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A08907 The heroicall deuises of M. Claudius Paradin Canon of Beauieu. Whereunto are added the Lord Gabriel Symeons and others. Translated out of Latin into English by P.S.; Devises héroiques. English Paradin, Claude, 16th cent.; P. S., fl. 1591. 1591 (1591) STC 19183; ESTC S119509 55,195 420

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forme of a blasing starre glittering on euerie side with arrowes as it were in fashion of a round circle for a continuall admonition to implore and call for Gods direction and mightie arme in this his voyage and iourney Vnica semper auis But alwayes one Phenix in the world at once Like as the Phenix wherof there is but one at any time to be seene Theoph. is a rare bird so all good precious things are hard to be found These armes the famous and renowmed woman the L●dy Helionora of Austria vsed which was the widow of Francis king of France ΑΠΑΑΝΩΣ Without all falshood or deceipt The french arming sword in the hands of an armed man with the inscription of this Greeke word ΑΠΑΑΝΩΣ doth at this day in the place of the armes which the Lord Constable vsed signifie faith Riens ne ́ est plus Plus ne ́ est riens I haue no more ioy no more comfort remaineth to me Valentina of Milan sometime Dutch●sse of Orleans had great cause to passe her dayes in great heauinesse and mourning both for the death of her husband Lewis ●●other to king Charles the sixt as also for the same kings vnfortunate phrensie whereof we spake before in the handling of his a●mes which vsed to come on him at certain times and when it tooke him he knew not any of his friends no not the queene his wife but only this Dutchesse Valentina whom he called when he was in this extremitie his sister Whereupon there was a rumour blowne abrode that the Duke the father of this Valentina hauing sometimes bene ouerladen with drinke had caused some poyson or charmed potion to be giuen him which report this Valentina tooke verie grieuously yea so grieuously indeede that in place of all consolation and ease of her mourning she vsed for her cognizance an earthen pitcher in fashion like a water pot on the mouth whereof was the character of this letter S. signifying perhaps these words concerning the same Dutches Solā saepe seseipsā sollicitari suspiraréque that is being alone shee accustomed to mourne and to sigh with her selfe togither with these words subioyned Nil mihi praeterea Praeterea mihi nil Which is nothing remaineth to me nothing haue I more The which emblemes with the like inscriptions are to be seene described in many places in the Franciscan friers church at Bloyes and in the same Dutches chappell where she lieth buried in a tombe of brasse and also in the porch or entrie on euery side of the quite of the same church Pour vn aultre non To none other Andreas Lauallus the french Admiral was wont to giue for his ensigne a burning Ore which is yet to be seene in the suburbes of the cittie Melus It is also a signification of feruent and dutifull zeale towards the king and countrie and especially in that iourney that they tooke by sea through the great Occean Fata viam inuenient Fortune shall shew the way This simbole of the Labirinth which the Lord of Boisdaulphin archbishop of Ambrune vseth may perchance signifie that we are lead by the grace of God to finde the way that leadeth to eternall life the same giuing the thread as it were of his holy precepts into our hands which when we haue once taken hold of and do follow we turne away from the dangerous wandrings and feareful by wayes of this world Quid non mortalia pectora cogis Filthy loue constraineth men to commit all wickednesse Cleopatra taking it grieuously Plinie and also in great disdaine that Marcus Antonius should make triall so oft of her loue vpon a time at a banquet and merrie meeting whether it were to giue him occasiō neuer to be distrustfull any more after or for some other cause she began to delight him verie voluptuously after her old fashion that she vsed namely with diuers and sundrie garlands of flowers whose leaues were all besprinckled with poyson Some of the which she wearing vpon her head picked them out and brusing them a little cast them into his cuppe or goblet perswading him to drinke it off But whilest he was about to do it she putting her hand to it said thus Oh my sweete heart Antonius I surely am the woman which if I could liue without thee haue now a iust occasion to do that which by your curious trials you seeme to feare And hereby we may see what may be the audacitie and impudent boldnes of a shamelesse woman In sibilo aurae tenuis In the muttering of the gentle aire Musicke is of it owne nature an enimie to melancholy and therefore is able to qualifie any furie that riseth of a vehement melancholie Wherefore she is able also to driue away heauines and dulnesse which proceed of blacke choler being ouerwhelmed and suffocate with flegme With the which one hath recorded that once he saw a man sore troubled and so sound and fast on steepe that you could by no meanes get a word of him but onely by a harpe sounding in his eares at the pleasant harmonie whereof he lifting vp his head laughed answered to their demands Which thing is an argument that there is no small affinitie betwixt Musicke and the soule Elizeus the prophet hath plainely declared the same vnto vs 4. King 2 when to call againe his propheticall spirite and to make supplication to God for a remedie of his people that then were like to perish with extreme thirst he commanded one that had skill to play on the harpe to be called for vnto him and in that sort obtained at the hands of God that which he desired in his prayers and supplications And what say you to Dauid the Musitian who is now dead rotten 1. King 17 Did not he comfort and recreate King Saul his soule being vexed with an euill spirite when as so long as he played vpon his harpe the wicked spirite left to molest him Therefore this consonant musicke hath a certaine diuine grace in it for as much as it doth not onely restore helth to bodies that are sicke but al●o sti●reth vp the soule to contemplation comforteth the same and maketh it heauenly as it were wherefore it is an enimie euen to the verie diuels which doubtlesse are nothing else than desperation deiection of the soule feare and an obstinate desolation Finally as in Musicke of different voices there is made tunable musicke so of men also that are of one minde there may be made a consent of contrary natures and manners which God accepteth aboue all other things that may be obserued or kept Finem transcendit habendi He passed the ordinarie meanes of getting and possessing riches The wicked couetousnesse of Calephas Baldacensis chiefe bishop of the Mahomets law wrought a verie euil end for himselfe for being taken in wars Haalon prince of Tartaria commanded him to be handled according to bis insaciable greedinesse that is that insteede of his daintie dishes nothing should be set before
she endeuoured to expresse her godly affections for there is as you may see here a sepulchre and out of it a shining dart beutified with greene boughes Restat ex victore Orientis That onely resteth of all his victories in the East What time Philip surnamed Augustus was king of France Of Monstrelet Saladinus Sultanus king of Babilon of Damascus and of Egypt lay at the point of death at Ascalon he appointed that as soone as he was dead his shirt should be carried by his steward thorough out all the cittie of Ascalon hauing a speare thrust thorow the middle of it that the cryer should with a loud voice proclaime as followeth He that of late the mightie raines of East did rule at will Now dead doth onely this conuey into the darkish hell Let euerie mightie man take this for a most infallible token that when death comes he spareth neither king nor Caesar and that he shall depart out of this world as naked as the poorest and vilest creature doth Autor ego audendi I am the author of being bold This flaming sword that Carolus Borbonius the Cardinall vsed for his ensigne vnder the title of saint Andrew signifieth the true sword of the gouernors of the church and 〈◊〉 the holy ghost Ephes 6. which sword as Paul saith representeth the word of God Non quae super terram Not those things which are vpon the earth The food of the spirite is that heauenly bread Exod. 16 or the sacrament of the bodie blood of Christ prefigured vnder the tipe of Manna which in former age was s●nt downe from heauen to be meate to the Israelites This signe or simbole the Cardinall of Turnon vseth at this day Ab insomni non custodita Dracone The golden apples were not kept of the vigilant Dragon It was to small purpose or none at all that the Dragon watched so carefully for Hercules neuerthelesse came and stole away the golden apples that were in the garden of Hesperus three daughters By the which is signified that vertues and famous exploits are euerie where to be found The same effigie the Cardinall of Ferrara vseth Non quàm diu sed quàm benè It forceth not how long a thing be in doing but how well it be done The most part of men hold opinion that Thomas of Aquine inuented the Philosophicall knife but by continuall obseruation of the planets was made so perfite thorow the vertue and force thereof that it cut a thicke and hard Anuell euen in the middest By this we must vnderstand that in performing of any matter whatsoeuer as it should be we must not respect the long tract of time that we spend in it so that by line and leuill as they say we finish all our actions Whereupon Suetonius recordeth that Augustus Caesar vsed this prouerbe Sat citò si sat bene Sueton. which is any thing is done soone enough if it be done well enough Quà Proceres abiere pii Which way our godly forefathers haue gone We reade in holy scripture that the Prophet Elias was caried thorow the aire in body King 2. and soule in a firie chariot By the same Metaphor true and vnfained worshippers ascend euen vnto the heauens in spirite and feruent meditation and that is the cause wherefore we are perswaded that the mindes and soules of godly men and women are inriched recreated with great and heauenly consolations Ouid. Hereunto also alludeth the Poet Ouid when he maketh mention of Pythagoras vpon these words To God in minde he had accesse And looke what nature hid From fleshly eyes the same with sight Of heart he hath espied Hoc Latio restare canunt Men say that this is yet extant in Rome When the Romaine Consuls went abroad there were certaine men appointed to go before them adorned with triumphant crownes Plinie and garlands and with bundles of yong and tender rods hauing two Pollaxes in their hands signifying by this spectacle the triumphes of that most noble region of Italie and the whole gouernment of the world and also that the Romaines by their great wisedome peace and affection to the common weale purchased to themselues no litle praise and dignitie But the iron wreathes chaines which you see holding the speares and staues that they cannot fall one from another doe signifie the bondage and captiuity wherewith from that time to this day Italy is brought to ruine by the wickednes of sedition and ciuill dissention Arbitrii mihi iuramei The raine of will is in my owne hands The ancient Alanes Mehodius Burgundians an● Sueuians vsed as Methodius recordeth 〈◊〉 carrie before them in their martiall ensign●● a car which cannot by any meanes be restra●ned of her libertie by which embleme they insinuated their owne desire that they had 〈◊〉 their will and libertie Mihi terra lacúsque Both the land and water is my owne Such was the estimation of Augustus Caesar towards his friend Maecenas Dion that he committed vnto him the gouernement of his countrey as well by land as by sea wherefore ●e caused the shape of a frogge to be drawne for his cognizance Except peraduenture he would signifie those frogs in Syriphie which as Plinie saith are mute and without voice Plinie ●or so it may represent a close and hidden secret and also a faithfull concealing of things commited to ones fidelitie Which vertue this Maecenas so practised that Augustus Caesar himselfe for that cause highly reuerenced him Eutrop. had him in great admiration for the hatred that he bore them that vsed enuiouslie to giue priuie scoffes and taunts vnder pretence of vnfained friendship ΦΩΣ ΦΕΡΟΙ ΗΔΕ ΤАΛΗΝΗΝ The raine bow doth bring faire weather The most faire and bountifull queene of France Katherine vsed the signe of the raine bow for her armes which is an infallible signe of peaceable calmenes and tranquillitie Vltorem vlciscitur vltor The reuenge lighteth vpon the reuenger Charles the sixt of that name king of France Frossard whilest he sought the satiffying of his owne wilfulnes in going about to reuenge his friend Oliuerius Cliffonius his constable● cause against one Peter Craonius had a very infortunate end as it was foretold him the which thing doth most certainely fall out 〈◊〉 as many as runne headlong to reuenge especially other mens causes It chanced tha● he leuied an armie to go into the prouinc● of the Britones to the intent he might 〈◊〉 reuenged of the Lieutenant there because he seemed to defend Petrus Craonius cause And so as he was going thorow the forrest 〈◊〉 thicket of the Mansensians or Caenonians there met him in the middle betwixt tw● trees a certaine strange man pretending great pouertie need and taking the king● horse by the bridle caused him to stay th●● with loud voice said vnto him Oh king 〈◊〉 thou wilt follow my counsaile go no furthe● forward but rather turne backe againe fo● there are of thy owne
dedicate by Virgill the sonne of Pollio to Iulius Caesar concerning the commet which appeared after his death Behold the starre of Dioneus Caesar the star wherin the corns reioice their fils And whereby eke the Grapes do take their die on shadie hils Donec totum impleat orbem Till he replenish the whole world The increase of the moone in the daies of the most famous king Henry the second king of France was most strange and prodigious In the holy scriptures the moone many times doth signifie the Church wherto may be added the consent of Paulus Aemilius in the histonie of Pope Calixtus the second whose name before was Guido the sonne of William Earle of the Heduans or Burgundians who the day before his pontificall creation saw in a vision a Starre carried by a childe from the side of the Moone Furthermore the Moone is alwaies sub●ect to alteration 〈◊〉 both increaseth and decreaseth at certcine houres and times In like maner may wee see the Church of God militant and neuer continuing in one and the same state but one while mainteined and defended of Christian Princes an other-while tyrannized put to flight and sent in funder with factions of heretiques whereby it commeth to passe that it is neuer free from vexation and trouble in this life Wherto notwithstanding the Maiestie of God the King himselfe and his sonne Iesus Christ haue promised certeine helpe and defence vntill it being gathered vnder one God one King and one law the most louing vnitie immensitie of the whole flocke acknowledging one onely pastor may appeare Immensi tremor Oceani The trembling feare of the Ocean Sea Lodouicus the eleuenth King of France when he was about to institute the order of Saint Michaell as they call it in the yeare of our Lord 1469. for a Cognizance or Simbole he ensigned them with a golden chaine lineked togither with cockle-stones and double knots with circles of gold in the midst whereof was a knob or mushrome as it were a promontorie with the golden image of Saint Michael hanging downe vppon their brestes Which last he did being prouoked thereto by the example of king Charles the seuenth his father who vsed the same image for his ensign in wars taking the beginning of his manguration at Rothomage Which custome was begun afterwardes confirmed amongst many kings through a notable miracle or vision as they superstitiously dreame of S. Michael appearing in the battell by the bridge of the citie of Orleance who expulsed droue away the English men and set the Citie free from their siege The chaine therefore is a type or figure of this order a signe of vertue concord and of a perpetuall league or couenant of amitie and friendship to be continued amongst them also a cognizance or badge of those that deserued well and of the victorie obteined By the gold he would haue to be vnderstood magnanimitie prowesse and honours By the cockles their mutuall equalitie or common condition of fortune imitating herein the order of the Romane Senators who vsed to weare cockles vpon their sleeues by the tying of them togither with a double knot he would represent the indissoluble couenant made betwixt him and the rest and that with no friuolous signification Last of all by the image he would shuld be declared the victorie and triumph which Michaell had ouer the diuell whom he ouercame The reason of which signe doth greatly appertaine as well to the regiment and maiestie of a kingdome as also to strike feare and terrour into the enemy And how many he thought good to be admitted into the societie of this order he himselfe declared to wit 36. as it were patrones of the kingdome amongst whome he would be counted the first or chiefest And therefore the same time that he ordeined this order to be celebrate he named fifteene lordes whom for honours sake and prerogatiue of their names it is not conuenient to omit with silence The first therefore were these Charles Duke of Guienne Iohn Duke of Burbon and Auergne Lewis of Luxenburg Earle of Saint Paul and Constable of France Andrew Lauallius lord of Loheac Marshall of France Iohn Earle Sanserre lord of Bueile Lewis Beaumont lord of Forest and Plessis Lewis Destouteuille lord of Torcy Lewis Lauall lord of Chastillon Lewis bastard of Burbon Earle Rosillon Admirall of France Anthonie Chaban Earle of Dammartin chief Steward to the King Iohn bastard of Armignia Earle of Comingies Marshall of France gouernour of Dolphine George Trimoille lord of Craon Gilbert Chaban lord of Curton Seneshall of C●●cone Charles lord of Crussol Seneschal of Poicton Taneguius of Castell gouernor of the prouinces of Rossillon and Sardinia Vltus a●o 〈◊〉 He hath reuenged his 〈…〉 quarrell by the example of T●o Lewis the 12. King of France as Duke of Orleance by discent and earle of Blofie gaue the Porcupine in his ensigne with which simbole togither with the image of a Wolfe the auncient Citie of Blofie was wont to blaze their ensignes This is to be seene grauen in many stones and walls Plinie Which beast nature hath so studiously furnished with weapons that she may resist al those that withstand her especially dogges against whom she throweth her prickes like violent arrowes The interpretation of which portraiture the stately houses of a certaine noble citizen in that citie doe declare at the entrance whereof vnder the Porcupine these verses are found ingrauen in stone These Dartes are peace to humble men but warre to proud indeed For why both life and death also from our woundes do proceed Non sine causa Not without cause The iust and vpright ad ministration of iustice with the due punishment of the wicked is a thing so necessarie to kingdomes people and Countries that if they should bee taken away the companies and societies of men would soone fall to decaie and bee destroyed Wherefore Rulers and Magistrates may righthe chalenge the sworde to themselues with publike and priuate honours as warranted by the word of God that they may bee not onclie a helpe and a comfort to the godlie and meeke but also a feare and terrour to the wicked Therefore is the moste wholesome dectrine of the Apostle Saint Paule to bee imbraced Rom. 13. Wilt not thou● saith hee feare the powers Doe well then and thou shalt haue praise thereby for hee is the minister of God for thy good But i● thou doest euill feare for hee carrieth not the sworde for naught for hee is the minister of God to reuenge in wrath to him that doth euill Therefore bee ye subiect of necessitie not onelie for feare of anger but also for conscience sake For this cause therefore doe ye pa●e tribu●e they are the n●inisters of God s●●uing for that purpose Giue therefore to all men that which is due tribute to whom tribute belongeth feare to whom feare apperteineth and honour to whom honour belongeth Plus oultre Hee conceiueth hope to proceed further Charles the fift
wicked and vncleane As the Bittle is bred and nourished in the excrements and dong of a horse but beeing in the middest of roses dieth so these youths that are so nice giuen ouer to carnall pleasure the studie of godlinesse and other good vertues delighteth them not desiring rather to be polluted with the filthie dong of carnall pleasure and wickednes in a martiall Ensigne is a perpetuall monument of the protection of the kingdome of France Eng. de Monst Etiam fortunam Yea fortune too M. Sergius a Romane knight after that hee had many times fought with Hannibal Plinie and being taken captiue by subtitltie had escaped his hands at last in a skirmish lost his right hand whereupon hee was constrained to fight with his lefte hande in foure other battels But when hee perceiued that hee coulde not vse the one hand so aptly as the other he caused an yron hand to bee made and set fast to his right arme The which he so luckilie valiantly vsed after in field that he ouercame discomfited twelue armies in France that were sworne enemies to the Romanes For which cause Plinie writeth that hee knoweth not anie other that is to bee preferred before Sergius in prowes and manhoode who vanquishing the violence of his fortune made himselfe worthie of all the praise and honor of those victories Sic sopor irrepat So sleepe came vpon him Wee reade it written in the French Chronicles that one Gontranus king of Burgundie being vppon a time wearie with hunting Annals of France and falling on sleepe his seruants watching by him in a certain field by a riuer side running hard by there came out of the kings mouth a little beast and assaied to passe ouer the riuer VVhich when the kinges seruant sawe he drew out his sword whervpon as on a bridge the little beast passed ouer the riuer went into a hole or caue that was in a hill ouer against it From whence she came foorth againe by and by and going ouer againe by the sword as by a bridge went againe into the kings mouth VVhen the king awaked he told his man the like dreime that he had seene to wit that he went ouer a riuer vpon an yron bridge and so into a caue vnder a hill where he sawe great treasure hidde When his man heard that he tolde him in order what had happened when he was on sleepe So the king caused the inner parte of the hill to bee opened whereout he digged abundance of golde and siluer which he bestowed vpon the poore and needie and also gaue much to the vse of diuerse Churches And also with the same treasure he caused the coffine of Saint Marcell neere to Chalon at Saona where he was thought to be buried Caecus amor prolis Loue of parents to their children is blind or voide of reason The Ape is sayde to loue his young ones so vnmeasurablie Plinie that whilest hee clippeth them in his armes more then reason would hee after killeth them with griping them so fast to him In like manner many parents are wont to be so lauish in the nice education of their children that with their too much cockering of them at the last they bring them to naught Supplicio laus tuta semel Hee that was worthie of praise was one free from punishment It is recorded of a certaine Indian that was of such dexteritie in throwing of a dart that he could cast it a great way off tho●ugh a ring of small compasse VVherefore ●hen he was commanded by king Alexander to shew his cunning before him hee coulde not by anie meanes bee perswaded to doe it For the which cause hee was condemned by the kings sentence to die And beeing asked therefore he would not do so small a matter for the kings pleasure answered that hee fea●ed least hee should happilie misse of his vsu●all custome of throwing When Alexander sawe that he did it not so much for rebellion ●s for feare and shame hee commanded the condemned man to be set at libertie wondering at his disposition which was verie desirous of glorie desiring rather to die than to diminish or discredit the fame and excellenti of his knowledge and cunning Omnis caro foenum All flesh is grasse If this people which before all other nations vainely vexed and troubled the whole world that they might still increase and ad●ance their owne power and glorie make immortall as it were had at the last vsed ●ome good and wholesome councell and loo●ed into their own state that they might earnestly and deeply at the length haue weighed that the symbole and author and father as it ●ere Ouid. Seruius Romulus which was a bundell of haie ●anged vpon a pik or lance meant they had ●euer sustained so many and so great vexation both of bodie and minde especially beholding so sodaine an alteration of humane affaires and most of all of those things which belong properly to this fleshly and earthlie ●ody whose mutabilitie and inconstancie the Prophet compareth to greene grasse and fa●●ing floures Esay 40 Tolle vpluptatum stimulos Take awaie the prickes of pleasures As we are wont to vse a flap made of the eied or starred feathers of a pecocke to beate awaie I●●s S. Ierome so wee ought to driue from vs to purge our selues of pleasure and all kinde of fleshly lust with great watchfulnes c re Paix outragée se rend vengée Foolish peace is wont alwaies to render vengeance The Persians in the daies of Zeno the Emperour suffered due punishment for their deserts for the host of the Persians had thought by subtiltie to rushe headlong vpon Caesars Ensignes where vppon conditions of peace concluded of betwixte both the nations Procop. did hang and was shewed and to rende them in peeces But ere they were aware the Persian king with his children and the chiefe of his armie were taken in a trench which the Romanes had prepared And also not long after all the rest of the armie that were left by policie were discomfited and not one left which was not destroied Rerum Sapientia custos Wisdome the preseruer of all things The most gracious Dutches of Berie Margaret by name expressed the singular affection her hart in this Embleme of two serpents putting foorth both their heades out of the boughes of an Oliue tree shewing that the true gouernment of all things is best helde fast and holden vp by the mast of wisedome and pollicie Discite iustitiam moniti Learne iustice by admonition Whither so euer Basanus king of the Scicambrians Diocles sonne went he commanded alwaies a sword to be carried before him on the top wherof was fastned a rope or halter and that for a testimonie of inuiolate iustice For he was a king besides that hee was famous in all other vertues that was also a diligent censor and keeper of iudgement and equitie insomuch that hee spared not in his owne sonne