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A17476	A Saxon historie, of the admirable adventures of Clodoaldus and his three children. Translated out of French, by Sr. T.H.	N. C.; T.H., Sir (Thomas Hawkins), d. 1640.; Caussin, Nicolas, 1583-1651, attributed name.	1634 (1634)	STC 4294; ESTC S107367	57,717	118

of me whilst this noble gentleman is in fetters Bee your Majesty pleased to finish what you so prosperously have begun Forthwith the King caused Ischyrion and Faustine to be fetched commanding their chaines to bee taken off Ischyrion feeling himselfe unfettered lifted his hands to Heaven and said Now is the time oh Heavens I render you thankes that I once againe have my hands at liberty to die in some battaile if you shall please to deigne me this favour we at the least so farre as I perceive have escaped from these bloudy sacrifices where wee were to loose our lives not illustrating our deaths with one ray of honour but now if we needs must make an end wee will conclude on the theater of Kings in some glorious piece of service Charlemaigne hearing this yong Eaglet speake with so much generosity enquired his name race employment course and progresse of life But hee making a low obeysance said to the King Sir I beseech your Majestie to excuse me if I give you not upon this question that full satisfaction I could wish For fortune hath created me an imperfect man without Father or Mother kindred allyes Countrey house or riches casting me as an abortive of the sea risen out of the waves to arive on some unknowne shore All I can say of my extraction is that I was taken away in so tender yeares that I could not have any knowledge either of my selfe or mine It onely was told mee that Pirats stealing mee away from I know not what Countrey came to east anchor in a a part of Affrick where they were so hotly assayled that one of their vessels was left behind in which I was and every one running hastily to the pillage of this booty the shepherds sought also to have their share in it whereof one of them seeing me whither mooved with compassion or whither he thought mee a childe of some good family and that one day restoring me he might gaine somewhat by it he resolved to lay hold on me and bred mee up with his son Faustine here present We both grew up under his wings like two yong Ashes planted by the favour of Heaven neere a rivers side and although I had then no other opinion of my selfe but that I was the son of Thoas my foster-father yet being among little Countrey boyes of my condition I played the Prince and was infinitely delighted to practise warres and combats wherein I almost everhad the upper hand from whence it came to passe the name of Ischyrion was given mee which is a tite of valour and glory The shepherd Thoas loved me tenderly as his owne son and plainely perceiving I was not borne to rest in sheep-coats all my life Being now upon the degrees of an age more vigorous he tooke me apart and said My deare Ischyrion I must now at this time unsold a secret unto you which I have hitherto been willing to conceale from you fearing least the greatnesse of your courage might prove your ruine in these greener yeeres but now when at this present you are come to more maturity and strength I would have you know you are no son of mine I found you in a ship of Pyrats and some Mariners did secretly whisper you were stollen away from a certaine port and that your Father was a great Prince whereof I could never learne any further Perhaps your good starres will shew you more I onely intreat you to take care of your person which shall be most deare to mee whilst I live and if you one day arrive to any fortune worthy your selfe forget not your poore foster-father not son that I beg ought of your abilities for God hath affoorded us contentments in our little Cottage but much it shall please me to be continued in your remebrance as one who greatly have desired to breed you well and if any thing were defective in your education excuse our poverty Heaven hath created 〈◊〉 such as you see full of good will though slender in fortune and meanes This discourse drew teares from mee and so farre penetrated my heart that in few daies I resolved to travell thoroughout the world and enquire out my birth But Faustin knowing what passed prayed me by all that I held most pretious not to forsake him but to make him the companion of all my dangers which was the cause I besought his Father to grant it mee which hee assented unto although the Mother very much opposed it Since we continually have lived together as one soule diuided into two bodies For our amity having taken roote in a mutuall temperature and great correspondence of humors hath been maintained with a perpetuall familiarity arriving to that height that neither death nor hell is of power to separate us Good and ill have ever beene common betweene us daily we obliged one another by all the wayes of friendly offices There was never any thing secret betweene us both our hearts and breasts were enter changeably transparent Dissimulation and contradiction could no more approach the sincerity of our love then serpents the blossome of the Vine Nor was there in so many yeeres as we lived together the least impression of inconstancy distaste or coldnesse in our affections but wee loued with the same ferver as if we daily began never to end When wee had travelled over some Proninces of Affricke we passed into Asia and from Asia are come into Europe where wee have borne Armes against the Sarazins and every where have opposed Monsters Pirats Robbers wild-beasts trampling under foot those plagues borne to afflict Mortals Finally we have here beene stayd by a most unworthy treason as your Majesty hath understood by the discourse made unto you I verily thinke good fortune now presents herselfe unto us and that wee here shall finde what is ●●ine to search in any other part of the world The King well satisfied to heare this whole narration asked him whither whilst hee was in the Pirat-ship any marke were upon him which might one day discover his birth Thereupon he drew forth a little jewell that had been found about his necke and which Thoas having faithfully kept restored him at his departure The King taking it into his hand to see what it was perceived many out of our iosity lifted up their heads and cast their eyes upon it and among others Clodoaldus who said in his heart Ah what if the destinies bee pleased I this day recover all my losses good haps sometimes comes by heapes as well as bad The God whom I now worship is much greater then all my desires As he paused on this imagination and came so neere as hee could Behold saith Charlemaigne a very rich jewell I here among other things discover an Agat which beareth two javelins crossed one over another At these words Clodoaldus fetched a deepe sigh and said Sir these are my Armes from all antiquitie thereupon his speech was stopped by the deep resentments of his heart yet

Heaven taking some pitty on my griefe hath sent us these two gentlemen of whose strength and valour you have had testimony enough wherefore I am resolved by some way or other to set them at liberty and suffer them to take mee from hence that so I may bee restored to my Fathers house This is a plot which cannot bee condemned by any who have not utterly abandoned humane affection And if you alleage you therein finde very many difficulties I answere good things are not otherwise compassed All must be hazarded to gaine all at the worst I have nothing to loose but a most miserable life If you will not expose your selfe to perill in this affaire at least deny mee not your counsell The substance of it I put not into deliberation I onely aske what course wee must hold in the execution Araspus was much amazed to understand the bold proiect of this spirit which had never beene unfolded in such manner and assuredly iudged this cogitation had gayned so deepe roots in her heart that it would be a matter very difficult to oppose her resolutions Notwithstanding he replyed Most deare daughter it were superfluous to entertaine you with discourse of the services I have dedicated to your noble Family yea much lesse on the powerfull and ardent affections which transport me to desire your liberty wherein I behold mine owne engaged Beleeve mee sweet creature you ill desire the best thing in the world and by making an attempt unseasonably you ruine all your endevours for the future You will not as far as I can perceive descend from your prison but by precipitation and once to preserve your selfe contrary to the rules of prudence you reioyce to undoe your selfe for ever by the wayes of temerity All that which ordinarily is used to destroy good affaires is it which now you employ to make yours successefull Passion Disorder Hast Precipitation hold counsell in your yong heart whilst reason is exiled You speake of setting these two young Gentlemen at libertie how would you give tha to others which you have not your selfe Is there not a gaoler at the gates of these prisons Are there not guards in the Castle Are there not centinels who watch on all sides And were all of them fast a sleepe what meanes will there bee to deceive a Priest who hath Argos eyes perpetually open upon your person nay should you break two iron gates three others would make resistance This whole Castle is as it were nothing but a continuall prison wherein the birds of the ayre would have enough to doe to save themselves But if it once happen you bee surprized in the act of which there are very strong apparances you thrust your selfe into hazard either to bee burnt alive or to involve your whole life in the deepest miseries which may bee imagined But daughter had you all you could desire to your hearts wish can you thinke it were fit to put your selfe into the hands of these young strangers who for the most part have no more fidelity then the sea and winds Remember you hitherto have preserved the precious treasure of virginity wherein the lawes of the Countrey have infinitely favoured you and that there needs but one houre to loose that in peace which hath been maintained by ten yeeres warre This vertue if you know it not is all of glasse one unadvised touch of the finger is of power to breake it in the brightest splendor of its lustre Behold your selfe now in an estate wherein you have gained reputation and honours are done you as to a Divinity Let time sweetly slide away and expect till the fruit be ripe which of it selfe will fall We heare the standards of Charlemaign the prime Monarch of the world menace this Countrey what know you whether heaven have not put your freedome and happinesse into his hands But deare and most honoured Lady if you have heretofore made some account of my words at this time despise not my teares Yeeld your selfe up to reason so to render you to your selfe I have ever heard it sayd that the counsels of youth have much promptnesse but repentance which followes them doth likewise finde them out with ready wing and never leaves them but with leaden feet This Oration strengthened with wisedome and affection ought to have made a powerfull impression on the heart of a vestall But we must affirme it is one of the greatest miracles in the world to make a creature of this sexe which hath given admittance to some violent passion freely to doe homage to a truth acknowledged Affections are oft-times as easily put on as a shirt but if we speake of dispoyling them it is found they sticke much closer then the skinne Should you alleage a thousand reasons to a soule surprized with selfe-love you shall gaine but this one conclusion I know what I have to doe Yea it hath beene many times observed in the experiments of humane life that persons who make profession of a life most eminent and to be purified and refined in devotion and the knowledge of things divine if they be not fore-armed with profound humility doe eagerly sticke to their owne opinion nay certainly you shall find of them who after they have overcome divels become divels to themselves Hildegardis was in an age and a degree wherein the words of this good man had no longer that effect which they formerly had in her education It is strange to see how soone lovers and sicke folkes become angry shee so with-stood his advice that she doubted not to say to poore Araspus That either hee was a coward or a Traytor to her fortune and that notwithstanding all this discourse shee was resolved either to flie or die Hee who saw this spirit like to a swolne sea thought it was but to loose words to speak in so impetuous astorme of passion but not wholy to disengage her from his counsell yeelding to the time hee very gently said wee must then endevour to handle this businesse with a soft touch and to discover no part hereof to any who is not worthy of much trust for oftentimes too many Physicians and counsellers overthrow sicke bodies and doubtfull causes So much reioyced she in this consent that instantly casting her selfe about his necke she embraced him craving pardon and promising that all this designe should proceed according to his intentions that he alone should dispose all things necessary for their departure and shee her selfe undertake the rest It is most true her credit was not small for besides that these Barbarians honoured this Princesse of virgins whom they served in the Temple as a Divinity Hildegardis by her sweet disposition and obliging courtesies in the space of Foureteene or Fifteene yeeres had with ease gained good servants who shee thought would not faile her at her need shee likewise had so absolute a power to visit prisons to enter into dungeons and many times at her request to enlarge prisoners