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A19901	Alektor = The cock Containing the first part, of the most excellent, and mytheologicall historie, of the valorous Squire Alector; sonne to the renowned Prince Macrobius Franc-Gal; and to the peerelesse Princesse Priscaraxe, Queene of high Tartary.; Alector. English	Aneau, Barthélemy, d. 1561.; Hammon, J.	1590 (1590)	STC 633; ESTC S104401	136,307	201

vpon the coast of fruite full Aquitaine And of thy seede shall come the first of all those worthie wights Which after to the house of Lux shall giue their shining lights By twelue faire signes so shalt thou liue in perfect rest and peace Till at the length through curious care who will not seeme to cease Because thereof thou takest name to cast her eye aside And that disclose which thou hast sought with al thy care to hide And when those secrets thine shall be disclosd in mornefull wise Thou shalt depart that sappie soyle pearcing the heauens with cries Still loosing more more the forme and figure of thy Syre And shalt vnto thy Mothers shape thy selfe at once retire Now therefore get thee to thy house see thou looke not backe With carefull eye keepe thou thy child that nought he seem to lack And if thou wouldest learne his name that doth these things discrie Knowe that it is olde Protëus which neuer yet made lye These diuine verses pronounced quoth Franc-Gal continuing his purpose the old man plunged himselfe to the bottome of the Sea with his troupe of Sea calues so that nothing remained to be séene but the troubled superficialitie of the water and this paper of the barke of a white Phylire trée swimming to the shore which was taken vp and kept and afterwards sent to mee written in such verses as thou hast heard After then that this prophecie was pronounced and vnderstood the knights who were about the Quéene and had séene heard vnderstood and kept the prognostication of Protëus ●ame towards her to comfort her and leade her in with all the people consolating her and so two or those knights tooke her by the armes to comfort lead her away So they returned backe the Quéene Priscaraxe sliding so easily vpon her serpenticall taile being hidden and couered vnder her long trained gowne that her going séemed diuine yea like the Gods who go without moouing féete or knées the rather because she was so well apparailed richly decked and crowned with this illustrate crowne that it made her to shine like the daughter of Phoebus And when they were come to the Pallaice which I had caused to bee begun and well aduanced the Quéen Priscaraxe hauing sent away the multitude populare who had folowed her in admiration reuerence thanking them of their paines retired into her lodging and all the people into their houses and cabins But the 24. knights made their habitation the honestest that they could round about the Palaice royal to be alwaies readie at the cōmandement of the Quéen who for honour and for pledge of their fidelities towards her tooke 12. yong boyes and 12. yong maides of the children of the 24. knights of either of them one to her seruice whom she caused to be clothed and decked with faire skins and precious iewels which I had left her gouerning and maintaining her self in such sort that she was beloued and honored of all And the popular people of all their fruits milch cattle venisons foule fish and to be briefe of all that they got by proy or conquest would giue her the first presents likewise did the Gentlemen knights who aboue all things honored and serued her and made her to be feared of her subiects by their ordinarie exercises of armes cheualrie which they vsed euerie day before her Pallaice continuing and encreasing better and better The Quéene in the meane season became greater and greater insomuch that at the ende of eight moneths being one night a bed in her secret chāber all alone as one who for her lower parts kept her self the most couert that might be so as therwas none but two damsels onely the one called Piste and the other Siope that were priuie to her serpents form the anguishes and paines of childbirth came vpon her where after long fluxions of great dolour she brought forth a great lumpe in the figure of a long round egge farre excéeding in bignes the egge of an Ostrich of substance skinnie white cleare and shining like a transpiercing christall so as with in she might behold a most faire childe swimming in cleare water whereof this massie lumpe was full and the childe wound and wrapped vp in the midde thereof Which the mother séeing knewe not what to doo either to breake this lumpe to take out the naked childe which she long desired and whereunto motherly loue sollicited her or els to leaue it whole for feare of hurting the fruit within it which mortall feare forbad her Wherefore at length she concluded to let nature worke and for that cause she kept it alwayes in naturall heate neare to her bodie and naked flesh and in the most hot and couert places in the night shée put it in her bed and in the day vnder her furres vntill the end of nine dayes that in holding it betwéene the palmes of her hands which are of most temperate heate and warming it with her breath beholding still the enclosed sodainely it began to vnfould the members stretching out the bodie armes and legges and to turne round in such sort that it brake the shell wherein it was enclosed and so came foorth into the hands of the mother who receiued with great ioy this child twise borne crying in the infants voyce for the new sent of the ayre at the voyce whereof the two familiar damosels Piste and Siope came in who tooke it and washed it with water and wine luke warme and being once washed it appeared so faire as it was merueilous to behold so white as snowe with frizled haires as yellow as gold the bodie great and strong as it were of the age of three yeares strayning it self and incontinently going alone and which is more it began to laugh and play with the damosels and so soone as it saw the Sunne it lift vp the head and eyes in knowledge of his mothers Syre and saluted it by and by with loud voyce but somewhat lisping in singing these words I salute thee Whereat the Quéene and damsels began to laugh hartely although they were verie much abashed thereat the rather for that hee was borne booted with buskins of siluered skales and spurred with gilded spurs in token that he should be a magnanimious knight And it is verie like that for so much as he was borne with such armes that nature for not hurting the body of his mother had prouided this shelly vessell to emlose him withall Who after he was clensed hée was brought and rendred to his mother who receiued him with great ioy and remembring the name which his father had ordeyned called him after this maner Alector faire child the Soueraigne encrease in thée vertue honor liberalitie hardines and prowesse for of beautie thou hast not fayled and therewithall shée kissed him right tenderly The Childe as it were vnderstanding her voyce began right gratiously to smile and by a swéete laughter began to acknowledge his mother who caused to call

the oath of a noble Esquire and committed fellony towards the order of Knighthood I haue not done it neither would doo it Truth it is I sought with my sword a foolish laugher and scoffer who as it séemed to me mocked at the fault which my horse made me which laugher I wel heard but I could neuer see nor finde him sauing that in a bush where me thought I heard him laugh with a strokeof my sword cast at aduenture I killed a fat Hare which there was set I knew not whether that Hares laugh in this countrey or no but this I am sure of that I was laughed and mocked at that I haue eaten her with a good appetite As for thy companions which thou saist I haue slaine and eaten I knowe not who they be for I neuer saw them vnlesse they bee Hares and that thou thy selfe art some Diuell of a Hare for thou séemest to me not much more hardy and the common saying is that Diuels doo wittingly transform thēselues by the fields into hares Wherfore shew me thine eares and tel me what thou art whether thou be a Hare or a knight which are verie contrarie For a knight rideth on horsback and is armed hardy and valiant or at leastwise ought to be and the Hare goeth on foote is very searefull by nature vnarmed of al defence both of hornes teeth clawes poyson hardnes and all sauing of a certaine feareful legerity which is the cause that hee is the most fearefullest beast amongst all other creatures and a pray to the Eagles of the aire and dogs of the earth and Chamarins of the water yet should he not find it especially in the dog daies eleuatiō of the Eagle wherefore telme if thou be a knight or a Hare or a diuel or the laugher and mocker of whom I would willingly reuenge my self if I could méste with him I am no Hare ꝙ the great black knight but the hare which thou hast slaine and eaten was my companion for he kept company with me in my sepulcher I am not fearefull for no man can doo mee more harme neither was I euer but haue béen in my time a worthie knight hardy enterprising great things of nature franck liberal extract out of the noble linage of the Macrobians called Gallehault as witnesseth my shield which thou bearest wherein is a Cock regarding high towards heauen whereby I would signifie my high enterprises and hardines and of such vertue is the shield that whosoeuer carrieth it shal neuer haue feare or doubt it is that which maketh thée now so assured against me Now it happened mee thus that for my great frankenesse and excessiue liberalitie which is called prodigalitie I became very poore and yet neuertheles I would alwaies maintaine my greatnes and magnificence for the atchiuing wherof I was constrained for want of mine own to take of other mens Wherefore hauing assembled to me a great company carrauanne of Arabinas wicked people apt to do euil I destroyedal this countrie with robberies assaults rauishments spoylings thefts kéeping with my men al the waies corners and passasses with the ports of riuers and seas taking away the armes horses rings iuels stuf apparrel gold siluer merchandize of such as we took selling their bodies for slaues or abusing thē luxuriously if they pleased vs. Neuertheles this life whereto proud pouertie had brought me pleased me not but I had it in abomination and for that cause I determined that after I should be gotten vp againe insubstance to haue killed all my companion théeues to the end they should doo no more euill and to retire my selfe and returne to my former honorable liberall and lesse prodigall life But of this paine one of my great vncles of the Macrobians called Franc-Gal which is thy Father deliuered mee whom I knowe thou goest to seeke and whom I will cause thee to sée to morrow in recompence of the pleasure which he did in deliuering mee from the wicked life which I led For being mounted vppon an Hypoppotame which is a great flying and swimming horse in the Riuer of Tygre with some companie of valiant men for so much as wee were many mo in nomber wherein wee trusted wee inuited them by fayned courtesie to take land and come and rest with vs which they did being aduertised before what people we were and for that cause they searched vs. Whereupon incontinently as they were descended well armed and weaponed they flong vppon vs with such fury and valour that notwithstanding the great resistance which I made all my Arabians were slaine and discomfetted by the great prowesse of Franc-Gal being halfe a Giant who stroke not a blowe without laying two or three on the ground So were the takers taken and the spoylers spoyled except foure who through their legeritie fled and I after them But that saued vs not for Franc-Gal who by soueraigne force and naturall agilitie ran faster than any horse or hart followed vs not running but flying as it séemed vnto the place where not able in hast to gaine the mountaine and seeing him alone wee returned fiue against him and I my selfe more than any other resisted him as for my companions hee had sone cut them in peeces but I hild him tack reasonable long and hardy enough in the vertue and couerture of my shield desending my selfe with great courage whereupon he seeing my hardines and noble heart he sommoned me often times to render but I being enuious of my wicked life answered him that as then I had neuer bowed and that it was deerer for me to dye than either to require mercie or receiue it Wherefore he perceiuing my obstination ah quoth he there is none lost but such as are obstinate and in saying so hee gaue me such a stroake with his sword that he cloue my head in twaine At these words the great black Knight plucked off his helmet and showed to Alector his clouen head in such sort that one might perceiue the braines consumed with wormes then puting on his helmet againe hee continued his tale saying with this great stroake I fell downe dead and Franc-Gal vnarmed me and my fellowes also whose carcases he left as food for the beasts of the earth and fowles of the ayre but my body hee caused to be buried at the foote of the great withered tree in the meddowes her about and laid a stone vpon a graue Then hung hee vp our armes in the Trophie of the great tree and my shield aboue all which thou hast taken off therefore restore it mee Alector then answered him Gallehalt sith that my Lord and Father as thou thy selfe hast confessed hath conquered by force of armes the shield of thee thou hast no more title in it but by right of heyre it appertaineth to me who am his sonne and for that cause willingly I will not for goe it vnlesse it be by greater force than mine but will keepe it so long