ne, a castaway, [5320]_In quem fortuna omnia odiorum suorum
crudelissima tela exonerat_, a dead man, the scorn of fortune, a monster of
fortune, worse than nought, the loss of a kingdom had been less.
[5321]Aretine's Lucretia made very good proof of this, as she relates it
herself. "For when I made some of my suitors believe I would betake myself
to a nunnery, they took on, as if they had lost father and mother, because
they were for ever after to want my company." _Omnes labores leves fuere_,
all other labour was light: [5322]but this might not be endured. _Tui
carendum quod erat_--"for I cannot be without thy company," mournful
Amyntas, painful Amyntas, careful Amyntas; better a metropolitan city were
sacked, a royal army overcome, an invincible armada sunk, and twenty
thousand kings should perish, than her little finger ache, so zealous are
they, and so tender of her good. They would all turn friars for my sake, as
she follows it, in hope by that means to meet, or see me again, as my
confessors, at stool-ball, or at barley-break: And so afterwards when an
importunate suitor came, [5323]"If I had bid my maid say that I was not at
leisure, not within, busy, could not speak with him, he was instantly
astonished, and stood like a pillar of marble; another went swearing,
chafing, cursing, foaming." [5324]_Illa sibi vox ipsa Jovis violentior ira,
cum tonat_, &c. the voice of a mandrake had been sweeter music: "but he to
whom I gave entertainment, was in the Elysian fields, ravished for joy,
quite beyond himself." 'Tis the general humour of all lovers, she is their
stern, pole-star, and guide. [5325]_Deliciumque animi, deliquiumque sui._
As a tulipant to the sun (which our herbalists calls Narcissus) when it
shines, is _Admirandus flos ad radios solis se pandens_, a glorious flower
exposing itself; [5326]but when the sun sets, or a tempest comes, it hides
itself, pines away, and hath no pleasure left, (which Carolus Gonzaga, duke
of Mantua, in a cause not unlike, sometimes used for an impress) do all
inamorates to their mistress; she is their sun, their _Primum mobile_, or
_anima informans_; this [5327]one hath elegantly expressed by a windmill,
still moved by the wind, which otherwise hath no motion of itself. _Sic tua
ni spiret gratia, truncus ero._ "He is wholly animated from her breath,"
his soul lives in her body, [5328]_sola claves habet interitus et salutis_,
she keeps the keys of his life: his fortune ebbs and flows wit