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A03434	Straunge, lamentable, and tragicall hystories translated out of French into Englishe by R.S.	Bandello, Matteo, 1485-1561.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.; Smythe, R.	1577 (1577)	STC 1356.5; ESTC S141	53,770	122

things went with the guyde euē to the place where he saw the act playde that afterward was the death of the chiefe persōs in the Tragedy then sayth the spye vnto the Marques I beseeche you my Lord to contemplate a little through this creuise what lyfe they leade in your absence that sith you are present the disloyalty of thē that be most 〈◊〉 vnto you is so euidently shown The good Marques had no sooner looked through the 〈◊〉 then he spyed his sonne interlased ●●foldē about the neck of the Marchiones and the wantontoyes of the Ladye towardes the County the Father of whome was so constant that hee attended to what ende these imbrasementes and toyes would● come but when hee sawe the Game woulde redounde to his disaduantage and to the perpetual infamye of hys hoase with great payne he obserued himselfe from being ouercome wyth rage and that he had not broke open the dore of the Chamber vpon the Campe where were these couple of infortunate Louers to haue caused them to dye vpon the very fact alwayes the passyon of his mynde was so penetrable that he coulde not by a good space remooue from thence but remayned there wholy troubled and confused in teares running downe along hys bearde that now beginneth to waxe white in the end euaporating the order of hys harte he began to say Alas vnhappy olde man that I nowe shall be that notwythstanding the flower of thyne Age arte dishonoured by thyne owne bloud and the substaunce of thyne entrayles what is it the onely sonne amongest them that bee lawfull which hath vnlawfullye abused thy Spouse shal I be both the witnesse Party and Iudge in this cause and in executing of this iudgement that I must needes do both by law and iust displeasure I shall put to death two persons that I loue beste in this worlde No no the amitie of Maryage sha● ende here towards her that hath put oute the lighte of my honour and hath blotted the reputation common to vs both and the charitye of the father towardes the sonne shall lose his force in me syth the chylde in vsurping the Bed of the Father hath geuen coniecture of his will to take awaye the lyfe of hym of whome he had his owne and of whome hee hath stayned the honour What if once a Romaine Captayne hath punished as it might be to seuerelye hys sonne in that hee had surpassed his commandemente touching a certayne expedition in deedes of Armes whereof although hee had gloryously attayned the wyshed end of his desyres then what shall I doe beholding my self so vyly betrayed and so euill dishonoured by him whyche oughte to bee the reuenger of the cryme whereof my eyes haue seene the execution I beseech God that pytty may not moue my harte to pardon him of this fault or to dissemble this great and extreme hartebreache that lyuing causeth my death and so reuengyng a pryuate iniurye I shall punish the most abhomynable synne that a man can thinke Then for the quyetnesse of my mynde and example of Iustyce to the posteritye my sonne shall dye wyth the vnshamefast loue whiche was cause of all thys and by whych meanes I shall depart from my only lawfull begotten sonne and from my honour whych is more dere then chyldren riches or lyfe The sorrowfull and inraged father with this deliberation seekyng to execute his deuyse his sonne departed into the base Court of the Castle wythout thinking of the perrill or ruyne that hys mysfortune dyd prepare for him and their bandes the Ball with the Gentlemē of his age where was greater companye of people to see the playe then were there of long tyme before for I think that some coniecture of the future Spectacle had broughte thyther thys route to the ende that wyth more shame the County and hys incestyous Louer shoulde be imprysoned Also these be the Menaces wherewyth God threatneth the wycked that their pryuye sinnes committed in the obscurity of the night shall be one day punished openly and to the sighte of all the people duryng this then that the vnfortunate Prynce more braue and ioyfull then accustomed did contynue hys playe behold there comes the keeper of the Castle wyth a good troupe of Archers wel appoynted he in the presence and hearing of euery one addressing him to the Countye sayeth vnto him O Prince it is nowe full tyme that you make ready your selfe to come before other then these be where you must aunswere to the coniurations Fellonyes conspiracies facts agaynst the person of my Lord the Marques your Father by whose commandement sayth he putting his hand to his coller I make and cōstitute you his Prisoner I am sorry for your misfortune more sorrowful that it should bee I that must keepe you in pryson always trust in your great simplicitie likewyse if it please you excuse that whych I doe being constrayned by him which hath power both ouer mee and you O extreme force and rygor of the conscience which moueste so lyuely the hartes of them that feele themselues guilty of any fault that the blast of euery wynd that blowes by the wagging of euery lefe that they see moue they thinke they behold before their eyes a torment and a contynuall punishment that wyll neuer suffer them to take any rest whereof comes the great griefe and the smal assurance that they haue of themselues whych are so troubled by the very interyour iudgemente of their owne spirite that they gyue sure wytnes of that thing whych as it might haue chaunced otherwyse had bene in doubte so the pore Countye seeing himselfe sommoned to go espouse and defyle another bed then that wherin heretofore he had receiued so much contentment fayled not then to thynke of the accrosyng of hys euils and the small hope that hee might or could haue to be delyuered therefore halfe attached wyth dispayre hee sayeth vnto the Prouest Go forward Captain whether it shall seeme good vnto you for of long tyme I haue attended no other intreaty of him then that whyche I now see prepared for me No no my Lord sayth the Prouest haue a good harte God is able to ayde you puissaunt to make euery one to know y right of your cause also my Lorde the Marques wyll doe nothing agaynst you without the coūsel of y most wise and learned men of his house whych oughte to cause you to hope of some better hap then you thinke of then he conducteth the Prince into the great Tower of the Castle which standeth iust agaynst the Porte Delyon And duryng this tyme there were some gone in lyke sorte and by lyke commandment to seeke the Marchyones as they had done the Countye who then was amongest her Gentlewomen playing this song as the Prognostication of her misfortune and the Prophecy of the common Buryall that vnyted after their death the executed body both of her and the Countye THe man by councell of the Gods In this

calleth hee to the others that they shoulde dispatch that the good Synger should not trouble him any more with his prayers thē all at once they began to laye downe the two bodyes to couer them with earth when as the Priest cryed Alas my Lorde if you haue no pitty of the bodye yet haue compassyon of the saluation of the soule as much as is in your power and suffer me not to dye without confessing my faultes before some Minister of God according to the institution of the church Go go sayth the Duke thou hadst more neede to appease the Porter of Hell with thy Orations synce thou canst not get a Priest at thys present they be all fled away from thee seeing thee already conuerted into a nightspright to afray Children in the Churchyarde and therfore thou shalte be put into the earth with the absolucyon that thou haste geue him whom thou imbracest that may serue for the alegeance of the heape of all thy offences Wyth such rayling the inhumayn Prince caused the two bodyes to be cast into the pit with no lesse abashment of al men then as a thing that they had neuer seene done before which thoughte not that the Duke so vnaduysedly and of such a beastly maner would haue put men to deth but his lyfe was no lesse detestable then the lyfe of the Emperour Macryne who vsed lyke manners and punished more cruelly then he did syth the Prieste was prest and choked as well by the smell of the dead bodye as by the earth that was cast vppon him the graue being verye deepe whereas the Emperour wythout pyttye caused such as hee had condemned to bee bounde lykewyse to the deade carcases that putrifyed the Ayre not suffering them to be buryed but let them so remayne till that eyther by fayntnesse or stinche of the dead body and the multitude of Vermyn they cruelly departed out of this lyfe Nor more curteous was Maximiniam who caused such as he hated to be thrust into the empty belly of an Oxe vnto the head where they ended their misery by y blood that ran out of the beast but the barbarous tyme doth excuse these Gallāts that being Panims and without knowledge of God which are not so much to be maruailed at if they did their workes acording to the desyre of the deuill that was their guyde who is a murderer from the beginning but a christyan Prynce come of a good stocke broughte vp amongest men of learning and dwelling in so ciuill a Countrey ought to make the case more straunge syth that the earth once cryed vengeaunce to GOD vppon Cayne for that hee had vyolated the Bright of kynred in sleaing that iust Abell his Brother I beleeue that within a little tyme after Iohn Maria for so pernicious a cryme was slayne by his owne Cittizens and I thinke that in our tyme there be some that haue made sacryfyce of heads other members who lyke Diomedes haue caused their Horses to eate the bodyes of men But I beleeue that God will not leaue suche crueltyes vnpunished although for a whyle he attendeth and is pacyent in his doinges yet in the end he wil cause thē to feele the strength of his arme and to feele the inuytable yre of his iust displeasure Now to retourne to the matter the Duke hauing accomplyshed these Tragical and sorrowful Funerals he dispatched sodenly one of his men to the house of the Priest from whēce he caused all his moueables to be caryed and giuen to the poore wyddow the wyfe of hym that was dead with whome the Priest was companyon in the graue This last sentence was as iust as the fyrst was vniust cruell and horrible syth it was good reason that he should be punished in hys goods that for A●aryce and desyre of Money had forgotten hymselfe and the duety requysyte in a publique man such a one as is the Pastoure of a Churche bee not offended you that beare the Ecclesyasticall Offyces of that whyche I haue sayde but take Example by the myserable ende of one of your estate thinking that the persecutions and the euill that God hath sēt you procedeth of your ambicion auaryce ignorance and whoredome I tel you truly I am sorry for that the aduersarye of the Church suppresseth the good men throweth down them that ought to be honored wheras the foolish the slow bellyes the ignorant the whoremōgers feele no such scourges but God which is iust hath by these meanes called you to repentaunce because you should acknowledge your faultes and lyue more Godly then the Abbot Guensaldo and this myserable Myser intreated so cruelly by the moste detestable tyraunt that euer was seene in Italy synce the Lombardes gaue the name to that Lande ⸫ FINIS ¶ A Gentleman Myllinois beeing amorous at the very end of his age for the extreame Ielosy of his Concubyne was cause of the death of his Sonne and of himselfe and lastly of the vnhappy ende of the Harlot whiche was cause of all AT the time when the french armies were discouered throughout Italy for the Conquest of Myllayne causing all the state of the Venetians to tremble ▪ when Lewis the seuenth had brought his affayres in such readynes that he pitched his Campe euen in the sight of their next Citie breaking down their walles and ouerthrowing with the force of his Canons their Towers of defence that Venis neuer felte any greater or more mightyer force The Venetians not knowing howe or by what meanes to quyet their bondes and to appease the displeasure of a King iustly incensed agaynste their infydelitie and arrogancie about that tyme I saye there was a Gentleman Milinois which for the troubles cōming doth conuay himselfe to a Castle that hee had before Monse as lykewyse did the moste parte of them that coulde not brooke the chaunging of their Lord or who as it might bee were not able to indure the insolencye and crueltye of the French Souldyers This Gentleman of whome I intreate was a Wyddower to whome there was remayning onely two chyldren the one of the Age of seuen or eyghte yeares the other approaching neare to the age of twentye the olde man seeing hymselfe wythoute a wyfe although hee hadde almoste passed the age of threescore yeares neyther hauing regarde to hys Age nor to hys approaching death doeth become amorous of a gyrle the Daughter of a Messenger both fayre and well fauoured of whome hee had his pleasure by the meanes of the onely Father of the Gyrle which solde her vnto him This is a marke very certayne to bewayle any man which we see in his age to become a Father whose youth hath geuen him no sygne thereof yet thys is moste detestable that Chrystyans beare the iniquitie of Fathers and Mothers so impudente and euill as to sell prostytute and corrupte their owne Daughters and commonly the Maiestrates of our tyme wyll see nothing the Kinges shutte their eyes they that fayne them selues to be most

is a tempest vppon the Tyrenea mountaynes all the Caniculer dayes and also in the deepenesse of that Scicilian Ethne arryued in the house in an vnhappy tyme for the torment tourned wholy vpon him the drops whereof did reuerberate vpon the infortunate father who comming into the place where he was the vapors cause of the outrage of this vnhappy fortune do prouoke him agaynst his sonne who was talking with an honest Lady that lodged within the Castle The Ieleous and inraged olde man fretting with anger as one pressed and ouercome with chollor no lesse then a Bull compelled through famyne or desyre of companye seeing the yong man entered into such a frensye that wythout speaking what hee woulde doe he put his hand to his sworde comming toward his sonne he sayth Ah infamous traitour is it I that must seeke the meanes to adresse thy rybaudry By God this shall be the last instaunt of thy lyfe The pore infaunt hearing the furyous menace of his Father not knowing whereof the occasyon of his anger proceeded sayth vnto him And wherefore syr are you so out of your modesty or what is y that I haue done agaynst you syth you are so extreame rygorous agaynst mee that to my knowledge haue neuer offended you The insenced olde man became more inflamed by the aunswere of the chyld saying to him Ah infamous chylde canst thou talke so brauely to me for the purgation of thy wickednesse thou shalt know by by what I will do to what end the iust anger that I haue conceiued against thy impudency and temerity doeth tend saying so he rusheth vppon the pore infaunt that moued not who seing the bloudy sword of his father to be drawn out of the sheath that in steede of thrusting him through doeth prepare him a more sodayne death for hee was vppon a little planck that aunswereth to two lodges which had no barre at the entring to stay one by or to serue for the assura●nce of the waye not remembring for feare of the blow the perrillous place where hee stoode he fell immediatelye from highe to the grounde and hys euyll fortune was so great that the fyrst part which touched the earth doth beare sufficiēt witnesse being broken in peeces sheding his bloud vpon the ground his head being stroke against a stone sharp in the ende fastened in the earth so with hys strēgth at the same instant he forgoeth both his soule and hys warme bloud which runneth out both at his nose mouth the not only cruell father but enemy of all humanitie not contente to see his sonne humble himselfe to debase him before his face thinking that the chyld had fallen by his own will into the dytch sayth Thou hast well lopen for I sweare before God that thou shalte dye in the payne out of which thou shalte not escape my handes this day Alas what pitty is it of a man after he hath wandered out of the limits of reason Saule once enuyous agaynst Dauid ful of the spirite of intelligence had no reason in performing the pursute of one more iust then hymselfe And by prophane wrytinges who did mooue Euristius to tormente that subduer of Monsters Hercules but only wilful mallice inueterate enuy truely where the sin is not very euidēt right would that mercy should be preferred before Iustice it is more prayse for any Maiestrate who following the diuine clemency to pardon thinges not very euident not so cruelly to excercise the sword of vengeance rygorous punishment for it cānot be otherwyse then that he which excerciseth himselfe in cruelty shal feele such a torment in hys mynd that in the end wil cause him to dispaire of his helth or else to such a sharpe repentance that the very prick of that opynyon wyll not cease for the moste parte wythout accompanying a man to hys buryall so it chaunced in this tyrannyous old man who hauing descended the steppes to see the recouery of hym that was altogyther vnsencyble he behelde a spectakle before him that caused him to forget his affection that he bare to the vnfortunate who had adrest his body thyther he seing then the mischaunce of his sonne lying in such poore order his head burst in peeces his body dispearced and yet styrring was moued wyth such dolour that he began to forget his Ielosy and to feele suche a remorse in his intrayles that caused him to detest his fortune for that he had bene so blynded in his concupisence Alas sayeth he vnhappye Father darest thou shew thy selfe among any good men that hast put to death such and so honest a chylde for the appetyte of so impudent a Pallyarde Ah my sonne pardon me this offence for I assure thee that I will make such a solemne amends that thou shalte haue whereof to content thee and they whiche suruiue an occasion to vituperate my fury and syth this my hart sayeth he stryking his brest most vnhappily hath receyued the pernicious venyme of false perswasyon whereof thou hast felte the bitternesse it shall abyde the penitence and thou my body shalte serue for the gyfte and last sacrifyce proceding from me for the apeasing of the shadow of my sonne towardes whome I will sende my spirites to requyre him of pardon in the obscure fieldes of death and to whome I will sacryfyce my wicked infamous and vnhappy lyfe which my sonne being dead shal be more weary vnto me then that darke voyage or any other thing that may disquiet mee at al hauing sayd so weeping sorrowfully he imbraceth the body of his sonne and beholding his sword he sayeth But go to then syth his soule is departed and his desteny hath taken him awaye murder him that hath executed murder in the person of him whome he ought to loue moste These wordes ended mooued wyth a dyuilish dispayre stamping lyke a Lyon and pricked forwarde I knowe not of what Furye as a wylde Bore whetting his Tuskes after he is hurte by some mischaunce tourning the mischiefe vpon himselfe in falling on the poynt of the sworde which passeth through the center of the hart he tombleth vpon the corpes of his sonne yet warme and styrring and so sheding the commō bloud of them two he rendereth vp his soule to him to whome hee had so long vowed it by his wicked and impure lyfe What harte is there that hauing red this or in making rehearsal but would bewayle the chance and misfortune of this desperate old mā who truely had bene excusable in his fury if the deuill had not taken away his sences and forced him by the inormitye of hys vyce and by the greatnesse of his synnes to destroye his owne soule These be examples that bee set forth for our instruction to the end that the perrill of an other should induce vs to beseech God that hee woulde delyuer vs from the spirite of obstinacy and awake vs out of that dreame whiche doth blynd our sences in following the flattering