my fortune and the rigorous influence of my starres not onely doe not suffer me but maketh it to me almost impossible And although hope sometime promiseth it vnto me yet I find that it is truely as Plato calleth it The waking man his Dreame Loue then said the young man is the cause of this habite which thou wearest of thy pilgrimage It is so said Pamphilus and by that thou mayest know the quality of my euill and the difficulty of my cure Oh said the young man pittifully sighing what a grieuous story dost thou renew in me A history like vnto mine said Pamphilus if not said the other yet at the least of Loue By thy faith then said Pamphilus doest thou loue I not onely Loue said the other but am also more vnhappy then thou thinkest for a stranger and a Pilgrim and no lesse outraged by fortune Tell me then said Pamphilus in looking earnestly vpon him thy name and of what Countrey thou art for in all the yeares of my banishment I could neuer finde any man so miserably persecuted as my selfe and in this I haue more occasion then all men to bewaile my destinies A Christian said the stranger ought neuer to bewaile the destinies nor thinke that good or euill fortune depend of them Although many ancient Philosophers haue beleeued that there is a kinde of Deuils and certaine imaginary women which they call Parquae which giue the spirit vnto the creature at the birth an opinon rather worthy of laughter then beliefe It being most certaine that this name Destiny is onely to be attributed to the decree of God who truly seeth and knoweth all thinges before they be and the ordering of them caÌ„not depend of any thing but of him I know well said Pamphilus that the Poets haue called these Parquaes destiny and the Philosophers especially the Stoyques haue beleeued that it is an order or disposition of second causes as from the Planets vnder the influence of which we are borne which rule and determine all the inferiour good and euill effects which doe happen to man So said Ptolomy Democritus Crisippus and Epicurus who also ascribe to Destiny all the inclinations the vices and the vertues the desires and passions euen vnto the actions and thoughts which some haâ—â— endeuoured to proue by the authority of Boeceus who saith that the order of Destiny mooueth the Heauen and the Starres tempereth the Elements and tyeth humane actions to their causes by a most indissolueable knot But leauing a part a matter of so long a discourse from whence is sprung the error of the Priscillianists who doe beleeue that the soule and the body are necessarily subiect vnto the Starres and many other errors which doe succeed this first I desire thou shoulst know that I speake according vnto custome which willeth that this name Desteny and other Christian Idiomes be taken for misfortune beleeuing that neuerthelesse that God by his Diuine prouidence speaketh by the Destiny as men expresse the conceptions of their minds by their wordes Thy face saith the young man promiseth no lesse then what I haue heard come from thy mouth for thy presence and aspect is an index of thy noblenes as thy tongue is of knowledge which worketh in me a great pleasure and desire to tell thee my Name my Countrey quality and my misfortunes which if thou please to hearken vnto with patience I will as briefely as I can relate The History of Pamphilus and Celio THe Citty of Toledo in the hart of Spaine strong by Scituation noble by Antiquity famous for the preseruatioÌ„ of the Christian Faith euer sithence the time of the Gothes generous both in Learning and Armes hauing a temperate Heauen and a fertile Earth inuironed with the famous Riuer Tagus which is it selfe also begirt with a high but a pleasant Hill Is the place where my now liuing Parents were borne as also my selfe although my Ancestors in former times came from those parts of Austuria which are called Santillana the ancient title of the house of Mendosa there was I brought vp in my more tender yeares But when my Parents thought I was capable of Learning they sent me to the Vniuersity of Salamanqua with such company as was fit for a man of my place to the end that besides the Latine tongue which I knew already I might study the knowledge of the Law Heere I am constrained to make a long digression because that of the history of another dependeth the foundation of mine My Father had other Children Lisard his eldest sonne who was in Flaunders with the Archduke Albert where hee got no small reputation principally in the siege of Ostend and Nisa a Daughter and if I bee not partiall one of most excellent beauty who liued in that honour and good name vnto which shee was bound by the noblenes of her birth and the care of such Parents Vnto these tearmes was the youngman proceeded in his discourse whereat Pamphilus exceedingly troubled couered his face with his hands whereof the other demaunding a reason Pamphilus said vnto him that his griefe which had brought him vnto that estate wherein he found him was returned againe yet hee thought it was with lesse violence then it had formerly done All this Pamphilus feyned because the story which the Toledan tolde him was his owne proper story and this Nisa whom he called his Sister was the Pilgrim whose wits were lost out of the apprehension of Pamphilus his Death So doe acts dissembled many times meete and sometimes doe then appeare most when they are most indeauoured to bee hidden I will not proceed in my story said he if thou finde not thy selfe so well that thou maist hearken vnto me for there is no time worse imployed then that which one looseth in speaking to them which giue no eare to the speaker Thou maist proceed said Pamphilus being desirous to vnderstand the estate of his owne affaires for I finde my griefe begins to leaue me eased by thy presence and thy words I must aduertise thee then said the young man that there was in Madreele a braue Knight and a great friend of my fathers with whome he had great inwardnes of acquaintance euer since the warres of Granado and I thinke they were together in that famous Battell of Lepanto from this friendship it followed that at the end of some yeares they treated of the Marrying of my Sister Nisa with one of this Knights sonnes of whome I now speake and the young mans name was Pamphilus But while these things were a doing the Father of Pamphilus dyed and the proposition of marriage ceased Pamphilus who by the renowne that went of my Sister as also by her Picture was taken in her Loue and grew wonderfull sad and melancholy and falling from one imagination to another in the end hee resolued vpon this which I shall tell thee that thereby thou maist see how innocent those were who without the light of Faith did anciently beleeue it Fortune
so my eyes at the first knowledge which they had in the world that my spirit did not liue so much in my selfe as in her whom I loued nor found more rest out of her sight then thinges doe out of their centure because that as the fire alwayes sendeth the flames thereof to its proper sphaere so my heart adressed his desires to her beauty Now as this Loue was not Platoniqe I will not dispute whether it were honest profitable or delightfull Let it satisfie that it which is the cause of so much euil seemed vnto me the greatest and soueraignest good in the world This subiect of my misfortunes was called Aurelia free in her customes of that kinde of life which Plautus Terence describe in their Fables and of whom Auulus saith excellently well That a Curtezan is a vessell full of holes which can containe nothing She was faire in all perfection of a quicke and hardy spirit and of a reasonable good nature a woman to be short vnto whom experience in the worlde had brought a great deale of knowledge It cost me little to possesse her because that these kinde of women cleane contrary vnto other women who forced by the Loue of a man doe honestly yeild vnto his merits trusting to their charms and vnto the gentlenes of vsage passionate men more when they are inioyed then when they are pretended I was not vexed at the first with the conuersation of young men who at any hower how extraordinary soeuer were neuer wanting in her house because the fauours which she did me and the little which they cost me made me liue much contented especially seeing my selfe preferred before others of better meanes and merits then my selfe when I went to see her they gaue me place and departed curteously leauing me alone with her These my visitations were not agreable vnto her seruants because they thought that thereby this rable of youth was scattered which brought them profit And that if Aurelia should fall in Loue with me my quality being not capable to sustaine her expence shee must spend out of her owne meanes from whence would vneuitably follow a necessity of liuing more regularly which they would by no meanes heare of And of this were they not much deceiued for in a small time Aurelia who had rauished so many others was taken her selfe in my loue and made captiue to my will which made true one part of this feare and shortned the reuenues of her house to lengthen the reynes of her pleasure Not that all the charge of the house fell vpon her for I miserable man tormenting my Parents and importuning my friends did runne to the preseruation of this loue which almost alwayes depended of mony The life which wee led wee louing one another tenderly and hauing in our power the liberty of inioying may easily bee iudged by my youth and by Aurelia s who was then about 20. yeares olde The house seemed too straight for our Loue and searching solitary fields we made the sight of open heauen witnes of our folies our life was a blind imitatiō of the nature of Beasts we communicated our secrets to Trees which did not see as if the leaues had not beene so many cleare eyes and a thousand amorous delights to the dumbe Fountaines which might well haue troubled the purity of their waters I cannot thinke how in so little a way as there was between my house hers I remained 5 yeres space before I knew that I was arriued there being certaine that in 3. yeares space of that time the famous English Drake passed the straight of Magellan compassed the world about If in all this time the loyalty which shee swore vnto me were broken or no I am not able to say nor yet forbeare to beleeue because it seemes almost a thing vnpossible for such women from their custome to keepe themselues to an orderly life At the end of these fiue yeares I saw my selfe at the end of my meanes and although I was more amorous then in the beginning yet Aurelia did suffer herselfe to be vanquished by the obligations of another who had more power then my seruices I say obligations because I cannot beleeue that onely Loue can binde one vnto so strange a change One night Aurelia hauing seene me retire my selfe vnto my bed shee had receiued Feliciano into hers so was the Knight called I stirred with a profound Iealousie rise vp out of my bed and went to her house where the doore was shut against me and the seruants answered mee from aboue out at an high windowe feyning that they were gone to bed to make me rather to retire vnto my owne house But my extreame loue which would not at that time haue relyed vpon my eyes and feared to be betrayed by my thoughts made me cry aloude that some body should open the doore so that my voyce came vnto Aurelia's eares And Feliciano making shew of a valiant-Louer began to cloth himself promising to chastice my boldnes with his Sword and by his onely presence to cure my folly But the cunning Circe who knew well what good or bad successe soeuer came vnto mee it would redound vnto her shame hindred him with her armes and diuerted him with her teares although there was no great neede For the brauest doe vnwillingly arme themselues when they are once naked and to come out of a house into the street had beene a manifest and mad rashnes Aurelia so preuailing in that manner wherein others of her kinde are wont to preuaile and making Feliciano beleeue that I should be her husband and that if I did perceiue him shee should loose me perswaded him halfe vnclothed and in the midst of Ianuary that hee would goe into the highest roofe of the house Into which he being gone I was let into the house where I found Aurelia in bed making so many complaints of my liberty and of the scandall which I gaue the neighbors that in stead of being angry it behoued me to appease her where after some time spent she in complaining of me and I in asking pardon for my iealousie and for the desire which I had to surprise her in that infidelity which I did distrust I possest the absent mans place which was still warme seruing for a proofe of my ignorance and blockishnes Morning brought againe the Sunne and the Sun the Day yet neither of them was sufficient to make me see my folly so euill doth a Louer discerne of his owne acts I rise contented and although I entred last yet I went sooner away then Feliciano In the meane time Menander who had for the space of some yeares been Feliciano's Mistris grew extreamly iealous and hearing of this trick which Aurelia had put vpon him could not forbeare speaking of it mocking him with the colde night which he had indured that hee had suffered me who neuer had any intent to marry her to possesse that place by her side which he had lost
feare of punishment for their faults could worke no remembrance But the Pilgrim was not waked because hee was not asleepe he came out amongst the rest neuerthelesse to giue thankes to the day for hauing passed ouer so miserable a night There began this miserable body to mooue his parts going many leagues in a little space prayers importuned some care wearyed others necessity called out heere hunger sighed there and Liberty was wished for euery where The Lawes called vpon execution Ministers vpon punishment and fauour importuned for delay those who had wherewith went out by the ayre others not hauing wherewith could not finde the Doore the confusion of voyces the vnquietnes of the Iudge the comming in of some the going out of others and the noyse of Fetters made in this discording instrument a fearefull striuing In this time a Knight who for the noblenes of his blood and the antiquity of his Imprisonment was generally respected as the Master cast his eyes vpon the Pilgrim and considering his deepe melancholy his habite his person incited by his good countenance and aspect for there is no letter of fauour which worketh greater effects in all necessities called him to a little alley which answered to the doore of his Chamber and asked his name his Countrey and the cause of his imprisonment The Pilgrim recited vnto him the successe which you haue heard beginning his life from the time that the Sea gaue it him by casting him vpon the shore not farre from the walles of Barcelon The Knight wondred at it and collecting from his reasons and the manner of his speech his vnderstanding and his gentlenes tooke such affection vnto him that hee placed him in his Chamber where hauing restored his weake forces with Conserues which he had hee made him discouer his Arme and he himselfe healed the wound with medicines and wordes which he had learned being a Soldier for if Herbes and stones haue this vertue wherefore should it be wanting to holy words The contented Pilgrim afterwards turning his eyes round about the Chamber hee sawe written vpon the walles with a Coale according to the ancient manner of Prisoners certaine Herogliffique verses at the sight whereof he knew that hee who had written them was not ignorant Ouer the picture of a Young man who had the chiefe place was written this Verse out of Virgill Antes sus oios Hector triste en Suâ—nnos After that was painted a Heart with winges which flewe after Death with the Letter of Eneas sending the body of his friend to his father Euander Muerto Palante Forcado en esta vida me detengo Neere vnto that was figured Prometheus or Titius who being tyed with strong Chaynes to the rockes of Mount Caucasus nourished an Eagle with his intrayles the word was from Ouid and said thus O quanta pena es viuir vida enoiosa y forcada Y quando la muerta agrada Ser impossible mori In a flood betweene two infernall shoares Forgetfulnes was painted being a Young man who carryed a Charger full of remembrances which hee did endeauour to fling into the water with this word of Lucrece Buelue acaer quando al estremo llega The Head and Harp of Orpheus were portrayed vpon a gate amongst the waues of the Riuer Strimo into which hauing been cast by the Bachantes they came vnto Lesbos the word was this Aqui lloraro seluas fieras et Aspides There was also painted a Lady lying dead with a Sword through her body with this word of Scalliger vpon the Death of Polixena Nobasta Griegos que veucais los Hombres In the distance which might bee betweene the window and the flower was painted the Shepheard Argus with his hundred eyes and Mercury charming him asleepe with this line of Strossas Amor sutil al mas Zeloso angana With such and other curiosities which the Knight writ as aptly fitting his aduentures did hee adorne his Chamber and passed away his tedious imprisonment Whilest that the Pilgrim was busie in beholding these conceipts he was called before the Iudges to answere the accusation against him and hee relating simply the truth by the little Art which hee brought with him in his speech he plainely shewed that there was no guilt in him his cause being recommended vnto the Iudges by the Knight who writ his innocency vnto them hee was acquited brought back againe into the Knights chamber where they did eate together Their discourse which at the end of Dinner serued for their last dish amongst other things fell vpon their misfortunes because that there is nothing which more aptly and readily doth ease the minde then relation of our owne misaduentures The master of the Lodging who could willingly haue spared that name being intreated by the Pilgrim to relate the cause of his imprisonment began to speake in this manner The History of Mireno IN a little Towne not farre from this great Citty there was a Gentleman named Telemaquus marryed with a faire Lady not so chast as the Roman Lucrece although shee caryed her name the report was that this Marriage was made against her minde it is likely to be true as by the effects it was afterwards witnessed her melancholy increased her beauty and clothes neglected did shew a languishment like Roses when the radicall moysture of their boughes doe decrease Telemaquus did inforce himselfe to diuert her from this sad kinde of neglect least it might seeme vnto some which should see her that this sadnes proceeded from his default for oftentimes innocent Husbands are accused for their wiues euill conditions He apparelled her richly carried her to solace and recreate her selfe to Sea and to see the choisest Gardens And this being not sufficient hee opened his house to all good company Amongst the young Knights which did ordinarily frequent and conuerse with them there was one called Mireno so much my friend that if Death had not set a difference between vs I could not haue bin perswaded he being aliue to discerne which of vs two had bin my selfe This man cast his eyes vntill this time busied in the consideration of anothers beauty vpon Telemachusses faire wife who looking vpon him more earnestly then vpon any other had it may bee incited him for although it bee said that Loue can pierce as a Spirit into the most close and secret places Yet I doe thinke it impossible that any man should Loue if he bee not at the first obliged thereunto by some little hope He concealed from me the beginning of his thought for loue is alwayes borne discreet and dumbe as a Childe But the same sweetnes of its conuersatioÌ„ doth so quickly teach it to speake that like a Prisoner at the Barre he oftentimes casteth himselfe away by his owne tongue So after hee saw himselfe admitted in Lucrece her eyes an euident index that he was already in her soule not being able to suffer the glory of that whereof hee easily indured the paine hee made vnto me a
and Destinies Which was that making his Mother beleeue that hee would goe into Flaunders and iourneying some dayes in the habite and equipage of a man at Armes and after sent his seruants to Alcala of Henares and there disguising himselfe in other clothes he went to Toledo where not being knowne to any person he found meanes to be entertained as a seruant in my fathers house which was no hard matter to doe because that his excellent feature and countenance accompanied with his vnderstanding were pledges sufficient of his fidelity gaue my Father not onely a desire to bee serued by him but also to respect him My father receiued him ignorant of his quality and of his intent a strange imagination of a man beeing a Knight and so well knowne almost of all in the Countrey wherein he was borne that he could so hide himselfe at the Doore as it were of his owne house that no body could know either where hee was or what hee did yet so it was that his humility his diligent seruice and other commendable partes which hee had gained such credit with my Parents that I doe beleeue he might as easily haue compassed his designes with his fayned pouerty as with his true riches The chiefest thing whereunto he applyed himselfe as his whole study was to appeare agreable to Nisa which was easie to be done for who can guard himselfe from a domesticke enemy The simplicity wherewith this Knight did begin his treason and the good wordes which he vsed gained him entrance into those places whereinto hardly and with great difficulty could the ancient seruants come Behold with how little care a noble Gentleman kept in his house another Greeke horse like vnto miserable Troy For such of necessity must this young mans heart needs bee full of thoughts and armed with malice which the houre of execution approaching brake forth into such flames as haue fired our renowne When Pamphilus thought that Nisa was disposed to hearken to his intention were it that his sicknes were true or fained as most likely it was he made himselfe sicke My parents who accounted of this seruant as of their gouernour and loued him equal with their dearest Children there being no key about the house no accompt in all their expence nor any secret in their affaires wherein hee was not trusted caused him to bee tended with all the care which was possible for loue and respect to bring The Physitians said that this infirmity proceded from a deepe melancholy and the best remedy that was to be giuen was to reioyce him and principally by Musicke In which they were not deceiued for if Loue doe participate of the euill spirit and that Dauid draue away the euill spirit from Saul by the sweetnes of his Harpe by the same meanes Loue might be driuen away Thou sayest true said Pamphilus who gaue great attention vnto the relation of his own story to see to what end the discourse of this youngman would come who was his Mistresses Brother for without doubt it holdeth many conditions of the euill spirit and leauing a part the principall which is to torment with fire behold the simpathy which they haue one with the other The Deuils doe delight themselues in thinges which are naturally melancholy inhabiting in horrible places obscure and solitary as louing darkenes and sadnes All which qualities are common with them which Loue and cannot attaine to that which they pretend they desire solitary places and the dens of Deserts there to entertaine in silence their sad thoughts without any thing to trouble them no not the light of heauen But let me intreat thee to proceed in thy story of this Knight for I desire with passion to know the end My Sister Nisa said Celio then for so was the young man called could play admirable well of the Lute and sung so sweetly that in the like danger the Dolphin wold willinglier haue brought her to the shore then hee did Arion sometimes to Corinth Wherfore by the consent of my Parents and not against her will shee went into Pamphilus his little Chamber Consider with thy selfe the happy glory of a man in his case and sung a Poeme which he himselfe had composed for hee had that way a dexterious facility and very naturall neither did it want the excellency of Art But whilest Nisa sung Pamphilus wept and neuer turned his eyes from of hers So that one resembled the Crocadile and the other Sirene vnles that one sung to giue him health and the other wept to deceiue her of her honour Nisa seing this his extremity of sadnes said vnto him that her intent was not that her musicke should haue the same effect in him as it had in others which is to make them more sad which are any way heauy but contrarily her desire was to reioyce him There is answered he no other voyce nor other harmony vnlesse it may bee the harmony of Heauen can reioyce me but yours Neuerthelesse my euill being past hope of cure bindeth me to bewaile my selfe and not to thinke vpon any thing but vpon the beauty which causeth it What euill is that said Nisa past cure which proceedeth from a cause commended by thee It is an euill answered Pamphilus whereof I doe hinder the cure and whereof the onely comfort is to know that I suffer it for the fairest creature in the world The liberty wherein wee liue said Nisa doth giue me leaue Pamphilus to speake vnto thee heere of a suspitious matter by the tokens which thou hast deliuered vnto me of thy euill thou hast giuen me knowledge of the occasion that makes thee sicke although I am ignorant of the cause who makes thee sicke Thou louest without doubt and I take it in good part that thou wouldst confesse vnto me that which thou wouldest not speake vnto the Physitians assuring thee that thou mayst better trust my Loue then their Art But I coniure thee by that goodwill which thou knowest I haue born thee euer since thou hast serued my Parents that thou wilt tell me whether I know her whome thou louest and whether I can bee helpfull vnto thee in thy curing for thy teares doe make me pitty thee You may well serue to helpe me pittifull Nisa said then the cunning Louer who might well haue instructed Ouid seeing I doe not hope for it from any other hands then yours and that you know the cause of my paine aswell as you knowe your selfe Heere Pamphilus demaunded of Celio wondring that bee should tell so perticularly that which passed so secretly betweene him and Nisa how hee knew the same wordes which they had spoken hee being at that time a farre off following his study in Salamanqua To which Celio answered that the same Pamphilus had left the story in writing with a friend of his from whome hauing had the meanes since that time to get it hee learned all vnto the least particuler and then proceeding on his discourse he began in
execute my intent I went to Madreele I sought Pamphilus in all the houses of his friends and visited his Mother asking newes of him making shew how things had passed The innocent Mother said it was two yeares since hee went into Flaunders and that from the time of his departure she neuer had heard from him from whence she collected he was dead I thought that she knowing what he had done had disguised the truth and while I was in this meditation I casting my eyes vpon a young Gentlewoman who sate sowing by this reuerend matron I found her in my minde so faire that her onely looke had power to temper my sorrow and hardly had I fully viewed her perfections when as I propounded in my selfe to serue her and to steale her away thinking by this meanes to giue satisfaction to our honour and beginning to my reuenge To recount vnto you at this time all the passages and the care which I vsed to speake with her and to bring her to my will would be to trouble you with a long discourse Let it satisfie that I drewe her from her house with the same thred where with Pamphilus had pulled Nisa from ours and in a strange and foolish minde led her into France where her beauty ministred subiect vnto a Knight to serue her and for me to kill him From whence it followed that for safety of my life I was driuen to leaue her Neuerthelesse I am resolued whatsoeuer happen vnto me to goe seeke her because that besides I doe loue her more then my selfe I owe so much vnto her merit and vertue with which shee hath faithfully accompanied me thorough many and variable successes Night had spred his blacke vayle ouer the face of the Earth and the houses were full of Candles as the Heauen of starres men and creatures retired themselues from their common labour when as the miserable Pamphilus gaue ouer hearing the tragedy of his Loue with the last act of his honour and to know that he did then but begin to suffer his euils when he thought he was at an end of them Hee admired the iustice of Heauen which had suffred that his Sister should so lightly haue quited her Mothers house to runne away with a man Yet finding in himselfe the example of his owne misleading of Nisa and that the iniury which hee had done vnto Celio was no lesse then that which hee had receiued he did not hold it iust in himselfe once to thinke of reuenge but rather to perswade him that hee should not nor ought to leaue her which he performed with the best wordes the liueliest reasons he could deuise Remonstrating vnto him that amongst Gentlemen the onely condition of noblenes should binde him to goe seeke for her which Celio allowing for most reasonable gaue him his word to imploy his endeauours to that purpose And being lodged this night together they supped and slept in one house The next morning Pamphilus gaue him a Letter to a French Gentleman with whom he had great acquaintance that he might fauour him in finding out Finia for so was his Sister called But Celio departed not for certain dayes during which time there was a perfect friendship knit betweene those two secret enemies So that Pamphilus knowing the offence which Celio had done vnto him pardoned him in his hart and Celio ignorant that this was Pamphilus was disposed to the pardoning of him The resolution was with great oathes to enquire out one the other and to helpe each other in all accidents as Brothers assigning the rende-vous within sixe monthes in the Citty of Pamphelune So went Celio vpon his enterprise some few dayes after his departure Pamphilus his sorrow increasing out of the opinion that it was impossible for him to recouer Nisa It happened that going one night from his lodging in a vaine desire he had to see the windowes of the Prison where his happines and ioy was inclosed he heard a Knight cry out for helpe against some who would at aduantage haue killed him He sodainly stepped vnto him and drawing out his Sword out of his Palmers staffe with an incredible dexterity accompanied with a valiant braue courage made them loose him whom they would haue killed and saue their own liues by a shamefull though a safe flight The Knight would needs know what hee was who had deliuered him from so great danger and although Pamphilus excused himselfe from telling his name yet the Knights desire and curtesie preuayled more then the humblenes wherewith the Pilgrim did endeauour to perswade him that hee had done him no seruice to conclude he led him to his house where his good and gentle behauiour being obserued the Knight and his Parents bare such affection vnto him that they did oblige him to become their guest There remained Pamphilus some dayes at the end of which Iacinth so was this Knight called tolde him the history of his Loue vnto faire Lucinde and the occasion for which these assassiuators wold haue murther'd him who for this onely cause were come from Ciuill vnto Valence where the subiect of the passion and the sorrow wherein he liued did remaine I doe beleeue that Louers haue some simpathy one with another and that they ioyne and communicate in such manner as you haue seene in this discourse Seeing that our Pilgrim neuer came into any house where there was not some one or other tainted with this euill although it were in craggy Mountaines By this ouerture of Iacinthes secret Pamphilus was bound to discouer his and after hee had made him sweare that he would graunt him his request hee said that in recompence of his life which hee had saued as he himselfe confessed he coniured him to helpe him to a place in that Prison where the mad solkes were shut vp Iacinth astonished at so strange a request would needs know the cause But Pamphilus promising to tell him so soone as he had done him that fauour and casting himselfe at his feete with most earnest and vnheard-of wordes affirming the good hee should doe him to put him in this place made Iacinth suspect that some secret danger did inforce him into that place And willing very generously to satisfie the obligation wherein hee was tyed after some inconueniences and reasons vrged to diuert him hauing agreed with him of the meanes which he should holde This very night Iacinth tooke fiue or sixe men of the Hospitall who entring sodainly into Pamphilus his Chamber put him in a Chayre and carryed him away in their armes miserable condition of this man who after so many strange successes being wise if those who Loue can be so to make himselfe to bee taken and shut vp willingly as a mad-man where all the mad folkes would willingly bee accounted wise All Iacinthes house admire at this nouelty and all his family complaine that this stranger vnto whom Iacinth was redeuable for his life was so vnworthily requited by Iacinth himselfe But shee
night had hardly all hid her blacke head crowned both with sleepe and feare when the deceiued Thesander waked out of the most sorrowfull Dreame that could possesse his fantasie representing to his imagination the absence of fugitiue Nisa together with her deceitfull wordes her sweet disdaines and her faire â—ace a thing which sometime hapneth principally vnto him which loueth or feareth In asmuch as those thinges which threaten vs doe represent vnto vs in sleeping the same cares which wee haue in the day awake Thesander rising in this imagination began to search Nisa guided by the light of his soule and not finding her it little wanted that hee did not dye with griefe for her departure neither his Father nor the rest of his Parents had power enough to keepe him from ruÌ„ning after And so he came to Toledo long time before Nisa For a Louer whofoloweth that which he loueth doth go faster then he who flyeth froÌ„ that which he doth not loue because hee which doth not loue groweth sorrowfull in going and hee which loueth by going puts off his griefe In the meane time Lisard much pleased with Pamphilus his vnderstanding and person had taken him to wayte in his Chamber not suffering him to liue in the basenes of his first office which he had giuen him and in this quality hee liued at Toledo with his Master alwayes taking great care that his masters Parents might not see him because that if they had viewed him with any consideration they must needs haue knowne him But Lisard who with frequent conuersation with Finia whome his Parents did vse as louingly as they could haue done Nisa was fallen in Loue with her discouered one time vnto Pamphilus and making him the minister of his passion gaue him charge to speake vnto her and to dispose her with all his power to be fauourable vnto his desires Pamphilus obeying his Master and taking occasion one Festiuall day when euery body was abroad hee went to finde Finia from Lisard But when in comming vnto her hee knewe her to bee his Sister and shee knewe him to be her Brother they both remayned astonished dumbe and as immouable as stones But shortly after this first confusion Pamphilus began to speake in this manner Sister tell me by what meanes thou camest hither since Celio abandoning thee left thee in Barcelon for I knowe already the whole progresse of thy misfortune as conformable vnto mine as wee are equall in Birth By his meanes whome the Destinies pleased vnto whose disposing my will cannot resist Lisard brother of my Husband Celio hauing found mee vpon the way from Saragossa brought me hither where I thinke I may abide his returne with more honour The same man said Pamphilus sendeth me vnto thee to speake vnto thee about his Loue and hee hauing found me in a Grange which he hath in the Mountaines of Toledo where I had sheltered my selfe from the stroakes of Fortune vnder the basest condition of the world hath brought me now into this place where thou now seest me in the quality of a Groome and because that heretofore in the beginning of my Fortunes I haue beene in this house I kept my selfe from being seene vntill this time as thou mayest well know hauing not beene seene vntill this day by thee Suffer and abide the end of thy Fortune as I haue done and doe not say thou knowest me for I will entertaine Lisard with some Lye from thee vntill such time that wee may see whereunto the reuolution of this coniunction of our misfortunes will tend and when will end the effects of this our honours ecclipse Thus did Pamphilus and Finia meete and in stead of reprehending one the other they remayned there both good friends for it is ordinary with those who are culpable to dissemble the faults of others least they be reprehended for their own In this meane time Thesander went from place to place in Toledo inquiring for Nisa and when these newes came vnto Lisards eares that there was a young man which enquired for his Sister Hee verily thought that it was Pamphilus who by some sinister accident hauing lost her was come thither to finde her And telling vnto Pamphilus the story of Nisa's rauishing which hee knewe much better told him that hee was now in Toledo in her quest and that hauing no man in whose hands hee could better commit the satisfaction of his reuenge then his nor of whose courage and fidelity hee could be better assured of he intreats him and coniures him to kill him A notable winding in a successe so strange and so imbroiled which is so much the more admirable vnto me who knowe it better then they who reads it how true it is Pamphilus astonished to see that hee was ingaged to kill Pamphilus at the least a man who either in searching for Nisa or else one who for the onely disaster of his name deserued to dye endeauoreth to finde him rather to know what he would with Nisa then with any mind to execute Lisards intent vpon the others innocency His master did not accompany him in this action for as Tacitus saith of Nero although hee commaunded Murthers yet he alwayes turned his sight away from them Pamphilus hauing found Thesander priuately would informe himselfe of the cause why he inquired for Nisa Thesander recounted the story from Nisa's being wounded by Celio and healed by his Father shee had left them one night without bidding them adue paying with ingratitude all the good offices which were done her in that house Neither did he forget to relate how shee for the dressing of her wound being constrained to open her brests shee was discouered to bee a Woman from whence proceeded his desire and the cause why hee sought her in this place which shee said was the place of her Birth Ioyfull was Pamphilus to heare of the healing of Nisa's wounds and in stead of killing Thesander hee led him into his Chamber where hauing vsed him with all the curtesie that was possible he tolde him that in this house where hee remayned were Nisa's Parents and Brother Lisard hauing a great opinion of Pamphilus his courage whome he called Maurice did verily beleeue that hee would infallibly kill Nisa's rauisher which hee beleeued to bee Thesander wherefore he demaunded leaue of his Father to goe fearing that if Maurice should happely bee taken Prisoner he might confesse the author of Pamphilus his death The Father afflicted at his departure fearing that in this his age Death might take him in the absence of all his Children would know the cause of his Iourney And Lisard telling him that hee had sent to kill him who had run away with his Sister who was come vnto Toledo and that hee did beleeue that his seruant vnto whome he had giuen this commission had already executed it put the olde man into a greater care then hee was in before much fearing the Damage which might come from so violent a reuenge Pamphilus had perswaded