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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53594	Chaucer's ghoast, or, A piece of antiquity containing twelve pleasant fables of Ovid penn'd after the ancient manner of writing in England, which makes them prove mock-poems to the present poetry : with the history of Prince Corniger and his champion Sir Crucifrag, that run a tilt likewise at the present historiographers / by a lover of antiquity.	Lover of antiquity.; Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.; Ovid, 43 B. C.-17 or 18 A. D. Metamorphoses.; Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Confessio amantis.	1672 (1672)	Wing O647; ESTC R31770	28,522	136

and went to the Dwarf and the Dwarf took her and went his way singing and the Knight went his way mourning Then came Sir Crucifrag to an Husbandman of the Countrey who told him how there was in that place a great Giant who had slain murdered and devoured much people of the Countrey and had been sustained seven years with the Children of the Commons of that Land and now of late he had taken a Dutchess the fairest Woman in the world and killed her Husband and had led her to his Lodging which was in a Mountain for to ravish her and lie by her to her lives end and many people followed her more then five hundred but all they might not rescue her but they left her shryking and crying most lamentably wherefore I suppose he hath slain her in fulfilling his foul lust of Lechery Alas said Sir Crucifrag this is a grete mischief I had lever then the best Realm that I had been a furlong way before him to have rescued her Now fellow said Sir Crucifrag canst thou bring me there where as this Giant haunteth Yea Sir said the poor man lo yonder whereas you see two great fires there shall ye not fail to find him and more Treasure as I suppose then is in a great Realm When Sir Crucifrag had well understood this piteous case he made ready his Horse and Harness and after Evensong he rode forth as fast as he might till he came to the Mountain and so he ascended up the Mount till he came to a great fire and there found he a careful Widow wringing her hands and making great sorrow sitting by a Grave new made And then Sir Crucifrag saluted her and demanded her whereof she made so great lamentation Unto whom she answered Sir Knight speak soft for yonder is a Monster if he hear thee speak he will come and destroy thee I hold thee unhappy for coming here in this Mountain for if ye were such fifty as ye be ye were not able to make resistance against this Devil See where lieth a VVoman dead which was the Sister to a Noble mans VVife that he hath murthered in forceing her Dame said Sir Crucifrag I come from the great Prince Corniger to treat with this Tyrant for his Leige People Fie upon such Treaties said the VVidow he setteth nought by Prince Corniger ne by no man else Beware approach him not nigh sor he hath over come and vanquished fifteen Kings and four hundred Knights and hath made a Coat embroidered vvith their Beards vvhich they sent him to have his love for sparing of their people but on if thou wilt speak with him at yonder fire he is at supper Well said Sir Crucifrag I will accomplish my message for all your fearful words and he went forth by the crest of that Hill and saw where he sate at souper knawing on the limb of a man beking his broad limbs by the fire and breechless and three Damesels turning three broches whereon were broched twelve young Children late born like young birds When Sir Crucifrag beheld this piteous sight he had great compassion on them so that his heart bled for sorrow and hailed him saying in this wise He that all the world weldeth give thee short life and a shameful death and the Devil have thy soul why hast thou murdered these young innocent Children and this Woman Therefore arise and dress thee thou Clutton for this day shalt thou die of my hands Then anon the Giant started up and took a great club in his hand and smote at Sir Crucifrag that his Club fell far into the earth and Sir Crucifrag hit him again that he carved his belly for he was breechless for haste that his Guts and Entrails fell down to the ground then the three Damesels kneeled down and called to our Lord Jesu Christ for help and comfort of the noble Knight Sir Crucifrag So Sir Crucifrag smote off the Giants Head and the Damesels came and thanked him and brought him to the fair Dutchess and many prisoners These he released and bid them divide the Goods amongst them onely he took the Giants head and Club and the fair Dutchess to himself and with her he made good cheer and either drank to other freely of the Giants good wine and they thought never drink that ever they drank to other was so sweet nor so good But by that their drink was in their bodies they loved each other so well that Sir Crucifrag and the Dutchess Love was not to be parted for we le nor for woe And so anon they departed and rode so long till by fortune they came nigh a Castle and there they arrived for to rest them wening to have had good harbour But anon as Sir Crucifrag was within the Castle they were taken prisoners for the Custom of that Castle was that such that brought any Lady must needs fight with the Lord of the Castle which was high Sir Bullirock and he that was weakest should lose his head and than if his Lady be fowler then the Lords Wife she must lese her head and if she be fairer proved then the Lady of the Castle must loose her head Now so God help me said Sir Crucifrag this is a shameful custom netheless I have one avantage for I have a Lady fairer saw I never in all my life days and I doubt not but she shall save her head Then he said to the Knight that took them Prisoners I have great mervail Sir what is the cause that your Lord holdeth us Prisoners for it was never the custom of any place of worship that ever I came in that when a Knight and a Lady asked harbour and were received and then after they should be destroyed it is a foul evil custom by the faith of my body wherefore tell your Lord I will be ready as to morrow with my Lady and my self to Battaile if it be so that I may have my Horse and my Armour Sir said the Knight undertake that your desire shall speed right well and therewith he departed And on the morrow betimes that same Knight came unto Sir Crucifrag and put him and his Lady out of Prison and brought him Horse and Armour which was his own and bade him make him ready to the Field For all the Chieftains and Commons of that Lordship were there ready to behold the Battaile and give judgement Then came Sir Bullirock the Lord of the Castle holding his Lady by the hand all muffled and asked Sir Crucifrag where his Lady was for and thy Lady be fairer then mine vvith thy Svverd smite off my Ladies head and if my Lady be fairer then thine then must I strike off her head and if my Lady lose her head yet shall I slee thee and have thy Lady Sir Knight said Sir Crucifrag this is a foul and an horrible custom and rather then my Lady should lose her head yet had I lever lose my head Nay said Sir Bullirock the Ladies

Arg. 9. Victa nitore dei positâ vim passa querela est Ovid. l. iv VEnus which hath the Law in hand of that which we cannot withstand as she who doth the treasure guard of Love and hath it in her ward Phaebus to Love hath so constrained that without rest he 's sorely pained with all his watchfulness to wait to find the Damsels guards less strait who was in chamber kept so close that she ne're did her self disclose but with her mother for to play Leucothea so as men say this Maid was fair and Orchamus her Fader was but it fell thus to 's Daughter that was kept so dear and had been so from year to year under her Mothers Discipline a clean Maid and a fair Virgin Upon the whose Nativity of comeliness and of beauty Nature had set all that she may that like unto the Moneth of May which all the other Moneths o' th' year surmounteth So without her peer was of this Maiden the feature whereof Phoebus without measure her loved and on every side awaited if so may betide that he through any slight might her lusty Maidenhead unright esteem'd above all the worlds wealth And thus lurking upon stealth in his await so long he lay till it befell upon a day that he throughout the Chamber wall came in all suddenly and stall that thing that was to him so chief But wo the while he was a thief And Venus who was Enemy of such Love-treachery discovered all the plain case to Clymene who then was towards Phaebus his Concubine and whan she found the cause in fine of all the case then she was wroth and for to plague the Maid she goeth and told her Father how it stood who was for sorrow well nigh wood And to her Mother thus he said Lo what it is to keep a Maid To Phaebus dare I nothing speak but unto her it shall be wreke So that all Maidens after this now take ensample what it is to suffer Maidenhead be lost for fear it should their death them cost and bad with that to make a pit wherein he hath his Daughter set as he that would no pity have so that she was all quick in Grave and died anon in his presence But Phoebus who had reverence to her that died for his Love hath wrought through his power above that she spring up out of the mold into a flower as bright as Gold Arg. 10. Dum redit itque frequens in virgine No●a cri●â Haesit c. Ovid. l. ii KIng Cytheron upon his Wife a Daughter had a goodly life and clean Maiden of goodly fame and Calisto was her right name called and she by many a Lord was oft besought but her accord to Love might no man win as she which had no lust therein but swore within her heart and said she would for ever be a Maid Wherefore to keep her self in peace with the Nymphs Amadriades upon the Springs and the fresh VVells she hopes to dwell and no where ells and thus came this Calistona into the Wood of Tegea and thus she came within the sight of Diana and there she plight her troth upon the VVoods so green to preserve her Maidenhead clean which afterwards upon a day was privily stolen away For Iupiter through his quainti●e from her it took in such a wise that suddenly and forth withall her womb arose and she did swall so then she could no longer hide and thereupon it did betide that Diana the soth to tell in privy place unto a VVell with Nymphs all in her company was gone and out of waggery she said that she bathe would and bad that every Maiden should with her all naked bathe also and then began the privy wo. And Calisto was red for shame but they that never knew the game to whom no such thing did befall anon they made them naked all because that nothing they would hide but she withdrew her ever aside and netheless into the Floud whereas Diana her self stood she thought for to come unperceived but thereof she was all deceived for when she came a little nigh and Diana her VVomb did spie she said away O thou foul Beast for thy estate is not honest nor may'st thou this chaste water touch for thou hast ta'ne a touch too much which never may be whole again And thus she goes which was forlain with shame and fled away that day from all the Nymphs for ever and ay Arg. 11. How Socrates Wife threw a Pot of Water upon his Head and of his patience MY son a man to buy him peace behoves to suffer as Socrates for amongst men 't is evident that he was very patient for he wedded a wicked Wife who gave him much sorrow and strife against his ease it was contraire but he spake ever soft and fair till it befell as it is told in Winter when the day is cold that his wife was from the Well come with a full pot of water home and so she brought it in the house and saw how that her quiet spouse was set and looked on a Book nigh to the fire as he who took his ease as for a man of age but she began her wonted rage and asked him what divel he thought that he so near the fire him brought when as she labour took in hand and said that such an Husband was to a Wife not worth a stre but he said neither nay nor ye but held him still and let her chide But she which may her self not hide began within forthwith to swell and that she brought in from the VVell the water-pot she put aloft and bade him speak but he all soft sate still and not a word answer'd with that she ask'd him how he far'd and asked him if he be dead and all the water on his head she poured out and bade him wake But he which never would forsake his patience did softly spake that he ne wondred what was done for now the winter was begun and winter as by way of kind which stormy is as men it find first maketh the winds for to blow and after that within a throw it rains which reason 's well beseen to cause me novv both vvind and rain after the season of the year and then he set him near the fire The Pleasant History of Prince CORNIGER and his Champion Sir CRUCIFRAG SO it befell upon a time after the Death of King Mort who was wounded in battaile by his Enemies that he died when all his good Knights and Barons passing stout men of bodies were gedred togyder in their their Castle to make a Counsaile-general and a great Justs after they were come thider and lodged as them seemed best there came a Damesel which was sent on a message from the great Lady of the Isle of Witch and when she came before them she let her mantel fall that was very richly furnished and then was she girded with a noble Swerd whereof the Knights had great marvail

and said Damesel for what cause are you girded with this Swerd it beseemeth you not This Swerd said the Damesel that I am girded withall doth me great sorrow and encumbrance for I may not be delivered of this Swerd but by a good Knight and he must be a passing brave man of his hands and of his deeds and without villany and treachery For I have been with King Palliobarb 'cause it was told me that there were passing good Knights with him but none of them can speed Then they all pulled at it eagerly but the Swerd would not out Sirs said the Damesel ye need not pull half so hard for he that shall pull it out shall do it with little might and he must be a clean Knight of gentle stream both of fader and mothers side Now it hapned so at that time that there was a poor Knight which had been prisoner with King Mort half a year for sleying of a Knight that was his Cousin this Knight was named Corniger 'cause his Crest was a pair of Horns and by the good means of the Barons he was delivered out of Prison after the Kings Death for he was a passing good Knight So he went privily to the Castle and saw this adventure whereof his heart rose and would assail it as other Knights did but for because he was poorly arrayed they put him not far in price Netheless he called the Damesel and said I pray you of Courtesie to suffer me as well to assay as these Lords though I be poor clothed in my heart me seemeth I am fully assured to speed right well The Damesel beheld the Knight but for because of his poor array she thought he should be of no worship without villany or treachery Ah fair Damesel said Sir Corniger worthiness and good deeds are not all onely in rayment but manhood and worship and hardiness is not in cloathing In sooth said the Damesel you say true therefore you shall assay to do what you will then he took the Swerd by the Girdle and Scabberd and drew it out easily and when he looked upon the Swerd it pleased him moche Then the Barons had great mervail that Sir Corniger had done the adventure Truly said the Damesel this is a passing good Knight and the best man that ever I found and most of worship without treachery and villany and many mervails shall he achieve Wherefore all the Knights and Barons cry'd all at once We will have Sir Corniger unto our King for we all see that it is Goodness will that he should be our King and who so holdeth against it we will ●lee him And thereupon they kneeled down all at once both rich and poor and cry'd Prince Corniger mercy because he had been imprisoned and Prince Corniger forgave it them And so anon there was Coronation made and there was he sworn to the Lords and Commons for to be a true King to stand with true Justice from henceforth all the days of his life So he became their King and let cry a great Feast But many Complaints were made unto Prince Corniger of great wrongs that were done by their Enemies sithen the Death of King Mort of many Londs that were bereaved of their Lords Knights Ladies and Gentlemen wherefore the King came out of his Towre to the Ambassadours and there went with him Sir Cruel Sir Rasour and Sir Kilman these were the men of most worship that were with him And whan they met togider there was but little meekness for there was stout and hard words on both sides but always Prince Corniger answered them He would make them blow if he lived wherefore they departed with wrath and Prince Corniger bid them keep them well and they bid Prince Corniger keep him well So the Prince returned to his Castle and armed him and all his Knights in the mean while there were three hundred good men of the best that went strait to Prince Corniger and that comforted him greatly And Sir Cruel Sir Rasour and Sir Kilman slew on the right hand and on the left and did mervailous deeds of Arms that the King had great joy of their deeds and hardiness But the Enemies came on afresh behind them and perplexed Prince Cornigers Knights wherefore Prince Corniger drew his Swerd which was so bright in his Enemies eyes that it gave light like thirty Torches and therewith he put them back and slew moch people So in little space the Enemy fled and Prince Corniger returned to his Castle where he found a passing fair fellowship and well beseen whereof he had great joy and victuals they wanted none Next day Prince Corniger with his good and trusty Knights set upon his Enemies so fiercely that they overthrew their Pavilions on their heads but by manly Prowess of Arms they were forced to take a fair field and when it grew towards day Sir Fierce smote down Horse and Man and Sir Rasour cut an infinite company of heads off and Sir Kilman slew many a valiant Knight so the meddle waxed passing great and hard on both parties But when Sir Fierce saw Sir Cruel on foot he ran like a Lyon upon Sir Meddlemuch his Enemy and smote him through the left side that horse and man fell down to the ground Then he took the horse by the Rayns and led him to Sir Cruel and said Have thou this Horse mine old Friend for grete need hast thou of an Horse Gramercy said Sir Cruel and lightly mounted So then he saw Prince Corniger do mervailously that all men had wonder thereof for he smote King Boldenough on the Helm that a quarter of the Helm and half the Shield fell down and so the Swerd carved down unto the Horse neck and so both Horse and Man fell to the ground But there came fourteen Knights upon him and then he smote one of them on the Helm and it went down to the Teeth and he rode to another and smote him that his Arm flew into the Field then he went to the third and smote him on the Shoulder that both Shoulder and Arm flew into the Field and he smote another Knight on the Neck that Head and Helm went to the earth So Sir Cruel Sir Fierce and Sir Rasour and Sir Kilman by Prince Cornigers example smote off Heads Legs and Arms wonderfully So the Battle was passing hardy that many Knights shook and trembled for eagerness Then Prince Corniger seeing the Battle wou'd not be ended by no manner he faced like a Wood Lyon and stirred his Horse here and there on the right hand and on the left that he stinted not till he had slain twenty Knights so there was a terrible meddle of breaking Spears and smiting of Swerds with sleying of men and horses and the enemies were at a loss for there was newly arrived Sir Bloudy as a fierce Tyger that his strokes redounded again from the Wood and the Water so that the Enemies were forced to hurtle togyder