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A51508	Vienna, noe art can cure this hart where in is storied, ye valorous atchievements, famous triumphs, constant love, great miseries, & finall happines, of the well-deserving, truly noble and most valiant kt., Sr. Paris of Vienna, and ye most admired amiable Princess, the faire Vienna.	M. M. (Matthew Mainwaring), 1561-1652.; Minshull, Richard.	1650 (1650)	Wing M295C; ESTC R19255	130,674	194

laugh in Envies face But more considerately weighing his owne case he entertained better thoughts and therefore writ in the next stage of the window If Rivers great from smallest Brookes doe flow Poore hopes in time farre better haps may know But now Fortune that wayted though yet a farre off on Paris unknowne merit gave him a befitting occasion to doe Vienna though still covertly more pleasing and more glorious service For there had lately falne out in the French Court a great contention betwixt the native Barons and some severall noble Forraigners that then for their pleasures followed that Court in honour of the King The controversie was whether was most fairer or the more vertuous of these three Ladies Valentia the great Duke of Burbons Daughter Vienna the Daulphins sole heyre of Viennois or the Lady Margaret sister to the King of England Great was their debate and many there were that maintained each severall Ladies beauty Insomuch as they fall from arguing to anger from anger to blowes and from blowes to wounds The French King offended with their offending uproare and great neglect of their due respect to place and person commanded peace upon their Alleageances And after being pacified and fully possest with the cause hee held the occasion well worthy dispute but their faulty courages and our surious proceedings punishable in the place Yet fearing the further ill that might in many particulars well ensue thereof out of his deepe insight he pardoned their great over-sights and calling them all before him after some few reprehending words hee thus with a milde majesty briefely and wisely appeased them all First he commanded that asolemne and royall Justs in honour of the three Ladies should be proclaimed throughout all his Kingdome to be holden in Paris at Pente cost following free for all commers and that she whose Knight should honour her with the honour of the day should bee ever had and held for the fairest of the three and that his Queene should crowne her with a Crowne of white Lillyes beset with precious stones as Soveraigne Queene of most perfect beauty This milde and pleasing shower so kindly distilling from the King so well allayed their stormy furies that calming theyr over-enraged wills in the shame of their amisse they hunibly on bowed knees craved pardon for their offences and thanked the King for the grace and honour that he did them Then sent the King his Ambassad our to acquaint the English King and specially Messengers to the Daulphin● and Duke entreating the King and willing both the other to honour him and his Court with their persons his sister and theyr two daughters at the assigned day and that each of them would be pleased to prepare and bring some beseeming prize of value befitting both themselves the cause and the worth of the Victor All which they promised in the word of a Prince holding themselves no little honoured in so honorable a contention Before the day the day drawing neere there came so many noble and well appointed Knights that the French Kings Court seemed an Alexanders Campe. Great was theyr Feasting and full Royall was all theyr entertainements But the day of tryall being come Aurora no sooner shewed her mornings blush but that the French King ashamed of his sluggishnesse rose and 〈◊〉 to see the three high Artificiall Mounts which hee had caused to be erected and made for the three Ladies to sit on who no sooner were come and placed but that the Duke of Burbon came marching in with a rich Garland made all of orient Pearle hanging on a blew Banner with his coate of Armes on the other side and placed it on the Mount belonging to Valentia on her lest side Then followed the Daulphin of Viennois with a rich Coller of Esses beset all over with Rubies hanging on a white Banner with his Arines displayed on the other side and placed it on Vienna's Mount on the right hand of his Daughter Then came Englands royall King with an imperiall Crowne of burnishe gold set with Indian Diamonds and blew Saphirs supported betwixt two regall Lyons hanging on a red Banner and plac'd it on the middle Mount before his Sister the Lady Margaret In the face of each severall Mount some foure degrees under the Ladies fate each severall Ladies Father in a strange devised Seate so curiously made and so gloriously deckt that each one seemed to be Apollo sitting in the Chariot of the Sunne The Knights whose rare Devises discovered theyr secret and severall fancies as they were affected so they betooke themselves to the Mount whose honour they were to maintaine The French King sitting in his rich Pavillion powdered with Flower-deluces opposite to the Mounts caused Proclamation to be made on paine of death that none but the Knights Encounterers should stay or enter into the Listes and that no Knight unhorsed should Just againe nor any make offer of Comba●e This being done the King of Armes stood up and after a third sound bade them goe too and doe theyr best devoyres like valiant Knights And no sooner had he ended his words but that there came from Valentias Mount a Knight well mounted on a speedy Bay his Armour Bases and all other his Furniture Azure full of fiery flames and on his shield he bare a Phoenlx enclosed within a bright shining Sunne and under it a hand reaching towards it with this under written Motto O●utinam Towards him came from the Lady Margaret's Mount a greene Knight full of eyes and bleeding Hearts mounted on a fierce Blacke bearing on his Shield an Armed Knight prostrated under a Ladies mercy his Launce lying unbroken by him with his Motto All-ready conquered These two Knights encountred with each other so furiously and forceably that their Staves shivered in the ayre and witnessed their courages in their fall but in the counterbuffe the knight of the Phoenix was borne to the ground so that the greene Knight rode on overthrowing twenty other Knights that came from both the other Mounts the last of whom bare in the Shield the Picture of Vienna most richly pourtracted with a vayle of lawne all over her and from the dexter part of the Shield there was a Hand and an Arme comming forth of a Cloud holding a faire Labell whereon was written Such an one as such is none Great was now the glory of the Lady Margaret and all malecontented sate the other two Ladies especially Vienna who now seeing her shadowed selfe lying in the dust mist and wisht for her White and unknowne Knight And as her wandering eye romed up and downe still looking whether shee could espie him shee suddainly both heard and saw a well proportioned Black Knight rudely rushing from her Mount who so fiercely saluted the Greene Knight that hee made him pay tribute for his former honour in the overthrow of his fortune Threescore other assayling Knights hee dismounted before Vienna who now joying wondred and wondering prayed that he might be her desired knight that

unhappy Haunce got into his Fathers house But now the next neighbours that had heard the wretched womans shrieking cries were risen and having gotten lights speedily came to see and know the cause of their outcryes And finding the Master of the house and the Fryer whom fear had entranced half dead on the floor and the Frier all bloudied by his fall they supposing that they were slain instantly cried out Murther murther The dismayed women that all this while lay over their heads in the bath of their sweating feare doing pennance for their stolne pleasures having their fear both renewed and redoubled by these their cries cryed out as fast the Devill the Devill at the hearing whereof all the neighbours runne out of the house again and Mal Fiance grew upon this dreadfull allanim so fearfully timerous that hee durst not moove though he were more then moved In this agony of terrour did they all lye till break of day when light the comfort of dark dismay emboldned the chief Officer who of purpose was sent for to enter into this house of horrour where raising them from the place of purgatory they found upon examination that the devill had been there and was the cause of all their disturbances But Mal Fiance who now had made peace with his distracted thoughts not onely found his own error but easily apprehended the shift and enforced subtilty of the other For remembring he had disfurnished Haunce of his black Mantle and so prevented him of his infernal shape he conceited that he had no other means to free himself then by taking one of the sheets and so by appearing like a ghost to make way for himself In the belief of this conceit he vowed that Haunce should wel pay both for terrifying him and for his planting in anothers Vineyard And to this end he seeking found him and told him that he had a very good Bulls hide to sell him Haunce knowing well where he lay was much astonisht thereat and thanking him said he had no need of any Then quoth Mal Fiance shall my Host have it to make him a Night-gown but you shall pay for the horns though you were so liberall as freely to give them For in brief Mr. Tanner the abuse that you have offered mine Host and the scandall that you have raised on his house is so injuriously great and so shamefully injurious that unlesse you will give me ten pounds I will unease the Devill and both reveal his adulterous dealing and tell of your ghostly escape Haunce seeing he was discovered bought his concealment with his coin which made Mal Fiance so wanson that being so well silver-shod for travell he discharged all his debts and in the innocency of his thought not dreaming after any danger he made more hast then good speed to Viennois And no sooner was he come and known to be i● Vienna but that the Lord Vray Esperance sent for him demanded where his Soveraign Lord the Dolphin was who being unable to answer thereunto was presently deemed either to have murthered him or to have betrayed him to his enemies For it is a rule by observation true that they that fear not to be thought faulty will neither be afraid to commit the fault nor ashamed to be seen after the fact His leaving howsoever of his Liege Lord was held worthy of death And therefore was he sent bound hand and foot to prison till rigour of justice should by speedy sentence award him condigne punnishment But the bruit hereof begat such tumultuous uproares and brought forth such mischievous factions both in Court and City that hardly could the tempest be allayed without the utter subversion of the State For how should the low shrubs stand in rebellion when the high Cedar was thought to be blown down by treason In this combustion some stood for the indubitate heir the Princesse Vieuna whose liberty they proudly required amongst whom Sir Iaques and La-nova were most forward Some for the malicious ano proud Dolphinis whose Regency many affected but all malecontents repugnant humorists disordered men decaied persons servile Peasants that thrive best in mutation of States and live by others falling as swine do by the dropping of Acorns flocked about Monsieur Maligne the reputed bastard of the Delphin who ambitiously would needs according to the wicked disposition of illegetimates deprive others by ruin and rapine of their rights and appropriate to himself the Crown The fired factions began to break out into flaming sedition and masked Rebellion wayted but on time and advantage to use open force against each other The Common-Weale did well to see her destruction in this triumviry Among these briers and brambles that sought to over-top the stately Oak awfull Justice had no powerfull place Law was of no force and authority lost all command For where alteration threatens Warre there the sword maketh all things lawfull But when the Lord Vray Esperance who was an Anthony in clemency a Trajan in bounty and another Augustus in wisdom beloved of most and respected of all saw this tripertite and dissentious division growing to such monstious heads and hearing that many of the giddy-headed multitude were already assembled together in the Market place in a most confused manner according to the mutinous natures of the mutable Commons fearing their aptness to innovation and the sad effects of civill broyls or some sudden overture leaving because wanting all time of further consideration even in the assurance of his vertue and strength of his zeal to his Country he suddenly went to the Market-place where all men notwithstanding their distemperatures gave way to his merit and in love followed after him So powerfull was he in popular affection which he perceiving stayed and turning himself towards them with tears in his eyes and his Hat in his hands more like an humble Suppliant then a regall Ruler he made a sign for audience which granted he mildly after some few sighs said What moves my fast friends loving favourites and more then dear Counntry-men to this threatning mutiny What disturbs your quiet peace or what seek you by the hurtfull Arms Do you want a Prince Why the Dolphin your liege Lord for ought any knows liveth and the Princess his apparent Heir is not dead Doth any usurp your rights or oppress you with wrongs Why Justice shall give to every one his own and I am here ready to shed my bloud in your behalfs Or doth the bare suppose of your Soveraigns death thus untimely move you to create and invest a new because Mal-Fiance is returned without his Lord A project trust me that will bring forth some notable deceitfull design If needs he must be dead because none can hear tell that he is alive Why then should he not be as well living because here no one knows that he is dead But admit that our sins have which God forbid deprived us of him doth it follow that the ambitious Dolphin's or that degenerat

But before he went he advised thereof with his politick and sworn confederate friend Monsieur Meschant whose false semblable minds ever made such a full connexion of wills betwixt them as what the one perniciously contrived the other most traiterously put in practise And therefore Moschant seeing him already over the shooes in danger perswaded him to wade up to the chin For said he there can never be any perill in the adventure where the Foord promiseth so good a passage Danger now only dwels at home and the Savoy Duke may both fortifie your hope and raise your fortunes Offer him but interest in the Dolphin and you shall find that his avarice and pride will in that hope greedily work on our broken and disturbed state So then happily with speed and most powerfully and successively may you return and as prevailent may your successe be as your going is most pertinent And therewithal he took a sheet of clean paper and laying both sides straight together he cut divers rowes through them both and after cutting them a sunder he kept the one halfe himself and gave the other saying By this and through this shall you without either danger to me or perceivance of any other still know what is here done and what I would have you further to do For though I writ my Letters directly and most distastfully against your Apostacy and combination with the publique foe and advise you to betray that noble Duke which for safety I must still do lest in the portage or otherwise my Letters should miscarry yet shall you at all times unmask my intended intelligence and find out both my fallacy and true instructions if you but take this your cut pattern and lay it on my Letter where you shall plainly and formally read through the same no more then what I purposely in truth do write unto you and would willingly enfeoffe you with In like manner as I will teach you may you safely by the same illusion certifie me of all your projects and designs Maligne thanked him prayed his remembrance thereof and so bad him farewell For fear sent him post away and hope gave him such speed and in short time he came to the Dukes Court where after he had most respectively saluted him he related how that the Dophin his father was dead and that the L. Vray Esperance affecting government most ambitiously sought to retain his usurped rule That the Princesse Vienna was in prison unregarded o● all and that he had himself many strong and assured favourites that would stand for his fortune In furtherance whereof he was come to pray his assistance and for guerdon thereof he would interest him in that half of Dolphin thet lay next unto him Thus did he seek his own ruine with great labour and buy repentance with bloudy cost Thus did he make himself a bridg for the incroaching Duke to enter upon his Country and this gap did he open that the Savonian forces might like an inundationsubmerg and overwhelm both himself and the whole body of the State For the Duke who ever wayted on opportunity and still watched how the Market went finding now the Mine discovered he thought good to make profit thereof and to take the benefit of the Tide while the floud served And therefore he embraced the person for the occasion and premising him help but with Iudas subtilty to make himself rich he leavyed forty thousand men well appointed with whom with all affected expedition he instantly in person went to fish in Vieanois troubled water without making a Conscience of thrusting his Sickle into anothers Harvest The opinion of possibility so redoubled his unbounded desires that he thought that time too long that he spent in going But it had been better for him with the Tertoise to have kept his head within his own shell then by seeking so abroad to raise his fortunes out of anothers ruines For that carefull Shepheard the ever watchfull Governour being now summoned by wastfull Warre to defend both his Flock and his Fold stood not like a doubtfull Chyrurgion to consult of the ripenesse of the sore but like an expert Captain that at the first would prevent fury by force he suddenly raised 3000. men whom in pride of his aged age he himself led into Dolphin to encounter with the injurious and intruding Duke Now Mescant hearing that the Duke and Maligne were entred into Dolphin and seeing the present preparation and hasty march that the governour now made against them He instantly writ unto Maligne thereof and thus deceitfully disguised his subtile intelligences MY Lord your speed to ruine I appland and I joy in your approaching fall which I wish if you seek to waste your Native and distressed Country with Forraigne strength The terrour of Warre you your Snvonian forces hath yet known But be you assured that God will confound those that strive to dispossesse others of their rights War never yet appaled the hearts of the true and valiant Viennonians Our Governor is wise powerfull and practive in Martiall discipline His Allies great his adheres many and his followers nothing fearfull of the event and though his Army cannot make 30000. strong yet hath he leavied many more Troops which are now marching on apace to his ayd Betray that hatefull Duke and you shall find many that yet are your harmiless enemies and some that will in that merit procure your pasdon Trust not a Forraign Conqueror For he will be absolute and remove you and your assured friends Loose no occasion nor time in giving baltest wherein you may best work their overthrow and redeem your lost Honour Be secret in your intended stratagems lost you find more hazard and resistance by greater and more dangerous opposition If you will repair your fortunes send me like notice thereof and you shall be secured by our supplies Bend your forces chiefly against the Generall For dead men bite not It matters not how so it be well done Take but away the chieftain and the Army will scatter For in his fall the field is lost and the honour yours Far ewell MESCHANT Thus in a fair cup of gold did this pestiferous Meschant utter his hidden poyson And under the apparent shew of honest loyalty did he give both treacherous intelligence and dangerous instructions to the hostile enemy For Maligne upon the receit of this Letter laid his patern thereon and so read his subtil and cloked advertisements through the same as by laying down and covering this his Letter with this exampled pattern you may plainly perceive By this time had the Dolphin and Sir Sirap after teadious travail recovered Marcolles in Prevince through which they past unknown into Dolphin where the Dolphin finding his Country in his declining days covered over with Campes Carriages barbed Horses and armed Souldiers he amazedly asked and asking learned the unexpected cause therof which made him beway his sinister fortunes and envy no little against that impious abject his accussed

their owne burthenous pride But her remove moved not so much the good Governor as the misse of their glorious preserver that invincible all admirable Knight of the Dolphin that to their amazement had so oft relieved their weakned forces rescued their fainting endangered friends repuls'd their oppressing enemies slain most of their best Corumanders danted the whole army and at two blows overthrown and killed the Malignant Maligne and the proud ambitious Duke that potent Generall Then he caused inquisition to be made throughout all his Territories after him and rich rewards promised to him that could or should give knowledge of him but no one could shew what he was or where he was only some declared that his Beaver being broken in battell they saw his sace as black as darknesse and his eyes as bright as fire which made the Governour doubtfull whether he were a man that did more then many men or no man that could not be subdued by an hoast of men or that the all-mercifull God in fayour of their distressed right had fent some of his correcting Ministers to chaston and powre vengeance on the hatefull heads of their unjust soes But the War being thus ended peace called a councell for the further establishing of tranquillity And the consideration of these bloody jars cordemned poor Mal-Firance to dy not only for leaving his Lord and being unable to give an account of his Soveraigns life but also for being the first cause of perturbanon in the State and after of forraign invasion The loss of so many of their lives made them all thirst after his To hasten which they brought him the next day to the place of execution where happily the Dolphin and Sirap with his man Bonfoy came by all in Pilgrims gownes as they were by agreement going to the City who seeing and understanding the cause of that Assembly withdrew themselves and upon short consideration they sent Bonsoy to the Governour who needs would be there to hear his latest Confession that he might learn somewhat concerning his beloved Lord. Of him did Bonfoy knowing now the cause in the name of his Master the Knight of the Dolphin require that Mal Fiance should be delivered unto him which granted he would undertake to bring them to the Dolphin In assurance whereof he unfolding his Gown tendered the honor of his Masters shield as a pledge for his performance which when the Lord Vray Esperance saw he knew it by the devise thereon to be the same that the Knight of the Doiphin carried in btatell and therefore he joyfully took it and kisting it reverently said That that remarkable badge of his all-vertuous and most glorious worth besides the glad tidings he delivered of their gracious Lord was more then sufficient to redeem a world of lives And therefore presenting Mal Piance unto him he prayed that they might both see the Dolphin and the Dolphin Knight whom next to the Dolphin both he and all the Viennonians did and would ever honour as their sole and only preserving Patron And then taking his Chain from about his neck he gave it him saying Let this be a witnes of my gratesulnos and truly tel thee with what true joy I entertain thy welcome tydings Bonfoy humbly thanked his honour and requested him that he would be pleased to see how he bestowed Mal Fiance whom he brought unto the other two Pilgrims that were walking a little a side from them But when the Dolphin had discovered himself unto him Mal Fiance fell down at his feet for mercy rising threw up his Hat into the ayr and cryed aloud the Dolphin the Dolphin God save my Lord the Dolphin This unexpected and most fortunate accident made all the company at the hearing thereof to showt for joy And the good Vray Esperance hastily lighting from his Horse fell upon his knee and kissing his hand sayd Long may my Liege Lord the Dolphin live Whereat the Dolphin raysing him embraced him and told him that as his loyalty was crowned with renown so would he adde honour and reward to his vertues But forget not sayd he my Lord to welcome this noble and heroicall Moor the thrice worthy Knight of the Dolphin that both hath preserved me from death and thraldom and delivered you and my Country from our oppresling foes O with what joy and astonishment did then this loyall rejoycing Lord hasten to kneel unto him For though he held him lesse then a God yet he thought he could not be but more then a man Sirap staying him greeted him with all the demonstrations of love and reverent respect This done they mounted both the Dolphin and this magnificent Moor who needs would ride bare-fac'd in their Pilgrim-Gowns through the city Mal-Fiance waited on the Dolphins stirop and Bonfoy manly carried his Masters Shield before him and after went the L. Vray Esperance with all the rest of their retinue Now their approach was no sooner known in Vienna but that they knew their welcomes by their rejoycing bels stately bone-fires and triumphing hearts Hardly could they passe for presse of people still they came running to see them especially the Knight of the Dolphin whom they admired for his fame honored for his great atchievements and lov'd for their protection Sirap seemed much to admire the French whom the French themselves did more then admire But in viewing the whole Troop his observing eye light by chance on his fast friend La-nova at which sight he sighed yet thought himself happy in the sight Thus rode they one triumphant in themselves and honoured of all At length they came to the Pallace gate where dismounting themselves the Dolphin now happy in being the Dolphin could not but shed swelling teares in tender remembrance of his too well beloved wife But as the Generall of an Army buries all the remembrance of his friend in the pride and tryumph of his Conquest so did the Dolphin's freedom from many perills and the attainment to his near lost principallity extinguish all sorrow and memory of the dead Dolphinis So that wiping his eyes he turned himself towards Sirap and embracing him said Most worthy Knight and my dearest friend welcome to my Court to my self and all that is mine This Pallace my Country and I are all at your dispose For so in my particular obligation and by your meritorious and pleading deserts am I bound unto you And longer may I not enjoy what I now possesse then you shall find my promises full laden with rich performance And be further assured that as I onely live by your love and reigne altogether by your valour so will I ever owe you fealty for my life and still doe you homage for my Crown Sirap understanding thus much by Bonfoy returned him humble thanks for his so gratefull and high esteem both of himselfe and his poore endevours with protestation that hee never wished nor expected so great and undeserved guerdons but still held himself most