Greene
his
farewell
to
Follie.
WHen
the
state
of
Italie
was
pestered
with
the
mutinous
factions
of
the
Guelphes
and
Ghibellines
,
so
that
the
common
wealth
groned
vnder
the
burden
of
their
seditious
tumults
,
and
the
Church
infected
with
sundrie
schismaticall
optnions
,
was
stained
with
that
blemish
of
dissention
.
Florence
,
a
citie
greatly
molested
with
this
ciuill
controuersie
,
in
sted
of
palmes
that
presented
peace
,
was
stored
with
armour
that
denounced
warres
,
the
stréets
that
were
a
mart
for
the
trafficke
of
merchants
,
serued
for
a
place
wherein
to
martiall
souldiers
,
the
Senate
went
not
in
roabes
of
purple
to
challenge
reuerence
,
but
in
coates
of
stéele
to
maintaine
their
safetie
:
age
,
honour
nor
religion
bar●…
no
priuiledge
in
their
foreheads
,
but
the
nobilitie
with
ambition
and
the
commons
with
enuie
,
so
dissented
in
their
seuerall
thoughts
,
that
the
particular
ruine
of
the
Citie
,
and
the
generall
subuersion
of
the
w●…ale
publique
was
daily
expected
.
Yet
amidst
these
broiles
the
house
of
the
Farneze
so
behaued
themselues
with
such
equal
prop●…rtion
,
that
they
were
neither
friends
to
the
Guelphs
nor
foes
to
the
Ghibellins
,
but
with
an
indifferent
poise
of
affections
,
countermanded
the
factious
mutiny
of
those
two
mortall
enimies
.
The
chiefe
of
these
was
Ieronimo
Farneze
,
a
noble
man
,
bonorable
for
his
parentage
,
and
●…onoured
for
his
vertue
,
one
that
in
his
youth
armed
his
actions
with
prowesse
,
and
in
his
age
made
a
proofe
of
his
life
by
wisdome
,
who
discouering
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
of
time
by
experience
,
founde
that
swéeter
was
the
deaw
that
dropt
from
peace
,
than
the
showers
that
powred
downe
from
wars
,
that
the
garland
of
Mercurie
was
more
precious
than
the
helmet
of
Mars
,
that
quiet
and
content
sooner
rested
vnder
the
marble
altar
of
Pallas
,
than
vnder
the
siluer
targets
of
Bellona
,
not
that
the
noble
man
thought
it
dishonorable
to
be
martiall
,
but
that
he
counted
it
prodigall
to
be
factious
:
to
auoide
therefore
all
suspition
that
might
insue
by
his
●…dence
in
so
troublesome
a
Citie
,
setting
his
household
affaires
in
some
good
order
,
accompanied
with
his
wife
,
three
daughters
,
and
foure
young
Gentlemen
,
allied
vnto
him
by
affinitie
,
hee
departed
from
Florence
,
seated
himselfe
in
a
farme
of
his
about
sixs
miles
distant
from
〈◊〉
:
the
eldest
of
his
daughters
was
named
Margaret
,
the
seconde
Fraunces
,
the
youngest
Katherine
,
all
which
as
ioyning
in
a
sympathie
of
their
pareuts
propagation
,
were
beholding
to
Nature
for
beauty
,
to
Fortune
for
wealth
,
and
to
the
Gods
for
wisedome
and
vertue
:
the
young
Gentlemen
were
these
,
Seignior
Peratio
,
seignior
Bernardine
,
seignior
Cosimo
,
and
messieur
Benedetto
,
all
as
I
said
before
,
allied
to
Farneze
by
affinitie
,
and
therfore
honorable
,
and
directing
the
course
of
their
liues
after
his
compasse
,
and
therefore
vertuous
.
These
thus
associated
both
in
nature
and
nourture
,
accompanied
the
olde
Countie
to
his
house
,
where
arryuing
they
found
a
Grange
place
by
scituation
melancholie
,
as
seated
in
the
middest
of
a
thicket
,
fitter
for
one
giuen
to
metaphusial
contemplation
than
for
such
yong
Gentlemen
,
as
desired
sooner
to
daunce
with
Uenus
,
than
to
dreame
with
Saturne
,
whose
thoughts
aimed
not
at
the
stoicke
content
of
Pythagoras
,
but
at
an
exteriour
conceite
of
honest
pleasure
,
which
contrarie
to
their
expectation
in
such
a
centurie
or
Countrie
cottage
,
they
founde
for
Ieronimo
Farneze
,
séeing
the
picture
of
discontent
shadowed
in
their
foreheads
,
conceiuing
this
frowarde
humour
to
come
,
for
that
the
place
of
their
abode
was
so
solempnely
seated
,
beganne
at
the
enteraunce
into
the
base
Court
to
vse
these
words
.
Gentlemen
,
the
learned
and
wise
worldlinges
,
whome
experience
and
wisedome
hath
priuiledged
to
censure
rightly
of
the
due
expence
of
time
,
haue
thought
with
the
●…tion
,
that
as
the
stomacke
hath
his
orifice
strengthened
as
well
with
the
iuyce
of
bitter
wormwood
as
with
the
sap
of
swéete
liquerice
:
so
the
mind●…
oft
steppeth
as
soone
to
content
by
beeing
passionate
as
pleasant
,
d●…re
hangs
not
alwaies
on
the
héeles
of
delight
,
man
hath
his
time
to
meditate
,
and
holy
writ
tel●…
vs
,
that
as
we
haue
a
daie
for
mirth
,
so
we
haue
a
daie
to
mourne
,
Salomon
whose
content
passed
al
proportion
of
measure
,
counted
all
things
vanitie
that
stooped
to
th●…
centre
of
the
earth
,
Alexander
amidst
al
the
Embassadors
at
Babylon
,
stole
thrée
dayes
to
bée
solitarie
,
Philip
woulde
bée
put
in
remembrance
of
his
morta'itie
:
and
we
Gentlemen
,
that
haue
liued
pleasantlie
at
Florence
wearing
out
time
with
vanitie
,
may
now
refine
our
senses
dulled
with
the
tast
of
sundrie
vaine
obie●…s
,
and
for
a
wéeke
or
two
betake
our selues
to
this
solitarie
place
,
wherein
I
thinke
to
finde
no
other
pleasure
but
a
swéete
meditation
and
friendly
conference
of
the
vaine
suppose
of
such
as
thinke
none
Philosophers
but
Epicures
,
and
none
reli●…ious
but
Atheists
.
Thus
Gentlemen
,
I
appoint
your
penaunce
,
and
therefore
shew
me
your
opinion
by
your
countenance
.
Seignior
Peratio
who
was
nephew
to
Ieronimo
,
made
aunswere
for
the
rest
and
saide
,
they
were
all
content
,
wherewith
the
olde
Countis
leading
the
waie
entered
the
house
,
where
●…ding
all
thinges
in
a
readines
they
w●…t
to
dinner
:
the
fresh
aire
had
procured
good
appetite
,
that
little
talke
past
till
they
had
ended
their
repast
,
dinner
being
done
,
counting
it
Phisicke
to
sit
a
while
,
the
olds
Countesse
spying
on
the
finger
of
seignior
Cosimo
a
ring
with
a
deaths
head
ingrauen
,
circled
with
this
posie
,
Gressus
ad
vitam
,
demanded
whether
hee
adorde
the
signet
for
profit
or
pleasure
,
seignior
Cosimo
speaking
in
truth
as
his
conscience
wild
him
,
tolde
her
that
it
was
a
fauour
which
a
Gentlewoman
had
bestowed
vpon
him
,
and
that
onely
he
wore
it
for
her
sake
.
Then
,
quoth
the
countesse
,
t
is
a
whetstone
to
sharp
fancie
:
if
it
be
madam
quoth
Cosimo
,
I
am
not
so
olde
but
I
may
loue
:
nor
so
young
sir
,
quoth
shee
,
but
you
may
learne
by
that
to
leaue
such
folly
as
loue
:
no
doubt
nature
works
nothing
vaine
,
the
Lapidarie
cuts
not
a
stone
,
but
it
hath
some
vertue
:
men
weare
not
iems
only
to
please
the
sight
,
but
to
be
defensiues
by
their
secret
operations
against
perils
,
&
so
seignior
Cosimo
wold
I
haue
you
vse
the
gentlewomans
fauour
,
not
for
a
whetstone
to
further
folly
,
but
for
a
cooling
card
to
inordinate
vanities
.
Themistocles
wore
in
his
shield
the
picture
of
a
storke
,
his
motto
Antipelargein
,
for
that
he
would
not
be
stained
with
ingratitude
.
Socrates
had
but
one
toie
in
his
house
,
and
that
wos
the
counterfait
of
patience
,
for
that
he
had
a
shrew
to
his
wife
:
By
your
leaue
madame
(
quoth
Cosimo
)
had
not
Socrates
counterfait
also
a
sentence
:
yes
answered
Farneze
,
but
my
wife
plaies
like
the
Priest
that
at
his
Eleuatio
left
out
his
Memento
,
the
motto
was
this
,
Neque
haec
sufficit
,
meaning
patience
was
as
good
a
medicine
to
cure
a
waspish
woman
of
sullenes
,
as
an
ants
egge
in
sirop
for
him
that
is
troubled
with
the
Sciatica
.
The
Gentlemen
laught
at
the
drie
frumpe
of
Farneze
,
and
the
Countesse
for
that
she
had
talkt
of
patience
,
tooke
it
for
a
president
,
and
prosecuted
●…er
intent
in
this
maner
.
〈◊〉
howe
you
please
Gentlemen
,
still
I
saie
that
well
cannot
be
gainsayd
how
the
image
of
death
figured
in
Cosimos
ring
,
should
be
a
glasse
whereby
to
direct
his
actions
,
that
the
pagans
who
builde
their
blisse
in
the
swéete
conceit
of
Fame
,
vsed
the
picture
of
death
as
a
restraint
to
all
forward
follies
.
Alexander
when
he
named
himselfe
the
son
of
Iupiter
,
was
reuoked
from
heresie
by
the
sight
of
a
dead
mans
scull
that
Calistenes
presented
to
him
in
a
casket
.
Augustus
Caesar
set
on
the
dore
of
his
banketting
house
the
scalpe
of
a
dead
man
,
least
extrem●…ie
should
turne
delight
to
vice
:
so
seignior
Cosimo
,
vse
you
your
mistres
fauor
as
a
benefit
to
profit
the
minde
,
not
as
a
toy
to
please
fancie
.
Cosimo
was
driuen
into
a
dump
with
this
sodain
insinuation
of
the
countesse
,
as
in
déed
he
stood
like
the
picture
of
silence
,
whereat
Bernardin
smiling
made
the
Countesse
this
answere
.
I
cannot
denie
madame
,
but
you
say
well
,
yet
your
censure
is
a
little
too
peremptorie
,
neither
can
I
gainsay
but
such
a
resolution
would
do
well
in
age
,
whose
sappe
shronke
from
the
branches
,
conforts
the
water
,
but
affoords
no
blossoms
,
your
hairs
being
siluer
had
a
sommons
vnto
death
,
&
therefore
to
be
armed
with
deuotion
,
our
yeres
growen
&
budding
forth
a
restles
desire
to
plesure
,
which
if
we
should
cut
off
with
a
continuall
remembrance
of
death
,
we
shuld
preuent
time
&
metamorphose
our selues
by
conceit
into
a
contrary
shape
:
the
Astronomer
by
long
staring
at
the
stars
forgets
the
globe
at
his
féet
,
so
feareful
was
Phaeton
of
the
signe
in
the
zodiaock
,
that
he
forgat
his
course
:
&
so
would
you
haue
the
delight
of
youth
dasht
with
the
sight
of
a
death
head
,
the
laying
aside
al
recreation
,
we
should
fall
to
be
flat
Saturnists
.
By
this
doctrine
madam
,
you
would
erect
againe
the
Acadenne
of
the
●…ks
,
&
make
young
men
either
apathoi
to
liue
without
passions
,
or
els
so
holy
to
die
without
sin
:
the
gentlemen
were
glad
that
Bernardino
had
made
such
an
answere
,
&
Farneze
to
draw
them
farther
into
talke
,
told
his
wife
that
he
thought
she
was
driuen
to
a
non
plus
:
no
sir
(
qd
she
)
but
the
gentleman
mistakes
me
,
for
I
meane
not
to
haue
him
so
holy
as
to
liue
without
sinne
,
but
so
honest
as
to
liue
without
follies
,
which
our
Florentins
shrowd
vnder
the
shadowe
of
youth
,
that
in
déede
are
meere
enemies
to
the
glorie
of
youth
.
Messieur
Benedetto
interrupted
the
countesse
,
as
one
amongst
al
the
companie
most
giuen
to
follie
,
for
he
was
a
fine
courtier
and
was
thus
quicke
in
his
replie
.
I
remember
madame
that
Phocion
carped
at
all
men
that
went
shod
,
because
he
him selfe
was
euer
barefoot
.
Antisthenes
admitted
no
guest
but
Geometritians
.
None
supt
with
Cassius
but
such
as
neuer
laught
,
and
they
which
feele
your
humour
must
(
though
not
in
yeres
yet
in
action
)
be
as
old
as
you
,
or
else
they
are
fondlings
.
But
they
which
at
●…ood
Diogenes
tubbe
came
as
well
to
laugh
as
to
learne
,
and
we
that
heare
,
you
may
sooner
fall
a
sléepe
than
follow
your
doctrine
,
for
I
perceiue
vnder
this
worde
folly
,
you
abridge
young
gentlemen
of
euerie
laudable
pleasure
and
delight
,
allowing
mirth
in
no
measure
,
〈◊〉
pourd
out
after
your
proportion
:
As
to
hunt
,
to
hauke
,
to
daunce
,
to
loue
,
to
go
cleanly
,
or
whatsoeuer
else
that
contenteth
youth
his
folly
.
And
thus
by
an
induction
you
conclude
omnia
vanitas
.
The
Lady
Katherin
hearing
hir
mother
so
sharply
shaken
vp
by
messieur
Benedetto
pro●…
hir
boldnesse
with
a
modest
blushe
made
this
answere
:
And
sir
quoth
she
,
they
which
laught
at
Diogenes
perhaps
were
as
foolishe
as
he
was
cynicall
:
&
might
with
Alexander
whatsoeuer
they
brought
take
a
frump
for
a
farewell
,
my
mother
sets
not
downe
peremptorie
precepts
to
disallow
of
honest
recreation
,
but
necessary
perswasion
to
diswade
men
from
vanitie
,
she
séekes
not
with
Tullie
to
frame
an
Orator
in
conceipt
,
with
Plato
to
build
a
common
wealth
vpon
supposes
,
nor
with
Baldeslar
to
figure
out
a
courtier
in
impossibilities
:
but
séeing
the
wings
of
youth
trickt
vp
with
follies
plumes
,
〈◊〉
to
perswade
him
with
Icarus
from
soaring
to
high
.
And
I
pray
you
,
qd
Benedetto
,
what
terme
you
follies
,
womens
fancies
,
no
sir
,
quoth
she
,
mens
fauours
,
Sylenus
asse
neuer
sawe
a
wine
bottle
but
he
would
winch
,
and
you
can
not
heare
the
name
of
folly
but
you
must
frowne
,
not
that
you
mislike
of
it
in
thought
,
but
that
deckt
in
your
pontificalibus
a
man
may
shape
&
cetera
by
your
shadow
:
Benedetto
let
not
this
bitter
blow
fall
to
the
ground
,
but
told
hir
hir
Latine
was
verie
bad
and
worst
placst
:
for
&
cetera
was
no
word
of
art
for
a
foole
,
but
in
déede
he
did
remember
Parrats
spake
not
what
they
thinke
,
but
what
they
are
taught
:
And
so
,
quoth
Cosimo
,
you
make
a
bare
exchange
with
Ladie
Katherine
for
a
foole
to
deliuer
a
popingay
,
but
in
déede
to
take
hir
parte
in
this
,
we
Florentines
,
nay
more
generallie
,
we
Italians
ouer
wise
in
our
owne
conceipt
,
stande
so
much
vppon
wit
that
follie
treading
vppon
our
héeles
bids
vs
oft
looke
backe
vnto
repentance
:
Seignor
Farneze
taking
time
by
the
forehead
iumpt
in
with
Cosimo
;
and
said
that
not
onely
Italians
but
other
nations
whatsoeuer
were
faultie
in
that
imagination
,
and
that
follie
was
as
common
as
loue
,
and
loue
so
common
that
he
was
not
a
gentleman
that
was
not
in
loue
:
and
by
this
argument
,
quoth
Cosimo
,
you
conclude
all
gentlemen
both
fooles
and
louers
:
I
reason
not
answered
Farneze
a
coniugatis
,
but
séeing
we
are
thus
farre
entered
into
the
Anatomie
of
follies
,
let
vs
spende
this
afternoone
in
discoursing
of
the
fondnesse
of
such
our
countriemen
,
as
ouergrowne
with
selfe
loue
drownes
themselues
in
that
●…ollies
which
all
the
world
giues
vnto
vs
as
due
:
I
meane
pride
,
which
seignor
Peratio
for
that
I
knowe
you
alwaies
to
haue
borne
the
profession
of
a
scholler
,
I
commit
vnto
your
charge
:
Not
to
me
si●…
quoth
Peratio
,
I
pray
you
kéepe
decorum
,
let
the
Ladie
Katherine
discourse
of
that
which
best
beséemeth
hir
sexe
:
for
if
we
may
giue
credit
to
men
verie
skilfull
and
excellent
in
Chronographie
,
the
first
patterne
of
pride
came
from
Eua
the
moother
of
women
and
the
mistresse
of
that
faulte
:
You
mistake
the
matter
,
quoth
the
Ladie
Katherine
,
Eua
was
obedient
and
simple
,
following
nothing
but
what
hir
husbande
foreshewed
and
foretaught
hir
.
Let
vs
leaue
women
,
quoth
Farneze
,
and
priuiledge
them
a
little
to
be
proud
,
onely
Signor
Peratio
touch
you
the
follie
of
our
Italians
and
we
will
be
silent
auditours
to
your
good
philosophie
:
The
gentlemen
setled
themselues
in
●…ilence
,
which
gaue
a
pro●…fe
to
Peratio
that
they
agréed
to
Farnezes
request
,
and
therefore
he
beganne
his
talke
in
this
manner
.
Although
gentlemen
it
hath
pleased
the
countie
to
giue
me
in
charge
the
discourse
of
such
a
weighty
matter
as
the
discouery
of
pride
,
yet
I
knowe
my
sufficiencie
so
sarre
vnable
to
performe
his
request
,
as
of
force
I
must
craue
pardon
if
either
my
censures
be
too
ra●…he
or
verdict
offensiue
:
resting
therefore
in
hope
of
your
courteous
pa●…ience
,
thus
to
the
purpose
.
The
learned
cl●…rkes
●…hose
experience
may
auouche
their
sayings
for
Oracles
,
affirme
this
folly
to
discend
by
course
of
propagation
,
as
naturally
inserted
into
the
minde
of
man
ab
ipsis
incunabilis
,
setting
downe
by
physicall
reasons
that
pride
doth
possesse
the
inward
senses
of
infants
,
as
sensum
communem
&
Phantezian
before
any
exterior
obiect
can
delude
the
sence
with
vanitie
,
which
Plato
considering
in
his
Timaeo
calleth
it
Anthropomasia
,
the
scourge
of
man
,
as
a
vice
so
déepely
bred
by
the
bone
,
as
it
will
hardly
be
rooted
out
of
the
flesh
,
alluding
the
reason
that
his
maister
Aristotle
did
for
the
heart
which
liuing
first
dieth
last
:
so
pride
entring
at
the
cradle
●…deth
in
the
graue
.
Scipio
Aff●…icanus
the
great
whose
triumphes
had
filled
the
stréetes
of
Rome
with
trophes
,
being
demanded
why
the
state
of
Rome
began
to
ruinate
,
what
made
him
forsake
the
senate
,
why
he
liued
solitarie
from
the
ciuill
gouernement
,
why
he
tasted
not
the
fruites
of
his
foregotten
glories
?
answered
to
all
these
demands
briefely
,
for
that
Rome
wa●…th
proude
,
meaning
that
pride
as
ill
befitteth
a
crowne
as
a
cottage
,
what
ouerthrewe
the
house
of
the
Tarquins
but
pride
,
what
wrought
the
confusion
at
Babel
but
the
pride
of
Nemroth
?
Pride
ouerthrew
the
pompe
of
Alexander
,
and
had
not
pride
hatched
ambition
the
Romanes
had
neuer
bewailde
the
death
of
Pompey
,
to
repeat
a
catalogue
of
infinit
examples
were
friuolous
:
and
therefore
leauing
this
generall
discouerie
let
vs
come
to
a
more
particular
discourse
of
this
follie
.
Our
Florentins
which
professe
themselues
to
be
souldiers
,
are
wedded
to
this
vaine
,
as
men
shadowing
the
verie
substance
of
pride
with
the
two
colours
of
same
and
honour
:
for
what
attempts
they
séeke
to
atchieue
by
martiall
prowesse
,
what
exploites
they
perfourme
in
warres
,
what
daies
and
nightes
they
spende
in
watching
either
to
preuent
or
preiudice
the
enemie
,
still
claime
the
finall
cause
of
those
actions
to
be
fame
or
honour
.
But
who
heareth
the
sundry
and
seuerall
brauados
our
martialistes
make
of
their
strange
encounters
?
how
cunningly
they
ordred
their
squadrons
?
how
couragiously
they
incountered
the
enemie
?
how
stoutly
they
assaied
the
push
of
the
pike
?
how
strongly
they
bare
the
shocke
of
the
horsse
?
what
lances
they
brake
?
what
massacres
they
made
?
what
stratagemes
they
perfourmed
?
what
cities
they
both
assaulted
and
sacked
,
shall
finde
this
report
to
tast
of
selfe
lo●…e
,
and
these
warlike
indeuours
to
sauour
as
much
of
pride
as
either
of
fame
or
honour
.
But
grant
their
allegati●…ns
true
,
they
couet
to
be
famous
and
honourable
,
yet
shall
we
finde
the
end
of
these
vertuous
imaginations
,
to
be
touched
a
little
with
the
staine
of
this
follie
:
for
the
desire
of
fame
aimed
with
aspiring
thoughts
soreth
so
high
,
that
séeking
with
Phacton
to
rule
aloft
,
his
very
prescription
draweth
them
in
a
selfe
conceipt
of
their
owne
glories
.
Had
not
Haniball
founde
pride
in
the
hope
of
fame
,
he
had
neuer
scaled
the
Alpes
to
besiege
Capna
.
Had
not
Alexander
béene
proude
in
the
glorie
of
his
victories
and
conquestes
,
he
had
neuer
sighed
that
there
was
but
one
worlde
to
subdue
.
Hercules
was
proude
of
his
labours
,
Hector
of
his
combats
with
the
Grecians
,
and
to
be
short
,
the
meanest
souldiour
getting
●…ither
〈◊〉
or
honor
by
sundrie
hardy
and
happy
attempts
,
glories
so
much
in
the
glorious
reward
of
his
inde●…or
that
willingly
he
passes
his
proportion
,
and
commeth
within
the
compasse
of
this
f●…lle
.
Seignior
Bernardino
,
who
all
his
life
time
,
had
professed
him selfe
a
souldiour
,
séeing
Peratio
so
〈◊〉
to
appech
his
profession
of
pride
,
made
this
answer
.
I
can
not
thinke
,
seignior
peratio
,
but
your
natiuitie
being
rightly
calculated
,
hath
Mercurie
so
predominant
,
as
we
may
censure
without
offence
,
that
you
are
farre
more
bookish
than
wise
,
especially
in
martiall
affaires
,
whose
honourable
conceit
I
sée
is
so
farre
beyonde
the
reache
of
your
capacity
,
that
in
gazing
at
a
starre
you
stumble
at
a
stone
,
and
in
aiming
particularly
at
a
〈◊〉
,
you
generally
load
him
with
the
fault
of
the
whole
worlde
:
are
you
so
simple
your selfe
as
to
account
euerie
humour
that
●…itteth
man
with
delight
to
be
pride
,
that
the
desire
of
fame
and
honour
is
nothing
else
but
selfe
lo●…e
?
Then
sir
,
let
me
say
,
that
Mineruas
owle
was
proude
,
for
perking
vnder
●…ir
golden
target
,
and
that
Apelles
boies
aimed
at
selfe
lone
for
grinding
colours
for
their
maisters
〈◊〉
.
But
it
did
not
preiudice
the
〈◊〉
of
Themistocles
to
be
called
coward
at
the
mo●…th
of
Aristot
,
because
the
foole
was
a
fidler
and
knewe
scarse
a
speare
front
a
syi●…ot
,
neither
may
s●…uldiours
take
offente
to
be
thought
proude
at
your
handes
,
which
neuer
saw
●…attell
but
in
your
booke
,
and
●…et
I
can
not
deny
but
there
be
such
fantaslicke
martialists
as
you
talke
of
,
whose
tongues
are
more
hardie
than
their
hands
,
and
dare
sooner
scale
the
heauens
with
a
braue
than
anger
a
man
with
a
blow
:
such
seignior
Peratio
as
Thrasonically
countenance
themselues
with
the
title
of
a
souldior
,
comprehend
you
within
the
compasse
of
folly
:
but
those
personages
which
in
defense
of
their
country
and
despight
of
the
enemy
,
séeke
after
fame
and
honour
,
and
glorie
in
the
gaine
of
such
a
golden
benefit
,
let
them
triumphe
in
their
conquests
,
●…
delight
themselues
in
recounting
those
fauours
which
fame
hath
bes●…owed
vpon
them
for
their
warlike
indeuours
.
But
sir
,
in
this
discourse
of
pride
,
you
are
partiall
&
play
like
Diogenes
,
who
carying
at
the
beggery
of
Antisthenes
,
neuen
marked
the
patch
on
his
〈◊〉
cloake
.
Sylenus
would
oft
●…nuey
against
〈◊〉
with
a
bot●…le
of
wine
in
his
hande
.
Thersites
〈◊〉
Menalcas
of
deformitie
,
him selfe
being
most
ilfauoured
:
and
you
sir
,
induce
a
●…ouldiour
as
prologue
to
your
comedie
of
pride
,
where
as
you
schollers
ought
to
be
for
most
in
the
scene
,
for
he
that
maketh
but
a
step
into
the
vniuersitie
of
Padua
,
where
the
youth
of
Florence
chiefely
flourishe
,
and
with
a
déepe
insight
marketh
the
nature
of
our
Mercurialists
,
shall
find
as
●…it
a
harbour
for
pride
vnder
a
schollers
cap
as
vnder
a
souldiours
helmet
,
and
that
as
great
selfe
loue
lurketh
in
a
side
gowne
,
as
in
a
short
armo●…r
.
Tell
me
good
seignior
Peratio
,
is
not
Mercurie
as
arrogant
as
Mars
is
presumptuous
?
The
one
is
figured
with
wings
as
bewraying
his
aspiring
thoughtes
,
the
other
pi●…tured
in
armes
,
as
im●…orting
a
resolution
.
Turne
they
not
ouer
manie
leaues
?
Reade
they
not
large
volumes
?
Consume
they
not
long
time
?
Apply
they
not
their
wits
and
willes
?
Some
in
Apply
to
gaze
at
the
starres
,
some
in
Physicke
to
search
●…ut
the
nature
of
simples
,
other
in
the
〈◊〉
to
worke
out
metaphysicall
experimentes
,
euerie
a
particularitie
in
euerie
art
:
spending
all
his
life
to
haue
the
worlde
giue
a
plauditie
of
their
studies
.
Is
not
this
,
seignior
Peratio
,
a
tickling
humour
of
selfe
loue
,
that
may
bring
schollers
within
the
compasse
of
pride
?
Tullie
gadded
the
stréetes
of
Rome
,
that
the
people
might
call
him
pater
patriae
.
Demostenes
tooke
such
a
conceit
of
his
eloquence
,
that
he
walked
vp
&
downe
Athens
to
haue
the
citizens
say
,
hic
est
ille
Demostenes
.
Plato
was
so
proude
that
he
scarse
thought
king
Dionysius
his
fellowe
,
and
not
onely
in
learning
,
but
in
life
and
apparell
so
neate
,
that
Diogenes
séeing
a
braue
cursier
richly
decked
with
golden
trappers
,
demanded
of
him
when
hee
was
in
Cumaeo
,
as
taking
the
horsse
for
one
of
Platoes
disciples
:
and
I
thinke
ye
schollers
of
Padua
haue
so
long
read
Platoes
wor●…es
,
that
ye
tast
of
platoes
vanities
,
I
mene
not
of
his
philosophy
but
of
his
follies
:
for
now
he
beareth
no
touch
in
padua
that
can
not
as
well
braue
it
with
plato
as
reason
with
Plato
,
that
co●…et
as
well
to
imitate
Aristotle
in
the
sumptuousnes
of
his
apparell
as
the
subtilnesse
of
his
arguments
,
that
hath
not
a
tailer
as
well
to
picture
out
his
lineaments
,
as
a
Stationer
to
furnish
out
his
librarie
:
therefore
seignior
peratio
looke
to
your
owne
last
,
measure
not
the
length
of
an
other
mans
foot
by
your
owne
shoe
,
but
ioine
the
souldier
and
scholler
in
one
sillogisme
,
and
then
the
premises
equall
,
conclude
how
you
list
.
Seignior
Farneze
and
the
rest
smiled
at
the
sharpe
reply
of
Bernardino
,
and
among
the
rest
messieur
Benedetto
galled
peratio
with
this
gléeke
.
By
my
faith
gentlemen
seignior
Bernardino
in
my
opinion
hath
done
well
not
onely
in
his
defence
of
a
souldier
,
but
in
his
Satyricall
inuectiue
against
schollers
,
wresting
argumentum
coniunctum
against
Peratio
him selfe
:
I
hope
sir
you
are
a
batcheler
,
and
therefore
this
kinde
of
phrase
giues
the
lesse
offence
.
peratio
thought
to
push
him
with
the
pike
,
as
hee
had
hit
him
with
the
launce
,
resembling
the
fall
of
Hector
,
who
while
he
vnarmde
Patroclus
was
vnhorsed
himselfe
:
Peratio
somewhat
cholerike
&
not
well
able
to
brooke
the
frump
of
Benedetto
,
was
thus
rough
with
him
:
masse
courtier
I
am
glad
you
keepe
so
good
a
decorum
,
as
to
let
the
lightnes
of
your
head
&
lauishnes
of
your
follies
so
well
to
agree
in
eode
tertio
:
you
take
Bernardinos
part
,
but
when
the
gentleman
ran
so
mery
a
descant
on
the
pride
of
schollers
,
had
he
by
hap
but
glancst
at
the
gaudinesse
of
your
apparell
,
he
had
spoken
farre
more
reuerently
of
scholters
than
he
did
:
for
you
Florentine
Courtiers
,
nay
to
be
flat
,
we
Florentine
Gentlemen
,
to
bring
my selfe
within
the
same
predicament
,
discouer
our selues
to
be
the
verie
anatomies
of
pride
:
for
he
that
marketh
our
follies
in
being
passing
humorous
for
the
choise
of
apparell
,
shall
finde
Ouids
confused
chaos
to
affoorde
a
multitude
of
defused
inuentions
.
It
was
obiected
to
Caesar
for
a
fault
in
his
youth
that
he
euer
vsed
to
go
vntrust
,
and
we
count
it
a
glorie
,
by
a
carelesse
cloathing
of
our selues
,
to
be
counted
malcontent
.
Sardanapalus
was
thrust
from
his
empire
,
for
that
he
was
a
little
e●…minate
,
and
we
striue
to
be
counted
womanish
,
by
kéeping
of
beautie
,
by
curling
the
haire
,
by
wearing
plumes
of
fethers
in
our
hands
,
which
in
warres
our
ancestors
wore
on
their
heads
,
they
feared
of
men
,
we
to
be
fauoured
of
women
.
Alexander
fell
in
hate
of
his
Macedons
,
being
the
monarch
of
the
whole
world
for
wearing
a
Persian
roabe
imbroidered
with
gold
,
and
we
Florentines
that
are
scarse
maisters
of
one
towne
so
decke
our selues
in
costly
attire
,
so
rich
and
so
rare
,
that
did
the
Macedons
liue
and
sée
our
follies
,
they
w●…ould
grant
Alexander
to
wear●…
〈◊〉
robe
witho●…
enuy
as
a
priuiledge
:
yea
now
a
dai●…s
Time
hath
bro●…ght
pride
to
such
perfection
in
Italie
;
that
●…e
ar●…
a
most
as
fantasticke
as
the
English
Gentleman
that
is
painted
naked
with
a
paire
of
shéeres
in
his
hande
,
as
not
being
resolued
after
what
fashion
to
haue
his
coat
cut
.
In
truth
,
quoth
Farneze
,
to
digresse
a
littl●…
from
your
matter
,
I
haue
séene
an
English
Gentleman
so
defused
in
his
sutes
,
his
doublet
being
for
the
weare
of
Castile
,
his
hose
for
Uenice
,
his
hat
for
France
,
his
cloake
for
Germanie
,
that
he
séemed
no
way
to
be
an
English
man
but
by
the
face
.
And
quoth
Peratio
,
to
this
are
we
Florentines
almost
grown
:
for
we
must
haue
our
courtesies
so
cringed
,
our
conges
deliuered
with
such
a
long
accent
,
our
spéeches
so
affected
,
as
comparing
our
conditions
with
th●…
liues
of
our
ancestors
,
we
séeme
so
farre
to
differ
from
their
former
estate
,
that
did
Ouid
liue
,
he
woulde
make
a
seconde
Metamorphosis
of
our
estates
.
Now
masse
Benedetto
,
are
not
you
and
the
scholl●…r
fellows
comperes
in
follies
?
Hath
not
pride
taught
the
on●…
as
large
principles
as
the
other
?
Are
not
Courtiers
as
proude
of
their
coates
as
〈◊〉
of
our
boo●…
?
Nay
Gentlemen
,
not
souldiours
,
schollers
and
courtiers
onely
,
but
all
other
estates
whatsoeuer
are
comprised
within
the
compasse
of
our
inquisition
,
and
may
veri●…
well
and
rightly
be
appeached
of
this
folly
.
But
seignior
Peratio
,
quoth
the
olde
Countesse
,
what
doe
you
thinke
euerie
one
proud
that
weareth
costly
apparell
?
No
Madam
,
quoth
p●…ratio
,
ne●…
doe
I
thinke
but
verie
beggers
haue
their
thei●…
,
and
prid●…
appoint
the
seat
of
this
folly
in
the
●…eart
,
no●…
in
the
habit
:
for
as
the
coule
makes
not
the
mo●…ck
,
nor
the
gray
●…de
the
frier
,
so
sumptuous
attir●…
p●…cureth
not
〈◊〉
presumption
,
neither
doet●…
prid●…
euer
harbour
in
●…lkes
:
pride
looketh
as
lowe
as
the
cottage
,
and
pouertie
hath
his
conceit
tainted
with
selfe
loue
.
Crates
was
more
proud
of
his
scrip
and
wallet
,
than
Cressus
of
all
his
wealth
.
Plato
had
such
an
insight
into
the
péeuish
pride
of
Diogenes
,
that
he
durst
boldly
say
,
Calco
superbiam
Diogenis
.
The
begger
Irus
that
hanted
the
pallace
of
Penelope
,
would
take
his
ease
in
his
Inne
as
well
as
the
péeres
of
Ithaca
.
Thoughts
are
not
measured
by
exteriour
effects
,
but
by
inwarde
affectes
.
Koabes
made
not
Agathocles
leaue
to
drinke
in
earthen
vessels
,
but
ragges
shrowded
a
proude
mind
in
Eubulus
,
that
presumd
to
call
him
the
sonne
of
a
potter
:
t
is
as
bad
a
consequent
to
call
a
king
proud
for
his
treasure
,
as
a
begger
humble
for
his
want
,
and
therefore
in
my
opinion
,
from
the
●…ing
to
the
●…egger
,
no
estate
is
frée
from
this
follie
.
But
pride
as
the
predominant
qualitie
in
euerie
sexe
,
degrée
and
age
challengeth
in
euerie
ones
mind
some
special
and
particular
prerogatiue
.
To
confirm●…
which
,
Gentlemen
if
you
will
giue
me
leaue
,
I
will
rehearse
you
a
pleasaunt
historie
.
The
Countie
and
the
rest
of
the
Gentlemen
and
Ladies
,
d●…sirous
to
heare
Peratios
tale
,
setled
themselues
to
silence
,
and
●…e
beganne
in
this
manner
.
The
Tale
of
Peratio
.
WHile
the
citie
of
Buda
remayned
frée
from
the
inuasion
of
the
Turk
&
was
one
of
the
chiefe
promon●…ories
of
Christendom
,
ther
s
reigned
as
king
Iohannes
Vadislaus
,
a
man
so
possessed
with
happines
in
the
prime
of
his
youth
,
as
it
sée●…d
the
starres
in
his
natiuitie
had
conspired
to
make
him
fortunate
.
By
parentage
royally
and
rightly
discended
from
the
ancient
kings
of
Hungaria
by
birth
sole
king
and
monarch
of
all
the
Transalpine
regions
,
nature
had
so
curiously
performed
his
charge
in
the
lineaments
of
his
bodie
,
&
the
planets
by
happie
aspects
so
carefully
inriched
his
mind
with
sundrie
gifts
:
as
it
was
in
question
which
of
all
these
might
chalenge
by
right
the
supremacie
.
But
as
the
purest
christall
hath
his
strakes
,
the
cléerest
s
kie
his
cloudes
,
the
finest
die
his
staine
:
so
Vadislaus
amidst
all
these
golden
legacies
bequeathed
to
him
by
nature
,
Fortune
and
the
gods
,
had
yet
a
blemish
darkened
all
his
other
glories
with
disgrace
.
For
his
minde
was
●…o
puffed
vp
with
a
disdainefull
kinde
of
pride
,
that
he
purchased
not
onely
a
speciall
enuie
of
his
nobilitie
,
but
a
generall
hate
of
his
commons
:
seated
thus
by
his
owne
conceipt
in
a
secure
content
,
although
in
verie
deede
dayly
standing
vpon
thornes
:
for
that
the
liues
of
kings
pinched
with
enuie
are
as
brittle
as
glasse
,
he
thought
Fortune
had
beene
tied
to
his
thoughtes
in
a
string
,
and
that
the
forehead
of
time
had
bene
furrowed
with
no
wrinckles
,
that
kings
might
commande
the
heauens
,
and
that
such
monarchs
as
he
might
attempt
with
Xerxes
to
tie
the
Occean
in
fetters
:
but
exeperience
taught
him
that
the
counterfet
of
Fortune
,
was
like
the
picture
of
Ianus
,
double
faced
,
in
the
one
presenting
flatterie
,
in
the
other
spight
:
that
time
had
two
wings
,
the
one
plumd
with
the
feather
of
a
doue
to
foreshew
peace
,
the
other
with
the
pennes
of
an
eagle
to
denounce
warres
,
that
kings
might
determine
but
God
dispose
:
that
a
scepter
was
no
warrant
to
priuiledge
them
from
mis●…ortune
,
that
euerie
blisse
hath
his
ban●…
,
that
euerie
pleasure
hath
his
paine
,
and
euerie
dram
of
delight
counter
poised
with
a
whole
t●…e
of
miserie
.
But
in
the
blossoms
of
his
youth
,
when
selfe
loue
tickled
him
forwarde
to
ouerweene
of
his
owne
estate
:
consideration
,
the
enemie
to
vntimely
attempts
,
had
not
trode
on
his
héele
,
but
taking
the
raines
of
libertie
in
his
handes
,
he
ranne
with
Phaeton
headlong
into
his
owne
misfortune
.
For
on
a
day
,
as
oft
he
desired
to
delight
his
senses
with
the
fragrant
verdure
of
the
meades
,
intending
to
be
solitarie
,
for
he
hated
disport
,
in
that
he
scorned
any
of
his
nobility
shoulde
beare
him
companie
,
he
passed
secretly
out
at
a
posterne
gate
,
onely
accompanied
with
one
of
his
nobles
,
whom
amongst
all
the
rest
he
admitted
into
priuat
familiaritie
:
an
Earle
he
was
,
and
called
Selydes
,
and
went
to
a
groue
hard
adioyning
to
the
pallace
,
where
in
an
arbour
that
nature
,
without
the
helpe
of
art
,
had
most
curiously
wrought
,
he
passed
away
parte
of
the
day
in
melancholy
meditation
:
at
last
tickled
with
a
déepe
conceit
of
his
owne
happinesse
,
commanding
his
noble
man
a
part
,
he
beganne
thus
to
sooth
him selfe
in
his
owne
follies
.
Hast
thou
not
heard
Vadislaus
,
nay
doest
thou
not
know
,
that
kings
are
gods
,
and
why
gods
,
because
they
are
kings
,
that
a
crowne
contayneth
a
worlde
of
pleasures
,
and
Fortune
euer
stoupeth
at
the
sight
of
a
sc●…pter
,
that
the
maiestie
of
a
prince
is
like
the
lightning
from
the
East
,
and
the
threates
of
a
king
like
the
noyse
of
thunder
?
What
sayest
thou
Vadislaus
,
are
kings
goddes
?
Why
doest
thou
so
muche
abase
thy selfe
,
kings
are
more
than
goddes
,
for
Iupiter
for
all
his
Deitie
was
glad
to
reigne
a
pettie
king
in
Créete
,
Saturne
sued
for
the
Diademe
of
Italie
,
both
goddes
,
if
Poets
say
true
,
and
yet
both
inferiour
vnto
thée
in
crowne
and
kingdome
.
The
Transalpine
Regions
that
border
vppon
the
Rheine
are
thine
,
th●…u
art
sole
king
in
all
those
dominions
.
The
starres
feares
to
crosse
thée
with
any
contray
aspect
,
the
temple
of
pea●…
opens
hir
gates
at
thy
presence
,
riche
thou
art
,
featured
thou
art
,
feared
thou
art
,
happy
thou
art
,
conclude
all
that
may
bée
sayd
either
of
honour
,
fauour
,
or
fortune
,
a
king
thou
art
Vadistaus
:
yea
,
so
surely
seated
in
thy
Monarchye
,
as
did
the
heauens
oppose
themselues
agaynst
thy
prosperitie
and
happinesse
,
their
spight
were
in
vaine
to
determine
thy
ruine
and
ouerthrow
.
Therefore
Vadislaus
bring
not
contempt
to
such
a
royall
dignitie
by
too
muche
familiaritie
,
disdayne
in
a
king
is
the
figure
of
maiestie
,
t
is
glorious
for
princes
to
let
their
subi●…as
feare
at
the
thought
of
their
Soueraigne
:
so
then
Vadislaus
,
let
this
censure
bée
ratified
,
and
from
hense
foorth
vse
thy
nobilitie
as
necessarie
members
to
perfourme
thy
commande
,
but
for
companions
,
none
Vadislaus
,
but
kinges
.
At
this
he
swelled
and
being
droncke
with
the
dregges
of
his
owne
folly
,
desirous
to
bée
soothed
in
this
imagination
,
be
called
vnto
him
the
Countie
Selydes
,
vnto
whome
hee
vttered
these
wordes
.
Thou
séest
Selydes
I
am
a
king
,
to
be
feared
of
men
,
because
honoured
of
the
goddes
,
tell
me
fréely
without
flatterie
,
what
d●…
thou
thinke
either
of
me
or
my
gouernement
.
The
Countie
w●…o
all
his
life
time
had
bene
a
courtier
,
and
yet
neuer
learned
nor
loued
with
Aristippus
to
be
Dionysius
spaniell
,
craued
pardon
of
the
king
,
which
granted
,
he
framed
his
talke
in
this
manner
.
I
can
not
deny
(
mighty
soueraigne
)
but
kings
are
gods
,
in
that
they
ought
to
resemble
their
Deities
in
gouernement
and
vertue
,
but
yet
as
the
fairest
Cedar
hath
his
water
boughes
,
the
richest
Marguerite
hir
fault
,
and
the
swéetest
rose
his
prickle
:
so
in
a
crowne
is
hidden
farre
more
care
than
content
,
for
one
moment
of
perfect
●…ase
a
whole
moneth
of
disquiet
thoughtes
,
that
were
the
perils
apparant
that
are
hid
in
a
Diademe
,
hardly
would
ambition
boast
in
such
triumphes
,
the
gold
of
Tholosse
glistered
and
yet
it
was
fatall
,
Seianus
horse
was
faire
to
the
eye
yet
vnluckie
,
a
scepter
beset
with
stones
is
beautiful
,
but
dangerous
:
kings
(
my
liege
)
are
men
and
therefore
subiect
to
misse
,
mortall
and
therefore
●…aues
vnto
Fortune
,
and
yet
the
title
of
a
crowne
o●…t
puffeth
vp
their
mindes
so
with
pride
,
as
forgetting
themselues
,
they
suddenly
prooue
infortunate
,
Polycrates
so
swelled
in
the
conceit
of
his
happinesse
,
as
hee
thought
the
heauens
coulde
not
countermand
his
prosperitie
,
yet
experience
taught
him
that
Time
and
Fortune
stoode
on
a
gloabe
and
therefore
mutable
,
that
the
calmest
sea
hath
his
stormes
,
and
the
highest
steps
to
●…itie
,
the
déepest
fall
to
misfortune
:
for
the
beginning
of
his
youth
was
not
so
prosperous
,
as
the
ende
of
his
age
was
tragicall
.
Nero
was
proud
,
and
therfore
tyrannous
,
for
the
one
is
a
consequent
to
the
other
,
and
so
by
pride
lost
both
life
and
Lordship
,
kings
(
my
liege
)
haue
found
this
by
experience
,
&
haue
feared
to
make
proofe
of
it
by
triall
:
so
that
Philip
had
a
boy
to
put
him
in
minde
of
his
mortalitie
.
Alexander
woulde
bee
called
the
sonne
of
Iupiter
,
but
Calistenes
made
him
denie
such
arrogancie
in
Babylon
.
Cresus
was
proude
of
his
pelfe
,
but
Solon
pulde
downe
his
plumes
by
preferring
Byton
before
him
in
happinesse
,
kings
heads
are
not
impalled
with
fame
,
for
that
they
are
kings
,
but
because
they
are
vertuous
.
Augustus
Caesar
was
not
famous
for
his
Empire
but
for
his
clemencie
.
Seuerus
was
not
chronicled
for
his
treasure
but
for
his
iustice
.
Antonius
Pius
had
not
his
picture
plast
in
the
Capitoll
,
because
of
his
scepter
,
but
for
he
was
mercifull
:
So
my
Lorde
to
your
question
,
I
thinke
your
maiestie
a
king
in
déede
with
large
dominions
,
and
honoured
with
royall
titles
of
dignitie
,
and
it
fitteth
not
a
subiect
to
mi●…ike
of
his
princes
gouernement
:
onely
this
I
conclude
,
and
this
hartely
I
wish
,
that
your
highnesse
may
liue
fauoured
of
the
goddes
,
and
loued
and
honoured
of
men
.
He
that
bruseth
the
Oliue
trée
with
hard
iron
,
●…etcheth
out
no
oyle
but
water
,
and
he
that
pricketh
a
proude
heart
with
perswasions
,
draweth
out
onely
hate
and
enuie
.
For
Vadislaus
so
grudged
at
the
friendly
aduertisementes
of
the
Counti●…
Selides
,
that
choaking
his
choler
with
silence
,
he
made
no
replie
,
but
went
home
to
the
palace
:
where
,
for
the
receit
of
a
fishe
,
thinking
to
repay
a
scorpion
,
he
whetted
his
thoughtes
onely
on
reuenge
.
And
Fortune
,
who
still
thought
to
fauour
him
in
his
follies
,
soothed
him
with
successe
in
his
enuie
,
that
raysing
him
to
the
highest
sphere
of
selfe
conceit
,
she
might
throw
him
downe
to
the
lowest
center
of
dispaire
:
for
manie
dayes
had
not
past
before
,
by
some
sinister
meanes
,
he
had
wrought
so
with
the
rest
of
his
nobilitie
,
that
the
Countie
was
founde
faultie
by
false
witnesse
in
a
penall
statute
,
that
his
goodes
were
confiscated
vnto
the
kings
vse
,
his
bodie
exiled
into
Germanie
,
and
his
onelye
daughter
for
one
and
but
one
hee
had
as
a
distressed
virgine
,
was
refte
at
once
both
of
parentes
and
patrimonie
.
The
Countie
arming
his
thoughtes
with
pacience
,
against
the
despight
of
Fortune
,
counting
it
good
counsayle
to
make
〈◊〉
vertue
of
necessitie
,
left
his
daughter
in
〈◊〉
of
a
dowrie
to
inriche
hir
marriage
,
fatherlye
doctrine
to
increase
her
manners
:
for
giuing
hir
coyne
that
enuie
had
reft
,
leauing
hir
aduise
and
counsayle
that
experience
had
taught
,
counting
it
more
happinesse
to
haue
his
daughter
prooue
wise
than
wealthie
,
as
preferring
the
gi●…tes
of
the
mind
farre
before
the
goodes
of
Fortune
,
parting
thus
from
his
onelye
childe
,
from
his
fréendes
and
from
his
Countrye
hee
coulde
not
but
sorrowe
,
and
yet
in
such
measure
,
as
dispaire
coulde
take
no
aduauntage
of
his
passions
.
The
Ladye
,
as
made
of
a
more
tender
complexion
,
let
loose
the
fountaynes
of
hir
teares
,
and
hauing
taken
hir
farewell
of
hir
father
lamented
his
case
,
as
farre
as
the
rech
of
hir
eye
could
kéepe
the
Barke
within
ken
,
after
the
shippe
was
out
of
sight
,
and
shée
left
alone
and
comfortlesse
on
the
shoare
,
shée
beganne
after
this
manner
to
complayne
with
hir selfe
.
Distressed
and
sorrowfull
Maesia
,
for
so
was
hir
name
,
where
shalt
thou
beginne
to
recount
thy
greefes
,
or
make
an
ende
of
thy
dispayring
sorrowes
:
the
prime
of
youth
,
which
to
others
is
a
summer
of
good
happe
,
being
to
thee
a
frostie
winter
of
misfortune
.
Nowe
doeth
experience
teache
thée
for
trueth
,
which
earst
thou
accountedst
for
a
fable
,
that
the
priuiledge
of
honour
is
sealed
with
the
signet
of
time
,
that
the
highest
degrées
haue
not
the
surest
leates
,
that
nobilitie
is
no
warrant
against
mishappe
,
that
the
highest
cedars
are
blasted
with
lightning
,
when
the
lower
shrub
waues
not
with
the
wind
,
small
brookes
bubble
foorth
silent
streames
,
when
greater
seas
are
troubled
with
tempestes
:
enuie
yea
enuie
the
verie
caterpiller
of
content
,
spareth
the
touche
of
a
cottage
,
when
he
indeuours
the
ruine
of
a
pallace
,
he
scorneth
a
begger
when
he
stricketh
a
king
,
and
vouchsafeth
not
to
checke
pouertie
,
when
hee
giueth
honour
the
mate
.
Then
Maesia
,
what
reason
hast
thou
to
be
●…ayle
thy
present
fall
,
and
not
rather
to
ioy
at
thy
future
hay
,
accuse
not
fat●…s
or
Fortune
as
thy
foes
,
when
their
despight
r●…dounded
not
to
thy
losse
,
but
thy
libertie
,
whilome
thou
wert
honourable
,
and
therefore
fearefull
,
nowe
thou
art
poore
,
and
therefore
secure
,
alate
restlesse
,
feare
of
mishappe
disquieted
thy
sléepes
in
a
pallace
,
nowe
a
quiet
content
shall
asoorde
thée
swéete
●…umbers
in
a
cottage
,
there
didst
thou
sigh
in
silkes
,
heere
mayest
thou
sing
in
russ●…t
,
there
nobilitie
was
counter
poysed
with
care
,
here
pouertie
is
inriched
with
quiet
.
Then
M●…sia
,
chaunge
thy
affections
with
thy
fortunes
,
liue
as
though
thou
wert
borne
poore
,
and
hope
as
one
assured
to
dye
riche
:
for
there
is
no
greater
honour
than
quiet
,
nor
no
greater
treasure
than
content
.
But
alas
my
sather
,
mine
aged
father
:
Scarse
had
she●…
vttered
these
wordes
,
b●…t
griefe
presented
suche
a
heape
of
distressed
thoughts
,
that
either
the
h●…art
must
burst
by
smoothering
such
s●…alding
sorrowes
,
or
else
the
tongue
and
eyes
resolue
vnto
playntes
and
teares
.
Ah
despightfull
and
iniurious
Fortune
,
quoth
shée
,
well
did
Zeuxes
paynt
thée
blinde
,
and
yet
without
a
vale
,
as
hauing
thine
eyes
not
couered
with
a
lawne
,
but
darkened
with
despight
,
the
frost
nippeth
the
budde
when
he
spareth
the
root
,
the
goddes
slue
the
brattes
of
Iocasta
but
spared
Oedipus
,
the
wrinckles
of
age
shoulde
be
warrauntes
of
weale
,
the
siluer
hair●…s
shoulde
bee
pledges
of
peace
.
But
●…ynde
or
furie
as
thou
art
,
thou
hast
threatned
my
father
with
a
contrarye
m●…lice
,
in
the
cradle
giuing
him
swéete
syrops
,
at
the
graue
presenting
him
with
bitter
potions
,
in
the
prime
of
his
youth
bring
him
a
sléepe
with
honour
,
in
the
ende
of
his
dayes
disquieting
his
thoughtes
with
pouertie
.
Silence
Maesia
,
least
Fortune
hearing
thy
complaynts
,
ioy
in
hir
owne
spight
,
and
triumphe
in
thy
sorrowes
,
the
swéetest
salue
of
mishappe
is
pacience
,
and
no
greater
reuenge
can
be
offered
Fortune
,
than
to
rest
content
in
miserie
,
teares
are
no
cures
for
distresse
,
neither
can
thy
present
plaintes
pleasure
thy
absent
father
:
then
Maesia
comfort
thy selfe
and
what
time
thou
shouldest
bestowe
on
discoursing
thy
misfortunes
,
spende
in
orisons
to
the
goddes
,
to
redr●…sse
thy
fathers
cares
and
reuenge
his
iniuries
,
and
vppon
this
resolution
she
rested
,
and
for
that
she
would
kéepe
a
decorum
,
as
well
in
hir
attire
as
in
hir
actions
,
she
put
off
hir
riche
roabes
and
put
on
homely
ragge●…
,
transforming
hir
thoughtes
with
hir
apparell
,
trauelled
from
the
court
into
the
countrie
,
where
séeking
for
seruice
,
she
had
not
passed
long
,
before
she
met
with
a
welthy
farmers
sonne
,
who
handsomely
deckt
vp
in
his
holy
day
hose
,
was
going
very
manerly
to
be
foreman
in
a
Morice
dance
,
and
as
néere
as
I
can
gesse
thus
he
was
apparelled
:
he
was
a
tall
slender
youth
cleane
made
with
a
good
indifferent
face
,
hauing
on
his
head
a
strawne
hat
stéeple
wise
,
bounde
about
with
a
band
of
blue
bu●…kram
,
he
had
on
his
fathers
best
tawnye
worsted
iacket
:
for
that
this
daies
exploit
stood
vpon
his
credit
,
he
was
in
a
paire
of
hose
of
red
kersie
,
close
trust
with
a
point
afore
,
his
mother
had
l●…nt
him
a
newe
muffler
for
a
napkin
,
&
that
was
tied
to
his
girdle
for
loosing
,
he
had
a
paire
of
haruest
gloues
on
his
hands
as
she
wing
good
husbandry
,
&
a
pen
&
inckhorn
at
his
backe
:
for
the
young
man
was
a
little
bookish
,
his
pompes
were
a
little
too
heauie
,
being
trimmed
start-vps
made
of
a
paire
of
boote
legges
,
tied
before
with
two
white
leather
thongs
,
thus
handsomely
arrayed
,
for
this
was
his
sonday
sute
,
he
met
the
Ladie
Maesia
,
and
séeing
hir
so
faire
and
well
formed
,
farre
passing
their
countrie
maides
in
proportion
,
and
nothing
differing
in
apparell
,
he
stoode
halfe
amazed
as
a
man
that
had
séene
a
creature
beyond
his
countrie
conceit
,
and
in
déede
she
was
passing
faire
,
for
this
I
remember
was
hir
description
:
Hir
stature
and
hir
shape
was
passing
tall
,
Diana
like
,
when
longst
the
lawnes
she
goes
,
A
stately
pace
like
Iuno
when
she
braued
,
The
queene
of
heauen
fore
Paris
in
the
vale
,
A
front
beset
with
loue
and
maiestie
,
A
face
like
louely
Venus
when
she
blush●…
A
seely
shephe●…d
shoulde
be
beauties
iudge
,
A
lip
sweete
rubie
red
,
gracd
with
delight
,
Hir
eies
two
sparkling
starres
in
winter
night
,
When
chilling
frost
doth
cleere
the
azurd
skie
,
Hir
haires
in
tresses
twind
with
threds
of
silke
,
Hoong
wauing
downe
like
Phoebus
in
his
prime
:
Hir
breasts
as
white
as
those
two
snowie
swannes
That
drawes
to
Paphos
Cupids
smiling
dame
:
A
foote
like
Thetis
when
she
tript
the
sands
,
To
steale
Neptunus
fauour
with
his
steps
:
In
fine
,
a
peece
despight
of
beauty
framd
,
To
see
what
natures
cunning
could
affoord
.
Thus
I
haue
hearde
the
Ladie
described
,
and
this
hir
rare
forme
droue
this
countrie
youth
into
this
maruelous
admiration
,
at
last
Maesia
séeing
the
poore
fellowe
in
a
maze
:
after
salutations
done
as
countrie
like
as
she
could
,
and
yet
too
courtly
for
his
calling
,
the
enquired
of
him
if
hee
knew
anie
good
and
honest
house
,
where
she
might
be
entertained
into
seruice
.
The
young
man
who
all
this
while
had
starde
●…er
in
the
face
,
told
her
that
she
came
in
pudding
time
,
for
his
mother
wanted
a
maide
,
and
if
shee
could
take
anie
paines
,
no
doubt
she
should
find
a
house
fit
for
her
purpose
.
And
(
quoth
hee
)
I
haue
such
good
hope
that
you
will
proue
well
,
that
although
this
daie
I
shoulde
haue
bene
foreman
in
a
may-game
,
yet
I
will
rather
marre
the
plaie
then
your
market
,
and
so
will
tourne
backe
to
leade
you
the
waie
to
our
house
.
Maesia
gaue
him
thankes
,
and
together
they
went
to
his
Fathers
,
whereafter
the
young
springall
had
talked
a
while
with
his
mother
,
for
he
was
his
fathers
eldest
sonne
,
the
good
wife
had
such
liking
of
the
maide
,
that
shee
gaue
her
an
earnest
penny
to
serue
her
for
a
yéere
,
and
so
hired
her
before
the
Constable
.
Maesia
beeing
thus
honestly
plast
,
by
her
good
behauiour
grewe
into
such
fauour
with
all
the
house
,
that
the
olde
fooles
began
to
thinke
her
a
fit
match
for
their
eldest
sonne
,
and
in
this
hope
vsed
her
m●…ruailous
well
.
But
leauing
her
to
h●…r
Countrie
content
,
at
last
to
Vadislaus
,
who
hauing
nowe
glutted
enuie
with
re●…enge
in
bannishing
the
good
Earle
,
pearked
so
highe
with
Danidas
Parrat
,
that
at
the
last
hee
fell
to
the
grounde
:
For
pride
had
taught
him
this
principle
,
that
princes
wils
ware
lawes
,
and
that
the
thoughts
of
kings
could
not
erre
,
disdaine
and
contempt
,
two
monsters
of
nature
,
had
so
sotted
his
mind
with
selfe
lo●…e
,
that
as
his
actions
grew
to
be
insolent
,
so
his
gouernment
began
to
be
tyrannous
,
commanding
as
fancie
wild
him
to
●…fect
,
not
as
iustice
wisht
him
to
affoord
:
he
foug●…t
not
with
Augustus
to
be
called
Clemens
,
but
with
Tarquin
to
glorie
in
the
title
of
Superbus
:
alluding
the
d●…ike
●…ich
Virgil
wrote
in
the
praise
of
Caesar
to
himselfe
,
Diui
sum
imperiumcum
Ioue
Caesar
habet
.
He
would
not
with
Phillip
bee
called
martiall
,
but
with
Alexander
be
honored
as
the
sonne
of
Ammon
:
hee
sought
not
to
sit
in
his
throne
with
a
braunch
of
palme
,
to
gouerne
with
peace
,
but
vsed
a
swoorde
as
a
scepter
to
rule
with
constraint
.
Long
hee
dyd
not
continue
in
this
life
,
but
that
hee
grewe
in
mortall
hate
with
his
subi●…ctes
,
the
poore
commons
grudged
and
groned
vnder
the
burden
of
his
crueltie
,
the
Nobilitis
beganne
to
consider
with
themselues
,
that
more
did
the
state
of
Rome
ruinate
in
one
yeere
vnder
the
gouernment
of
the
Emperour
Calygula
,
then
it
prospered
in
manie
vnder
the
vertuous
regiment
of
●…raian
,
that
more
blossomes
die
the
first
nippe
in
a
morning
,
than
the
heate
of
the
Sunne
can
reuiue
in
a
whole
daie
,
and
more
harme
doeth
the
pride
of
a
king
in
a
moment
,
than
good
pollicie
can
restore
in
a
moneth
:
whereupon
they
determined
to
forewarne
him
of
his
follies
,
and
to
perswade
him
from
that
course
of
life
,
which
woulde
in
time
bring
the
commonwealth
to
mischiefe
,
and
himselfe
to
misfortune
:
finding
fit
time
and
opportunitie
with
a
generall
consent
they
beganne
to
disswade
him
from
his
presumption
,
but
Vadislaus
who
br●…kt
not
to
be
countermanded
by
anie
of
his
nobles
,
returnd●…
them
this
scornfull
answere
.
My
Lordes
,
as
the
Sunne
is
set
in
the
heauens
,
so
kings
are
seated
vppon
earth
:
the
one
too
glorious
an
obiect
for
euerie
ei●…
to
gaze
at
,
the
other
too
full
of
maiestie
for
anie
man
to
controule
.
The
woulse
had
his
skin
pulled
ouer
his
ears
for
prying
into
the
lions
den
:
the
actions
of
Princes
are
like
the
pearles
of
Arabia
,
the
one
too
cestly
for
euerie
marchant
to
prise
,
the
other
too
honourable
for
euerie
base
person
to
censure
of
.
Dare
the
proudest
birde
beare
,
wing
against
the
Eagle●…
Is
not
the
print
of
a
lyons
clawe
a
seale
of
his
safetie
,
and
the
verie
title
,
nay
the
verie
thought
of
a
king
,
a
warrant
of
his
blisse
.
Take
heede
my
Lordes
,
let
the
preiudice
of
others
bee
a
president
for
you
to
beware
:
me
thinke
the
Countie
Selydes
mishap
might
warne
you
from
pressing
too
much
on
my
fauour
.
Seneca
by
grudging
at
Neros
blisse
procured
his
owne
bane
,
Calistenes
checking
the
thoughts
of
Alexander
wrought
his
owne
ouerthrowe
.
Kings
must
not
be
controuled
for
that
they
are
Kings
,
and
therefore
from
henceforth
doome
not
of
my
doinges
least
.
And
with
that
he
flung
from
them
in
a
rage
,
as
one
aiming
at
reuenge
,
if
heereafter
they
mislikt
of
his
gouernment
.
The
nobles
whome
disdaine
had
armed
to
des●…aire
,
beganne
to
murmure
at
the
kings
wicked
resolution
,
and
either
to
free
the
common-wealth
from
miserie
,
or
by
attempting
such
an
enterprise
to
procure
their
owne
mishap
:
amongest
them
all
Rodento
,
a
noble
man
more
bolde
then
the
rest
,
burst
forth
into
these
passions
.
My
Lordes
and
worthie
Peeres
of
Buda
,
feared
for
your
valour
,
and
famous
for
your
victories
,
let
not
the
priuate
will
of
one
man
bee
the
ruine
of
such
a
mightie
kingdome
,
kings
are
Gods
,
then
let
them
gouerne
like
Gods
,
or
giue
vs
leaue
to
account
them
worse
then
men
,
let
the
cramples
of
other
nations
tie
vs
to
the
consideration
of
our
present
estate
.
The
Athenians
preferred
the
weale
of
their
Countrie
before
the
pride
of
Alcibiades
,
Caesar
was
slaine
in
the
Senate
for
his
pride
,
Hannibal
twice
eriled
Carthage
for
his
presumption
,
Dyonisius
banisht
out
of
Scycily
for
his
insolencie
:
Crownes
(
my
Lordes
)
are
n●…
plackardes
of
wickednesse
,
Securitie
waiteth
not
anielonger
vpon
a
Scepter
than
it
is
swayde
with
equitie
,
a
Diademe
is
no
longer
glorious
then
it
is
deck●…
with
vertue
,
so
the
occasion
presents
vs
a
double
proffer
,
either
by
soothing
the
king
in
his
pride
to
suffer
the
common
wealth
to
perish
,
or
by
r●…ting
out
such
a
prince
,
to
saue
both
our selues
and
the
●…ingdome
●…rom
preiudice
:
now
my
Lords
the
ballance
is
poised
,
choose
which
part
you
please
,
Rodento
hauing
set
their
harts
on
fire
with
these
wordes
,
they
all
consented
to
recall
Countie
Selides
from
banishment
,
and
if
at
the
second
perswasion
the
king
woulde
not
take
a
better
course
,
to
make
him
sole
mona●…h
of
Buda
:
they
wer
not
slack
in
their
purposed
intent
,
but
dispatcht
letters
secretlie
by
a
spéedie
Post
into
Germanie
,
which
the
Countie
Selides
receiuing
,
suspected
at
the
first
a
further
mischiefe
,
but
at
last
throughly
satisfied
by
the
messenger
of
their
●…aithful
intent
,
he
cut
ouer
with
as
much
spéed
as
might
be
,
&
secretly
in
the
night
came
to
the
house
of
Rodento
,
where
being
honourablie
intertained
,
the
next
daie
all
the
nobles
assembled
,
and
there
in
counsaile
tolde
the
Countie
Selides
how
in
requitall
of
his
exile
they
meant
either
to
set
him
in
his
former
estate
,
or
else
to
inrich
him
with
the
benefit
of
a
crowne
.
The
County
was
vnwilling
to
grant
to
their
requests
,
yet
at
last
seeing
deniall
could
not
preuaile
,
he
consented
,
and
all
ioyntly
went
together
to
the
Court
:
where
they
●…ounde
the
king
walking
according
to
his
wonted
manner
in
his
accustomed
melancholie
:
who
scarce
saluting
his
Lordes
with
a
good
looke
,
yet
straight
had
espied
the
Countie
Selides
:
at
whose
sight
with
a
●…ace
inflamed
with
cholar
,
and
eies
sparkling
hate
,
hée
demanded
why
the
Countie
Selides
was
reuoked
from
exile
,
how
●…e
durst
presume
so
nigh
to
approch
his
presence
,
or
which
of
his
Lords
was
so
hardie
as
to
admit
him
into
their
company
?
Rodento
speaking
for
the
rest
made
answere
,
that
as
the
Countie
Selides
was
banished
without
cause
,
so
he
might
lawfully
returne
without
pardon
,
that
offences
measured
with
enu●…e
,
were
to
be
salued
without
intreatie
,
&
therfore
did
no
more
then
they
all
present
were
readie
to
iusti●…e
:
and
further
,
whereas
his
maiestie
was
so
s●…tted
in
selfe
conceit
that
he
held
his
will
as
a
lawe
,
and
made
a
metamorphosis
of
a
monarchie
into
a
flat
gouernment
of
tyrannie
:
they
were
come
to
perswads
his
highnesse
from
such
folly
,
wherein
if
he
resolued
to
persiit
,
they
were
determined
not
onely
to
depriue
him
of
his
crown
and
kingdome
,
but
before
his
face
to
celebrate
the
coronation
of
Selides
.
Vadislaus
hearing
this
peremptorie
resolution
of
his
Lordes
,
was
nothing
dismaide
,
but
with
a
countenance
ouershadowed
with
disdaine
,
tolde
them
hee
seared
not
their
braues
:
for
quoth
he
,
the
trecherous
attempt
of
a
subiect
cannot
dismate
the
princely
courage
of
a
king
.
When
the
slaues
of
Scyth●…a
rebelled
against
their
Lordes
,
they
were
not
subdued
with
weapons
,
but
with
whips
.
Cirus
punished
traitors
,
not
with
the
are
to
infer
death
,
but
with
a
fooles
coate
to
procure
perpetuall
shame
:
therfore
my
lords
I
charge
you
vpon
your
allegeance
take
holde
of
that
outlawe
Selides
,
put
him
in
prison
till
he
heare
farther
of
my
pleasure
,
and
for
your
owne
partes
submit
your selues
and
craue
pardon
.
The
noble
men
plaide
like
the
dease
Addar
that
heareth
not
the
sorcerers
charme
,
neither
could
they
bee
disswaded
from
their
intent
by
the
threates
of
a
king
,
but
following
their
purpose
,
presently
deposed
him
of
all
regal
dignitie
and
cclebrated
●…he
coronation
of
Selides
:
who
seated
in
the
regall
throne
,
had
no
sooner
the
scepter
in
his
hand
,
but
enuie
beganne
to
grow
in
his
heart
,
and
reuenge
haled
him
on
to
seale
vp
his
comicall
successe
with
tragicall
sorrow
,
for
he
commanded
Vadislaus
to
be
pulled
out
of
his
roabes
and
put
into
rags
,
in
stead
of
a
crowne
to
giue
him
a
scrip
,
for
a
scepter
a
palmers
staffe
,
making
generall
proclamation
that
none
o●…
what
degrée
so
euer
,
shoulde
allowe
him
anie
maintenance
,
but
that
his
inheritauce
shoulde
be●…
the
wide
fi●…lds
,
and
his
reuenues
nought
else
but
charitie
.
Vadislaus
thus
at
one
time
deposed
and
metamorphosed
from
a
king
to
a
begger
,
was
now
disdayned
of
those
who●…e
before
he
did
〈◊〉
,
and
l●…ught
at
by
such
as
befor●…
hee
did
enuie
,
the
nobilitie
shakt
him
off
as
a
〈◊〉
,
the
commons
vsed
him
as
a
bad
companion
,
〈◊〉
ioyntly
forgat
he
had
ben
their
king
,
and
smoothl●…
smiled
at
his
misfortune
.
Vadislaus
as
a
man
in
a
●…rance
,
being
past
a
little
from
his
pallace
,
séeing
the
place
which
whilome
was
the
subiect
of
pleasure
,
now
〈◊〉
obiect
of
discontent
,
t●…at
wher
he
did
command
as
a
king
,
he
was
centrolled
as
an
abiect
,
he
sel
into
these
di●…ressed
passions
.
Is
youth
the
wealth
of
nature
,
to
be
wracked
with
euerie
flawe
?
Is
honour
the
priuiledge
of
〈◊〉
,
subiect
to
euerie
fall
?
Hath
maiestie
that
makes
vs
fellow
partuers
with
the
Gods
in
dignitie
,
no
warrant
to
graunt
a
sympathy
of
their
deities
,
that
as
we
are
equall
in
highnes
,
so
we
may
be
immortall
in
happines
?
Why
doest
thou
enter
Uadislaus
into
such
fri●…olous
questions
,
when
thy
present
misfortune
●…elles
thée
kings
are
but
men
,
and
therfore
the
verie
subiects
of
Fortune
?
Ah
vnhappie
man
hadst
thou
confessed
as
much
as
proofe
sets
thee
downe
for
a
principle
,
the
ouerflowing
gale
of
selfe
loue
had
neuer
brought
thy
barke
persorce
to
so
bad
an
harbour
.
Hadst
then
gouerned
like
a
God
in
equitie
,
thou
hadst
stil
ruled
like
a
God
in
honour
:
but
pr●…de
perswading
thée
a
crowne
had
made
thee
more
then
a
man
,
hath
nowe
induced
time
to
assure
thee
,
that
thou
art
the
worst
of
all
men
.
〈◊〉
seats
are
like
the
〈◊〉
that
Egistus
made
for
straungers
,
wherein
beeing
placed
,
the
care
was
delighted
with
melodie
,
the
cie
with
sundrie
shewes
of
content
,
the
smelling
with
swéet
fauors
:
but
to
coun●…ruaile
these
pleasures
,
ouer
their
heads
hung
naked
swoordes
in
slender
fillets
of
silke
,
which
procured
more
feare
than
the
rest
did
delight
:
maiestie
is
lyke
the
triple
string
of
a
Lute
,
which
let
too
lowe
maketh
badde
musicke
,
and
stretched
too
high
,
either
craketh
or
setteth
all
out
of
tune
.
Fortunes
fauours
resemble
the
prickes
of
a
Porcupine
,
that
careleslie
gazed
at
,
pleaseth
the
eie
and
the
touch
,
but
narrowly
handled
,
both
hurteth
the
sight
and
the
sense
.
Ah
Uadislaus
,
had
consideration
foretaught
thee
these
vntimelie
principles
,
thou
hadst
neither
found
the
seats
of
●…ings
vnsure
,
maiestie
out
of
time
,
nor
fortune
but
as
shée
is
to
all
men
,
inconstant
.
But
pride
,
what
sayest
thou
of
pride
Vadislaus
?
Was
it
not
lawfull
for
thée
to
be
pro●…der
then
all
men
,
that
wert
higher
in
dignitie
then
all
men
?
Might
not
a
crown
yéeld
thée
a
self●…
conceit
in
thy
actions
?
What
diddest
thou
beeing
king
that
〈◊〉
not
a
king
?
Disdaine
I
tell
thee
is
the
glorie
of
a
Scepter
,
and
in
that
still
bee
resolute
,
beest
thou
neuer
so
poore
in
estate
,
bee
still
a
Prince
in
thought
,
parentage
is
without
the
compasse
of
Fortune
,
the
Gods
may
dispose
of
weith
,
but
not
of
birth
,
imagine
thy
palmers
bonnet
a
p●…inces
diadem
,
thinke
thy
staffe
a
scepter
,
thy
graie
wéeds
costly
attire
,
imaginations
are
as
swéete
as
actions
:
and
séeing
thou
ca●…st
not
bée
a
king
ouer
nobilitie
,
bée
yet
a
king
ouer
beggers
:
holde
pouertie
as
a
slaue
,
by
thinking
thy
want
store
,
and
still
disdayne
all
that
art
despi●…ed
of
all
:
Dionisius
was
for
the
same
braue
minde
exiled
out
of
his
kingdome
,
but
hee
kept
a
〈◊〉
in
〈◊〉
,
and
there
although
hee
were
not
a
prince
ouer
men
,
yet
●…ee
was
a
king
ouer
boies
,
and
the
force
of
his
imagination
soothed
him
in
a
princely
content
.
Tush
Vadislaus
,
neuer
shrinke
at
this
shot
,
now
thou
art
more
than
a
king
,
for
thou
art
a
monarch
both
ouer
fates
and
fortune
,
and
yet
this
priuiledge
is
left
thée
that
none
in
Buda
can
challenge
,
thou
maiest
boaste
thou
hast
bene
a
king
,
and
whosoeuer
giues
thée
for
almes
,
neuer
yéeld
him
thankes
,
for
hee
bestowes
but
what
once
was
thine
:
Vadislaus
arming
himselfe
thus
with
a
desperate
kinde
of
patience
passed
poorely
disguised
and
despised
through
his
owne
Countrie
.
And
Selides
safely
seat●…d
in
the
kingdome
,
after
hee
had
set
the
affaires
of
the
weale
publike
in
good
order
,
tooke
all
his
care
to
know
where
his
daughter
was
bestowed
,
but
hearing
no
newes
where
shee
was
harboured
,
made
generall
proclamation
through
all
his
dominions
,
that
who
so
could
tell
newes
what
was
become
of
the
ladie
Maesia
the
kings
daughter
,
should
be
greatly
aduanced
in
calling
,
and
haue
a
thousand
crownes
for
his
paines
.
The
Farmers
sonne
happened
to
〈◊〉
with
his
mothers
butter
at
the
market
when
this
proclamation
was
made
,
and
comming
home
,
tolde
it
in
secret
for
great
newes
,
how
that
the
king
was
deposed
from
his
crowne
,
&
Selides
created
in
his
place
,
and
that
whosoeuer
could
tel
where
Maesia
was
should
be
well
rewarded
for
his
labour
.
The
olde
Farmer
nodding
his
head
at
these
newes
,
made
answere
:
you
may
see
sonne
,
quoth
he
,
what
it
is
to
bee
a
great
man
,
I
tell
you
the
gaie
coates
of
kings
couers
much
care
,
as
they
haue
many
pleasures
,
so
they
haue
mickle
perils
,
the
plowman
hath
more
ease
then
a
King
:
for
the
one
troubles
but
his
bodie
with
exercise
,
the
other
disquiets
his
minde
with
waightie
affaires
,
I
warrant
thee
wi●…e
we
haue
as
much
health
with
f●…ding
on
the
browne
loafe
,
as
a
Prince
hath
with
all
his
delicates
,
and
I
steale
more
swéete
naps
in
the
chimney
corner
in
a
weeke
,
then
(
God
saue
his
maiestie
)
the
King
doth
quiet
sléepes
in
bi●…
beds
of
doune
in
a
whole
moneth
.
Oft
haue
I
beard
my
Father
saie
(
and
I
tell
thée
our
predecessours
were
no
fooles
)
that
a
husbandman
plowed
out
of
the
ground
thrée
things
,
wealth
,
health
and
quiet
,
which
(
quoth
hee
)
is
more
worth
then
a
kinges
ransome
:
but
t
is
no
matter
,
let
not
vs
meddle
with
kings
affaires
,
but
if
the
councell
haue
thought
it
good
to
put
downe
Vadislaus
,
he
may
thank
his
own
pride
,
which
sonne
learne
of
me
,
is
the
root
of
all
mischiefes
,
and
if
they
haue
crowned
Selides
,
wee
sée
a
goodly
example
,
he
that
humbleth
himselfe
shall
be
exalted
,
but
I
would
I
could
tel
where
the
kings
daughter
were
,
for
he
that
reaps
fauour
and
wealth
gets
a
double
benefite
.
Maesia
who
heard
these
newes
of
her
Fathers
preferment
,
smiled
in
her
owne
conceit
,
that
fortune
had
made
〈◊〉
sharpe
and
short
a
reuenge
,
and
that
now
after
many
miseries
past
ouer
with
patience
,
shee
might
not
onely
saie
Dabit
Deus
his
quoque
finem
,
but
Hec
olim
maminisse
iuuabit
.
The
remembrance
of
honor
tainted
her
chéekes
wich
a
purple
die
at
the
sight
of
hir
present
drudgerie
,
the
hope
of
dignity
tickled
hir
mind
with
a
sodaine
ioy
,
to
thinke
what
a
metamorphosts
should
happen
at
her
pleasure
,
but
when
she
called
to
mind●…
the
Countrie
sayings
of
her
olde
maister
,
and
sawe
by
proofe
●…ow
●…ckle
fortune
was
in
her
fauors
,
and
had
considered
what
mishap
laie
in
maiestie
,
and
what
a
secure
life
it
was
to
liue
poore
,
she
found
dignitie
ouer
s●…owed
with
danger
,
wheras
pouertie
●…ept
quietly
at
his
plough
beame
.
Honour
wilde
her
to
bewraie
what
she
was
,
quiet
persuaded
her
that
content
was
a
kingdome
.
Perplered
thus
with
sundrie
thoughts
after
her
house
was
handsomely
and
huswifely
dreast
vp
,
she
toke
her
spinning
whéele
to
the
doore
,
and
there
setting
her selfe
solitarily
in
the
shade
,
she
had
not
drawen
forth
thrée
or
foure
threddes
,
but
Vadislaus
in
●…is
beggers
roabes
came
to
the
doore
,
and
seeing
so
neate
a
Countrie
wench
at
her
whéele
,
without
anie
salutations
,
after
his
cynicall
manner
began
to
gaze
on
her
beautie
.
The
maide
taking
him
sor
no
other
but
some
stout
begger
,
as
Countrie
maides
vse
to
solace
themselues
,
began
to
carroll
out
a
song
to
this
effect
.
Sweet
are
the
thoughts
that
sauour
of
conrent
,
the
quiet
mind
is
richer
then
a
crowne
,
Sweet
a●…e
the
nights
in
carelesse
slumber
spent
,
the
poore
estate
scornes
fortunes
angrie
frowne
Such
●…weet
content
,
such
mindes
,
such
sleep
,
such
blis
Beggers
inioy
,
when
Princes
oft
do
mis.
The
homely
house
that
harbors
quiet
reft
,
the
cottage
that
affoords
no
pride
nor
care
,
The
meane
that
grees
with
Countrie
musick
best
,
the
sweet
consort
of
mirth
and
musicks
fare
,
Obscured
life
sets
downe
a
type
of
blis
,
a
minde
content
both
crowne
and
kingdome
is
.
The
song
of
Maesia
somewhat
touched
the
minde
of
Vadislaus
,
that
meruailing
what
pretie
musition
this
should
be
that
had
so
swéete
a
voice
and
so
pithie
a
dittie
,
he
began
to
interrupt
●…er
melodie
in
this
sorte
.
Faire
maide
,
for
so
I
may
tearme
you
best
,
in
that
I
giue
thée
but
thy
due
to
saie
thou
art
beautifull
,
and
allow
thée
a
fauour
in
thinking
thou
art
honest
,
tel
me
,
is
this
Country
cottage
thy
fathers
house
?
and
if
it
be
,
thy
birth
is
so
base
&
thy
bringing
vp
so
bad
,
how
hap
thou
hast
sound
disquiet
in
dignity
,
and
care
containd
in
a
crowne
?
Hast
thou
séene
the
court
,
and
so
speakest
by
experience
,
or
learnd
this
dittie
as
a
song
of
course
,
and
so
hittest
the
crow
by
hap
.
Maesia
hearing
the
begger
so
inquisitiue
,
especially
placing
his
wordes
in
such
a
commanding
phrase
,
thinking
him
to
bee
no
other
then
his
ragges
did
reporte
,
shooke
him
vp
thus
sharply
.
T
is
for
beggers
(
quoth
shee
)
whome
fortune
hath
tied
to
the
curtesie
of
others
,
to
craue
almes
with
treaties
,
not
to
demand
questions
with
inquisition
,
for
as
they
haue
no
other
plackard
than
pouertie
,
so
their
charter
is
submission
and
lowlines
,
what
so
euer
my
tongue
contained
,
step
not
thou
farther
than
thy
scrip
,
thou
art
meane
inough
,
therefore
quiet
inough
,
no
almes
would
do
thee
more
good
than
a
question
,
and
therefore
staie
while
my
thredde
is
drawen
,
and
thou
shalt
haue
my
deuotion
.
Vadislaus
whose
pride
was
not
changed
with
his
apparell
,
told
her
that
the
vertue
of
the
trée
was
not
discerned
by
the
outward
barke
,
but
by
the
inward
s●…p
,
that
the
Lapidarie
might
be
deceiued
in
colours
,
that
ro●…bes
made
not
kings
,
nor
rags
beggers
,
that
Appollo
beeing
a
God
,
metamorphosed
himselfe
,
not
into
a
prince
,
but
to
a
shepheard
,
that
Mercurie
for
his
pleasure
tooke
the
forme
of
a
cowe
hearde
,
to
try
the
tabling
of
Bacchus
,
outward
shewes
are
not
inward
effects
,
and
therfore
she
might
mistake
him
,
and
though
his
cloathng
discouered
pouertie
,
his
calling
might
be
honourable
.
Maesia
hearing
so
well
ordered
an
answer
to
come
from
such
a
disordered
person
,
began
to
note
more
narrowly
the
linea●…ents
of
his
face
,
&
at
last
perceiued
it
was
the
quondam
king
Vadislaus
,
but
still
dissembling
what
both
she
thought
and
knew
,
made
him
this
answere
:
Friend
,
if
I
haue
shot
awrie
blame
the
marke
that
I
aimed
at
,
and
not
my
censure
by
outward
show
,
for
we
Countrie
maids
are
so
homely
brought
vp
,
that
wée
count
none
kings
but
what
weare
crownes
,
and
all
beggers
that
carrie
scrippes
and
craue
almes
,
if
your
degree
be
aboue
your
shewe
,
it
was
your
owne
faulte
,
and
not
my
folly
that
made
mée
so
foolishe
,
my
song
I
hope
what
so
ere
ye
be
,
hath
giuen
none
offence
:
if
thou
hast
bene
rich
,
it
tells
thée
what
disquiet
is
in
dignitie
,
and
that
the
cottage
affoords
more
quiet
then
a
kingdome
:
if
thou
wert
neuer
but
as
thou
art
,
then
maist
thou
see
what
content
is
in
pouertie
,
and
lear●…
that
the
obscure
life
conteineth
the
greatest
blisse
:
kings
are
men
,
and
therefore
subiect
to
mishap
,
Fortune
is
blinde
,
and
must
either
misse
of
her
aime
,
or
shoote
at
a
great
marke
,
her
boltes
〈◊〉
not
so
lowe
as
beggerie
,
when
honour
is
pearced
with
euerie
blow
,
and
therefore
Marcus
Curcius
that
had
thrice
bene
dictator
,
and
as
many
times
triumphed
hidde
himselfe
in
a
poore
farme
to
be
frée
from
the
iniurie
of
fortune
.
Vadislaus
driuen
into
a
passion
with
this
parle
,
asked
her
why
she
told
him
of
the
stratagems
of
kings
,
séeing
her self●…
was
a
begger
:
for
that
,
quoth
Maesia
,
thou
didst
scorne
euen
now
to
be
counted
a
begger
:
nay
quoth
Vadislaus
●…or
that
thou
knowest
,
or
at
the
least
doest
suspect
I
am
a
king
:
Maesia
tolde
him
she
had
small
reason
to
make
●…uch
a
surmise
,
but
desired
that
she
might
know
if
hée
were
Vadislaus
,
that
of
late
was
deposed
:
I
am
quoth
he
,
the
same
,
I
tel
thée
maide
,
euerie
waie
the
same
,
for
mishap
hath
no
whit
altered
my
minde
.
Then
(
quoth
Maesia
)
hath
fortune
done
ill
,
to
ioyne
in
thee
both
pouertie
and
pride
,
for
either
hath
Report
a
blister
on
her
tongue
,
or
thy
fall
did
insue
of
disdainfull
insolencie
:
thy
fault
hath
bene
alwaies
the
fall
of
princes
,
the
ruine
of
states
,
and
the
vtter
subuersion
of
kingdomes
,
Dyoclesian
the
Romane
was
so
proude
,
that
he
called
himselfe
brother
to
the
Sunne
,
and
was
the
first
that
euer
made
edict
to
haue
the
feete
of
Emperours
kist
,
in
signe
of
seruill
submission
,
his
end
was
madnesse
:
the
pride
of
Pompey
was
his
ouerthrow
:
the
desire
of
ki●…gly
title
caused
Caesar
to
die
in
the
senate
house
:
but
thy
haruest
is
out
of
the
grasse
,
and
my
councell
commeth
now
,
as
a
shower
of
raine
doeth
when
the
corne
is
ripe
:
yet
séeing
you
ar●…
fallen
into
pouertie
,
let
mee
a●…ise
thée
howe
to
beare
it
with
patience
.
Want
is
not
a
depriuation
of
vertue
,
but
a
release
of
care
and
trouble
.
Epamynondas
was
not
called
halfe
a
God
,
nor
Lycu●…gus
a
sauiour
,
because
they
abounded
in
wealth
and
were
slaues
to
their
passions
,
but
because
they
were
Princes
,
and
yet
content
with
pouertie
:
then
let
their
liues
be
a
marke
whereby
to
direct
your
actions
,
that
as
you
are
fallen
from
dignitie
by
default
,
so
you
may
liue
in
pouertie
with
patience
,
&
so
die
a
more
honorable
begger
then
thou
diddest
li●…
a
king
,
and
if
thou
meruaile
who
it
is
that
giues
th●…
such
friendly
councell
,
know
I
am
daughter
to
Selydes
,
who
driuen
by
thy
iniustice
to
this
distresse
,
although
my
father
now
a
king
,
yet
I
find
such
content
in
pouertie
,
as
I
little
hast
to
exchange
this
life
with
dignitie
.
Vadislaus
carefully
marking
the
weight
of
euery
word
,
especially
proceeding
from
her
whom
he
had
iniured
,
blushed
at
the
sight
of
her
patience
,
and
yet
as
a
man
whom
despaire
had
hardn●…d
on
to
mishappe
,
nothing
relented
at
her
perswasions
,
but
in
a
melancholy
furie
●…ong
from
the
doore
without
saying
one
worde
,
or
bidding
her
farewell
.
Maesia
noting
still
the
peruerse
stomacke
in
the
man
,
sayde
to
her selfe
,
What
folly
is
there
greater
than
Pride
,
which
neyther
ag●…
nor
pouertie
can
extinguish
?
What
afterwarde
became
of
Vadislaus
,
the
Annales
of
Buda
makes
not
mention
,
but
onely
of
this
,
that
he
died
poore
and
yet
proude
.
For
Maesia
pittying
her
fathers
sorrowes
tha●…
he
made
for
her
absence
,
more
for
his
content
than
for
anie
delight
in
dignitie
,
shortly
after
shee
forsooke
the
Countrie
and
went
to
the
court
.
Peratio
hauing
ended
his
tale
,
the
whole
companie
commended
his
discourse
,
and
especially
the
old
countesse
,
who
not
onely
gaue
him
praise
as
a
laurell
for
his
labours
,
but
thanks
,
as
due
to
him
by
deserts
,
saying
,
that
in
déede
pride
was
one
of
those
sinnes
which
nature
had
framd
without
change
,
that
Fortune
was
a
mistresse
ouer
other
passions
,
and
Time
had
a
medicine
for
other
maladies
,
onely
pride
and
the
gout
hath
his
similitude
in
effects
,
that
they
were
incurable
.
Wel
madam
,
quoth
Bernardino
,
Peratio
hath
done
well
,
but
praie
God
he
resemble
not
the
rich
Bishop
of
Cullen
,
that
preaching
against
couetousnes
,
had
a
poore
mans
lease
to
pawne
in
his
handes
,
which
hee
vsed
as
an
instrument
to
act
against
vsurie
:
he
is
a
scoller
madam
,
and
therefore
within
the
compasse
of
his
owne
conclusions
,
for
we
see
th●…se
Uniuersitie
men
ouercome
them selues
deeply
in
this
folly
,
insomuch
that
not
content
to
be
proude
at
home
,
they
séeke
by
trauell
to
hunt
after
vanity
.
As
I
cannot
,
quot●…
Peratio
,
excuse
my self
,
so
I
will
not
accuse
all
generally
,
because
the
premises
are
to●…
peremptorie
that
inferre
such
censurers
,
but
no
doubt
,
schollers
are
men
,
and
therefore
subiect
to
this
fault
.
And
so
be
courtiers
,
quoth
Ladie
Katherine
,
for
you
may
smell
their
pride
by
their
perfumes
.
●…is
well
,
qd
Benedetto
,
that
seignior
Farneze
hath
made
an
exception
of
women
,
otherwise
Peratio
had
neuer
made
an
e●…de
of
his
discourse
.
Peratio
taking
hold
of
Lady
Katherines
talke
,
thought
to
crosse
Benedetto
ouer
the
thumbs
,
and
therefore
made
this
reply
.
Truth
it
is
,
that
●…ully
writ
to
Atticus
,
that
the
conquest
of
Asia
had
brought
siue
notable
follics
into
the
Citi●…
of
Rome
,
to
make
glorious
sepulchres
,
to
weare
rings
of
gold
,
to
vse
spice
in
meats
,
to
alay
wine
with
sugar
,
and
to
carrie
about
swéet
perfumes
and
smels
.
These
m●…ssieur
Bdnedetto
,
Tully
countes
follies
,
and
ye
vse
as
●…auours
:
he
thought
them
preiudiciall
,
and
ye
courtiers
count
them
as
necessary
,
and
therfore
argue
how
you
list
,
I
will
haue
you
within
the
compasse
of
my
discourse
.
I
can
smile
,
quoth
the
Ladie
Katherine
,
to
see
how
messieur
Benedetto
thinking
to
wring
water
on
t
of
a
stone
,
hath
stumbled
on
a
●…int
,
which
striking
too
hard
hath
brought
fire
.
Yet
(
quoth
Cosimo
)
his
lucke
was
good
,
for
hee
burnt
but
his
owne
clothes
.
Seignior
Farneze
hearing
these
drie
blowes
,
broke
off
their
talke
at
this
time
by
commanding
one
of
his
men
to
couer
for
supper
,
which
done
,
sitting
down
with
his
guests
about
him
,
euerie
one
plied
his
téeth
more
than
his
tongue
,
Benedetto
excepted
,
who
was
so
chafed
in
conceit
at
the
Lady
Katherine
,
that
his
thoughts
onely
were
imploied
after
dinner
how
to
be
reuenged
,
which
indéed
●…e
performed
in
this
sorte
.
The
second
discourse
of
Folly
.
AFter
Farneze
&
the
rest
had
satis●…d
their
●…marks
with
meat
&
their
minds
with
mirth
,
Cosimo
séeing
Benedetto
so
passionate
,
began
to
whet
him
on
to
prattle
in
this
maner
.
Masse
courtier
,
qd
he
,
to
drawe
you
out
of
your
dumps
with
a
demand
,
I
pray
you
answer
me
to
this
question
:
why
do
the
painters
in
figuring
forth
the
counterfet
of
loue
,
draw
her
blind
&
couered
with
a
vale
,
when
as
we
see
that
in
nothing
there
is
a
déeper
insight
than
in
loue
:
Benedetto
séeing
Cosimo
put
forth
this
question
only
to
moue
talke
,
told
him
,
that
if
he
had
spent
but
as
many
idle
hours
about
the
substance
of
affection
,
as
he
had
done
daies
about
the
quiddities
of
fancy
,
he
would
willingly
haue
answered
his
demand
:
but
séeing
t
were
folly
for
a
souldier
to
teach
Orpheus
how
to
handle
his
har●…e
,
hee
woulde
aunswere
him
as
Zeuxes
did
king
Persius
,
who
desiring
him
to
shew●…
how
he
coulde
drawe
the
picture
of
enuie
,
presently
brought
him
a
looking
Glasse
,
wherein
Persius
perceiuing
his
owne
phisnomie
blusht
:
And
yet
for
al
this
,
qd
Bernardino
,
seignior
Cosimo
doth
not
change
countenance
,
and
yet
we
all
know
him
to
be
a
louer
:
and
therfore
,
quoth
the
Ladie
Frances
,
within
the
compasse
of
folly
,
for
this
I
remember
that
an
Acrion
saieth
,
Cupid
was
depriued
of
his
sight
,
not
by
nature
but
by
iniurie
,
for
the
Gods
summoning
a
parliament
,
whereat
appeared
all
the
heauenly
deities
,
Cupid
by
hap
,
or
rather
by
fatall
presence
of
the
destinies
,
met
with
Folly
,
who
surcharged
with
ouerwéening
passions
,
began
to
dispute
of
their
seuerall
powers
,
the
b●…y
not
able
to
brooke
comparisons
,
bent
his
bow
,
and
was
readie
to
discharge
an
arrowe
against
Folly
,
but
●…hee
being
readier
furnished
with
wepons
,
neither
regarding
his
youth
,
beautie
,
nor
deitie
,
scratched
out
his
eies
,
in
requital
whereof
she
was
by
the
Gods
appointed
his
guide
.
Then
by
this
quoth
Peratio
,
there
is
no
loue
without
folly
.
That
I
denie
,
answered
the
Ladie
Frances
,
for
true
and
perfect
loue
is
beyond●…
the
deitie
of
Cupid
,
and
therefore
without
the
compasse
of
follie
.
But
such
loue
as
you
yong
Gentlemen
vse
,
that
hath
as
great
a
confusion
of
passions
,
as
Ouids
chaos
had
of
simples
,
is
that
which
I
meane
,
in
truth
it
is
lust
,
but
shadowed
with
the
name
of
loue
,
which
rightly
Euripides
calleth
a
furie
.
I
am
gladde
,
quoth
Farneze
,
that
we
are
entered
into
the
discourse
of
loue
,
for
I
will
inioyne
this
nights
worke
to
bee
about
the
discouerie
of
the
verie
substance
of
lust
,
which
drowned
in
voluptuous
pleasures
,
haleth
on
the
mind
to
the
soul●…
deformed
sinne
of
lecherie
,
a
faulte
that
we
Italians
greatly
offend
in
,
and
yet
the
custome
of
sinne
hath
so
taken
a
waie
the
feeling
of
the
offence
,
as
wee
shame
not
oft
times
to
glorie
in
the
fault
.
And
for
that
seignior
Cosimo
I
haue
knowen
you
amongest
all
the
rest
to
bee
most
amorous
,
though
I
mnst
needes
confesse
alwaies
honestly
,
yet
for
that
you
haue
béene
acquainted
with
such
passions
,
I
commit
the
charge
vnto
your
hands
.
Cosimo
séeing
the
company
smile
,
in
that
the
Countie
had
tied
him
to
such
a
taske
,
willingly
would
haue
surrendered
vp
his
right
into
an
other
mans
handes
,
but
fearing
to
displease
Farneze
,
and
by
shrincking
,
to
discouer
where
his
shoe
wroong
him
,
arming
him selfe
with
patience
séemed
very
content
:
and
therefore
began
to
frame
his
spéech
in
this
manner
.
Although
(
Gentlemen
)
Hipa●…chon
coulde
play
on
his
flute
,
yet
he
was
not
to
dispute
of
Musicke
,
in
that
Bee
knewe
more
by
the
practise
of
his
finger
,
than
by
skill
of
the
concordes
.
Ephestion
coulde
handle
Bucephalus
,
but
not
ride
Bucephalus
.
Menecas
the
Macedonian
was
a
very
good
simpler
,
but
knewe
not
how
to
con●…est
a
potion
,
as
one
aiming
at
the
vertue
of
the
hearbe
,
not
at
the
qualitie
of
the
disease
:
so
although
I
haue
,
as
a
nouice
,
gazed
at
the
temple
of
Venus
,
yet
I
am
not
able
to
discourse
of
the
Deitie
of
Cupid
:
t
is
no
consequent
,
that
by
féeling
a
fewe
passions
,
I
should
be
able
to
set
downe
principles
,
or
that
a
sparke
of
fancy
should
kindle
a
whole
flame
of
wanton
affections
,
yet
that
I
be
not
accused
to
be
more
scrupulous
than
courteous
,
I
will
say
what
I
haue
heard
and
read
of
this
follie
.
The
Cyriniake
Philosophers
,
as
Aristippus
,
Metrodorus
and
Epicurus
,
who
founded
their
summum
bonum
in
pleasure
,
to
shadow
their
brutishe
principles
with
some
shewe
of
reason
,
drew
,
as
Phidias
did
ouer
his
deformed
pictures
,
courteines
of
silke
,
that
the
outwarde
vale
might
countenance
the
imperfection
of
his
art
,
placing
the
substance
of
pleasure
vnder
the
simple
superfici●…s
of
vertue
,
couering
an
inuenomed
hooke
with
a
faire
baite
,
and
like
Ianus
presenting
a
double
face
,
the
foremost
of
flatterie
,
the
hindmost
of
sorrow
.
Hercules
méeting
vice
and
vertue
,
found
the
one
gorgeously
tricked
vp
in
ornamentes
of
golde
,
the
other
coursely
attired
in
simple
clothing
,
vertue
bare
faced
wering
in
forehead
the
counterfait
of
trueth
,
vice
valed
with
a
maske
to
couer
the
deformitie
of
hir
visage
,
wherein
appeared
the
sta●…nes
of
pleasure
,
as
the
infection
of
leprosi●…
,
which
Plutarke
noting
,
being
demanded
what
〈◊〉
was
:
aunswered
,
a
sweete
steppe
to
repentaunce
,
alludinge
vnto
the
censure
of
Phocion
,
who
wrote
of
the
pictur●…
of
Venus
this
sentence
:
Ex
vino
Venus
ex
venere
ruina
&
mors
.
But
séeing
my
charge
is
not
to
speake
generally
of
pleasure
,
but
of
that
follie
which
claiming
the
name
of
pleasure
,
most
besotteth
the
sences
of
all
other
obiectes
with
deceit
,
I
meane
lust
,
which
the
better
to
bring
in
credit
,
is
honoured
with
the
title
of
loue
,
I
must
confesse
my selfe
herein
to
be
of
Aristotles
opinion
,
who
being
demanded
by
Alexander
the
great
,
what
loue
was
,
answered
,
a
met
amorphosis
of
mens
bodies
and
soules
into
contrarie
shapes
:
for
after
that
the
impression
of
lust
,
inueigled
by
the
fading
obi●…ct
of
beautie
,
hath
crept
in
at
the
eye
and
possessed
the
heart
,
we
wholy
deliuer
our selues
,
as
slaues
to
sensualitie
,
forgetting
our
God
for
the
gaine
of
a
goddesse
,
whose
altars
sauours
of
stincking
perfumes
,
and
whose
temple
is
not
perfumed
with
roses
,
but
infected
with
hembloeke
:
they
which
sacrifice
vnto
Vesta
offer
vp
incense
with
fire
,
they
which
stande
at
the
shrine
of
Venus
offer
vp
bladders
onely
filled
with
winde
,
the
one
representing
the
purenesse
of
chastiti●…
,
the
other
the
lightnesse
of
affection
:
you
say
true
,
quoth
the
Ladie
Frances
,
Venus
coffers
are
alwaies
emptie
,
and
therefore
giuing
great
sounde
,
hir
garments
imbroidered
with
feathers
,
as
noting
inconstancie
,
for
be
that
marketh
the
confused
estate
of
you
Florentines
,
who
couet
to
be
counted
louers
,
shall
finde
howe
vnder
that
one
folly
you
heape
together
a
masse
of
mischieuous
enormities
,
for
the
Gentleman
,
that
drawne
by
a
voluptuous
desire
of
immoderate
affections
,
séeks
to
glut
his
outward
sences
with
delight
,
first
layeth
his
platforme
by
pride
,
séeking
to
allure
a
chast
eye
with
the
sumptuous
shewe
of
apparell
,
vnder
that
maske
to
entise
the
minde
vnto
vanitie
,
others
by
an
eloquent
phrase
of
spéeche
to
tickle
the
eare
with
a
pleasing
harmonie
of
well
placed
words
:
well
placed
in
congruitie
,
though
ill
construed
in
sence
,
some
by
Musicke
to
inueigle
the
minde
with
melodie
,
not
sparing
to
spende
parte
of
the
night
vnder
his
mistresses
window
,
by
such
paines
to
pro●…ure
hir
dishonour
and
his
owne
misfortune
.
These
(
Gentlemen
)
be
fruites
of
your
loues
,
if
I
tearme
it
the
best
way
,
and
yet
follies
in
that
they
preiudice
both
purse
and
person
:
the
same
batte
is
flatterie
,
which
giueth
the
sorest
batterie
to
the
bulworke
of
their
chastitie
,
for
when
they
sée
the
minde
armed
with
vertue
,
hard
to
be
wonne
,
and
like
the
Diamonde
to
r●…suse
the
force
of
the
file
,
then
they
apply
their
wittes
and
wils
to
worke
their
owne
woe
,
penning
downe
●…itties
,
songs
,
sonnets
,
madrigals
,
and
suche
like
shadowed
ouer
with
the
pensell
of
●…atterie
,
where
from
t●…e
fictions
of
poets
they
fetche
the
type
and
figure
of
their
fayned
affection
:
first
,
decyphering
hir
beautie
to
bee
more
than
superlatiue
,
comparing
hir
face
vnto
Venus
,
hir
haire
vnto
golde
,
hir
eyes
vnto
starres
:
naye
more
,
resembling
hir
chastitie
vnto
Diana
,
when
they
séeke
onely
to
make
hir
as
common
as
Lais
,
then
howe
hir
fe●…ture
hath
fired
their
fancie
,
howe
hir
sight
hath
besotted
their
sences
,
howe
beautie
hath
bewitched
them
,
paynting
out
their
passio●…s
as
Appelles
did
puppettes
for
children
,
which
inwardly
framed
of
claye
,
were
outwaredlye
trickt
vppe
with
freshe
colours
,
they
plunge
in
paine
,
they
waile
in
woe
,
they
turne
the
restlesse
stone
with
Sysyphus
,
and
alleage
the
tormentes
of
Tantalus
,
what
griefe
,
what
payne
,
what
sorrow
,
what
sighs
,
what
teares
,
what
plaintes
,
what
passions
,
what
tortures
,
what
death
is
it
not
they
indure
till
they
optaine
their
mistresse
fauour
,
which
got
,
infamie
concludeth
the
tragedie
with
repentance
:
so
that
I
allow
those
pleasing
poems
of
Guazzo
,
which
begin
:
Chi
spinto
d
amore
,
thus
englished
.
He
that
appaled
with
lust
would
saile
in
hast
to
Corinthum
,
There
to
be
taught
in
Layis
schoole
to
seeke
for
a
mistresse
,
Is
to
be
traind
in
Venus
troupe
and
changd
to
the
purpose
,
Rage
imbraced
but
reason
q●…ite
thrust
out
as
on
exile
,
Pleasure
a
paine
rest
tournd
to
be
care
and
mirth
as
a
madnesse
Fi●…ie
mindes
inflamd
with
a
looke
inraged
as
Alecto
,
Quaint
in
aray
,
sighs
fetcht
from
farre
,
and
teares
marie
fained
,
Pen
sicke
sore
depe
plungd
in
paine
,
not
a
place
but
his
hart
whole
,
Daies
in
griefe
and
nights
consumed
to
thinke
on
a
goddesse
,
Broken
sleeps
,
swete
dreams
,
but
s●…ort
fro
the
night
to
the
morning
Venus
dasht
his
mistresse
face
as
bright
as
Apollo
,
Helena
staind
the
golden
ball
wrong
giuen
by
the
shee
heard
,
Haires
of
gold
eyes
twinckling
starres
hir
lips
to
be
rubies
,
Teeth
of
pearle
hir
brests
like
snow
hir
cheekes
to
be
roses
.
Sugar
candie
she
is
as
I
gesse
fro
the
wast
to
the
kneestead
.
Nought
is
amisse
no
fault
were
found
if
soule
were
amended
.
All
were
blisse
if
such
fond
lust
led
not
to
repentance
.
So
that
of
these
verses
I
conclude
,
that
such
young
Gentlemen
as
tickled
with
lust
,
seeke
to
please
their
senses
with
such
pernicious
delights
,
may
ius●…ly
come
within
the
compasse
of
this
folly
:
may
(
quoth
the
Ladie
Margarite
)
let
the
selfe
same
predicament
comprehende
such
fantastike
poets
,
as
spende
their
times
in
penning
downe
pamphelts
of
loue
,
who
with
Ouid
seke
to
nourish
vice
in
Rome
by
setting
downe
Artem
amandi
,
and
giuing
dishonest
precepts
of
lust
and
leacherie
,
corrupting
youth
with
the
expence
of
time
vppon
such
〈◊〉
fables
:
and
therefore
deserue
by
Augustus
to
be
banished
from
so
ciuill
a
countrie
as
Italie
,
amongest
the
barbarous
Getes
to
liue
in
exile
.
Stay
there
,
qu●…th
messieur
Benedetto
,
your
commission
is
too
large
,
and
your
censures
too
Satyricall
,
we
read
not
that
any
woman
was
euer
Stoicke
or
Cynicke
,
either
to
be
so
strict
in
passions
,
or
bitter
in
inuectiues
,
and
to
write
of
loue
not
to
fauour
the
follie
,
but
to
condemne
the
fault
;
and
therefore
Madam
either
be
more
partiall
or
more
particular
.
These
,
glances
(
quoth
Farneze
)
are
nothing
to
the
purpose
,
and
therefore
seignior
Cosimo
to
your
charge
:
I
knowe
sir
,
answered
Cosimo
,
that
Madam
Frances
hath
said
well
,
in
painting
out
the
phantasticke
description
of
a
louer
,
yet
hath
she
béene
fauourable
in
figuring
out
their
follies
:
for
this
loue
or
rather
lust
endeth
not
,
till
it
tasteth
of
the
very
dregges
of
adulterous
lechery
,
a
folly
,
nay
a
sinne
so
in
hate
with
God
and
contempt
with
man
,
as
Seleucus
forbad
it
to
be
named
amongst
the
Locrians
.
The
ende
of
concupiscence
is
luxuria
,
sayth
Socrates
in
his
disputation
with
Euthydemus
,
from
whom
floweth
,
as
from
a
sea
of
wickednes
incest
,
murther
,
poison
,
violence
,
subuersion
of
kingdoms
and
infinit
other
impieties
.
Aristotle
being
demanded
what
adulterie
was
,
made
answer
,
a
curious
inquiry
after
an
other
mans
loue
,
and
being
desired
to
penne
downe
the
effects
,
wrote
these
or
such
like
wordes
.
He
that
séeketh
by
a
plausible
shadow
of
flattery
to
seduce
a
minde
from
chastity
to
adulterie
,
sinneth
against
the
law
of
nature
in
defra●…ding
a
man
of
his
due
,
his
honour
and
reputation
,
spoiling
him
of
a
most
pretious
iewell
,
which
is
the
losse
of
his
wiues
loue
and
frendship
:
for
as
the
sethim
trée
being
cut
or
pearced
with
brasse
straight
perisheth
,
so
the
league
of
marriage
violated
by
adultery
extinguisheth
loue
,
and
leaueth
behind●…
at
the
most
,
nought
but
the
painted
vale
of
flatterie
,
the
peace
of
the
house
is
changed
into
discorde
,
dissention
in
steade
of
laurell
presenteth
a
sword
,
and
content
sléepeth
not
with
Mercuries
melodie
,
but
waketh
with
Alectos
disquiet
,
the
face
that
in
forme
being
honest
,
resembleth
the
sunne
in
beautie
,
stained
with
adulterie
,
blusheth
to
sée
the
same
as
gultie
of
hir
owne
detormitie
,
credit
hath
suffered
shipwracke
and
fame
as
spotted
with
the
foyle
of
dishonour
,
all
these
hatefull
discommodities
insuing
by
the
voluptuous
des●…re
of
such
young
Gentlemen
,
as
wedded
to
vanitie
,
glory
in
the
title
of
this
folly
.
I
maruel
then
,
quoth
Peratio
,
what
woman
(
these
effects
considered
)
will
listen
vnto
the
melody
of
such
Syrens
,
whose
allurementes
perswades
them
to
suche
misfortunes
,
or
howe
they
can
thinke
that
man
to
loue
them
,
which
by
fulfilling
his
momentary
lust
,
procureth
their
perpetuall
discredit
and
subuersion
both
of
soule
and
bodie
.
Know
you
not
(
quoth
Benedetto
)
the
reason
of
that
,
are
not
the
thoughts
of
women
like
the
inhabitants
of
Scyrum
,
which
knowing
that
the
sauour
of
Dates
is
deadly
vnto
their
complexion
,
yet
neuer
cease
till
they
dye
with
Dates
in
their
mouthes
.
You
mistate
it
,
quoth
the
Lady
Frances
,
it
is
because
men
consume
them selues
into
teares
with
the
Crocodile
,
till
they
haue
gotten
their
pray
,
and
then
they
neither
respect
their
honour
nor
honestie
.
Howsoeu●…r
it
bee
,
quoth
Cosimo
,
I
haue
not
to
deale
with
women
,
but
for
our
Florentines
,
I
knowe
none
more
addicted
vnto
this
folly
,
which
to
conclude
,
hath
bene
so
odious
amongst
our
ancestaurs
,
that
it
hath
beene
chastned
with
seuere
punishmentes
.
Alexander
greatly
blamed
Cassander
,
because
hee
offered
but
to
kisse
a
minstrels
mayde
.
Augustus
Caesar
made
the
lawe
●…ulia
,
which
permitted
the
father
to
kill
the
daughter
for
adulterie
.
Cato
banished
a
Senator
for
kissing
his
wife
in
his
daughters
presence
.
Marcus
Antonius
Carcalla
was
banished
his
Empire
for
lust
,
with
infinite
other
,
whose
miseries
,
mishappes
,
and
misfortunes
were
innumerable
onely
by
this
folly
,
as
Tarquinus
Superbus
for
Lucrece
,
Appius
Claudius
for
Virginia
,
Iulius
Caesar
for
Cleopatra
,
Iohn
Countie
Armiake
for
his
owne
sister
,
Anthonie
Uenereus
duke
of
Uenice
for
his
Secretaries
wife
,
Abusahid
king
of
Fez
for
the
wife
of
Cosimo
de
Cheri
,
as
Leon
in
his
description
of
Affrike
setteth
downe
:
but
amongest
all
these
Gentles
,
an
historie
at
large
for
the
confirmation
of
this
my
disscourse
.
THE
TALE
OF
Cosimo
.
WHile
Ninus
the
sonne
of
Belus
raigned
as
Soueraigne
ouer
the
dominions
of
Egypt
,
and
kept
his
Court
Royall
in
Babylon
,
there
dwelled
in
the
suburbes
of
the
Citie
a
poore
labouring
man
called
Maenon
,
who
was
more
honest
than
wealthye
,
and
yet
sufficiently
rich
,
for
that
hee
li●…ed
contente
amongest
his
neighbours
,
this
poore
man
accounted
his
possessious
large
enough
,
as
longe
as
hee
enioyed
and
possessed
his
grounde
in
quiet
,
imitating
Cyncynatus
in
his
labours
,
who
founde
health
of
bodie
and
quiet
of
mind
the
chiefest
treasure
,
by
tilling
his
fielde
with
continual
●…oyle
.
But
as
content
had
satisfied
his
thoghts
in
this
,
so
Maenon
was
as
greatly
fauoured
of
Fortune
,
for
he
had
a
wife
of
the
same
degrée
and
parentage
,
so
beautifull
,
as
there
was
none
so
faire
in
Babylon
,
so
honest
,
as
there
was
none
more
vertuous
,
so
courteous
,
that
there
was
not
one
in
the
whole
city
who
did
did
not
both
loue
and
like
of
Semyramis
the
wife
of
Maenon
,
for
so
was
hi●…
name
:
insomuch
that
Ninus
desired
to
haue
a
sight
of
hir
beauty
,
and
in
disguised
apparell
,
went
to
the
poore
mans
house
,
where
seeing
such
a
heauenly
saint
about
hir
homely
huswifery
,
fitter
(
as
he
thought
)
to
be
a
paramour
for
a
prince
,
than
a
wife
for
a
scbiect
,
sighed
and
sorrowed
that
she
was
not
in
his
power
to
commande
:
yet
fauouring
hir
in
that
she
was
honest
,
as
fancying
hir
for
that
she
was
beautifull
,
he
departed
with
resolution
to
be
maister
of
his
owne
affections
,
and
not
to
depriue
the
poore
man
of
so
great
good
.
After
he
was
returned
to
the
palace
and
was
solitarie
by
him selfe
,
the
Idea
of
hir
perfection
representing
a
humane
shape
of
a
heauenly
creature
,
so
assaulted
his
minde
with
sundry
passions
,
that
giuing
the
raines
of
libertie
to
his
wanton
appetites
,
he
fell
into
these
tearmes
.
Unhappy
Ninus
,
and
therefore
vnhappy
because
a
king
and
subiect
t●…
sensuality
,
shall
the
middle
of
thy
yeares
bee
woorse
than
the
prime
of
thy
youth
,
shall
loue
conquer
that
Fortune
could
neuer
subdue
,
shall
the
heate
of
affection
searche
that
in
the
frute
that
it
coulde
neuer
●…urt
in
the
budde
,
shalt
thou
gouerne
a
kingdome
and
canst
not
subdue
thine
owne
passions
?
Peare
Ninus
name
not
so
much
as
loue
,
race
out
fancy
with
silence
,
and
let
the
continency
of
other
kings
be
presidents
for
thee
to
direct
thy
course
aright
.
Alexander
made
a
conquest
of
his
thoughts
,
when
the
beauty
of
Darius
wife
bad
him
battell
.
Cyrus
abstained
from
the
●…ight
of
Panthea
,
because
he
would
not
be
intemperate
.
Pompey
,
would
not
speak
to
the
wife
of
Demetri●…s
his
fr●…
man
for
that
shee
was
faire
,
and
what
of
this
Ninus
?
Yet
had
Alexander
concubines
,
Cyrus
a
lemman
,
and
Pompey
was
not
so
chast
,
but
he
liked
Phrinia
,
and
so
maist
thou
make
a
choice
of
Semyramis
,
shee
is
poore
and
vnfit
for
a
king
,
I
but
she
is
faire
,
and
fit
for
none
but
a
king
,
loue
filleth
not
the
hand
with
pelfe
,
but
the
eie
with
pleasure
,
shee
is
honest
,
truth
,
but
thou
art
a
monarch
,
and
the
waight
of
a
scepter
is
able
to
breake
the
strongest
chastitie
:
but
that
is
more
Nynus
,
shee
is
another
mans
wife
,
but
her
husbande
is
thy
subiecte
,
whom
thou
maiest
command
,
and
hee
dare
not
but
obey
:
haue
not
beggers
their
affections
as
wel
as
kings
?
may
not
Semyramis
,
nay
doth
she
not
loue
poore
Maenon
better
than
euer
shee
will
like
Nynus
,
yes
,
for
crownes
are
as
farre
from
Cupid
as
cot●…ages
,
princes
haue
no
more
priuiledge
ouer
fancie
than
peasants
:
yet
Nynus
feare
not
;
loue
and
fortune
fauoureth
not
cowards
,
command
Semyra●…is
,
nay
,
constraine
Semyramis
to
loue
thée
,
and
vppon
this
resolue
,
for
kings
must
haue
power
●…oth
ouer
men
and
loue
.
Nynus
resting
vpon
this
resolution
,
determined
to
trie
the
mind
of
Semyramis
how
shee
was
affected
towards
her
husband
,
and
therefore
dispat●…h
a
Letter
to
her
to
this
●…ffect
.
It
may
séeme
strange
Semyramis
,
that
the
monarch
of
Egypt
should
write
to
the
wife
of
a
poore
labourer
,
séeing
the
proportion
of
our
degrees
are
so
far
vnequall
,
but
if
it
bee
considered
that
kinges
are
but
men
,
and
therfore
subiect
to
passions
,
sooner
shalt
thou
haue
cause
to
sorrow
for
my
griefes
,
than
muse
at
my
writings
.
Did
my
desire
aime
at
a
kingnome
,
I
wold
attempt
to
satisfie
desire
with
my
sword
?
Did
envie
crie
for
content
,
then
coulde
I
●…tep
to
reuenge
:
were
my
thoughtrs
as
insatiate
as
Midas
,
the
worlde
is
a
●…orehouse
●…reasures
,
these
desires
are
to
be
satisfied
with
friends
or
fortune
,
but
the
restlesse
sorrowe
that
so
pin●…th
my
minde
with
disquiet
,
onely
r●…steth
in
thy
power
to
appease
.
It
is
Semyramis
the
deitie
of
beutie
,
which
is
priuiledged
farre
about
dignitie
,
that
Gods
haue
obeyed
,
and
men
cannot
resist
,
the
sight
of
thy
perfection
entered
at
the
eie
,
the
report
of
thy
vertues
tickling
the
eare
,
and
both
ioyntly
assaulting
the
heart
with
sharp
and
furious
alaru●…s
haue
so
s●…ared
my
minde
,
as
naught
pleaseth
the
cies
that
is
not
thy
obiect
,
and
nothing
contenteth
the
eare
but
Semyramis
.
Séeing
then
the
Egyptian
monarch
,
who
hath
triumphed
ouer
all
the
nations
of
the
South
and
East
climate
with
many
bloudie
conquestes
,
is
by
them
brought
as
a
cap●…iue
,
seruile
to
thy
beautie
&
his
owne
passions
,
boast
that
●…oue
hath
lotted
thée
such
a
victory
,
and
be
not
ingrateful
to
the
Gods
,
by
denying
me
that
I
deserue
,
fauour
.
But
perhaps
thou
wilt
obiect
thou
art
married
,
and
therefore
tyed
to
poore
Maenon
,
(
for
loue
hath
taught
me
thy
husbands
name
)
that
honestie
beareth
blossoms
as
wel
in
a
cottage
,
as
in
the
court
,
that
vertue
harboreth
as
soone
with
beggers
as
princes
,
that
fame
or
insa●…ie
can
stoup
as
low
as
they
can
〈◊〉
high
,
that
report
and
enuie
sonner
sting●…th
want
than
plentie
,
this
Semyramis
I
conf●…sse
,
but
yet
the
picture
of
the
●…agle
placed
ouer
the
temple
of
Venus
,
feared
the
●…aulcon
for
offending
her
offending
.
Damaetas
po●…niay
pearched
vnder
a
dragon
of
brasse
to
auoide
the
vultures
tyrannies
:
dishonour
toucheth
not
the
ve
,
sture
of
a
king
,
and
the
concubines
of
princes
purchase
renow●…e
,
not
infamie
:
Maenon
is
p●…ore
,
and
will
ioy
to
haue
such
a
riuall
as
Nynus
,
the
want
of
Semyramis
darkens
the
glorie
of
her
beautie
,
which
the
loue
of
a
king
shall
inrich
with
orna●…entes
.
Then
●…emyramis
pittie
his
plaintes
,
who
is
thy
seueraigne
and
might
command
,
and
yet
desirous
to
be
thy
paramour
,
séekes
a
conquest
,
not
by
constraint
,
but
by
intreaties
:
in
graunting
which
thou
climbe●…t
to
dignitie
,
and
sleepest
at
the
foote
of
a
scepter
,
honour
and
quiet
entertaines
thée
with
delight
,
and
to
these
thou
addest
thy
friends
preterment
and
thy
husbands
welfare
:
if
as
thou
art
poore
,
thou
art
proud
,
and
selfe
conceit
armes
thée
with
disdaine
,
consider
that
the
counterfait
of
kings
cannot
bee
drawen
without
the
shadowes
of
duetie
,
and
that
the
pill
that
purgeth
the
cholar
of
a
prince
is
reuenge
.
This
thinke
,
and
farewell
.
Nynus
Monarch
of
Egypt
.
He
committed
this
Letter
to
the
charge
of
one
of
his
Secretaries
,
whom
he
made
priuy
to
the
contents
,
who
poasting
in
hast
to
the
house
of
Semiramis
,
foun●…
her
bringing
one
of
her
ba●…es
a●…éepe
with
a
song
.
The
Secretarie
delighted
with
the
pleasing
harmonie
of
her
voice
,
stood
a
little
listning
to
her
melodie
,
at
last
stepped
into
the
house
,
at
whose
presence
the
poore
woman
amazed
,
for
that
her
cottage
was
not
accustomed
to
such
guests
,
she
blusht
,
which
gaue
such
a
glory
to
her
former
beautie
,
and
such
a
president
of
her
inward
vertue
,
that
the
Secretarie
enuied
the
happie
placing
of
his
soueraines
passions
,
yet
after
her
homely
fashion
the
intertained
him
,
greatly
fearing
when
he
deliuered
her
the
letters
,
that
they
had
bin
some
warrant
to
apprehend
her
husband
for
some
fault
,
but
by
the
superscription
●…he
perceiued
they
were
directed
to
hir
,
hauing
set
before
the
secretarie
a
messe
of
creame
to
b●…sie
him
,
she
stept
aside
to
read
the
contents
,
which
when
she
perceiued
and
wel
noted
the
effects
,
not
onely
allurin●…
with
promises
but
perswading
with
threats
,
she
burst
into
t●…ares
,
cursing
that
daie
where
the
king
had
a
sight
of
her
face
as
dismall
and
infortunate
,
falling
a●…
last
from
teares
into
these
feareful
complaints
:
Ar●…
the
destinies
(
poore
Semyramis
)
fore-pointers
of
good
or
ill
,
so
inequall
allotters
of
mishappe
;
that
some
they
blesse
with
daily
fauours
,
and
others
they
crosse
with
continuall
hard
fortunes
?
Had
the
fates
no
proporti●…n
in
their
censures
?
coulde
it
not
suffice
thou
w●…rt
poore
,
but
thou
must
be
miserable
?
cannot
enuiè
paint
the
picture
of
content
at
〈◊〉
cottage
dore
,
but
she
must
grudge
?
is
there
no
shru●…
so
low
,
but
is
subi●…ct
to
the
winde
:
no
woman
so
poore
if
shee
bee
faire
,
but
some
blasing
her
beautie
aimeth
at
her
chastitie
?
Then
Semyramis
be
patient
but
resolute
,
rather
choose
despite
and
sorrow
than
disgrace
and
infamie
.
Is
labour
an
enemie
to
loue
,
howe
then
shoulde
affection
touch
mee
who
am
neuer
idle
?
therefore
fond
foole
,
doth
loue
en●…e
thee
,
because
thou
art
not
idle
,
but
by
labour
she
west
thy selfe
a
recreant
to
his
law
.
But
yet
Semyramis
●…onsider
who
it
is
that
perswades
thée
to
loue
,
Nynus
a
king
,
a
monarch
,
and
thy
soueraigne
,
one
whose
maiestie
may
shadowe
thy
misse
,
and
whose
verie
name
may
warrant
thée
from
the
preiudice
of
enuie
,
if
thou
offend
,
dignitie
counteruailes
the
fault
,
and
fame
dare
not
but
honour
the
concubines
of
kings
.
For
shame
Semyramis
sooth
not
thy selfe
in
such
follies
,
are
not
kings
seates
obiects
for
euerie
eie
to
gase
at
?
Are
not
their
actions
censured
by
euerie
base
person
?
As
the
pyramides
are
markes
for
the
sea
,
so
their
doings
are
notes
for
the
world
:
Doth
not
fame
builde
in
the
foreheads
of
princes
?
yes
Semyramis
,
kings
faults
though
they
are
passed
ouer
with
feare
,
yet
they
are
iudged
of
with
murmure
:
the
greater
the
dignitic
,
the
greater
the
offence
,
shame
followeth
vice
euerie
where
,
and
adulterie
,
if
lawes
w●…re
not
partiall
,
des●…rueth
punishment
as
well
in
a
king
as
in
a
begger
.
Maenon
is
poore
,
but
thy
husband
,
in
louing
him
thou
pleasest
the
Gods
,
Nynus
is
rich
and
a
monarch
,
in
contenting
him
thou
dishonourest
thy selfe
and
discontentest
the
heauens
:
hath
Babylon
counted
thée
faire
,
so
thou
art
stil
by
reseruing
thy
beautie
?
hath
Babylon
counted
thee
honest
?
so
remaine
still
by
preseruing
thy
chastitie
:
be
not
more
charie
ouer
thy
beautie
than
ouer
thine
honestie
,
for
many
knowe
thée
by
fame
that
neuer
saw●…
thy
face
.
Then
Semyramis
,
aunswere
the
kings
passions
with
denial
,
but
alas
he
threatneth
reuenge
,
swéeter
it
is
to
die
with
credit
than
liue
with
infamy
.
Then
why
staiest
thou
thus
fondly
debating
with
thy selfe
,
reply
as
one
that
preferreth
fame
before
life
,
and
with
that
she
slept
to
a
standish
,
and
taking
paper
wrote
a
Letter
to
this
effect
.
Kings
are
Gods
,
not
that
they
are
immortall
,
but
for
they
are
vertuous
:
Princes
haue
no
priuiledge
to
do
ill
,
Fame
is
not
partial
in
her
trumpe
:
the
chiefest
treasure
is
not
golde
,
but
honour
,
to
conquere
a
kingdome
is
a
fauour
of
fortune
,
to
subdue
affection
is
a
gift
from
the
Gods
,
loue
in
kings
is
princely
,
but
lust
is
pernitious
:
kinges
therefore
weare
crownes
,
because
they
should
be
iust
:
iustice
giue
euerie
one
his
due
,
Semiramis
is
Maenons
wife
,
and
therfore
his
inheritance
:
the
Gods
threaten
Princes
as
well
as
poore
men
:
hot
loue
is
soone
colde
:
she
eie
is
variable
,
inconstant
and
insatiate
:
Adulterie
is
odious
,
though
graced
with
a
scepter
,
beautie
is
a
slipperie
good
,
Princes
concubines
prise
honour
too
deare
,
in
selling
the
precious
iewell
of
honestie
for
golde
:
death
is
a
farre
more
swéete
than
discredite
,
fame
to
bee
preserred
before
friendes
,
Nynus
is
a
king
,
whose
seate
is
sure
sancturie
for
the
oppressed
,
S●…miramis
is
poore
,
yet
honest
,
loue
of
Maenon
in
her
youth
,
and
loyall
t●…
him
in
hir
age
,
resolued
rather
to
dye
than
be
proued
〈◊〉
:
subiects
pray
for
their
soueraignes
,
wishing
they
may
liue
princely
and
dye
vertuous
.
Semyramis
the
faithfull
wife
of
poore
Maenon
.
This
confused
chaos
of
principles
being
written
and
sealed
vp
,
she
deliuered
it
to
the
Secretarie
,
who
courteously
taking
his
leaue
hied
in
hast
to
the
Court
,
where
the
king
carefully
expecting
his
comming
,
receiuing
the
letter
vnript
the
seales
,
where
in
stead
of
an
amoro●…s
reply
,
he
found
nothing
but
a
heape
of
philosophicall
axi●…mes
,
and
yet
his
〈◊〉
answered
to
the
full
:
the
●…ithie
sentences
of
Semyramis
whome
by
hir
p●…nne
he
found
to
be
poore
,
honest
,
beautifull
,
and
wise
did
not
take
〈◊〉
,
which
poore
soule
she
aimed
at
,
for
in
●…tead
of
cooling
his
mind
with
good
counsayle
,
she
inflamed
his
mind
with
a
deeper
affection
:
for
where
before
he
onely
was
allured
with
hir
beautie
,
now●…
he
was
entised
with
hir
wisedome
.
Pallas
gaue
him
a
déeper
wounde
than
Venus
,
and
the
inwarde
vertues
were
more
forcible
than
the
outwarde
shadowes
:
s●…
that
he
persisted
in
his
passions
,
and
began
to
consider
with
himselfe
,
that
the
meanes
to
procure
his
content
,
was
onely
the
simplicitie
of
Maenon
,
with
whome
he
woulde
make
an
exchange
rather
than
be
frustrate
of
his
desire
,
an
exchange
(
I
meane
)
for
Ninus
being
a
widower
had
one
o●…ely
childe
,
which
was
a
daughter
,
about
the
age
of
sixtéene
yeares
,
hir
he
determined
to
giue
in
marriage
vnto
Maenon
,
rather
than
he
would
not
enioy
Semyramis
,
thinking
that
the
feare
of
hi●…
displeasure
,
the
burthen
of
his
owne
pouertie
,
the
hope
of
preferrement
,
the
tickling
conceit
of
dignity
woulde
force
the
poore
●…assall
to
looke
twise
on
his
faire
wife
before
he
refused
suche
a
proffer
:
thinking
this
pretence
to
bee
his
best
pollicie
,
hee
resolued
presentlye
to
put
it
in
execution
:
and
therefore
foorthwith
〈◊〉
a
Pursuiuant
to
fetche
Maenon
vnto
the
Court
,
who
comming
with
commission
vnto
the
poore
mans
house
,
founde
him
and
his
wife
at
dinner
,
to
whome
,
after
he
had
declared
the
summe
of
his
●…essage
,
he
departed
,
willing
him
with
as
much
spéede
as
might
be
to
repaire
vnto
the
Court
.
Maenon
although
amazed
with
this
newes
,
yet
for
that
his
conscience
was
cléere
feared
not
,
but
with
as
much
hast
as
was
possible
,
made
him selfe
readie
to
goe
.
Semyramis
dissembled
the
matter
,
〈◊〉
hir
husbande
foorth
his
newe
hose
,
and
his
best
iack●…t
,
thinking
to
spunge
him
vp
after
the
〈◊〉
fashion
,
that
Ninus
might
sée
she
had
cause
to
lo●…e
and
like
so
proper
a
man
:
setting
hir
husbande
therefore
foorth
in
print
,
he
tooke
his
waye
vnto
the
C●…urt
,
where
at
the
gate
the
Secretarie
awayted
to
bring
him
into
presence
,
whither
no
sooner
hee
was
entered
,
but
the
●…ing
takinge
the
poore
man
aside
,
beganne
to
common
with
him
in
this
manner
.
Maenon
for
the
Soueraigne
to
make
a
long
disscourse
vnto
the
subiect
were
friuolous
,
séeing
as
the
one
for
his
maiestie
is
priuiledged
to
command●…
and
constrayne
,
so
the
other
by
obedience
is
tyed
to
obeye
:
therefore
omitting
all
née●…elsse
preambles
,
thus
to
the
purpose
:
Maenon
thou
art
poore
,
and
yet
a
Lorde
ouer
Fortune
,
for
that
I
hear●…
thou
art
content
,
for
it
is
not
richesse
to
haue
much
,
but
to
d●…sire
little
,
yet
to
thy
want
thou
hast
suc●…
a
fauour
graunted
th●…e
by
the
Destinies
,
as
●…uerie
waie
may
counter●…ayle
thy
pou●…rtie
,
I
meane
the
possession
of
thy
wife
Semyramis
,
whome
mine
eye
can
witnesse
to
be
passing
faire
and
beauti●…ull
:
enuie
that
grudged
at
thy
happinesse
,
and
loue
that
frowned
at
my
libertie
,
ioyning
their
forces
together
,
haue
so
disquieted
my
mind●…
with
sundrie
passions
,
as
onely
it
lies
in
thy
power
to
mittigate
the
cause
of
my
〈◊〉
,
for
know
Maenon
,
I
am
in
loue
with
thy
wife
,
a
censure
I
knowe
,
which
will
bee
hard
for
thee
to
digest
,
and
yet
to
be
borne
with
more
patience
,
for
that
thou
hast
a
king
and
thy
soueraigne
to
bee
thy
riuall
,
her
Maenon
I
craue
of
thée
to
bee
my
concubine
,
which
if
thou
grant
not
,
thinke
as
nowe
thou
hast
pouertie
with
quiet
,
so
then
thou
shalt
haue
both
con●…ent
&
dignitie
.
The
pooreman
who
thought
by
the
kings
speeches
that
his
wife
had
bene
consenting
to
this
pretence
,
framed
the
king
this
answere
.
I
knowe
right
mightie
soueraigne
,
that
Princes
may
command
,
where
poore
men
cannot
intreate
,
that
the
title
of
a
king
is
a
writ
of
priuiledge
in
the
court
of
Loue
,
that
chastitie
is
of
small
force
to
resist
,
where
wealth
and
dignitie
ioyned
in
league
,
are
armed
to
assault
,
kings
are
warranted
to
command
,
and
subiects
to
obey
,
therefore
if
Semiramis
be
content
to
grant
the
interest
of
her
affections
into
your
maiesties
hands
,
I
am
resolued
to
red●…liuer
vp
my
fee
simple
with
patience
.
No
Maenon
,
qd
Ninus
,
as
thy
wife
is
faire
,
so
she
is
honest
,
and
therefore
where
I
cannot
command
I
wil
them
constraine
,
I
meane
that
thou
force
her
to
lou●…
me
.
Maenon
grieuing
at
the
wordes
of
the
king
,
made
this
replie
.
If
my
wife
,
mightie
Ninus
,
bee
contented
to
preferre
a
cottage
before
a
crowne
,
and
the
person
of
a
poore
labourer
before
the
loue
of
a
Prince
,
let
me
not
(
good
my
Lord
)
be
so
vnnaturall
as
to
resolue
vppon
such
a
villanie
,
as
the
very
beasts
abhorre
to
commit
,
the
lion
killeth
the
lyonesse
beeing
taken
in
adulterie
,
the
swanne
killeth
her
make
for
suspition
of
the
sa●…e
fault
,
and
shall
I
whom
reason
willeth
to
be
charie
of
my
choise
,
force
my
wife
persorce
to
such
a
folly
:
pardon
my
liege
,
neuer
shall
the
loyaltie
of
my
wife
be
reuenged
with
such
treachery
,
rather
had
I
suffer
death
than
be
appeached
of
suche
discourte●…ie
.
Ninus
hearing
the
poore
man
so
resolute
,
thought
there
was
no
adder
so
〈◊〉
,
but
had
his
charme
,
no
bird
so
fickle
but
had
hir
call
,
no
man
so
obstinat
but
by
some
meanes
might
be
reclaimed
,
therfore
he
made
him
this
answer
.
Maennon
be
not
so
fonde
as
to
preferre
fanci●…
before
life
,
nor
so
insolent
as
to
refuse
the
fauour
of
a
king
,
for
the
affection
of
an
inconstant
woman
,
though
I
meane
to
depri●…e
thee
of
a
present
ioy
,
so
I
means
to
counteruaile
it
with
a
greater
blisse
,
for
the
exchange
of
Semyramis
,
I
meane
to
giue
thée
my
daughter
Sarencida
in
marriage
,
so
of
a
subiect
to
make
thée
a
sonne
and
my
equall
,
so
that
nothing
shall
be
different
betwixt
vs
but
a
crowne
and
a
kingdom
,
for
a
poore
wife
thou
shalt
haue
a
rich
princesse
,
from
pouertie
thou
shalt
rise
to
honour
,
from
a
begger
to
a
duke
:
consider
with
thy selfe
then
Maenon
,
how
I
●…auour
thée
,
which
might
possesse
my
desire
by
thy
death
,
and
yet
séeke
it
at
thy
handes
by
intreatie
and
pref●…rrement
:
take
time
now
by
the
forehead
,
she
is
bald
behinde
,
and
in
letting
hir
turne
hir
backe
,
thou
bidst
far●…
well
to
oportunity
,
if
thou
refuse
dignitie
,
my
daughter
and
the
fauour
of
a
soueraigne
,
hope
not
to
liue
nor
inioy
thy-wife
,
for
this
censure
holde
for
an
●…racle
,
Ninus
before
night
will
enioy
the
loue
of
Semyramis
.
This
seuere
resol●…tion
of
the
king
drone
poore
Maenon
into
a
thousande
sundry
passions
,
for
he
considered
with
him selfe
Semyramis
was
a
woman
,
and
in
the
〈◊〉
of
hir
age
,
and
though
she
were
beautifull
she
was
but
a
woman
,
and
had
hir
equals
:
he
knew
that
Sarencida
was
honourable
,
of
royall
parentage
,
the
daughter
of
a
king
,
beautifull
,
young
,
and
〈◊〉
:
he
felt
pouertie
to
be
the
sister
of
distresse
,
and
that
there
was
no
greater
woe
than
want
,
dignitie
presented
to
his
imagination
the
glory
that
deaws
from
honour
,
the
swéete
content
that
pre●…errement
afoordes
,
and
howe
princely
a
thing
it
was
to
be
the
sonne
in
law
to
a
king
,
these
vnacquainted
thoughts
sore
troubled
the
minde
of
the
poore
man
,
but
when
he
called
to
remembrance
the
constancie
of
Semyramis
,
how
the
motion
of
suche
a
mightie
monarch
,
was
in
vaine
to
mitigate
one
sparke
of
hir
affection
,
that
neitheir
dignitie
,
nor
death
,
no
not
the
maiestie
of
a
king
coulde
perswade
hir
to
falsifie
hir
saith
,
returned
Ninus
this
answer
.
As
(
my
liege
)
kings
haue
honour
to
countenance
their
actions
,
so
poore
men
haue
honestie
whereby
to
direct
their
liues
.
Diogenes
was
as
desirous
of
good
fame
,
as
Alexander
was
of
glory
.
Pouertie
is
as
glad
to
creepe
to
credite
,
as
dignitie
,
and
the
thoughts
that
smoke
from
a
cottage
,
are
〈◊〉
as
sweete
a
sacrifice
to
the
gods
as
the
perfumes
of
princes
:
the
heauens
are
equall
allotters
of
mishap
,
and
the
destinies
impartiall
in
their
censure
:
for
as
oft
doeth
re●…enge
followe
maiestie
for
iniustice
,
as
pouertie
for
doing
〈◊〉
,
the
one
offendes
with
intent
,
the
other
eyther
by
ignorance
,
or
nec●…ssitie
:
then
my
Liege
,
if
●…our
Highnesse
●…ffer
me
wrong
,
by
taking
away
my
wife
perforce
,
assure
your selfe
that
honour
is
no
priuiledge
against
infamie
,
neyther
will
the
●…ods
sleepe
in
reuenge
of
poore
Maenon
:
for
your
proffers
:
knowe
this
,
I
account
preferment
in
ill
〈◊〉
,
not
dignitie
,
and
the
sanour
of
a
Prince
in
wickednesse
,
the
frowne
of
God
in
iustice
for
your
daughter
,
I
am
sorie
the
vnbrideled
furie
of
lust
shoulde
so
farre
ouerrule
the
lawe
of
nature
,
as
to
alienate
the
loue
of
a
father
for
such
follie
:
●…er
I
vtterly
refuse
,
not
that
I
〈◊〉
,
the
Princesse
,
but
that
I
pitie
hir
estate
,
and
wishe
hir
better
Fortune
:
for
death
which
your
hignesse
threatens
,
I
scorne
it
,
as
prefering
an
honest
fame
before
mishap
,
and
the
loue
of
my
wife
before
death
,
were
it
neuer
so
terrible
,
for
pouertie
denies
me
to
make
other
requitall
for
hir
vnfayned
affection
,
than
constancie
,
which
I
will
pay
as
hir
due
,
though
with
the
losse
of
my
life
,
why
shoulde
not
the
examples
which
historiographers
pennes
downe
for
presidentes
,
serue
as
trumpettes
to
incourage
poore
men
in
honest
and
honourable
resolutions
:
when
Marcus
Lepidus
the
Romane
Consull
was
driuen
into
banishment
;
and
hearde
that
the
Senate
in
despighte
had
giuen
his
wife
vnto
an
other
,
he
presently
died
for
sorrowe
:
when
Nero
the
tyrant
(
pardon
my
liege
I
inferre
no
comparisons
)
inflamed
with
lust
towardes
the
wife
of
Sylaus
,
a
Romane
,
neither
respecting
the
law
Iulia
made
to
the
controrie
,
by
his
predecessor
Augustus
,
neither
iustice
nor
the
gods
,
but
opposing
himselfe
to
the
heauens
,
reft
the
poore
citizen
of
his
wife
.
Sylaus
●…lewe
him selfe
at
the
pallace
gate
,
which
brought
the
Emperour
in
great
hate
with
his
Commons
.
I
inferre
not
these
examples
as
fearefull
of
your
Highnesse
dis●…auour
,
but
as
one
determined
to
followe
these
Romanes
in
their
fortunes
,
and
eyther
with
quiet
to
liue
still
the
husbande
of
Semyramis
in
Babylon
,
or
to
let
the
worlde
witnesse
I
neuer
was
so
cowardly
to
deliuer
vp
so
deare
an
interest
,
but
by
death
.
Nynus
storming
at
the
answere
which
poore
Maenon
made
,
did
not
take
his
speeches
as
perswasions
from
his
foliye
,
but
as
preparatiues
to
further
choller
:
for
so
deepe
was
the
vnsatiable
desire
of
filthie
lust
ingrauen
and
imprinted
in
his
minde
,
and
the
fowle
imagination
of
adulterous
thoughtes
had
so
blinded
his
senses
,
that
as
a
man
●…alfe
fraught
with
a
lunacie
he
became
furious
,
that
in
a
rage
taking
a
sword
that
hoong
at
his
beds
head
,
he
rusht
vpon
the
poore
man
and
slue
him
:
this
cruell
deede
being
thus
vniustly
executed
,
he
felt
no
remorse
in
his
conscience
,
but
as
a
man
wholly
soulde
ouer
vnto
mischiefe
,
procéeded
in
his
purpose
,
and
presently
sent
his
Secretarie
for
Semyramis
:
who
no
sooner
heard
the
mcssage
,
but
fearing
that
hir
husband
for
hir
cause
might
come
to
mishap
,
in
hir
woorst
attire
,
as
she
was
,
hied
to
the
Court
,
where
being
brought
into
the
kings
chamber
,
Ninus
hauing
caused
the
dead
body
before
to
be
carried
away
,
told
hir
briefly
all
the
matter
,
howe
hir
husbande
was
slaine
,
and
that
nowe
he
had
sent
for
hir
not
to
make
hir
his
concubine
but
quéene
.
Semyramis
no
sooner
heard
of
the
death
of
hir
husbande
,
but
she
fell
into
a
pasme
,
and
was
hardly
brought
to
life
,
but
at
last
being
reuiued
she
burst
foorth
into
fountaines
of
teares
,
&
into
bitter
exclamations
against
the
tyrant
,
who
sought
to
appease
hir
with
sundrie
swéete
promises
,
but
séeing
nothing
could
preuaile
,
he
sent
for
his
daughter
Sarencida
to
whom
he
committed
the
charge
of
Semyramis
,
as
of
one
that
shoulde
be
a
quéene
and
hir
mother
,
Sarencida
as
nothing
daring
(
whatsoeuer
she
thought
)
to
disobey
hir
fathers
commande
,
led
hir
by
the
hand
into
hir
chamber
,
&
as
womens
perswas●…ues
are
best
confectaries
for
womens
sorrowes
,
did
somewhat
mitigate
some
parte
of
hir
griefe
that
shee
ceast
from
hir
teares
,
till
at
night
being
alone
in
hir
bed
,
the
Idea
of
hir
husbandes
person
presented
it selfe
,
though
not
an
obiect
to
hir
eyes
,
yet
to
hir
imagination
,
that
ouercome
with
the
passions
of
loue
,
thinking
to
take
the
benefit
of
the
place
and
time
,
&
determining
to
follow
hir
husband
in
his
fortunes
,
tooke
hir
knife
in
hir
hande
,
and
standing
in
hir
smocke
by
the
bed
side
,
fell
into
these
furious
tearmes
.
Semyramis
this
day
hath
béene
the
beginning
of
thy
sorrowes
and
the
end
of
thy
good
fortunes
,
the
same
of
thine
honestie
so
generally
blazed
abroade
through
all
Babylon
,
shall
this
day
without
desert
be
spotted
with
infamie
,
the
bloudie
action
of
Ninus
shall
be
attributed
to
thée
for
a
fault
,
and
the
intent
of
his
death
harbour
vnder
the
suspition
of
thy
dishonesty
,
if
thou
liuest
and
become
queene
,
yet
shall
this
deede
make
thée
a
table
talke
amongest
beggers
,
honour
shall
not
priuiledge
thee
from
the
hate
of
them
which
are
honest
,
neither
shall
the
glorie
of
a
crowne
shrowd
thée
from
discredit
.
Then
Semyramis
seeing
thou
séekest
after
fame
,
séeke
not
to
liue
,
vse
the
knife
thou
hast
in
hand
,
as
a
meanes
to
requite
thy
husbands
loue
,
and
to
warrant
thy
former
honestie
:
Panthea
the
wife
of
Abradatus
,
séeing
hir
husbande
slaine
in
the
campe
of
Cyrus
,
sacrificed
hir selfe
on
his
dead
corps
:
when
Iulia
the
wife
of
Pompey
saw
but
a
gowne
of
hir
husbands
bloudy
,
suspecting
some
mishap
,
sell
into
a
trance
,
&
neuer
reuiued
.
Portia
t●…e
wife
of
Brutus
hearing
of
hir
husbands
death
,
choked
hir self
with
hot
burning
coales
.
Aria
the
wi●…
of
Caecinna
died
with
her
condemned
husband
before
the
rapitoll
.
Let
the
resolute
loue
of
these
noble
dames
incourage
thée
to
the
like
constancy
,
consider
Semyramis
thy
husbande
is
deade
,
and
déedes
done
can
not
be
reuoked
.
Ninus
meanes
to
make
thée
his
wife
:
his
wife
cowardly
wretch
as
thou
art
,
answer
to
this
foolish
obiection
which
Pisca
the
wife
of
Pandoerus
did
,
who
being
slaine
by
the
king
of
Persia
,
after
the
slaughter
of
hir
husbande
,
he
profered
hir
marriage
,
but
holding
as
thou
doest
,
the
instrument
of
death
in
hir
hand
,
●…he
vttered
these
wordes
:
The
Gods
forbid
,
that
to
be
a
quéene
,
I
shoulde
euer
wed
him
that
hath
béene
the
murtherer
of
my
deare
husband
.
And
with
this
shee
was
readie
to
stab
her selfe
to
the
heart
,
but
staying
her selfe
and
pansing
a
while
,
she
beganne
as
women
are
prone
to
conceit
reuenge
,
to
thinke
with
her selfe
how
in
time
bett●…r
to
quite
the
iniury
proffered
by
Nynus
to
her
pore
husbande
.
This
Gentlemen
,
I
coniecture
was
her
imagination
,
for
she
sodainly
let
fall
her
knife
,
leapt
into
her
bed
,
&
past
the
rest
of
the
night
in
a
sound
sléepe
.
And
in
déede
had
not
the
sequele
〈◊〉
the
contrarie
,
it
might
haue
ben
coniectured
that
the
hope
o●…
a
crowne
had
bene
a
great
peswas●…on
from
her
desperate
resolution
:
but
letting
these
supposes
pa●…se
,
to
Nynus
,
who
made
it
his
mornings
worke
,
as
soone
as
he
was
vp
to
visite
Semyramis
,
and
finding
her
in
a
better
tune
than
he
left
her
,
conceiued
such
ioy
in
the
appeasing
of
her
passions
,
that
presently
he
sommon●…d
all
his
Lordes
to
a
Parliament
,
where
hée
vnfolded
vnto
them
the
intent
hee
had
to
make
Semyra●…is
quéene
,
and
therefore
craued
their
consents
.
The
nobilitie
whatsoeuer
they
thought
,
durst
not
gainsaie
the
will
of
their
Prince
,
but
assented
to
his
demand
,
so
that
all
things
were
prepared
for
the
coronation
:
but
when
the
brute
of
Maenons
death
was
noised
abroade
in
Babylon
,
euerie
one
after
their
sundrie
and
seuerall
imaginations
began
to
conferre
of
the
action
,
all
generally
●…eruailing
that
so
honest
a
wife
shuld
commit
so
hainous
a
fact
,
for
euerie
one
thought
her
an
actor
in
the
tragedie
,
yet
they
considered
that
ambitious
h●…nour
was
a
mortall
enemie
to
honestie
,
and
that
few
women
were
so
chast
but
dignitie
could
draw
to
follie
.
Well
,
murmure
what
they
lis●…
,
the
kings
purpose
tooke
effect
.
The
daie
came
,
and
the
coronation
was
most
solemynely
and
sump●…ie
perfourmed●…
the
king
conceiuing
such
felicitie
in
his
newe
wife●…
that
hée
continued
the
feast
for
tenne
dayes
:
which
tearme
ended
,
euerie
one
departed
to
their
home
,
and
the
late
married
couple
liued
so
contentedly
to
eueri●…
mans
coniectured
,
that
Scmyramis
won
her
same
halfe
lost
by
her
obedience
,
and
especially
shee
gained
the
loue
of
the
commons
,
for
preferment
had
not
pufte
her
vp
with
pride
,
nor
dignitie
made
her
disdainfull
of
the
glorie
of
a
crowne
,
nor
the
title
of
a
quéene
had
made
no
metamorphosis
of
her
minde
,
but
in
this
,
that
as
she
grew
in
honour
,
so
she
increased
in
courtesie
,
bountifull
to
all
that
were
poore
,
and
enuious
to
none
that
were
noble
,
preferring
the
sutes
of
them
were
wronged
,
and
seeming
as
neere
as
shée
coulde
to
cause
the
king
doe
iustice
to
all
.
This
her
vertuous
disposition
not
onely
stole
the
heartes
of
the
commons
,
but
also
the
loue
of
her
husband
,
who
to
increase
affection
more
had
a
sonne
by
her
called
Nynus
.
Passing
thus
three
or
foure
yeeres
in
great
pleasure
,
the
king
surcharged
with
content
,
commaunded
his
wife
to
aske
whatsoeuer
she
woulde
,
that
was
within
the
compasse
of
his
Babylonish
monarch
,
and
it
should
bee
graunted
her
.
Semyramis
refused
such
a
proffer
,
but
the
king
●…eeing
vrgent
,
semmoned
all
his
Lordes
to
the
Court
,
and
there
made
them
p●…uie
what
a
frée
graunt
he
made
to
his
wife
.
The
noble
men
although
smiling
at
the
fondnesse
of
the
king
,
that
so
wilfully
woulde
put
a
naked
swoorde
into
a
madde
mans
hande
,
yet
outwardly
seemed
to
allowe
of
his
wilt
,
so
that
Semyramis
demanded
that
she
might
absolutely
without
checke
or
controlement
rule
the
Babylonian
Empire
,
as
sole
quéene
for
thrée
daies
.
The
king
who
no
whit
mistrusted
that
reuenge
could
so
long
harbour
in
the
heart
of
a
woman
,
graunted
her
request
,
and
therefore
presently
with
all
conuenient
spéede
caused
a
sumptuous
seaffolde
in
forme
of
a
Theatre
to
be
erected
in
the
middest
of
Babylon
,
whither
calling
his
nobles
and
commons
by
the
sound
of
a
trumpet
vpon
the
next
festiuall
,
which
was
●…olden
in
honour
of
their
God
Iphis
,
he
there
in
presence
of
all
his
subiectes
,
resigned
vp
his
crowne
and
scepter
into
the
handes
of
Semyramis
,
placing
hir
in
the
Imperiall
throne
,
as
sole
quéene
,
monarch
and
gouernesse
of
Egypt
.
Semyramis
being
thus
inuested
with
the
Diadeame
and
regall
power
:
first
publikely
declared
the
effect
of
the
kings
grant
,
how
she
was
for
the
tearme
and
space
of
thrée
dayes
to
reigne
as
soueraigne
ouer
the
land
,
to
haue
as
great
authoritie
to
do
iustice
,
and
to
execute
martiall
law
as
hir
husbande
:
to
confirme
which
,
Ninus
as
a
subiect
did
hir
reuerence
,
and
iointly
with
the
rest
of
the
nobility
,
swore
to
performe
whatsoeuer
she
shoulde
commande
,
and
to
obey
●…ir
as
their
sole
and
soueraigne
princes
.
After
the
king
had
solemnely
taken
his
oath
,
Semyramis
vttered
these
or
such
like
spéeches
to
the
people
.
It
is
not
vnknowne
(
worthy
péeres
of
Egypt
and
inhabitantes
of
Babylon
)
that
I
liued
in
my
youth
the
wife
of
poore
Maenon
with
credit
fit
for
my
degrée
,
and
with
fame
equall
to
the
honesty
of
my
life
.
Occasion
neuer
a●…med
report
to
staine
me
with
disgrace
,
neither
was
the
wife
of
Maenon
accounted
to
be
prodigall
of
hir
affections
,
although
perhaps
a
little
proud
of
hir
beautie
,
the
pouertie
of
my
husbande
neuer
touched
me
with
mislike
,
nor
the
pro●…ers
of
preferrement
coulde
perswade
me
to
inconstancie
,
but
Fortune
that
is
euer
●…ckle
in
hir
●…auours
,
and
enuie
that
grudgeth
at
quiet
,
seeing
we
liued
securely
in
loue
and
content
,
set
king
Ninus
to
be
the
meanes
of
my
ouerthrow
:
for
he
in●…amed
with
the
sight
of
my
beautie
,
yelded
presently
to
the
allaromes
of
lust
,
and
sought
with
the
golden
baite
of
dignitie
to
hale
me
on
to
the
wracke
of
my
honestie
,
which
by
no
meanes
he
could
bring
to
passe
:
ioyning
murther
with
the
pretence
of
adulterie
,
hee
slew
my
husband
in
his
bed
chamber
,
so
the
better
to
obtaine
his
purpose
.
After
whome
,
I
call
the
Gods
to
witnes
,
I
haue
liued
for
no
other
cause
but
to
see
this
day
,
neither
hath
the
gaine
of
a
crowne
counterua●…ed
my
former
content
,
the
glistering
shewe
of
dignitie
hath
not
tickled
my
minde
with
delight
,
the
vaine
pleasure
of
preferment
neuer
made
me
proude
,
onclie
(
worthie
péeres
of
Egypt
)
the
hope
that
one
daie
I
should
make
reuenge
of
poore
Maenons
in●…urie
,
hath
made
me
liue
in
such
contented
patience
,
which
nowe
is
come
,
for
it
befitteth
a
quéene
in
iustice
to
be
impartiall
,
and
two
mischiefes
are
neuer
founde
to
escap●…
mishap
:
therefore
how
saiest
thou
Nynus
,
quoth
shee
,
declare
heere
before
the
Lordes
and
commons
of
Egypt
,
wert
thou
not
the
sole
murtherer
of
my
husband
without
my
consent
?
Nynus
aunswered
as
one
halfe
afraide
at
the
countenance
of
Semyramis
.
I
con●…sse
that
●…ly
Maenon
was
murthered
by
me
,
but
for
the
loue
of
th●…
,
wh●…ch
I
hope
thou
holdest
not
in
memorie
while
this
time
.
Yes
Nynus
,
and
now
will
I
reúenge
the
iniurie
offered
to
Maenon
,
and
therefore
I
command
that
without
further
delaie
thy
head
bee
heere
●…mitten
off
,
as
a
punishment
due
for
murther
and
adulterie
.
The
nobilitie
and
commons
hearing
the
se●…ere
sentence
of
Semyramis
,
intreated
for
the
life
of
their
soueraigne
,
but
it
was
in
vaine
,
for
she
departed
not
from
the
scaffolde
till
shee
sawe
her
command
executed
:
which
done
,
she
intombed
his
bodie
roiallic
,
and
in
so
famous
a
sepulchr●…
,
that
it
was
one
of
the
seuen
wonders
of
the
world
,
and
after
swaied
the
kingdome
with
politike
gouernment
vntill
her
sonne
Nynus
was
of
age
to
rule
the
kingdome
.
Seignior
Cosimo
hauing
ended
his
tale
,
Farneze
greatly
commended
the
discourse
,
applying
the
effect
of
this
historie
to
the
Gentl●…men
present
,
telling
them
that
in
déede
the
yeuth
of
Florence
were
greatlie
giuen
to
this
folly
,
as
a
vice
predominant
amongest
them
.
Peratio
who
meant
to
be
pleasant
with
the
olde
Countie
,
tolde
him
that
he
had
learned
this
fruit
in
Astrono●…ie
,
that
the
influence
of
Venus
and
Saturn
kept
the
same
〈◊〉
to
inferre
as
wel
age
as
youth
,
and
that
respect
and
experience
had
taught
him
,
that
olde
men
were
like
lée●…es
gray
headed
,
and
oft
gréene
tai●…de
,
that
they
would
finde
one
foote
at
the
doore
for
a
young
wife
,
when
the
other
stumbled
in
the
graue
to
death
,
so
that
Diogenes
being
demanded
where
a
man
left
off
from
lust
:
vnlesse
,
quoth
●…e
,
he
be
vertuous
,
not
vntill
the
coffin
be
brought
to
his
door●…
,
meaning
that
time
neuer
wore
out
this
follie
but
by
death
.
And
yet
to
see
,
quoth
Benedetto
,
what
cynicall
axiomes
age
wil
pr●…scribe
to
youth
,
when
they
themselues
are
neuer
able
to
performe
their
owne
precepts
,
allowing
more
priuiledge
to
their
〈◊〉
haires
,
than
to
our
greene
yéeres
,
an●…
〈◊〉
vnder
the
shadowe
of
vertue
the
verie
substance
of
vice
,
beeing
as
intemperate
in
the
s●…ostie
winter
of
their
age
,
as
we
in
the
glowing
summer
of
our
●…outh
,
and
yet
for
that
they
are
olde
,
and
though
they
cannot
deale
more
caste
,
yet
will
worke
more
ca●…
,
and
simplie
conceale
that
wee
rashlie
reueale
,
they
are
in
age
generally
taken
for
Gods
,
when
compared
euen
with
youth
they
are
meere
deuils
.
Yet
by
your
leaue
messieur
Benedetto
,
quoth
the
Ladie
Margeret
,
you
speake
too
generally
of
age
,
for
the
verie
constitution
of
the
naturall
temperature
of
our
bodies
is
able
to
infringe
your
reasons
,
séeing
that
same
naturalis
calor
is
ouerpressed
with
a
cold
dr●…nesse
in
age
,
which
in
youth
furthered
with
moisture
,
causeth
such
voluptuous
motions
.
Cupid
is
painted
a
childe
,
Venus
without
wrinkles
in
her
face
,
and
they
which
calculate
the
influence
of
Saturne
,
set
not
down
many
notes
of
venerie
.
Howe
philosophically
you
speake
,
quoth
Peratio
,
and
yet
small
to
the
purpose
,
for
although
naturall
heate
be
extinguished
in
age
,
yet
remaines
there
in
the
minde
certain
Scyntillulae
voluptatis
,
which
confirmed
by
a
saturnall
impression
,
were
harder
to
root
out
than
were
they
newly
sprong
vp
in
youth
,
neither
did
messieur
Benedetto
conclude
generally
of
olde
men
,
but
brought
in
as
a
premisse
or
proposition
,
that
age
as
well
as
youth
was
infected
with
this
folly
:
but
well
it
is
Ladie
Margeret
,
that
our
discourse
stretcheth
not
so
farre
as
women
,
nor
to
talke
of
their
wanton
affections
,
least
happilie
we
had
●…ntied
such
a
〈◊〉
of
their
lasciuious
vanities
,
as
might
haue
made
vs
sooner
desire
our
rest
then
end
the
discourse
.
You
are
alwaies
glancing
at
women
,
quoth
Cosimo
,
not
that
you
are
a
〈◊〉
,
and
hate
that
sexe
,
for
sir
I
knowe
your
lippes
〈◊〉
digest
such
lett●…ce
,
but
that
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
were
out
of
temper
if
once
a
daic
you
had
not
a
woman
in
your
mouth
,
héerein
resembling
Marcus
Laepidus
,
who
made
an
innectiue
against
sumptuousnesse
of
diet
,
himselfe
being
called
the
glutton
of
Rome
,
not
that
hée
was
sparing
in
his
chéere
,
but
that
Ath●…n
;
abstaining
from
daintie
●…ates
,
might
leaue
the
market
more
stored
with
delicate
dishes
.
Benede●…to
was
nipt
on
the
head
with
this
sharpe
replie
,
esp●…cially
for
that
all
the
whole
companie
lau●…ht
to
see
how
he
answered
with
silence
,
&
Farneze
about
whom
the
talke
began
,
made
this
answer
,
I
can
not
denie
Gentlemen
,
but
anger
is
subiect
to
many
foolish
and
intemperat
passions
,
&
therfore
to
be
comprehended
within
the
compas
of
this
folly
,
but
neither
age
or
youth
,
it
breedeth
many
inormities
,
so
that
for
this
night
I
will
take
in
hand
to
send
you
all
to
bed
with
a
farewell
of
foure
verses
,
which
I
read
once
in
the
monastery
of
Santo
Marco
in
Uenice
,
the
author
I
know
not
,
the
verses
are
these
:
Quatuor
his
paenis
Certo
afficietur
adulter
,
Aut
Egenus
erit
,
Subita
vel
morte
peribit
,
Aut
Cadet
in
causam
qua
debet
Iudice
vinci
,
Aut
aliquod
membrum
casu
vel
Crymine
perdit
.
The
time
of
the
night
beeing
somewhat
late
,
they
tooke
his
iest
for
a
charge
,
and
solempnly
taking
their
leaue
,
euerie
man
departed
quietlie
vnto
his
lodging
.
The
third
discourse
of
Follie.
THe
in●…ning
being
〈◊〉
,
and
the
Sun
displaying
her
radiant
beames
vpon
the
glomie
mantle
of
the
earth
,
Flora
presented
her
glorious
obiectes
to
the
e●…e
,
and
swéete
smelling
parfumes
to
the
nose
,
with
the
delight
of
sundrie
pleasing
and
odoriferous
flowers
,
when
these
young
Gentlemen
ashamed
that
Tytan
should
sommon
them
from
their
beddes
,
passing
into
the
garden
,
sound
the
olde
Countie
,
his
wife
and
foure
daughters
walking
for
health
and
pleasure
in
a
fresh
and
gr●…ne
ar●…our
,
where
after
they
had
saluted
each
other
with
a
mutuall
God
morrowe
,
they
ioyned
all
in
seuerall
parlies
,
amongst
the
rest
●…ernardino
spying
a
●…arigesde
opening
his
leaues
a
little
by
the
●…cate
of
the
Sonne
,
pulling
Ladie
Frances
by
the
sléeue
,
began
his
morning
mattens
on
this
manner
:
The
nature
of
this
hearbe
,
Ladie
Frances
,
which
we
call
the
marrigolde
,
and
the
Grecians
Helitropion
,
and
the
Latinistes
Sol
sequiam
,
is
thought
by
the
ancient
Philosophers
to
bee
framed
onely
by
nature
,
to
teach
the
duetie
of
a
wife
towards
her
husband
,
for
seeing
that
as
Aristides
said
,
a
woman
was
the
contrarie
of
a
man
:
this
flower
presents
a
president
of
her
affection
,
for
which
waie
so
●…uer
the
Sunne
turneth
,
it
still
openeth
the
leaues
by
degrées
,
and
as
the
sun
declineth
,
so
it
shutteth
:
that
Phebus
being
gone
to
bed
,
the
marrigolde
denies
any
longer
to
shew
her
glorie
:
so
saith
Plato
,
shoulde
a
good
wife
imitate
her
husbands
actions
,
directing
her selfe
after
his
course
in
his
presence
,
being
pleasant
to
content
the
eie
and
humour
of
her
husband
in
his
absence
with
a
modest
bashfulnes
,
scarce
with
the
wife
of
Tarquin
to
looke
out
of
her
windowe
.
In
déede
,
quoth
the
Ladie
Frances
,
I
haue
heard
saie
,
that
young
me●…nes
wiu●…
and
maidens
children
are
alwaies
wel
taught
,
no
doubt
sir
,
●…ur
●…icall
pr●…ceptes
are
verie
good
,
and
happie
is
she
that
heares
them
and
neuer
beléeues
them
,
I
praie
God
your
wife
may
bee
a
marigolde
whensoeuer
you
are
married
,
that
to
auoide
iealousie
,
you
may
euer
weare
her
pinde
on
your
●…éeue
.
Peratio
ouer
hearing
stepte
in
and
asked
the
Ladie
Frances
if
she
thought
Bernardino
woulde
be
iealous
.
I
haue
not
,
●…oth
the
Ladie
,
such
assured
sight
in
phisognomie
,
as
I
dare
auouch
it
for
truth
,
but
I
promise
you
sir
,
the
Gentleman
is
well
fore-handed
and
well
foreheaded
,
two
of
the
nine
beauties
to
haue
a
fine
finger
and
a
large
browe
,
nowe
take
the
paines
to
conclude
how
you
list
.
Peratio
laught
,
and
Bernardino
replied
,
t
is
no
meruaile
if
men
bée
iealous
,
when
He●…iodus
affirmes
,
that
hee
which
tru●…eth
to
the
loue
of
a
woman
,
resembleth
him
●…hat
hangs
by
the
leaues
of
trées
in
Autumne
.
But
in
earnest
Bernardino
,
quoth
Peratio
,
what
doest
thinke
of
him
that
is
married
?
That
hee
is
quoth
●…e
,
ares●…ed
with
a
grieuous
action
,
for
no
doubt
young
Gentlemen
shoulde
flie
vp
to
heauen
if
they
were
not
kepte
backe
with
such
an
arest
:
but
for
better
aunswere
to
thy
question
,
take
the
replie
of
Metellus
to
Pyso
,
that
asked
him
why
hee
married
his
sonne
being
so
young
,
and
b.
fore
hee
was
wise
:
Because
Pyso
,
quoth
hee
,
if
my
sonne
grow
to
be
wise
,
he
will
neuer
marrie
:
nor
if
you
were
wise
,
quoth
the
Ladie
Frances
,
woulde
yee
speake
so
vnreuerently
of
marriage
,
but
t
is
no
matter
,
we
shall
finde
you
in
time
like
Crates
the
●…ynike
Philosopher
,
who
inneighing
greatly
against
this
honourable
societie
,
was
séene
begging
a
peece
of
bread
at
Lais
doore
in
Corinth
.
If
the
lawe
that
Ephorius
of
Lac●…demonia
constituted
were
kepte
,
such
as
refused
marriage
should
be
banished
,
but
I
thinke
Bernardino
,
if
you
were
br●…ught
within
the
〈◊〉
of
such
a
statute
,
you
would●…
〈◊〉
that
for
a
〈◊〉
,
which
a
Lacedemonian
banisht
did
,
beeing
produced
before
Lycurgus
for
the
like
crime
.
And
what
was
that
madame
,
quoth
Peratio
?
Marie
Sir
,
qu●…th
shée
,
being
assigned
to
exile
,
hee
brought
forth
witnesse
that
he
had
b●…gotten
thrée
children
,
and
vppon
that
excuse
Lycurgus
made
the
strict
lawe
against
adulterie
,
yet
mittigated
before
some
parte
of
the
punishment
.
I
thinke
madame
,
aunswered
Bernardino
,
the
Prieste
hath
a
pennie
for
your
banes
,
your
sophis●…rie
is
so
good
for
marriage
.
Onelie
Sir
,
quoth
shee
,
I
speake
it
agaynst
such
seuere
censure●…s
of
matrimonie
as
you
are
,
which
,
for
what
cause
I
knowe
not
,
liuing
●…ale
bachelers
,
are
of
Appollonius
●…ianeus
opinion
,
and
therefore
〈◊〉
principles
.
According
to
your
preceptes
,
as
no
doubt
one
of
your
sect
〈◊〉
who
made
these
two
verses
:
L'amor
del
donna
il
vin
del
flasco
,
Nul
●…era
bon
nel
matutina
guasco
.
Such
stoicall
Gentlemen
as
runne
into
such
inconstant
and
heathenish
conclusions
,
I
had
as
liefe
haue
their
roome
as
their
companie
.
Bernardino
perceiuing
the
Ladie
Frances
was
halfe
angrie
,
thought
rather
to
recant
than
make
her
c●…olerike
,
and
therefore
tolde
her
his
meaning
was
not
to
condemne
mariage
,
but
meerely
to
ieast
for
conference
sake
.
Then
sir
,
quoth
she
,
all
is
in
ieast
,
and
so
let
vs
to
the
rest
of
the
companie
,
whome
they
founde
talking
with
a
Cooke
that
was
come
to
his
maister
,
to
knowe
if
hée
woulde
haue
anie
extraordinarie
dishe
prouided
for
dinner
.
No
Sir
,
quoth
Farneze
,
I
will
aunswere
with
Socrares
,
if
they
bée
vertuous
there
is
enough
,
if
they
bée
not
,
there
is
too
much
.
The
old●…
Counti●…
tooke
occasion
●…eereof
to
speake
of
temperaunce
in
〈◊〉
,
〈◊〉
thus
he
●…egan
.
I
remember
Gentlemen
that
Tymotheus
a
Grecian
Captaine
,
hauing
supped
with
Plato
in
his
Academie
,
at
a
sober
and
simple
repaste
,
for
their
festiuall
fare
was
Oliues
,
cheese
,
apples
,
cole
wortes
,
bread
and
wine
,
tolde
the
next
daie
certaine
noble
men
his
companions
,
that
they
which
supped
with
Plato
digest
not
his
viandes
in
a
long
time
,
meaning
that
wise
banquet
void
of
excesse
,
not
to
content
the
bodie
with
Epicurisine
,
but
to
●…ecke
the
mind
with
philosophical
precepts
,
such
were
the
●…easts
of
Socrates
,
Zenocrates
,
and
other
:
the
sages
which
compared
the
pleasures
conceiued
in
delicates
,
to
the
sauour
of
parfumes
,
which
for
all
their
swéete
smell
passe
awaie
like
smoake
.
The
Egyptians
vsed
in
the
middest
of
their
banquets
to
bring
in
the
●…natomie
of
a
dead
man
,
that
the
horrour
of
the
corps
might
mitigate
immoderate
delightes
.
In
déede
sir
,
quoth
Bernardino
,
I
remember
that
Alexander
before
he
fell
into
the
Persian
delicacy
,
refused
those
cookes
and
p●…erers
that
Ada
queene
of
Caria
sent
vnto
him
,
saying
to
the
messenger
,
for
my
dinner
I
vse
earely
rising
,
for
my
supper
a
slender
dinner
,
for
he
did
vse
to
eat
but
once
a
〈◊〉
:
so
that
Plato
séeing
Dionysius
making
two
meales
,
reported
in
Athens
hee
sawe
nothing
in
Sycillia
but
a
monster
,
that
did
féede
twise
before
the
sunne
set
.
Cyrus
monarch
of
the
Per●…ans
in
his
childhoode
,
being
demanded
of
his
grandfather
Astiages
,
why
he
woulde
drinke
no
wine
,
aunfwered
for
feare
they
giue
me
poison
:
for
(
quoth
hee
)
at
the
cel●…bration
of
your
natiuitie
,
I
noted
that
som●…
haue
made
mixture
of
the
wine
with
some
inchanted
p●…tion
,
sith
at
the
ende
of
the
feast
there
was
not
one
●…parted
in
his
right
minde
.
So
did
(
quoth
Perato
)
Epam●…ondas
the
greatest
captaine
and
philosopher
in
his
time
,
for
be●…
inuited
by
a
friende
of
〈◊〉
,
the
tables
ouer
charge●…
with
super●…uitie
&
〈◊〉
of
fare
,
he
told
his
host
in
great
choller
that
he
thought
he
had
béen
requested
,
as
a
friend
to
dine
competently
,
not
to
suffer
iniury
by
being
intertained
like
a
glutton
.
Caius
Fabritius
a
notable
Romane
knight
,
was
found
by
the
Samnit
ambassadours
that
came
vnto
him
eating
of
reddish
roasted
in
the
ashes
,
and
that
in
a
●…erie
poore
house
,
and
by
the
wai●…
to
induce
a
strange
miracle
that
Sainct
I●…rome
reporteth
of
one
Paule
an
heremit
,
who
liued
from
sixtéene
to
sixtie
of
Dates
onely
,
and
from
sixtie
to
●…ixe
score
and
●…ue
(
at
what
time
he
died
)
he
was
sed
by
a
little
bread
brought
to
him
by
a
crowe
.
Truth
(
quoth
Farneze
)
infini
:
are
the
examples
which
might
pers●…ade
vs
to
temper●…ce
,
but
so
●…nde
are
we
now
a
dayes
as
wee
leaue
the
studie
of
philosophie
to
learne
out
kitching
commentaries
,
but
if
we
perseuere
still
in
this
dissolute
kind
of
super●…uity
,
being
Christians
in
name
and
Epicures
in
life
,
we
are
to
feare
that
in
the
ends
néede
and
necessitie
will
force
vs
to
forsake
it
,
and
as
it
happened
vnto
king
Darius
,
who
when
he
had
liued
a
long
time
in
delightes
,
drowning
him selfe
in
the
〈◊〉
of
the
Persians
,
not
once
looking
so
low
as
hunger
and
thirst
,
as
he
fled
from
Alexander
,
and
waxed
verie
thirstie
,
drinking
puddle
water
taken
from
a
riuer
tainted
with
deade
carcasses
,
he
burst
●…oorth
into
this
spéeche
,
that
in
all
his
life
he
neuer
drancke
swéeter
:
so
will
it
befall
to
vs
by
our
inordinate
excesse
,
and
seeing
we
may
best
sée
this
vertue
of
●…rugalitie
by
discouering
his
contrary
,
we
will
spend
this
forenoone
in
dscoursing
the
follie
of
superfluitie
or
gluttonie
,
which
Bernardino
I
appoint
vnto
your
charge
,
as
one
which
we
all
knowe
to
haue
béene
an
enemie
to
such
disordered
bankets
.
Bernardino
not
greatly
discontent
with
this
command
,
beganne
after
the
gentlemen
were
seated
in
the
arbour
,
to
frame
his
spéech
in
this
manner
.
Plato
the
prince
of
the
Academickes
,
who
for
his
sacred
sentences
with
his
maister
Socrates
,
amongst
all
the
Philosophers
,
challenged
the
name
of
diuine
,
had
alwayes
this
saying
in
his
mouth
,
that
whatsoeuer
excéedeth
this
word
necessarie
is
superfluitie
,
which
genus
,
he
deuided
into
two
especiall
partes
of
apparell
and
fare
:
for
the
last
whereof
I
am
appointed
to
intreat
,
thus
to
the
purpose
.
Those
Gentlemen
which
build
vpon
the
doctrine
of
the
Epicures
,
and
place
their
chiefe
felicitie
or
summum
bonum
in
the
delicacie
of
fare
,
consider
not
that
gluttonie
is
like
to
the
Lymons
in
Arabia
,
which
being
passing
swéete
to
the
mouth
,
are
inf●…ctious
in
the
stomach
,
like
to
the
floure
of
Amyta
which
glorious
to
the
eye
greatly
molesteth
the
smell
,
the
swéete
content
or
rather
the
bitter
pleasures
that
procéede
from
these
follies
,
feeding
our
lust
with
a
tickling
humour
of
●…elight
,
for
euerie
dram
of
pretended
blisse
presents
vs
a
pounde
of
assured
enormitie
,
for
we
are
so
blinded
with
the
vale
of
this
vayne
sollie
,
that
forgetting
our selues
we
runne
headlong
with
Vlysles
into
Cyrces
lappe
,
and
so
by
tasting
hir
inchaunted
potion
,
suffer
our selfe
to
be
like
beasts
transformed
into
sundrie
shapes
,
for
that
was
the
meaning
Homer
aimed
at
by
the
Metamorphosis
,
saying
:
some
were
chaunged
into
Lyo●…s
as
by
dronkennesse
mad●…
furious
,
some
into
Apes
,
whom
wine
had
made
pleasaunt
,
seme
into
s●…ine
,
whose
brutishe
manner
bewrayed
their
imperfection
by
sléeping
in
their
pottes
,
comparing
the
alt●…ration
of
men
by
ouermuch
drinke
to
no
other
but
a
bestiall
chaunge
of
their
natures
,
besides
this
discoucrie
Galen
,
Hypocrates
and
other
learned
Phisitians
approue
it
the
source
from
whence
all
diseases
and
euill
dispositions
of
the
body
do
flow
,
for
sayth
Plutarch
we
are
sicke
of
those
things
whereof
we
doe
liue
,
and
by
our
naturall
disposition
are
wholy
giuen
to
health
,
if
the
disorder
of
our
diet
did
not
infringe
the
perfect
temperature
of
our
complexions
.
Homer
going
about
to
prooue
the
immortalitie
of
the
Goddes
,
and
that
they
dye
not
,
groundeth
his
argument
vppon
this
,
because
they
eate
not
,
as
if
he
woulde
argue
,
that
as
eating
and
drinking
maintaines
life
,
so
they
are
the
efficient
causes
of
death
,
and
that
more
dye
of
glutto●…e
than
of
hunger
,
hauing
oft
more
care
to
digest
meate
than
care
to
get
it
.
Seneca
sayd
that
the
Phisitians
in
his
time
cried
out
that
life
was
shorte
and
art
long
,
that
complaint
was
made
of
nature
,
that
shee
had
graunted
vnto
beastes
to
liue
fiue
.
or
sixe
ages
,
and
to
limite
mans
dayes
but
the
length
of
a
spann●…
,
which
notwithstanding
,
being
so
short
and
momentarie
,
was
oft
consumd
in
excesse
,
drawing
on
death
by
our
owne
desires
,
and
offering
vp
our
gorged
stomaches
vnto
Atropos
as
sacrifice
to
intreat
that
the
date
of
our
yeares
bee
vntimely
preuented
,
so
that
(
as
the
wise
man
sayth
)
mor●…
perishe
by
surfet
than
by
the
sword
,
vnto
whome
(
sayth
Salomon
)
falleth
woe
,
affliction
,
sorrowe
,
strife
,
teares
,
rednesse
of
the
eyes
,
and
diseases
?
Euen
to
them
that
sit
long
at
the
wine
,
which
at
the
first
pleaseth
both
the
eye
and
the
t●…st
,
but
at
last
stingeth
as
deadly
as
a
scorpion
.
Heraclytus
was
of
this
opinion
that
the
insatiate
appetite
of
gluttonie
doth
obscure
the
interiour
vertues
of
the
minde
,
oppressing
the
diuine
parte
of
man
with
a
confused
chaos
of
sundrie
delicates
,
that
as
the
sunne
eclipsed
with
darke
and
vndigested
vapours
,
hath
not
the
perfection
of
his
brightnesse
,
so
the
bodie
ouercharged
with
〈◊〉
of
meates
,
hath
the
senses
so
sotted
,
as
they
are
not
able
to
pierce
by
contemplation
into
the
Metaphysicall
secreates
of
anie
hono●…rable
science
.
Innumerable
also
be
dissolut●…
fashions
and
wicked
enormities
that
spring
fro●…
gluttony
and
dronkennesse
,
for
where
this
follie
is
predominant
,
there
is
the
minde
subiect
vnto
lust
,
anger
,
sloth
,
adulterie
,
loue
,
and
all
other
vices
that
are
subiectes
of
the
sensuall
part
:
for
as
the
ol●…e
Poet
sayth
,
Sine
Cerere
&
Baccho
friget
Venus
.
And
by
the
way
I
rem●…mber
certaine
verses
written
by
our
countriman
Dante
to
this
effect
.
Il
vitio
chi
conduce
:
Englished
thus
:
A
monster
seated
in
the
midst
of
men
,
Which
daily
fed
is
neuer
satiat
,
A
hollow
gulfe
of
vild
ingratitude
,
Which
for
his
food
vouchsafes
not
pay
of
thankes
,
But
still
doth
claime
a
debt
of
due
expenee
,
From
hence
doth
Venus
draw
the
shape
of
lust
,
From
hence
Mars
raiseth
bloud
and
stratagemes
,
T●…e
wracke
of
wealth
the
secret
foe
to
life
,
The
sword
that
hastneth
on
the
date
of
death
,
The
su●…est
friend
to
phisicke
by
disease
,
The
pumice
that
defaceth
memorie
,
The
misty
vapour
that
obscures
the
light
,
And
brightest
beames
of
science
glittring
sunne
,
And
doth
eclipse
the
minde
with
sluggish
thoughtes
,
The
monster
that
afoordes
this
cursed
brood
,
And
makes
commixture
of
these
dyer
mishaps
,
Is
but
a
stomach
ouerchargd
with
meates
,
That
takes
delight
in
endlesse
gluttony
.
Well
did
Dante
note
in
these
verses
the
sundrie
mischie●…es
that
procéede
from
this
folly
,
séeing
what
exp●…ces
to
the
purse
,
what
diseases
to
the
person
,
what
ruine
to
common
wealth
,
what
subuersion
of
estates
,
what
miserie
to
princes
●…aue
insued
by
this
insatiate
sinne
of
gluttonie
:
We
read
of
the
Emperour
Vitellius
Spynter
that
he
was
so
much
giuen
to
superfluity
and
excesse
,
that
at
one
supper
〈◊〉
was
serued
with
two
thousand
seuerall
kind
of
〈◊〉
,
and
with
seauen
thousande
flying
foules
,
but
the
heauens
storming
at
such
an
insatiable
monster
,
that
so
highly
abused
the
benefites
of
God
,
conspired
his
ouerthrow
,
for
〈◊〉
did
not
onely
dispossesse
him
of
the
imperial
Diademe
,
but
caused
him
to
be
publikly
executed
in
Rome
.
Dionysius
the
younger
from
gluttony
fell
to
tyrannie
vntill
he
was
exiled
for
his
wickednesse
out
of
Sirilia
.
Mulcasses
king
of
Thunis
was
so
drowned
in
pleasure
&
delight
of
superfluous
banketting
,
that
in
the
midst
of
his
miseries
when
the
Emperour
Charles
had
forsaken
him
,
and
left
him
of
a
king
almost
the
〈◊〉
of
the
world
,
yet
as
Paulus
Iouius
rehearseth
,
he
spent
a
hundreth
crownes
vppon
the
dressing
of
a
peacocke
,
whereat
his
musitians
playing
,
he
couered
his
eyes
to
reape
the
greater
content
:
but
the
iudgement
of
God
spéedely
followed
this
vaine
delicacie
,
for
within
two
dayes
after
his
owne
sonnes
put
out
his
eyes
with
barres
of
hoat
iron
.
Infinit
also
were
the
examples
might
be
brought
of
dronckennesse
,
and
of
his
discommoditie
:
of
Alexander
how
he
prepared
crownes
for
them
that
excéeded
in
that
filthie
vice
,
and
made
a
great
cup
which
he
called
Alexander
,
after
his
owne
name
,
wherein
he
did
〈◊〉
to
his
nobles
,
but
Calistenes
his
deare
friend
refusing
,
&
saying
:
for
drinking
in
Alexander
I
will
not
stand
in
néede
of
Esculapius
,
he
fell
into
such
furie
,
that
he
commanded
him
to
be
put
in
an
iron
cage
with
dogges
,
which
Calistenes
not
brooking
poisoned
him selfe
.
At
an
other
dronken
feast
he
●…iue
his
faithfull
friende
Clytus
,
a
worthie
captaine
and
a
counsellor
,
to
whome
hee
had
so
many
times
béene
beholding
for
his
life
:
but
afterwarde
when
he
came
to
him selfe
,
hee
was
so
grie●…ed
for
this
fact
,
that
he
sought
to
shorten
his
dayes
with
his
owne
sword
,
and
spent
many
dayes
in
continuall
teares
for
his
friende
,
whereby
we
euidently
sée
how
the
best
that
insueth
of
this
folly
is
shame
and
repentance
.
This
meant
Heraclytus
to
teache
his
countrie
men
,
when
after
a
mutinous
sedition
was
appeased
,
and
the
comm●…ns
demanded
of
him
,
what
〈◊〉
were
best
to
preuent
the
like
misfortune
,
presentlye
〈◊〉
him
vp
to
a
place
where
the
magistrate
vsed
to
deliuer
Or●…tions
to
the
people
,
and
there
in
●…teade
of
pronouncing
some
eloquent
and
learned
discourse
,
only
beganne
to
féede
on
a
morsell
of
browne
bread
,
&
to
drinke
a
glasse
of
clé●…re
water
,
thus
setting
downe
a
golden
precept
by
silence
,
for
by
this
he
signified
vnto
them
that
as
long
as
daintinesse
and
riot
and
needelesse
expences
flourished
in
the
citie
,
so
long
shoulde
they
stande
in
danger
of
ciuill
sedition
,
but
this
vaine
excesse
abolished
a
pea●…able
and
perpetuall
quiet
was
like
to
insue
:
if
this
counsell
of
Heraclitus
were
〈◊〉
in
a
monarchie
,
what
n●…de
haue
wee
of
suche
necessarie
principles
,
in
whose
common
wealth
nothing
is
glorious
,
but
super●…uitie
of
foode
and
appa●…ll
.
Let
me
borrow
a
word
with
you
(
quoth
Peratio
)
in
this
,
for
in
deede
if
men
thoroughly
consider
the
vaine
delight
diuerse
of
our
Florentines
tooke
in
trimming
and
decking
out
the
bodie
,
which
Epaminondas
called
the
prison
of
the
soule
,
we
shall
bee
at
length
forced
to
con●…
with
Erasmus
,
that
they
rather
serue
to
whet
the
eyes
of
the
beholders
to
wicked
desires
,
than
vnto
anie
honest
opinion
or
conceit
.
Epictetus
gaue
this
onely
precept
vnto
his
countrimen
at
his
death
:
Friendes
(
quoth
he
)
decke
not
your
bodie
with
curious
superfluitie
of
apparell
,
but
paint
them
with
temperaunce
,
for
the
one
is
but
a
shadowe
that
bleareth
the
eyes
,
the
other
an
ornament
that
inricheth
the
minde
,
which
counsell
the
ancient
Monarkes
and
Chiefetaines
of
the
world
foretaught
vs
:
for
Augustus
famous
through
the
whole
worlde
for
his
fortunes
,
and
honoured
for
his
maicstie
,
neuer
ware
other
garmentes
than
suche
as
his
wife
and
daughters
made
,
and
those
verie
moderate
.
Agesilaus
king
of
Lacedemonia
had
but
one
coat
for
winter
and
summer
.
Epaminondas
generall
captaine
of
the
Thebans
,
was
contented
with
one
only
gowne
all
the
yeare
long
:
this
simplicitie
and
moderate
vse
of
apparell
in
such
worthie
personages
,
might
well
serue
vs
for
presidentes
,
but
that
vanity
hath
so
long
lulled
our
sense●…
a
sléep
with
pleasure
,
as
the
custome
of
the
fault
hath
taken
away
the
féeling
of
the
fact
.
Well
●…r
(
quoth
Bernardino
)
this
belongeth
to
your
discourse
of
pride
,
and
therfore
againe
to
our
purposs
which
séeing
I
haue
confirmed
with
sufficient
reasons
&
cramples
to
be
an
inordinate
vice
and
more
follie
I
will
nowe
also
ratifie
it
with
a
verie
briefe
and
short
histori●…
.
Bernardinos
Tale
.
IN
the
citie
of
Auspurg
in
Germanie
there
ruled
not
long
since
a
duke
whose
name
for
reuerence
I
conceale
,
&
therefore
will
tearme
him
Don
Antonio
,
a
man
of
very
honorable
parentage
,
but
so
giuen
to
the
filthy
vice
of
dr●…kennesse
as
he
almost
suvuerted
the
state
of
the
citie
,
with
his
gluttonics
.
For
oftimes
he
fell
into
tyranous
and
barbarous
cruelties
,
as
one
that
had
martiall
law
in
●…is
power
,
and
other
whiles
gaue
wrong
sentence
against
the
innocent
,
as
his
humour
fit●…
,
which
excesse
had
led
him
.
But
aboue
all
the
rest
a
poore
man
hauing
a
matter
to
plead
before
him
,
which
he
was
acertained
by
law
should
goe
on
his
side
,
Don
Antonio
comming
dronke
to
the
place
of
iudgement
,
sléeping
in
his
sur●…s
,
neuer
considered
the
equitie
of
the
cause
,
but
gaue
s●…ntence
against
the
poore
man
,
and
condemned
him
in
so
great
a
summe
,
as
scarss
all
his
moueables
wer●…
able
to
discharge
,
well
the
verdict
giuen
he
had
no
other
remedy
but
to
abide
the
censure
of
the
iust
iudge
,
&
to
make
sale
of
all
that
he
had
to
answer
his
condemnation
:
which
done
so
little
remayned
that
hee
had
nothing
left
to
maintaine
his
wife
and
children
,
wherupon
pouertie
being
the
hea●…iest
burde●…
a
man
can
beare
,
presented
vnto
him
a
glasse
of
many
miseries
,
which
were
apparant
to
insue
by
distressed
want
,
wherein
after
the
poore
wretch
had
a
lon●…
while
gazed
,
he
fell
to
despaire
,
that
flinging
into
his
backe
side
,
he
toke
the
balter
out
of
his
stable
,
and
running
into
the
field
went
to
hang
himselfe
in
a
thicket
hard
adioyning
to
his
house
,
where
yet
a
little
entering
into
consideration
with
himselfe
,
he
began
thus
to
debate
.
Infortunate
Rustico
,
for
so
we
will
terme
him
,
how
art
thou
oppressed
with
sundrie
passions
,
distres
haling
thee
ou
to
despaire
,
and
the
care
of
thy
soule
willing
thee
rather
to
choose
pouertie
than
hell
.
Well
did
●…ymon
of
Athens
see
the
miserie
of
mans
life
,
when
hee
bought
a
peece
of
ground
,
wherein
hee
placed
gibbets
,
and
spent
his
time
in
such
desperate
Philosophie
,
as
to
perswade
his
friendes
to
hang
themselues
,
so
to
auoide
the
imminent
perilles
of
innumerable
misfortunes
,
so
Rustico
séeme
thou
an
Athenian
,
be
one
of
Tymons
friendes
,
listen
to
his
doctrine
,
follow
his
counsell
,
preuent
miserie
with
death
.
But
alas
this
is
not
sufficient
,
for
in
fréeing
thy selfe
from
calamitie
,
thou
leauest
thy
wife
and
children
in
a
thousano
sorrowes
,
and
further
thou
cuttest
off
all
hope
of
reuenges
.
Reuenge
,
yea
reuenge
Rustico
,
for
assure
thy selfe
,
if
thou
liuest
not
,
yet
God
will
reuenge
,
haue
two
sinnes
escaped
vnpunished
,
hath
not
the
accursed
duke
to
his
drunken
m●…sse
added
iniustice
,
yes
and
therefore
deserues
to
bee
reuenged
with
thin●…
owne
hande
,
let
examples
arme
thee
to
the
like
attempt
.
Philip
king
of
M●…cedonia
was
slain
by
a
meane
Gentleman
Pausanias
,
because
he
would
not
let
him
haue
iustice
against
Antipater
,
who
had
offred
him
wrong
.
Demetrius
hauing
receiued
many
requests
of
his
poore
subiects
,
as
he
passed
ouer
a
bridge
threwe
all
their
supplications
into
the
water
,
for
which
cause
hee
became
so
odious
to
his
subiects
,
that
they
suffered
Pyrrhus
his
enemie
to
driue
him
out
of
his
kingdome
without
battell
.
Ferdinando
the
fourth
putting
to
death
a
knight
more
for
anger
than
anie
iust
cause
,
the
Gentleman
at
the
sentence
,
cried
out
:
Iniurious
Emperor
,
I
cite
thée
to
appeare
before
the
tribunall
seate
of
God
,
to
answere
this
wrong
within
thirtie
daies
,
on
the
last
of
which
expired
tearme
the
Emperour
died
.
Then
comfort
thy selfe
Rustico
,
let
not
despaire
arme
thée
to
such
an
heathenish
resolution
,
rather
liue
to
reuenge
than
die
to
double
thy
miserie
,
and
séeing
the
duke
hath
dealt
thus
hardly
,
vse
him
as
Alexander
Seuerus
handled
his
secretarie
,
who
beeing
a
caterpiller
in
the
Court
,
and
selling
the
verie
fauourable
lookes
of
his
maister
for
coyne
,
promising
poore
men
to
prosecute
their
sutes
,
when
he
neuer
mooued
their
cause
:
at
last
in
requitall
of
this
treacherous
dealing
was
tied
to
a
post
and
choak●…d
with
smoake
,
hauing
a
proclamation
made
before
him
by
sound
of
trump●…t
,
that
they
which
sell
smoake
shoulde
so
perishe
with
smoake
,
the
poore
man
from
these
plaintes
fell
into
teares
,
that
ouercome
with
the
passions
hee
fell
a
sleepe
,
where
in
a
dreame
was
by
God
reueaied
vnto
him
the
meanes
of
reuenge
,
as
soone
as
he
awoake
and
called
vnto
minde
the
vision
,
thinking
it
to
be
no
fantasticke
illusion
of
the
brayne
,
but
a
strickt
commaunde
from
the
heauenly
powers
,
presently
wente
home
and
waxed
contrarye
vnto
his
woonted
custome
very
merrye
,
frequenting
dayly
the
Dukes
Palace
,
where
giuing
him selfe
vnto
drinking
he
became
in
time
to
bee
in
some
sauour
with
the
Duke
,
who
neuer
remembred
that
hee
sat
in
iudgement
against
the
poore
man
.
On
a
time
seeing
that
oportunitie
●…auoured
him
,
he
requested
the
Duke
that
as
he
went
on
hunting
,
he
would
take
the
paines
to
visit
his
poore
house
,
where
he
should
finde
no
daintie
fare
,
but
onely
that
he
durst
promise
a
cup
of
good
wine
.
This
worde
was
enough
to
perswade
the
Duke
to
a
greater
matter
,
so
that
be
granted
to
come
.
The
poore
man
glad
that
his
purpose
was
like
to
take
effect
,
went
home
and
made
a
sale
of
all
that
hee
had
euen
to
his
veri●…
shirt
,
to
the
great
sorow
of
his
wife
,
and
wonder
of
his
neighbours
which
knew
not
his
pretence
.
As
soone
as
he
had
pretilie
furnished
himself
with
mony
,
he
bought
great
store
of
excellent
and
delicate
viandes
of
strong
and
pleasant
wine
,
and
conua●…ed
them
home
to
his
house
,
whether
within
two
daies
after
the
Duke
fore-sent
his
cooke
,
certifieng
the
poore
man
that
he
would
dine
with
him
,
who
prouiding
most
sumptuous
fare
,
set
all
his
wealth
vpon
the
table
at
one
dinner
,
and
intertained
the
Duke
with
such
a
heartie
welcome
,
that
he
not
onely
wondered
where
Rustico
got
such
store
of
victuals
,
but
gaue
great
thankes
for
his
good
chéere
.
Rustico
serued
in
wine
in
such
abundaunce
,
that
don
Antonio
fell
to
his
olde
vice
of
dronkennes
and
in
such
sort
,
as
he
neuer
tooke
so
much
in
his
life
.
The
poore
man
seeing
him
take
his
drinke
so
fréely
,
went
to
one
of
his
Trumpetters
,
and
told
him
that
the
Duke
commanded
hee
shoulde
by
sounde
of
Trumpet
presently
summon
all
the
Citizens
to
appeare
at
his
house
,
eyther
without
delaie
or
excuse
.
Which
commande
,
hee
forthwith
executed
:
and
the
Burgomaisters
&
chiefs
men
of
the
Citie
meruailing
what
this
should
meane
,
yet
hasting
to
the
house
of
Rustico
,
they
found
a
sca●…folde
erected
at
the
doore
,
where
after
they
had
stayed
a
while
,
Rustico
came
foorth
,
and
began
to
speake
in
this
manner
.
Worthie
Citizens
and
Burgomasters
of
〈◊〉
,
I
knowe
you
meruaile
what
the
cause
of
your
comming
is
,
especially
séeing
mee
that
am
poore
and
vnlettered
prepare
to
offer
an
Oration
to
such
politike
gouernours
,
but
it
is
the
●…are
of
my
Countri●…
,
&
especially
of
this
Citie
,
which
is
like
to
rui●…ate
through
the
want
of
the
possession
of
a
perfect
magistrate
,
that
drines
me
to
this
resolute
and
desperate
attempte
:
The
dutie
of
a
magistrate
,
as
I
haue
heard
,
a
certaine
Philosopher
should
set
downe
,
consisteth
in
three
especiall
pointes
,
in
ruling
,
teaching
and
iudging
,
that
hee
be
wise
to
gouerne
,
vertuous
to
giue
insample
,
and
impartiall
to
iudge
:
for
as
Cicero
saith
,
sooner
shall
the
course
of
nature
faile
,
than
the
subiects
will
leau●…
to
follow
the
steps
of
their
Prince
.
If
then
that
common
wealth
be
happy
that
is
gouerned
by
such
a
king
,
in
what
distresse
is
that
Citie
that
wanteth
such
a
magistrate
,
and
hath
one
that
neither
rul●…th
,
teacheth
,
or
doth
iustice
,
but
censures
all
things
by
the
pallet
.
Philip
of
Macedonia
béeing
desired
by
an
olde
woman
to
heare
her
complaint
,
answered
,
hee
had
no
leasure
.
Then
,
quoth
she
,
be
not
●…ing
,
meaning
that
a
Prince
ought
to
haue
more
care
ouer
the
affaires
of
the
common
wealth
,
then
ouer
his
owne
priuate
busines
:
Then
worthie
Citizens
,
what
may
that
Citie
saie
,
whose
gouernour
is
addicted
to
his
own
pleasure
,
that
delights
not
in
iustice
,
but
in
superflui●…y
,
that
honors
not
the
seate
of
iudgement
with
Philosophie
,
but
polluteth
the
place
with
dronkenesse
,
that
studieth
not
in
the
lawe
,
but
his
library
is
in
the
kitchin
,
that
séeketh
not
to
learne
wisdome
,
but
to
gorge
his
stomack
with
delicates
,
such
a
one
,
worthie
Citisens
haue
we
,
for
our
Duke
,
our
gouernour
,
our
m●…gistrate
,
and
as
hee
vttered
that
word
,
his
poore
wife
and
children
dragge●…
the
Duke
vpon
the
scaffolde
,
who
was
all
besmeared
in
his
owne
vomite
,
&
resembling
rather
a
brute
bea●…t
then
a
man
,
bred
loathsomnes
to
all
the
people
:
which
●…e
poore
man
taking
●…or
his
aduantage
,
cried
out
:
See
Burgomasters
and
Citisens
of
Auspourg
,
your
duke
,
your
magistrate
,
your
gouernour
,
who
is
come
vpon
the
〈◊〉
to
hear●…
the
compla●…
of
the
widow
and
〈◊〉
,
and
to
minister
iud●…ment
.
This
is
the
t●…e
man
that
condemn●…d
me
in
the
halfe
of
my
goods
,
by
〈◊〉
,
and
the
other
h●…lfe
I
haue
solde
to
present
you
this
spectacle
:
the
o●…e
halfe
he
gaue
awaie
beeing
〈◊〉
,
and
the
other
this
daie
he●…
hath
c●…nsumed
in
gluttony
.
Now
citi●…ns
,
shame
you
not
at
such
a
sight
,
what
shall
G●…rmanie
,
France
,
Italy
,
and
all
the
bordering
Cities
report
of
our
towne
?
What
straunger
will
desire
to
traffique
where
there
is
such
a
glutton
?
What
Citie
can
ioy
where
there
is
such
a
gouernour
?
If
you
suffer
this
,
the
common
wealth
is
like
to
ruinate
,
and
you
and
your
children
like
to
beare
the
burthen
of
a
superfluous
tyrant
:
See
what
Rustico
hath
done
for
his
Countrie
now
vse
him
as
you
please
.
The
Bu●…gomaisters
by
a
general
assent
,
gaue
commandement
that
he
should
be
vucouered
vpon
the
scaffold
til
he
came
to
himself
,
and
in
the
meane
time
they
assembled
them-selues
and
determined
his
exile
.
The
duke
alter
he
had
taken
two
or
three
houres
sleepe
,
sinding
himsel●…e
vpon
an
open
scaffolde
,
was
ashamed
.
But
hearing
what
had
happened
to
him
by
the
meanes
of
Rustico
,
and
how
the
Burgomaisters
had
resolued
on
his
banishment
,
as
one
feeling
the
horrour
of
the
fact
,
desperatly
went
into
the
poore
mans
backe
side
and
●…anged
himselfe
.
Which
ne●…es
being
brought
to
the
Burgomaisters
,
with
a
generall
voice
they
created
Rustico
gouernour
of
the
Citie
.
This
short
and
swéete
tale
of
Bernardino
greatlie
pleased
the
Countie
and
the
rest
of
the
companie
,
all
praising
the
pollicie
of
the
poore
man
,
that
had
made
so
speedie
and
sharpe
a
reuenge
.
Well
,
quoth
the
olde
Count●…sse
,
wee
haue
so
long
discoursed
of
gluttonie
,
that
our
simple
cheere
hauing
so
good
a
sauce
as
hunger
,
will
proue
verie
good
delicates
,
therefore
Gentlemen
,
séeing
wee
must
either
make
our
Co●…ke
cholerike
,
or
else
leaue
our
present
parle
,
let
vs
at
this
time
not
disturbe
his
patience
,
but
hie
vs
in
to
dinner
,
and
repast
being
taken
,
willingly
wee
will
continue
our
discourse
.
Then
●…eignior
Farneze
and
the
rest
hauing
their
stomackes
armed
to
such
a
combat
,
willingly
ob●…ied
,
and
so
for
this
time
we
will
leaue
them
.
FINIS
.