Penelopes
Web
.
When
as
the
stately
Citty
of
Troy
was
sackt
by
the
Grecians
,
&
al
the
Princely
brood
of
Priamus
either
vtterly
extinguished
by
the
sword
,
or
fatally
exiled
the
place
of
their
natiue
residence
:
Vlisses
,
Prince
of
Ithaca
,
who
had
remained
ten
yeares
at
the
siege
,
resolued
to
leave
the
confines
of
Asia
,
&
to
returne
to
the
gouernment
of
his
owne
Monarchy
:
but
especially
to
see
the
mistres
of
his
thoughts
chast
Penelope
,
from
whome
these
broiles
had
so
long
frowardly
detained
him
:
thinking
as
it
was
the
part
of
a
friend
to
accompany
Menelaus
in
reuenge
,
so
it
was
y●
duety
of
a
husband
by
smal
delay
to
bewray
his
affection
:
that
it
was
the
office
of
a
Prince
as
wel
to
study
in
Pallas
as
to
cry
Alarum
with
Mars
:
that
as
great
honour
dyd
depend
in
the
Scepters
as
in
the
sword
:
tha
the
gréene
Lawrell
in
the
Senate
house
,
was
as
pleasing
an
obiect
to
y●
eye
,
as
glittering
armour
in
the
field
:
Consideration
,
ther
preuenter
of
bad
I
wist
,
tyed
him
so
to
the
performing
of
these
forenamed
premisses
,
that
causing
his
weather
Ships
to
be
warped
out
of
the
Hauen
assoone
as
they
were
made
tyght
,
rigged
and
trimmed
,
able
to
brooke
winde
&
weather
,
be
●oysed
sayle
and
thrust
into
the
mayne
,
conuerting
his
course
toward
Ithaca
:
but
Fortune
the
enemy
to
prosperous
resolutions
,
willing
to
bewray
her selfe
,
hauing
commission
from
angry
Neptune
to
shewe
her
inconstancy
,
kept
him
still
in
the
Court
of
Ithaca
,
for
that
Nature
had
made
her
beautiful
by
a
superficiall
glory
of
well
proportioned
lineaments
,
and
vertue
had
made
her
wise
by
ayming
after
fame
with
wel
ordred
actions
,
thse
two
perfections
the
speciall
friend
to
fancy
,
armed
with
the
long
absence
of
Vlisses
,
&
with
many
rumors
of
his
death
,
brought
all
the
Péeres
of
Ithaca
to
become
sutors
to
Penelope
.
She
whom
Loue
had
arested
for
a
subiect
,
but
neuer
brought
to
any
seruile
obedience
,
whom
the
Idea
of
Vlisses
printed
in
her
thoughts
,
had
resolued
to
dye
the
wife
of
so
good
a
Prince
,
refused
their
proffers
,
&
with
the
warrant
of
her
chastity
sought
to
appease
their
humorous
perswasions
.
But
the
Noble
men
whom
delay
and
tyme
had
made
impatient
of
denyall
,
fell
in
to
flat
tearmes
and
craued
an
answer
.
Penelope
seeing
that
fortune
had
conspyred
her
mishap
,
by
breeding
such
a
restlesse
importunity
to
her
wooers
,
was
driuen
to
seeke
a
knot
in
a
Rush
,
and
with
policy
to
preuent
that
which
the
honest
and
honorable
pretence
of
her
chastity
was
not
able
to
defend
.
She
therfore
beguiling
time
with
labour
,
hauing
begun
a
webbe
wherein
she
spent
the
day
,
to
keep
her selfe
from
ydelnesse
,
knowing
that
Otia
si
tollus
〈◊〉
cupidinis
arcus
,
gaue
answer
,
that
when
her
worke
was
finished
she
wold
make
a
choice
of
some
one
of
them
for
her
husband
.
The
Noble
men
who
knew
that
as
the
work
was
not
great
,
the
dated
time
could
not
be
long
,
contented
themselues
with
this
reply
,
which
somewhat
eased
the
mind
of
Penelope
:
but
when
she
fell
into
consideration
with
herselfe
,
that
the
longest
Sommer
hath
his
Autumne
,
the
largest
sentence
his
Period
,
and
the
greatest
labour
his
performance
,
she
began
to
be
melancholy
til
Loue
had
learned
her
a
shift
to
make
her
work
endles
,
by
vntwisting
as
much
in
the
night
as
shée
woue
in
the
day
:
this
policy
put
in
practice
,
(
for
that
the
night
the
friend
of
sweet
and
golden
sléepes
grudged
that
her
benefits
should
be
despised
by
the
restlesse
labour
of
such
a
politick
huswife
)
she
determined
accompanied
with
her
Nurse
and
two
Maides
,
to
passe
away
the
time
in
parle
,
thinking
thus
both
to
further
her
content
,
and
procure
paine
to
bée
mittigated
by
such
pleasing
delights
:
seeing
therefore
that
her
Nurse
began
to
nodde
and
her
Maides
to
winke
,
she
wakened
them
out
of
their
dreames
with
this
mercy
chat
.
I
can
but
smile
(
Nurse
)
to
sée
how
time
maketh
a
distinction
of
ages
by
affections
,
and
the
disposition
of
the
sences
followes
truely
the
temperature
&
constitution
of
theyr
bodies
,
as
a
particuler
instance
makes
manifest
:
for
the
time
of
the
night
(
growing
to
rest
)
summons
both
you
and
my
Maydes
to
sleepe
:
yet
though
the
affect
is
al
one
the
effects
are
diuers
▪
for
age
whom
nature
hath
stored
with
imperfection
and
disease
,
and
therefore
fréed
from
the
taxe
of
disquieted
thoughts
,
teacheth
the
sences
by
the
desire
of
sleep
,
how
the
number
of
your
yeres
are
dated
vnto
death
:
that
with
Antisthenes
wee
may
say
how
the
bed
r●sembleth
the
graue
,
and
the
closing
of
the
sences
the
dissoluing
of
life
:
my
maides
whom
youth
perswades
vnto
rest
,
and
want
of
care
,
prooues
that
the
blacke
Oxe
neuer
troade
on
their
féete
,
onely
cares
how
to
serue
time
▪
for
that
no
other
care
hath
yet
bitten
them
by
the
héele
,
&
so
resoluing
their
minds
in
quiet
by
such
content
,
séekes
to
pleasure
the
sences
by
swéet
slumbers
:
but
I
poore
soule
whom
fortune
hath
set
as
a
subiect
,
wheron
to
worke
the
variable
points
of
her
inconstancy
,
finde
my
sences
so
countermanded
with
disquieted
thoughts
,
as
desire
of
content
drawes
mée
into
a
laborinth
of
restlesse
passions
.
Eubula
one
of
her
Maides
that
was
most
familiar
with
her
Lady
,
made
this
pretty
and
pithy
reply
:
I
remember
(
Madam
)
that
Ph●dias
,
drawing
the
counterfaite
of
youth
,
f●gureth
labour
as
the
task-master
of
his
actions
,
&
ease
as
the
paymaster
of
his
deserts
:
meaning
as
I
can
coniecture
by
the
Embleame
,
that
as
it
behoueth
youth
to
spend
the
day
in
worke
,
whereby
to
auoide
the
sugred
snares
that
idlenesse
layeth
to
intrap
the
sences
:
so
the
guerdon
for
such
forward
inde●ours
is
to
consume
the
night
in
swéet
and
quiet
slumbers
,
least
the
vitall
spirits
ouercharged
with
too
much
labour
,
should
either
grudge
at
too
sore
an
impost
,
or
else
fall
to
inconuenience
by
ouerlong
toyle
and
watchings
:
Extremity
is
euer
a
vice
,
too
much
in
euery
thing
is
hurtful
,
and
the
greatest
prodigality
is
the
expence
of
the
eye
:
I
meane
not
(
Madame
)
in
gazing
want●nly
,
but
in
watching
ouer
niggardly
:
which
when
I
consider
how
prodigal
your
honour
is
in
this
point
,
I
cannot
but
(
as
euer
I
haue
done
)
merua●le
at
your
wisdome
and
vertue
,
so
now
to
wonder
at
your
loue
and
constancy
:
forthinking
with
my self
that
your
Grace
is
seated
in
a
Throne
of
Maiesty
,
adorned
with
a
Scepter
and
a
Dyadem
,
honoured
with
the
possession
of
a
Kingdome
&
the
tytle
of
a
Quéene
,
rich
,
beautifull
and
young
,
the
very
aduocates
of
vanity
:
and
séeing
that
the
affection
your
Highnes
beares
to
Vlisses
,
the
loue
to
your
Husband
,
the
vow
to
your
Lord
,
though
in
long
absence
still
qua●●●fies
the
forenamed
pleasures
with
the
swéet
deaw
of
a
modest
chastity
:
I
must
(
Madame
)
without
flattery
say
,
that
in
requitall
of
such
constant
affection
,
the
Gods
in
iustice
must
crowne
you
with
immortality
,
and
the
world
reward
you
with
fame
and
honour
.
Indéed
quoth
Vygenia
(
for
so
was
her
second
Maide
called
)
when
I
sée
maiesty
a
contented
copartner
with
labor
,
and
a
resolute
farewell
to
ease
:
the
chosen
companion
to
a
Quéene
,
I
cannot
thinke
but
loue
is
a
great
Lord
,
that
in
a
womans
affections
worketh
such
straunge
effects
.
Take
héede
quoth
Ismena
(
which
was
the
last
and
youngest
of
the
thrée
)
that
in
this
word
loue
,
you
deceiue
not
your selfe
:
for
there
is
an
Amphibological
equiuocation
in
it
,
which
drowneth
the
hearers
oft
in
a
laborinth
of
perplexed
conceipts
.
As
how
quoth
Penelope
,
let
vs
heare
you
make
this
distinction
?
Ismena
that
was
young
and
very
quicke
witted
,
willing
to
content
her
Ladies
humour
by
beguiling
the
night
with
prattle
,
applying
as
well
her
fingers
to
the
web
as
her
tongue
to
the
tale
,
went
forward
thus
in
her
description
.
Although
(
Madame
)
experience
hath
not
taught
mée
to
set
downe
the
diuers
effects
of
Loue
,
yet
the
Phisition
by
reading
▪
oft
knoweth
the
nature
of
the
Simple
as
well
as
the
Gardner
that
planteth
it
:
&
he
which
séeth
Fortune
standing
on
a
Globe
,
may
iudge
she
is
fickle
though
he
try
not
her
inconstancy
:
many
speak
of
the
Crocadiles
teares
that
neuer
felt
her
deceipts
,
and
diuers
condemne
Diogenes
for
a
sinick
that
saw
not
his
Tub
:
The
Shoomaker
corrected
Appelles
picture
,
yet
he
kn●w
not
the
vse
of
the
Pensell
:
&
I
may
by
your
honours
patience
talke
of
Venus
Temple
that
neuer
smelt
the
fume
of
her
Sacrifice
:
but
to
say
what
I
haue
heard
,
thus
to
the
matter
.
Anacreon
,
Menander
and
Ouid
,
with
others
,
who
were
studious
in
this
amorous
Philosophy
,
haue
as
they
set
down
principles
,
so
penned
down
precepts
,
wherby
the
fond
and
variable
effects
of
loue
is
manifestly
deciphered
,
calling
it
by
the
name
of
a
God
,
as
vnder
that
tytle
bewraying
the
forceable
efficacie
that
by
a
predominant
quality
,
it
doth
infuse
into
humane
minds
:
other
whiles
a
Fury
,
as
discouering
the
sorrows
,
griefes
,
and
disquiets
that
procéeded
from
such
a
furious
humour
,
pain●ing
Cupid
blind
,
as
noting
the
selfconceipt
in
choice
,
like
a
little
boy
,
as
figuring
small
gouernment
,
not
leueled
by
the
proportion
of
reason
,
winged
,
as
absolutely
pourtaying
inconstant
and
fickle
passions
of
Louers
,
whose
thoughts
are
variable
,
whose
ioyes
are
momentary
,
like
to
the
shadows
which
Iuno
presented
to
the
Giants
,
bringing
forth
like
the
Ceader
trées
faire
leaues
but
no
●●ui●es
,
and
as
the
Date
hauing
soft
rindes
,
but
with
in
stones
as
hard
as
stéele
:
This
loue
(
Madame
)
presented
by
Venus
as
an
inueagle
obiect
,
no
sooner
entreth
the
eye
but
he
pierceth
the
heart
,
not
accompanied
with
vertue
to
perswade
,
but
armed
with
the
outward
hew
of
beauty
to
constraine
,
which
what
effect
soeuer
ensueth
,
waxeth
at
last
sorrow
and
repentance
:
Such
was
the
loue
of
Dido
to
Aeneas
,
that
séeing
the
curious
forme
of
the
dissembling
stranger
,
through
too
ouer
hasty
affection
,
did
both
ruinate
herselfe
and
her
Kingdome
.
Ariadna
by
crediting
the
swéete
tales
of
Theseus
,
Med●a
of
Iason
,
Phillis
of
Demophon
,
and
infinite
other
,
which
entring
into
this
passion
runs
headlong
after
endlesse
repentance
.
This
loue
is
like
the
Baaran
Leafe
which
séene
pleaseth
,
but
touched
pierceth
the
skinne
,
this
loue
is
that
which
ouerruling
yong
heads
,
sotteth
the
sences
,
dulleth
the
wittes
,
hindreth
quiet
,
and
maketh
a
passionate
confusion
in
the
minde
of
man
called
by
the
title
of
loue
,
which
indéed
is
méer●
lust
and
vanity
:
wheras
true
and
perfect
loue
hath
his
foundation
vpon
vertue
onely
,
ayming
at
the
inward
perfection
of
the
mind
,
not
at
the
outward
complection
of
the
body
,
which
decreaseth
not
but
increaseth
with
time
,
vniting
the
harts
with
such
strickt
leages
of
amity
,
that
it
●ccounteth
all
labour
a
pleasure
,
to
shew
endles
desire
by
effects
,
as
(
Madam
)
to
infer
your self
for
an
instance
▪
who
not
po●sessed
with
this
fond
fury
,
which
men
faine
to
come
from
Venus
,
but
that
settled
fancy
,
which
we
are
sure
procéedes
from
vertue
,
although
the
Prince
Vlisses
hath
ten
yéeres
béen
absent
at
the
siedge
of
〈◊〉
,
and
report
in
this
space
hath
made
sundry
and
time
nor
pretence
of
loue
can
euer
be
able
to
reconcile
where
De●●●pita
〈◊〉
olde
age
whom
diseases
hath
tyed
to
the
Crouch
,
will
now
with
the
babe
returne
to
the
Cradel
:
that
stoo●ing
to
the
graue
by
burden
of
ouer
many
yéers
,
wil
yet
offer
a
toothles
Sacrifice
to
Venus
for
a
young
husband
:
this
well
may
becalled
a
mariage
of
Labour
,
where
the
maried
couples
so
inequall
in
match
,
are
continually
troubled
with
a
spirit
of
dissention
▪
for
as
the
fower
Elements
are
different
in
their
properties
,
so
are
these
disagreeing
in
their
manners
:
the
earth
&
ayre
are
not
placed
well
in
one
ballance
:
the
fire
and
water
brookes
not
the
selfe
●amelimites
:
age
and
youth
may
conioyne
in
law
but
not
in
loue
,
sith
the
sanguine
complection
of
the
one
,
&
the
melancholye
&
saturnine
constitution
of
the
other
,
are
alwaies
in
thoughts
,
effecte
,
and
desires
opposite
ex
dyametro
:
so
that
by
the
opinion
of
Aristotle
they
be
as
it
were
immediat
contraries
:
which
Dyonisius
the
elder
noted
very
,
well
,
when
séeing
his
Mother
passing
old
and
ouer
growne
with
age
,
desirous
to
mary
a
yong
stripling
,
told
her
that
it
was
in
her
power
to
violate
the
lawes
of
Syracusa
,
but
not
the
lawes
of
nature
:
this
affirmeth
Plato
in
his
Androgina
,
&
agréeth
to
the
censure
of
Dionisius
,
affirming
that
marriage
in
olde
Women
is
with
the
Giants
bellum
ger●●e
,
cum
Diis
,
which
the
Romane
Lady
Valeria
well
noted
,
who
alwaies
had
this
saying
in
her
mouth
,
that
her
husband
dyed
to
others
,
but
liued
to
her
foreuer
.
And
héerin
can
I
commend
my
good
daughter
Penelope
,
that
hating
such
marriages
of
labour
,
doth
intend
both
toliue
and
dye
to
Vlisses
.
Nay
good
Nurse
quoth
Penelope
,
let
s
heare
your
last
distinction
,
I
meane
the
mariage
of
griefe
:
t
is
Madam
quoth
she
,
where
the
old
prouerb
is
sulsil'd
,
better
one
house
troubled
then
two
,
I
meane
where
a
bad
husband
is
coupled
with
a
bad
wife
,
where
the
one
striueth
to
ouercome
the
other
,
not
in
vertuous
actions
,
but
in
disquiet
and
murmurings
.
I
cannot
thinke
quoth
Penelope
,
that
there
is
any
husband
so
bad
,
which
the
honest
gouernment
of
his
wife
may
not
in
time
reforme
,
especially
if
she
kéep
those
three
speciall
points
that
are
requisite
in
euery
woman
,
Obedience
,
Chastity
,
and
Silence
,
thrée
such
graces
Nurse
,
as
may
reclay
me
the
most
gracelesse
husband
in
the
world
:
and
because
my
mayds
are
young
,
and
may
in
time
trie
the
fortune
of
mariage
,
we
wil
this
night
discourse
of
this
poynt
,
to
discouer
the
effects
and
efficacie
of
obedience
:
which
(
for
that
I
wil
be
first
in
this
newe
deuised
disputation
)
I
will
take
in
hand
to
discourse
of
,
that
both
we
may
beguile
the
night
with
prattle
,
and
profite
our
mynds
by
some
good
and
vertuous
precepts
.
The
maides
hearing
their
Lady
in
so
good
a
vain
were
glad
,
and
therfore
setting
their
hands
to
the
Web
,
and
their
eares
to
hir
talke
,
Penelope
began
in
this
manner
.
Zenobia
the
wife
of
Radamysius
,
King
of
Armenia
,
being
demanded
of
a
Lady
in
her
Court
,
how
she
procured
hir
husband
so
déepely
to
loue
hir
as
he
feared
in
any
wise
to
offer
her
occasion
of
displeasure
,
answered
by
fearing
ot
displease
him
,
meaning
that
the
chiefest
point
of
wisdome
in
a
good
wife
,
is
to
make
a
conquest
of
her
husband
by
obedience
.
Aristides
the
true
and
perfect
Iusticiari●
of
his
time
,
caused
the
portraiture
of
a
woman
figured
on
her
knées
,
to
be
caried
before
the
Brydes
at
their
espousals
,
to
signifie
that
they
meant
now
to
obey
&
submit
,
not
to
rule
or
command
,
for
quoth
he
,
such
fond
and
fanastick
women
as
make
choise
of
effeminate
Husbands
,
thereby
to
challenge
a
soueraine
superiority
ouer
them
,
may
rightly
be
compared
to
chose
presumptuous
fooles
that
had
rather
be
masters
of
blind
men
,
then
seruants
to
the
discréete
and
learned
,
which
caused
Plato
in
his
Androgina
to
say
that
a
wise
woman
ought
to
thinke
hir
husbands
maners
the
lawes
of
her
life
,
which
if
they
be
good
,
she
must
take
as
a
forme
of
her
actions
,
if
they
be
bad
,
she
must
brooke
with
patience
:
His
reason
is
thus
.
As
a
looking
glasse
or
Christal
though
most
curiously
set
in
Ebonie
,
serueth
to
small
purpose
if
it
doth
not
liuely
represent
the
proportion
and
lineaments
of
the
face
inspicient
:
so
a
woman
,
though
rich
&
beautifull
,
deserueth
smal
prayse
or
fauour
,
if
the
course
of
her
life
be
not
directed
after
her
husbands
compasse
.
And
as
the
Mathematicall
lines
which
Geometricians
doe
figure
in
their
carracters
,
haue
no
motion
of
them selues
,
but
in
the
bodies
wherin
they
are
placed
,
so
ought
a
wife
to
haue
no
proper
nor
peculiar
passion
or
affection
,
vnlesse
framed
ans
,
prouiding
Soldiours
,
money
and
Munition
,
took
her
iourney
as
farre
as
Athens
,
where
she
receiued
letters
from
Anthony
to
returne
backe
to
Rome
,
which
she
with
great
obedience
performed
,
sending
him
al
the
forenamed
necessaries
,
although
she
perfectly
knew
that
Cleopatra
was
with
him
in
the
fielde
:
But
when
the
warres
betwixt
him
and
Augustus
were
ended
,
he
sent
straight
to
commaund
Octauia
that
she
should
depart
from
his
house
,
which
she
did
so
obediently
,
that
Rome
after
her
death
would
haue
erected
an
Image
in
her
praise
,
but
that
Augustus
would
not
suffer
it
,
kéeping
Anthonies
children
,
that
hée
had
by
his
first
wife
,
with
such
care
and
diligence
,
as
it
did
wel
note
to
the
world
her
loue
and
obedience
.
To
confirme
which
more
at
large
,
I
will
rehearse
a
pleasant
history
.
Penelopes
Tale
.
SAladine
the
Souldan
of
Aegipt
,
who
by
his
prowesse
had
made
a
generall
conquest
of
the
Southeast
part
of
the
world
,
tooke
to
wife
Barmenissa
the
onely
daughter
and
heyre
of
the
great
Chan
,
who
amongst
sundry
Sutors
not
inferiour
to
him
in
parentage
and
progeny
,
yet
made
such
a
carefull
choyce
of
this
yong
Aegiptian
Prince
,
not
for
his
beauty
(
for
that
Nature
had
denied
him
that
fauour
)
but
for
his
vertue
(
sith
he
was
wise
and
valiant
)
that
imprinting
the
perfection
of
his
mind
with
a
déep
insight
into
the
déepest
place
of
her
heart
,
and
sealing
the
knot
of
fancy
with
the
signet
of
mariage
,
she
neuer
so
much
as
in
thought
crost
him
with
any
discourtesie
:
yet
for
that
men
are
the
subiects
of
Fortune
and
therfore
variable
,
and
the
true
disciples
of
time
,
and
therefore
momentary
,
he
began
to
loath
that
in
the
fruite
which
he
loued
in
the
bud
,
&
to
spurne
at
that
in
the
saddle
,
which
he
secretly
vsed
in
the
cradle
,
repaying
the
faith
of
Bermenissa
,
not
with
flattery
to
inueagle
her
,
but
with
foule
language
t●e
better
to
manifest
his
hate
:
which
although
Nature
forbad
her
to
brooke
,
yet
obedience
the
Heralt
the
best
imblazeth
loue
,
taught
her
that
against
such
sorrow
there
was
no
better
salue
then
patience
:
that
reuenge
in
a
woman
was
not
to
be
executed
by
the
band
,
but
by
the
hart
,
and
yet
not
with
rigour
but
with
clemency
persisting
in
this
opinion
,
Olinda
the
Concubine
which
Saladine
so
greatly
loued
,
sent
a
letter
to
this
effect
.
Olinda
to
Saladine
health
.
IF
the
inward
affects
of
the
minde
be
manifested
by
outward
effects
or
the
brow
the
bashful
bewrayer
of
secrets
,
and
yet
the
true
discouerer
of
thoughts
,
may
bée
credited
,
the
Emperour
of
Aegipt
in
his
loues
resembleth
the
Pyne
trée
,
whose
leaues
remaine
in
one
colour
but
one
day
:
Well
might
the
censures
of
wise
Clarks
haue
bin
caueats
of
my
likely
misfortune
:
for
they
say
Princes
affections
as
they
are
glorious
so
they
are
brittle
:
that
he
fauour
of
Kings
hangs
in
their
eye
lids
ready
with
euery
winke
to
be
wiped
out
:
that
as
they
are
full
of
Maiesty
and
aboue
law
,
so
they
are
full
of
inconstancy
,
because
without
law
:
this
which
other
spoke
by
proofe
,
now
I
alledge
by
experience
:
for
your
Highnes
abridgeth
me
of
my
wonted
allowance
,
not
onely
in
expence
but
in
lookes
,
so
that
I
account
that
day
happy
when
Saladine
but
glanceth
at
Olinda
.
The
mistris
of
my
mishap
is
thy
iniurious
wife
Barmenissa
,
to
whom
I
wish
thy
ill
fortunes
&
my
miseries
:
she
with
a
fained
obedience
séeketh
to
inueagle
thée
with
a
conceipt
of
her
loue
,
who
if
shée
did
loue
,
could
not
content
,
for
she
wants
the
eye
pleasure
,
beauty
:
thou
tickled
with
an
inconstant
humour
dost
listen
to
the
melody
of
the
old
Syren
,
whose
necke
shadowed
with
wrinckles
affoords
but
had
harmony
:
Kéep
not
(
Saladine
)
fire
and
water
in
one
hand
:
in
running
with
the
Hare
hold
not
with
the
Hound
:
beare
not
both
a
Sword
and
an
Oliue
.
Paris
gaue
sentence
but
on
Venus
part
,
affection
brooketh
no
diuision
?
therefore
if
thou
loue
Olinda
,
hate
Barmenissa
:
follow
the
example
of
Anthony
,
who
after
his
choyce
of
thy
Countriwoman
neuer
fauoured
Octauia
:
t
is
beauty
that
mertis
a
Crowne
,
and
as
well
would
the
Diadem
of
Aegipt
beséeme
they
Lemons
head
,
as
thy
wiues
:
I
should
,
and
yet
were
loth
to
flatter
in
saying
what
I
would
not
:
but
if
I
may
haue
free
libertie
to
speake
what
I
think
,
my
verdit
shall
be
soone
giuen
.
I
confesse
that
what
pleaseth
the
father
ought
to
content
the
sonne
:
and
therefore
I
count
the
will
of
Saladyne
a
lawe
to
Garinter
:
yet
as
obedience
wisheth
a
consent
,
so
Nature
willeth
with
a
friendly
denyall
to
diswade
from
things
that
offende
not
onely
men
,
but
that
are
euen
hatefull
to
the
Gods
.
I
say
therefore
that
Saladyne
should
get
more
honour
by
exyling
Olynda
,
not
onely
from
Babylon
,
but
out
of
all
the
confines
of
Aegipt
,
then
if
he
had
obtayned
more
tryumphes
then
that
inuincible
Caesar.
No
doubt
your
Grace
shall
soone
,
nay
I
feare
to
soone
,
finde
my
words
to
be
true
,
that
in
hoping
to
get
a
swéete
content
you
gayne
a
sower
mislike
:
like
to
them
which
pleased
with
the
colour
of
the
trée
Lotos
,
are
poysoned
assoone
as
they
taste
of
the
Apples
.
Barmenissa
,
hearing
how
sharply
her
sonne
shooke
vp
the
Emperour
,
with
a
modest
countenance
,
as
nothing
grudging
at
the
iniurie
of
fortune
,
at
her
last
farewell
gaue
him
this
charge
:
Although
sonne
the
law
of
nature
willes
thée
to
be
partner
of
thy
mothers
misfortunes
,
yet
the
Gods
,
whose
lawes
are
aboue
nature
,
commaunds
that
thou
gainsay
not
the
Edict
of
thy
father
:
For
as
Proclus
the
Academick
affirmes
,
there
is
nothing
which
we
ought
more
to
regard
then
duetie
and
obedience
:
the
commaunde
of
the
father
is
not
to
bée
limited
by
the
conceipt
of
the
child
,
for
as
their
superiority
is
without
proportion
,
so
their
wils
ought
to
be
without
denials
,
first
the
frowne
of
a
father
(
saith
Epictetus
)
is
like
the
eleuation
of
a
Commet
which
foreshewes
euer
some
fatall
and
finall
ruine
.
Then
Garinter
offend
not
thy
father
in
thought
,
least
the
gods
grudging
at
thy
secret
disobedience
plague
thée
with
an
open
reuenge
:
further
sonne
,
thou
art
his
subiect
,
and
be
thy
soueraine
,
what
duetie
is
due
to
such
a
mighty
potentate
thou
must
by
law
and
conscience
offer
vnto
him
.
And
séeing
by
the
consent
of
the
Aegiptian
lawes
I
am
deposed
,
and
O●●nda
inuested
with
the
regall
crowne
:
if
a
mothers
commaund
may
be
a
constraint
to
the
sonne
.
I
charge
thée
that
thou
shew
her
the
same
obedience
that
belongs
to
a
Princesse
,
and
thy
fathers
wife
,
Philarkēs
the
sonne
of
Psamnet●chus●beyed
●beyed
Rhodope
,
whom
his
father
raised
from
a
common
courteza●
to
a
Princesse
.
Antiochus
the
sonne
of
Demetrius
buil●ed
stately
Sepulchres
for
his
fathers
Concubines
:
Reuenge
(
son
)
ought
not
to
go
in
purple
,
but
in
white
,
&
the
salue
for
iniuries
i●
not
choller
but
patience
:
for
myne
owne
part
Garinter
I
set
thée
down
no
precept
but
the
which
my self
meane
to
hould
for
a
principle
,
and
thou
by
imitating
thy
mothers
actions
,
shew
thy selfe
to
be
duetiful
,
which
if
thou
performe
,
I
will
continnually
pray
to
the
Gods
of
thy
good
,
otherwise
,
if
for
my
cause
thou
intend
reuenge
,
I
wish
thy
ill
:
&
so
wishing
to
thy
father
as
to
my
soueraigne
,
&
to
the
Princesse
as
to
one
honored
with
a
Diademe
,
I
take
my
leaue
at
that
Court
,
as
wel
content
with
my
aduersitie
,
for
that
it
is
the
kings
commaund
,
as
euer
I
was
wi●h
prosperitie
:
And
with
this
the
Princesse
departed
,
leauing
both
her
sonne
and
the
Nobles
passing
pensiue
for
her
present
disgrace
,
The
Souldan
not
satisfied
with
this
iniurie
,
caused
presently
Proclamation
to
be
made
,
that
the
Princesse
should
haue
no
reliefe
,
but
what
she
earned
with
her
hands
,
that
her
ladies
should
be
labour
,
and
her
maintenance
,
no
other
then
her
owne
indeuour
could
prouide
:
This
edict
commaunded
to
be
published
,
the
King
solempnised
his
marriage
with
sumptuous
showes
and
triumphes
,
&
Garinter
that
he
might
shew
how
carefull
he
was
to
obey
his
mothers
last
command
,
broght
in
Maskes
and
comicall
delightes
to
finish
vp
the
solempnitie
of
the
nuptials
.
The
festiual
time
being
past
,
Olinda
puffed
vp
with
a
swéete
conceipt
of
her
prosperitie
,
so
ruled
and
ouerruled
in
her
gouerment
,
vsing
such
tiranny
in
words
,
and
perswading
her
Husband
to
such
disordred
actions
,
that
she
generally
fell
in
hate
of
all
the
people
,
in
so
much
that
the
Souldan
himselfe
grudged
at
her
ambitious
presumptions
:
Well
leauing
her
to
her
follies
,
againe
to
the
Lady
Barmenissa
,
who
fallen
from
a
Crowne
to
a
Cottage
,
and
from
a
Scepter
almost
to
a
Scrip
,
stil
salued
her
want
with
labour
and
her
pauertie
with
patience
,
bearing
as
princely
a
mind
in
aduersitie
,
as
she
did
in
prosperity
,
neither
grudging
at
iniury
,
nor
gaping
after
reuenge
,
staied
thus
vpon
this
vertuous
founda●ion
,
The
happy
fates
thy
sor●ows
haue
withstood
,
By
syning
want
and
pouerty
thy
share
.
For
now
content
(
f●nd
fortune
to
despight
)
With
patience
lows
thee
quiet
and
delight
.
Barmenissa
had
no
sooner
ended
her
madrigale
,
but
that
she
heard
a
great
noise
,
which
at
the
first
amazed
her
,
but
at
the
last
she
perceiued
it
to
be
the
voice
of
men
:
desirous
therfore
to
bée
a
partner
of
their
secrecy
,
she
kept
her selfe
silent
within
the
thicket
,
when
she
perceiued
certaine
of
the
nobles
of
Aegipt
that
were
retyred
to
that
solitary
place
,
to
confer
of
the
ambitious
supremicy
that
Olinda
vsed
since
her
Coronation
,
and
amongst
the
rest
one
of
the
Lords
,
whose
name
was
Egistus
,
burst
foorth
into
these
tearmes
.
Egistus
Oration
to
the
Lords
of
Egipt
.
IT
is
not
vnknowne
(
right
Honorable
Lordes
of
Aegipt
)
not
onely
to
vs
,
but
to
the
whole
Empire
,
how
the
King
,
seduced
by
the
flattering
allurements
of
a
Strumpet
,
hath
not
onely
violated
the
law
of
our
Gods
,
in
prophaning
the
nuptiall
Bed
,
made
sacred
by
the
holy
law
of
Matrimony
,
but
also
the
law
of
Aegipt
,
which
forbiddeth
diuorce
without
cause
:
but
sith
in
a
Monarchy
the
willes
of
Princes
may
abide
no
ch●ck
,
but
their
reasons
(
how
soeuer
vnreasonable
)
are
the
principles
that
may
not
be
infringed
,
it
resteth
only
for
vs
to
complaine
,
but
not
to
redresse
:
〈◊〉
ayming
more
at
the
weale
of
our
country
than
our
own
liues
,
we
set
our
rest
on
the
hazard
and
so
desperatly
throw
at
al.
First
let
vs
consider
that
Saladine
the
mighty
Souldan
of
Aegipt
,
puffed
vp
with
the
Highnes
of
his
Maiesty
,
and
number
of
his
●errisories
subiect
to
his
gouernment
,
hath
been
so
tyrannous
to
his
commons
from
his
first
Coronation
,
that
vnlesse
his
unmod●●ate
pride
and
presumption
,
had
bin
mittigated
by
the
verteous
clemency
of
his
wife
,
the
burthen
of
his
cruelty
long
time
since
had
béen
intollerable
:
but
now
hauing
deposed
that
péerelesse
Princesse
,
whose
vertues
made
her
famous
,
and
vs
happy
,
and
maried
a
Concubine
,
whose
vanities
bréedes
her
enuy
and
our
mishap
:
we
are
to
look
for
no
other
euent
but
our
particuler
ill
fortune
,
and
the
generall
ruyne
of
the
weale
publicke
.
Then
my
Lords
,
least
we
should
be
spotted
with
the
staine
of
ingratitude
,
in
suffering
the
Princesse
iniury
vnreuenged
:
and
least
we
should
séeme
to
be
borne
more
for
our selues
then
our
Country
,
let
vs
attempt
the
restitution
of
the
Queene
,
and
the
fatal
ouerthrow
of
the
insolent
Concubine
,
although
death
and
daunger
were
the
end
of
our
enterprize
:
The
plot
my
Lords
I
haue
laid
by
impoysoning
her
cup
at
the
next
supper
:
but
with
this
prouison
,
that
no
intent
of
treachery
,
shall
so
much
as
in
thought
bée
pretended
to
the
person
of
our
Soueraigne
,
whom
next
vnder
the
Gods
we
are
bound
to
loue
&
reuerence
.
This
my
Lords
is
my
purpose
,
wherto
if
you
consent
,
I
meane
this
night
to
put
it
in
practise
:
otherwise
to
craue
that
my
spéeches
may
bée
buried
in
silence
.
Egistus
hauing
ended
his
Oration
,
the
Lordes
not
only
gaue
their
frée
consent
,
but
also
sware
to
be
secret
,
and
to
be
ayders
in
his
defence
,
if
any
iniury
should
be
offred
for
his
enterprise
:
and
vpon
this
resolution
they
departed
.
Barmenissa
(
who
all
this
while
held
her self
close
in
the
Couert
)
hauing
heard
their
determination
,
was
surprised
with
such
sodaine
ioy
,
that
at
last
shée
burst
foorth
into
these
spéeches
.
Now
Bermenissa
,
thou
séest
that
delay
in
reuenge
is
the
best
Phisicke
:
that
the
Gods
are
iust
and
haue
taken
thy
quarrel
as
aduocates
of
thine
iniury
:
now
shalt
thou
sée
wrong
ouer
ruled
with
patience
,
and
the
iuyne
of
thine
enemy
with
the
safety
of
thine
owne
honour
▪
time
is
the
discouerer
of
mishap
,
and
Fortune
neuer
ceaseth
to
stretch
her
strings
til
they
cracke
:
shame
is
the
end
of
trechery
,
and
dishonour
euer
forerunnes
repentance
,
Olinda
hath
soard
with
●ca●us
,
&
is
like
to
fall
with
Phaeton
:
sooner
are
bruses
caught
by
reaching
too
hye
,
then
by
stooping
too
low
:
Fortune
g●udgeth
not
at
them
which
fall
,
but
enuy
bytes
them
which
climbes
;
now
shall
the
Lords
of
Aegipt
by
reuenging
dound
to
both
your
contentments
:
and
then
she
made
manifest
the
pretence
of
those
Noble
men
.
Olinda
amazed
at
this
sodaine
newes
(
as
base
myndes
are
euer
fearefull
)
desired
the
Souldan
that
they
might
hye
home
,
least
some
treason
in
that
place
were
intended
:
for
(
quoth
she
)
I
knowe
,
whatsoeuer
she
saies
,
that
Barmenissa
was
the
author
of
this
treacherie
,
whose
life
,
how
long
so
euer
it
be
,
is
the
continuance
of
my
sorrows
.
The
Souldan
whom
conscience
began
now
to
sting
at
the
very
hart
,
turned
his
backe
without
farewell
,
and
no
sooner
came
at
the
Court
,
but
caused
the
Lords
that
were
fauourers
of
this
treason
to
be
apprehended
,
who
willingly
confessed
their
intended
determination
,
with
resolution
either
to
die
or
to
perform
it
.
The
King
,
perceiuing
their
obstinacie
,
committed
them
to
warde
:
and
now
to
make
proofe
of
Olyndas
patience
,
he
counterfeated
a
more
déeper
affection
then
euer
he
did
,
and
for
confirmation
thereof
,
he
gaue
her
free
libertie
to
make
choise
of
thrée
things
without
denyall
whatsoeuer
she
would
craue
:
which
Olynda
taking
kindly
,
desired
this
graunt
to
bee
sollemnely
giuen
before
the
Péers
of
Aegipt
:
Upon
this
request
the
Souldan
made
Proclamation
throughout
all
his
Empyre
,
that
the
Nobility
should
within
fiftéene
daies
appeare
at
Memphis
,
where
then
he
kept
his
Court
with
notice
also
that
vppon
that
day
the
Quéene
should
fréely
aske
thrée
things
of
the
Souldan
without
denyall
.
The
commons
greatly
grudged
at
this
graunt
,
and
began
to
mutinie
,
that
a
gracelesse
Concubine
should
reape
such
fauours
without
desart
.
The
olde
Empresse
,
partaker
also
of
this
newes
,
willing
to
forwarne
the
Princesse
of
ambition
,
determined
with
herselfe
to
send
her
certaine
verses
,
as
a
cauea●e
for
so
warie
a
choyce
.
Wellleauing
her
to
her
Poems
:
the
Nobility
and
many
of
the
Commons
at
the
dated
tyme
came
,
where
in
the
Parliament
house
the
Souldan
reuealed
the
cause
of
their
comming
:
namely
,
to
be
witnesses
of
his
graunt
and
her
demaund
▪
Olynda
fearing
the
worst
,
caused
the
King
sollemnely
to
sweare
,
that
he
should
not
reuoke
whatsoeuer
he
had
promised
.
The
Souldan
taking
aduice
,
made
this
sollemne
prostetation
,
and
sware
by
the
God
of
the
Aegiptians
,
that
whatsoeuer
he
had
promised
to
the
right
and
lawfull
Quéene
of
AEgipt
,
he
would
performe
.
Olynda
settling
her selfe
to
vtter
her
mind
,
was
interrupted
by
a
messenger
that
came
from
Barmenissa
with
a
scrole
.
The
Shuldan
understanding
to
what
effect
it
tended
,
caused
it
openly
to
be
read
:
the
contents
whereof
were
the
verses
following
,
ouer
which
was
written
this
lattin
sentence
.
Tempora
mutantur
,
&
nos
mutan●or
in
illis
.
Aspiring
thoughts
led
Phaeton
〈◊〉
Proud
Icarus
did
fall
he
sour'd
so
hye
:
Seeke
not
to
clymbe
with
fond
Semyramis
,
Least
Sonne
reuenge
the
fathers
iniury
.
Take
heede
,
Ambition
is
a
〈◊〉
ill
That
fortune
layes
,
presumptuous
minds
to
spill
.
The
bitter
griefe
that
frets
the
quiet
minde
,
The
sting
that
prickes
the
froward
man
to
woe
:
Is
Enuy
,
which
in
honour
seld
we
finde
,
And
yet
to
honour
sworne
a
secret
foe
.
Learne
this
of
me
,
enuy
not
others
state
,
The
fruites
of
enuie
is
enuy
and
hate
.
The
misty
cloude
that
so
eclipseth
fame
,
That
gets
reward
a
Chaos
of
dispight
,
Is
blacke
reuenge
which
euer
winneth
shame
,
A
fury
vilde
that
s
hatched
in
the
night
.
Beware
,
seeke
not
reuenge
against
thy
foe
,
Least
once
reuenge
thy
fortune
ouergoe
.
These
blasing
Commets
doe
foreshew
mishap
,
Let
not
the
flaming
lights
offend
thine
eyes
:
Looke
ere
thou
leape
,
preuent
an
after
clap
:
These
three
forewarn'd
well
mayst
thou
flye
.
If
now
by
choyce
though
aymest
at
happy
health
,
Eschew
selfe-loue
,
choose
for
the
Common
Wealth
.
heard
his
melody
&
diuers
landed
at
Samos
that
sayles
not
to
Corinth
,
〈…〉
is
not
the
discouerie
of
affection
:
neither
to
the
talke
of
a
husband
the
proofe
of
mariage
:
but
feeling
where
your
owne
shooe
〈◊〉
ye
,
you
aime
at
the
straightnesse
of
my
last
.
Ismena
hearing
hir
fellowes
at
such
drye
blowes
,
told
them
that
how
〈◊〉
so
euer
they
made
it
,
their
s●ken
throtes
would
easily
digest
such
〈…〉
(
quoth
she
I
dare
sweare
the
precisest
of
you
both
had
rather
a
husband
than
heare
of
him
,
seeing
your
yeares
are
enough
and
your
minds
not
vowed
to
Minerua
.
Penelope
could
not
but
smile
at
the
chollericke
prattle
of
her
mayds
and
yet
for
that
the
night
was
farre
spent
&
her
Nurse
in
a
sound
sleepe
,
she
tooke
vp
their
controuersie
,
concluding
with
the
opinion
of
her
maid
Ismenia
,
that
they
had
rather
follow
Iuno
to
the
Temple
then
Diana
to
the
Woods
:
and
rather
sing
with
Himenius
than
weepe
with
Vesta
.
Well
,
the
maids
whose
conscience
told
them
their
Mistris
propheste
was
truth
,
agréed
to
hir
principles
with
silence
:
and
Penelope
waking
her
Nurse
,
mannerly
foulding
by
her
〈◊〉
went
quietly
to
her
rest
.
The
second
nights
discourse
.
AFter
that
the
day
was
come
,
&
the
Sutors
had
filled
the
stately
Pallace
of
●enelope
with
their
seuerall
traynes
,
the
Princesse
put
on
hermourning
attyre
,
which
alwa●●s
she
was
accustomed
to
weare
since
the
absence
of
Vlisses
:
shewing
her selfe
(
as
Antisthenes
commaunded
)
a
good
wi●e
discontent
in
her
husbands
absence
,
that
thereby
she
might
both
bewray
the
perfection
of
her
loue
,
and
quallifie
the
passionate
d●sires
of
her
Sutors
:
which
séeing
her
dayly
busie
about
her
Web
,
and
yet
her
labour
(
like
Belyde●
Daughters
to
powre
water
into
bottomelesse
Tubs
)
endlesse
,
could
not
comprehend
within
the
compasse
of
their
imagination
▪
what
the
reason
of
this
should
be
,
seeing
so
carefully
shee
endeuoured
her selfe
to
bring
her
worke
to
an
end
.
Well
,
resting
in
hope
the
time
should
ease
their
longing
,
they
spent
the
day
in
sundry
pleasant
pas●imes
and
seuerall
discourses
,
til
the
Sunne
declining
to
the
West
,
they
departed
.
Penelope
glad
of
their
absence
,
séeing
that
Phoebus
had
lodg●d
himselfe
with
Ty●an
,
and
Venus
the
swéet
messenger
of
the
silent
night
appeared
in
the
Skye
,
accompanied
as
before
with
her
Nurse
and
her
maids
,
she
went
to
her
old
talke
,
vntwisting
that
in
the
night
,
which
before
she
had
with
great
labor
wrought
in
the
day
.
Sitting
thus
busily
at
their
worke
,
the
olde
Nurse
(
who
by
the
last
nights
prattle
had
found
the
length
of
Penelopes●oote
●oote
)
began
to
waken
them
out
of
their
dumps
in
this
maner
.
I
maruel
,
when
I
consider
with
my selfe
that
the
Romaines
who
couetto
surpasse
the
Gre●ians
in
all
honorable
&
vertuous
actions
,
did
not
sée
into
their
owne
follies
,
when
they
erect
temples
vnto
Flo●a
,
as
a
Goddesse
worthy
of
deuine
Sacrifice
,
appointing
in
honour
of
her
funeral
day
certain
laiciuious
sports
and
pastimes
,
called
after
her
name
Floralia
,
she
being
a
most
vile
and
infamous
Courtizane
,
and
discrediting
the
state
of
their
Common
wealth
with
her
incontinencie
:
&
yet
grudge
to
errect
an
Image
in
the
memorie
of
Lucrece
,
that
with
her
inuiolable
chastitie
,
not
onely
honoured
the
Romaine
vertue
,
but
fréed
y●●ittie
from
the
burthen
of
a
Tyrant
.
The
reason
as
I
gesse
(
quoth
Penelope
)
is
for
that
the
nature
of
man
is
so
corrupt
&
addicted
too
vice
,
that
what
vanity
presents
,
they
still
(
be
if
neuer
so
had
)
kéep
it
as
an
obiect
to
their
eyes
:
but
what
is
veriously
performed
they
commit
to
Obliuions
charge
to
reward
.
In
déed
(
quoth
Is●enia
)
now
I
perceiue
that
my
doubt
is
absolued
,
which
long
hath
holden
me
in
suspence
:
for
long
haue
I
mused
why
only
in
all
the
whole
world
Diana
hath
a
Temple
in
Ephesus
,
and
Venus
is
commonly
honored
as
the
household
God
●ar
,
that
hath
a
corner
in
euery
mans
kitchin
:
for
in
Paphos
,
Cipres
,
Athens
,
Samos
,
Rome
,
and
infinite
other
Citties
,
her
Temples
stand
in
the
streetes
,
di●couering
the
erecters
deuotions
by
the
costly
and
sum●tuous
buildings
.
And
yet
(
quoth
Eubula
)
the
Vestals
in
Rome
,
who
were
dedicated
to
virginitie
,
bare
Palme
aboue
the
rest
:
for
the
Senators
apparelled
in
their
Robes
of
Maiestie
,
neuer
met
any
of
them
in
the
streete
but
they
gaue
them
credit
then
voluptuousnesse
,
so
nothing
getteth
more
honour
&
glory
then
chastity
.
The
consideration
whereof
,
moued
Iulius
Caesar
rather
to
suffer
a
diuorce
,
than
an
incontinent
wife
,
wishing
if
Gracchus
had
liued
in
his
daies
,
that
he
might
haue
made
an
exchange
of
the
Empresse
for
his
chast
wife
Cornelia
so
highly
did
that
Monarch
estéeme
of
that
vertue
Chastity
saith
Epictetus
is
the
very
faire
and
redolent
blossomes
that
the
trée
of
true
and
perfect
loue
doth
afford
,
yéelding
so
swéet
and
fragrant
a
●●uour
that
the
most
vicious
and
unbridled
●us●
and
〈…〉
by
the
smell
of
such
a
deuine
perfume
.
Euripedes
entring
into
the
consideration
of
this
vertue
,
crieth
out
,
as
wondring
at
the
excellency
thereof
.
O
how
is
chastity
to
be
estéemed
,
that
is
the
cause
of
such
great
glory
and
honour
amongst
woman
:
for
it
sheweth
the
feare
she
oweth
to
the
Gods
,
the
loue
she
beareth
to
her
husband
,
the
care
she
hath
of
same
,
the
small
desire
to
inordinate
affections
,
and
maketh
her
a
woman
,
a
very
patterne
of
supernaturall
perfection
.
Hipsicratea
being
demaunded
what
was
her
richest
Iewel
,
answered
chastity
,
alluding
to
the
opinion
of
Crates
the
Philosopher
,
who
was
wont
to
say
:
this
〈◊〉
ornament
that
adorneth
,
&
that
thing
adorneth
a
woman
which
maketh
her
more
honorable
:
and
this
is
not
done
by
Iewels
of
Golde
,
Emeralds
,
Precious
stones
or
sumptuous
attyre
,
but
by
euery
thing
that
causeth
her
to
be
accounted
honest
,
wise
,
humble
and
chast
.
The
Emperour
Aurelius
made
certaine
lawes
to
inhibite
superfluity
of
attyre
,
affirming
y●
such
y●
curiously
paint
out
themselues
with
〈…〉
,
swéete
perfumes
,
and
straunge
ornaments
of
pompe
〈…〉
nobility
of
birth
vrge
them
to
such
brauery
)
make
men
most
dissolute
and
subiect
to
folly
:
especially
if
such
sumptuous
sh●ws
be
ayded
with
a
rowling
eye
and
vnchast
look
wheras
a
wise
woman
through
her
honest
behauior
and
modest
countenance
,
lead
as
many
as
cast
their
eyes
vpon
her
,
to
a
continent
reuerence
of
Chastity
.
Socrates
was
wont
to
say
,
that
when
a
maried
wife
holdeth
her
looking
glasse
in
her
hand
,
she
should
speake
thus
to
her self
,
if
she
be
foule
:
what
then
should
become
of
me
if
I
should
be
also
wicked
?
&
if
she
be
faire
:
how
shal
my
beauty
be
accounted
of
,
if
I
continue
wise
and
honest
?
for
a
hard
fauoured
woman
that
is
renouned
for
her
chasti●y
,
is
more
honorable
then
she
which
is
famous
for
her
beauty
:
The
reco●ds
that
speake
honorably
of
the
Romaine
Ladies
,
tel
vs
that
the
wife
of
a
poor
Smith
méeting
the
Empresse
Faustina
,
tooke
the
wall
of
her
in
the
stréetes
,
whereat
the
Empresse
grudging
,
complained
to
the
Senate
,
who
sending
for
the
poore
woman
,
&
demaunding
of
her
if
she
committed
the
déed
?
she
denyed
it
not
,
and
therefore
her
husband
was
condemned
in
a
certaine
summe
▪
vppon
which
sentence
the
woman
appealed
from
the
Senate
to
the
Emperour
,
who
asked
what
she
could
say
for
her self
?
As
muchquoth
she
,
as
(
if
thou
be
iust
and
wise
)
may
suffice
.
For
although
I
am
not
so
honorable
as
thy
wife
,
yet
I
am
more
honest
,
and
the
Cittizens
of
Rome
ought
to
es●éeme
vertue
before
dignity
:
the
Emperour
vpon
this
discharged
the
woman
of
the
sentence
Alexander
the
great
hauing
at
the
conquest
of
Babylon
taken
a
very
wel
fauoured
Egiptian
Lady
,
a
widdow
whom
for
her
beauty
he
did
greatly
affectionate
,
at
night
commaunded
one
of
his
Captaines
to
bring
her
to
his
Tent
,
which
she
boldly
refused
,
willing
him
to
say
to
the
King
,
that
captiuity
was
no
priuiledge
to
infringe
chastily
,
and
if
he
went
about
to
dishonor
her
,
she
would
peruert
such
violence
by
death
:
this
answere
returned
●o
Alexander
;
he
not
onely
moderated
his
desire
,
but
sent
her
his
Signet
,
as
a
warrant
of
her
safety
▪
Portia
the
wife
of
Brutus
,
was
told
by
one
of
her
seruants
,
that
certaine
Embassadore
of
Samos
were
come
,
which
were
passing
beautifull
and
wel
proportioned
men
:
holde
thy
〈◊〉
foole
quoth
she
,
wouldst
thou
haue
ince
prepare
a
poyson
for
mine
honour
by
the
meanes
of
mine
eye
?
Cyrus
King
of
Pe●s●a
making
warres
against
the
Sythians
,
had
for
his
Pryze
of
the
triumph
a
very
faire
woman
called
Panther
,
who
being
the
wife
of
Ab●adatas
his
enemy
,
being
desired
of
Cirus
for
his
concubine
,
she
told
him
that
she
was
chast
,
the
king
little
respecting
this
short
answere
,
demaunded
a
further
resolution
,
why
quoth
Panther
?
can
there
be
any
other
answer
,
that
is
not
comprehended
in
this
word
,
chastity
?
héereby
noting
that
the
Antidote
against
,
the
enuenomed
thoughts
of
mens
alluring
intisements
,
and
the
surest
corrosiue
to
roote
out
such
vnbridled
desir●●
〈◊〉
draw
them
to
in●rdin●te
affecti●n
is
this
pretio●s
Iewel
of
chastity
,
the
which
the
more
to
confirme
,
I
will
rehearse
vnto
you
●
pleasant
History
,
which
hapned
not
long
since
within
our
dominions
of
Ithaca
.
Penelopes
second
tale
.
IN
this
Countrey
of
Ithaca
not
long
sin●e
,
there
dwelled
a
Nobleman
called
Calamus
,
of
parentage
honorable
,
as
allyed
to
the
bloud
Royall
:
of
possessions
rich
,
as
one
of
the
greatest
reuenewes
in
all
the
Country
:
but
therwithall
so
wedded
to
the
vaine
suppose
of
pleasure
and
delight
,
that
his
friends
sorrowed
at
the
course
of
his
vnbridled
follies
,
&
his
poor
tennants
groned
not
vnder
the
burd●n
of
his
●ouetous
desires
,
but
were
taxed
with
the
griefe
of
his
voluptuous
appetite
,
for
such
was
the
incontinency
of
his
life
,
as
s●ciety
of
wanton
aff●ctions
neuer
glutted
his
mind
with
content
:
But
as
the
Serpent
Hida●pis
,
the
more
hée
drinketh
the
more
he
is
●
thirst
,
&
as
the
Sala●and●r
,
th●
more
he
lyeth
in
the
fire
,
●●e
more
desirous
he
is
of
the
flame
,
so
Calamus
,
the
more
he
off●nded
in
this
intemperate
concupiscence
,
the
more
his
thoughts
were
adicted
to
the
vice
,
so
as
al
his
neighbors
did
wish
he
might
fall
head-long
into
the
Center
of
some
déepe
misfortune
.
Wallowing
thus
in
the
sel●
conceipt
of
his
wickednes
,
on
a
day
as
he
rode
on
hunting
with
certaine
of
his
gentlemen
,
he
stumbled
by
cha●nce
at
a
●armers
house
,
whether
as
he
road
to
taste
a
cup
of
their
smal
wine
,
for
that
the
wel
her
was
hot
,
where
he
espied
a
woman
homely
attired
,
of
modest
countenan e
,
her
face
imported
both
loue
and
grau●ty
,
who
séeing
t●e
Noble
man
approch
,
dying
her
christal
chéekes
with
a
vermillion
●ue
,
after
humble
salutations
brought
him
in
a
country
C●use
such
drinke
as
their
cottage
did
afford
.
Calamus
narrowly
marking
the
proportion
of
this
country
huswife
,
courteously
tooke
his
leaue
&
departed
,
but
the
sparkes
of
lust
that
had
kindled
a
flame
of
desire
in
his
fancie
,
perplexed
his
minde
with
sundry
passions
:
For
calling
to
mind
not
onely
her
exterior
be
auiy
,
adorned
with
sundry
and
seueral
graces
,
but
also
her
inward
perfection
,
bewrayng
that
she
was
both
wise
and
honest
,
he
●ell
into
this
conside●ation
with
himselfe
:
For
shame
(
Calamus
)
let
not
thy
thoughts
w●nder
in
a
laborinth
to
be
endlesse
:
Séeing
the
flower
of
thy
youth
hath
〈◊〉
spent
in
vice
,
let
the
fruite
of
thyne
age
on●ly
〈◊〉
of
〈◊〉
if
the
Gods
had
not
the
firstlings
of
thy
yeeres
,
yet
let
them
haue
thy
gray
head
in
pawne
of
a
Sacra●ice
:
time
is
〈…〉
from
vanity
and
vice
:
thy
foot
is
stepping
to
the
graue
,
&
oport●nity
●ids
thée
tak
hold
of
repentance
.
Venus
is
printed
without
wrinc●●os
,
as
signif●ing
she
is
the
Goddesse
of
youth
what
of
this
,
●ond
●oole
,
suppose
thou
wert
young
,
shalt
thou
therfore
〈…〉
:
Doe
not
the
Gods
forbid
thée
to
craue
y●
y●
i●
another
mans
due
:
Are
not
volupiuous
〈◊〉
to
be
suppressed
as
well
in
the
young
〈◊〉
as
in
the
old
trée
:
Is
thy
●alloy
so
fickle
as
〈◊〉
must
be
vewed
with
affection
:
〈◊〉
man
,
thinke
this
th●●
the
poore
man
maketh
as
great
account
of
his
wife
,
as
the
greatest
Monarch
in
the
world
both
of
an
Empr●sse
:
that
honesty
harbors
assoone
in
a
cottage
,
as
in
the
Court●
that
their
minds
oppressed
with
want
,
are
fréed
from
the
〈◊〉
of
loue
▪
Then
Cala●us
,
cease
from
these
trinolus
〈◊〉
,
and
séeke
no●
so
much
as
in
thought
to
offer
wrong
to
so
modest
a
woman
,
whose
honest
behauiour
foreshews
that
she
is
poore
,
so
she
is
chast
,
and
holdeth
as
déere
the
price
of
her
same
as
the
state
of
her
life
.
No
doubt
Calamus
,
thou
art
become
a
holy
Prelate
,
that
hast
so
many
p●ecepts
to
re●ell
that
thou
hast
alwaies
followed
:
Is
not
loue
a
Lord
as
wel
amongst
Beggars
as
Kings
▪
Cannot
Cupid
assoone
hit
a
Shepheards
hooke
as
a
Sc●pter
:
Doth
not
pouerty
by
natural
insight
yéeld
to
the
desires
of
Nobility
:
Are
womens
faces
alwaies
Kalenders
of
truth
:
or
are
their
●ookes
(
as
Ouid
affirmeth
)
euermindglasses
:
No
,
the
thoughts
of
women
hang
not
alwaies
in
their
eyes
:
dissimulation
is
sister
to
Ia●us
,
and
wanton
appetite
oft
●etteth
vnder
the
Ma●ke
of
Chastitie
:
Hast
thou
he
therto
not
bin
rep●lied
with
any
resolute
denya●s
,
and
shalt
thou
now
be
ouerthrowne
with
alooke
?
No
,
forward
Calamus
in
thy
purpose
,
triumph
man
and
say
as
Caesar
did
in
his
Conquests
,
veni
,
vidi
,
vici
:
The
Nobleman
resting
vpon
this
wicked
resolution
,
hearing
of
her
husbands
mishap
,
powred
out
such
continuall
fountaines
of
teares
,
●s
not
only
Cala●us
,
but
all
men
took
pitty
of
her
plain●s
.
Bu●
the
vnbridled
〈◊〉
of
lust
,
that
〈◊〉
it
runs
headlong
into
a
laborinth
of
mischefes
feele●h
no
remorce
,
had
no
consideration
of
hir
daily
sorrows
,
but
resolued
i●
not
by
intreaty
,
a●
least
by
force
to
come
to
the
end
of
his
〈◊〉
desire
.
Which
resolution
being
knowne
to
Cratina
:
from
prayers
she
went
to
pollicy
,
and
therefore
on
the
sodaine
became
more
courteous
,
desiring
Calamus
that
he
would
giue
her
some
space
to
forget
her
olde
loue
and
entertaine
a
new
choyse
:
He
whose
fancy
was
some
what
appeased
with
this
good
spéech
,
granted
her
the
terme
of
a
month
▪
with
free
liberty
to
walke
in
the
garden
and
els
where
at
her
pleasure
.
Cratina
enioying
her
wish
so
fortunatly
,
taking
time
by
the
〈◊〉
,
early
in
a
morning
stole
secretly
from
the
Pallace
and
fled
into
the
Country
,
where
in
the
day
time
hiding
her
amongst
bushes
,
and
in
the
night
traueling
as
fast
as
she
could
,
at
last
she
came
to
the
place
where
her
husband
was
with
the
Collyeriand
there
changing
her
apparel
into
the
attire
of
a
man
,
and
her
head
brauely
shorne
,
she
became
a
handsome
stripling
▪
The
next
day
comming
to
the
Colepits
she
demaunded
seruice
.
The
Master
Collyer
séeing
the
youth
well
faced
,
had
pitty
of
his
want
,
and
entertained
him
:
and
for
that
Lestio
his
man
wanted
one
to
driue
his
Cart
,
he
appointed
Cratina
to
attend
vpon
him
:
She
thanking
the
Gods
that
blest
her
with
so
fauourable
a
seruice
,
was
brought
to
the
sight
of
Lestio
and
committed
to
his
charge
.
Lestio
pittying
the
poore
estate
of
such
a
young
youth
,
noting
narrowly
the
lynamentes
of
her
face
,
fell
into
sighes
,
and
from
sighes
to
feares
,
for
the
remembrance
of
his
swéet
Cratina
:
who
indéede
pittying
her
husbands
plaintes
,
in
that
she
was
a
true
de●iner
of
his
thoughts
,
could
not
(
as
womens
secrets
oft
hang
at
the
tip
of
their
t●ngs
)
but
bewray
to
her
husband
what
she
was
:
who
when
he
perfectly
knew
his
wife
so
straungely
metamorphosed
,
what
for
ioye
of
her
presence
,
and
sorrow
that
Fortune
had
made
them
both
thus
vnhappy
,
he
fell
into
déeper
complaintes
,
till
appeased
by
his
wife
,
they
went
merily
to
their
worke
.
But
Calamus
missing
Cratina
,
and
after
diligent
search
perceiuing
she
was
stole
away
,
fel
into
such
a
melancholik
humor
,
that
his
seruants
thought
him
half
in
a
frenzie
:
He
commanded
horse
to
be
made
out
into
euery
hie
way
,
al
passages
to
be
stopt
,
euery
woman
to
be
examined
,
but
in
vain
:
which
so
increased
his
furie
,
that
taking
his
horse
he
rode
vp
and
downe
the
Country
as
one
halfmad
,
but
found
not
that
which
he
sought
for
:
at
last
Fortune
enuying
the
happines
of
Lestio
and
his
wife
,
brought
him
where
the
Col●●ars
were
at
work
,
and
a
prety
space
before
hée
came
at
the
pitte
hee
met
Cratyna
:
who
séeing
Cala●us
,
although
he
had
disguysed
himselfe
,
because
he
would
ride
vnknowen
,
yet
perfectly
perceiued
what
he
was
,
and
therefore
would
willingly
haue
bene
out
of
his
companie
:
but
he
called
vnto
her
,
and
she
hauing
her
lether
Coate
all
dusty
,
&
her
sweete
face
al
he
smeared
with
coales
,
was
the
bolder
to
goe
,
and
demaunded
of
him
what
he
wanted
?
Calamus
inquired
if
such
a
woman
past
not
the
way
:
Yes
mary
(
quoth
Cratyna
)
there
past
such
a
one
in
déede
,
who
as
she
reported
fled
from
Cala●us
,
for
that
the
Noble
man
would
haue
rest
her
of
her
chastitie
.
Canst
thou
tel
my
friend
(
quoth
he
)
whether
is
she
gone
?
&
if
I
could
(
quoth
Cratyna
)
thinke
〈◊〉
so
little
curtesie
in
me
as
to
bewray
her
:
for
by
thy
straigh●
inquiry
I
perceiue
thou
art
seruant
to
that
dishonorable
〈◊〉
,
that
spareth
neither
wife
nor
widdow
to
satisfie
his
vnbr●led
lust
.
Calamus
not
brooking
these
hard
spéeches
allighted
from
his
horse
,
thinking
to
haue
●oel
bū●asled
the
boy
:
who
as
falt
as
he
could
fled
to
the
Colepit
.
The
Colliars
séeing
their
boy
(
whom
for
his
good
behauiour
they
al
generally
loued
)
to
be
misused
by
a
seruingman
,
took
their
whips
in
their
hands
and
demaunded
of
Calamus
what
he
ment
to
offer
violence
to
any
of
their
companie
:
for
y●
(
quoth
he
)
the
boy
hath
greatly
abused
me
.
Crauna
told
them
at
the
whole
matter
:
which
knowne
,
the
Colliars
wisht
him
if
he
were
well
to
be
packing
,
Calamus
séeing
amongst
such
an
vnruly
companie
he
could
not
mend
himselfe
,
went
his
way
with
a
flea
in
his
eare
:
and
as
he
roade
,
perceiued
where
Lestio
lay
a
sleepe
,
who
was
not
so
disguised
but
he
knew
him
perfectly
therfore
thinking
when
he
did
wake
to
learne
some
thing
out
of
him
,
&
so
turning
his
horse
into
a
Close
hard
by
,
rested
himself
behind
a
bush
:
Long
he
had
not
sitten
before
Cra●ina
came
merily
whistling
with
her
Cart
,
&
tolde
her
husband
all
what
had
happened
,
who
both
smiled
that
the
Noble
man
had
such
rough
entertaynment
,
as
also
that
she
was
so
cleane
out
of
fauour
.
Calamus
who
ouerheard
them
,
and
perceiued
that
the
youth
whome
he
tooke
for
a
stripling
was
Cratyna
the
poore
mans
wife
,
felt
such
a
remorce
in
his
conscience
for
offering
violence
to
so
vertuous
and
chast
a
mind
,
that
assoone
as
they
were
gene
he
posted
as
fast
as
he
could
to
the
Court
,
where
Menon
the
Grandfather
of
my
Lord
Vlisses
then
raigned
as
Prince
,
and
reuealed
vnto
him
the
whole
matter
:
who
greatly
pleased
with
the
discourse
,
desirous
to
sée
so
honest
a
wife
,
presently
dispatcht
a
Purseuant
to
commaund
the
Colliar
to
bring
his
man
Lestio
and
his
boy
before
the
King
.
The
Purseuant
sparing
no
horseflesh
,
came
so
fast
from
the
Court
that
he
found
them
all
at
dinner
:
who
after
they
heard
his
message
,
were
amazed
,
especially
poore
Cratina
,
who
feared
some
new
misfortune
:
yet
chéering
her selfe
,
the
better
to
confort
her
husband
,
they
went
with
the
Purseuant
to
the
Court
:
where
being
brought
before
Menon
and
Calamus
,
he
there
complained
of
the
Collia●
how
he
had
abused
him
in
maintaining
his
boy
to
giue
him
ill●anguage
.
The
Colliar
(
as
a
man
amazed
)
confessed
his
fault
,
but
vnwittingly
,
for
that
he
knew
him
not
:
and
therfore
desired
Calamus
to
bee
his
good
Lord
and
master
.
Menon
,
who
all
this
while
had
his
eye
on
Cratina
,
ask●e
her
what
he
was
:
May
it
please
your
grace
(
quoth
she
)
I
〈…〉
to
this
man
who
is
owner
of
the
pit
,
but
vnder
this
other
who
is
ouers●●r
of
my
work
:
So
then
(
quoth
the
King
)
you
〈◊〉
two
maisiers
,
the
one
by
day
,
the
other
by
night
:
Nay
my
〈…〉
but
one
master
,
for
we
make
smal
account
of
any
seruice
that
is
●●ne
in
the
night
.
How
say
you
〈◊〉
(
quot●
the
●ing
to
〈◊〉
)
is
not
this
boy
your
man
:
No
my
Lord
(
quoth
he
)
only
my
〈◊〉
,
and
th●t
is
all
the
seruice
I
craue
at
〈◊〉
.
At
this
answer
the
King
and
Calamus
smiled
,
and
〈◊〉
fearing
she
was
discouered
began
to
blush
:
which
Menon
〈◊〉
,
dema●nded
of
hir
of
what
age
she
was
?
About
eightéene
my
〈◊〉
(
quoth
the
)
Menon
willing
to
trye
then
what
the
euent
would
be
:
tolde
the
Collyar
that
he
and
his
man
,
for
that
their
faults
were
shorow
ignoraunce
,
might
get
them
home
:
but
for
your
boy
(
quoth
the
King
)
seeing
he
is
so
young
and
wel
saced
I
meane
to
●alie
him
my
page
.
The
Collyar
was
glad
he
was
so
dispatcht
,
but
poore
Lestio
through
aboundaunce
of
griefe
was
almost
driuen
into
anextasie
,
so
that
changing
colour
he
could
scarce
stand
on
his
legges
:
which
Cratina
perceiuing
,
seeing
now
Fortune
had
done
her
worst
,
resolued
to
suffer
all
miseries
whatsoeuer
,
f●ll
downe
vpon
her
knées
,
and
vnfolded
to
the
King
what
she
was
,
and
from
point
to
point
discoursed
what
had
happened
betwéen
her
and
Calamus
,
intermedling
her
spéeches
with
such
a
fountaine
of
feares
,
as
the
king
pittying
her
plaints
,
willed
her
to
be
of
good
chéere
:
for
none
in
all
his
kingdome
should
offer
her
any
vyolence
.
Calamus
in
the
behal●e
of
Cratina
thanked
the
King
,
with
promise
before
his
Highnesse
that
the
vertuous
and
chast
disposition
of
her
minde
had
made
such
a
met
amorphosis
of
his
former
thoughts
,
that
not
onely
he
was
content
to
bridle
his
affections
,
but
to
indow
her
with
such
sufficient
lands
and
possessions
,
as
might
very
wel
maintaine
her
in
the
state
of
a
gentlewoman
.
The
King
praising
Calamus
for
his
good
minde
,
willing
to
be
an
actor
in
this
Comedy
,
commaunded
his
Steward
to
furnish
them
with
apparell
,
and
afterward
to
conuey
them
to
Calamus
Pallace
,
where
they
liued
long
after
in
presperous
and
happy
estate
.
The
tale
was
long
and
the
night
was
too
far
spent
to
run
any
further
descant
onso
good
a
playne
song
,
and
therefore
Penelope
hauing
finished
her
taske
went
to
her
lodging
.
The
third
nights
discourse
.
THe
day
no
sooner
appeared
,
but
according
to
their
olde
custome
,
the
Noble
men
of
〈◊〉
repaired
to
the
Pa●lace
of
Penelope
,
who
fayning
her selfe
▪
not
well
,
kept
her
Camber
,
which
her
sonne
▪
〈◊〉
●spying
,
carried
the
Lords
with
him
of
certaine
women
washing
of
their
clothes
,
where
they
talked
of
a
certaine
place
in
the
towne
that
was
weake
and
worst
defended
.
Many
inconueniences
grow
of
the
intemperancy
of
the
tongue
,
as
discention
and
strife
in
a
house
,
wheras
contrariwise
nothing
more
appeaseth
choller
nor
sheweth
modesty
then
silence
.
To
confirme
the
which
,
I
will
rehearse
a
pleasant
and
delightfull
History
.
Penelopes
third
tale
.
THe
Historiographers
whose
Annual
Records
makes
mention
of
that
auncient
Citty
of
Delphos
,
where
Apollo
deliuered
his
Oracles
,
sets
downe
as
Chronicled
for
truth
,
that
sometime
there
raigned
as
chiefe
and
Gouernour
of
the
Citty
,
one
Ariamenes
,
a
Prince
,
wise
,
as
seated
in
a
place
where
the
meanest
inhabitant
was
able
to
discourse
of
wisedome
:
rich
,
as
indewed
with
such
and
so
large
possessions
that
all
his
bordring
neighbors
were
inferiour
to
him
in
wealth
and
reuenews
:
and
fortunate
,
for
that
he
had
thrée
Sonnes
:
honourable
,
as
discended
from
such
parentage
,
and
vertuous
,
as
sauouring
of
their
fathers
prudent
education
.
Ariamenes
blest
thus
euery
way
with
earthly
fauours
,
séeing
his
gray
hayres
were
summons
vnto
death
,
and
that
olde
age
the
true
limiter
of
time
,
presented
vnto
him
the
figure
of
his
mortality
,
that
he
was
come
from
the
cradle
to
the
Crouch
,
and
from
the
Crouch
had
one
legge
in
the
graue
:
knowing
that
the
kingdome
of
Delphos
was
not
a
Monarchy
that
fell
by
inheritaunce
,
but
that
bee
might
as
well
appoint
his
youngest
sonne
successor
as
his
eldest
,
being
affected
to
them
all
alike
:
was
perplexed
with
contrary
passions
,
to
which
of
the
three
hee
should
bequeath
such
a
Royall
Leagacy
,
sith
by
such
an
equall
proportion
Fortune
had
inriched
them
with
fauours
.
Nature
,
who
is
little
partiall
in
such
peculiar
iudgements
,
was
by
the
seuerall
thoughts
that
troubled
Ariamenes
head
,
almost
set
at
an
non
plus
;
insomuch
that
the
olde
King
driuen
into
a
Dylemma
,
fell
into
this
consideration
.
That
all
his
sonnes
were
married
to
women
descended
from
honourable
parents
,
and
that
sith
his
Sonnes
were
so
equal
in
their
vertues
,
he
was
to
measure
his
affection
by
the
conditions
of
their
wiues
:
for
he
knew
that
kings
in
their
gouernment
proued
oft
such
Iusticiaries
as
the
good
or
il
disposition
of
their
wiues
did
afford
:
for
the
greatest
Monarches
haue
bene
subiect
to
the
plausible
perswasions
of
women
,
and
Princes
thoughts
are
oft
tied
to
the
wings
of
beautie
.
The
Emperour
Commodus
had
neuer
bin
so
hated
in
Rome
for
this
tirannies
,
had
he
not
bene
pricked
forward
to
such
wickednes
by
his
wife
.
Ma●cus
Aure●us
the
true
&
perfect
president
of
a
Prince
,
confessed
,
that
hardly
he
could
with
stand
the
allurements
of
Faustina
.
The
enuie
of
a
woman
hangs
in
the
brow
of
her
husband
,
and
for
the
reuenge
of
an
enemie
the
passeth
not
for
the
losse
of
a
friend
.
These
things
considered
,
Ariamenes
was
thus
resolued
for
himselfe
,
to
bestowe
the
kingdome
on
that
sonne
whose
wife
was
found
to
be
most
vertuous
Therefore
after
this
determined
resolution
he
presently
dispatched
messengers
to
his
sonnes
in
their
seuerall
Prouinces
,
that
they
particularly
accompanied
with
their
wiues
should
méete
him
at
Delphos
,
with
generall
commaund
also
that
his
Nobillitie
should
make
hastie
repaire
to
that
Cittie
.
The
Kings
commaund
being
put
in
execution
,
his
sonnes
to
signifie
their
duetifull
obedience
,
sped
them
to
the
Court
,
where
being
come
before
their
father
,
Ariamenes
after
he
had
sit
a
while
in
a
muse
with
himselfe
,
fell
into
these
spéeches
.
Nature
(
Sonnes
)
the
perfect
mistris
of
affection
tyeth
the
father
to
his
children
with
such
a
●●rickt
league
,
that
loue
admieteth
no
partialitie
,
nor
fancy
brooketh
any
difference
,
but
a
●ust
proportion
of
good
will
is
ministred
if
the
parties
haue
〈◊〉
in
their
vertues
.
Maicus
Po●●i●
Cato
who
was
a
father
〈…〉
children
,
was
wont
to
say
,
that
the
loue
of
a
father
as
it
was
Royall
,
so
it
ought
to
be
impartiall
,
neither
declini●g
to
y●
〈◊〉
nor
to
that
other
,
but
as
〈◊〉
doe
merite
.
〈…〉
who
ha●
sixteene
children
of
his
owne
bodie
,
at
his
de●th
made
equal
distribution
both
of
goods
&
lands
alike
to
them
〈◊〉
being
dem●unded
why
he
did
not
giue
his
eldest
Sonne
the
greater
portion
,
made
this
answer
.
And
is
not
the
youngest
also
the
sonne
eate
.
To
auorde
which
,
supposition
,
you
referre
his
Highnesse
to
the
generall
fame
of
the
Countrey
,
that
aboue
the
rest
you
excéede
in
obedience
and
chastitie
:
Take
héede
Sister
,
fame
hath
two
faces
,
and
in
that
resembleth
time
,
readie
as
well
to
backbite
as
to
flatter
:
therefore
they
which
build
their
vertue
vppon
report
,
doe
alledge
but
a
bad
proofe
.
But
leauing
your
reasons
to
his
Highnesse
consideration
,
thus
for
my self
.
I
set
not
my
good
name
at
so
small
a
price
,
as
to
hazard
it
vpon
the
chaunce
of
the
tongue
,
that
of
al
other
members
is
most
vncertaine
:
although
I
am
sure
my
bordring
neighbours
of
estéeme
of
my
doings
,
as
they
take
my
vertues
for
a
president
of
their
actions
:
but
I
hope
your
Highnes
doth
consider
that
such
trée
such
fruite
,
that
the
liuely
pourtraiture
of
the
parents
is
as
in
a
Christall
manifested
in
the
children
:
that
nature
is
the
best
touchstone
of
life
:
that
education
and
nurture
are
as
good
as
the
Chrisocol
to
discerne
Minerals
:
so
they
of
maners
.
Then
right
mightie
Prince
,
I
first
for
proofe
of
my
vertuous
disposition
lay
downe
the
honorable
&
happie
life
of
my
Parents
so
wel
ordred
,
that
●ame
and
enuie
blusheth
to
staine
them
with
any
spot
of
infamie
:
what
care
they
had
to
bring
me
vp
in
my
youth
,
with
what
instructions
they
passed
ouer
my
tender
yeares
,
I
referre
to
your
Maiestie
,
as
by
willing
your
second
sonne
to
match
in
so
meane
a
famely
:
since
the
rites
of
mariage
were
celebrated
my
husbands
disposition
shall
manifest
.
The
eldest
Sister
hearing
how
cunningly
&
yet
crookedly
this
prettie
Oratresse
aimed
at
the
matter
,
could
not
suffer
to
heare
so
long
a
tale
without
replye
,
and
therefore
went
thus
roundly
to
the
purpose
.
Sister
ill
might
Phillis
haue
blamed
Dido
for
her
folly
sith
she
her self
intertained
stragling
Demophon
for
a
friend
:
The
Cynicks
that
inueighed
against
other
mens
faults
were
seldome
culpable
in
the
same
crime
:
they
which
will
haue
their
censures
peremptorie
,
must
not
build
their
reasons
on
vncertain
principles
therefore
wipe
your
nose
on
your
owne
sleeue
,
and
if
you
spie
where
my
shooe
wrings
me
,
looke
to
the
length
of
your
own
last
:
for
in
obiecting
selfeloue
to
me
you
fall
a
sléepe
in
the
swéet
conceipt
of
your
owne
praise
:
which
indéed
wisely
you
frame
to
hazard
on
the
chance
of
fame
,
sith
your
deserts
are
so
small
as
report
is
blind
on
the
side
which
lookes
to
your
vertues
:
the
force
of
your
reasons
drawne
from
the
authority
of
propagation
,
alledging
nature
and
nurture
for
proofes
of
your
vertues
,
are
too
light
to
counterpaise
with
a
Crowne
:
for
we
oft
sée
that
Natures
onely
error
is
found
in
the
dissimilitude
of
linage
:
so
that
the
trée
bringing
foorth
faire
blos●omes
,
yet
the
blomes
may
either
hée
nipped
in
the
bud
with
vntimely
weather
,
or
hindred
with
catterpillers
,
that
it
neuer
proue
good
&
perfect
fruite
.
The
Cedar
trée
is
faire
of
it self
,
but
the
fruite
either
none
or
very
bad
:
T
is
no
opinion
to
say
a
good
father
a
good
child
,
in
that
time
oft
maketh
an
alteration
of
Nature
.
But
your
husband
was
commanded
to
haue
pleaded
your
interest
:
mary
I
feare
his
conscience
tels
him
the
Crowne
hangs
too
bye
for
his
reach
,
sith
he
must
be
faine
to
attaine
to
it
by
your
vertues
.
The
yongest
Sister
hearing
how
vnreuerently
they
brabled
before
the
King
,
began
to
blush
:
which
Ariamenes
espying
,
noting
in
her
face
the
very
purtraiture
of
vertue
,
demanded
of
her
why
hearing
her
sisters
so
hard
by
the
eares
for
a
Crowne
shée
said
nothing
?
her
answere
was
thus
briefe
and
pithy
.
He
that
gaineth
a
Crowne
getteth
care
,
is
it
not
folly
then
to
hunt
after
losse
?
The
King
looking
for
a
longer
discourse
,
and
seeing
contrary
to
his
expectation
that
she
was
onely
short
and
swéete
,
prosecuted
still
inquestioning
,
and
demaunded
what
vertues
she
had
that
might
deserue
so
royall
a
benefit
?
This
quoth
she
,
that
wh●●
others
talke
,
yet
being
a
woman
I
can
hold
my
peace
.
Ariamenes
and
all
the
Nobility
of
Delphos
wondred
at
the
modestie
of
the
young
Lady
,
that
contrary
to
her
naturall
disposition
could
so
well
bridle
her
affections
.
Therfore
dehating
the
matter
betwixt
them
which
of
the
thrée
were
most
vertuous
:
although
they
found
by
proofe
that
the
other
Ladies
were
both
obedient
and
chast
:
yet
for
that
they
wanted
silence
,
which
(
sayd
Ariamenes
)
comprehended
in
it
all
other
vertues
,
they
mist
of
the
cushion
,
and
the
King
created
his
youngest
Sonne
heire
apparant
to
the
Kingdome
.
PEnelope
hauing
ended
her
tale
,
the
olde
Nurse
greatly
commended
the
discourse
,
and
b●cause
she
wold
be
pleasant
at
the
parting
blow
,
knowing
that
Isme●a
was
a
quicke
wench
of
her
tongue
,
tolde
her
that
this
tale
was
a
good
president
for
her
to
direct
her
course
,
séeing
silence
was
so
profitable
.
Tush
quoth
Ismena
,
feare
not
you
Madame
:
for
when
I
haue
such
a
proffer
as
a
Crowne
,
I
will
gaze
so
fast
at
that
,
that
I
will
forget
my
prattle
▪
but
in
saith
my
lippes
are
too
course
for
such
Lettice
,
and
so
hye
hangs
the
Grapes
that
the
Foxe
will
eate
none
.
Well
Madame
,
I
know
your
meaning
,
but
for
all
t●e
cracke
my
penny
may
be
good
siluer
,
sith
silence
is
a
vertue
amongst
women
:
but
yet
I
sée
no
reason
of
necessity
,
séeing
nature
hath
béene
so
niggardly
in
that
●auour
.
It
may
séeme
quoth
the
Nurse
,
that
she
hath
béen
rather
too
prodigall
,
for
thy
tung
wants
no
mettall
.
As
thus
they
were
about
to
part
with
these
merry
quips
,
a
messenger
came
hastily
rushing
in
,
who
tolde
Penelope
that
Vlisses
,
was
arriued
that
night
within
the
port
of
Ithaca
:
This
word
so
amazed
them
all
with
sodaine
ioy
,
that
lea●ing
the
endlesse
Web
,
Penelope●●lled
●●lled
for
her
Sonne
,
and
that
night
sent
him
in
post
to
the
Sea
:
where
what
news
he
heard
of
his
father
I
know
not
.
But
thus
abruptly
this
night
was
the
discourse
broken
off
:
but
for
that
fell
out
after
his
home
comming
,
I
referre
you
to
the
Paraphrase
,
which
shortly
shall
be
set
out
vpon
Homers
Odissea
:
till
when
let
vs
leaue
Penelope
attending
the
returne
either
of
her
Husband
,
or
Sonne
,
or
of
both
.
FINIS
.