Orpharion, Greens of Groatsworth of Wit, the Repentance of Robert Greene, Greenes Vision 1592-1599

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. … GREENES VISION. Fter I was burdened with the penning of the Cobler of Canterbury, I waxed passing melancholy, as grieuing that either I mold be wrong with enuy, or wronged with suspition. But whe I entred into the consideratio, that slander spareth not Kinges, I brookt it with the more patience, & thought, that as the strongest gustes offend lesse the low shrubs than the tall So the blemish of report would make a less scarre in a cottage than in a yet I could not but conceit it hardly, and so in a discontented humor I sat me down vpon my bed-side, and began to cal to remembrance what fond and wanton lines had past my pen, how I had bent my course to a wrong shore, as beating my brains about such vanities as were little profitable, sowing my seed in the sand and so reaping nothing but thornes and thistles. As thus I recounted ouer the follies that youth led me vnto, I stept to my Standish that stood hard by, and writ this Ode. Greenes Ode, of the vanitie of wanton writings. Hough Tytirus the Heardsfwaine, Phillis loue-mate felt the paine, That Cupid fiers in the eie, Till they loue or till they die, With pleasant voyce and cunning Telling in his song how faire, Phillis eie-browes and hir haire. How hir face past all For white for red Roses. Though he sounded on the hils, Such fond passions as loue wils, That all the Swaines that foulded by, Flockt to heare his harmonie, And vowed by Pan that Tytirus Did Poet-like his loues difcufse, That men might learne mickle good, By the verdict of his mood; Yet olde Meneleas ouer-ag d, That many winters there had wag’d. Straigned ditties from his pipe. / Sitting by and hearing Said, their wordes were all amijfe. For (quoth he) such wanton laies, Are…