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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43915	The history of the birth, travels, strange adventures, and death of Fortunatus wherein is contained such variety both of comical and tragical discourse, that the like is not afforded in any histories of this nature : there being added likewise several new additions which was not in the original copy from whence it was translated ... : with the illustration of several new pictures.; Fortunatus (Romance). English.		1682 (1682)	Wing H2145; ESTC R4743	59,126	85

THE HISTORY OF THE Birth Travels Strange Adventures and DEATH of Fortunatus Wherein is Contained such Variety BOTH OF COMICAL AND Tragical Discourse That the like is not afforded in any Histories of this Nature There being added likewise several new Additions which was not in the Original Copy from whence it was Translated It being not onely Useful but very Necessary for Old and Young Wherein they may plainly see the Follies of Riches and greatness and learn how to avoid temptations of that nature that often brings Men into danger of life As also Youths may by this be instructed how to behave themselves in their Travels or upon any occasion whatsoever With the Illustration of several New Pictures London Printed by and for T. Haly and are to be Sold by the Book-sellers of London 1682. THE EPISTLE TO THE READER I Need not say much in the praise of this Book but rather leave it to the censure of the impartial Reader who I doubt not will find such pleasure in perusing it that he will never think his time ill bestowed upon that occasion for in it as in a mirror is plainly demonstrated all the follies of extravagant Youth the vanity of aspiring greatness the trouble perplexity and hazards that commonly attend upon Riches as likewise the malice subtilty and cunning devices of wicked men together with the snares that are layed by false and dissembling Women to intrap the too too credulous Youths and then to plunge them into an Ocean of misery which many times drives them upon the dangerous Rock of dispair or causes them to take bad courses to maintain that pride and gallantry from whence they are fallen which in the end most commonly brings them to shame and disgrace In it are likewise contained many cautions how to avoid danger and to foresee the same It being composed of large experience partly Commical and partly Tragical giving not only an account of the Life strange Adventures and Death of the party from whom it takes its name but likewise of several as well Kings and Princes as others As also a description of many strange Countries with their manners customes and commodities And to conclude is so delightful that none of this nature have excelled it it being written as well for pleasure as profit The Contents of the BOOK IN Cyprus Isle liv'd Theodorus fam'd In a fair City Famagosto nam'd Extravagant and wild he spent his store That by excess he grew so wondrous poor That Fortunatus all the Sons he had Was forc'd to wander as kind fortune led When oft he death and danger did escape Encountring Bares or worse in humane shape When as by chance he did Dame Fortune meet Who him lost in a darksome Wood did greet Gave him a Purse that he should ne'r be poor And bid his Sons likewise possess the store With this he roves the world from coast to coast Leopoldo hires who kills the faithless Host To Cyprus he returns his Parents dead There builds a Pallace and a Wife does wed Leaving Two Sons again to Travel bent When in strange Countries sixteen years he spent Returning from the Souldan King does bear A Hat which wishing bares him through the air Returns and dying to his Sons bequeaths His Hat and Purse and all their vertues leaves Ampedo eldest Andolocia next Their Mother dyes with grief so sore perplext When Andolocia with the Purse does rome And mild Ampedo stays content at home After much fame acquir'd in Princes Courts To England Andolocia straight resorts And spends his time in feasting and in sports Till Agrippina's beauty proves a snare And makes him whence his Riches flow declare Then whilst he is with drowsiness opprest He of his Purse is quickly dispossest Then from his Brother he conveys the Hat With which after much toil the Purse he got The Princess is to Theodorus Wed Young Cyprus Prince and to that Court is led There Andolocia by his martial feats The envy of some envious Nobles gets Who in a wood at his return do slay His Men and him in a deep Dungeon lay Bereave him of his Purse and then his life For which 2 Earls did dye to end the strife Ampedo hearing of his Brothers death Burns his swift Hat and then resigns his breath THE HISTORY OF FORTUNATUS CHAP. I. Of the Parentage and Birth of Fortunatus IN Famogosta a Famous City in the Isle of Cyprus lived one Theodorus descended of Noble Patentage who by the Decease of his Father had a plentiful Estate fell into his hands but he being of a haughty Mind gave himself wholly up to the Pleasures and Vanity of the World He associated himself with the Great Men of the Country and lived riotously spending his time for the most part in Gaming Hunting Hawking and Sumptuous Entertainments the which in a short time greatly diminished his Estate which his Friends perceiving and being much grieved thereat thought there was no better way to restrain his Licentious manner of Life than by matching him to a Wife This being resolved upon and he not contradicting the Motion they sought for a fair young and vertuous Lady throughout all the Citys of Cyprus and at last in Nicova found one that well-liked them she being Daughter to a Wealthy Merchant and adorned with all the Perfections that appertain to Womankind her Name being Gratiana to this Lady by the Consent of her Father Theodorus was shortly married and for a time lived in great Splendor the first Year having by her a fair Son whom they named Fortunatus but this little or nothing restrained his Extravagancies Insomuch that in a short time after the Marriage notwithstanding the large Portion he had with his Wife he was brought to extream Poverty which made him repent though now too late so that oftentimes being hunger-pined and in great want he looking upon his Son who by this time was a comely Youth would sigh and let fall Tears which so afflicted the Young-man that he one day demanded the Cause desiring to know whether he had offended him in ought the which if he had he would strive to amend it To whom the sorrowful Father replied He had never offended him but it was the exceeding Penury to which by his Extravagancies he was reduced to that maded as he saw To which the Youth replied Let not that trouble you for as for me I have received such good Education under you that I can shift for my self in any place of the World but he perceiving his Father still troubled and alwaies sigh when he looked upon him he conjectured it was for his sake and therefore resolved to be no longer chargeable to him Whereupon one Day taking his Stick in his hand he went to the Sea-side where he had not staied long but a Gasly put to shore in which was the Earl of Flanders who was returned from Jerusalem they had not been long on shore to refresh themselves but the Earl caused the Trumpet to sound to