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A11488	The castell of loue, translated out of Spanishe into Englyshe, by Johan Bowrchier knyght, lorde Bernis, at the instance of lady Elizabeth Carew, late wyfe to Syr Nicholas Carew knyght. The which boke treateth of the loue betwene Leriano and Laureola doughter to the kynge of Masedonia; Cárcel de amor. English	San Pedro, Diego de, fl. 1500.; Berners, John Bourchier, Lord, 1466 or 7-1533.	1548 (1548)	STC 21739.5; ESTC S110641	74,182	217

the deth of Laureola the whiche I will shewe she hathe dese●uyd by iust causes determyned acordyng to honour and iustice and yf her errour shulde be lefte vnpunnisshed I shulde then be no lesse culpable then Lereano As tochyng my dishonour and shame yf it were publisshed that I shulde perdone such a case of my neigbours I shuld be dispraised and of myne owne subgettes disobeyed and of euery man smally e●●●ed And also I might well be accused y t I haue euil conserued the generosite of my predecessours And this faulte myght be so far exstemed that it might spotte defowle the fame of myne auncettours passed blemysh y e honour of them that be present and steyne y e blud of them that be to come for one spotte in our lignage myght confounde all our generacion The perdonynge of Laureola shuld be cause of other great euils the whiche shulde folow by reasō of my perdonyng wherfore I hadde rather to cause feare by reasone of my crueltie then to cause boldnes to do euil by reasone of my pitie And in my so doing I shal be estemed as a kinge ought to be by reason of doing iustice Be holde how many reasons there be that shlude lede y t she ought to haue sentence ye knowe well our lawes hath stablisshed that a woman accused in such causes shuld suffre deth and ye se well how it were better for me to be called a kyng in mynystrynge iustice then to perdone the culpable And it ought well to be noted y t in stede of consernyng the lawe if I do breke it my selfe y e whiche I ought not to do then I cōdemne my self The righte waye oughte equally to be kept obserued for the hart of a iuge ought not to be mouede for fauoure for loue nor couetyse nor for none other accidēt folowing the right iustyce is laudable And yf it be fauourable then it is abhorred Iustice ought neuer to go oute of the ryght way syne it is cause of so moche goodnes It cansith feare to them that be euyll and it susteynyth them that be goode It pacefyeth all differences it determynyth al questions it expelith all stryues and contensions it agreith all debates it assurith the wayes it honourith the people it fauourith the small people and of base condicion it bridilith the myghty men and to the comon weale it is ryght profytable Then to conserue such a welthe and that the lawes susteynyth it It is ryght that I shuld vse iustice yf ye desire so moch the helth of Laureola and prayse so moche her goodnesse brynge forth one witnes of her innocensy as I haue .iii. to charge her then she shall be perdonyd with reasone and praysed with trouth Also where as ye say that I shulde gyue faith to the iudgemente of god aswell as to the wytnes of other men it is no meruayll thought I do not so for I se the wytnes certayne at myne eye and as for the iudgment is not yet endyd For thoughe Lereano hadde the better of the batayll we may iudge the my●●es but we know not the ende I will not aunswere to al your alegasyons and sayenges bycause I wyll make no longe proces and at the ende sende you away without hope I desire moche to accept your requestes bycause of your well deseruyng therof and if I do not yet I requyre yon take it for none euyll for ye ought no lesse to desyre the honour of the father then the saluacion of his doughter ¶ The Auctor THe desperate aunswere of y e kyng was to the herers great heuynes And when I saw that this remedy was to me cont●ary then I sought for a nother way trustyng that shulde be more profitable And y t was I thought to go to the quene that she shuld desyre the kyng for the saluacyō of her doughter Laureola So I wente to her who was partaker of her doughters sorow And I founde her in an hall acōpanyd with many noble ladyes and other who were suffycyente to haue atteygnyde theyr desyres other iuste or vniuste though the mttaer hadde ben neuer so greate yet theyr desyres ought not to haue ben refused bycause of y e auctorite of the quene who knelyd downe and spake wordes to the kyng aswel leyeng charge to hym for his ire as also wordes of pitie to apeace hym And she shewed hym the moderacyon that a kyng ought to haue and reprehendyd the perceuerāce of his ire and shewyng hym how he was a father and allegyd reasones ryght dyscrete to note and full of sorow sayng that if he wolde nedes execute his cruell iudgemente to do it rather vpō her selfe seyeng great parte of her yeres were passyd then vppon Laureola in her yonge age aprouyng that by her owne deth the fame of the iudge shulde be sauyde and the lyfe of her that is iudgyd and the mynd of the desyrer fulfylled But the kynge styll was indurate in his fyrst purpose All the quenes rasones could not serue nor yet her bytter wepynges And therwith the quene went in to her chamber with small strength sore wepyng and as redy to dye And when I sawe that the quene could gette no grace of the kyng I went to the kyng withoute any feare of his fers●es and sayd how he ought to gyue his sentēce with clere iustice for Lereano shulde fynde a man to fyght agaynst all those .iii. false wytnesses orelles to do it his owne proper person and to pay them accordynge to theyr desertes and then god shall shew where the ryght is Then the kyng aunswered me that I shuld leue myne ambassade for Lereano sayeng how the heryng of his name encresyd his passyon and ire And when the quene knewe there was no remedy to saue the lyfe of Laureola She went to the prisone and kyssed her dyuerce tymes and sayde as folowith ¶ The quene to laureola O Bountie by malice accusyd O vertue by ire cōdemnyd O doughter borne of thy mother to sorow thou shalte dye withoute iustice and I must wepe by reason Thyne vnhappe hath more pusance to condempne the then thyn innocēcy to saue the without the I shall lyue accompanyed with doloures the whiche in thy stede thou shalt leue me Thy deth shal ende .ii. lyues the one is thyne without cause and myne by good reasone and ryght To lyue after y ● shuld be to me a sorer deth then that thou shalte receue for it is farre greatter tormente to desyre the deth then to suffre it Wolde to god thou myghtest be called the doughter of the mother y t shuld dye rather then to be she y t I shuld se dye Of euery mā thou shalte be bewailed● as long as the worlde endureth all that of the haue any knowledge wyll sette litle by this realme y ● whiche thou shuldest enheryte accordyng to thy desertes for all that y u art fallen in to thy fathers displeasour yet all suche as knowith the affyrmyth that

so great affeccion I bere to the so moche I ame bound to loue thy noblenes that if I myght remedy thy trybulacions I shuld repute my selfe well rewardyd for all my trauyls so that in the meane tyme thou wylt bere al maner of assautes pacyently in trustyng vpon me that when I returne and bryng y ● any remedy y t thou mayste take suche corage in thy lyfe that thou mayst feale the sparkels therof The Auctor WHen I had endyd myne aunsewre to Lereano then I deptyd fro hym and lernyd the waye to the cytie of Suria where as lay y e kyng of Mazedonia which was halfe a iourney fro y ● prisone fro whence I deptyd Thus I came to the courte wente to y e palays to treat and to se y e maner of the people of that courte and to regarde the forme and situacion of the palayce and how I myght resorte goo come or abyde to entre in to the enterprice that I had in hand And this I dyd dyuers dayes to lerne and to se what way shulde be best moste couenable to my purpose the more I studyed the lesse disposycion I found to attayne to that I desyryd when I had serched al maner of wayes I thought most auayleable to my purpose to acquaynte my selfe w t the yong courters and with the principall of y e courte for generally among them is found good maner and curtesye and thus I drew so longe to theyr company with in a breue tyme I was estemydde among them as though I had bene one of theyr ppre nacion and at last I fell in aquayntance among the ladyes and lytle and lytle I fell in acquayntance with the ladye Laureola and dyuerce tymes I recountyd to her of the meruayls of spayne and of other places where as I had bene The whiche she gretly delyghtyd to here Then I seyng my selfe in maner with her as a seruant I tho●ght then I myght shewe her that thyng that I desyryd and on a day as I saw her aparte fro other ladyes I knelyd downe and sayd as folowith The Auctor to Laureola IT is lesse goodnes to perdone the great puyssante persones when they haue dseruyd trespace then to be reuengyd vpon the symple small psonages when they haue done iniury for y ● one wyll make amendes by reason of theyr honour and the other are perdonyd by vertue the whiche is due to be vsyd amonge greate personages and most specyally to noble ladyes gentle women hauing noble hartes according to theyr birth they ought naturally to haue pyte in theyr condicions Lady I say thys for peraduenture in shewyng to you myne entent I shal be reputyd to bolde not hauyng respecte to your great magnyficens In the begynnyng or I was determyned to speake to you I was in great doubt But at the ende I thoughte it for the best that yf ye entreate me inhumaynly to suffre y e payn for my speakyng rather then to endure in dolour for beynge styll Lady ye shal knowe that rydynge on a daye amonge sharpe mountayns I sawe by the commandement of Amours how Lereano sonne to duke Guerro was taken led to prison as a prisoner who prayed me to ayde hym in his trouble and besynes By whose occasion I lefte the waye of my reste and toke the daungerous way of his trauayle and after that I hadde longe gone with hym I sawe howe he was put in to a swete prisone as toward his wyll but it was ryght bytter as to his lyfe for there he susteyneth all the euyls and paynes of the world Dolour turmenteth hym passyō foloweth hym dispaire distroieth him deth manasheth hym payne executeth hym thoughtes waketh hym desyre troubleth hym heuynes cōdemneth hym his fayth wyll not saue hym I knewe by hym that all this ye are the cause And I iudge by that I sawe hym his dolour whiche he kepethe secrete in his mynde to be more greater then he hath discouered to me by wepinges but by reason of the syghte y t I se of your presence I fynde that his torment is not without a iuste cause And w t sore syghes issuynge fro his harte he desyred me to gyue you knowledge of his euyl his request was with payne dolour my obedience of pure cōpassyon of his payne torment though I iudge you cruel● yet by y e frequētatiō of your gētlenes I se thinke ye be piteous not w tout reason for by reasou of your excellēt fayrenes dignite he beleueth the one by your noble cōdicion hopeth on y e other his payne wherof ye be causer yf ye wyll remedy w t pitie accordyng to his deseruinge ye shal be thē praised aboue al other womē y t euer were Remembre nowe behold whether it is better to be praysed for gyuynge remedy orels to be blamyd for sleyng of hym Cōsyder how moch ye be boūd to hym y ● for al his passiō aduersite yet he doth serue you if ye remedy hym thē he is y e occasiō to cause you to do as moch as god maye do for it is of no lesse esteme the redemer then is y e creator for in takynge fro hym the deth ye shall do as moche as god to gyue hym lyfe I knowe not what excuse ye can make not to remedy hym without ye beleue that sleynge is a vertue I desyre of you none other good but to be sory for his euyll and payne This desyre shall be to you nothynge greuable for he had rather endure in hym selfe styll payne and aduersite then to cause you to feale any payne displeasour This my bolde speakynge condemneth me but the dolour of hym that hathe sente me assoyleth me agayne his payne is so great that none euyll can come to me to be equall to his payne I requyre your gentlenes let your aunswer be cōfortable to your vertue and not to the fercenes that ye shew by your regardes And in your so doynge ye shal be praysed and I reputyd a good messenger and the paynefull prisoner Lereano delyuered quyte fro all payne● ¶ The aunswer of Laureola to the auctour● Lykewyse as thy reasons be temerous and fearefull to declare semblably they are great and greuous to perdone yf thou were of Macedonia as thou arte of Spaygne thy reasons and thy lyfe shuld fynishe together but thou beynge a straunger shalte not receyue the payne that thou deseruyste And as for the pytie that thou thynkest to be in me I wolde thou knewest that in suche lyke cases doubtefull iustice crueltie is as ryue and dewe as is clemence or pitie the whiche yf I shulde execute vpon the shulde be cause of .ii. welthes The one therby al other shuld take ensample of feare And the other all noble women shulde be estemed and reputed accordynge to theyr demerites How be it if thy fole hardynes requyre punycion yet my mekenes and benignite consenteth to

be cause of .ii. liberties I requyre you take me not as your enemy for any thing that ye suffre syn my merites are nat the cause but rather it is myne euell fortune And ye may well beleue that though your dolours be neuer so great yet I fele more torment in y e thinkyng vpon them then ye do in the suffrynge Wolde to god that I hadde neuer knowen you and yet therby I shulde haue lost the sight of you the which to me is the gretest welth of this worlde I shulde haue ben ryght happy and I hadde neuer sene nor harde of the dolour that ye suffre and I ame so accustumyd to lyue in heuynes that I ame fayne to take counsaill for your cause but in the payne y t I fele now I take no counsayl nor I haue no rest nor my harte can not be quyt for the payne that ye suffre Feare not the deth for my propre handes shal saue you therfro I shall serche all the remedies that I cane fynde to apeace y e kynges ire And if y t faylle trust in me that for your liberte I shall deale in such wyse that as long as the world endureth there shal be remembrance and ensample of hardy valiantnes For this that I say is no great thyng to be done for besilde your excellent valeure The cruell Iustice of your presone causeth my hardynes who cā resist my strength syn I haue it by your meanes What thing is it that the harte dare not enter price your beaute being fixed therin Ther is allonely but one euyll in your saluasion the which may be bought w t an easy pryce accordyng to your deserte that is losynge of my lyfe And though I so do it is but a smalle losse so it may delyuer you With my good hope strengh your feble●es for and ye shuld sette your thoughtes vpon al ieoperdes ye myght sone therby ende your life wherby .ii. greate inconuenientes shuld ensue The fyrst and principall is your deth The .ii. is I shuld thē be preuatyd fro the gretest honour that any man myght haue as in that I shulde not then saue you Lady beleue in my wordes and trust my promyse do not as some other women do to take great feare for a small cause If your femynyne condycion accuse you with feare Then lete your discrecion strength you agayne which ye may well do by myne assurance and bycause this that I say shal be wel prouyd Therfore I requyre you beleue me I wryte not to you at length as I wold do but I shall proue to further your lyfe ¶ The auctor WHyle Lereano wrote his letter I made me redy to deperte and receyuyd his letter and made all the dylygence that I coulde tyll I came to the courte and dyd my deuour that in me was to haue spoken with Laureola to haue gyuen her some comeforte but I was denyed to se her Then I was enfourmyde of the chamber wher she laye wher was a wyndow with a great grate of irone And at nyghte I came thyther wrappyd the letter together and sette it on a spere poynte so with moche trauaill I dyd cast the letter in at the wyndowe in to her chamber and y e next mornyng I came thyder agayne and saw the wyndow open and I saw wher Laureola stode but the latyse was so thycke y t I cowlde haue no perfyght syght of her Fynally I aprochyd nerer to the wyndowe and when she saw me marchyng for by y e wyndowe She cast sodenly oute a letter withoute spekyng of any worde bycause of the prease that was nere hande And as I was goyng away she sayd Take there the reward of the pite that I haue shewed and by cause her kepers were nere aboute her I durst make none aunswere but her wordes dyd put me in to suche passion that who so hadde folowyd me by the trace of my wepynge myght well haue found me out The tenour of her letter folowith ¶ Laureolas letter to Lerea I Cannot tell the Lereano how to aunswer and where as euery man lawdith pite and reputith it for a vertue and in me it is taken for a vice And accordyng therto I ame chastysed I do as I ought to do accordynge to pitie I haue as I deserue accordyng to my mysfortune For surely thy fortune nor thy workes is no cause of my presone nor I complayne not of the nor of none other persone lyuynge but alonely vpon my selfe who to kepe the fro the deth charge my selfe culpable howbeit this compassyon that I haue of the is more paynefull then charge I do remedy as innocent and yet I ame punyshed as culpable How be it moche more pleasyth me this presone beynge withoute errour then to be at liberte infectyd therw t. And though yt be paynefull to suffre yet I ame easyd agayne that I haue not deseruyd it I ame she that amonge all lyuynge creatours ought leste to lyue without the kynge saue me I hope vppon no thinge but deth for yf thou delyuer me or any of thyne in what so euer maner it be I shal be dolorous And yf thou do not remedye me I ame sure to dye and yf thou delyuer me and take me awaye I shal be condempned as culpable Therfore I requyre the to trauayll to saue myne honoure and fame rather then myne lyfe for the one muste ende and the other wyll endure As I haue sayde serche to apeace the furour of the kynge my father for otherwyse I can not be saued without the destruction of myne honour How be it I remytte all to thy good counsayle and adnyse Thy wysdome can chose the beste waye thou mayste se the rewarde that I haue for the fauoure that I haue shewed the. I ame put in prisone where as murderers were wonte to be kepte and I ame tyed with cheynes and with sharpe tormentes my tendre flesshe is tormented and with force of armes I ame kepte as though I hadde the force and power to skape awaye Thus delicate is my sufferynge and my paynes so cruell that besyde y e sentence of deth my father myght otherwyse haue takē vengeance vpon me then to suffre me to dye iu this cruell prisō I haue great meruayle how of suche a cruell father shulde issue so pacyente a doughter yf I shulde be lyke hym in condicion I shulde not feare his iustice syn he wyll do it so vniustely As to that touched Persio I wyll make none aunswer bycause I wyll not defyle my tongue as he hath done my fame and renowne I had rather he wolde reuoke and denye his wordes that he hath sayde rather then he shuld dye for them but what so euer I say determyne thy selfe as thou lyste thou mayest not erre in that thou wylte do ¶ The Auctour Ryghte dowtious I was when I hadde receyued and redde the letter sent fro Laureola to Lereano whether I shulde sende it to Lereano orels kepe it styll

mortall paynes could not susteyne hym selfe no lēger but perforce cōstreynede to lye downe vpō his bedde where he wolde nother eate drynke nor s●epe nor take any thyng for sustētacion of his lyfe euer calyng hym selfe happy to come to the case to do some seruice to Laureola as by his dethe to brynge her oute of all trouble so anone it was publyshed abrode in the realme and in the courte how Lereano was lyke to dye Theu his kynne frendes came to comforte hym and to torne his purpose they sayde and dyde asmoche as they coulde Imagyne to preuayle his lyfe bycause his infyrmite was to be curyd by holsome reasones euery mā sharpyd theyr wyttes to do the best they coulde And there was a knyghte callyd Teseo a greate frende of his he considerynge that his sekenes was for loue though he knewe not for whome it was he sayd and shewyde to Lereano all the euyls of women that he coulde deuise and to conferme his owne reasones he alegyd asmany thynges as he coulde in the defamyng of women thynkyng therby to haue restoryd Lereano to his helthe● when Lereano hadde well harde hym and consyderyde that Laureola was a woman he rebukyde greatly Teseo for spekynge of suche wordes and though as then his disposicion was not moche to speke yet he enforcyd his tonge and with the passion of greate iri sayde as folowith ¶ Lereano agaynst Teseo and agaynst all euell spekers agaynst women FRend Teseo yf another man that owed the not so good loue as I do hard my wordes it wolde cause the to receyue payne accordynge to thy deserte howbeit my reasons shal be to the suche an ensample to cause the to kepe thy tonge and it shal be a chastisement in stede of thy payne in the which I shall folow the condicion of a true frende for yf I shewyd the not thy fault by quyke reasons peraduenture thou woldest vtter forth agayne in other places suche like wordes as thou ryght now sayd it shal be most for thy profyt to amend thy self by my contradictions rather then to shame thy selfe with perseuerance the entent of thy wordes was as a frende the whiche I well considre thou sayedest them bycause I shulde abhorre them that hath brought me in to the case that thou seist me in And by reason of thy sayeng euyll of women thyne entension was therby to gyue me remedy of my lyfe and therby thou hast gyuen me the soner deth for the shamefull wordes that thou hast sayd putteth me to suche torment bycause it is a woman that hath put me to this payne therfore by reasone of herynge of thy wordes I shall lyue the lesse season wherby I shall receue a great welth for the receyuynge of this dolorous deth were better to be shortely then to susteyne y e lyfe any lenger for it is a thyng delectable to suffre and with a swet rest to make an ende of this lyfe the whiche swete ende shal be by reason that these my last wordes shal be in the prease of women and my wyl is somewhat to satisfye her in whome resith al the cause to begynne to shew the thyne errour I wyll alledge .xv. poyntes agaynste all them that erreth in spekynge euell of women and .xx. other reasones I shall lay wherby we are bound to say well of all women with dyuerce other samples of theyr bountie goodnes And as to the fyrst let vs found our reasone how that all thynges made by the hande of god are necessarily good for accordyng to the warkeman the warke ought to procede then knowynge that wome● are his creatures they that speke euyll of them offende not allonely them but also they blaspheme the workeman the which is god y e .ii. cause is y e before god man ther is not a more abhomynable synne nor harder to be perdoned then is ingratitude for where can ther be a greatter synne then to put out of knowledge and to forgette the welth that is to come to vs by reasone of the vyrgyn mary and dayly cometh she delyuered vs fro payne and causeth vs to meryte the glory of heuen she saueth vs she susteyneth vs she defēdeth vs she gydeth vs she gyueth vs lyght of grace Then seynge she was a woman then all other for her sake ought to be crowned with lawde and prayse The .iii. is bycause it is defended to all men accordynge to vertue to shew any strength agaynst the weke sex femynyne And this is obserued amonge brewt bestes wherfore men shulde folow the same yet some suche as lyst to speke euyll say though that women can make but small resystence with theyr handes yet they haue no lesse liberte with theyr tonges The iiii is a man ought not to say euyll of womē withoute he dishonour hym selfe bycause he was creatyde and noryshede in the wombe of a woman and is of her substance and also bycause of y e honour and reuerēce that euery child ought to do to his mother The .v. is bycause of the disobedience to god who sayde with his owne mouth that father mother shulde be honouryde therefor suche as do other wyse do serue sore punishemēt payne The .vi. is bycause noble men are boūde to occupye them selfe in vertuous deades aswell in woordes as in workes then yf fowle wordes defowle clenlynes then in perell of slander and defamy is the honour of suche persons that wasteth theyr lyfe in suche vayne wordes The .vii. is when that the ordre of chyuaylry was fyrste stablysshed among other thynges who soeuer shuld take the ordre of knighthod he shuld be bound to kepe defend all women and to gyue them all reuerence and honeste and who so doth the contrary breketh the lawe of noblenes The .viii. is to defend honour fro perell the auncyent noble men with greate deligence and study kepte and obserued alwayes such thynges as perteyned to bountie and they reputed that so great that they had no greater feare of any thynge in the worlde then they had to leue behynde them the remembrance of infamy and reproche y e which they kept not y e preferreth turpitud fowlnes before vertue putting spottes in theyr fame by reason of theyr euyll tonge For oftentymes a mā is iuged to be accordyng to his wor●es The .ix. most princypal is for the condēnaciō of y ● sowle al thiges wrong fully takē may be satysfyed but y ● fame robbyd and taken away the satisfacciō thereof is doughtfull y ● which is more completly determynyde in our beleue The .x. is to eschew hatryd for suche as bestowe theyr tyme in euyll spekynge agaynst women they make them selfe not onely enemyes agaynste them but also to them that be vertuous for lyke as vertue vice are contrary and haue dyfferente propreties so the euyll speker can not be withoute hate and euyll wyll and many enemyes The .xi. bicause of the hurtes y t by suche malicious deades are encreasyde for