LH 1580 [SPENSER\LH1580.TXT] L.R. Lorenson Lincoln College Oxford University OX1 3DR 1992 From USA- T#: [011][44] (865) 279-800 Fax: [011] [44] (865) 279-802 E-mail: LORENSON@vax.ox.ac.uk =============================================================================== SPENSER-HARVEY CORRESPONDENCE: 1580 Bodleian Library Oxford _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS page\line Introduction.......................................................[L150] Bibliography.......................................................[L287] SPENSER-HARVEY CORRESPONDENCE......................................[L387] Three Proper, and Wittie Familiar Letters: lately passed betweene two Vniversity men: touching the Earthquake in Aprill last, and our English refourmed Versifying. With the Preface of a wellwiller to them both...................Titlepage [L392] To the Cvrteovs Buyer, by a VVellwiller of the tvvo Authours...Cvrteous buyer, (for I write not to the enuious Carper)........................3 [L419] Three proper wittie familiar Letters, lately passed betweene tvvo Vniuersitie men, touching the Earthquake in Aprill last, and our English reformed Versifing..........................................Sub-titlepage [L507] To my long approoued and singular good frende, Master G.H....Good Master H. I doubt not but you............................................................5 [L522] A Pleasant and pitthy familiar discourse, of the Earthquake in Aprill last: To my loouing frende, M. Immerito...Signor Immerito, after as many gentle Godmorowes................................9 [L700] Master H(s) short, but sharpe, and learned Iugement of Earthquakes...Truely Syr, vnder correction, and in my fancie.................................16 [L1045] A Gallent familiar Letter, containing a Ansvver to that of M.Immerito, vvith sundry proper examples, and some precepts of our Englishe reformed Versifying...To my very friend M.Immerito...Signor Immerito, to passe ouer youre needlesse complaint.................................31 [558] A New yeeres Gift to my old friend Maister George Bilchaunger: In commendation of three most precious Accidents, Vertue, Fame, and Wealth: and finally of the fourth, a good Tounge.....................33 [L1042] L'Enuoy...................................................34 [L1098] Encomium Lauri............................................35 [L1956] Speculum Tuscanismi.......................................36 [L2011] 1. Thomalins Embleme.............................38 [L2188] 2. Willyes Embleme...............................38 [L2193] 3. Both combimed in one..........................38 [L2198] Tvvo other very commendable letters,of the same mens vvriting: both touching the foresaid Artificiall Versifying, and certain other Particulars: More lately deliuered vnto the printer............................Titlepage [L2738] To the VVorshipfull his very singular good friend, Maister G.H. Fellovv of Trinitie Hall in Cambridge...Good Master G. I perceiue by your most curteous and frendly Letters............................53 [L2765] Iambicum Trimetrum........................................56 [L2899] Ad Ornati[ss]imum virum, multis iamdiu nominibus clarissimum, G.H. Immerito sui, mox in Gallias nauigaturi,[.........].....................57 [L2948] To my verie Friende, M. Immerito ...Liberalizzimo Signor Immerito, in good soothe...............................................61 [L3121] Certaine Latin Verses, of the frailtie and mutabilitie of all things, sauing onely Vertue: made by M.Doctor Norton, for the right Worshipfull, M.Thomas Sackford, Master of Requests vnto hir Maiestie..................................................68 [L3444] The same paraphrastically varied by M.Doctor Gouldingam, at the request of olde M.Wythipoll of Ipswiche...............................................68 [L3444] Olde Maister Wythipols owne Translation..........................................69 [L3492] The same Paraphrastically varied by Master G.H. at M.Peter Wythipolles request for his Father....................................................69 [L3505] L'Enuoy...................................................69 [L3521] _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION This E-Text is a transcription of the first edition of the "Spenser Harvey Letters" originally published in 1580 by H. Bynneman in London as a quarto. The book itself is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford and is listed as Malone 662 in the Pre-1920 Catalogue. One may enjoy uninterrupted use of this text in the Bodleian's Duke Humfrey's Library which is the library's Western Manuscript repository. Thank you to the Reserve Desk librarians, Jean-Pierre, Russell, and Alan for being so helpful when one is questing for an elusive text. Also, thank you to Mr Hodges, the Superintendent for allowing me to use my computer in the Duke Humfrey's. Please note, it is also possible to order a copy of this text through the Bodleian's Photographic Department at the New Bodleian. The microfilm is listed in the Short Title Catalogue as Bodley: STC. Film. 355. Full details are listed in the bibliography below. Transcribing a Sixteenth Century printed text into a Twenty-first Century eletronic text is an exercise in bibliography which, by nature of the act, presents the transcriber with special textual challenges. These challenges do not arise so much from the reading of the original text printed in gothic, black letter type complete with the anomolies of Elizabethan spelling, rather the challenge is in the transcription of just such a text into an ASCII E-Text while accurately communicating the bibliographic details. Unlike "Wordperfect" or Microsoft's "Word" which have the flexibility of different type fonts or point size, as well as the ability to create footnotes or backnotes, ASCII is a straightforward DOS-based format. However, this is not a bad thing, indeed, for the scholarly bibliographer, ASCII allows for an execise in purity uncluttered by computer multiplicity. ASCII is a simple format which allows for direct transcription. Since it is a DOS-based format, it may be converted into either of the aforenamed programs for intertextual use. Furthermore, it can be accessed, downloaded, and printed from a variety of computers, mainframes as well as personal computer. This E-Text is a transcription of the 1580 Spenser-Harvey Correspondence I have attempted to keep the standard conventions of paleographic description sanctioned taught Professor M. Parkes (Keble College, Oxford). The standard bibliographic conventions taught by Professor D. McKenzie (Pembroke College, Oxford) are adhered to whereever possible. The purpose of this transcription is to provide an accurate description of a first edition of the Correspondence for Spenser scholars. Footnotes appear on each page in a scientific format rather than according to the MLA standard. The footnote number appears in square brackets ,e.g. [1], which corresponds to the footnote itself; ASCII is unable to superscript or subscript. The printed text, as I state above, for the most part appears in Sixteenth Century gothic type. However, Elizabethan printers do use other conventional fonts, such as "Roman" or "Roman Italic" as well as the highly ornate supersized "woodcut" letter in order to highlight selected words, phrases, or stanzas within the text. Bynneman has set the main body of the "Spenser-Harvey Letters" in what can be judged by today's standards as twelve to fourteen point Gothic. Within the text, attention is called to proper names and descriptive phrases that are set in a Roman font of an equivalant point size. Furthermore, words other than in English, such as Latin, Greek or French, are set in Roman Italic also of a similar point size. Also, in keeping with the manuscript tradition of the Medieval Period, an age which the Elizabethans were rapidly leaving in the past as the English Renaissance blossomed with the splendor of the composite Tudor Rose, the initial letter in the body of each epistle is set in an elaborate oversized woodcut of a large outlined letter and a seemingly precocious cherub. In order to indicate the font changes within the text, I have used the following conventions according to the Dawson E-Text of Spenser's Faerie Queene (Cambridge, 19--) < > - roman font // // - roman italic font; e.g. //De quibus in superioribus// { } - ornate woodcut || || - larger point size in text; e.g. ||A Gallant familiar Letter, containing|| {$ $} - Greek words; all Greek words are spelled out according to the TeX format; e.g. {$\epsilon\pi\sigma\gamma\omega\gamma\eta$} [ ] - expansion of contractions; e.g. fro~[m] - expansion of printer's convention; e.g. y[e] for "the", y[f] for"yf' - my additions and explanations - footnotes ## - wordwrap; the text line has been continued onto the next line of the E-text ( ) - these appear in the original text; in order to avoid confusion, I have chosen not ot use them a text indicators \ -the symbol following the backslash appears above the vowel to indicate its pronounciation being either long or short; e.g. `Carpe\-nter' and 'Carpe\unter' _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ BIBLIOGRAPHY: Primary Texts Original Text- Bodley: Malone 662. Spenser, Edmund- '[Para] Three proper, and wittie, familiar letters: Lately passed between two vniuersitie men [Immerito and G.H. Followed by] [Para] Two other, very commendable letters, of the same mens writing', London, H. Bynneman, 1580, 4", //Pre-1920 Catologue,// pp.135. [bound First Edition of the text, probably first issue.] Microfilm- Bodley: STC.Film.355. Spenser, Edmund (23095)- 'Three proper, and wittie, familiar letters: lately passed betwene two vniuersitie men. (Two other, very commendable letters, of the same mens writing.) [Signed 'Immerito' and 'G.H.', i.e. G.Harvey.]' 4, //H.Bynneman,// 1580. Ent. 30 jn. L.O.O5.P.; F(imp.).HN(imp).PFOR. Arthur Houghton (tp facs.)", //Short Title Catalogue,// pp.357 [mirofilm edition of Malone 662] Modern Edition- Bodley: 2798.d.39,37. E. De Selincourt, J.C. Smith (editors)- 'The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser', (3 volumes), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1910,09, cm.22.", Pre-1920 Catologue, pp.128. [Bodleian's earliest listed Twentieth Century edition of the "Spenser-Harvey Correspondence" here termed the "Familiar Letters".] Second Modern Editon- Bodley: 2798 e. 146 =S. E. De Selincourt, J.C. Smith (editors)- //The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser,// With an introduction and glossary," London, 1912, cm.18.", Pre-1920 catalogue, pp.128. [Bodleian's most current Twentieth Century edition of the "Spenser-Harvey Correspondence" here termed the "Familiar Letters".] Third Modern Edition J.C. Smith, E. De Selincourt (editors)- Spenser: Poetical Works; With an introduction by E. De Selincourt and a Glossary, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990,1912. [my own copy; it is the latest issue of the two above listed modern editions.] Electronic-Text (E-Text) Dawson- The Faerie Queene, Cambridge _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ BIBLIOGRAPHY: Related Texts Aristotle- //Meteorology,// (H.D.P. Lee, translator) Loeb edition, 1952,1987. Hamilton, A.C.; Cheney, Donald; Richardson, David A.; Barker, William W. (editors), //The Spenser Encyclopedia,// University of Toronto Press, Routledge, London, 1990. Wouldhuysen, H.R.- "Letters, Spenser's and Harvey's", //The Spenser Encyclopedia,// A.C. Hamilton, Donald Cheney, David A. Richardson, William W. Barker (editiors), University of Toronto Press, Routledge, London, 1990, pp.434-5. Henderson, Judith Rice- "Letter as Genre", //The Spenser Encyclopedia,// A.C. Hamilton, Donald Cheney, David A. Richardson, William W. Barker (editors), University of Toronto Press, Routledge, London, 1990, pp.433-4. Stern, Virginia F.- "Gabriel Harvey", //The Spenser Encyclopedia,// A.C. Hamilton, Donald Cheney, David A. Richardson, William W. Barker (editors), University of Toronto, Routledge, London, 1990, pp.347-8. \begin{document} ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ [2][Titlepage, //verso//] |||| |||| |||| {printer's woodcut} |||| |||| //Congratia & priuilegio Regia+e Maiestatis.// =============================================================================== [3][Preface, //verso//] |||| |||| |||| ____________________________________________________________ | | | | {C} | | | | | | | ___________________| for bestowing vppon vs some such pro-> [printer's signature: A.ij. and] =============================================================================== 4[//recto//] (.) //Your, and their vnfayned// //friend, in the Lorde.// {printer's woodcut} =============================================================================== [Sub-titlepage] {printer's woodcut} |||| |||| |||| _______________________________________________________________________________ |||| | |||| I doubt not but you | haue some great important matter in | hande, which al this while restraineth {G} | youre Penne, and wonted readinesse | in prouoking me vnto that, wherein | your selfe nowe faulte. If there be+e a= | ny such thing in hatching, I pray you ___________________| hartily, lette vs knowe, before al the worlde se+e it. But if happly you dwell altogether in Courte, and giue yourselfe to be deuoured of secreate Studies, as of all likelyho+od you doe: yet at least imparte some your olde, or newe, Latine, or Englishe, Eloquent and Gallant Poesies to vs, from whose eyes, you saye, you ke+epe in a manner nothing hidden. Little newes is here stirred: but that olde greate matter still depending. His Honoure neuer better. I thinke the was also there wyth you (which I would gladly learne) as it was here with vs: ouerthrowing diuers old buildings, and pieces of Churches. Sure verye straunge to be hearde of in these Countries, and yet I heare some saye (I knowe not howe truely) that they [printer's signature: A.iij. haue] =============================================================================== 6[//recto//] haue knowne the like before in their dayes. //Sed quid vobis vi- detur magnis Philosophis?// I like your late Englishe Hexame= ters so exce+edingly well, that I also enure my Penne some= time in that kinde: whyche I fynd inde+ed, as I haue heard you often defende in worde, neither so harde, nor so harshe, that it will easily and fairely, ye+elde if selfe to oure Mo+other tongue. For the onely, or chiefest hardnesse, whych se+emeth, is in the Accente: whyche sometime gapeth, and as it were yawneth ilfauoredly, comming shorte of that it should, and sometime exce+eding the measure of the Number, as in the middle sillable being vsed shorte in speache, when it shall be read long in Uerse, se+emeth like and be+e+ing vsed shorte as one sillable, when it is Uerse, Stretched out with a //Diastole,// is like . But it is to be wonne with Custome, and rough words must be subdued with Use. For, why a Gods name may not we, as else the Gre+ekes, haue the kingdome of oure owne Lan= guage, and measure our Accentes, by the sounde, reseruing the Quantitie to the Uerse: Loe here I let you se+e my olde vse of toying in Rhymes, turned into your artificial straight= nesse of Uerse, by this //Tetrasticon.// I bese+ech you tell me your fancie, without parcialitie. Se+eme they comparable to those two, which I translated you //ex tempore// in bed, the last time we lay together in West= minster? I would hartily with, you either send me the Rules and Precepts of Arte, which you observe in Quantities, or else followe mine, that M. gaue me, being the very same which M. deuised, but enlarged with M. [printer's signature: ] =============================================================================== 7[//verso//] owne iudgement, and augmented with my Observa= tions, that we might both accorde and agre+e in one: leaste we ouerthrowe one an other, and be ouerthrown of the rest. Trust me, you will hardly bele+eue what go+od liking and estimation Maister had of youre and I, since the viewe thereof, hauing before of my selfe had speciall liking of am euen nowe aboute to giue you some token, what, and howe well therein I am able to doe: for, to tell you trueth, I minde shortely at con= uenient leysure, to sette forth a Bo+oke in this kinde, whyche I entitle, //Epithalamion Thamis,// whych Bo+oke I dare vndertake wil be very profitable for the knowledge, and rare for the Inuention, and manner of handling. For in setting forth the marriage of the Thames: I shewe his first begin= ning, and offspring, and all the Countrey, that he passeth thorough, and also describe all the Riuers throughout En= glande, whyche came to this Wedding, and their righte na= mes, and right passage,ec. A worke bele+eue me, of much labour, wherein notwithstanding Master hath muche furthered and aduantaged me, who therein hath be= stowed singular paines, in searching oute their firste heades, and sources: and also in tracing, and dogging oute all their Course, til they fall into the Sea, //O Tite, siquid, ego,// //Ecquid erit prety?// But of that more hereafter. Nowe, my and being fully finished (as I partelye signi= fied in my laste Letters) and presentlye to be+e imprinted, I wil in haude [hande?:x] forthwith with my whyche I praye you hartily send me with al expedition: and your frend= ly Lettes, and long expected Iudgement wythal, whyche let not be shorte, but in all pointes suche, as you ordinariloye vse, and I extraordinarily desire. //Multum vale. Westminster. Quarto Nonas Aprilis 1580. Sed, amabote, Meum Corculum ti- bi ex animo commendat plurimum: iamdiu mirata, te nihil as li- teras suas responsi dedisse. Vide qeaso, ne tibi Capitale sit: Mihi [printer's signature: certe] =============================================================================== 8[//recto//] certe quadem erit, neq[ue] tibi hercle impune, vt opinor, Iterum vale,& quam voles sa+epe.// //I M M E R I T O// ||//Postscripte.//|| I take best me shoulde come forth alone, being growen by meanes of the Gloss, (run~[n]ing continually in ma= ner of a Paraphrase) full as great as my . Therein be some thinges excellently, and many things wittily discour= sed of and the Pictures so singularly set forth, and pur= trayed, as if were there, he could (I think) not amende the best, nor reprehende the worst. I know you woulde lyke them passing wel. Of my //Stemmata Dudleiana,// and especially of the sundry Apostrophes therein, addressed you knowe to whome, muste more aduisement be had, than so lightly to send them abroade: howbeit, trust me (though I doe neuer very well,) yet in my owne fancie, I neuer dyd better: //Veruntamen te sequor solum: nunquam vero assequar.// {printer's woodcut} [EPISTULA+E PRIMA+E FINIS] _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ [9][//verso//] |||| ||//liar discourse, of the Earthquake//|| | //Ignor Immerito,// after as many gentle | Godmorrowes, as your self, and your | swe+et harte listeth: Yay it please {S} | your Maistershippe to dispense with a | po+ore Oratour of yours, for breaking | one principall graund Rule of our olde | inuiolable Rules of Rhetorick, in she= ___________________| wing himselfe somewhat to+o pleasura= bly disposed in a sad matter: (of purpose, to me+ete with //A co+ople of shrewde wittie new marryed Gentlewomen,// which were more Iniquisitiue, than Capable of Natures works) I will report you a prettie conceited //discourse,// that I had with them no longer agoe, than yesternight, in a Gentlemans house, here in Essex. Where being in the company of cer= taine curteous Gentlemen, and those two Gentlewomen, it was my chaunce to be well occupyed, I warrant you, at Cardes, (which I dare saye I scarcely handled a whole tweluemo+onth before) at that very instant, that the Earth vnder vs quaked, and the house shaked aboue: besides the mo+oving, and ratling of the Table, and fourmes, where we+e sat. Wherevpon, the two Gentlewomen hauing continual= ly be+ene wrangling with all the rest, and especially with my selfe, and euen at that same very moment, making a great [printer's signature: B. loude] =============================================================================== 10[//recto//] loude noyse, and much a do+o: Go+od Lorde, quoth I, is it not wo+onderful straunge that the delicate voyces of two so prop= per fine Gentlewomen, shoulde make such a suddayne ter= rible Earthquake: Imagining in go+od fayth, nothing in the worlde lesse, that that it shoulde be any Earthquake in de+ede, and imputing that shaking to the suddayne sturring, and remo+ouing of some cumberous thing or other, in the vp= per Chamber ouer our Acades: which onely in effect most of vs noted, scarcely perceyuing the rest, be+eing so closely and eagerly set at our game, and some of vs taking on, as they did. But beholde all on the suddayne there commeth stumbling into the Parlour, the Gentleman of the house, somewhat straungely affrighted, and in a manner all agast, and telleth vs, as well as his Head and Tongue woulde giue him leaue, what a wo+ondderous violent motion, and shaking there was of all things in his Hall: sensibly and visibly se+ene, as well of his owne selfe, as of many of his Servauntes, and Neighbours there. I straite wayes be= ginnyng to thinke somewhat more se+eriously of the matter: Then I pray you, go+od Syr, quoth I, send presently one of your seruauntes farther into the Towne, to enquire, if the like hath happened there, as most likely is, and then must it ne+edes be some Earthquake. Whereat the go+od fearefull Gentleman being a little recomforted, (as misdoubting, and dreading before, I knowe not what in his owne House, as many others did) and immediately dispathcing his man into the Towne, we+e had by and by certayne wo+ord, that it was generall auer all the Towne, and withinlesse than a quarter of an howre after, that the very like behappened the next Towne to+o, being a farre greater and go+odlyer Towne. The Gentlewomens hartes nothing acquaynted with any such Accidentes, were maruellously daunted: and they, that immediately before were so eagerly, and gre+edily praying on vs, began nowe forso+oth, very demurely, and deuoutely to pray vnto God, and the one especially, that was euen nowe in the House toppe, I bese+eche you hartily qouth she+e, [printer's signature: let] =============================================================================== 11[//verso//] let vs leaue off playing, and fall a praying. By my truely, I was neuer so feared in my lyfe, Me thinkes it maruellous straunge. What go+od partener: Cannot you pray to your selfe, quoth one of the Gentlemen, but all the House must heare you, and ring All in to our Ladyes Mattins: I se+e wo+o= men are euery way vehement, and affectionate. Your selfe was liker euen nowe, to make a fraye, than to pray: and will you nowe ne+edes in all hast be+e on both your kne+es: Let vs, and you say it, first dispute the matter, what daunger, and terror it carrryeth with it. God be praysed, it is already cea= sed, and he+ere be some present, that are able cunningly, and clearkly to argue the case. I bese+eche you master, or my= stresse, your zealous and deuoute Passion a while. And with that turning to me, and smiling a little at the first: Nowe I pray you, Master. what say you Philosophers, quoth he, to this suddayne Earthquake: May there not be some sensible Naturall cause therof, in the concauities of the Earth it self, as some forcible and violent Eruption of wynde, or the like: Yes no doubt, sir, may there, quoth I, as well, as an Intel= ligible Supernaturall: and peraduenture the great aboun= daunce and superfluitie of waters, that fell shortly after Micha+elmas last, be+eying not as yey dryed, or drawen vp with the heate of the Sunne, which hath not yet recouered his full attractiue strength and power, might minister some occasion thereof, as might easily be discouered by Naturall Philosophie, in what sorte the po+ores, and ventes, and crannies of the Earth being so stopped, and fvlled vp euery where with moysture, that the windie exhaltations, and Vapors, pent vp as if were in the bowels thereof, could not otherwise get out, and ascende to their Naturall Originall place. But the Termes of Arte, and verye Natures of things themselues so vtterly vnknowen, as they are to most he+ere, it were a pe+ece of wo+orke to laye open the Reason to euery ones Capacitie. I know well, it is we that you meane, quoth one of y[e] Gen= tlewomen (whom for distinction sake, and bicause I imagine [printer's signature: B.ij. they] =============================================================================== 12[//recto//] they would be loath to be named, I will hereafter call, My= stresse and the other, Madame ) now I bese+eche you, learned Syr, try our wittes a little, and let vs heare a pe+ece of your de+epe Uniuersity Cunning. Se+eing you Gentlewomen will allgates haue it so, with go+od will, quoth I: and then forso+oth, very solemnly pawsing a whyle, most grauely, and doctorally proce+edes, as followeth. The you knowe, is a mightie great huge body, and consisteth of many diuers, and contrarie members, & vaines, and arteries, and concauities, wherein to auide the absur= ditie of //Vacuum,// most necessarily be very great store of sub= stantiall matter, and sundry Accidentall humours, & fumes, and spirites, either go+od, or bad, or mixte. Go+od they cannot possibly all be, whereout is ingendred so much bad, as name= ly so many poysonfull, and venemous Hearbes, and Beasstes, besides a thousand infectiue, and contagious thinges else. If they be bad, bad you must ne+edes graunt is subiect to bad, and then can there not, I warrant you, want an Obiect, for bad to worke vpon. If mixt, which se+emeth most probable, yet is it impossible, that there should be such an equall, and proportionable Temperature, in all, and singular respectes, but sometime the Euill (in the diuels name,) will as it were interchaungeably haue his naturall Predominaunt Course, and issue one way, or other. Which euill working vehement= ly in the partes, and malitiously encountering the go+od, for= cibly telleth, and cruelly disturbeth the whole: Which con= flict indureth so long, and is fostred with aboundaunce of cor= rupt putrified Humors, and ylfauoured grosse infected mat= ter, that must ne+edes (as well, or rather as ill, as in mens and womens bodyes) brust out in the ende into one perilous disease or other, and sometime, for want of Naturall voyding such feuerous, and flatuous Spirites, as lurke within, into such a violent chill shiuering shaking Ague, as euen nowe you se+e the Earth haue. Which Ague, or rather euery fitte thereof, we schollers call grossely, and homely, /Terra motus/, & mo+ouing, or sturring of the Earth,you Gentlewomen, that [printer's signature: be] =============================================================================== 13[//verso//] be learned, some what more finely , and daintily, //Terra metus,// a feare, and agony of the Earth: we being onely mo+oued, and not terrified, you being onely in a manner terrified, a scarce= ly mo+oued therewith. Nowe here, (and it please you) lyeth the poynt, and quidditie of the controuersie, whether our //Motus,// or your //Metus,// be the better, & more consonant to the Princi= ples and Maximes of Philosophy: the one being manly, and deuoyde of dreade, the other wo+omannish, and most wofully quiuering, and shiuering for very feare. In so+oth, I vse not to dissemble with Gentlewomen: I am flatly of Opinion, the Earth whereof man was immediately made, and not wo+oman, is in all proportions and similitudes liker vs than you, and when it fortuneth to be distempered, and disseased, either in part, or in whole, I am persuaded, and I bele+eue Reason, and Philosophy will beare me out in it, it only mo+o= ueth with the very impulsiue force of the malady, and not trembleth, or quaketh for dastardly feare. Nowe, I bese+eche you, what thinke ye, Gentlewomen, by this Reason, quoth Madame By my truly, I can neither picke out Rime, nor Reason, out of any thing I haue hearde yet. And yet me thinkes all should be Gospell, that rommeth from you Doctors of Cambridge. But I be+e well, all is not Gould, that glistereth. In de+ede, quoth Mistresse he+ere is much ado+oe, I trowe, and little helpe. But it pleaseth Master . (to delight himselfe, and these Gentlemen) to tell vs a trim go+odly Tale of Ro= binho+od, I knowe not what. Or sure it this be Gospell, I dowte, I am not in a go+od bele+efe. Trust me truly, Syr your Eloquence farre passeth my Intelligence. Did I not tell you aforehand, quoth I, as muche: and yet would you ne+edes presume of your Capacities in such profound mysteries of Philosophie, and Priuities of Nature, as these be: The very thinking whereof, (vnlesse happily it be //per sidem implicatam,// in bele+euing, as the learned bele+eue, And saying, It is so, by= cause it is so) is nighe enough, to caste you both into a fitte, or two, of a daungerous shaking feauer, vnlesse you presently [printer's signature: B.iij. se+eke] =============================================================================== 14[//recto//] se+eke some remedie to preuent it. And in earnest, if ye wyll giue me leaue, vpon that finall skill I haue in Extrinsecall[x: ***damaged, infer spelling from following word 'Intrinsecall'***], and Intrinsecall Physiognomie, & so fo+orth, I will wager all the money in my po+ore purse to a p[b:x]ottle of Hyppocrase, you shall both this night, within somewhat lesse that two howers and a halfe, after ye be layed, of terrible straunge Agues, and Agonyes as well in your owne prettie bodyes, as in the mightie great body of the Earth. You are very me= rily disposed, God be praysed, quoth Mistress I am glad to se+e you so pleasurable. No doubt, but you are mar= uellous priure to our dreames. But I pray you now in a lit= tle go+od earnest, do+o you Schollars thinke, that it is the very reason in de+ede, which you spake of euen now: There be ma= ny of vs, go+od Mistresse, quoth I, of that opinio~[n]: wherein I am content to appeale to y[e] knowledge of these learned Gentle= men here. And some a againe, of our finest conceited heades defend this Positio~[n], (a very strau[n:x]ge Paradox in my fancie:) y[f] the Earth hauing taken in to+o much drinke, & as it were o= uer lauish Cups, (as it hath sensibly done in a maner all this Winter past) now staggereth, & re+eleth, & tottereth, this way and that way, vp & downe, like a drunken man, or wo+oman (when their Alebench Rhetorick comes vpon them, & speci= ally the mo+ouing Patheticall figure //Pottyposis//) & therefore in this forcible sort, you lately sawe, payneth it selfe to vomit vp againe, that so disordereth, and disquieteth the whole body within. And, forso+othe, a fewe new Contradictorie fellowes make no more of it, but a certaine vehement, and passionate ne+esing, or sobbing, or coffing, wherewithall they say, and as they say, say with great Physicall, and Naturall Reason, The Earth in some place, or other, euer lightly after any great, and suddayne alteration of weather, or diet, is exce+e= dingly troubled, and payned, as namely this very Time of the yeare, after the extre+eme pynching colde of Winter, and agayne in Autumne, after the extre+eme parching beate of Sommer. But shall I tell you, Mistresse ? The soundest Philosophers in de+ede, and very de+epest Secretaries [printer's signature: of] =============================================================================== 15[//verso//] of Nature, holde, if it please you, an other Assertion, and maintayne this for truth: (which at the leastwise, of all o= ther se+emeth maruellous reasonable, and is questionlesse far= thest off from Heresie:) That as the Earth, vppon it, hath many stately, and borsterous & fierce Creatures, as name= ly, Men and Women, and diuers Beastes, wherof some one is in maner continually at variaunce and fewde with an o= ther, euermore se+eking to be reuenged vpo~[n] his enimie, which eft so+ones breaketh forth into professed and open Hostilitie: and then consequently followe set battles, & mortall warres: wherin the one partie bendeth all the force of his Ordinance and other Partiall furniture against the other: to likewise within it to+o, it hath also some, as vengibly and frowardly bent, as for Example, Wo+ormes, and Moules, and Cunnyes, and such other valiauntly highminded Creatures, y[e] Sonnes and daughters of that nurrish ciuill debate, and contrarie factions amongst them selues: which are sel= dome, or neuer ended to+o, without miserable bloudshed, and the one dischargeth his Pe+ece coutagiously [x:contagiously] ## at the other: and there is suche a Generall dub a dubbe amongst them, and such horrible Thundering on euery syde, and suche a mon= strous cruell shaking of one an others Fortes and Castles, that the whole Earth againe, as at the least, so much of the Earth, as is ouer; or mo+ore them, is terribly hoysed and ----------- No more: Ands, or Ifs, for Gods sake, quoth the Madame, and this be your great Doctorly lear= ning. We+e haue euen Enough already for our Money: and if you shoulde goe a little farther, I feare me+e, you woulde make vs nyghe as cunning as your selfe: and that woulde be+e a greate disgrace to the Uniuersitie. Not a whitte, gentle Madame, quoth I, there be of vs, that haue greater store in our bowgets, than we can well occupie our selues and therefore we are glad as you se+e, when by the fa= nourable [x:fauourable], & gratious aspect of some blessed Planet, and spe= cially our or your it is our go+od Fortune, [printer's signature: to] =============================================================================== 16[//recto//] to lighte on such go+od friendes, as you and some other go+od Gentlewo+omen be, that take pleasure, a comfort in such go+od thinges. Wherat Mistresse laughing right out, and beginning to demande I knowe not what, (me thought, she+e made, as if it shoulde haue be+ene some go+odly plausible Jest, wherat she+e is, and takes her selfe prettily go+od:) Well, well, Master . quoth the Gentleman of the house, now you haue played your part so cunningly with the Gentlewo+omen, (as I warrant you shall be remembred of , when you are gone, and may happely forget her: which I hope, Mistresse will do sometyme to+o, by hir leaue:) I pray you be earnest, let vs men learne some thing of you to+o: and especially I would gladly heare your Judgement, and resolution, whether you counte of Earthquakes, as Natu= rall, or Supernaturall motions. But the shorter, all the better. To whom I made answere, in effect, as followeth: |||| | Syr, vnder correction, and in my fancie: {T} | The Earthquakes themselues I would say are | Naturall: as I veryly bele+eue the Internall ___________________| Causes thereof, are: I meane those two Causes, which the Logitians call, the Materiall, and the Formall: Marry, the Externall Causes, which are the Efficient and Finall in all, I take rather of the two, to be supernaturall. I must craue a little leaue to laye open the matter. The Materiall Cause of Earthquakes, (as was superfi= cially touched in the beginuing [x:beginning] of our speache, and is suffici= ently pro+oned[x:pro+oued] by in y[e] seconde Bo+oke of his ## //Meteors//) is no doubt great aboundance of wynde, or stoare of grosse and drye vapors, and spirites, fast shut vp, & as a man would saye, emprysoned in the Caues, and Dungeons of the Earth: [printer's signature: which] =============================================================================== 17[//verso//] which winde, or vapors, se+eking to be set at libertie, and to get them home to their Naturall lodgings, in a great fume, violently rush out, and as it were, breake prison, which for= cible Eruption, and strong breath, causeth an Earthquake. As is excellently, and very liuely expressed of as I re= member, thus: //Vis fera ventorum ca+ecis inclusa cauernis// //Exspirare aliquo cupiens, luctataq[ue] frustra// //Liberiore frui ca+elo, cum carcere Rima// //Nulla foret, toto nec peruia flatibus esset,// //Extentam tumefecit humum, ceu spiritus oris,// //Tendere vesicam solet,// and so fo+orth. The formall Cause, is nothing but the very manner of this same Motion, and shaking of the Earth without: and the violent kinde of striuing, and wrastling of the windes, and Exhalations within: which is, and must ne+edes be done in this, or that sort, after one fashion, or other. Nowe, Syr, touching the other two Causes, which I named Externall: The first immediate Efficient, out of all Question, is God himselfe, the Creatour, and Continuer, and Corrector of Na= ture, and therefore Supernaturall: whose onely voyce car= rieth such a reuerend and terrible Maiestie with it, that the very Earth againe, and the highest Mountaines quake & trem= ble at the sounde and noyse thereof: the text is rife in euery mans mouth: //Locutus est Dominus & contremuit Terra:// how= beit, it is not to be gainesayd, that is holden of all the aunci= ent Naturall Philosophers, and Astronomers, for the princi= pall, or rather sole Efficient, that the Influence, and heate of the Sunne, and Starres, and specially of the thre+e superior Planets, and is a secondarie Instru= mentall Efficient of such motions. The finall, not onely that the wynde should recouer his Naturall place, than which a naturall reasonable man goeth no farrther, no not our exdcellent profoundest Philosophers themselues: but sometime also, I graunt, to testifie and de= nounce the secrete wrath, and indignation of God, or his [printer's signature: C. sensible] =============================================================================== 18[//recto//] sensible punishment vppon notorious malefactours, or, a threatening Caueat, and forewarning for the inhabitantes, or the like, depending vppon a supernaturall Efficient Cause, and tending to a supernaturall Morall End. Which End, (for that I knowe is the very poynt, where= on you stande) albeit it be acknowledged Supernaturall and purposed, as I sayd, of a supernaturall Cause, to whom nothing at all is impossible, and that can worke supernatu= rally, and myraculously without ordinarie meanes, and in= feriour causes: yet neuerthelesse is, we se+e, commonly perfor= med, by the qualifying, and conforming of Nature, and Na= turall things, to the accomplishment of his Diuine and in= comprehensible determination. For being, as the olde Phi= losophers call him, very Nature selfe, or as it hath pleased our later scho+olemen to terme him, by way of distinction, //Na- tura Naturans,// he hath all these secondarie inferiour thinges, the foure Elementes, all sensible, and vnsensible, reasonable, and vnreasonable Cratures, the whole worlde, and what soeuer is contayned in the compas of the worlde, being the workmanship of his owne hands, and as they call them, //Na- tura naturata,// euer pliable and flexible Instrumentes at his Commaundement: to put in execution such Effects, either ordinarie or extraordinarie, as shall se+eme most requisite to his eternall Prouidence: and now in these latter dayes, very seldome, or in manner neuer worketh any thing so myracu= lously, and extraordinarily, but it may sensibly appeare, he vseth the seruice and Ministerie of his Creatures, in the at= chieuing thereof. I denie not, but Earthquakes (as well as many other fearefull Accidentes in the same Number,) are terrible signes, and, as it were certainemanacing forerun= ners, and forewarners of the great latter day, and therefore out of controuersie the more reuerendly to be considered vp= pon: and I acknowledge considering the Euentes, and se= queles, according to the collectio(n) and discourse of mans Rea= son, they haue se+emed to Prognosticate,and threaten to this, and that Citie, vtter ruyne and destruction: to such a Coun- [printer's signature: try] =============================================================================== 19[//verso//] try, a generall plague and pestilence: to an other place, the death of some mightie Potentate or great Prince: to some other Realme or Kingdome, some cruell imminent warres: and sundry the like dreadfull and particular Incidnetes, as is notoriously euident by many olde and newe, very famous and notable Histories to that effect. Which of all other the auncient Romaines, long before the Natiuitie of Christ, did most religiously or rather superstitiously obserue, not without a number of solemne Ceremonies, and Holly= dayes for the nounce, euer after any Earthquake, making full account of some such great rufull casualtie or other, as otherwhyles fell out in very de+ede: and namely, as I remember, the yeare //Ante bellum Sociale,// which was one of the lamentablest, and myserablest warres, that e= uer sawe: and or I knowe not who, hath such a saying: //Roma nunquam tremuit, vt non futurus aliquis porten- deretur insignis Euentus.// But yet, not withstanding, dare not I aforehand presume thus farre, or arrogate so much vnto my selfe, as to deter= mine precisely and peremptorily of this, or euery the like sin= gular Earthquake, to be mecessarily, and vndoubtedly a su= pernaturall, and immediate fatall Action of God, for this, or that singular intent, when as I am sure, there may be a sufficient Naturall, eyther necessarie or comtingent Cause in the very Earth it selfe: and there is no question, but the selfe same Operation in or in may at one tyme, proce+eding of one Cause, and referred to one End, be preternaturall, or supernaturall: at another tyme, pro= ce+eding of an other, or the same Cause, and referred to an other End, but Ordinarie, and Naturall. To make shorte, I cannot se+e, and would gladly learne, howe a man on Earth, should be of so great authoritie, and so familiar acquaintance with God in Heauen, (vnlesse haply for the nonce he hath lately intertained some few choice singular ones of his priuie Counsell) as to be able in such specialties, without any iusti= fyable certificate, or warrant) to reueale hys incompre= [printer's signature: C.ij. hen=] =============================================================================== 20[//recto//] hensible mysteries, and definitiuely to giue sentence of his Maiesties secret and inscrutable purposes. As if they had a key for all the lockes in Heauen, or as if it were as cleare and resolute a case, as the Eclipse of the Sunne, that darke+ ned all the Earth, or at the least all the Earth in those Coun= tries, at Christes Passion, happening altogether prdigious= ly and Metaphysically in //Pleniunio,// not according to the per= petuall course of Nature, in //Nouilunio:// in so much that or some other graunde Philosopher, vpon the suddayne contemplation thereof, is reported in a certaine Patheticall Ecstasie to haue cryed out, //Aut rerum Natura pa- titur, aut Mundis machina destruetur:// as my minde giueth me, some of the simpler, and vnskilfuller sort, will goe nye to doe vpon the present sight, and agony of this Earthquake. Mar= ry the Errour I graunt, is the more tollerable, though per= happes it be otherwhiles, (and why not euen nowe,) a very presumptuous Errour in de+ede, standing only vpon these two weake and deceitfull groundes, Credulitie and Ignorance: if so be inwardly (not onely in Externall shewe, after an Hy= pocriticall, and Pharisaicall manner) it certainly do+o vs go+od for our reformation, and amendment, and se+eme to preache vnto vs, //Panitentiam agite,// (as in some respect euery suche straunge and rare Accident may se+eme:) how Ordinarie, and Naturall so euer the Cause shall appeare otherwise to the best learned: especially, as the Earthquake shall be knowne to endure a longer, or a shorter Tyme, or to be more or lesse generall, in more, or fewer places. Which two differences touching the quantitie of Tyme, and Place, after I had a lit= tle more fully prosecuted, alledging certaine particular Ex= amples thereof, howe in some places huge Castles, in some Townes, in some great and mighty Cities, in some Shires and Seigniories, and Prouinces, in some whole Countryes, and Regions haue be+en perillously mo+oued and shaken there= with: inone place, a long time together: in an other place, not so long, or at seuerall and parted times: in another, very short, as God be thanked here euen nowe: and finally by the [printer's signature: way] =============================================================================== 21[//verso//] way, shewing a thirde and most notable difference of all, (as well for the present or imminent terrour and daunger, as o= therwise) by the sundry //species,// and formes which and other Meteorologicians haue set downe of Expe= rience, as they haue heard, or read, or se+en the earth to quake, to sturre, and hoyse vp Houses, Walles, Towers, Castelles, Churches, Ministers, whole Townes, whole Cities, whole Prouinces, without farther harme: to ruinate and ouer= throwe, and destroy some: to yawne and gape, and open lyke a graue, and consequently to swallow vp and deuour other: and sometime also to drinke vp whole riuers, and mightie bigge running waters withall, or to chaunge and alter their common wo+onted course some other way: to sinke and fall downewards: to cast out and vomitte vp either huge vaste heapes, as it were Mountaines of Earth, or large Ilandes in the mayne Sea, neuer remembered, or se+en before: or great ouerflowing waters, and fountaynes: or hotte scalding sul= phurous lakes: or burning sparkles and flames of fire: to make a horrible hissing, gnashing, ratling, or some like wo+on= derfull straunge noyse, (which all Effectes are credibly re= ported, and constantly auouched, of our most famous & best allowed Philosophers) a few such particularities, and di= stinctions, compendiously and familiarly coursed ouer. The go+od Gentleman gaue hartily, as appeared, very great thankes, and told me plainly, he neuer either read, or heard halfe so much of Earthquakes before: confessing withall, that he ye+elded resolutely to my opinion: that an Earth= quake might as well be supposed a Naturall Motion of the Earth, as a preternaturall, or supernaturall ominous worke of God: and that he thought it hard, and almost impossible, for any man, either by Philosophie, or Diuinitie, euermore to determine flatly the very certaintie either way. Which also in conclusion was the verdit, and finall resolution of the greater and larger part of the Gentlemen present: & namely of an auncient learned common Lawyer, that had be+en Gra= duate, and fellow of a Colledge in Cambridge, in Que+ene [printer's signature: C.iij. ] =============================================================================== 22[//recto//] dayes. Who to+oke vpon him, to knit vp the matter, & as he said, determine the controuersie, with the authoritie of all the naturall Philosophers, old or newe, Heathen or Chri= stian, Catholique or Protestant, that euer he read, or heard tell of. There Physickes quoth he, are in euery mans hands: they are olde enough to speake for them selues, and we+e are young enough to turne our Bo+okes. They that haue Eyes and Tounges, let them se+e, and reade. But what say you nowe, quoth I, to the straying and quieting of the Earthe, be+eing once a mo+ouing: Nay it not se+eme a more myracu= lous wo+orke, and greater wo+onderment, that it shoulde so suddainely staye againe, being mo+oued, than that it shoulde so suddainely mo+oue, beying quiet and still: moue or turne, or shake me a thing in lyke order, be it neuer so small, and lesse than a pynnes Head, in comparison of the great migh= tie circuite of the Earth, and se+e if you shall not haue much more a do+o to staye it presently, be+eing once sturred, than to sturre it at the very first. Whereat the Gentleman smyling, and lo+oking merrily on the Gentlewo+omen, he+ere is a scho+ole poynt, quoth he, that by your leaues, I bele+eue will poase the better scholler of you both. But is it not more than tyme, thynke ye, we+e were at Supper: And if you be hungered, Maister you shall thanke no body but your selfe, that haue holden vs so long with your pro= founde and clerkly discourses, whereas our manner is to suppe at the least a long howre before this tyme. Beying set, and newe occasion of spe+eche ministered, our Supper put the Earthquake in manner out of our myndes, or at the leastwise, out of our Tounges: sauing that the Gen= tlewo+omen, nowe and then pleasauntly tyhyhing betwe+ene them selues, especially Mystresse (whose minde did still runne of the drinking, and Ne+esing of the Earth,) repeated here, and there, a broken pe+ece of that, which had be+en already sayde before Supper. With de+epe iudgement no doubt, and to maruellous great purpose, I warrant you after the manner of wo+omen Philosophers, and Diuines. [printer's signature: And] =============================================================================== 23[//verso//] And this summarily in Effect was our yesternyghtes graue Meterologicall Conference, touching our Earth= quake here in the Country: which being in so many neigh= bour Townes, and Uillages about vs, as I heare say of this morning, amketh me presuppose, the like was wyth you also at London, and elsewhere farher of. And then forso+othe, must I desire Maister to send me with= in a we+eke or two, some odde fresh paulting thre+ehalfepen= nie Pamphlet for newes: or some Balductum Tragicall Ballet in Ryme, and without Reason, setting out the right Myserable, and most wofull estate of the wicked, and dam= nable worlde at these perillous dayes, after the deuisers best manner: or whatsoeuer else shall first take some of your braue London Eldertons in the Head. In earnest, I could wishe some learned, and well aduized Uniuersitie man, woulde vndertake the matter, and bestow some paynes in de+ede vppon so famous and materiall an argument. The generall Nature of Earthquakes by definition, and the speciall diuersitie of them by diuision, beyng perfectly knowen: (a thing so+one done) and a complete Induction of many credible and autenticall, both olde and newe, diuine and profane, Gre+eke, Lattine, and other Examples, (with discretion, and iudgement, compyled and compared togi= ther) being condsiderately and exactly made, (a thing not so easily done) much no doubt myght be alledged to+o or fro, to terrifie or pacifie vs, more or lesse. If it appeare by generall Experience, and the foresayde Historicall In= duction of particulars, that Earthquakes, //sine omni ex- ceptione,// are ominous, and significatiue Effectes, as the saye of comets, and carrie suer some Tragicall and horrible matter with or after them: as eyther destructi= on of Townes and Cities, or decay of some mightie Prince, or some particular, or generall plague, warre, or the lyke, //(vt supra)// whatsoeuer the Materiall, or For= mall cause be, Naturall, or Supernaturall, (howbeit for myne owne part I am resouled, as wel for the one, as for the other, [printer's signature: that] =============================================================================== 24[//recto//] that these two I speake of, both Matter and Fourme, are ra= ther Naturall in both, than otherwise) it concerneth vs, vpon the vewe of so Effectuall and substanciall euidence, to con= ceiue seriously, and reuerently of the other two Causes: the first, supreme Efficient, whose Omnipotent Maiestie hath nature self, and all naturall Creatures at commaundement: and the last finall, which we are to iudge of as aduisedly, and prouidently, as possibly we can, by the consideration , & com= parison of Circumstances, the tyme when: the place where: the qualities, and dispositions of the persons, amongst whom such, and such an Ominous token is giuen. Least happily through ouer great credibilitie, and rashnesse, we mistake //Non causam pro causa,// and sophistically be entrapped //Elencho Finiu~[m].// Truely, I suppose, he had ne+ede be an excellent Philosopher, a reasonable go+od Historian, a learned Diuine, a wise discrete man, and generally, such a one as our Doctor & Doctor are in Cambridge, that shoulde shew himselfe accor= dingly in this argument, and to the iudgement and conten= tation of the wisest, perfourme it exactly. My selfe remem= ber nothing to the contrarie, either in Philosophie, or in Hi= stories, or in Diuinitie either, why I may not safely & law= fully subscribe to the iudgement of the noble Philoso= pher, and most famous learned Gentleman, whilest he liued, Lord of and Erle of Counte in my opinion, very considerately, and part= ly Philosophically, partly Theologically set downe, in the first Chapter of his fixt Bo+oke, against Cogging deceitfull A= strologers, and Southsayers, //Dererum Pranotione, pro verita- te Relligionis, contra Superstitiosas vanitates.// In which Chap= ter, (if happely you haue not read it already,) you shall finde many, but specially these thre+e notable places, most effectuall and directly pertinent to the very purpose. The first more vniuersall. //Natura+e opere fiers non potest, vt Ostentis, vt Monstris magni illi, seu dextri, seu sinistri euentus portendantur, & ab aliqua pendeant proxima causa, que & futura etiam proferat. Impostura Da+emonum, vt id fiat, videri potest. Sed & pla+eaq[ue] non monstrosa, [printer's signature: //non//] =============================================================================== 25[//verso//] non prodigiosa per sese,pro monstris tamen, & portentis, haberi pos- sunt, & solent a quibusdam, quibus Rerum Natura non satis com- perta est, causarum enim ignoratio, noua in re Admirationem parit. Propter quam, philosophari homines capisse, in exordys prima+e philo- sophia+e scribit Aristoteles.// Wherein those two suerall points, //Impostura Da+emonum,// and //Ignoratio causarum,// are on doubt mar= uellous probable, and moste worthy bothe presentlye to be+e noted nowe, and more fully to be discussed hereafter: appea= ring vnto me the verie right principall Causes of so manye erroneous opinions, and fantasticall superstitiou[x:n]s dreames in this, and the like behalfe. The seconde more speciall, as it were hitting the white in de+ede, and cleauing the Pinne in sunder. //Idem in Terramotibus etiam, qoud in fulguribus, fulminibusq[ue] interpretandis, obseruauit Antiquitas. Cuius Reiliber, Gra+eco elo- quoi, nuper ad manus peruenit, in Orpheum relatus Autorem: sed per absurdum nimis, vt quod frequentissime fit, pro vario terra anbe- litu, pro ventorum voblentia, vaporumq[ue] conductione,// (marke you that:) //ex eo rerum futurarum significationem petere, quorum nec effectus esse possunt, nec causa, pra+eterq[ue] forte mortis inferenda+e illis, qui fulmen exceperit, aut qui terrarum hiatu perierit. Sed nec ab eadem proxima deduci causa possunt, a qua & futura+e pendeant res, vt supra deductum est.// And then shortly after, the thirde, moste agre+eable to the seconde, as flatlye determining on my side, and as directlye concluding the same position as may be. //Nec sane Orpheus ille, si tamen Orpheus fuit, vllam affert om- nino causam, cur quispiam ex terra+e motibus, vrbium, hominum, re- gionum euenta prasagire possit. Solum vano narrat aritrio: si ter- ta+e contigerit motus, nocti, si a+estate, si hyeme, si aurora, ## si interdiu,quid portendatur: Que certe, & saniore possunt arbitrio refellis. & Expe- rientia+e testimonio, vt arbitror, non secus irrideri, ac supra Tagis por- tenta irrifimus, Haruspicine Autoris.// A moste excellent sounde Iudgement in my conceit: and ful wel bese+eming so Honorable and admiirable a Witte, as out of Question, //Picus Mirandula// had: who being yet scarce= [printer's signature: D. ly] =============================================================================== 26[//recto//] ly thirty yeres of age, for his singularitie in al kind of know= le+ege, as wel diuine as prophane, was in Italy and France, as reported, surnamed as the odde, and in effecte the onely singular learned man of Europe: and to make shorte: suche a one, in moste respectes, as I woulde wishe nowe to be tempering with this newe notorious inci= dent: staying my selfe in the meane while vpon this probable and reasonable //Interim// of his: and preferring it brfore al the friuolous coniecturall Allegations, and surmises, that oure counterfaite, and reasonlesse //Orphei// oppose to the contrarye. But, Iesu, what is all this to Maister ? Forso+oth I knowe not by what mischaunce, these miserable balde odious thre+e halfpenny fellowes, alas, a company of silly be+etlehea= ded Asses, came into my minde, that wil ne+edes be sturring, and taking on in euerye suche rare and vnaccustomed euent, as if they sawe farther in a Milstone, than all the worlde be= sides, whereas euerie man, that hathe but halfe an eye in his head; se+eth them to be more blinde, than anye Buzzarde, or Bayarde, //Scribimus indocte, doctiq[ue] Poemata passim,// and surely, as the worlde goeth nowe in Englande, rather the firste, for aught I se+e, than the laste. //O interim miseras Musas, & misera- biles:// Where the faulte shoulde rest, //viderint Oculi, atq[ue] capita Reip. Mihi quidem ist hic, neq[ue] seritur admodum, neq[ue] metitur. Non valde mea nous Bibliotheca libros desiderat, seipsa, id est, quos ha- bet, veteribus contenta est. Quid plura? Tu vale, mi Immerito, atq[ue] ita tibi persuade, Aliquid esse eum, qui istorum longe est dissimilus, quos Typographi nostri habent venales maxime.// Commende me+e to thine owne go+od selfe, and tell thy dying Pellicane, and thy Dreames from me, I wil nowe leaue dreaming any longer of them, til with these eyes I se+e them forth inde+ede: And then againe, I imagine your will holde vs in sus- pense as long for your nine Englishe and your Latine //Stemmata Dudleiana:// whiche two shal go for my mo= ney, when all is done: especiallye if you woulde but bestow one seuennights pollishing and trimming vppon eyther. Whiche I praye the+e hartily doe, for my pleasure, if not for [printer's signature: their] =============================================================================== 27[//verso//] their sake, nor their owne profite. My of is shrunke in the wetting: I hadde purposed to haue dispatched you a Coppie thereof, long ere this: but, no remedie, hitherto it hath alwayes gone thus with me: Some newe occasion, or other, euer carrieth me from one matter to another, & will neuer suffer me to finishe eyther one or other. And truly, //Experto crede,// it is as true a Verse as euer was made, since the first Verse, that euer was made: //Pluribus intentus minor est ad singula seneus:// whiche my //Anticosmopolita,// thoughe it gre+eue him, can beste testifye, re= maying still as we saye, //in statu, quo,// and neither an inche more forward, nor backeward, than he was fully a twelue= month since in the Courte, at his laste attendaunce vpon my Lorde there. But the Birde that will not sing in Aprill, nor in May, maye peraduenture sing in September: and yet me thinkes, //Sat cito, si sat bene,// if I colde steale but one po+ore fortnight, to peruse him ouer afreshe, and coppy him out a= newe. Whiche I hope in God to compasse shortly. But I bese+ech you, what Newes al this while at Cambridge: That was wont to be euer one great Question. What: //Det mihi Mater ipsa bonam veniam, eius vt alique liceat Secreta, vni cuidam de eodem gremio obsequentissimo filio, reuelare: & sic pau- cis habeto. Nam alias fortasse pluribus: nunc non placet, non va- cat, molestum esset.// and nothing so much studyed, as they were wonte: and possiblye ra= ther more than lesse: neuer so much: muche named, but little read: and rexkned amon= gest Discoursers, and conceited Superficiall fellowes: much verball and sophisticall rangling: little subtile and effectuall disputing: noble and royall Eloquence, the best and persuasi= blest Eloquence: no such Orators againe, as redheadded An= gelles: An exce+eding greate difference, betwe+ene the coun= tenan[x:u]nces, and portes of those, that are braue and gallaunt, and of those, that are basely, or meanly apparelled: betwene the learned, and the vnlearned, and in effect none at all. [printer's signature: D.ij. ] =============================================================================== 28[//recto//] a great man: of no small reputati= on: and in euery mans mouth: and neuer so happy: ouer many acquainted with the and when so highlye re= garded of Scholiers: The and when so light= ly: The at the beginning, or ende of euerye conference: many bargaines of a no= ble gallant fellowe: all inquisitiue after Newes, newe Bo+o= kes, newe Fashions, newe Lawes, newe Officers, and some after newe Elementes, and some after newe Heauens, and Helles to. familiarly knowen: Castels builded in the Ayre: muche adoe, and little helpe: would faine be a Gentlemanne: in no age so little so muche made of, euery one highly in his owne fauour, thinking no mans penny, so go+od siluer as his own: Something made of Nothing, in spite of Nature: Numbers made of Ciphers, in spite of Arte: Geometricall Proportion seldome, or neuer vsed, Arithmaticall ouermuch abused: Oxen and Asses (not= withstanding the absurditie it se+emed to ) draw both togither in one, and the same Yoke: //Conclusio fere sequitur de- teriorem partem.// The taughte, not learned: Charti= tie key colde: nothing go+od, but by Imputation: the Lawe, in worde abrogated: the in effecte disanulled: the inde+ede abondoned: the the in euery mans Lippes, but marke me their eyes, and tell me, if they lo+oke liker Howlets, or Battes, than E= gles: as of olde Bo+okes, so of auntient Vertue, Honestie, Fidelitie, Equitie, newe Abridgementes: euery day freshe span newe Opinions: Heresie in Diuinitie, in Philosophie, in Humanitie, in Manners, grounded muche vpon heresay: contemned: the knowen of moste, vndersto+od of fewe, magnified of all, praised of none: the not so hated, as the many Inuectiues, small amendment: Skill they say controlled of Will: and Go+odnesse mastered of Go+ods: but Agent, and Patient muche alike, neither Bar= rell greatly better Herring: No more adoe aboute [printer's signature: and] =============================================================================== 29[//verso//] and Maister nighe forgotten: The man you wot of conformable, with his sqaure Cappe on his rounde heade: and at pleasure: and yet neuer better bayted, but not one the fewer, either I bele+eue in Acte, or I bele+eue, in Purpose. A nu~[m]ber of our prea chers sibbe to at the first, more than Men, in the end, lesse than Women. Some of our pregnantest and so+onest ripe Wits, of mettall for al the world: Olde men and Counsailours amongst Children: Children a= mongest Counsailours, and olde men: Not a fewe dubble fa= ced and chaungeable ouer-manye Claw= backes, and Pickethankes: Re+eded shaken of euerie Wind: Iackes of bothe sides: Aspen leaues: painted Sheathes, and Sepulchres: Asses in Lions skins: Dunglecockes: slipperye Eles: Dormise: I blush to thinke of some, that we+ene them= selues as fledge as the reste, being, God wot, as kallowe as the rest: euery yonker to speake of as politique, and as great a Commonwealths man as Bishoppe or Doctor at the least: as if euerie man nowe adayes hauing the framing of his own were borne in //decimo co+eli domicilio,// and had al the Wit, Wisdome, and Worshippe in the world at commaundement. //Sed heus in aurem: Meministin' quod ait Varro? Omnes videmur nobis esse belli, festiui, saperda+e, cum sumus Canopi: and fayned them= selues fo+oles and madmen: our fo+oles and mandmen faine the~[m]= selues ans and would goe nigh to de= ceiue the cunningest, and best experienced in a country: It is pity faire weather should euer do hurt, but I know what peace and quietnes hath done with some melan+ choly pickstrawes in the world: as go+od vnspoken as vname~[n]= ded. and wil you ne+edes haue my Testimoniall of youre olde Controllers new behauior? A busy and dizy heade, a brazen forehead: a ledden braine: a wo+odden wit: a copper face: a sto= ny breast: a factious and eluish hearte: a founder of nouelties: a confounder of his owne, and his friends go+od gifts: a mor= ning bo+okworm, an afterno+one maltworm: a right Iuggler, [printer's signature: D.iij. as] =============================================================================== 30[//recto//] as ful of his sleights, wyles, fetches, castes of Legerdemaine, toys to mocke Apes withal, odde shiftes, and knauish practi= zes, as his skin can holde. He often telleth me, he lo+oueth me as himselfe, but out lyar out, thou lyest abhominably in thy throate. Iesu, I had nigh on hand forgotten one thing, that ywis sometime I think often vpon: Many Iacke= mates, and Hayle fellowes wel met, with their and by your leaue, some to+o, because forso+oth they be Gentlemen, or great heires, or a little neater and gayer than their fello= wes, (shall I say it for shame: bele+eue me, tis to+o true) their very own Tutors. //Ah mala// ab initio no~[n] fuit sic. Stulta est omnis iuueniles sinevirili quadam . Quasi vero pauperioribus duntaxat pueris, ac non multo magis generosa, atq[ue] nobili Iuuentuti conueniat, pristina+e illius Institutionis, atque E- ducationis seueritas, & ingenua+e, & prudentis, & erudita+e, & cum Tutoris persona+e, tum pupillo, etiam ipsi perquam accomodata+e. Vsque- quaque id erit telum acerrimum. Ca+estra fa+ere, vt o- lim: Bellum inter Capita, & membra continuatum: ## {$\delta\o\kappa\o\tau\o\phi\iota\alpha$} publicis defensa scholis, priuatis confirmata parietibus, omnibus locis ostentata, nihil est, nisi te scire, hoc sciat alter. Plurimi passim sit parui penditur: Nihili habentur Mihi crede, . Quid tu interim? Quomo0do te inquies, geris? Quomodo? Optimum est ali- ena frui insania. Video: taceo, rideo: Dixet. Et tamen addam, quod ait Sayricus ille:// //Viuendum est recte, tum propter plurima, tum his// //Pra+ecipe causis, vt linguas Mancipiorum Contemnas.// //E meo municipio, Postridie quam superiores de ser- mones habentur, id est, ni falloe, Aprilis septimo, .// With as manye gentle Go+odnightes, as be letters in this tedious Letter. //Nosti manum tanquam tuam.// ||

|| //Non multis dormio: non multis scribo: non cupio placere multis: Alij ## alios numeros laudant. pra+eferunt, venerantur: Ego fere apud nos, fere apud vos . Verbum sapienti sat: nosti ca+etera: et tres Charites habes ad vnguem.// [EPISTULA+E SECUNDA+E FINIS.] _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ 31[//verso//] {printer's woodcut} |||| |||| ___________________________________________________________________________________ | to passe ouer youre |ne+edlesse complaint, wyth the residue {S} |of your preamble (for of y[e] |I presuppose you haue ere this recey= |ued my go+odly discourse) and withall to |let my late Englishe Hexameteres goe |as lightlye as they came: I cannot ________________________|cho+ose, but thanke and honour the go+od |Aungell, (whether it were or some other) that put so go+od a motion into the heades of those two excellent Gentlemen and the two very Diamonds of hir Maiesties Courte for many speciall and rare qualities: as to helpe forwarde our new Balductum Rymes with Artificial Verses: the one being in manner of pure and fine Goulde, the other but counterfet, and base yl= fauoured Copper. I doubt not but their liuelie example, and Practise, wil preuaile a thousand times more in short space, than the dead Aduertizement, and persusion of to the same Effecte: whose notwithstanding Ireuerence in respect with Prosodye, and I bese+eche you, commende me to go+od iudgement, and gentle [printer's signature: ] =============================================================================== 32[//recto//] Observations. I hope your nexte Letters, which I daily expect, wil bring me in farther familiaritie & acquaintance with al thre+e. Mine owne Rules and Precepts of Arte, I bele+eue wil fal out not greatly repugnant, though peraduenture somewhat different: and yet am I not so reso= lute, but I can be content to reserue the Coppying out and publishing therof, vntil I haue a little better consulted with my pillowe, and taken some farther aduize of . In the meane, take this for a general Caueat, and say I haue reuealed one great mysterie vnto you: I am of Opi= nion, there is no one more regular and iustifiable direction, eyther for the assured, and infallible Certaintie of our En= glish Artificiall Prosodye particularly, or generally to bring our Language into Arte, and to frame a Grammer or Rhe= torike therof: than first of all vniuersally to agre+e vpon in all pointes conformable and proportionate to whether in that respect be the most perfit, as sure ly it must ne+edes be vrey go+od: or wlse some other of profoun= der Learning, & longer Experience, than was, shewing by necessarie demonstration, wherin he is defectiue, wil vndertake shortely to supplie his wantes, and make him more absolute. My selfe dare not hope to hoppe after him, til I se+e something or other, to+o, or fro, publickely and auten= tically established, as it were by a generall Counsel, or acte of Parliament: and then peraduenture, standing vppon fir= mer grounde, for Companie sake, I may aduenture to do as other do. //Interim,// credit me, I dare geue no Preceptes, nor set downe any and yet se+e my bolde= nesse, I am not greatly squaimishe of my wheras he that can but reasonably skil of the one, wil giue easily a shreude gesse at the other: considering that the one fetched his original and offspring from the other. In which respecte, to say troth, haue the start, and aduauntage of our Followers, who are to frame and con= forme both their Examples, and Precepts, according to that [printer's signature: Presi=] =============================================================================== 33[//verso//] President which they haue of vs: as no doubt or some other in //Gre+eke,// and or I know not who else in //Latine,// did preiudice, and ouerrule those, that followed them, as well for the quantities of syllables, as number of fe+ete, and the like: their onely Examples going for current pay= ment, and standing in steade of Lawes, and Rules with the posteritie. In so much that it se+emed a sufficient warrant (as still it doth in our Common Grammer scho+oles) to make {$\tau\iota$} in {$\tau\iota\mu\eta$}, and {$\upsilon$}, in //Vnus// ## long, because the one hath {$\tau\iota\mu\nu$} {$\delta$}, {$\epsilon\kappa$} {$\Delta\iota\o\varsigma$} {$\epsilon\sigma\tau\iota$}, ## and the other , //Vnus homo nobis,// and so consequent= ly in the rest. But to let this by=disputation passe, which is already so throughly discoursed and cann[u:x]aassed of the best Philosophers, and namely that poynt vs, as it were with the forefinger, to the of Artes, and Artificiall preceptes, in the and most excellently set downe in these the famoussest Termes to speake of in all and ## {$\epsilon\mu\pi\epsilon\iota\rho\iota\alpha$} ## {$\iota\sigma\tau\epsilon\rho\iota\alpha$} ## {$\alpha\iota\sigma\theta\eta\sigma\iota\varsigma$} {$\epsilon\pi\alpha\gamma\omega\gamma\eta$}: shall I knowe by the way ## sende you a after ? Were the manner so very fine, as the matter is very go+od, I durst presume of an other kinde of //Plaudite// and than now I will: but being as it is, I bese+eche you, set parcialitie aside, and tell me your mai= sterships fancie. |||| ||//V//||//Ertue// [printer's signature: E. Nowe] =============================================================================== 34[//recto//] ||//L'Enuoy.//|| //He that wisheth, you may liue to se+e a hundreth// //Go+od Newe yeares, euery one happier, and// //merrier, than other.// Now to requite your //Blindfolded pretie God,// (wherin by the way I woulde gladly learne, why, //The~[n],// in the first, in the first, and thirde, //He,// and //My,// in the last, being shorte, //Me// alone should be made longer in the very same) Imagin me to come into a go+odly Kentishe //Garden// of your old Lords, or some other Noble man, and spying a florishing Bay Tre+e there, to demaunde //ex tempore,// as followeth: Thinke vppon //Arbor vittoriosa, triomfale,// //Onor d'Imperadori, e di Poete:// and perhaps it will aduaunce the wynges of your Imagi= nation a degre+e higher: at the least if any thing can be ad= [printer's signature: ded] =============================================================================== 35[//verso//] ded to the loftinesse of his conceite, who~[m] gentle once reported to haue all the at com= maundement, and an other time, Christened her, //Segnior Pegaso.// ||//Encomium Lauri.//|| ||W||Hat might I call this Tre+e? //A Laurell?// O bonny Laurell: Ne+edes to thy bowes will I bow this kne+e, and vayle my bonetto Who, but thou, the renowne of Prince and Princely //Poeta:// Th'one for Crowne, for Garland th'other thanketh //Apollo.// Thrice happy //Daphne:// that turned was to the //Bay Tre+e,// Whom such seruauntes serue, as challehge seruice of all men. Who chiefe Lorde, and King of Kings, but th'//Emperour// only? and //Poet// of right stampe, ouerawith th'//Emperour// himselfe. Who, but knowes //Aretyne,// was he not halfe Prince to the Princes. And many a one ther liues, as nobly minded at all poyntes. Now Farewell //Bay Tre+e,// very Que+ene, and Goddesse of all tre+es, Ritchest perle to the Crowne, and fayrest Floure to the Garland. Faine wod I craue, might I so presume, some farther aquaintaunce, O that I might? but I may not: woe to my destinie therefore. Trust me, not one more loyall seruaunt longes to thy Personage, But what sayes //Da+ephne? Non omni dormio,// worse lucke: Yet Farewell, Farewell, the Reward of those, that I honour: Glory to //Garden:// Glory to //Muses:// Glory to //Vertue.// //Partim Ioui, & Palladi,// //Partim Apollini & Musis.// But se+eing I must ne+edes bewray my store, and set open my shoppe wyndowes, nowe pray the+e, and coniure the+e by all thy amorous Regardes, and Exorcismes of Loue, call a Parliament of thy Sensible, & Intelligible powers together, & tell me, in Tom Trothes earnest, what //Il fecondo, & famoso Poeta,// sayth to this bolde Satyriall Libell lately deuised at the instaunce of a certayne worshipfull Hartefordshyre Gentleman, of myne olde acquayntaunce: //in Gratiam quorundam Illustrium hic & vbique apud nos volitantium. Agegum vero, nosti homines, tan- quam tuam ipsus cutem.// [printer's signature: E.ij. Speculum] =============================================================================== 36[//recto//] |||| Tell me in go+od so+oth, doth it not to+o euidently appeare, that this English poet wanted but before his eyes, as it might be some delicate, and choyce elegant Poesie of go+od or (ouer very & for such and many greater matters) when this trimme ge+ere was in hatching: Much like some I coulde name in england, who by all Phisick and Physiognomie to+o, might as well haue brought forth all go+odly faire children, as [printer's signature: they] =============================================================================== 37[//verso//] they haue now some ylfauored and deformed, ahd they at the tyme of their had in sight, the amiable and gal= lant beautifull Pictures of or the like, which no doubt would haue wrought such de+epe im= pression in their fantasies, and imaginations, as their chil= dren, and perhappes their Childrens children to+o, myght haue thanked them for, as long as they shall haue Tongues in their heades. But myne owne leysure fayleth me: and to say troth, I am lately become a maruellous great straunger at myu~[n]e olde being newly entertayned, and dayly employed in our Emperour (sauing that I haue alreadie addressed a certaine pleasurable, and Morall Politique Naturall mixte deuise, to his most Honourable Lordshippe, in the same kynde, where vnto my next Letter, if you please me+e well, may perchaunce make you priuie:) marrie nowe, if it lyke you in the meane while, for varie= tie sake, to se+e howe I take a young Brother of myne, (whom of playne our Maister hath Cristened his //Picciolo Giouannibattista,//) Lo here (and God will) a pe+ece of hollydayes exercise. In the morning I gaue him this out of to translate, and varie after his best fashion. //Dum fueris fo+elix, multos numberabis Amicos,// //Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris.// //Aspicis, vt veniant ad candida tecta columba+e?// //Accipiat nullas sordida Turris Aues?// His translation, or rather Paraphrase before dinner, was first this: And then forso+oth this: to make pro+ofe of his facultie in Pentameters to+o, affecting a certaine //Rithmus// withall. [printer's signature: E.iij. ] =============================================================================== 39[//recto//][x:printer's error: page number out of sequence] And the last and largest of all, this: 3. Bele+eue me, I am not ot be charged with aboue one, or two of the Verses: and a foure or fiue wordes in the rest. His afterno+ones was borrowed out of him, who~[m] one in your Coate, they say, is as much beholding vnto, as any Pla= net, or Starre in Heauen is vnto the Sunne: and is quoted as your self best remember, in the Close of your . //Giunto Alessandro a la famosa tomba// //Del fero Achille, sospirando disse,// //O fortunato, che si chiara tromba// //Trouasti// Within an houre, or thre+e aboutes, he brought me these foure lustie Hexameters, alteres since not past in a worde, or two. Vppon the viewe whereof, Ah my Syrraha, quoth I here is a gallant exercise for you in de+ede: we haue had a little prettie traill of you and Translation: Let me se+e now I pray, what you can do+o in your owne Tongue: And with that, reaching a certaine famous Bo+oke, called the [printer's signature: newe] =============================================================================== 38[//verso//][printer's error: page number out of sequence] newe I turned to and in and bad him make them ey= ther better, or worse in English verse. I gaue him an other howres respite: but before I lo+oked for him, he suddainely rushed vpon me, and gaue me his deuise, thus foemally set downe in a faire pe+ece of Paper. ||I. //Thomalins Embleme.//|| ||2. //Willyes Embleme.//|| ||3. //Both combined in one.//|| With a voluntarie Supplement of his owne, on the other side, in commendation of hir most gratious, and thrice excellent Maiestie: //Raptim, vti vides.// In both not passing a worde, or two, corrected by me+e. Something more I haue of his, partly that very day begun, and partly continued since: but yet not so perfitly finished, that I dare committe the viewe, and examination thereof, to Censure, whom after those same two incomparable and myraculous //Omni exceptione ma- iores,// I recount, and chaulk vppe in the Catalogue of our very principall Englishe . Howbeit. I am nigh halfe perswaded, that in tyme (//siquidem vltima primis re- spondeant//) for length, bredth, and depth, it will not come far behinde your //Epithalamion Thamesis:// the rather, hauing so fayre a president, and pattern before his Eyes, as I war= rant him, and he presumeth to haue of that: both and to+o, being togither therein. [printer's signature: But] =============================================================================== 40[//recto//] But euer, & euer, me thinkes your great //ecquid erit pretij,// and our little //Res age que prosunt,// make suche a buzzing, & ringing in my head, that I haue little ioy to ani= mate , & encourage either you, or him to goe forward, vnlesse ye might make account of some certaine ordinarie wages, at at[x: word printed twice in original text. Selincourt square brackets ## repeated word] the leastwise haue your meate, and drinke for your dayes workes. As for my selfe, howsoeuer I haue toyed, and trifled heretofore, I am nowe taught, and I trust I shall shortly learne, (no remedie, I must of me+ere necessi= tie giue you ouer in the playne fielde) to employ my tra= uayle, and tyme wholly, or chiefely on those studies and practizes, that carrie as they saye, meate in their mouth, hauing euermore their eyevppon the //De pane lucrando,// and their hand vpon their halfpenny. For, I pray now, what faith <M.Cuddie,> //alias// you know who, in the tenth <A=Eglogue> of the foresaid famous new Calender: <Piers, I haue piped erst so long with payne,> <That all myne Oten re+edes be+en rent, and wore,> <And my po+ore Muse hath spent hir spared store,> <Yet little go+od hath got, and much lesse gayne.> <Such pleasaunce makes the Grashopper so po+ore,> <And ligge so layde, when winter doth her strayne.> <The Dapper Ditties, that I wo+ont deuize,> <To fe+ede youthes fancie, and the flocking fry,> <Delighten much: what I the bett fot thy?> <They han the pleasure, I a sclender prize.> <I beate the bushe, the birdes to them doe flye,> <What go+od thereof to Cuddy can arise?> But Master <Collin Cloute> is not euery body, and albeit his olde Companions, <Master Cuddy,> & <Master Hobbinoll> be as liittle beholding to their Mistresse <Poetrie,> as euer you wilt: yet he peraduenture, by the meanes of hir speciall fa= uour, and some personall priuiledge, amy happely liue by <dy- ing Pellicanes,> and purchase great landes, and Lordshippes, [printer's signature: with] =============================================================================== 41[//verso//] with the money, which his <Calendar> and <Dreames> haue, and will affourde him. //Extra locum,// I like your <Dreames> pas= singly well: and the rather, bicause they fauour of that singu= lar extrodinarie veine and inuention, whiche I euer fan= cied moste, and in a manner admired onely in <Lucian,> <Pe- trarche,> <Aretine,> <Pasquill,> and all the most delicate, and fine conceited Grecians & Italians: (for the Romanes to speake of, are but verye Ciphars in this kinde:) whose chiefest en= deuour, and drifte was, to haue nothing vulgare, but in some respect or other, and especially in <liuely Hyperbolicall Am- plifications,> rare, queint, and odde in euery pointe, and as a man woulde saye, a degre+e or two at the leaste, aboue the reache, and compasse of a common Schollers capacitie. In whiche respecte notwithstanding, as well for the singulari= tie of the manner, as the Diuinitie of the matter, I hearde once a Diuine, preferre <Saint Iohn's Reuelation> before al the veriest <Ma+etaphysicall Visions,> a iollyest conceited <Dreames> or <Extasies,> that euer were deuised by one or other, howe ad= mirable, or superexcelle~[n]t soeuer they se+emed otherwise to the worlde. And truely I am so confirmed in this opinion, that when I bethinke me of the verie notablest, and most won= derful Propheticall, or Poeticall Vision, that euer I read, or hearde, me se+emeth the proportion is so vnequall, that there hardly appeareth anye semblaunce of Comparison: no more in a manner (specially for Poets) than doth betwe+ene the in= comprehensible Wisdome of God, and the sensible Wit of Man. But what ne+edeth this digression betwe+ene you and me? I dare saye you wyll holde your selfe reasonably wel sa= tisfied, if youre <Dreames> be but as well este+emed of in Eng= lande, as <Petrarches Visions> be in Italy: whiche I assure you, is the very worst I wish you. But, se+e, how I haue the Arte <Memoratiue> at commaundement. In go+od faith I had once againe nigh forgotten your <Fa+erie Que+ene:> howbeit by go+od chaunce, I haue nowe sent hir home at the laste, neither in better nor worse case, than I founde hir. And must you of necessitie haue my Iudgement of hir in de+ede? To be plaine, [printer's signature: F. I] =============================================================================== 50[//recto//][x: page numbers printed out of sequence, possibly a printer's error. This should be printed as page 42. The printer's signatures are in order. The text itself is rebound with quite a number of endleaves, however there is no evidence of pages having been lost and new ones inserted in to the original text at a later date.] I am voyde of all iudgement, if your <Nine Comoedies,> wher= vnto in imitation of <Herodotus,> you giue the names of the <Nine Muses,> (and in one mans fansie not vnworthily) come not ne+erer <Ariostoes Comoedies,> eyther for the finenesse of plausible Elocution, or the rarenesse of Poetical Inuention, than that <Eluish Que+ene> doth to his <Orlando Furioso,> which notwithstanding, you wil ne+edes se+eme to emulate, and hope to ouergo, as you flatly professed your self in one of your last Letters. Besides that you know, it hath bene the vsual pra= ctise of the most exquisite and odde wittes in all nations, and specially in //Italie,// rather to shewe, and aduaunce themselues that way, than any other: as namely, those thre+e notorious dyscoursing heads, <Bibiena,> <Machiauel,> and <Aretine> did, (to let <Bembo> and <Ariosto> passe) with the great admiration, and wonderment of the whole countrey: being in de+ede reputed matchable in all points, both for conceyt of Witte, and elo= quent decyphering of matters, either with <Aristophanes> and <Menander> in Gre+ek, or with <Plautus> and <Terence> in Latin, or with any other, in any other tong. But I wil not stand greatly with you in your owne matters. If so be the <Fa+erye Que+ene> be fairer in your eie tha~[n] the <Nine Muses,> and <Hob- goblin> runne away with the Garland from <Apollo:> Marke what I saye, and yet I will not say that I thought, but there an End for this once, and fare you well, till God or some go+od Aungell putte you in a better minde. And yet, bicause you charge me somewhat suspitioslye with an olde promise, to deliuer you of that iealousie, I am so farre from bynding mine owne matters form you, that loe, I muste ne+edes be reuealing my friendes secreates, now an ho= nest Countrey Gentleman, sometimes a Scholler: At whose request, I bestowed this paw;ting bongrely Rime vpon him, to present his Maistresse withall. The parties shall be+e namelesse: sauing, that the Gentlewomans true, or counter= faite Christen name, must necessarily be bewrayed. [printer's signature: <To>] ============================================================================== 51[//verso//][x: page 51 printed as following page 50 as part of a printing error. This should be printed as page 43. The printer's signature is in sequence.] ||<To my go+od Mistresse //Anne:// the>|| |<very lyfe of my lyfe, and onely>| <beloued Mystresse.> |<Entle //Mistresse Anne,// I am plaine by nature:> {G} | <I was neuer so farre inloue with any creature.> |<Happy were your seruant, if he+e coulde be+e so Anned,> _____________| <And you not vnhappy, if you shoulde be so manned.> <I loue not to gloxe, where I loue inde+ede,> <Nowe God, and go+od //Saint Anne.// send me go+od spe+ede.> <Suche go+odly Vertues, such amiable Grace,> <But I must not fall a praysing: I wante Time, and Place.> <Oh, that I had mine olde Wittes at commaundement:> <I knowe, what I coulde say without controlement:> <But let this suffice: thy desertes are suche:> <That no one in this worlde can loue the+e to+o muche.> <My selfe moste vnworhty of any suche Fa+elicitie,> <But by imputation of thy gratious Curtesie.> <I leaue to loue the Muses, since I loued the+e,> <Alas, what are they, when I the+e se+e?> <Adieu, adieu pleasures, and profits all:> <My Hart, and my Soule, but at one bodyes call.> <Woulde God, I might saye to hir: my hartro+ote is thine:> <And, (o^ Pleasure of Pleasures) Thy swe+ete hartro+ote mine.> <Nowe I bese+eche the+e by whatsoeuer thou louest beste,> <Let it be, as I haue saide, and, Soule, yake thy reste.> <By the faith of true Loue, and by my truest Truely,> <Thou shalt neuer putte forth thy Loue to greater Vsurie.> <And for other odde necessaries, take no care,> <Your seruaunts //Da+emonium// shall ridde you of that feare.> <I serue but two Saints, //Saint Penny,// and //Saint Anne,//> <Commende this I muste, commaunde that I canne.> <Nowe, shall I be plaine? I praye the+e euen most hartily,> <Requite Loue, with Loue: and farewell most hartily.> ||<Postscripte.>|| |<I>|But once loued before, and she+e forso+oth was a //Susanne://> ____|<But the Heart of a //Susanne,// not worth the Haire of an //Anne://> <A //Sus// to //Anne,// if you can any Latine, or Pewter:> <She+e Flesh, hir, Mother Fish, hir Father a verye Newter.> <I woulde once, and might after, ahue spedde a Gods name:> <But, if she coye it once, she is none of my Dame.> [printer's signature: F.ij <Nowe>] =============================================================================== 44[//recto//][this is printed as page number 44.] <Nowe I praye the+e moste hartily, Thricegentle Mistresse //Anne,//> <Lo+oke for no seruice of so plaine a manne.> <And yet I assure the+e, thou shalt neuer want any seruice,> <If my selfe, or my S. Penny may performe thy wishe.> <And thus once againe, (full loath) I take my leaue of thy swe+ete heart.> <With as many louing Farewells, as be louing pangs in my heart.> <He that longeth to be thine ovvne> <inseparably, for euer and euer.> God helpe vs, you and I are wisely employed, (are we+e not?) when our Pen and Inke, and Time, and Wit, and all runneth away in this go+odly yonkerly veine: as if the world had nothing else for vs to do: or we were borne to be the on= ly Nonproficients and Nihilagents of the world. //Cuiusmodi tu nugis, alque na+eniis nisi vna mecum (qui solemni quodam iureiurando, atq[ue] voto obstringor, relicto isto amoris Poculum pri- mo quoque tempore exhaurire) iam tandem aliquando valedicas, (quod tamen, vnum tibi, credo, {$tau\omega\gamma$} ## {$\alpha\delta\upsilon\nu\alpha\tau\omega\gamma$} videbitur) nihil dicam amplius, Valeas. E meo municipo. Nono Calendas Maias.// But hoe I pray you, gentle sirra, a word with you more. In go+od so+oth, and by the faith I beare to the Muses, you shal neuer haue my subscription or consent (though you should charge me wyth the authoritie of fiue hundreth Maister <Drants,>) to make your //Carpe\-nter// our //Carpe\unter,// an inch lon= ger, or bigger, than God and his Englishe people haue made him. Is there no other Pollicie to pull downe Ryming, and sette vppe Versifying, but you must ne+edes correcte //Magnificat:// and against all order of Lawe, and in despite of Custome, forcibly vsurpe, and tyrannize vppon a quiet companye of wordes, that so farre beyonde the memorie of man, haue so peaceably enioyed their seueral Priuiledges and Liberties, without any disturbance, or the leaste controlement? What? Is <Horaces> //Ars Poetica// so quite out of our Englishe Poets head, that he muste haue his Remembrancer, to pull hym by the sle+eue, and put him in mind, of, //Penes vsum, & ius, & nor- ma loquendi?// Inde+ed I reme[m]ber, who was wont in a certaine brauerie, to call our <M.Valanger> Noble <M.Valanger>. Else [printer's signature: neuer] =============================================================================== 45[//verso//][x: this is properly printed as page 45.] neuer heard i any, that durst presume so much ouer the En= glishe, (excepting a fewe suche stammerers, as haue not the masterie of their owne Tongues) as to alter the Quantitie of any one sillable, otherwise, than oure common speache, and generall receyued Custome woulde beare them oute. Woulde not I laughe, thinke you, to heare <Messer Immeri- to> come in baldely with his //Maie\-stie, Roya\-litie, Hone\-stie, Scie\-nces, Facu\-lties, Exce\-llent, Taue\-rnour, Manfu\-lly, Faithfu\-lly,// and a thou= sande the like: in steade of //Maie\ustie, Roya\ultie, Hone\ustie,// and so forth? And trowe you anye coulde forbeare the byting of his Lippe, or smyling in his Sle+eue, if a iolly fellowe, and greate Clarke, (as it mighte be youre selfe,) reading a fewe Ver= ses vnto him, for his own credite and commendation, should nowe and then, tell him of, <barga\-ineth,> <follo\-wing,> <harro\-wing,> <thorou\-ghly,><Traua\-ilers,>or the like,in steade of,<bargai\uneth,><follo\u- wing,><harro\uwing,>and the rest? Or will <Segnoir Immerito,> bycause, may happe, he hathe a fat-bellyed Archdeacon on his side, take vppon him to controll Maister Doctor <Watson> for his //All Trauai\ulers,// in a Verse so highly extolled of Ma= ster Ascham? of Maister Ascham himselfe, for abusing <Ho- mer,> and corrupting our Tongue, in that he saith: //Quite throu\ughe a Do+ore fle\uwe a shafte with a brasse head? Nay, haue we nit sometime, by your leaue, both the Positi= on of the firste, and Dipthong of the seconde, concurring in one, and the same sillable, which neuerthelesse is commonly & ought necessarily to be pronounced short? I haue nowe small time, to bethink me of many examples. But what say you to the second in <Merchau\undise?> to the third in <Couena\uneth?> & to the fourth in <Appurtenau\unces?> Durst you aduenture to make any of them long, either in Prose, or in Verse? I assure you I knowe who dareth not, and <sudda\uinly> feareth the displea= sure of all true Englishmen if he should. Say you <sudda\-inly,> if you liste: by my certainly, and certainty I wil not. You may preceiue by the <Premisses,> (which very worde I woulde haue you note by the waye to) the Latine is no rule for vs: or i= magine aforehande, (bycause you are like to proue a great [printer's signature: F.iij. Purchaser,] =============================================================================== 54[//recto//][x:printing error; page numbers printed out of sequence. This ought to be printed as page 46. The printer's signatures are in proper order.] Purchaser, and leaue suche store of money, and possessions behinde you) your <Execu\utors> wil deale <fraudule\untly,> or <viole\untly> with your successour, (which in a maner is euery mans case) and it will fall oute a resolute pointe: the third in <Execu\-tores,> <fraudule\-ter,> <viole\-ter,> and the seconde in <Succe\-ssor,> being long in the one, and shorte in the other: as in seauen hundreth more: such as,<disci\-ple,><reci\-ted,><exci\-ted:><tene\ument,><ora\utour,> ## <laudi\uble: & a number of their fellowes are long in English, short in La= tine: long in Latine, short in English. Howbeit, in my fan= cy, such words, as <violently,><diligently,><magnificently,><indifferently,> se+eme in a manner reasonably indifferent, and tollerable ei= ther waye, neither woulde I greately stande with him, that translated the Verse. //Cur mittis violas? vt me violentius vras?// <Why send you violets? to burne my po+ore hart violently.> Marry so, that being left common for verse, they are to be pronounced shorte in Prose, after the maner of the Latines, in suche wordes as these, <Cathedra,><Volucre\us,><mediocres,><Cele- bres>. And thus farre of your <Carpe\-nter,> and his fellowes, wher= in we are to be moderated, and ouerruled by the vsuall, and common receiued sounde, and not to deuise any counterfaite fantasticall Accent of our owne, as manye, otherwise not vnlearned haue corruptely and ridiculouslye done in the Gre+eke. Nowe for your <Heauen,><Seauen,><Eleauen,> or the like, I am likewise of the same opinion: as generally in all words else: we are not to goe a little farther, either for the <Prosody,> or the Orthography, (and therefore your Imaginarie <Diastole> nothing worthe) then we are licenced and authorized by the ordinarie vse, & custome, and proprietie, and Idiome, and, as it were, Maiestie of our speach: whiche I accounte the only infallible, and soueraigne Rule of all Rules. And therefore hauing respecte therevnto, and reputing it Petty Treason to reuolt therefro: dare hardly eyther in the <Prosodie,> or in the Orthography either, allowe them two sillables in steade [printer's signature: of] =============================================================================== 55[//verso//][x: printing error, pages printed out of sequence. This page should be printed as page 47. Printer's signatures are in order.] of one, but woulde as well in Writing, as in Speaking, haue them vsed, as //Monosyllaba,// thus: //heavn, seavn, a leavn,// as Maister <Ascham> in his <Toxophilus> doth Yrne, common= ly weitten <Yron:> //Vp to the pap his string did he pull, his shafte to the harde yrne:// Especially the difference so manifestly appearing by the Pronunciation, betwe+ene these two+o, //a leavn a clocke// and //a leaven of Dowe,// whyche //lea--ven// admitted the <Diastole,> you speake of. But se+e, what absurdities thys yl fa= uoured <Orthography,> or rather <Pseudography,> hathe ingendred: and howe one errour still bre+edeth and beget= teth an other. Haue we+e not, //Mo+oneth,// for //Mo+onthe: sithence,// for //since: whilest,// for //whilste: phantasie,// for //phansie: euen,// for //evn: Diuel,// for //Divl: God hys wrath,// for //Goddes wrath:// and a thousande of the same stampe: where= in the corupte <Orthography> in the moste, hathe be+ene the sole, or principall cause of corrupte <Prosodye> in ouer many? Marry, I confesse some wordes we haue inde+ede, as for example, //fayer,// either for beautifull, or for a //Marte: ayer,// bothe //pro a+ere,// and //pro harede,// for we say not //Heire,// but plaine //Aire// for him to (or else <Scoggins Aier> were a po+ore iest) whi= che are commonly, and maye indifferently be vsed eyther wayes. For you that as well, and as ordinarily heare //fayer,// as //faire,// and //Aier,// as //Aire,// and bothe alike: not onely of diuers and sundrye persons, but often of the very same: o= therwhiles vsing the ou[n:x:inverted letter]e , otherwhiles the other: and so //di- ed,// or //dyde: spied,// or //spide: tryed,// or tride: fyer,// or fyre: ## myer,// or //myre:// wyth an infinyte companye of the same sorte: some= time //Monosyllaba,// sometime //Polysyllaba.// To conclude bothe pointes in one, I dare sweare priuately to your selfe, and will defende publiquely againste any, it is neither Heresie, nor Parador, to sette downe, and stande vppon this affection, (notwithstanding all the Preiudices and Presumptions to the contrarie, if they were tenne times ong, [printer's signature: or] =============================================================================== 48[//recto//][x: this page is properly printed as page 48. Printer's signatures remain consistent.] or Diastole, or anye like Grammer Scho+ole Deuice, that doeth, or can inde+ede, either make long or short, or encrease, or diminish the number of Sillables, but onely the common allowed, and receiued <Prosodye:> taken vp by an vniuersall consent of all, and continued by a generall vse, and Custome of all. Wherein neuerthelesse I grant, after long aduise, & diligent observation of particulars, a certain Uniform Ana= logie, and Concordance, being in processe of time espyed out. Sometime this, sometime that, hath be+en noted by go+od wits in their <Analyses,> to fall out generally alyke? and as a man woulde saye, regularly in all, or moste wordes: as Positi= on, Dipthong, and the like: not as firste, and essentiall cau= ses of this, or that effecte, (here lyeth the point) but as Se= cundarie and Accidentall Signes, of this, or that Qualitie. It is the vulgare, and naturall Mother <Prosodye,> that a= lone worketh the feate, as the onely supreame Foundresse, and Reformer of Postition, Dipthong, Orthographie, or whatsoeuer else: whose Affirmatiues are nothing worth, if she once concluded the Negatiue: and whose //secunda+e intentiones// muste haue their whole allowance and warrante from hir //prima+e.// And therefore in shorte, this is the verie shorte, and the long: Position neither maketh shorte, nor long in oure Tongue, but so farre as we can get hir go+od leaue. Perad= uenture, vppon the diligent suruewe, and examination of Particulars, some the like Analogie and Uniformity, might be founde oute in some other respecte, that shoulde as vniuer= sally and Canonically holde amongst vs, as Position doeth with the Latines and Gre+ekes. I saye, (perdauenture,) bycause, hauing not yet made anye speciall Obseruation, I dare not precisely affirme any generall certaintie: albeit I presume, so go+od and sensible a Tongue, as ours is, be+eyng wythall so like itselfe, as it is, cannot but haue something equipollent, and counteruaileable to the beste Tongues, in some one such kinde of conformitie, or other. And this for= so+oth is all the Artificial Rules and Precepts, you are like to borrowe of one man at this time. [printer's signature: //Sed//] =============================================================================== 49[//verso//][x: this page is properly printed as page 49. Printer's signatures remain consistent.] //Sed amabo te, ad Corculi tui delicatissimas Literas, propediem, qua~[m] potero, accuratissme: tot interimillam exquisitissimis salutibus, atq[ue] salutationibus impertiens, quot habet in Capitulo, capillos semiaure- os, semiargenteos, semigemmeos. Quid qua+eris? Per tuam Venerem altera Rosalindula est: eamq[ue] non alter, sed idem ille, (tua, vt ante, bona cum gratia) copiose amat Hobbinolus. O mea Domina Im- merito, mea bellissima Collina Clouta, multo plus plurimum salue, atq[ue] vale.// You knowe my ordinarie <Postscript:> you may commu= nicate as much, or as little, as you list, of these Patcheries, and fragments, with the two Gentlemen: but there a straw, and you loue me: not with any else, friend of foe, one, or o= ther: vnlesse haply you haue a special desire to imparte some parte hereof, to my go+od friend <M.Daniel Rogers:> whose cur= tesies are also registred in my Marble bo+ok. You know my meaning. //Nosti manum & stylum.// <G.> {printer's woodcut} [EPISTULA+E TERCIA+E FINIS.] =============================================================================== ||<TVVO OTHER,>|| ||<very commendable Let->|| ||<ters: both touching the foresaid>|| <Artificiall Versifying, and cer-> <tain other Particulars:> //More lately deliuered vnto the// //Printer.// {printer's woodcut} ||<I M P R I N T E D A T L O N->|| <don, by H.Bynneman, dvvelling> <in Thames streate, ne+ere vnto> <Baynardes Castell.> //Anno Domini.// <1 5 8 0.> //Cum gratia & priuilegio Regia+e Maiestatis.// =============================================================================== 53[//verso//] [printer's woodcut] ||<To the VVorshipfull his very sin->|| ||<gular go+od friend, MAister G.H. Fellovv>|| <of Trinitie Hall in Cambridge.> | Ood Master G. I perceiueby your | most curteous and friendly Letters | your go+od will to be no lesse in de+ed, | than I alwayes este+emed. In reco~[m]= {G} | pence wherof, think I bese+ech you, | that I wil spare neither spe+ech, nor | wryting, nor aught else, whensoe= | uer, and wheresoeuer occasion that | be offred, yea, I will not stay, ____________________________| till it be offred, but will se+eke it, in al that possibly I may. And that you may perceiue how much your Counsel in al things preuaileth with me, and how alto= gither I am ruled and ouer=ruled thereby: I am now deter= mined to alter mine owne former purpose, and to subscribe to your aduizeme[~n]t: being not withsta[~n]ding resolued stil, to abide your farther resolution. My principal doubts are these. First, I was minded for a while to haue intermitted the uttering of my writings: least byouer-much cloying their noble ea= res, I should gather a contempt of my self, or else se+eme ra= ther for gaine and commoditie to doe it, for some swe+etnesse that I haue already tasted. Then also me se+emeth the work to+o base for his excellent Lordship, being made in Honour of a priute Personage vnknowne, which of some yl-willers might be vpbraided, not to be so worthie, as you knowe she is: of the matter not so weightie, that it should be offered to so weightie a Personage: or the like. The selfe former Title [printer's signature: G.iij.still] =============================================================================== 54[//recto//] stil liketh me well ynough, and your fine Additions lesse. If these, and the like doubtes, maye be of importaunce in your se+eming, to frustrate any parte of your aduice, I be+e= se+eche you, without the leaste selfe loue of your own purpose, councell me for the beste: and the rather doe it faithfullye, and carefully, for that, in all things I attribute so muche to your iudgement, that I am euermore content to adnihilate mine owne determinations, in respecte thereof. And inde+ede for your selfe to, it sitteth with you now, to call your wits, & senses togither, (which are alwaies at call when occasion is so fairely offered of Estimation and Perferment. For, whiles th yron is hote, it is go+od striking, and minds of Nobles va= rie, as their Estates. //Verum ne quid durius.// I pray you bethinke you well hereof, go+od Maister<G.> and forthwith write me those two or thre+e special points and ca= ueats for the nonce, //De quibus in superioribus illis mellitissimis, longissimiq[ue] Litteris tuis.// Your desire to heare of my late be+e= ing with hir Maiestie,muste dye in it selfe. As for the two+o worthy Gentlemen, Master <Sidney,> and Master <Dyer,> they haue me, I thanke them, in some vse of familiarity: of whom, and to whome, what speache passeth for youre credite and e= stimation, I leaue your selfe to conceiue, hauing alwayes so well conceiued of my vnfained affection, and zeale towardes you. And nowe they haue proclaimed in their ## {$\alpha\rho\epsilon\iota\omega\pi\alpha\gamma\omega$}, a generall surceasing and silence of balde Rymers, and also of the verie beste to: in steade whereof, they haue by autho= tie of their whole Senate, perscribed certaine Lawes and rules of Quantities of English sillables, for English Verse: hauing had thereof already greate practise, and drawen me+e to their faction. Nowe Bo+okes I heare of none, but only of one, that writing a certaine Bo+oke, called <The Scho+ole of Abuse,> and dedicating it to Maister <Sidney,> was for hys labor scorned: if at leaste it be in the go+odnesse of that nature to scorne. Such follie is it, not to regarde aforehande the inclination and qualitie of him, whome we+e dedicate oure Bo+okes. Such mighte I happily incurre, entituling <My> [printer's signature: <Slomber,>] =============================================================================== 55[//verso//] <Slomber,> and the pther Pamphlets unto his honor. I meant them eather to <Maister Dyer>. But I am, of late, more in loue wyth my Englishe Versifying, than with Ryming: whyche I should haue done long since, if I would the~[n] haue followed your councell. //Sed te solum iam tum suspicabar cum Aschamo sapere: nunc Aulam video egregios alere Poetas Anglicos.// Mai= ster <E.K.> haritly desireth to be commended vnto your Wor= shippe: of whome, what accompte he maketh, youre selfe shall hereafter perceiue, by hys paynefull and dutifull Ver= ses of your selfe. Thus muche was written at Westminister yesternight: but comming this morning, be=eyng the Sixte+enth of October, to Mystresse <Kerkes,> to haue it deliuered to the Carrier, I receyued youre letter, sente me the laste we+eke: whereby I perceiue you otherwhiles continue your old excersise of Ver= sifying in English: whych glorie i had now thought shoulde haue bene onely ours he+er at London, and the Court. Truste me, your Verses I like passingly well, and enuye your hidden paines in this kinde, or rather maligne, and grudge at your selfe, that woulde not once imparte so muche to me. But once, or twice, you make a breache in Maister <Drants> Rules: //quod tamen condonabimus tanto Poeta+e, tuq[ue] ipsus maxime in his rebus autoritati.// You shall se+e when we me+ete in London, (whiche, when it shall be, certify vs) howe fast I haue followed after you, in that Course: beware, leaste in time I ouertake you. //Veruntamen te solum sequar, (vt sapenu- mero sum professus,) nunquam sane assequar, dum viuam.// And nowe requite I you with the like, not with the verye beste, but with the verye shortest, namely with a fewe //Iambickes:// I dare warrant, they be precisely perfect for the fe+ete (as you can easily iudge) and varie not one inch from the Rule. I will imparte yours to Maister <Sidney,> and Maister <Dyer,> at my next going to the Courte. I praye you, ke+epe mine close to your selfe, or your verie entire friendes, Maister <Preston,> Maister <Still,> and the rest. [printer's signature: //Iambicum//] =============================================================================== 56[//recto//] ||//Iambicum Trimetrum//|| | Nhappie Verse, the witnesse of my vnhappie state, V | Make thy selfe fluttering wings of thy fast flying _____| Thought, and fly forth vnto my Loue, whersoeuer she be: Whether lying reastlesse in heauy bedde, or else Sitting so che+erelesse at the che+erfull bo+orde, or else Playing alone carelesse on hir heauenlie Virginals. If in Bed, tell hir, that my eyes can take no reste: If at Bo+orde, tell hir, that my mouth can eate no meate: If at hir Virginals, tel hir, I can heare no mirth. Asked why? say: Waking Loue dothe suffereth no sle+epe: Say, that raging Loue dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting Loue marreth the Musicall. Tell hir, that hir pleasures were wonte to lull me asle+epe: Tell hir, that hir beautie was wonte to fe+ede mine eyes: Tell hir, that hir swe+ete Tongue was wonte to make me mirth. Nowe doe I nightly waste, wanting my kindely reste: Nowe doe I dayly starue, wanting my liuely fo+ode: Nowe doe I alwayes dye, wanting thy timely mirth. And if I waste, who will bewaile my heauy chaunce? And if I starue, who will record my cursed end? And if I dye, who will saye: //this was, Immerito?// I thought once agayne here to haue made an ende, with a heartie //Vale,// of the best fashion: but loe, an ylfauoured mys= chaunce. My last farewell, whereof I made great accompt, and muche maruelled you shoulde make no mention thereof, I am nowe tolde, (in the Diuels name) was thorough one mans negligence quite forgotten, but shoulde nowe vndoub= tedly haue be+ene sent, whether I hadde come, or no. Seing it can now be no otherwise, I pray you take all together, wyth all their faultes: and nowe I hope, you will vouchsafe me+e an answeare of the largest size, or else I tell you true, you shall be+e verye de+epe in my debte: notwythstandyng, thys other swe+ete, but shorte letter, and fine, but fewe Verses. But I woulde rather I might yet se+e youre owne go+od selfe, and receiue a Reciprocall farewell from your owne swe+ete mouth. [printer's signature: //Ad//] =============================================================================== 57[//verso//] ||//Ad Ornati{esset}imum virum, multis iamdiu//|| ||<nominibus clarissimum, G.H. Immerito>|| //sui, mox in Gallias nauigaturi// {$\epsilon\upsilon\tau\upsilon\chi\epsilon\iota\nu$} // {S} |ic malus egregium, sic non inimicus Amicum:// //_____|Sicq[ue] nouus veterem iubet ipse Poeta Poetam,// //Saluere, ac calo post secula multa secundo// //Vtier. Ecce Deus, (modo sit Deus ille, renixum// //Qui vocet in scelus, & iuratos perdat amores).// //Ecce Deus mihi clara dedit modo signa Marinus,// //Et sua veligero lenis parat A+Equora Ligno,// //Mox sulcanda, suas etiam pater A+Eolus Iras// //Ponit, & ingentes animos Aquilonis-------// //Cuncta vijs sic apta meis: ego solus inepius.// //Nam mihi nescio quo mens saucia vulnere, dudum// //Fluctuat ancipiti Pelago, dum Nanita proram// //Inualidam validus rapit huc Amor, & rapit illuc.// //Consiljs Ratio melioribus vsa, decusq[ue]// //Immortale leui diffessa cupindinis Arcu.// //Angimur hoc dubio, & portu vexamar in ipso.// //Magne pharetrati nunc tu contemptor Amoris,// //(ID tibi Dij nomenprecor haud impune remittant)// //Hos nodos exsolue, & eris mihi magnus Apollo.// //Spiritus ad summos, scio, te generosus Honores// //Exstimulat, maiusq[ue] docet spirare Poetam,// //Quam leuis est Amor, & tamen haud leuis est Amor omnis.// //Ergo nihil laudis reputas a+equale perenni,// //Pra+eq[ue] sacrosancta splendoris imagine tanti,// //Ca+eter, qua+e vecors, vti Numina, vulgus adorat,// //Pra+edia, Amicitias, vrbana peculia, Nummos,// //Qua+eq[ue] placent oculis, formas, spectacula, Amores// //Conculcare soles, vt humum, & ludibria sensus.// //Digna meo certe Harueio sententia, digna// [printer's signature: //H.: Oratore//] =============================================================================== 58[//recto//] //Oratore amplo, & generoso pectore, quam non// //Stoica formidet veterum Sapientia vinclis// //Sancire a+eternis: sapor haud tamen omnibus idem,// //Dicitur effa+eti proles facunda La+erta+e,// //Quamlibet ignoti iactata per a+equora Ca+eli,// //Inque procelloso longum exsul gurgite ponto,// //Pra+e tamen amplexu lachrymosa+e Coniugis, Ortus// //ca+elestes Diuumq[ue] thoros spreuisse beatos.// //Tantum Amor, & Mulier, vel Amore potentior, Illum// //Tu tamen illudis: tua Magnificentia tanta est:// //Pra+eq[ue] subumbrata Splendoris Imagine tanti,// //Pra+eq[ue] illo Meritis famosis nomine parto,// //Ca+etera, qua+e Vecors, vti Numina, vulgus adorat,// //Pra+edia, Amicitias, armenta, peculia, nummos,// //Qua+eq[ue] placent ori, qua+eq[ue] auribus, omnia temnis.// //Na+e tu grande sapis, Sapor at sapientia non est:// //Omnis et in paruis bene qui scit desipuisse,// //Sa+epe superciliju palmam sapientibus aufert.// //Ludit Aristippus dictamina vana Sophorum,// //Quos leuis emensi male torquet Culicis vmbra:// //Et quiquis placuisse Studet Heroibus altis,// //Insignire volet, Populoq[ue] placere fauenti,// //Despiere insanus discit, turpemeq[ue] pudenda+e// //Stultita+e laudem qua+erit. Pater Ennius vnus// //Dictus in innumeris sapiens: laudatur at ipse// //Carmina vesano fudisse liquentia vino.// //Nec tu pace tua, nostri cato Maxime sa+ecli,// //Nomen honorali sacrum mereare Poeta+e,// //Quantamuis illistre canas, & nobile Carmen,// //Ni stultire velis, sic Stultorum omnia plena.// //Tula sed in medio superest via gurgite, nam Qui// [printer's signature: //Nec//] =============================================================================== 59[//verso//] //Nec reliquis nimium vult desipuisse videri,// //Nec sapuisse nimis, Sapientem dixeris vnum.// //Hinc te merserit vnda, illinc combusserit Ignis.// //Nec tu delicias nimis aspernare fluentes,// //Nec sero Dominam venientem in vota, nec Aurum// //Si sapis, ablatum, (Curijs ea, Fabricijsq[ue]// //Linque viris miseris miseranda Sophismata: quondam// //Grande sui decus ij, nostri sed dedecus a+eui:) //Nec seclare nimis. Res vtraq[ue] crimine plena.// //Hoc bene qui callet, (si quis tamen hoc bene callet)// //Scribe, vel invito sapientem hunc Socrate solum.// //Vis facit vna pios: Iustos facit altera: et altra// //Egregie cordata, ac fortia pectora: verum// //Omne tulit punctum,// <qui miscuit vtile dulci.> //Dij mihi, dulce diu dederant: verum vtile numq[uam]:// //Vtile nunc etiam, o^ vlinam quoq[ue] dulce dedissent.// //Dij mihi, (quippe Dijs a+equiualia maxima paruis)// //Ni nimis inuideant mortalibus esse beatis,// //dulce simul tribuisse queant, simul vtile: tanta// //Sed Fortuna tua est: pariter qua+eq[ue] vtile, qua+eq[ue]// //Dulce dat ad placitum: sa+euo nos sydere nati// //Qua+esitum imus eam per inhopita caucasa longe,// //Perq[ue] Pyrena+eos montes, Babilonaq[ue] turpem,// //Quod si qua+esitum nec ibi invenerimus, ingens// //A+Equor inexhaustis permensi erroribus, vltra// //Fluctibus in medijs socij qua+eremus Vlyssis.// //Passibus inde Deam fessis comitabimur a+egram,// //Nobile cui furtum qua+erenti defuit orbis.// //Namq[ue] sinu pudet in patrio, tenebrisq[ue] pudendis// //Non nimis ingenio Iuuenem infoelice, virentes// //Officijs frustra deperdere vilibus Annos,// //Frugibus & vacuas speratis cernere spicas.// //Ibimus ergo statim: (quis eunti fausta precetur?)// //Et pede Clivosas fesso calcabimus Alpes.// //Quis dabit interea conditas rore Britanno,// //Quis tibi Litterulas? quis carmen amore petulcum?// [printer's signature: //H.ij.: Musa//] =============================================================================== 60[//verso//] //Musa sub Oebalij desueta cacumine montis,// //Flebit inexhausto tam longa silentia planctu,// //Lugebitq[ue] sacrum lachrymis Helicona tacentem.// //Harueiesq[ue] bonus, (charus licet omnibus idem,// //Idq[ue] suo merito, prope suauior omnibus vnus,)// //Angelus & Garbiel, (quamuis comitalus amicis// //Innumeris, geniu^mq[ue] choro stipatus ama+eno)// <Immerito> //tamen vnum absentem sa+epe requiret,// //Optabitq[ue], Vtinam meus his <Edmundus> adesset,// //Qui noua scripsissei, nec Amores conticuisset// //Ipse suos, & sa+epe animo, verbisq[ue] benignis// //Fausta precartur: Deus illium aliquando reducat, &c.// //Plura vellum per Charites, sed non licet per Musas.// //Vale, vale plurimum, Mi amabilissime Harueie, meo ## cordi, meorum// //omnium longe charissime.// I was minded also to haue sent you some English verses: or Rymes, for a farewell: but by my troth, I haue no spare time in the world, to thinke on such Toyes, that you knowe will demand a fre+er head, than mine is presently. I bese+eche you by all your Courtesies, and Graces, let me be answered, ere I goe: which will be, (I hope, I feare, I thinke) the next we+eke, if I can be dispatched of my Lorde. I goe thither, as sent by him, and maintained most what of him: and there am to employ my time, my body, my minde, to his Honoers seruice. Thus with many superhartie Commendations, and Recommendations to your selfe, and all my friendes with you, I ende my last farewell, not thinking any more to write vnto you, before I goe: and withall committing to your faithfull Credence the eternall Memorie of our euer= lasting friendshippe, the sacred Memorie of our vowed friendship: which I bese+eche you Continue with vsuall writings, as you may, and of all things let me heare some Newes from you. As gentle <M.Sidney,> I thanke his go+od Worship, hath required of me, and so promised to doe againe. //Qui monet, vt// [printer's signature: //facias,//] =============================================================================== 61[//verso//] //facias, quod iam facis,// you knowe the rest. You may alwayes send them most dafely to me by <Mistresse Kerke,> and by none other. So once againe, and yet once more, farewell most hartily, mine owne go+od <Maister H.> and loue me, as I loue you, and thinke vpon po+ore <Immerito,> as he thinketh vppon you. Leycester House. This. <5.> of <October. 1579.> //Per mare, per terras,// //Viuus, mortuusq[ue],// //Tuus Immerito.// [EPISTULA+E PRIMA+E FINIS.] {printer's woodcut} ||<To my verie Friende,>|| <M. Immerito.> //L// |Iberalissimo Signor Immerito,// in go+od so+othe my po+ore Store= ______|house will presently affourd me nathing, either to recom= pence, or counteruaile your gentle Masterships, long, large, lauish, Luxurious, Laxatiue Letters withall, (now a gods name, when did I euer in my life, hunt the Letter before? but, belike, theres no remedie, I must ne+edes be euen with you once in my dayes,) but only for so+othe, a fewe Millions of Recommendations, and a running Coppie of the Verses en= closed. Which Verses, //(extraiocum)// are so well done in <Lat- tin> by two Doctors, and so well translated into English by one odde gentleman, and generally so well allowed of all, that chaunced to haue the perusing of them: that trust me+e, <G.H.> was at the first hardly intreated, to shame himselfe, and truely, now blusheth, to se+e the first Letters of his name, Stande so ne+ere their Names, as of necessitie they must. You know y^e [Read: `the'] //Gre+eke// prouerb, ## {$\pi\o\rho\phi\upsilon\sigma\alpha$} {$\pi\o\tau\iota$} ## {$\pi\o\rho\phi\upsilon\rho\alpha\nu$} ## {$delta\iota\alpha\kappa\rho\iota\tau\iota\alpha$} ## and many colours, (as in a manner euery thing else) that [printer's signature: H.iij.: sene=] =============================================================================== 62[//recto//] seuerally by themselues, se+eme reasonably go+od, and freshe y= nough, beyng compared, and ouermatched wyth their bet= ters are maruellously disgraced, and as it were, dashed quite oute of Countenaunce. I am at this instant, very busilye, and hotly employed in certaine greate and serious affayres: whereof, notwithstanding (for all youre vowed, and long ex= perimented secrecie) you are not like to heare a worde more at the moste, till I my selfe se+e a World more at the leaste. And therefore, for this once I bese+ech you (notwithstanding your greate expectation of I knowe not what Volumes for an aunsweare) content your go+od selfe, with these Presentes, (pardon me, I came lately out of a Scriueners shop) and in lieu of many gentle Fa+erwels, & go+odly Godbewywe, at your departure: gyue me once againe leaue, to playe the Coun= saylour a while, if it be but to iustifie your liberall Master= shippes, //Nostri catomaxime sa+ecli:// and I coniure you by the contents of the Verses, and Rymes enclosed, and by al the go+od, and bad Spirites, that attende vpon the Authors them= selues, immediatly vpon the contemplation thereof, to aban= don all other fo+oleries, and honour Vertue, the onely immor= tall and suruiuing Accident amongst so manye mortall, and euer-perishing Substances. As I strongly presume, so go+od a Texte, so clearklyhandeled, by thre+e so famous Do= ctours, as olde <Maister Wythipole,> and the other two be+e, may easily, and will fully perswade you, howsoeuer you tush at the fourths vnsutable Paraphrase. But a worde or two, to your large, lauishe, laxatiue Letters, and then for thys time, <Adieu.> Of my credite, youre doubtes are not so re= doubted, as youre selfe ouer suspiciously imagine: as I pur= pose shortely to aduize you more at large. Your hotte y= ron, is so hotte, that it striketh me+e to the hearte, I dare not come neare to strike it: The Tyde tarryeth no manne, but manye a go+od manne is fayne t tarry the Tyde. And I knowe some, whyche coulde be content to be+e theyr own Garners, that are gladde to thanle other for theyr courte= [printer's signature: sie:] =============================================================================== 63[//verso//] sie: But Beggars, they saye, muste be no cho+osers. Your new-founded {$\alpha\rho\epsilon\iota\nu\pi\alpha\gamma\o\nu$} ## I honoure more, than you will or can suppose: and make greater accompte of the two+o worthy Gentlemenne, than of two hundreth //Dionisii Areopagita+e,// or the verye notablest Senatours, that euer //A- thens//dydde affourde of that number. Your Englishe //Trimetra// I lyke better, than perhappes you will easily bele+eue: and am to requite them wyth bet= ter, or worse, at more conuenient leysure. Marry, you must pardon me, I finde not your warrant so sufficiently go+od, and substauntiall in Lawe, that it can persuade me, they are all, so precisely perfect for the fe+ete, as your selfe ouer-par= tially we+ene, and ouer-confidently auouche: especiallye the thirde, whyche hathe a fo+ote more than a Lowce (a wonde= rous deformitie in a righte and pure <Senarie>) and the sixte, whiche is also in the same Predicament, vnlesse happly one of the fe+ete be sawed off wyth a payre of <Syncopes:> and then shoulde the Orthographie haue testified so muche: and in steade of //Heauenli Virginals:// you should haue written, //Heaunli Virginals: & Virginals// againe in the ninth, & should haue made a Curtoll of //Immerito// in the laste: being all notwithstandyng vsuall, and tollerable ynoughe, in a mixte, and licentious <Iambicke:> and of two euilles, better (no doubte) the fyrste, than the laste: a thyrde superfluous sillable, tha~[n] a dull <Spon- de+e.> Then me thinketh, you haue in my fancie somwhat to+o many <Sponde+es> beside: and wheras <Troche+e> sometyme presumeth in teh firste place, as namely in the second Verse, //Make thy,// whyche //thy,// by youre Maistershippes owne autho= ritie muste ne+edes be shorte, I shall be faine to supplye the office of the Arte Memoratiue, and putte you in minde of a pretty fable in <Abstemio> the Italian, implying thus much, or rather thus little in effect. A certaine lame man beyng invuted to a solempne Nup= tiall Feaste, made no more adoe, but sate me hym round= lye downe foremoste at the hyghest ende of the Table. [printer's signature: The] =============================================================================== 64[//recto//] The Master of the feast, suddainly spying his presumption, and hansomely remo+ouing him from thence, placed me this haulting Gentleman belowe at the nether end of the bourd: alledging for his defence the common verse: //Sedes nulla da- tur pra+eterquam sexta trocha+e:// and pleasantly alluding to this fo+ote, which standing vppon two syllables, the one long, the other short, (much like, of a like, his guestes fe+ete) is alwayes thrust out of do+ores in a pure, and iust <Senarie.> Nowe, Syr, what thinke you, I began to thinke with my selfe, when I began to reade your warrant first: so boldly, and venterous= ly set downe in so formall, and autentique wordes, as these, <Precisely perfit, and not an inch from the Rule?> Ah Syrrha, and Iesu Lord, thought I, haue we at the last gotten one, of whom his olde friendes and Companions may iustly glory, //In eo solum peccat, quod nihil peccat:// and that is yet more ex= acte, and precise in his English Comicall Iambickes, than euer <M.Watson> himselfe was in his <Lattin> Tragicall Iam= bickes, of whom <M.Ascham> reporteth, that he would neuer to this day suffer his famous <Absolon> to come abrode, onely because //Anapa+estus in Locis paribus,// is twice, or thrice vsed in steade of //Iambus?// A small fault, ywisse, and such a one in <M. Aschams> owne opinion, as perchaunce woulde neuer haue be+ene espyed, no neither in //Italy,// nor in //Fraunce.// But when I came to the curious scanning, and fingering of euery fo+ote, & syllable: Lo here, quoth I, <M.Watsons> //Anapa+estus//for all the worlde. A go+od horse, that trippeth not once in a iourney: and <M.Immerito> doth, but as <M.Watson,> & in a manner all other //Iambici// haue done before him: marry he might haue spared his preface, or at y^e least that same restrictiue, ## & streightlaced terme, <Precisely,> and all had be+en well enough: and I assure you, of my selfe, I bele+eue, no pe+ece of a fault marked at all. But this is the Effect of warrantes, and perhappes the Er= rour may rather proce+ede of his Master, <M.Drantes> Rule than of himselfe. Howsoeuer it is, the matter is not great, and I alwayes was, and will euer continue of this Opinion, [printer's signature: //Pauce//] =============================================================================== 65[//verso//] //Pauca multis condonanda vitia Virtutibus,// especially these being no //Vitia// neither, in common and licencious <Iambicke.> //Ve- rum ista obiter, non quidem contradicendi animo, aut etiam corri- gendi mihi crede: sed nostro illo Academico, pristinoq[ue] more ratio- cinandi.// And to saye trueth, parteky to+o, to requite your gentle courtesie in beginning to me, and noting I knowe not what breache in your gorbellyed Maisters Rules: which Rules go for go+od, I perceiue. My selfe neither sawe them, nor heard of them before: and therefore will neither praise them, nor dis= praise them nowe: but vppon the suruiewe of them, and far= ther conference, (both which I desire) you shall so+one heare one mans opinion to+o or fro. Youre selfe remember, I was wonte to haue some preiudice of the man: and I still re= maine a fauourer of his deserued, and iust commendation. Marry in these poyntes, you knowe, <Partialitie> in no case, may haue a fo+ote: and you remember mine olde Stoicall ex= claimation: <Fie on childish affection, in the discoursing, and deciding of scho+ole matters.> This I say, because you charge me with an vnknowne authoritie: which for aught I know yet, may as wel be either vnsufficient, or faultie, as other= wise: and I dare more than halfe promise, (I dare not saye, warrant) you shall alwayes in these kinde of controuersies, finde me nighe hande answerable inmine owne defence. //Re- liqua omnia, qua+e de hac supersunt Anglicorum versum ratione, in aliud tempus reseruabimus, ociosum magis.// Youre Latine Fare= well is a go+odly braue yonkerly pe+ece of work, and Goddilge ye+e, I am alwayes maruellously beholding vnto you, for your bountifull Titles: I hope by that time I haue be+en re= sident a yeare or two+o in <Italy,> I shall be better qualifyed in this kind, and more able to requite your lauishe, and mag= nificent liberalitie that way. But to let Titles and Tittles passe, and come to the very pointe in de+ede, whiche so neare toucheth my lusty Trauayler to the quicke, and is one of the pra+edominant humors y^e raigne in our co~[m]mon Youths: //Heus mi tu, bone proce, magne muliercularum amator, egregie Pamphile,// [printer's signature: I.: //eum//] =============================================================================== 66[//recto//] //eum aliquando tandem, qui te manet, qui mulierosos omnes, qui v- niuersam Faministarum sectam,// <Respice finem.> And I shal then be content to appeale to your owne learned experience, whe= ther it be, or be not, to+o to+o true: //quod dici ame sa+epe: ate ipso nonnunq~[uam]: ab expertis omnibus quotidie: Amare amarum: Nec deus, vt perhibent, Amor est, sed amaror, & error: & quicquid in eandem solet sententiam Empiric{$\omega$}s aggregari. Ac scite mihi quide~[m] Agrippa Ouidianam illam, <de Arte Amandi,> ## {$\epsilon\pi\iota\gamma\rho\alpha\phi\eta\nu$} videtur correxisse, meritoq[ue] <de Arte Meretricandi,> inscripsisse. Nec vero inepte alius, <Amatores Alchumistis> comparauit, au- reos, argenteosq[ue] montes atq[ue] fontes lepide somniantibus, sed interim misere immanibus Carbonum fumis propemodum occa+ecatis, atq[ue] e- tiam suffocatis: pra+eterq~[uam] celebratum illum Adami Paradisum, alium esse quendam pra+eicauit, stultorum quoq[ue] Amatorumq[ue] mirabilem Paradisum: illum vere, hunc phantastice, fanaticeq[ue] beatorum: Sed ha+ec alias, fortassis verius.// Credite me, I will neuer linne bai= tyng at you, til I haue rid you quite of this yonkerly, & wo= manly humor. And as for your spe+edy and hasty trauell: me thinks I dare stil wager al the Bo+oks & writings in my stu= dy, which you know, I este+eme of greater value, than al the golde & siluer inmy purse, or chest, that you wil not, (and yet I must take he+ede, how I make my bargine with so sub= tile and intricate a Sophister) that you shall not, I saye, be+e gone ouer Sea, for al your saying, neither the next, nor the nexte we+eke. And then peraduenture I may personally per= forme your request, and bestowe the swe+etest Farewell, vp= on your swe+etmouthed Mastershippe, that so vnswe+et a tong, and so sowre a paire of Lippes can affo+ord. And, thinke you I will leaue my //Il Pellegrino// so? No I trowe. My Lords Honor, the expectation of his friendes, his owne cre= dite and preferment, tell me, he muste haue a moste speciall care, and go+od regarde of employing his trauaile to the best. And therfore i am studying all this fortnight, to reade him suche a Lecture in <Homers Odysses,> and <Virgils A+Eneads,> that I dare vndertake he shall not ne+ede any further instru= ction, in <Maister Turlers Trauayler,> or <Maister Zuingers> [printer's signature: <Methodus>] =============================================================================== 67[//verso//] <Methodus Apodemica:> but in his whole trauaile abroade, and euer after at home, shall shewe himselfe a verie liuelys and absolute picture of <Vlysses> and <A+Eneas.> Wherof I haue the stronger hope he muste ne+edes proue a most capable and apt subiect (I speake to a Logician) hauing the selfe same Goddesses and Greaces attendant vpon his body and mind, that euermore guided them, & their actions: especially y^e ones <Mineura,> and the others <Venus:> that is (as one Doctoe ex= poundeth it) the pollitique head, and wise gouernement of the one: and the amiable behauiour, and gratious courtesie of the other: the two verye principall, and moste singular Companions, of a right Trauailer: and as perhaps one of oure subtile Logicians woulde saye, the two inseparable, and indivisible accidents of the foresaide Subiects. //De quibus ipsis, ca+eterisq[ue] omnibus artificis Apodemici instrumentis: imprimisq[ue] de Homerica illa, diuinaq[ue] herba ## {$\mu\omega\lambda\upsilon\$} {$delta\epsilon\$} {$\mu\iota\nu$} ## {$\kappa\alpha\lambda\epsilon\o\upsilon\sigma\iota$} ## {$\theta\epsilon\o\iota$}) qua Vlissem suum Mercurius, aduersus <Cyrce> & pocula, & carmina, & venena, morbosq[ue] omnes pra+emuniuit: & coram, uti spero, breui: & longe, uti soleo, copiosius: & fortasse etiam, aliquanto, quam soleo, cum subtilius, tum vero Pollitice, Pragmaticeq[ue] magis. Interim tri- bus eris syllabis contentus, ac valebis.// <Trinitie Hall,> stil in my Gallerie. <23.> Octob. <1579.> In haste. Yours, as you knowe. G.H. [printer's signature: I.ij.: <Cer->] =============================================================================== 68[//recto//] ||//Certaine Latin Verses, of the fraltie and//|| ||<mutabilitie of all thinges, sauing onely Ver->|| //tue: made by M.Doctor Norton, for the right// <Worshipfull, M. thomas Sackford, master of> <Requestes vnto hir Maistie.> {$\alpha\kappa\rho\o\sigma\iota\chi\alpha.$} ||<Th.>|| {T} |//Empora furtiuo morsu laniantur ama+ena,// ||<S>||________| //Sentim florescunt, occubitura breui.// ||<A>|| //Anni vere salit, senio mox conficiendus,// ||<C>|| //Cura, labor ditant, non eademq[ue] premunt?// ||<F>|| //Fallax, vel vigils studio Sa+epientis parta// ||<O>|| //Oh, & magnatum gloria sa+epe iacet,// ||<R>|| //Res inter varias fluimus, ruimusque gradatim:// ||<D.>|| //Dulcia virtutis pra+emia sola manent.// ||The same paraphrastically varied by M.|| //doctor Gouldingam, at the request of olde// <M. Wythipoll of Ipswiche.> ||T.|| {T} |//Empora furtiuo labuntur dulcia cursu,// ||S||__________| //Subsiduntq[ue] breui, qua+e viguere diu.// ||A|| //Autumno capitur, quicquid nouus educat annus:// ||C|| //Curla Iuuentutis gaudia, fata secani.// ||F|| //Fallax Amcitio est, atq[ue] anxia cura tenendi,// ||O|| //Obsurum decus, & nomen inane Sophi.// ||R|| //Res Fors humanas incerio turbine voluit, ||D.|| //Dulcia Virtutis pra+emia sola manent.// [printer's signature: ||//Olde//||] =============================================================================== 69[//verso//] ||//Olde Maister Wythipols//|| //owne Translation.// <O> |<Vr merry dayes, by theeuish bit are pluckt, and torne away,> ____|<And euery lustie growing thing in short time doth decay.> <The pleasaunt Spring times ioy, how soone it groweth olde?> <And wealth that gotten is with care, doth noy as much, be bolde.> <No wisdome had with Trauaile great, is for to trust in deede,> <For great Mens state we see decay, and fall downe like a weede.> <Thus by degrees we fleete, and sinke in worldly things full fast,> <But Vertues sweete and due rewards stande sure in euery blast.> ||<The same Paraphrastically varied by>|| <Maister G.H. at M.Peter Wythipolles> //request, for his Father// <T> |<Hese pleasant dayes, and Monthes, and yeares, by stelth do passe apace,> ____|<And do not things, that florish most, soone fade, and lose their grace?> <Iesu, how soone the Spring of the yeare, and Spring of youthfull rage,> <Is come, and gone, and ouercome, and ouergone with age?> <In paine is gaine, but doth not paine as much detract from health,> <As it doth adde vnto our store, when most we roll in wealth?> <Wisedome hir selfe must haue hir doome, and grauest must to graue,> <And mightiest power sib to a flower: what then remaines to craue?> <Nowe vp, now downe, we flowe, and rowe in seas of worldly cares,> <Vertue alone eternall is, and shee the Laurell weares.> //L'Enuoy.// <Soone said, soone writ, soone learnd: soone trimly done in prose, or verse:> <Beleeued of some, practizd of fewe, from Cradle to their Herse.> //Virtuti, non tibi Feci.// <M.Peter Wythipoll.> //Et Virtuti, & mihi:// //virtuti, ad laudem:// //Mihi, ad usum.// ||//FINIS.//|| [no printer's signature] [EPISTULA+E SECUNDA+E FINIS.] =============================================================================== \end{document}