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A18329	The deligtful [sic] history of Celestina the faire. Daughter to the king of Thessalie Shewing how she was inchaunted by the three fairies: with the strange aduentures, trauels, chiualries, tournies, combats, victories, and loues of diuers wandring princes and knights errant, but especially of Sir Marcomyr of Tharsus, who did conquest hir by the sword, and enioied her afterwards in mariage, with the Thessalian kingdome for hir dowrie, and his perpetuall inheritance. Done out of French into English.; Primaleon (Romance). English. Selections.	Barley, William, d. 1614.	1596 (1596)	STC 4910; ESTC S122496	168,531	252

thée and to passe the bridge if it be in my power with that word he tooke him such a rap with his sword that he started the fire from his eies vnder his helmet but the knight was quit with him presently for he payd Belcarin two for one so well set on with his club wherewith he fought that he taught him the way where he might goe fet the like ●s often as he would Neuerthelesse by his dexterity and skil in managing his armes hée did beat by afterwards almost all the rest of his blowes and did reach his enemie some sound knocks very often In this maner continued they about thrée houres hacking and hewing one another till Lipes who commended Belcarin greatly and muc● more then he did before spake aloud a word of courage that hée had neuer in his life séene knight who quitted himselfe so well kéeping his weapons in his hand These words did so animate and prouoke the courage of Belcarin that perceiuing the knight of the bridge somewhat wearie he would haue done that which he heard say Linedes did but the guard which stood a little on the left hand lent him such a villanous polte which hit him on the shoulder that Belcarin was faine to kisse the ground with one knée Then did the dwarfe sound his horne so swéetely that al Those which heard it were verie ioyfull and pleased except the Prince who felt a great ●ea●e and a●●king in his heart neuerthelesse as a man not●ing but heart and valour he dissembled it The knight th●n r●sto●●d to his former force by the sound of the horne 〈◊〉 the assault more ●uriouslie than hée did at first in the which Belcarin behaued himselfe alwayes so brauely that he helde him shrewde tugge and one thing comforted him aboue all other it was that none of all the blowes that his enemie lighted vpon him had giuen him a bléeding wound but did onlie bruise the flesh vnder his armour and therefore could hée fight verie well at his ease Thrise blewe the watch which was aboue at the sentinell his horne to fortifie his champion to the battell which continued so long that in the end Belcarin felt himselfe a little wearied by reason he had not rested himselfe all that day Neuerthelesse hée imagined with himselfe that shewing no other valour then that which he vsed in this skirmish in vaine had hée taken so great paine to come thither which hée would haue counted a great shame if the Emperour had béene aduertised thereof Being in this imagination his stomacke began to encrease in him maruellously wherefore he gathered néere his enemie thinking to lay him along on the ground but the knight of the bridge was too warie for him to be taken at that disaduauntage for stepping a little aside he deliuered him so sound a blowe on his crest that he cleft it in two péeces When Belcarin saw himselfe in this daunger hée threw with a mightie violence the two péeces at his aduersarie and by great chaunce hit him so full ouer the shinnes that the knight fell backeward and turned round twice or thrice in the place Then the Prince séeing that hee might easilie get the bridge without resistance of any ranne verie swi●tlie to the middest Turret the gates whereof closed at the instant with so great impetuositie that hee sell from his height downe to the ground all amazed and without any féeling at all Now L●pe● who was verie glad to sée him runne along the bridge chaunged his ioy into sadnesse when he perceyued him halfe dead neuerthelesse lifting him vp betwéene his armes with the helpe of his two Squires carried him presently vpon his bed where disarming him straight and sprinckling Uinegar and cold water on his face they vsed so good remedies that he came quickly to himselfe againe But he had no sooner recouered his spirits when he began to lament in straunge manner as well for his misfortune and disgrace as for the murthering blowes which his enemie had giuen him whereof bore witnesse his armour thrust thorow and pierced in manie places While he thus complained and lamented so grieuously Lipes begun in most courteous manner to comfort him againe Sir quoth he bée of good cheare take a good heart to passe ouer and let slip this anguish of minde assuring your selfe without doubt that it is more than eight yéeres since euer Knight came into this Isle onelie Linedes excepted who hath woonne so great honour as you haue done now so that you haue farre greater cause to reioyce than to complaine as you doe Alas my brother answered Belcarin a sorrowfull man may I be who haue not atchiued my purpose pretended but séeing I sée none other remedie I must take in patience the disaster that hath so shamefully put me to this foyle For of things so diuelishly enchaunted neuer succéedeth any good Accursed be the Fairies with all their infernall charmes and sorceries which make poore wandering Knights suffer so many mischiefs and diseases for their pleasures CHAP. IIII. How Belcarin resolued to fight with all those who came to make assay in the aduenture of Celestina and how amongst others he made front against the marques of Trosse whom he ouercame and afterward against Tiraquel to whom he discouered himselfe LIpes tooke great paines to cause the knight Belcarin to be attended with all diligence whilest he kept his bed who in y e meane time was proiecting a thousand new fantasticall discourses in his mind Sometimes imagining with him selfe that hauing not effected this aduenture he must performe so rare and admirable matters of chiualrie therby to amend and couer this shame For this cause he purposed to make stay long time in this place to combat all those who should come thither to make their trials in the aduenture with resolutiō that the braue feats of arms which he should exploit there wheresoeuer else he should employ himselfe abrode should be for loue of Alderine the duke of Pontus daughter whō from that time forward he purposed to loue aboue all other in the world and if peraduenture he were vanquished by any knight he determined to go incōtinent vnto king Florendos court This desseigne discouered he to Lipes who maruelled much thereat and told him that this was no small thing that he did vndertake because there were woont continually to arriue good knights from all parts neuertheles knowing him before verie resolute in his deliberations he procéeded with him in this sort Séeing you are fully resolued thus to doe I will not forsake you but to sée your prowesse and great chiualrie which I am most certaine resteth vnder the dexteritie of your person I offer my self frankely to do you seruice with my loyall companie Commanded moreouer incōtinent for their greater expeditiō that they should bring him frō his house horses and arme● ●s well offensiue as defensiue brieflie all manner 〈…〉 which were necessarie for so long a time of 〈…〉 as they hoped to spend in this

to me the extreame desire he hath to present to you his seruice so that vpon this hope I haue willingly brought him in here estéeming it a thing of very rare and great consequence the purchasing of such a personage to augment so much the more the forces of your guard Hée is then quoth the father very welcome hether in recompence of his good will he shal haue the best cheare we may prouide for him For all that his purpose was otherwise because the more his daughter commended them the more angry was he to see them within the castle their very presence striking into him a feare and suspition neuertheles to dissemble it and not to let them perceiue therof he procéeded thus with a pleasant countenance daughter goe you in to salute your mother in the meane time these knights well disarme them This he spake meaning to cause their armes to be lockt vp and kept safe from them till they were out of the castell But Marcomyr who heard those spéeches doubting some such euent cared not much to talke with him any further but went strait away with the page of Leifida who brought him vp into a very faire chamber where in stéed of disarming themselues they caused their squiers who carried their armes alwaies after them to lace their helmets quickly then betaking them to their shields with vnconquerable courage they salied out hauing their naked swords ready drawn in their hands Which the yong man séeing was more amased then if at the same instant he had lost his forme by some new metamorphosis began to crie out in strange maner O detestable and vile act of disloialtie running downe amaine to aduertise the gard wherein he was soone preuented for Marcomyr knowing he might not delay his enterprise any longer made spéedily down into the court where he saw the captain blaming and rebuking the porters for letting him in who made their excuse vpon Leifida that brought him in with her And perceiuing him to make furiously against him he cried alarme O my loiall and faithfull knights take armes slay me these vilaines who are come to betray vs in this rash manner then the prince hauing instructed Ozalias before to win the wicket and kéepe it against all those that would come in to succour or goe forth to flie remembring his lady Celestina that he must either die in the place or deliuer the king her father out of prison began to strike without pity those of the gard the captaine séeing his honor and life reduced to so pitiful an exigent laid suddainly hold on a p●leax which by chance he found at hand wherewith he went to giue Marcomyr such a knock vpon his morion that had not the creast thereof ben tempered with fine steele he had seperated his soule from his bodie This constrained the knight who would not haue stroke him otherwise for the loue of his daughter to strike againe so that he gaue the old man such an ataint with a blow returned to his head that he cleft his skull downe to his iawes giuing the like entertainment to thrée or foure other knights who let driue at him thinking to massacker him quickly but in a small space he made so cruell a slaughter of al those which came to encounter him that the most hardie and valiant remained in the place either dead or dangerously wounded And if peraduenture any coward made to the gate thinking to get out that waies to saue himselfe by flight he fell into Ozalias hands who shewed them but small courtesie so that in this skirmish there remained not one man of the castle aliue except the page which was master of the ship that brought the two cousins into this good hauen who ran imediatly to his mistres Leifida telling her thus Madame we are all traiterously betraied by the false and inhumane knight whom we haue brought in hether Therefore I know my selfe worthy of a thousand deaths if I might haue so many one after another for I was the cause that my lord your father and all his guard are put to the edge of the sword When the Damsell and her mother heard these piteous tidings they ranne forth almost out of their wits not knowing what to do séeing this horrible discomfiture they begā to wring their hands and poure forth the most pitifull complaints that euer any liuing person heard Leifida who accused her selfe of all this blame fell downe halfe dead vpon her fathers corpes vttering a spéech in this sence Alas deare father pardon me who am the only cause of your death which séeing I haue aduanced innocently thorow the ●ained and cautelous circumuention of a Tyrant I will presently end my daies and to accomplish better the expiation and ceremonie of your obsequies and funerall pomps I will let this transitory life fréely offer vp my soule vnto the gods to accompany yours before their throne Pronouncing these words with a spent voice by reason of the continuall sighes which from her breast followed one another so thicke she would haue moued the most pitilesse and diamantine heart to compassion Marcomyr who reposed himselfe at the foot of a piller went directly to her where she made this mone who perceiuing him come ran vpon him as a lionnesse enraged when her whelpes are taken from her crying out amaine Ha cruell and fellonious knight séeing thou hast slaine my father all his guard and people why doest thou not make an end of me also How long wilt thou linger before thou send my woefull soule out of this languishing passion which it endureth in this my dying bodie Tell me Barbarian what moued thée to render this sorrowfull recompence for the extreame loue I bare thée now conuerted into all deadly hatred and more then mortall malice How durst thou deceiue a poore maiden thus trecherously considering the great familiarity into which I so soone admitted thée at the first sight Ha dissembler that hast thus surprised me through the false apparence of thy faire and sugred words saying thou wert a king a prince a great siegnior I thinke it wel but of théeues and murderers who camst hether but to pillage the treasure in this place O foolish more then miserable girle to credit so lightly thy cogging and deceitfull persuasion whose issue is but too tragicall and full of calamity Surely if all those who knew me euer haue reputed me a sage and an obedient daughter now they shall from henceforth account me for the most disloiall and wickeddest maiden that liues hauing thus wrought the death of mine owne father And although it be against my will shall I for that cease to exclaim of the inconstancie of fortune which by the only report of I know not what cloked and friuolous ostentation hath so easily chaunged my heart What will you my lord the great Turke say when you shall vnderstand the tidings of this massaker which hath ben so cautelously wrought to steale hence your treasor Alas why

to set some good and happie end with the helpe of him whom I pray to send vs so good successe that we be not therein made frustrate of our attempt In good faith quoth Diocles turning himselfe towards the French prince I haue great cause to complaine of you Arnedes who haue hid your self so long time from me for although you had resolued in comming hether not to discouer your selfe to any person me thinketh you should not comprise me in the vniuersal number considering the familiar acquaintance betwéene vs two albeit I was ignorant of the splendor and nobilitie of your heroicall race My good lord replied Arnedes embracing him I pray you excuse me herein for so much as that which hath brought me hether so farre distant from the French court to do some exploites of armes which might honor my linage before it were by me manifested hath incited nay rather constrained me to conceale my selfe the more considering I could not surge at the port of my desire not employing my selfe in that which did not still redound rather to my dishonor then commendation Assuredly quoth Dio●les then if by your laudable and valerous feats of arms you desire to publish your name it séemeth to me that the very day of the Iousts you should not haue deferred to giue so faire a lustre declaring your roiall descent to the prowesse and incomparable valor you shewed there There Arnedes interrupted him said Ah? My lord it is of your grace that it pleaseth you to place me in the number of those who did there well their endeuors although I déeme not my self worthie to second the least of the great troupe which was present there neuerthelesse if good will not to suffer an illustrious and generous heart to abase it selfe hath sometime power to encrease a mans forces I thinke my selfe was none of the féeblest in all the companie No indéed answered Diocles but of the strongest as euery one knoweth witnesse the honor of the victorie which serued you then in stéed of a triumphant crowne but I pray you let vs sur●ease these things to an other time and we wil go find the Emperor who shall be a most ioifull man of these tidings Then they mounted on horsebacke with the Embassadors who came all to alight before the pallace where there was good lodging appointed them by command of the Emperor and in the meane time Pinedes gaue the prince Arnedes to vnderstand how he past thorow Fraunce ● thinking to find Recindos there to whom he came to bring the newes of his brothers death and how all the Barons and the common people of Castilia did most willingly accept him for their liege soueraign after the decease of the king his father Of this newes was the Frenchman very glad on the one side séeing his cousin Recindos whom he loued as himselfe inheritor of the scepter of Castilia but very sorrie because he heard no newes of him Neuerthelesse assuring Arnedes that he did hope shortly for his returne put him out of fantasie of going any further to séeke for him for that quoth he very hardly will he faile to bée at the tourney held at my mariage the which I haue purposed to publishe thorowout all the marches and frontiers bounding this empire of Gréece But the Emperor who had knowledge before of some that made hast before him to the court concerning the busines of prince Arnedes when he saw him enter into the presence with his son Diocles he rose vp from his state to embrace him saying What meanes this siegnior Arnedes you would so cunningly dissemble your state with vs we could neuer perceiue your cariage therein procuring vs thereby to commit a great discourtesie in not honoring you according to your merit Tel me I pray you wherfore did you conceale your self to me very wel knowing how happie I should haue déemed my selfe to know you without any fiction of your person Gratious lord replied Arnedes I beséech you in all humility not to vse these spéeches vnto me for I acknowledge not my selfe worthie thereof and lesse of the honor which I haue receiued in your countries assuredly farre surmounting that little which I know I haue merited assuring you my spirit had neuer taken rest before I had come to see the magnificence of your court to doe you my best seruice according to my power which is but small Small indéed in respect of the good will which surpasseth that of the best affectionate seruants which you haue in whose number I beséech you to account me the very first as him who by deuotion and sinceritie of heart none liuing can goe before in this behalfe Wherein I find my selfe greatly disfauored of the heauen ●or none occasion hath as yet ben offered to shew it you in that sort as I haue liuely imprinted it in my thoughts It sufficeth then quoth the Emperor againe of that which you haue done alreadie being proofe of a truth very sufficient to raise you to this reputation of one of the best and most perfect knights of this our age and as for me if I be not shent for this fauor considering the amitie I beare you I shall be alwaies the formost in this opinion wherein I do not thinke my selfe much ouerséene as I should repute my self very happy to purchase you for my son in law when you would giue therevnto your consent Arnedes who saw the passage opened by which he hoped to conduct his soule into rest and by none other but by him who had the true key thereof felt himselfe almost rauished with ioy whentaking the Emperor by the hand to kisse it in signe of thanks went on thus wel may I now vaunt my selfe to attaine the perfect fruition of al worldly blisse séeing I am by you offered so honorable alliance for which I cannot returne you so many thankes to acquite my self therby of the obligation wherin I am yours bounden but I shall find my selfe still more and more beholding to you in a new bond which shall bind me in performing this kindnes Neuertheles if the extreame affection I haue to continue for euer your obedient seruant and humble sonne if it séeme good vnto you may by any meane serue you in stéed of an earnest I beséech you accept it such as I can present you to the end hereafter you may vse me as your right hand and as your left as readily as your two eies at the only thought of your spirit For euen as the thunder crack following the lightening which goeth before it striketh more suddainely then any thing els his blow where he hitteth far more prompt shal I be at the only coniectures which I shall gather of your desires to satisfie you therin without attending to be commanded therevnto The Emperor meruellous ioifull to heare him profer these honest speeches knew very well with what arrow he was wounded and that which moued him to come and seeke in his court the balme and perfect cure

enterprice But so soone as Belcarin could endure the trauaile of armes he sailed not to endosse them to be in a readinesse if per●duēture any thing chanced in the mean time so it fel out that the Marques of Trosse who came then to make his assay in th●t adu●nture arriued there the same day He was a braue and a hardie m●n at Armes and albeit hée parted from his countries wel accompanied with knights pages and gentlem●n he had neuerthelesse caused them to stay behind short of this place and towards him he marched with one onely squire who bore his launce When Belcarin saw him come so couragiously directly to the bridge he mounted incontinent on horsebacke then drew néere him saying Gentleman this way can you not passe before you Iust with me because I haue established this for a law that no knight shal haue battle with him on the bridge who hath not first ouercome me for a fewe dayes past my strength hauing failed me in the assay of this aduenture I will that no other shall accomplish it if he cannot preuaile against me This your rashnes séemeth to me verie great replied the Marques seeing you enterprise to carrie a burthen of such weight but I beléeue you doe it to depart hence more ashamed and dishonoured 〈◊〉 you haue done heretofore Happen what shall 〈◊〉 Belcarin then with some disdaine you must passe 〈◊〉 my handes and take héede of me if you thinke good The Marques had alreadie drawne his sworde which was the cause that in the violent running of the horses they made a furious encounter and hauing both a desire to behaue themselues brauelie brake their Launces downe to their handles brushing one another with their Shéeldes and shouldring so fiercelie that the Marques fell to the ground féeling himselfe hurt a little ●ith his fall g●tteth quickly on his 〈◊〉 dr●w ●orthwith his sword with which he 〈…〉 such a blow on the ribs that he made 〈…〉 but Belcarin who was nimble l●apt 〈◊〉 the saddle and setting hand to his bl●de likewise ran vpon him in a great rage Ill for thy profit saith he learnest thou euer to vse such cowardise in combating for thou shalt receaue by and by thy deserued guerdon then charged him with two such deadly blowes vpon his helmet that before the sword was from it the bloud ran downe in the place The Marques who was actiue and couragious went alwaies eagerly to worke and defended himselfe with a wonderfull stomack neuertheles Belcarin who surpassed him in valor and actiuity fetcht him quickly so liuely about that the Marques who could not almost stand before him did but void the strokes Which his aduersary spying laid so fiercely vpon the edge of his shield that he laid him along at his féet where the miserable Marques lost all possibility and meane to defend himself for so soon as he was down Belcarin began to batter him cruelly with the pommell of his sword saying Catif yéeld thée now for vanquished and sweare vnto me thou wilt neuer séeke to meddle or make any more in this aduenture if not I send presently thy soule to the diuel In good f●ith knight answered the Marques you haue passed me so far that I warrant I shall neuer passe further in it and of fauour I beséech you to leaue me in this pittious estate in the which now I yéeld my self at your mercy Belcarin who heard him speake so gently thought he was in danger of death therfore withdrew himselfe a side a little whilst the Marques squier approched him to sée in what state he was who when he had quickly raised him on his féet bound vp his wounds with a kercheif which he tore in péeces he set him faire and softly on his horse which he took at the end of the carrier But before the Marques departed from thence he requested Belcarin very amiably to tell him who he was to the end he might know the name of his vanquisher which hee graunted him willingly H● quoth the Marques truely I haue no cause to complaine nor to bée sorrowfull for my mishap séeing it is by the hand of so valiant a knight that I see my selfe now vanquished the Marques hauing spoken these words marched towards the place where he had le●t his people from thence to a town from whence he stirred not til he had recouered his perfect cure health then to●ke his iourny directly into Macedon there recounted what had happened to him with Belcarin The king Florendos and the quéen his wife were very ioifull hearing so good report of Belcarin for they said they had a nephew so called who might very wel be the same then demanded him what arms he caried the Marques answered green As sure as God liues thē said the king it is none other but he getting a few daies since the best at the tourney departed thence secretly fearing to be discouered whereof I am very glad and con him thanke that he can doe so well for that in Prowes●e and chiualrie he séeketh to resemble king Frisol his father Great was the ioy that the nobles of the court receiued by this news but aboue al other was Alderine most ioifull because she had set her heart and all her most secret thoughts vpon him and loued him euery day more ardently then other for the great praises she heard were euery where spread abroad of his singular déeds of armes so that by the only blast of this renowne many knights departed from that court to goe trie themselues against him who being all vanquisht augmented his fame daily more and more But to return to the damsel who pursued to be reuenged of Belcarin for the death of her brethren after that she had thrée daies serued Sergin very courteously séeing him on the fourth well amended she purposed to depart his companie honestly to follow after her enemie It fell out by fortune Tiraquel son of duke Eustace who wēt to sée his companion Belcarin euery where abroad arriued the same euening in a lodging where seeing the Damsel make such pittious mone for she could very well play her part at the arriuall of any one was moued at the last with pittie and compassion to promise her his aid if she stood in néed therof and as he demaunded the cause of her lamentation and sorrow she made answere how shée hauing two brethren slaine treacherously by a disloial person wh● her father lodged one night in his Castell did put her selfe presently in pursute after him and méeting by the way a courteous knight besought him to take reuenge of the murtherer who had committed that vile act in briefe that this valiant Gentleman also had béene by him daungerously wounded which caused him so much the more to gréeue and sorrow at her fortune Full well knew she how to worke him by her enticing and sugred words so far that Tiraquel promised her once more his aid and enquiring what was become of the wounded

alreadie endure wherefore I require you againe if request I must néeds make to such an aduersarie to aduise hereafter to conserue your reputation so that I purchase no blame which may offend mine honour and you shall doe much as well for my sorrowfull consolation as for the increase of your owne praise When she had vttered these spéeches the princesse began to complaine in such strange maner that the emperour himselfe did pittie her and could not chuse but answer her thus I vnderstand very well what you say and I know better that feminine choller which now enrageth your spirit making you transgresse the limits of good manners and modestie not being ignoraunt how the puissance of princes is lesse then nothing when God doth resist and stand against them wherevpon we must make our full resolution that we cannot doe any good act but according to his will by the which I was carried as it pleased him into the Gransiegniors your vncles court and I sweare and protest before him to whome all things are knowne I will not otherwise be saued at the end of my daies if I slue him or euer thought to doe it hauing then intoo too fresh memorie the honour which a little before I receiued of him this indéed I depriued him of the damsell which he detained by force to put her againe into his hands to whome by right she appertained wherein in mine opinion I committed none offence séeing he vniustly withheld her profaning the sacred lawes of royall equitie And for that the sage and wise alwaies take in good part as well aduerse as prosperous fortune I assure my selfe madame you shall haue no more cause to be sorie hereafter when you shall vnderstand you were conquered by the most courteous and braue knight who liues at this day vnder the stars Marcomyr by name the very same who vanquished in Hellespont king Ocurites your husband O thrise accursed that I am exclaimed the damsell then whose rauisher who hath shut me in here by the means of an inexorable gut of sea caused the imprisonmēt of the king my déere husband Now should I assuredly hasten on the last hower of my life séeing that hauing him in my countrie where by a cruell and shamefull death I might haue bene reuenged of him easily I knew not hée was the rouer and pyrat who betraied my husband O Fortune how dooest thou in all things shew thy selfe too much mine enemie bringing me into such perplexity that I cannot giue my self the mortal attaint to send my soule out of this gulfe of affliction in which I féele my selfe so déepely plunged that I sée no better remedie to get out then to launch my selfe cruelly vpon the dart of the implacable A tropos Surely thou art so spightful against me that I can haue no hope by praiers to mooue thy mercie but may say iustly the heauen hath bene far better aspected towards me then thou prosperous or fauourable and so it is better I resolue to indure patiently my mishaps séeing all things crosse me so that I cannot in them find the least sparke of fauour The end of these words brought downe such aboundance of tears from Marencidaes eyes and so great number of sighs began to rise from her heauie heart that shée remained a long while resembling nothing but some mad sencelesse creature filling the aire with such lamentable cries and sobs as no humaine eare hath heard the like Therewith was Philocrista much mooued to pitie compassion carieng her suddainly into her chamber where she so laboured by all good counsails and consolations to quiet her that she diminished part of her rage and madnesse There will we leaue them togither in this paci●ication to returne to the good knight Marcomyr who disarmeth himselfe in the meane time to the end to appeare in presence before the Emperour with such pompe as his roiall excellencie did require CHAP. XXX The honest and gratious conference had betweene Marcomyr the Emperour the Empresse and D●ocles and how afterward he caused himself to be baptized to be f●anced immediatly after to his faire ladie Celestina MArcomyr being disarmed he put vpon his backe a sumptuous and rich iacket beset round about with pearles and other rare pretious stones of great inestimable valor the which he caused to be made before he departed out of the kingdom of Tarsus after the moderne and newest fashion vsed then amongst the most magnificent kings of Asia with intention to were it the first day hée came before the emperour such a splendor did this roiall vestement giue to the naturall beautie of Marcomyr that he drew all the beholders into admiration and exactly to remarke the Phisiognomie and lineature of his countenance one might haue easily iudged him to resemble much his father who engendred him but they were out of this thought so that Diocles taking him then by the hand they went and sat downe both so by the Emperour who hearing all the court to speake of nothing but of the extreame desire which they had to know of what race hée was discended began to speake vnto him in this manner Marcomyr my deare friend it behoueth you now no more to couer your selfe from me hauing your famous flourishing renowne pierced so the foure corners of this base and terrestriall region tell me then I pray you of what parents are you issued and all the rest wherevnto you may thinke our eares will be attentiue to hearken Gratious lord quoth he to you whom I hold for my liege s●egnior can I not cloake honestly any thing which you may desire to know of me for I should thinke my selfe vnworthie of your presence in dissembling vnto you the sinceritie of my heart Know ye then I am son to the Quéen of Tarsus the most affectionate handmaid and perpetual louer of your maiestie who by a strange aduenture am come f●r from the confines of my kingdome so soone as I knew who was my father whereof I was alwaies ignorant before The occasion of my comming into your court was the renowne and high praises of Celestina to whose seruice I firmely beléeue the fatall Destinies haue submitted me euer since my natiuitie for the loue of no other ladie liuing did euer get place in my spirit which hath felt an intollerable passion in knowing it self vnworthie to purchase her grace and lesse to gaine accesse and fauour in your court There made he vnto him the whole discourse of the old beldame who appeared to him sitting vpon the foot of a stone pillar in the cloisters of his palace and what she told him blaming him for the idle and delicious life he led Kéeping silent neuerthelesse how she certified him to be his sonne because he reserued that to manifest it vnto him last of all other matters if he did not sollicite him more instantly He farther procéeded how hauing till that day liued like an infidell and after the Alcoran of Mahomet he did purpose with a sincere