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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07723	The famous & renowned history of Morindos a king of Spaine who maryed with Miracola a Spanish witch: and of their seauen daughters, (rightly surnamed ladies with bleeding hearts:) their births, their liue and their deaths. A history most wonderfull, strange, and pleasant to the reader.		1609 (1609)	STC 18108; ESTC S120699	28,007	47

to a Queene daily attended vpon her all things she could either wish or desire were at her commaundment heauen and earth concluded to make her a happy princesse onely this content of minde wanted for nature denied to fructifle her bodie and grace her with the name of a mother therefore in wanting children she grew enuious to the world and spighted those women that heauen had so blessed now in processe of time the king queene and the nobilitie of the land road a progresse into the countrie more by their presence to win their subiects loue then for their owne contents and pleasure and as in great state and moste princely manner they passed by a forest side where then was scituated the castle of an auncient knight and an old seruit or to the kings father in the christian warres and therefore was intitled one of the knights of the Roads in which castle as the queene passed by a moste pleasant and delightfull melodie of musique sounded in her eare at which not saeing any she greatly maruelled and demaunded the cause of that extraordinarie reioysing the answere was that vppon that day was borne to the knight and ladie of the castle a man childe who neuer before that time for the space of twelue yeres was grac'd with any is this the cause saide the queene now I sée bace subiects in disgrace of the queenes barrennes will not sticke but make therof a may-game and to mine owne eares giue me a dishonourable scandall as I am now queene of frannce this their presumption shall be quittanced with death and short shal be the ioy they receiue in this childes birth thus enuy like a conquerer seazd vppon all the parts of her bodie with the vndeserued hate she bore vnto this knight and his ladie her verry heart plotted straunge confusion ● all the way as the road along not a word proceeded from her month but sanord of enuy and mallice and not a flumber closed vp her eyelids but it begot dreams of hate and furie all her meditations were of the ouerthrow of these two guiltiesse soules who little mistrusted what deadly plots she decised against their deare liues eury day to this enuious queene seemd a yeare till their progresse ended which as ill fortune had allotted was broke of in this manner The commous of Normandie and Pikardie made an insurrection against the nobilitie and none but the kings presence could alay their tumulteous furies who with al speede princely prouided with men mony and munition tooke his iorney towards them whose absence no sooner gaue way to the queenes mallice bat she dispatched a messenger one of the groomes of the kings chamber to the betraied knight and his ladie not yet churched commanding them by the dewtie of aleadgeance to repaire vnto the court and giue attendance in her chamber till the kings returne onely as she dissembled the dearest friends to trust vnto This message of the Queenes pleasure being no sooner deliuered to the knight and his ladie but as dutifull subiects reioyced that their seruices in the kings absence could bring vnto the queene such high pleasure therefore leauing their castle in quiet gouernment with all conuenient speede they repaired to the queenes pallace bearing with them their little childe who at the first were intertaind with a friendly regard and their childe by the queenes commaundment taken from them and as shee saide put feorth to nurse but such a bloodie nursery I think neuer tender babe induced little suspected the good knight and his gentle ladie what a balefull banquet was preparing for them for the enuious and angry queene in steed of tender paps to giue the infant nourishment shee commaunded it to be made foode for that wombe that gaue it first life is hauing blooddie ministers readie prepared for that tirranicall enterprize according to her wicked meaning the prestie babe as a seruice bakt in a pie was brought to the table of the vnhappy parents whome the queene had then placed in two chaires in her chamber directly the one against the other where after they had saitisfied hanger vnknowne to them with the fruit of their owne howels she locking fast the chamber doore asisted by three or feure bloody murtherers prouided for the same purpose and bound them both fast in their chaires with hempen coardes bands vnsitting for such noble minded personages and being now seltered in the gins of confusion with an enuious tongue she vitered forth the rancour of her heart in this manner Maruell not prowd knight quoth the queene nor thou thou painted minion of beawtie at this your sodaine misusage for till I behould both your hearts liuelesse your eyes sightles and your tongues speachles the rauening fawes of fury feeds vppon my soule what hath nature in you grafted more then in me you being bacely borne haue the gifts of children I royally descended am made barren by desteny and because the seede of procreation prospers in your adulterous beds you liue in all sollitie making reioycing melodie to my disgrace whilst I pining in woe vainely desiting children cānot obtaine them therefore know that I being a queene hauing a boddie yong faire and likely to conceaue crost and spighted by the cruelties of nature haue protested a secret reuenge against you and all such as so my dishonour haue their bodies seeming with children and now you two shall be the beginners of my intended massacars therefore knowe as the first act to this my blacke tragedie you haue fed and satisfied hunger with the fruit of your owne bowels so vppon thee thou father of this deed infant by thine owne selfe heere deuowred I will extend such a torment as neuer Lirant deuised but as thou art a Soldier so Soldier like shalt thou finish vp thy daies whervppon she caused an armour burning red hot from the fire to be brought and without either mercy or pittie buckeld it vnto his naked backe where like vnto Hercules putting on the shirt that cruell Nessus sent he made such pittifull moane as might haue inforced teares to fal from a Tigers eye and the verry marble stones giue signes of laments but poore knight as without cause he indurd this dying punishment so with great patienes yeelded he vp his ghoast in the sight of his beloued Ladie who being no lesse perplered with the frights of pale death awaited the fatall hower of the like dying torments which according to her sorrowfull expectation she was imediately presented withall for whilst she sate fast bound in her chaire gazing vppon the dead broiled bodie of her husband this enuious queene caused her to be stript starke naked and to her two tender breasts placed two speckled venomd snakes almost starued for want of foode which with their poisoned stings suckt her hearts life blood quight through her breasts during which time of her dying torments continuing for the space of an hower these and such like lamentations shee breathed foorth Oh you dreadfull powers of heauen