to have Christian Burial but a Learned Divine a Jacobine by Religion made so excellent an Oration to the Pope against the unkind Parents of the deceased Lovers that Obsequies were granted and Burial given them and an aged Woman a Servant to Lucretia who had been the means of their private Marriage was by Authority of Justice burned alive because she had not advertised the Parents thereof A third Story as dismal as the two former here followeth Damoiselle Geneviefue Daughter unto Monsieur Megrelim a Gentleman in ordinary in the Court of Francis the second King of France espoused her self by Word only and without Knowledge of any in her Fathers House to one that was School-master unto her Brethren named Medard a Picar by Nation born in Laon a young man of passable Handsomness and of indifferent Knowledge for his time being about twenty three years old After some space being thus contracted she found her self to be with Child and fearing the Displeasure of her Parents especially of her Mother who was a very severe Woman she forsook her Father's House and the goodly City of Paris accompanied with none but her Troth-plighted Husband the School-master Travelling thorough the Country they made their stay in a great Burrough Town of Champaign where likewise he became School-master taking great Pains to supply their Necessities Within some few Months after their residing there Medard died and she five days after the death of her Husband one Evening after Supper in a publick place declared to all such as gave Favour to her the whole History of their fore-passed Love her Marriage by promise her Extraction want of Government and the Injury done by her to her Servants desiring very heartily Pardon both of God and them so feigning as if she intended to go to Bed with her young Infant which was about six Weeks old she went and hanged her self that Night on a Beam-end of a poor Cottage which they had taken upon hire Certain Observations upon Kings of several Nations A Menophis one of the Kings of Egypt being blind was assured by some of his Wizards that if he washed his Eyes with the Urine of a Woman which had never known any but her own Husband he should be restored to his Sight After a long Search and many vain Tryals he met with one whose Water cured him whom he took to Wife and causing all the rest whom he had made Tryal of to be brought together to a Town called Gleba Rubra he set the said Town on Fire and burnt both it and all the Women therein assembled Sesostris another King of Egypt was a Prince of so great Wealth and Substance that he brought in Subjection all his neighbouring Kings whom he compelled in turns to draw his Chariot It hapned that one of these unfortunate Princes cast his Eye many times on the Coach-wheels and being by Sesostris demanded the cause of his so doing he replyed that the falling of that Spoke lowest which but just before was in the height of the Wheel put him in mind of the Instability of Fortune which the King considering of would never afterward be so drawn in his Chariot And indeed he found the same quickly after to be true by woeful Experience for leading his Army against the Scythians whom in conceit he had already conquered he found himself deceived in his Expectation These Scythians marvelled that a King of so great Revenues would wage War against a Nation so poor with whom the Fight would be doubtful the Victory unprofitable but to be vanquished a perpetual Infamy and Disgrace so joyning Battels Sesostris was discomfited and pursued even to his own home by the Enemy learning him by that to moderate his Prosperity and to beware of Fortunes Instability Charles the second King of Navarr was a Prince much given to Voluptuousness and sensual Pleasure which so wasted his Spirits that in his old Age he fell into a kind of Lethargy to comfort his benummed Joynts he was bound and sowed up naked in a Sheet steeped in boiling Aquavitae The Chyrurgion having made an end of sowing him and wanting a Knife to cut off the Thred took a Wax Candle that stood lighted by him but the Flame running down by the Thred caught hold on the Sheet which according to the nature of Aquavitae burned with that Vehemency that the miserable King ended his days in the Fire Ewen the third also King of Scotland was a Prince much addicted or rather wholly given over to Lasciviousness insomuch that he made a Law that himself and his Successors should have the Maiden-head or first Nights lodging with every Woman whose Husband held Land immediately from the Crown and the Lords and Gentlemen of all those whose Husbands were their Tenants or Homagers This was it seems the Knights Service which men held their Estates by and continued in force till the days of Malcolm Conmor who marrying Margaret Sister to our King Edgar Atheling at her Request abolished the same and ordained that the Tenants by way of Commutation should pay unto their Lords a Mark in Money which Tribute the Historians of that Nation say is still in force Roderick the last King of the Goths in Spain had for the Governour of one of his Provinces an honourable Person named Count Julian whom he sent upon an Embassy to the Moors of Africa and in the mean time defloured his Daughter Cana which the Father took in such indignation that he procured the Moors amongst whom he had gotten much credit to come over into Spain This request they performed under the Conduct of Musa and Tariffe and having made a full Conquest subjected it to the Great Caliphs or Mahometan Emperours It is recorded that at the first coming of Tariffe into Spain a poor Woman of the Country being willingly taken Prisoner fell down at his feet kissed them and told him that she had heard her Father who was letter'd say that Spain should be conquered by a People whose General should have a Mole on his right shoulder and in whom one of his hands should be longer than the other He to animate his Souldiers against the next encounter uncloathed himself and shewed the mark which so encouraged them that they now doubted not the Victory Roderick had in his Army 130000 Foot and 25000 Horse Tariffe had 30000 Horse and 180000 Foot The Battel continued seven dayes together from morning to night at last the Moors were victorious What became of King Roderick was never known his Souldiers took one arrayed in the Kings Apparel whom upon examination they found to be a Shepherd with whom the King after the Discomfiture had changed clothes It is recorded also in Rodericus Toletanus that before the coming of those Saracens King Roderick upon hope of some Treasure did open a part of the Palace of long time forbidden to be touched but found nothing but Pictures which resembled the Moors with a Prophecy that whensoever the Palace was there opened the
Tom Coriat works the wile Your high Displeasure on my Head to bring And well I wot the Sot his Words can file In hope my Fortunes head-long down to fling The King whose Wisdom through the World did Did hear the cause of two offending Harlots ring So I beseech thee great Great Britain's King To do the like for two contending Varlets A brace of Knaves your Majesty implores To hear their Suits as Solomon heard Whores But to return to more serious matters Mr. Coriat being desirous to see the most remote parts of the Earth in the Year 1612. he ship'd himself from London for Constantinople where being arrived he took special notice of all things there most observable In this place as indeed in all places where-ever he came for his facetious Conceits he found very great Respect and Encouragement from Sir Paul Pinder then and there Ambassador to whose House he had free and welcome Access whensoever he pleased being there for some time he took his opportunities to view divers parts in Grecia and in the Hellespont as those two famous Castles of Sestos and Abydos so celebrated of old by the famous Musaeus for the Habitations of Hero and Leander He also saw what yet remains of the Ruins of renowned Troy So rich so powerful that so proudly stood That could for ten years space spend so much blood Now prostrate only her old Ruines shews And Tombs that famous Ancestors enclose The very Ruines of that place being now almost gone to Ruine the most remarkable thing there yet remaining is part of an exceeding great House which is continued by Tradition to have been sometimes a part of the famous Palace of great King Priamus From Smyrna he found a passage to Alexandria in Egyyt where he observed what remains of the once fam'd Pyramids with the other rarities of that famous Country which having viewed he with one English-man more found a Pass by Sea to Joppa in the Land of Judaea and not above twenty miles distant from Jerusalem whither accompanied with divers others he went and found it a very solitary rocky uncomfortable way full of Danger by reason of the wild Arabs who keep about those Passages to make poor Travellers their Prey and Spoil But they came safe to Jerusalem now inhabited by Turks by them called Cutts which signifieth Holy where he vvas courteously received by the Father Guardian of the Convent of Franciscan Fryers that keep their residence in Jerusalem and by some of them were met at the Gate of the City where they were compelled by the Turkish Souldiers who keep those Gates to redeem their Heads by paying each of them the value of five Shillings before they could have admittance into that place which they had no sooner entered but they were presently carried by those Franciscans which met them to their Convent and then the first thing they did to or for them they washed their Feet then set some comfortable Refection before them and after went in Procession about a little Cloyster they had praising God that he had brought in Safety those two Votaries as they called them to visit that holy place A day or two after they accompanied them to Bethlehem the place of our Blessed Saviour's Birth about five English miles distant from Jerusalem and in the way betwixt these two places shewed them a Rock on which as they said the Blessed Virgin sat down as she went on a time betwixt Jerusalem and Bethlehem to give her Babe suck and that the Rock might not feel hard under her it yielded as they told them to her Body like a Cushion and that Impression made by her so sitting remaineth unto this Day and is most devoutly kissed by Votaries as they pass up and down After this they returning back were shewed all that was to be seen in and about Jerusalem as Mount Calvary where our Blessed Saviour suffered that Hill being now inclosed within the Walls of Jerusalem They undertook also to shew them the place wherein our Blessed Saviour was buried and after that upon Mount Olivet the very place whence he after ascended where upon a Rock there was an Impression of the former part of two Feet such as is seen in soft Earth when a man lifts up his Body to leap thence and these Franciscans confidently affirmed and seemed undoubtedly to believe that it was as they shewed and told them At Jerusalem this our Traveller had made upon the Wrist of his left Arm the Arms of Jerusalem a Cross crossed or Crosslets and on the Wrist of his right a single Cross made like that which our Blessed Saviour suffer'd on and on the sides the Stem or Tree of that Cross these Words written Via Veritas Vita some of the Letters being put on the one side of that Stem or Tree and some of them on the other and at the foot of that Cross three Nails to signifie those which fastned our Saviour unto it All these Impressions were made by sharp Needles bound together that pierced only the skin and then a black Powder put into the places so pierced which became presently indelible Characters to continue with him so long as his Flesh should be covered with skin and they were done upon his Arms so artificially as if they had been drawn by some accurate Pencil upon Parchment This poor man would pride himself very much in the beholding of these Characters and seeing them would often speak those Words of St. Paul to the Galatians Gal. 6. 17. far besides the Apostles meaning I bear in my Body the marks of the Lord Jesus And now having seen what he desired in and about Jerusalem after his Repast the Shot came to pay Money to recompence the Courtesie of the Franciscans who being very poor are unable to entertain People without such Requitals which he and his Comrade willingly gave as having had a good Penny-worth of Eye-sight From hence they took their way to take a view of the Dead Sea so called either because the Water therein is still and moves not or because no living Creature is in it suffocating Birds that fly over it with the Poyson of the ascending Vapors A name of Right Impos'd in that to all Birds opposite Which when those Air 's swift Passengers o're fly Forgetful of their Wings they fall from high With out-stretch'd Necks Hence they went to have a sight of the River Jordan which dischargeth it self into that most uncomfortable Lake and from hence they journeyed North-East thorough those ten Tribes which for the Sin of Solomon were rent from his Son Rehoboam till they came to Mount Libanus thence back to Sidon from whence they got a Passage by Sea to Alexandretta now called Scandaroon where his English Companion left him and turned his Face towards England but our Greek-travelling-Thomas still coveting to see more of the World presently took his way towards Aleppo in Syria about seventy miles or more distant from Scandaroon Here he being kindly received
done he purposed to depart thence and perform such Penance as he was to do for his Sins Whereunto the King replyed the reason why we have here stayed hath been only to wait upon your coming for it is the Will of God that you must encounter with that wicked Colebrand the Saracen for the Safe-guard of us and all the English Nation and Freedom thereof from the Yoke of Slavery for Olaus King of Denmark and Golanus of Norway have besieged us here almost a Twelve-month and now we have concluded a Truce upon Condition that we must find a Man to undergo the Combate with Colebrand their Champion and in case our Champion shall overcome him they are forthwith to quit the Land without doing Injury to any and not disturb this Realm any more therefore we do desire you for the love of Christ our Saviour and for the Pardon of your own Sins that you will heartily undertake this Duel against that cursed Pagan for the cause of God's Church and Christian Religion To whom the Palmer answered O my Lord the King you may easily see that I am not in any Condition to take upon me this fight being feebled and weakned with daily Travel Alas where are your stout and hardy Souldiers who had wont to be in great Esteem with you Ah! quoth the King some of them are dead and some of them are gone to the Holy-Land but not yet returned I had one valiant Knight which was Earl of Warwick called Guy and he had a couragious Servant named Sir Herand de Ardene would to God I had him here for then should this Duel be soon undertaken and the War finish'd And as he spake these Words the Tears fell from his Eyes whereat the Palmer being very sorrowful besought him to sorbear further grieving assuring him that for the love of Christ Jesus and the Blessed Virgin as also for the honour of God's Holy Church and for the Soul of Guy and Herand his Companion he would in the fear of God undergo the Combate Then did they bring him into the City and to the Church with ringing of Bells and Te Deum was begun with chearful Voices and entertained him with Meat and Drink as also with bathing putting Apparel upon him and for the space of three Weeks cheared him up with the best Refreshments After which when the day appointed for that Duel was come the Palmer rose early and heard three Masses the first of the Holy Ghost the second of the Blessed Trinity and the third of the Holy Cross which being ended he forthwith armed himself with the King 's best Harness and girt the Sword of Constantine the Great about him and taking St. Maurice his Lance in his hand got up on the King 's best Courser being accounted of all that beheld him the most proper and well-appointed Knight that ever they saw From thence rode he through the midst of the City towards the place assigned for the Combate which was in a Valley called Chiltecumbe where he waited for Colebrand who shortly after came so weightily harnessed that his Horse could scarcely carry him and before him a Cart loaded with Danish Axes great Clubs with knobs of Iron squared bars of Steel and Iron Hooks to pull his Adversary to him and so soon as he saw the Palmer make towards him calling loudly he bad him get off his Horse and cast himself down with Submission but the Palmer arming himself with the sign of the Cross and commending himself to God put Spurs to his Horse to meet the Gyant This Battel is thus described by the Poet Here Colebrand forward made and soon the Christian Knight Encounters him again with equal Power and Might Whereas betwixt them two might easily have been seen Such Blows in publick Throngs as used had they been Of many there the least might many men have slain Which none but they could strike nor none but they sustain Sir Guy in the first Encounter peirced the Gyants Sheild so far that his own Lance broke into Shivers which so enraged the Gyant that he bore up fiercely towards the Palmer and smote his Horse with such Strength that he cut off his Head The Palmer therefore being dis-mounted nimbly and with great Courage directed his Blow at the Gyants Helmet but by reason of his height could reach no farther than his Shoulder Then Colebrand smote at the Palmer with a square bar of Steel but he seeing his Danger interposed his Sheild which bore off the Blow and on a sudden did so vigorously lay at the corner of the Gyant 's Target that his Club bossed with Iron fell to the ground which whilst he stretched out his Arm to take up the Palmer with his Sword cut off his Hand whereupon the Danes grew much dismayed and on the other side was there as great rejoycing by King Athelstane and the English and yet notwithstanding did Colebrand hold out the Combate till the Evening of that day that by losing so much Blood he fainted so that Guy with all his strength fetching a blow cut off his Head The other valiant Exploits of Guy are thus in few Lines express'd by the Poet He for dear Phillis name and Country to advance Left Warwick's wealthy Seat and sailing into France At Tilt from his proud Steed Duke Otton threw to ground And with th' invalued Prize of Blanch the beauteous crown'd The Almaine Emperour 's Heir high Acts did there atcheive And Lorain he again did valiantly relieve Then in the Soldans Blood his worthy Sword imbru'd And next in single Fight great Amarant subdu'd 'T was his Herculean Hand which happily destroy'd That Dragon which so long Northumberland annoy'd And slew that cruel Boar which waste our Wood-lands laid Whose Tusks turn'd up our Tilths and Dens in Meddows made Whose Shoulder-blade remains at Coventry till now And afterwards did quell that monstrous fearful Cow The Passengers that us'd from Dunsmore to affright Of all our English yet the most renowned Knight But to return where we left Guy having thus happily obtained the Victory occasioned the Danes with great Confusion to hasten away and the valiant Guy to give thanks unto God repairing forthwith to the Cathedral where he was honourably received with solemn Procession by the Clergy and others and offered his Weapon to God and the Patron of that Church before the high-Altar which my Author saith even to his time was kept in the Vestry there and called by the name of Colbrand's Axe but this being done re-assumed his Pilgrims Habit. Whereupon the King became most importunate with him to discover his Name but he utterly refused so to do except to himself and that upon his Oath not to reveal it unto which Condition the King assenting they walk'd out alone in a Bye-path to a certain Cross at some distance from the City and as soon as they came thither humbly bowing himself to the King and saying that he was Guy Earl of Warwick the King embraced him in
he returned for England and quickly getting his Commission renevved makes with all speed for Ireland again but before his Arrival there he was prevented with the News of Queen Mary's Death and so the Lives of many and the Liberties of more poor Servants of God vvere preserved Of the horrid Murther of Duffe King of Scotland and how miraculously it came to be discovered THis Duffe began his Reign over Scotland about the Year of our Lord 968. being a Prince of an upright Justice and one who would not favour Offences in any Person whatsoever This his zeal of Justice was by his Subjects to whom former Kings had let loose the Reins of Government termed Severity so that the Nobles being restrained from insulting and making Slaves of the Commonalty brake forth into several Insurrections especially in Murray-land who all rose up against the King unless it were the Castle of Fores of which one Donwald was Governour These Rebels seeing they could not prevail upon the King by force hired certain Witches to bewitch him to Death these things being murmured amongst the People and at last coming to the King's Ear who then lay sick of a languishing Disease and could take no rest day nor night he sent two men into Murray-land to discover if they could the Truth of the Business These men dissembling the cause of their Journey did so effectually pursue the same that they were received into the Castle of Fores in the dark of the Night and declared unto Donwald the cause of their coming requiring his Aid for the Accomplishment of the King's pleasure The Souldiers which lay there in Garrison had an inkling that there was some such matter in hand as was talked of amongst the People by reason that one of them kept as Concubine a young Woman which was Daughter to one of the Witches as his Paramour who told him the whole manner used by her Mother and other her Companions with the Intent also which was to make away the King The Souldier having learned this of his Leman told the same to his Fellows who made report thereof to Donwald and he shewed it to the Kings Messengers and therevvith sent for the young Damsel which the Souldier kept as then being within the Castle and caused her upon strict Examination to confess the whole matter as she had seen and knew whereupon learning by her Confession in what House in the Town it was where they practised their hellish Mystery he sent forth Souldiers about the midst of the Night who breaking into the House found one of the Witches roasting upon a wooden Broach an Image of Wax at the Fire resembling in each Feature the King's Person devised as is to be thought by Craft and Art of the Devil another of them sate reciting certain Words of Enchantment and still basted the Image with a certain Liquor very busily The Souldiers finding them occupied in this wise took them together with the Image and led them into the Castle where being strictly examined for what purpose they went about such manner of Enchantment they answered to the end to make away the King for as the Image did waste before the Fire so did the Body of the King break forth in sweat and as for the words of Enchantment they served to keep him still waking from Sleep so that as the Wax ever melted so did the Kings Flesh by which means it should have come to pass that when the Wax were once clean consumed the Death of the King should immediately follow So were they taught by the Devil and hired by the Nobles of Murray-land to do the same The standers by that heard such an abominable tale told by the Witches strait ways brake the Image and caused the Witches according as they had well deserved to be burnt to death It is said that the King at the very same time that these things were a doing in the Castle of Fores slept that night without any Sweat breaking forth upon him at all and being thus restored to his Strength and certified what the Rebels of Murray-land had done he raised an Army and with the same marched against them pursuing them thence unto Rosse and from Rosse into Cathnesse where apprehending several of them he brought them back to the Castle of Fores and there caused them to be hanged on divers Gallowses and Gibbets Amongst those that were thus executed were some Gentlemen of note near of Kin unto Donwald the Captain of the Castle for whose lives he much interceded to the King but receiving from him a flat denial he conceived such an inward malice to his Sovereign and being further instigated by his Wife that he never left off till he found means to murther him which was brought to pass in this wise The King tarrying some time in that Country was accustomed to lie most commonly within the same Castle having a special Trust in Donwald as a man whom he never suspected but Donwald not forgetting the Reproach which his Lineage had sustained by the Execution of those his Kinsmen carried a sorrowful Countenance amongst his Family which his Wife perceiving ceased not to travel with him till she understood what the cause was of his Displeasure which when she had learned by his own Relation she as one that bare no less malice in her Heart towards the King for the like cause on her behalf than her Husband did for his Friends counselled him since the King oftentimes used to lodge in the Castle without any Guard about him other than the Garrison thereof which were wholly at his Command to devise some ways to rid him of his Life Donwald thus by her persuaded as he must needs go whom the Devil drives determined to follow her Advice and the Night before the King vvas to depart he being brought to Bed by tvvo of his Chamberlains those Chamberlains were invited by Donwald and his Wife to a Supper or Collation whereat they sat up so long till they had charged their Stomachs with such full Gorges that their Heads vvere no sooner got to the Pillow but a sleep they vvere so fast that a man might have removed the Chamber over them rather than to have awakened them out of their drunken Sleep These Chamberlains thus secured Donwald called to four of his Servants whom he had made privy to his purpose and declared to them which way they should work the Feat vvho according to his Instructions entered the Chamber wherein the King lay immediately before the Cocks crowing where they cut his Throat as he lay sleeping without any bustling at all which having done by a Postern Gate they conveyed the dead Body into the Fields and throwing it upon a Horse provided ready for that purpose conveyed it to a place distant about two miles from the Castle whereby ran a little River where they stayed and got certain Labourers to help them to turn the Course thereof and diging a deep hole in the Channel they bury the Body
his fate and wish he had never come to Athens and these thoughts took such a deep impression upon him that what for lack of sleep and other perturbations he was brought into a very languishing condition His friend Gisippus perceiving this alteration and willing to remedy what was amiss in him demanded of Titus what was the cause of his disease blaming him for unkindness in not revealing it unto him protesting there was nothing which lay in his power which he would not undergo to pleasure his friend with which words the mortal sighs renewed in Titus and the salt tears brake out of his eys in such abundance as it had been a Land-flood running down off a Mountain after a storm so that Titus as it were constrained blushing and ashamed holding-down his head with much difficulty returned this answer My dear and most loving friend withdraw your friendly offers cease your courtesie refrain your tears and regrettings rather take a knife and slay me here where I lie or otherwise take vengeance on me most miserable and false Traitor unto you and of all other most worthy to suffer shameful death For whereas God of Nature like as he hath given to us similitude in all the parts of our body so had he conjoyned our wills studies and appetites together in one so that between men was never like concord and love as I suppose And now notwithstanding onely with the look of a woman those bonds of love be dissolved reason oppressed friendship excluded there availeth no Wisdom no Doctrine no Fidelity or trust yea you your self is the cause of all this Alas Gisippus what envious Spirit moved you to bring me with you to her whom ye have chosen to be your Wife where I received this poison I say Gisippus where was then your wisdom that you remembred not the frailty of our common Nature what needed you to call me for a witness of your private delights why would ye have me see that which you your self could not behold without ravishing of mind and carnal appetite Alas why forgot ye that our minds and appetites were ever one and that also what you liked was ever to me in like degree pleasant what will ye more Gisippus I say your trust is the cause that I am intrapped The rayes or beams issuing from the eyes of her whom you have chosen with the remembrance of her incomparable vertues hath pierced my heart in such wise that I desire nothing more than to be out of this wretched Life which is not worthy the company of so noble and loving a Friend as you be concluding his Speech with a profound Sigh and such plenty of Tears as as if his whole Body would be dissolved into salt drops But Gisippus nothing dismay'd at his words embracing and kissing him thus answered Why Titus Is this your only sickness and grief that ye so uncourteously have so long concealed and with much more unkindness kept from me than ye have conceived it I acknowledge my folly wherewith ye have rightly upbraided me that in shewing her to you whom I loved I remembred not the estate of our Nature nor the agreeableness or as I may say the unity of our two Appetites surely that default can be by no reason excused wherefore it is only I that have offended I confess to you Titus I love that Maid as much as any wise man may possible and took in her company more delight and pleasure than of all the Treasure and Lands that my Father left me which you know was very much howbeit for the servent love I bear to your Virtues here I renounce to you clearly all my title and Interest that I now have or might have in that Maiden And therefore call to you your former Courage abandon all the Heaviness the day appointed for our Marriage approacheth let us consult how without difficulty ye may wholly attain your desire Now you know that we two be so alike that being apart and in like Apparel few men do know us from each other also you know the custom is that notwithstanding any Ceremony done at the time of the Spousals yet the Marriage is not confirmed until at Night that the Husband puts a Ring on the Finger of his Wife and unlooseth her Girdle Wherefore I my self will be present with my Friends to perform all the parts of a Bridegroom and you shall abide in a secret place where I shall appoint you until it be Night when you shall be conveyed into the Maids Chamber and for the likeness of our Personages and of our Apparel you will not be known by the Women which have with us no acquaintance then get you to Bed and put your own Ring upon the Maids Finger and undo her Girdle of Virginity by which the Marriage will be consummated With these words Titus began to move as it were out of a Dream and doubting whether he heard Gisippus speak or else saw but a Vision lay still as a man abashed but having a little recovered himself he thanked Gisippus for his incomparable kindness but refused the Benefit that he offered saying that it were better a hundred such unkind wretches as he was should perish then so noble man as was Gisippus should suffer any reproach or dammage But Gisippus sware and protested that he freely resigned the Lady unto him and therewith embraced and kissed Titus who thereupon setting himself up in his Bed the blood somewhat resorted unto his visage and after a little good Meats and Drinks taken he was in a few days restored again to his former strength and vigour In short the day of Marriage was come when Gisippus accompanied with his Friends went to the Bride's House where they were nobly entertained and feasted and after the Covenants were read and sealed the Dowry appointed and all other things concluded the Friends of either part took their leave and departed the Bride with a few Women as was the custom brought into her Chamber then as it was before agreed Titus was conveyed into her Chamber and being taken for Gisippus into her Bed where he first demanded of her if that she loved him and vouchsafed to take him for her Husband forsaking all other which she with a blushing countenance half laughing and half mourning as in point to depart from her Maiden-head but supposing it to be Gisippus that asked her affirmed Then did he ask her if that she in ratifying that promise would receive his Ring whereto she consenting put the Ring on her Finger and unloosed her Girdle and so they lovingly sunk down into the Bed together where what they did there I leave to married mens imagination The morrow being come Gisippus thinking it expedient that the truth should be discovered assembled the Nobility of the City to his House where a full Assembly being come Titus made to them this following Oration Most noble Athenians there is at this time shewed amongst you an example almost incredible of the divine power