Successore novo vincitur omnis amor. (II
7. Quamvis infelix media torreberis Aetna : (TI, 95) Frigidior dominae fac videare tuae. (II, 96)
Et sanum simula : (II, 97)
See nec, siquid forte dolebis, (IT, 97)
Sentiat : et ride, cum tibi flendus eris. (II, 98)
10. ? Intrat amor mentes usu : dediscitur usu : (II, 107) 11. Dixerit, ut venias pacta tibi nocte : venito : (II, 109) Veneris : et fuerit janua clausa : feres. (II, 110)
12. Postera lux aderit : careant tua verba querelis (IT, 113) Et nulla in vultu signa dolentis habe. (II, 114)
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De Remedio Amoris
LYLY ET OVIDE 593
be carefull, if thou languish, then will shee bee lauish of hir honour !, yea & of the other straunge beast hir honestie. Stande thou on thy pantuffles, and shee will vayle bonnet ?. Lye thou aloofe, and she will ceaze on the lure, if thou passe by hir dore and be called backe, either seeme deafe and not to heare, or desperate, and not to care 3. Fly the places, the parlours, the portalles, wherein thou hast bene conuersaunt with thy Lady“, yea Philautus shunne the streete where Lucilla doth dwell, least the sighte of hir window, renew the summe of thy sorrow.
Yet although I woulde haue thee precise, in keeping these precepts, yet woulde I haue thee to auoyde sollytarinesse, that breedes melancholy, melancholy, madnesse 5, madnesse mischiefe and vtter desolation : haue euer some faithfull pheere, with whome thou mayst communicate thy councells, some Pilades to encourage Orestes 5, some Damon to release Pithias, some Scipio to recure Laelius. Phillis in wandringe the woodes hanged hir selfe 7 : Asiarchus forsakinge companye, spoyled himselfe with his own hodkin : Biarus a Romaine, more wise then fortunate, beeing alone destroyed himselfe with a potsherd. Beware solitarines 8. But although I would haue thee vse companye for thy recreation, yet woulde I haue thee alwaies to leaue the company of those y‘ accompany thy Lady”,
1. Jam ponet fastus, cum te languere videbis (II, 115). (Lyly n’a évidemment pas compris le sens de ce vers.)
