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A37095	The English lovers, or, A girle worth gold both parts, so often acted with general applause, now newly formed into a romance / by the accurate pen of I.D., Gent.	Dauncey, John, fl. 1663.; Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641. Fair maid of the west.	1662 (1662)	Wing D289A; ESTC R9663	128,678	272

those wars nor must I now forget that I have often heard him mention you as a Person who of all the English Captaines behaved your selfe with most courage and noblenesse I confesse continued Goodlake I was in a small time of being there more by the partiall favour of the English Generall then any desert of mine commissioned Captain of a Foot Comp●ny and such a Company as had they had a Captaine equall either in Courage or experience to the meanest of them might have performed wonders But to return to my said story my deare Mariana sadly lamented my losse and absence and would her selfe had she not been so narrowly watched by her Uncle have adventured to have found me but yet was she not by reason of my absence so closely restrained from her liberty as formerly so that we found wayes by meanes of my dear friend Spencer to keep a correspondence for the generous Spencer still continued his noblenesse to me in that high degree that he not only seveveral times sent me supplyes of money but had expended great sums and spent his whole stock of Interest at Court in endeavouring to procure me a pardon from the Queen but it could not be blamed nor would such was the power of my adversaries friends ever have been granted had not my fortune and the resolution and courage of my Company rather then any personal valour of mine allotted me to be the first that upon storming the Brill entered the Cittadell I have said Spinola interrupting him heard many gallant Persons descant upon that action and they have generally concluded it an act rather of desperation then prudence there being little to be said in justification of it but only that it prospered I speak not this continued Spinola of your particular assault for that being pursuant to command demonstrated you truly valiant but to the action in general 'T is very true said Goodlake it was so esteemed by many understanding Souldiers but however it might be in it selfe sure I am it proved fortunate to me for by it I got that pardon which for so many years before I had sued for in vaine You may easily imagine my deare friend that I had after seven or eight yeares banishment a great desire to see again my native Country but a far greater to see my beloved Mariana who still for my sake continued a Virgin and my deare friend Spencer I therefore having with very small intreaty obtained leave of the Generall to passe over to England imbarqued my selfe at Rotterdam and Favente Neptuno arrived in two dayes at Dover where my earnest desire to see my friends made me stay no longer then I could provide my selfe with Horses to post towards them which diligent care soon found and unwearied speed made me the next day in the evening to arrive at the House of my generous and noble friend Spencer where without further Ceremonies I entred and surprized him in a sad and serious discourse with his Sister and some other Ladies but little did I think that that griefe which I saw had overshadowed their visages did so much concern me my deare Spencer immediately came running towards me and imbracing and kissing me ten thousand times congratulated my safe arrival at length to my Native soile and friends but yet me thought that his countenance was somewhat clouded and not so serene and complacent as I had formerly known it besides I observed that there were whilst I was renewing as it were my friendship with Spencer strange whisprings among the Ladies and that their former bemoanings were turned into a dumb silence me thought this boaded something extraordinary but what to think I could not tell nor did I at all imagine that it had so neerly concerned me till having saluted the Ladies I desired them to make me partaker of their sorrows by knowing the cause of them alas Sir said one of them our sorrow if there be any here whose lookes or other jesture may make you deem them sorrowful is no other then what is caused either by the dulnesse of the weather or some unknown reason which we cannot be sensible of Alas Madam said I your goodnesse must pardon me if I doe yet believe that so great a dejection of spirit as I perceive in this whole company must necessarily proceed from some greater occasion then the dulnesse of the weather which to me seemes pleasant unlesse said I I be that unknown reason from whence it doth proceed and turning thereupon to Mr. Spencer whose visage testified more discontent then any other I told him that he had not formerly used to receive me with such a show of griefe and sadnesse and therefore desired him to let me know the occasion for otherwise I should be inforced to believe that some malicious Person had scandalized me to him and possessed him with such things as might make him think I had justly forfeited his former friendship which if so I desired to know my crime and accusers that I might confesse and crave pardon or right my selfe Hereupon with many vows he protested there was no such thing that I was as high in his good opinion and that he esteemed my friendship as much if not more as ever that his present melancholy aud dejectednesse proceeded from he knew not what inward cause which had likewise poured its influence upon the whole Company This though it little satisfied me yet I was forced to conform my humour to theirs for I could not perswade them from you and indeed I who had the most reason to be sad knew no cause for it till Bed-time being come my deare Spencer accompanying me to my Chamber I began more seriously to examine why he who was alwayes wont to be of a joviall temper had now so utterly banisht mirth from his soule especially at my arrivall Oh my deare friend said he fetching withall a deep sigh since I must tell you the cause which I would not doe did I not know you a Person who could absolutely command your passions know that the very sight of you encreased my sorrow for your sake did I first conceive it and you are the only Person in the World it most concernes I was somewhat startled to heare him say so and what is it said I in some passion can make me so miserable that you should thus have cause to grieve for me is Mariana turn'd inconstant and hath she now I am come home fraught with full hopes to enjoy her plighted her faith unto another It cannot sure be oh no replyed he she continued constant to you even to her last to her last said I and is she then dead oh Heavens what cursed stars was I born under thus to conspire to make me miserable for ever Well Mariana since after so many delayes I can●●ot enjoy thee living I will follow thee to ●●eath and therewith drew my sword intending to have peirced my bosome but was hindred by my too pittifull friend and what says he

likewise loose my dearest friend he was content to desist but withall telling me that she did not doubt but the justnesse of my quarrell would make me able of my selfe to revenge such damned infidelity that though he knew Hatton to be sufficiently valiant yet his treachery would cowardize his soul and therefore I should not feare to attempt him single that he had for many yeares been an intimate friend of Hatton's but never knew him guilty of any falceness till now which he as well as I had the charity to believe proceeded rather from the inticements of Mariana's Unkle then his own spirit hardly had he finished to speak to me when Hatton stept into the Chamber but seeing me there before him retired with as much hast as he had entred with only saying as he past out that he wondred he had received no answer from me which I told him he should not much longer wait for nor did he for immediately I took Pen Ink and Paper and by Spencer's advice writ him as followeth For Mr. George Hatton SIR THough I am now become your enemy for what reasons I know not yet our former friendship might have engaged you to have declared in more civil language I know not what pretences you may have to the beauteous Mariana but you cannot but know that she is mine by Contract nor have I I think given you any occasion to believe that I will let what Heaven hath bestowed upon me be snatched away without indangering of my life or forcing that Person be he who he wil that shall treacherously endeavour to deprive me of my only Happinesse I shall not faile therefore Sir to meet you at the appointed place though without a second for I am unwilling to engage friends in a businesse in which none but my self is concerned though I could wish you would rather disclaime your unjust pursuite and let us meet as we used to doe friends Goodlake This having sealed I posted away to him by Mr. Spencer's Page who immediately returned with an answer that he was content to meet me single and withall brought along with him a Ribband which we guessed to be the length of his sword and I found it to be the just measure of mine That night Spencer engaged me by all the loves between us not to depart from him till the morning I went to fight so we passed away the most part of the night in discourses of Hatton's basenesse but concluding that the greatnesse of his estate had moved Mariana's Unkle to proffer her in marriage to him and that her beauty and riches had been the motives to make him accept of the proffer In the morning about five a clock I took a solemne leave of my deare friend not knowing but it might be the last though that misery was reserved to a more unfortunate hour who having poured forth his prayers for my good successe which sayes he I doe not doubt will attend the justnesse of your cause bid me adieu and I fearing least I had overslipped some minutes of the time made hast to the appointed place where I found my adversary ready to receive me We both without speaking began to strip of our Doublets and being now ready to encounter each other he first broke silence telling me that if I would resigne up to him my interest in the beauteous Mariana and set her free from all promises and contracts I might live otherwise his sword should force her from my heart to which I replyed That he could not but know that I prized the enjoyment of my deare Mariana for mine said I I will in despight of you call her far above my life and therefore any proposition of parting with her rather then may dearest blood was vaine and irrational that I might with more reason perswade him to relinquish pursuite of that to which he had nor could pretend any right to To this he made no other reply but that we came not then thither to talk but doe and therewith made a desperate passe at me but it was my fortune to put by his point and before he could recover himselfe to give him a mortal thrust into the right side at which he fell saying no more then goe now and enjoy the price of my blood they Mari-a-na I must confesse I was sorry when I saw him fall for I would not willingly have killed kim hoping he might yet have been perswaded to desist further pursuite of his love and have proved as true a friend as at first he had been but seeing that his wound was past remedy 't was in vaine for me to stay and lament him but rather study my own safety having therefore wrapped his body in his Cloake I took my Horse from the hedge where I had tyed him and with all speed galloped to tell Spencer what I had done he at first expressed a great deale of sorrow for the so suddaine death of one that was once his friend but you tell me no more sayes he then what I expected and think he deserved so that we have more reason to lament his folly then his death but however continued he the strict Lawes lately made against duelling will hardly admit of such defensory excuses and though he might fall justly by your sword yet the power of his friends will endanger your life let me therefore advise you to make all possible speed out of England and because I know not how your slender fortunes may have furnisht you let me beg of you to accept this taking down a little Cabinet from the Beds head and giving it me as token of my love which if I live and have the happinesse to know where you reside I shall be most highly obliged if you admit me to supply farther otherwise if I dye I shall dedicate some of my last breath to the remembrance of our friendship I could not tell what to answer to so noble and generous a friend but distilling some teares out of griefe that I was forced to depart from him I let him by those silent showres know how much I prized his goodnesse and that the gratitude of my soule was greater then my tongue could expresse having therefore kissed him again and againe and poured forth ten thousand Prayers for his health as he did for my good successe we sorrowfully bid farewell and I taking Horse rid with all speed possible to the Sea Coast where finding a Ship going with fresh supplyes of provisions to the English-Souldiers in Holland I embarqued my selfe on her and in seven days we came to Vlishing whence I travel'd to the Hague and there changing my name to Love-ill listed my selfe a Souldier to recount to you Noble Spinola any passages of this war were but to give you a dark and blind repetition of a thing which your selfe already know most perfectly I confessed said Spinola I have from my Father and other friends besides some smal experience of my own received an exact relation of

one of the most sumptuous Chambers of it and sumptuous Chambers there were both for building and furuiture as any Court in Europe could boast of the square of the Palace it selfe being supported by one hundred and fifty Pillars of pure Carara Marble the Court Yard adorned with four most stately Fountains or Waterworks and the Palace every where imbellished by the great number of curious and ancient Statues But neither the statelinesse of the place the great care which was taken of him whereby he in short time recovered perfect health nor the daily conversation of Spinola who extreamly delighted in his company could at all divert the English Stranger from his melancholly thoughts which appeared more transparent every day then other to great wonder of the worthy Spinola who endeavoured by all means possible to banish from him his solitary pensivenesse by inventing new sports and pastimes to recreate both his body and mind but all his endeavours proved in vain for the more he strove to make him merry the sadder still grew insomuch that had not gratitude obliged him he would have shun'd the company of his preserver as his did that of all others Often had the good and generous Spinola desired his unknown Guest to impart unto him the cause of this his melancholly but was ever put off with excuses and desires that he would not put him to the remembrance of so dismal a story till at length they two being according to the custom walking in a private Garden Spinola more earnestly then ever pressed him to reveal that which could possesse him with so great a trouble and dejection of spirit protesting that as he had been instrumental once in the saving of his life so he would devote his life or what ever might be more dear to him to procu●● a remedy for his solitary disease for whilst that continued he still seemed dead to him promising that in requital he would relate to him the story of his life which he would f●nd not to have been free from misfortunes though perhaps they were such as were not fit to be weighed in the scale with his The stranger endeavoured by all means possible to excuse the relation of his miseries but being again and again importuned by him to whom he owed his life as his preserver he could no longer deny to satisfie the desires of his generous friend and therefore retiring into a pleasant Arbour which stood at the end of the Walks he thus began The Loves of Capt. Goodlake AND MARIANA MOst Noble Friend and generous Preserver when you shall have heard through how many various changes and chances of fortune I have run you will think considering my age that every minute of my time my childhood only excepted had been a new distinct misfortune My birth you already know to have been in the Kingdom of England a Kingdom sufficiently famous throughout all the World both for its outward force and inward plenty which as you say has miraculously for so many years maintained a War against the most Potent Catholique King and still in all attempts made upon that mighty Monarch gained the upper hand but because this Kingdom is besides the annexion of Ireland and Wales in her selfe divided into severall Shires or Counties many of which have formerly been particular Kingdoms 't will be convenient to give you an account of the exact place of my Nativity Know then noble Sir that I was borne nigh unto the famous City of Sarum in the County of Sommerset in which Shire my Father enjoyed a yearly Revenue of neer fifteen hundred pounds per annum his name was Goodlake my Mothers Seymour which of the two I must needs confesse is the more noble and ancient name my Father had besides my selfe three Sons and two Daughters of all which I was the youngest and so like to enjoy the least part of my Fathers wealth though during his life he was not at all sparing in giving me as liberal education as my Brothers of whom he took so great care that he thought it not sufficient to have them endowed with learning except they were likewise adorned with all qualities necessary to make a perfect and compleat Gentleman such he thought Fencing riding the great Horse and other active Exercises which might make them fit upon occasion to serve their Country nor was he sparing in his cost to learn them Dancing singing and other lesse usefull exercises as things fitting to distinguish them from the vulgar My Father died about that time that I arrived to seventeen years of age leaving me besides those Gentleman-like qualities that might make me fit to gain a livelyhood and honour in forreign Countries but a small parcell of his estate yet such as with moderation I might have lived upon but it was hard for me who had been highly bred during my fathers life to conform my self now to a pension and so small a one too as threescore Marks a year was so that before two years were expired I was indebted twice as much as my annuity came to which made me begin to perceive that whilst I took those courses I headlong pursued my ruine my debts begun to be dayly called for which if I paid I must leave my selfe uncapable to subsist and if not run the hazzard of being imprisoned Feare of this last made me finding delayes to increase the danger on a suddain to make a contract with my elder Brother and to sell him my annuity whereby I not only paid my debts but had a considerable sum of money in my purse with which I was resolved to prove my utmost fortunes And hoping that I might have the same good hap which oftentimes befals younger Brothers who have nothing but their gentility to maintain them that is by gaining the favours of yong Ladies whose plentifull portions might better be given to supply the wants of such persons whom the ill Laws or rather the ill customes of England had made poor then added to the better fortunes of those who already abounded with superfluity of worldly riches I put on a resolution to cast in my lot among others and cloathing my self in a garb much above my slender fortunes by degrees I got into the acquaintance of many Ladies among whom I resolved to choose one both of whose Person and portion I could approve and in short time pitched upon the beauteous Mariana Joynt heiress with her Sister of the great estate of Sir Robert Mollineaux a Family famous in the Western parts of England I confesse at first the greatnesse of her beauty parts and riches did somewhat daunt me who knew my self so far beneath her in all At those words the worthy Spinola interrupted him by saying noble friend though by what your self report I dare believe your estate much inferiour to that of your beauteous Mistresse yet I must needs say that I find this by that small experience I have had of your conversation that no Woman could be