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A51508	Vienna, noe art can cure this hart where in is storied, ye valorous atchievements, famous triumphs, constant love, great miseries, & finall happines, of the well-deserving, 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.; Minshull, Richard.	1650 (1650)	Wing M295C; ESTC R19255	130,674	194

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 fadly 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 3. and if ever then did he shew the ver●●o of his valour in the strength of his courage Now grew the hurly-burly great and many and great were the oncounters made on each side In so much that there rested but unoverthrowne one Valentia on the Lady Margarets part on eitherside 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 the●r 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 Desite 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 over●hrew the first three he met and turning his Horse 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 tee people gave such applaudrng 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 g●●eved then the Lady Margaret the Just thus ended the French Queene cam●●with a troope 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 wit● 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 atchievem●nts requested him in the name of Vienna to discover himselfe and tell unto whom they were all so much bounden But Sir Par●● humbling himselfe 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 overmuch presse him So that he kissing her hand held it long and after drawing his sword sayd 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 undoub●edly was her white Knight and the same and non but the same that first so melodiously sang under her Chamber window and therefore 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 troope 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 hee hasted to greet 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 clouding 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 ret red himselfe Then impatient desire made her the child of passion and 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 conceit thus overshaded the glory of her beautifull Conquest so was Sir Iaques flattering hope made blacke with foule dispaire For missing his sonne Sir Paris out of two so Royall and 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 Arnies to perswade his sonne to a more be●tting respect of his unregarded honour La-nova hearing Sir Iaques 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 where they parted but La-nova departed to impart to

friends But in the end they having no end in drinking he seeing them so devoutly sacrificing to Bacchus he to honor their Religion added then more fatall fewell to their drunken fire Their overdrawn cups were still replenished with the powdered Wines and ever he plyed them with cups till their cups had over-plyed them That drunk in their drowsie devotion they falling into a leaden slumber began to sleep out all living consideration Now Sirap seeing his hope honoured with some perfection thought it fit to do homage to opportunity for in deferring of time many times it is both the losse of life and occasion And therefore adding execution to time he instantly went to make all such as were in the Castle sure which done he came back and taking the keyes from the Keeper whom with the rest of both their servants we will leave where they silent lay he hastily went down to the Dolphins lodging where they found him prostrate on the ground moystening the earth with his repenting teares and piercing the heavens with his prayers for the supposed Moors good successe but before he could make an end of his prayers Sirap came to end his prayers and Purgatory at once and releasing him from his oppressing Irons brought him up to view Morphens Comedy which that dull God with his ayd had made and prepared for his pleasure Thus when our sins are rips and God to Justice bent He turns our greatest pleasures to our just punishment Now Time struck his lock before and it fitted not to argue what was done or what was to be done least they themselves might be undone but giving praise to God in their severall shewed kinds they presently buckled up their spirits with their legs like Bees that having suckt the juyce of forraign Gardens make wing to their own hives that they may make merry with the fraught of their adventures So did they hast to the back gate of the Castle which they prizing open went to the Rivers side where the hired Pylot courteously attended their comming In a small vessell they imbarqued themselves and sayled to the Persian Gulfe and so a long to the Affrick Sea Upon the entry whereof there crost them a great Pyrate of Arabia whose uncheckt fortunes and uncontrouled strength still crown'd his hardest attempts with victory But his pride was now like a vapour that ascending high soon turneth into smoak For he no sooner saw their small Frigot but counting it his purchase he hastily made towards them and looking for no resistance he grapled with them and commanded them to yeeld But Sirap being unwilling to loose the rich benefit of his high adventure having no acquaintance with fear and being ever accustomed to conquer drew forth his sleeping Semitar which his enraged fury whetted so sharp that he clove the first opposer down to the back and sent the head of the next as an Ambassadour to plead for peace amongst the monsters of the Sea The Dolphin seeing such great chips cut out of such rough timber wondered at his force and admired his valour Death seemed now to hold a Sessions in the Ship and Sirap still gave the summons for their appearance For fearing left their entry into his ship should endanger the Dolphin he to prevent that hazarded himself the more by leaping in among his enemies where his magnanimious mind armed with the arm of puissance so disheartned his foes that the Captain fearing least any more should come to assist him caused the ships to be ungrapled And no sooner were they separated but that the timerous Pilot wherein the Dolphin was seeing himselfe severed from perill began to turn the stern of his ship and with a side wind to sayl back which Bonfoy espying thought it better to dy in adventure of his liberty then to become a Captive again to misery Despair therefore made him valiant and necessity did adde to his courage which made him to exceed himself in might and to go beyond all hope in successe For suddenly running the Pilot thorow with his sword he wounded the next to him so sore that he could not offend The Dolphin seeing the successe of his bold attempt raised his faln courage to the height of noble resolution and unsheathing his quiet sword that Sirap had given him he gave him such assistance as his weak abillity could afford In the end fear made them valiant and their valour freed them from fear The assaulted Saylers being weaponlesse fell in their bloud and in their overthrowes did the survivours submit themselves to the mercy of their swords Force now over-awed them and they were compelled by Bonfoy to make towards the other Ship wherein Sirap was making an end of an unequall battell For having at the first slain their redoubted Captain he wrested his approved broad shield from him under which shelter his encreasing valour made such slaughter as of sixteen persons he left but three alive which as Bonfoy came in were prostrate on their knees for pardon But when Sirap saw them and understood of their interaccident he was more glad of their safeties then he was of his own victory The Dolphin stood amazed when he saw the Ship embost with scattered heads divided arms and dismembred legs And in his admiration said if he be but a man how this If more then a man why this Such forceable blowes shewes a power beyond all human power and yet I see he is but a man though he hath done much more then many men This estimate of his valour and worth made him over after respect him more for his incomparable prowesse then he did before for his deliverance Bonfoy now thought himself happy in such a Master and Sirap grew proud of such a servant Lovi the joy of nature now sat in triumph for their securities and the wrathfull God of War being wearied with destruction laid him down in the bed of peace with these two ships they securely sayled with winds suitable to their wills all along the coasts of Magadoxa in Aethlopia and so by Guine where meeting with a Portugall Marchant they hired the Pilot to bring them to Marselles Thus did the inscrutable providence of God from injurious and bad causes produce good effects making the banishment of the one to save the life of the other and the love of liberty to give liberty to love The change that change of fortune wrought in them all made their minds more then pleasing Paradises of unspeokable pleasures The Dolphin dreamd of naught but Majesty and Dignities Bonfoy of freedom and preferment and Sirap his rich hopes promised him now golden fortunes yet durst he not unmask himself left he should deprive Conceit of his new Christendome and betray Pollicy of his chiefest pretence but still holding the borrowed habite and artificiall colour of a black Moor he still spake unto the Dolphin by Bonfoy his Interpreter by whom he discoursed of many things and again and again and still again enquired of such affaires

laugh in Envies face But more considerately weighing his owne case he entertained better thoughts and therefore writ in the next stage of the window If 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 controversie 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 Viennois or the Lady Margaret sister to the King of England Great was their debate and many there were that maintained each severall Ladies beauty Insomuch as they fall 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 hee held the occasion well worthy dispute but their faulty courages and our surious 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 asolemne and royall Justs in honour of the three Ladies should be proclaimed throughout all his Kingdome to be holden in Paris at Pente cost 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 hunibly 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 Ambassad our 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 and well appointed Knights that the French Kings Court seemed an Alexanders Campe. Great was theyr Feasting and full Royall was all theyr entertainements But the day of tryall being come Aurora no sooner shewed her mornings blush but that the French King ashamed of his sluggishnesse rose and 〈◊〉 to see the three high Artificiall Mounts which hee 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 lest side Then followed the Daulphin of Viennois with a rich Coller of Esses beset all over with Rubies hanging on a white Banner with his Arines displayed on the other side and placed it on Vienna's Mount on the right hand of his Daughter Then came Englands royall King with an imperiall Crowne of burnishe 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 fate 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 honour 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 Just againe nor any make offer of Comba●e 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 Phoenlx enclosed within a bright shining Sunne and under it a hand reaching towards it with this under written Motto O●utinam Towards him came from the Lady Margaret's Mount a greene Knight full of eyes and bleeding Hearts mounted on a fierce Blacke bearing on his Shield an Armed Knight prostrated under a Ladies mercy his Launce lying unbroken by him with his Motto All-ready conquered These two Knights encountred with each other so furiously and forceably that their Staves shivered in the ayre and witnessed their 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 the Shield the Picture of Vienna most richly pourtracted with a vayle 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 faire 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 unknowne Knight And as her wandering eye romed up and downe still looking whether shee could espie him shee suddainly both heard and saw a well proportioned Black Knight rudely rushing from her Mount who so fiercely saluted the Greene Knight that hee made him pay tribute for his former honour in the overthrow of his fortune Threescore other assayling Knights hee dismounted before Vienna who now joying wondred and wondering prayed that he might be her desired knight that

withstand all sinister accidents No sooner was he come into the Sultans sight but that he cheerfully called him and briefly told him that he meant to invade Christendome And that for his approved Prowes 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 he is our will and this your charge Then see that your performance answer our expectation and that our love be guerdoned with your victories Sirap wounded with these words knew not how to lay a plaister on this sore yet resolved in his Countries good he humbly prostrating himself yeelded all reverend thanks for such his great esteem and gracefull respect But such said he pardon me most victorious and most mightiest of most mightiest Princes is my unpractized knowledge in Marshalling of Troops and ranging of Battels that I should rather eclipse the feared honour of your name by my overthrow then eternize your gotten same by my Conquests Besides know most great Commander that though I be a mortall enemy 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 Majesty some other in worth more worthier supply my defects in their better deserts and bury not your living renown in my so probable ignorance and unexperienced discipline The Su'tan weying the danger of an unpractised Generall allowed the rather his devout objections and considering the religiousnesse of his vowes though he held it superstitious in it self yet would he not violate his consecrated promise but yeelding to his request he made Mustapha Basha his Generall and the preparation for him was so great that the bruit thereof piercing the Western clyme came to the knowledge of the French King who as the greatest Christian Prince assembled his wisest counsellours and noble Peers praying also in ayd of all his allyes and Princely confederates about him to confer and conclude somewhat for the honour and preservation of Christendome Amongst whom the Dolphin of Viennois was there as the sole Solon and onely wisest though too severe a Cato of his Country But such was his over weening conceit 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 destiny he voluntary offered secretly and Pilgrim like to go to Constantinople there to espy and learn the strength intention course and preparation then intended meant and made for Christendome This being applauded by the whole assembly so tickled the flattering humor of his vain glory the ecclipse of his mature wisedom that poysoned with their praises he sayled to look into the 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 counself of Time nor make a provident delay which well shewes that they that are transported with their own desires have no true scope of judgement lest them to looke with perfec● eyes into their designes otherwise actions so uncertaine had been better not undertaken then unfortunately hazarded But he ever hasteth to repent that rashly enterpriseth He was most resolute in his determination nothing could dismay him nor no man could disswade him doubt he held to be the bane of all hopefull endeavours and if his fate were certain he said it would profit him little to take heed and if uncertain it would be more then mear foolishnes to fear 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 government of his Principallity till his returne commanding him upon his allegiance to martiall and manage the whole State as best should stand with Justice Law and equity and that he would neither in pitty duty 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 un partiall 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 winds by the command of Nep●une driven into the Egyptian Sea and so cast on the Bay of Alexan Iria 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 M● jus●●iy and uncontrolled countenance of the Dolphin supposed ther●by that he was of no mean Estate His Complexion and attire made him a Christian and his commanding eyes the true image of the mind shewed him to be of an high Spirit This Lynx this Blood-hound to mischief hunted after opportunity to resolve this doubt and by fortune encountred with Mal Fiance in the Market-place whither the Dolphin his Lord had sent him to buy some necessaries Vnto whom in Latine as the most generall Tongue best known to all the politique Merchant gave many kind salutes offering him secretly for the love he bare to Christ and Christians all the best Offices he might perform wishing withall to gaine the more credit not to make himselfe known in so dangerous and impious a place Mal Fiance being better Learned then travelled finding himself so kindly intreated by a stranger returned thanks and joyfully embrac'd his courtesie The Merchant glad that hee understood him requested his acceptance of a cuppe of their Country-Wine which Mal Fiance as one proud of such unexpected friendship in so strange a place and that he had met with one of knowledge to conferre withall willingly assented unto The Marchant having waded thus farre into the depth of his awaked intention thought good to sound the Foord at full by undermining their projects And therefore in the curtesie of their Bacchonizing cups he gave him some few pieces of Gold wishing him to make his wants known with the distresse of his Companion that he might privately relieve them and secretly give them comfort and directions for their more security This false fire the seeming shew of good regard burnt up all Mal Fiances fear of distrust the strength of hot wines consumed all due consideration and the joy he took in finding so good a Christian amongst unbeleeving Infidels made him unadvisedly tell the Merchant who he was whom he seroed and

malicious and unbounded pride looked into the danger of her Lords return If the Dolphin fell then must Vienna though now a Prisoner be Soveraign This made her heart-burning hate to prosecute her overthrow And though she had no cause to fear her for occasion never yet made her her enemy yet could she not indure to think that she should be subject to another that now was most eminent in her self To have the Regent was all her ambitious desire and nothing did let but Vienna's right To frustrate which she with fulnesse of Gold and promites of preferment had as aforesaid seduced this mettle-minded Servant to deceive and to destroy her by such subtile and obscure meanes as both gave least shew of mistrust and most likelihood of execution And this it was Don Poltron for so was he rightly named bringing Vienna's mornings repast to her with a bemoaning tongue and a sighing heart complained much against Nature and envyed more against Fortune that had made beauty so miserable and vertue so unhappy as to entomb the glory of the one and the efficacy of the other in so unprofitable and so uncomfortable place My eyes said he cannot endure to sec Dignity so disgraced nor can my Eares entertain the killing sound of your laments I must and will leave my service that at length I may be a Stranger to sorrow least my grief fo● your griefe make ●ny revived woes as great as your grief Vienna liking his generous nature judged by his discreet and relenting discourse that he was well bred and pleasing witty and therefore required him to tell what was his name and where he was born who answered Don Poltron am I called and in Spain was my birth my education was better then my fortune and this my servile Place bears now record of my sinister fate Why said Vienna if thou be infortunate keep still thy station here is a place of woe and thou hast a Princess to associate thee in thy sorrows Hast thou cause to bewail thy mishaps Let us know thy crosses and we will ease thee with our grief For it is a comfort to find a companion in misery Then say Poltron for thy Nature agrees better with us then thy Name and story to us the life of thy Fortune that we may also recreate our mind by listening to thy griefs Poltron having pleased her with this sugered Bayt cast out his hidden Hook and told her that he was a rich Merchants Son in Spain left so well Treasured that he swayed the world a● will untill imperious Love made him of a free Lord a Bond slave to Molloflora Unto her said he I sued long for obtained grace which had I held my self more fortunately happy then Paris did in the fruition of his Love Paris said Vienna what Paris Paris said he of Troy that enjoyed the Beauty of Greece and made his Pleasure a Plague to his Country But in the height of my joyes and hope of highest happiness Death deprived me of my Paradised Bliss and not only made my broken heart the sad habitation of woe but also turned my mind which before was a Kingdom to me into a Hell of tormenting thoughts The place of my birth grew by her loss so hatefull to me that I was necessitated to forgo the ground that yielded me no other Harvest but grief In brief for better portage I turned all my Substance into Jewels of estimate and travelled to Naples where I spent more of my wealth then I did of my woes Th●n Repentance made me leave that wastfull Nation and so I came unfortunately into France Thus he drew on her attention with a faigned tale that he might without all suspition and with better gain of belief give more fewell to her desire for his further betraying discourse And to blind all jealous thoughts he purposely seemed by his abrupt end to be unwilling to proceed further But Vienna whose crossed affection delighted to hear of semblable fortunes would needs know what other mishaps waited on his lost love Alas Madame said Poltron the small remainder of my broken state I brought with me into France to maintein the length of my days but in my passage I was set on by four Theeves that stript me of all I had and wounded me sore and would no doubt have taken my life but that by chance there came by a poor Hermite who seeing their violence without all dread of their number or fear of his own feebleness cast off his peacefull Gown and drawing out a hidden sword out of his staffe he so fiercely assaulted them that in the end he slew three of them whilest the fourth run away with the prey the danger of my wounds made him then as far to surmount himself in pitty as he had excelled the other in valour And in the tenderness of his relenting mind he brought me to his Cell where on a bed of moss he laid me and binding up my wounds with a piece of his shirt for other linnens he had none he afterwards applyed the juyce of hearbs so oft unto them that they healed and I began to grow strong With him had I continued still but that during the stay of my recovery I could not endure to see this good Chyrurgion and noble minded Hermite that had so well preserved and cherished me sit so oft sighing and many times exclaiming against unjust rigour unnaturall injustice that half distraught he would often confusedly say Doth the Sea nourish a more cruell fish then the Dolphin Is not Vienna the fairest City of the world And lived there ever a more unfortunate man then Paris Then would he bewayl destroyed Troy and blame Love that fired Illion and by and by curse that wretched Knight that overthrew so fair a Creature and so glorious a City Then would he sit in a dolefull dump and after suddainly start up as one affrighted and accuse his offending tongue of treachery for wronging the divine name of love since he was so highly beloved as his mean fortune merited not the glory thereof But leaving him with my Prayers both to his Cave and to his Cell after many thanks I left that wofull and worthy Hermit and came to Viennois where necessity compelled me to seek this service And this most vertuous Princesse is the Map of my misery and so he seemed to end before he had begun that the Fish might bite the more eagerly when the bayt was pulled away But oh said Vienna for now she had swallowed the hidden and hurtfull hook didst thou not perceive the cause of his so secret and so great a grief 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 subjects of woe best fitteth wofull minds and causes of dolor and calamity are ever most pleasing to perplexed persons Poltron thus halled on to set the trap that should ensnare her

indebted unto his own desires to do him all further possible service This interchange of kindnesses gave contentment to them both and was most pleasing to the Dolphin who yet fed so on his fresh feeling happinesse that he gave in charge that all his Subjects should honour Sirap as himself 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 he 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 Pyrats and lastly established him in his Regalty in despight of his foes And therefore many and sundry were the Tryumphs that now were ordained for him but more then many were the severall thoughts that afflicted his doubtfull mind Vienna he thought had cause to condemne him since affection ever thinkes all times of stay too long that hangs on desert Lainova 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 himself a son One while he was ready to embrace Lainova another time to run to Vienna and by and by he was ready prest to fal on his knees to Sir Jaques Now did he pitty distressed Vienna who in all these alterations was neither moved nor removed Then did he fear her liberty since her Father had no feeling of her calamity Thus dubiously perplexed in mind he sadly sate unregarding regarding the continuing and maintaining justs untill the Dolphin judging of his stormy thoughts by his clouded countenance thus awaked him by his interpreter What think'st said he my best worthy friend of our French Knights and how stands our Court sports with your liking Sirap whose Martiall mind was now mollify'd with milder and calmer thoughts by his man thus answered As Knights of 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 do so well But the justs being ended the Dolphin that had read his discontentment in the deep characters of his face for the countenance oft shewes the affects and passions of the heart took him by the hand and privately led him into a fair tapistred gallery hanged with most artificiall pictures of greatest Monarchs where he thus againe assayed to find the cause of his disturbance Let not said he any doubt dismay my lifes preserver nor let any remembrance of your last and lost honours work in you any repenting humour since Viennues Dolphin is both willing and ready both to accomplish your demand and to honour you with all Dginities What pleaseth Sirap pleaseth the Dolphin and nothing shall content the Dolphin but what shall well like Sirap Then ask my Lord and be Lord of your asking Sirap thus kindly intreated and encouraged lowly humbled himself and by Bonfoy 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 mind 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 renown 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 applaud her excellencies Then let it not seem strange unto you that unseen perfections have thus wrought unknown passions since the ear is as well subject to conceit as the eye is pliant to affection The Dolphin whose unnaturall and impenitrable heart felt no longer remorce of her endured misery then whilest hee was himself in misery and who was no sooner free but that he freed his remorced thoughts from all thought of remorce In so much that looking neither after her imprisonment nor his own posterity he in his ever over awfulnesse shewed himself now rather an unrelenting Tyrant then a chastising Father But now thus urged by Sirap whose warranted demand and highest deserts might well challenge an absolute grant he herein still discontented thus contented Sirap Nothing I see right noble valiant and most meritorious Moore seemeth worse to love then to preferre any thing before it selfe For cloathe 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 Principallity for your due my Dignities for your right and all my treasure for your own But all these I see suffice not because they satisfie not And to ask you why is to ask one half pyned why he is hungry You love my Lord you love but whom my daughter yea that is my grief Not that you love her unworthy your love but that I cannot give you her more then worthy her For such I swear by the eternall and my all-preserving God hath been and yet is the undutifulll and most obstinate will of my too disobedient and degenerate daughter that never yet nor yet ever could I or shall I I fear perswade intreat or enforce her to consent to any in royall rank worth or Majesty suitable to herself For many times many powerfull Princes that sued for her favour she hath both carelesly disrespected and scornfully refused And as many times many times hath she therein my will disobeyed and contemned Not regarding her renown shining in their glory Nor respecting my contentment nor progeny eclipsed both in her neglect of me and in her afforded favour to her far inferiours which caused me in justice to punish her hatefull disobedience with imprisonment and yet in nature to bewail her imprisonment though enforced by Justice Where I left her there so you please may you find her a prisoner to her will that will not yet submit her self to my will and therefore by my will worthily chastised without offence to nature For where nature offendeth law there law may justly be executed on Nature Assay her most worthy of all worth and put in ballance your fortune with your fancy and if your hap may drown her favor you shall redouble the smal remainder of my aged dayes and well satisfie the justice of my displeasure with the honour of your desired