begun that the Fish might bite the more eagerly when the bayte was pulled away But oh said Vienna for now she had swallowed the hidden and hurtfull hooke didst thou not perceive the cause of his so secret and so great a griefe Yes Noble Lady said Poltron Time and Occasion gave me meanes to know the same Then good Poltron let me intreat thee she said to relate the full discourse thereof For such Subiects of woe best fitteth wofull mindes and causes of dolour and calamity are ever most pleasing to perplexed persons Poltron thus halled on to set the trap that should ensnare her life thus cunningly gave fire to her tinder Though said he I am unwilling to ingrieve my thoughts with the sad remembrance of my friends over-grieuous sorrowes yet since it is your pleasure your will commands my obedience Then know most fairest of faire Ladies that after I had many times observed the frenzie of his passions and wondring had noted his broken and disconsonant complaints hee being at other times most advisedly wise and most humbly though sadly patient As wee were sitting at the mouth of his Cave chatting on the miseries of this life and the crosses of this uncertaine world I requested him in favour of my desire to recount unto me the cause of his so often passionate laments In answere whereof he said Though my griefe be already such as there can be no addition to so great an extreame and though my wounds cannot be healed because they may not be searched yet to giue thee some content know that not farre from Tolledo in Spaine I serued not long since a great and mighty Lord called Don Daulphinatus who had one onely daughter named Paris-enna whose beauty was farre fairer then the euening starre and whose vertue was more powerfull then the greatest constellation By her sweet influence did I only liue and breathe and though my meane fortune durst not gaze on so bright a Planet yet did her gracious aspect both so ennoble and inable my towring thoughts that vnknowne I atchiued in honour of her name many admired exployts After some season both my acts and my loue were accidentally made knowne to her who in time made mee though most unworthy the Maister of her desires that was and still am a servant to her will Our mutuall mindes thus combined was like the Garden of Eden wherin grew more delights then either Nature now affords or Art can expresse Our hearts fed on pleasures our eyes beheld the blisse of each other and in the full comfort of all content did we sleepe in love and wake and walke in all fulnesse of ioy From this Paradice were we driven by felonious Fortune who envying our happinesse would not suffer that we should make this earth our heaven that was before curst for our sinnes My Lord her Father had knowledge thereof who finding my indignity not worthy of such soveraignty was so caried away with disdainfull scorn and irefull displeasure that he doomed me to death if ever I were found within the precinct of his command This separation for now I was put to my flight was such a corasive to both our confounded soules that she stayed to endure a greater misery the deprivation of life and I wandered in unknowne pathes to seeke after a wished death Long was my travaile and manifold my fortunes But neither distance of place continuance of travaile happinesse of fortune nor tract of time could free my fancie nor weary me from my constant affection At last being both wearied and nighted I came to this harmelesse Cell where in love of Solitarinesse and in contempt of the world I vowed to spend the unspent sorrowes of my Life and keepe my selfe from the knowledge of Men and thereupon he devoutly swore mee that I should not make his private aboad knowne to any Man Whereat the wounded Princesse in her apprehension sighed and watered the floare with her baulmy Teares as knowing by the amplyfied and conioyned Names and by the concurrence and circumstance of the Matter that hee was most assuredly her beloved Paris and thereupon shee demanded what was his Name Sans Lieure replyed Poltron did he call himselfe Sans Lieure sayd she Oh how rightly did the Destinies Christen him and how truely doth his Name expresse his Fate For Griefe hath but a dead heart and haplesse Love none at all But where is that Place of playnt that so confines Sorrow in it selfe and makes Woe a habitation for so miserable a Man Tell mee O tell me that I may send some Sanctified person to comfort him and weyne him from so wretched a life My Oath answered Poltron will not admit that any Man be my meanes should know thereof Then would I were shee sayd with him my selfe for by his Name I now remember hee is that Divining Man that hath revealed Wonders and can tell what shall befall every one Oft have I heard of him and strange things by him fore-told hath come to passe Thus did they both disguise theyr mindes and with untempered Morter daube up their severall concealed meanings and hidden intentions that they might both the better worke out theyr Advantages But Poltron seeing his venemous Plot had without all suspect thus poysoned her beliefe boldly told her That as she was no Man shee was not within the Condition of his Bond and therefore if so she pleased he would not only give her full liberty but also bring her unknowne to that haplesse Hermite whom shee desired much to see provided that shee should give him Gold to bring him after to his native Home and also bee directed by him both for the meanes and the manner of theyr escape and travaile To this she answered that Prisons were no Treasure-houses and that she had no Minte to answere her minde onely some reserved Iewels she had which she would give him It shall said he suffice Pitty pleades in your behalfe your merit claymes redresse and my feeling griefe to see a Princesse so distrest commandes the hazard of my Life Be you but silent and secret and you shall see that I will deceive the waking eyes of encharged wisedome and over-throw the heedfull care of reposed trust And thus it must be By the Print of the Keyes which I will make in Waxe will I make other like Keyes by which all the doores shall congee to your Will and give passage to your pleasure Then will I have you for our better security homely attired with a Boxe under your arme and Bone-lace hanging out of it a payre of Shieres tyed to your Girdle a Yeard in your hand that you may seeme to be not what you are but what in appearance I would have you shew to be And I will with a Pedlers packe on my backe well suited thereunto travell along with you as your Husband So shall wee both better escape and avoyd suspition But how sayd Vienna shall Izabella bestow her selfe She sayd Poltron must stay behind in Prison
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
Foard was not pastable which made Sir Paris so impatient so to be frustrated of his attending Ship the assurance of his safety that Monsieur de la Mott over venturous to venter over the passage was in searching the Foard most unfortunately drowned in the mercilesse Flood Sir Paris daunted at that so fatall a sight sighed and sighing grew to a prodigious prognosticator of his owne ensuing harmes But fearing least the knowlege thereof might appale his faire Friend he suddainely returned to theyr religious Host where he had left the two Ladies when he went to find the Foard and to try the passage and shadowing now his tormenting griefe with a forced smile he demaunded of Vienna how she fared who answered as my Love fares so fares thy Love happy in my selfe because happy in thee And long may said Paris my Love live to love that loves to live onely for my love Scarce had Sir Paris pronounced his last word when one came running to tell the Priest that there were many Knights in the next Towne that came in quest and searched for Vienna and Sir Paris Which Vienna vnderstanding was so surprized with griefe and feare that being altogether disheartned in her hope she held her selfe more then undone in her disturbed expectation But after she had bathed the beauty of her eyes in the sorrow of her teares fearing most in this present perill least death should arrest her beloved Friend She with a much more resolued minde and an assured countenance then befitted eyther the time or was incident to her sex thus exhillerated her astonished Friend My Paris she said Time admittes not there many wordes where danger still knockes at the doore In extremities the winning of time is the purchase both of life and love Let not violent passions that neuer remooves any ill but betrayes our secret imperfections now sway the vertue of thy thoughts nor the fortitude of thy heart but carry thou in thy Lyons looke a Lyons minde and like the Sunne shew thy fayrest face in thy lowest fall Loade not my sorrowes with thy griefe nor kill thou thy selfe for feare of death But in the wonted courage of thy never-daunted Spirit get thee to some other more safer shore where let Vertue be thy Governour my remembrance thy Loue thy loue my comfort and my comfort thy sole contentment Thou hast conquered men in loue and Loue in me and both in worth and wisedome and neuer shall I deeme my selfe happy but when I shall see thee happy for whom I now am so vnhappy As thou leauest me so shalt thou finde me be but thou as constant a Friend to my Minde as thou shalt be a true Possessor of my Heart and I shall haue as much cause of joy as thou no cause of doubt If thou continue loyall successe thou shalt see will blesse thee well and all good fortune will waite on thy just merits This Diamond which here I giue thee shall be a true remaining record of my sincere loue to thee Onely let me heare of thy aboad and so I leaue thee to the guide of Vertue and seruice of Fortune Sir Paris thus discomforted comforted weighing the danger of delay by his immient perill and forced to set vp his sayles in this so insupportable threating a tempest and there sealing vp the vow of his faith in the silent griefe of a departing kisse he posted to the Riuer side againe where Dispaire made Feare so valiant that ere he found cause of feare hee was past all feare For hauing past he knew not how the Riuer he was got before he wist into the Ship wherein being Cabined hee told of La Mot his fatall accident and forced them to put to sea sayling himselfe with as many contrary thoughts as Eolus sent out windes vpon the Trojan Fleete At length he arriued at Genua where he rested his restlesse selfe and where he liued wanting but little because not desiring much But such was his disconsolate solitary life that the Citizens though strangers affecting the man in his manners pittied much his distresse in the shew of his discontentment In the meane while the Daulphin wasting himselfe in his owne implacable and vnlimited wrath violently and suddainly seazed and consiscated all Sir Jaques Lands and Goods into his hands imprisoning both him and his Lady as Fauters Abetters Confederates and Adjuters thereunto Thus ets Outrage euer the sharpest edge vpon the first aduantage And in this distemper of his ill disposed minde he commanded that naught but bread and water should be giuen them For said he where the offence is greater then the seruice there Iustice changeth the bond of recompence into due punishment During this their faultlesse imprisonment the questing Knights returned with Vienna and the Hospitalious Parson her Host who being brought before the angry Daulphin her enraged Father shee saw the cloud a farre off before the storme fell and therefore prostrating her selfe at his Feete shee required pardon for her offence and prayed that he would not make her sinne deadly which was but veniall pleading ignorance for the Prelate and vnresistable loue for her selfe swearing and assuring him by sacrament of solemne oath and the testimonie of her Host that shee was as honest in her flight as she was in her birth and that her vn potted thoughts were neuer stayned with any vnchast deede or desire The noble followers of the obdurate Daulphin seeing the Princesse washing her repentance in her owne teares humbly besought him to forget and to forgiue her amisse since the frailty of her offence was rather a sore then a sinne and wounds were to be healed and not hurt This submission strengthened by such generall entreaties somewhat quencht the burning heate of his enflamed ire And though his seuere Iustice told him that not to punish an euill was to allow of an euill yet mercy hee knew pardons them oft that deserues it not and judgement in nature should be next a kin to fauour Vpon this calme construction after many sharpe rebukes and protested threates he vowed that determinate and ineuitable condemnation 〈◊〉 punish her next offence and so he pardoned her vpon promise of more regardfull duty Now Sir Paris had not long sojourned in Genua but that mindfull of his charge he writ to Vienna and enclosed it in another writ to La-noua wherein he excused his vnkinde departure without his priuity and conjured him by the sacred lawes of true amity to attend and follow his Lady in all seruice and fast friendship La-noua glad of such glad tydings went in the height of his ioy to Vienna and after some complementall salutes asked her what shee would give to heare of her Paris Vienna great with child with the expectation of her friends welfare longed to be delivered with the notice of his health and said that the whole world afforded not sufficient worth to answer her liberall heart therein La-nova ioying in the constancy of her love shewed her the letter which
heale or soares For all men takes pleasure to come to theyr journyes end before they be wearie and our teeming hopes would ever be delivered of a gratious Birth Yet be you Madame he reanswered as you should be if not as you would be since it will be as it is and with some sweete deceit exile these sower conceits Alasse sayd Vienna how can sowre conceites entertaine sweet deceites since present deceites are still my sowrest conceites Your Physicke La-nova is good but my disease is desperate For patience without comfort brings perill of consumption and they are alwayes unpatient Martyrs that are punished uniustly my griefe was at the highest before and now like swelling Nilus it disdaineth bounds Deceive not your selfe said La-nova his endeered Love not brooking your misery and not his fraud never knowne to any with his killing dispayre the bloody butcher of all hopes contentments hath forced thus his further flight And for probation thereof reade heere his Letter which he sent me and doubt you not Madame but when after-times shall make him finde the error of his amisse and that his wounded hope shall be healed with better thoughts that then finding with the sicke man that the shifting of his Bedde alters not his disease he will then I say returne in his repentance and make inquisition after your welfare Vienna taking and perusing the Letter and swallowing up the contents with contentment was overcome asmuch with kinde and affectionate griefe as before she was surprised with cold care and distast of his supposed flying fancie Insomuch that washing a new her face in the balmy droppes of her love-distilling teares she laide her hands on his shoulder and sighing sayd O pardon La-nova my offensive offence Sweet Paris where so ere thou art pardon my amisse I was I am and will be still the same and ever thine Thus having surfeited in her owne sorrow she purged heriealous conceite and in the comfort of his constant love she layd her downe on her weeping bed where La-nova left her to rest her restlesse thoughts By this time the Moone seven times had showne her fullest face and as many times lost the splendor of he light When the Prince of Burbon desirous to see the Emperious Mistresse of his enthralled heart taking humble leave of his Father secretly poasted to Vienna where the Daulphin enknowledged of his comming went to receive him at his outermost gate The young Prince greeted entertained and feasted of some of many of all amongst them all mist the fairest of them all the faire Vienna the admired Princesse of all pulcretude of whose wished welfare he asked her Father Who like a subtile Mercurist cunning in Cautels soberly sayd that as yet she had not recovered her health The young Prince discomforted in so lingering a sicknesse importuned the Daulphin that he might visit her and so somewhat satisfie his hungry minde almost famished with desire The Daulphin whose sences held now a Synode was driven to such an exigent that not knowing how to avoyde the Cheque without a Mate he was peâ—force forced to confesse the trueth So that taking him aside he swore by Sacrament of solemne Oath that his whose drift and desire was to bestowe his Daughter on none but him and that he had banished ambitious and audatious Sir Paris for his over-proud and presumptious love But such said he hath beene and is still her permanent frowardnesse and most obstinate disobedience therein that in injustice I have iustly imprisoned her not so much for her degenerate breach of duty though not to restraine an ill is to maintaine an ill as to bring her to yeeld to your fancy But overhardened in her willfull conceit shee rests no lesse carelesse of her endurance then resolved in her wilfullnesse for which I also have deprived her of her glory and comfort sworne her continuall thraldome and pray the continuance of your good opinion and amitie The young Prince astonished at the strangenesse of the case wondred greatly at the cause Yet flattering himselfe with selfe-conceite of his more worthy worthinesse He earnestly intreated the Daulphin that he might make some tryall what himselfe could doe for himselfe The Daulphin granting his request he presently cloathed himselfe in the richest Ornaments of Pride and State and Princely attended went with more speed then successe to the Prison the Doore whereof had but onely a small hole cut forth to take ayre in and to receive such leane and slender Sustenance as was most sparingly allowed her Vienna foretold of his comming had before gotten by La-nova's meanes a Capon whose dismembred Legges she closely had tyed under the holes of her naked Armes that there with heate putrifying they might the sooner corrupt and unsavery smell the stronger The young Prince comming to the doore knockt and demaunded for Vienna Who comming and seeing him so richly cladde and in so glorious an estate blusht out such beauty that her very Eyes seem'd a fayre Temple wherein Love and Beauty seated themselves Yet dissembling her knowledge of him she asked what he was and would Viennas Friend hee sayd and Viennas Love I would My Friend sayd she oh Friendlesse name I Friend that live exempt from Friends My Love why name I Love that onely love to live here unbeloved The young Prince whose listening eares were well pleased with the sweete harmony of her well tuned words and whose liking Eyes were ravished with the sight of her perfections was so perplexed betwixt new conceived desires and disdaine to be disdained that not knowing what to say he stood like one that had lost himselfe not reall in sence but as a faire Flower nipt with the morning frost hanging downe his head as most sorry for his declyning glory In this dispaire the remembrance of his owne greatnesse and the conceite of his owne merits gave such quickning life to his mortified thoughts and such freedome to his imprisoned tongue that boldly and plainely he told her who he was why and for what he came Vienna pleading ignorance for the error of her carelesse regard humbled her selfe with thankefull acknowledgement of his more worthy worthinesse But such said she is the obligation of my decreed chastity that nought but death shall breake the bond Why Madame replyed the Prince in so doing you wrong Nature in clouding the brightnesse of her Sunne deprive the world of more glorious light neglect your duty in disassenting from your Fathers will wound my desires with forlorne hopes and rob your selfe both of propagating pleasure sweetest content and greatest glory Then leave these iniurious walles and change your Prison unfitting your Person for a Pallace prepared for a Princesse In assurance whereof accept most renowned Ladie this Pledge of my Faith wherein is charactered the Life of my Love and the Love of my Soule and therewith Of Ruby rich a wounded heart he gave That pirec'd by Dart did bleed and mercy crave This was so Artificially made and cut that the falling drops did
Iustice without pitty is as cruell as Pitie without Iustice is foolish If wrath were not by mercy to be appeased no flesh should be saved O would and thus as he would have floated further in the Sea of his sorrow hee was interrupted and driven out of his Saturnall humour by a certaine Messenger of worth that the Turke had sent to seeke him with whom he returned shadowing his griefe with the borrowed vale of seeming pleasant and arming his patience with noble resolution to give way to all occurrents and to withstand all sinister accidents No sooner was he come into the Sultans sight but that he cheerefully called him and briefly told him that hee meant to invade Christendome And that for his approoved prowis and for the love he bare him he meant to grace him with the conducting of his Army and make him Generall over all his forces This said hee is our will and this your charge Then see that your performance answere our expectation and that our love be guerdoned with your victories Sirap wounded with these words knew not how to lay a playster on this sore yet resolved in his Countries good hee humbly prostrating himselfe yeelded all reverend thankes for such his great esteeme and gracefull respect But such said he pardon me most victorious and most mightiest of most mightiest Princes is my unpractived knowledge in Marshalling of Troupes and ranging of Battels that I should rather ecclipse the feared honour of your name by my overthrow then eternize your gotten fame by my Conquests Besides know most great Commander that though I be a mortall enemie to the Crosse of Christ and an inherent foe to all Christians yet for some private causes best knowne to my selfe I vowed long since never to tread on Christian ground nor come where any worship that Messias for their God Then let I humbly intreat your Imperiall Maiesty some other in worth more worthier supply my defects in their better deserts and bury not your living renowne in my so probable ignorance and unexperienced discipline The Sultan weying the danger of an unpractised Generall allowed the rather his devout obiections and considering the religiousnesse of his vowes though he held it superstitious in it selfe yet would he not violate his consecrated promise but yeelding to his request hee made Mustapha Bassha his Generall and the preparation for him was so great that the bruit thereof piercing the Westerne Clyme came to the knowledge of the French King who as the greatest Christian Prince assembled his wisest Councellours and noble Peeres praying also in ayde of all his Allyes and Princely Confederates about him to conferre and conclude somewhat for the honour and preservation of Christendome Amongst whom the Daulphin of Viennois was there as the sole Solon and onely wisest though too severe a Cato of his Country But such was his over-wayning conceite such the elevation of his high stirring spirit and such his proud estimation of his allowed wisedome that halled on I know not by what destinie he voluntary offered secretly and Pilgrime-like to goe to Constantinople there to espye and learne the strength intention course and preparation then intended meant and made for Christendome This being applauded by the whole assembly so tickled the flattering humour of his vaine glory the ecclipse of his mature wisdome that poysoned with theyr praises hee fayled to looke into the true consideration of so doubtfull and threatning an enterprise Pride made him forget both his place and his yeares and Glory would not permit him neither to take counsaile of Time nor make a provident delay which well shewes that they that are transported with their owne desires have no true scope of judgement left them to looke with perfect eyes into their designes otherwise actions so uncertaine had beene better not undertaken then unfortunately hazarded But he ever hasteth to repent that rashly enterpriseth Hee was most resolute in his determination nothing could dismay him nor no Man could disswade him doubt hee held to be the bane of all hopefull endeavours and if his fate were certaine he said it would profite him little to take heed and if uncertaine it would be more then meere foolishnesse to feare what he was ignorant of would happen In this resolute resolve he called for the Lord Vran Esperance a Man whose care and providence was the life of that State unto his wisedome and trust did he leave the whole governement of his Principality till his returne commanding him upon his allegiance to marshall and manage the whole State as best should stand with Iustice Law and equitie and that he would neither in pitty dutie nor favour such was his perseverant rigour release comfort nor give countenance to the Princesse Vienna otherwise then was by him already censured allowed and accustomed That her obstinate and degenerate disobedience she being a Traytor to true Generation might eternize his unpartiall Iustice make her miserable in being an example to others and that his Title and right might in his absence be the better secured by her imprisonment And so taking his leave he privately departed accompanied with none but with Mal Fiance his affected and learned Servant After their Land travell they Shipt themselves and lanched into the Ocean where after some dayes sayling they were by force of wrathfull and sinister windes by the command of Neptune driven into the Egyptian Sea and so cast on the Bay of Alexandria where he had not rested full three dayes but that a subtile Mercurian a Merchant of Babilon that then lay in Traffique there observing more heedfully the eminent Maiesty and uncontrolled countenance of the Daulphin supposed thereby that he was of no meane Estate His Complexion and attire made him a Christian and his commanding Eyes the true image of the minde shewed him to be of an high Spirit This Linx this Blood-hound to mischiefe hunted after opportunity to resolue this doubt and by fortune encountred with Mal Fiance in the Market-place whither the Daulphin his Lord had sent him to buy some Necessaries Vnto whom in Latine as the most generall Tongue best knowne to all the politique Merchant gave many kinde salutes offering him secretly for the love he bare to Christ and Christians all the best offices he might performe wishing withall to gaine the more credit not to make himselfe knowne in so dangerous and impious a Place Mal Fiance being better Learned then Travelled finding himselfe so kindely intreated by a Stranger returned thankes and ioyfully embrast his courtesie The Merchant glad that he vnderstood him requested his acceptance of a cuppe of theyr Countrey Wine which Mal Fiance as one proud of such vnexpected friendship in so strange a place and that he had met with one of knowledge to conferre withall willingly assented unto The Merchant having waded thus farre into the depth of his awaked intention thought good to sound the Foord at full by undermining theyr proiects And therefore in the curtesie of theyr
Bachonizing Cuppes he gave him some fewe peeces of Gold wishing him to make his wants knowne with the distresse of his Companion that he might privately relieve them and secretly give them comfort and directions for theyr more security This false fire the seeming shew of good regard burnt vp all Mal Fiances feare of distrust the strength of hot Wines consumed all due consideration and the ioy he tooke in finding so good a Christian amongst unbeleeving Infidels made him unadvisedly tell the Merchant who he was whom he served and where his Lord the Prince was This Machivelian Merchant being now fully enformed of what he desired the better to mature his ill designe spake to the Master of the House in the Slavonian Tongue a Language much used amongst the Turkes that he should stay that Stranger untill his returne from the Sanzake the Turkes Governour of Alexandria which hee did to no lesse admiration then dismay of confounded Mal Fiance For now too late hee found that Christall is like a pretious-stone till it come to hamering that his betraying tongue was guilty of his owne evill and that in the least danger is ever some eminent perill But this seducing Merchant the Sonne of Deceit borne of Hate fedde with mischiefe and maintayned with others losses being now armed with all the apparances of Truth that might fit and further his purpose went instantly to the dreadlesse Daulphin and in his corrupt Latine sutable to his ulcerated heart hee thus greeted him THE Saviour of the Faithfull the comfortable Sonne of the most Righteous all-Seeing and Everliving GOD make your Excellencie most happie in all your intendments and guard your Person from the knowledge and malice of cruell Miscreants To testifie my Faith by my Workes and to preserve the living Plants of Christs Vineyard from the bloody handes of the Destroyer I am come most noble Prince to save thy thrice worthy Christian life from the tyrannie of murdering Infidels In assurance whereof let this suffice that your Attendant Mal Fiance is apprehended and that for feare hee hath confest that you are a French Prince and Daulphin of Viennois and that as a wily Vlisses you are selected and come to pry into the Turkish State and to discover theyr Projects which being made knowne to the Sanzake your Highnesse shall bee sent a Prisoner to Constantinople where that cursed sinfull Sultan will make you dye a most cruell death To prevent which I have posted unto you and will for our Saviour sake convey you from his slavish and barbarous cruelty For know most gracious Prince that in heart I am a reall Christian though in shew a Mahometitian and have given addition of life to many by private intelligence secret reliefe speedy prevention and by close protection and unknowne transporting them to theyr native homes And this and all this I doe in some satisfaction for my Sinnes and to save my Soule for which the Lord of Life lost his dearest Life This loathed Habite of mine gives me safety and warrants my vowed endeavours for Christian supports Vnto which saving service I have dedicated both the length of my dayes and the fulnesse of my meanes Nor doe I leave Goshen to dwell in the Tents of Kedar Nor desire I with Lot to stay in Sodom nor would I for my Possessions heere establish my inheritance with the Children of Ruben in the Land of Giliad But I live in Alexandria for performance of my Sacred Vowes and to preserve the Flocke of Christ from these Band-dogges of Satan that otherwise would be devoured by them And therefore if you love this your life goe with me and passe over the Foord now the waters are low least by your dangerous delay you be destroyed in the Flood And to prevent the instant search I will bring you out of the Lyons denne and free you from the snare of the Hunter Fraud you know goes beyond Force and prevention helpes what repentance can not redresse I will not use many words Protestation is the Mother of Iealousie but when time shall promise better security I will at my owne charge convey you to France In the meane time you shall want nothing that my Money can procure or my Labours obtayne Thus did this subtile Sinon who had the voyce of Jacob but the hands of Esau guild over his poysoned Pilles and weave the Webbe of the Daulphins woe who finding cause of feare in that hee was so apparantly knowne did willingly feed on Poyson and rashly commend his welfare to his betraying trust praysing God that hee had sent him such a Shield of defence and had so preserved him from the terrour of shamefull death But this comfort in danger was but like the Honey that Sampson found in the Lyons Iawes or like Lightning in a foggie night Time would not permit neyther of better consideration nor of further complement The perfideous Merchants feare for still hee seemed fearefully to feare haled him away to his Chamber where he closely kept him with respect untill the next day against which time hee had provided two swift Dromidaries well furnished to carry them to Babylon there to make present of so Great and strange a Prince unto the Soldan his King promising himselfe eyther a great Share in his Ransome or no small Reward for his so worthy a Prize The long trauaile of the Daulphin made him give way to all suspitious thoughts His journies were greater then stood with ease or liking Yet what hee could not avoyd hee learned to beare necessity enforced him a constant patience But being come to Babylon he was presented unto the Soldan and like a Captive in tryumph he was ledde through the Citie to Prison The dejected Daulphin whose French Fortunes was but earst the Ministers of his will was now so controled and deprived of all Dignity that hopelesse of his life hee had no other comfort then to be voyd of all comfort Sometimes hee would envey against the detestable treachery of his deceitfull Servant and condemne his owne credulity in beleeving an Vnbeleever Then would hee curse his over-glorious desire of Popularity the ground of his griefe in seeking applause with danger and hazarding his Person to give liking to others But after when humble misery had appeased his discontented thoughts hee then cast off his Adders-skinne and soft Pitty did enter in at an Iron gate and finding then his owne cruell tyrannie in anothers long digested misery hee let fall some relenting teares and passionately he thus bewayled his Daughters endurance in his owne thraldome Ah poore Vienna too poore for Vienna Rich art thou in Feature but more then poore by thy Father Nature hath honoured thee in thy Birth Beauty hath eterniz'd thee in thy Person and Vertue hath renowned thee in thy Life Onely I yea I onely thy haplesse Sire haue made thee infortunate to bee the more infortunate my selfe The rigour of my Iniustice is in true Iustice now punished in my selfe with rigour and the
may ever take comfort in La-nova Vpon this conclusion he parted and Isabella strewed the Rushes over the private way that gave him entrance But no sooner was it done but that one of the Keepers Gentlemen that seemed ever most serviceable unto her came in whom the devilish Daulphinis had before fashioned to her purpose for she wrought upon his want as knowing well that Povertie betrayeth Vertue and that Wealth bewitcheth Wit Corruption having made him her Creature shee had instructed him how to trayne Vienna to her destruction for nought but Death could satisfie her disdainefull feare Her malicious and unbounded pride locked into the danger of her Lords returne If the Daulphin fell then must Vienna though now a Prisoner be Soveraigne This made her heart-burning hate to prosecute her overthrow And though shee had no cause to feare her for occasion never yet made her her enemy yet could she not indure to thinke that shee should bee Subject to another that now was most eminent in her selfe To have the Regent was all her ambitious desire and nothing did let but Viennas right To frustrate which shee with fulnesse of Gold and promises of preferment had as aforesayd seduced this mettle-minded Servant to deceive and to destroy her by such subtile and obscure meanes as both gave least shew of mistrust and most likelihood of execution And this it was Don Poltron for so was hee rightly named bringing Viennas mornings repast to her with a bemoaning tongue and a sighing heart complained much against Nature and enveyed more against Fortune that had made beauty so miserable and Vertue so unhappie as to entombe the glory of the one and the effecacie of the other in so unprofitable and so uncomfortable a place My eyes sayd hee cannot indure to see Dignity so disgraced nor can my Eares entertaine the killing sound of your laments I must and will leave my wounding Service that at longth I may bee a Stranger to sorrow least my griefe for your griefe make my revived woes as great as your griefe Vienna liking his generous nature iudged by his discreete and relenting discourse that he was well bred and pleasing wittie and therefore required him to tell what was his Name and where he was borne Who answered Don Poltron am I called and in Spaine was my birth my education was better then my fortune and this my servile Place beares now record of my sinister fate Why sayd Vienna if thou be infortunate keepe still thy station here is a place of woe and thou hast a Princesse to associate thee in thy sorrowes Hast thou cause to bewaile thy mishaps Let us know thy crosses and we will ease thee with our griefe For it is a comfort to find a Companion in misery Then say Poltron for thy Nature agrees better with us then thy Name and story to vs the life of thy Fortune that we may also recreate our minde by listening to thy griefes Poltron having pleased her with this sugered Bayte cast out his hidden Hooke and tolde her that he was a rith Merchants Sonne in Spaine left so well Treasured that he swayed the world at will vntill emperious Love made him of a free Lord a Bond-slave to Melleflora Vnto her sayd he I sued long for obtayned grace which had I held my selfe more fortunately happy then Paris did in the fruition of his Love Paris sayd Vienna what Paris Paris said he of Troy that enioyed the Beauty of Greece and made his Pleasure a Plague to his Countrey But in the height of my ioyes and hope of highest happinesse Death deprived me of my Paradised Blisse and not onely made my broken heart the sad habitation of woe but also turned my mind which before was a Kingdome to me into a Hell of tormenting thoughts The place of my Birth grew by her losse so hatefull to me that I was necessitated to forgoe the ground that yeelded me no other harvest but griefe In briefe for better portage I turned all my Substance into Iewels of estimate and travelled to Naples where I spent more of my Wealth then I did of my woes Then Repentance made me leave that wastfull Nation and so I came unfortunately into France Thus he drew on her attention with a faigned tale that he might without all suspition and with better gaine of beliefe give more fewell to her desire for his further betraying discourse And to blinde all iealous thoughts he purposely seemed by his abrupt end to be unwilling to proceed further But Vienna whose crossed affection delighted to heare of semblable fortunes would needs know what other mishaps wayted on his lost love Alas Madame said Poltron the small remainder of my broken state I brought with me into France to maintaine the length of my dayes but in my passage I was set on by foure Theeves that stript me of all I had wounded me sore and would no doubt have taken my life but that by chance there came by a poore Hermite who seeing theyr violence without all dread of their number or feare of his own feeblenes cast off his peacefull Gowne drawing out a hidden sword out of his staffe he so fiercely assaulted them that in the end he slew three of them whilst the fourth run away with the prey the danger of my wounds made him then as farre to surmount himselfe in pittie as he had excelled the other in valour And in the tendernesse of his relenting minde he brought me to his Cell where on a bed of mosse he layd me and binding up my wounds with a peece of his shirt for other linnens he had none he afterwards applyed the joyce of hearbes so oft unto them that they healed and I began to grow strong With him had I continued still but that during the stay of my recovery I could not endure to see this good Chyrurgion and noble minded Hermite that had so well preserved and cherished mee sit so oft sighing and many times exclaiming against uniust rigour and vnnaturall iniustice that halfe distraught hee would often confusedly say Doth the Sea nourish a more cruell fish then the Dolphin is not Vienna the fairest Citie of the world And lived there ever a more unfortunate man then Paris Then would hee bewayle destroyed Troy and blame Love that fired Jllion and by and by curse that wretched Knight that overthrew so faire a creature and so glorious a Citie Then would he sit in a dolefull dumpe and after suddainly start up as one affrighted and accuse his offending tongue of Treachery for wronging the divine name of love since hee was so highly beloved as his meane fortune merited not the glory thereof But leaving him with my prayers both to his Cave and to his Cell after many thankes I left that woefull and worthy Hermit and came to Viennois where necessity compelled mee to seeke this service And this most vertuous Princesse is the Map of my misery and so hee seemed to end before he had
that not only canst without pride conquer thy foes but also without folly beyond nature command to owne and deerest affections If that wanton Trojan had had the like sympathie of minde and the same stable sincerity of heart as he had the likenesse and unity of thy name Troy had beene unconquered and hee had lived longer and in greater glory But let us returne to the Lord Vray Esperance who after the overthrow and ejectment of the Savomans had posting newes brought him that the masicious and imperious Daulphinis upon notice of the victory fell suddainely dead She could live no longer that had no hope to rule any longer He pride and desire of Soveraignety could neither brooke subjection nor endure controlment Besides the guilt of her owne evill proclaimed her death and the feare of loosing her life was the losse of her life Such is the nature of greatnesse that but crost in their ambitious courses they shrinke under the waight of their owne burthenous pride But her remove moved not so much the good Governour as the misse of their glorious preserver that invincible and all admirable Knight of the Daulphin that to their amazement had so oft relieved their weakned forces rescued their fainting endangered friends repuls'd their oppressing Enemies slaine most of their best Commanders daunted the whole Armie at two blowes overthrowne and killed the malignant Maligne and the proud ambitious Duke that potent Generall Then hee caused inquisition to be made throughout all his territories after him and rich rewards promised to him that could or should give knowledge of him but no one could shew what he was nor where he was onely some declared that his Beaver being broken in Battaile they sawe his face as blacke as darknesse and his eyes as bright as fire which made the Governor doubtfull whether he were a man that did more then many men or no man that could not be subdued by an hoast of men or that the all-mercifull God in favor of their distressed right had sent some of his correcting Ministers to chasten and powre vengeance on the hatefull heads of their uniust foes But the Warre being thus ended Peace called a counsell for the further establishing of tranquillity And the consideration of these bloudy iarres condemned poore Mal-Fiance to dye not onely for leaving his Lord and being unable to give account of his Soveraignes life but also for being the first cause of perturbation in the State and after of forraigne invasion The losse of so many of their lives made them all thirst after his death To hasten which they brought him the next day to the place of execution where happily the Daulphin and Sirap with his man Boufoy came by all in Pilgrims gownes as they were by agreement going to the Citie who seeing and understanding the cause of that Assembly withdrew themselves and upon short consultation they sent Boufoy to the Governour who needes would bee there to heare his latest Confession that he might learne somewhat concerning his beloved Lord. Of him did Boufoy knowing now the cause in the name of his Master the Knight of the Daulphin require that Mal-Fiance should be delivered unto him which granted hee would undertake to bring them to the Daulphin In assurance whereof he unfolding his Gowne tendered the honour of his Masters shield as a pledge for his performance which when the Lord Vray Esperance saw hee knew it by the devise thereon to bee the same that the Knight of the Daulphin carried in Battaile and therefore he joyfully tooke it and kissing it reverently sayd That that remarkable badge of his all-vertuous and most glorious worth besides the glad tydings he delivered of their gracious Lord was more then sufficient to redeeme a world of lives And therefore presenting Mal-Fiance unto him hee prayed that they might both see the Daulphin and the Daulphin Knight whom next to the Daulphin both hee and all the Viennonians did and would ever honour as their sole and onely preserving Patron And then taking his Chayne from about his necke hee gave it him saying Let this bee a witnesse of my gratefulnesse and truly tell thee with that true joy I entertaine thy welcome tydings Boufoy humbly thanked his honour and requested him that he would bee pleased to see how hee bestowed Mal-Fiance whom he brought unto the other two Pilgrims that were walking a little aside from them But when the Daulphin had discovered himselfe unto him Mal-Fiance fell downe at his feet for mercy and rising threw up his Hat into the ayre and cryed aloud the Daulphin the Daulphin God save my Lord the DAVLPHIN This unexpected and most fortunate accident made all the company at the hearing therof to showt for ioy And the good Vray Esperance hastily lighting from his Horse fell upon his knee and kissing his hand sayd Long may my Liege Lord the Daulphin live Whereat the Daulphin raysing him embraced him and told him that as his loyaltie was crowned with renowne so would he adde honour and reward to his vertues But forget not sayd hee my Lord to welcome this noble and heroicall Moore the thrice worthy Knight of the Daulphin that both hath preserved mee from death and thraldome and delivered you my Country from our oppressing foes O with what ioy and astonishment did then this loyall reioycing Lord hasten to kneele unto him For though he held him lesse then a God yet he thought he could not be but more then a man But Sirap staying him greeted him with all the demonstrations of love and reverent respect This done they mounted both the Daulphin and this magnificent Moore who needs would both ride bare-fac'd in theyr Pilgrime Gownes through the Citie Mal-Fiance waited on the Daulphins stirope and Boufoy manly carried his Masters Shield before him and after went the Lord Vray Esperance with all the rest of their retinue Now their approach was no sooner knowne in Vienna but that they knew their welcomes by their rejoycing bels stately boone-fires and triumphing hearts Hardly could they passe for presse of people still they came running to see them especially the Knight of the Daulphin whom they admired for his fame honoured for his great atchievements and lov'd for their protection Sirap seemed much to admire the French whom the French themselvs did more then admire But in viewing the whole Troupe his observing eye light by chance on his fast friend La-nova at which sight hee sighed yet thought himselfe happy in the sight Thus rode they on triumphant in themselves and honoured of all At length they came to the Palace gate where dismounting themselves the Daulphin now happy in being the Daulphin could not but shed swelling teares in tender remembrance of his too well beloved Wife But as the Generall of an Armie buries all the remembrance of his lost friend in the pride and triumph of his Conquest so did the Daulphins freedome from many perils and the artainement to his neere lost
principality extinguish all sorrow and memory of the dead Daulphinis So that wiping his eyes he turned himselfe towards Sirap and embracing him said Most worthy Knight and my dearest friend welcome to my Court to my selfe and all that is mine This Pallace my Countrey and I are all at your dispose For so in my particular obligation and by your merritorious and pleading deserts am I bound unto you And longer may not I enioy what I now possesse then you shall finde my promises full laden with rich performance And be further assured that as I onely live through your love and raigne altogether by your valour so will I ever owe you fealty for my life and still doe you homage for my Crowne Sirap understanding thus much by Boufoy returned him humble thankes for his so gratefull and high esteeme both of himselfe and his poore endeavours with protestation that he neither wish'd nor expected so great and undeseruing guerdons but still held himselfe most indebted vnto his owne desires to doe him all further possible service This interchange of kindnesses gave contentment to them both and was most pleasing to the Daulphin who yet fed so on his fresh feeling happinesse that he gave in charge that all his Subiects should honour Sirap as himselfe and hold his will as the will of their Lord For so he said is your Lords will that next to the Lord of hoasts holds his life and living of him Then told he them how and with what hazard of his life hee had redeemed him from most base bondage and cruell death How he had left many heathen honours to honour him then greatly dishonoured and how he had protected him at Sea from danger of Pirats and lastly established him in his regalty in despight of his foes And therefore many and sundry were the Triumphs that now were ordained for him but more then many were the severall thoughts that afflicted his doubtfull minde Vienna he thought had cause to condemne him since affection ever thinkes all times of stay too long that hangs on desert La-nova he knew would rebuke him for violating the sacred lawes of friendship in his concealement And his reverend Father might well question his breach of love and duty that so refused to shew himselfe a sonne One while was he ready to embrace La-nova another time to runne to Vienna and by and by hee was ready prest to fall on his knees to Sir Jaques Now did hee pitty distressed Vienna who in all these alterations was neither moved nor removed Then did he feare her liberty since her Father had no feeling of her calamity Thus dubiously perplexed in minde hee sadly sate unregarding regarding the continuing and maintained Iustes untill the Daulphin iudging of his stormy thoughts by his clowded countenance thus awaked him by his Interpreter What think'st said hee my best worthy friend of our French Knights and how stands our Court sports with your liking Sirap whose Martiall minde was now mollified with milder and calmer thoughts by his man thus answered As Knights of good regard I regard your Knights and as noble befitting sports I commend your heroicall pastimes All doth well and well doth it stand with your Highnesse that hath Knights that can doe so well But the Iustes being ended the Daulphin that had read his discontentment in the deepe characters of his face for the countenance oft shewes the affects and passions of the heart tooke him by the hand and privatly led him into a faire tapistred gallery hanged with most artificiall pictures of greatest Monarches where he thus againe assaved to finde the cause of his disturbance Let not said hee any doubt dismay mylives preserver nor let any remembrance of your last and lost honours worke in you any repenting humor since Viennaes Daulphin is both willing and ready both to accomplish your demand and to honour you with all dignities What pleaseth Sirap pleaseth the Daulphin and nothing shall content the Daulphin but what shall well like Sirap Then aske my Lord and bee Lord of your asking Sirap thus kindly entreated and encouraged lowly humbled himselfe and by Boufoy thus replyed Know most renowned and thrice worthy Prince that doubtfull suspition harbours not in noble hearts Nor think I once of honours change Your covenanted promise exiles that doubt and the effect of my request is the honour that best will please my minde Then let me shew and shewing crave both what troubleth your servant and what he now in all humility demands for his conditioned gift Not affecting honours the worlds fading glory nor coveting riches mans pleasing evill but seeking contentment in loves felicity I aske claime and require your daughter my Lord for my wife and a wife for my reward The renowne of her attractive vertues and the vertue of her moving perfections hath by report so captivated my freest thoughts since my comming to Viennois that wondring at her Fame I am wounded with Fancy and my desire is to see and applaude her excellencies Then let it not seeme strange unto you that unseene perfections have thus wrought unknowne passions since the eare is as well subiect to conceit as the eye is pliant to affection The Daulphin whose unnaturall impenitrable heart felt no longer remorce of her endured misery then whilst hee was himselfe in misery and who was no sooner free but that hee freed his remorced thoughts from all thought of remorce In so much that looking neither after her imprisonment nor his owne posterity hee in his euer over awfulnesse shewed himselse now rather an unrelenting Tyrant then a chastising Father But now thus utged by Sirap whose warranted demand and high deserts might well challenge an absolute grant hee herein still discontented thus contented Sirap Nothing I see right noble valiant and most merritorious Moore seemeth worse to love then to preferâ—e any thing before it selfe For cloath Desire in plates of burnish'd gold and Desire will shiver all for colde and fill affections purse with treasure and fancy wanting contentment will starve for hunger so that nothing can satisfie Love but love Your deserts might well have challenged my Principality for your due my dignities for your right and all my treasure for your owne But all these I see suffice not because they satisfie not And to aske you why is to aske one halfe pyned why he is hungry You loue my Lord you loue but whom my daughter yea that is my griefe Not that you loue her vnworthy your loue but that I cannot giue you her more then worthy her For such I sweare by the eternall and my all-preseruing God hath beene and yet is the vndutifull and most obstinate will of my too disobedient and degenerate daughter that neuer yet nor yet euer could I or shall I I feare perswade intreate or enforce her to consent to any in royall ranke worth or majestie suitable to her selfe For many times many powerfull Princes that sued for her fauour shee hath both carelesly
disrespected and scornefully refused And as many times many times hath she therein my will disobeyed and contemned Not regarding her renowne shining in their glory Nor respecting my contentment nor progenie eclipsed both in her neglect of me and in her affoorded favour to her farre inferiours which caused me in iustice to punish her hateful disobedience with imprisonment yet in nature to bewaile her imprisonment though enforced by Iustice Where I left her there so you please may you finde her a prisoner to her will that will not yet submit her selfe to my will and therefore by my will worthily chastised without offence to Nature For where Nature offendeth law there law may iustly be executed on Nature Assay her most worthy of all worth and put in ballance your fortune with your fancy and if your hap may drowne her favour you shall redouble the small remainder of my aged dayes and well satisfie the iustice of my displeasure with the honour of your desired affinity All my right is yours your demand my consent and my consent a full Fathers graunt Sirap acknowledging this his so great bounty gave him more thankes then if he had presently intituled and invested him in the Principality of Viennois Yet sayd he it seemes not ouer-strange to me nor should it bee so offensive to your Highnesse that one so enriched by Nature so admired for Vertue and so endowed by Fortune should herein against all nature so resist the law of nature since Fancie is altogether guided by Destiny and Love is neither subiect to duty nor reason Then seeing that Love yeeldeth neither reason of choise nor change I will leave to reason further of it and aduenture once to cary up a dish to Venus table that never yet served in her Court The Daulphin glad that his demaund was of no greater consequence secretly smiled at his simplicity that neglecting Honours highest advancements onely contented himselfe with the naked hope of most impossible favours But Sir Sirap being more assured then the Daulphin did assure himselfe rested thankfully contented with the same And the next morning in the pride of his secret ioy hee went unto the Castle where having the Daulphins signet for his warrant hee called for Vienna who fearing some suddaine stratagem for all her hope of welfare was dead fearefully came to the dore to know the end of her punishment But when Sirap sawe the alteration that vertuous Constancie had wrought in her imprisonment griefe so attach'd him that hee was more mortified at the sight then he was Moorefied in sight yet after some secret digested sighes he cheared up his ingreeved spirit with the ioy hee had to see her and thus by his interpreter he saluted her Our Gods of all happinesse make faire Vienna happy in her desires and more fortunate in her life The same Vienna Vienna said yeelds you hearty thankes and prayes that the like content may countervaile your wel wishing Then shall said he my love be made immortall in your liberty and your liberty be purchased by my love Vienna abash'd at his reply replyed againe that griefe had no harbour for love nor loue any acquaintance with distressed Vienna A noble cause said Sirap may yet helpe to heale a grievous case Then leave these for lorne walls and let not your will make you a prisoner that may live in my love a Princesse For know Madam that your father being a prisoner in Babylon and allotted there to most base and cruell death I though by kinde an unpassionate Moore yet much more then any Moore pittying the wiseries of others had such compassion on your Fathers distresse that growing carelesse of my estate being there then entertained with greatest state I aduentured with great adventure to acquit him from shamefull bondage and more cruell death Conditionally that vpon my arrivall with him in this Countrey he should graunt me without all exception one gift that then I should require which he then ratified by oath in sight of his God and now hath confirmed it hy will in the presence of his people Now Madame hearing the well worthy renowne of your renowned beauty though being by Nature fierce yet subiect to affection I could not but in that frailty yeeld to humane condition And therefore prizing my content before a Crowne I required your Ladiship for my Wife which your Father by oath hath graunted which you in duty should yeeld unto and which I in love if love can merit such happinesse doe deserve and yet most humbly doe request Vienna thus moved remooved thus his flattering and aspiting hope If said shee my Father enioy a second life by your conditionall adventure you may Presse him to the performance so farre as it it is in his power to accomplish more you cannot aske lesse hee will not performe But know Sir Knight that love knowes no such paternall law that yet was never subiect to any law The Father hath but a consent not the choyse in the daughters affections his free thoughts have no feeling of her conceit and his mettle minde and corrupted humours are oft unpleasing to his childes fancie Neither stands it with any reason that he that cannot govern his owne passions should command others affections Then must you of necessity excuse his impossibility and admit onely of his willingnesse that can give nought but consent for his larges Yet Madame by your favour said Sirap stands the daughter bound for her Fathers good and the guerdon is but ungratefull that is required in contempt True said Vienna but every good must not bee rewarded with the best lest the best want fit requitall for due desert Let it then suffice that with thankes I acknowledge your great good and in any other thing will be ready to pleasure you Onely in this pardon me my Lord for in loves infirmities I have no affinity A troubled soule onely in teares her comfort seekes It is a heavy comfort said Sirap that in mourning stands yet said she doth the custome of sorrow lessen the griefe and it is some comfort to bee voyde of all comfort Dispaire said Sirap is mother to death and death no fit compannion for beauty My beauty said shee poore as it is hath already beene my bane and made me most unfortunate in my most fortunatnesse Why Madame quoth he hath your Grace beene deceiued So said she say they that tolde me so But truth hee replyed stands not on the tongues of men True shee said and that is the cause why we are deceived by men you mistake me much said Sirap Nay said shee not mistaken but overtaken you in the truth and so shee bad him farewell leaving him tormented in minde in that hee gest by her last words that some one to advantage himselfe or in malice to him had wronged him in words Yet could hee not but smile to thinke how his conceit was her deceit But leaving her whom hee meant not so to leave but to re-assay her againe he returned
to the Daulphin and told him of his haplesse successe Who smothering his inward ioy made such shewe of discontentment that the angry ocean swelled not as he seem'd to storme But Sirap neither waying his anger nor her answere all smiling said that once more he would with Ixion assay to embrace Juno and see whether in shuffling againe of the Cardes Fortune would deale him a better game For he would owe her himselfe and try whether in his owne language he could weane and win her to his will which mooved great laughter and ministred further occasion of pleasant talke Thus they passed for the rest of the day vntill supper which ended Sirap giving them the good night went to his Chamber where calling to minde Viennas words which in his suppose argued to report of his disloyalty which grieved him much that her griefe would be redoubled by his never intended falsity and that hee should be so wronged by unwronged and unknowne men But after he had a little fed his sad humour with his deceiving conceit hee determined darkly that darke night to shew his conceit thereon and to remoue that vaile of misdeeme that so shadowed the assurance of his faithfulnesse And therefore furnishing himselfe with a well tuned Lute in the dead of night hee went alone to the Castle where close shrowding himselfe under her window he sweetly sounding thus chaunted out this irefull song SLeepe not Revenge Revenge awake awake you irefull spirits all All are too fewe too fewe you are to plague those tongues that swim in gall Then wake Revenge Revenge awake And blast those tongues that discord make Sleepe not Revenge Revenge awake Envie my Love from Love exhorts Report hath wrong'd true Troylus name and false furmise in slaunder sports Then wake Revenge Revenge awake And cut those tongues for Plutoes sake Sleepe not Revenge Revenge awake Vertue hath lost her constant minde Love lyeth sicke in her deceite Fancie is subiect to the winde And all through hare of spightfull tongues Then wake Revenge revenge these wrongs Awake Revenge for shame awake Suspect hath rob'd content of ioy Malice hath slaine deserved trust and light beliefe hath bred annoy Then wake J say Revenge awake And now O now revengement take Revengement take take this Revenge Let banefull blasters rot their tongue Poyson their breath and make them dumbe and let them live in dying long So shall Revenge a God be knowne When thus Revenge revenge hath showne Vienna hearing this iarring Citty wondered what hee should bee or what he should meane by this his wrathfull song At last she supposed it was La-nova that in Paris behalfe thus excused his long silence and absence so condemned by her but neither discrying him nor receiving any answer from him wee then imagined that hee was some other that caried away with griefe wrong had amongst other dolefull places there eased himselfe of his woefull burthen by breathing out his secret and oppressing sorrowes For it is some comfort to the grieved to finde either a companion in griefe or a sad befitting wretched place to lament and manifest his griefe But greatly disallowing his uncharitable minde she all sighing said Cease grieved soule my soule grieves at like wrongs Yet leave revenge to him revenge belongs Sirap perceiving that his Song rather renewed then relinquished her of her causelesse griefe perswading himselfe that her step-mother both in envie of her glory and in disdaine of him had at the first so hardened the heart of her Father that hee now altogether forgot in continuing his rigour that he was a Father He thought good to warble out a more pleasing note and to lull her a sleepe with more comfortable Musick And therfore turning his voyce he chearefully recorded this liking Ditty SLeepe sleepe O sleepe sweete Lady sleepe cloud not your beauty with blacke care Cares doe consume griefe hath no grace your Graces griefe weares beauty bare Then sleepe O sleepe sweete Lady sleepe Let me ah me your sorrowes keepe Sigh not at all all is in vaine In vaine are sighes fighes doe confound Times haue their turnes turne then your teares your woe with woe my heart doth wound Then sleepe O sleepe sweete Lady sleepe Your Slaue alone for you will weepe O cruell Dame Loues second choise O choise the change of Natures loue O Loue forlorne slaue vnto time O Time corrupt Vertues remoue Why trouble you her quiet sleepe Since J for her doe daily weepe Sleepe sleepe O sleepe faire Lady sleepe your sorrowes haue all sorrowes spent Hope doubt hath slaine dead is dispaire and Loue will crowne you with content Then sleepe O sleepe sweete Lady sleepe No cause there is why you should weepe Why you should weepe Why you should weepe No cause there is why you should weepe Vienna pleased with the tune amazed at the voyce but more then ravished with the words hastily put her head out of the windowe and said What so ever thou art take thankes of a distressed Lady and Heaven comfort thee as thou hast J know not how recomforted me And so turning her selfe to Jzabella she ask'd whether she had ever heard that voyce before who replying sayd That if her memory failed her not it was the same or much like if not the same that they heard in first in Court under her Chamber windowe Ah Izabella sayd Vienna thou harpest too well to be so well Yet if my minde divine aright God graunt it may devine I shall heare some tydings of my Paris so perswades my heart so graunt our God But say Izabella say what shall poore Vienna say to this moralized Moore whose civill condition maiesticall presence and sugred tongue differs so much from his rude and barbarous Nation Is not his blacke hue full of sweet favour and his favour sufficient to command beauties proudest favour Now trust me Izabella the gentle Moore more and more would gaine interest in my affection but the more I thinke he is a Moore the more for my Paris sake I scorne to love the Moore And therefore resolved to live to none but Paris though Paris hath forgotten Vienna how shall I non-sute his importunity whose proud hope promiseth love and whose love is warranted by my Fathers oath Jzabella most carefully to acquit her of that care though it was the least care of her care told her that her old putrified pollicie would easily prevent that mischiefe and therefore having a readie Capon in the Castle they presently dismembring the body tooke the two legges and binding them under her arme holes where the heate of her body might soonest corrupt them shee preparedly expected his comming the next day When Sirap clad in his richest array strangely fashioned came accompanyed with many that of purpose being made acquainted with his intention came to recreate themselves with his so supposed unusuall courting For hee being as they thought not to be understood by his tongue nor to be satisfied by his eare They vainely imagined that