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A20686	The patterne of painefull aduentures Containing the most excellent, pleasant and variable historie of the strange accidents that befell vnto Prince Apollonius, the Lady Lucina his wife, and Tharsia his daughter. Wherein the vncertaintie of this world, and the fickle state of mans life are liuely described. Gathered into English by Laurence Tvvine Gentleman.	Twyne, Thomas, 1543-1613, attributed name.; Twyne, Laurence.	1594 (1594)	STC 709; ESTC S112705	52,838	92

he to himselfe Thou hast resolued his probleme and yet not receiued his daughter and God hath therefore brought thee away that thou shouldest not die Then brake hee off in the midst of these cogitations and immediatly commanded his ships to be prepared and to be laden with an hundred thousand bushels of wheate and with great plentie of gold siluer and rich apparrell and taking vnto him a few of his most trustiest seruants about midnight imbarked himself and hoysing vp his sails committed himselfe to the wide sea The day following his subiects the citizens came vnto the pallace to haue seene their Prince but when they found him not there the whole citie was forthwith surprised with wonderfull sorrowe euerie man lamenting that so worthy a Prince so sodainly gone out of sight and knowledge no man knew whether Great was the griefe and wofull was the wayling which they made euery man lamenting his owne priuate estate and the common-wealths in generall as it alwaies hapneth at the death or losse of a good Prince which the inhabitants of Tirus tooke then so heauily in respect of their great affection that a long time after no barbers shops were opened the common shews and plaies surceased baines and hoat houses were shut vp tauerns were not frequented and no man repaired vnto the Churches al thing was full of sorrw and heauinesse what shall I say there was nothing but heauinesse CHAP. III. How Taliarchús not finding Apollonius at Tirus departeth ioyfully and Apollonius arriuing at Tharsus relieueth the citie with vittell IN the middes of this sorrowfull season Taliarchus commeth to Tirus to execute the cruell commandement of Antiochus where finding al-thing shut vp and a generall shew of mourning meeting with a boy in the stréete tell me said he or I will slay thee for what cause is al this citie thus drowned in heauines To whom the child answered My friend doest thou not know the cause that thou askest it of me This citie mourneth because the Prince therof Apollonius returning back from king Antiochus can no where be found or heard of Now so soone as Taliarchus heard these tidings he returned ioyfully vnto his ships and tooke his iourny backe to Antiochia and being landed he hastened vnto the king and fell downe on his knees before him saying All haile most mightie Prince reioyce and be glad for Apollonius being in feare of your grace is departed no man knoweth whether Then answered the king He may well flie away from mee but he shall neuer escape my handes And immediatly he made proclamation that whosoeuer could take that contemner of the king Apollonius prince of Tirus and bring him aliue into the kinges presence shoulde haue an hundred talents of golde for his labour and whosoeuer coulde bring his head shoulde haue fiftie talentes Which proclamation beeing published not onely Apollonius ennemies but also his friendes made all haste possible to seeke him out allured thereto with couetousnesse of the money Thus was that poore Prince 〈◊〉 for about by sea and by land through woodes 〈◊〉 wilde deserts but could not be found Then the king commanded a great Nauie of ships to be prepared to scoure the seas abroad if haply they might méet with him but for that euery thing requireth a time ere it can be done in the meane season Apollonius arriueth at Tharsus where walking along by the sea side he was espied by one of his owne seruauntes named Elinatus who landed there not long before and ouertooke him as he was going and comming neere vnto him with dutifull obeisance said vnto him God saue you prince Apollonius But he being saluted did euen so as noble men and princes vse to doe set light by him But Elinatus taking that behauiour vnkindly saluted him againe saying God saue you prince Apollonius salute me againe and despise not pouertie beautified with honestie And if you knewe that which I know you would take good heed to your self Then answered Apollonius If you thinke good I I pray you tell me Elinatus answered you are by proclamation commanded to be slaine And who said Apollonius dares commaund by proclamation the prince of a countrey to be slaine Antiochus said Elinatus Antiochus For what cause demanded Apollonius For that said Elinatus thou wouldst be vnto his daughter which he himselfe is Then demanded Apollonius for what summe of mony is my life sold by that proclamation Elinatus answered whosoeuer can bring you aliue vnto the king shall haue an hundred talents of gold in recompence but who so bringeth your head shall haue fiftie talents of gold for his labour and therefore I aduise you my lord to flie vnto some place for your defence and when he had so said he tooke his leaue and departed But Apollonius called him againe and said that hee would giue him an hundred talents of gold for said he receiue thus much now of my pouertie where nothing is now left vnto me but flight and pining misery Thou hast deserued the reward wherefore draw out thy sword and cut off my head present it to the king as the most ioyful sight in the world Thus mayst thou win an hundred talents of gold and remaine without all blame or note of ingratitude since I my selfe haue hyred thée in the kinges behalfe to gratefie him with so acceptable a present Then answered Elinatus God forbid my lord that by anie such sinister means I should deserue a reward In all my life I neuer consented to any such matter in my heart And my lord if the déed were good the loue of vertue were sufficient force to allure any man thereunto But since it respecteth your life to whome in consideration of the cause no man may doe violence without villanie I commit both you and your matter vnto God who no doubt will be your defender And when he had thus said he departed But Apollonius walked forth along vpon the shoare where he had not gone farre but he descried a man a farre off comming towardes him with heauie chéere and a sorrowfull countenance and his name was Stranguilio a Tharsian borne and of good reputation in the citie To whom saide Apollonius God saue you Stranguilio and he likewise resaluted him saying and you likewise my good lord Apollonius I pray you tel me what is the cause that you walk in this place thus troubled within your minde Apollonius answered because being promised to haue king Antiochus daughter to my wife if I told him the true meaning of his question nowe that I haue so done I am notwithstanding restrained from her Wherefore I request you it may so be that I may liue secretly in your citie for why I stand moreouer in some doubt of the kinges farther displeasure Stranguilio answered My lord Apollonius our citie at this present is verie poore and not able to sustaine the greatnesse of your dignitie and euen now we suffer great penurie and want of vittell insomuch that there remaineth small hope of

childe more then it was beséeming for a father Thus being wrapped in the toyle of blind desire hee sustained within himselfe a fierce conflict wherein Madnesse put Modestie to flight he wholly yéelded himselfe vnto loue Wherefore not long after on a certaine day hee came into his daughters chamber and bidding all that were there for to depart as though he had had some secret matter to conferre with her the furious rage of lust pricking him forward thereunto he violently forced her though séely maiden she withstood him long to her power and threwe away all regard of his owne honestie and vnlosed the knot of her virginitie Now when he was departed and she being alone deuised within her selfe what it were best for her to doe sodainelie her nurse entred in and perceiuing her face al be blubbred with teares What is the matter deare childe and Madam quoth she that you sit thus sorrowfully O my beloued nurse answered the Ladie euen nowe two noble names were lost within this chamber Howe so saide the nurse Because quoth shée before marriage through wicked villanie I am most shamefully defiled And when the nurse had heard these wordes and looking about more diligently perceiued indéede what was done being inraged with sorrowe and anger and almost distract of her wittes Alas what wretch or rather infernal féend quoth she durst thus presumptuously defile the bed of a Princesse Ungodlinesse hath done this déede quoth the Ladie Whie then doe you not tell it the King your father saide the nurse Ah nurse answered the Ladie Where is my father For if you well vnderstoode the matter the name of Father is lost in me so that I can haue no remedie now but death onely But the nurf e nowe by a few wordes perceiuing the whole tale and weying that the yong Lady gaue inkling of remedie by death which she much feared beganne to assuage her griefe with comfortable wordes and to withdrawe her minde from that mischieuous purpose Wherein she preuailed so effectually in short time that she appeased the fresh bléeding of the gréene wound howbeit the scarre continued long time as déepely stroken within her tender heart before it could be throughlie cured In the meane season while this wicked father sheweth the countenaunce of a louing sire abroad in the eies of al his people notwithstanding within doores and in his minde he reioyceth that he hath played the part of an husband with his daughter which false resemblance of hateful marriage to the intent he might alwaies enioy he inuented a strange deuise of wickednesse to driue away all suters that should resort vnto her by propounding certaine questions the effect and law whereof was thus published in writing Who so findeth out the solution of my question shall haue my daughter to wife but who so faileth shal lose his head Now when Fame had blowen abroade the possibilitie to obtaine this Ladie such was the singular report or her surpassing beautie that many kings and men of great nobility repaired thither And if haply any through skill or learning had found out the solution of the kings question notwithstanding hée was beheaded as though hée had answered nothing to the purpose and his head was set vp at the gate to terrifie others that should come who beholding there the present image of death might aduise them from assaying anie such danger These outrages practised Antiochus to the ende he might continue in filthie incest with his daughter The second Chapter ¶ How Apollonius arriuing at Antiochia resolued the kings question and how Taliarchus was sent to slay him WHilest Antiochus thus continued in exercising tyrannie at Antiochia a certaine yong Gentleman of Tyrus Prince of the country abounding in wealth and very well learned called Apollonius arriued in the coast and comming vnto the citie of Antiochia was brought into the kings presence And when he had saluted him the king demanded of him the cause of his comming thither Then saide the yoong prince Sir I require to haue your daughter in marriage The king hearing that which he was vnwilling to heare looking fiercely vpon him saide vnto him Doest thou knowe the conditions of the marriage Yea sir king said Apollonius and I sée it standing vpon the gate Then the king being sharply moued and disdaining at him said Heare then the question which thou must resolue or else die I am carried with mischiefe I eate my mothers fleshe I seeke my brother my mothers husband and I can not finde him Apollonius hauing receiued the question withdrew himselfe a while out of the Kinges presence and being desirous to vnderstand what it meant he found out the solution thereof in short space through the help of God and returned againe to the king saying Your grace proposed a question vnto me I pray you heare the solution thereof And wheras you said in your probleme I am carried with mischiefe you haue not lied for looke vnto your owne selfe But whereas you say further I eate my mothers flesh looke vpon your daughter Now the king as soone as he perceiued that Apollonius had resolued his problems fearing lest his wickednesse should be discouered he looked vpon him with a wrathfull countenance saying Thou art farre wide from the solution of my demand and hast hit no part of the meaning thereof wherefore thou hast deserued to be beheaded Howbeit I will shew thee this courtesie as to giue thee thirtie daies respite to bethinke thy selfe of this matter Wherefore returne home into thine owne countrey and if thou canst find out the solution of my probleme thou shalt haue my daughter to wife If not thou shalt be beheaded Then Apollonius being much troubled and molested in mind accompanying himself with a sufficient train tooke shipping and returned into his owne countrey But so soone as he was departed Antiochus called vnto him his steward named Thaliarchus to whom he spake in maner following Thaliarchus the only faithfull and trustie minister of my secrets vnderstand that Apollonius prince of Tirus hath found out the solution of my question Wherefore take shipping and followe him immediatly and if thou canst not ouertake him vpon the sea seeke him out when thou commest to Tirus and slay him either with sword or poyson and when thou returnest I will bountifully reward thee Taliarchus promised to accomplish his commandement with all diligence and taking to him his shield with monie sufficient for the iourney departed on his way and shortly after ariued at the coast of Tirus But Apollonius was come home vnto his owne Pallace long time before and withdrawing himselfe into his studie perused all his bookes concerning the kings probleame finding none other solution than that which he had alreadie told the king And thus he said within himselfe Surely vnlesse I be much deceiued Antiochus burneth with disordinate loue of his daughter and discoursing farther with himselfe vpon that point What sayest thou now or what intendest thou to doe Apollonius said

as you sée not moued by my will but constrained by iniurie Wherfore tell me was I euer vnthankfull vnto your Citie in generall or vnto any of you al in particular They all aunswered with one voice no my lord and therfore wee are ready all to spend our liues in thy quarrell and as thou knowest well wée haue erected heere in perpetuall memorie of thee a statue of brasse because thou preseruedst vs from death and our citie from vtter destruction Then said Apollonius vnderstand then this much my friends that when I departed last from this citie I committed my daughter in trust vnto Stranguilio and his wife Dionisiades and when I came to require her they woulde not deliuer her vnto me nor tell me the trueth what is become of her Immediatly they were both called forth to aunswere vnto these matters before Apollonius where falling downe on their knees before him Dionisides answered in this manner My lord I beséech you stand fauourable vnto my poore husband and mee and not to beleeue any other thing concerning your daughter then that shée is departed this life And as for hir graue you haue seene it and also the monument of brasse erected by the whole citie in the memoriall of her and moreouer you haue read the superscription Then Apollonius commaunded his daughter to stand foorth in the presence of them all and shée saide vnto Dionisiades beholde thou wicked woman dead Tharsia is come to greete thée who as thou diddest well hope shoulde neuer haue béen forth comming to haue bewrayed thy wickednesse But when the miserable woman beheld Tharsia her heart quaked for feare and shée fell to the ground in a swoond and when shée recouered againe shee cried out vppon the iust iudgement of God and cursed the time that shee was borne And all the people ranne thronging about Tharsia and wondered at her thinking howe greatly they had been of long time abused by Stranguilio and Dionisiades and they reioyced much in her safetie and all knewe by her countenance that it was shée and none other O now who were able to declare the bitter griefe and intollerable care which eftsoones assaied the wearisome consciences of these twaine the husband and the wife when they sawe her liuing and in good liking before their faces whose death they had so traiterously conspired Euen hell it selfe is not comparable vnto so heauie a burden the vnspeakable weight whereof all men ought to feare and none can sufficiently describe vnlesse hée haue been semblably plunged in the like gulfe of horrible desperation Then Tharsia called for Theophilus Stranguilios villaine and when hée was come into her presence shée saide vnto him Theophilus aunswere mée aloud that all the people may heare who sent thee forth to slay me Hee aunswered Dionisiades my Mistresse What mooued her thereunto saide Tharsia None other thing I suppose saide the villaine but to enioy the money and ornamentes and also because thy beautie and comelinesse were commended aboue Philomacias her daughters Nowe when the people heard this they ranne vppon Stranguilio and Dionisiades and tooke them violently and bound them and drew them out of the citie and stoned them to death and would likewise haue slaine Theophilus the villaine for that that at his mistresse commandement he would haue murdered the innocent maiden But Tharsia intreated for him saying Not so my deare friends I pray you let me obtaine pardon for him at your handes for vnlesse he had giuen me respite to say my praiers I had not been heere now to haue spoken for him and when she had said so the furious multitude was appeased And Apollonius gaue many exceeding rich giftes vnto the citie and repared it strongly in many places where it was decaied and abode there with them the space of three monthes in feasting and making merry before he departed CHAP. XXII How Apollonius sailed from Tharsus to visite his father in law Altistrates king of Pentapolis who died not long after Apollonius comming thither THe terme of thrée monethes that Apollonius purposed for his delight to remaine at Tharsus was almost expired and he cōmanded all things to be prepared for the iourney and when the day was come hee made generall proclamation vppon paine of death euery man to ship And when the whole army was imbarked he took ship himselfe with his wife and his daughter being honourably accompanied by the citizens vnto the water side and after due courtesie on both sides done and receiued hee hoysed sayle and departed towardes Pentopolis king Altistrates Citie And when they had sailed with prosperous winde ten dayes vppon the Sea they discouered a farre off the Steeples and Towres of Pentapolis and the Souldiers reioyced and gaue a shout for gladnesse that they were so neere to their wished land Then they cast about and cut towards the hauen and cast anker and landed all safe and Apollonius with his wife and daughter after hee had taken order for the companie rode vnto the court vnto king Altistrates whom they found in good health and merry And when Altistrates saw his sonne in lawe his daughter and his neece Tharsia hee bid them welcome and reioyced exceedingly and sent for the Nobles of his land to keepe them companie and gaue them the best entertainement that hee could deuise and they soiourned with him an whole yeare in pleasure and pastime whereof the king tooke as great comfort as was possible for a man to doe in any worldly felicitie But as there was neuer yet any thing certaine or permanent in this mortall life but alwaies we be requited with sowre sauce to our sweete meate and when wee thinke our selues surest in the top of ioy then tilt wée downe soonest into the bottome of sorrow so fared it now vnto these personages in the midst of their iollitie For the good old king Altistrates fell sodainly sick which much appalled them all and grew euerie day weaker than other Then were the Phisitions sent for in haste who left nothing vntried that appertained vnto Art and experience to doe and aboue all Apollonius and Lucina his wife plaied the parts of duetifull children in tendring their aged and weake father with all care and diligence possible But alas olde age which of it selfe is an vncurable sickenesse and had béene growing nowe well nigh an hundred yeares lacking seuen vpon him accompanied with the intollerable paine of the gowt and the stone of the bladder had consumed naturall moisture so that his force gaue ouer to the disease and shortely after changed this transitorie life for a better When report was spread abroad of the kings death there was great sorrowe and lamentation made in all places neither was there any that tooke not grieuously the losse of so good a Prince But to describe the inward affliction of Apollonius and the teares of the Ladie Lucina and Tharsia her daughter woulde make any heart of flint to bléede considering the tender affections of women aboue men and howe prone

they bee that way yea sometime God knowes in smaller causes than at the death of husband father or mother But as al things haue their time so haue sorrowe and teares also which are best dried vp with the towell of continuaunce which gaue nowe iust occasion vnto Apollonius to cast off drowsie sorrowe and to prouide for the funeralles of his father in lawe which he accomplished with so seasonable expedition and in so honourable a sort as was féemely for so mighty a king and so vertuous a prince whome hée buried among the auntient race of Kings his auncestours in the Temple within the citie of Pentapolis Which beeing all finished as it is also a worke of charitie to fulfill the will of the dead he applied himselfe to execute his fathers testament wherin he had giuen halfe his kingdome vnto Apollonius and the other halfe to Tharsia his néece to haue and to holde to them and to their heires for euer CHAP. XXIII ¶ How Apollonius rewarded the fisherman that releeued him after hee had suffered shipwracke howe hee dealt also with olde Calamitus and likewise with the Pyrates that stole away Tharsia BY this time when all cares were banished and Apollonius inioyed his kingdome in quiet possession he gaue himselfe sometimes to delight as other Princes are wont to do And it fortuned that on a day when he had dined he walked foorth for recreation vnto the sea side with his wife and a fewe seruants And when hée came there he sawe a small fisher boat fléeting vnder saile which hee thought by all signes he should knowe well for hee supposed it to be the fishermans boat which succoured him when he had suffered shipwracke in sailing from Tharsus towardes Pentapolis Wherefore hee commaunded some of his seruantes to take an other shippe which rode at anchor there on the shore to go after and take him and to bring the fisherman vnto him vnto the Court When the poore man saw himselfe boorded of so many and so gay a multitude hée feared they had béene pyrates and that they woulde haue slaine him and he fell downe on his knées and besought them to haue compassion vpon him he was but a poore fisherman and had not that which they sought for it were others that were more fit for their purpose to méete withall such as ventured further in greater vesselles carrying foorth great summes of money and bringing home plenty of costly merchandize As for him they should not only find miserable pouertie in ransacking his boat but if they were also determined to take away his life from him they should likewise with the same stroke bereaue the liues of his poore wife and many small Children which were maintained by his hand onely These or the like words vttered then the poore fisherman But they smiling in their conceits and mindefull of their Princes commaundement bade him not feare that they would robbe him but saide that he must goe with them and brought him away vnto the court And when he was come into the kings presence Apollonius knewe him well and saide vnto the Quéene and the Nobles that were about him Beholde this is the man that receiued me into his house and succoured mée when I suffered shipwracke and shewed me the way into the Citie by which meanes I came acquainted with good king Altistrates And he rose out of his seate and embraced him and said I am Apollonius Prince of Tyrus whome thou diddest succour and therefore bée of good chéere for thou shalt be rewarded And the poore fisherman wept excéedingly for ioy And Apollonius commaunded two hundred sestereies of gold to be giuen vnto him and thirty seruants and twenty handmaides and fortie horses and fiftie sutes of apparell and a faire pallace to dwel in and made him an earle and vsed no man so familiarly as he did him all the dayes of his life Nowe it was not long after that these things were done but one called Calamitus the master of the ship of Tyrus an olde man who as we haue before declared shewed vnto Apollonius as hée was walking by the sea side with Lucina that Antiochus and his daughter were dead and the kingdome was reserued for him came before Apollonius and falling downe on his knées Remember me my most gratious Lorde Apollonius saide hée since the time I tolde your grace the good tidings of king Antiochus death Then king Apollonius tooke him vp by the hand and caused him to sit downe by him and talked familiarly with him and gaue him great thankes and made him a great lord in his countrey Thus Apollonius busied himselfe not onely in bestowing himselfe curteously at home but he also prouided as well for the quiet gouernement of the state abroad as it appeared by the diligence of his officers who hauing lately taken certaine pyrates vpon the sea brought them to Pentapolis where Apollonius then remained to haue iustice executed vpon them When they were arriued they were found guilty of the facte of which they were accused and the next day being appointed for them to suffer when they came vnto the gallowes they confessed many robberies and among store how once at Tharsus they rescued a maide named Tharsia from a villaine that woulde haue slaine her and brought her to Machilenta where they solde her to him that offered most money and hée which bought her as they thought was a bawd When the citizens who were none of them ignorant of the Ladie Tharsias aduentures heard this they stayed execution and sent word vnto king Apollonius saying May it please your grace to vnderstand that we haue certaine pyrates at the gallowes ready to be exeted it appeareth that they be those that stole away the Lady Tharsia your daughter from Tharsus and sold her to the bawd at Machilenta Which when we perceiued we thought it good to know your Graces pleasure what shall be doone with them Apollonius thanked them and willed the pirats to be brought before him examined them diligently and found that they were the same men indéede that had preserued Tharsias life And hée gaue great thankes vnto God and them and imbraced them willingly pardoned them their liues And for that he knew that the sinister means which they hitherto had insued was caused most by constraint for want of other trade or abilitie to liue by he therefore made them all knights and gaue them plenty of gold and siluer and indowed them also with great possessions CHAP. XXIIII ¶ How Apollonius had a yoong sonne and heire by his wife Lucina likewise of Apollonius age and how he died with some other accidents thereunto incident WHile king Apollonius thus passed foorth his time in rewarding his friends which had doone him pleasure in his aduersitie the part of a thankeful and good natured man and also vnto his enemies in ministring iustice with mercie which is the duetie of a vertuous prince the quéene Lucina in the meane season conceiued childe and grewe euery daie