hir
passions
,
for
loue
so
fiercely
assailed
hir
that
neyther
place
,
companie
,
time
,
nor
musike
coulde
mitigate
any
part
of
hir
lawlesse
martirdome
,
but
did
rather
farre
more
increase
hir
maladie
.
Shame
th●
hand-maide
to
dishonest
attempts
,
would
not
let
hir
craue
counsaile
in
this
case
,
nor
feare
of
report
suffer
hir
to
reueale
it
to
any
secret
frinde
,
but
shee
made
a
secretary
of
hir selfe
,
&
did
participate
hir
thoughts
with
hir
owne
troubled
mynde
.
Lingring
for
the
time
,
till
at
last
fortune
willing
in
a
sweete
figge
to
present
hir
bitter
wormewoode
,
found
such
fit
oportunity
,
that
Vortymis
and
shée
met
alone
in
the
priuie
Garden
,
where
(
as
lust
by
continuance
groweth
into
impudency
)
she
reauealed
vnto
him
the
summe
of
hir
desters
:
Vortymis
,
for
that
custome
in
offending
,
had
not
yet
taken
away
the
f●eling
of
the
faulte
began
to
blush
,
and
whether
it
were
for
conscience
,
or
feare
,
begun
with
great
reasons
to
perswade
Moedyna
from
hir
determined
folly
.
Shewing
first
what
an
offence
adultrie
was
to
the
Gods
,
how
such
vnlawfull
Actions
did
more
displease
the
Heauens
then
men
,
that
nuptiall
faith
violated
did
seldome
or
neuer
escape
without
reuenge
.
He
laide
before
hir
face
that
Polumestor
was
his
soueraigne
,
&
a
king
to
whom
he
was
bound
by
duetie
and
allegeaunce
recounting
what
soundry
fauoures
hee
had
receiued
at
his
handes
,
and
what
vyllanous
ingratitude
it
should
be
to
requite
him
with
such
disloyaltie
:
hee
tolde
hir
that
Princes
are
glorious
obiects
to
be
gazed
at
with
euery
eye
,
that
theyr
déedes
are
euen
table
talke
amonge
beggars
:
that
shame
and
infamie
followeth
at
the
héeles
of
vnbridled
Lust
,
and
report
glorieth
in
blazing
the
mishappe
of
princes
.
These
and
such
like
perswasions
of
Vortymis
could
not
preuayle
to
diswade
hir
from
hir
wicked
resolution
,
but
remaining
obstinate
in
hir
determination
,
hir
furie
so
●iered
with
rage
at
this
repulse
,
as
it
could
not
bee
appeased
with
reason
she
began
with
bitter
taunts
to
take
vp
the
gentleman
,
and
to
lay
before
him
two
baites
,
preferment
and
death
,
promising
if
hee
graunted
hir
desiers
to
bee
a
meanes
for
his
aduancement
to
high
dignities
,
and
vowing
if
hee
reiected
hir
loue
as
refuse
,
she
woulde
with
iniury
woorse
then
death
,
requite
his
scornefull
cowardize
.
Vortymis
s●eing
that
to
perswade
Moedyna
any
more
,
was
but
to
striue
agyinst
the
streame
(
as
feawe
intreaties
serue
to
leade
vnto
vyce
)
consented
as
secret
oportunitie
should
giue
them
leaue
to
bee
hir
faithfull
seruaunt
&
frinde
at
commaund
:
Moedyna
hearing
this
frindly
conclusion
of
Vortymis
,
promysed
in
requitall
of
his
graunt
,
that
neyther
tune
,
nor
aduerse
●ortune
should
diminish
hir
affection
,
but
in
that
despight
of
the
destinies
she
should
bée
alwayes
faithfull
,
&
therevpon
for
●eare
of
further
suspition
,
she
went
into
hir
chamber
,
leauing
Vortymis
in
a
doubtfull
dyleman
,
which
hee
began
thus
to
discusse
with
him selfe
.
Too
true
it
is
Vortymis
that
iniust
offences
may
escape
for
a
tyme
without
anger
but
neuer
without
reuenge
,
that
what
the
gods
deferre
they
take
not
away
,
that
delay
in
punishment
is
no
priuiledge
of
pardon
,
feare
then
Vortymis
to
commit
that
which
thou
oughtst
to
feare
,
if
not
past
all
feare
:
Adultery
,
yea
,
adultery
vile
wretch●
for
thou
canst
not
grace
the
crime
with
a
better
couller
,
a
faulte
so
opposite
to
the
heauens
,
so
contrary
to
nature
,
so
odious
to
men
,
as
the
Gods
reuenge
without
forgetfulnesse
.
Brute
beastes
by
meare
instinct
of
nature
abhorre
,
and
men
as
a
fault
most
impious
censure
with
the
guerdon
of
death
.
Truth
but
t'
is
a
princesse
that
perswades
.
A
Quéene
that
holdeth
in
the
one
hand
death
,
and
the
other
dignity
:
ah
Vortymis
what
then
,
the
higher
honor
is
s●ated
by
vertue
the
déeper
is
hir
fall
ouerthrowen
by
vyce
,
the
greater
the
persons
bee
that
offend
,
the
more
foule
and
loathsome
is
the
fault
.
Base
thoughts
as
they
are
odious
so
th●y
are
inconstant
,
hot
l●ue
is
soone
colde
,
and
fayth
pighted
with
an
adulterous
vowe
,
as
it
is
tyed
without
conscience
,
so
t'
is
broken
without
care
.
Conscience
,
yea
,
conscience
Vortymis
,
which
is
such
a
worme
that
fretteth
like
the
Seres
wooll
:
secretly
and
deepely
,
easely
gotten
,
but
hardly
worne
out
.
What
so
is
rubbed
with
the
stone
Galactites
will
neuer
be
hot
.
Flesh
dipped
in
the
Sea
Egenun
will
neuer
bee
sweete
.
The
herbe
Tragion
being
once
byt
with
an
Aspis
never
groweth
,
&
conscience
once
stayned
with
trecherous
adultery
is
alwayes
tyed
to
a
guilty
remorse
.
But
yet
remember
Vortymis
that
folly
re●useth
gold
,
and
frenzie
preferment
:
Wysedome
seeketh
after
dignity
,
&
counsaile
after
gaine
:
a
pound
of
gold
is
worth
a
Tunne
of
Lead
:
Great
gyfts
are
little
gods
,
there
is
nothing
sweeter
then
promotion
,
nor
lighter
then
report
:
care
not
then
for
conscience
so
thou
b●e'st
rich
,
if
not
chastly
yet
charely
,
step
not
at
a
straw
,
but
prefer
an
ounce
of
dignity
before
a
scruple
of
honesty
.
And
with
that
hee
staide
as
halfe
out
of
loue
with
his
owne
wicked
resolution
.
For
hauing
muttered
out
these
or
such
like
words
,
seeing
eyther
hee
must
die
with
a
cleare
mynde
,
or
lyue
with
a
spotted
conscience
,
hee
was
combred
with
diuerse
cogitations
,
till
at
last
Fancie
growing
to
bee
predominant
ouer
vertue
,
hée
yeelded
to
the
Alarumes
of
lust
,
and
seeking
after
oportunitie
,
fo●nde
the
desiers
of
both
their
myndes
satisfied
:
Remaining
thus
drowned
a
while
in
this
supposed
pleasure
,
doubting
as
feare
is
the
companion
to
a
guilty
conscience
,
that
their
wickednesse
should
b●e
espyed
,
they
determyned
as
secretly
and
spe●dely
as
might
bee
to
flie
out
of
Ithaca
into
Samos
,
that
harbouring
there
vnknowen
,
they
might
end
their
delights
without
disturbance
,
for
they
knew
if
euer
(
as
time
is
a
bad
secretary
)
their
adulterous
practises
should
come
to
the
eares
of
Polumestor
,
a
worse
mishappe
then
death
should
be
allotted
for
their
ingratefull
mischiefe
,
resoluing
therefore
vpon
departure
least
delay
might
breede
daunger
,
and
the
grasse
bee
cutt
from
vnder
theyr
feete
,
they
seuerally
setled
them selues
to
their
secret
indeuours
,
for
Vortymis
who
was
skilfull
in
the
depth
and
daungers
of
the
Hauens
,
Por●s
,
and
Créekes
about
Ithaca
,
prouided
a
barke
and
layed
it
ready
as
soone
as
winde
and
weather
woulde
per●●t
to
make
way
,
for
hee
had
warped
it
downe
into
the
mayne
,
and
let
hir
ride
at
Anker
:
And
Moedyna
had
gathered
together
a
masse
of
Treasure
,
all
hir
rich
and
costly
Iewells
,
yea
,
whatsoeuer
was
any
thing
pretious
in
the
whole
Pallace
,
which
by
a
man
of
hirs
who
only
she
made
priuy
to
this
practise
,
was
conueyed
into
the
ship
:
Fortune
willing
vnder
the
suppose
of
their
felicitie
to
hide
the
very
substance
of
their
myserie
,
brought
the
wind
about
so
faire
for
Samos
that
Vo●tymis
giuing
the
Quéene
intelligence
,
passing
out
at
a
Postern
gate
they
went
downe
to
the
shoare
,
where
the
Maryners
ready
with
a
Cockboate
to
set
them
aboorde
hoysed
sayles
,
and
singling
into
the
mayne
,
bad
farewell
to
Ithaca
.
These
two
thus
fauoured
as
they
thought
by
Fortune
had
so
happy
a
gale
,
that
in
short
tyme
they
arryued
at
the
desired
harbour
,
where
bountifully
rewarding
the
Maryners
for
th●ir
paynes
:
the
Maister
of
the
ship
to
couller
his
voyage
made
for
an
other
Coaste
,
and
they
remayning
as
straungers
,
placing
them selues
in
a
countrey
Uyllage
liued
peaceably
a
long
while
vnknowen
.
But
to
returne
to
Polumestor
,
who
missing
his
wyfe
,
and
woondring
what
the
cause
should
bée
of
hir
long
absence
,
for
that
supper
was
ready
,
&
they
stayed
only
for
hir
presence
,
made
inquiry
of
the
Ladyes
where
hir
Maiestie
was
become
,
&
caused
diligent
search
to
be
made
,
for
that
the
time
of
the
night
was
not
to
make
any
longer
walke
.
Hir
Ladies
returned
answere
,
they
knew
not
●f
hir
departure
,
the
king
halfe
suspitious
before
,
became
now
a
little
Iealous
,
and
demaunded
where
Vortymis
was
,
no
man
could
tell
or
make
dyrect
answere
of
his
being
,
which
set
the
king
in
a
furie
,
so
that
posting
him selfe
,
with
his
Swoord
drawne
through
euery
priuy
place
,
at
last
not
finding
what
h●e
sought
for
,
he
was
constrained
to
vse
patience
perforce
at
so
straight
an
exig●t
,
and
so
quieted
him selfe
at
that
time
,
vnwilling
by
an
open
discouery
of
his
thoughts
to
bréede
a
manifest
in
famy
to
the
Queene
:
the
court
being
thus
in
an
vprore
for
this
night
,
the
next
morning
one
of
her
maides
of
honor
being
stricktlie
examined
,
conf●ssed
that
hir
grace
had
made
conueyaunce
of
all
hir
Treasure
,
Iewells
,
and
apparell
,
and
was
secretly
departed
with
Vortymis
,
but
whether
shee
knewe
not
.
Upon
this
the
king
sent
dyuerse
noble
men
to
make
search
in
euery
place
,
and
in
euery
part
if
it
could
bee
knowen
of
hir
passage
,
but
returne
was
made
in
vayne
,
and
hee
onely
rested
resolued
that
shee
was
●ledde
away
with
Vortymis
:
Continuing
thus
pensiue
,
the
grief●
of
hir
absence
(
for
that
loue
in
excesse
yeeldeth
to
no
censure
of
reason
)
so
ouercharged
the
king
with
melancholy
,
that
hee
fell
into
a
quartaine
Feuer
,
and
was
brought
so
low
as
his
subiects
hoped
for
no
life
,
so
that
as
men
distract
of
th●ir
wyts
,
they
passed
away
the
tyme
in
bitter
complaintes
and
sorrowes
.
But
Tyme
(
the
sweetest
phisit●●n
that
allotteth
a
m●dicine
,
for
●uerye
mishap
so
alienated
the
kinges
mynde
with
a
due
consideration
of
hir
incestious
behauiour
,
that
finding
it
folly
to
sett
that
at
his
heart
which
other
set
at
their
héele
:
Contrary
causes
producing
con●rary
●ff●cts
,
loue
wronged
by
iniury
halfe
turned
into
hate
,
hee
began
to
take
heart
at
grasse
,
&
so
chaunging
his
m●lancholy
into
myrth
,
waxed
daylie
more
strong
in
the
constitution
of
his
body
,
so
that
within
the
space
of
a
moneth
he
aduentured
to
walke
abroad
,
and
to
comfort
him
the
more
in
his
conceipt
,
he
heard
newes
by
a
Passenger
that
came
from
Samos
wh●re
the
queene
and
Vortymis
were
:
how
as
man
and
wyfe
th●y
lyued
in
meane
estate
in
Samos
.
The
king
smiling
at
the
force
of
〈◊〉
lust
that
maketh
no
exception
of
Fortun●
,
caused
the
passenger
to
stay
in
the
Courte
while
hee
shoulde
consider
with
his
counsaile
what
were
●es●●o
doe
:
For
his
minde
was
dyuersly
p●rplexed
.
The
iniury
proffred
by
hir
adulterours
departure
,
willed
him
to
cast
out
no
lure
to
such
a
hagga●de
as
would
turne
taile
to
a
●ull
fist
:
but
loue
that
amidst
the
coldest
Cinders
of
hate
had
smothered
vp
litle
sparkes
of
forepassed
affection
,
perswaded
him
to
thinke
no
fault
so
great
but
might
be
salued
with
honest
repentaunce
.
Againe
,
he
called
to
minde
that
the
Gouernor
of
Samos
was
his
enemy
,
who
if
by
any
meanes
hee
shoulde
become
priuy
to
this
fact
would
not
oneli●
incourage
his
wife
in
hir
wickednesse
,
but
as
a
foe
laugh
at
his
mishap
;
houering
thus
in
sondrie
cogitations
,
at
last
thus
hee
resolued
with
him selfe
to
send
a
friendlie
letter
to
Moedyna
that
shee
should
returne
with
as
much
spe●de
as
might
bee
to
Ithaca
,
but
the
better
to
manifest
Polumestors
meaning
,
as
neere
as
I
can
gesse
,
these
were
the
contents
.
Polumestor
to
Moedyna
Health
.
TO
begin
Moedyna
with
a
discourse
of
thy
follies
,
or
my
sorrowes
were
but
in
p●nning
downe
my
thoughtes
to
aggrauate
my
gre●fes
,
and
in
committing
such
a
chartell
to
thy
view
to
rub
a
scarre
halfe
healed
.
Omitting
therefore
such
needlesse
preambl●s
,
let
mee
say
that
loue
as
it
is
variable
,
so
it
is
mighty
inforcing
his
effects
without
deniall
:
for
as
by
constraint
it
wrought
in
thee
a
newe
choyce
,
so
it
hath
ti●d
mee
perforce
so
partially
to
thinke
of
thy
fault
,
as
iniury
offering
no
disparagment
to
affection
I
haue
vppon
thy
r●pentance
resolued
quite
to
forgiue
&
forget
such
folly
:
Venus
hath
hir
charmes
to
inchaunt
,
fancy
is
a
sorceresse
that
bewitcheth
the
senses
,
euery
misse
must
not
breede
a
mislike
,
and
fi●st
offences
they
say
,
craue
pardons
of
course
:
I
consider
Moedyna
,
the
purest
glasse
is
most
brittle
,
the
finest
Lawne
taketh
the
soonest
stayne
,
the
highest
honour
the
rediest
fall
,
and
the
quickest
wit
the
more
easly
woonne
:
others
haue
forerunne
thee
in
the
like
fault
&
haue
beene
forgiuen
,
returne
thou
with
such
resolued
repentance
,
&
I
vow
before
the
gods
to
graunt
thee
like
pardon
.
Let
Vortymis
remaine
there
for
his
p●nishment
in
exile
,
but
for
that
he
was
thy
f●inde
,
leaue
him
thy
Iewells
,
that
although
he
liue
banished
,
hee
may
liue
rich
.
Doo
this
Moedyna
and
doubt
not
,
for
I
write
no
treachery
,
and
if
I
should
:
better
were
thou
die
in
Ithaca
repentant
,
then
lyue
in
Samos
dishonest
:
Farewell
and
whatsoeuer
thou
doost
I
haue
forgiuen
thee
,
but
shall
neuer
forget
thee
.
Hee
whom
no
iniury
shall
Alienate
Polumestor
of
Ithaca
.
THis
letter
thus
ended
by
the
consent
of
his
counsayle
,
he
sent
it
by
the
forenam●d
messenger
to
Samos
,
causing
him
to
be
accompanied
with
two
or
three
of
his
nobles
disguised
,
that
his
commaunde
might
bee
wrought
with
more
efficacy
:
they
hauing
receyued
their
charge
,
apparelled
like
Marchaun●s
,
carying
ouer
some
small
commodities
with
them
,
departed
:
and
as
fast
as
wynde
and
weather
would
permit
,
Came
ouer
to
Samos
,
where
b●ing
safely
&
sp●edely
arriued
,
making
offer
of
theyr
chaffer
to
sale
,
the
●etter
to
passe
the
country
without
suspition
:
the
messenger
that
brought
newes
first
to
Polumestor
,
leauing
the
nobles
,
went
him selfe
alone
with
the
letter
to
the
Uyllag●
where
the
Quéene
remayned
.
Comming
thither
contrary
to
his
expectation
,
hee
founde
that
Time
the
mother
of
mutabilitie
,
had
made
a
strange
Metamorphosis
since
his
last
depart●re
,
for
méeting
with
hir
seruaunt
,
who
through
hir
inconstancie
grudged
at
hir
actions
,
hee
did
vnderstand
that
Moedyna
misliking
of
hir
olde
choyce
,
through
the
tickling
desire
of
a
new
chaunge
,
had
so
cunningly
feasted
Vortymis
at
a
Banquet
,
that
closely
giuing
him
some
impoysoned
potion
,
the
n●xt
day
he
was
founde
dead
in
his
bed
,
the
end
of
such
Adoulterous
ingratitude
,
as
preferring
the
loue
of
a
strompet
before
the
lawes
of
the
Gods
,
runne
headlong
vppon
mishap
and
reuenge
.
His
death
being
passed
ouer
with
a
feawe
fayned
teares
,
as
womens
eyes
shed
both
sorrowe
and
dissimulation
,
hir
mourning
moneth
was
scarse
ended
but
shee
was
fallen
in
loue
with
a
gentleman
in
the
same
towne
,
(
the
supposed
cause
of
Vortymis
ouerthrow
)
who
ayming
at
hir
beawty
and
ryches
,
two
great
perswasions
to
affection
,
intertayned
hir
with
such
fauours
,
that
shee
onely
thought
hir
content
in
his
company
.
This
notyce
by
hir
seruaunt
giuen
to
the
messenger
,
som●what
amased
him
when
hee
entred
into
the
consideration
of
the
inconstant
disposition
of
Concubins
,
yet
going
forwarde
in
his
purpose
,
hée
found
oportunity
to
deliuer
hir
the
letter
,
which
when
she
had
redde
,
and
throughly
construed
ou●r
the
contents
:
conscience
the
worme
that
galleth
with
r●morse
,
pincht
hir
so
at
the
heart
with
rem●mbrance
of
hir
forepassed
lyfe
,
and
shame
of
●●r
present
es●ate
,
that
blushing
at
hir
owne
thought●s
,
shee
burst
forth
into
●eares
hal●e
resolued
to
accept
of
hir
husbands
proff●r
:
But
Lust
that
still
kindleth
a
restlesse
heate
of
d●sire
,
had
so
drowned
hir
in
obstinacie
,
feared
that
hir
husbands
promises
were
but
traynes
to
reu●nge
,
shame
to
re●urn●
into
Ithaca
from
whence
so
shamelesse
she
had
fled
with
such
infamy
:
all
these
considered
,
mad●
hir
oppose
r●solution
to
r●mors●
and
to
cast
the
letter
presently
into
the
fire
,
with
straight
command
to
the
Messenger
that
hee
shoulde
with
as
much
spéede
and
secrecie
as
might
be
hast
him
out
of
Samos
,
least
if
by
his
meanes
hir
calling
or
estate
were
discouered
,
in
reuenge
shee
repaied
his
villany
with
death
:
Hee
that
by
other
mens
harmes
,
thought
best
to
beware
,
fearing
if
hee
made
any
stay
,
he
might
with
Vortymis
tast
of
reuenge
,
as
fast
as
horse
would
carry
him
,
posted
to
the
noble
men
,
who
amid●t
their
marchaundize
were
attending
his
comming
:
after
hee
had
discoursed
vnto
them
from
pointe
●o
pointe
,
the
forerehearsed
premises
of
the
impoysonement
of
Vortymis
,
hir
new
loue
,
hir
obstinate
resolution
,
hir
threats
to
reueng
all
of
them
:
woondring
at
the
wilfulnesse
,
and
wickednes
of
such
a
Lasciuious
woman
:
thought
their
kinge
happy
that
Fortune
by
ill
fortune
,
had
at
hazard
giuen
him
such
good
fortune
.
Long
had
they
not
stayed
in
the
country
to
haue
a
faire
wynd
for
their
departure
,
but
that
Moedynaes
Seruant
séeking
to
finde
out
the
messenger
,
was
by
meere
chance
come
to
the
Porte
where
the
nobles
were
,
who
seeing
a
Lord
of
Ithaca
,
whom
for
all
his
disguised
apparrell
hee
knew
,
calling
him
a
side
,
was
desirous
to
speake
with
him
.
The
noble
man
narrowly
noting
his
face
,
called
him
to
remembrance
,
and
desirous
to
heare
what
newes
,
he
carried
him
to
his
chamber
,
where
the
rest
of
his
company
gathered
togither
,
the
poore
man
suppressed
with
anguishe
&
remorse
,
brast
foorth
into
teares
,
and
after
longe
repentant
stile
for
the
sorrow
of
his
fact
,
tolde
them
that
the
next
night
after
shee
receiued
the
letter
from
Polumestor
,
being
all
blubbred
with
teares
,
and
as
a
woman
in
dispaire
,
she
delyuered
him
a
Scroule
which
shee
charged
him
vpon
his
lyfe
to
deliuer
vnto
Polumestor
,
after
receipt
whereof
,
before
he
could
make
preparation
for
his
Iourney
,
she
had
slaine
hir selfe
.
The
noble
men
se●ing
by
the
sequell
of
this
tragicall
stratageeme
,
the
guerdon
of
Adultry
,
and
the
Iustice
of
the
gods
,
receiued
the
Scrowle
,
and
woulde
haue
had
the
man
passed
with
them
into
Ithaca
,
but
hee
made
a
vowe
in
penance
of
his
former
fault
,
to
lyue
a
poore
exiled
life
in
Samos
:
they
as
soone
as
the
wynde
came
about
,
hauinge
all
thinges
necessarie
aboorde
,
they
made
way
home
into
theyr
owne
countrey
:
no
sooner
they
were
gotte
into
the
coast
of
Ithaca
,
but
posting
with
all
speede
to
the
courte
,
they
reuealed
to
the
king
the
successe
they
had
in
their
iourney
,
of
Vortymus
mishap
,
and
his
wyues
death
,
delyuering
him
the
Scrowle
,
which
contayned
these
fewe
lines
.
The
contents
of
the
Scrowle
.
MOedyna
,
once
the
vnhappie
wyfe
of
happie
Polumestor
,
as
gracelesse
in
hir
deedes
,
as
hee
princely
in
his
thoughts
,
wisheth
him
that
she
rest
from
hir selfe
a
long
and
contented
life
.
Wisedome
taught
by
experience
(
the
dearest
price
to
buie
witt
)
tolde
mee
my
fault
was
so
impious
,
as
dispaire
serued
better
to
call
on
reuenge
,
then
repentance
to
wish
a
remorse
:
Infamie
and
shame
the
inseperable
sequels
of
Adultrie
,
forbad
mee
to
see
the
smoake
of
Ithaca
,
for
that
death
is
more
sweete
then
discredit
.
A
guiltie
conscience
being
a
hell
of
restlesse
passions
,
wisht
mee
as
I
sought
mishap
,
so
to
ende
miserie
,
preferring
there●ore
thy
fame
which
was
impaired
by
my
follie
,
and
seeking
quiet
of
minde
by
quicknesse
of
death
,
dispaire
,
and
sorrow
,
closing
min●
eyes
,
let
the
messenger
report
how
willinglie
I
died
.
Mo●dyna
,
POlumestor
hauing
red
the
●ontents
,
perceyuing
howe
shame
and
remorse
had
made
hir
repentant
,
grieuing
that
dispaire
had
made
hir
so
wilfull
,
burst
into
teares
and
passed
a
weeke
or
two
in
secret
sorrowes
:
Which
ended
,
&
hee
somewhat
comforted
,
he
kept
a
solemne
show
of
hir
funeralls
,
which
performed
with
magnificence
,
hee
passed
the
rest
of
his
yeeres
in
quiet
.
VLisses
hauing
ended
his
tale
with
a
plawsible
silence
of
both
partes
.
Although
Hector
perceiued
that
this
Tragicall
hystorie
was
induced
in
hope
of
a
restitution
of
Helena
,
yet
dissimuling
the
matter
,
hee
onely
gaue
praise
to
Vlisses
for
his
good
methode
,
yet
superficially
glauncing
,
hee
said
,
that
i●
ill
fitted
a
subiect
to
be
so
treacherous
,
sith
his
Soueraygne
had
kindly
tied
him
with
so
many
forepassed
fauours
,
and
that
ingratitude
challengeth
by
custome
reuenge
.
Then
(
quoth
Diomedes
)
let
not
Paris
hope
to
escape
without
perill
,
who
being
so
princelie
intertayned
by
Menelaus
,
yet
repayed
him
with
such
discourteous
vnthankfulnes
.
What
needes
(
quoth
Troilus
)
the
rubbing
of
this
scarre
,
vnlesse
the
Gretians
bee
fearefull
to
end
their
attempt
,
and
had
rather
make
a
conquest
of
vs
with
Philosophy
,
then
the
swoord
:
for
our
partes
,
wee
hold
it
the
point
of
Souldiers
to
talke
pleasantly
at
the
Table
,
and
fight
valiauntly
in
the
●ielde
.
Agamemnon
vnwilling
any
chollerick
replies
should
procure
a
iarre
,
knowing
in
tearmes
to
iniury
men
vnarmed
were
a
president
of
cowardise
,
desired
them
to
grant
him
this
fauour●
as
they
were
knightes
,
that
amiddest
all
their
talke
,
neyther
the
plaintiffe
Menelaus
,
nor
the
Defendant
Paris
should
bee
once
named
,
sith
the
rehersall
of
their
actions
were
but
an
alarum
to
further
quarrell
.
This
request
thought
honorable
,
and
promise
past
on
both
partes
,
Achilles
was
warned
that
the
Tables
were
couered
for
Supper
,
whereupon
,
desiring
the
Generall
to
place
his
guests
,
they
sat
downe
to
supper
,
where
passing
the
tyme
with
many
pleasant
discourses
,
and
sa●i●fiyng
their
stomacks
with
sundry
delicates
.
The
Troians
by
their
intertaynment
perceyued
their
princely
welcome
.
¶
The
second
discourse
after
Supper
.
SUpper
was
no
sooner
ended
.
But
after
a
hearty
prouface
chaunged
betwixt
them
:
Aged
Ne●●or
,
whose
words
in
●ré●ce
were
holden
for
principles
,
began
to
breke
silence
in
●his
maner
.
Worthy
Peares
of
Gréece
and
Asia
,
resolued
to
prooue
inward
vertue
by
outward
valour
,
or
els
to
buy
fame
with
death
:
sith
Hector
and
Achilles
,
the
two
hopefull
Gentlemen
of
both
armyes
,
accompanied
with
sondry
princes
of
great
parentage
,
are
here
vnited
in
a
desired
presence
,
omitting
womens
prattle
,
and
leauing
the
Ladyes
to
their
pryuate
chatte
:
l●t
vs
see
if
wee
can
make
a
perfect
descrip●ion
of
a
Souldier
so
proportioned
in
euery
parte
,
as
h●e
may
directing
his
course
by
our
principles
,
lyue
fortunate
,
and
dye
honorably
.
The
doubt
then
to
bee
discusse●
is
what
is
necessary
to
the
perfecting
of
a
Souldier
,
which
might
I
with
his
fauour
request
,
I
would
commit
to
the
charge
of
Hector
:
as
to
him
who
of
his
very
enimies
is
counted
an
exact
martialist
.
Hector
,
whose
thoughts
swelling
with
honor
,
died
his
chéekes
with
the
fame
of
his
prayse
,
willing
to
auoyde
with
one
blast
,
both
selfe
loue
and
curiosity
,
made
Nestor
this
answere
.
Although
forrayne
fauours
,
are
domesticall
treasures
,
and
it
better
fitteth
honor
,
to
praise
an
enemy
,
then
a
friend
:
yet
to
offer
incense
to
Pallas
in
the
Temple
of
Mars
,
were
to
prophane
his
deity
:
and
to
make
mee
an
instance
,
Achilles
in
presence
,
is
to
iniure
his
dignity
:
report
is
partiall
,
and
the
tip
of
the
tounge
soundeth
not
alwayes
the
depth
of
the
heart
:
but
let
fame
fly
how
shee
list
:
I
deny
not
but
I
haue
dared
to
beare
armour
,
and
to
haue
pressed
amidst
the
thickest
of
myne
enimyes
,
therefore
I
thinke
the
most
requisite
vertue
in
a
Souldier
,
to
bee
fortytude
or
magnanimity
.
I
thinke
it
necessary
(
quoth
Achilles
)
as
Causa
sine
qua
non
:
for
therefore
is
hee
called
Siles
,
for
that
hee
doth
,
Animam
fortem
gerere
:
but
yet
the
couller
that
giueth
the
swéetest
glose
to
honor
,
in
my
opinion
is
Liberality
:
two
necessary
vertues
(
quoth
Helenus
)
but
yet
a
more
principall
poynt
then
these
,
which
hath
made
many
Monarches
triumph
without
bloode
,
is
Wysedome
ioyned
with
Science
.
Agamemnon
desirous
to
heare
these
three
discussed
at
large
,
thought
to
incourage
them
forward
in
this
maner
.
Wyth
so
equall
a
proportion
(
worthy
Gentlemen
)
haue
you
made
a
distinct
deuision
of
the
incident
properties
of
Souldiers
,
as
what
is
necessary
not
onely
in
martiall
discipline
,
but
in
humaine
life
,
is
sufficiently
in
these
thrée
comprehended
.
For
wysdome
mixed
with
learning
and
knowledge
,
is
so
pretious
a
vertue
in
the
lyfe
of
man
,
as
it
behooueth
not
onely
a
prynce
to
haue
the
possession
thereof
,
for
the
pollicy
of
his
ciuill
gouernment
,
but
also
to
the
performing
of
his
warlike
indeuours
:
Fortitude
the
fayrest
blossome
that
springes
from
a
noble
mynde
,
is
not
onely
requisite
in
peace
to
bew●●y
maiesty
,
but
in
warres
necessary
to
s●●engthen
pollicy
,
and
were
a
prince
indewed
with
both
these
,
so
as
no
defect
might
be
obiected
,
yet
were
hee
a
couetous
man
that
aymed
at
the
suppression
of
his
Subiects
by
extorting
their
substaunce
by
grieuous
imposts
,
the
want
of
Liberality
,
especially
amongst
Souldiers
,
would
bréede
such
a
mislike
,
that
hee
shoulde
reape
more
discredit
by
his
niggardies
,
then
fame
for
his
wisedome
and
fortune
.
Seeing
then
worthy
Gretians
and
Troians
,
these
thrée
points
as
presidents
are
set
downe
to
bee
decyded
:
let
vs
first
begin
with
the
discourse
of
wisedome
,
which
wee
will
referre
to
Helenus
and
Nestor
,
as
to
them
which
wee
know
are
most
famous
for
those
qualyties
:
in
both
our
armies
exception
alwayes
made
of
Vlis●es
,
for
that
hee
hath
so
well
plaide
his
part
amongst
the
Ladyes
.
Helenus
bl●shing
at
the
grant
of
this
honorable
charge
,
desired
that
sith
Nestor
was
aged
,
and
had
by
long
arte
amongst
the
Philosophers
,
and
by
experience
in
cyuill
gouernment
,
attayned
to
the
summary
perfection
of
wisedome
,
that
hee
would
●ase
him
of
such
a
burden
as
was
both
vnfit
for
his
knowledge
,
experience
and
yeares
:
Nestor
,
as
willing
amongst
such
an
audience
,
to
put
the
Troian
to
the
plunge
,
sayd
that
Age
was
forgetfull
,
and
that
his
gray
haires
were
decli●ing
steps
from
memory●
that
what
experience
had
ingrauen
,
tyme
had
almost
worne
out
,
and
that
were
his
memory
neuer
so
fre●h
,
yet
it
were
a
greefe
for
him
,
through
feeblenesse
to
vtter
that
with
the
tounge
which
hee
did
conceiue
in
his
mynde
:
therefore
,
for
the
reuerence
of
his
age
hee
would
lay
the
charge
vppon
Helenus
:
who
seeing
that
fortune
had
tyed
him
to
his
task
gathering
his
wittes
together
bouldly
,
as
one
that
was
the
brother
of
Hector
,
began
on
this
maner
.
Helenus
his
discourse
of
Wysedome
.
THe
fall
that
Phaeton
had
,
was
because
hee
would
Altum
sapere
,
stretcht
his
stringes
to
high
,
&
being
mortall
would
intermeddle
wyth
diuine
attempts
.
The
Shoomaker
had
not
this
check
from
Apelles
(
Ne
sutor
vltra
Crepidam
)
because
he
found
fault
with
the
Latchet
,
but
that
he
medled
with
the
legg
.
Euery
one
that
gazeth
at
the
stars
is
not
fit
to
discourse
of
Astrologie
,
neyther
can
fishermen
fell
the
Phusicall
reasons
of
the
motions
of
the
Sea
.
Although
their
liues
are
spent
,
and
their
lyuings
got
,
from
the
boosome
of
Neptune
.
And
noble
Gentlemen
,
it
may
bee
that
report
,
who
is
oft
a
false
Heralte
of
humaine
Actions
,
hath
blabbed
that
shee
hath
seene
some
Philosophers
works
in
my
hands
,
&
you
hereof
suppose
that
I
haue
their
principles
in
my
heade
:
but
many
handled
Orpheus
Harp
that
knew
not
the
secrets
of
Musicke
,
and
dyuerse
may
gase
into
Philosophers
conclusions
that
cannot
Analuze
theyr
reasons
.
Yet
howsoeuer
it
be
,
séeing
I
am
enioyned
I
will
rather
be
counted
too
forward
then
too
froward
,
&
therefore
bri●fly
,
this
is
my
bare
censure
.
The
Philosopher
whom
Apollos
Oracle
long
since
graced
with
the
title
of
a
wise
man
,
being
demaunded
what
wysedome
was
,
made
answere
:
A
diuine
influence
infused
into
the
myndes
of
men
,
which
being
metaphysicall●
kéepeth
them
from
comm●●●●g
that
wherevnto
they
are
forced
by
sensuall
appetyte
.
Epictetus
calleth
it
the
touchstone
of
mortallity
,
meaning
,
that
as
reason
is
the
difference
that
distinguisheth
a
man
from
a
brut●
beast
,
so
wysdome
is
that
perfect
●nder
,
that
sheweth
how
farre
one
man
excelleth
an
other
in
the
pretious
constitution
of
his
mynde
.
Therefore
did
our
Poets
rightly
fayne
Mynerua
to
spring
from
the
●rayne
of
Iupiter
,
and
that
hee
durst
doo
nothing
without
her
consent
but
his
loues
and
amorous
,
meaning
by
this
E●●gmaticall
allegory
,
that
shee
being
the
godd●ss●
of
wysedome
,
was
the
Loadstone
for
Iupiter
to
dyrect
his
actions
,
and
where
hee
digressed
,
there
shee
sealed
his
thoughts
with
a
frowne
.
The
Phenicians
were
reported
to
haue
their
beginning
from
the
gods●
in
that
they
were
the
first
that
found
out
C●racters
,
whereby
to
expresse
openly
the
hidden
secretes
of
wysdome
.
The
inhabytants
of
Egypt
,
as
fame
telleth
vs
,
were
honored
of
all
men
,
sith
they
were
the
first
that
founded
Schooles
of
Phylosophy
.
And
the
Caldees
were
companions
to
kings
:
so
highly
hath
wysedome
beene
esteemed
in
all
ages
.
But
to
leaue
antiquities
,
and
to
come
to
our
present
tyme
,
what
auayleth
royall
Parentage
,
and
the
possession
of
many
Territories
:
what
profiteth
a
Crowne
and
stately
Diadem
to
the
maiesty
of
a
king
:
if
to
these
forenamed
fauours
of
Fortune
hee
haue
not
adioyned
wisedome
and
learning
,
the
cyuill
pollycie
is
not
mayntained
in
his
prime
:
martiall
discipline
wanteth
hir
chiefest
collou●
:
courage
is
counted
rashnesse
,
not
fortitude
:
liberality
knoweth
not
the
circumstances
how
to
giue
,
if
wisdome
bend
not
their
course
by
a
right
compasse
:
so
that
I
remember
a
certaine
Philosopher
of
yours
,
wishing
ill
fortune
might
befall
on
the
inhabitants
of
Samos
,
hee
prayed
onely
their
king
might
bee
vnlettered
,
and
a
foole
,
thinking
no
greater
preiudice
could
happen
to
a
common
wealth
,
then
to
bee
gouerned
by
an
vnwyse
prynce
.
But
omitting
this
generall
discourse
of
wisedome
,
sith
there
is
none
so
obstynate
or
opposite
to
hir
honor
:
but
will
and
must
confesse
that
no
humaine
action
whatsoeuer
can
rightly
bee
counted
perfect
or
vertuous
:
if
not
bounded
within
the
lymits
of
wysedome
.
To
a
more
particuler
proofe
,
and
to
the
intent
of
our
purpose●
that
it
is
especially
requisite
in
a
Souldier
.
A
Gretian
being
demaunded
how
it
happened
that
his
countrey
florished
in
such
happy
estate
,
made
answere
,
for
that
our
Captaynes
and
Generalls
are
Philosophers
,
and
our
Philosophers
made
our
Captaynes
in
warre
:
proouing
by
this
reason
,
that
where
the
martiall
man
was
instructed
in
philosophy
,
there
prowesse
was
strengthned
with
pollicy
,
and
valour
●●doubled
by
wisedome
:
the
Senate
of
Sparta
neuer
choose
any
to
goe
foorth
with
their
army
,
but
such
as
had
spent
many
yeares
in
their
academy
,
as
well
in
naturall
contemplation
as
in
morall
conuersation
,
and
were
as
eloquent
an
Orator
,
as
a
hardy
warriour
,
counting
incouragement
giuen
by
wysedome
,
of
as
great
force
as
a
president
manifested
by
prow●sse
.
When
Esthemius
the
Macedonian
Monarche
,
successour
to
the
offspring
of
mighty
Nymroth
had
thought
to
make
a
conquest
of
the
southeast
parte
of
the
Worlde
:
by
chaunce
hee
made
warre
with
a
Barbarous
people
,
so
fierce
and
strong
as
his
forces
coulde
not
subdue
:
Delyghted
with
the
sweetenesse
of
the
soyle
,
and
s●eing
prowesse
was
in
vayne
,
hee
sent
an
Orator
clad
in
riche
and
sumptuous
attyre
,
who
so
tickled
their
eares
with
the
pleasauntnesse
of
his
spéech
,
that
he
reduced
the
Barbarians
,
not
onely
to
submit
as
vanquished
,
but
to
become
ciuill
as
ashamed
of
their
former
lyfe
:
How
necessary
the
knowledge
of
the
lyberall
Sciences
is
for
a
Souldier
,
let
experience
manifest
:
for
what
captayne
shall
bee
able
to
make
choice
of
his
ground
to
fight
with
his
enemy
to
intrench
to
imbattayle
,
to
leguer
,
to
pitch
his
Pauilions
at
aduantage
,
vnlesse
skilfull
in
Geography
,
to
know
the
Nature
and
plott
of
the
Countrey
so
lately
discouered●
How
shall
he
order
his
men
,
or
deuide
them
in
companyes
:
how
shall
hee
bring
them
into
square
,
rounde
,
triangle
,
corner
or
any
other
forme
,
vnlesse
instructed
in
Arithmetike
and
Geometry
.
The
necessity
of
Astronomy
may
bee
prooued
by
a
manifest
instance
:
for
Penthesilea
the
famous
Queene
of
the
Amazons
,
was
resident
in
the
city
of
Troy
,
making
warre
against
Orythius
hir
bordering
enemy
:
as
the
battayles
were
ready
to
ioyne
,
there
chaunced
in
their
fight
to
happen
an
Eclipse
of
the
Sunne
most
fearefull
and
terrible
,
which
greatly
daunted
both
armies
:
but
Penthesile●
nothing
amazed
,
as
a
good
Philosopher
discoursed
to
hir
Ladies
the
naturall
cause
of
the
Eclypse
,
that
it
happened
by
the
shadowing
of
the
Earth
;
and
the
Moone
,
which
so
lightly
accounted
of
,
by
their
Generall
they
incouraged
,
set
vpon
Orythius
,
who
ignorant
of
so
strang
a
sight
,
and
not
knowing
the
cause
of
so
prodigious
an
apparance
,
fled●
and
was
vanquished
:
Sapiens
dominabitur
astris
●
a
wise
man
m●y
gouerne
the
starres
,
meaning
hereby
(
as
I
coniecture
)
that
if
Fate
and
Fortune
,
should
oppose
them selues
to
wisdome
,
yet
their
attempt
were
in
vayne
:
therefore
wisely
did
the
Poets
decipher
Pallas
to
haue
a
Helmet
on
hir
head
,
and
a
Booke
in
hir
hande
,
and
drewe
hir
Speares
alwayes
wreathed
with
Lawrell
,
signifying
by
this
Embleme
,
that
Mars
and
Mercurie
were
of
one
broode
,
that
a
●alyaunt
mynde
,
vnlesse
guyded
by
wysedome
,
rometh
into
many
inconsidered
actions
,
which
is
so
perilous
in
the
state
of
a
souldier
,
that
one
foolish
thought
that
beareth
in
the
foreheade
,
(
Had
I
wist
)
maketh
an
ouerthrow
of
a
whole
Legion
of
men
.
Wee
finde
written
in
our
Annalles
of
Troy
,
that
Danaus
the
Graundfather
of
Pryamus
making
warre
against
the
king
of
Hetruria
when
both
the
armyes
were
incamped
,
and
the
battayles
ready
to
Ioyne
his
men
,
seeing
so
great
a
multitude
were
afraide
,
although
their
prince
formost
in
the
field
,
sought
to
incourage
them
by
the
example
of
his
valour
,
his
forwardnesse
nor
threats
no
whit
preuailing
,
but
they
still
ready
to
flée
:
Apias
a
lame
and
impotent
Poet
stepping
vppe
amongst
them
,
through
certayne
eloquent
verses
,
that
hee
vttered
in
euery
rancke
so
animated
the
Souldiers
,
that
ashamed
at
their
cowardis●
,
they
furiou●ly
ran
vppon
the
enemy
,
and
like
valiant
men
obtayned
the
victory
,
so
much
doth
learning
and
wisedome
preuaile
in
martiall
discipline
.
I
remember
in
deede
(
quoth
Nestor
)
that
I
haue
heard
in
the
auntient
Recordes
of
Greece
,
kept
in
the
temple
of
Apollo
at
Delphos
:
that
the
God
being
demaunded
the
reason
why
Iupiter
should
bée
Gouernor
aboue
the
rest
,
sith
Mars
was
the
best
warriour
:
his
answere
was
,
that
as
Mars
was
valiant
,
so
Iupiter
was
wise
,
concluding
by
this
oracle
,
that
wisedome
is
of
more
force
to
subdue
,
then
valour
.
And
by
your
leaue
sir
(
quoth
Helenus
)
t'
is
a
question
,
what
prowesse
doth
auayle
without
wisedome
:
for
suppose
the
captaine
hath
courage
enough
to
braue
the
enemy
in
the
face
,
yet
if
hee
know
not
by
a
wise
and
deepe
i●●●●ht
into
his
enemies
thoughts
,
how
with
aduantage
to
pr●●●●t
such
ambushes
as
may
be
layed
to
preiudice
his
army
,
had
hee
as
great
courage
as
the
stowtest
champion
in
the
worlde
,
yet
might
the
defect
of
wisedome
in
the
preuention
of
such
perills
,
ruinate
both
him selfe
,
his
honour
,
and
his
Souldiers
,
in
so
much
as
your
great
Phylosopher
Hermes
Tresmegistus
,
was
woont
to
say
that
wise
men
did
therein
resemble
the
Gods
,
in
that
they
were
wyse
,
and
that
many
things
imperfect
by
nature
,
were
made
perfect
by
wisdome
,
to
confirme
their
force
,
where
of
may
it
please
the
Gretian
Lordes
to
fauour
mee
with
patience
,
I
will
rehearse
a
pleasant
tragedy
.
The
noble
men
delighted
with
the
swéetnes
of
his
discourse
,
by
setling
them selues
to
silence
,
gaue
a
proofe
how
they
ment
to
bee
attentiue
,
which
Helenus
noting
,
began
his
tale
in
this
fourme
.
Helenus
his
Tragedie
.
Ex
sapientia
sumus
prouidi
.
THere
raygned
not
longe
since
in
the
Countrey
of
Lydia
a
woorthy
Prince
,
called
Ebritius
,
who
being
happy
as
one
fauoured
with
the
fruition
of
exteriour
pleasures
,
and
fortunate
,
as
by
a
plawsible
successe
in
all
his
affayres
,
enioying
an
inward
content
:
yet
in
this
was
crossed
by
the
destinies
,
that
hee
wanted
a
sonne
to
weare
the
Diadem
after
his
death
:
only
one
daughter
he
had
(
a
recompence
that
Nature
had
giuen
to
salue
the
defect
that
Fate
and
fortune
had
inserted
)
who
b●ing
beawtifull
,
and
therefore
feared
of
hir
father
,
sith
oft
beawty
is
the
fayrest
marke
that
leadeth
to
mishappe
,
and
of
excellent
witte
,
a
benefit
that
sometime
is
tasted
with
losse
,
had
for
hir
sondry
good
qualities
wherewith
shee
was
graced
,
dyuers
Sutors
(
princes
I
meane
)
that
were
his
bordering
neighbours
,
sent
thither
by
fame
,
to
see
if
hir
beawty
and
wit
were
answerable
to
that
which
report
had
blazed
to
bee
without
comparison
:
amongst
the
rest
Rascianus
king
of
Caspia
,
a
man
greatlie
feared
for
his
valour
and
prowesse
,
not
that
hee
him selfe
was
so
hardy
,
but
that
his
Generalls
and
Captaines
were
of
such
courage
,
as
they
neuer
entred
fielde
from
whence
they
returned
not
Uictors
:
a
League
of
Truce
hauing
long
contynued
betwixt
them
,
and
yet
with
a
dissimuled
reconciliation
:
sith
the
Caspians
and
the
Lydians
were
like
the
Woolfe
and
the
Tigre
,
whose
blood
can
neuer
be
mixed
in
one
howse
.
It
fortuned
that
Rascianus
vnder
the
protection
of
his
league
,
and
intent
to
visit
Ebritius
,
had
a
sight
of
Cimbriana
,
for
so
was
the
Lady
called
whose
beawty
seemed
so
swéete
an
obiect
in
his
eyes
,
and
whose
wit
sounded
such
a
pleasing
harmonie
in
his
eares
,
that
forgetting
him selfe
,
he
suffred
his
thoughts
to
bee
subdued
by
affection
,
th●t
neuer
before
felt
the
fo●le
●f
any
conquest
:
For
Loue
seeing
that
Fortune
,
eyther
for
feare
or
fauour
,
as
the
goddesse
is
both
partiall
and
deceiptfull
,
had
drowned
him
with
such
varietie
of
sec●re
contents
,
as
hee
was
growen
to
bée
an
epicure
in
conceipt
:
thought
at
last
to
shew
that
Fancy
hath
hir
●rownes
as
well
as
Fortune
,
and
can
eyther
blisse
with
happinesse
,
or
curse
with
disfauour
at
hir
owne
pleasure
:
so
fettered
his
mynde
with
the
perfection
of
Cimbriana
,
that
maugre
his
teeth
,
hée
was
fayne
to
sacrifice
his
dearest
good
to
Cupid
,
that
hetherto
had
scorned
to
offer
a
little
incense
to
Mars
:
the
passions
dryuing
the
prince
to
become
pensiue
,
and
the
Idea
of
Cimbria●aes
beauty
imprinted
in
his
heart
,
breeding
a
disquiet
in
his
mynde
so
perplexed
him
,
that
for
his
last
refuge
hee
was
fayne
to
commence
sute
to
Ebritius
,
for
the
grant
of
his
daughter
in
mariage
:
Hee
that
like
Ianus
,
bare
two
faces
vnder
one
hoode
:
wearing
a
Lawrell
in
his
hande
,
as
desirous
of
peace
:
and
a
sworde
in
his
heart
,
as
wishing
reueng
:
as
hee
would
not
deny
for
feare
of
a
quarrell
,
so
hee
would
not
graunt
to
such
hated
affinity
,
but
hauing
forewarned
his
daughter
,
and
therefore
forearmed
hir
against
the
intreaties
of
the
Caspian
Monarche
,
he
subtelly
referred
his
grant
to
the
will
of
Cimbriana
:
which
being
sought
for
of
Rascianus
,
but
found
by
a
friuolous
sute
that
he
warred
wyth
the
Giants
against
Iupiter
,
and
with
Danaes
daughters
filled
the
bottomelesse
tubbe
:
forced
by
affection
,
(
that
is
)
impatient
of
deniall
,
and
incouraged
by
the
valour
of
his
Captaines
(
a
thought
that
brooketh
not
abuse
)
falling
out
in
flat
termes
with
Ebritius
hee
entred
a●ter
some
parle
with
him
and
his
daughter
into
this
peremptorie
r●solution
,
that
if
hee
coulde
not
haue
hir
by
a
fauorable
consent
as
a
frinde
,
hee
woulde
both
win
hir
and
weare
hir
as
an
enemy
by
the
sworde
:
and
vpon
this
departed
out
of
the
confines
of
Lydia
,
and
no
sooner
came
to
Caspia
,
but
mustering
his
men
,
and
storing
him selfe
with
munition
for
the
warres
,
hee
marched
forwarde
to
make
challeng
of
Cimbriana
for
his
wyfe
.
In
the
meane
time
Ebritius
hauing
lyued
longe
in
peace
,
a
worde
that
beareth
honney
in
the
mouth
,
and
yet
oft
ill
happe
in
the
warre
,
for
that
as
it
affoordeth
quiet
,
so
it
sincketh
in
security
,
had
better
Ciuilians
,
then
Souldiers
,
and
Senators
that
coulde
gouerne
more
by
pollicie
,
then
attempt
by
prowesse
,
as
men
that
so
long
had
forgotten
the
noyse
of
the
Trumpet
,
as
they
counted
it
rather
a
trouble
to
the
care
then
an
incouragement
to
the
heart
:
so
that
hee
●eared
when
reporte
tolde
him
that
Rascianus
was
neare
his
Domynions
,
to
make
a
challeng
both
for
his
Daughter
and
Dyadem
:
yet
Maiesty
,
which
in
princely
thoughts
gardeth
the
minde
from
cowardize
,
made
him
resolute
rather
to
die
honorably
by
withstanding
an
enemy
,
then
to
lyue
tainted
with
a
shamefull
stayne
of
disgrace
:
resting
vpon
this
resolute
point
,
before
Rascianus
came
within
his
territories
,
he
fell
sicke
vpon
such
a
mortal
disease
as
féeling
no
hope
of
life
,
calling
his
Daughter
Cimbriana
,
&
his
Senators
before
him
with
teares
bewayled
the
suspected
losse
of
their
prince
as
his
last
farewell
he
gaue
these
precepts
.
Cimbriana
,
thou
seest
my
white
haires
are
blossomes
for
the
graue
,
and
thy
fresh
coullers
fruite
for
time
&
fortune
so
that
it
behooueth
mee
to
think
how
to
die
,
&
for
thee
to
care
how
to
liue
.
Sicknesse
&
olde
age
,
the
two
Crooches
whereon
lyfe
walketh
on
to
death
,
haue
arested
mee
to
pay
Nature
hir
due
,
which
being
debt
I
am
most
willing
to
discharge
:
my
Crowne
I
must
leaue
appointed
so
by
fate
,
and
thou
enioy
my
kingdome
by
succession
,
wherein
I
hope
thy
vertue
and
wysedome
shal
be
such
,
as
though
my
subiectes
want
my
person
,
yet
they
shall
see
in
thee
my
perfection
.
That
nothing
therefore
may
faile
to
satisfy
my
minde
,
or
increase
thy
dignities
,
heare
what
age
and
experience
hath
taught
me
,
that
thy
youth
is
not
yet
able
to
conceiue
.
Know
Daughter
that
oportunities
neglected
are
signes
of
folly
,
whereas
actions
measured
by
time
are
seldome
bitten
with
repentaunce
,
honour
is
fickle
,
a
sweete
seate
,
but
a
●lippery
passage
,
no
sooner
growen
to
a
faier
blossome
,
but
fame
inforced
by
enuy
séekes
to
blast
it
with
the
blacke
and
dismall
Trumpet
of
report
:
A
Crowne
,
Cimbriana
,
yea
Cimbriana
,
a
Crowne
,
a
thing
that
all
desire
,
feawe
obtaine
:
and
most
account
it
once
gotten
,
a
weary
and
grieuous
burden
,
is
so
sugred
and
pleasing
an
obiect
to
the
eye
,
as
it
maketh
men
by
ambition
to
forget
they
are
men
,
and
to
think
them selues
more
then
gods
:
thou
shalt
haue
a
Crowne
,
but
bée
not
prowde
;
maiesty
is
no
priuiledge
to
contempt
;
thy
glory
is
great
,
but
thy
care
is
more
;
if
thou
meanest
to
lyue
be
loued
and
die
honored
:
selfe
loue
is
not
fit
for
princes
,
nor
pryde
an
ornament
to
a
Dyadem
:
but
if
thou
must
be
tickled
with
selfe
conceipt
,
let
it
bee
,
Cimbriana
,
at
the
remembraunce
of
thy
vertues
,
not
thy
dignities
;
least
if
Fortune
f●owne
,
and
thou
shouldst
happe
to
fall
,
to
bée
enuied
,
not
pitied
:
when
my
body
is
closed
in
the
graue
,
thy
head
impal●ed
with
a
Crowne
,
thinke
thou
art
a
woman
and
a
maide
,
though
a
Queene
and
a
princesse
,
therefore
bee
milde
as
becomming
thy
Sexe
,
and
chaste
as
fi●ting
thine
honor
:
Let
the
Senators
be
thy
fathers
,
and
the
lawes
the
directors
of
thy
thoughts
,
least
peruerting
lawe
by
will
,
thy
Subiects
count
thy
gouernment
foolish
,
and
●ff●●ynate
tyrannie
:
take
héede
Cimbriana
of
Loue
:
thy
yéeres
being
fruite
for
fancie
:
kinges
seates
are
high
markes
,
whereat
Cupid
can
ayme
,
bée
hée
neuer
so
blind
:
the
féete
of
princes
haue
Caeres
and
Bacchus
for
their
footestooles
,
then
cannot
it
bee
but
Venus
must
play
the
wanton
in
their
Pallaces
,
but
if
affection
,
as
women
must
loue
,
for
that
they
are
women
,
hap
to
treade
vppon
thy
heele
,
then
swéete
Cimbriana
choose
flowers
,
not
wéedes
:
thou
arte
a
princesse
,
looke
no
lower
then
Maiestie
:
thou
hast
a
Crowne
,
then
gase
not
after
riches
but
vertues
:
tye
not
thy selfe
to
a
meane
person
,
for
Venus
is
painted
in
silkes
not
in
ragges
,
and
Cupid
treadeth
on
disdaine
when
hee
reacheth
at
dignity
:
but
aboue
all
(
Cimbriana
)
take
héede
of
Rascianus
a
reconciled
enemy
,
him
account
as
thy
supposed
frinde
and
thy
fathers
foe
:
what
hee
cannot
perswade
with
woordes
,
hée
séeketh
to
constrayne
with
weapons
,
but
rather
die
then
consent
,
so
shall
my
departing
breth
breathe
out
nothing
vppon
thee
but
blisse
:
and
with
that
before
hee
coulde
ende
the
sentence
,
hée
gaue
a
gaspe
and
yéelded
vppe
the
goste
:
Cimbriana
séeing
her
fathers
liuelesse
body
almost
betwéene
hir
armes
:
melting
into
teares
,
burst
foorth
into
such
lamentable
complaintes
,
that
hir
Ladies
carrying
hir
away
in
apace
,
&
the
sorrowfull
Senators
and
Peeres
of
Lydia
amazed
at
the
sodaine
death
of
their
prince
departed
:
nothing
sounded
in
the
pallace
but
sighes
and
teares
,
no
house
in
the
Citty
not
filled
with
mourninges
,
in
such
sorte
,
that
a
longe
while
the
people
ranne
as
men
bereft
of
their
wits
vp
and
downe
the
stréetes
,
forgetfull
of
their
pryuate
and
necessary
businesse
:
but
time
that
limiteth
an
end
to
the
greatest
sorrowes
,
●aused
Cimbriana
after
consideration
howe
Nature
claymed
but
his
,
to
take
order
for
the
pretious
balming
of
hir
fathers
corps
,
&
for
the
magnificence
of
his
Funeralls
,
which
shee
perfourmed
in
such
sumptuous
sorte
,
as
might
bewray
hir
duetifull
affection
,
and
hir
fathers
princely
Progenie
:
Fortune
seeing
the
Lady
not
greatly
checked
with
this
mate
,
thought
to
sporte
himselfe
in
the
tragicall
mishappe
of
this
younge
princesse
.
For
the
funerall
ended
and
shee
by
will
of
the
Senators
going
to
hir
Coronation
,
the
solemnitie
thereof
was
scarcelie
finished
,
before
woord
was
brought
hir
that
Rascianus
with
a
multitude
of
his
Caspians
,
had
placed
a
monstrous
and
strong
Legar
about
the
Cittie
.
Cimbriana
willing
to
spight
Fortune
with
patience
,
made
no
answere
,
as
one
not
caring
what
the
enemy
coulde
doo
by
force
,
and
as
resolued
by
hir
fathers
commaund
rat●er
to
die
then
consent
,
committing
therefore
the
garde
of
the
citty
to
the
charge
of
the
Senators
shée
remayned
quiet
and
secure
in
hir
chamber
.
But
the
Senators
whose
heads
though
not
armed
with
helmet●
,
yet
stored
with
polliticke
foresight
of
their
enemies
indeuours
,
caused
the
gates
to
be
shut
vp
,
the
Percullyzes
to
bee
let
downe
,
the
walls
to
bee
countermured
with
rampiers
of
forces
,
and
euery
quarter
of
the
citty
to
bee
garded
with
seuerall
companies
,
both
of
Captaynes
and
Souldiers
fit
for
such
a
charge
.
Rascianus
seeing
how
the
Cytizens
prepared
them selues
to
defence
,
scorning
to
beare
the
braue
of
such
a
paltry
towne
,
yet
willing
to
win
the
Lady●
rather
by
intreaty
,
then
by
force
,
sent
a
Heralt
of
Armes
,
who
frindly
let
into
the
gates
and
admitted
to
Cimbrians
presence
,
hee
deliuered
his
message
from
Rascianus
in
this
manner
.
The
mightie
prince
of
Caspia
sendeth
greeting
to
Cimbriana
the
famous
Quéene
of
the
Lydians
,
letting
hir
to
vnderstand
that
hée
is
Copartner
with
hir
of
sorrowes
,
as
hée
would
bée
of
affections
,
gréeuing
at
hir
fathers
losse
,
especially
growing
so
to
hir
mislike
,
but
sith
Fate
and
necessitie
may
not
be
auoided●
hee
wisheth
the
princesse
to
comfort
hir selfe
in
hir
greefes
,
and
not
to
bee
amased
that
hee
commeth
as
an
enemy
denouncing
wars
,
sith
he
holdeth
both
fire
and
water
in
his
hands
,
both
death
and
lyfe
,
vpon
frindly
conditions
;
namely
if
Cimbriana
yeeld
hir selfe
as
his
wyfe
,
hir
Crowne
and
kingdome
into
his
hand
,
the
Citizens
in
ioy
of
the
marriage
shall
fill
their
bellies
with
feastes
,
their
eares
with
musicke
:
and
with
sollemnitie
,
haue
their
heads
decked
with
garlands
of
Lawrell
:
but
if
shee
deny
,
his
loue
being
chaunged
into
hate
,
Cimbriana
shall
liue
the
Concubyne
of
Rascianus
in
contempt
,
the
Senators
graye
heads
shall
go
vntimely
to
the
graue
,
the
children
shall
bee
slaine
,
and
the
citizens
haue
no
refuge
but
the
swoorde
,
nor
no
pardon
but
death
.
Befor●
the
Heralt
coulde
ende
his
charge
,
Cimbriana
not
bearing
the
presumptuous
braue
of
such
a
tyrant
,
returned
him
this
briefe
answere
:
For
that
heralt
Messengers
carry
priuiledges
in
their
foreheads
,
to
frée
them
from
any
forraine
preiudice
,
I
heare
with
patience
what
thou
hast
in
charge
,
but
vnwilling
to
be
further
priuie
to
his
friuolous
threats
,
say
thus
from
me
to
Rascianus
:
That
Cimbriana
hauing
teares
in
hir
eyes
,
and
sighes
from
hir
heart
for
hir
fathers
death
,
hath
no
place
left
to
gréeue
at
the
daring
termes
of
any
tyrant
,
that
she
scorneth
his
proffer
or
friendship
,
as
a
prince
vnworthy
hir
maiesty
,
much
lesse
hir
loue
:
that
hir
Senators
and
Cytizens
thinke
they
are
as
politike
as
hee
is
valiant
,
and
are
as
able
to
defend
as
hee
to
assault
:
therefore
will
the
prowde
prince
to
doo
his
worst
,
for
he
cannot
affright
them
with
death
that
feare
not
death
:
and
with
that
shée
turned
hir
backe
,
leauing
the
Messenger
amazed
at
an
answere
so
full
of
maiesty
.
The
Senators
conducting
him
out
of
the
Citty
with
a
frindly
farewell
,
suffred
him
to
depart
:
who
returning
to
the
king
tolde
him
the
resol●●e
reply
of
the
pryncesse
,
which
perplexed
Rascianus
with
a
double
passion
,
for
as
hee
was
inuironed
with
the
courage
of
such
a
péerelesse
Quéene
as
preferred
maiesty
and
honor
before
death
,
so
hee
was
gréeued
that
shee
was
so
obstinate
as
to
giue
him
the
repulse
of
such
a
swéete
and
desired
bene●it
,
reueng
crying
to
take
leaue
of
affection
,
so
hardned
his
heart
,
that
swearing
neuer
to
intreate
againe
,
hée
presently
commaunded
his
Generall
(
called
Mandauior
)
a
man
of
inuincible
courage
and
valour
,
to
giue
a
fierce
and
furious
assault
to
the
Cyt●●
,
sith
the
cowards
had
so
fearefully
harboured
them selues
within
the
walles
:
Hée
whom
nothing
better
pleased
then
the
command
of
martiall
attempts
,
presently
vpon
this
charge
,
gathering
his
men
at
armes
together
,
fitted
with
their
scaling
Lathers
and
other
munition
,
Mandauior
formost
,
as
one
full
of
courage
,
began
so
valyantly
to
giue
an
assault
,
as
had
not
the
citiz●ns
made
as
violent
an
intermedley
,
by
throwing
downe
not
Pytch
,
Timber
,
and
s●ones
from
of
the
walles
,
the
Citty
●ad
bene
s●aled
and
s●cke●
:
but
such
a
hot
resistance
wa●
made
that
the
Caspians
●●ed
from
the
walles
:
but
Mandauior
with
the
example
of
his
fortitude
,
and
the
threats
of
reueng
vpon
the
cowards
,
hee
so
incouraged
them
,
that
a
fresh
they
assaulted
,
but
with
such
great
slaughter
,
that
despight
of
him
sel●e
the
Generall
was
faine
to
sounde
retraite
,
and
with
some
losse
r●tyre
to
the
campe
.
This
repulse
nothing
amazing
them
,
they
assayed
sundry
times
to
indammage
the
towne
,
but
all
in
vayne
,
which
so
grieued
Mandauior
,
that
impatient
of
fortunes
frowne
,
hee
so
desperatly
at
the
next
assault
offred
to
climbe
the
wall
that
hée
was
slayne
,
and
his
men
beaten
back
with
great
effusion
of
blood
:
Mandauior
deade
,
Rascianus
appointed
in
his
roome
one
Prelides
,
a
man
far
more
liberall
then
the
other
was
valiant
,
who
promising
to
performe
that
by
prodigall
expences
,
that
Mandauior
missed
of
by
his
valiant
indeuours
,
tolde
his
Lord
that
there
was
no
Citty
so
strong
,
whereinto
an
asse
laden
with
golde
coulde
not
enter
:
that
great
gyftes
were
little
gods
,
that
p●lfe
hath
such
force
to
perswade
,
as
Auri
Sacra
fames
:
quid
non
mortalia
pectora
cogit
?
men
haue
their
thoughts
and
their
passions
:
and
so
great
a
conflict
is
there
betwéene
a
lyberall
Purse
and
a
couetous
,
that
might
it
please
his
maiestie
to
graunt
him
the
distributing
of
his
Treasures
,
hee
pawned
his
life
for
the
spéedy
recouery
of
the
citty
:
the
king
desir●us
to
hazard
him selfe
for
the
hope
of
reuenge
,
gaue
him
free
vse
of
all
his
coyne
,
which
once
in
possession
of
Prelides
,
he
began
first
to
pay
al
his
Souldiers
wages
,
the
greatest
incouragement
that
may
bee
giuen
to
a
frée
mynde
,
●nd
to
bestow
bountifully
of
euery
meane
man
beyonde
his
de●ert
,
with
promise
,
that
if
they
sackt
the
Citty
the
spoyle
should
bee
equally
deuided
amongst
them
,
the
king
only
crauing
for
his
share
the
princesse
Cimbriana
,
with
Crowne
and
kingdome
:
this
perswasion
alleaged
,
and
his
Souldiers
hearts
●et
on
fier
with
hope
of
gaine
,
the
next
morning
by
breake
of
the
day
,
hee
made
an
assault
with
such
force
,
as
●he
cytizens
neuer
felt
before
:
but
they
poore
men
●●ghting
no●
for
golde
,
but
for
theyr
lyues
and
family
,
so
hardely
abid
the
brunte
,
that
Prelides
was
faine
to
retyre
wit
●
great
●ishonor
:
His
purpose
not
fitted
by
this
pretence
,
secretly
he
gotte
to
speake
with
one
of
the
Senators
,
to
whom
he
promised
two
Talents
of
golde
that
the
Citty
might
bee
deliuered
:
The
Lydians
being
more
politicke
then
hee
was
prodigall
,
after
a
faint
deniall
gaue
consent
,
&
confirmed
it
with
an
othe
,
that
for
such
a
summe
hée
would
delyuer
vp
the
Citty
,
the
agréement
ended
,
and
appointed
,
Prelides
carrying
his
gold
,
mette
according
to
promise
,
the
Senator
,
who
receiuing
him
and
his
money
with
a
great
troupe
of
Souldiers
,
brought
them
within
an
ambush
,
an●
made
such
a
bloody
massacre
of
them
all
,
as
there
was
not
one
left
to
beare
dismall
report
of
such
mercilesse
butchery
:
yet
the
triumph
made
in
the
Cittie
,
their
heads
set
ouer
the
walles
,
and
the
Caspians
Auntientes
displayed
on
the
Turrettes
of
the
Citty
,
gaue
Rascianus
to
vnderstand
what
ill
fortune
had
fallen
to
his
generall
Prelides
.
This
mishap
still
increasing
the
furie
of
the
Caspian
,
called
him
so
fast
on
to
reuenge
,
that
now
intending
to
loose
in
one
day
both
his
men
and
him selfe
,
vnderstanding
that
the
citizens
were
greatly
weakned
,
&
also
weary
of
their
warre
&
of
the
si●ge
,
hee
resolued
in
person
to
giue
the
assault
:
but
Cleophanes
a
noble
man
in
the
Campe
,
whose
wisedome
excelled
either
the
fortitude
,
or
liberallity
of
the
other
,
noting
with
a
deepe
insight
the
sondry
accidents
,
&
seeing
that
the
Senators
were
more
wise
then
valiant
,
and
defended
the
Citty
better
by
wisedome
then
they
coulde
doe
with
pollicie
,
hée
thought
to
giue
them
a
soppe
of
the
same
sauce
,
and
to
thrust
out
one
wyle
with
another
,
therefore
hee
desired
of
his
Soueraigne
that
hee
would
suffer
him
to
ouerthrow
that
with
his
head
,
that
his
whole
hoste
could
not
once
shake
with
their
hands
,
the
king
knowing
him
to
bee
of
great
experience
,
not
onely
graunted
his
request
,
but
added
a
promise
of
higher
dignity
if
hee
●ulfilled
his
desire
:
wherevpon
hee
willed
the
king
to
craue
a
Truce
for
ten
dayes
,
which
being
graunted
,
during
the
time
of
the
league
it
was
lawfull
for
any
Caspian
to
go
into
the
Citty
,
and
for
any
Citizen
to
visite
the
Campe
:
this
interchaunge
of
frindship
confirmed
,
Rascianus
by
the
counsaile
of
Cleophanes
sent
foure
and
twenty
of
his
chiefe
nobles
,
and
chiefetaines
into
the
Citty
,
as
pledges
,
that
the
Senators
might
come
safely
into
the
Campe
without
preiudice
,
so
to
parle
of
the
peace
with
the
king
:
this
request
thought
necessary
by
Cimbriana
and
hir
Counsaile
,
the
Senators
came
,
in
whose
residence
at
the
Campe
,
Cleophanes
going
into
the
Citty
and
into
the
market
place
,
gathering
a
multitude
of
the
rude
and
common
sort
together
,
hée
subtelly
began
to
insinuate
into
their
minds
,
with
this
pleasing
Oration
.
Cleophanes
Oration
to
the
Citizens
.
WOrthie
Cytizens
and
inhabitants
of
Lydia
whose
forepassed
peace
,
darkned
with
a
mortall
and
resolute
warre
,
and
whose
long
happinesse
quaketh
at
the
thought
of
incident
myseries
,
I
cannot
,
though
an
enemy
,
yet
passe
the
streetes
without
plaintes
,
nor
though
sworne
●o
your
fatall
ruyne
,
yet
foresée
your
fall
without
teares
:
hath
this
citty
beene
famous
for
hir
walles
,
hir
Turrets
,
&
stately
edifices
,
bewrayed
a
pompe
to
the
eye
by
hir
sumptuous
buildinges
,
and
shall
it
bee
laide
waste
as
a
desolate
place
,
so
that
straungers
shall
aske
:
where
stoode
the
glorious
Citty
of
Lydia
?
Shall
so
many
men
as
are
here
present
,
whose
yeares
are
younge
enough
,
many
dayes
hence
to
passe
with
quiet
into
the
graue
,
perish
at
the
City
walles
with
the
swoorde
?
shall
these
sweete
women
,
whose
angels
faces
pleade
for
pitty
,
bee
ledde
as
sorrowfull
wydowes
into
captiuity
?
shall
the
little
babes
and
tender
infantes
be
taken
from
the
T●ate
,
and
lie
strangled
in
the
streetes
?
shall
the
virgins
,
whose
chastitie
is
so
pretious
,
be
a
pray
to
the
souldier
,
and
be
deflowred
before
the
face
of
their
paren●s
?
Nay
forgetfull
Cytizens
of
Lydia
,
shall
fier
and
swoorde
without
mercy
finish
what
I
forewarne
:
and
you
so
sencelesse
as
to
beleue
the
doting
Senators
that
féed
you
with
hope
of
our
remooue
?
Hath
not
the
mighty
Caspian
compassed
the
Citty
with
such
an
hoste
,
and
your
liberty
is
no
further
then
the
limits
of
your
walles
:
yea
,
and
hath
he
not
sworne
to
continue
the
siege
till
hee
be
king
,
and
inuested
with
the
Crowne
?
consider
what
hee
craues
,
nothing
but
to
haue
the
Queene
to
his
wife
,
and
you
to
continew
his
true
and
lawfull
Subi●ctes
,
hee
seekes
not
your
liues
,
your
goods
,
your
ouerthrow
,
but
to
bee
as
soueraigne
and
protectour
of
so
faire
a
citty
,
and
so
honest
Citizens
:
what
madnesse
then
(
this
requ●st
so
reasonable
)
hath
incensed
your
Senators
to
resist
him
,
whom
fortune
hath
in
farre
more
dangerous
attempts
sent
away
with
conquest
.
Beléeue
mee
Cytizens●
it
is
the
feare
of
their
wealth
,
not
the
care
of
your
welfare
;
the
dread
of
their
owne
mishap
,
not
the
desire
of
your
goods
that
driues
them
to
make
slaughter
of
the
Citizens
without
reason
:
seeing
then
you
are
forewarned
,
be
forearmed
,
prouide
for
your
owne
safty
,
suffer
the
king
to
come
in
,
and
I
my selfe
will
remaine
here
among
you
as
a
pledge
of
your
safty
.
At
these
woordes
,
the
vnbridled
multitude
desirous
of
nouelty
:
as
men
in
a
fury
ran
to
the
pallace
,
thinking
by
force
to
haue
caried
the
Quéene
to
the
Tent
of
Rascianus
:
But
she
hauing
notice
of
their
intent
,
secretly
fled
out
of
the
pallace
,
and
conueied
hir
into
one
of
the
Senators
houses
adioyning
:
the
Cytizens
not
finding
hir
maiesty
,
fell
to
spoile
of
the
treasures
,
which
done
,
setting
open
the
gates
,
they
getting
Branches
of
Lawrell
in
their
hands
,
went
to
the
Pauilion
of
Rascianus
,
where
séeing
the
Senators
talking
for
the
estate
of
their
common
wealth
,
after
certaine
complaints
vttered
against
them
,
they
deliuered
vp
the
keyes
of
the
Citty
into
the
kings
hand
:
He
taking
oportunity
at
the
rebounde
,
casting
a
frowning
looke
vpon
the
Senators
,
and
with
a
submisse
courtesie
and
a
frindly
oration
of
welcome
,
intertaining
the
Citizens
,
hee
presently
departed
,
and
with
all
his
hoste
was
receiued
into
the
Citty
:
no
sooner
had
Rascianus
possest
him selfe
of
the
towne
,
and
his
pledges
come
into
his
presence
,
but
by
the
perswasion
of
Cleophanes
hée
put
all
the
Senators
and
chiefe
of
the
Citty
to
the
edge
of
the
sword
,
giuing
the
rest
of
the
Citty
as
a
praie
to
his
souldiers
:
then
they
which
were
by
the
pleasinge
Harmonie
of
his
forerehearsed
oration
deluded
,
seeing
themselues
brought
into
extreme
miserie
,
founde
that
the
pollitike
wisedome
of
Cleophanes
had
more
ruinated
their
estate
then
all
the
former
forces
of
Mandauior
or
Prelides
:
Well
,
repentan●e
comming
too
late
,
the
Senators
slaine
,
the
Cittye
sackt
and
all
brought
to
ruine
:
yet
had
not
the
kinge
his
purpose
,
for
Cimbriana
was
missing
,
&
could
by
no
meanes
bee
found
,
so
that
the
Caspian
raging
in
the
heate
of
his
affection
,
hauing
made
a
priuie
search
and
all
in
vayne
:
was
dryuen
againe
●or
his
last
refuge
to
the
pollicie
of
Cleophanes
,
who
counsayled
his
maiesty
to
assemble
all
the
women
,
of
what
age
or
Degrée
so
euer
into
the
pallace
,
and
afterward
to
sel●ct
out
all
the
aged
Matrons
or
others
whatsoeuer
,
aboue
the
age
of
twenty
,
and
vnder
the
yeeres
of
LX.
which
done
,
that
the
rest
might
be
appointed
to
dance
.
The
king
following
the
counsaile
of
Cleophanes
,
assembled
them
all
,
and
sorted
them
:
now
amongst
the
maides
was
left
Cimbriana
in
disguised
apparell
,
who
falling
to
the
lot
of
one
of
the
meane
souldiers
,
assoone
as
the
musick
founded
,
and
they
began
to
treade
the
measures
,
coulde
not
so
well
dissemble
,
but
there
appeared
in
hir
gestures
such
a
maiestie
,
as
euery
eye
might
easely
iudge
hir
to
bee
some
extraordinarie
p●rson
:
herevppon
Rascianus
licensing
all
to
depart
,
seased
him selfe
vpon
Cimbriana
,
who
seeing
fortune
would
not
let
hir
escape
hir
determined
ill
fortune
,
without
feare
confessed
shee
was
daughter
to
●britius
,
and
right
possessor
of
that
Crowne
which
hee
did
wrongfully
vsurpe
.
The
king
seeking
by
laying
downe
the
summe
of
hir
miseries
,
to
make
hir
more
submisse
,
so
preuailed
,
that
two
or
thrée
daies
passed
in
sorowes
,
hee
founde
hir
as
tractable
as
hee
coulde
desire
,
and
vppon
hir
frindly
and
louing
consent
,
resolued
to
solempnise
the
marriage
,
and
so
to
become
peaceable
possessor
of
hir
and
hir
kingdome
:
resting
vpon
this
resolution
,
while
all
things
were
preparing
for
such
a
sumptuous
feast
,
Cimbriana
accompanied
with
hir
Ladies
,
finding
that
none
but
they
and
hir selfe
were
present
,
falling
into
sighes
,
and
from
sighes
to
teares
,
burst
at
last
into
these
termes
.
Honorable
Ladies
of
Lydia
,
renowned
through
the
world
for
your
beauties
&
vertues
,
whose
youth
hath
beene
crossed
by
fortune
,
a●d
whose
age
is
assigned
to
misery
,
depriued
of
your
husbands
,
your
parents
,
your
children
,
your
wealth
,
your
liberty
:
yea
,
and
in
hazard
of
daily
dishonor
by
the
Caspians
,
the
greatest
losse
of
all
.
Whetherto
doo
wee
looke
but
to
shame
and
mishap
?
to
what
ende
doo
wee
lyue
but
to
disgrace
and
infamy
?
hath
our
frinds
made
defence
of
our
safty
with
their
liues
,
and
shall
we
enter
league
with
their
enemies
after
death
?
shall
the
hande
that
slaughtred
your
parents
bée
thrust
fréely
into
your
Iuory
bosoms
?
shall
hee
intertaine
you
with
amours
,
through
whom
our
city
perisht
in
armours
?
No
Ladies
,
let
the
sight
of
their
carcases
yet
vnburied
hale
vs
on
to
reuenge
:
let
vs
prefer
death
before
dishonor
,
let
vs
choose
rather
to
accompanie
our
frinds
in
their
fortunes
,
then
sporte
in
our
enemies
fauours
:
better
is
a
moment
of
griefe
then
a
wo●ld
of
myserie
:
I
se●ke
not
to
perswade
wherein
I
will
not
my self
bee
formost
:
let
the
Tragedy
bee
resolued
on
,
and
I
will
bee
first
actor
to
bathe
my
handes
in
blood
:
to
bring
which
to
pass●
,
at
the
marriage
,
midst
our
mirth
,
and
in
the
thickest
of
our
cuppes
let
euery
Lady
choose
a
Lord
,
into
whose
cup
let
hir
put
a
dramme
of
this
deadly
poyson
,
and
so
drinking
the
halfe
,
purchase
an
honorable
death
with
reuenge
.
The
Ladies
freely
consenting
to
this
motion
,
Cimbriana
gaue
secret
notice
to
such
Cytizens
as
were
left
,
hat
when
the
citie
should
bee
in
an
vproare
for
the
death
of
Rascianus
,
ready
in
armour
,
they
would
set
vppon
the
sorrowfull
souldiers
,
&
put
all
to
the
edge
of
the
sworde
.
This
determynation
agreed
vppon
,
and
the
confiction
parted
amongst
them
,
the
Ladies
seeming
maruelous
pleasaunt
,
ceased
not
daily
to
banquet
with
the
Caspian
Lords
till
the
marriage
morning
was
come
,
whereon
Rascianus
going
to
the
Temple
,
accompanied
with
his
Lords
,
&
Cimbriana
attended
vppon
with
hir
Ladies
,
they
were
solemnly
married
by
the
Flamine
:
the
rites
perfourmed
and
ended
,
and
they
returned
to
the
pallace
:
the
Caspians
feasting
for
ioy
of
this
great
tryumphe
,
passed
away
dinner
with
great
solemnity
:
Rascianus
and
the
rest
,
swéetly
swilled
in
their
cuppes
;
Bacchus
liquor
adding
a
heate
to
Venus
charmes
,
they
fell
after
their
maner
to
dallying
with
the
Ladies
,
who
taking
oportunitie
by
the
forehead
,
called
for
wyne
,
whereinto
they
put
the
poison
,
which
drinking
of
to
the
Lords
;
a●ter
the
pledge
passed
,
&
Cimbriana
saw
hir
purpose
had
taken
effect
;
with
a
sterne
countenance
looking
vpon
Rascianus
,
she
told
him
that
now
shee
had
quitted
hir
cities
spoyle
with
reueng
,
for
know
tyrant
(
quoth
shee
)
that
thou
and
all
thy
Lordes
are
impoysoned
by
the
hands
of
women
,
who
rather
choose
to
die
in
dispaire
,
then
liue
vnreuenged
in
the
handes
of
an
enemy
:
scarse
had
she
vttered
this
,
but
some
of
the
Ladies
,
whose
complexions
were
tender
fell
downe
dead
:
Rascianus
and
his
nobles
amased
,
and
feeling
the
force
of
the
poyson
to
worke
,
called
to
the
Phisitians
,
but
all
in
vayne
,
for
within
one
houre
there
was
not
one
of
them
aliue
:
the
Caspian
Souldiers
seeing
their
King
and
their
Captaines
dead
,
stoode
as
men
metamorphosed
from
their
former
sence
:
The
Citizens
of
the
contrary
part
,
hearing
of
the
desperat
attempt
of
their
princesse
,
as
men
furious
and
incensed
with
the
heate
of
reueng
,
getting
on
their
armour
,
gathered
in
troupes
,
and
setting
vpon
the
naked
and
amased
Caspians
,
made
such
a
bloody
massacre
of
the
poore
wretches
,
that
they
left
not
one
aliue
,
whatsoeuer
hee
was
that
came
as
mercenary
to
Rascianus
.
This
stratageme
perfourmed
,
the
dead
carkases
cast
out
of
the
City
,
Cimbriana
and
hir
Ladyes
richly
intoumbed
the
Citizens
,
and
longe
after
maintained
their
cyuill
estate
with
a
peaceable
and
quiet
democracy
.
HElenus
hauing
ended
his
tragedie
,
the
grecian
Lords
with
a
plawsible
assent
praysing
his
discourse
,
confessed
that
wisedome
was
of
great
force
,
able
to
perfourme
as
much
in
humaine
affaires
as
any
other
vertue
whatsoeuer
.
And
yet
(
quoth
Hector
)
wee
see
that
the
ende
of
Cleophanes
pollicie
had
a
dismall
counterpoise
of
reueng
:
that
his
wisdome
could
not
preuent
the
feeble
force
of
one
woman
:
that
fortune
grudging
at
such
treachery
repaied
all
his
craft
with
confusion
.
Let
mee
(
quoth
Troilus
)
haue
such
a
conquest
as
men
shall
attribute
to
courage
,
not
to
deceipt
,
and
that
may
end
,
dispight
of
the
enimy
him selfe
,
in
honor
,
not
in
curses
,
that
Fortune
may
glorie
in
for
hir
fauours
,
not
fame
haue
cause
to
obscure
with
hir
darkest
collours
:
I
deny
not
but
wisedome
is
necessary
in
a
Captain●
,
and
therefore
naturall
,
as
giuen
to
euery
man
of
necessity
:
but
valour
,
as
it
is
expedient
,
so
it
is
singularly
bestowed
vpon
few
,
as
a
thing
so
pretious
that
the
gods
doo
grudge
to
imparte
it
in
common
.
You
measure
(
quoth
Nestor
)
this
wisdome
which
your
Brother
Helenus
discoursed
with
too
bare
a
proportion
,
as
counting
what
witte
or
rather
reasonable
gouernment
wee
haue
by
the
ordinary
or
naturall
direction
of
our
actions
to
bee
wisedome
,
but
his
description
prooueth
the
contrary
,
for
hee
setteth
downe
that
to
bee
wisedome
which
is
a
habit
inserted
by
Nature
,
but
augmented
by
Arte
and
Science
,
such
as
is
able
to
discerne
betweene
vertue
&
vyce
:
so
that
none
can
attaine
to
bée
called
Fortis
,
vnlesse
first
hee
bee
Sapiens
,
for
without
wisedome
hee
shall
fall
eyther
to
excesse
or
defect
:
eyther
to
bee
too
fearefull
,
or
too
rashe
:
and
so
passing
that
meane
for
want
of
wysdome
commit
something
worthy
of
blame
.
As
thus
they
were
redy
to
make
further
replie
:
Andromache
and
the
other
Troian
Ladies
seeing
the
sunne
declining
to
the
west
,
desirous
to
take
their
leaues
hastened
Hector
from
the
companie
,
who
with
the
rest
breaking
of
from
talke
,
after
great
thankes
to
his
host
Achilles
,
to
Agamemnon
,
Vlisses
,
and
the
other
Lords
,
for
their
sumptuous
intertainment
,
with
a
request
from
Polixena
and
hir
sister
Cassandra
,
that
the
next
morrowe
they
would
accompany
Iphigenia
,
Briseis
,
and
Cressida
to
the
City
,
who
had
past
their
promyse
to
come
,
they
offred
to
depart
.
Agamemnon
onely
making
excuse
for
him selfe
,
but
graunting
his
consent
to
his
daughter
:
the
other
noble
men
promysed
to
accompany
the
Ladies
,
and
for
confirmation
thereof
,
after
an
interchange
of
courtesies
,
mounting
vppon
their
coursers
,
they
roade
with
the
Ladies
to
the
very
walls
of
Troy
;
where
after
a
friendly
far●well
,
they
returned
to
their
pauilions
.
Priamus
glad
to
sée
his
children
so
merry
at
home
,
began
to
question
with
them
of
their
intertainment
,
which
Hector
from
pointe
to
pointe
rehearsed
vnto
him
,
as
before
,
with
this
addition
,
that
the
Gretians
ment
to
dyne
with
him
the
next
day
:
wherevpon
Priamus
made
most
princely
preparation
.
¶
The
third
discourse
.
THe
gladsome
rayes
of
Phoebus
had
no
sooner
shaken
of
,
by
the
consent
of
blushing
Aurora
,
the
dusky
and
darksome
Mantle
that
denied
Tellus
and
Flora
the
benefits
of
Tytan
,
but
the
Grecian
Ladies
,
and
especially
Cressida
,
who
all
that
night
had
smoothered
in
hir
thoughts
the
perfection
of
Troilus
,
were
vp
and
at
the
pauilion
of
Achilles
,
to
waken
him
from
his
drowsie
nest
:
whose
dreames
were
but
swéete
slumbers
conceipted
by
imagination
of
the
beauty
of
his
fayer
Polixena
:
The
worthy
Captayne
glad
he
had
such
pretty
Cocks
to
crow
him
from
his
dreames
,
hied
him
out
of
his
bed
,
and
with
as
much
speede
as
might
bee
,
sending
for
Vlisses
,
Diomedes
,
Patroclus
,
Nestor
,
and
the
rest
,
after
a
small
desiune
,
for
feare
of
the
ayer
,
they
mounted
with
the
Ladies
,
and
trotted
on
a
solemne
Pace
towardes
Troy
.
Hector
hauing
by
his
espials
vnderstanding
of
their
comming
,
accompanied
with
a
worthy
troupe
of
Troians
,
went
to
méete
them
,
hauing
before
him
vpon
white
Arabian
Coursers
three
hundreth
gentlemen
,
clad
in
purple
Bisse
,
their
Hats
plumed
with
crimson
Feathers
,
that
reached
to
the
Arcons
of
their
Saddles
,
their
Coparisons
interpointed
with
broken
Launces
spotted
with
bloode
,
about
the
borders
w●s
written
this
sentence
:
Hac
fortis
sunt
insignia
.
Next
to
these
,
Hector
,
whose
countenance
threatned
warres
,
&
in
whose
face
appeared
a
map
of
martiall
exploits
;
framing
his
collours
to
his
thoughts
,
was
seated
on
a
black
Barbarian
Gennet
,
whose
furniture
was
black
Ueluet
,
set
with
Adamants
,
interseamed
with
fluds
,
wherein
were
Salamanders
bathing
in
content
:
there
was
imbrodered
in
letters
figured
with
Pearle
,
this
,
Sic
pro
Marte
.
Hector
thus
in
his
Furniture
mette
Achilles
,
and
the
Ladies
,
whom
after
friendly
salutations
,
and
a
second
repaying
of
thankes
for
their
good
cheere
,
they
conducted
to
the
Citty
:
where
they
no
sooner
entred
the
gate
but
Hecuba
,
the
stately
Troian
Queene
,
attended
on
by
Penthesilea
the
princesse
of
the
Amazons
,
hir
daughters
and
other
Ladies
of
great
dignity
,
met
them
with
most
royall
intertaynment
:
whom
after
generally
they
had
saluted
,
with
a
particular
welcome
,
they
accompanied
to
the
temple
of
Pallas
,
where
aged
Priamus
,
with
six
and
thirty
other
kinges
his
allied
frinds
,
amazed
the
Gretians
with
the
sight
of
their
maiesty
:
in
so
much
,
that
Achilles
as
a
man
in
a
traunce
,
confessed
in
his
thoughtes
,
that
this
citty
was
Microcosmos
,
a
little
Worlde
,
in
respect
of
the
Cytties
of
Greece
.
Pryamus
noting
howe
they
stoode
in
a
muse
,
saluted
them
in
this
maner
.
Worthy
Grecians
,
whom
reueng
and
thirst
of
honor
hath
haled
out
of
your
natiue
kingdomes
,
to
sacrifice
your
bloode
at
the
walls
of
Troy
:
sith
in
martiall
myndes
enmity
ought
to
hange
at
the
Swords
point
,
and
thoughtes
in
maiesty
ought
to
bee
measured
by
promise
;
A
league
of
friendship
being
passe
for
a
prefixed
tyme
,
I
account
our
citty
a
free
mart
for
the
Grecians
,
and
your
Tents
a
Sanctuary
for
the
peaceable
Troians
:
which
my
daughters
confirmed
by
proofe
,
in
hazarding
,
vpon
the
othe
of
an
enemy
,
and
you
now
ratefie
,
by
committing
your selues
into
a
walled
city
,
peopled
with
your
professed
foes
.
But
honor
and
maiesty
brooking
no
treacherous
suspition
,
putteth
in
assurance
of
safty
:
omitting
therefore
all
friuolous
protestation
,
the
Ladies
first
,
as
respecting
that
once
I
was
young
,
and
the
Lordes
,
as
now
I
am
olde
:
and
both
as
I
am
Priamus
are
heartely
and
vnfaynedly
welcome
,
to
the
poore
besiedged
citty
of
Troy
:
where
if
you
finde
no
sights
but
Armour
,
no
musicke
but
the
Drumme
,
nor
no
delicates
but
souldiers
fare
,
impute
it
to
your
owne
wilfulnesse
,
and
our
necessities
,
which
are
forced
to
beare
reueng
with
fortune
:
hoping
therefore
you
will
measure
your
intertainement
by
the
time
,
Followe
mee
to
the
Pallace
of
Il●um
.
The
Grecians
thanking
Priamus
for
his
Pryncely
courtesie
,
paced
on
to
the
Pallace
,
where
alighting
,
and
entering
,
they
found
all
things
ready
furnished
for
dynner
,
so
that
set
downe
euery
man
in
his
degrée
,
they
fell
to
such
cheere
as
so
sodaine
a
warning
would
afford
,
which
was
so
sumptuous
and
(
to
say
troth
)
serued
in
with
such
prodygall
magnificence
,
as
the
Gretians
thought
Bacchus
and
Caeres
ment
there
to
discouer
their
superfluity
:
Feeding
thus
more
with
the
eye
then
glutting
the
stomacke
,
yet
taking
their
repast
with
good
appetite
,
they
past
ouer
dynner
with
many
pleasant
discourses
;
which
for
breuity
sake
I
omitte
.
Well
,
the
Tables
vncouered
,
Hecuba
and
the
Ladies
went
to
walke
,
and
to
see
the
pleasures
of
the
Pallace
:
but
the
Lordes
sat
still
silent
,
vntill
Priamus
began
to
put
them
from
their
muses
with
these
woordes
.
I
remember
(
mighty
princes
of
Greece
and
Asia
)
that
my
sonne
Helenus
commended
the
Gretian
banquets
,
to
bee
more
delicate
then
any
other
that
before
hee
had
seene
:
his
reason
was
thus
;
that
their
fare
was
not
so
sumptuous
,
as
their
philosophicall
discourses
were
delightfull
:
so
that
to
spend
tyme
well
,
they
amidst
their
cuppes
ceased
not
to
learne
precepts
of
morall
vertue
;
so
alaying
the
heate
of
Bacchus
vynepresse
,
with
the
sweete
conserues
fetcht
from
Myneruaes
Library
:
which
as
I
greatly
commend
,
he
discoursed
vnto
mee
your
late
disputation
about
the
perfection
of
a
souldier
,
consisting
by
your
distinct
diuision
,
in
thrée
partes
,
wysedome
,
fortitude
,
and
liberalitie
:
all
thrée
necessary
,
but
the
question
which
of
them
is
most
pretious
:
the
first
being
discussed
bad
enough
,
as
I
coniec●●re
by
the
man
;
it
resteth
,
if
with
your
good
fauours
I
might
craue
it
,
that
now
to
adapt
a
fit
digestion
,
wee
might
heare
the
second
question
decided
.
Aged
Nestor
seeing
they
sat
all
silent
,
rising
vppe
,
and
vncouering
his
hoary
heade
,
that
shyned
like
the
Syluer
gleaming
Iuory
,
made
him
this
answere
:
Mighty
Priamus
,
honorable
for
thy
thoughts
,
and
famous
for
thy
Issus
;
feared
of
Fortune
,
because
in
resolute
maiesty
aboue
Fortune
;
the
Gretians
knowing
their
discent
from
the
gods
,
therefore
couet
in
actions
to
resemble
the
gods
,
which
they
Imagin
to
doe
,
by
studying
phylosophie
to
be
come
vertuous
:
so
that
they
measure
their
time
by
pleasures
and
their
pleasures
by
profit
,
counting
nothing
delightfull
,
which
is
not
both
profitable
and
honest
:
which
inforced
vs
to
intertaine
thy
sonnes
with
our
philosophicall
discourses
,
to
trie
if
their
vertues
were
onely
ingrauen
by
nature
,
or
perfected
by
learning
.
How
wee
found
them
,
giue
vs
leaue
to
reporte
in
Greece
,
not
in
Troy
:
but
so
wée
estéeme
of
them
,
as
wee
desire
thy
highnesse
to
forward
our
former
disputation
;
which
belongeth
vnto
thy
sonne
Hector
:
namely
to
discourse
of
fortitude
.
Priamus
promised
to
farther
so
good
a
motion
:
and
therefore
commaunded
Hector
,
sith
hee
tooke
the
defence
of
such
a
vertue
,
to
maintaine
his
charge
:
who
duetifully
obeying
his
fathers
commaunde
,
seeing
the
Princes
began
to
be
attentiue
,
began
his
discourse
in
this
manner
.
¶
Hectors
discourse
of
Fortitude
.
ALthough
it
might
amase
Esculapius
to
alledge
any
of
his
Aphorismes
in
the
presence
of
Apollo
,
or
Silenus
to
treat
of
the
nature
of
Grapes
in
the
hearing
of
Bacchus
;
yet
it
is
no
offence
in
Pallas
temple
to
treate
of
wisdome
,
nor
at
Venus
altars
to
parle
of
loues
;
sith
the
goddesses
doo
patronage
such
affections
.
So
,
although
the
presence
of
such
mighty
prynces
,
whose
chieualry
is
famous
from
the
East
to
the
West
,
and
whose
valour
by
experience
is
able
to
deliuer
principles
of
magnanimitie
,
might
affray
mee
from
this
inioyned
discourse
of
fortitude
;
yet
,
for
that
my
fathers
commaunde
is
a
lawe
of
constraint
,
which
Nature
willes
mee
to
obey
,
and
the
request
of
the
Grecians
such
a
clayme
,
as
duety
forceth
mée
to
graunt
;
I
will
rather
hazarde
my
credit
on
the
honorable
thoughts
of
these
mighty
Potentates
,
then
seeme
eyther
scrupulous
,
or
froward
in
gainesaying
such
a
charge
,
hoping
they
will
with
Prometheus
,
censure
well
of
the
workmanship
of
Lisias
,
&
rather
cast
an
eye
at
the
nature
of
the
stone
by
secret
instinct
,
then
at
the
beauty
pollished
by
arte
;
in
which
hope
resting
,
thus
to
the
purpose
.
The
Phylosophers
,
whose
liues
spent
in
metaphusicall
contemplation
,
hauing
set
downe
in
their
precepts
,
the
perfect
pourtraiture
of
vertue
,
figure
hir
bare
counterfait
,
placed
by
equall
proportion
,
betwéene
two
vyces
,
noting
thereby
,
that
the
meane
kept
betweene
two
extremes
,
is
that
laudable
action
,
which
by
no
other
name
can
bee
tearmed
,
but
by
the
title
of
vertue
;
neither
in
excesse
,
soaring
too
high
with
Bolerophon
,
and
so
to
hasard
on
the
heate
of
the
sunne
,
nor
in
defect
falling
too
lowe
with
Icarus
,
by
the
moysture
of
the
Sea
wetting
his
feathers
;
but
flying
with
Dedalus
,
in
the
meane
,
so
with
case
and
quiet
attayning
to
the
desired
ende
;
as
for
an
instance
,
fortitude
seated
betweene
two
extremities
,
Timiditas
,
and
Audacia
;
feare
fayling
in
defect
,
and
rashnesse
faultie
in
excesse
;
the
meane
being
that
courage
which
ought
to
bee
in
a
Souldier
.
For
all
desperate
attempts
that
beare
the
shadowe
of
prowesse
,
and
are
of
the
common
sorte
honored
with
the
name
of
fortitude
,
are
not
comprehended
within
the
precinct
of
this
vertue
;
for
hée
only
is
counted
a
valiaunt
man
,
that
without
any
furious
or
rash
resolution
,
feareth
not
to
hasard
him selfe
in
the
greatest
perills
whatsoeuer
,
for
the
weale
of
his
countrey
.
So
that
by
this
definition
wee
see
,
that
hee
limited
within
the
bonds
of
measure
,
is
not
to
v●●ture
or
make
proofe
of
his
valour
in
euery
light
cause
;
yea
,
for
euery
trifling
thing
,
but
with
such
proportion
,
as
in
scorning
death
;
yet
hee
may
honorably
se●ke
not
to
bee
counted
desperate
.
For
I
remember
that
Isadus
a
worthy
Lacedemonian
seeing
their
Citty
besieged
,
and
tha●
the
Souldiers
resolutely
issued
out
to
fight
with
the
enemy
,
hée
being
their
Captayne
,
stript
him selfe
naked
,
and
taking
a
Pollax
in
his
hand
,
with
such
a
desperate
furie
gaue
the
attempt
,
and
so
amazed
,
and
repulsed
them
,
that
his
Souldiers
imitating
his
courage
put
all
their
foes
to
the
edge
of
the
sword
:
the
battaile
ended
,
the
Senators
gaue
him
a
Crowne
of
Lawrell
for
the
victory
;
but
fined
him
in
a
some
of
money
for
his
rashnesse
,
in
that
hee
did
so
vnaduisedly
put
himselfe
in
daunger
,
being
the
Generall
of
their
forc●s
.
So
that
wee
see
,
there
ought
in
this
vertue
of
fortitude
certaine
circumstances
to
be
necessary
,
as
how
it
bee
done
,
where
it
bee
done
,
&
why
it
bee
done
,
and
when
it
bee
done
;
least
in
defect
hee
bée
counted
a
Coward
,
and
in
excesse
a
desperate
and
vnaduised
gouernour
.
Your
Grecian
Annales
tells
vs
of
one
Lamedos
,
that
being
a
Captayne
ouer
the
Athenians
,
in
a
skirmish
fledde
,
which
one
of
his
owne
souldiers
seeing
,
cryed
in
retyring
to
him
:
Lamedos
,
why
dishonorest
thou
thy
Countrey
by
flight
?
Thou
deceiuest
thy selfe
man
(
quoth
he●
)
I
doo
but
looke
to
the
profit
that
is
behind
mee
,
which
after
hée
confirmed
by
proofe
,
for
taking
aduantage
of
the
place
,
he
discom●●ted
the
enemy
,
shewing
that
hee
feared
not
death
,
but
sought
howe
to
the
profit
of
his
countrey
,
best
to
make
manifest
his
courage
.
Theseus
yet
liuing
,
who
for
his
worthy
and
incomparable
victories
is
canonised
,
as
come
from
the
Offspring
of
the
gods
,
being
in
a
battayle
against
the
Athenians
intrenched
him selfe
with
a
stronge
countermure
,
and
would
not
in
many
daies
bee
drawen
out
to
fight
,
which
his
enemy
Lyme●tor
séeing
,
comming
to
the
trench
cried
out
a●d
said
;
Theseus
,
if
thou
beest
such
a
hardie
souldier
as
Fame
reports
thee
to
bee
,
why
commest
thou
not
out
,
but
like
a
coward
lyest
intrenched
:
nay
(
●uoth
Theseus
smiling
;
)
Lymestor
,
if
thou
beest
of
such
courage
,
why
doost
thou
not
force
mée
out
of
my
trenches
?
By
this
delay
,
shewing
that
hee
sought
to
set
Fortitude
in
hir
prime
,
to
adde
oportunity
to
his
valour
,
and
so
to
fauour
his
prowesse
with
fortunate
aduantage
,
that
his
attempt
,
as
it
should
bee
resolute
,
so
it
might
bee
for
the
profit
of
his
Countrey
,
which
insued
according
to
his
thoughts
;
for
hee
slew
Lymestor
,
&
all
his
people
:
Experience
then
tells
vs
,
as
fortitude
is
necessary
,
so
it
is
to
bee
vsed
with
such
moderation
,
as
by
keeping
the
meane
,
it
bée
counted
a
vertue
:
Howe
requisite
it
is
in
a
Captaine
,
consideration
of
his
place
makes
manifest
;
for
being
appointed
Generall
,
and
therefore
Guyder
and
Gouernour
of
the
rest
,
hee
is
to
measure
all
his
actions
;
yea
,
his
very
thoughts
with
such
an
honorable
resolution
,
as
laying
apart
all
feare
of
death
whatsoeuer
,
his
charge
and
due●y
is
to
hazard
him selfe
in
any
perills
,
though
neuer
so
dangerous
,
thereby
to
incourage
his
Souldiers
,
by
imitating
his
valour
to
attempt
the
like
,
to
bee
formost
in
the
march
;
and
last
in
the
retrayte
:
to
preferre
honor
before
death
,
and
not
to
make
estimation
of
the
enemies
,
how
many
they
be
,
but
where
they
bee
:
otherwise
in
seeming
to
doubt
of
the
multitude
,
his
fearefull
imagination
greatly
discourage
his
souldiers
.
Sergius
a
woorthy
Captaine
,
hauing
but
one
hand
,
was
of
such
courage
and
valour
,
that
being
alwayes
in
the
face
of
the
enemy
:
he
returned
Uictor
in
two
and
fifty
great
battailes
.
Lysias
the
woorthy
Prynce
of
the
Lacedemonians
being
demaunded
how
hee
was
honored
with
so
many
conquests
,
pulling
out
his
sword
,
made
answere
;
that
with
this
hee
made
Fortune
subiect
to
his
desiers
:
attributing
more
credit
to
his
owne
prowesse
,
than
to
the
inconstant
deity
of
such
a
fickle
goddesse
.
A
Grecian
Captaine
,
whose
name
commeth
not
readily
to
memory
,
being
in
a
sore
battaile
against
that
mighty
Monarch
Pisandros
,
séeing
his
countrymen
ready
to
flee
for
feare
of
the
multitude
of
the
enemy
,
whose
fleete
almost
couered
the
Sea
,
sought
to
perswade
them
,
but
in
vaine
;
wherevpon
hée
sent
secretly
one
of
his
sonnes
in
a
little
skyfe
to
Pisandros
,
to
tell
him
that
his
countrymen
would
escape
by
such
a
passage
:
which
hee
taking
kindly
,
and
presently
stopping
,
added
such
a
courage
to
the
coward●s
,
that
by
this
pollicie
drawen
to
battayle
,
they
put
Pi●andros
with
great
losse
to
flight
:
where
wee
sée
how
greatly
the
incomparable
fortitude
of
the
Captaine
did
preuaile
in
the
getting
of
victorie
.
In
deede
(
quoth
Troilus
)
I
doo
remember
that
Apollo
,
being
demaunded
by
the
inhabitants
of
Phasiaca
,
what
captaine
they
should
choose
for
the
subduing
of
the
Milesians
:
his
oracle
answered
.
Such
a
one
as
dare
for
the
weale
of
his
countrey
,
leape
into
the
Mylesian
gulfe
:
whereupon
they
returned
,
and
made
proclamation
that
their
fr●edome
could
not
be
,
vnlesse
one
willingly
offred
himselfe
as
a
sacrafice
to
Neptune
:
the
men
of
Phasiaca
naturally
fearefull
,
sought
euery
man
his
owne
saf●y
,
till
at
last
a
poore
man
,
whom
want
had
made
desperate
,
offered
him selfe
:
him
they
those
for
their
Captayne
,
and
going
foorth
to
meete
the
Milesians
,
hauing
little
skill
in
ordring
his
men
,
yet
with
such
resolution
,
set
vpon
the
enemies
,
tha●
by
his
meanes
they
returned
victors
.
T●uth
(
quoth
Hector
)
of
such
force
is
fortitude
,
that
the
very
name
of
courage
daunteth
the
enemy
:
for
I
haue
heard
my
father
Priamus
often
make
mention
of
one
Nasycles
,
who
was
so
famous
for
his
cheualry
and
prowesse
,
that
his
very
name
was
a
warrant
o●
victory
to
his
souldiers
:
in
so
much
that
after
his
death●
in
a
great
battayle
his
countriemen
being
almost
discomfited
,
causing
one
to
put
on
his
armour
,
they
fought
a
fresh
,
&
cried
Nasycles
:
which
so
affrighted
the
enemy
,
that
they
fled
&
were
vanquished
.
To
be
short
,
wh●t
can
a
captaine
,
were
he
neuer
so
wise
,
attempt
by
pollicie
,
but
he
must
performe
by
Fortitude
?
What
ambush
so
cunningly
planted
,
but
would
be
ouerthrowne
,
if
garded
with
cowards
?
what
encounter
,
though
fortune
swore
the
victory
,
and
taken
with
most
great
aduantage
,
could
be
atchieued
,
if
the
Captaine
for
feare
discourage
his
Souldiers
from
the
assault
?
which
the
forenamed
Sergius
noted
very
well
,
in
th●t
how
small
so
euer
his
number
was
,
yet
hee
woulde
alwaies
gyue
the
onset
,
saying
that
souldiers
which
stood
at
receipt
,
&
felt
the
furious
attempt
of
the
enemy
,
were
halfe
discomfited
:
neyther
doth
liberality
preuaile
to
incourage
the
So●ldiers
to
battaile
,
when
they
see
their
captaine
stand
more
vppon
his
purse
then
his
person
,
&
had
rather
incounter
with
pelf●
then
with
the
sword
.
To
confirme
which
forerehearsed
premisses
,
pleaseth
your
honorable
patience
to
giue
mee
leaue
,
I
will
rehearse
a
pleasant
and
tragicall
historie
:
Priamus
taking
a
delight
in
his
sonnes
discourse
,
nodding
his
heade
,
gaue
sufficient
proofe
they
were
content
to
bee
patient
auditors
:
wherevpon
Hector
began
his
tale
thus
.
¶
Hectors
Tragedie
.
Audaces
Fortuna
adiu●at
.
IN
the
kingdome
of
Egypt
,
as
the
Cronicles
of
the
Caldes
maketh
mention
,
there
ruled
sometime
as
king
and
Soueraigne
of
the
Countrey
,
one
Sosthenes
,
a
prync●
whose
Courtes
florished
wyth
Lawrell
wreathes
,
more
then
with
stéeled
Armour
;
and
in
whose
City
of
Memphis
were
more
Academies
for
Phylosophers
,
then
Storehouses
for
warlike
munition
:
as
one
that
delyghted
wholie
in
a
peaceable
time
,
to
applie
him selfe
and
his
Subiects
to
the
studie
of
good
letters
,
accounting
no
thing
more
pretious
,
then
what
was
cunningly
begun
by
Nature
curiously
to
bee
perfected
by
arte
:
Loued
generally
hee
was
of
his
bordring
neighbors
in
that
finding
content
in
his
thoughts
,
hee
sought
not
to
inlarge
that
his
Father
had
left
him
,
by
extorting
an
other
mans
due
,
but
quietly
liued
a
friend
to
forraigne
Princes
,
and
studyed
to
kéepe
his
owne
Domynions
from
cyuill
mutinies
.
Being
thus
happie
,
as
one
that
knew
not
what
mishap
ment
:
Fortune
intending
to
make
him
a
particular
instance
,
on
whom
without
chaunge
to
poure
hir
momentayne
pleasures
,
●ent
him
three
sonnes
,
the
Eldest
named
Frontinus
,
was
from
his
youth
addicted
to
martiall
discipline
,
taking
no
delight
but
in
armour
:
in
so
much
that
before
he
was
come
to
the
age
of
sixtéene
yeares
,
hee
excelled
most
of
all
the
Egyptian
Lords
in
feates
of
armes
:
which
seeing
in
a
peaceable
countrey
hée
coulde
not
practise
,
he
secretly
stole
from
his
father
,
and
tra●ailed
into
those
partes
where
hee
heard
bloode
and
reuenge
were
painted
on
their
Ensignes
;
being
of
such
courage
and
dexterity
in
the
field
,
that
the
fame
of
his
valour
&
prowesse
was
not
only
renowmed
in
the
court
of
Memphis
,
but
bla●ed
●hrough
the
whole
world
,
like
a
second
Mars
:
His
other
Brother
,
called
Martignanus
,
contrary
wise
followed
the
steppes
of
his
father
,
seeking
rather
after
the
Precepts
of
phylosophie
,
then
the
knowledge
of
martiall
discipline
;
counted
that
head
as
glorious
,
that
was
Crowned
with
a
Lawrell
Garland
,
as
that
which
was
impalled
with
a
Diadem
;
thinking
as
great
Dignity
to
come
from
the
penne
,
as
the
scepter
;
as
high
renowne
to
flowe
from
the
well-●pring
of
Wysedome
,
as
from
the
possession
of
the
greatest
Monarches
in
the
world
:
In
so
much
,
that
neither
the
Bragmans
,
Gymnosophists
,
Caldees
,
or
other
Phylosophers
whatsoeuer
did
exceede
him
,
eyther
in
morall
prynciples
,
or
in
the
Physicall
reasons
of
naturall
Philosophy
:
the
youngest
,
whose
name
was
Ortellius
,
being
neyther
so
martiall
as
Frontymus
,
nor
so
bookishe
as
Martignanus
,
yet
had
a
speciall
conceipt
aboue
them
both
in
the
bounty
of
his
mynde
,
being
so
liberall
,
as
hée
counted
no
action
vertuous
,
which
ended
not
in
rewarde
,
nor
no
day
well
spent
wherein
hee
had
not
bestowed
some
gifte
,
placing
his
Summum
Bonum
,
in
this
,
that
with
a
restlesse
desire
of
largesse
hee
woon
the
hearts
of
all
the
commons
of
Egypt
:
Sosthenes
blessed
thus
with
thrée
such
sonnes
,
as
for
their
seuerall
vertues
were
famous
through
the
world
,
féeling
that
old
age
,
the
forerunner
of
death
,
had
giuen
him
somons
by
his
Heralt
sicknes
,
to
pay
his
debt
vnto
nature
,
seeing
neither
Crownes
nor
kingdomes
coulde
priuiledge
the
necessity
of
fate
,
hee
only
sorrowed
that
at
his
death
his
eldest
sonne
was
wanting
,
and
vnknowen
where
,
whom
otherwise
hée
might
in
his
life
haue
installed
in
his
kingdome
;
yet
vsing
the
benefit
of
time
,
calling
his
two
sonnes
Martignanus
,
and
Ortellius
before
him
,
with
the
rest
of
his
nobles
,
hee
vttered
vnto
them
these
wordes
,
as
his
last
farewell
.
Age
and
time
two
things
,
Sonnes
that
men
may
forethinke
of
,
but
not
preuent
,
haue
with
a
fatall
necessity
enioyned
,
that
my
soule
leaue
this
mortall
body
and
transitorie
Cell
,
to
goe
to
that
place
of
rest
appointed
,
according
to
well
deserued
actions
,
for
those
that
passe
out
of
this
pilgrimage
:
féeling
therefore
my
feeble
age
to
wax
weake
,
and
my
breth
so
short
,
as
I
looke
euery
moment
to
goe
to
my
last
home
,
I
thought
at
my
death
to
giue
some
signe
of
my
fore passed
life
,
and
so
to
make
distribution
of
my
Crowne
and
Kingdome
,
as
no
dissention
after
my
death
may
breede
any
ciuill
mutinie
.
This
therefore
is
my
will
,
that
Frontynus
haue
my
Crowne
and
Kingdome
,
as
his
by
right
and
inheritance
,
and
by
desert
of
martiall
discipline
;
but
in
his
absence
,
till
hearing
of
my
Funeralls
hee
make
repayre
to
Memphis
,
I
commit
it
into
the
hands
of
you
two
,
to
be
gouerned
by
your
aduice
,
and
at
his
sight
,
peaceably
to
be
redelyuered
into
his
possession
.
The
Dukedome
of
Lysia
Martignanus
I
giue
vnto
thée
;
and
sonne
Ortellius
,
to
thee
I
bequeath
all
my
mooueables
,
wealth
,
and
treasures
whatsoeuer
.
Hauing
thus
first
placed
you
as
ioynt
partners
in
a
Kingdome
,
take
heede
my
sonnes
gase
not
too
high
:
aspyring
thoughtes
,
as
they
are
lofty
,
so
they
are
perilous
,
and
daunger
euer
hanges
at
the
héele
of
ambition
:
a
crowne
is
a
sugred
obiect
,
and
there
is
no
swéeter
good
then
Soueraignty
:
but
Est
virtus
placidis
abstinuisse
bonis
,
take
héede
,
the
finest
Delycates
are
oft
most
infectious
,
and
Crownes
are
as
brittle
,
as
they
are
glistering
;
then
liue
in
content
,
thinke
it
is
your
Brothers
right
,
and
your
Fathers
gyfte
.
Sonne
Ortellius
,
thou
arte
wise
and
learned
,
but
beware
thou
soare
not
too
high
in
selfe
conceipt
,
and
with
Phaeton
fall
headlong
into
mishap
.
Endimion
was
counted
but
too
rash
,
in
falling
in
loue
with
Luna
,
Quae
supra
nos
nihil
ad
nos
,
take
heede
my
sonne
,
Noli
altum
sapere
,
clymbe
not
too
high
in
imaginations
,
gaze
not
with
the
Astronomer
so
longe
at
the
starres
,
that
thou
stumble
at
a
stone
:
poare
not
so
longe
at
thy
booke
,
that
thou
forget
domesticall
affayres
:
passe
not
so
farre
in
the
motions
of
the
heauens
,
that
thou
bee
negligent
what
to
doo
vpon
earth
:
let
not
the
olde
prouerbe
tread
on
thy
heele
,
that
the
greatest
clarkes
are
not
the
wisest
men
;
thou
hast
a
Dukedome
;
that
possesse
in
quiet
and
gouerne
with
Iustice
,
so
shalt
thou
liue
happie
,
and
die
honorable
.
Ortellius
,
to
thee
I
haue
giuen
all
my
treasure
,
so
much
as
exceedeth
number
:
but
take
heede
,
for
r●●hes
are
thornes
that
pricke
men
forward
to
many
mishaps
:
bee
not
too
prodigall
,
for
of
courtesie
I
neede
not
forewarne
thée
:
●xcesse
in
euery
thing
is
a
vice
;
goods
wasted
are
like
blossomes
nipped
off
with
an
vntimely
frost
:
pouertie
is
the
soarest
burden
that
can
fall
vpon
honor
;
&
riches
consumed
,
men
cease
to
bée
enuied
,
&
begin
to
be
pittied
.
But
such
●xchange
is
miserable
:
gifts
are
little
gods
,
which
as
they
are
honored
in
time
,
so
the
remembraunce
thereof
perisheth
with
time
:
giue
not
,
and
thou
shalt
not
bee
galled
with
ingratitud
:
yet
some
giue
,
and
be●
liberall
,
for
it
is
the
cognisance
of
maiesty
;
but
so
,
as
respecting
the
mayne
chance
,
thou
mayest
haue
alwaies
to
giue
:
let
a
fewe
precepts
suffice
,
and
print
t●em
well
in
your
harts
,
and
therefore
imitate
them
in
your
life
,
sith
I
meane
to
seale
them
with
my
death
:
after
this
,
many
daies
did
not
passe
before
Sosthenes
died
,
whose
Funeralls
sorrowfully
and
solemnly
celebrated
,
and
they
by
their
fathers
will
and
consent
of
the
Lords
appointed
ioynt-protectors
of
the
kingdome
.
Ambition
,
the
Serpent
that
stily
insinuateth
into
mens
mindes
,
not
suffring
loue
or
Lordship
to
brooke
any
fellowship
,
entring
league
with
Enuy
and
Fortune
,
two
enemies
to
Peace
and
prosperity
,
began
to
present
them
with
the
desire
of
a
kingdome
,
and
to
think
that
fathers
wills
were
buried
with
their
bodies
in
their
graues
:
that
their
commaunds
were
dated
but
while
death
,
and
that
for
a
Crowne
both
father
and
law
is
to
be
neglected
.
Martignanus
,
wisest
and
eldest
,
thought
that
Pallas
had
power
on
earth
as
she
had
in
heauen
:
that
mens
hearts
were
tied
to
their
eares
,
that
Eloquence
could
as
much
preuaile
to
perswade
,
as
Mercuries
Pipe
to
inchaunte
:
that
the
commons
,
whose
mindes
were
to
bee
woon
by
plawsible
discourses
,
would
sooner
create
him
king
then
his
brother
:
taking
therefore
Time
by
the
foreheade
,
seeing
his
eldest
Brother
was
absent
,
and
vncertaine
assurance
of
his
lyfe
:
he
began
to
imagine
how
hee
might
displace
Ortellius
,
from
the
part
of
such
a
royall
Legacie
:
his
minde
was
not
thus
fraught
with
aspiring
thoughtes
,
but
Ortellius
was
as
forward
in
the
same
supposition
:
for
féeling
by
a
little
experience
,
what
a
swéete
thing
it
is
to
command
:
&
taking
a
delight
in
the
pleasaunt
tast
of
a
crowne
,
he
thought
by
créeping
into
the
commons
heartes
,
to
rase
his
brother
quite
out
of
their
bookes
:
and
this
his
coniecture
was
somewhat
probable
.
For
he
considered
with
himselfe
,
that
Qu●d
non
mortalia
pectora
cogit
?
auri
sacra
fames
,
that
liberality
was
the
soundest
rethorick●
,
that
giftes
were
hookes
that
men
would
willingly
swallow
,
were
they
neuer
so
bare
.
Howe
wisedome
was
a
good
thing
,
but
men
did
estéeme
more
of
gold
than
of
bookes
,
and
would
sooner
be
wonne
by
the
féeling
of
wealth
then
●he
hearing
of
wordes
:
that
conscience
bare
no
touch
where
coyne
brought
in
her
plea
:
that
the
common
people
,
whose
mindes
sought
after
ease
and
satiety
,
had
rather
liue
riche
than
wise
,
and
would
make
more
account
of
a
coffer
full
of
golde
,
than
of
tenne
of
the
greatest
libraries
in
the
whole
world
:
hoping
vpon
these
coniectures
sparing
no
expense
,
sith
a
day
should
come
that
would
pay
for
all
,
he
gaue
freely
of
that
which
his
father
lent
him
,
keeping
great
hospitality
(
a
great
perswasion
to
winne
the
common
sorte
)
and
giuing
franckely
(
a
baite
to
allure
the
highest
and
wisest
peere
in
the
kingdome
,
)
Martignanus
espying
a
pad
in
the
strawe
,
and
séeing
how
subtilly
his
brother
stole
away
the
commonalty
:
nay
the
whole
realme
by
his
liberality
,
beganne
to
checke
his
prodigality
in
open
audience
,
and
with
a
long
discourse
to
reprehende
the
spending
of
his
fathers
goods
in
such
riotous
manner
.
Ortellius
taking
occasion
of
these
spéeches
,
told
him●
what
he
spent
was
vpon
his
friends
,
and
that
he
could
haue
no
surer
stewardes
of
his
wealth
than
his
faithfull
and
louing
subiectes
:
vppon
which
they
fell
to
iarre
in
wordes
,
and
from
wordes
to
blowes
:
so
that
not
onely
the
citie
of
Memphis
,
but
the
whole
Monarchie
of
Egypt
was
in
an
vprore
,
and
this
dissention
grew
at
last
to
ciuill
mutinie
:
so
that
taking
armes
,
the
brothers
began
to
incampe
themselues
in
the
fielde
,
and
parts
being
taken
on
both
sides
,
Ortellius
for
his
surest
placard
proclaimed
himself
king
of
Egypt
,
and
caused
himselfe
to
be
crowned
.
Martignanus
not
behinde
challenged
the
diademe
,
and
installed
himselfe
with
the
like
proclamation
:
whereupon
in
flat
tearmes
of
de●●ance
they
fell
to
mortall
and
deadly
warres
.
The
eldest
with
his
sweete
Oratitions
promising
,
so
wisely
and
warely
to
gouerne
the
common
wealth
,
as
in
choosing
him
for
king
,
they
shoulde
haue
peac●
and
quiet
,
as
in
his
fathers
dayes
:
whose
vertuous
actions
he
meant
to
take
for
a
president
of
his
gouernement
.
The
youngest
swore
to
be
bountifull
,
and
that
in
taking
him
for
king
the
streetes
should
flowe
with
milke
and
honie
,
&
pouertie
should
neuer
be
heard
within
the
gates
of
Memphis
.
Armed
thus
on
both
sides
,
a
day
of
battell
was
set
,
wherein
when
both
the
armies
were
martial●d
and
placed
in
their
seuerall
ranckes
,
and
either
vauntgardes
readie
to
ioyne
.
Martignanus
incouraged
his
souldiers
with
long
&
sweete
orations
.
Ortelius
promised
,
if
the
victory
were
his
,
he
would
bestow
all
the
spoyle
amongst
his
men
,
and
make
the
meanest
of
them
all
to
liue
in
plentie
:
the
skirmish
furiously
begun
,
continuing
for
the
space
of
thr●e
houres
,
with
g●eat
massacre
and
bloodshed
,
fell
at
last
on
Ortellius
side
:
so
that
Martignanus
was
fayne
to
flie
,
and
for
safety
to
incampe
himselfe
vpon
a
hill
.
While
these
two
breethren
continued
in
〈◊〉
dissention
,
Fame
,
the
speedy
heralt
of
newes
,
had
brought
it
to
the
eares
of
Frontinus
(
who
then
was
in
the
Court
of
Mae●ion
●he
great
Despotte
of
Af●ica
,
and
for
●und●y
seruices
●ahauntly
performed
in
warres
in
high
estima●ion
)
howe
his
father
was
deade
,
and
his
brothers
at
〈◊〉
●or
the
kingdome
,
vpon
which
report
,
discouering
the
〈◊〉
●o
Maesion
,
he
craued
his
●ide
to
set
him
peaceably
in
●is
kingdome
.
The
Despotte
of
Africa
glad
that
Fortune
h●d
〈◊〉
him
occasion
to
shew
himselfe
gratefull
to
Fron●●●●●
,
g●aunt●●
him
tenne
thowsande
of
his
best
approued
〈…〉
so
hardy
and
well
experienced
in
mar●●all
discipline
,
that
●he
worst
of
them
woulde
haue
seemed
to
ha●●
go●●rn●d
a
whole
army
.
Frontinus
garded
thus
wi●h
●h●se
Gensdar●ies
,
taking
his
leaue
of
Maesion
,
pass●d
〈◊〉
all
h●●●
towa●●s
Egypt
:
where
after
wea●ysome
●ournies
arriued
:
hée
was
no
so●ner
entred
,
but
report
had
●●●ted
abroade
his
returne
:
which
no
sooner
came
to
the
eares
of
the
●wo
Brothers
,
but
it
strooke
them
in
a
maze
:
for
neyther
did
Martignanus
trust
so
much
vppon
his
wisedome
,
nor
Ortellius
vpon
his
●●beralitie
:
〈◊〉
that
they
seared
●o
incounter
with
the
fortitude
of
Frontinus
,
whose
valour
was
such
as
his
very
name
was
sufficient
to
represse
the
rebellious
thoughts
of
his
enemies
.
Now
began
there
to
bee
a
combat
betwéene
Enuy
and
Ambition
:
for
Enuy
thirsting
for
reuenge
,
willed
the
brethren
particularly
to
reuolt
to
Frontinus
:
but
ambition
perswadeth
them
rather
to
become
friends
,
and
to
parte
a
kingdome
betwixt
them
,
then
vtterly
to
be
dispossest
from
their
Diadems
:
resoluing
thus
with
them selues
,
they
concluded
frindly
,
and
swore
to
kéepe
Frontinus
from
his
inheritaunce
:
but
hee
whom
no
report
could
daunt
,
drawing
nigh
to
the
place
where
his
brethren
lay
incamped
,
whom
ioyntly
,
as
hee
vnderstoode
were
contracted
,
and
resolued
to
bend
both
their
forces
against
him
,
thought
to
demaunde
his
right
by
courtesie
,
and
so
sent
one
of
his
Lords
to
knowe
the
cause
of
their
ciuill
warres
,
&
to
cra●●
a
par●e
:
Martignanus
who
was
very
polliticke
consented
,
and
pledges
giuen
on
both
sides
,
they
met
:
where
after
a
dissembled
courtesie
past
betwéene
them
,
Frontinus
began
in
Brotherly
tearmes
to
che●ke
their
foolish
and
vnbridled
presumption
,
that
woulde
so
rashly
séeke
each
others
ouerthrowe
for
the
momenta●y
possession
of
an
other
mans
right
:
the
kingdome
I
meane
(
quoth
hée
)
which
my
father
left
mee
,
both
by
will
and
inheritaunce
:
such
a
Legacie
as
I
meane
not
to
loose
,
nor
I
hope
you
intend
not
to
desire
:
therefore
laying
downe
these
weapons
,
and
wyping
out
this
ciuill
controuersie
,
dismisse
your
souldiers
,
&
friendly
let
vs
go
home
to
the
City
.
You
mistake
you
greatly
(
quoth
Martignanus
)
for
how
soeuer
you
conclude
your
supposed
Syllogisme
vpon
inheritance
,
wee
meane
to
deny
your
argument
by
the
proofe
of
my
fathers
Testament
:
for
as
birth
by
eldership
allotts
you
a
Crowne
,
so
his
will
by
commaund
hath
depriued
you
of
that
priuiledge
,
and
part●d
the
kingdome
betwixt
vs
:
therefore
without
any
more
friuolous
circumstances
,
for
your
welcome
take
this
of
m●e
:
wee
haue
it
,
and
wée
will
keepe
it
,
despight
of
him
that
dare
gain
say
:
swearing
vntill
death
to
maintaine
our
right
by
the
sword
.
Frontinus
whose
courage
could
not
brooke
intreaties
,
especially
for
his
owne
right
,
told
them
that
he
sorrowed
at
their
follies
,
sith
they
did
not
with
a
déep●
in-sight
fore see
their
owne
myseries
,
and
espy
reueng
that
presented
a
fatall
Tragedy
of
their
misfortunes
:
and
with
that
hee
turned
his
backe
in
great
choller
,
swearing
before
night
either
to
weare
the
Crowne
,
or
leaue
his
Carcase
in
the
field
.
Or●ellius
smiling
at
his
Brothers
attempt
,
for
that
they
had
ten
to
one
,
passing
with
Martignanus
to
the
army
,
set
their
men
in
array
,
and
imbattailed
them
with
great
speede
,
the
one
giuing
incouragment
by
sweete
orations
,
the
other
with
the
remembrance
of
his
forepassed
liberality
.
Frontinus
hauing
ordred
his
souldiers
and
come
within
view
,
by
computation
might
coniecture
that
his
enemies
were
about
thréescore
thowsand
:
and
séeing
his
men
halfe
frighted
at
the
presence
of
such
a
multitude
,
began
to
hasten
them
forward
in
this
manner
.
I
neede
not
worthy
gentlemen
&
souldiers
of
Africa
séeke
to
incourage
you
with
a
long
discourse
,
vnlesse
putting
oyle
in
the
flame
,
I
should
ad
a
spur
to
a
free
horse
:
your
former
valiant
resolutions
manifested
in
many
battailes
,
the
honor
whereof
still
glories
your
names
with
renowne
,
assures
me
were
the
enemy
like
the
sands
in
the
sea
,
and
Mars
oppo●ed
against
our
forces
:
yet
the
quarrell
good
,
&
our
mindes
armed
with
inuincible
fortitude
,
the
vertue
that
dareth
Fortune
in
hir
face
,
maugrefates
and
destinies
we
shall
,
as
euer
hetherto
we
haue
done
,
returne
with
conquest
.
And
for
that
the
cause
toucheth
my selfe
and
you
fellow
partners
of
my
fortunes
,
I
will
be
the
first
man
in
the
battaile
,
and
the
last
man
in
the
field
,
vnlesse
death
giue
mée
an
honorable
quittaunce
of
my
kingdome
:
let
mee
be
a
mirrour
this
day
of
your
magnanimity
:
let
my
actions
bee
your
presidents
:
presse
but
as
far
as
your
generall
,
&
courage
gentlemen
,
the
victory
is
ours
:
see
how
my
sorrowful
countrymen
st●nd
to
receiue
vs
whose
cowardize
dare
scaresly
march
a
foote
to
méete
:
I
sée
,
yea
,
I
sée
in
déed
in
their
very
faces
the
portraiture
:
therefore
,
God
&
our
right
:
&
with
that
catching
a
strong
staffe
,
pulling
down
his
beuier
,
&
putting
spurs
to
his
horse
,
he
furiou●ly
rusht
vpon
the
enemy
,
his
souldiers
following
with
such
a
desperat
resolution
,
that
the
Egyptians
amazed
at
the
valor
of
their
king
,
who
like
a
lyon
massacring
whom
he
met
,
ran
without
stop
through
the
troupes
,
they
layed
down
their
weapons
&
yéelded
without
any
great
slaughter
,
whervpon
the
Africans
staied
,
but
Frontinus
forgetfull
that
they
were
his
natiue
countrymen
still
raged
,
till
méeting
his
brother
Martignanus
,
hee
slew
him
,
&
neuer
left
murthering
till
finding
out
Ortellius
that
fled
in
chase
,
he
gaue
him
his
deaths
wound
:
staied
at
last
by
one
of
the
Lords
of
Africa
,
&
told
how
the
battaile
was
ended
by
the
submission
of
his
subiects
,
who
were
ashamed
that
they
had
bene
so
forgetfull
of
their
allegeance
,
causing
the
retreat
to
be
sounded
,
he
peaceably
marched
on
towards
Memphis
,
where
putting
certaine
of
the
chiefe
offenders
to
the
sword
,
and
interring
his
brethren
,
after
his
Coronation
he
sent
the
Africans
home
well
rewarded
with
many
rich
presents
to
their
king
,
liuing
him selfe
afterward
most
fortunate
.
Hector
hauing
ended
his
Tragedie
.
The
Grecians
noting
in
his
Countenaunce
the
very
counter●ayte
of
magnanimity
,
and
in
discoursing
of
valour
,
his
very
face
prese●ted
a
myrrour
of
fortitude
,
measuring
his
inward
thoughts
by
his
outwarde
gestures
,
did
both
commend
the
Hystorie
and
alowe
of
censure
:
saying
,
that
where
courage
manaceth
reuenge
with
the
Sworde
,
there
it
is
folly
to
bring
in
wysedome
in
hir
Purple
Roabes
.
Helenus
hearing
how
the
Grecians
fauored
his
Brother
Hectors
verdite
,
wisht
them
to
take
heede
they
infringed
not
the
sacred
prayse
of
wysedome
:
for
(
quoth
he●
)
as
Pallas
is
learned
,
so
shee
is
martiall
:
and
Minerua
hath
as
well
a
Speare
,
as
a
●en
:
perhaps
Martignanus
was
onely
a
Philosopher
&
no
souldier
:
whereas
by
the
sequell
it
is
inferred
that
Frontinus
was
both
wise
and
valiaunt
:
so
that
adding
to
his
wisedome
fortitude
,
hee
did
the
more
easely
obtayne
the
conquest
.
Truth
(
quoth
Nestor
)
for
Hector
him selfe
confest
that
fortitude
coulde
not
bee
without
wisedome
,
seeing
,
being
placed
betweene
too
extréeme
want
of
wisdome
,
might
make
him
offend
in
defect
,
and
so
bee
counted
a
coward
:
or
in
excesse
,
and
bee
thought
too
desperate
.
If
then
fortitude
cannot
bee
perfect
without
wisedome
,
and
yet
a
man
may
bee
wise
without
courage
,
it
may
bée
concluded●
that
wisdome
is
the
most
necessary
point
in
a
souldier
.
Wee
deny
not
(
quoth
Troilus
)
but
it
is
necessarie
,
but
not
in
the
superlatiue
degrée
,
for
wisdome
supposed
the
cause
,
fortitude
consequently
is
the
effect
;
sith
the
one
of
it selfe
may
intend
by
pollicie
:
but
the
other
is
put
in
practise
by
prowesse
.
Still
for
our
purpose
,
(
quoth
Helenus
)
for
the
Logicians
hold
it
as
a
principle
,
that
the
cause
is
greater
then
the
effects
:
the
Philosophers
account
a
wise
man
onely
to
bee
vertuous
,
thinking
that
wisedome
being
the
chiefe
vertue
,
produceth
the
rest
as
seedes
sprong
from
so
faire
a
Stemme
:
for
it
is
possible
for
a
man
to
want
others
,
hauing
this
:
but
to
possesse
none
,
if
this
bee
absent
.
Hector
,
a
litle
chollericke
that
so
brauely
they
went
about
to
prooue
his
haruest
in
the
grasse
,
stammered
out
these
or
such
like
woordes
.
I
tell
you
brother
Helenus
,
both
you
and
the
rest
are
deceiued
,
&
that
I
will
prooue
against
the
wisest
souldier
in
the
world
with
my
sword
,
that
Senators
who
sit
to
giue
counsaile
for
Ciuill
pollicie
,
had
neede
to
be
wise
,
sith
their
opinions
are
holden
for
Oracles
,
&
Captaines
valiant
,
whose
deedes
are
accounted
peremptorie
conquests
:
put
case
wisedome
&
fortitude
be
in
a
Generall
,
yet
is
hee
called
wise
as
hee
giues
iudgement
,
and
couragious
as
with
a
hardy
minde
hee
attempts
the
victories
.
Let
men
haue
science
in
their
heades
,
and
no
weapons
in
their
hands
,
and
whom
can
they
preiudice
:
I
say
therefore
,
which
none
rightly
can
gainesay
,
that
fortitude
is
most
necessarie
for
a
souldier
,
sith
our
common
phrase
confirmes
my
reason
with
euidence
,
in
saying
,
hee
is
a
wise
Senator
and
a
hardy
souldier
.
The
Grecians
séeing
the
sparkling
flames
of
choller
to
burne
in
the
face
of
Achilles
,
smiled
to
sée
how
hot
he
was
in
disputation
,
measuring
by
probable
coniecture
,
that
if
hee
met
them
in
the
field
hee
woulde
affright
them
more
wyth
his
sword
,
the●
eyther
Nestor
or
Helenus
with
all
theyr
Bookes
:
Vlisles
merrily
disposed
,
being
ready
to
reply
,
the
Ladies
came
in
,
who
broake
of
their
talk
with
telling
them
the
vnlookt
for
brauery
of
Ilium
,
discoursing
so
long
of
the
sundry
sights
they
had
séene
within
the
walls
of
Troy
,
till
the
boordes
being
couered
,
aged
Priamus
rysing
from
his
seate
,
placed
all
his
guests
downe
at
supper
.
¶
The
fourth
discourse
of
Liberality
.
SO
desirous
were
the
kinges
and
princes
to
heare
the
discourse
of
liberality
to
bee
discussed
by
Achilles
,
that
no
sooner
was
supper
ended
,
and
the
Ladies
walked
abroade
,
but
that
they
setling
them selues
,
as
Philos●phers
in
som●
Academie
:
framed
them selues
to
be
silent
Audytors
to
his
parle
:
but
hée
,
if
possible
it
had
bene
,
vnwilling
to
haue
bene
actor
in
such
a
royall
audience
,
sat
still
without
pressing
to
the
discouery
of
the
former
purposes
,
vntill
Hector
wakened
him
out
of
his
Melancholy
,
in
this
maner
.
Séeing
honorable
Achilles
,
for●une
hath
dealt
vnequally
,
in
allotting
the
former
charge
to
two
such
,
as
ignoraunt
of
Phylosophicall
principles
,
haue
rudely
deliuered
what
experience
hath
set
downe
by
proofe
,
and
nowe
to
recompence
hir
wronge
proportion
,
hath
for●peinted
such
a
champion
,
to
defend
the
patronage
of
liberalitie
,
as
hath
t●mpered
martiall
affaires
with
the
sweete
deaw
of
sacred
Sciences
:
let
vs
not
misse
of
that
which
the
slippe●y
goddesse
so
charie
of
,
hath
giuen
vs
with
such
nyggardly
proportion
:
it
resteth
therefore
,
you
shew
the
necessity
of
liberality
in
a
Souldier
,
and
not
only
,
that
it
is
requisite
,
but
more
expedient
then
eyther
wisedome
or
fortitude
:
which
if
you
con●irme
by
reasons
,
and
wee
allow
as
plawsible
,
we
yeelde
our selues
vanquished
by
him
whom
wee
neuer
hoped
to
ouercome
.
It
standeth
(
quoth
Priamus
)
for
his
credit●
sith
being
accounted
one
of
the
most
worthy
souldiers
in
the
world
,
he
cannot
but
know
what
is
most
nec●ssary
in
the
state
of
a
Captaine
.
As
Achilles
was
ready
to
reply
,
the
Ladyes
came
,
and
desirous
to
know
the
effect
of
their
discourse
,
Vlisses
made
answere
,
that
is
was
a
discouery
of
womens
rethoricke
:
And
I
pray
you
sir
(
quoth
Hecuba
)
what
might
that
bee
,
doo
not
men
and
women
agrée
in
the
principles
of
that
Science
.
Mary
Madame
(
quoth
hee
)
it
is
to
describe
the
force
of
liberality
,
such
a
sweete
plea
in
a
womans
eare
,
that
hardly
it
may
bee
asked
that
bounty
hath
not
of
fréewill
granted
:
for
an
ounce
of
giue
in
a
Ladies
ballaunce
,
weygheth
downe
a
pound
of
loue
mée
.
Are
you
Grecian
Dames
(
quoth
Hecuba
to
Iphigenia
)
so
couetous
as
you
measure
affection
by
gold
,
and
tie
vp
Fancie
in
the
purse
stringes
,
I
am
sure
my
Lord
Vlisses
speakes
by
experience
,
&
yet
hee
was
neuer
acquainted
with
any
Troiane
Ladies
,
to
make
proofe
of
theyr
desiers
.
Iphigenia
blusht
,
and
Vlisses
to
maynetaine
his
quarrell
,
tolde
them
that
Iuno
was
Iealous
as
well
in
●arth
as
in
heauen
:
Venus
wanton
as
well
in
Paphos
,
as
in
Cypres
:
that
the
women
had
generally
one
minde
,
wheresoeuer
they
were
bred
,
and
therefore
his
conclusion
was
generall
.
Holde
there
(
quoth
Priamus
)
these
women
are
but
stumbling
blocks
for
our
eyes
,
and
our
thoughts
:
let
them
chat
with
them selues
,
and
leaue
vs
to
our
discourse
:
Hecuba
sitting
downe
,
and
the
rest
of
the
Ladies
silent
:
Achilles
seeing
the
soueraigne
of
his
desiers
,
fa●re
Polixena
,
indeuored
to
doo
his
best
,
and
therefore
thus
rudely
went
to
the
matter
.
¶
Achilles
discourse
of
Liberalitie
.
ORpheus
,
whose
musicke
was
so
swéete
,
that
the
poets
faine
his
melody
appeased
the
passionate
ghosts
from
their
auailes
,
when
hee
went
for
Euridice
,
say
that
he
was
so
bashfull
in
his
science
,
though
the
most
exquisite
that
euer
was
,
as
hee
blushed
to
tune
his
Harp
before
Mercurie
:
whereas
Hypercion
an
vnskilfull
musition
,
shamed
not
to
trouble
him
with
his
daunces
:
ignoraunce
hath
euer
the
bouldest
face
,
blinde
Bayard
is
formost
in
the
front
,
and
thy
which
worst
may
,
will
formost
desire
to
hold
the
candle
:
I
speake
this
,
sith
my selfe
whom
yeares
and
experience
would
haue
wisht
to
be
silent
,
by
too
ouer
rash
censuring
of
a
souldiers
estate
,
fondly
thrust
my selfe
into
the
opinions
of
many
,
re●embling
herein
Mineruaes
Owle
,
that
se●ks
not
●o
shrowd
hir
deformity
in
the
Temple
.
But
forward
mindes
,
if
not
offensiue
,
may
forecraue
pardon
:
actions
well
ment
ought
to
bee
well
taken
:
honor
iudgeth
with
partiallity
in
being
opinatiue
towards
straungers
:
maiestie
wincketh
at
follies
,
and
sooner
will
Iupiter
beare
with
a
fault
,
then
Vulcan
:
the
higher
thoughts
the
sooner
pleased
,
which
consid●red
,
I
am
the
more
bolde
in
such
an
audience
to
hazard
my
credit
on
the
sequell
of
their
verdites
,
and
rather
be
counted
a
little
too
rashe
,
then
too
much
vnruely
;
hoping
therefore
my
discourse
shall
be
fauored
with
your
honorable
patience
:
thus
to
the
purpose
.
Hermes
Trismegistus
,
whom
some
for
his
diuine
precepts
,
haue
thought
to
bée
the
sonne
of
Mercurie
,
made
such
account
of
this
vertue
of
liberality
,
that
hee
doubted
not
to
call
it
the
heauenly
influence
,
that
the
gods
most
niggardly
had
in●used
into
the
mynds
of
men
this
,
resembling
their
deities
,
that
they
grudged
not
to
impart
what
Fortune
franckly
had
bestowed
vpon
them
.
For
the
Philosopher
that
coueteth
in
his
Ethicks
to
●en
downe
a
platfourme
for
the
perfecting
of
humaine
lyfe
,
amongst
other
vertues
,
placeth
this
as
forerunner
of
them
all
:
inferring
his
argument
for
proofe
(
a
contrarijs
)
if
sayth
hee
,
couetousnes
be
the
root●
of
all
ill
,
from
whence
procéedes
as
from
a
fountaine
of
mishap
,
the
ruine
of
common
wealthes
,
the
subuersion
of
Estates
,
&
the
wrack
of
●economicall
societies
:
if
from
thence
doth
issue
iniustice
,
bribery
,
the
slaine
of
conscience
,
slaughters
,
treasons
,
breach
of
amity
,
confusion
of
mynde
,
and
a
million
of
other
mischieuous
enormities
:
how
pretious
a
Iewell
,
how
diuine
a
motion
,
howe
swéete
a
vertue
is
Liberality
,
that
preserueth
all
these
in
a
true
and
peaceable
concorde
:
Prodigality
,
which
without
care
wasteth
what
time
and
diligence
by
longe
trauell
hath
purchased
,
is
such
a
Moath
to
eate
out
the
labours
of
men
,
that
our
Predecessours
called
it
a
fire
of
the
minde
,
which
is
so
impatient
in
heate
,
as
it
ceaseth
not
while
any
matter
combustible
is
pre●ent
,
to
burne
necessary
things
to
very
dust
and
cynders
:
through
this
commeth
pouertie
,
want
,
distresse
,
and
in
the
ende
dispaire
:
whereas
liberality
,
the
contrary
to
this
vyce
kéepeth
such
a
direct
meane
betweene
both
,
as
it
preserueth
Fortune
,
Fame
,
and
Honor
in
their
iust
and
equall
proportion
:
So
exquisite
are
the
principles
to
be
obserued
in
this
vertue
,
as
it
suffiseth
not
to
attaine
to
the
perfection
of
it
by
giuing
,
onely
respecting
the
circumstances
of
time
,
person
,
and
quality
:
but
in
receiuing
,
standeth
a
principall
point
of
liberality
:
for
if
eyther
wee
take
from
him
that
can
ill
spare
it
,
or
more
then
desert
afordes
,
or
without
a
resolution
to
be
gratefull
,
did
wee
our selues
giue
mountaines
,
yet
wée
cannot
bee
honored
with
the
title
of
liberality
,
in
that
by
gréedy
receipt
of
vntimely
gifts
,
wee
bewray
certaine
sparks
of
insatiable
couetise
:
which
Lisander
noted
very
well
,
who
being
presented
by
certaine
of
his
poore
neighbours
with
sundry
presents
,
sent
them
all
home
,
but
with
great
thanks
:
saying
●s
one
of
his
friends
,
seest
thou
not
how
liberall
Lisander
hath
bene
too
day
,
in
bestowing
so
many
good
giftes
vpon
poore
men
:
nay
I
haue
not
(
quoth
his
friend
)
seene
thee
giue
any
thing
at
all
:
But
I
haue
(
answered
Lisander
)
returned
those
presents
,
which
I
could
not
haue
taken
without
their
hinderance
:
meaning
that
preiudiciall
gifts
are
rubbed
with
dishonor
,
and
bring
with
them
hatred
and
infamy
.
Theocritus
an
auncient
Poet
of
ours
,
calleth
liberality
the
theefe
that
most
secretly
stealeth
away
the
mindes
of
men
:
his
reason
is
this
,
that
all
estates
for
the
most
parte●
adicted
to
couetousnesse
and
greedy
desire
of
gaine
,
cast
their
eyes
euer
after
that
obiect
that
glistereth
most
with
riches
,
and
set
their
opinions
and
censures
with
partiality
on
those
whom
Fortune
hath
fauored
with
many
treasures
:
such
sayth
hee
(
as
most
bee
)
that
are
blinded
with
this
couetous
desire
,
are
tyed
so
stricktly
to
the
purse
of
a
liberall
man
,
as
hee
may
at
his
pleasure
drawe
to
what
hee
purposeth
to
imploy
their
vses
:
In
such
estimation
haue
our
predecessors
had
this
vertue
,
that
they
accounted
not
that
day
amongst
the
tearmes
of
their
yeares
,
wherein
they
did
not
liberally
bestow
some
benefits
.
But
to
touch
more
particularly
a
perfect
dyscourse
,
and
to
prooue
that
it
is
necessarie
in
a
souldier
,
let
vs
note
the
ende
of
martiall
desires
,
which
I
remember
,
once
I
hard
Thes●us
deuide
into
thrée
partes
:
the
first
and
principall
,
honor
generally
aymed
at
by
all
,
but
specially
belonging
to
the
Captaines
,
yet
due
to
the
meanest
souldier
for
his
prowesse
:
The
second
,
the
conquest
,
which
fortune
imparteth
as
hir
fauour
to
the
generall
,
and
f●me
to
the
rest
of
the
souldiers
:
the
last
,
desire
of
spoyle
and
treasures
gotten
with
the
sworde
,
and
so
hardly
attayned
with
the
hazard
of
lyfe
:
this
ought
the
common
sorte
of
mercenary
Souldyers
to
haue
as
their
due
,
as
a
recompence
for
their
perills
,
and
an
incourage
to
such
warlike
indeuours
:
for
if
the
conquest
and
honor
bee
allotted
to
the
Captaine
,
what
great
iniustice
is
it
to
deny
the
rest
,
the
benefit
of
a
litle
momentanie
pelfe
:
which
mooued
a
worthy
Captaine
of
Thebes
,
when
he
had
obtained
a
victory
against
the
Lacedemonians
,
of
all
the
spoile
only
to
take
one
sword
,
distributing
the
rest
amongst
his
souldiers
:
saying
,
fellowes
in
armes
,
this
I
challenge
,
sith
I
wronge
it
out
of
the
hand
of
mine
enemy
:
what
soeuer
els
,
is
yours
,
as
the
reward
of
your
trauels
:
for
the
Theban
Senators
warre
for
honor
,
not
for
treasure
.
The
mercenary
man
that
beareth
armes
for
hier
,
and
for
his
ordinarie
pay
,
fear●th
not
to
venture
his
life
in
the
face
of
his
enemy
,
hauing
but
his
wages
he
hath
but
his
bare
due
,
so
that
if
hope
of
spoyle
and
the
bounty
of
his
Captaine
did
not
incourage
him
in
his
attempts
,
hee
would
both
doubt
the
danger
of
his
person
,
and
scorne
for
so
little
gaine
to
runne
vppon
such
●minent
perrills
:
which
caused
Zoroastes
in
his
great
warre
against
the
Egyptians
,
to
giue
riche
gyftes
to
the
meanest
of
his
souldiers
,
promising
the
spoiles
of
Egypt
for
the
guerdon
of
their
valour
:
his
liberallity
taking
such
effect
,
as
hee
returned
with
conquest
:
The
great
Monarche
of
the
world
,
whose
name
I
neede
not
rehearse
,
did
see
that
liberality
was
such
a
glory
in
a
Captaine
,
and
such
a
spur
to
a
souldier
,
that
at
his
departure
out
of
Greece
,
with
resol●tion
to
make
a
generall
conquest
of
the
whole
worlde
:
hee
gaue
to
his
Captaines
&
other
men
at
armes
,
all
his
riches
,
treasures
and
possessions
,
reseruing
onely
for
him selfe
,
the
hope
of
the
prowesse
.
For
what
doth
the
wisedome
of
the
Captaine
by
long
and
swéete
orations
,
and
sundry
pollicies
?
what
doth
the
fortitude
of
a
generall
,
by
hazarding
him selfe
among
the
thickest
of
his
enemies
preuaile
:
on●ly
in
these
two
points
,
hee
aymeth
at
his
owne
profit
,
the
ouerthrow
of
his
enemy
,
and
perhaps
a
little
incourageth
his
souldiers
:
but
what
reapes
the
mercenary
and
popular
man
,
if
withall
he
be
coueto●s
,
but
scarres
,
wounds
,
and
penary
:
nay
what
doth
the
Captain●
get
if
with
a
deepe
in-sight
he
looketh
into
the
souldiers
minde
,
but
a
dissimuled
loue
,
a
secret
hate
,
an
intended
contempt
,
and
a
forced
courage
rather
to
defend
themselues
from
perill
,
then
to
hazard
their
liues
for
his
safty
:
whereas
the
Captaine
that
is
liberall
,
not
only
in
paying
thei●
wages
(
which
I
count
it
a
sacriledge
to
deny
,
)
but
in
imparting
the
spoyle
(
which
I
hold
as
their
due
)
so
ti●th
the
mindes
of
his
souldiers
to
him
with
an
vnfayned
affection
,
that
they
count
no
perill
too
dange●ous
,
no
attempt
too
hard
,
no
nor
force
not
of
death
to
signifie
their
leue
and
d●sire
to
recompence
his
liberality
.
I
remember
I
haue
red
of
Cassius
a
Barbarian
prince
,
which
intending
warres
to
the
Libians
,
comming
with
a
small
power
into
Libia
,
passed
with
litle
resistance
euen
to
the
very
paui●ion
of
their
king●
where
after
a
small
skirmish
,
he
tooke
him
prisoner
,
and
vsed
him
princely
,
blaming
his
souldiers
that
woulde
not
aduenture
more
desperatly
for
the
safty
of
their
prince
:
after
,
passing
into
the
Citty
,
in
sacking
his
pallace
,
hee
founde
such
infinite
treasure
as
might
haue
hiered
a
multitude
of
mercenary
men
for
the
defence
of
his
countrey
.
Wherevpon
,
no●ing
the
couetize
of
the
man
,
he
so
hated
him
,
that
shutting
him
in
his
treasurie
amongst
all
his
gold
,
hée
pyned
him
to
death
:
saying
he
was
worthy
of
all
mishap
,
that
would
not
continually
keepe
ten
Legions
of
souldiers
to
eate
vp
such
riches
:
by
which
wee
see
what
contempt
a
couetous
Captaine
incurreth
by
his
niggardize
:
whereas
liberality
is
an
ornament
both
to
wisedome
and
fortitude
,
&
such
a
pretious
Iewell
,
as
no
value
may
suffice
to
estimate
.
To
confirme
which
,
as
Hector
and
Helenus
haue
done
,
I
meane
to
rehearse
a
Tragedy
,
so
your
honorable
presence
shall
fauour
mee
with
patience
.
Achilles
séeing
by
their
countenance
they
expected
no
lesse
,
began
his
tale
in
this
manner
.
¶
Achilles
Tragedie
.
Index
animi
liberalitas
.
IN
the
Citty
of
Athens
(
famous
through
the
world
for
Philosophers
and
Souldiers
)
amongst
the
Senators
●
for
the
state
of
the
City
was
Aristocratia
,
there
ruled
as
chiefe
(
honored
generally
for
his
good
partes
)
one
Roxander
,
chosen
by
the
consent
of
the
Senate
Dictator
in
the
warres
,
this
b●ing
ele●ted
Captaine
,
was
so
fauored
by
fortune
,
as
hee
neuer
waged
batta●le
wherein
hee
remayned
not
victor●
in
so
much
as
the
fame
of
his
happy
successe
was
a
warrant
to
the
Athenians
of
their
safty
.
Of
stature
hee
was
small
,
of
meane
courage
,
no
man
greatly
lettered
:
but
to
●ecompence
these
defects
,
he
was
of
such
exceeding
bounty
and
liberalitie
to
all
men
,
but
especially
to
his
souldiers
,
that
his
very
countenance
was
sufficient
to
incourage
th●
most
bash●ull
coward
to
the
combat
:
For
the
Athenians
by
their
law
gaue
all
the
spoiles
gotten
in
warres
to
the
Captayne
,
onely
appointing
to
the
souldiers
their
ordinary
pay
:
but
Roxander
,
as
he
triumphed
in
many
●ictories
,
neuer
inrich●d
him selfe
,
but
equally
imparted
the
treasures
of
the
enemy
amongst
the
souldiers
according
to
their
deserts
:
being
of
such
a
liberall
minde
towardes
them
that
prof●ssed
martiall
discipline
,
that
at
his
owne
charges
hee
founded
hospitalls
for
such
as
were
maimed
in
the
warres
,
that
their
reliefe
might
ad
a
glorie
to
his
renowne
:
G●uing
dowries
to
the
daughters
of
such
as
were
slaine
,
and
in
peace
being
a
father
to
all
them
ouer
whom
hee
had
bene
a
Captain●
in
warres
.
Enuy
the
secret
enemy
of
honor
,
grudging
as
well
at
his
vertues
as
his
fortunes
,
brought
him
in
as
deepe
hate
with
the
Senators
,
as
hee
was
in
fauour
with
the
souldiers
:
for
they
suspecting
that
hee
ment
by
this
liberality
to
insinu●te
into
the
hearts
of
the
commons
,
and
to
steale
away
the
mindes
of
the
popular
sorte
,
so
to
plant
him selfe
as
sole
gouernour
:
(
the
only
thing
they
feared
,
least
their
Aristocracie
should
be
reduced
to
a
Monarchy
)
by
a
penall
law
called
Ostracisme
,
founde
fault
with
his
aspyring
and
so
did
not
onely
confiscate
his
goods
,
but
condemne
him
for
●uer
into
exile
:
Roxander
hauing
the
sentence
of
his
vanishment
pronounced
,
thinking
fortune
ment
to
gi●e
him
a
check
,
thought
as
roughly
to
deale
with
hir
,
and
therefore
put
vp
hir
abuse
with
patience
,
smiling
,
that
when
the
s●nat
had
prised
the
inven●orie
of
his
goods
,
the
summe
amounted
not
to
so
much
as
would
discharge
his
passage
into
Sycilia
,
whither
hee
was
banished
.
But
the
souldiers
and
popular
sort
,
hearing
of
this
iniury
,
as
men
furious
,
gotte
them
to
armes
,
and
in
great
multitude
flocked
to
the
doore
of
the
senate
house
,
where
they
swore
to
reueng
the
wronge
offered
to
Roxander
:
The
Senates
and
censors
with
other
officers
of
the
Citty
,
sought
by
threats
and
other
perswasions
to
appease
them
:
but
in
vayne
,
till
that
Roxander
preferring
the
quiet
of
his
country
before
his
owne
priuate
welfare
,
standing
vpon
the
staiers
,
descending
from
the
councell
chamber
,
pacified
them
with
this
briefe
Oration
.
Citizens
of
Athens
,
famous
through
all
Greece
for
your
dutifull
obedience
in
peace
,
and
resolute
indeuors
in
wars
:
accounted
the
presidents
of
perfect
subiects
,
by
manifesting
reuerence
to
such
as
the
gods
haue
placed
as
gods
to
gouerne
men
,
I
meane
the
graue
and
wise
S●nators
:
what
madnes
hath
incensed
your
mindes
?
what
fury
hath
forced
this
vproare
?
what
meanes
the
noyse
of
armour
,
&
the
weapons
as
fearefull
obiect
in
such
a
peaceable
time
,
vnlesse
desirous
to
seeke
your
owne
ruine
,
you
intend
a
ciuill
mutiny
,
th●
fall
of
your selues
,
and
the
fatall
mishap
of
your
posterity
?
what
doo
you
want
?
who
hath
offred
wronge
?
are
not
the
Senators
set
to
minister
Iustice
?
an●
with
that
before
hee
could
vtter
any
more
wordes
they
cried
out
:
wée
swere
to
keepe
thee
from
banishment
,
and
haue
sworne
to
reuenge
thy
in●ury
,
whom
we
loue
more
then
all
the
Senators
.
After
the
noyse
was
so
ceased
that
hee
might
be
heard
,
Roxander
went
forward
in
his
speach
:
if
it
be●
for
mee
(
woorthy
Cityz●ns
)
you
haue
taken
armour
in
seeking
to
grace
mee
with
your
fauour
,
you
pinch
mee
with
dishonor
:
in
coueting
my
lib●rty
,
you
bring
mee
within
the
bondage
of
infamy
:
The
Senate
hath
past
iudgement
against
mee
in
iustice
,
and
I
content
to
brooke
the
penalty
of
the
lawe
with
patience
:
offences
must
bee
punished
,
and
punishments
borne
with
quiet
,
not
with
reuenge
:
Haue
I
lyued
forty
yeare
a
duetifull
subiect
in
Athens
,
and
shall
I
now
by
your
meanes
bee
accounted
a
mutinous
rebell
?
no
,
louing
countrymen
:
if
euer
my
deserts
haue
bene
such
,
as
yée
thinke
mee
your
friend
,
lay
away
your
weapons
,
returne
euery
man
to
his
owne
house
,
so
shall
Roxander
account
you
his
friend●●
;
otherwise
,
for
euer
take
you
as
his
enemies
.
No
sooner
had
hee
spoken
these
wordes
,
but
euery
man
peaceably
,
though
sorrowfully
,
went
home
to
his
house
:
and
hee
within
three
dayes
sayled
poore
,
and
dismissed
into
Sycilia
.
Roxander
had
not
lyued
long
in
exile
,
but
a
quarrell
grew
betwéene
the
Thebans
and
the
Athenians
,
about
the
deflowring
of
a
maide
of
Athens
:
wherevpon
,
as
enuy
stirreth
vppe
a
secret
grudge
soone
to
reuenge
,
the
Athenians
by
aduice
of
the
Senate
,
mustred
their
men
,
leauied
a
great
hoast
,
ouer
whom
there
was
appointed
sir
wise
and
graue
Senators
,
the
youngest
of
which
ha●
bene
before
tymes
Dictator
,
to
haue
the
conduct
of
the
army
,
and
ouer
them
all
as
Generall
was
placed
Clytomaches
,
a
man
of
inuincible
valour
and
fortitude
,
stored
thus
with
men
and
munition
,
with
wise
and
valiant
Chieftaines
,
they
passed
on
towards
Thebes
:
by
the
way
giuing
assault
to
a
strong
and
riche
citty
called
Lis●um
,
the
souldiers
thinking
to
finde
in
Clytomaches
Roxanders
liberality
,
so
furiously
gaue
onset
,
that
in
short
time
,
and
without
any
great
losse
they
scaled
the
walles
,
and
almost
put
all
to
the
edge
of
the
swoord
,
the
Souldiers
thus
couragiously
hauing
entr●d
combat
,
and
won
the
conquest
as
before
time
they
had
done
,
entring
into
euery
house
to
fetch
out
the
spoile
,
generall
proclamation
was
made
that
no
man
vppon
paine
of
death
shoulde
take
one
penny
,
but
that
euery
one
should
returne
to
the
campe
,
which
so
amaz●d
and
discourag●d
the
mercenary
men
,
that
with
hartlesse
groanes
they
went
stragling
to
the
tents
:
the
Senators
entring
the
houses
and
possessing
such
spoyle
,
that
they
sent
home
Waggons
laden
with
treasure
to
Athens
:
After
thus
they
had
sackt
the
Citty
,
the
Thebans
hearing
of
this
victory
,
gathering
their
forces
togither
,
marched
on
to
meete
them
,
and
in
a
plaine
not
farre
from
Lisium
gaue
them
the
incounter
,
with
such
desire
to
reuenge
,
as
the
Athenians
were
forced
a
little
to
retier
:
but
Clytomaches
,
whose
courage
no
perill
could
daunt
,
incouraged
his
men
,
and
for
proo●e
of
his
owne
resolution
,
was
formost
in
the
v●warde
,
laying
on
such
blowes
,
as
he
gaue
witnes
how
willing
hée
was
to
be
victor
:
the
Senators
likewise
with
eloquent
phrases
sought
to
incourage
:
but
to
small
purpose
,
for
the
souldiers
warely
retiring
,
neuer
stoode
stroke
till
they
harbored
them selues
within
the
City
,
where
rampiring
vp
the
Gates
like
cowardes
,
they
dishonored
the
forg●tten
fame
and
honour
of
Athens
:
The
Thebans
,
whose
téeth
were
set
on
edge
with
this
repulse
,
layed
leagar
to
the
wals
and
compassing
the
cit●y
with
a
double
trench
,
thought
either
to
make
them
issue
out
to
the
battayle
,
or
els
to
force
them
yéeld
by
famyne
:
the
souldiers
carelesse
,
and
heartlesse
,
would
scarse
make
defence
on
the
walles
,
which
the
Senators
séeing
,
one
of
them
stepped
vp
,
and
calling
them
all
into
the
market
made
them
this
oration
.
Worthy
Citizens
and
Souldiers
of
Athens
,
shall
wee
bee
such
cowardes
as
to
measure
our
thoughtes
by
the
fauours
of
fortune
,
or
resemble
those
bad
hounds
,
that
at
the
first
fault
giue
ouer
the
chase
,
shall
the
fo●le
of
a
little
skirmish
affright
those
mindes
that
hetherto
haue
bene
inuincible
?
shall
dishonor
teare
the
Lawrell
from
our
heads
which
we
haue
worne
for
so
many
triumphes
?
shall
the
Thebans
who
haue
euer
feared
our
forces
,
holde
vs
begirt
as
bondslaues
within
a
citty
?
shall
the
towne
which
of
late
we
subdued
,
bee
a
harbour
for
our selues
against
the
enemy
?
shall
I
say
the
world
canonize
our
cowardize
in
the
Records
of
infamy
,
that
hetherto
hath
imblazed
our
fame
with
restlesse
prayses
?
No
souldiers
,
and
fellow
companions
in
armes
&
in
fortunes
,
let
this
checke
be
a
spur
to
reuenge
,
let
vs
thirst
with
a
passionate
desire
till
with
conquest
or
an
honorable
death
we
winne
the
glorie
wée
haue
lost
:
our
siluer
haires
,
weakened
in
many
forepassed
battailes
ended
,
to
the
honor
of
the
Athenians
,
although
they
might
bee
warrauntes
of
rest
,
shall
not
priuiledge
vs
from
hazarding
our selues
amidst
the
thickest
of
our
enemies
:
so
that
incouraged
,
and
as
m●n
resolued
to
die
,
or
within
the
field
you
will
with
vs
issue
out
to
put
these
vnskilfull
Thebans
from
their
trenches
.
The
souldiers
(
so
had
the
discourteous
couetize●
quatted
their
courage
)
as
men
not
hearing
,
slipt
away
murmuring
,
as
malecon●ent
:
which
Clitomaches
espying
,
drawing
foorth
his
sw●od
,
cried
out
vnto
them
:
how
are
you
besotted
sould●ers
of
●thens
?
why
are
your
cares
inchaunted
that
the
wisedome
of
the
Senate
is
holden
friuolous
?
For
shame
seeke
not
after
dishonor
;
behold
,
Clitomaches
your
captaine
will
bee
the
first
man
that
shall
enter
the
trench
of
the
enemy
;
t●is
sword
,
this
hand
,
this
heart
companions
shall
forgard
you
,
as
more
willing
to
die
,
then
to
brooke
this
discredit
,
and
if
you
be
so
obstinate
,
take
this
blade
and
sacrifice
my
bloode
,
that
dying
I
may
shunne
that
shame
which
for
our
●owardice
is
like
to
light
on
our
heades
:
in
vayne
did
Clitomaches
crie
out
,
for
the
souldiers
went
their
way
,
and
as
melancholy
men
sat
stragling
and
full
of
dumps
in
the
streets
:
longe
had
they
not
bene
thus
béelegard●
but
that
newes
was
brought
to
Roxander
what
mishap
had
fallen
on
his
country
:
hée
whom
iniury
nor
death
could
not
withhold
from
wishing
well
to
Athens
,
rather
determined
to
hazard
his
life
by
breaking
the
Ostracisme
in
returning
from
exile
,
then
to
bee
thought
a
fearefull
and
base
mynded
cowarde
:
passing
therefore
with
as
much
spéede
as
might
bee
from
Sicilia
in
poore
and
vnknowen
attier
,
he
landed
in
the
Promontorie
of
Lisium
,
within
thrée
leagues
of
the
Campe
:
where
hee
had
not
wandred
halfe
a
myle
,
but
by
the
scowts
,
he
was
taken
prysoner
,
and
caried
to
the
Senat●
of
Thebes
,
who
thinking
that
Roxander
was
banished
,
tooke
him
for
a
poore
Sicilian
,
(
as
hee
fayned
him self
)
&
suff●ed
him
to
remayne
quiet
with
frée
libertie
to
passe
and
repasse
at
his
liberty
.
Roxander
continuing
thus
amongst
the
Thebans
,
hearing
that
the
Citty
began
to
want
victuales
,
and
how
the
Souldiers
mutynous
,
were
about
to
deliuer
vp
the
City
,
despight
of
the
Senate
vpon
composition
:
late
in
an
euening
getting
close
to
the
walles
,
called
to
the
watch
and
told
them
hee
had
a
letter
to
deliuer
from
Roxander
to
the
souldiers
of
Athens
:
why
villa●e
(
quoth
the
watchman
)
thou
art
mad
,
Roxander
is
banished
:
Truth
(
quoth
hée
)
but
returned
,
and
taken
prysoner
by
the
Thebans
,
who
to
morrow
by
eight
of
the
Clocke
shall
suffer
death
,
if
hee
be
not
set
free
:
for
confirmation
of
my
words
deliuer
this
letter
to
his
Sonne
,
who
knowing
his
fathers
hand
,
may
both
reade
it
and
witnesse
it
to
the
Souldiers
:
the
watchman
hearing
such
sensible
reasons
to
perswade
him
,
tooke
the
letter
;
and
Roxander
secretly
stoale
again●
to
the
Campe
:
No
sooner
did
the
morning
starre
&
blushing
Aurora
begin
to
course
hir selfe
from
the
bed
of
Ti●an
●
but
●he
watchman
hied
with
the
letter
into
the
City
,
and
sought
out
Roxanders
sonne
,
who
was
of
no
better
account
then
a
mercenary
souldier
,
and
to
him
imparted
the
whole
matter
:
who
receiuing
the
letter
,
●ound
that
it
was
his
fathers
writing
:
wherevpon
,
taking
the
watchman
with
him
,
calling
the
Souldiers
by
sounde
of
a
Trumpet
,
to
the
market
place
:
hee
discoursed
vnto
them
,
first
whose
sonne
hée
was
:
secondly
what
had
past
the
last
night
betwéene
the
watchman
and
an
vnknowen
man
,
of
his
fathers
imprisonment
,
and
the
speedines
of
his
death
:
for
proofe
whereof
hee
red
them
the
letter
as
foloweth
.
Roxanders
Letter
.
THe
distresse
of
my
countrey
bruted
into
Sicilia
,
where
I
liued
poore
and
exiled
,
such
was
the
eare
I
had
of
the
common
wealth
,
as
I
choose
rather
to
die
by
breaking
the
law
of
the
Ostracisme
,
then
to
bée
counted
slack
in
attempting
what
I
might
for
the
benefit
af
Athens
.
Honors
are
not
tied
to
times
,
nor
courage
to
places
:
Death
is
sweeter
then
discontent
,
and
more
glorious
is
it
to
perish
in
wishing
well
to
Athens
,
then
in
lying
quiet
in
Sicilia
:
The
Thebans
haue
ouercome
,
that
greeues
mee
not
,
sith
it
is
but
a
braue
of
Fortune
,
whose
fauours
are
inconstaunt
,
whose
frownes
are
momentany
,
whose
check
is
the
step
to
good
hap
.
The
Athenians
are
vanquished
;
what
of
this
?
men
are
subiect
to
the
pleasures
of
oportunities
,
their
actions
haue
not
alwaies
prosperity
fauorable
:
time
changeth
:
and
more
honor
is
gotten
in
a
moment
,
than
hath
bene
lost
in
a
moneth
.
The
Athenians
are
rampired
as
cowardes
within
walles
:
this
(
country
men
)
pincheth
Roxander
at
the
heart
,
that
famous
Athens
,
renowned
Athens
,
Athens
that
was
the
chieftaine
of
Gréece
for
warlike
att●mpts
,
should
be
stained
with
dishonor
and
cowardize
:
yea
,
countrymen
and
souldiers
,
Roxander
in
bands
in
the
hands
of
his
enemies
,
ready
to
die
,
greeueth
at
this
disgrace
,
and
blusheth
more
to
heare
the
Thebans
call
you
cowards
,
then
to
heare
them
pronounce
the
sentence
of
death
:
Once
worthy
souldiers
you
sought
to
frée
mée
from
the
handes
of
the
Senat
which
were
my
friendes
:
now
seeke
to
rid
mée
from
the
Thebans
my
foes
,
and
your
enemies
,
who
intend
to
kill
Roxander
,
onely
because
hee
is
Roxander
:
whose
liberality
was
●he
cause
of
your
fauours
.
This
if
I
obtaine
,
I
only
in
recompence
,
promise
to
bee
thankfull
.
Farewell
.
Roxander
the
friend
to
Athens
.
NO
sooner
had
his
sonne
red
the
letter
,
but
that
the
souldiers
showted
at
the
very
name
of
Roxander
,
&
pulling
his
sonne
from
the
place
where
he
stoode
,
made
him
their
Captaine
.
The
Senators
h●aring
this
alarum
,
were
driuen
into
a
maze
,
till
one
of
the
Captaines
discoursed
to
them
from
point
to
point
,
the
forerehearsed
premisses
:
whereat
being
astonied
,
comming
in
with
Clitomaches
into
the
market
place
,
they
found
the
Souldiers
in
armes
,
and
in
aray
ready
to
march
towardes
the
gate
of
the
Citty
.
Clitomache●
willing
to
stay
them
that
they
might
not
issue
out
without
aduice
,
could
not
preuayle
:
but
breaking
downe
th●
rampiers
as
mad
men
crying
,
Roxander
,
liberall
Roxander
,
th●y
issued
out
,
litle
lookt
for
of
the
Thebans
:
who
notwithstanding
,
standing
within
their
trenches
in
defence
,
the
Athenians
so
valiantly
gaue
the
onset
,
that
in
a
desperate
maner
as
in
●
contemnning
death
,
they
ran
vpon
the
pikes
,
&
presently
discomfit●d
th●enemy
with
such
a
s●aughter
,
as
not
one
was
left
aliue
to
carry
newes
to
Thebes
of
their
losse
:
the
ret●aite
sounded
,
Roxander
presented
him selfe
,
whom
with
such
louing
submission
th●y
receiu●d
and
he
returning
such
lowly
t●anks
to
the
Souldiers
,
that
they
calling
to
rem●mbrance
,
●irst
the
iniury
the
Senators
offered
Roxander
in
his
banishment
,
and
their
wronge
at
the
sack
of
Lisium
,
for
deuision
of
spoyle
,
that
like
men
haunted
with
a
f●rie
,
running
into
the
City
,
b●fore
Roxander
could
know
the
c●use
of
the
hurly burly
,
th●y
so●ght
out
the
Senators
and
Clitomaches
,
and
put
them
to
the
edge
of
the
swoord
,
presenting
their
heads
to
Roxander
,
who
with
teares
disalowing
their
disobedience
,
and
with
threats
s●●wing
him selfe
discontent
,
was
nothstanding
,
maugre
his
teeth
created
againe
Dictator
,
in
which
estate
hee
liued
long
after
in
Athens
.
Achilles
Tragedie
●nded
,
ag●d
Priamus
standing
vp
,
gaue
his
verdite
vppon
their
discourse
in
this
manner
.
Although
,
worthie
Grecians
,
I
am
not
called
to
bee
a
Iudge
in
this
controuersie
,
yet
friendly
and
freely
let
mee
say
that
such
a
perfect
diuision
of
qualities
,
or
rather
vertues
,
necessary
and
incident
in
a
souldier
,
hath
bin
so
liuely
pourtraied
,
and
figured
foorth
in
such
comely
collours
,
as
it
is
hard
to
censure
whether
of
them
holds
the
supremacy
:
for
wisdome
being
the
meanes
doo
dispose
the
army
in
his
due
order
,
and
to
haue
an
in-sight
by
pollycie
to
preuent
what
the
enemy
can
intend
,
yet
is
but
a
shadowe
drawne
with
a
pensell
,
vnlesse
fortitude
&
courage
perfourme
that
in
action
,
which
hath
bene
purposed
and
determined
by
wisedome
:
neyther
can
these
two
haue
longe
continuance
,
and
good
successe
,
except
liberality
,
as
a
linck
to
knit
these
two
in
their
forces
,
presents
the
mindes
of
the
souldiers
captiuate
by
their
Captaines
bounty
:
then
of
these
premisses
wée
may
conclud●
,
that
none
can
come
to
the
perfection
of
a
souldier
,
vnlesse
he
be
both
wise
,
valiant
,
and
liberall
:
With
this
graue
censure
of
Priamus
,
th●y
rested
all
cont●nted
,
except
the
Ladi●s
,
who
seeing
Phoebus
so
fast
d●clining
to
the
West
,
hastened
on
Achilles
to
depart
:
he
s●ttered
with
the
loue
of
Polixena
,
woulde
willingly
haue
p●rswaded
a
nightly
rest
at
Troy
,
but
that
his
thoughts
would
haue
bene
discerned
:
to
pr●uent
therefore
●ll
occasions
of
suspition
,
hee
made
has●e
,
so
that
taking
his
leaue
of
Priam●s
,
Hector
,
&
the
rest
of
the
kings
and
Pry●ces
resident
at
Troi●
,
mounting
vpon
Horse
he●
went
with
I●higenia
and
the
Ladies
to
their
pauilions
.
●te
domum
Satur●
,
venit
Hesp●rus
:
Ite
Capell●
.