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A51270	The famous history of the life of the renowned Prince Palmerin of England: or, The glory of knightly prowess In three parts. Containing his parentage, birth, education, travels, strange adventures, noble exploits and victories; combats with monsters, gyants, armies, and armed knights, dissolving inchantments, delivering distressed ladies; and his success in love. The whole being a compleat series, inter-woven with the heroick actions of many valiant emperours, kings, princes, and knights of undoubted fame, whose matchless deeds have won them immortal honour. A book worthy the perusal of either sex. Written originally in French; and now faithfully done into English (for the better satisfaction of the reader) by J.S.; Palmerin of England (Romance). Part 2. English.	Morais, Francisco de, ca. 1500-1572, attributed name.; J. S.; Hurtado, Luis, ca. 1510-ca. 1598, attributed name.	1685 (1685)	Wing M2613C; ESTC R213883	128,505	222

find all time to speak to her which was not long wanting for finding her one day fitting melancholly alone he sat down by her and after much discourse surcharged with passion thus began Fair Mistris of all my thoughts that I love you above any earthly Creature and would willingly prove it at the hazzard of my Life I hope you are not Ignorant for certain it is none can better deserve my service then your Incompareable self who are Natures Chief Masterpiece and the wonder of your Sex but such is the thirst of Glory that reigns in Mortals Breasts that to tell you my secret thoughts I have determined for a while to forezo so great a blessing and seek Renown abroad when with louder Victory and gread Atchievements I shall return with joy to lay my self and Trophies at your feet This Speech greatly surprized the Princess who intirely loved him and caused rears to over cast her Starry-eyes when fetching a Sigh that almost rent her tender Breast she made this Reply Sir that I have given you manifest hopes of obtaning my favour I must Blushing owne and yet conjecture that such freeness in me hath created dislike in you or else you would not mention leaving my Fathers Court. Not so said the Prince for 't is for your sake I would adventure that so I may in some sort render my self worthy of so great and Inestimable a Iewel therefore by you Incouraged I shall be the more Fortunate but I shall not replyed the Princess consent to your departure I beg said the Prince that you would alter your resolves and in that make me happy can that make you happy then said the Princess nay then e'n take your course 't is a slight excuse to leave me because you Love me not therefore since you light such true affection I here renounce the Love I bare you and from henceforth charge you to see my face no more and thereupon in a great Rage she flung away not giving the Prince leave to respond but left as one Thunder-struck so far amazed at what he had heard that it was long e're he recover'd his stupid Sences when Recollecting manly Vertue he resolved upon what he had determined not doubting to perform such Noble Exploits as might render him worthy of his Mistresses Love and overcome her anger whereupon revealing his mind to Sylvian his Esquire who had vowed not to leave him in any Adventure he secretly armed himself and taking the Shield sent him by Sage Aliart mounted and in the twy-light left the City undiscovered to the great trouble of the Emperor and the whole Court and so under the name of the Knight of Fortune he rode through many Desarts without finding any Adventure but coming at last to a Castle surrounded with Trees and over-grown with green Mosse and hearing Musick therein he alighted and gave his Horse to his Esquire and entered where he perceived a Knight in mourning Weeds tuneing to a Lute his Mistrisses praise who being highly offended at the Prince's hold instruction laying aside his Musick ran to arm himself vowing to chastise him which the Prince perceiving went out and mounted there expecting his Adversary who was not long wanting so that a fierce Encounter began but the Prince whose Courage was highthened by the thoughts of fair Polinarda soon disarmed him and brought him to his mercy when as he commanded him seeing that he had so unjustly quarrelled with him to unsay all that he had said in the praise of his Mistriss or prepare for Death but finding him resolutely bent rather to dye than do it and at the same time considering his own case he not only pardoned him but commended his fidelity and so mounting left the place Now this Knight was called The Knight of Death and bare the Portraicture of Death in his Shield holding himself before that time invincible CHAP. XII Who The Knight of Death was and the cause of his solitary Life How Prince Palmerin fought for the Passage of a Bridge and of other Adventures THis Knight of Death was Son to the King of Sardagina who falling in Love with fair Altea one of his Mothers Ladies of Honour and Daughter to the Duke of Goelicia his Father to cross his love having designed to marry him to the Queen of Sicilia and he being avers thereto caused the beautious Altea to be Poysoned whereupon this Knight named ●●oriman stiling himself the Knight of Death privately retired from the Court and betook himself to the solitary place where the Prince found him singing Songs in praise of her to her Picture as if she had been alive And there he continued in like manner after the departure of the Prince till his Father hearing where he was compelled him to return The Prince having left the Knight of Death in his solitary retirement much grieving at his foile passed on till coming to a Bridge he found three Knights striving against a single Knight for the passage who bare for his Device a Bull-head and so puissant was he that he foiled them tumbling them to the Ground which the Prince perceiving addrest him against but they both meeting with force more than humane fell from their Horses when drawing their Swords they fought with great fury till in the end the Knight of the Bull by a wound he received on his Head fell to the ground upon which the Prince stood up and bid him at the peril of his Life disclose his Name and the reason of his keeping that passage which he did as followeth viz. That his Name was Pompides Son to Don Edoard and Argolanta Queen of the Inchanted Island and that he having received divers wounds from two Knights whom he had slain a beautious Lady living in a Castle close by cured him and injoyned him to keep that Bridge till he met a Knight in red Armour with a Lyon painted in his Shield the whom if I conquered to bring into her presence and that having obeyed for three weeks he had not in many Encounters been foiled before The Prince having received this satisfaction passed on his way together with his Esquire having before obtained Licence for the other Knights to pass CHAP. XIII How the Knight of the Savage Man came into the Tristfull Valley and fought against Blandidon the Knight of the Swan and of the sorrowful Lady Pandritia How Floriman the Knight of Death coming to Constantinople pitched his Tent and in Honour of his Lady Altea combated and conquered divers Knights THe Knight of the Savage Man having reresigned the Shield as aforesaid rode on in search of Adventures when coming into the Tristful Valley where the sorrowful Pandritia dwelt he espied a Cave and at the mouth of it broken Spears and Swords as also a Tree fast by on which hung the Shields of such as had been vanquished at which whilest he was wondering there came a Youth to him and demanded his Shield unless he would retire or try the Combat and that

that he could not refrain wondring thereat when as he no sooner passed through a great Hall but entring the next Room he was encountred by a beautiful Lady who appeared to be Governess of the Castle to whom he made low obedience and she returning the like Complement welcomed him in a courteous manner demanding his Name Country and the occasion of his coming thither all which he told her whereat she seemed wonderfully pleased and intreated him in all love to honour her Castle for that night with his presence and that the next morning she would dismiss him with a guide to the place he sought The Prince invited in this manner by a beautiful Lady could not in point of Generosity refuse such a Courtesie though his heart was still with fair Flerida And thereupon the Tables were spread with Provision of every sort and Wine in abundance all brought in by invisible ways and over and above the most Melodious Musick was heard but no persons or Instruments seen which raised an admiration in the Prince what it should mean yet being a Man of a daring resolution he resolved if possible to see the utmost of the Adventure verily believing as indeed it was true that the Lady was an Enchantress and that whate're he had observed was created by the power of Magick Yet down he sat and immediately perceived all the Seats filled with either Sexes in rich Attire who to his thinking were really so and that they fed heartily as himself imagined he did The Banquet tnded they rose up to Dance and after that vanished whereupon the Lady came to the Prince and bid him be of good chear entertaining him with amorous glances and night being come she demanded of him whether he would be conducted to his Lodging To which by reason of his long Travel and all-nights Lodging before he readily consented When divers seeming Gallants attended him as also did the Lady and her Damosels so that in his Fathers Court he never was more Nobly attended when entring his Chamber he found divers Lamps of Gold burning whose flames were fed with Naptha and Apthaltis all the Ceeling appearing to be fretted Gold and the Walls hung round with curious Pictures representing Wars and Stories of Knights The floor was Cedar and the Bed of Purple Velvet Fringed with Gold and all Embroidered o're with Pearl and Stones that dazled by reflected Light the admiring Princes eyes who had never seen the like before Yet to Bed he went and soon by Magick Spells was Charmed into slumber when as Eutrope the fair Enchantress sent her Virgin to fetch the Princes Sword which he had put under his Beds-head to resist any Enchantment that might be practised upon his Person that Sword being of such vertue that no Spells had power to injure him whilst it was in his possession the which the Damosel having effected the Enchantress sent it to Dramusiande her Kinsman a Monstrous Gyant and one that sought the ruine of Don Edoard for the death of his Father slain in an attempt by Fredrick the Princes Father who upon notice of what had passed hasted to the Castle and rudely pressing into the Princes Chamber with many Exclamations awaked him threatning to revenge what had happened by the hand of the Father upon the Son whereat the Prince starting from his slumber and perceiving himself in danger groped for his Sword but finding it gone he like a Lyon beset with Hunters scorning to be afraid grasped a Pillar of the Bed and tearing it down laid at his Monstrous Foe but being oppressed by multitudes was forced to yield and thereupon the Gyant at the instance of Eutrope granting him his life cast him into Irons and conveyed him into a strong Prison on the top of the Castle where in great misery he continued many years as will in the sequel appear CHAP. II. How Don Edoard suffered in Prison and who the Gyant was How the Princess Flerida was delivered in the Pavilion of two fair Sons which were taken thence by a Savage Man to feed the Lyons and what happened to Sir Fridos Son to the Duke of Gauls during his riding in quest of Don Edoard THE Prince being thus taken as it were in a Snare bewailed not so much his Captivity as it grieved him to thinke how the Princess and his Father would take his absence yet with a Manly Courage he resolved to brave his Fate seeing sorrow would be nothing available Now the cause why the Grant Dramusiand's Father fell was this The Emperor of Greece named Palmerin and Trineus Son to the Emperor of Germany being in England the latter fell in love with the fair Princess Agricola Daughter to Fredrick and Sister to Don Edoard who so far prevailed that he was in great likelihood to have her in Marriage But so it happened that the Princess and divers Knights and Ladies attending the Queen and Princess Agricola to a neighbouring Forrest there to Recreate themselves Frenaque a monstrous Gyant Father to Dramusiand desirous to get the Princess in Marriage and having been taking the opportunity of their being unarmed came upon them with twenty of his followers and in spight of the resistance they made took from them the Queen and Princess of which King Fredrick having notice caused them all to Arm themselves and pursued the Gyant when overtaking him a fierce Combat began in which the Gyant and almost all his followers were slain and divers of the Princes and Knights on the other hand sore-wounded so that the Queen and Princess were at that time rescued which made the Enchantress Eutrope Sister to Frenaque vow revenge and incite the Son to take satisfaction for his Mothers Blood upon any of the Kingly race where ever he could conveniently meet them the Enchantress in the mean while using her utmost endeavour to bring them into his power which she first effected upon the Prince as is before said Yet soon after the Gyant a little relenting took off his Irons and gave him liberty to walk about the Castle yet so great was the grief of the Princess for his loss that after divers Knights had searched for him in vain and chiefly for Sir Pridos Son to the Duke of Gauls who had notice of his being alive by Argonida the Enchantresses Daughter but not of the place of his residence she fell in Labour and was delivered of two fair Sons one of which was by her express command Baptized by the Name of Palmerin according to the Name of her Father and the other Florin du Deserta or Florin of the Forrest the better for the future to put her in mind of the hardship she had sustained At what time being perswaded by her Ladies to leave that solitary place and retire to the Court she resolved upon it when in the mean time by the power of the Enchantress the two Infants were taken from her by force in this manner A Fellow who from his Infancy being nourished amongst Wild Beasts with

what time the Sage appeared to the Prince and informed him who the Knights that fought were viz. Pompides Platire Floriman and Blandidon and afterward conveyed him to his Castle where he instructed him in future fate and let him understand what great and amazing Atchievements he should undertake and perform and that all the wounded Knights should recover CHAP. XX. How the Knight of the Savage Man arrived in England And what befell him by the means of Eutrope the Inchantress EUtrope the Inchantress hearing that a great number of good Knights were come into England to finish the Adventure of the Castle and that the Gyant her Nephew would be hard put to it to defend himself used her utmost diligence to create a wrong understanding between them and by that means set them at variance to destroy each other Whereupon she sent one of her Damosels with feigned stories who so exasperated them one against another that they frequently fought to the great effusion of each others Blood And amongst the rest flying before Polinardus Son to the Emperor of Trincus and meeting the Knight of the Savage Man who by this time was arrived from Ireland she begged him to rescue her out of the hands of one that attempted to ravish her which he undertaking to do she found two other Knights viz. Francian and Gracian and set them upon the Knight of the Savage Man saying He had treacherously slain her Father and now was about to do the like to her Brother who fighting together had been most of them slain had not Fredrick King of England been hunting in the Forrest and came in to pacifie them in time yet such was the cunning of the Damzel that she was withdrawn quite out of sight and could not be heard on afterward But so it happened that the wounded Knights being well regarded recovered their healths soon after as likewise did Onistaldus and Dramian who by the like delusion had combated each other and to know the reason thereof Polinardus had followed her when she met the Knight of the Savage Man and she falsly informed him CHAP. XXI How the sage Aliart brought the Bodies of Floriman Platire Pompides and Blandidon having healed them of their wounds and set them in the same place again where he found them fighting How they got new Horses and Armour And what happened to the Knight of Fortune in the Castle of sage Aliart SAge Aliart having conveyed the Bodies of the afore-mentioned Knights to his Castle committed them to the care of divers Damosels who so well tended and dressed them that within two days they were all perfectly cured when as he cast them into a deep sleep and in the same manner as he brought them conveyed them to the place where they fought at which they awakeing greatly wondered and stood long gazing upon each other e're any of them broke silence much marvelling to find themselves unarmed and that the place was in a manner paved with their broken Weapons Blood and Armour But whilst they mused upon the matter a Virgin approached them and demanded how they came into that condition but they not being able to relate the matter and she perceiving as much proffered them Horse and Arms if they would undertake to finish on Adventure on the behalf of a sorrowful Lady who must otherwise as she avered fall into great calamity the which they vnanimously undertook to do whereupon leaving them a while she returned amply furnished and to attend them brought for each an Esquire whereupon having returned their thanks they mounted and followed her in prosecution of which Adventure I shall for a time leave them and return to the Knight of Fortune Prince Palmerin commonly called The Knight of Fortune having continued for some time with Sage Aliart and obtained from him a promise to be ever at hand to assist him when need should require as also that he should e're long finish the Adventure of the inchanted Castle and know his Birth and Parentage He having taken leave departed towards the Kings Palace when being belated he betook himself to the House of an Aged Gentleman who gave him entertainment to his satisfaction but long he had not been there e're a strange Lady arrived in search of him who no sooner beheld him but with her eyes brim-full of tears she fell at his Feet and desired he would undertake to revenge the Injury she had sustained at what time gently raising her he bade her be of good comfort promising her to comply with any reasonable request desiring her to relate the cause of her grief which she did after this manner Know Worthy Sir whose Fame is raised above the Clouds for Matchless Deeds That I had once a Son hardy and bold who performed many Noble Feats in Arms but at last it so fell out That he falling in Love with a Beautifull Lady and gaining her good Will a Knight that had been her former Sutor was so exasperated thereby that he defied him to combate wherein my son was Conqueror which heightened the Ladys good esteem more and more and made the Knight's envy increase so that through many false suggestions he procured the Knight of the savage-Man to fight him who having brought him to his Mercy without all pity unkindly sundered his Head from his Body to my unspeakable Grief Now my request is That you would undertake the Combate on my behalf against the Knight of the savage-Man who now resides at London and revenge his uncourteous dealing The Lady having said thus much the Prince greatly pittying her vowed by his Knighthood to undertake her Quarrel resolving to be at London the next morning CHAP. XXII How the Knight of Fortune arrived at London And of his kind entertainment How he challenged the Knight of the savage-man And the issue of the Fight between them PRince Palmerin having promised to undertake the aforesaid Quarrel hasted to London to make short of the matter and the rather he covered to be in action by reason that Knights great Deeds began to eclipse his Fame wherefore he sent Sylvan his Esquire to bid him defiance and to give and receive the Gages which done the Knight of Fortune retreated himself with an ancient Hermit till the time appointed came discoursing of various matters But when the King understood that those couragious Knights resolved upon a combat fearing the loss of one or both of them he would be hardly induced to admit of it nor would he have done it but at the earnest request of the Knight of the savage-Man who pleaded that his Fame and Glory would suffer by refusal whereupon at the day appointed they met each other and after some parly took a full curreir shivering their Spheres in a thousand pieces but neither dismounted nor lost their Stirups whereupon they drew their Swords and fought like Tygars hewing and cutting each others Armour in pieces in so piteous a manner as made the hearts of the spectators tremble and each one fear

what he said at the point of his Launce either against him or Albayzer This speech of the Prince's so inraged Arduramant that he had no patience but began to curse and blaspheme at a strange rate desiring immediately the combat which was granted in the presence of the Princess and the Great Turk together with the Bassa's and their Ladies When as the combatants running furiously at each other Arduramant was sent to the ground and the Prince a little shaken in his Saddle who seeing his Foe on foot alighted also and drew his sword whereupon a dreadful combat began in which the boasting Pagan was infinitely worsted yet ashamed to yield in his Mistrisses presence though the Prince offered him life till fainting through loss of blood he fell and being carried off upon his Shield soon after dyed of his wounds The Battail finished the Princess sent for Prince Florian and highly commending his Valour desired to see him unarmed to which request of hers after saluting her fair hand he consented when as his youthful beauty and manly limbs appeared so brave that from that time she became amorous of him and ordained him her Kt. giving him at the same time many rich presents to keep for her sake so that in her service leaving him a while I shall return to Albayzer who hasted to Constantinople Albayzer parting with Prince Palmerin hasted towards Constantinople to keep his word with Prince Florian but riding through a Wood he met the Esq of Arduramant who informed him that he was gone to the Court of the Great Turk and the cause yet dismissing the Esq he kept on his way till arriving at the Court he was known to be the Soldian of Babylon's son whereupon he was presented to the Emperor who with his Nobles was fitting in a great Hall when having done his reverance he declared that his coming was to that end that he might prove his valour against the Knights of the Court upon these conditions viz. That every Knight who entered the Iust should bring his Ladys picture on his Shield and that her name should be written under it and if they was vanquished that Shield to be hanged up under the portraicture of his fair Mistriss Targiana and that they should run with the Launce only and those that had no Mistrisses should upon being foiled deliver the names of those in writing to whom they were well wishers and might in time be such These conditions agreed on and the Iudges of the field appointed every one prepared and the day following the Iusts began which day Albayzer kept the field foiling all that entered or ran against him to the great grief of the Ladys who were ashamed theie servants should be so handled The first days Iust over and the night spent in Feasting Musick and Dancing as soon as morning arose the Trumpets sounded to the field where the Iust was again renewed which day Albayzer likewise won whereat Prince Primalion being in the Court and desirous to recover the honour of his Fathers Knights armed himself but the Emperor would not suffer him to enter reserving the Conquest for some other hand The Emperors Knights thus foiled by a stranger caused a great heaviness in the Court and exceeding joy and pride in Albayzer who proudly vaunted that he had taken away the shield from Dramusiand therefore he would carry that all the other Shields he had won and lay them at his Mistrisses feet In which haughty exaltation for a while I shall leave him and return to the Turkish Court to visit Prince Florian. CHAP. XXXX What happened to Prince Florian in the Turkish Court And of other adventures that befell him THe Prince daily increasing in the favour of fair Targiara resolved to shew his utmost prowess that so he might be the deeplyer grafted into her affections but finding no adventures there worthy his Sword he resolved to make her acquainted with his sincere affections and then depart in search of Adventures for her sake Wherefore one day being in private with the Princess he declared what he had determined which caused tears to stand in her fair eyes who by this time loved him as life which he perceiving said Fair Lady and Mistriss of my Thoughts grieve not that I desire to depart hence for I shall ever bear you a true and sincere Affection and for your Glory and Renown is it that I make this Request What shame is it for me to spend my time in Ease and Idleness whilst your former Servant Albayzer is labouring to Wing himself with Fame It is not his force fairest of Creatures that gives him Victory but the Banner he fig is under which is the hopes to obtain and in joy you O that you would give me but so ●a●ge● Commission soon should you find me as great and glorious nay with this hand would I take from him all the Trophies he has won This speech of the Prince dryed his Mistriss eyes when cheering up she said Indeed Albayzer had done wonders for her sake yet she could in no wise affect his person wherefore if he might be conquered all the obligations then would vanish and that if he thought fit she would in disguise accompany him to Constantinople sending Albayzer word before-hand that he should not stir thence till further order This resolve was highly approved by the Prince and urged to be put in speedy practice whereupon the Princess feigning a Letter from her Aunt the Queen of Assyria that she was sick at the point of Death instantly desiring to see her she shewed it to her Father and by many intreaties so prevailed that he consented to her going when to accompany her she chose no other train than Florian called in that Court the Christian Knight four Esquires and six Damosels all which mounting early in the morning left the City and rode without meeting any interruption till they came into the confines of Constantinople where meeting four Knights and they beholding the beauty of the Princess would have taken her from Prince Florian which so inraged him that running one of them through with his Launce he slew the other two with his sword whereat the fourth fled When riding a little further and entering a pleasant Valley he caused the Tent to be pitched for the Princess and there by reason it was late he continued with her all night when in the morning they set forward and rode till they came to a pleasant fountain at which they alighted to drink the water when as two Kts. riding by who had been conquered by Albayzer knew the Princess by the resemblance of her Picture when alighting they layed hold on her swearing that since for her sake they had received the disgrace they would carry her as a Prisoner to their Mistrisses thereby to make an attoanment for them which rudeness so offended the Prince that drawing his sword at one blow he cut off the hand of him that grasped the Princess and afterward slew the

now came Blandidon on with fresh Troops being the Subjects of the Soldian Bellagris newly arrived and with these he charged the Enemy in the Rear where fought the King of Sparta with his Vncle Antistes and his Son Luimeno but his battel being over-born they were all slain to revenge which Marlearque a Spartan Gyant advanced against Blandidon and charging him at unawares smote so forcibly upon his Head with an Iron Mace that he cast him dead to the ground which so inraged the Soldian Bellagris that with all his fury he charged the Gyant not leaving him till he had made him shorter by the Head And soon after fell the King of Cambia and his two Brethren with the Gyant Pisistrato the later of which had a little before slain German of Orleans And now Albayzer fighting with Florian and carried wounded to his Tent the Pagans began again to shrink together which King Edoard perceiving drew all the Forces out of the City and charged upon the Right Wing so furiously that broken and disordered the Turks and Persians of which it was composed fled and in flying over-bore a Battailian of their own foot which advantage the Christians laying hold on followed so fiercely that all the Plaines were strewed with the dead bodies and the Ditches and Ponds coloured with blood Albayzer himself hardly escaping in a Chariot to his Ships so that the Camp being quite abandoned the Christians entered and found infinite Riches as Gold precious Stones Embroideries rich Carpets bars of Silver and Embroidered Ensigns together with an Emperial Crown with which Albayzer intended to have Crowned himself Emperor of Constantinople When having pursued the Enemy out of the Emperor's Territories with incredible slaughter the Princes entered the City in Triumph being met by the Emperor King Tarnaes who had the charge of the City committed to him and divers others they were conducted to the Pallace and the Souldiers highly rewarded yet some grief remained for the loss of so many Valiant and Renowned Knights for this War cost the Christians no less than the Lives of Twenty Thousand men of all degrees and the Infidels thrice the number But that which augmented the sorrow was the death of the Emperor Palmerin who through Age and Infirmity gave up the Ghost his last words being That now he was willing to lay aside the ponderous waight of Empire blessing God that he had lived to see his Enemies overthrown and his Empire left in quiet whereof he commended to his son Primalion desiring his Nobles from that time to acknowledge him their Emperor which they promssed to do with the same reverence and service that they had ever respected and served him with CHAP. LXVIII How Primalion was Crowned Emperor of Greece And of the Counsel taken for the Invasion of Babylon THE Emperor Palmerin being dead and his Death greatly lamented his body was intered in a stately Sepulchre of Marble Ivory and Gold erected in the great Cathedral of Constantinople after the solemnizing whose Funeral the Princes and States of the Empire assembled to place the Emperial Crown upon the Head of Prince Primalion Eldest Son to the Emperor In order to which great Pomp was provided and he Crowned in the following manner In the Morning ten days after the Interment all the Princes in Cloth of Gold and Rich Embroidery of Pearl and precious Stones came to Prince Primalions Chamber and saluted him Emperor the Great Master of the Houshold laying before him upon a Velvet Cushion embroidered Gold and Diamonds the Emperial Crown Scepter and Regal Globe whilest his High Chancellor held the other Ornaments of Majesty on which Primalion laying his Right hand in token of having taken possession thereof the Trumpets and loud Instruments of Musick sounded which the people that were crouding round the Pallace hearing with vniversal shouts proclaimed the Choice Then being again saluted Emperor he was lead by King Edoard and King Esterlant to the Great Cathedrall in this order Before him went a Horse in rich Traping of Gold then followed a Herauld proclaiming his Titles and bearing the Armes of the Empire after them followed the Servants of the Houshold leading many Horses in Silver Trapings sounding all manner of loud Musick next went the Nobles two and two according to their degree then six Ensigns bearing the Armes of the six Provinces his Father and himself had anexed to the Empire After them four Esquires one bearing his Sword the other his Shield the third his Helmet and the fourth his Armour Then went the Great Master of his Houshold and High Chancellor the first bearing the Emperial Crown Scepter and Globe and the later a Coronet done of Gold for the Empress After them followed the Emperor lead by the aforesaid Kings and was followed by the Empress and her Ladies in a Chariot covered with Cloth of Gold and she succeeded by a number of other Chariots covered with Gold and Silver interwoven And in this order passed they through a Lane of Armed Knights to the Cathedrall where they were received by the Arch-Bishop and all the Clergy of the City singing Anthems and conducted to the High Altar where a Chair of State being set the Emperor and Empress placed themselves and were by the Bishop Crowned after the manner and custom of the Empire when having received the benediction of the Church they returned in the same order and were all the way saluted with the Ioyfull Acclamations of the People when as all manner of Pastimes were ordained together with feasting in abundance for all that would come with many new and pretty devices ordained to divert the Ladyes and make them forget the sorrow they conceived for the loss of their friends but the impression in most of their minds was too deep to be so soon obliterated Twenty days lasted this feasting and pastime at the end of which a Grand Council was called to settle the Affairs of the Empire When after a long debate it was resolved That since Albayzer had so treacherously dealt as to invade the City of Constantinople without cause ingratefully requiting so the kind entertainment he and his Princess Targiana had received at the hands of the Emperor Palmerin the wary should be carryed into his Country and the Siege layed to his City of Babylon This resolution greatly pleased the Princes and Knights at Armes who swore they would as much as in them lay assist the Emperor in the undertaking whereupon great preparation were made against the Spring both of Shiping Arms and Provision yet did they what they could to hide the Design from the Ladyes lest it should administer new cause of Grief so that every Prince sent secretly into his Country to leavy Forces to be ready at the time appointed CHAP. LXIX Of an Adventure that happened in the Court And how the late married Ladyes were delivered of divers fair Sons and Daughters THE Face of Ioy being a little restor'd at Court and the loss of Friends by little and little