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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56532	The pleasant and delightful history of Floridon and Lucina illustriated [sic] with an admirable description of loves paradice : wherein you may behold, the abundant felicity, that true lovers enjoy, in the chaste imbraces of their dearest loves, and the sad effects that most commonly attends faithless and unconstant lovers : with variety of other passages never before printed nor published / by J.P.	J. P.	1663 (1663)	Wing P64; ESTC R9318	21,857	43

to your own disposing I presume more freely to crave your consent to bestow your affection upon me and I shall be ever ready to recompence so great a favour with the losse of my dearest blood whensoever you shall please to comand me to spend it in your Service I stood seemingly amazed to hear this sudain motion procéed from him though indeed it was no more then I desired so that after a little pause I return'd him this answer How comes it to passe Chrisipus that you are fallen into such extremity of passion all on a suddain I must confess I alwayes believ'd you Loved me when we were Children as a playfellow and since as an Acquaintance and Friend in which sence I have had the same Respect and Love for you not thinking it would produce any other effects then what might be dispenc't with in our usual familiarity but I must now acknowledg that I finde such an inclination in my Will as can no way be satisfied but by yielding to your Motion Therefore dear Chrisipus continue thy affection in sincerity and thou shalt alwayes finde thy Isabella willing to comply with thy desires so farr as modesty will permitt This answer of mine was no less pleasing to him then the discovery of his affection was to me so that after a short time we concluded to steal a secret Marriage which we might the better bring to passe because my Aunt was contented I should go to a friends house some ten miles distant in the Country and stay a week or fortnight for my Recreation Chrisipus would by no means have me to acquaint my Aunt with our loves for he did believe she would never give consent to our Mariage in regard he was a Gentleman but of a mean Fortune which was no hindrance at all to my affection however he thought she would not stand out after it was done and past which fell out according to his expectation for after we were privately married in the Country and that I was to return home again my Chrisipus advised me to make it known to my Aunt which I did and with Weeping Tears upon my bended Knees I desired her pardon for I did it without her knowledg because I feared she would not have given her consent The good old Gentlewoman seeing me in that posture could not refrain from weeping for she was so tender hearted and so compassionate that she did not shew me the least angry countenance but told me since the Fates had so ordered it she would not be a wanting in any thing that might procure our content and thereupon sent for Chrisipus and gave us her Blessing which was as great satisfaction to us as if she had given us the greatest Treasure that might be imagined In this delight and content we lived for the space of two years at the end of which time our joyes was eclipsed by the Death of my good Aunt who had been a continual comfort to us upon all accounts we had great cause to lament her loss although she left us the greatest part of her Estate which was the cause of all our misery afterwards as you may well perceive by this following Relation CHAP. V. Isabella continues her Relation to Floridon How Chrisipus flew her Unckles Kinsman And how they were forced to take shiping for Arcadia And how their Ship sunk when they were within sight of Shore MY Aunt at her death left a small part of her estate to a Kinsman of her Deceased Husbands but he not being contented with what she had freely given him laid claim to that which she had given to my Husband and me whereupon they fell into a course of Law which cost them a great deal of Money but at the last my Husband got the better and enjoyed the Estate though much against my Kinsmans will for he so exceedingly stomack't it that we should have it in despite of him that what he could not gain by Law he endeavoured to compass by Treachery for he hired two Villains which being Armed set upon my Husband at unawars as he was coming home one evening and dangerously wounded him and had surely slain him had not two Gentlemen come accidentally to his Rescue who presently apprehended the Villains and had them before Authority where they confessed the whole matter Not long after my Husband was recovered of his Wounds it was his fortune to meet with his Treacherus Kinsman who would willingly have shun'd him but my Husband not being able to govern his Passion call'd to him to defend himself when he see there was no remedy he stayd and both of them drew their Swords where after a long dispute my Chrisipus chanced to kill him Imediately after it was made known they laid wait to apprehend Chrisipus who fled by night to a poore womans house where he lay secure untill the search was over In the mean time they seazed on our Estate all but some Plate and Iewels which I convey'd away by two trusty Servants to the place where my husband was to whom I came the night following to know what he intended to doe he told me for his own safety to convey himself privately into Arcadia where he had an Vnkle a wealthy Knight with whom he would abide untill he might safely return into Scisily again When I understood his resolution I vow'd to accompany him and to participate of what Fortune had alotted for us When he see there was no other remedy he sent his Servant to the Sea side to provide for our passage who returned and told him that the evening following we might come to the next Bay where a Ship-master would expect us who had special business into Arcadia Night being come we truck't up what we could possible carry and with one man and a maid hasted away to the place appointed where according to our desire we found the Master attending us who willingly took us Aboard after we promised him good pay My Chrisipus being afraid to be pursued perswaded the Master to put off into the Road and there to Ride at Anchor untill it was day light which he did and then set Saile with a fair wind as could be desired we had as speedy and brave passage as we could wish for untill we were gotten within sight of the place we intended to land at when all of a sudden by what means I know not out Ship sprung a leak which in less then half an hour after it was discovered sunk her quite under Water then there was shreeking and crying and throwing out Goods to save Life but all in vain for I believe the most of the company if not all besides my self perished But as the fates would have it I happened to get upon a great Chest in hopes to prolong my life upon which Chest I was driven by the winde almost to Shore where a Fisher-man espied me and made what haste he could to help me with his Boat for I was almost quite

spent O what cause had I to rejoyce for my great deliverance and what sorrow did I endure for the loss of my dear Chrisipus now was I left in a strange Country destitute of friends or any assistance but only this poore Fisherman who took me to his cottage where I used the best means I could to dry my cloaths and to recover my faint and overwearied Spirits I bountifully rewarded him for his kindness and agreed with him to conduct me to the next town where I intended to use some means to finde out my Husbands Vnckle Who I did suppose might live thereabouts the poore man was very willing and lead me the safest way he could untill we came near this wood where unfortunately we met this Captain and his followers who took me and brought me by force to this Cave where I have remained almost half a year in this condition as you now finde me By that time Isabella had made an end of her story she heard the Captain and the rest of them enter the Cave so that she was glad to retire into another roome and to leave distressed Floridon admiring at her pittiful relation and casting in his minde what the event of his imprisonment would come to But the frequent going abroad of these Robbers might give Isabella another opportunity to discover her intentions to Languishing Floridon whom we must leave for a small time and return to see what became of his dear Lucina after his departure CHAP. VI. How Lucina lamented for Floridons departure And how Sir Malpas when he could not gain her affection surprized her as she came from Loves Paradice and carried her to his castle by force THe same evening that Floridon was so suddainly snatcht away by the Out-laws His servants seeing he came not home according to his wonted custome some of them went to see what was become of him but when they found he had not been with Lucina they were all struck into amazment especially fair Lucina who was ready to tear her haire for grief Her friends sought by all possible means to comfort her with hopes of finding him the next day nevertheless she could take no rest that night but so soon as morning appeared she hasted to Loves Paradice expecting to finde him there but missing of him there her sorrow was greater then before Then was it that she retired her self into a private Arbour to lament the abscence of her Lover in the aforegoing Ditty Never was Lady in a greater perplexity nor could be more sensible of so great a loss At her return she dispatcht messengers to all places round about with charge to use all diligence to finde him Dead or alive They bestowed a great while in a vain search and at the last was forced to return without the least tidings or hopes of finding him But his sudain departure being considered by his friends gave them great cause to suspect that a Knight which lived not farr from thence had wrought his ruine by Treachery This Knights name was Sir Malpas he was a Person of great Authority in those parts but of a rugged and sterne disposition Of a middle age having never been Married though he had formerly courted a Lady whose name was Mariana untill he had won her affection and at length basely cast her off to her great grief This Sir Malpas bore a behement Love to Faire Lucina had used all possible means to gain her affection but he still found his love slighted and Floridon entertained so that he bore an inveterate hatred to Floridon which was the cause he was suspected of treachery though indeed he was not at all guilty of Floridons being surprised But it was not long before the newes of Floridons absence came to Sir Malpas ears so he thought now or never to make his address to Lucina and to renew his Sute which he was in hopes she might now listen too because she dispaired ever to sée Floridon again But alass Sir Malpas was deceived for Lucina believing him to be the author of her Loves abscence would not so much as indure the very fight of him but commanded her servants that for the future they should never admitt him into her presence which so much incensed the Knight that he resolved if it were possible to gain that by force which he could not obtain by consent In the mean time his old Love Mariana hearing that he made sute to Lucina was much inraged and exclaimed against him for his disloyalty in sharp and bitter tearms but when she understood Lucina's constancy to Floridon she was a little comforted and resolved to chear her spirits a while longer with that sweet society in Loves Paradice untill she might see what effects this thing would produce Sir Malpas was not at all moved with her sorrow but used all endeavours to get Lucina into his possession and if possible to win her to his will either by intreaty or else by force which design he put in execution on this manner Lucina to mitigate her sorrow for the abscence of her Lover used constantly to repaire once a day to Loves Paradice and there to condole the loss of her Dear Floridon which Sir Malpas observing and waiting his opportunity one evening as she was returning home all alone he sudainly surprised her and with all possible speed convey'd her to his Castle so privately as it was without the knowledg of any but those whom he might confidently trust Now was Lucina in the saddest condition that ever poore creature was in having lost her own liberty and with that the hopes of ever seeing her Love again Besides she was fallen into the hands of him she counted as her mortall enemy though he gave order she should be treated with all the civility that might be in hopes thereby to win her affection but it was all in vain for the was now ten times more inraged against him then before so that for all the means that ever he could use she would not show him the least countenance that might be But O what mourning and lamenting was there for the loss of Lucina amongst her friends when they could not finde her for they all conclude she had made her self away in some desperate manner They did not at all suspect Sir Malpas treachery to Lucina as they did to Floridon because be loved Lucina but he hated Floridon Nor did any of her friends seem to be more troubled for her loss then Sir Malpas who sorrowed exceedingly the better to clear himself from all suspicion for he had deprived her of all means and ways to give notice of her restraint so that she was now become as wretched as Floridon neither of them knowing the nature of one anothers misery CHAP. VII How Mariana exclaimed against Sir Malpas for his disloyalty whom he carelesly cast off and returned to Lucina who would by no means yeild to his will And how he resolved to remove her into Florence DUring the time of