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CHAP. XXXVIII. How Perierio and Marcelio, with the rest of their company, taking leave of the Lady Felicia, departed.

THe Lady Felicia hearing Perierio and the Dut∣chess so earnestly each stand to their own say∣ings, merrily brake up their gentle cavil, say∣ing: I perceive (Gentiles) if my Nymph had not ministred occasion of talk we had béen very silent all supper time. But yet (quoth the Dutchess) with our rude discourse, it may be we have bred trouble to your ears, and this company. Not to me truly quoth Felicia.) Nor to us I dare say for the rest (quoth Marcelo.) As for me (said Alcida) I have conceived great delight in hea∣ring the well agreeing strife betwéen the two disputants; considering that though in words they disagreed yet in sense, they both agrée in one: as in spéeches the Dutchess hath show∣ed, that love néedeth not to respect reason, so in very déed hath she by example shewed, that she hath vertuously loved, & there∣fore her self guid•••• her love with reason. And no doubt quoth ancient Eugerio) where she saith, that love must not be tied to reason, her meaning is, that they which love, ought in such manner to pursue their love, that they do things which are be∣yond the common expectation of men; and indéed such things

as may séem to be against reason. so long as they are not con∣trary to vertue: for considering, that she would have such as love, not to overrun vertue, in my opinion she cannot be much discrepant from Perierio in that he would have love guided by rea••on meaning thereby that he would not have so excellent a thing as love is, disgraced with vice, which cannot be com∣mitted by the counsel or consent of reason.

Thus was supper time spent, which being ended and the cloth taken up by the Nymphs, the Lady Felicia with all the company walked out into the fields to recreate themselves, and take the evening air: which done the curtain of darkness being spread all over the air they were warned to return to the Palace, where they were all accompanied to their lodg∣ings by the Nymphs. The next morning, Marcelio with his Alcida, and her father Eugerio, and her brother and sister Poly∣dor and Clenarde, took their leave of the Lady Felicia, yéelding her as many thanks as they might, and departed thence to end their journy which they had taken to Lisbon, there to celebrate their marriage as they purposed when they took ship. In like manner, the beautifull shepheards Lexander and Ismenia, departed from the Lady Felicia to return home to their vil∣lage, being glad they had so hapily met in that place.

Furthermore, Perierio now delivered from the furious pas∣sion that overturned his understanding before, merrily taketh leave of the company, and taketh his journey to Salamanca. The Dutchess Brisil remained with the Lady Felicia, until she heard some certainty of Periander, which Felicia said would not be long. The rest of whose histo••y, with the event thereof, what hapned to him before he was married to Brisil and crown∣ed King of Albion; with the success which Maffeo had, after he departed from Felicia to séek his Eleonora; and lastly, the advē∣tures of Perierio, with the loves of his beautiful, vertuous and noble sisters. Euphilia and Perina, after the death of their aged father, Camillo, if almighty God give me life and leisure, I wil write hereafter for y^e pleasure of my loving country-men. In the mean time I cōmit my self to their prayers, and them to the tuition of God,