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A08554	The ninth part of the Mirrour of knight-hood eing the fourth booke of the third part thereof: wherein is declared, the high and noble actes of the sonnes and nephewes of the noble Emperour Trebacius, and of the rest of the renoumed princes and knights, and of the high cheualrie of the gallant ladyes: wherein also is treated of the most cruell warre that euer was in Greece, with the amorous euents, and the end thereof.; Espejo de principes y cavalleros. Part 4. Book 2. English.	Martínez, Marcos, fl. 1598-1601, aut; Parry, Robert, fl. 1540-1612, attributed name.; Parke, Robert, fl. 1588, attributed name.	1601 (1601)	STC 18871; ESTC S113630	237,526	334

Claramante drew néere and séeing the Gréek Dames hee suddenly put off his caske and discouered his faire face saying I know not how I could haue come without great errour valorous Dames but to sée the work of your hands vpon these Gyants but séeing this battell is fought in the behalfe of the gallants I in their name doe come to giue thanks and yéeld acknowledgement for the much which they owe for such a matter as this which admitteth no other requitall but what procéedeth from your valour We would not Sir Prince said Archisilora who loued him extremely for hauing so long accompanied her louer that you should discharge your selfe of the debt wherein these Ladies haue set you That should be too much want of acknowledgement quoth he Who would not be thankefull and to liue onely thereof for what greater good can come to the Gallants of Gréece then to acknowledge what they owe to such Soueraigne Princesses In this maner wee may then in safetie returne with the spoiles gotten on the Romane Knights who reposing such confidence in their pride little regarded our valour and as I thinke as little our beautie The furious Bembo could forbeare no longer but like a Uiper although with mild spéeches aduanced himselfe forwards before these Dames should returne into Gréece saying Wee would not Knight of the Lyons that you should haue come so assured and with such confidence in your owne valour that before whom you haue so much displeased as this Knight and me you should be disarmed and were it not that the order of Knighthood doth detaine vs we would with small cost take reuenge of our wrongs The confidence Sir Knight is not so much of my selfe answered the Gréeke as of these valorous Dames who with their presence are able to encourage and giue new valour to the arrantest coward that liueth and moreouer behauing your selues as to Knights appertaineth you should first tell me the cause of your displeasure because I doe not remember that I haue offended any man That is the condition of those which doe wrongs for they write it in the sands but those that receiue them imprint them in their hearts quoth the bold Bembo Well let it not grieue you quoth Claramante for there is time and now the best that can be wished hauing such witnesses for your satisfaction which as you say you prosecute with such vehemencie Why then quoth the Pagan there is nothing that giueth vs any cause why wee should deferre the battell any longer so as there may rest time for our companions In stead of this Knight quoth the proud Claridiano séeing with what pride they had defied his Uncle hee may fight with me for my death will bee no lesse lamented then his and it will ill befit vs to stand by dallying and sée our friends maintaine fight with manifest perill Let it be as you wil said the furious Pagan Brauorante furning about his swift running horse the like did all the thrée and that so suddenly that notwithstanding that the Ladies would haue hindred it séeing the matter so farre past they durst not for offending the Gréeke assuring themselues of his valour and that hee would end that fight with victorie And Archisilora rather to kéepe them company said turning towards Coriandro I am of opinion that you are desirous to haue occasion to helpe your friends and because you shall not say when you come to Rome that you could not come to all kinde of battels wee giue you leaue thereto and to that ende returne you your shield againe The Pagan was so proud that without giuing thanks for what was offred hee said Why then by and by you shall sée how ●oundly the Iusts shal be reuenged The two Gyants made no longer delay but drawing out their huge Cemitars they made towards the Ladies which had already put on their Helmets they left although against their will the gentle Sarmacia for Iudge and so with their swords in their hands their shields on their armes they attended their comming Face to face stood the foure most famous in armes in the whole world whose rigorous contention I will not describe in this Chapter for it deserueth a new CHAP. XI Of the cruell and bloodie battell fought by the foure Knights IF the Heauens should giue mee so long a life as to bring to light all the bookes of this long Historie there would valorous Dames be the like occasion as this to craue your assistance without the which I shall but stumble at a matter worthy to be written by no lesse personage then Mantuan or that Orpheus should sing it to particularize the mightie blowes which were giuen with the discreet and aduised retreats and cunning assaultes Heere might the god Mars haue learned to fight for leauing his fifth Throne accompanied with those which whilo● did most flourish and were most famous in armes hee descended to behold the battell worthie to be recorded Venus beautified her selfe accompanying Mars to behold the Ladies which made her seeme to be vgly and Mars enuious for hurling ouer the field with a most fearefull noise came these pillars of valour and fortitude vntill the ca●riere being ended they encountred in the middest of the field neither of them mist in the encounter for they would not haue done it for their liues But they mette Claramante and the fearefull Achaian with such a noyse as if two shippes had encountred so as the splinters of their launces flew quite out of sight there was no mouing out of their saddles for they were fast l●●kt into them they returned with their drawne swords where at Bembo was well pleased for hee stood in some feare of the battel-axe which he left when he saw him therewith and as he was most exercised in armes so hee gaue the first blow which he reacht him vpon the toppe of the crest but the good temper kept it from breaking but not him from féeling the blow so as it made him to bow downe his head to the Saddle pummel it was not possible it should doe lesse he seconded it with another of no lesse force so that the skies containe not so many stars as he saw within his rich Helmet This serued but to vrge him to take reuenge for setling himselfe in his Saddle considering what had passed as fierce as a Basiliske hee charged Bembo who warded it with his shield whereon hee receiued so great a blow which was such that it beat it to his Helmet and made him almost sencelesse hee holpe him with a thrust in the brest which set him on the arson of his Saddle and reaching at him with another nothing doubting to ouerthrow him but his sword winding in his hand so as he smote him on one side of the Helmet which holpe to bring the Pagan againe to his remembrance There was neuer Lion which so fiercely assailed a heard as this young man did his aduersarie they were close together and at one time they smote

Souldan came mightie Giants Against this squadron the braue Emperour Trebatius addressed himselfe compassed about with the best men of all his armie they two met but the Greekes force was such that excepting his sonnes it was matchlesse hee ouerbare both man and horse to the ground Many alighted after him some to defend him others to kill him or take him prisoner Twelue Giants which were of his gard alighted from their Elephants to rescue him which did much hurt With all this as in a chase there alighted the noble Emperour and Rosacler with the Princes of Fraunce and Zoilo the braue Tartarian with Brandafidel and Bramidoro and the gentle Tifereo There was renued one of the most perrilous fights that had bene seene of all that day for the Emperour making no reckoning of the Giants rushed in amongst them and at his entrie with a stabbe hee thrust their Captaine quite thorow the body from side to side who for his heyght was like to a well growne Pine trée The fierce Giant fell not seeking before bee dyed to be reuenged for hee swinged his heauie club about his head and therewith gaue the Emperour Trebatius such a blow athwart his shield as made him goe staggering to one side readie to fall and hee had falne the blow was so terrible had not his valorous Nephew Clarindo bene by him who held him vp with his hand The yong mā made no stay there for séeing what had happened to his grandfather casting his shield at his backe he made at the Giant Others were come to the aide so as he was well reuenged for Bramidoro with his heauie club the Prince with his sword smote him both at once one of them made his eies leap out of his scull and the other with his sword cleft his head Rosacler turned to another which had smitten his Uncle whom he made to lose his féeling This day did the young man winne his credit and eternall praise for with a mighty blowe he cut him almost in two péeces Much did the father reioyce to sée the force of his sonne who mayntained a cruell fight against another Giant This was no time to straine courtesie for Brandafidel came who with his hideous club knockt him on the pate his Helmet could not protect him for he stretcht him all along at the Princes feete The Gréekes and Macedonians seeing their Emperor tooke herein so good order that they wanne part of the Giants campe There remained two to beare newes of the Greekes valour and had there not come so much people that the trampling of their horses was daungerous they had without doubt taken the Souldan but they mounted him againe vpon a swift courser whereon he rode encouraging his people The Califa of Sicon●a kept him better company then he thought for who seeing so much people there gathered together brought ●wenty thousand men to the rescue At their first comming they did some harme because they were flesh men but it lasted but a while for the Greekes which by this time were already fleshed made a cruell slaughter of them supplying that heere which was lost in the rest of the battels for the Fenician Prince Don Argante although vnknowne came afresh with all the Medians and for that cause where he entred he made a deadly but cherie This was no day for the Greekes for euen the Sunne was against them for falling downe in the West he bereaued them of their sight so as the enemies might easilie charge and retire at libertie The Prince of Britany could not sally on that side where he was but that he chaunced to see the furious young man with the stars who desirous to end the war with him seeing that his people had the better in the fight he wēt along the side of a hill which he could not do but Bēbo would sée it who with the other 2. famous Knights went to séeke him leauing the charge of his gouernement with the warlike Celindo who séeing himselfe in such authoritie began also to encourage his people and with as good order as Bembo himselfe could haue done What happened to those which so went out of the Campe is fit to bee told in another Chapter CHAP. XIX How the Prince Poliphebus of Tinacria came to the Campe and what hee did for the libertie of the Flemmish knight with the comming of the Princes of Silepsia Leobulo and Claribel and what with them happened to the Princes of Grecia VAlorous dames if to bee engulfed in the actions of bloudy Mars bee an occasion to leaue to treate of louing matters at the least I cannot leaue to acknowledge the much which your Soueraigne worthinesse deserueth I speake it for that hauing one day detained mine eyes from beholding this intricate historie kéeping continually my Chamber I chaunced to looke forth and saw my death and life both together Death because that there is no remedie for the euill which I then receiued Life also which is to sée my selfe wholy wel employed without enuie of a more happie louer although he liue daintily for although they loue me not neither doth my state deserue it yet for mee to loue it is a swéete life that I conceyue therein Being confident in my new wound although it bee in my old soule I presume to begin to make relation of the most famous warre that euer was séene of so many against so many for Rosabel had scarcely parted from among his friends and enemies when descending downe the side of a hil which led towards the Strand he saw come that way a 〈◊〉 to his seeming of a goodly proportion in companie of foure Ladies This was the valiant Poliphebus who hauing landed and hearing the noyse of the battel in great haste drue néere vnto it but durst not disclose his meaning because he would not grieue the Ladies The two nimphes of the Castle vnderstanding the matter one of them said vnto him O you m●y well valorous Prince without caring for vs goe to succour your Father for it is not a little needfull for if it were not so neere night the whole house of Grecia would be neere ouerthrowne considering the aboundance of enemies that are against it for know that this Ladies Aunt who is held for the wisest woman in al the vniuersal world for shée was taught out of Medeas bookes and in the same signe commaunded vs that in this battel and the challenge which you are to make we should haue especial care of your person for considering with what Knight you are to fight you would lightly bee brought into danger if shée vse no me●ne to the contrarie but shee being of your side you may boldly and merrily attempt any enterprise bee it neuer so doubtfull and shall preuaile The Prince was verie glad of the newes which the Nimphes had told him so willing him to goe before for they would come to behold he imbraced them tooke his leaue of the Ladies not without griefe for the one he

and Poliphebus and his wife with Lindoriano and his wife Triumphes are a preparing which will bee reported ouer all the world In the meane time vpon agréement the Moores discharged their Nauies remayning for euerie Monarch twelue Galleyes They set at libertie all prisoners and amongst the rest Epirabio whom as hee had deserued they gaue Lisiana which hee so much desired The great Assyrian Don Clarisel by the consent of all the Greeke Princes marryed with Floralisa In this pleasure remained all those Princes and fayre Ladies which of all the world were the flowre when as Selagio framed a newe reuenge for herein is crueltie depaynted in his colours hee obtayned so much by ouerturning Lupertius his bookes that hee came to finde this prophesie Into Mars his Castle no man shal be suffred to enter but him which mounting vpon the hill Olympus shall winne the passage and after that hee is entred shall bereaue Mars of his Armes Hee was verie glad imagining that no man could doe it and hee stealing away the greatest part of the Ladies which were busied with pleasing feastings being so hard to set them at libertie hee should remayne somewhat satisfied In a moment hee put it in execution for taking a Charriot with flaming fire which hee brought into the hall at Constantinople so as no man could stirre with such lightnings and thunder as though heauen and earth should haue come together which being past there were missing the fayrest Ladies of the world which were Policena Helena Aurelia and Rosabela with the faire Artemisa and of the Moores the daughter of the Sophie of the Assyrian of the F●nician Troyla and Bembo his sister although but a girle and the Souldans of Egypt All the Court was in an vprore and there would goe to séeke them particularly Rosabel his sonnes and hee with the starres with the great Tartarian but in the meane time in came Nauato who pacified them saying that then to goe to séeke them was to no purpose for hee found that they should not so soone be set at libertie for there was a prophesie that vntill that the disguised Lion should hold the Ounce in his pawes at the poynt of death who loued him as her selfe hauing wounded her and set her in such maner not springing from thence the furious Basiliske which may breake open that which is lockt it shall be impossible for the world to sée the inclosed Nymphes So as excellent Princes it behoueth you to make merry although there be so many Ladies missing by reason of the peace which hath cost you so much and because I haue much to doe and all for your seruice I can stay no longer neither sée any body vntill all be accomplished and so he presently vanished lea●ing both the Gréeks and Moores somewhat satisfied in that they knew that they were in some part whither they might goe to séeke them And so all the gallant youths began to prepare for the feasts vntill that one day all the Ladies passing their time merrily with their Gallants in the middest of the great hall with all those mighty Princes discoursing of pleasant matters the famous Brauorante s●ung with his owne honour rose vp and began in this maner CHAP. XXXII How the redoubted Brauorante required the braue Brufaldoro to performe the challenge past and agreed vpon and of the cruell battell which was betweene them with that which followed A Touch in honour most excellent Prince is of such force that there is no pleasure taken in any thing vntill that it bee defaced or the breach repayred wee haue an example heereof in the most mighty Brauorante who being stung with the sight of his fathers Armes in another mans hands it made him starke mad and it was a sufficient paine sith hee felt not how great it would bee to him to see Floralisa married but his wits were so troubled with this griefe that it gaue no place to feele any other which he plainely discouered for nothing regarding what discontentment hee should giue therein in time of so much content he stood vp and said The gods are my witnesse Soueraigne Princes what pleasure I conceiued to see you reconciled for so many yeeres and that after that you haue shewed the heights of your displeasure it endeth in such ioy so fixed that it is needlesse to feare that fortune may alter it In generall wee are all victorious for if the Gréekes may glorie in that name the Pagans may also weare garlands of gréene ●ke but in particular I alone cannot ioy in this name although that for some respects I haue so much deferred that which ought not to be endured for a minute and how can it be that I should liue contented séeing my fathers Armes in the handes of Brufaldoro so much defended by the Gréeks that therein they haue bound mee to doe them seruice so long as I liue and hauing twise giuen ouer the battaile for the loue of my Lady Floralisa and a hundred would but shee deferred it vntill the end of these battailes and seeing that they are so well ended there is no reason why it should be any longer delayed for it is a great stayne to my honour and much for this King to haue challenged mee And heerewith the Barbarian gaue an end to his discourse remayning so furious that all men marueyled at the order which he obserued in his chalenge The braue Brufaldoro stood vp and with that fiercenesse wherewith the heauens had endued him hee sayd I would Brauorante long since haue accomplished thy desire but in time of such ioy as this to trouble them with new warres after so many past it is rather a signe of pride then of any thing else and because thou shalt knowe that if I tooke those Armes I meane to defend them to morrowe I will in the place fasten them to a Launce from whence if thou take them not it will bee for want of that valour whereof thou so much vauntest The Pagan leapt out crying It is to bee delayed no longer for there is time inough betwixt this and night to chastice thée The braue Affrican had set vpon him had not the most mightie Tinacrian stept betweene them at whose request it was deferred till the next day It was a marueylous thing to see for before that Titans Messengers were departed from their logdings the place was all full of people which attended the sight of the horrible battell As they were couragious so were they both desirous and it séemed to bee one of the most sightly battels of the world and with much reason for therein were fewe that could match them All the Gréekes discoursed of the successe thereof but durst leane no more to the one then the other not to disgrace eyther although that in secret some more affected Brauorante for that which they had séene him doe in those warres When Apollo began to shew his golden lockes bathed in the Spanish seas all the Court began to stirre some