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A08542	The first part of the Mirrour of princely deedes and knighthood vvherin is shevved the worthinesse of the Knight of the Sunne, and his brother Rosicleer, sonnes to the great Emperour Trebatio, with the straunge loue of the beautifull Princesse Briana, [and] the valiant actes of other noble princes and knights. Now newly translated out of Spanish into our vulgar English tongue, by M.T.; Espejo de principes y cavalleros. Part 1. Book 1. English.	Ortúñez de Calahorra, Diego. aut; Tyler, Margaret, fl. 1580.	1580 (1580)	STC 18860; ESTC S113508	256,667	370

children and maye will mée to procure the bringing of them vnto this monasterie with their mother and héere in your companie they maye he brought vp for that in such children you maye take some solace whereby to forget parte of that which sore annoieth you In this manner neither your Gentlewomen nor anye other person shall vnderstand our secrete Clandestrias counsayle séemed so good vnto the Princesse that embrasing her many times she sayd vnto her My faithfull and loyall Clandestria when shall the daye come wherein I shall bée restored vnto the first ioye and estate which I was wont to holde and in which I may reward the good seruice thou hast done to me Goe thy way and put in effect that which thou hast deuised for mine ease Madame sayd Clandestria if my seruice may in anie wise ass wage your grife which I so sore pittie I thinke it sufficiently rewarded considering the duetie wherein I stande bounde vnto your highnesse and assuredly no lesse is the pleasure which I receiue by the acceptation of my seruice then that which you haue by the fruition of it But sith my counsell liketh you so well I will make no tarrieng goe you madame to your Gentlewomen and I will presently to the citie Goe in Gods name said the Princesse and so she toke her to her gentlewomen Clandestria being in her way towardes the Citie When Clandestria had perfourmed vnto her sister that which the Princesse had commaunded not long after shée came to the monestarie at such time as the Princesse was in the companie of her Gentlewomen Clandestria entered into the Chamber making her obeysaunce The Princesse espyeng her sayd vnto her merrely Welcome my Clandestria how is it with the Quéene my mother and the young Prince Liriamandro my brother They are all verie well madame sayde Clandestria and the Quéene your mother commendeth her selfe vnto you by me Well sayd the Princesse but what newes haue they in the Citie say they any thing of Prince Edwarde Of the Prince surely I heard nothing answered Clandestria but I haue newes if it so please you to heare them me thinks the straungest that you haue heard Tell vs then sayd the Princesse if it bée such as you speake off we shall haue pleasure to heare them Knowe you then madame sayde Clandestria that a Sister of mine which is marryed and dwelleth in the Citie of Buda hath two sonnes of the age of two yeares both borne at one houre in the toppe and pitch of all beautie so that theyr matches are not to bée had They haue besides markes on their bodyes such as those which haue séene them cannot tell what to thinke of them The first borne of them hath on his left side the forme of a face vorie beautifull and so bright that I dare liken it to the Sunne which ouershaddoweth the earth and for this cause the little boy is called Eldonzel del Febo The other little boy hath betwéene his breasts a Rose growing in the flesh so fresh of hiewe and so perfectlye couloured that they which sée him saye he beareth the badge of his mothers bedde as if hée had bene borne in an arbour for this token they name him Rosicleer I tell you madame so excellent is their beautie that the best Painter in Hungarie néede no other example to drawe out the Picture of beautie The Princesse making a shew of great meruayle and as it were mistrusting the report because of the straungenesse aunswered Truely Clandestria you haue brought vs matter of some meruayle but I feare mée the néerenesse of kinne betwéene you maketh you to speake of affection more then knowledge I would that by sight of them you would proue vnto vs that which you haue spoken with this the Princesse Gentlewomen hungrye after noueltyes importuned Clandestria to deale héerein so that they all might enioy the sight of those two so rare children Clandestria tourning toward her Lady sayd by my faith if my Ladye the Princesse bée so contented I will goe to my sister and cause her to come hether with her little ones The Gentlewomen then besought the Princesse that shée would commaund them to be brought thether The Princesse telling them that she did it more at theyr request then of her owne good will sayde to Clandestria you were best doe this which your fellowes require you my lyking you haue for I my selfe woulde gladlye bée a witnesse of so greate a meruaile Clandestria tooke her leaue of them hasting towarde the Citie where her sister dwelt and declared her message for the bringing of the Princes Her sisters husband was a verye good Gentleman borne though verie poore he his wife made them ready to come before the Princesse with the little Princes which by this time were of some growth béeing two yeares olde hauing both goodly lookes standing as it were vppon a iust temperature of grauitie and pleasaunce When they were come to the Pallaice Clandestria first entered into the lodging of the Princesse being as yet in the companie of her Gentlewomen there she lead in by the hand the faire and gratious Rosicleer So soone as he was séene of the Gentlewomen they beleeued him to be no lesse then an Angell of heauen and that wherein Clandestria had before instructed them she had nothing deceiued them The Princesse not hauing seene her children since her first blessing of them and now séeing the height of Rosicleer with his beautie aboue her hope she made such ioy as might haue well bene discerned by her countenance but her gentlewomen more attentiue of the beautie wherwith God had indued the young Rosicleer were not ware of it Clandestria made the little boye bowe his knées to the Princesse and whether it were nature or the beautie of his Mother or both so soone as he behelde his mother he lefte the other Gentlewomen The mother taking the little boy in hir armes kissed him many times shedding vpon his faire chéekes great aboundaunce of teares for the memorne which the sonne gaue hir of his father and for the great ioye she had in hauing him so néere vnto hir Not long after there entred Clandestrias sister with hir husband leading by the hand the fayrest among the most faire Donzel del Febo At the sight of him the Gentlewomen repented them of their former iudgment as concerning Rosicleer that there might not be his like in all the world in the end the question arising of comparison to parte the strife they agréed that as the one mooued euery one to loue him tenderly by his gracious behauiour so the other by his modest iestures made them to feare him with reuerence The difference only put in this that the one had more Maiestie the other more mirth and delight in his countenance The Princesse hauing Rosicleer in hir armes when she sawe hir other sonne before hir vpon his knées to kisse hir hand with gladnesse she raised him from the ground and with Rosicleer in one arme tooke him on

which thou hast in hande for the Princesse Arguirosa and from thencefoorth that thou abide in my Court where I will doo thée that honour which thy person meriteth and I will bestow a liuing vppon thée wherewith thou shalt liue contentedly Rosicleer héere well perceiuing what hée went about sayd vnto him I would willingly Rolando that as thou hast in shew offered me great honour for the which I thanke thée so that thou wuuldest in déede performe another thing which should be lesse impayre to my present honour then the leauing of the battaile the battaile as thou sayst would I gladly end not onely for mine owne daunger which I am like to be in but for thy sake whom I rather wish to amend his fault by liuing and restoring the Ladye to hir owne then by dying in a wrong cause to hazarde the vtter perdition of thy soule and for truth take this that I will choose to dye than to suffer hyr cause to be lost by my collusion Take therfore some other meanes to leaue this battaile for this will not succéede or let vs fight it out for I hope in God that he will defende the innocent When Rosicleer had sayde this Rolando thinking that his owne gentle speach had made his enimie more bolde became mad outright and forgetting hys wearinesse tooke his sworde with both his handes and therwith he strake Rosicleer so hard on the headpéece that he made him boowe both handes and knées vnto the grounde the blow being so heauie as if a Tower had fallen vppon him Rosicleer rising vp acquited it him that he made him stagger fiue or sixe paces backward And betwéene them the combat was renued Nowe this especiallye refreshed the poore Princesse Arguirosa that hir Knight troubled his enimie more now then at the beginning And not long after it was apparant that Rosicleer had the better for Rolando began to be wearie and coulde not moue out of his place Rosicleer knowing the aduauntage and willing to ende the battaile the sooner both for the contentment of the Princesse and the safetie of Rolandos life whome he iudged to be a valiaunt knight offered againe the conditions before mentioned but it was not Rolandos good hap and true it is that those which liue so wickedly dye commonly as desperately least they should repent their faultes and finde mercie But Rolando more then madde at the curteste which was offered him wold heare naught but strake at Rosicleer with all his force Rosicleer stept aside and the sworde fell vpon the ground sticking vp to the hyltes The whiles that Rolando haled at his sworde Rosicleer discharged his blowe with great strength and cutte the necke in sunder from the bodie Wherewithall the whole multitude showted but in diuers tunes some for sorowe of the Tyraunts death but most crying Liue thou Arguirosa our Quéene and Ladie Then albeit some of the Kings friendes woulde haue aduenged his death they durst not signifie it the people being so bent after the newe Quéene The Knight of Cupide when the battaile was ended thanked God and demannded of the Iudges whether ought els were to be performed for the restoring of the Princesse Arguirosa to hir kingdome To which all sayde no and the Trumpetts sounded Yet sate the Princesse vppon hir Palfraye till there came to hir of the most principall Knightes and others Citizens which now all feare set aside durst discouer their good affection The Princesse therewith and the knight of Cupide with hir vnckle Alberto rode in great honour to the Pallaice where that present day the princesse was crowned Quéene the chiefe Lords kissing hir hand in the name of the Gentlemen and Commons After this there was no talke but of the marriage of the Quéene euery man as he wished naming the Knight of Cupide which hir selfe more desired then they all but knowing that the Knight of Cupide had else where bestowed his liking which she gathered by likelihoode of speaches which she had heard in the ship by the déepe sighes which he hourely fetched and especially by his deuice which did not argue in a newe beginner she ruled hir passion the best she might and for this time moued him not therein Afterwards she sent for Rolandos wife hir mother in lawe to kéepe hir companie but the report was that for anguish of minde she had slaine hir selfe Well yet she commaunded them both to be interred as belonged to the Kings and Quéenes of that land Rosicleer remained in that Kingdome sixe dayes at the great intreatie of the Quéene to helpe all things to good order After feelyng the wound which sate more déeply imprinted in his heart then the Image thereof in his armour he departed thence And so let vs leaue him to recount of the Emperor Trebatio and the Knight of the Sunne who were lefte sayling vpon the Sea ¶ The Emperour Trebatio and the Knight of the Sunne are in their waie to the Kingdome of Hungarie Cap. 49. THe Emperour Trebatio and the Knight of the Sunne departing from the Ilande of Lindaraza were lefte sayling in the Sea Euxino Nowe the shippe wherein he was hauing so good and skilfull a Gouernour as wée haue tolde you was carried so swiftlye that within two dayes they entered the mouth of Danubia and béeing vppon the riuer thrée dayes and thrée nightes the fourth day in the morning they were set on lande ere that they wist The Emperour looking about him knew the countrey verye well since he had followed the Chariot to the selfe same place And béeing glad to haue arriued to Hungarie so safe and so shortly he imbraced the Knight of the Sun for ioye telling him that this was Hungarie where the Princesse Briana lyued So he deuised with him in what manner he might best make himselfe knowen to the princesse and conuaye hir into Greece The Knight of the Sunne being so friendly asked his aduice aunswered as faithfully My Lorde it is requisite for vs first of all to knowe where the King Tiberio is and in what order the Princesse now abideth which being done you may the better compasse that which you purpose You say right well aunswered the Emperour let vs kéepe along the shoare that if perhappes we méete with any one we maye enquire what newes there are So on foote they walked thorough a Forrest leading vppon the Riuer wherein they trauailed halfe a daye without meeting anye one after 〈◊〉 weried they sate them downe to rest themselues where they fed on such vyandes as they had brought with them from the boate An halfe houre after when they had 〈◊〉 indifferently they sawe néere at hande a Gentlewoman vpon a palfraye making as much haste as shée 〈…〉 hir a Knight on foote with a naked sword 〈…〉 the stayed not when he ouertooke hir to 〈…〉 through The Gentlewoman séeing the Emperour 〈◊〉 the Knight of the Sunne leapt from hir palfray 〈…〉 good Knights for this trayterous Knight ●anish me The Emperour rose vp and comfor●●●● the Gentlewoman