Thirtene
most
plesant
and
delectable
Questions
,
entituled
A
disport
of
diuers
noble
personages
Written
in
Italian
by
M.
IOHN
BOCACE
,
Florentine
and
Poet
Laureate
,
in
his
Booke
named
PHILOCOPO
.
Englished
by
H.
G.
These
bookes
are
to
be
solde
at
the
Corner
shoppe
,
at
the
North-weast
dore
of
Paules
.
(
⸫
)
¶
To
the
right
worshipfull
M.
William
Rice
Esquier
,
H.
G.
wisheth
a
happy
long
life
,
with
increase
of
muche
worship
.
IN
HOW
MVCHE
the
thankfull
sorte
are
desirous
(
as
reson
willeth
,
and
experience
daylie
teacheth
)
to
gratifie
such
their
dear
frends
,
as
to
whom
for
sundrie
good
turnes
and
receiued
benefits
they
are
not
a
litle
beholding
,
the
sundrie
dealing
of
thousands
dayly
in
vse
and
apparant
to
the
worlde
,
to
the
great
prayse
and
commendation
both
of
the
one
and
the
other
,
giueth
a
sufficient
testimonie
:
So
that
,
taking
occasion
thereby
to
shew
the
good
will
I
haue
,
to
pay
in
parte
the
debt
many
yeres
due
,
for
that
your
bountie
towards
me
(
the
least
sparke
whereof
I
am
vnable
to
satisfie
:
)
I
do
giue
vnto
you
this
ITLLIAN
Disport
,
the
which
I
haue
turned
out
of
his
natiue
attyre
into
this
our
ENGLISH
habite
,
to
the
ende
the
same
may
be
no
lesse
familiar
to
you
,
and
to
such
other
(
for
your
sake
)
as
shall
vouchsafe
thereof
,
than
it
is
either
to
the
ITALIAN
or
the
FRENCH
:
and
desire
that
the
same
may
march
abroade
vnder
your
charge
:
to
whom
I
recount
the
protection
therof
.
Not
douting
but
as
the
reding
therof
shal
bring
pleasure
and
delite
:
so
the
matter
beeing
therewithall
duely
considered
,
shal
giue
sundry
profitable
lessons
mete
to
be
folowed
.
And
bicause
the
name
of
the
author
(
being
of
no
smal
credit
with
the
learned
,
for
those
his
sundry
wel
written
works
)
is
of
it selfe
sufficient
to
carry
greater
commendation
therwith
,
than
my
pen
is
able
to
write
,
I
leaue
to
labor
therin
,
lest
my
lack
may
be
an
occasion
to
the
leesing
of
his
due
prayse
.
And
vntill
Fortune
(
the
onely
hope
of
the
vnhappy
)
shall
make
me
better
able
,
I
shall
desire
you
thankfully
to
accept
this
as
a
token
and
pledge
of
the
good
wil
I
haue
to
performe
that
whervnto
mine
abilitie
is
vnable
to
stretch
.
Thus
taking
my
leaue
,
I
betake
you
to
the
tuition
of
almightie
god
,
who
preserue
you
in
health
to
his
plesure
,
and
after
this
life
make
you
possessor
of
those
ioyes
,
whereof
we
all
hope
to
be
partakers
.
6.
Martij
.
1566.
The
Booke
to
the
Reader
.
LOke
ere
thou
leape
,
dome
not
by
view
of
face
,
Least
hast
make
wast
,
in
misdoming
the
case
,
For
I
teach
not
to
loue
,
ne
yet
his
lore
,
Ne
with
what
salue
is
cured
suche
a
sore
.
But
I
the
carke
with
cares
that
therby
haps
,
The
blisse
with
ioyes
,
the
stormes
with
thunder-claps
,
The
curtesies
,
where
most
his
force
is
shewde
,
The
choyce
of
best
,
be
it
of
good
or
lewde
,
Compare
them
so
,
as
doomed
is
the
doubt
Thereof
,
and
ay
the
truth
well
sifted
out
:
The
which
to
reade
such
pleasure
thou
shalt
finde
As
may
content
a
well
disposed
minde
.
The
argument
to
the
.xiij
Questions
,
composed
in
Italian
,
by
M.
John
Bocace
,
Florentine
,
and
Poet
Laureat
:
And
now
turned
into
English
by
H.
G.
FLORIO
surnamed
Philocopo
,
accompanied
with
the
Duke
Montorio
,
Ascalion
,
Menedon
,
and
Massalino
,
in
sayling
to
séeke
his
frend
Biancofiore
,
was
thorow
a
very
obscure
and
darke
night
,
by
the
fierce
winds
,
driuen
into
great
dangers
,
but
the
perilles
béeing
once
passed
,
they
were
cast
into
the
Porte
of
the
auncient
PARTHENOP●
,
wheras
the
Mariners
(
espying
them selues
in
Hauen
)
he
rereiued
comfort
,
not
knowing
into
what
coast
Fortune
had
forced
him
,
yelded
thankes
to
his
Gods.
And
so
taried
the
new
day
,
the
which
after
it
once
appeared
,
the
place
was
of
the
Mariners
descried
,
so
that
they
al
glad
of
suretie
,
and
of
so
acceptable
arriuall
,
came
a
shoare
.
Philocopo
with
his
companions
,
who
rather
séemed
to
come
foorth
new
risen
agayne
out
of
their
sepultures
,
than
disbarked
from
shippe
,
looked
backe
towardes
the
waywarde
waters
,
and
repeating
in
them selues
the
passed
perils
of
the
spent
night
,
could
yet
scarcely
thinke
themselues
in
suretie
.
They
all
then
with
one
voyce
praysed
their
gods
,
that
had
guided
them
safe
out
of
so
crooked
a
course
,
offred
their
pitifull
Sacrifices
,
and
began
to
receiue
comfort
,
and
were
by
a
friende
of
Ascalions
honorably
receiued
into
the
Citie
,
whereas
they
caused
their
ship
to
be
all
new
repaired
and
decked
,
of
Mast
,
sayle
,
and
better
sterne
,
than
were
the
others
whiche
they
had
lost
:
and
so
tarying
time
for
their
further
voiage
,
the
which
was
much
longer
lengthened
than
they
looked
for
:
by
occasion
whereof
Philocopo
would
many
times
haue
taken
his
iourney
by
lande
,
but
discouraged
therein
by
Ascalion
,
stayde
,
in
tarrying
a
more
prosperous
houre
in
the
aforesayde
place
,
where
he
and
his
companions
saw
Phebea
fiue
times
round
,
&
as
many
times
horned
,
before
that
Notus
did
abandon
his
violent
forces
.
And
in
so
long
a
while
,
they
neuer
almost
saw
time
to
be
merry
,
wherevpon
Philocopo
,
who
was
very
desirous
to
perfourme
his
deferred
iourney
,
one
day
called
his
companions
vnto
him
,
and
sayde
:
Let
vs
go
take
the
pleasaunt
ayre
,
and
passe
the
time
vpon
the
salte
sea
shoare
,
in
reasoning
and
prouiding
for
our
future
voyage
.
Thus
he
,
with
the
duke
Parmenion
,
and
the
rest
of
his
companions
,
directed
their
walke
with
a
mild
pace
(
discoursing
diuers
matters
)
towards
that
place
wher
rest
the
reuerende
ashes
of
the
most
renoumed
Poet
Maro
.
They
all
thus
talking
a
good
space
,
were
not
gone
farre
from
the
Citie
,
but
that
they
came
to
the
side
of
a
Gardeyn
,
wherein
they
heard
gracious
and
ioyous
feasting
of
young
Gentlemen
,
dames
,
and
damsels
:
There
the
ayre
did
all
resounde
with
the
noyse
of
sundrie
instruments
,
and
as
it
were
of
Angelicall
voyces
,
entring
with
swéete
delighte
into
the
hearts
of
them
,
to
whose
eares
it
came
:
the
whiche
noyse
it
pleased
Philocopo
to
staye
a
while
to
heare
,
to
the
ende
his
former
Melancolie
thoroughe
the
swéetenesse
thereof
,
mighte
by
little
and
litle
departe
away
.
Then
Ascalion
restrayned
theyr
talke
.
And
whylest
Fortune
helde
thus
Philocopo
and
his
companions
without
the
garden
intentiuely
listening
,
a
yong
gentleman
comming
foorth
thereof
,
espied
them
,
&
forthwith
by
sighte
,
porte
and
visage
,
knew
them
to
be
noble
gentlemen
,
&
worthy
to
be
reuerenced
.
Wherfore
he
without
tariaunce
,
returned
to
his
company
,
and
sayde
:
Come
,
let
vs
goe
welcome
certayne
yong
men
,
séeming
to
be
gentlemen
of
great
calling
,
the
whiche
perhaps
bashfull
to
enter
herein
,
not
being
bidden
,
stay
without
,
giuing
eare
to
our
dysporte
.
The
companions
then
of
this
Gentleman
lefte
their
Ladies
at
their
pastime
,
and
went
foorth
of
the
Garden
,
and
came
to
Philocopo
,
whome
by
sighte
they
knew
too
bée
chiefe
of
all
the
reste
,
to
whome
they
spake
with
that
reuerence
their
reason
coulde
deuise
,
and
that
was
most
conuenient
for
the
welcoming
of
such
a
guest
,
praying
him
that
in
honour
and
increase
of
this
their
Feast
,
it
would
please
him
and
his
companions
to
enter
with
them
the
garden
,
constrayning
him
through
many
requests
,
that
he
should
in
no
wise
denie
them
this
curtesy
.
These
swéete
prayers
so
pierced
the
gentle
heart
of
Philocopo
,
and
no
lesse
the
hearts
of
his
companions
,
that
he
answered
the
intreators
in
this
sort
:
Friends
,
of
truth
such
a
Feast
was
of
vs
neither
soughte
for
,
nor
fled
from
,
but
like
weather
beaten
mates
cast
into
your
port
,
we
to
the
ende
to
flée
drouste
thoughts
,
which
spring
of
ydlenesse
,
didde
in
reciting
our
aduersities
,
passe
by
these
sea
banks
:
But
how
fortune
hath
allured
vs
to
giue
eare
vnto
you
I
know
not
,
vnlesse
as
we
thinke
,
desirous
to
remoue
from
vs
all
pensiuenesse
,
she
hath
of
you
,
in
whom
I
know
to
be
infinite
curtesie
,
made
vs
this
offer
:
and
therfore
we
will
satisfie
your
desire
,
though
peraduenture
in
part
we
become
somewhat
lauesse
of
the
curtesie
which
otherwise
towards
others
ought
to
procéede
from
vs
.
And
thus
talking
,
they
entred
togither
into
the
Garden
,
wheras
they
founde
many
fayre
Gentlewomen
,
of
whom
they
were
very
graciously
receiued
,
and
by
them
welcomed
to
their
feast
.
After
Philocopo
had
a
good
while
behelde
this
their
feasting
,
and
likewise
had
feasted
with
them
,
he
thought
it
good
to
depart
,
and
willing
to
take
his
leaue
of
the
yong
Gentlemen
,
and
to
giue
them
thanks
for
the
honor
he
had
receiued
,
one
Lady
more
honorable
than
the
rest
,
indued
with
maruellous
beautie
and
vertue
,
came
foorth
where
he
stode
,
and
thus
sayd
vnto
him
:
Most
noble
Syr
,
ye
haue
this
morning
through
this
your
great
curtesie
,
shewed
no
smal
pleasure
to
these
yong
Gentlemen
,
for
the
which
they
shal
be
alwayes
beholding
vnto
you
,
that
is
to
wit
,
in
that
you
haue
vouchesafed
to
come
to
honor
this
our
feast
.
May
it
please
you
then
,
not
to
refuse
to
shew
vnto
me
,
and
to
these
other
Dames
,
that
fauor
that
I
am
secondarily
to
intreate
you
for
:
To
whome
Philocopo
with
a
swéete
voyce
answered
:
Most
gentle
Lady
,
nothing
maye
iustly
be
denied
you
,
commaunde
therefore
,
for
both
I
and
these
my
companions
are
all
prest
at
your
will
:
To
whom
the
Lady
sayde
in
this
wyse
:
Forasmuche
as
this
your
comming
hath
increased
this
our
feasting
,
with
a
most
noble
and
goodly
companie
,
I
shal
desire
you
that
you
will
not
with
departure
lessen
the
same
,
but
rather
helpe
vs
here
to
spende
this
day
euen
to
the
laste
houre
,
to
that
ende
we
haue
already
begonne
the
same
.
Philocopo
behelde
hir
in
the
face
as
she
thus
spake
,
and
séeing
hir
eyes
replete
with
burning
rayes
to
twinkle
lyke
vnto
the
morning
starre
,
and
hir
face
exceading
pleasaunt
and
faire
,
thoughte
neuer
to
had
séene
(
his
Biancofiore
excepted
)
so
faire
a
creature
:
to
whose
demaund
he
thus
made
aunswere
:
Madame
I
shall
dispose
my self
to
satisfie
rather
your
desire
than
mine
owne
,
wherefore
so
long
as
it
shall
please
you
,
so
long
will
I
abide
with
you
,
and
these
my
companions
also
:
The
Ladye
gaue
him
greate
thanks
,
and
retourning
to
the
others
,
began
togethers
with
them
all
to
be
very
merry
.
Philocopo
abiding
with
them
in
this
sorte
,
entred
greate
familiaritie
with
a
young
Gentleman
named
Galeone
,
adorned
with
good
qualities
,
and
of
a
singuler
eloquence
,
to
whome
in
talking
he
sayde
thus
:
Oh
,
how
muche
are
you
more
than
any
others
beholding
to
the
immortall
Gods
,
the
whiche
preserue
you
quiet
in
one
will
in
this
your
mirth
making
.
We
acknowledge
vs
to
be
greatly
bounden
vnto
them
,
answered
Galeone
.
But
what
occasion
moueth
you
to
say
this
?
Philocopo
answered
:
Truely
none
other
occasion
,
but
that
I
sée
you
all
here
assembled
in
one
will
.
Oh
,
sayde
Galeone
,
maruayle
not
at
all
thereat
,
for
this
Lady
in
whome
all
excellencie
dothe
reste
,
both
moueth
vs
herevnto
,
and
holdeth
vs
herein
.
Then
demaunded
Philocopo
:
And
this
Lady
,
who
is
she
?
Galeone
aunswered
:
It
is
she
that
made
request
vnto
you
that
ye
woulde
tarry
here
,
when
as
a
while
since
ye
woulde
haue
departed
.
By
sight
she
semeth
vnto
vnto
me
(
sayd
Philocopo
)
exceding
faire
,
and
of
a
surmounting
worthinesse
:
but
yet
if
my
demaund
be
not
vnléefull
,
manifest
hir
name
vnto
me
,
of
whence
she
is
,
and
of
what
Parentes
discended
.
To
whom
Galeone
answered
:
No
wayes
maye
your
request
bée
vniust
,
besides
there
is
none
publiquely
talking
of
hir
,
which
doth
not
vouchsafe
to
publish
the
renoume
of
so
worthy
a
Lady
,
and
therfore
I
shall
fully
satisfie
your
demaund
.
Hir
name
is
of
vs
here
called
Fiametta
,
howbeit
the
greatest
part
of
the
people
call
hir
by
the
name
of
hir
,
throughe
whom
that
wounde
is
shut
vp
,
that
the
preuarication
of
the
first
mother
opened
.
She
is
the
daughter
of
a
most
high
Prince
,
vnder
whose
scepter
these
countreys
are
quietly
gouerned
,
she
is
also
Lady
to
vs
all
:
and
briefly
,
there
is
no
vertue
that
ought
to
be
in
a
noble
heart
,
that
is
not
in
hirs
.
And
as
I
thinke
,
in
tarying
this
day
with
vs
,
you
shall
haue
good
experience
therof
.
That
which
you
say
(
sayde
Philocopo
)
can
not
be
hidden
in
hir
semblance
.
The
gods
guide
hir
to
that
ende
that
hir
singular
giftes
do
merite
,
for
assuredly
I
beléeue
both
that
and
much
more
than
you
haue
affirmed
.
But
these
other
dames
,
who
are
they
?
These
Gentlewomen
(
sayde
Galeone
)
some
of
them
are
of
Parthenope
,
and
other
some
of
places
else
where
,
commen
as
are
you
your selues
,
hither
into
hir
company
.
And
after
they
had
thus
helde
talke
a
good
space
,
Galeone
sayde
:
Ah
my
swéete
friende
,
if
it
mighte
not
displease
you
,
it
should
be
very
acceptable
vnto
me
to
know
further
of
your
state
and
condition
,
than
your
outwarde
appearance
representeth
,
to
the
ende
that
by
knowing
you
,
we
maye
do
you
that
honor
you
worthily
merit
,
bicause
sometimes
want
of
knowledge
bringeth
lack
of
duetie
,
to
them
that
honour
others
in
not
doing
their
due
reuerence
.
To
whom
Philocopo
aunswered
:
no
lacke
in
doing
me
reuerence
coulde
any
ways
happen
on
your
behalfe
,
but
rather
ye
haue
therin
so
far
excéeded
,
as
with
excesse
ye
haue
passed
the
bounds
&
limits
therof
.
But
since
you
desire
to
know
further
of
my
condition
,
it
should
be
vniust
not
to
satisfie
your
desire
therein
.
And
therfore
(
in
how
muche
it
is
lawfull
for
me
to
discouer
)
I
shall
tell
you
:
I
am
a
poore
Pilgrim
of
Loue
,
and
goe
séeking
as
ye
sée
,
a
Lady
of
mine
,
taken
away
from
me
by
subtile
cautele
by
my
Parents
▪
and
these
Gentlemen
whom
ye
sée
with
me
,
of
their
curtesie
kéepe
me
companye
in
this
my
Pilgrimage
:
and
my
name
is
Philocopo
,
of
Nation
a
Spaniard
,
driuen
through
tempestuous
wether
(
séeking
for
the
Ilande
of
Cicilia
)
into
your
Ports
.
But
he
knew
not
so
couertly
to
talke
,
as
that
the
yong
Gentleman
vnderstoode
not
more
of
his
condition
,
than
he
willingly
desired
he
should
:
and
hauing
compassion
of
those
his
harde
happes
,
somewhat
comforted
him
with
woordes
,
whiche
promised
him
hereafter
a
more
luckie
life
,
and
from
that
time
forwards
to
increase
his
honour
,
willed
that
he
shoulde
be
honored
of
them
all
,
not
as
a
Pilgrim
,
or
as
a
bidden
guest
,
but
rather
as
the
chiefe
and
principall
patrone
of
the
feast
.
The
Lady
,
who
vnderstood
his
state
and
condition
,
through
the
report
of
Galeone
,
estéeming
derely
of
such
an
happe
,
commaunded
specially
that
so
it
shoulde
be
.
Apollo
was
now
with
his
Chariot
of
light
mounted
to
the
Meridian
circle
,
and
did
scarcely
behold
with
leueled
eye
the
new
apparelled
earth
,
when
as
these
Dames
,
Damsels
,
and
yong
gentlemen
béeing
thus
assembled
togither
in
that
place
,
(
setting
their
feasting
aparte
)
séeking
forth
by
sundry
quarters
of
the
garden
the
delightfull
shade
,
and
fleing
the
noysome
heat
that
might
offend
their
delicate
bodies
,
toke
by
diuers
companies
,
diuers
delightes
.
And
the
Ladie
accompanied
with
foure
others
,
toke
Philocopo
by
the
hand
,
saying
:
Sir
,
the
heat
doth
constraine
vs
to
séeke
out
the
fresh
aire
,
let
vs
therfore
go
to
yonder
medow
you
sée
here
before
vs
,
and
there
with
sundry
discourses
,
passe
ouer
the
heat
of
the
day
.
Philocopo
then
greatly
praised
the
Ladies
deuise
,
and
folowed
hir
motion
,
and
with
him
his
companions
.
Galeone
also
with
two
others
,
went
with
them
to
the
appointed
medow
,
which
was
excéeding
fair
of
grasse
and
floures
,
and
filled
with
a
swéete
suauitie
of
smels
,
about
the
which
grewe
store
of
yong
trées
very
faire
and
thicke
of
gréene
leaues
,
wherewith
the
place
was
defended
from
the
parching
beames
of
the
great
planet
.
There
was
in
the
middest
of
that
medowe
a
propre
Fountain
,
very
faire
&
cleare
like
Christall
,
about
the
which
they
all
sate
them
downe
,
where
some
gasing
in
the
water
,
and
other
some
gathering
floures
,
they
began
to
talke
of
sundry
matters
.
But
bicause
sometimes
at
vnwares
,
the
one
did
interrupt
the
others
Tale
,
the
fayre
Ladie
sayd
vnto
them
thus
:
To
the
ende
that
this
our
discourse
may
procéede
in
a
more
better
order
,
and
so
continue
vntill
the
freshe
coole
houres
,
the
which
we
attend
for
our
further
feasting
.
Let
vs
ordaine
one
of
vs
in
place
of
our
king
,
to
whome
eche
one
shal
propound
a
question
of
Loue
,
and
shall
receiue
from
hint
an
apt
resolution
thereof
:
and
truely
(
as
I
think
)
we
shal
no
sooner
haue
made
an
end
of
our
Questions
,
but
that
the
heat
(
we
not
knowing
how
)
shall
be
past
,
and
the
time
spent
to
our
profit
and
delite
.
This
deuise
pleased
them
al
,
and
among
them
it
was
sayd
:
Let
ther
be
a
king
:
and
with
one
voice
they
all
chose
Aschalion
to
their
king
,
for
that
he
was
somewhat
more
growne
in
yeres
,
than
was
any
of
the
rest
:
To
whom
he
made
answer
,
to
be
altogither
insufficient
for
so
great
an
office
,
bicause
he
had
spent
more
yeres
in
the
seruice
of
Mars
,
than
of
Venus
.
But
yet
he
prayed
them
all
to
leaue
vnto
him
the
Election
of
suche
a
King
.
They
that
thought
him
to
be
suche
a
one
(
knowing
so
wel
before
hand
the
qualities
of
them
all
)
as
would
constitute
one
suche
,
as
should
yeld
true
answer
to
all
theyr
demaundes
,
did
then
wholly
consent
that
the
Election
shuld
fréely
be
remitted
vnto
him
,
since
he
would
not
take
suche
a
dignitie
vpon
himself
.
Fiametta
chosen
Queene
to
define
the
questions
propounded
.
Ascalion
then
rose
him
vp
,
and
gathered
certaine
twigges
of
a
greene
Laurel
,
the
shade
wherof
did
ouerspread
the
fresh
fountaine
,
and
therof
made
a
riche
Coronet
,
the
which
he
brought
in
presence
of
them
all
,
and
said
in
this
wise
:
from
the
time
that
I
in
my
most
youthful
yeares
began
to
haue
vnderstanding
,
I
swere
by
those
gods
whom
I
worship
,
that
I
do
not
remember
to
haue
leen
or
hard
named
,
a
woman
of
like
worthinesse
to
Fiametta
,
of
whom
loue
holdeth
vs
al
heer
in
hir
presence
inflamed
,
and
by
whom
we
haue
this
day
bin
honored
in
such
sort
,
as
we
ought
neuer
to
forget
the
same
.
And
bicause
she
(
as
without
dout
I
know
)
is
plentifully
endued
wyth
euery
good
grace
,
adorned
bothe
with
beautie
&
good
qualities
,
and
endued
with
a
flowing
eloquence
,
I
therefore
make
choice
of
hir
to
be
our
Quéene
.
For
assuredly
it
is
conuenient
that
the
imperial
crowne
be
bestowed
vppon
hir
magnificence
,
being
discended
from
a
stirpe
royal
,
to
whome
the
secrete
wayes
of
loue
,
being
(
as
they
are
all
)
open
,
it
shall
be
an
easie
matter
for
hir
to
content
vs
in
these
our
Questions
.
And
this
sayd
,
he
humbly
knéeled
before
this
noble
Ladie
,
saying
:
Most
curteous
Ladie
vouchsafe
to
decke
your
head
with
this
Crowne
,
the
which
is
no
lesse
dearly
to
be
estéemed
of
them
,
that
are
worthy
thorow
their
vertues
to
couer
their
heades
with
the
like
,
than
if
it
were
of
Golde
.
The
Ladie
with
a
newe
red
bepainted
hir
white
visage
,
and
said
:
Truely
ye
haue
not
in
due
sorte
prouided
a
Quéene
for
this
amorous
people
,
(
that
haue
more
néede
of
a
most
able
king
)
for
that
of
all
you
that
are
present
,
I
am
the
most
simple
and
of
least
vertue
,
neither
is
there
any
one
of
you
that
is
not
more
meet
to
be
inuested
of
such
a
croun
than
am
I.
But
since
it
thus
pleseth
you
,
I
can
not
withstand
this
your
election
:
&
to
the
end
I
be
not
found
contrary
to
our
made
promisse
,
I
will
receiue
it
,
and
as
I
hope
,
shal
eke
receiue
from
the
Gods
with
it
,
the
stomacke
due
to
such
an
office
:
and
thorowe
the
helpe
of
him
to
whome
these
leaues
were
alwayes
acceptable
,
I
shall
answere
you
all
,
according
to
my
small
knowledge
:
Neuerthelesse
,
I
deuoutly
pray
him
that
he
will
enter
into
my
brest
,
and
renue
my
voice
with
that
sound
wherewith
he
caused
the
valiant
vanquished
man
Marsia
,
to
deserue
to
be
drawne
forthe
of
the
sheath
of
his
members
.
I
by
way
of
mirthe
shall
giue
you
light
answeres
wythout
sifting
to
the
depthe
of
your
propounded
Questions
,
the
going
about
to
serch
forth
the
which
,
should
rather
bring
tediousnesse
than
delight
to
your
mindes
.
And
hauing
thus
sayd
,
she
toke
with
hir
delicate
hand
the
offred
Garland
,
and
therwithal
crouned
hir
head
,
and
commaunded
that
eche
one
vppon
paine
to
be
depriued
of
the
amorous
ioyes
,
should
prepare
to
put
forthe
some
question
,
the
which
might
be
apte
and
conuenient
to
the
purpose
whereof
they
did
intend
to
entreat
,
and
such
a
one
as
should
rather
be
an
increaser
of
theyr
mirth
,
than
through
too
great
subtilty
,
or
otherwise
,
a
destroyer
of
the
same
.
The
first
Question
,
proposed
by
PHILOCOPO
.
ON
the
right
hand
of
the
Quéene
sate
Philocopo
,
to
whome
shée
sayde
:
Noble
Sir
,
you
shal
begin
to
propound
your
Question
,
The
Queene
commaundeth
Philocopo
to
propound
.
to
the
end
that
the
rest
orderly
,
as
we
are
heere
placed
,
may
after
you
with
more
suretie
propound
theirs
also
.
To
whom
Philocopo
thus
made
answer
:
Most
noble
Ladie
,
without
any
forslowing
,
I
shal
obey
your
commaundement
,
and
thus
said
:
I
remember
that
in
the
citie
,
wherein
I
was
borne
,
there
was
one
day
made
a
bountiful
great
feast
,
wherat
,
to
honoure
the
same
,
were
many
gentlemen
and
Gentlewomen
:
Two
Gentlemen
enamored
of
one
Gentlewoman
.
And
I
that
was
likewise
there
roming
about
,
and
beholding
them
that
were
in
the
place
,
espied
among
the
rest
,
two
yong
men
very
gratious
to
behold
,
that
ernestly
eyed
an
excéeding
faire
woman
.
Neither
was
I
any
wayes
able
to
discerne
whither
of
them
hir
beauty
had
most
inflamed
.
And
as
she
in
like
sort
had
a
good
space
beheld
them
,
not
making
greater
semblance
to
the
one
,
than
to
the
other
,
they
betwéene
themselues
,
began
to
reason
of
hir
:
and
among
the
other
wordes
that
I
vnderstoode
of
their
talke
,
was
that
eche
one
said
,
that
he
was
hir
best
beloued
:
and
for
proofe
thereof
,
either
of
them
alleaged
in
the
furtherance
of
himselfe
,
diuers
gestures
then
before
done
by
the
yong
woman
.
And
they
thus
remaining
in
this
contention
a
long
time
,
being
now
thorowe
many
woordes
at
daggers
drawing
,
they
acknowledged
that
héerin
they
did
very
euil
,
bicause
in
thus
doing
,
they
wrought
hurt
and
shame
to
themselues
,
and
displeasure
to
the
woman
.
Wherefore
(
moued
of
an
equall
agréement
)
bothe
two
wente
to
the
mother
of
the
mayd
,
who
was
also
at
the
same
feast
,
and
thus
sayd
vnto
hir
:
That
forsomuch
as
aboue
all
other
women
of
the
world
,
either
of
them
best
liked
hir
daughter
,
and
that
they
were
at
contention
whether
of
them
was
best
liked
of
hir
,
it
woulde
therefore
please
hir
to
graunte
them
this
fauor
,
to
the
ende
no
greater
inconuenience
might
spring
thereof
,
as
to
will
hir
daughter
,
that
she
either
by
word
or
déede
,
would
shew
whether
of
them
she
best
loued
.
The
intreated
gentlewoman
smiling
,
thus
answered
:
willingly
.
And
so
calling
hir
daughter
to
hir
,
sayd
:
My
fayre
daughter
,
eche
one
of
these
preferreth
the
loue
of
thée
,
aboue
the
loue
of
him selfe
,
and
in
this
contention
they
are
:
whether
of
them
is
best
beloued
of
thée
:
and
they
séeke
of
me
this
sauour
,
that
thou
either
by
signes
or
words
,
resolue
them
herein
.
Wheras
loue
is
,
there
peace
ought
to
be
.
And
therefore
to
the
end
that
loue
,
from
whom
all
peace
and
goodnesse
oughte
alwayes
to
spring
,
brede
not
now
the
contrary
,
content
them
in
this
,
and
with
semblable
curtesie
,
shew
towards
which
of
them
thy
minde
is
most
bent
.
The
loued
giueth
cause
of
argument
to
hir
louers
.
The
yong
damsell
sayd
:
It
liketh
me
right
well
.
And
so
beholding
them
bothe
a
while
,
she
saw
the
one
of
them
to
haue
vpon
his
head
a
faire
garlande
of
fresh
floures
,
and
the
other
to
stande
without
any
garlande
at
all
.
Then
she
that
had
likewise
vppon
hir
head
a
garlande
of
gréene
leaues
,
firste
tooke
the
same
from
hir
head
,
and
set
it
vpon
his
,
that
stoode
before
hir
without
a
garlande
.
And
after
she
toke
that
whiche
the
other
yong
man
had
vpon
his
head
,
and
set
the
same
vpon
hirs
:
and
so
leauing
them
,
she
returned
to
the
feast
,
saying
that
she
had
both
performed
the
commandement
of
hir
mother
,
and
eke
their
desire
.
The
yong
men
béeing
thus
lefte
,
returned
also
to
their
former
contention
,
eche
one
affirming
that
she
loued
him
best
.
And
he
whose
garland
she
toke
and
set
vpon
hir
head
,
sayde
:
Assuredly
she
loueth
me
beste
,
bicause
she
hath
taken
my
garlande
to
none
other
ende
,
but
for
that
what
mine
is
,
pleaseth
hir
,
and
to
giue
occasion
to
be
beholding
vnto
me
.
But
to
thée
,
she
hath
giuen
hirs
,
as
it
were
in
place
of
hir
last
farewell
:
vnwilling
that
(
like
a
countrey
girle
)
the
loue
which
thou
bearest
hir
,
be
without
requitall
,
and
therfore
lastly
she
giueth
thee
that
garlande
thou
haddest
merited
.
The
other
replying
with
the
contrary
,
thus
answered
:
Truely
she
loueth
that
thine
is
,
better
than
thée
,
and
that
may
be
séene
in
taking
therof
.
And
me
she
loueth
better
than
what
mine
is
,
in
as
much
as
she
hath
giuen
me
of
hirs
:
And
therefore
it
is
no
token
of
hir
last
deserued
gift
,
as
thou
affirmest
,
but
rather
a
beginning
of
amitie
and
loue
.
A
gift
maketh
the
receiuer
a
subiect
to
the
giuer
:
and
bicause
she
peraduenture
vncertane
of
me
,
to
the
ende
she
might
be
more
certayne
to
haue
me
hir
subiect
,
will
binde
me
(
if
perhaps
I
were
not
bounde
vnto
hir
before
)
to
be
hirs
by
gift
.
But
howe
mayst
thou
thinke
,
if
she
at
the
first
take
away
from
thée
,
that
euer
she
may
vouchsafe
to
giue
thée
.
And
thus
they
abode
a
long
time
contending
,
and
in
the
ende
departed
without
any
definition
at
all
.
Now
say
I
,
most
puissant
Quéene
,
yf
you
shoulde
be
demaunded
of
the
laste
sentence
of
suche
a
contention
,
what
would
ye
iudge
?
The
faire
Lady
somewhat
smiling
,
turned
towards
Philocopo
,
(
hir
eies
sparkling
with
an
amorous
light
)
and
after
a
soft
sigh
,
thus
made
answere
:
Moste
noble
youthe
,
The
queenes
iudgement
vpon
the
question
.
proper
is
your
Question
:
And
truely
,
as
very
wisely
the
young
woman
behaued
hir selfe
,
so
eche
one
of
the
yong
men
right
well
defended
his
cause
.
But
bicause
ye
require
what
we
lastly
will
iudge
therof
,
thus
we
make
you
aunswere
:
It
séemeth
vnto
vs
,
and
so
it
ought
to
séeme
to
eche
one
that
taketh
good
héede
,
that
the
woman
had
in
hate
neither
the
one
nor
the
other
:
but
to
kéepe
hir
intent
couert
did
two
contrary
acts
,
as
appeareth
,
and
not
without
occasion
.
And
to
the
end
she
might
get
more
assured
the
loue
of
him
whom
she
loued
,
as
not
to
lose
the
loue
of
the
other
,
whome
she
hated
not
,
it
was
but
wisely
doone
.
But
to
come
to
our
Question
,
whiche
is
,
to
whether
of
the
two
,
greatest
loue
was
shewed
.
We
saye
:
that
she
loued
him
best
,
and
he
chiefest
in
hir
fauour
,
to
whome
she
gaue
hir
garland
:
and
this
semeth
to
be
the
reason
:
Whatsoeuer
man
or
woman
that
loueth
any
person
,
ech
one
through
force
of
the
loue
they
beare
,
is
so
strongly
bound
to
the
person
loued
,
that
abou●
all
other
things
they
desire
to
please
the
same
,
neither
to
binde
him
or
hir
more
strongly
that
thus
loueth
,
néedeth
either
gifts
or
seruices
,
and
this
is
manyfest
.
And
yet
we
sée
,
that
who
so
loueth
,
though
he
endeuour
him selfe
sundry
wayes
,
is
not
able
to
make
the
person
loued
,
in
any
sorte
benigne
and
subiect
vnto
him
,
wherby
he
may
bring
it
to
his
pleasure
,
and
so
with
a
more
bolde
face
demaund
his
desire
.
And
that
this
is
in
suche
sorte
as
we
say
,
Dido
.
the
inflamed
Dido
with
hir
doings
,
dothe
very
well
manyfest
the
same
vnto
vs
,
who
burning
in
the
loue
of
Aeneas
so
long
,
Aeneas
.
as
it
séemed
hir
neither
with
honours
nor
with
gifts
able
to
winne
him
,
had
not
the
courage
to
attempt
the
doubtfull
way
of
asking
the
question
:
So
that
then
the
yong
woman
sought
to
make
him
most
beholding
vnto
hir
,
whom
she
best
loued
.
And
thus
we
say
,
that
he
that
receiued
the
gifte
of
the
garlande
,
was
hir
best
beloued
.
As
the
quéene
became
silent
,
Philocopo
answered
:
Discrete
Lady
,
Philocopo
replieth
to
the
Queene
.
greatly
is
your
answere
to
be
commended
:
but
for
all
that
,
you
do
bring
me
into
a
great
admiration
of
that
ye
haue
defined
,
touching
the
propounded
question
,
bicause
I
wold
haue
iudged
rather
the
contrary
.
For
so
muche
as
generally
among
louers
,
this
was
the
wonted
custome
,
that
is
,
to
desire
to
beare
vpon
them
some
iewell
,
or
some
other
thing
of
the
persons
loued
,
to
the
end
that
most
times
they
might
glorie
them selues
more
therin
,
than
in
all
the
remnant
they
had
,
&
perceiuing
the
same
about
them
,
therwith
to
glad
their
minds
,
Paris
.
as
ye
haue
heard
.
Paris
seldome
times
or
neuer
entred
into
the
bloudie
battailes
against
the
Greekes
,
without
bearing
some
token
vpon
him
,
that
had
béen
giuen
him
by
his
Helene
,
Helene
.
beléeuing
better
to
preuayle
therewith
,
than
if
he
had
gone
without
the
same
.
And
truely
in
mine
opinion
,
his
thought
was
not
vayne
:
therefore
I
shoulde
thus
saye
,
(
that
as
you
sayde
)
the
yong
woman
did
very
wisely
,
not
defining
it
for
all
that
as
you
haue
don
,
but
in
this
maner
:
She
knowing
that
she
was
very
well
loued
of
two
yong
men
,
and
that
she
could
not
loue
mo
than
one
;
for
that
loue
is
an
indiuisible
thing
,
she
would
rewarde
the
one
for
the
loue
he
bare
hir
,
to
the
ende
that
suche
good
will
should
not
be
vnrewarded
,
and
so
gaue
him
hir
garlande
in
requitall
thereof
.
To
the
other
whom
she
loued
,
she
thought
she
woulde
giue
courage
and
assured
hope
of
hir
loue
,
taking
his
garlande
,
and
decking
hir selfe
therewith
,
in
token
wherof
,
she
playnly
shewed
to
be
beholding
vnto
him
for
the
same
.
And
therfore
in
my
iudgement
she
loued
better
him
from
whom
she
toke
,
than
him
to
whom
she
gaue
.
To
whom
the
Quéene
thus
made
answere
:
The
queenes
solution
of
this
first
question
.
Your
argument
should
haue
pleased
vs
right
well
,
if
your selfe
in
your
tale
had
not
condemned
the
same
Sée
how
pillage
and
perfect
loue
can
agrée
togither
?
How
can
ye
shew
me
,
that
we
loue
him
whom
we
spoyle
,
better
than
him
to
whom
we
giue
?
According
to
the
Question
propounded
,
to
the
one
she
gaue
a
garlande
,
and
from
the
other
she
toke
a
garlande
:
neither
had
she
too
whome
she
gaue
,
ought
giuen
hir
:
and
that
which
we
see
euery
day
for
example
may
here
suffise
,
as
is
commonly
sayde
:
They
are
of
gentlemen
farre
better
loued
,
on
whom
they
bestow
fauour
and
gifts
,
than
those
that
are
by
them
depriued
of
them
.
And
for
that
cause
we
lastly
holde
opinion
,
concluding
,
that
he
is
better
loued
,
to
whom
is
giuen
,
than
he
from
whom
is
taken
.
We
know
very
wel
,
that
in
these
our
reasonings
much
might
be
obiected
agaynst
this
our
definition
,
&
much
also
answered
to
the
contrary
reasons
:
But
lastly
such
determination
shall
remayne
true
.
And
bicause
time
now
serueth
not
,
to
staye
with
this
our
talke
vpon
one
matter
only
without
moe
,
we
will
giue
eare
to
the
rest
if
it
please
you
.
To
whom
Philocopo
sayd
:
That
it
pleased
him
right
wel
,
and
that
very
well
suffised
suche
a
resolution
to
his
demaunded
question
:
and
so
helde
his
peace
.
The
second
Question
,
proposed
by
LONGANO
.
NExte
to
Philocopo
was
placed
a
curteous
young
man
,
and
gracious
to
beholde
,
whose
name
was
Longano
,
who
no
sooner
than
Philocopo
had
left
,
thus
beganne
:
Most
excellent
Quéene
,
so
trim
hath
ben
the
first
question
,
that
in
my
conceipte
,
mine
shall
bring
no
delight
at
al.
Yet
to
the
ende
not
to
be
seuered
from
so
noble
a
company
,
foorth
it
shall
:
and
thus
he
followed
,
saying
:
It
is
not
many
dayes
past
,
that
I
abiding
all
solitarie
in
my
chamber
,
wrapt
in
a
heape
of
troublesome
thoughts
,
sprong
from
an
amorous
desire
,
the
which
with
a
fierce
battayle
had
assaulted
my
heart
,
Two
sisters
complayne
them
of
being
in
loue
.
by
happe
heard
a
piteous
plaint
,
wherevnto
(
bicause
I
iudged
it
by
estimation
néere
vnto
me
)
intentiuely
I
layde
mine
eare
,
and
therby
knew
that
they
were
women
:
by
occasion
whereof
,
I
sodaynly
rose
to
sée
who
,
and
where
they
were
:
and
loking
forth
at
my
chamber
window
,
I
heard
ouer
agaynst
the
same
,
in
one
other
chamber
,
two
yong
women
,
the
same
being
sisters
,
adorned
with
an
inestimable
beautie
,
there
abiding
without
any
other
company
,
whom
as
I
saw
making
this
sorowfull
plaint
,
I
withdrew
my selfe
into
a
secret
place
,
without
beeing
of
them
espied
,
and
so
behelde
them
a
long
while
,
neither
was
I
able
for
all
that
,
to
vnderstande
all
the
words
that
they
through
griefe
vttred
in
teares
,
but
that
the
effect
of
suche
plaint
(
according
to
that
I
coulde
comprehende
)
séemed
to
me
to
be
for
loue
:
wherefore
I
through
pitie
,
and
so
swete
an
occasion
offred
(
being
thus
close
as
I
was
)
began
to
shead
my
trickling
teres
.
And
after
that
I
had
in
their
gréefe
perseuered
in
the
same
a
good
space
(
forsomuch
as
I
was
their
very
familiar
,
&
also
their
kinsman
)
I
purposed
to
vnderstand
more
certayne
the
occasion
of
their
sorow
,
and
so
went
vnto
them
,
who
had
no
sooner
espied
me
,
but
all
bashfull
they
withhelde
them
from
teares
,
endeuoring
them selues
to
do
me
reuerence
.
To
whom
I
sayde
:
Gentlewomen
,
trouble
not
your selues
,
neither
let
this
my
comming
moue
you
to
restrain
your
inward
grief
,
for
your
tears
haue
bin
now
a
good
space
apparant
vnto
me
.
It
shall
be
therefore
needelesse
to
hide
you
,
either
yet
thorow
bashfulnesse
to
hide
from
me
the
cause
of
thys
your
plaint
.
For
I
am
come
hither
to
vnderstand
the
same
.
And
be
you
assured
,
that
ye
shal
not
receiue
by
me
either
in
word
or
déede
any
euill
requitall
,
but
rather
helpe
and
comfort
in
what
I
may
.
The
women
greatly
excused
themselues
,
saying
,
that
they
sorrowed
for
nothing
:
but
yet
after
I
had
coniured
them
,
and
they
seing
me
desirous
to
vnderstand
the
same
,
the
elder
thus
began
to
say
:
It
is
the
pleasure
of
the
Gods
,
that
to
thee
our
secretes
be
discouered
:
thou
therfore
shalt
vnderstand
,
that
we
,
aboue
al
other
women
haue
alwayes
resisted
the
sharpe
darts
of
Cupide
,
who
of
a
long
season
in
casting
the
same
,
was
neuer
yet
able
to
fasten
any
one
of
them
in
our
hearts
.
But
now
lastly
being
further
inflamed
,
and
hauing
determined
to
ouercome
that
his
childishe
enterprise
,
tooke
of
newe
with
his
yong
arme
,
of
his
best
and
dearest
shaftes
,
and
with
so
great
force
wounded
the
heartes
so
sore
infeebled
through
the
sundry
blowes
before
receiued
,
as
the
heades
thereof
pierced
deepe
,
so
as
they
made
a
farre
greater
wound
,
than
if
resistance
had
not
bene
made
(
to
the
other
former
)
had
like
to
haue
bene
.
And
thus
for
the
pleasure
of
two
most
noble
yong
Gentlemen
,
we
are
become
subiectes
to
his
deitie
,
folowing
his
pleasure
wyth
more
perfect
faith
,
and
seruent
wil
,
than
euer
any
other
women
haue
done
.
Now
hath
Fortune
,
and
the
loue
of
them
(
as
I
shall
declare
vnto
you
)
left
vs
both
comfortlesse
.
First
I
,
The
first
lamenteth
the
loste
of
hir
enioyed
louer
.
before
my
sister
héere
,
was
in
loue
,
and
through
mine
endeuor
,
beléeuing
wisely
to
ende
my
desire
,
so
wrought
as
I
got
the
loued
yong
Gentleman
at
my
pleasure
,
whome
I
found
as
greatly
enamored
of
me
,
as
I
of
him
.
But
truely
nowe
hath
not
the
amorous
flame
through
such
effect
ceassed
,
neither
hathe
the
desire
lessened
,
but
eache
one
more
vehemently
increaseth
:
and
more
than
euer
,
I
doe
nowe
burne
in
hys
fire
.
And
what
tyme
,
seeing
howe
I
might
best
mitigate
&
assuage
the
kindled
flame
thereof
,
holding
it
inwardly
secrete
,
it
after
hapned
,
that
the
horned
Moone
was
no
sooner
come
to
hir
perfect
roundnesse
,
but
that
he
at
vnwares
committed
a
fault
,
for
the
which
was
adiudged
him
perpetuall
exile
from
this
citie
,
whervpon
he
dreading
death
,
is
departed
hence
without
hope
euer
to
returne
.
I
sorowfull
woman
aboue
all
others
,
more
now
enflamed
than
euer
,
am
without
him
,
left
both
dolefull
and
desperate
.
By
occasion
whereof
I
sorrow
me
,
and
that
thing
that
most
increaseth
my
sorrow
is
,
that
on
euery
side
I
see
the
way
barde
from
béeing
able
to
follow
him
.
Thinke
therfore
now
,
whether
I
haue
cause
to
playne
me
or
no.
Then
sayd
I
:
and
this
other
,
why
sorroweth
she
?
And
she
answered
:
The
seconde
hindered
by
ielousie
,
soroweth
hir
hap
.
This
my
sister
likewise
(
as
I
)
is
enamoured
of
an
other
,
and
of
him
agayne
loued
aboue
measure
.
And
to
the
ende
hir
desires
should
not
passe
the
amorous
pathes
,
without
taking
some
parte
of
delight
,
many
times
she
hath
endeuoured
hir selfe
to
bring
them
to
effect
,
and
contrary
to
hir
deuise
,
iealousie
hath
always
occupied
and
broken
the
waye
,
and
bicause
she
coulde
neuer
attayne
thervnto
neither
saw
how
to
be
able
so
to
do
,
she
thus
distressed
,
is
thorough
feruent
loue
consumed
,
as
ye
may
well
thinke
if
euer
ye
were
in
loue
.
Séeing
we
wer
then
here
al
alone
,
we
began
to
reason
of
our
misfortunes
,
and
knowing
the
same
farre
greater
than
these
of
other
women
,
we
coulde
not
withholde
from
teares
,
but
with
wéeping
sorowed
our
luckle●●e
lottes
,
as
ye
might
well
perceiue
.
To
heare
this
of
them
it
gréeued
me
greatly
,
so
that
I
encountred
them
with
suche
wordes
as
séemed
me
most
profitable
for
their
comfort
,
and
so
departed
from
them
.
Many
times
after
reuoluing
in
minde
their
griefes
,
and
sometimes
bethinking
me
whether
of
the
same
shoulde
be
the
greater
,
at
one
time
I
agreed
to
that
of
the
one
,
and
at
another
time
,
I
yelded
to
that
of
the
other
:
and
the
sundry
reasons
wherwith
as
it
séemeth
me
,
ech
one
hath
to
lament
hir
,
will
not
suffer
me
to
stay
vpon
any
one
,
whervpon
I
remayn
here
in
doubt
.
May
it
therfore
please
you
,
that
by
you
may
be
opened
this
errour
,
in
telling
me
whether
of
these
two
infortunate
louers
séemed
to
sustayne
the
greatest
gréefe
.
Great
was
the
sorow
of
either
of
them
,
The
Queene
decideth
the
question
.
answered
the
Quéene
:
But
considering
aduersitie
to
be
most
greuous
to
hir
that
hath
tasted
prosperitie
,
we
estéeme
that
shée
that
hathe
lost
hir
loue
,
féeleth
the
greatest
gréefe
,
and
is
of
Fortune
greatliest
offended
.
Fabritius
.
Fabritius
neuer
bewept
the
chaunces
of
fortune
:
Pompey
.
But
that
Pompey
did
,
is
a
thing
very
manifest
.
If
swéet
things
were
not
tasted
,
the
soure
should
be
yet
vnknowne
.
Medea
.
Medea
neuer
knewe
(
according
to
hir
own
saying
)
what
maner
a
thing
prosperitie
was
,
whilest
shée
was
in
loue
,
Iason
.
but
being
forsaken
of
Iason
,
bewayled
hir
aduersitie
.
Who
will
euer
lament
for
that
he
hath
not
had
:
not
one
but
wil
rather
desire
it
.
It
is
demed
therfore
,
that
of
the
two
women
,
the
one
wept
for
gréefe
,
the
other
for
desire
.
It
is
very
hard
for
me
(
gracious
Ladie
)
to
Longano
of
contrary
opinion
to
the
Queene
.
thinke
that
which
you
affirme
(
sayd
the
yong
Gentleman
)
forsomuche
as
who
that
hath
his
desire
of
any
desired
thing
,
ought
much
more
to
content
his
minde
,
than
who
that
desireth
,
and
can
not
fulfil
his
desire
.
Further
,
nothing
is
more
light
to
lose
,
than
what
hope
promyseth
not
heereafter
to
yéelde
.
There
ought
to
be
vnmeasurable
greefe
,
whereas
the
not
being
able
to
bring
egall
willes
to
effect
doth
hinder
.
From
thence
lamentations
take
place
,
from
thence
thoughtes
and
troubles
doe
spring
,
bicause
if
the
willes
were
not
egall
,
of
force
the
desire
should
want
.
But
when
as
louers
see
them selues
in
presence
of
that
they
desire
,
and
can
not
attaine
thereunto
,
then
doe
they
kindle
and
sorowe
them
muche
more
,
than
if
that
they
wold
haue
,
were
farre
from
them
.
And
who
I
pray
you
torments
Tantalus
in
Hel
?
Tantalus
.
but
only
the
apples
,
&
the
water
,
for
that
howe
much
more
neere
they
bend
and
swell
to
hys
mouth
,
so
much
the
more
(
afterwards
in
fléeing
the
same
)
they
increase
his
hunger
.
Truely
I
beléeue
,
that
who
hopeth
for
a
thing
possible
to
be
had
and
can
not
attaine
thereunto
,
thorow
contrary
resisting
impediments
,
féeleth
more
gréefe
,
than
who
that
bewaileth
a
thing
loste
&
irrecuperable
.
The
Queenes
solution
or
the
ij
.
question
.
Then
sayd
the
Quéene
,
your
answere
would
haue
followed
very
well
,
where
your
demaunde
shoulde
haue
bene
of
an
olde
griefe
,
although
to
that
also
might
be
sayd
:
thus
to
be
possible
throughe
forgetting
the
griefe
,
to
shorten
the
desire
in
the
desired
things
,
where
as
continual
impediment
is
sens
not
to
be
able
to
attayn
them
,
as
in
those
lost
,
wherein
Hope
dothe
not
shew
vs
,
that
we
should
euer
haue
them
agayne
.
But
we
do
reason
whether
of
them
sorrowed
most
,
when
you
saw
them
sorrowing
:
wherfore
folowing
the
propounded
case
,
we
will
giue
iudgement
,
that
she
felt
greater
griefe
that
had
loste
hir
louer
,
without
hope
to
haue
him
agayn
,
(
putting
the
case
that
it
be
an
easie
matter
to
lose
a
thing
impossible
to
haue
agayne
:
neuerthelesse
it
was
to
be
sayd
:
who
loueth
well
,
forgetteth
neuer
)
than
the
other
,
who
if
we
looke
well
,
might
hope
to
fulfill
that
hereafter
,
that
heretofore
she
was
vnable
to
performe
.
For
a
great
lessener
of
griefe
is
hope
.
It
had
force
to
kéepe
chaste
and
to
diminish
the
sorrowes
of
the
lingring
long
life
of
Penelope
.
¶
The
thirde
Question
,
proposed
by
a
yong
Gentlewoman
.
ON
the
right
side
of
Longano
,
sat
an
excellent
faire
Gentlewoman
,
and
very
pleasant
,
who
as
she
perceiued
that
Question
by
the
Quéene
determined
,
thus
beganne
with
a
swéete
talke
to
say
:
Most
renoumed
quéene
,
your
eares
graunt
hearing
to
my
words
:
And
first
by
those
Gods
whom
you
worshippe
,
and
nexte
by
the
power
of
our
pastime
,
I
pray
you
that
ye
will
giue
to
my
demaund
profitable
counsell
.
I
,
as
you
know
,
being
descended
of
noble
Parents
,
was
borne
in
this
Citie
,
and
was
named
with
a
very
gracious
name
,
although
my
surname
(
béeing
Cara
)
presenteth
me
gratefull
to
the
hearers
,
and
as
by
my
face
it
may
appeare
,
I
haue
receiued
from
the
Gods
and
Nature
a
singuler
gifte
of
beautie
,
the
whiche
(
in
following
my
proper
name
more
than
my
surname
)
I
haue
adorned
with
an
infinite
pleasantnesse
,
shewing
my selfe
benigne
to
whom
that
is
delighted
to
beholde
the
same
:
by
occasion
whereof
,
many
haue
endeuoured
themselues
for
their
pleasure
to
occupie
my
eyes
,
agaynst
all
whom
I
haue
withscode
with
strong
resistaunce
,
holding
a
stable
heart
agaynst
their
assaults
:
but
bicause
it
séemeth
to
me
vnléefull
that
I
onely
shoulde
pretermit
the
lawes
kept
and
obserued
of
all
others
,
that
is
,
not
to
loue
being
loued
of
many
,
I
haue
determined
to
become
enamored
,
and
setting
apart
many
seekers
of
suche
loue
,
wherof
some
do
excell
Midas
in
richesse
,
some
other
passe
Absalon
in
beautie
,
and
other
some
in
curtesie
(
according
to
the
common
report
of
all
)
are
more
splendent
than
any
other
.
I
haue
of
all
these
chosen
thrée
:
Of
whome
eche
one
pleaseth
me
alike
.
The
gentlewoman
praieth
to
be
resolued
whether
oughte
sonest
to
be
loued
,
either
the
strong
,
the
liberall
,
or
the
wise
.
Of
the
which
thrée
,
the
one
of
bodily
force
(
as
I
beléeue
)
would
excell
the
good
Hector
,
he
is
at
euery
proofe
so
vigorous
and
strong
.
The
curtesie
and
liberalitie
of
the
second
is
such
,
that
(
as
I
thinke
)
his
fame
doth
sound
through
eche
pole
.
The
third
is
all
full
of
wisdome
,
so
that
he
surmounteth
all
other
wise
men
aboue
measure
.
But
for
that
(
as
ye
haue
heard
)
their
qualities
are
diuers
,
I
doubt
whether
of
them
to
take
,
finding
in
the
antique
age
eche
one
of
these
to
haue
diuerslye
the
courages
of
women
,
and
of
yelding
men
:
as
of
Dianira
,
Hercules
,
of
our
Clitemnestra
,
Aegistus
,
and
of
Lucretia
,
Sextus
.
Counsell
me
therfore
,
to
whether
of
them
soonest
with
least
blame
,
and
greatest
suretie
,
I
ought
to
giue
my selfe
.
The
pleasant
Quene
hauing
heard
the
purpose
of
this
Gentlewoman
,
The
queenes
answere
.
thus
made
answere
.
There
is
neuer
a
one
of
the
thrée
,
that
dothe
not
worthily
merite
the
loue
of
a
faire
and
gracious
Lady
:
but
bicause
in
this
case
I
am
not
to
fighte
agaynst
castles
,
or
to
giue
away
the
kingdomes
of
great
Alexander
,
or
the
treasures
of
Ptholome
,
but
that
onely
that
Loue
and
honour
are
with
discretion
a
long
time
to
be
kepte
,
the
whiche
are
mainteyned
neither
by
force
nor
curtesy
,
but
only
by
wisdome
:
we
say
,
that
both
you
,
and
euery
other
woman
ought
rather
to
giue
hir
loue
to
a
wise
man
,
than
to
any
of
the
rest
.
The
reply
of
the
Gentlewoman
.
Oh
how
diuers
is
my
iudgement
from
yours
,
aunswered
the
propounding
Gentlewoman
.
To
me
it
séemeth
,
that
eche
one
of
the
others
were
soner
to
be
taken
than
the
wise
,
and
this
seemeth
to
be
the
reason
:
Loue
as
we
see
)
is
of
that
nature
,
as
multiplying
his
force
in
one
heart
,
euery
other
thing
he
banisheth
out
thence
,
retayning
that
for
his
seate
,
and
mouing
it
after
according
to
his
pleasure
,
wherevnto
no
foresight
is
able
to
resist
,
but
that
it
is
conuenient
for
them
to
follow
him
,
by
whom
it
is
(
as
I
haue
sayde
)
gouerned
.
And
who
doubteth
that
Biblis
knew
it
not
to
be
euill
to
loue
hir
brother
?
Biblys
.
Who
will
gaynesay
,
that
it
was
not
manyfest
to
Leander
,
Leander
.
that
he
might
drowne
in
Helespont
,
in
his
fortunate
time
,
yf
he
caste
him selfe
therein
?
And
none
will
deny
that
Pasiphe
knew
not
a
man
to
be
more
faire
than
a
Bul
?
Pasiphe
.
and
yet
they
and
eche
one
ouercome
with
an
amorous
plesure
,
reiecting
all
knowledge
,
followed
the
same
.
Then
if
it
haue
power
to
take
knowledge
from
the
learned
,
taking
away
the
witte
from
the
wise
,
they
shall
haue
nothing
left
:
but
if
from
the
strong
and
curteous
,
it
shall
take
away
the
little
witte
they
haue
,
it
shall
yet
increase
them
in
their
vertues
,
and
so
they
shall
become
more
than
the
wise
enamoured
.
Further
,
loue
hath
this
propertie
,
it
is
a
thing
that
can
not
long
be
hidde
:
and
in
reueling
him self
,
he
is
wont
oftentimes
to
bring
greuous
perils
,
whervnto
what
remedie
shall
the
wise
giue
that
hath
now
lost
his
witte
?
He
shall
giue
none
at
all
,
but
the
strong
that
vseth
his
force
can
helpe
in
a
perill
bothe
him selfe
,
and
others
.
The
curteous
through
his
curtesie
,
shall
wyth
gratefull
beneuolence
winne
the
minds
of
many
,
whereby
he
may
be
bothe
holpen
and
considered
,
and
others
also
for
his
sake
.
Sée
now
what
it
is
to
be
of
your
iudgement
.
She
was
by
the
Quéene
answered
vnto
,
thus
:
The
queenes
last
sentence
to
the
thirde
question
.
If
there
were
suche
a
one
as
you
speake
of
,
who
shoulde
than
be
wise
?
not
one
.
But
if
he
,
whom
you
propound
wise
,
and
enamored
of
you
,
should
be
made
a
foole
,
he
is
not
to
be
taken
.
The
Gods
forbid
,
that
that
whereof
you
speake
,
shoulde
come
to
passe
.
And
yet
we
will
not
deny
,
but
that
the
wise
know
the
euill
,
and
do
it
:
but
for
all
that
we
will
say
,
that
they
thereby
lose
not
their
witte
,
forasmuche
as
what
time
it
pleaseth
them
with
the
reason
they
haue
to
dridle
their
willes
,
they
will
reduce
them selues
to
their
accustomed
witte
,
guyding
their
motions
in
a
due
and
strayght
order
.
And
in
this
manner
their
loue
shall
bée
altogither
,
or
at
the
least
,
a
long
time
kepte
secrete
,
and
that
withoute
any
doubtfull
diligence
,
the
whiche
shall
not
happen
to
one
of
little
witte
,
bée
he
neuer
so
strong
or
curteous
.
And
yet
if
perhappes
it
do
happe
,
that
suche
loue
bée
discouered
,
a
wyse
manne
will
with
a
hundred
foresightes
,
shut
vp
the
eyes
and
vnderstanding
of
the
tatlers
thereof
,
and
shall
prouide
a
safetie
bothe
for
his
owne
honour
,
as
for
the
honour
of
his
loued
Lady
?
And
if
néede
of
safetie
bée
,
the
helpe
of
the
wyse
can
not
fayle
.
That
of
the
strong
commeth
lesse
.
And
the
friendes
that
are
gotten
by
Liberalitie
,
are
accustomed
in
aduersitie
to
shrinke
awaye
.
What
is
she
of
so
little
discretion
,
that
is
brought
to
suche
a
iumpe
,
as
hath
néede
of
manyfeste
helpe
?
or
that
if
hir
loue
bée
disclosed
,
séeketh
fame
in
hauing
loued
a
strong
or
Liberall
man
?
I
beléeue
there
is
none
suche
.
Let
the
wyse
then
be
soonest
loued
,
hoping
that
he
muste
be
in
eche
cause
more
profitable
than
any
of
the
reste
.
¶
The
fourth
Question
,
proposed
by
MENEDON
.
THe
Gentlewoman
by
hir
countenance
seemed
content
when
Menedon
sitting
next
vnto
hir
sayd
:
Most
highe
and
noble
Quéene
,
now
is
it
come
to
my
turne
to
propounde
my
question
here
in
your
presence
.
First
Menedon
telleth
a
tale
.
Wherefore
by
your
lisence
,
if
in
my
talke
I
shal
wade
very
long
,
yet
during
the
same
I
shall
first
of
all
of
you
,
and
nexte
of
the
standers
aboute
,
pray
pardon
:
Bicause
ye
can
not
be
made
fully
to
vnderstande
that
,
whiche
I
intende
to
propounde
,
vnlesse
a
tale
,
that
peraduenture
shall
not
be
short
,
do
precede
the
same
:
and
after
these
words
thus
she
began
to
saye
:
In
the
countrey
where
I
was
borne
,
I
remember
thēre
was
a
noble
knyght
,
surmounting
riche
,
the
which
loued
in
most
loyall
loue
,
a
noble
gentlewoman
,
borne
likewise
there
,
whom
he
tooke
to
wife
:
Of
whom
being
as
she
was
,
excéeding
faire
:
Tarolfo
a
knight
was
enamored
of
a
Lady
.
an
other
knight
called
Tarolfo
was
after
enamoured
,
and
with
so
great
good
wil
loued
hir
,
as
he
saw
nothing
he
more
desired
than
hir
:
And
in
sundry
sortes
,
now
with
passing
before
hir
house
,
now
iusting
,
now
at
the
barriers
,
now
with
the
often
sending
hir
messangers
,
peraduenture
promising
hir
great
gifts
,
wherby
she
might
know
his
intent
,
and
now
with
other
like
feats
he
endeuoured
him selfe
to
purchase
hir
loue
.
All
which
thinges
the
Lady
closely
supported
,
without
giuing
signe
or
good
aunswere
to
the
knight
,
saying
to
hir selfe
:
When
as
this
knight
shall
espie
,
that
he
can
haue
neither
answere
,
ne
yet
good
countenaunce
of
me
,
perhaps
he
will
forbeare
any
further
,
either
to
loue
me
,
or
to
giue
me
these
allurements
.
Now
for
all
this
,
Tarolfo
surcessed
not
,
following
the
precepts
of
O●●d
,
who
sayth
,
that
a
man
muste
not
throughe
the
hardnesse
of
a
woman
leaue
to
perseuer
,
because
with
continuaunce
the
soft
water
pierceth
the
imbrued
with
Romayne
bloud
:
and
hauing
trauailed
a
long
while
vpon
the
same
,
Tarolfo
found
an
olde
manne
called
Theban
.
he
sodenly
espied
before
him
,
at
the
foote
of
a
mountayn
,
a
man
not
yong
,
nor
of
to
many
yeres
,
bearded
,
small
and
very
spare
of
person
,
whose
attire
shewed
him
to
be
but
poore
,
who
romed
hither
&
thither
gathering
herbs
,
and
with
a
little
knife
digged
vp
sundry
rootes
,
wherof
he
had
filled
one
of
the
skirts
of
his
cote
:
whom
as
Tarolfo
saw
,
he
maruelled
not
a
little
,
and
doubted
greatly
least
it
had
ben
some
other
thing
,
but
after
that
his
ayme
did
certainly
assure
him
to
be
a
man
,
he
drew
nere
vnto
him
,
saluted
him
,
and
after
asked
him
who
he
was
,
of
whence
,
&
what
he
made
ther
at
so
timely
an
houre
.
To
whom
the
old
man
answered
:
I
am
of
Thebes
,
and
Thebane
is
my
name
,
and
I
go
vp
and
downe
this
playne
,
gathering
of
these
herbes
,
to
the
ende
that
with
the
iuyce
therof
,
I
make
diuers
necessary
&
profitable
things
for
diuers
infirmities
,
wherby
I
may
haue
wherwithal
to
liue
:
And
to
come
at
this
houre
,
it
is
néede
&
not
delight
that
constrayneth
me
.
But
who
are
you
,
that
in
countenaunce
resembleth
noble
,
and
walke
here
al
alone
solitarie
.
To
whom
Tarolfo
answered
:
I
am
of
the
extremes
of
the
west
,
very
riche
,
and
vanquished
of
my
conceipts
,
pricked
forwards
to
an
enterprise
,
not
being
able
hitherto
to
atchieue
the
same
,
and
therefore
to
be
the
better
able
without
impediment
to
sorrow
my
hap
,
I
goe
thus
all
alone
wandring
.
To
whome
Thebane
sayde
:
Do
you
not
know
the
qualitie
of
the
place
,
and
what
it
is
?
Wherfore
haue
you
rather
taken
your
way
on
the
one
side
?
You
might
easily
here
be
rebuked
with
furious
spirites
.
Tarolfo
aunswered
:
God
can
doe
héere
,
as
else
where
,
it
is
he
that
hath
my
lyfe
and
honour
in
his
hands
:
lette
him
doe
with
me
according
to
his
pleasure
:
for
assuredlye
death
should
be
to
me
a
riche
treasure
.
Then
sayd
Thebane
:
What
is
that
your
enterprise
,
for
the
whiche
(
not
béeing
able
to
performe
it
)
you
abide
thus
sorowfull
?
To
whome
Tarolfo
aunswered
:
It
is
such
as
séemes
vnto
me
impossible
to
be
able
euer
to
attayne
,
since
hitherto
I
haue
here
found
no
counsell
.
Then
sayd
Thebane
:
Dare
ye
vtter
it
?
Tarolfo
answered
:
Yea.
But
what
profiteth
it
?
Peraduenture
nothing
sayde
Thebane
,
but
what
doth
it
hurt
?
Tarolfo
reciteth
to
Thebane
his
promis
made
too
his
Lady
,
of
a
Garden
full
of
floures
in
the
moneth
of
Ianuary
.
Then
sayd
Tarolfo
:
I
séeke
counsell
how
may
be
hadde
in
the
coldest
moneth
,
a
Gardeyn
full
of
floures
,
fruites
,
and
hearbs
,
as
fayre
as
yf
it
were
in
the
moneth
of
May
,
neither
doe
I
fynde
who
can
therein
either
helpe
me
,
or
giue
me
encouragement
that
it
is
possible
to
be
hadde
.
Thebane
stayde
a
whyle
in
a
muse
without
aunswere
,
and
after
sayde
:
You
and
many
others
doe
iudge
the
skill
and
vertue
of
men
according
to
their
garments
.
If
my
goods
were
such
as
are
yours
,
you
wold
not
haue
lingered
so
long
in
discouering
your
lacke
:
or
if
peraduenture
you
had
founde
me
néere
to
some
riche
Prince
,
as
you
haue
in
gathering
of
hearbes
.
But
many
times
vnder
the
vylest
vesture
are
hidden
the
greatest
treasures
of
science
:
and
therefore
no
one
concealeth
his
lacke
,
to
whome
is
proffered
counsel
or
helpe
:
And
if
therfore
he
open
the
same
,
it
can
not
preiudice
him
at
all
.
But
what
wold
ye
giue
him
that
should
come
,
he
saw
the
hornes
of
the
Moone
gathered
into
a
perfect
roundnesse
,
and
to
shine
vpon
the
frequented
earth
.
Then
he
went
him
all
alone
forthe
of
the
citie
,
leauing
his
apparell
apart
,
bare
legged
,
and
his
dissheueled
locks
hanging
vpon
his
naked
shoulders
.
The
restlesse
degrées
of
the
night
did
passe
:
birds
,
wild
beasts
,
and
men
,
without
any
noyse
dyd
take
their
rest
:
the
vnfallen
leaues
without
mouing
did
hang
vpon
the
trées
,
and
the
moyst
aire
abode
in
milde
peace
:
Onely
the
starres
did
shine
,
when
as
he
oftentimes
went
aboute
the
grounds
,
and
came
to
a
place
on
a
riuers
side
,
whiche
it
pleased
him
to
chose
for
his
Garden
.
There
he
stretched
forthe
his
arme
thrée
times
towards
the
starres
,
and
turning
him selfe
vnto
them
,
he
as
often
bathed
his
white
locks
in
the
running
streame
,
crauing
as
many
times
with
a
most
highe
voyce
their
helpe
,
and
after
setting
his
knées
to
the
hard
earth
,
The
inuocation
magical
of
Thebane
began
thus
to
say
:
Oh
night
,
most
faithfull
secreser
of
high
things
,
and
you
,
oh
ye
starres
,
the
which
togither
with
the
Moone
,
do
succede
the
splendent
day
:
and
thou
oh
singular
Hecates
,
become
an
helper
to
this
my
begon
enterprise
,
&
thou
on
holy
Ceres
,
the
renuer
of
the
ample
face
of
the
earth
:
And
you
whatsoeuer
verses
either
artes
,
or
herbes
,
and
thou
whatsoeuer
erth
bringing
forth
vertuous
plants
,
and
thou
oh
atre
,
windes
,
mountaines
,
riuers
and
lakes
,
and
eche
God
of
the
woods
,
and
of
the
secrete
night
,
by
whose
helpe
I
haue
heeretofore
made
the
running
streames
to
recule
,
inforcing
them
to
returne
to
their
springs
,
and
things
running
,
to
become
firme
,
&
things
firm
to
become
running
,
and
that
hast
also
giuen
power
to
my
verses
to
drye
vp
the
seas
,
that
I
at
my
pleasure
might
search
the
bottom
therof
,
and
to
make
the
cloudie
times
cleare
,
and
(
at
my
will
)
to
fill
the
cleare
heauens
with
obscure
clouds
,
to
make
the
windes
to
ceasse
,
&
to
turne
as
it
séemed
me
best
:
breaking
therwith
the
hard
iawes
of
the
feareful
dragons
,
making
also
the
standing
woods
to
moue
,
and
the
hault
mountaines
to
tremble
,
&
to
returne
to
their
bodies
out
of
the
lake
Stix
those
their
shadowes
,
and
aliue
to
come
forth
of
their
sepultures
:
and
sometimes
thée
O
Moone
to
draw
to
thy
perfect
roundnesse
:
the
attaining
wherunto
a
ring
of
Basons
was
wont
to
be
an
helpe
,
making
also
the
cleare
face
of
the
Sunne
many
times
to
become
pale
,
be
ye
all
present
,
&
aid
me
with
your
helpe
.
I
haue
at
thys
instant
néede
of
the
sappe
and
iuyce
of
herbes
,
thorowe
the
which
I
may
make
in
parte
,
the
dry
earth
fastned
thorowe
Autumne
,
and
after
thorow
the
withering
colde
Winter
,
spoyled
of
his
Floures
,
Frutes
,
and
hearbes
,
to
become
flouring
,
and
to
spring
before
the
due
terme
.
And
hauing
thus
sayde
,
he
sayde
after
,
many
other
things
softely
,
which
he
added
to
his
Prayers
.
And
those
being
ended
,
and
he
a
while
silent
,
the
Starres
gaue
not
theyr
lyghte
in
vayne
.
Theban
was
caried
in
the
air
in
a
chariot
led
by
two
Dragons
.
For
more
swifter
than
the
flyght
of
the
wyghtest
birde
,
there
appeared
before
hym
a
Chariot
drawen
by
two
dragons
,
whereuppon
he
mounted
,
and
taking
the
raines
of
the
bridles
of
the
two
brideled
Dragons
in
his
hand
,
was
caryed
into
the
air
.
He
then
leauing
Spain
,
and
all
Affrica
,
tooke
his
iorney
by
other
Regions
,
and
first
sought
for
the
Ile
of
Crete
,
and
from
thence
after
with
a
short
course
he
sought
Pelion
,
Othrys
,
&
Ossa
,
the
mount
Nerium
,
Pachynus
,
Pelorus
&
Appaennine
.
Vpon
them
al
plucking
vp
,
&
with
a
sharp
sickle
cutting
downe
such
rootes
&
herbs
as
best
liked
him
,
neither
forgate
he
those
which
he
had
before
gathered
when
as
he
was
found
by
Tarolfo
in
Thessalia
.
He
toke
stones
also
vpon
the
mount
Causacus
,
and
of
the
sandes
of
Ganges
:
and
out
of
Libia
he
brought
tongs
of
venemous
serpentes
.
He
searched
the
watry
banks
of
Rodanus
of
Senna
at
Parys
,
of
the
great
Po
,
of
Arnus
,
of
the
imperial
Tyber
,
of
Niseus
,
of
Tana
,
&
of
Danuby
:
vpon
those
eke
gathering
such
herbs
as
séemed
to
him
most
necessarie
for
his
purpose
,
putting
these
together
with
the
others
,
gathered
on
the
tops
of
the
sauage
mountaines
.
He
also
sought
the
Ilands
of
Lesbos
&
Pathmos
,
&
euery
other
,
wherin
he
perceiued
any
profitable
thing
to
be
had
for
hys
attempt
:
With
all
the
which
things
he
came
(
the
third
day
béeing
not
yet
past
)
to
that
place
from
whence
he
departed
,
and
the
Dragons
,
that
onely
had
felt
the
odour
of
the
gathered
herbs
,
did
cast
of
their
old
hides
of
many
yeres
,
and
were
with
new
renued
and
become
yong
.
The
ceremonies
vsed
in
making
the
garden
.
There
he
dismounted
from
his
chariot
,
and
of
the
gréen
earth
he
made
two
altares
:
on
his
right
hand
that
of
Hecates
:
and
on
the
left
that
of
the
running
goddesse
:
Ceres
.
that
being
done
,
&
deuout
fires
kindled
therupon
,
with
locks
disperpled
vpon
his
olde
shulders
,
he
began
wyth
a
murmuring
noise
to
goe
about
the
same
,
and
with
reached
bloud
oftentimes
he
besprent
the
blasing
brands
.
After
he
placed
the
same
bloud
vpon
the
altars
,
somtimes
softning
therwithall
the
ground
,
appoynted
for
his
garden
:
and
after
that
,
he
softned
again
the
self
same
thrée
times
,
with
fire
,
water
,
and
Sulpher
,
setting
after
a
great
vessell
full
of
bloud
,
milke
,
and
water
,
vppon
the
burning
brandes
,
which
he
caused
to
boile
a
good
space
,
and
put
thereto
the
herbes
and
rootes
,
gathered
in
straunge
places
,
mingling
therewith
also
diuers
séedes
and
flours
of
vnknown
herbs
,
he
added
therunto
stones
,
sought
in
the
extreame
parts
of
the
east
,
and
dew
gathered
the
nights
past
,
together
with
the
flesh
of
infamous
witches
,
the
stones
of
a
Wolfe
,
the
hinder
parte
of
a
fat
Cinyphis
,
and
the
skin
of
a
Chilinder
.
And
lastly
a
liuer
,
with
the
whole
lungs
of
an
excéeding
old
Hart
:
and
herewithall
a
thousand
other
things
,
bothe
without
name
,
and
so
straunge
,
as
my
memory
can
not
againe
tell
them
.
After
he
toke
a
dry
bough
of
an
Oliue
trée
,
and
therwith
began
to
mingle
al
these
things
together
.
In
doing
wherof
,
the
drie
bough
began
to
waxe
gréene
,
and
within
a
while
after
to
beare
leaues
,
and
not
long
after
the
new
apparelling
therof
,
it
was
laden
with
blacke
Oliues
.
As
Thebane
sawe
this
,
he
tooke
the
boyling
licoures
,
and
began
therwithal
to
sprinkle
and
water
in
euery
place
the
chosen
soyle
,
wherein
he
had
sette
slippes
of
so
many
woods
,
as
he
would
haue
trées
,
&
of
as
many
sortes
as
could
be
found
.
The
which
licour
the
earth
had
no
sooner
tasted
,
but
that
it
began
to
spring
:
yelding
floures
and
newe
herbes
,
and
the
dry
settes
became
to
become
all
gréene
and
frutefull
plants
.
All
this
being
done
,
Theban
entring
the
citie
,
returned
to
Tarolfo
,
whom
he
found
all
in
a
muse
,
fearing
to
be
scorned
thorowe
his
long
abode
,
to
whome
he
sayd
,
Tarolfo
,
that
thing
(
thou
requiredst
)
is
done
to
thy
liking
.
Tarolfe
offereth
his
ladie
the
Garden
which
shee
demaunded
.
These
newes
pleased
Tarolfo
not
a
little
,
&
hapning
the
day
folowing
to
be
a
great
solemnitie
in
the
Citie
,
he
went
into
the
presence
of
his
loued
Lady
,
that
had
not
now
séene
him
of
a
long
time
past
:
and
thus
he
sayd
vnto
hir
:
Madame
,
after
a
long
and
tedious
trauaile
,
I
haue
performed
that
which
you
haue
commaunded
,
and
when
as
it
shal
please
you
to
see
it
,
or
to
take
it
,
it
is
readye
at
your
pleasure
.
Shée
in
séeing
him
,
maruelled
muche
,
&
the
more
,
hearing
what
he
sayd
,
and
not
beléeuing
the
same
to
be
true
,
made
him
this
answer
:
It
pleaseth
me
right
wel
,
ye
shal
let
me
see
it
to
morowe
.
The
second
day
was
come
,
&
Tarolfo
went
againe
to
his
Lady
,
and
said
:
Madame
,
may
it
please
you
to
walke
to
the
Garden
,
the
which
you
required
to
haue
this
colde
moneth
.
The
Ladie
goeth
to
see
the
garden
.
Shée
then
being
accompanied
with
many
others
,
was
moued
to
sée
the
same
.
And
they
al
being
come
to
the
Garden
,
entred
therein
by
a
fair
portal
:
wheras
they
felt
not
the
like
colde
as
abrode
,
but
the
same
to
haue
a
of
the
Ladie
,
thus
sayd
vnto
hir
:
Go
and
couertly
keepe
thine
othe
,
and
liberally
perform
to
Tarolfo
what
thou
hast
promised
.
For
he
hath
with
his
great
toyle
of
right
descrued
the
same
.
And
hauing
thus
sayd
,
the
Lady
began
to
weepe
,
and
to
say
vnto
him
:
The
Gods
seuer
me
far
from
suche
a
fault
.
In
no
wise
will
I
so
do
:
I
will
rather
rid
my selfe
of
life
,
than
do
any
thing
displeasant
to
you
,
or
dishonor
to
your
person
.
To
whome
the
knight
replyed
,
saying
:
Wife
,
for
this
matter
I
will
that
ye
doe
no
iniurie
to
your selfe
,
neither
yet
conceiue
any
gréefe
therfore
,
for
in
no
wise
shall
it
displease
me
,
goe
therfore
,
and
perform
what
ye
haue
promised
:
for
ye
shall
be
neuer
a
whitte
the
lesse
deare
to
me
:
But
as
ye
haue
performed
this
your
promise
,
so
take
ye
better
héede
héereafter
of
suche
like
,
although
a
demaunded
gift
may
seeme
vnto
you
impossible
to
be
had
.
As
the
Lady
perceiued
the
wil
of
hir
husband
,
she
decked
&
trimmed
hir
and
made
hir self
very
fair
,
toke
company
with
hir
,
and
so
went
to
Tarolfos
lodging
,
and
bepainted
with
bashfulnesse
,
presented
hir selfe
vnto
hym
.
Tarolfo
as
soone
as
he
sawe
hir
,
The
Lady
presenteth
hir self
to
Tarolfo
.
all
maruelling
,
rose
from
Thebane
and
encountred
hir
wyth
great
gladnesse
,
and
very
honourably
receyued
hir
,
demaundyng
the
cause
of
hir
comming
.
To
whome
shée
aunswered
,
I
am
come
to
be
wholly
at
your
will
,
doe
with
me
as
it
pleaseth
you
.
Then
sayde
Tarolfo
,
yée
make
me
to
muse
aboue
measure
,
consideryng
the
time
and
the
companie
wherewith
ye
are
come
:
Thys
can
not
be
wythout
some
great
alteration
betwéene
you
and
your
husbande
,
tell
me
therefore
I
pray
you
,
howe
the
matter
goeth
.
The
Ladie
then
shewed
Tarolfo
fully
in
order
the
whole
matter
&
how
it
went
:
the
which
Tarolfo
hearing
,
The
liberalitie
of
Tarolfo
towardes
the
Lady
in
releasing
hir
of
hir
promisse
.
he
began
then
to
enter
into
a
farre
greater
admiration
than
he
had
euer
done
before
,
and
greatly
to
bethinke
him
héereof
,
and
so
in
the
ende
to
conceyue
the
great
Liberalitie
of
the
Husbande
,
that
had
sent
his
Wyfe
vnto
hym
:
whereuppon
he
sayd
to
himselfe
:
Whatsoeuer
he
be
,
that
should
so
muche
as
but
thinke
villanie
towardes
suche
a
Knight
,
were
surely
worthy
of
great
blame
:
and
so
taking
and
talking
wyth
the
Lady
,
he
thus
sayd
vnto
hir
:
Madam
,
like
a
worthy
Ladie
,
ye
haue
performed
that
to
me
due
is
:
For
the
which
cause
I
accompte
that
receiued
of
your
hands
,
that
I
haue
of
you
desired
,
and
therefore
when
it
shall
please
you
,
you
may
returne
to
your
Husbande
,
and
thanke
him
(
I
pray
you
)
on
my
behalfe
,
for
this
his
so
great
a
pleasure
done
vnto
mée
,
and
excuse
me
of
the
follie
I
haue
héeretofore
committed
towardes
hym
,
assuring
hym
,
that
héereafter
I
shall
neuer
putte
the
like
in
practise
.
The
Ladie
giuing
great
thanks
to
Tarolfo
for
that
his
so
great
curtesie
,
merily
departed
thence
&
returned
to
hir
husband
,
to
whome
she
recited
in
ordre
all
that
had
ben
hapned
.
But
Theban
,
now
comming
to
Tarolfo
demaunded
how
the
case
stoode
.
Tarolfo
declared
vnto
him
the
whole
discourse
.
To
whom
Theban
then
sayd
:
and
I
,
shal
I
then
lose
that
which
thou
haste
promised
me
?
Tarolfo
answered
:
no
,
but
when
it
pleaseth
thée
,
take
thou
half
of
all
the
castels
and
treasures
I
haue
in
sort
heertofore
promysed
thee
.
For
I
acknowledge
,
that
thou
haste
fully
serued
my
turne
.
To
whome
Theban
aunswered
:
Liberalitie
of
Thebane
towardes
Tarolfo
.
It
may
neuer
please
the
Gods
,
since
the
Knight
was
so
liberall
to
thée
of
his
wife
,
and
thou
againe
wast
not
a
villaine
to
hym
in
that
his
offer
,
that
I
become
lesse
than
curteous
.
For
aboue
all
things
in
the
world
it
contenteth
me
,
in
that
I
haue
serued
thy
turne
:
and
therefore
I
will
,
that
all
that
I
ought
to
receiue
in
guerdon
of
my
trauaile
remaine
all
thine
,
in
such
sort
as
it
hath
euer
bene
heertofore
:
neither
would
he
take
of
that
was
Tarolfos
any
thing
at
all
.
The
conclusion
of
the
proposer
.
It
is
now
douted
,
in
whether
of
these
was
the
greatest
liberalitie
,
either
in
the
knight
that
had
giuen
libertie
to
his
wife
to
goe
to
Tarolfo
,
either
in
Tarolfo
,
who
sent
the
Ladie
(
whome
he
had
alwayes
desired
,
and
for
whose
he
had
done
so
muche
,
to
come
to
that
iumpe
,
whereunto
he
was
commen
,
when
as
shée
came
vnto
him
)
back
to
hir
husband
frée
:
or
in
Thebane
,
who
hauing
abandoned
his
Countrey
(
being
nowe
olde
)
for
to
gayne
the
promysed
rewardes
,
and
being
come
thether
,
toyled
him selfe
to
bryng
that
to
an
ende
,
which
he
hadde
promysed
,
whereby
he
iustly
deserued
the
same
,
did
now
remit
the
whole
to
Tarolfo
,
and
remayned
poore
as
he
was
ar
the
first
.
The
iudgement
of
the
Queene
vpon
the
fourthe
question
.
Very
excellent
is
bothe
the
tale
and
the
demaund
,
sayde
the
Quéene
.
Of
trouth
eche
one
was
very
liberall
,
considering
the
first
of
his
honoure
,
the
second
of
his
lasciuious
desire
,
and
the
third
that
of
hys
rewarded
riches
,
was
very
courteous
.
Nowe
if
we
will
knowe
which
of
them
vsed
the
greatest
liberalitie
or
curtesie
:
It
is
méete
we
consider
whether
of
the
thrée
déedes
is
moste
acceptable
,
the
which
being
well
wayed
,
we
shall
manifestly
knowe
the
most
liberal
,
bicause
who
most
giueth
,
is
to
be
held
most
liberall
:
of
the
which
thrée
,
the
one
is
deare
,
that
is
Honoure
,
the
which
Paulus
Aemilius
vanquishyng
Perses
,
king
of
Maycedonia
,
rather
desired
than
the
gayned
treasures
.
The
second
is
to
be
fled
,
that
is
,
the
wanton
delightes
of
Venus
,
according
to
the
sentence
of
Sophocles
,
and
of
Xenocrates
,
saying
:
That
lust
is
to
be
fledde
as
a
furious
gouernement
.
The
third
is
not
to
be
desired
,
that
is
ryches
:
forsomuche
as
the
moste
tymes
they
are
noysome
to
a
vertuous
lyfe
,
and
to
suche
a
one
as
can
vertuously
lyue
with
moderate
pouertie
,
Diuers
Romaynes
in
tymes
past
pore
,
and
yet
vertuous
.
as
liued
Marcus
Curtius
,
Attilius
Regulus
,
and
Valerius
Publicola
,
as
by
their
woorkes
is
manyfest
.
If
then
of
these
thrée
,
only
Honoure
is
to
be
helde
deare
,
and
the
others
not
,
he
vsed
the
greatest
liberalitie
that
gaue
his
wyfe
to
another
,
althoughe
he
dyd
lesse
than
wisely
therein
.
He
was
also
the
cheefest
in
liberalitie
,
wherein
the
others
followed
him
:
therefore
according
to
our
iudgement
he
that
gaue
hys
wife
in
whome
consisted
his
honoure
,
was
aboue
the
rest
,
the
most
liberall
.
I
(
sayde
Menedon
)
agrée
,
The
reply
of
Menedon
.
that
in
as
muche
as
ye
haue
thus
sayde
,
it
be
as
you
say
:
but
yet
eche
one
of
the
other
séemeth
to
me
,
to
be
more
liberall
,
and
ye
shall
heare
howe
.
It
is
very
true
,
that
the
first
graunted
his
wyfe
,
but
he
vsed
therin
not
so
great
a
liberalitie
as
ye
speake
of
,
bicause
if
he
wold
haue
denyed
hir
,
he
might
not
iustly
haue
done
it
,
by
reason
of
the
othe
she
made
,
the
which
was
conuenient
for
hir
to
kéep●
:
and
therefore
who
giueth
that
he
may
not
denie
,
dothe
but
well
in
making
himselfe
liberall
therof
,
and
it
was
but
a
trifle
he
gaue
:
and
therefore
(
as
I
haue
sayde
)
eche
one
of
the
other
was
more
curteous
.
And
for
that
(
as
it
is
already
sayde
)
Tarolfo
had
nowe
a
long
time
desired
this
Ladie
,
and
loued
hir
farre
aboue
all
others
,
he
for
to
attayne
hir
,
had
of
long
time
abode
great
troubles
,
offering
himselfe
for
to
satisfie
hir
request
,
to
séeke
forth
things
almost
impossible
to
be
had
,
the
which
nowe
obtained
,
he
deserued
(
through
hir
promysed
faythe
)
to
obtaine
hir
also
,
whome
(
as
wee
say
)
béeing
obteyned
,
there
is
no
doubt
but
that
the
honoure
of
the
Husband
,
and
the
relese
of
that
shée
had
promised
(
the
which
he
released
)
was
in
his
hand
.
Then
was
he
,
to
conclude
,
liberall
both
of
the
honor
of
the
husbande
,
of
the
othe
of
his
Ladie
,
and
of
his
owne
long
desire
.
It
is
a
great
matter
to
haue
endured
long
thirst
,
and
to
come
to
a
pleasant
fountain
,
and
not
to
drink
,
but
to
suffer
others
to
drynke
.
The
thirde
was
also
very
liberall
,
considering
that
pouertie
is
one
of
the
moste
lothsome
things
of
the
world
to
bear
,
for
so
much
as
it
is
the
chaser
away
bothe
of
mirthe
and
rest
,
a
flyer
of
honours
,
a
frequenter
of
vertue
,
and
the
inducer
of
crabbed
care
,
so
that
euery
one
naturally
endeuoure
themselues
with
a
fiery
desire
to
flie
the
same
the
whych
desire
is
so
kindled
in
many
,
Euery
one
flieth
pouertie
.
to
the
ende
to
liue
very
splendantly
in
rest
,
as
they
giue
them selues
no
lesse
to
dishonest
gayne
,
than
to
disordinate
spences
,
peraduenture
not
knowing
,
or
not
otherwayes
béeing
able
to
feede
that
theyr
desire
:
whych
is
cause
many
times
eyther
of
deathe
or
exile
.
Howe
muche
then
ought
the
riches
to
please
and
to
be
acceptable
to
them
that
in
due
sorte
doe
bothe
gaine
and
possesse
them
?
And
who
will
doubt
that
Thebane
was
not
most
poore
if
he
behold
how
he
abandoning
hys
nyghtes
rest
,
went
gathering
of
herbes
,
and
digging
vp
of
rootes
in
doubtful
places
for
the
better
sustentation
of
his
pore
life
.
And
that
this
pouertie
did
occupie
his
vertue
,
may
be
also
beleued
,
in
hearing
how
Tarolfo
did
deme
to
be
by
him
disceiued
,
when
he
beheld
him
apparelled
in
vile
vesture
,
&
seeing
him
desirous
to
shake
of
that
miserie
to
become
rich
,
knowing
how
he
came
as
far
as
from
Thessalia
into
Spayne
,
hasarding
himself
to
perillous
chaunces
through
doubtfull
iourneys
,
and
vncertayne
ayre
,
to
the
ende
to
perfourme
the
promisse
he
had
made
,
and
to
receiue
the
like
from
an
other
Also
it
may
be
euidently
séene
,
that
without
doubt
who
giues
him selfe
to
suche
and
so
many
miseries
,
to
the
ende
to
flée
pouertie
,
knoweth
the
same
to
be
full
of
all
griefe
and
troubles
.
And
how
muche
the
more
he
hath
shaken
off
the
greatest
pouertie
,
and
is
entred
a
riche
life
,
so
much
the
more
is
the
same
life
acceptable
vnto
him
.
Then
who
that
is
become
of
poore
,
rich
,
if
therwith
his
lyfe
doth
delight
him
,
how
great
,
and
what
maner
of
liberalitie
dothe
he
vse
,
if
he
giue
the
same
away
,
and
consenteth
to
returne
to
that
state
,
the
whiche
he
hath
with
so
many
troubles
fled
?
Assuredly
he
doth
a
thing
excéeding
great
and
liberal
.
And
this
séemeth
farre
greater
than
the
rest
,
Olde
folkes
commonlye
covetous
.
considering
also
of
the
age
of
the
giuer
,
that
was
now
olde
:
forasmuche
as
auarice
was
wont
to
be
continually
of
greter
force
in
old
men
than
in
yong
,
whervpon
I
gather
,
that
eche
one
of
the
two
following
,
hath
vsed
a
greater
liberalitie
than
hath
the
first
,
so
much
commended
by
you
,
and
the
thirde
far
more
than
either
of
the
others
.
In
how
much
your
reason
mighte
be
well
by
any
one
defended
,
so
well
is
the
same
defended
by
you
(
sayde
the
Quéene
)
but
we
minde
to
shew
vnto
you
briefly
how
our
iudgement
rather
than
yours
ought
to
take
place
.
The
queenes
solution
to
the
fourthe
question
.
Ye
wil
say
,
that
he
shewed
no
Liberalitie
at
all
,
graunting
the
vse
of
his
wife
to
an
other
,
bicause
of
reason
it
was
conuenient
through
the
othe
made
by
the
lady
,
that
he
should
so
do
,
the
which
ought
to
be
in
déede
if
the
othe
mighte
holde
.
But
the
wife
forsomuch
as
she
is
a
member
of
hir
husband
,
or
rather
one
body
with
him
,
coulde
not
iustly
make
such
an
oth
without
the
will
of
hir
husbande
:
and
yet
if
she
did
make
suche
an
othe
,
it
was
nothing
,
bicause
the
first
oth
lawfully
made
,
could
not
with
reason
be
derogate
by
any
following
,
chiefly
not
by
those
that
are
not
duly
made
for
a
necessary
cause
.
And
the
maner
is
in
matrimonicall
vnitings
the
man
to
sweare
to
be
content
with
the
woman
,
and
the
woman
with
the
man
,
and
neuer
to
chaunge
the
one
the
other
for
an
other
.
Now
then
,
the
woman
can
not
sweare
,
and
if
she
do
sweare
(
as
we
haue
sayde
)
she
sweareth
for
a
thing
vnlawfull
,
and
so
contrary
to
the
former
othe
,
it
ought
not
to
preuayle
,
and
not
preuayling
otherwise
than
for
his
pleasure
,
he
ought
not
to
commit
his
wife
to
Tarolfo
,
and
if
he
do
commit
hir
to
him
,
then
is
he
liberall
of
his
honour
,
and
not
Tarolfo
,
as
you
holde
opinion
.
Neither
could
he
be
liberall
of
his
othe
in
releasing
it
,
for
as
muche
as
the
othe
was
nothing
.
Then
onely
remayned
Tarolfo
liberall
of
his
wanton
desire
:
the
which
thing
of
proper
duetie
is
conuenient
for
euery
man
to
do
,
bicause
we
all
through
reason
are
bounde
to
banishe
vyce
,
and
to
folow
vertue
.
And
who
that
doth
that
,
whervnto
he
is
of
reson
bound
,
is
(
as
ye
haue
sayd
)
nothing
at
al
liberal
,
Flee
vice
,
and
follow
vertue
.
but
that
whiche
is
done
more
than
duetie
requireth
,
may
well
&
iustly
be
termed
liberalitie
.
But
bicause
you
peraduenture
with
silence
argue
in
your
mind
,
what
honour
may
that
be
of
a
chast
woman
to
hir
husbande
,
which
ought
to
be
so
deare
:
we
wil
prolong
somewhat
our
talke
in
shewing
you
,
to
the
ende
that
ye
may
the
more
clearely
sée
,
that
Tarolfo
and
Thebane
,
of
whom
we
intend
next
to
speak
,
vsed
no
liberalitie
at
all
in
respect
of
the
knight
.
Ye
shall
know
that
chastitie
togither
with
the
other
vertues
,
Chastitie
a
vertue
most
excellent
.
yeld
none
other
rewarde
to
the
possessours
therof
,
than
honour
,
the
whiche
honour
among
vertuous
men
,
makes
the
least
vertuous
,
the
most
excellent
.
This
honour
if
men
with
humilitie
séeke
to
support
it
,
it
maketh
them
friends
to
god
,
and
so
by
consequent
to
liue
,
and
after
death
,
to
possesse
the
goods
eternall
:
The
ioy
of
a
man
is
to
haue
a
good
wife
.
the
whiche
if
the
woman
conserueth
for
hir
husbande
,
he
may
liue
merily
,
and
certayne
of
his
ofspring
,
and
frequent
in
open
sight
among
the
people
content
to
sée
hir
for
suche
hir
vertues
honored
among
the
most
high
and
chiefest
dames
,
and
in
his
minde
it
is
a
manyfest
token
that
she
is
good
,
feareth
God
,
and
loueth
him
,
whiche
is
no
small
pleasure
,
séeing
she
is
giuen
him
for
an
euerlasting
companion
indiuisible
,
sauing
by
death
:
He
through
this
obtayned
fauour
is
séene
continually
to
increase
,
bothe
in
spirituall
and
worldly
wealth
.
The
grief
of
a
man
hauing
an
euil
wife
.
And
so
on
the
contrary
,
he
whose
wife
hath
default
of
suche
vertues
,
can
neuer
passe
one
hour
with
true
consolation
,
nothing
is
acceptable
vnto
him
,
and
continually
the
one
desireth
the
death
of
the
other
,
he
perceiueth
him selfe
through
this
disordred
vyce
to
be
caried
in
the
mouthes
of
the
veriest
misers
,
neither
séemeth
it
vnto
him
,
that
such
a
fault
shoulde
not
be
beléeued
,
of
whom
soeuer
it
is
hearde
:
And
yf
she
were
largely
endowed
with
all
other
vertues
,
yet
this
vyce
séemeth
to
haue
such
a
force
as
to
bring
hir
in
contempt
,
and
to
vtter
ruine
.
Then
is
this
honour
that
maketh
the
woman
bothe
chaste
and
good
to
hir
husbande
,
a
most
great
gifte
,
and
so
is
to
be
helde
most
dearely
.
Blessed
may
he
be
called
to
whom
throgh
grace
is
graunted
such
a
gifte
,
although
we
beléeue
they
are
but
few
,
towards
whom
is
borne
enuy
for
so
great
a
benefite
.
But
to
returne
to
our
purpose
,
it
is
to
be
séene
how
muche
the
knight
did
giue
.
It
is
not
fled
our
memory
when
as
ye
said
,
that
Theban
was
of
the
rest
most
liberall
,
who
being
with
trouble
enriched
,
hath
not
doubted
to
returne
into
the
miserie
of
poore
estate
,
in
giuing
away
that
whiche
he
had
gotten
.
It
apparantly
appeareth
,
that
ye
are
euill
acquaynted
with
pouertie
,
who
if
she
come
vnto
vs
mery
,
surmounteth
all
richesse
.
Theban
now
peraduenture
through
the
attayned
wealth
,
The
care
which
riches
bring
.
felte
him selfe
replete
of
sundry
soure
cares
.
He
did
now
imagine
,
that
it
séemed
Tarolfo
to
haue
done
very
euill
,
and
therfore
would
practise
by
murdring
him
,
to
recouer
agayn
his
Castles
.
He
abode
in
feare
to
be
peraduenture
betrayed
of
his
tenaunts
.
He
was
entred
into
care
touching
the
gouernement
of
his
lands
.
He
now
knew
all
the
prepared
guiles
to
be
done
vnto
his
coparteners
.
He
saw
him selfe
gretly
enuied
for
his
riches
,
and
doubted
lest
théeues
should
secretly
spoyle
him
therof
.
He
was
stuffed
with
so
many
suche
and
sundry
thoughts
and
cares
,
as
all
quietnesse
was
fled
from
him
.
Through
the
whiche
occasions
,
calling
to
minde
his
former
life
,
and
that
withoute
so
many
cares
he
passed
the
same
merily
,
sayde
to
him selfe
:
I
desired
to
grow
riche
,
to
the
ende
to
attayne
quiet
rest
,
but
I
see
it
is
the
increaser
of
troubles
and
cogitations
:
so
is
it
the
flier
of
quietnesse
:
And
therefore
desirous
to
be
in
his
former
estate
,
he
rendred
them
all
to
him
by
whom
they
were
giuen
.
Pouertie
highly
estemed
in
times
past
.
Pouertie
is
the
refused
richesse
,
a
goodnesse
vnknowen
,
a
fire
of
prouocations
,
the
which
was
of
Diogenes
fully
vnderstod
.
As
muche
suffiseth
pouertie
,
as
Nature
requireth
.
He
liueth
safe
from
euery
disceite
that
paciently
approcheth
therewith
,
neither
is
he
disabled
to
attayne
to
great
honours
,
that
(
as
we
haue
sayde
)
vertuously
liueth
therwith
:
and
therefore
as
Theban
reiected
this
allurement
he
was
not
liberal
,
but
wise
.
So
gracious
he
was
to
Tarolfo
,
in
that
it
pleased
him
to
giue
the
same
rather
to
him
than
to
an
other
,
whereas
he
mighte
haue
bestowed
the
same
vpon
many
others
.
Then
to
conclude
,
the
Knighte
was
more
liberall
that
graunted
his
honour
,
than
any
of
the
others
:
And
thinke
this
one
thing
,
that
the
honour
he
gaue
was
not
to
be
agayne
recouered
,
the
whiche
happeneth
not
in
many
other
things
,
as
of
battayls
,
prowesse
,
and
others
like
:
For
if
they
are
at
one
time
lost
,
they
are
recouered
at
an
other
,
and
the
same
is
possible
.
Therefore
this
may
suffise
for
answere
vnto
your
demaund
.
¶
The
fyfth
Question
,
proposed
by
CLONICO
.
AFter
the
Quéene
became
silent
,
and
Menedon
satisfied
,
a
worthy
yong
gentleman
called
Clonico
,
that
sat
next
to
Menedon
,
thus
began
to
say
:
Most
mightie
quéene
,
this
Gentlewomans
tale
hath
bene
so
excellent
,
and
therwithall
so
long
,
as
I
in
what
I
may
,
shall
briefly
shew
vnto
you
this
my
conceipt
,
to
the
end
the
rest
may
the
better
at
their
more
leasure
say
theirs
.
Then
for
as
much
as
I
,
although
very
yong
,
know
the
life
of
the
subiects
of
our
lorde
Loue
,
to
be
replete
with
many
cares
and
sundry
pining
prouocations
,
yet
with
smal
delight
I
haue
long
time
as
I
was
able
,
fled
the
like
,
rather
eschuing
than
commending
them
which
follow
him
:
And
although
I
was
sundry
times
tempted
,
yet
with
a
valiaunt
minde
leauing
the
pitched
snares
I
alwayes
resisted
:
But
bicause
I
being
not
strong
enough
,
could
no
ways
resist
that
force
,
whervnto
Phoebu
was
vnable
to
gainstande
,
Cupide
hauing
taken
heart
to
bring
me
into
the
number
of
his
thrals
,
was
taken
before
I
knew
how
.
For
one
day
being
allured
abroade
thorow
the
fresh
renued
time
,
walking
all
merry
,
and
for
my
delight
gathering
of
shel
fish
vpon
the
salt
sea
bankes
,
it
happened
as
I
turned
mine
eyes
towards
the
glittering
waues
,
I
sodenly
saw
a
little
Barke
comming
towardes
me
,
Foure
yong
damsels
to
a
barke
vpon
the
sea
.
wherein
,
with
one
onely
mariner
,
were
foure
yong
Gentlewomen
,
so
faire
,
as
it
was
a
maruellous
thing
to
beholde
the
beautie
they
séemed
to
haue
.
They
now
béeing
approched
somewhat
néere
vnto
me
,
and
I
not
hauing
as
yet
turned
mine
eye
from
them
,
saw
in
the
middest
of
them
an
excéeding
great
light
,
wherin
,
as
my
estimation
gaue
me
,
me
thought
I
saw
the
figure
of
an
Angell
,
very
yong
,
and
so
faire
,
as
I
neuer
behelde
thing
more
fairer
:
Clonico
at
taynted
of
Loue
.
whom
as
I
thus
eyed
,
me
thought
he
sayde
vnto
me
with
a
voyce
farre
discrepant
from
ours
:
O
yong
foole
,
persecuter
of
our
power
(
and
being
therwith
arriued
)
I
am
come
hither
with
foure
yong
damsels
,
let
thy
eye
make
choyse
of
hir
for
thy
maistresse
,
that
best
liketh
thée
.
I
when
I
heard
this
voyce
,
abode
all
appalled
,
and
deuised
both
with
eye
and
heart
to
auoyde
that
which
heretofore
I
had
many
times
fled
:
but
al
was
bootelesse
,
for
the
strength
of
my
legges
fayled
me
,
and
byside
,
he
had
bow
and
wings
to
ouertake
me
quickly
:
wherevppon
I
in
gazing
among
them
,
espied
one
so
faire
,
so
benigne
of
cheare
,
and
so
piteous
of
semblaunce
,
as
I
imagined
to
make
choyse
of
hir
,
as
of
a
singuler
maistresse
,
saying
to
my self
:
This
damsell
presenteth
hir selfe
so
humble
to
my
eyes
,
as
assuredly
she
wil
neuer
become
enemy
to
my
desires
,
as
many
others
haue
ben
to
them
,
whom
I
haue
in
beholding
ful
of
troubles
always
scorned
,
but
she
shall
rather
be
a
chaser
away
of
my
annoys
:
and
hauing
thus
thought
,
I
forth
with
answered
:
The
gracious
beautie
of
that
yong
damsel
,
that
(
O
my
lord
)
sitteth
on
your
right
hand
,
makes
me
me
desire
to
be
both
to
you
and
hir
,
a
most
faithfull
seruant
.
I
am
therfore
redy
to
obey
your
will
,
do
with
me
as
shall
best
like
you
.
I
had
not
ended
my
tale
,
but
that
I
felt
my
lefte
side
wounded
with
a
shining
shafte
shot
from
the
bow
which
he
bare
,
The
.ij.
shafts
of
loue
are
different
.
as
me
thought
the
same
was
of
gold
.
And
assuredly
,
I
saw
him
as
he
turned
towards
hir
,
to
strike
hir
with
an
other
of
leade
.
And
thus
I
being
in
this
sort
taken
,
abode
in
the
snares
I
had
of
long
time
fled
.
This
yong
damsel
hath
&
doth
so
much
content
mine
eye
,
as
all
other
plesure
is
very
scarce
in
comparison
of
this
.
Which
she
espying
,
of
long
time
shewed
hir self
content
:
but
after
that
she
knew
me
to
be
so
taken
with
this
delight
,
as
not
to
loue
hir
was
a
thing
impossible
,
incontinent
she
discouered
hir
guile
towards
me
,
with
an
vndeserued
disdayne
,
shewing
hir selfe
in
apparance
a
most
cruel
enemie
,
always
turning
hir
eye
the
contrary
way
,
as
she
happened
to
espye
me
and
with
words
,
on
my
parte
vndeserued
,
alwayes
dispraysing
me
,
by
occasion
wherof
,
I
haue
in
sundry
sortes
endeuoured
my selfe
both
with
prayers
and
humilitie
to
appease
hir
crueltie
:
but
being
vnable
,
I
oftentimes
bewéepe
and
lament
this
my
hard
fortune
,
Clonico
an
vnbeloued
louer
.
neither
can
I
any
wayes
withdraw
me
from
louing
hir
,
but
rather
how
much
the
more
I
finde
hir
cruell
,
so
muche
the
more
me
thinketh
the
flame
of
hir
pleasure
doth
set
my
sorowful
heart
on
fire
.
As
I
through
these
occasions
,
one
day
being
all
solitarie
in
a
garden
,
bewayled
my
hap
with
infinite
sighes
,
accompanied
with
many
teares
,
there
came
vpon
me
a
singuler
friend
of
mine
,
to
whom
part
of
my
griefs
were
discouered
,
who
with
pitifull
words
began
to
comfort
me
the
best
he
could
,
but
I
giuing
thervnto
no
eare
at
all
,
answered
him
,
that
my
misery
excéeded
all
others
.
Whervnto
he
made
me
this
answere
:
A
man
is
so
much
the
more
miserable
(
said
he
)
as
he
either
maketh
or
reputeth
himselfe
a
miser
:
but
assured
I
haue
greater
cause
to
lament
than
hast
thou
.
I
then
at
angry
turned
towards
him
with
a
disdainful
loke
,
saying
:
And
how
?
who
can
haue
greater
cause
than
I
?
Do
not
I
for
good
seruice
receiue
euil
recompence
?
Is
not
my
faithfull
loue
rewarded
with
hatred
?
So
that
any
may
be
as
sorowful
as
I
,
but
more
he
can
not
be
.
A
louer
infected
with
iealousie
reciteth
to
Clonico
the
good
entertainment
of
his
Lady
.
Truely
sayde
my
friend
)
I
haue
greater
cause
of
grief
than
hast
thou
,
and
heare
how
.
It
is
not
vnknowen
to
thee
,
but
that
I
haue
of
long
time
,
and
yet
vs
loue
a
Gentlewoman
as
thou
knowest
:
neither
was
ther
euer
any
thing
that
I
thought
mighte
pleasure
hir
,
whiche
I
gaue
not
my selfe
with
all
my
witte
and
power
to
bring
to
effecte
.
And
truely
when
she
vnderstoode
the
summe
of
that
I
desired
,
she
made
me
a
gracious
gifte
,
the
which
as
I
had
receiued
,
and
receiuing
it
at
what
time
it
pleased
me
,
me
thought
none
by
a
great
way
to
haue
a
life
comparable
to
myne
in
gladnesse
:
only
one
thing
pricked
me
,
that
I
could
not
make
hir
beleue
how
perfectly
I
loued
hir
.
Further
than
this
,
she
perceiuing
me
to
loue
hir
(
as
I
said
)
passed
lightly
for
me
.
But
the
gods
that
will
graunt
no
worldly
good
turne
without
some
bitternes
,
A
godly
sentence
.
to
the
ende
that
the
heuenly
may
be
the
better
knowen
,
&
by
consequent
the
more
desired
,
to
this
they
gaue
me
an
other
corsey
without
comparison
noisome
,
that
is
,
that
it
hapned
one
day
,
as
I
abode
with
hir
al
alone
,
in
a
secret
place
,
seing
(
without
being
againe
sene
)
who
passed
by
,
espied
a
proper
yong
man
,
&
of
a
pleasant
countenan e
to
come
along
by
vs
,
whom
she
behelde
as
I
perceiued
,
with
a
fixed
eye
,
and
being
past
,
she
fette
a
pityfull
sighe
,
the
whiche
I
espying
,
sayde
:
Alas
,
do
you
so
soone
repent
,
as
that
ye
now
sighe
for
the
loue
of
an
other
?
She
,
whose
face
was
throughe
this
occasion
paynted
with
a
new
rudde
,
swearing
by
the
power
of
the
high
gods
,
beganne
with
many
excuses
to
endeuor
hir selfe
to
make
me
beléeue
the
contrary
of
that
which
I
had
conceiued
through
the
sighe
,
but
all
was
to
no
purpose
,
bicause
she
kindled
my
hert
with
an
anger
so
excéeding
fierce
,
as
she
made
me
then
almost
ready
to
chide
with
hir
,
but
yet
I
withhelde
me
therefrom
:
And
certainly
it
will
neuer
out
of
my
mynde
,
but
that
she
loueth
him
or
some
other
better
than
me
:
and
all
those
perswasions
,
the
whiche
at
other
times
heretofore
she
vsed
for
my
helpe
,
that
was
,
that
she
loued
me
better
than
she
did
any
other
,
I
now
esteme
them
all
in
contrary
,
imagining
that
she
hath
fainedly
sayd
,
&
done
al
that
she
hath
heretofore
wrought
,
whereby
I
endure
intollerable
griefe
,
neither
dothe
any
comfort
at
all
preuayle
therein
:
but
bicause
shame
oftentimes
doth
bridle
the
will
,
I
haue
rather
to
sorrowe
me
than
glad
me
,
I
doe
not
continue
my
bitter
grief
,
so
as
I
make
any
apparaunce
therof
:
but
brieflye
I
am
neuer
withoute
cares
and
cogitations
,
the
whiche
bring
me
far
greater
annoy
than
I
willingly
would
.
Learne
then
to
beare
the
lesse
griefs
,
since
thou
séest
the
gretest
with
a
valiaunt
minde
borne
of
me
.
To
whom
I
answered
,
that
as
it
séemed
to
me
,
his
grief
although
it
wer
gret
,
was
no
ways
to
be
compared
to
mine
.
He
answered
me
the
contrary
,
and
thus
we
abode
in
a
long
contention
,
and
in
the
end
parted
without
any
diffinition
.
Wherefore
I
pray
you
that
you
wil
say
your
iudgement
hereof
.
The
queenes
iudgement
vppon
the
fifte
question
.
Yong
Gentleman
,
sayde
the
Quéene
,
great
is
that
payne
of
yours
,
and
great
wrong
doth
the
damsell
committe
in
not
louing
you
.
But
yet
at
all
times
your
griefe
may
by
hope
be
eased
,
the
whiche
happeneth
not
to
your
companion
,
bicause
that
since
he
is
once
entred
in
suspecte
,
nothing
is
able
to
draw
it
away
.
Therfore
continually
whilest
loue
lasteth
,
he
soroweth
without
comfort
:
So
that
in
our
iudgement
greater
séemeth
the
griefe
of
the
iealous
,
than
that
of
the
vnloued
louer
.
The
contrary
opinion
of
Clonico
.
Then
sayde
Clonico
:
Oh
noble
queene
,
since
you
say
so
,
it
playnly
appeareth
that
you
haue
always
ben
loued
agayne
,
of
him
whom
you
haue
loued
,
by
occasion
whereof
,
ye
hardely
know
what
my
payne
is
.
How
may
it
appeare
that
iealousie
bringeth
greater
griefe
than
is
that
I
feele
,
forsomuche
as
the
iealous
possesseth
that
he
desireth
,
and
may
in
holding
the
same
,
take
more
delight
thereof
in
one
houre
,
than
in
a
long
time
after
to
feele
any
payne
through
want
thereof
:
and
neuerthelesse
he
may
(
through
experience
)
abandon
such
iealousie
,
if
it
happen
that
this
iudgement
be
found
false
:
but
I
being
kindled
with
a
fiery
desire
,
howe
much
the
more
I
sée
my selfe
farre
off
from
the
attaining
the
same
,
so
muche
the
more
I
burne
and
consume
my selfe
assaulted
of
a
thousand
instigations
,
neither
is
any
experience
able
to
help
me
therin
,
bicause
thorow
the
often
reprouing
hir
,
and
finding
hir
euery
houre
more
sharpe
,
I
liue
desperate
.
Wherefore
your
answer
séemeth
contrary
to
the
truthe
,
bicause
I
doubt
not
but
that
it
is
muche
better
to
holde
with
suspition
,
than
to
desire
wyth
teares
.
That
amorous
flame
that
dothe
shine
in
our
eyes
,
and
that
euery
houre
dothe
adorne
our
sight
with
the
greater
beautie
,
The
Queene
replieth
.
doeth
neuer
consent
(
replied
the
Quéene
)
that
we
loue
in
vain
,
as
you
affirme
:
but
for
all
that
it
is
not
vnknown
to
vs
,
howe
great
and
what
manner
of
paine
that
is
,
bothe
of
the
one
and
the
other
:
and
therfore
as
our
answere
hath
bene
confirmable
to
the
truth
,
one
thing
we
will
shew
to
you
.
It
is
manifest
that
those
things
which
moste
doe
hinder
the
quiet
of
the
minde
,
are
cares
,
the
which
are
some
of
them
come
to
a
merrie
ende
,
so
some
we
sée
to
end
with
great
sorow
,
wherof
,
how
much
more
the
mind
is
repleat
,
so
much
the
more
hath
it
of
gréefe
,
and
chiefliest
,
when
as
the
same
are
noisome
:
and
that
the
iealous
haue
more
store
therof
than
haue
you
,
is
manifest
,
bicause
you
héede
nothing
else
but
only
to
gette
the
good
will
of
the
damsel
whom
ye
loue
,
the
which
not
being
able
to
attaine
,
is
to
you
a
gréefe
most
gréeuous
:
but
yet
it
is
certaine
,
that
it
may
easly
come
to
passe
to
attaine
the
same
at
one
instant
,
not
thinking
therof
(
forsomuch
as
womens
heartes
are
inconstant
)
bisides
peraduenture
she
loueth
you
not
withstanding
(
to
proue
if
you
also
loue
hir
)
shée
sheweth
the
contrary
,
and
so
perhappes
wil
shew
vntil
such
time
as
she
shal
be
wel
assured
of
your
loue
,
so
that
with
these
thoughts
,
hope
can
mitigate
vnfained
gréefe
:
but
the
iealous
hath
his
minde
ful
fraught
of
infinite
eares
,
against
the
which
neither
hope
nor
other
delight
can
bring
confort
,
or
ease
the
paine
.
The
effectes
of
iealousie
.
For
he
standeth
intentiue
to
giue
a
law
to
the
wandring
eyes
,
the
which
his
possessor
can
not
giue
.
He
wil
and
doth
endeuour
hymselfe
to
giue
a
law
to
the
féete
,
to
the
hands
,
and
to
euery
other
acte
of
his
Mistresse
.
He
will
be
a
circumspect
knower
both
of
hir
thoughtes
,
&
of
hir
myrth
,
interpreting
euery
thing
in
euil
part
towardes
himself
,
belèeuing
that
eche
one
desireth
and
loueth
hir
whome
hée
loueth
.
Likewise
he
imagineth
euery
woord
that
shée
speaketh
to
be
twaine
,
and
full
of
disceit
.
And
if
he
euer
committed
any
detraction
towardes
hir
,
it
is
death
to
him
to
remembre
it
,
imagining
to
be
by
the
like
means
deceiued
.
He
wil
with
coniectures
shut
vp
the
wayes
of
the
aire
,
and
of
the
earthe
.
And
briefly
the
heauens
,
the
earthe
,
birdes
,
beastes
,
and
euery
other
creature
that
he
thinketh
doth
hinder
his
deuises
.
And
to
remoue
him
from
this
,
hope
hathe
no
place
,
bicause
in
this
doing
,
if
he
find
the
woman
faithful
,
he
thinketh
that
shée
espyeth
that
which
he
doth
,
and
is
therfore
héedefull
therein
.
If
he
findeth
that
he
séeketh
for
,
and
that
he
would
not
finds
,
who
is
more
dolorous
than
hée
?
If
peraduenture
ye
thinke
that
the
imbracing
hir
in
his
armes
be
so
great
a
delighte
vnto
him
as
shuld
mitigate
these
pangs
,
your
iudgement
is
then
false
,
bicause
such
manner
of
colling
bringeth
him
in
choller
,
in
thinking
that
others
as
wel
as
he
hath
imbraced
hir
in
the
like
sort
:
and
if
the
woman
peraduenture
doe
louingly
entertaine
him
,
he
demeth
that
shée
doth
it
to
the
ende
to
remoue
him
from
suche
his
imaginations
,
&
not
for
the
true
loue
shée
beareth
him
.
If
he
finde
hir
maliciously
disposed
,
he
thynketh
that
shée
then
loueth
an
other
,
and
is
not
content
with
him
.
And
thus
we
can
shewe
you
an
infinite
numbre
of
other
suspitions
&
cares
that
are
harbored
in
a
iealous
persone
.
What
shall
we
then
say
of
his
lyfe
,
but
that
it
is
farre
more
gréeuous
than
that
of
any
other
liuing
creature
?
The
miserie
of
a
iealous
life
.
He
lyueth
beléeuing
,
and
not
beléeuing
,
and
stil
alluring
the
woman
:
and
moste
tymes
it
hapneth
,
that
these
iealous
persons
doe
end
their
liues
thorow
the
self
same
malice
,
wherof
they
liue
fearful
,
&
not
without
cause
,
for
that
with
their
reprehensions
,
they
shewe
the
way
to
theyr
owne
harmes
.
The
conclusion
of
the
Queene
vpon
the
fift
question
.
Considering
then
the
aforesayd
reasons
,
more
cause
hath
your
frend
that
is
iealous
to
sorrow
,
than
haue
you
,
bicause
you
may
hope
to
get
,
and
he
liueth
in
feare
to
lose
that
which
he
scarsly
holdeth
for
his
own
.
And
therfore
if
he
haue
more
cause
of
gréefe
than
you
,
&
yet
comforts
him selfe
the
best
he
can
,
much
more
ought
you
to
comfort
your self
,
and
to
set
aside
bewailings
that
are
méete
for
faint
heartes
:
and
hope
,
that
the
assured
loue
which
you
beare
towardes
your
Ladie
,
shall
not
lose
his
due
desert
:
For
though
she
shew
hir selfe
sharp
towardes
you
at
this
present
,
it
can
not
be
but
that
shee
loueth
you
,
bicause
that
loue
neuer
pardoned
any
loued
to
loue
:
and
ye
shal
know
,
that
with
the
fierce
vehement
windes
,
are
sooner
broken
the
stubburne
Okes
,
than
the
consenting
réedes
.
The
sixt
Question
,
proposed
by
a
yong
Gentlewoman
.
NExt
vnto
Clonico
sate
a
faire
Gentlewoman
apparelled
in
black
vesture
vnder
an
honest
veyle
,
who
as
she
perceiued
the
Quéen
to
haue
made
an
end
of
hir
wordes
,
thus
began
to
say
:
Moste
gracious
Quéene
I
remembre
,
that
being
a
little
girle
,
howe
one
day
I
with
my
brother
,
who
was
a
propre
yong
man
and
of
ripe
yeres
,
abode
all
alone
in
a
garden
,
without
other
company
:
and
in
tarying
there
together
,
it
happened
that
two
yonge
Damselles
of
noble
bloud
,
Two
dansels
amorous
of
a
gentleman
he
not
knowing
thereof
:
and
that
which
happened
.
abounding
in
riches
,
and
borne
in
this
our
Citie
,
who
loued
this
my
Brother
very
well
,
and
perceiuyng
him
to
be
in
the
sayde
Garden
,
came
thyther
,
and
began
a
farre
off
to
beholde
hym
that
was
altogether
ignoraunt
of
theyr
purpose
.
And
after
a
while
,
séeing
him
al
alone
,
sauing
for
me
of
whome
they
reckened
not
,
bicause
I
was
but
a
little
one
,
thus
the
one
began
to
say
to
the
other
.
We
loue
this
yong
Gentleman
aboue
all
others
,
neither
do
knowe
whether
he
loueth
vs
or
no
,
yet
is
it
méete
that
he
loue
vs
bothe
:
so
that
nowe
it
is
léefull
for
vs
to
satisfie
our
desire
:
and
to
knowe
whether
he
loue
eyther
of
vs
,
or
whether
of
vs
he
best
loueth
,
to
the
ende
that
shée
,
whom
he
shal
best
like
of
,
may
after
remaine
his
,
without
being
hindred
of
the
other
:
wherfore
since
he
is
all
alone
,
and
that
we
haue
a
méet
time
offred
,
let
vs
runne
vnto
him
,
and
eche
one
imbrace
and
kisse
hym
,
that
done
,
he
shall
take
whether
of
vs
best
pleaseth
him
.
These
two
yong
gentlewomen
being
thus
determined
vpon
this
resolution
,
began
to
run
their
race
towardes
my
sayd
brother
.
Whereat
he
maruelled
greatly
,
espying
them
,
and
seing
in
what
sort
they
came
:
but
the
one
of
them
or
euer
shée
came
at
vs
,
by
a
good
way
,
stayed
all
bathful
,
and
almost
wéeping
ripe
:
the
other
runne
thorowe
,
and
came
vnto
him
,
whom
she
imbraced
and
kissed
,
and
so
sate
hir
downe
by
him
,
recommending
hir selfe
vnto
him
.
And
he
,
after
y
admiration
conceiued
of
hir
boldnesse
,
was
somewhat
ceassed
,
prayed
hir
as
euer
shée
loued
him
,
to
tell
him
truely
what
moued
them
thus
to
do
?
Shée
concealed
nothing
from
him
,
the
which
hée
hearing
,
&
examining
wel
in
his
mind
that
which
the
one
&
other
had
done
,
knew
not
how
to
persuade
himself
,
whether
of
them
best
loued
hym
,
neither
yet
whether
of
them
he
might
best
loue
.
And
so
hapning
at
that
time
to
depart
from
them
,
he
after
prayed
counsel
of
many
of
his
frends
touching
this
matter
:
neither
hath
any
one
euer
satisfied
his
desire
touching
that
demaunde
.
For
the
which
cause
(
I
pray
you
)
from
whome
I
assuredly
beleeue
to
haue
a
true
definition
of
this
my
question
,
that
ye
will
tell
me
whether
of
these
two
damsels
ought
soonest
to
be
leued
of
the
yonge
man
.
The
answer
of
the
Quene
To
this
Gentlewoman
the
Quéene
thus
made
answer
:
Truely
of
the
two
yong
women
,
shée
as
it
séemeth
loued
your
brother
best
,
&
soonest
ought
to
be
loued
of
him
again
,
that
doubting
)
bashfully
abode
without
imbracing
him
,
&
why
I
thus
thinke
,
this
is
the
reason
:
loue
(
as
we
know
)
maketh
those
alwais
fearful
in
whom
he
doth
abide
:
Loue
is
accompanyed
with
feare
.
and
wher
he
is
of
greatest
force
,
there
is
like
wise
the
greatest
feare
:
and
this
hapneth
,
bicause
the
intent
or
consent
of
the
person
loued
can
not
be
fully
knowne
.
And
if
it
could
be
knowne
,
many
things
shoulde
be
done
,
that
in
fearing
to
offend
are
left
vndone
,
bicause
the
one
knoweth
that
in
displeasing
,
is
taken
away
euery
occasion
to
be
loued
:
And
with
this
feare
and
loue
,
shamefastnesse
is
alwayes
accompanied
,
&
not
without
reason
.
Returning
then
to
our
question
.
We
say
,
that
it
was
an
act
of
one
vnfainedly
enamored
,
that
of
the
Gentlewomans
,
wherby
shée
shewed
hir selfe
both
fearfull
and
bashfull
:
And
that
of
the
other
,
was
rather
the
part
of
one
both
loud
&
licencious
.
And
therefore
he
being
of
hir
best
beloued
,
ought
the
rather
(
according
to
our
iudgement
)
to
loue
hir
best
.
Then
answered
the
gentlewoman
:
Most
curteous
Quéene
,
The
Gentlewoman
replyeth
to
the
Queene
.
it
is
true
,
that
where
loue
abideth
with
moderation
,
there
feare
and
bashfulnesse
dothe
altogether
frequent
,
but
where
he
doth
abound
in
suche
quantitie
as
he
taketh
away
the
sight
from
the
most
wise
(
as
is
alredy
said
)
I
say
,
that
feare
hathe
there
no
place
,
but
that
the
motions
of
him
that
feeleth
the
same
,
are
according
to
him
that
vrgeth
them
forwards
,
&
therfore
that
Gentlewoman
séeing
hir
desire
before
hir
eyes
,
was
so
hotly
kindled
,
as
all
shamfastnesse
abandoned
,
shée
ranne
straight
to
him
,
by
whom
she
was
so
vehemently
pricked
forwards
,
as
till
then
vnable
to
abide
.
The
other
not
so
muche
inflamed
,
obserued
the
amerous
termes
,
being
bashfull
and
remaining
behind
,
as
you
say
.
So
that
then
shée
that
ran
,
loued
most
,
and
most
ought
to
be
loued
again
.
Discrete
gentlewoman
(
said
the
Queene
)
true
it
is
,
The
Queene
to
the
Gentlewoman
maketh
answer
.
that
excessiue
loue
taketh
away
the
sight
,
&
euery
other
due
perseuerance
in
things
that
are
ought
of
his
nature
,
but
not
in
those
that
belong
vnto
hym
,
the
which
as
he
increaseth
,
so
grow
they
.
Then
how
greater
quantitie
of
Loue
is
found
in
any
one
,
so
much
the
more
fear
(
as
we
said
at
the
first
)
is
there
also
found
.
And
that
this
is
true
,
the
cruell
heart
of
Biblis
dothe
manifest
the
same
vnto
vs
,
Biblis
:
who
howe
much
shée
loued
,
was
séene
by
the
sequele
therof
.
For
shée
séeing
hir self
abandoned
and
refused
,
had
not
the
audacitie
to
discouer
hir selfe
with
hir
propre
wordes
,
but
wryting
shée
disclosed
hir
vnfitting
desire
.
Phedra
and
Hippolito
.
Likewise
Phedra
many
times
gaue
the
attempt
to
goe
to
Hippolito
,
to
whom
shée
thought
boldly
to
speake
,
and
to
tel
how
much
she
loued
him
:
but
the
wordes
shée
had
to
vtter
,
no
sooner
came
into
hir
mouthe
,
but
they
stayed
vpon
hir
tong
and
there
died
.
Oh
how
fearfull
is
the
persone
that
loueth
?
Who
hath
ben
more
mighty
than
Alcides
,
Alcides
to
whome
satisfied
not
the
victorie
of
humain
things
,
but
also
he
gaue
himself
to
beare
vp
the
heauens
,
and
not wythstanding
was
lastly
so
enamoured
,
not
of
a
woman
,
but
of
a
yong
wench
,
a
slaue
,
which
he
had
gained
,
as
fearing
hir
commaundements
,
did
like
an
humble
subiect
or
seruaunt
,
euen
the
very
basest
things
.
Also
Paris
in
what
he
durst
not
attempt
neither
with
eye
nor
tong
,
Paris
.
with
his
finger
in
the
presence
of
his
loue
,
wryting
first
hir
name
with
wine
that
had
bene
spilt
,
wrote
after
,
I
loue
thée
.
How
farre
passing
all
these
doth
Pasiphe
Pasiphe
bring
vs
a
due
example
of
feare
,
the
which
without
any
reasonable
intendement
,
yea
&
without
vnderstanding
,
durst
not
so
much
as
expresse
hir
desire
to
a
beast
,
but
with
hir
propre
handes
,
gathering
the
soft
grasse
,
endeuored
hir self
to
make
him
benigne
vnto
hir
,
oftentimes
decking
hir self
at
the
glasse
for
to
plese
him
,
&
to
kindle
him
in
the
like
desire
that
she
was
in
,
to
the
end
he
might
attempt
to
séeke
that
which
shée
durst
not
demaund
.
It
is
not
méete
for
a
woman
enamored
,
Shame
prescribeth
the
honoure
of
Ladyes
.
neither
for
any
other
,
to
be
prompt
and
ready
,
forasmuch
as
y
great
shame
fastnesse
onely
which
ought
to
be
in
vs
,
doth
remaine
as
the
guarder
of
our
honor
.
We
haue
the
voyce
among
men
,
(
and
the
trouth
is
so
)
to
know
better
how
to
hide
the
amorous
flame
than
they
doe
,
&
nothing
else
engendreth
this
in
vs
,
but
the
great
feare
,
the
which
doth
rather
occupie
our
forces
than
those
of
men
.
How
many
hath
there
ben
of
them
(
&
peraduenture
we
haue
known
some
)
which
many
times
haue
caused
themselues
,
to
haue
bene
bidden
,
to
the
ende
therby
they
might
haue
atchéeued
to
the
amorous
effectes
,
the
which
willingly
would
rather
haue
bidden
the
bidder
,
before
he
them
,
if
due
bashfulnesse
and
fear
had
not
detained
them
:
and
not
only
that
,
but
euery
time
that
No
is
scaped
theyr
mouth
,
they
haue
had
in
theyr
mindes
a
thousand
repentings
,
saying
from
theyr
hearts
a
thousand
times
Yea.
There
remaineth
then
the
like
scelerate
fire
on
the
behalfe
of
Semiramis
,
and
Cleopatra
,
Semiramis
&
Cleopatra
.
the
which
loued
not
,
but
sought
to
quiet
the
rage
of
their
wanton
willes
,
&
the
same
being
quieted
,
they
after
remembred
not
them selues
the
one
of
the
other
.
Wise
marchaunts
vnwillingly
do
aduenture
at
one
time
all
their
treasures
to
the
hazarde
of
Fortune
,
and
yet
notwithstanding
,
they
care
not
to
graunt
hir
some
small
portion
,
the
which
if
they
happen
to
lose
,
yet
do
they
féele
no
gréefe
of
mind
at
all
for
the
same
.
The
yong
woman
therfore
that
embraced
your
brother
,
The
conclusion
of
the
Quene
vpon
the
sixt
question
.
loued
him
but
a
little
,
&
that
little
she
committed
to
Fortune
,
saying
:
This
gentleman
if
I
may
héereby
get
him
,
it
is
wel
:
but
if
he
refuse
me
,
there
shal
be
no
more
but
lette
him
take
an
other
.
The
other
that
abode
all
bashfull
,
forasmuch
as
she
loued
him
aboue
all
others
,
shee
doubted
to
put
so
great
loue
in
aduenture
,
imagining
least
thys
peraduenture
should
displease
hir
,
and
he
so
refuse
hir
,
that
hir
gréefe
should
be
then
suche
and
so
much
,
as
she
should
die
therof
.
Let
therfore
the
second
be
loued
before
the
first
.
The
seuenth
Question
,
proposed
by
GALEONE
.
A
Cleare
Sunne
beam●
piercing
thorow
amongst
the
gréene
leaues
,
did
strike
vpon
the
aforesaid
Fountaine
,
and
dyd
rebound
the
light
therof
vpon
the
fair
face
of
the
adorned
Quéene
,
who
was
therby
apparelled
with
that
colour
,
wherof
the
heauens
maketh
shewe
,
when
as
bothe
the
children
of
Latona
(
from
vs
hidden
)
with
their
starres
onely
giueth
vs
light
:
and
besides
the
splendoure
it
brought
to
hir
face
,
it
did
so
lighten
the
place
,
as
among
the
fresh
shade
it
yelded
a
maruellous
luster
to
the
whole
company
.
Further
what
time
the
reflected
raye
did
extend
euen
to
that
place
wher
the
Laurel
crowne
on
hir
head
on
the
one
side
,
and
the
golden
tresses
on
the
other
,
dyd
determine
:
It
so
entermingled
there
among
with
twinings
not
artificiall
,
as
at
the
first
fight
one
wold
haue
sayd
,
that
there
had
issued
forth
among
the
gréene
leaues
a
cleare
flame
of
a
burning
fire
,
whych
did
spread
in
such
sort
,
as
the
aburn
hairs
were
easily
séene
to
the
flanders
about
.
Galeone
that
was
peraduenture
sooner
or
better
awares
of
this
maruellous
sight
than
any
of
the
rest
(
being
set
in
circle
ouer
agaynst
the
Queene
deuided
only
with
the
water
)
did
very
intentiuely
beholde
the
same
almoste
as
though
he
cared
for
nothing
else
:
so
that
he
moued
not
his
mouthe
to
the
question
that
was
nowe
come
to
his
turne
:
To
whom
the
Quéene
therefore
(
hauing
now
both
kept
silence
a
good
space
,
as
eke
contented
the
wittie
gentlewoman
)
thus
sayd
:
The
only
desire
peraduenture
of
the
thing
which
thou
beholdest
,
stayeth
thée
:
Tel
what
is
the
occasion
that
holdeth
thée
thus
appalled
,
as
in
folowing
the
order
of
the
rest
thou
spekest
not
?
It
is
only
(
as
we
beleue
)
the
gazing
at
our
hed
,
as
if
ye
had
neuer
séen
the
same
before
:
Tell
vs
first
,
&
after
as
the
other
haue
propounded
,
euen
so
propound
you
.
At
this
sodaine
voice
Galeone
lift
vp
his
mind
replete
with
swéet
thoughts
,
somwhat
comming
to
him self
,
at
what
time
he
is
wont
to
doe
,
that
thorow
a
sodaine
fear
doth
breake
his
golden
sléepe
,
&
thus
sayd
:
Most
noble
&
renoumed
Quéene
,
whose
worthynesse
it
shoulde
be
impossible
for
me
to
declare
,
my
mind
was
so
wrapped
in
gracious
thoughts
(
when
as
I
did
so
firmly
loke
at
your
hed
)
as
in
beholding
the
bright
ray
,
streming
into
the
fresh
fountaine
,
and
rebounding
vpon
your
face
,
me
thought
there
issued
forthe
of
the
water
,
a
little
sprite
so
gentle
and
gracious
to
sée
vnto
,
as
he
plucked
my
minde
backe
,
to
beholde
that
whych
he
did
,
&
perceiuing
peraduenture
,
my
eyes
altogither
insufficient
to
behold
so
great
a
ioy
,
he
mounted
by
the
cleare
ray
into
your
eyes
,
&
there
for
a
good
space
made
maruellous
myrth
,
adorning
the
same
with
a
new
clearenesse
:
And
after
mounting
more
high
,
I
sawe
how
he
ascended
by
this
light
(
leauing
his
footesteppes
in
your
eyes
)
vpon
your
crown
,
wheras
he
together
with
the
ray
,
kindled
(
as
it
séemed
vnto
me
)
a
new
flame
,
such
a
one
as
was
of
yore
séene
by
Tanaquil
,
to
apéere
to
Seruius
Tullus
a
little
boy
whilest
he
slept
,
and
so
went
about
your
crowne
,
leaping
from
sprigge
to
sprigge
,
like
a
little
amorous
birde
,
that
finging
dothe
visite
many
leaues
,
mouing
your
hearte
with
sundry
iestures
,
sometimes
wrapping
&
hiding
himselfe
therin
,
being
more
merrier
euery
time
he
came
forth
thereof
,
and
therewith
(
as
it
seemed
vnto
me
)
so
iocunde
in
him selfe
,
as
nothing
more
,
and
that
singing
,
or
with
a
swéete
voyce
he
vttered
these
words
:
Of
the
third
rolling
Skie
,
the
benigne
babe
deuine
I
am
,
enamoured
so
,
to
neast
in
these
two
eyne
,
That
doubtlesse
dye
I
should
,
were
I
of
mortal
routs
From
twig
to
twig
I
twine
to
feede
this
my
delight
.
These
golden
Tresses
whirling
in
and
out
:
My selfe
,
inflaming
my selfe
,
right
So
as
with
flame
I
shew
,
th
effect
,
the
potent
might
,
Of
my
darts
deuine
,
piercing
where
I
goe
,
Eche
one
wounding
,
that
with
sweete
sight
,
Doth
gaze
hir
in
the
eyes
:
wheras
eche
houre
loe
,
If
suche
hir
pleasure
be
,
I
there
discend
adowne
,
For
of
my
kingdomes
she
,
quene
is
of
great
renowne
.
And
herewith
he
sayde
muche
more
,
going
about
as
at
what
time
ye
called
me
,
and
ye
had
no
sooner
spoken
,
but
that
he
sodenly
retired
into
your
eyes
,
the
whiche
sparkling
like
to
the
morning
starre
gaue
a
new
light
that
made
al
the
place
to
shine
:
ye
haue
now
heard
with
what
ioy
new
thoughts
haue
stayed
me
for
a
time
.
Philocopo
and
the
rest
maruelled
not
a
litle
hereat
,
and
turning
their
eyes
towards
their
Quéene
,
saw
that
,
whiche
to
heare
séemed
to
them
impossible
.
And
she
that
was
attyred
with
humility
,
listued
to
the
words
that
were
truely
reported
of
hir
,
and
abode
with
a
stable
countenaunce
,
making
no
answere
at
all
.
And
therefore
Galeone
speaking
in
this
wise
,
followed
with
his
question
:
Most
gracious
Quéene
,
I
desire
to
know
whether
a
man
ought
to
be
enamoured
for
his
delyght
or
no
?
And
to
demaunde
this
,
many
things
moue
me
,
both
séene
,
heard
,
and
helde
,
through
the
sundry
opinions
of
many
.
The
Quéene
beheld
Galeone
a
good
while
in
the
face
,
and
afterwards
,
after
a
certayne
sigh
,
thus
made
answere
.
It
is
conuenient
we
speake
agaynst
that
which
with
desire
we
séeke
to
follow
.
And
truely
that
which
you
in
asking
,
do
propounde
in
doubt
,
ought
to
be
manifest
vnto
you
.
In
answering
you
therfore
there
shal
be
kept
the
begon
order
.
And
he
whose
subiects
we
are
,
pardon
vs
the
words
,
that
we
,
as
constrained
through
force
of
Iudgement
,
shall
(
more
sooner
than
willing
)
say
against
his
diuine
maiestie
,
least
thereby
his
indignation
do
fall
vpon
vs
.
And
you
that
likewise
as
well
as
we
are
his
subiect
,
with
a
bolde
minde
giue
eare
vnto
them
,
neither
do
you
for
all
that
chaunge
your
purpose
at
all
.
And
to
the
ende
that
so
much
the
better
,
and
with
a
more
apparant
intendment
our
words
may
be
receiued
,
we
wil
somwhat
digresse
from
our
matter
,
returning
againe
therevnto
as
briefly
as
possible
we
may
,
and
thus
we
say
:
Loue
is
of
thrée
sorts
,
thorow
which
three
al
other
things
are
loued
,
some
thorow
the
vertue
of
one
,
&
some
throw
the
power
of
an
other
,
according
as
is
the
thing
loued
,
and
likewise
the
louer
:
The
first
of
the
which
.iij.
is
called
honest
loue
:
This
is
the
good
,
vpright
,
&
loyall
loue
,
the
which
of
all
persons
ought
to
be
receiued
:
This
,
the
high
&
first
creator
holdeth
,
linked
to
his
creatures
,
&
them
h●tieth
therwith
vnto
him
.
Through
this
,
the
heauens
,
the
world
,
realmes
,
prouinces
,
and
cities
do
remaine
in
their
state
:
thorow
this
we
do
merite
to
be
eternall
possessors
of
the
celestiall
kingdome
:
and
without
this
is
lost
al
that
we
haue
in
power
of
well
doing
.
The
seconde
is
called
loue
for
delight
:
And
this
is
he
,
whose
subiectes
we
are
:
This
is
our
god
,
him
we
do
worship
,
him
we
do
pray
vnto
,
in
him
do
we
trust
,
that
he
may
be
our
contentation
,
and
that
he
may
fully
bring
our
desire
to
passe
:
Of
this
is
put
the
question
,
whervnto
we
shall
duely
answere
.
The
thirde
is
loue
for
vtilitie
,
of
this
loue
the
worlde
is
replenished
more
than
of
any
of
the
other
thinges
.
This
is
coupled
with
Fortune
,
whilest
she
tarieth
,
he
likewise
abideth
:
but
if
they
parte
,
he
is
then
the
waster
of
many
goods
.
And
to
speake
reasonably
,
he
oughte
to
be
déemed
rather
hate
than
loue
.
Now
as
touching
the
propounded
question
,
we
néede
to
speake
neither
of
the
first
,
nor
of
the
last
:
we
will
speake
of
the
second
,
that
is
,
of
loue
for
delight
,
to
whom
truely
,
no
person
that
desireth
to
leade
a
vertuous
life
,
oughte
to
submit
him selfe
,
bicause
he
is
the
depriuer
of
honours
,
the
bringer
of
troubles
,
the
reueler
of
vices
,
the
copious
giuer
of
vaine
cares
,
and
the
vnworthy
occupier
of
the
libertie
of
others
,
a
thing
aboue
al
things
to
be
helde
most
deare
.
What
is
he
then
regarding
his
own
wealth
(
being
wise
)
that
will
not
flée
suche
a
gouernment
?
Let
him
that
may
,
liue
frée
,
following
those
things
that
doe
euery
way
increase
his
liberty
,
and
let
vicious
gouernours
gouerne
vicious
vassals
.
I
did
not
thinke
,
sayde
Galeone
then
,
to
giue
occasion
through
these
my
words
to
the
lessening
of
this
our
disport
,
nor
to
disquiet
the
regiment
of
our
lorde
loue
,
neither
yet
to
trouble
the
minds
of
any
others
,
but
did
rather
imagine
(
you
defining
it
according
to
the
intente
of
me
&
many
others
)
that
ye
might
therby
confirme
those
that
are
his
subiects
with
a
valiaunt
minde
,
and
inuite
those
whiche
are
not
,
with
a
gréedy
appetite
:
but
I
sée
that
your
intent
is
all
contrary
to
mine
,
bicause
you
with
your
words
do
shew
to
be
thrée
sortes
of
loue
,
of
the
which
thrée
,
the
first
and
the
last
I
consent
they
be
as
you
say
.
But
the
second
,
whiche
answereth
to
my
demaunde
,
ye
say
it
is
as
muche
to
be
fled
,
as
I
holde
opinion
,
it
is
(
as
the
increaser
of
vertue
)
to
be
folowed
of
him
that
desireth
a
glorious
end
,
as
I
beleue
to
make
apparant
vnto
you
by
this
that
followeth
.
This
Loue
,
of
whom
we
reason
(
as
it
may
be
manyfest
to
all
the
worlde
,
bicause
we
proue
it
)
doth
worke
this
propertie
in
humayne
hearts
,
that
after
that
it
hath
disposed
the
mind
to
a
thing
which
pleaseth
,
it
spoyleth
the
same
of
all
pride
and
of
al
fiercenesse
,
making
them
humble
in
eche
doing
,
as
it
is
manyfest
vnto
vs
by
Mars
,
whome
we
finde
,
that
in
louing
Venus
,
became
of
a
fierce
and
sharpe
Duke
in
battayle
,
a
moste
humble
and
pleasaunt
Louer
.
It
makes
the
gréedie
and
couetous
,
liberall
and
curteous
.
Medea
the
most
carefull
hider
of
hir
arte
,
after
she
felte
his
flames
,
liberally
yelded
hir self
,
hir
honour
,
and
hir
arts
to
Iason
.
Who
makes
men
more
diligent
to
high
attempts
than
he
?
And
what
he
can
do
,
behold
by
Paris
and
Menelaus
.
Who
furthereth
forwarde
the
angry
fiers
more
than
doth
he
?
He
sheweth
vs
how
oftentimes
the
anger
of
Achilles
was
quieted
thorowe
the
swéete
prayer
of
Polixena
.
He
aboue
all
others
maketh
men
couragious
and
strong
.
Neither
know
I
what
greater
example
may
be
giuen
vs
,
than
that
of
Perseus
,
who
for
Andromaca
made
a
maruellous
proofe
of
his
vertuous
force
.
He
decketh
all
them
that
are
by
him
aparelled
,
with
excellent
qualities
,
with
ornate
talke
,
with
magnificence
,
and
with
pleasantnesse
.
He
I
say
bestoweth
vpon
al
his
subiects
finenesse
and
gentlenesse
.
Oh
how
many
are
the
good
things
whiche
procéede
from
him
?
Who
moued
Virgill
?
who
Ouid
?
who
the
other
Poets
to
leaue
of
them selues
eternall
fame
in
those
their
holy
verses
,
the
which
(
if
he
had
not
ben
)
shold
neuer
haue
comen
to
our
eares
,
but
he
?
What
shall
we
say
further
of
his
vertues
?
but
that
he
was
able
to
giue
suche
a
swéetenesse
to
Orpheus
harpe
,
as
after
that
he
had
called
to
that
sounde
all
the
woods
,
standers
about
,
and
made
the
running
streames
to
stay
,
&
to
come
into
his
presence
in
milde
peace
the
fierce
Lions
togithers
,
with
the
faint
hearted
Hartes
,
and
all
other
beasts
:
he
made
likewise
the
infernal
furies
quiet
,
&
gaue
rest
,
and
swéetenesse
to
the
troubled
soules
,
and
after
all
this
the
sound
was
of
such
vertue
,
as
he
attayned
to
haue
agayne
his
lost
wise
.
Then
is
he
not
the
chaser
away
of
honour
as
you
say
,
neither
the
giuer
of
vnfitting
troubles
,
nor
the
prouoker
of
vices
,
nor
the
disposer
of
vayn
cares
,
nor
the
vnworthy
vser
of
the
libertie
of
others
.
So
that
euery
one
of
whom
he
maketh
none
accompt
,
and
is
not
as
yet
his
seruaunt
,
ought
with
all
their
wit
and
diligence
,
to
endeuour
and
to
occupie
them selues
in
the
attayning
the
fauour
of
suche
a
Lorde
,
and
to
become
his
subiect
,
since
throw
him
he
becometh
vertuous
.
That
which
pleaseth
the
Gods
,
and
men
of
greatest
strength
,
ought
likewise
to
please
vs
.
Let
suche
a
Lorde
therfore
be
loued
,
serued
,
and
liue
alwayes
in
our
minds
.
Greatly
deceyueth
thée
thine
opinion
,
sayd
the
quéene
,
and
it
is
no
maruell
,
bicause
as
farre
as
we
vnderstande
,
thou
art
so
farre
enamoured
,
as
none
the
like
,
and
without
doubt
the
iudgement
of
the
enamoured
is
méerely
false
,
bicause
as
they
haue
lost
the
sight
of
the
eyes
of
their
minde
,
so
haue
they
banished
reason
as
their
vtter
enemie
.
And
for
this
cause
it
shall
be
conuenient
,
that
we
agaynst
our
will
speake
of
loue
,
the
whiche
gréeueth
vs
,
since
we
be
his
subiects
.
But
yet
to
pluck
thée
from
thine
error
,
we
shall
turne
our
silence
to
a
true
report
,
and
wil
therfore
that
thou
know
,
that
this
loue
is
nothing
else
,
than
an
vnreasonable
will
sprong
of
a
passion
entered
the
heart
through
a
wanton
pleasure
,
that
is
opened
to
the
eyes
,
nourished
with
idlenesse
,
by
the
memorie
and
thoughts
of
foolish
minds
:
and
many
times
in
how
much
it
multiplieth
,
so
much
it
taketh
away
the
intent
of
him
in
whom
it
abideth
,
from
things
necessarie
,
and
disposeth
the
same
to
things
vnprofitable
.
But
bicause
that
thou
through
example
giuing
dost
endeuour
thy selfe
to
shew
,
that
all
goodnesse
and
all
vertue
doth
procéede
from
him
,
we
will
procéede
to
the
disprofes
of
thy
prooufes
.
It
is
no
part
of
humilitie
vniustly
to
bring
to
a
mans
selfe
,
that
whiche
belongeth
to
an
other
,
but
rather
an
arrogancie
and
an
vnfitting
presumption
:
The
whiche
thing
Mars
(
whome
thou
makest
throughe
loue
to
become
humble
)
assuredly
vsed
in
taking
away
from
Vulcan
,
Venus
his
moste
lawfull
wife
.
And
without
doubt
this
humilitie
that
appeareth
in
the
face
of
louers
doth
not
procéede
of
a
benigne
heart
,
but
taketh
roote
from
guile
and
deceipt
,
neither
makes
this
loue
the
couetous
liberal
,
but
when
as
such
abundance
as
thou
laiest
to
haue
ben
in
Medea
,
doth
abound
in
the
heart
,
and
doth
depriue
the
same
of
the
sight
of
the
minde
,
and
most
foolishly
is
become
prodigall
of
things
heretofore
duly
estemed
deare
,
and
not
giuing
the
same
with
measure
,
but
vnprofitably
casting
them
away
,
beléeueth
to
please
,
and
displeaseth
.
Medea
nothing
wise
of
hir
prodigalitie
,
in
short
time
repented
very
muche
without
vtilitie
,
and
knew
that
if
she
had
modestly
vsed
those
hir
dere
gifts
,
she
should
not
haue
comen
to
so
vile
an
ende
.
And
that
soliciting
that
purchaseth
or
worketh
hurt
to
the
soliciters
,
as
it
seemeth
to
vs
,
ought
not
any
ways
to
be
sought
for
:
for
must
better
it
is
to
stand
idle
,
than
worke
harme
,
although
that
neither
the
one
nor
the
other
is
to
be
praysed
.
Paris
was
a
solicitour
to
his
own
destruction
,
if
he
beheld
the
end
of
his
soliciting
.
Menelaus
as
reson
was
,
became
diligent
,
not
for
loue
,
but
to
recouer
his
honor
lost
,
as
eche
discrete
person
ought
to
doe
.
Neither
yet
is
this
loue
a
meane
to
mitigate
anger
,
but
the
benignitie
of
minde
,
the
brunt
being
paste
that
induceth
it
,
makes
it
to
become
nothing
,
and
remitteth
the
offence
agaynst
whom
it
is
angry
.
And
yet
louers
and
discrete
persons
were
wont
at
the
prayers
of
the
person
loued
,
or
of
some
friend
to
forgiue
offences
,
to
shew
them selues
curteous
of
that
which
cost
them
nothing
,
and
to
make
the
crauers
thereof
beholding
vnto
them
.
And
in
this
sort
Achilles
,
many
times
shewed
himselfe
to
expell
from
him
this
congeled
anger
.
Likewise
it
séemes
that
this
makes
men
couragious
and
worthy
:
But
therof
I
can
shew
you
the
contrary
.
Who
was
a
man
of
greater
valour
than
Hercules
,
and
yet
béeing
enamoured
,
became
vile
&
forgetful
of
his
force
,
so
that
he
did
spin
thréede
with
the
women
of
Iole
?
Assuredly
in
things
,
wherein
occurreth
no
daunger
,
a
most
hardy
people
are
the
enamoured
,
and
wherin
daunger
hapneth
,
they
shew
themselues
in
apparaunce
hardie
,
and
put
themselues
forwarde
,
neither
dothe
loue
,
but
little
wit
allure
them
so
to
do
,
to
the
ende
they
may
after
haue
glory
in
the
sight
of
their
loues
,
although
it
hapneth
very
seldome
,
bicause
they
doubt
so
much
the
losing
of
the
person
loued
,
that
they
are
rather
content
to
be
helde
vyle
and
of
little
courage
,
than
to
giue
themselues
to
perill
.
And
yet
we
doubt
not
,
but
this
loue
reposeth
all
swéetenesse
in
Orpheus
harpe
.
We
agrée
that
it
is
true
that
thou
hast
shewed
,
that
truly
in
generall
loue
ladeth
the
tongs
of
his
subiects
with
such
a
swéetenesse
,
and
with
so
many
enticements
,
as
they
many
tymes
would
therby
make
the
stones
turne
vp
side
downe
,
so
that
to
entice
is
not
onely
the
propertie
of
wauering
and
inconstant
men
,
but
of
vile
men
.
How
shal
we
say
,
that
suche
a
lorde
ought
to
be
followed
,
throughe
the
good
propertie
of
the
follower
?
Assuredly
he
(
in
whom
he
abideth
)
maketh
wise
and
profitable
counsels
to
be
despised
.
For
it
was
euill
with
the
Troians
that
those
of
Cassandra
,
were
not
heard
of
Paris
.
He
maketh
likewise
his
subiects
to
forget
and
despise
their
good
fame
,
the
which
ought
to
remayne
to
vs
all
on
earth
after
our
deathes
,
as
an
eternall
heire
of
our
memorie
.
And
how
much
these
aforesayd
did
contemne
,
the
same
Egistus
may
suffise
for
an
example
:
Although
Scylla
wrought
no
lesse
hurt
than
Pasiphe
.
Is
not
he
the
occasion
that
breaketh
sacred
bonds
of
the
promised
pure
faith
?
Yet
truely
what
had
Ariadna
done
to
duke
Theseus
,
whereby
contaminating
the
matrimonical
bands
,
and
giuing
himselfe
,
and
his
promised
fayth
to
the
winds
,
he
shoulde
abandon
hir
poore
miser
among
the
desert
rockes
?
A
little
pleasure
in
gasing
in
the
eyes
of
Phedra
,
was
occasion
to
celerate
so
much
euill
,
and
of
suche
requitall
for
the
receiued
honor
.
In
him
also
is
found
no
law
:
and
that
it
is
true
,
may
be
séene
by
the
doings
of
Tereus
,
who
hauing
receyued
Philomena
,
from
hir
pitifull
father
,
and
carnally
knowen
hir
,
made
no
staye
to
contaminate
the
moste
holy
lawes
matrimonially
contracted
betwéene
hym
and
Progne
,
the
sister
of
Philomena
This
also
calling
and
causing
himselfe
to
be
called
a
God
,
occupieth
the
reasons
of
the
gods
.
Who
coulde
euer
fully
with
words
shew
the
iniquitie
of
him
?
He
to
speake
briefly
,
leadeth
them
that
follow
him
to
all
euilles
:
and
if
by
happe
his
followers
do
any
vertuous
acte
(
whiche
happeneth
very
seldome
)
with
a
vicious
beginning
they
beginne
it
,
desiring
therby
to
come
very
quickly
to
the
desired
ende
of
their
lothsome
willes
,
the
which
may
be
rather
sayd
vices
,
than
vertues
,
forsomuche
as
that
is
not
to
be
héeded
onely
whiche
man
dothe
,
but
with
what
minde
it
is
doone
,
and
so
according
to
the
will
of
the
worker
,
to
repute
the
same
vicious
or
vertuous
,
bicause
that
neuer
of
an
euill
roote
sprang
a
good
trée
,
nor
from
an
euill
trée
good
fruite
.
This
loue
then
is
leude
and
naught
:
and
if
he
be
naught
,
he
is
to
be
fledde
.
And
who
that
fleeth
things
euill
,
of
consequent
followeth
the
good
,
and
so
is
bothe
good
and
vertuous
.
The
beginning
of
this
loue
is
none
other
thing
,
than
feare
,
the
sequels
is
sinne
,
and
the
ende
is
griefe
and
noy
,
it
ought
then
to
be
fled
,
and
to
be
reproued
,
and
to
feare
you
to
haue
him
in
you
,
bicause
he
is
violent
,
neither
knoweth
he
in
any
of
his
doings
to
kepe
measure
,
and
is
altogither
voyde
of
reason
.
He
is
without
all
doubt
the
destroyer
of
the
minds
,
the
shame
,
anguishe
,
passion
,
griefe
,
and
plaint
of
the
same
,
neuer
consenteth
that
the
hearte
of
whome
that
lodgeth
hym
be
withoute
bitternesse
,
who
will
than
prayse
that
he
is
to
be
followed
,
but
fooles
.
Truely
if
it
were
lawfull
we
would
willingly
liue
without
him
,
but
of
suche
an
harme
we
are
to
late
awares
,
and
therefore
it
is
conuenient
for
vs
,
since
we
are
caught
in
his
nettes
to
follow
his
life
vntil
what
time
as
that
light
which
guided
Aeneas
out
of
the
darke
wayes
,
fléeing
the
perilous
fiers
,
may
appeare
to
vs
,
and
guide
vs
to
his
pleasures
.
¶
The
eyght
Question
,
proposed
by
a
fayre
Gentlewoman
named
POLA.
ON
the
right
hande
of
Galeone
,
was
set
a
fayre
gentlewoman
,
whose
name
was
Pola
,
pleasaunt
,
and
yet
vnder
an
honest
couerture
,
who
after
the
Quéene
blent
,
thus
began
to
say
:
O
noble
Quéene
,
ye
haue
domed
at
this
present
,
that
no
person
ought
to
follow
this
our
lord
Loue
,
and
I
for
my
part
consent
thervnto
:
but
yet
since
it
séemes
to
me
impossible
,
that
the
youthfull
race
both
of
men
and
women
should
be
runne
ouer
without
this
benigne
Loue
:
I
gather
,
at
this
present
,
setting
apart
(
by
your
leaue
)
your
sentence
,
that
to
be
enamoured
is
lefull
,
taking
the
euill
doing
for
due
working
:
And
in
following
the
same
,
Of
what
degrees
one
should
chose
his
louer
.
I
desire
to
know
of
you
,
whether
of
these
two
women
ought
rather
to
be
loued
of
a
yong
man
,
bothe
two
pleasing
him
alike
,
either
she
that
is
of
noble
blood
,
and
of
able
kinsfolke
,
and
copious
of
hauing
muche
more
than
the
yong
man
,
or
the
other
that
is
nether
noble
nor
rich
,
nor
of
kinsfolkes
so
abounding
as
is
the
yong
man
?
To
whome
the
Queene
thus
made
answere
:
Faire
Gentlewoman
,
The
Quenes
answere
.
admitting
the
case
that
both
man
and
woman
ought
to
follow
Loue
as
you
haue
before
affirmed
,
we
giue
iudgement
,
that
in
howe
much
the
woman
is
richer
,
greater
,
and
more
noble
than
the
yong
man
,
of
whatsoeuer
degrée
or
dignitie
he
be
of
,
euen
so
she
ought
to
be
rather
preferred
to
the
loue
of
a
yong
man
,
than
ought
shée
that
hath
any
thing
lesse
than
he
:
bicause
mans
mind
was
created
to
folow
high
things
.
And
therfore
he
must
seeke
rather
to
aduance
,
than
any
ways
to
imbace
himself
.
Further
there
is
a
common
Prouerbe
,
which
sayth
:
The
good
to
couet
better
t'
is
,
Than
to
possesse
that
bad
is
.
Wherefore
in
our
iudgement
,
thou
art
better
to
loue
the
most
noble
,
and
wyth
good
reson
to
refuse
the
lesse
noble
.
Then
said
pleasant
Pola
:
noble
Queen
,
The
contrary
opinion
of
Pola
with
hir
reasons
.
I
wold
haue
giuen
an
other
iudgement
(
if
it
had
bene
to
me
)
of
this
Question
,
as
ye
shall
heare
.
We
all
naturally
doe
rather
desire
short
and
bréefe
,
than
long
and
tedyous
troubles
,
and
that
it
is
a
lesse
&
more
bréefe
trouble
to
get
the
loue
of
the
lesse
noble
,
than
of
the
more
noble
,
is
manifest
.
Then
the
lesse
ought
to
be
followed
:
for
as
muchè
as
the
loue
of
the
lesse
may
be
sayd
to
be
alredy
won
,
the
which
of
the
more
is
yet
to
get
.
Further
,
many
perils
may
folow
to
a
man
louing
a
woman
of
a
greater
condition
,
than
him selfe
is
of
,
nether
hath
he
lastly
therby
any
greater
delight
,
than
of
the
lesser
.
For
we
see
a
great
woman
to
haue
many
kinsfolks
,
&
a
great
family
,
and
them
all
as
diligent
héeders
of
hir
honour
,
to
haue
an
eye
vnto
hir
,
so
that
if
any
one
of
them
happen
to
espie
this
loue
,
therof
may
folow
(
as
we
haue
already
sayd
)
great
perill
to
the
louer
,
the
which
of
the
lesse
noble
can
not
so
lightly
com
to
passe
:
and
these
perils
ech
one
(
as
he
is
able
)
ought
to
flée
,
for
as
much
as
who
that
receiueth
harme
is
sure
therof
,
and
who
that
hath
done
it
,
laugheth
him
after
to
scorn
,
saying
he
spéedeth
wel
,
where
he
liketh
,
there
let
him
loue
:
yet
dyeth
he
more
than
once
.
But
howe
that
once
happeneth
,
where
,
and
for
what
occasion
,
besides
eche
one
ought
to
take
good
heede
:
it
is
very
credible
that
a
Gentlewoman
will
lightly
esteeme
of
hym
,
for
that
shee
will
desire
to
loue
one
more
Noble
or
greater
than
hir selfe
,
and
not
one
inferioure
to
hir self
:
wherby
soldome
or
neuer
,
he
shall
attaine
his
desire
.
But
of
the
lesser
shall
happen
the
contrary
,
bicause
that
shee
will
glory
to
bée
loued
of
suche
a
Louer
,
and
will
endeuour
hir selfe
to
please
hym
,
to
the
ende
to
nourishe
Loue
,
and
yet
if
this
were
not
,
the
power
of
the
Louer
onely
myght
be
able
wythout
feare
to
bryng
to
passe
to
fulfill
his
desire
.
Wherefore
I
gather
,
that
the
lesse
Noble
oughte
to
bée
preferred
in
loue
before
the
more
noble
.
Your
iudgement
deceiueth
you
(
said
the
Quéene
)
to
the
fair
Gentlewoman
,
The
Que●●●
solution
vpon
the
eight
question
.
bicause
Loue
is
of
thys
nature
,
that
howe
muche
the
more
one
Loueth
,
so
muche
the
more
he
desireth
to
loue
:
And
this
may
be
séene
by
them
,
that
thorowe
loue
féele
the
greater
gréefe
,
the
which
although
it
trouble
them
not
a
litle
,
yet
loue
they
continually
the
more
:
Neyther
doeth
any
one
from
his
heart
,
althoughe
he
make
great
apparance
in
wordes
,
desire
thereof
a
spéedie
end
.
Then
as
small
troubles
are
sought
for
of
the
slouthfull
,
of
the
wise
,
things
that
are
attained
with
most
trouble
,
are
helde
most
deare
and
delightfull
.
And
therefore
in
louing
the
lesse
woman
,
to
get
hir
,
should
be
(
as
you
say
)
little
trouble
,
and
the
loue
both
litle
and
short
,
&
should
be
folowed
as
though
one
in
louing
,
would
desire
to
loue
lesse
and
lesse
,
which
is
contrary
to
the
nature
of
Loue
,
as
we
haue
sayd
.
But
in
louing
the
greater
,
that
is
gotten
wyth
trouble
,
happeneth
the
contrary
:
bicause
,
that
as
in
a
thing
dearely
gotten
,
with
trauaile
,
is
reposed
all
diligence
to
the
wel
héeding
of
the
gained
Loue
,
euen
so
is
shée
euery
houre
the
more
loued
,
and
the
longer
doth
continue
the
delight
and
pleasure
therof
.
And
yet
if
ye
will
say
that
all
the
doubt
is
of
theyr
kinsmen
,
we
wil
not
denie
it
,
for
this
is
one
of
the
occasions
.
Wherefore
,
it
is
a
trouble
to
haue
the
loue
of
one
of
these
great
women
:
but
not
withstanding
the
discrete
in
suche
cases
procéede
by
a
secrete
way
.
And
we
dout
not
but
that
the
honor
bothe
of
the
greatest
and
meanest
woman
is
by
some
of
their
kinsfolkes
according
to
their
power
loked
vnto
,
in
such
sort
,
as
a
fole
may
come
to
an
euill
aduenture
,
louing
aswell
in
a
base
,
as
in
a
noble
stocke
.
But
what
shal
he
be
that
wil
passe
Pisistrato
in
crueltie
,
hauing
offended
them
which
loued
hys
The
crueltie
of
Pisistratus
.
without
forethinking
that
which
he
should
afterwardes
haue
done
to
those
that
had
had
the
same
in
heart
?
In
saying
also
,
that
louing
a
greater
woman
than
himself
,
he
shall
neuer
be
able
to
come
to
the
ende
of
his
desire
,
bicause
the
woman
coueteth
to
loue
one
greater
than
hir selfe
,
and
therefore
will
make
of
him
no
estimation
at
all
:
ye
shew
your self
to
be
ignorant
that
the
meanest
man
(
in
what
belongeth
to
naturall
vertues
)
is
of
greater
and
better
condition
,
The
meanest
man
of
better
condition
than
the
noblest
woman
.
than
the
noblest
woman
of
the
world
.
Whatsoeuer
man
shee
then
desireth
,
shée
desireth
him
that
is
of
greater
and
better
condition
than
hir selfe
,
bicause
the
vertuous
or
vicious
life
maketh
many
times
the
meane
great
,
and
the
great
meane
.
In
as
much
therefore
as
any
woman
shall
bée
solicited
by
any
man
in
due
sorte
,
euen
so
wythout
doubt
shée
shall
yeld
to
his
desire
,
though
the
great
with
more
trouble
than
the
mean.
For
we
see
the
softe
water
with
a
continuall
fall
to
breake
and
pierce
the
harde
stone
:
and
therefore
let
none
despaire
to
loue
.
The
Queene
concludeth
that
we
should
rather
loue
the
more
noble
woman
than
the
lesse
noble
.
For
so
muche
goodnesse
shall
folow
him
that
loueth
a
greater
woman
than
hymselfe
,
as
he
shall
endeuour
him selfe
to
please
hir
,
to
haue
decent
qualities
,
the
company
of
noble
personages
,
to
be
ornate
of
swéete
talke
,
bold
in
enterprises
,
and
splendant
in
apparell
,
and
if
he
shall
attaine
to
greater
glory
,
the
greater
delight
shall
he
haue
of
minde
,
likewise
he
shal
be
exalted
with
the
good
report
of
the
people
,
and
reputed
of
a
noble
mind
.
Let
him
therfore
followe
the
most
noble
,
as
we
haue
alredy
sayd
.
The
ninthe
Question
,
proposed
by
FERAMONTE
.
Duke
of
Montorio
.
NExte
vnto
pleasante
Pola
,
sate
Feramonte
Duke
of
Montorio
,
who
after
the
Quene
had
said
,
thus
began
:
I
consent
that
it
bée
conuenyent
to
loue
,
that
ye
haue
alredy
fully
answered
this
Gentlewoman
to
hir
Question
.
And
that
a
man
ought
to
loue
rather
a
more
noble
woman
than
a
lesse
noble
than
himselfe
,
may
very
well
be
yelded
vnto
,
thorow
the
sundry
resons
by
you
shewed
touching
the
same
.
Whether
is
to
be
chosen
in
louing
,
either
the
wife
,
the
widowe
,
or
the
maide
.
But
forasmuch
as
there
are
sundry
Gentlewomen
of
sundry
sortes
attired
with
diuersities
of
habites
,
that
(
as
it
is
thought
)
doe
diuersly
loue
,
some
more
,
some
lesse
,
some
more
hotly
,
&
some
others
more
luke
warme
.
I
desire
to
vnderstand
of
you
,
whether
of
these
three
,
a
yong
man
to
bring
his
desire
to
a
most
happy
ende
,
ought
soonest
to
be
enamoured
of
,
either
of
hir
that
is
maryed
,
or
of
the
maide
,
or
of
the
widowe
?
To
whome
the
Queene
made
this
answers
:
Of
the
thrée
,
The
Quenes
answer
.
the
one
,
that
is
the
maryed
woman
,
ought
in
no
wise
to
be
desired
,
bicause
she
is
not
hir
owne
,
neither
hath
libertie
to
giue
hir selfe
to
any
:
and
therfore
either
to
desire
hir
,
or
to
take
hir
,
is
both
to
commit
an
offence
against
the
diuine
lawes
,
as
also
against
the
lawes
naturall
&
positiue
,
the
offending
wherof
,
is
to
heap
vpon
our selues
,
the
diuine
anger
,
and
by
consequent
,
heauie
iudgement
.
Howbeit
,
who
that
gropeth
not
his
conscience
so
farre
inwardly
,
dothe
oftentimes
spéede
better
in
louing
hir
,
than
of
any
of
the
other
two
,
either
maid
or
widowe
,
in
as
much
as
he
(
althoughe
such
loue
somtimes
be
with
great
peril
)
is
to
haue
the
effecte
of
his
desire
.
And
why
this
loue
may
diuers
times
bring
the
louer
to
his
desire
,
sooner
than
the
loue
of
the
others
,
this
is
the
reson
:
It
is
manifest
,
that
in
how
much
more
the
fire
is
blowne
,
so
much
the
more
it
flameth
,
&
without
blowing
,
it
becommeth
deade
.
And
as
all
other
things
thorowe
muche
vse
do
decay
,
so
contrariwise
lust
the
more
it
is
vsed
,
the
more
it
increseth
.
The
widowe
in
that
shée
hath
bene
a
long
tyme
without
the
like
effect
,
doth
fele
the
same
almost
as
though
it
had
neuer
bene
,
and
so
is
rather
kindled
with
the
memorie
thereof
,
than
with
any
concupiscence
at
all
.
The
maid
that
yet
hath
no
skil
therof
,
neither
knoweth
the
same
but
by
imagination
,
desireth
as
it
were
one
luke
warme
:
and
therfore
the
maried
woman
kindled
in
such
passions
,
doth
more
than
any
of
the
others
desire
suche
effectes
.
What
time
the
maried
are
wont
to
receiue
from
their
husbandes
outragyous
woords
or
déedes
,
wherof
willingly
they
would
take
reuenge
if
they
might
,
there
is
no
way
left
more
readier
vnto
them
,
than
in
despite
of
their
husbands
to
giue
their
loue
to
him
,
by
whome
they
are
allured
to
receiue
the
like
.
And
althoughe
it
be
expedient
that
suche
manner
of
reuenge
be
very
secrete
,
that
no
shame
grow
thereby
,
nethelesse
are
they
yet
content
in
their
mindes
.
Further
the
alwayes
vsing
of
one
kinde
of
meat
is
tedious
:
and
wée
haue
oftentimes
séene
the
delycate
meates
left
for
the
grosse
,
turning
afterwardes
vnto
the
same
again
,
what
time
the
appetite
hath
bene
satisfied
of
the
others
.
But
bicause
(
as
wée
haue
sayd
)
it
is
not
lawfull
thorowe
any
vniust
occasion
to
desire
that
which
is
an
other
mans
,
we
will
leaue
the
marryed
to
theyr
husbandes
,
and
take
of
the
others
,
whereof
a
copious
numbre
our
Citie
dothe
sette
before
our
eyes
.
The
widowe
is
to
be
loued
before
the
maide
.
And
we
would
in
bestowing
our
loue
,
rather
seke
the
widowes
than
the
rude
maides
,
grosse
for
suche
a
misterie
,
and
that
are
not
without
great
trouble
(
the
which
in
widowes
néedeth
not
)
made
able
to
a
mannes
desire
.
Further
if
mayds
loue
,
they
know
not
what
they
desire
,
and
therefore
they
doe
not
followe
with
an
intentiue
mynde
,
the
steppes
of
the
louer
as
do
the
widowes
,
in
whome
nowe
the
antique
fire
taketh
force
,
and
maketh
them
to
desire
that
which
thorowe
long
abuse
they
had
forgotten
:
so
that
to
come
to
suche
effecte
,
they
(
to
late
)
bewéepe
the
lost
tymes
,
and
the
solitarie
long
nightes
,
the
which
they
haue
passed
in
their
widowish
beds
.
These
are
therefore
(
as
it
séemeth
vnto
vs
)
rather
to
be
loued
of
them
in
whom
is
the
libertie
to
submitte
them selues
to
others
,
than
any
of
the
rest
.
Then
aunswered
Faramonte
:
The
contrary
opinion
of
Feramonte
.
Moste
excellent
Quéene
,
what
ye
haue
sayde
of
the
maryed
,
I
hadde
determined
in
my
minde
that
so
it
ought
to
bée
:
and
now
hearing
the
same
from
you
,
I
am
the
rather
assured
thereof
.
But
touching
the
Maides
and
Widowes
,
I
am
of
the
contrary
opinion
,
bicause
(
setting
the
maryed
aparte
,
for
the
reasons
by
you
alleaged
)
it
séemeth
vnto
me
very
good
,
that
the
Maide
rather
than
the
Widowe
,
ought
to
be
desired
:
For
as
muche
as
the
loue
of
the
Maide
séemeth
more
firme
and
assured
than
that
of
the
Widowe
.
For
the
Widowe
without
doubt
hathe
alreadie
loued
one
other
time
before
,
and
hathe
séene
and
felt
many
things
of
loue
,
and
knoweth
what
shame
may
folow
thereof
:
and
therefore
knowing
these
things
better
than
the
Mayde
,
loueth
faire
and
softely
:
and
doubting
and
not
louyng
firmly
,
desireth
now
this
and
now
that
,
and
knoweth
not
to
whether
for
hir
most
delight
and
greatest
honour
to
link
hir selfe
,
for
sometimes
shée
will
neither
the
one
,
nor
the
other
:
so
that
deliberation
dothe
wauer
in
hir
minde
,
neither
is
the
amorous
passion
able
to
take
there
stabilitie
:
but
to
the
mayde
these
things
are
alltogether
vnknowne
.
The
constancie
of
maides
in
loue
.
And
therefore
as
shée
persuadeth
hir self
with
good
aduisement
,
that
of
many
yong
men
shée
greatly
pleaseth
one
,
so
wythout
further
examination
shée
maketh
choice
of
him
as
of
hir
louer
,
and
to
him
onely
disposeth
hir
loue
,
not
knowing
howe
for
hir
pleasure
to
shew
any
contrary
acte
,
neither
is
there
for
the
more
sure
tying
of
the
Louer
,
any
newe
deliberation
by
hir
sought
for
the
,
touching
hir
loue
,
so
that
shée
is
then
pure
at
the
wil
and
pleasure
of
him
that
simply
pleaseth
hir
,
&
quickly
disposeth
hir
wounded
heart
,
him
only
to
serue
as
Lorde
.
The
which
thyng
(
as
I
haue
already
sayd
)
happeneth
not
of
the
widowe
,
and
therfore
is
the
other
,
the
rather
to
be
followed
.
Further
,
with
more
efficacie
the
mayde
taryeth
those
things
that
neuer
any
one
of
hir
sorte
hath
séene
,
heard
or
proued
.
And
yet
shée
desireth
more
to
sée
,
hear
and
proue
them
than
who
that
ha
the
many
times
bothe
séene
,
heard
and
proued
them
,
and
this
is
manyfest
.
Emong
the
other
occasions
for
the
which
our
life
doeth
greatly
delight
vs
,
and
is
desired
to
be
long
,
is
for
to
sée
newe
thyngs
,
suche
as
wée
haue
yet
neuer
séene
before
.
And
also
for
to
sée
thyngs
moste
newe
we
haue
a
great
delight
to
runne
wyth
a
dilygent
pace
to
that
,
which
we
aboue
all
other
things
doe
endeuoure
our selues
to
flée
,
that
is
Deathe
,
the
laste
ende
of
oure
bodyes
.
The
maide
knoweth
not
that
delyghtfull
coniunction
,
thorowe
the
which
wee
come
into
the
world
,
and
yet
is
it
naturall
to
euery
creature
thorowe
a
desire
to
be
drawne
thereunto
.
Further
,
shée
many
times
hath
heard
from
them
,
that
know
what
manner
a
thing
it
is
,
howe
muche
swéetenesse
doth
consist
therein
,
the
which
wyth
woordes
haue
giuen
fire
to
the
desire
,
and
therefore
drawne
of
nature
,
and
of
a
desire
to
proue
the
thing
,
of
hir
not
as
yet
proued
,
dothe
thorow
the
woordes
whych
shée
hathe
hearde
,
desire
boldly
with
a
kindled
heart
thys
concourse
.
And
with
whome
is
it
presumed
to
be
had
but
only
with
him
,
whom
shée
hathe
alreadie
made
Lorde
of
hir
minde
?
This
heat
shal
not
be
in
the
widowe
,
bycause
hauing
once
proued
and
felte
what
manner
a
thing
it
was
,
shée
is
thereby
prouoked
thereunto
:
So
that
the
Mayde
then
shall
loue
more
,
and
be
more
diligent
(
thorowe
the
reasons
aforesayde
)
to
the
pleasure
of
hir
Louer
,
than
the
widowe
.
To
what
ende
shall
wée
then
wade
any
further
in
séeking
that
the
Maide
ought
not
rather
to
be
loued
than
the
Widowe
?
You
,
sayde
the
Quéene
reason
well
,
The
Queenes
solution
vpon
the
nynthe
question
.
and
very
well
you
defend
your
iudgement
:
But
yet
we
wil
shewe
you
with
apparant
reason
,
howe
you
likewise
ought
to
holde
the
same
opinion
,
that
we
holde
of
thys
contention
,
if
wyth
a
straight
eye
ye
looke
to
the
nature
of
Loue
.
Thus
in
the
Mayde
as
in
the
Widowe
,
and
so
in
the
Widowe
as
in
the
Maide
we
sée
him
to
be
firme
,
strong
,
and
constant
,
and
that
thys
is
true
,
Dido
and
Adriana
with
theyr
doings
haue
left
vs
an
example
.
And
wher
as
thys
Loue
is
neyther
in
the
one
nor
the
other
,
none
of
the
aforesayde
operations
will
thereof
followe
.
Then
is
it
conuenient
that
eche
one
of
them
doe
loue
,
if
we
wil
haue
that
to
folow
,
wherof
bothe
you
and
I
haue
already
talked
.
And
therfore
in
louing
eyther
maide
or
widowe
,
without
going
about
to
séeke
whether
of
them
is
most
discretely
enamored
(
as
we
are
certain
of
the
widow
)
we
shall
shewe
you
how
the
widowe
is
more
diligent
to
the
pleasure
of
the
louer
,
than
is
the
maide
.
Maides
ought
not
to
loue
,
but
in
respect
of
mariage
.
For
doubtlesse
among
those
things
,
that
a
woman
estéemeth
deare
aboue
the
rest
,
is
her
virginitie
:
and
this
is
the
reason
,
bycause
therein
consisteth
all
the
honoure
of
hir
following
life
.
And
without
doubt
shee
shall
neuer
be
so
much
vrged
forwardes
to
loue
,
as
she
shal
not
willingly
be
courteous
thereof
,
but
yet
to
him
onely
,
to
whome
shee
beléeueth
to
be
coupled
as
wife
thorowe
the
matrimoniall
Lawe
.
And
therfore
we
go
not
about
seking
for
this
:
for
there
is
no
doubt
but
that
who
will
loue
to
marry
,
ought
rather
to
loue
the
maide
than
the
widowe
,
bicause
shée
shal
be
slow
and
negligent
in
giuing
hir selfe
to
hym
that
loueth
hir
not
(
if
shée
know
it
)
to
that
effect
.
Further
,
maydes
are
generally
fearefull
,
neither
are
they
subtile
enoughe
to
finde
the
wayes
and
meanes
,
whereby
they
may
take
the
stolne
delights
:
But
the
widow
of
these
things
maketh
no
doubt
at
all
,
bicause
that
shée
already
hathe
honorably
giuen
that
which
the
other
taryeth
to
giue
,
and
being
without
the
same
,
doubteth
not
in
giuing
hir selfe
to
an
other
,
that
token
which
may
accuse
:
Whereby
afterwardes
,
shée
becommeth
the
more
aduenturous
,
bicause
(
as
is
sayd
)
the
chéefest
occasion
that
bringeth
doubt
,
is
not
in
hir
:
besides
shée
knoweth
better
the
secrete
wayes
,
and
so
putteth
them
in
effect
.
In
that
which
you
say
,
that
the
maide
as
desirous
of
a
thing
which
shée
neuer
proued
,
may
be
made
more
diligent
to
this
than
the
widow
,
that
knoweth
what
maner
a
thing
it
is
,
therof
the
contrary
.
Maides
do
not
at
the
first
time
for
their
delight
,
run
to
suche
effect
(
although
the
thing
the
delighteth
,
the
oftener
it
is
sene
,
heard
,
or
felt
,
the
more
it
pleaseth
,
and
the
more
carefull
is
euery
one
to
folowe
the
same
(
bicause
it
is
then
more
noisom
than
plesant
vnto
them
.
This
thing
wherof
we
reason
,
doth
not
follow
the
order
of
many
other
things
,
that
once
or
twice
being
séene
,
are
afterwards
no
more
desired
,
but
rather
the
oftener
it
is
putte
in
effecte
,
with
so
muche
the
more
affection
it
coueteth
to
returne
,
and
more
desireth
he
the
thing
whom
it
pleaseth
,
than
dothe
he
whom
it
ought
to
please
,
and
hath
not
as
yet
tasted
therof
.
Wherfore
the
widdow
,
forasmuche
as
she
giueth
least
,
and
is
best
able
to
giue
,
she
shall
be
the
most
liberall
,
and
the
more
sooner
than
the
mayde
,
that
must
giue
the
dearest
thing
she
hath
.
Also
the
widow
shal
be
sooner
drawen
(
as
we
haue
shewed
)
than
the
mayde
to
suche
effects
.
For
the
which
occasion
,
let
the
widow
be
rather
loued
than
the
maide
.
(
⸫
)
¶
The
tenth
Question
,
proposed
by
ASCALIONE
.
IT
was
conuenient
that
that
Ascalione
,
who
in
circle
sat
next
vnto
the
duke
Feramonte
,
shoulde
nowe
propound
:
and
therefore
thus
he
sayd
:
Most
excellent
quéene
,
I
remember
that
there
was
heretofore
in
this
our
citie
a
faire
&
noble
gentlewoman
lefte
the
widow
of
a
worthye
husbande
,
the
whiche
for
that
hir
maruellous
beautie
,
was
of
many
a
noble
yong
Gentleman
beloued
.
And
of
those
many
,
there
were
two
gentlemen
coragious
knights
,
eche
one
in
what
he
could
did
endeuor
him selfe
to
attaine
hir
loue
.
And
whilst
this
continued
,
by
chance
it
hapned
,
that
an
vniust
accusation
was
brought
against
hir
,
by
certayne
of
hir
kinsfolks
,
before
the
Magistrate
,
&
after
by
false
euidence
proued
,
thorow
whiche
vntrue
processe
she
was
condemned
to
the
fire
.
But
bicause
the
conscience
of
the
Iudge
was
perplexed
,
for
that
it
séemed
him
,
as
it
wer
to
know
the
vniust
profe
,
he
was
willing
to
committe
hir
life
to
the
Gods
,
and
to
Fortunes
happe
,
and
so
tyed
suche
a
condition
to
his
giuen
sentence
,
as
after
the
Gentlewoman
should
be
ledde
to
the
fire
,
if
any
knight
coulde
be
founde
the
which
would
combate
in
the
defence
of
hir
honour
,
agaynst
him
that
would
maintayne
the
contrary
,
and
shoulde
happe
to
ouercome
,
she
shoulde
then
be
frée
,
and
if
the
contrary
,
to
be
burned
according
to
the
domed
sentence
.
As
the
condition
was
vnderstoode
of
hir
two
louers
,
Two
knightes
amorous
of
one
gentle
woman
,
did
in
sundry
wise
shewe
their
loue
.
and
by
chaunce
sooner
knowen
to
the
one
than
to
the
other
:
He
which
knew
the
same
soonest
,
foorthwith
tooke
him
to
his
armour
,
mounted
on
horsebacke
,
and
came
into
the
fielde
,
gainsaying
him
that
wold
come
&
maintayne
the
death
of
the
Gentlewoman
.
The
other
that
somewhat
later
than
the
first
vnderstod
of
this
sentence
,
and
hearing
how
that
the
knight
was
alredy
in
field
in
hir
defence
,
neither
that
ther
was
then
place
for
any
other
to
go
thither
in
that
enterprise
,
&
therefore
not
knowing
herein
what
to
do
,
became
very
sorowfull
,
imagining
that
through
his
stackenesse
he
had
lost
the
loue
of
the
loued
Gentlewoman
,
and
that
the
other
iustly
had
deserued
the
same
:
and
whilest
he
thus
sorowed
his
missehap
,
he
bethought
him
,
that
if
he
before
any
other
shoulde
go
armed
into
the
fielde
,
saying
that
the
Gentlewoman
ought
to
dye
,
and
so
suffer
him selfe
to
be
ouercome
,
he
mighte
thereby
cause
hir
to
escape
,
and
so
according
to
his
deuice
,
he
put
the
same
in
effect
.
The
gentlewoman
hereby
escaped
,
and
was
deliuered
from
perill
.
So
that
then
after
certayne
days
,
the
first
knight
went
vnto
hir
,
and
recommended
him selfe
vnto
hir
,
putting
hir
in
remembrance
how
that
he
,
to
preserue
hir
from
death
,
had
a
few
days
paste
offred
him selfe
to
the
perill
of
death
,
and
thanks
be
to
the
Gods
,
and
to
his
forces
,
he
had
deliuered
bothe
hir
and
him selfe
from
so
harde
an
happe
:
Whervpon
it
would
please
hir
,
according
to
his
desert
to
giue
hir
loue
,
the
whiche
aboue
all
things
he
had
always
desired
.
Afterwards
with
the
like
prayers
came
the
seconde
knight
,
saying
that
for
your
sake
I
haue
hazarded
my
lyfe
,
and
bicause
you
should
not
dye
,
suffred
my selfe
to
be
ouercome
,
whervpon
I
haue
purchased
to
my selfe
eternall
infamie
:
wheras
I
contrarywise
with
incountring
your
suretie
,
and
willing
to
vse
my
force
,
might
haue
bene
able
to
haue
gotten
the
honor
of
the
victorie
.
The
Gentlewoman
thanked
ech
one
of
them
very
benignely
,
promising
them
bothe
due
recompence
for
the
receiued
seruice
.
And
now
they
being
departed
,
she
abode
in
great
doubt
to
whether
of
them
she
should
the
rather
giue
hir
loue
,
to
the
first
,
or
to
the
seconde
,
and
thereof
prayeth
counsell
of
you
,
on
whether
of
them
ye
would
say
,
that
she
ought
soonest
to
bestowe
the
same
.
The
queenes
iudgement
vpon
the
contrary
doings
of
the
two
knights
.
We
déeme
(
sayde
the
Quéene
)
that
the
first
is
to
be
loued
,
and
the
last
to
be
left
:
bicause
the
first
vsed
force
,
and
shewed
his
assured
loue
in
diligent
sort
,
giuing
him selfe
to
euery
perill
,
that
might
happen
through
the
future
battaile
,
euen
vnto
the
death
,
wherby
it
might
very
well
haue
folowed
,
forasmuche
as
if
suche
a
battayle
to
be
done
agaynst
him
,
had
ben
as
lefull
to
any
of
the
enemies
of
the
Gentlewoman
,
as
it
was
to
the
louer
,
he
had
bene
in
perill
of
death
for
his
defence
:
neither
was
it
manyfest
to
him
,
that
one
should
come
agaynst
him
,
that
would
suffer
him selfe
to
be
ouercomen
,
as
it
happened
.
The
last
truely
went
well
aduised
not
to
dye
,
neither
to
suffer
the
Gentlewoman
to
dye
.
Then
,
forasmuche
as
he
put
least
in
aduenture
,
he
meriteth
to
gayn
the
lesse
.
Let
the
first
then
haue
the
loue
of
the
faire
gentlewoman
,
as
the
iust
deseruer
thereof
.
Ascalion
contrarieth
the
queene
.
Ascaleone
sayde
:
Omost
prudent
Quéene
,
what
is
that
you
say
?
Doth
not
not
one
time
suffize
to
be
rewarded
for
well
doing
,
without
crauing
further
desert
?
Truely
yes
.
The
first
is
well
requited
,
with
being
of
euery
one
honored
for
the
receiued
victorie
:
and
what
greater
rewarde
néedeth
he
than
honour
the
rewarde
of
vertue
?
the
receiued
honour
did
suffise
for
a
greater
matter
than
he
did
.
And
he
that
with
all
his
witte
came
well
aduised
,
ought
he
to
be
vnrecompenced
?
and
further
,
he
to
be
of
euery
one
euill
spoken
of
,
hauing
nothing
lesse
than
the
first
holpen
the
Gentlewoman
to
escape
?
Is
not
the
witte
to
to
foresée
euery
bodyly
force
?
How
so
?
If
this
man
with
all
his
witte
came
for
the
safetie
of
the
Gentlewoman
,
ought
he
for
his
desert
to
be
reiected
?
God
forbid
it
should
so
be
.
If
he
knew
not
the
same
so
soone
as
the
other
,
this
was
not
through
negligence
:
for
if
perhaps
he
had
knowen
it
before
the
other
,
he
woulde
haue
runne
to
that
,
whiche
he
tooke
discretely
for
the
last
remedie
:
whereof
rewarde
iustly
ought
to
follow
,
the
which
reward
ought
to
be
the
loue
of
the
Gentlewoman
,
yf
rightly
she
sée
vnto
him
:
and
yet
you
say
the
contrary
.
The
queenes
solution
of
the
tenth
question
.
God
defende
from
your
minde
(
answered
the
Quéene
)
that
vyce
come
to
a
good
ende
,
merite
the
same
rewarde
that
vertue
done
to
the
lyke
end
meriteth
:
But
rather
in
as
muche
as
vice
deserueth
correction
,
so
no
worldly
deserte
can
iustly
satisfie
vertue
.
Who
shall
denye
vs
to
beléeue
(
although
we
can
not
manifest
the
same
with
apparant
reason
)
but
that
the
last
knight
as
enuious
of
the
good
turn
he
saw
prepared
for
the
other
,
was
moued
to
suche
an
enterprise
,
to
the
ende
to
disturbe
the
same
,
and
not
for
the
loue
he
bare
to
the
Gentlewoman
,
and
yet
his
deuice
failed
him
.
He
is
a
foole
,
that
vnder
the
coloure
of
an
enimie
,
doth
endeuor
himself
(
to
the
end
to
receiue
recompence
)
to
helpe
an
other
.
Infinite
are
the
ways
wherby
it
is
possible
enough
for
vs
to
shewe
at
the
first
with
open
frendship
,
the
loue
that
one
of
vs
beareth
towards
the
other
,
without
shewing
our selues
as
enemies
,
and
after
with
coloured
words
to
make
shew
to
haue
profited
.
That
whiche
we
haue
sayd
may
now
suffise
you
for
answere
,
whom
old
age
more
than
any
thing
else
,
ought
to
make
discrete
.
And
we
beléeue
,
that
when
your
minde
shall
haue
duely
digested
these
things
,
ye
shal
not
find
our
iudgement
guilefull
,
but
true
,
and
to
be
folowed
.
And
so
she
held
hir
peace
.
The
eleuenth
Question
,
proposed
by
a
Gentlewoman
,
named
GARCE
.
THere
followed
after
him
a
gentlewoman
of
cheare
very
milde
,
whose
name
was
Grace
,
and
assuredly
the
name
was
consonant
to
hir
nature
,
who
with
an
humble
and
modest
voyce
began
these
words
:
It
is
come
to
my
tourne
,
O
moste
vertuous
quene
,
to
propound
this
my
question
,
the
which
to
the
ende
the
time
(
that
now
approcheth
to
our
last
festing
,
may
be
swetened
with
the
new
beginning
thereof
)
be
only
spent
in
talke
,
I
shal
briefly
propound
that
whiche
willingly
(
if
it
were
lefull
for
me
)
I
would
passe
ouer
,
but
yet
not
to
pretermit
the
limits
of
your
obedience
,
neither
the
order
of
the
rest
,
Whether
is
greter
pleasure
to
a
louer
to
see
the
present
,
or
to
think
on
the
absent
.
I
shal
propound
this
:
Whether
is
it
great
delight
to
the
louer
to
sée
his
loue
present
,
or
not
séeing
hir
,
to
thinke
amorously
on
hir
?
My
gracious
Grace
,
sayd
the
quéene
,
we
beléeue
that
muche
more
delight
is
taken
in
thinking
than
in
beholding
:
bicause
in
thinking
on
the
thing
loued
,
all
the
sensitiue
spirites
do
then
graciously
féele
a
maruellous
ioy
,
and
as
it
were
,
do
content
their
inflamed
desires
,
with
the
delight
onely
of
the
thought
.
But
this
happeneth
not
in
the
beholding
,
bicause
that
onely
the
visible
spirite
féeleth
ioy
,
and
the
others
ar
kindled
with
such
a
desire
that
they
are
not
able
to
endure
,
and
so
remayne
vanquished
:
and
that
visible
spirite
sometime
taketh
so
great
plesure
,
The
iudgement
of
the
queene
.
that
of
force
he
is
constrayned
to
withdraw
himselfe
back
,
remayning
vile
and
altogether
vanquished
.
Then
do
we
gather
hereof
,
that
greater
delighte
is
to
thinke
than
to
beholde
.
That
thing
whiche
is
loued
,
answered
the
Gentlewoman
,
how
muche
the
more
it
is
séene
,
so
muche
the
more
it
delighteth
:
and
therfore
I
beléeue
,
that
greater
delight
bringeth
the
beholding
,
than
dothe
the
thinking
,
bicause
euery
beautie
at
the
firste
,
pleaseth
thorowe
the
sight
therof
:
and
so
after
thorow
the
continuall
sight
,
suche
pleasure
is
confirmed
in
the
minde
,
as
therof
is
ingendred
loue
,
and
those
pleasures
that
spring
from
him
.
No
beautie
is
so
muche
loued
,
neither
for
any
other
occasion
than
to
please
the
eyes
,
and
to
content
the
same
.
Then
in
séeing
they
ar
contented
,
and
in
thinking
to
sée
,
the
desire
increaseth
:
so
that
more
delight
feeleth
he
that
is
contented
,
than
doth
he
that
desireth
to
content
himself
.
Laodomia
and
Prothesilaus
.
We
may
sée
and
know
by
Laodomia
how
much
more
the
present
sight
than
the
absent
thought
doth
delight
,
bicause
we
are
to
think
that
hir
Prothesilaus
neuer
departed
from
hir
thought
,
neither
yet
was
she
euer
séene
disposed
to
other
than
to
melancolie
,
refusing
to
decke
and
apparel
hir self
with
hir
costly
garments
:
The
whiche
thing
in
séeing
him
neuer
happened
:
For
what
time
she
abode
in
his
presence
,
she
was
mery
,
gracious
,
and
alwayes
ioyful
,
and
trimly
attired
.
What
more
manyfest
testimonie
will
we
haue
than
this
,
that
the
gladnesse
is
not
greater
of
the
sighte
than
of
the
thought
?
Bicause
that
thorow
the
exteriour
doings
,
that
may
be
comprehended
,
whiche
in
the
hearte
is
hidden
?
The
queenes
solution
of
the
xj
.
question
,
defining
that
the
thought
is
to
be
preferred
before
the
looke
.
The
Quéene
then
,
thus
made
answere
:
Those
things
,
bothe
delightfull
and
noysome
,
that
approche
most
néere
to
the
minde
,
bring
more
annoye
,
and
more
ioye
,
than
doe
those
farre
off
from
the
same
.
And
who
doubteth
,
but
that
the
thought
abideth
in
the
mind
,
and
that
the
minde
is
not
from
the
eye
?
although
thorow
the
particuler
vertue
of
the
minde
they
haue
their
fighte
,
and
that
it
is
conuenient
for
them
by
sundry
means
to
render
their
proportions
to
the
animate
vnderstanding
.
Hauing
then
in
the
minde
a
swéete
thought
of
the
loued
,
in
that
acte
which
the
thought
bringeth
,
in
that
togither
with
the
thing
loued
,
it
séemes
the
louer
to
be
.
Then
he
séeth
the
same
with
those
eyes
,
to
whome
nothing
,
no
not
of
a
long
distance
may
be
hidden
.
Then
he
speaketh
with
hir
whom
he
loueth
,
and
peraduenture
with
piteous
stile
telleth
the
annoys
sustained
for
hir
sake
.
Then
it
is
lauful
for
him
without
feare
to
embrace
hir
.
Then
dothe
he
according
to
his
desire
maruelously
glad
himselfe
with
hir
.
Then
doth
he
hold
hir
wholly
at
his
pleasure
,
the
whiche
in
beholding
happeneth
not
,
bicause
that
sight
onely
at
first
taketh
pleasure
without
passing
further
.
And
as
we
say
,
Loue
is
timorous
and
fearefull
,
and
in
beholding
dothe
make
the
heart
tremble
in
suche
sorte
,
as
it
leaueth
neither
thought
nor
spirite
in
his
place
.
For
many
with
the
long
beholding
of
their
ladies
,
The
effects
of
fond
amorous
lookes
.
lose
those
their
naturall
forcas
,
and
remayne
vanquished
:
and
many
not
béeing
able
to
moue
,
stande
like
postes
,
other
some
,
in
tangling
and
trauersing
their
legs
,
fal
to
the
grounde
.
Others
thereby
lose
their
speache
:
&
by
sight
we
know
many
other
like
things
to
haue
happened
,
the
which
all
shoulde
haue
bene
very
acceptable
to
them
,
to
whom
(
as
we
haue
sayde
)
they
haue
happened
,
if
they
had
not
happened
at
all
:
how
then
bringeth
that
thing
delight
,
that
shall
willingly
be
fled
?
We
confesse
,
that
if
it
were
possible
to
behold
without
feare
,
it
shoulde
be
a
great
delight
.
But
yet
little
or
nothing
without
the
thought
,
the
which
without
the
bodily
sight
,
pleseth
very
much
.
And
that
that
whereof
we
haue
may
spoken
come
to
passe
through
the
thought
,
it
is
manifest
,
that
,
yea
,
and
muche
more
.
For
we
finde
that
men
with
thought
haue
passed
the
heauens
,
and
tasted
of
the
eternal
peace
.
Then
more
delighteth
the
thought
than
the
sighte
.
And
if
ye
say
that
Laodomia
was
melancolie
with
thinking
,
we
doe
not
denye
it
,
but
yet
it
was
rather
a
dolorouse
than
an
amorouse
thoughte
,
that
dyd
trouble
hir
:
She
as
it
were
a
deuiner
to
hir
owne
harme
,
alwayes
doubted
the
death
of
Prothesilaus
,
and
stil
was
thinking
theron
,
contrary
to
those
thoughts
wherof
we
reason
,
which
thorow
that
doubt
could
not
enter
into
hir
,
but
rather
sorowing
through
this
occasion
as
reason
was
,
she
shewed
a
troublesome
and
heauy
looke
.
¶
The
twelfth
Question
,
proposed
by
PARMENIO
.
PArmenio
sat
nexte
to
this
gentlewoman
,
and
without
attending
further
,
as
the
Quéene
had
left
,
thus
beganne
:
Moste
mightie
Quéene
,
I
was
of
long
time
companion
with
a
yong
gentleman
,
to
whom
that
happened
which
I
intend
to
shew
.
He
as
much
as
any
man
could
loue
a
woman
,
loued
a
fayre
yong
gentlewoman
of
our
citie
,
gracious
,
gentle
,
and
very
rich
,
both
of
wealth
and
parents
,
and
she
eke
loued
him
for
ought
that
I
(
to
whom
his
loue
was
discouered
)
could
vnderstand
.
This
gentleman
them
louing
hir
in
most
secrete
sort
,
fearing
that
if
it
shuld
be
bewrayd
,
that
he
should
no
ways
be
able
to
speake
vnto
hir
:
to
the
ende
therfore
that
he
might
discouer
his
intent
,
and
be
certified
likewise
of
hirs
,
he
trusted
no
one
that
shold
attempt
to
speake
of
this
matter
:
yet
his
desire
inforcing
him
,
he
purposed
since
that
he
could
not
bewray
him self
vnto
hir
,
to
make
hir
vnderstand
by
some
other
,
that
whiche
he
suffered
for
hir
sake
.
And
bethinking
him
many
dayes
,
by
whom
he
might
most
closely
signifie
vnto
hir
that
his
intent
,
he
saw
one
day
a
poore
olde
woman
,
wrinkled
,
and
of
an
Orenge
tawnie
colour
,
so
despitefull
to
beholde
as
none
the
like
,
the
whiche
being
entred
the
house
of
the
young
woman
to
aske
hir
almesse
,
followed
hir
foorthe
of
the
doore
,
and
many
times
after
in
lyke
sort
,
and
for
like
occasion
he
saw
hir
returne
thither
.
In
this
woman
his
hearte
gaue
him
to
repose
his
whole
trust
,
imagining
that
he
should
neuer
be
had
in
suspicion
,
and
that
she
might
fully
bring
his
desire
to
effect
:
therfore
calling
hir
to
him
,
he
promised
hir
greate
gifts
,
yf
she
would
helpe
him
in
that
which
he
should
demaunde
of
hir
:
She
sware
to
do
hir
endeuour
,
to
whom
this
gentleman
then
discouered
his
minde
.
The
olde
woman
departed
,
and
after
a
while
hauing
certified
the
yong
woman
of
the
loue
that
my
companion
bare
hir
,
and
him
likewise
▪
how
that
she
aboue
al
other
things
of
the
world
did
loue
him
,
she
deuised
how
this
yong
man
shoulde
be
secretly
one
euening
with
the
desired
woman
:
and
so
he
going
before
hir
,
A
gentleman
,
a
gentlewoman
,
and
an
old
woman
were
taken
by
the
brethren
of
the
gentlewoman
.
as
she
had
appoynted
▪
she
guided
him
to
this
yong
Gentlewomans
house
,
wherein
he
was
no
sooner
entred
,
than
through
his
misfortune
,
the
yong
woman
,
the
olde
,
and
he
,
were
all
thrée
found
,
and
taken
togithers
,
by
the
brethren
of
the
yong
woman
,
&
compelled
to
tell
the
truth
of
that
they
made
there
,
who
confessed
the
whole
matter
as
it
was
.
These
brethren
,
for
that
they
were
the
friends
of
this
yong
gentleman
,
and
knowing
that
he
as
yet
had
attayned
nothing
that
might
redound
to
their
shame
woulde
not
doe
him
any
harme
as
they
might
haue
done
,
but
laughing
sayd
vnto
him
in
this
sorte
:
The
gentleman
condemned
to
lye
with
the
yong
and
olde
woman
eyther
of
them
a
yeare
.
Thou
art
now
in
our
hands
,
&
hast
sought
to
dishonour
vs
,
and
for
that
we
may
punish
thée
,
yf
we
will
,
of
these
two
wayes
sée
that
thou
take
the
one
,
either
that
thou
wilte
we
take
thy
life
from
thée
,
or
else
that
thou
lie
wyth
this
olde
woman
,
&
this
our
sister
,
either
of
them
one
yeare
,
swearing
faithfully
,
that
if
thou
shalt
take
vppon
thée
to
lye
with
either
of
them
a
yeare
,
and
the
first
yeare
with
the
yong
woman
,
that
as
many
times
as
thou
shalt
kisse
or
haue
to
do
with
hir
,
as
many
times
shalt
thou
kisse
and
haue
to
do
with
the
old
woman
the
seconde
yeare
.
And
if
thou
shalt
take
the
first
yeare
the
olde
woman
,
looke
howe
many
times
thou
shalt
kisse
and
touche
hir
,
so
many
times
likewise
,
and
neither
more
nor
lesse
shalt
thou
doe
the
lyke
to
the
yong
woman
the
seconde
yeare
.
The
yong
man
listening
to
the
sentence
,
and
desirous
to
liue
,
sayd
,
that
he
would
lie
with
these
two
,
two
yeares
.
It
was
graunted
him
.
But
he
remained
in
dout
with
which
of
them
he
shuld
first
begin
,
either
with
the
yong
,
or
with
the
olde
.
Whether
of
them
would
you
giue
counsell
he
should
first
,
for
his
moste
consolation
begin
withall
?
The
Queene
decideth
the
xij
.
question
.
The
Quéene
,
and
likewise
the
whole
company
somewhat
smiled
at
this
tale
,
and
after
,
shée
thus
made
answere
:
According
to
our
iudgement
the
yong
gentleman
ought
rather
to
take
the
faire
yong
woman
,
than
the
fowle
old
,
bycause
no
present
good
turne
ought
to
be
left
for
the
future
,
neither
the
euil
to
be
taken
for
the
future
good
,
bicause
we
know
that
we
are
vncertain
of
thinges
to
come
:
and
in
doing
the
contrary
hereof
,
many
haue
already
sorowed
to
late
,
and
if
any
haue
praysed
him selfe
herein
,
not
dutie
,
but
fortune
hath
therin
holpen
him
.
Let
the
faire
therfore
be
first
taken
.
The
contrary
opinion
of
Parmenio
.
Ye
make
me
greatly
to
maruell
(
sayd
Parmenio
)
seing
the
the
present
good
ought
not
to
be
left
for
the
future
,
to
what
end
then
is
it
conuenient
for
vs
with
a
valiaunt
mind
to
follow
&
beare
worldly
troubles
,
wheras
we
may
flée
them
,
if
it
were
not
thorow
the
future
eternall
kingdoms
promised
to
vs
thorow
hope
?
It
is
a
maruellous
thing
that
suche
a
shocke
of
people
as
are
in
the
worlde
,
al
moyling
to
the
ende
at
one
time
to
tast
of
rest
,
and
béeing
able
to
reste
before
trouble
,
shoulde
remayne
so
long
whyle
in
suche
an
errour
,
as
trouble
after
rest
were
better
than
before
.
It
is
a
thing
verye
iuste
(
as
it
séemeth
to
me
)
after
troubles
to
séeke
rest
,
but
to
desire
to
rest
without
trouble
in
my
iudgement
ought
not
to
be
,
neither
can
it
bring
delight
.
Who
then
will
giue
counsell
to
any
,
that
he
lye
first
with
a
fayre
Gentlewoman
one
yere
,
the
whiche
is
the
onely
rest
and
ioye
of
him
that
must
lye
with
hir
,
in
shewing
him
after
that
there
must
follow
so
great
annoy
and
vnpleasaunt
lyfe
,
as
he
muste
in
euery
acte
wherein
he
abode
with
the
young
woman
,
haue
to
do
as
long
with
a
lothsome
olde
woman
?
Nothing
is
so
noysome
to
a
delightfull
lyfe
,
as
to
remember
,
that
after
death
we
shall
be
founde
spotted
.
This
death
returning
to
our
memory
as
enime
contrary
to
our
being
,
doth
disturbe
vs
of
al
goodnes
&
plesure
:
and
whilst
this
is
remembred
,
there
can
neuer
be
ioy
tasted
in
worldly
things
.
Likewise
no
delight
can
be
had
with
the
yong
woman
,
that
is
not
troubled
or
destroyed
in
thinking
&
remembring
that
it
behoueth
him
to
do
as
muche
with
a
most
vile
old
woman
,
who
shal
alwais
be
remayning
before
the
eyes
of
his
minde
.
The
time
that
flyeth
with
an
inestimable
wing
,
shall
séeme
vnto
him
to
ouer-flie
,
lesning
eche
day
a
great
quantitie
of
the
due
houres
:
and
this
mirth
is
not
tasted
,
where
as
infallible
future
sorow
is
taryed
for
.
Wherefore
I
would
iudge
,
that
the
contrary
were
better
counsell
,
that
is
,
that
all
trouble
,
wherof
gracious
rest
is
hoped
for
,
is
more
delightfull
,
than
the
delight
,
whereof
anoy
is
taryed
for
.
The
colde
waters
séemed
warme
,
and
the
dreadfull
time
of
the
darke
night
séemed
cleare
and
sound
day
,
and
turmoils
rest
to
Leander
,
at
what
time
he
went
to
Hero
,
swimming
wyth
the
force
of
hys
armes
,
thorow
the
salt
sourges
betwéen
Sesto
and
Abido
,
for
the
delight
that
he
conceyued
to
haue
of
hir
tarrying
his
comming
.
God
forbid
then
,
that
a
man
shuld
couet
rest
before
trauaile
,
or
reward
before
the
doing
his
seruice
,
or
delight
,
before
he
hath
tasted
tribulation
:
forasmuch
as
if
that
way
(
as
we
haue
alredy
sayd
)
should
be
taken
,
the
future
annoy
should
so
muche
hinder
the
present
ioy
,
that
not
ioy
,
but
rather
annoy
it
might
be
sayde
.
What
delight
could
the
delicate
meats
,
and
the
instruments
sounded
with
cunning
hande
,
and
the
other
maruellous
ioyes
made
to
Dionysius
the
tyrant
bring
,
Dionysius
.
when
as
he
sawe
a
sharp
pointed
sword
hang
by
a
fine
thréede
ouer
his
heade
?
Let
then
sorowful
occasions
be
first
fled
,
that
afterwards
with
pleasure
,
and
that
without
suspition
,
gracious
delightes
may
be
followed
.
The
Quenes
solution
of
the
.xij.
question
,
defining
that
the
yong
is
to
be
lyen
with
before
the
olde
.
The
Queen
made
him
answere
,
saying
:
You
answer
in
part
as
though
we
did
reason
of
eternall
ioyes
,
for
the
purchasing
whereof
,
there
is
no
doubt
but
that
all
troubles
oughte
to
be
taken
in
hand
,
and
all
worldly
wealthe
and
delight
to
be
left
aparte
:
but
at
this
instant
we
do
not
speake
of
them
,
but
do
moue
a
Question
of
worldly
delightes
,
and
of
worldly
annoyes
.
Wherunto
we
answere
as
we
sayd
before
,
that
euery
worldly
delight
,
that
is
followed
wyth
worldly
anoy
,
ought
rather
to
be
taken
,
than
the
worldly
annoye
that
taryeth
worldly
delight
:
bicause
who
that
hath
tyme
,
and
tarieth
time
,
loseth
time
.
Fortune
graunteth
hir
goodnesse
with
sundry
mutations
,
the
which
is
rather
to
be
taken
when
as
she
giueth
,
than
to
moile
to
the
ende
after
turmoyles
to
gette
the
same
.
If
hir
whéele
stoode
firme
and
stable
,
vntil
that
a
man
had
toyled
so
much
as
he
should
nede
to
toyle
no
more
,
we
would
then
say
,
that
it
wer
to
be
graunted
to
take
paynes
first
:
but
who
is
certayne
that
after
the
euil
,
may
not
folow
the
worse
,
as
well
as
the
better
that
is
taried
for
?
The
times
together
with
worldly
things
are
al
transitorie
,
&
therfore
in
taking
the
old
woman
,
before
the
yere
be
complete
,
the
which
shall
neuer
seeme
to
waxe
lesse
,
the
young
woman
may
dye
,
and
hir
brethren
repent
them
of
this
they
haue
don
,
either
elfe
she
may
be
giuen
to
some
other
,
or
peraduenture
stolne
away
,
so
that
after
one
euil
,
there
shal
follow
a
worse
to
the
taker
.
But
contrarywise
,
if
the
yong
woman
shall
be
taken
,
the
taker
shal
therby
haue
his
desire
so
long
time
of
him
desired
,
neither
shall
there
after
follow
that
annoy
of
thought
,
that
you
say
must
follow
thereby
,
bicause
that
we
must
dye
is
infallible
,
but
to
lye
with
an
old
woman
is
a
hap
able
enough
with
many
remedies
to
be
of
a
wise
man
auoyded
,
&
worldly
things
ar
to
be
taken
of
the
discret
with
this
condition
,
that
ech
one
whiist
he
holdeth
and
enioyeth
them
,
he
dispose
himself
with
a
liberal
mind
,
when
he
shal
be
required
to
restore
or
leaue
them
.
Who
that
busieth
himselfe
to
the
ende
to
rest
,
bringeth
a
manyfest
example
,
that
without
that
he
can
not
haue
rest
:
&
since
he
therefore
taketh
troubles
to
the
ende
to
haue
rest
,
how
much
more
is
it
to
be
presumed
,
the
if
rest
were
as
redy
as
if
trouble
,
but
that
he
would
sooner
take
that
than
this
?
Neither
is
it
to
be
thought
that
Leander
,
if
he
had
ben
able
to
haue
had
Hero
without
passing
the
tempestuous
arme
of
the
sea
,
wherin
after
he
perished
wold
not
rather
haue
taken
hir
,
than
haue
swom
the
same
.
It
is
conuenient
to
take
fortunes
happes
what
time
she
giueth
them
.
A
smal
gift●
in
hand
is
better
than
a
promised
greater
.
For
no
gift
is
so
small
,
that
is
not
better
than
a
promised
greater
.
And
as
for
future
things
,
let
remedies
be
taken
,
and
the
present
gouerned
according
to
their
qualities
.
It
is
a
naturall
thing
to
desire
rather
the
good
than
the
euil
,
when
as
equally
they
concurre
,
and
who
that
dothe
the
contrarye
followeth
not
naturall
reason
,
but
his
owne
folly
.
We
confesse
,
that
after
troubles
quietnesse
is
more
gracious
and
better
knowne
than
before
,
but
yet
not
that
it
is
rather
to
be
taken
than
the
other
.
It
is
possible
for
wise
men
and
fooles
to
vse
the
Counsels
both
of
fooles
and
wisemen
accordyng
to
their
liking
:
but
for
all
that
the
infallible
veritie
is
not
altered
,
the
which
doth
giue
vs
leaue
to
sée
that
rather
the
faire
yong
woman
than
the
lothsome
olde
is
to
be
taken
of
him
,
to
whom
was
made
suche
a
choise
.
The
thirtenth
question
,
proposed
by
MASSALINE
.
MAssaline
the
whiche
sate
on
the
right
hande
of
the
Quéene
,
and
next
to
Parmenio
,
performing
the
circle
,
sayde
in
this
wise
:
It
is
méete
that
I
lastly
propound
my
question
:
And
therfore
to
the
ende
that
I
may
make
the
pleasaunt
tolde
tales
,
and
the
before
propouned
Questions
to
séeme
more
swéete
,
I
shall
tell
you
a
short
tale
worth
the
hearing
,
wherein
there
falleth
a
Question
very
propre
to
make
an
ende
withall
.
I
haue
héeretofore
heard
say
that
there
was
in
this
our
Citie
a
Gentleman
,
who
was
very
rich
,
that
had
to
wyfe
an
exceeding
faire
yong
Gentlewoman
,
A
Gentlewoman
was
loued
of
a
Knight
.
whom
he
loued
aboue
al
worldly
things
.
This
gentlewoman
was
intierly
beloued
of
a
Knight
of
the
fame
Citie
,
but
shée
loued
him
not
at
all
,
neither
cared
for
hym
,
by
occasion
wherof
,
the
Knight
was
neuer
able
to
get
from
hir
,
either
good
wordes
or
curteous
countenance
:
and
while
he
thus
liued
comfortlesse
of
suche
loue
,
It
happened
that
he
was
called
to
the
regiment
of
a
Citie
not
farre
distante
from
this
of
oures
:
And
accordingly
he
went
thither
,
hauing
honorably
gouerned
the
same
all
the
time
of
his
abode
there
:
during
the
which
it
happened
,
that
there
came
a
messanger
vnto
hym
,
The
Knyght
aduertised
of
the
death
of
hir
whom
he
loued
.
who
after
other
newes
thus
sayd
:
Sir
ye
shal
vnderstand
,
that
the
Gentlewoman
of
our
Citie
,
whom
you
so
intierly
loued
aboue
all
others
,
this
morning
labouring
with
great
griefe
to
be
deliuered
of
child
died
,
not
being
deliuered
,
and
was
in
my
presence
,
of
hir
parents
honourably
buried
.
The
knight
not
without
great
sorrow
,
gaue
●are
to
this
tale
,
and
with
a
strong
heart
endured
the
telling
thereof
,
without
shewing
any
alteration
of
countenance
at
all
,
and
to
himself
thus
said
:
Hawretched
death
,
cursed
be
thy
power
,
thou
hast
depryued
me
of
hir
,
whom
I
loued
aboue
all
others
,
and
whom
I
desired
more
to
serue
,
although
I
knew
hir
cruell
vnto
me
,
than
any
other
worldly
wight
.
But
since
it
is
thus
come
to
passe
that
which
loue
in
hir
life
time
woulde
not
vouchsafe
to
graunt
me
,
now
that
she
is
deade
,
he
can
not
deny
me
:
That
assuredly
if
I
should
dye
therfore
,
I
wil
now
kisse
the
face
of
hir
béeing
deade
,
that
liuing
I
loued
so
well
.
And
so
staying
vpon
this
determination
,
he
taryed
vntill
it
was
night
,
and
then
tooke
one
of
his
seruants
,
The
knighte
seeketh
his
loued
gentlewoman
in
hir
graue
.
whom
he
best
trusted
with
him
,
and
trauayled
the
dreadfull
darke
wayes
,
till
at
the
last
he
came
to
the
Citie
:
And
being
entred
the
same
,
he
went
streight
to
the
sepulture
,
wherein
the
gentlewoman
was
buried
:
and
after
he
had
comforted
his
seruaunt
,
that
he
without
any
feare
shoulde
attende
him
there
,
he
opened
the
same
,
&
went
thereinto
,
wheras
lamenting
with
a
piteous
plaint
,
he
kissed
the
gentlewoman
,
and
tooke
hir
in
his
armes
,
and
not
satisfied
therwith
,
he
began
to
féele
hir
here
and
there
,
and
to
put
his
hand
into
hir
frozen
brest
among
the
colde
dugs
.
But
afterwards
(
being
become
more
bolde
than
was
méete
)
to
seke
out
vnder
the
rich
attire
which
she
had
on
,
the
secrete
parts
of
the
body
,
going
&
féeling
with
a
feareful
hand
hither
and
thither
,
til
at
the
last
he
spred
the
same
vpon
hir
stomack
,
where
as
with
a
féeble
motion
he
felt
the
weak
pulses
somewhat
to
moue
.
He
then
became
very
fearefull
,
but
yet
loue
made
him
bolde
,
and
therefore
trying
further
with
a
more
assured
héede
,
he
knew
that
she
was
not
dead
:
and
first
of
all
with
a
swéete
mutation
he
drew
hir
out
of
that
place
,
and
after
wrapping
hir
in
a
great
mantell
(
leauing
the
sepulture
open
)
he
and
his
seruant
caried
hir
secretly
to
his
mothers
house
,
whereas
he
coniured
his
sayd
Mother
,
The
Knight
caryeth
his
Lady
to
his
mothers
house
.
thorow
the
power
of
the
Gods
,
that
shée
,
neyther
this
,
nor
any
thing
else
should
manifest
to
any
person
liuing
.
He
caused
great
fires
to
be
made
,
to
the
ende
to
comfort
the
colde
membres
,
whereunto
the
lost
forces
did
not
therby
returne
in
due
sort
:
by
occasion
wherof
,
as
one
peraduenture
discrete
in
suche
a
case
,
willed
a
solemne
hotte
house
to
be
prepared
,
wherein
he
caused
first
to
be
strowed
many
vertuous
herbes
,
and
after
placed
the
Gentlewoman
therein
,
causing
hir
as
it
was
méete
for
one
in
that
plight
,
to
be
tenderly
looked
vnto
.
In
the
which
h●tehouse
,
after
shée
had
for
a
time
made
hir
abode
there
,
the
bloud
coagulate
about
the
heart
,
began
thorow
the
receyued
heate
to
disperse
by
the
cold
vaines
,
&
the
spirites
halfe
dead
began
to
returne
to
their
places
:
whervpon
the
Gentlewoman
(
no
sooner
féeling
the
same
)
began
to
cal
to
hir
mother
,
&
after
to
aske
wher
shée
was
:
to
whome
the
Knight
in
stéede
of
hir
mother
made
answer
,
the
shée
was
in
a
very
good
place
,
and
that
shée
should
comfort
hir self
:
shée
abiding
in
this
sorte
,
calling
vppon
the
woman
Lucina
for
help
,
Lucina
,
the
goddesse
of
child
bearing
.
was
as
it
plesed
the
Gods
(
aboue
all
expectation
)
deliuered
of
a
faire
sonne
,
&
therewith
of
great
trouble
and
perill
:
whereof
remaining
disburdened
,
The
Gentlewoman
abiding
with
the
Knight
,
was
deliuered
of
childe
.
and
being
ioyful
of
hir
new
born
childe
,
there
were
out
of
hand
prouided
nourses
,
bothe
for
the
charge
of
hir
,
as
also
of
hir
sonne
.
The
Gentlewoman
now
after
all
these
heauie
troubles
,
returned
to
hir
perfecte
vnderstanding
,
and
the
new
sonne
was
also
borne
to
the
world
,
before
shée
sawe
either
the
Knight
that
thus
loued
hir
,
or
his
mother
who
was
prest
to
doe
hir
seruyce
,
neither
did
she
see
any
one
of
hir
parents
or
kinsfolkes
about
hir
,
for
to
looke
vnto
hir
:
whereupon
being
come
into
a
cogitable
admiration
as
it
were
all
amazed
,
sayd
:
Where
am
I
?
what
a
wonder
is
this
?
Who
hath
brought
me
hyther
,
wheras
I
was
neuer
before
?
To
whom
the
Knight
answered
:
The
Knyght
declareth
to
the
gentlewoman
how
she
was
brought
into
his
house
.
Gentlewoman
,
maruell
not
,
comfort
your selfe
,
for
that
which
you
sée
,
hath
bene
the
pleasure
of
the
Gods
,
and
I
shall
tell
you
how
,
and
so
declaring
from
the
beginning
to
the
ende
all
that
which
was
happened
hir
,
concluded
,
that
throughe
him
,
shée
and
hir
sonne
were
aliue
:
By
occasion
wherof
they
were
alwayes
bounden
to
be
at
his
pleasure
.
The
Gentlewoman
perceiuing
this
to
be
true
,
knowing
assuredly
that
she
could
not
by
any
other
meanes
,
but
onely
by
this
which
he
shewed
hir
,
be
come
to
the
hands
of
the
knight
:
first
of
all
with
a
deuoute
voyce
,
rendred
thanks
to
the
immortall
gods
,
and
after
to
him
,
offring
hir self
to
be
always
at
his
pleasure
and
seruice
.
Then
sayd
the
knight
:
gentlewoman
since
you
know
your selfe
to
be
beholding
vnto
me
▪
I
wil
that
in
guerdon
of
my
wel
doing
,
ye
comforte
your selfe
here
in
this
place
,
vntill
I
returne
from
mine
office
,
wherevnto
it
is
now
so
long
since
that
I
was
chosen
,
as
the
date
hereof
is
almost
at
an
end
.
Besides
ye
shall
promisse
me
faithfully
,
neuer
to
bewray
your selfe
without
my
licence
,
either
to
your
husband
,
or
any
other
person
.
To
whom
the
Gentlewoman
answered
,
that
shée
was
vnable
to
denye
him
eyther
this
,
or
any
other
request
,
and
that
assuredly
she
would
comfort
hir selfe
:
and
so
by
othe
made
vnto
him
,
she
affirmed
neuer
to
cause
hir selfe
be
knowen
without
his
pleasure
.
The
knight
séeing
the
Gentlewoman
out
of
all
perill
to
receiue
comfort
,
after
he
had
abode
two
dayes
in
hir
seruice
,
recommended
hir
and
hir
childe
to
his
mothers
charge
,
and
so
departed
,
returning
to
the
gouernment
of
his
said
office
,
the
whiche
after
a
little
while
he
honorably
ended
,
and
returned
home
to
his
owne
house
and
possessions
:
where
as
of
the
Gentlewoman
he
was
graciously
receyued
.
The
knighte
biddeth
the
husbande
of
the
gentlewoman
to
a
banquet
.
Certayne
days
after
his
returne
,
he
caused
to
be
prepared
a
great
banquet
,
wherevnto
he
inuited
the
husbande
of
this
Gentlewoman
,
whom
he
loued
,
hir
brethren
,
and
many
others
of
hir
friendes
and
his
:
and
the
bydden
guestes
beeing
sette
downe
at
the
table
,
the
Gentlewoman
according
to
the
pleasure
of
the
knight
,
came
apparelled
in
those
garments
,
and
decked
with
that
crowne
,
ring
,
and
other
precious
ornaments
(
as
the
vse
was
then
)
wherwith
she
was
buried
.
And
by
the
commaundement
of
the
knighte
placed
hir selfe
on
the
one
side
by
hir
husband
,
&
on
the
other
side
by
himselfe
,
where
as
shée
sedde
that
morning
,
without
speaking
any
worde
at
all
.
This
Gentlewoman
was
oftentimes
behelde
of
hir
husband
,
and
hir
attire
and
ornaments
also
:
and
as
it
séemed
vnto
him
,
he
knewe
hir
to
bée
his
wife
,
and
those
to
be
the
garmentes
wherein
shée
was
buryed
:
But
yet
for
that
he
thought
he
had
buried
hir
dead
into
hir
sepulture
,
and
not
beleuing
that
shée
was
rysen
againe
,
durste
not
once
giue
hir
a
word
,
doubting
least
shée
had
bene
some
other
that
did
resemble
his
wife
,
imagining
that
it
were
more
easie
to
finde
one
woman
,
in
attire
and
ornamentes
like
to
an
other
,
than
to
raise
vp
a
dead
body
.
But
yet
for
all
this
,
he
tourned
many
times
towardes
the
Knighte
,
and
asked
him
who
shée
was
.
To
whome
the
knight
answered
:
Aske
of
hir
,
whome
shée
is
,
for
I
can
not
tell
,
out
of
so
vnplesant
a
place
I
haue
brought
hir
.
Then
the
husband
asked
the
wife
who
shée
was
,
to
whome
shée
answered
:
I
was
brought
by
this
Knight
by
vnknowne
wayes
inte
this
place
,
to
that
gracious
life
that
is
of
euery
one
desired
.
At
these
words
there
wanted
no
admiration
in
the
husbande
,
but
rather
the
same
increased
,
and
so
they
remayned
vntill
the
banket
was
ended
.
Then
the
knight
ledde
the
husbande
of
this
gentlewoman
into
a
chamber
,
and
with
him
the
Gentlewoman
,
and
the
other
likewise
that
banketted
with
them
,
where
as
they
found
the
Gentlewomans
fayre
&
gracious
sonne
in
the
neurses
armes
,
whome
the
knighte
deliuered
into
the
fathers
handes
,
The
knight
restoreth
the
gentlewoman
to
hir
husbande
.
saying
:
This
is
thy
sonne
,
and
giuing
him
the
right
hande
of
his
wife
,
sayde
:
This
is
thy
wife
,
and
mother
of
this
childe
:
shewing
to
him
and
to
the
rest
,
how
it
happened
that
she
was
brought
thither
.
They
al
after
gret
wonder
,
made
great
ioy
,
and
chiefly
the
husbande
of
his
wife
,
and
the
wife
with
hir
husbande
,
of
their
sonne
.
And
so
both
two
thanking
the
knight
,
retourned
merily
home
to
their
house
,
many
dayes
after
making
maruelous
ioy
.
This
knight
entreated
this
gentlewoman
with
that
tendernesse
and
that
pure
fayth
,
as
if
she
had
bene
his
sister
,
and
therefore
it
is
doubted
whiche
of
these
two
was
the
greter
:
The
question
is
whether
the
loyaltye
of
the
knighte
,
or
the
ioye
of
the
husbande
was
the
greater
.
either
the
loyaltie
of
the
knight
,
The
queenes
iudgement
.
or
the
ioy
of
the
husbande
,
that
had
now
gotten
agayne
his
lost
wyfe
,
whome
he
reputed
as
dead
.
I
pray
you
to
say
your
opinion
,
and
what
you
woulde
iudge
hereof
?
Most
great
(
as
we
beléeue
)
answered
the
Quéene
)
was
the
ioy
of
the
agayne
gotten
wife
,
and
of
hir
childe
:
and
likewise
noble
and
very
great
was
the
loyaltie
of
the
knight
.
But
for
that
it
is
a
naturall
thing
to
be
glad
of
the
getting
agayne
of
things
lost
(
neither
could
it
otherwise
be
bicause
it
woulde
an
other
)
and
specially
in
the
getting
agayne
of
a
thing
before
so
gretly
loued
,
with
a
childe
,
wherof
there
could
not
be
made
so
gret
ioy
as
was
conuenient
.
We
do
not
repute
it
to
be
so
great
a
matter
as
to
do
that
wherevnto
a
man
is
of
his
proper
vertue
constrayned
to
doe
,
the
which
in
béeing
loyall
commeth
to
passe
,
bicause
the
béeing
and
not
béeing
loyal
,
is
a
thing
possible
.
We
say
then
,
that
from
whom
procedeth
the
being
loyall
in
a
thing
so
greatly
loued
,
that
he
doth
a
most
great
and
noble
thing
in
keping
loyaltie
,
&
that
in
a
far
greater
quantity
layaltie
doth
increase
in
him
,
than
dothe
ioy
in
the
other
,
The
contrary
opinion
of
Massani●●e
.
&
thus
we
iudge
.
Truly
sayde
Massaline
:
Most
renoumed
quéene
,
I
beléeue
it
be
as
you
say
:
but
yet
it
semes
vnto
me
a
great
matter
to
think
,
that
with
so
great
ioy
as
was
in
him
that
had
gotten
agayne
his
wyfe
,
there
could
be
made
comparison
of
greatnesse
in
an
other
thing
:
forasmuch
as
greater
griefe
is
not
supported
,
than
when
as
thorow
death
a
thing
loued
is
lost
.
Further
,
if
the
knight
were
faythfull
,
as
is
already
sayd
,
he
did
therin
but
his
dutie
,
bicause
we
are
all
bounden
to
the
working
of
vertue
:
and
he
that
dothe
that
,
whervnto
he
is
of
duetie
bounden
,
doth
but
well
,
but
yet
it
is
not
to
be
reputed
for
so
great
a
matter
.
Therfore
I
imagine
,
that
there
may
be
iudged
greater
ioy
than
loyaltie
.
The
queenes
solution
vpon
the
last
question
.
You
with
your
words
do
contrary
your selfe
(
sayd
the
quéene
)
bicause
man
ought
as
well
to
reioyce
in
the
goodnesse
of
god
in
taking
him
away
as
thorow
the
working
of
vertue
:
but
if
the
one
could
be
in
the
one
case
,
as
sorowful
as
the
other
could
be
in
the
other
case
disloyall
,
it
might
be
consented
to
your
iudgement
.
To
follow
the
laws
of
nature
,
which
can
not
be
fled
,
is
no
great
matter
,
but
to
obey
the
positiue
lawes
,
is
a
vertue
of
the
minde
,
and
the
vertues
of
the
minde
bothe
for
greatnesse
as
for
euery
other
respecte
,
are
to
be
preferred
before
bodily
works
.
And
if
vertuous
workes
(
making
due
recompence
)
do
surmount
in
greatnesse
euery
other
working
,
it
may
be
sayd
,
that
the
hauing
ben
loyall
,
dureth
always
in
béeing
.
Ioy
may
be
turned
into
sodayn
sorow
,
either
else
in
a
shorte
space
of
time
become
little
or
nothing
,
losing
the
thing
thorow
the
whiche
it
is
become
mery
.
And
therfore
let
it
be
sayde
of
him
,
that
vprightly
will
iudge
,
the
knight
to
haue
bene
more
loyall
,
than
the
other
mery
.
Not
one
there
was
that
followed
Massaline
,
that
had
any
thing
more
to
say
,
for
that
they
all
had
now
propounded
their
Questions
.
The
sunne
now
in
setting
,
left
the
place
replete
with
a
temperate
aire
.
By
reason
whereof
,
Fiametta
,
moste
reuerente
quene
of
this
amorous
people
,
raised
hir
on
foote
,
and
thus
sayd
:
Gentlemen
and
gentlewomen
,
your
questions
are
finished
:
whervnto
(
the
Gods
be
thanked
)
we
haue
according
to
our
small
knowledge
,
made
answere
,
following
rather
pleasant
reasoning
,
than
matter
of
contention
.
And
we
know
,
that
much
more
might
haue
bene
answered
vnto
the
same
,
yea
and
in
farre
better
sorte
than
we
haue
done
:
But
yet
that
whiche
we
haue
said
may
suffize
to
our
pastime
:
and
for
the
rest
,
let
it
remayne
to
the
Philosophers
of
Athens
.
We
sée
Phoebus
now
not
to
beholde
vs
with
a
straight
aspect
,
we
féele
the
ayre
refreshed
,
and
knowe
this
Feast
,
which
we
at
our
comming
hither
left
through
the
excessiue
heate
,
to
be
agayne
begonne
by
our
companions
.
And
therfore
it
séemeth
vs
good
,
that
we
returne
to
the
same
:
and
this
being
sayd
,
she
toke
with
hir
delicate
hande
,
the
laurell
crowne
from
hir
heade
,
and
in
the
place
where
she
sate
,
she
laide
it
downe
,
saying
:
I
leaue
here
the
crowne
of
my
honour
and
yours
,
vntill
that
we
shall
retourne
hither
to
the
like
reasoning
.
And
hauing
thus
sayde
,
she
toke
Philocopo
by
the
hand
,
that
now
with
the
rest
was
risen
,
and
so
returned
with
them
al
to
their
Feast
.
Thence
was
heard
of
all
sides
the
pleasant
instruments
,
and
the
aire
resounding
of
amorous
songs
,
no
part
of
the
Garden
was
without
banketting
:
wherin
they
all
abode
merily
all
that
day
,
euen
to
the
last
houre
:
but
night
béeing
come
vppon
them
,
and
the
starres
shewing
foorth
their
light
,
it
séemed
good
to
the
lady
,
and
to
them
all
,
to
depart
,
and
to
returne
to
the
citie
,
wherin
bring
entred
,
Philocopo
taking
his
leaue
,
thus
sayde
vnto
hir
:
Most
noble
Fiametta
,
if
the
Gods
should
euer
graunt
me
,
that
I
were
mine
owne
,
as
I
am
an
others
,
without
doubt
I
should
be
presently
yours
,
but
bicause
mine
owne
I
am
not
,
I
can
not
giue
my selfe
to
an
other
:
Howe
be
it
for
so
muche
as
the
miserable
heart
coulde
receiue
straunge
fire
,
so
muche
the
more
it
féeleth
thorow
your
inestimable
worthynesse
to
be
kindeled
,
and
shall
feele
alwayes
and
incessantly
,
with
more
effecte
shall
desire
neuer
to
be
forgetfull
of
your
worthinesse
.
She
thanked
Philocopo
greatly
of
this
curtesie
at
his
departure
,
adding
that
it
would
please
the
Gods
quickely
to
bring
a
gracious
peace
to
his
desire
.
(
⸪
)
FINIS
▪
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Imprinted
at
London
,
by
Henry
Bynneman
,
for
Rycharde
Smyth
.
Anno.
1571.
IAMES
POOLE
OMNIA
TEMPUS
HABENT
.