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A68435	Vienna Where in is storied, ye valorous atchieuements, famous triumphs, constant loue, greate miseries, & finall happines, of the well-deseruing, truly noble and most valiant kt, Sr Paris of Vienna, and ye most admired amiable princess, the faire Vienna.	M. M. (Matthew Mainwaring), 1561-1652.; Pierre, de la Cépède, 15th cent. Paris et Vienne.; Gifford, George, fl. 1640, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 17202; ESTC S111866	129,892	196

mortifying juyce of life-bereaving Mandrake with other powerfull powders a small quantity whereof taken in drink would make the Receiver fall into a most suddaine and deadly sleepe This did he so secretly and so frankely bestow amongst all the flaggon Pots but one which Bonfoy had in trusty charge reserved by marke for himselfe and his Lord that every one had in full measure his dormative full waight These poysoned Pots hee closely kept for the middle of the banquet and Supper being served in Sirap seated every one in their due places to the contentment of each one and then he began to feast and cheare his gladsome guests and like a pleasant Idolist merrily cheared his feasted friends But in the end they having no end in drinking hee seeing them so deuoutly sacrificing to Bacchus hee to honour their Religion added then more fatall fewell to their drunken fire Theyr over-drawne Cups were still replenished with the powdered Wines and ever he plyed them with Cups till theyr Cups had over-plyed them That drunke in theyr drowsie devotion they falling into a leaden slumber began to sleepe out all living consideration Now Sirap seeing his hope honoured with some perfection thought it fit to doe homage to opportunity for in deferring of time many times it is both the losse of life and occasion And therefore adding execution to time hee instantly went to make all such as were in the Castle sure which done hee came backe and taking the keyes from the Keeper who with the rest of both their Servants we will leave where they silent lay he hastily went downe to the Daulphins lodging where they found him prostrate on the ground moystning the earth with his repenting teares and piercing the heavens with his prayers for the supposed Moores good successe but before he could make an end of his prayers Sirap came to end his prayers and Purgatory at once and releasing him from his oppressing Irons brought him up to view Morpheus Comedy which that dull God with his ayde had made and prepared for his pleasure Thus when our sinnes are ripe and God to Justice bent He turnes our greatest pleasure to our just punishment Now Time strucke his locke before and it fitted not to argue what was done or what was to be done least they themselves might be undone but giving praise to God in their severall shewed kindes they presently buckled up their spirits with theyr legges like Bees that having suckt the juyce of forraigne Gardens make wing to their owne hives that they may make merry with the fraught of their adventures So did they hast to the back gate of the Castle which they prizing open went to the Rivers side where the hyred Pilot courteously attended theyr comming In a small vessell they imbarqued themselves and sayled to the Persian Gulfe and so a long to the Affricke Sea Vpon the entry whereof there crost them a great Pirat of Arabia whose uncheckt fortunes and vncontrouled strength still crown'd his hardest attempts with victory But his Pride was now like a vapour that ascending high soone turneth into smoake For he no sooner saw their small Frigot but counting it his purchase hee hastily made towards them and looking for no resistance hee grapled with them and commanded them to yeeld But Sirap being unwilling to loose the rich benefit of his high adventure having no acquaintence with feare and being ever accustomed to conquer drew forth his sleeping Semitar which his enraged fury whetted so sharpe that hee clove the first opposer downe to the backe and sent the head of the next as an Ambassadour to plead for peace amongst the monsters of the Sea The Daulphin seeing such great chips cut out of such rough timber wondred at his force and admired his valour Death seemed now to hold a Sessions in the Ship and Sirap still gave the summons for theyr appearance For fearing least their entry into his Ship should endanger the Daulphin he to prevent that hazarded himselfe the more by leaping in among his enemies where his magnanimious minde armed with the arme of puissance so disheartned his foes that the Captaine fearing least any more should come to assist him caused the ships to be ungrapled And no sooner were they separated but that the timorous Pilot wherein the Daulphin was seeing himselfe severed from perill began to turne the sterne of his Ship and with a side winde to sayle backe which Boufoy espying thought it better to dye in adventure of his liberty then to become a Captive againe to misery Despaire therefore made him valiant and necessity did adde to his courage which made him to exceed himselfe in might and to goe beyond all hope in successe For suddainly running the Pilot thorow with his sword he wounded the next to him so sore that he could not offend The Daulphin seeing the successe of his bold attempt raised his falne courage to the height of noble resolution and unsheathing his quiet sword that Sirap had given him hee gave him such assistance as his weake ability could afford In the end feare made them valiant and their valour freed them from feare The assaulted Saylers being weaponlesse fell in theyr blood and in theyr overthrowes did the survivours submit themselves to the mercy of their swords Force now over-awed them and they were compelled by Boufoy to make towards the other Ship wherein Sirap was making an end of an unequall battell For having at the first slaine their redoubted Captaine hee wrested his approved broade shield from him under which shelter his encreasing valour made such slaughter as of sixteene persons he left but three alive which as Boufoy came in were prostrate on their knees for pardon But when Sirap saw them and understood of their interaccident he was more glad of their safeties then he was of his owne victory The Daulphin stood amazed when hee sawe the Shipt embost with scattered heads devided armes and dismembred legs And in his admiration said If he be but a man how this If more then a man why this Such forceable blowes shewes a power beyond all humane power and yet I see he is but a man though hee hath done much more then many men This estimate of his valour and worth made him ever after respect him more for his incomparable prowesse then hee did before for his deliverance Boufoy now thought himselfe happy in such a Master and Sirap grew proud of such a servant Love the joy of nature now sate in tryumph for their securities and the wrathfull God of Warre being wearied with destruction layde him downe in the bed of peace With these two Ships they securely sayled with windes suitable to their wills all along the coasts of Magadoxa in Aethiopia and so by Guine where meeting with a Portugall Merchant they hired the Pilot to bring them to Marselles Thus did the inscrutable providence of God from iniurious and bad causes produce good effects making the banishment of the one to save the life

Foard was not pastable which made Sir Paris so impatient so to be frustrated of his attending Ship the assurance of his safety that Monsieur de la Mott over venturous to venter over the passage was in searching the Foard most unfortunately drowned in the mercilesse Flood Sir Paris daunted at that so fatall a sight sighed and sighing grew to a prodigious prognosticator of his owne ensuing harmes But fearing least the knowlege thereof might appale his faire Friend he suddainely returned to theyr religious Host where he had left the two Ladies when he went to find the Foard and to try the passage and shadowing now his tormenting griefe with a forced smile he demaunded of Vienna how she fared who answered as my Love fares so fares thy Love happy in my selfe because happy in thee And long may said Paris my Love live to love that loves to live onely for my love Scarce had Sir Paris pronounced his last word when one came running to tell the Priest that there were many Knights in the next Towne that came in quest and searched for Vienna and Sir Paris Which Vienna vnderstanding was so surprized with griefe and feare that being altogether disheartned in her hope she held her selfe more then undone in her disturbed expectation But after she had bathed the beauty of her eyes in the sorrow of her teares fearing most in this present perill least death should arrest her beloved Friend She with a much more resolued minde and an assured countenance then befitted eyther the time or was incident to her sex thus exhillerated her astonished Friend My Paris she said Time admittes not there many wordes where danger still knockes at the doore In extremities the winning of time is the purchase both of life and love Let not violent passions that neuer remooves any ill but betrayes our secret imperfections now sway the vertue of thy thoughts nor the fortitude of thy heart but carry thou in thy Lyons looke a Lyons minde and like the Sunne shew thy fayrest face in thy lowest fall Loade not my sorrowes with thy griefe nor kill thou thy selfe for feare of death But in the wonted courage of thy never-daunted Spirit get thee to some other more safer shore where let Vertue be thy Governour my remembrance thy Loue thy loue my comfort and my comfort thy sole contentment Thou hast conquered men in loue and Loue in me and both in worth and wisedome and neuer shall I deeme my selfe happy but when I shall see thee happy for whom I now am so vnhappy As thou leauest me so shalt thou finde me be but thou as constant a Friend to my Minde as thou shalt be a true Possessor of my Heart and I shall haue as much cause of joy as thou no cause of doubt If thou continue loyall successe thou shalt see will blesse thee well and all good fortune will waite on thy just merits This Diamond which here I giue thee shall be a true remaining record of my sincere loue to thee Onely let me heare of thy aboad and so I leaue thee to the guide of Vertue and seruice of Fortune Sir Paris thus discomforted comforted weighing the danger of delay by his immient perill and forced to set vp his sayles in this so insupportable threating a tempest and there sealing vp the vow of his faith in the silent griefe of a departing kisse he posted to the Riuer side againe where Dispaire made Feare so valiant that ere he found cause of feare hee was past all feare For hauing past he knew not how the Riuer he was got before he wist into the Ship wherein being Cabined hee told of La Mot his fatall accident and forced them to put to sea sayling himselfe with as many contrary thoughts as Eolus sent out windes vpon the Trojan Fleete At length he arriued at Genua where he rested his restlesse selfe and where he liued wanting but little because not desiring much But such was his disconsolate solitary life that the Citizens though strangers affecting the man in his manners pittied much his distresse in the shew of his discontentment In the meane while the Daulphin wasting himselfe in his owne implacable and vnlimited wrath violently and suddainly seazed and consiscated all Sir Jaques Lands and Goods into his hands imprisoning both him and his Lady as Fauters Abetters Confederates and Adjuters thereunto Thus ets Outrage euer the sharpest edge vpon the first aduantage And in this distemper of his ill disposed minde he commanded that naught but bread and water should be giuen them For said he where the offence is greater then the seruice there Iustice changeth the bond of recompence into due punishment During this their faultlesse imprisonment the questing Knights returned with Vienna and the Hospitalious Parson her Host who being brought before the angry Daulphin her enraged Father shee saw the cloud a farre off before the storme fell and therefore prostrating her selfe at his Feete shee required pardon for her offence and prayed that he would not make her sinne deadly which was but veniall pleading ignorance for the Prelate and vnresistable loue for her selfe swearing and assuring him by sacrament of solemne oath and the testimonie of her Host that shee was as honest in her flight as she was in her birth and that her vn potted thoughts were neuer stayned with any vnchast deede or desire The noble followers of the obdurate Daulphin seeing the Princesse washing her repentance in her owne teares humbly besought him to forget and to forgiue her amisse since the frailty of her offence was rather a sore then a sinne and wounds were to be healed and not hurt This submission strengthened by such generall entreaties somewhat quencht the burning heate of his enflamed ire And though his seuere Iustice told him that not to punish an euill was to allow of an euill yet mercy hee knew pardons them oft that deserues it not and judgement in nature should be next a kin to fauour Vpon this calme construction after many sharpe rebukes and protested threates he vowed that determinate and ineuitable condemnation 〈◊〉 punish her next offence and so he pardoned her vpon promise of more regardfull duty Now Sir Paris had not long sojourned in Genua but that mindfull of his charge he writ to Vienna and enclosed it in another writ to La-noua wherein he excused his vnkinde departure without his priuity and conjured him by the sacred lawes of true amity to attend and follow his Lady in all seruice and fast friendship La-noua glad of such glad tydings went in the height of his ioy to Vienna and after some complementall salutes asked her what shee would give to heare of her Paris Vienna great with child with the expectation of her friends welfare longed to be delivered with the notice of his health and said that the whole world afforded not sufficient worth to answer her liberall heart therein La-nova ioying in the constancy of her love shewed her the letter which

begun that the Fish might bite the more eagerly when the bayte was pulled away But oh said Vienna for now she had swallowed the hidden and hurtfull hooke didst thou not perceive the cause of his so secret and so great a griefe Yes Noble Lady said Poltron Time and Occasion gave me meanes to know the same Then good Poltron let me intreat thee she said to relate the full discourse thereof For such Subiects of woe best fitteth wofull mindes and causes of dolour and calamity are ever most pleasing to perplexed persons Poltron thus halled on to set the trap that should ensnare her life thus cunningly gave fire to her tinder Though said he I am unwilling to ingrieve my thoughts with the sad remembrance of my friends over-grieuous sorrowes yet since it is your pleasure your will commands my obedience Then know most fairest of faire Ladies that after I had many times observed the frenzie of his passions and wondring had noted his broken and disconsonant complaints hee being at other times most advisedly wise and most humbly though sadly patient As wee were sitting at the mouth of his Cave chatting on the miseries of this life and the crosses of this uncertaine world I requested him in favour of my desire to recount unto me the cause of his so often passionate laments In answere whereof he said Though my griefe be already such as there can be no addition to so great an extreame and though my wounds cannot be healed because they may not be searched yet to giue thee some content know that not farre from Tolledo in Spaine I serued not long since a great and mighty Lord called Don Daulphinatus who had one onely daughter named Paris-enna whose beauty was farre fairer then the euening starre and whose vertue was more powerfull then the greatest constellation By her sweet influence did I only liue and breathe and though my meane fortune durst not gaze on so bright a Planet yet did her gracious aspect both so ennoble and inable my towring thoughts that vnknowne I atchiued in honour of her name many admired exployts After some season both my acts and my loue were accidentally made knowne to her who in time made mee though most unworthy the Maister of her desires that was and still am a servant to her will Our mutuall mindes thus combined was like the Garden of Eden wherin grew more delights then either Nature now affords or Art can expresse Our hearts fed on pleasures our eyes beheld the blisse of each other and in the full comfort of all content did we sleepe in love and wake and walke in all fulnesse of ioy From this Paradice were we driven by felonious Fortune who envying our happinesse would not suffer that we should make this earth our heaven that was before curst for our sinnes My Lord her Father had knowledge thereof who finding my indignity not worthy of such soveraignty was so caried away with disdainfull scorn and irefull displeasure that he doomed me to death if ever I were found within the precinct of his command This separation for now I was put to my flight was such a corasive to both our confounded soules that she stayed to endure a greater misery the deprivation of life and I wandered in unknowne pathes to seeke after a wished death Long was my travaile and manifold my fortunes But neither distance of place continuance of travaile happinesse of fortune nor tract of time could free my fancie nor weary me from my constant affection At last being both wearied and nighted I came to this harmelesse Cell where in love of Solitarinesse and in contempt of the world I vowed to spend the unspent sorrowes of my Life and keepe my selfe from the knowledge of Men and thereupon he devoutly swore mee that I should not make his private aboad knowne to any Man Whereat the wounded Princesse in her apprehension sighed and watered the floare with her baulmy Teares as knowing by the amplyfied and conioyned Names and by the concurrence and circumstance of the Matter that hee was most assuredly her beloved Paris and thereupon shee demanded what was his Name Sans Lieure replyed Poltron did he call himselfe Sans Lieure sayd she Oh how rightly did the Destinies Christen him and how truely doth his Name expresse his Fate For Griefe hath but a dead heart and haplesse Love none at all But where is that Place of playnt that so confines Sorrow in it selfe and makes Woe a habitation for so miserable a Man Tell mee O tell me that I may send some Sanctified person to comfort him and weyne him from so wretched a life My Oath answered Poltron will not admit that any Man be my meanes should know thereof Then would I were shee sayd with him my selfe for by his Name I now remember hee is that Divining Man that hath revealed Wonders and can tell what shall befall every one Oft have I heard of him and strange things by him fore-told hath come to passe Thus did they both disguise theyr mindes and with untempered Morter daube up their severall concealed meanings and hidden intentions that they might both the better worke out theyr Advantages But Poltron seeing his venemous Plot had without all suspect thus poysoned her beliefe boldly told her That as she was no Man shee was not within the Condition of his Bond and therefore if so she pleased he would not only give her full liberty but also bring her unknowne to that haplesse Hermite whom shee desired much to see provided that shee should give him Gold to bring him after to his native Home and also bee directed by him both for the meanes and the manner of theyr escape and travaile To this she answered that Prisons were no Treasure-houses and that she had no Minte to answere her minde onely some reserved Iewels she had which she would give him It shall said he suffice Pitty pleades in your behalfe your merit claymes redresse and my feeling griefe to see a Princesse so distrest commandes the hazard of my Life Be you but silent and secret and you shall see that I will deceive the waking eyes of encharged wisedome and over-throw the heedfull care of reposed trust And thus it must be By the Print of the Keyes which I will make in Waxe will I make other like Keyes by which all the doores shall congee to your Will and give passage to your pleasure Then will I have you for our better security homely attired with a Boxe under your arme and Bone-lace hanging out of it a payre of Shieres tyed to your Girdle a Yeard in your hand that you may seeme to be not what you are but what in appearance I would have you shew to be And I will with a Pedlers packe on my backe well suited thereunto travell along with you as your Husband So shall wee both better escape and avoyd suspition But how sayd Vienna shall Izabella bestow her selfe She sayd Poltron must stay behind in Prison