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a19368	Memorable conceits of diuers noble and famous personages of Christendome, of this our moderne time; Divers propos memorables des nobles & illustres hommes de la chrestienté. English	Corrozet, Gilles, 1510-1568.	1602 (1602)	STC 5795; ESTC S105084	127,092	418

Alphonsus ALphonsus king of Naples had in his Court a foole or iester who did vse to put downe in a booke or paire of writing tables all the follies at least those which he thought such of all the Lords Gentlemen and others of his time which he knew to frequent the Court. It happened that the king Alphonsus hauing a Moore in his house sent him into the Leuāt with ten thousand duckets there to buy him horses the foole set downe in his booke this act of the king as a tricke of folly A few daies after the king Alphonsus called to his foole to see his booke hauing not seene it of a good time before In reading within it in the end thereof he found the historie of himselfe and his Moore and the 10000. duckets which he had deliuered him whereat the king being offended and growing into choler demaunded of the foole wherefore he had put him in his booke Because quoth the foole you did a very foolish act in giuing your money to a straunger whome you are like to see no more But how if he come backe againe said the king and bring the horses with him where is my folly then Marrie replyed the foole whensoeuer he commeth againe I will then blot your name out of my booke and will put in his in stead of yours for then I shall hold him the more foole of the two The magnificence of a king of England CHiniton or Chinite king of England who raigned about the yeare of Christ 1025. was of so haughtie and so great a mind that he caused a royal throne to be prepared and erected for him neare the sea side and seeing the tide to beat with the waues against his seat he spake out aloud vnto the sea Thou art my subiect and the land whereon I am set is mine and therefore I forbid thee to rise against my land or to wet the bodie and apparell of thy Lord and maister the sea notwithstanding holding on his course in flowing came to wet his feete which he seeing presently gaue backe and said Now may all men know that all humane power is but meere vanitie and no mortall man is worthy to beare the name of a king but he only to whose commaund the heauens the earth and the sea by a perpetuall decree are subiect and obedient A pleasant conceipt of an Italian Gentleman vpon the interpretation of the names of two Popes AFter the death of Pope Alexander the sixt Nicholas the fifth being created Pope certain Italian Gentlemen walking in the Popes hall deuised together of the death of the one and the creation of the other and of the conditions of thē both Amongst them was maister Antonio Agnello who with a good grace said vnto the rest of the company My maisters you need not much to trouble your selues in giuing your iudgements of the two Popes for I beleeue that these two inscriptions will easily resolue vs of our doubts and so saying he cast his eye vpon one of the two portals of the hall and standing still shewed them with his finger this inscription Alexander PP VI. which signifieth Alexander Pope the sixth of that name See said he what this inscription doth import Is it not as much as to say that Alexander was made Pope by force Let vs see now if we can vnderstand any thing touching the new Pope then turning himselfe as if it had bene at aduentures to the other portall he shewed them this inscription N. PP V. which signifieth Nicholas Pope the fifth O Lord God quoth he see here is ill newes Nihil Papa valet that in English is The Pope is nothing woorth An honourable act of an Italian Lord. AN Italian Nobleman surnamed the grand Captaine being set at his table and seeing two Gentlemen who had serued very valiantly in the warres to stand below in his hall because the seates at the table were all filled he immediatly arose and caused all the rest of his guests to make place for these two saying Make place I pray for these two Gentlemen to dine for if they had not bene in our company elsewhere we should not haue had at this time whereof to eate Of a mocke which he gaue to another Gentleman THe same Captaine seeing a Gentleman of his own come before him in good order and richly armed after the battell of Serignolle and when all things were safe and in quiet he said vnto his company We neede not now feare any storme for Saint Hermes hath appeared vnto vs. By this quippe he taxed the Gentleman to be of small valour for comming to the field after al daunger of fight was past for the common opinion is that Saint Hermes doth vse to appeare at sea to the Mariners after that the furie of a tempest at sea is gone past A speech of the same Captaine to a Gentleman touching himselfe DIego Garsia Spanish Gentleman counselled the grand Captaine Gonsaluo to withdraw himselfe from a place of great daunger where the Artillerie of the enemie did play vpō them O quoth he seeing that God hath not put any feare in thy courage do not thou seeke to put any in mine Of the brother of the great Turke GEin Ottoman brother vnto the great Turke being prisoner at Rome and seeing the Gentlemen of Italy to iust a●d tilt together he said That that manner of turney in his opinion seemed too much to be done in sport and too little to be done in earnest It happened on a time that one in the presence of this Turke highly commended the young king Ferdinand of Naples in regard he was a man of excellent agility and actiue of his person for running vaulting leaping and other corporall exercises of that kind whereof he tooke occasiō to say That in his countrey those were the exercises of slaues and that the young Gentlemen and Noblemen did learne to practise bountie and liberalitie and that by such vertues they made themselues the more commendable Liberalitie is a vertue whereby Princes do purchase and entertaine the loue both of their subiects and of strangers A pleasant quip giuen to a Gentleman by the Marquesse of Mantua THe Marquesse Frederick of Mantua sitting at the table in companie of many Gentlemen one of them after he had eaten vp all the broth tooke his porenger with that little that remained and threw it on the ground saying withall as it were by way of excuse my Lord I pray pardon me whereupon the Marquesse suddenly answered Demand pardō of the swine for if there be any harm done it is to them and not to me A comparison made by Iohn Gonzaga THe lord Iohn de Gonzaga playing and loosing his money at dice saw that his sonne Alexander did grieue at his losse whereupon he said vnto some Gentlemen there present It is written of Alexander the Great that when he heard of a victorie gotten by his father Philip king of Macedon and of a realme which he had conquered

of the body and many times in vessels of base stuffe are enclosed most precious liquours The subtill request of Iohn de Menu to saue himselfe from the furie of certaine Ladies QVite contrarie to the former act was that which a Queene of Fraunce with her ladies did vnto Iohn de Menu the first and principall Poet of the French nation for he hauing composed that renowned booke of The Roman of the Rose in the which he bringeth in a iealous man that speaketh all the euill that possibly can be imagined of women and their dispositions by reason thereof he incurred the indignation and displeasure of the Queene and other Ladies who determined to be reuenged of him One day therefore the Queen by the means of the other Ladies did so much that she got Iohn de Menu in her power and hauing reuiled iniuried and threatened him exceedingly for speaking ill of womenkind she commaunded her damosels to strippe him naked and to tye him to a pillar purposing that they themselues should scourge him He seeing that all the reasons and excuses which he could make could not preuaile against their rage and furie humbly intreated that before they began to execute their wrath and malice vpon him it wold please the Queene to graunt him one request which with great difficultie he obtained Well then quoth he faire Ladies seeing you haue vouchsafed me this fauour as to condescend vnto my demaund I pray you that the most arrant and notorious whore in all your company may begin to whippe me and to giue me the first stripe This said they were all confounded and amazed and left him alone at his libertie The answer of the Lord Chabanes to king Lewis the eleuenth KIng Levvis the eleuenth hauing giuen charge to Baluë Bishop of Eureux to go take and receiue the muster of the men of armes in Paris The lord of Chabanes great Maister of Fraunce requested the king to graunt him a Commission to go and reforme the Chanons of the Church of Eureux Why quoth the king that is no fit and conuenient charge for you yea but said he this is as well befitting to my estate and calling as it is for the Bishop of Eureux to haue to do with the ordering of men at armes A historie of a Radish giuen to king Lewis the eleuenth THe same king Levvis being but yet Dolphin of Fraunce did for a certaine time soiourne and remain in Burgundie for feare of his father during the which vsing to take his pleasure and recreation in hunting he did often frequent and resort to the cottage of a poore forrester named Conon as it is often seene that great Princes do sometimes take pleasure to be familiar with people of meane reckening with whome taking his repast he did vse diuerse times to eate Radishes Afterwards coming to be king this poore fellow Conon by the perswasion of his wife in hope to feele the bountie and liberalitie of the Prince came into Fraunce and brought with him of the fairest Radishes of his garden to make a present of them to his Maiestie but by constraint of hunger for want of victuals on the way he was enforced to eate them vp al saue one which was the greatest and fairest of them all Being come to the Court he was knowne by the king who sent for him to his presence and he good man verie cheerefully presented the great Radish vnto his Maiestie The king tooke it and accepted it very graciously and caused one that was neare about him to lay it vp amongst his chiefest and most precious iewels and after he made the forrester to dine well he gaue him a thousand Crownes and so dismissed him It happened not long after that a Courtier vpon a vaine hope presented the king with a very goodly horse of a most excellent making and perfection in all parts supposing that the king would recompence him for him most bountifully The king bethinking himselfe wherwith he might reward him remembred him of his Radish which being wrapped vp in white paper he gaue to the Courtier telling him that he should accept of that in good part The gentleman returning to his lodging and hoping to find some great treasure vnfolded his packet and found nothing but a Radish whereupon he went and made his complaint vnto the king thinking that he had but mistaken one thing for another but the king presently made him this answer Passion of God man I think I haue well payed for thy horse for the present which I gaue thee cost me a thousand crownes This vvas a most royall kind of liberalitie in recompensing bountifully the good affections and long trauels of a poore man vvell deseruing and to revvard the audacious according to his demerites The speech of a President of Paris to king Levvis the twelfth A Great Lord of Fraunce betaking himselfe to force of armes violently entred the prison of the Castle of Paris and tooke thence a Gentleman of his house who was held there prisoner and led him away The lord of Vacquerie chiefe and first President in the Parliament of Paris being aduertised of this case went vnto the king Levvis the twelfth vnto whome after he had done due reuerence he said Sir I wonder how you can be merrie considering the wrong that is done you and me thinkes you shold feele it Wherfore quoth the king Because sir said he your right arme is broken I vnderstand you not replyed the king your right arme sir quoth the President is your iustice which is now broken and violated and so recounted vnto him from point to point what had happened wherewith the king was highly displeased and hauing caused the Lord to be sent for to appeare before him he commaunded him to repaire his fault and made him to yeeld such satisfaction as was fit and according to reason Iustice is that vvherby Princes do raign and it is the principall force and strength to preserue a realme in good estate A iudgement of a king of England A King of England seeing two Gentlemen earnestly contending and desiring the combat each of other for the armes of their houses for both of them bore a Buls head in their shield before they entred into the lists to darreine the battell he called them both before him seuerally and in secret and said vnto them As farre as I can perceiue the onely thing that induceth you to claim the combate each of other is that the one of you cannot suffer the other to carrie the armes of his family But if I can bring it to passe shew you how the Armes of your aduersarie are farre different from yours will you be contented to surcease your quarrell and to leaue the combate Whereunto when either of them had seuerally consented the king by a Herald caused it to be proclaimed that he had found a meane to accord them and that their armes were diuerse for from hencefoorth quoth the king the one shall beare in his shield