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A13797	Alba The months minde of a melancholy louer, diuided into three parts: by R.T. Gentleman. Hereunto is added a most excellent pathetical and passionate letter, sent by Duke D'Epernoun, vnto the late French King, Henry the 3. of that name, when he was commanded from the court, and from his royall companie. Translated into English by the foresaid author.	Tofte, Robert, 1561-1620.; Epernon, Jean-Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, duc d', 1554-1642.	1598 (1598)	STC 24096; ESTC S111433	52,678	150

doe Nor Loue obtaine in vaine t is then to sue Deare to my Soule for Deare I may thee call Since thou farre dearer then my selfe I holde When wilt thou rid me from this loathed thrall In which I am through Fancies bandes enrold When wilt thou keepe thy promise vnto mee Whereof no deedes but words I yet can see Why doubtfull still doest thou my ioyes prolong And driuste me of in dalliance without cause Me and thy selfe why doest thou double wrong To keepe thy word why so long doest thou pause Thus for to lo●e thy golden ●ime t is sin Which once being past againe thou canst not win Matters of state we vse to politize Procrastinating for aduantage great LOVE lingring hates and lothes to temporize Delaie's too ●olde for his orewarmed heate Ah doe not driue me of thus still in vaine Still for to lose t is much once let me gaine Dearer to me then th'apple of mine eyes Let word and deede but once for all agree Not any can in face thee equalize If but a little more thou kinde wouldst be Then with allusiue Sightes feede not me still But graunt at last for to performe my will Ye luke warme Teares which from my nere dride eyes Streame downe amaine like fountaines day and night Wende to my Lady in most humble wise And shew to her my most vnhappie plight Wende vnto her who outwardly in shew Seemes pittifull but inward is not so Weepe you ●o her and say I st possible A Creature that so courteous seemes to all Shoulde haue a hart more cruell and more fell Then Tiger harder then a stony wall Ah why seemes she not inwardly as kinde As she doth outward shew the world to blinde This my Icarian soaring boue my reach Though Beautie serenising fals my Hart How I ore bolde my headlong fall doth teach Whilest LOVE doth play gainst me a subtile part Yet Beauties Birth I am by her I breath Though liue against her fauour and her leaue Wilde fire with milke is quencht rigor with teares Yet naught her stubborne minde can mollifie Vnto my prayers she stops her deafened eares And with Despayre requites my Courtesie Thus am I still starre crossed in my Loue As one bewitcht with whom no good doth proue How long shall I diue in this vastie Sea To finde this Perle this Orient MARGARITE How long this bottome founding shall I be Yet nere attaine this precious Iewell bright My labors like to Hercules abound Who more he did the more to doe stil found I am too weake with Ospraies eyes to looke Against the fierie beames of this faire Sun Too great a Burthen haue I fondly tooke For my weake shoulders long since ouercome The more I seeke the farther I to finde Like to the wretch that of his sight is blinde My brused Bulwarke is not strong enough For to resist this beautious Batterie My yoke too small to draw so huge a plough Mine eyes too dimme such Brightnes to descries This sh●wes that as vnluckie I was borne To die vnfortunate I must not scorne Yet I le not leaue to intercessionate To her hard Breast for my too gentle Hart That if her Rigor she 'le not mitigate At least she 'le somewhat ease me of this Smart I onely craue if she 'le not yeelde reliefe T'adiourne my paine and to proroge my Griefe Thrise trebble blessed BRACELET rich in prise I enuie not thy perlie fret nor golde But fortune thine because in happie wise The place of perfect pleasure thou dost holde About that wrist thou turnst and windst so oft More white then Snow then thistle down more soft Base mindes loue Golde t is not thy Golde I steeme For this I onely value thee at much Because an Ornament th' art to be seene Of her white Hand yclept of right NONESVCH NONESVCH indeede whose Beautie is so rare As nere the like attainde the perfects Faire This is the cause so highlie I thee rate As all the golden Mines of Indian ground Nor Seas of Pearle can counteruaile thy state Wherein thou art this present to be found And if that trueth I shall confesse inde●●e The wealth of all the world thou dost exceede But when I marke how by strange cunning Art Faire louelie Haires with Pearle and Golde conioyne A pleasing ioy doth seaze vpon my Heart Whilest with strange pleasures Fancie feeds my mind So as sweete BRACELET thou dost rightly proue To be th' enchantment of bewitching LOVE Liue Louely Fame which when thou first didst take Possession of my Heart wert stony colde And bashfull but when entrance thou didst make Then as Triumphant thou didst keepe thy holde Changing both Thought state that where before Colde chillie Yee was hot Desire burnt sore If I thee honor worship serue and loue He knowes who guides the restles Globe on high But enuious Fates on me their force doe proue And me from thee haue banisht spitefully So that more paine I doe each houre abide Then if that thousands sorts of deaths I dide But fore that peereles matchles shape of thine The better part wherein my Soule doth rest Shall out of minde or memory of mine Whereby I only happy liue and blest All things shall chaunce impossible that be My selfe forget my selfe will I fore thee The Sunne shall lose his power and darke become The Skies shall melt and into horror fall The earth shall sinke the world be quite vndone And fore this chance all strange things happen shall Though now thou bidste in Albions fruitfull land And I where Mantuan Duke his Court doth stand Mantua Such as do liggen in Delight and ioy And haue what Hart can wish or Thought deuise Spending their time withouten dire Annoy Liuing amongst their friends in iocondwise And who with Loue of Ladies theirs are blest May in Eternam Requiem happie rest Me sillie Trauailer a pilgrim poore Who through hard hap these blessings all do misse Care doth become since want I do endure Of Countrie Friends and Loue my chiefest blisse And yet this CARE not Ill but well with mee Obseruing still Decorum doth agree A Trauailer farre from his Natiue coast With Care doth rise with Care him downe doth lay And though from piller tost he be to poste When All him leaue yet Care with him doth stay Not like vaine pleasure who away doth p●ake When he his Bark through want perceiues to leake Thanks then to Care of Poore the comfort chiefe The best companion that we Strangers finde In Countries strange forlorne without reliefe Who quiet gentle patient is and kinde Then constant CARE not Comfort I do craue And might I chuse I CARE with L. would haue This Tower this Castle this huge Prison strong Begirt with high and double fenced Wall Where I to be kept prisoner thus haue wrong Can neuer hurt nor do me harme at all Since I was pent here I am nothing changde But as before when I abrode still rangde This place restraines my Bodies libertie But

hath no power ouer my Thoughts or Minde VVhich is the cause I count my selfe most free Though I my selfe in greatest Bondage finde I can so feede on Fancie and subdue Enuie by sweet Imagination true No sweeter Musick to the Miserable Than is Despayre therefore the more I feele Of bitternes of sorrow sower and fell The more of Sweetnes it doth seeme to yeeld Vaine ' esteeme my life all libertie Since I do want mine ALBAS Companie Vse Miserie hath made familiar now VVith me that I count sorrow chiefest Ioy And him the welcomst Guest I do alow That saddest tales can tell of bloodiest Noy Then Cruell think what life I still haue led Since so in post away from me th' art fled Thrice precious purse by daintie Hand ywrought Of Beauties First Borne Fauours rightfull Heire Not for a world of wealth purchast or bought But freely giuen for Loue by ALBA faire Giuen to me vnworthie of the same As one not meriting so great a Gaine T is not the richnes hereof though t is much Nor rarenes of the worke surpassing skill That I account of though that it be such As euery eye with masement it doth fill But cause t' was made by that Alconquering Hand Whose becke euē Loues own self doth countermād Dan Fortunatus Bagge which Histories Affirme endles to be for golden store And that it helde of Quoyne Infinities To this my purse is needy base and poore Golde in the inside onely of his purse wa● seene But mine hath alwaies Golde without and 〈◊〉 Pure gold t is wrought with yet her Haires more bright Saft is the Silke more fast her snowie skinne Orient the Perle yet are her teeth more white The Culler● rare her cheekes the prise tho winne Ah precious Purse where what I doe beholde Are Cullours rare fine Perle saft Silke pure Golde Warme showers raine fast from forth my blubbred eyes My heauie Thoughts are Clowdes ●eplete with woes Hot liuely Flames from out my breast arise My skalding sighs the wind 's that forth them blowes Fire burning Cancer and Aquarius cold Ore me their powers predominant do hold The flames thems●lues vp to the heauens lift Where they by thousands round about doe turne The waters runne like to a Torrent swift Hence comes it that my selfe I drowne and burne By reason of two spitefull Qualities Moysture and Heate my life in danger lies My teares a great streame make they so abound A quenchles burning this my secret Fire Hope doth despaire and there her selfe hath drownde And Hart to cinders burnes through her Desire Fancie 〈◊〉 frolike and doth still reuiue Reason's so sick not long shee le keepe aliue ALBA my Teares accounteth as a Toy And for a sport mine ardent Heat she holds For in her eyes Cocitus me to noy And Phlegeton in breast she fierce enfolds Thus she my Hart doth still anatomise With keenest rasor of her Crueltise Haires louely Browne immur'd with pearle and gold How ill fits you this Ribbon Carnatine Since I no more your Mistris now behold Of my disaster most vnlucky signe Who to me gaue this Bracelet for a FAVOVR A work by Beautie framde through LOVES true labour How often would she bout my Wrist still prie And vnderminde me by deuise as t were Making a shew of Doubt and Ielousie As if I it forgot bout me to beare But now I feare me through her staying ore long Both LOVE Her self and Me she much doth wrong VVho euer saw a Beautie such so faire Lodgde in a subiect so vnconstant found VVho euer saw more loyall Louer rare To ●uch hard Fortune causeles to be bound Ah why is not as is her face her Minde Th'one's Faire the other I Forgetfull finde Then louely Haires my dearest Harts best Ease You must from Handwrist mine to Hatband black There must you bide though me it doth displease Since whom I would I most of all do lack This sable place doth fit you best to mourne Where you vnseene shall lie till she returne ●h happie Handkèrcher that keepst the signe As only Monument vnto my Fame How deare my Loue was to sweet ALBA mine VVhen so to shew my Loue she did me blame Relique of LOVE I do not enuie thee Though whom thy Master cannot thou dost see Only let me intreat this Fauour small VVhen in her chamber all alone by chance Open her pretie Casket for some work she shall And hap her eye on thee vnwares to glance Ah then the colour of her face but marke And thou by that shalt know her inward hart If she shall blush and grieue thee so to view And wistly cast on thee a piteous eye It is a signe her loue continues true And that her faith she doth not falsifie Ah the● a fresh her faith more firme to moue Bleed thou againe for to reuiue her Loue. But if she seeing thee no account doth make Flinging thee here and there without regard Know then expired is my louing Date My Hope deceiu'd my Fortune ouer hard Yet if she doth but sighing say to thee Saftly Farewell deare SERVANT happie mee Those ebbon windowes sweete those cheerfull eyes Where LOVE at LAVVGH and sweete looke on doth play Are on the sudden changde in strangie wise And do Disdaines Ensigne gainst me display Darke now they seeme and sower ore passing bad Making my life seeme to me black and sad Those cheerfull eyes which wont to comfort me And to mine hangrie soule yeeld nourishment Denie me food nor will they pleased be But mew me vp as starueling closely pent My walks I v●de which faire and easie were Are stopt with blood-drawing brābles euery where My crased hart thus skorned for his Loue And plagude with proud disdaine and sdainfull Pride Wa●les so as would a Rock though flintie moue Nor ●etter course hath this Disgrace to bide Then sighs and Teares which forth he se●ds apace And damned like still begs but nere finds grace Sweet stay of my weake tottring life nie falne ●alme to my wounds and Cordiall to my griefe ●●ght to my darknes to my storme milde Calme Ease to my paine and to my want Reliefe Ah who hath now and that so suddenly Of pitie thee depriu'd to make me die Poore wasted Hart that wandrest not astray Although the PEARLE her orient colour change Thou which in thy first Faith vnstaind dost stay Although she from her plighted vow doth range Ah where are now thy cheerfull daies of Hope Thy Liues line Loue what wretched hād hath broke Alas poore soule how badly art thou vsde For thy much louing louing ouer long Causeles without desert to be refusde And for thy right to be repaid with wrong Fond do betimes from Fancies Fort retire Reason retaine and banish rash Desire What meanst thou careles thus to seek thy Car● Call home thy Wits giue ore although with losse Els like one blindfold art thou caught in snare And wilt too late returne by weeping crosse Seest no● that shut is Loues sweet passage

riches are of the variable condition of the world and of the vncertaintie of mankinde Your Maiestie which gaue mee all whatsoeuer I haue cannot take any thing but what was your owne before from me and willingly if you please will I yeeld vp all I haue without enforcing mine owne will at all I will more easily discharge my selfe of my Goods then they may bee taken from mee I will resigne not only the Estates the Honors the Offices and Possessions whether they be of mine owne Person or belonging vnto my deare Wife but also my life into your princely Handes I say that happie and contented life which I owe vnto your liberall integritie doe mee I most humbly beseech you so great a good as to receiue it Leaue me onely I desire so little as 10000. franckes of yeerely rent mine owne poore patrimonie it shall be enough that I may maintaine my selfe in your royall Court with the small trayne I had before you knewe mee I shall haue sufficient being in your presence and your onely sight shall bee more vnto mee then all the treasures of the earth I will leaue without any griefe at all vnto your Maiestie the Liuings you haue bestowed on me without making any other request in this respect but onely to beseech you most humbly not to suffer that mine enemies namely those who haue plaied mee no small bad prankes about you should be put in possession and inuested with my spoyles neither to suffer them to finde their happines through the losse of mine owne good Fortune n●r that they may haue cause to erect them glorious Trophees of mine vndeserued ouerthrow for that only and only that alone would be the greatest aduersitie that losse of wealth or goods might bring vnto me See then my gracious Lord the account I make of riches But of your gracious Fauours I haue in such ample wise promised my selfe the eternitie thereof and haue taken such a HABIT in the possession of the same that this Custome is turned into a natural Order I cannot draw breath but with thē my life hath no mouing but their influence that day wherein they shall bee taken from mee shall be the last of my life and the separation of them cannot bee without the parting of my soule out of this body which notwithstanding I will holde for very fortunate to haue so honorable a subiect and will not a little glorie to haue so long and well liued that I haue been thought worthie the friendship of so great and mightie a Monarch who hath so much esteemed thereof as not to haue been able to liue without it One of the most apparant signes that your Royall selfe gaue me of your rare Affection towards me is in that you haue alwaies desired to haue had me neere about you Then I most humbly beseech your Maiestie let me not now be banisht far from you Banish rather my Fortune than my Person they rather gape at it than at my selfe It is not at the youngest Sonne of VALETTA that these spitefull Oppressors doe seek● to take holde of but it is on the Duke D'Epernoun and to his Princely greatnes they are rather enemies of the Effects than of the Cause and desire rather the possessions than the absence of the Possessor Suffer not then deare Soueraigne this his forced withdrawing whom you haue so greatly loued and change not your royall countenance from him at this time will ill fortune Notwithstanding most gracious Prince if of my being far off dependes the rest and quietnes of your poore people and the execution of your Maiesties worthie will and pleasure I will not gainesay it at all rather would I bee as low vnder the earth as you haue raised mee on high in dignitie Your commaundements herein as in all other things shall bee my Counseller● you will shall be a law vnto me and your desires my affections It is more reason that I should perish then your Wil Heasts be vnaccomplished seeing I was not raised vp but by those meane● I praise God for that he h●th left me one comfort in this my luckles desaster that is to know my ill hap and not my fault my hard fortune and not my King my Enuious and not my iust Enemies doe seeke this my fall My iust behauiour hath not any way caused it and therefore it will not leaue mee any place of repentance for my soule is free from all scruple and doubt and my vpright intentions of all offences towards your Maiestie Besides this I haue placed the friendship wherewith it hath pleased you to honour me in a perfect heart not tainted at all I call thereof to witnes the Diuinitie of your excellent Spirit which neuer deceiueth it selfe in the knowledge of his owne Amongst which in despight of the rage of his enemies who are almost in despaire I will appeare in loyall sincerenesse of zeale and in dutifull obedience as the Sunne amidst the Starres and I will make it to be seene that the ielousie of my pestilent Slaunderers is a meere iniurie of time and my life a spl●ndant light of your Kingdome Neyther call I to minde these matters for that I feare you suspect mee of horrible ingratitude or beastly forgetfulnes The ●are manner wherewith you haue bound mee vnto you was such as coulde not come from a rude Scythian but from a most magnanimious King who hath restored a wofull heart cruelly wounded to happie life being therefore obliged vnto his princely Throne for euer So that my Actions hereafter and not my wordes at this present time shall answere for my continuall loyaltie I will euermore haue in memorie the liberalitie of my Prince as a passing pleasing witnesse of the honorable affection hee hath borne me and will repute that day accursed wherein I shall not thinke of the happinesse he hath done vnto me being not able as now to doe him any other duetie Then my sweete Soueraigne honour me I beseech you alwayes with your Commaundements it shall be a kinde of comfort vnto mee to bee euer employed in your Princely Seruice Adiew my good Lord adiew the greatest good I possesse in this life is the happie thought of your gracious Fauour I beseech you still to preserue me therein and to beleeue that neuer soule seperated it selfe from a goodly bodie with greater griefe then E ' Pernoun now hath in being deuided from your Maiesty and not ● little do I complaine for that Fortune hath no other meanes to beat mee downe then in depriuing mee of your noble presence in such sort as it hath done But since it hath pleased God and your Maiestie I shoulde withdrawe my selfe from you I beseech his goodnesse that there may remaine with you as great ioy as in parting from you I carry away both heauinesse and anger that it may please his holy spirit to conduct and fauour you in such sort in your enterprises that your Good may be as fairhfully sustained as I would desire to see manifested the Fauorers of the troubles of your Realme and the iust punishment due vnto them for their rash Wilfulnesse and ouer presumptuous Boldnesse to the glorie of God the encrease of your Maiesties Royaltie the ●ealth of your People the contentment of your magnanimous and Princely Desires Your no lesse duetifull then sorrowfull Subiect for that he must loose the sweete sight of your Princely Maiestie Iean Louis de Nogaret Duke D'Epernoun FINIS