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A68435	Vienna Where in is storied, ye valorous atchieuements, famous triumphs, constant loue, greate miseries, & finall happines, of the well-deseruing, truly noble and most valiant kt, Sr Paris of Vienna, and ye most admired amiable princess, the faire Vienna.	M. M. (Matthew Mainwaring), 1561-1652.; Pierre, de la Cépède, 15th cent. Paris et Vienne.; Gifford, George, fl. 1640, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 17202; ESTC S111866	129,892	196

principality extinguish all sorrow and memory of the dead Daulphinis So that wiping his eyes he turned himselfe towards Sirap and embracing him said Most worthy Knight and my dearest friend welcome to my Court to my selfe and all that is mine This Pallace my Countrey and I are all at your dispose For so in my particular obligation and by your merritorious and pleading deserts am I bound unto you And longer may not I enioy what I now possesse then you shall finde my promises full laden with rich performance And be further assured that as I onely live through your love and raigne altogether by your valour so will I ever owe you fealty for my life and still doe you homage for my Crowne Sirap understanding thus much by Boufoy returned him humble thankes for his so gratefull and high esteeme both of himselfe and his poore endeavours with protestation that he neither wish'd nor expected so great and undeseruing guerdons but still held himselfe most indebted vnto his owne desires to doe him all further possible service This interchange of kindnesses gave contentment to them both and was most pleasing to the Daulphin who yet fed so on his fresh feeling happinesse that he gave in charge that all his Subiects should honour Sirap as himselfe and hold his will as the will of their Lord For so he said is your Lords will that next to the Lord of hoasts holds his life and living of him Then told he them how and with what hazard of his life hee had redeemed him from most base bondage and cruell death How he had left many heathen honours to honour him then greatly dishonoured and how he had protected him at Sea from danger of Pirats and lastly established him in his regalty in despight of his foes And therefore many and sundry were the Triumphs that now were ordained for him but more then many were the severall thoughts that afflicted his doubtfull minde Vienna he thought had cause to condemne him since affection ever thinkes all times of stay too long that hangs on desert La-nova he knew would rebuke him for violating the sacred lawes of friendship in his concealement And his reverend Father might well question his breach of love and duty that so refused to shew himselfe a sonne One while was he ready to embrace La-nova another time to runne to Vienna and by and by hee was ready prest to fall on his knees to Sir Jaques Now did hee pitty distressed Vienna who in all these alterations was neither moved nor removed Then did he feare her liberty since her Father had no feeling of her calamity Thus dubiously perplexed in minde hee sadly sate unregarding regarding the continuing and maintained Iustes untill the Daulphin iudging of his stormy thoughts by his clowded countenance thus awaked him by his Interpreter What think'st said hee my best worthy friend of our French Knights and how stands our Court sports with your liking Sirap whose Martiall minde was now mollified with milder and calmer thoughts by his man thus answered As Knights of good regard I regard your Knights and as noble befitting sports I commend your heroicall pastimes All doth well and well doth it stand with your Highnesse that hath Knights that can doe so well But the Iustes being ended the Daulphin that had read his discontentment in the deepe characters of his face for the countenance oft shewes the affects and passions of the heart tooke him by the hand and privatly led him into a faire tapistred gallery hanged with most artificiall pictures of greatest Monarches where he thus againe assaved to finde the cause of his disturbance Let not said hee any doubt dismay mylives preserver nor let any remembrance of your last and lost honours worke in you any repenting humor since Viennaes Daulphin is both willing and ready both to accomplish your demand and to honour you with all dignities What pleaseth Sirap pleaseth the Daulphin and nothing shall content the Daulphin but what shall well like Sirap Then aske my Lord and bee Lord of your asking Sirap thus kindly entreated and encouraged lowly humbled himselfe and by Boufoy thus replyed Know most renowned and thrice worthy Prince that doubtfull suspition harbours not in noble hearts Nor think I once of honours change Your covenanted promise exiles that doubt and the effect of my request is the honour that best will please my minde Then let me shew and shewing crave both what troubleth your servant and what he now in all humility demands for his conditioned gift Not affecting honours the worlds fading glory nor coveting riches mans pleasing evill but seeking contentment in loves felicity I aske claime and require your daughter my Lord for my wife and a wife for my reward The renowne of her attractive vertues and the vertue of her moving perfections hath by report so captivated my freest thoughts since my comming to Viennois that wondring at her Fame I am wounded with Fancy and my desire is to see and applaude her excellencies Then let it not seeme strange unto you that unseene perfections have thus wrought unknowne passions since the eare is as well subiect to conceit as the eye is pliant to affection The Daulphin whose unnaturall impenitrable heart felt no longer remorce of her endured misery then whilst hee was himselfe in misery and who was no sooner free but that hee freed his remorced thoughts from all thought of remorce In so much that looking neither after her imprisonment nor his owne posterity hee in his euer over awfulnesse shewed himselse now rather an unrelenting Tyrant then a chastising Father But now thus utged by Sirap whose warranted demand and high deserts might well challenge an absolute grant hee herein still discontented thus contented Sirap Nothing I see right noble valiant and most merritorious Moore seemeth worse to love then to prefer●e any thing before it selfe For cloath Desire in plates of burnish'd gold and Desire will shiver all for colde and fill affections purse with treasure and fancy wanting contentment will starve for hunger so that nothing can satisfie Love but love Your deserts might well have challenged my Principality for your due my dignities for your right and all my treasure for your owne But all these I see suffice not because they satisfie not And to aske you why is to aske one halfe pyned why he is hungry You loue my Lord you loue but whom my daughter yea that is my griefe Not that you loue her vnworthy your loue but that I cannot giue you her more then worthy her For such I sweare by the eternall and my all-preseruing God hath beene and yet is the vndutifull and most obstinate will of my too disobedient and degenerate daughter that neuer yet nor yet euer could I or shall I I feare perswade intreate or enforce her to consent to any in royall ranke worth or majestie suitable to her selfe For many times many powerfull Princes that sued for her fauour shee hath both carelesly

Iustice without pitty is as cruell as Pitie without Iustice is foolish If wrath were not by mercy to be appeased no flesh should be saved O would and thus as he would have floated further in the Sea of his sorrow hee was interrupted and driven out of his Saturnall humour by a certaine Messenger of worth that the Turke had sent to seeke him with whom he returned shadowing his griefe with the borrowed vale of seeming pleasant and arming his patience with noble resolution to give way to all occurrents and to withstand all sinister accidents No sooner was he come into the Sultans sight but that he cheerefully called him and briefly told him that hee meant to invade Christendome And that for his approoved prowis and for the love he bare him he meant to grace him with the conducting of his Army and make him Generall over all his forces This said hee is our will and this your charge Then see that your performance answere our expectation and that our love be guerdoned with your victories Sirap wounded with these words knew not how to lay a playster on this sore yet resolved in his Countries good hee humbly prostrating himselfe yeelded all reverend thankes for such his great esteeme and gracefull respect But such said he pardon me most victorious and most mightiest of most mightiest Princes is my unpractived knowledge in Marshalling of Troupes and ranging of Battels that I should rather ecclipse the feared honour of your name by my overthrow then eternize your gotten fame by my Conquests Besides know most great Commander that though I be a mortall enemie to the Crosse of Christ and an inherent foe to all Christians yet for some private causes best knowne to my selfe I vowed long since never to tread on Christian ground nor come where any worship that Messias for their God Then let I humbly intreat your Imperiall Maiesty some other in worth more worthier supply my defects in their better deserts and bury not your living renowne in my so probable ignorance and unexperienced discipline The Sultan weying the danger of an unpractised Generall allowed the rather his devout obiections and considering the religiousnesse of his vowes though he held it superstitious in it selfe yet would he not violate his consecrated promise but yeelding to his request hee made Mustapha Bassha his Generall and the preparation for him was so great that the bruit thereof piercing the Westerne Clyme came to the knowledge of the French King who as the greatest Christian Prince assembled his wisest Councellours and noble Peeres praying also in ayde of all his Allyes and Princely Confederates about him to conferre and conclude somewhat for the honour and preservation of Christendome Amongst whom the Daulphin of Viennois was there as the sole Solon and onely wisest though too severe a Cato of his Country But such was his over-wayning conceite such the elevation of his high stirring spirit and such his proud estimation of his allowed wisedome that halled on I know not by what destinie he voluntary offered secretly and Pilgrime-like to goe to Constantinople there to espye and learne the strength intention course and preparation then intended meant and made for Christendome This being applauded by the whole assembly so tickled the flattering humour of his vaine glory the ecclipse of his mature wisdome that poysoned with theyr praises hee fayled to looke into the true consideration of so doubtfull and threatning an enterprise Pride made him forget both his place and his yeares and Glory would not permit him neither to take counsaile of Time nor make a provident delay which well shewes that they that are transported with their owne desires have no true scope of judgement left them to looke with perfect eyes into their designes otherwise actions so uncertaine had beene better not undertaken then unfortunately hazarded But he ever hasteth to repent that rashly enterpriseth Hee was most resolute in his determination nothing could dismay him nor no Man could disswade him doubt hee held to be the bane of all hopefull endeavours and if his fate were certaine he said it would profite him little to take heed and if uncertaine it would be more then meere foolishnesse to feare what he was ignorant of would happen In this resolute resolve he called for the Lord Vran Esperance a Man whose care and providence was the life of that State unto his wisedome and trust did he leave the whole governement of his Principality till his returne commanding him upon his allegiance to marshall and manage the whole State as best should stand with Iustice Law and equitie and that he would neither in pitty dutie nor favour such was his perseverant rigour release comfort nor give countenance to the Princesse Vienna otherwise then was by him already censured allowed and accustomed That her obstinate and degenerate disobedience she being a Traytor to true Generation might eternize his unpartiall Iustice make her miserable in being an example to others and that his Title and right might in his absence be the better secured by her imprisonment And so taking his leave he privately departed accompanied with none but with Mal Fiance his affected and learned Servant After their Land travell they Shipt themselves and lanched into the Ocean where after some dayes sayling they were by force of wrathfull and sinister windes by the command of Neptune driven into the Egyptian Sea and so cast on the Bay of Alexandria where he had not rested full three dayes but that a subtile Mercurian a Merchant of Babilon that then lay in Traffique there observing more heedfully the eminent Maiesty and uncontrolled countenance of the Daulphin supposed thereby that he was of no meane Estate His Complexion and attire made him a Christian and his commanding Eyes the true image of the minde shewed him to be of an high Spirit This Linx this Blood-hound to mischiefe hunted after opportunity to resolue this doubt and by fortune encountred with Mal Fiance in the Market-place whither the Daulphin his Lord had sent him to buy some Necessaries Vnto whom in Latine as the most generall Tongue best knowne to all the politique Merchant gave many kinde salutes offering him secretly for the love he bare to Christ and Christians all the best offices he might performe wishing withall to gaine the more credit not to make himselfe knowne in so dangerous and impious a Place Mal Fiance being better Learned then Travelled finding himselfe so kindely intreated by a Stranger returned thankes and ioyfully embrast his courtesie The Merchant glad that he vnderstood him requested his acceptance of a cuppe of theyr Countrey Wine which Mal Fiance as one proud of such vnexpected friendship in so strange a place and that he had met with one of knowledge to conferre withall willingly assented unto The Merchant having waded thus farre into the depth of his awaked intention thought good to sound the Foord at full by undermining theyr proiects And therefore in the curtesie of theyr

begun that the Fish might bite the more eagerly when the bayte was pulled away But oh said Vienna for now she had swallowed the hidden and hurtfull hooke didst thou not perceive the cause of his so secret and so great a griefe Yes Noble Lady said Poltron Time and Occasion gave me meanes to know the same Then good Poltron let me intreat thee she said to relate the full discourse thereof For such Subiects of woe best fitteth wofull mindes and causes of dolour and calamity are ever most pleasing to perplexed persons Poltron thus halled on to set the trap that should ensnare her life thus cunningly gave fire to her tinder Though said he I am unwilling to ingrieve my thoughts with the sad remembrance of my friends over-grieuous sorrowes yet since it is your pleasure your will commands my obedience Then know most fairest of faire Ladies that after I had many times observed the frenzie of his passions and wondring had noted his broken and disconsonant complaints hee being at other times most advisedly wise and most humbly though sadly patient As wee were sitting at the mouth of his Cave chatting on the miseries of this life and the crosses of this uncertaine world I requested him in favour of my desire to recount unto me the cause of his so often passionate laments In answere whereof he said Though my griefe be already such as there can be no addition to so great an extreame and though my wounds cannot be healed because they may not be searched yet to giue thee some content know that not farre from Tolledo in Spaine I serued not long since a great and mighty Lord called Don Daulphinatus who had one onely daughter named Paris-enna whose beauty was farre fairer then the euening starre and whose vertue was more powerfull then the greatest constellation By her sweet influence did I only liue and breathe and though my meane fortune durst not gaze on so bright a Planet yet did her gracious aspect both so ennoble and inable my towring thoughts that vnknowne I atchiued in honour of her name many admired exployts After some season both my acts and my loue were accidentally made knowne to her who in time made mee though most unworthy the Maister of her desires that was and still am a servant to her will Our mutuall mindes thus combined was like the Garden of Eden wherin grew more delights then either Nature now affords or Art can expresse Our hearts fed on pleasures our eyes beheld the blisse of each other and in the full comfort of all content did we sleepe in love and wake and walke in all fulnesse of ioy From this Paradice were we driven by felonious Fortune who envying our happinesse would not suffer that we should make this earth our heaven that was before curst for our sinnes My Lord her Father had knowledge thereof who finding my indignity not worthy of such soveraignty was so caried away with disdainfull scorn and irefull displeasure that he doomed me to death if ever I were found within the precinct of his command This separation for now I was put to my flight was such a corasive to both our confounded soules that she stayed to endure a greater misery the deprivation of life and I wandered in unknowne pathes to seeke after a wished death Long was my travaile and manifold my fortunes But neither distance of place continuance of travaile happinesse of fortune nor tract of time could free my fancie nor weary me from my constant affection At last being both wearied and nighted I came to this harmelesse Cell where in love of Solitarinesse and in contempt of the world I vowed to spend the unspent sorrowes of my Life and keepe my selfe from the knowledge of Men and thereupon he devoutly swore mee that I should not make his private aboad knowne to any Man Whereat the wounded Princesse in her apprehension sighed and watered the floare with her baulmy Teares as knowing by the amplyfied and conioyned Names and by the concurrence and circumstance of the Matter that hee was most assuredly her beloved Paris and thereupon shee demanded what was his Name Sans Lieure replyed Poltron did he call himselfe Sans Lieure sayd she Oh how rightly did the Destinies Christen him and how truely doth his Name expresse his Fate For Griefe hath but a dead heart and haplesse Love none at all But where is that Place of playnt that so confines Sorrow in it selfe and makes Woe a habitation for so miserable a Man Tell mee O tell me that I may send some Sanctified person to comfort him and weyne him from so wretched a life My Oath answered Poltron will not admit that any Man be my meanes should know thereof Then would I were shee sayd with him my selfe for by his Name I now remember hee is that Divining Man that hath revealed Wonders and can tell what shall befall every one Oft have I heard of him and strange things by him fore-told hath come to passe Thus did they both disguise theyr mindes and with untempered Morter daube up their severall concealed meanings and hidden intentions that they might both the better worke out theyr Advantages But Poltron seeing his venemous Plot had without all suspect thus poysoned her beliefe boldly told her That as she was no Man shee was not within the Condition of his Bond and therefore if so she pleased he would not only give her full liberty but also bring her unknowne to that haplesse Hermite whom shee desired much to see provided that shee should give him Gold to bring him after to his native Home and also bee directed by him both for the meanes and the manner of theyr escape and travaile To this she answered that Prisons were no Treasure-houses and that she had no Minte to answere her minde onely some reserved Iewels she had which she would give him It shall said he suffice Pitty pleades in your behalfe your merit claymes redresse and my feeling griefe to see a Princesse so distrest commandes the hazard of my Life Be you but silent and secret and you shall see that I will deceive the waking eyes of encharged wisedome and over-throw the heedfull care of reposed trust And thus it must be By the Print of the Keyes which I will make in Waxe will I make other like Keyes by which all the doores shall congee to your Will and give passage to your pleasure Then will I have you for our better security homely attired with a Boxe under your arme and Bone-lace hanging out of it a payre of Shieres tyed to your Girdle a Yeard in your hand that you may seeme to be not what you are but what in appearance I would have you shew to be And I will with a Pedlers packe on my backe well suited thereunto travell along with you as your Husband So shall wee both better escape and avoyd suspition But how sayd Vienna shall Izabella bestow her selfe She sayd Poltron must stay behind in Prison

that not only canst without pride conquer thy foes but also without folly beyond nature command to owne and deerest affections If that wanton Trojan had had the like sympathie of minde and the same stable sincerity of heart as he had the likenesse and unity of thy name Troy had beene unconquered and hee had lived longer and in greater glory But let us returne to the Lord Vray Esperance who after the overthrow and ejectment of the Savomans had posting newes brought him that the masicious and imperious Daulphinis upon notice of the victory fell suddainely dead She could live no longer that had no hope to rule any longer He pride and desire of Soveraignety could neither brooke subjection nor endure controlment Besides the guilt of her owne evill proclaimed her death and the feare of loosing her life was the losse of her life Such is the nature of greatnesse that but crost in their ambitious courses they shrinke under the waight of their owne burthenous pride But her remove moved not so much the good Governour as the misse of their glorious preserver that invincible and all admirable Knight of the Daulphin that to their amazement had so oft relieved their weakned forces rescued their fainting endangered friends repuls'd their oppressing Enemies slaine most of their best Commanders daunted the whole Armie at two blowes overthrowne and killed the malignant Maligne and the proud ambitious Duke that potent Generall Then hee caused inquisition to be made throughout all his territories after him and rich rewards promised to him that could or should give knowledge of him but no one could shew what he was nor where he was onely some declared that his Beaver being broken in Battaile they sawe his face as blacke as darknesse and his eyes as bright as fire which made the Governor doubtfull whether he were a man that did more then many men or no man that could not be subdued by an hoast of men or that the all-mercifull God in favor of their distressed right had sent some of his correcting Ministers to chasten and powre vengeance on the hatefull heads of their uniust foes But the Warre being thus ended Peace called a counsell for the further establishing of tranquillity And the consideration of these bloudy iarres condemned poore Mal-Fiance to dye not onely for leaving his Lord and being unable to give account of his Soveraignes life but also for being the first cause of perturbation in the State and after of forraigne invasion The losse of so many of their lives made them all thirst after his death To hasten which they brought him the next day to the place of execution where happily the Daulphin and Sirap with his man Boufoy came by all in Pilgrims gownes as they were by agreement going to the Citie who seeing and understanding the cause of that Assembly withdrew themselves and upon short consultation they sent Boufoy to the Governour who needes would bee there to heare his latest Confession that he might learne somewhat concerning his beloved Lord. Of him did Boufoy knowing now the cause in the name of his Master the Knight of the Daulphin require that Mal-Fiance should be delivered unto him which granted hee would undertake to bring them to the Daulphin In assurance whereof he unfolding his Gowne tendered the honour of his Masters shield as a pledge for his performance which when the Lord Vray Esperance saw hee knew it by the devise thereon to bee the same that the Knight of the Daulphin carried in Battaile and therefore he joyfully tooke it and kissing it reverently sayd That that remarkable badge of his all-vertuous and most glorious worth besides the glad tydings he delivered of their gracious Lord was more then sufficient to redeeme a world of lives And therefore presenting Mal-Fiance unto him hee prayed that they might both see the Daulphin and the Daulphin Knight whom next to the Daulphin both hee and all the Viennonians did and would ever honour as their sole and onely preserving Patron And then taking his Chayne from about his necke hee gave it him saying Let this bee a witnesse of my gratefulnesse and truly tell thee with that true joy I entertaine thy welcome tydings Boufoy humbly thanked his honour and requested him that he would bee pleased to see how hee bestowed Mal-Fiance whom he brought unto the other two Pilgrims that were walking a little aside from them But when the Daulphin had discovered himselfe unto him Mal-Fiance fell downe at his feet for mercy and rising threw up his Hat into the ayre and cryed aloud the Daulphin the Daulphin God save my Lord the DAVLPHIN This unexpected and most fortunate accident made all the company at the hearing therof to showt for ioy And the good Vray Esperance hastily lighting from his Horse fell upon his knee and kissing his hand sayd Long may my Liege Lord the Daulphin live Whereat the Daulphin raysing him embraced him and told him that as his loyaltie was crowned with renowne so would he adde honour and reward to his vertues But forget not sayd hee my Lord to welcome this noble and heroicall Moore the thrice worthy Knight of the Daulphin that both hath preserved mee from death and thraldome and delivered you my Country from our oppressing foes O with what ioy and astonishment did then this loyall reioycing Lord hasten to kneele unto him For though he held him lesse then a God yet he thought he could not be but more then a man But Sirap staying him greeted him with all the demonstrations of love and reverent respect This done they mounted both the Daulphin and this magnificent Moore who needs would both ride bare-fac'd in theyr Pilgrime Gownes through the Citie Mal-Fiance waited on the Daulphins stirope and Boufoy manly carried his Masters Shield before him and after went the Lord Vray Esperance with all the rest of their retinue Now their approach was no sooner knowne in Vienna but that they knew their welcomes by their rejoycing bels stately boone-fires and triumphing hearts Hardly could they passe for presse of people still they came running to see them especially the Knight of the Daulphin whom they admired for his fame honoured for his great atchievements and lov'd for their protection Sirap seemed much to admire the French whom the French themselvs did more then admire But in viewing the whole Troupe his observing eye light by chance on his fast friend La-nova at which sight hee sighed yet thought himselfe happy in the sight Thus rode they on triumphant in themselves and honoured of all At length they came to the Palace gate where dismounting themselves the Daulphin now happy in being the Daulphin could not but shed swelling teares in tender remembrance of his too well beloved Wife But as the Generall of an Armie buries all the remembrance of his lost friend in the pride and triumph of his Conquest so did the Daulphins freedome from many perils and the artainement to his neere lost

le laugh in Envies face But more considerately weighing his owne case hee entertained better thoughts and therefore writ in the next stage of the window Jf Rivers great from smallest Brookes doe flow Poore hopes in time farre better haps may know But now Fortune that wayted though yet a farre off on Paris unknowne merit gave him a befitting occasion to doe Vienna though still covertly more pleasing and more glorious service For there had lately falne out in the French Court a great contention betwixt the native Barons and some severall noble Forraigners that then for their pleasures followed that Court in honour of the King The controversy was whether was most fairer or the more vertuous of these three Ladies Valentia the great Duke of Burbons daughter Vienna the Daulphins sole heyre of Viennoys or the Lady Margaret sister to the King of England Great was their debate and many there were that maintained each severall Ladies beauty In so much as they fell from arguing to anger from anger to blowes and from blowes to wounds The French King offended with their offending uproare and great neglect of their due respect to place and person commanded peace upon their Alleageances And after being pacified and fully possest with the cause he held the occasion well worthy dispute but their faulty courages and our furious proceedings punishable in the place Yet fearing the further ill that might in many particulars well ensue thereof out of his deepe insight he pardoned their great over-sights and calling them all before him after some few reprehending words hee thus with a milde majesty briefely and wisely appeased them all First he commanded that a solemne and royall Iusts in honour of the three Ladies should be proclaimed throughout all his Kingdome to be holden in Paris at Pentecost following free for all commers and that she whose Knight should honour her with the honour of the day should bee ever had and held for the fairest of the three and that his Queene should crowne her with a Crowne of white Lillyes beset with precious stones as Soveraigne Queene of most perfect beauty This milde and pleasing shower so kindly distilling from the King so well allayed their stormy furies that calming theyr over-enraged wills in the shame of their amisse they humbly on bowed knees craved pardon for their offences and thanked the King for the grace and honour that he did them Then sent the King his Ambassadour to acquaint the English King and specially Messengers to the Daulphin and Duke entreating the King and willing both the other to honour him and his Court with their persons his sister and theyr two daughters at the assigned day and that each of them would be pleased to prepare and bring some beseeming prize of value befitting both themselves the cause and the worth of the Victor All which they promised in the word of a Prince holding themselves no little honoured in so honorable a contention Before the day the day drawing neere there came so many noble well appointed Knights that the French Kings 〈◊〉 seemed an Alexanders Campe. Great was theyr F●●●ti●g and full Royall was all theyr entertainements But th● d●y of tryall being come Aurora no sooner shewed her ●●●●ings blush but that the French King ashamed of 〈…〉 rose and rid to see the three high Artificiall Mounts which he had caused to be erected and made for the three Ladies to sit on who no sooner were come and placed but that the Duke of Burbon came marching in with a rich Garland made all of orient Pearle hanging on a Blew Banner with his coate of Armes on the other side and placed it on the Mount belonging to Valentia on her left aside Then followed the Daulphin of Viennois with a rich Coller of Esses beset all over with Rubies hanging on a white Banner with his armes displayed on the other side and plac'd it on Viennas Mount on the right hand of his Daughter Then came Englands royall King with an imperiall Crowne of burnisht gold set with Indian Diamonds and blew Saphirs supported betwixt two regall Lyons hanging on a red Banner and plac'd it on the middle mount before his Sister the Lady Margaret In the face of each severall Mount some foure degrees under the Ladies sate each severall Ladies Father in a strange devised Seate so curiously made and so gloriously deckt that each one seemed to be Apollo sitting in the Chariot of the Sunne The Knights whose rare Devises discovered theyr secret and severall fancies as they were affected so they betooke themselves to the Mount whose honor they were to maintaine The French King sitting in his rich Pavillion powdered with Flower-deluces opposite to the Mounts caused Proclamation to be made on paine of death that none but the Knights Encounterers should stay or enter into the Listes and that no Knight unhorsed should Iust againe nor any make offer of Combate This being done the King of Armes stood up and after a third sound bade them goe too and doe theyr best devoyres like valiant Knights And no sooner had he ended his words but that there came from Valentias Mount a Knight well mounted on a speedy Bay his Armour Bases and all other his Furniture Azure full of fiery flames and on his shield he bare a Phoenix enclosed within a bright shining Sunne and under it a hand reaching towards it with this underwritten Motto O vtinam Towards him came from the Lady Margarets Mount a greene Knight full of eyes and bleeding Hearts mounted on a fierce Blacke bearing on his Shield an Armed Knight prostrated undera Ladies mercy his Launce lying unbroken by him with his Motto All-ready conquered These two Knights encountred each other so furiously and forceably that their Staues shivered in the ayre and witnessed theyr courages in their fall but in the counterbuffe the knight of the Phoenix was borne to the ground so that the greene Knight rode on overthrowing twenty other Knights that came from both the other Mounts the last of whom bare in his Shield the Picture of Vienna most richly pourtracted with a vaile of lawne all over her and from the dexter part of the Shield there was a Hand and an Arme comming forth of a Cloud holding a fayre Labell whereon was written Such an one as such is none Great was now the glory of the Lady Margaret and all malecontented sate the other two Ladies especially Vienna who now seeing her shadowed selfe lying in the dust mist and wisht for her White and vnknowne Knight And as her wandring eye romed up and downe still looking whether she could espie him she suddainely both heard and saw a well proportioned Blacke Knight rudely rushing from her Mount who so fiercely saluted the Greene Knight that he made him pay tribute for his former honour in the overthrow of his fortune Threescore other assayling Knights he dismounted before Vienna who now joying wondred and wondering prayed that he might be her desired knight that wonne her

Christall Shield and Chaplet at her Fathers Court and well shee prayed that had so well her prayer for it was Sir Paris indeed who knowing that Emulation hath many eyes and that Observation might easily discover him fearing to be knowne by his white Armour had thus sadly arm'd himselfe sutable to his sable fortune and therefore he bare nothing in his Shield but Blacknesse for his Devise was still to be without Devise only his sad Armour was covered all over with mourning Clouds Many Knights there were overthrowne by La-nova but more then many did Sir Paris foyle For then if ever and if ever then did he shew the vertue of his valour in the strength of his courage Now grew the hurly-burly great and many and great were the encounters made on each side In so much that there rested but unoverthrowne one Valentia on the Lady Margarets part on either side three and all onely on Viennas but one which was the blacke clouded Knight who now was deem'd hardly bestead both in regard of his former travailes and the present advantage of the sixe fresh assailants who bent all theyr forces first against him Valentias hope was now a little revived and the Lady Margarets proud expectation fully answered Valentias hope Onely doubtfull Vienna neere dyed for feare least that her beauty should now be eclipsed in the losse of her gotten fame and that her fame should be buried in the dying renowne of her best esteemed beauty For as she wondred hee had so long resisted so shee held it unpossible hee should longer resist But Sir Paris onely weary in that there were no more to be wearied by him casting his eye the messenger of his heart on Vienna and seeing the shining lights of her transparent beauty over-shadowed with sorrow and dismay Desire so blew the fire of his new conceived rage that like an unmercifull and hunger-starved Lyon that runnes raging for his prey so he violently runne amongst them that with one staffe he overthrew the first three he met and turning his House before Vienna could turne her dispaire he charg'd the fourth so forceably that hee sent both Horse and Man to the ground At the sight whereof the people gave such applauding shoutes that Vienna lifting up her sad eye as waking from a carefull slumber she saw her Knight returning in the glory of theyr overthrowes So that hoping now for better hap a better hap did befall her then she did or could expect For no sooner made hee his last returne but hee returned againe from overturning of the other two Who triumphed then but Vienna Who now more sad then Valentia or who more grieved then the Lady Margaret the Iust thus ended the French Queene came with a troupe of attending Ladyes carying before her the Crowne of Artificiall Lillies richly stoned and setting it on Viennas head shee Crowned her for sole and Soveraigne Queene of absolute and matchlesse beauty Then came the King and tooke Sir Paris by the hand and lead him all the other Knights and Barrons following them with tryumphing honour and sound of Trumpets to the three Mounts where with his owne hand hee gave him the three Banners with the three prizes on them which Sir Paris reverently taking re-delivered over to his friend La-nova secretly to convay them away while hee stayed the ending of all other the ceremonies All which being accomplished The King the Daulphin and Vienna rendring Sir Paris thankes for his worthy and affectionate endeavours and most renowned and fortunate atchievements requested him in the name of Vienna to discover himselfe and tell unto whom they were all so much bounden But Sir Paris humbling himselefe in all duty made reverent shew of his unwillingnesse therein which the King noting would not further importune him nor could the Daulphin in any wise over-treat him nor durst Vienna over-much presse him So that he kissing her hand held it long and after drawing his sword layd it at her feete and taking it vp againe kist it likewise and then holding it up seemed to threaten the world in her behalfe which added this Article to Viennas beleife that he undoubtedly was her white Knight and the same and non but the same that first so melodiously sang under her Chamber window and theeefore her desires having now no end shee ever after though each houre an age till she knew him But Sir Paris withdrawing himselfe to the rest of the Knights retired with them still giving backe till he was the last of the troupe and then taking a crosse-way separated and convayed himselfe from them and suddenly disarming himselfe hee speedied to finde out the Bishop of St. Lawrence with whom of purpose to prevent all surmises hee had a little before familiarized himselfe and no sooner had hee espyed him but that he hasted to greete him and still kept in his company as if St. Marke had robb'd god Mars of a Martialist Such was his holy shew of devout Religion as that he made all men admire him and his father to be inwardly grieved at him But Vienna who now had greater cause to love him then meanes to know him wondring at his valour not to be valued and valuing his vertues by clowding the glory and value of his prowis held now his love an honour to her affection and vowed her affection a guerdon for his love But when she heard of his secret departure and that no one knew what he was from whence he came nor to what place he had retired himselfe Then impatient desire made her the child of passion feare to loose that she never had made her feele what before she neither knew nor feared And so much the more she held her selfe miserable in that she knew not for whom she was so miserable nor how to seeke an end to end her misery As Viennas sad conceite thus overshaded the glory of her beautifull Conquest so was Sir Jaques flattering hope made blacke with foule dispaire For missing his sonne Sir Paris out of two so Royall honorable Assemblies where renowne eternized each deserving Knight with never dying fame and seeing him still associating the Bishop hee feared least his businesse of over superstitious Zeale had abandoned all desire and regard of Knightly Chivalry And therefore hot in his repining conceit hee hastened to find La-nova unto whom in griefe he manifested the cause of his griefe Requesting and conjuring him by the sacred lawes and name of friendship and by the honour he owed to Armes to perswade his sonne to a more befitting respect of his unregarded honour La-nova hearing Sir Jaques worthy complaint and seeing his frosted beard all bedewed with the teares of his sorrow pittyed his lament but durst not disclose the mistery of the truth but commending his honourable care hee comforted him with promise of assured and present remedy and so left him better satisfied then truely certified And no sooner were they parted but La-nova departed to impart to Sir Paris what

of the other and the love of liberty to give liberty to love The change that change of fortune wrought in them all made theyr mindes more then pleasing Paradises of unspeakable pleasures The Daulphin dreamed of nought but Majestie and Dignities Boufoy of freedome and preferment and Sirap his rich hopes promised him now golden fortunes yet durst hee not unmaske himselfe lest he should deprive Conceit of his new Christendome and betray Policy of his chiefest pretence but still holding the borrowed habite and artificiall colour of a blacke Moore hee still spake unto the Daulphin by Boufoy his Interpreter by whom he discoursed of many things and againe and againe and still againe enquired of such affaires as most neerest did concerne him wherein he tooke double delight in not onely gaining knowledge of the assurance of Viennaes life and love but in deceiving the Daulphin that the Daulphin might thereby be the more deceiued In this clouded communication wee will leaue them a while to see what befell Mal Fiance whom we left detained in the Tauerne ignorant of his Lords surprise though not innocent of the cause Tenne dayes did the Vintner keepe him close still expecting that either the Merchant should returne or that the Sanzake should send for his restrained guest But when he could neither heare of the one nor the other hee began to grow jealous of the matter and premeditating thereon at last fastned on this beliefe That the Merchant like a subtill Mercurian had cheated the stranger and after left him not onely to pay for the wine but also made him a stale to conuay himselfe away vnder the face of honesty For otherwise he thought that if there had beene cause of taxation complaint or examination there would no doubt haue beene hasty inquisition made after him In this perswasion he set Mal Fiance at liberty who now found his repenting errour in the losse of his Lord Shame rebuk't his tongue Griefe attach'd his heart and Feare afflicted all his thoughts At this deare rate hee purchas'd wit which taught him to labour more aduisedly in the fearefull search of the Daulphin His enquiring eyes did still pry into euery corner of all his carefull and wandring wayes and in all assemblies hee sought whom hee could not finde But when neither weary time nor warie search could giue him any knowledge of him Then happily meeting with a Flemming that was ready bound for Zeland he went a shipbord with him hoping that either hee should finde his Lord returned to Viennois or giue them cause to follow him in better quest After many dayes sayling they happily arriued at Middleburge where in an olde decayed Burgamasters house they lodged Mal Fiance who finding the aged iealousie of his aged Host cunningly caried himselfe in a strict shew of purity that vnder that deceit hee might the better deceiue This suspitious Syre hauing not onely a beautifull daughter but a young faire wife whom lately hee had espoused was so fearefully jealous of them both that he confined them within the limit of his house and if either of them were but out of his sight hee straight supposed she was in action A seruice which none can disgest that may not themselues performe But to take away all meanes that did helpe not heale his misdeemes hee caused his daughter to lye in a lowbed within his Chamber and made the doore to be lockt each night Now it fell out that there was a great and secret loue betwixt his daughter and one Haunce the sonne of a rich Tanner that dwelt not farre from him who by appointment came presently after supper time to her Chamber window that lookt into the Garden where he so passionately pleaded for the Haruest of his amorous desires that she being made of flesh not flint granted that hee should reape the full fruition of his loue if hee would but aduenture the venture of it For so said she it is that ouer and besides my Fathers watchfull feare and euer waking iealousie I doe lye neere vnto him within his Chamber where though I may easily giue you entrance yet to entertaine you without his perceiuance stands not with my beliefe That matters not said Haunce I will not leaue the venter for any aduenture leaue the managing thereof to me who will for thy sake attempt the height of the hazard Loue feares no danger and pleasure without shew of perill looseth the vigour of her sweetnesse I will with feare so deceiue his feare that I will take from him all apprehension of such feare Onely bee not thou afraid at any thing that thou shalt heare or see and so farewell and expect my comming All this wanton discourse did Mal Fiance listning heare as by chance he leaned in his chamber window which was but the bredth of a post from her window who like a true Venerian knowing their carnall conclusion resolued to take the benefit of the match though shee were more then his match to put into the Mediterranean Sea when the winde should serue in that pleasant Pinnace wherein enhaunced Haunce hoped solely to sayle withioy through the Magellan straights To affect which hee sate in counsell with all his thoughts how hee might best deceive not onely hopefull Haunce but also her jealous Father and over-amorous Mother who being sicke of old ages tedious and over-long enduring debilities had many times by her alluring eyes stolne glaunces and other enticing demeanours lookt for Physick at his hands At last device advised him that there was no way to binde jealousie to the peace and to keepe himselfe from interruption but onely by horrour of feare to make him loose himselfe and sencelesse of all other feare In proofe whereof that night at the dead houre of heavy and leaden sleepe hee tooke one of his bed sheetes and tying a knot on the top threw it over him and like a troubled ghost with doubtfull paces went into the Burgamasters Chamber who being kept waking by his decrepit griefes heard the fall of his steps and being so darke that he could not see he gastly askt who was there None but I said his watching sensuall daughter supposing it had beene Haunce Is the doore lockt said he yes quoth shee you heard me locke it your selfe and so shee did but without the staple Mal-Fiance being thus plannet-strucken curst old Saturne for being now so opposite to Venus and in his pawse of doubtfull stay hee light on this subtill shift presently hee crept stealingly vnder his bed where finding a payre of bellowes that carelesly had bin throwne and left there hee tooke them up and softly rising by the beds head hee blewe many suddaine and short blasts upon him and then falling downe againe he set his backe to the middle of the bed cordes where with all his force hee lifted the bed up as high as hee could and then would let it softly fall and then raising it up againe would after let it fall suddainly and then would