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A68435	Vienna Where in is storied, ye valorous atchieuements, famous triumphs, constant loue, greate miseries, & finall happines, of the well-deseruing, 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.; Pierre, de la Cépède, 15th cent. Paris et Vienne.; Gifford, George, fl. 1640, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 17202; ESTC S111866	129,892	196

as unheard of before and therefore was desirous to see the stature favour cariage and manner of those men and to learne if he could the nature law religion custome and State of the Countrey which stoode so well with the Soldans liking that both in one desire went to the Castle to see and to conferre with the Daulphin Now Sirap building on Boufoyes fidelity as having somewhat possest him with his purpose and wrought him to his will did vse him as an Interpretour betwixt him and the Daulphin For hee would not altogether yet discover himselfe to Boufoy and therfore speaking to him in Greek hee commanded that he should Salute the Daulphin in his name and tell him that as a Stranger hee was come to see him and of meere humanity to visite him which the Daulphin kindly accepting as kindly regreeted and entertained him with all the gracious remonstrances hee could Sirap bad him then aske what his Country was how great by what lawes they were governed under what title they were subiected what Religion they observed and what God they chiefly adored unto which the Daulphin thus briefly answered France he said is my native nest both most populous and spacious as having in it 27. thousand Parish Churches It is most fertill and abounds in all plentifulnesse of fruits wines salt corne fish and wild-fowle There are many Vniversities famous therein the nursing mothers of all vertue out of whose brests youth drawes out the knowledge of all Arts It hath many large Provinces and divers abordering Principalities owe homage thereunto The Cities are great and many rich in Treasure and fayre and uniforme in building the chiefe whereof is Paris famous for beauty and bignesse the usuall residence of the King and great trastique of all kinde of Marchandize Our lawes are termed the ciuill Lawes wherein Iustice is tempered and qualified by equity and conscience and equity and conscience are garded and maintained with Iustice Our Monarch is entituled a King the most Christian King of France under whose protection his people live secure inioying their owne and under whose Greatnesse his Subiects rest fearelesse of forraigne foes Our Religion is built upon Gods sacred Word Truth is the roote thereof Charity the branch and good Workes the fruit Our Pastors are our Teachers who like Lampes consume themselves to enlighten others theyr Doctrine is examined by the twelue Apostles Our prayers by Christ taught six Petitions Our Faith by the generall Creed and our Lives by Gods tenne Commandements And where the tongue of Aaron cannot perswade there the Rod of Moses doth correct and compell Wee serve and worship one onely GOD in persons Three not confused nor divided but distinct of one and the same divine Essence eternity power and quality God the Father God the Sonne and God the Holy Ghost The Father being the first chiefe and originall cause of all things The Sonne his Word and eternall wisedome and the Holy Ghost his power vertue and efficacie This is that God that by his Word made the glorious Globe his seate and the massie Earth his footstoole that fed his servants the unprovided Israelites with food from Heaven forty yeares in the Wildernesse that divided the Waters and brought them dry-foote through the Red Sea and drencht proud Pharaoh therin that pursued them with murthering hearts To him we offer no burnt offerings nor sacrifice of blood but the sweet intercession of devout prayers For those ceremonies ceased at the comming of Christ by whom we are called Christians and wee are received into his Church by Baptisme and continued and fed therein by the other Sacrament of his last Supper And such is our Countrey these our Lawes such our King this our Religion and this the God we onely serve love feare and adore Sirap thanked him for his good description and seemed to take pleasure in the knowledge thereof Then he demanded how he brookt his Captivity and hee answered like a Prince and therefore like himselfe as one subject to chance and resolved in the change Then he bad him aske whether he had any children and hee all sighing said but one onely daughter Then Sirap caused him to aske why he then so sighed and he replying said that his sole soules griefe consisted in her memorry and so made manifest his hard cruell and unnaturall dealing towards her and how he had left her a prisoner to his tyranny and therefore by divine Iustice made himselfe a prisoner to Tyranny Sirap being thus certified was well pleased that Vienna yet living lived his permanent friend and though hee grieved much for her endurance yet did he smother up his conceived sorrow in the recordation of her love The thought of his exile and Viennaes thraldome awaked Hatred and Anger the ready Offices of Revenge to hasten his death but in the eye of his milder consideration knowing him to be his Lord and Viennaes Father his relenting heart checkd his repining humour and blew the coales of his hotter desire to seeke and to effect his speedy deliverance To compasse which he seeming seemed of purpose to take pleasure in him and understanding of his Countries customes commodities and government And therefore he requested the Soldan for the continuance of his contentment and for his further knowledge of forraigne affaires to admit and tollerate his thither repayre that he might hereafter if cause so required reduce his learing to practice which the Soldan graunting gave in charge for his free accesse and so they departed the one glad in that hee had or could gratisie so worthy a friend the other proud in that hee had sayde a foundation whereon to build The two next dayes Sirap spent in covertly revealings wherein his expertnesle and carriage did both win respect and gave delight The third following day hee with his Interpretour went to parley with the Daulphin who dispairing of life they found expecting death But after they had greeted and regreeted each other with kinde salutes Sirap told him by his Interpreter that as a man hee bewayled his fortune and as he was a Prince he lamented his fall Yet dismay not noble Lord said he since all corporall dammages that happen to mortail men are either by means remedied by reason suffered by time cured or by death ended Malicious and violent stormes may for the time cleave the barke from the tree and rent the branches of his body yet for all the furious blasts of wrathfull windes it cannot bee pluckt up by the Roote If there be a power above the capacity of men then may there come comfort contrary to the conceit of men Expectation in a weake minde makes an evill greater and a good lesse but the resolved minde disgests an evill being come and makes a future good present before it come Then expect the best since you know the worst at the worst will have an end The Daulphin conceiting the civill demeanour the Philosophicall discourse and the pious minde of the supposed impious and

Christall Shield and Chaplet at her Fathers Court and well shee prayed that had so well her prayer for it was Sir Paris indeed who knowing that Emulation hath many eyes and that Observation might easily discover him fearing to be knowne by his white Armour had thus sadly arm'd himselfe sutable to his sable fortune and therefore he bare nothing in his Shield but Blacknesse for his Devise was still to be without Devise only his sad Armour was covered all over with mourning Clouds Many Knights there were overthrowne by La-nova but more then many did Sir Paris foyle For then if ever and if ever then did he shew the vertue of his valour in the strength of his courage Now grew the hurly-burly great and many and great were the encounters made on each side In so much that there rested but unoverthrowne one Valentia on the Lady Margarets part on either side three and all onely on Viennas but one which was the blacke clouded Knight who now was deem'd hardly bestead both in regard of his former travailes and the present advantage of the sixe fresh assailants who bent all theyr forces first against him Valentias hope was now a little revived and the Lady Margarets proud expectation fully answered Valentias hope Onely doubtfull Vienna neere dyed for feare least that her beauty should now be eclipsed in the losse of her gotten fame and that her fame should be buried in the dying renowne of her best esteemed beauty For as she wondred hee had so long resisted so shee held it unpossible hee should longer resist But Sir Paris onely weary in that there were no more to be wearied by him casting his eye the messenger of his heart on Vienna and seeing the shining lights of her transparent beauty over-shadowed with sorrow and dismay Desire so blew the fire of his new conceived rage that like an unmercifull and hunger-starved Lyon that runnes raging for his prey so he violently runne amongst them that with one staffe he overthrew the first three he met and turning his House before Vienna could turne her dispaire he charg'd the fourth so forceably that hee sent both Horse and Man to the ground At the sight whereof the people gave such applauding shoutes that Vienna lifting up her sad eye as waking from a carefull slumber she saw her Knight returning in the glory of theyr overthrowes So that hoping now for better hap a better hap did befall her then she did or could expect For no sooner made hee his last returne but hee returned againe from overturning of the other two Who triumphed then but Vienna Who now more sad then Valentia or who more grieved then the Lady Margaret the Iust thus ended the French Queene came with a troupe of attending Ladyes carying before her the Crowne of Artificiall Lillies richly stoned and setting it on Viennas head shee Crowned her for sole and Soveraigne Queene of absolute and matchlesse beauty Then came the King and tooke Sir Paris by the hand and lead him all the other Knights and Barrons following them with tryumphing honour and sound of Trumpets to the three Mounts where with his owne hand hee gave him the three Banners with the three prizes on them which Sir Paris reverently taking re-delivered over to his friend La-nova secretly to convay them away while hee stayed the ending of all other the ceremonies All which being accomplished The King the Daulphin and Vienna rendring Sir Paris thankes for his worthy and affectionate endeavours and most renowned and fortunate atchievements requested him in the name of Vienna to discover himselfe and tell unto whom they were all so much bounden But Sir Paris humbling himselefe in all duty made reverent shew of his unwillingnesse therein which the King noting would not further importune him nor could the Daulphin in any wise over-treat him nor durst Vienna over-much presse him So that he kissing her hand held it long and after drawing his sword layd it at her feete and taking it vp againe kist it likewise and then holding it up seemed to threaten the world in her behalfe which added this Article to Viennas beleife that he undoubtedly was her white Knight and the same and non but the same that first so melodiously sang under her Chamber window and theeefore her desires having now no end shee ever after though each houre an age till she knew him But Sir Paris withdrawing himselfe to the rest of the Knights retired with them still giving backe till he was the last of the troupe and then taking a crosse-way separated and convayed himselfe from them and suddenly disarming himselfe hee speedied to finde out the Bishop of St. Lawrence with whom of purpose to prevent all surmises hee had a little before familiarized himselfe and no sooner had hee espyed him but that he hasted to greete him and still kept in his company as if St. Marke had robb'd god Mars of a Martialist Such was his holy shew of devout Religion as that he made all men admire him and his father to be inwardly grieved at him But Vienna who now had greater cause to love him then meanes to know him wondring at his valour not to be valued and valuing his vertues by clowding the glory and value of his prowis held now his love an honour to her affection and vowed her affection a guerdon for his love But when she heard of his secret departure and that no one knew what he was from whence he came nor to what place he had retired himselfe Then impatient desire made her the child of passion feare to loose that she never had made her feele what before she neither knew nor feared And so much the more she held her selfe miserable in that she knew not for whom she was so miserable nor how to seeke an end to end her misery As Viennas sad conceite thus overshaded the glory of her beautifull Conquest so was Sir Jaques flattering hope made blacke with foule dispaire For missing his sonne Sir Paris out of two so Royall honorable Assemblies where renowne eternized each deserving Knight with never dying fame and seeing him still associating the Bishop hee feared least his businesse of over superstitious Zeale had abandoned all desire and regard of Knightly Chivalry And therefore hot in his repining conceit hee hastened to find La-nova unto whom in griefe he manifested the cause of his griefe Requesting and conjuring him by the sacred lawes and name of friendship and by the honour he owed to Armes to perswade his sonne to a more befitting respect of his unregarded honour La-nova hearing Sir Jaques worthy complaint and seeing his frosted beard all bedewed with the teares of his sorrow pittyed his lament but durst not disclose the mistery of the truth but commending his honourable care hee comforted him with promise of assured and present remedy and so left him better satisfied then truely certified And no sooner were they parted but La-nova departed to impart to Sir Paris what

told him that for shame of her first flying fault she had vowed her chastity to Diana and sworne her selfe a Vestall to Vesta And therefore had she so separated her selfe a side because she would not give fire to his fancie nor wrong his better deserts with forlorne desires In consideration whereof she humbly prayed that none but her selfe might enioy her selfe since none but her selfe could or should content her selfe The Daulphin perceiving light through a small crevis began in milde pollicy by gentle entreaties and rich perswasions to weane her from her will telling her that vnlawfull vowes were to be violated since the first cause ceasing and a new succeeding both might be altered neither had she any such power in her selfe that was not to be disposed of by a Father And to honour and obey Parents is the first Commandement that hath any reward promised on earth Besides it is an enuious wrong to Nature to suffer her fairest worke like a sweet fragrant odoriferous Rose to dye vpon the stocke that being pluckt in the bloome might yeeld both pleasure and profit to others therefore renounce this beliefe if thou meanest to be saued or to haue any fauour For by course of kinde all thinges were made to increase and by increase to benefit another and she is a Diuell amongst men that profiteth no man This did the Daulphin thinke by his smooth words to build a Castle in the ayre that had no hope of foundation on the earth For Viennas vnremoueable resolution being bent to shoote at her first marke could not be wonne to leuell at another ayme which made the Daulphin failing like a Foxe to deceiue with kindnesse to play now the Lyon by compulsion And therefore gnashing his teeth together for anger like the Sea that waxeth mad when the windes doe rage he commanded both her and Jzabella to close prison The young Prince meruailing beyond all measure that he could not see amiable Vienna the eye of France the miracle of her sex the wonder of time and the pride of Nature demanded of her Father what ominous cloud shadowed the brightnesse of France his second Sunne that she appeared not in her all-admired glory The Daulphin fearing least he should distast the Prince by vnderstanding the matter framed and faigned this excuse That sicknesse had attached her and made her a prisoner to her bed and therefore prayed his patience awhile till bee hoped recouery might better please his fancy The young Prince holding his words for Oracles held himselfe contented and thought to weare and weary out the wearinesse of time with otehr Courtly and more Knightly sports wherein hee was so fortunate that Fame was the Herauid of his Heroicall deedes This did so enflame the loue of the Daulphin towards him that no eye-water could euer after quench the same Desert did now double his desire and his desire had no end in gayning his daughters consent which he againe now vainely laboured Sometimes laying before her the Riches Glory and Dignities of Iuno sometimes painting forth the Honour Respect and Happinesse shee should receiue by such another Hector and then pleading the sweet content that growes by enjoying so pleasing and compleat a Prince But when he found his wasted wordes dye in their owne sound and all his hopes vtterly shipwrackt his better consideration was then forfeited further to hate and rancour then either nature or pitty could redeeme it Then began he to thunder out fearefull threats cruell chastments and most insupportable miseries Commanding the Keeper in his ouer-awfull justice that sad solitarinesse should onely attend her imprisonment and that eager hunger should daily waite on her Table and so he departed hopelesse of reclayming her and therefore resolued to chasten her obstinacie with all seuerity But No force can Fancie force nor crosses Loue expell For Riuers stopt aboue their bankes will higher swell The young Prince hauing now spent many dayes and not seene her whom onely he came to visite importuned the Daulphin that he might but visite her both to comfort her in her malady and somewhat to satisfie his starued eyes in their more then greedy desires But the doubling Daulphin pleaded her mislike so to be seene assuring him that shee daily requested that he whom she onely vpon sole report entirely affected should not in any case see her so sore impaired So great said bee is her care to seeme pleasing vnto you such her shamefastnesse at first so to bee seene of you And therefore let me entreat your further patience for ●our willing returne vntill her better health may better counteruaile your taken paines which once recouered you shall be speedily informed In the meane time salute in my name your thrice noble royall Father and tell him that I hold my selfe so much honoured in his desired affinitie that my selfe and what is the Daulphins rests wholly at his pleasure and further pray him that the lawfull cause of this unwilling stay may stand for satisfaction till better payment The young Prince thus smoothed up with words of fairest dye held himselfe well appeased though not throughly pleased and holding the Daulphins words for written verity hee implored the firme continuance of his found favours and protested kindnesses and so commending himselfe to the good grace of his adored Lady he humbly and friendly tooke his leave and returned to Burbon The Prince departed The Daulphin who had no more remorce then the cruell Iudge hath mercy gave in charge that no one should visite or repaire to his Daughter but onely Monsieur Maux a right Saturnist by nature and an unrelenting Tyrant in life him hee commanded under paine of death to give her nothing but bread and the worst wine twise a day which this enemy of vertue and staine of all mankinde so barbarously performed that his cruell usage too soone impared poore Vienna and distressed Izabella who had unkindly and untimely pined and perished in that loathsome solitary prison had not La-nova found out a meanes as hereafter shall be showne to succour and relieue them But now the Daulphinis who had many times washed her aged face in the teares of her consuming griefe for her afflicted Childe having neither knowledge of any meanes to relieve her nor hope of her delivery knowing the Daulphin to be as resolute in his rigour as he was absolute in opinion Advised with her nearest friends and obliged dependants what was to be done in so desperate and grievous a case Whereby the concurrance of advises it was concluded that she should send unto the Delphian Oracle there to learne what should be done and become of her enthralled daughter This Counsell being embraced and the iourney vndertaken the windes gave speed and the Messenger arrived at Delphos where after all ceremonies were religiously performed hereceived a scrowle to carry unto the Daulphinis with charge not to looke therein The Daulphinis whose feare made her thinke all good to be too good for her thought yet each houre an

age till his returne misfortune so blindeth those we will overthrow as that she gives their desires wings to draw on and hasten their owne decayes At last he came and humbly delivered the scrowle importing this much Viennois heire to thraldome still belongs vntill her Fathers bonds shall set her free Who captiv'd is in place confus'd with tongues by Ismaels brood detayn'd shall be Both shall live in doubt in care and wee vntill the banisht Sonne of forlorne Troy Shall succour give vnto his greatest foe and bring him home with hope with love with joy Then shall Vienna wed a sable Moore And happy live in peace and not before The Daulphinis whose over sad surcharged heart was unable to disgest such heavie and bitter Cates found this sawce too sharpe for her dyet For it was no sooner read but that finding as shee thought all the gates of comfort shut up with intricate threates and impossibilities being too weake a vessell to beare so sharpe a liquor she shrunke under the waight of her sad burthen and fell suddenly dead and so left the Daulphin a cruell Father and a carelesse Widdower This mournfull accident rather exasperated his irefull displeasure towards his daughter in making her disobedience the originall cause of her death then in any wise extenuated his execrable resolution against her determined endurance But hee had not lived many dayes in dolour but that burying the remembrance of his dearest spouse in the hope of future happinesse his obdurate heart became as unsenceable of her losse as of his Daughters misery Love found love and the madnesse of age made him such a slave unto his slave that before one yeares period he married one of his Wives meanest Attendants One who knowing her owne unworthinesse having neither Vertue to strengthen her fortune nor good nature to incite her to pittie or goodnesse nor any merit to winne applause was notwithstanding so potent over him that she guided the stearne of his flinty and unpennitrable heart And though she feared the scorne of abiect basenesse yet to maintaine the stolne pride of her enhansed heart shee cunningly gave fewell to her Husbands enraged will and covertly blew still the coales of his displeasure For feare shee did least that her Daughters liberty should in the aspect of true honour cloud both her swelling conceited glory and detract from her proud insulting greatnesse To frustrate which she cautely one day leaning on his brest and stroking his frosted beard thus sadly sayd When my deerest Lord I looke upon the breach of the Princesse your Daughters obligation I finde the penaltie you take to be most iust though severe Since the iust Iudger of all did for the sole disobedience of onely one cast both him and all his Posteritie out of Paradice How like unto him you shew your selfe herein your unpartiall Iustice well demonstrates who rightfully punisheth the sinne of disobedience in your owne members as God did in his owne creatures Iustice is the badge of vertue the state of peace and maintenance of honour and the will of a Father should be a religious law unto the Child And they that preferre theyr owne Iustes before theyr Parents pleasures looseth the benefit both of natures right and a Fathers regard For reason would not we should respect those that forsake us The Husbandman cuttes and loppes off all unkindly Branches from the good Vine Jove held his Children part of his substance of whom he did and might dispose and the noble Romans deprived their Sonnes of life that infringed but theyr commaunds I alleadge not this most worthy Lord to aggravate your Daughters foule offence whose other deserts I honour whose wellfare I affect and whose merited punishment I condole Nor yet to detract from the worth of your thrise worthy chasticement which all men commend and iustice allowes But feare of I know what and the love of your safety enforceth me in love and duty to manifest what I feare and to prevent what I doubt Vienna you know my endeered Lady is the immediate apparent Heyre to this Principalitie and the uniust desires that waite upon a Crowne begets oft most inhumane unnaturall and unlawfull Acts Nature in that expectation looseth her sight Vertue her strength Dutie her obedience and Love her respect Nothing can outballance ambitious desire either in the reach of dignity or revenge Nor is there any limitation in the adventurers Her restraint is I feare like fire raked up in embers that covertly will kindle and openly burst foorth into a flame For the harder she deemes her selfe handled the more will she seeke after her release if not after revenge Nor can she want instigators thereunto Since all men like and preferre the rysing of the Moone before the setting of the Sunne And to win advancement in that hope they will contrive practise and execute whatsoever and howsoever Such occasions gives fire to corrupt Humorists and such grounds sets repugnant Malecontents a worke I would my death might free you from such dangerous intendments or that my life could acquit you from such heavie accidents And therewithall her heart having taught her eyes to weepe she threw her selfe into his bosome the more to endeere her selfe unto him and without any sorrow she sighing said Ah what shall become of me when I shall loose my loving Lord Craft gave her teares Deceite shew'd griefe Fraud a forst á feare to win beleife Thus to nourish debate after she had fedde on slander and instil'd in his eares a fearefull iealousie which over-credulous mindes easily apprehends and covetously entertaines The better to acquit her selfe from all suppose of malice or detraction She weeping told him That the night before her Mothers Ghost appeared unto her all in white her unsmoothed haire displayed about her shoulders her ruefull falne face pale her eyes hollow and in eyther hand a Taper burning dimme which so affrighted her that had she not comfortably spoken to me when I had no power to call to you I had awaked you and cryed for helpe But sodainely with a feeble voyce she mildly said Feare not my Daughter to looke upon thy Mothers harmelesse Ghost who in tender care of thee and thy espoused Lord have left my bed of rest to come to premonish thee of your ensuing ill Treason doth threaten the Daulphin Subjects mislikes workes upon Viennas discontentments Her liberty will be his death and in his destruction shalt thou finde thy grave Now thou knowest it looke to it and so farewell With that she gave a wimpe darkenesse possest the place and I lay wounded and affrighted with remembrance both of her sight and of her words This Apparision the happy Angell of our God for visions are cleere revelations where dreames are but delusions hath moved me out of an affectionate feare of you to deliver what I saw heard and have said which otherwise in my love to your Princely Daughter I would willingly have concealed And therewithall she wept againe and kissing him

that he brought and shed upon him The carefull women though they were thus cleared of disgrace yet were they so daunted at the sight of these incarnall divels that they woefully cryed and shrieked out the servant with the Lanthorne as one distract runne out of doores Mal-Fiance as fearefully fled to his Chamber and heartlesse Haunce most amazedly runne into the street after the servant who looking for feare behind him sawe this spirit P. running as he thought after him which made him cry out Helpe helpe a spirit a ghost a ghost a spirit The Watchmen comming by and hearing him thought the man was starke mad but looking a side they saw this affrighted frightning ghost comming towards them which put them all into such amazed feare that they threw down theyr weapons and runne away The coast being thus cleared unhappy Haunce got into his Father 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 out-cries And finding the Master of the house and the Frier whom feare had entranced halfe dead on the floore and the Frier all bloudied by his fall they supposing that they were slaine instantly cryed out Murther murther The dismayed women that all this while lay over theyr heads in the bath of their sweating feare doing pennance for their stoln pleasures having their feare both renewed and redoubled by these their cries cried out as fast the devill the devill at the hearing whereof all the neighbours runne out of the house againe and Mal-Fiance grew upon this dreadfull allarum so fearefully timorous that hee durst not moove though hee were more then moved In this agonie of terrour did they all lye till breake of day when light the comfort of darke dismay emboldned the chiefe Officer who of purpose was sent for to enter into this house of horror where raising them from that place of Purgatory they found upon examination that the devill had bin there and was the cause of all theyr disturbances But Mal-Fiance who now had made peace with his distracted thoughts not onely found his owne error but easily apprehended the shift and enforced subtilty of the other For remembring that he had disfurnished Haunce of his blacke Mantle and so prevented him of his infernall shape he conceited that hee had no other meanes to free himselfe then by taking one of the sheets and so by appearing like a ghost to make way for himselfe In the beliefe of this conceit he vowed that Haunce should well 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 Bull hide to sell him Haunce knowing well where hee lay was much astonisht thereat and thanking him said He had no neede of any Then quoth Mal-Fiance shall my Host have it to make him a night-gowne but you shall pay for the hornes though you were so liberall as freely to give them For in briefe Mr. Tanner the abuse that you have offered mine Host and the scandall that you have raised on his house is so iniuriously great and so shamefully iniurious that unlesse you will give me tenne pounds I will uncase the Devill and both reveale his adulterous dealing and tell of your ghostly escape Haunce seeing he was discovered bought his concealment with his coyne which made Mal-Fiance so wanton that being so well silver-shod for travaile he discharged all his debts and in the innocency of his thoughts not dreaming after any danger hee made more hast then good speed to Viennois And no sooner was hee come and knowne to be in Vienna but that the Lord Vray Esperance sent for him and demanded where his Soveraigne Lord the Daulphin was who being unable to answer thereunto was presently deemed either to haue murthered him or to haue betrayed him to his enemies For it is a rule by obseruation true that they that feare not to be thought faulty will neither bee afraid to commit the fault nor ashamed to be seene after the fact His leauing howsoeuer of his Liege Lord was held worthy ofdeath And therefore was he sent bound hand and foote to prison till rigour of justice should by speedy sentence award him condigne punishment But the bruite hereof begat such tumultuous vproares and brought forth such mischieuous factions both in Court and Citty that hardly could the tempest be allayed without the vtter subuersion of the state For how should the low shurbs stands in rebellion when the high Cedar was thought to be blowne downe by treason In this combustion some stood for the indubitate heire the Princesse Vienna whose liberty they proudly required amongst whom Sir Iaques and La-Noua were most forward Some for the malicious and proud Dalphinis whose Regencie many affected But all malecontents rupugnant humorists disordered men decayed persons and seruile pesants that thriue best in mutation of States and liue by others falling as Swine doe by the dropping of Acornes flocked about Monsieur Maligne the reputed bastard of the Daulphin who ambitiously would needes according to the wicked disposition of illegitimates depriue others by ruine and rapine of their rights and appropriate to himselfe the Crowne The fired fashions began to breake forth into flaming seditious and masked Rebellion wayted but on time and aduantage to vse open force against each other The Common-weale did well to see her destruction in this triumuirie Amongst these briers and brambles that sought to ouer-top the stately Oake awfull Iustice had no powerfull place Law was 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 clemencie a Traian in bounty and another Augustus in wisedome beloued of most and respected of all saw this tripertite and diflentious diuision growing to such monstrous 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 aptnest to innouation and the sad effects of ciuill broyles or some suddaine ouerture leauing because wanting all time of further consideration euen in the assurance of his vertue and strength of his zeale to his Country he suddenly went to the Market place where all men notwithstanding their distemperarures gaue way to his merit and in loue followed after him so powerfull was he in popular affection which he perceiuing stayed and turning himselfe towards them with teares in his eyes and his Hat in his hands more like an humble Suppliant then a regall Ruler he made a signe for audience which graunted hee mildly after some few sighes said What moues my fast friends louing fauorites and more then deare Countrymen to this threatning mutinie What disturbes your quiet peace or what seeke you by the hurtfull Armes Doe you want

lost and the honour yours Farewell MESCHANT Thus in a faire Cup of gold did this pestiferous Meschant utter his hidden poyson And under the apparant shew of honest loyalty did hee give both treacherous intelligence and dangerous instructions to the hostile Enemy For Maligne upon the receite of this Letter layd his patterne theron and so read his subtill cloked advertisements through the same as by laying downe and covering this his Letter with this exampled patterne you may plainely perceiue By this time had the Daulphin and Sir Sirap after tedious travaile recovered Marcelles in Province through which they past unknowne into Daulphin where the Daulphin finding his Countrey in his declining dayes covered over with Campes Carriages barbed Horses and armed Souldiers he amazedly asked and asking learned the unexpected cause thereof which made him bewaile his sinister fortunes and envie no little against that impious abject his accursed supposed sonne Griefe now made him weepe at his Countries calamity and feare made him doubt his owne deprivation The Harvest of his sinnes yeelded him now more increase of woes then the lusts of his youth afforded him pleasures But how should said the sorrowfull Daulphin hee that is begotten in my full sin and borne in his owne shame live without doing villany or dye without making mischiefe If his being bee from me why then should he seeke to take from me my being And if he be none of mine what then hath he to doe with it which is mine but he is not mine but the sonne of iniquity and scorne of nature and therefore knowes neither his shamelesse selfe nor his sinfull father I nourished him as a Snake in the bosome of my love and now hee would sting mee to death in the poyson of his hate O how just are the judgements of God that payes our amisse in the amisse of our offences and makes our wicked pleasures our just punishments In this bemoaning fury did hee call for vengeance to be powred downe on Maligne which Sirap seeing could not but grieue at his sad lamentations though otherwise he rejoyced that occasion presented unto him both a meanes to shew there his prowesse and a way to make his Countrey indebted to his valour For as a stranger he knew he should winne honour and after gaine being made knowne more respect The wrath of Warre hee did not feare nor made hee any doubt of his Countries safety And therefore hee chearefully commanded Boufoy to comfort the distressed Daulphin and to assure him that the God of the Viennonians had brought him thither in iustice both to punish the treacherie of his degenerate sonne and also to correct the insulting pride of the intruding Duke in both whose ambitious blouds hee vowed to bath his revengefull Sword and by force of the Viennonian forces to overthrow all the Savonians Only intreate him to take up the heate of his indignation in the embers and to keepe himselfe unknowne that thereby he might both receive a true tryall of his Subjects forces and fidelities and the easier escape and support himselfe after with forraigne supplyes if the Viennonians should unhappily be vanquisht As for himselfe he would when they were hottest in battaile suddainly thrust himselfe amongst them where he would write such Tragedies in his enemies bloud that weeping repentance should teach them what it is to invade anothers right and to displant the true Vine His Highnesse and Boufoy I would have them like two peaceable Pilgrims to stand safely aloofe and to view the hazard of the game till the last chance be cast and then secretly to convey themselves to some cave in the neere adioyning Wood whether in the darke of night I will undiscryed repaire and further consult what after is to bee done To this the animated Daulphin subscribed For in his vertuous valour and practive knowledge did he build his new raised hope and on his unresistable force most fortunate atchievements did his comfort depend Now Sirap having ever about him his never failing Semitar wherewith he vanquisht Turbulent the fierce and being furnished with the Shield Armour that he forceably tooke from the Captaine of the Pirats in the Affricke Seas he made all things in readines and instantly sent Bonfoy to the next Towne with his Shield to cause a Painter to draw omit a disturbed waved Sea and in the middest thereof a crowned Daulphin driving other Fishes before him and striking many under the waves with his tayle with this Impresse under Crowned to Conquer Thus did the Daulphins unknowne Knight in honour of the Daulphin make himselfe the Knight of the Daulphin But by this time the two Armies marching both on affronted each other in sight which made the Sauoy Duke to make a stand and to set his men in good array of Battaile which he deuided in two parts The first were his troupes of Horse which he assigned to be conducted by the Bastard Maligne The other consisting of Foote he led himselfe In this equipage he soberly marcht till he came to a spacious Playne neere to Andre where hee preparedly stayed the comming on of the Viennonians who being well Marshalled in one meane Battaile Cressat-wise with two wings of Horse on either side came on apace by the Command of their good Generall the L. Vray Esperance vnto whom honour gaue spurres his place faithfulnesse and the loue of his Country courage Maligne heartned on the Duke with the false assurance of the Viennoians revolt and the hope to incorporate that Principality to his owne haled him on the more to that bloudy bargaine For the charge being giuen Desire and Reuenge encountred each other with such fury that the Battaile was long in suspence Victory enclining to neither side till at last the Troupe of the Sauonian Horses disranked both the Wings of the Viennoians and brake in vpon the squadron of the Foote with such violence that they began to stagger and giue backe When the all-valarous and inuincible Sirap the Knight of the Daulphin came fortunatly in who finding where danger dwelled most there hee opposed himselfe and like to a suddaine Tempest bare downe all before him His desire to approue himselfe in his Countries defence and his implaceable wrath against those that sought to defeat Vienna of her right and to defraud him of the comfort of his hope made his blowes fall like thunder and his sword to cut like the Executioners Axe None could stand before him nor durst there any come neere him which so encouraged the disheartned remainder of the Viennonian Caualirie that they rank'd themselues againe and came vp to second him This fresh and new assault disordered and dismayed the Sauonian Troupes who now fought fearefully and confusedly which Maligne perceiving purposely and fatally brought up all his Forces and begirt him round thinking so to end the Battaile by making an end of him that both had ended so many of their lives only maintained the Battell In this danger did the undaunted