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 Fâ—â—â—tiâ—g and full Royall was all theyr entertainements But thâ— dâ—y of tryall being come Aurora no sooner shewed her â—â—â—â—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
had to have them as to give him occasion to come to enquire after them In this processe of time the Warres of Florence were ended and Sir Paris being intelligenced of his Fathers sicknesse whose infeebled age he much feared and beeing desirous to see Vienna though dispaire of successe the hearce of his supposed idle hopes yet Desire the nurse of perseverance gave him wings to make the more speed so that La-nova and hee posting homewards happily came and found Sir Jaques well amended whose good recovery was no lesse joyfull to Sir Paris then his returne was comfortable to his Father After they had long discoursed of the occurrants of these Warres and of his many adventures and fortunes Sir Paris longing to give his eye contentment by gazing on his Idolatrous Prizes he tooke his Mother by the hand and walking towards his Chamber like the Lapwing that flyeth farre from her nest he enquired of Court affaires but she being not able to satisfie the drift of his reach he prest her no further but being entred into his Chamber he made a step into his Oratory were suddenly missing the first pride of his happy atchievements the chiefe glory of his study and the true testimony of Viennas beauty and bounty being therewith much appaled and mooved at their remove he all angerly came forth and asked who had beene there and there had taken away such things as hee most esteemed His Mother abashed at the question but more grieved that there was any thing wanting not knowing how or by whom they should bee taken away answered that since his departure no one had beene there but the Daulphinis and her daughter the Lady Vienna accompanied with other Ladies that came to visite his Father in his sicknesse and that shee desired amongst other Chambers to see that which shee after some denying excuses durst not longer gaine-say and how that shee her selfe was with them so long as they stayed Saving that the Lady Vienna being suddenly surprised with sicknesse requested for her better ease to stay onely alone with Jzabella to rest her a while on your bed Paris flattering himselfe with his owne favourable construction deemed and truely deemed that the cause of her alteration grew by the unexpected sight of the Prizes and the view of his verses that he had left on his Table and that she had taken them away either in her angry disdaine or to see what account he made of them or whether hee would re-demand them And therefore pleased to adventure his fortune vpon the rocke of this hazard hee shewed no further mislike that he mist them But afterwards shadowing his desire to see Vienna under the borrowed vayle of duty to see and to attend the Daulphin he went to the Court where the Daulphin glorying in the lustre of his Subjects renowne because it gave a splendour to his Greatnesse he kindly received him with more familiar embracements and loving respects then his austere nature did vsually afford by this his unwonted curtesie grace he made Sir Paris thoughts more obligatory to his favours and fashioned his favours more complementory to Sir Paris fortunes for curtesie they say in Majesty bindes ever affection in duty As Sir Paris stood before the Daulphin relating the honour and issue of the Florentine Warres hee glaunc'd and fearefully glaunc'd many times on Vienna but checking his eyes that still rebuk'd him he left to looke on whom not daring to looke he could not but looke But Vienna whose late kindled love was now growne into a flame having tediously before expected him could not now seeing him feast her ravisht eyes at full but gazing still on his ample perfections for now hee seemed more then exquisite and taking pleasure in the sweet harmony of his well-tuned words shee no sooner rejoyced joying in her owne desires but that straight she desired the enjoying And turning towards Izabella she all-blushing smiled and smiling blusht againe because she smiled and then asked her whether she saw not bashfull feare and doubtfull discontentment sit on the face of his troubled countenance for the losse of his Prizes and the discouery of his affection and whether she were not happy in her Choyse and more then happy in his loue All which Gnathonizing Jzabella prodigally confirmed and demanded how shee would doe to enfeoffe him with her affection that durst not be knowne of his owne loue Which Vienna well ruminating in her mind at length woman-like found out this deuice She faigned her selfe for some three dayes very sicke and in the distemper of her wounding offences fearefull of her sinnes but after when shee was better enabled both in body and minde shee desired leaue of her Mother to goe the next day for the more quieting and confirming of her conscience and to giue God praise for her recouery to the Bishop of St. Lawrence to confesse herselfe and to receiue the Sacrament within the sacred Temple of God which her Mother liking yeelded vnto rejoycing no little to see her so well amended and so deuoutly and piously deuoted In the interim Vienna caused Jzabella to send to Sir Paris in the Bishops name to come and speake with him in the Cathedrall Church at nine of the clocke the next morning which Sir Paris promising performed accordingly For at the appointed houre he came and being come saw and wondered that so he saw the Princesse Vienna conferring with the Bishop whose leysure he willingly attended and walked a little aside wearying his fancie with wishes and punishing his conceit with fearefull imaginations Long hee had not walked but that Vienna espying him applauded her fortune and armed with her owne desires shee gaue her selfe countenance vnder the pretext of employment and called to Sir Paris telling the Bishop that shee had matters of imployment in forraigne affaires to impart vnto him from her Mother And therefore shee requested the Bishop if he had any occasion with him to walke a while a fide till shee had performed her Mothers command and then shee would leaue them both to their pleasures The Bishop being glad to see the Princesse so sanctified commended her zeale and left her to the discharge of her duty blindly supposing that the Daulphinis would send Sir Paris in message to some of her forraigne friends But Vienna finding her selfe alone with him in whom she joyed alone she pleasantly demanded what hee made there or whether he had any suit to her or to any other wherein shee might accommodate him If it be so so it be conuenient Sir Paris shall finde a friend if Sir Paris be found a friend This pleasing and preludious demand and Enigmaticall conclusion made Sir Paris somewhat fearefull how to answer But Hope the comfortable Counsailour of Loue shap'd in him this bold and short reply My businesse thrice worthy Lady is the Bishops will my suit your service your seruice my chiefe desire and my desire your fauorable countenance And longer may not Paris liue then he rests humbly
Foard was not pastable which made Sir Paris so impatient so to be frustrated of his attending Ship the assurance of his safety that Monsieur de la Mott over venturous to venter over the passage was in searching the Foard most unfortunately drowned in the mercilesse Flood Sir Paris daunted at that so fatall a sight sighed and sighing grew to a prodigious prognosticator of his owne ensuing harmes But fearing least the knowlege thereof might appale his faire Friend he suddainely returned to theyr religious Host where he had left the two Ladies when he went to find the Foard and to try the passage and shadowing now his tormenting griefe with a forced smile he demaunded of Vienna how she fared who answered as my Love fares so fares thy Love happy in my selfe because happy in thee And long may said Paris my Love live to love that loves to live onely for my love Scarce had Sir Paris pronounced his last word when one came running to tell the Priest that there were many Knights in the next Towne that came in quest and searched for Vienna and Sir Paris Which Vienna vnderstanding was so surprized with griefe and feare that being altogether disheartned in her hope she held her selfe more then undone in her disturbed expectation But after she had bathed the beauty of her eyes in the sorrow of her teares fearing most in this present perill least death should arrest her beloved Friend She with a much more resolued minde and an assured countenance then befitted eyther the time or was incident to her sex thus exhillerated her astonished Friend My Paris she said Time admittes not there many wordes where danger still knockes at the doore In extremities the winning of time is the purchase both of life and love Let not violent passions that neuer remooves any ill but betrayes our secret imperfections now sway the vertue of thy thoughts nor the fortitude of thy heart but carry thou in thy Lyons looke a Lyons minde and like the Sunne shew thy fayrest face in thy lowest fall Loade not my sorrowes with thy griefe nor kill thou thy selfe for feare of death But in the wonted courage of thy never-daunted Spirit get thee to some other more safer shore where let Vertue be thy Governour my remembrance thy Loue thy loue my comfort and my comfort thy sole contentment Thou hast conquered men in loue and Loue in me and both in worth and wisedome and neuer shall I deeme my selfe happy but when I shall see thee happy for whom I now am so vnhappy As thou leauest me so shalt thou finde me be but thou as constant a Friend to my Minde as thou shalt be a true Possessor of my Heart and I shall haue as much cause of joy as thou no cause of doubt If thou continue loyall successe thou shalt see will blesse thee well and all good fortune will waite on thy just merits This Diamond which here I giue thee shall be a true remaining record of my sincere loue to thee Onely let me heare of thy aboad and so I leaue thee to the guide of Vertue and seruice of Fortune Sir Paris thus discomforted comforted weighing the danger of delay by his immient perill and forced to set vp his sayles in this so insupportable threating a tempest and there sealing vp the vow of his faith in the silent griefe of a departing kisse he posted to the Riuer side againe where Dispaire made Feare so valiant that ere he found cause of feare hee was past all feare For hauing past he knew not how the Riuer he was got before he wist into the Ship wherein being Cabined hee told of La Mot his fatall accident and forced them to put to sea sayling himselfe with as many contrary thoughts as Eolus sent out windes vpon the Trojan Fleete At length he arriued at Genua where he rested his restlesse selfe and where he liued wanting but little because not desiring much But such was his disconsolate solitary life that the Citizens though strangers affecting the man in his manners pittied much his distresse in the shew of his discontentment In the meane while the Daulphin wasting himselfe in his owne implacable and vnlimited wrath violently and suddainly seazed and consiscated all Sir Jaques Lands and Goods into his hands imprisoning both him and his Lady as Fauters Abetters Confederates and Adjuters thereunto Thus ets Outrage euer the sharpest edge vpon the first aduantage And in this distemper of his ill disposed minde he commanded that naught but bread and water should be giuen them For said he where the offence is greater then the seruice there Iustice changeth the bond of recompence into due punishment During this their faultlesse imprisonment the questing Knights returned with Vienna and the Hospitalious Parson her Host who being brought before the angry Daulphin her enraged Father shee saw the cloud a farre off before the storme fell and therefore prostrating her selfe at his Feete shee required pardon for her offence and prayed that he would not make her sinne deadly which was but veniall pleading ignorance for the Prelate and vnresistable loue for her selfe swearing and assuring him by sacrament of solemne oath and the testimonie of her Host that shee was as honest in her flight as she was in her birth and that her vn potted thoughts were neuer stayned with any vnchast deede or desire The noble followers of the obdurate Daulphin seeing the Princesse washing her repentance in her owne teares humbly besought him to forget and to forgiue her amisse since the frailty of her offence was rather a sore then a sinne and wounds were to be healed and not hurt This submission strengthened by such generall entreaties somewhat quencht the burning heate of his enflamed ire And though his seuere Iustice told him that not to punish an euill was to allow of an euill yet mercy hee knew pardons them oft that deserues it not and judgement in nature should be next a kin to fauour Vpon this calme construction after many sharpe rebukes and protested threates he vowed that determinate and ineuitable condemnation 〈◊〉 punish her next offence and so he pardoned her vpon promise of more regardfull duty Now Sir Paris had not long sojourned in Genua but that mindfull of his charge he writ to Vienna and enclosed it in another writ to La-noua wherein he excused his vnkinde departure without his priuity and conjured him by the sacred lawes of true amity to attend and follow his Lady in all seruice and fast friendship La-noua glad of such glad tydings went in the height of his ioy to Vienna and after some complementall salutes asked her what shee would give to heare of her Paris Vienna great with child with the expectation of her friends welfare longed to be delivered with the notice of his health and said that the whole world afforded not sufficient worth to answer her liberall heart therein La-nova ioying in the constancy of her love shewed her the letter which
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
conceit exasperated his anger and added more fewell to his enflamed fire and in the heate of his irefull indignation hee step'd to her adulterous bed and like a tempestuous storme hee fell upon her giving her stab upon stab saying oft withall Nay thus much more and more And the more hee sayd so the more hee thrust his Semitar not yet dryed with the bloud of the Sarazen into her body This speedy and suddaine execution was Siraps preservation For it tooke away all further knowledge of the cause The Court was now all in combustion and the City hearing that the Sultan was slaine instantly did rise and confusedly did runne to the Pallace bearing all downe before them in such a distract sort that the Turkes Guard was glad to shut the gates against them and to entreate the Sultan to shew himselfe out of the Casement vnto them which so well appeased them that they quietly returned to their houses Then was inquisition made after the knowledge of the Sarazens apparell which was so base that all men wondred not onely that he was there but how he came there His mangled body kept him vnknowne and his meane habite made him no appertenant to the Court. When no notice could be had neither of the one nor of the other the appeased Sultan sent for the Eunuckes that attended his Emperesse and caused two Mutes to strangle them in his sight After he caused all the dead bodies with the two beds and all their apparell to be caried forth of the Citie and to bee burned all together and further gaue in charge that the two Chambers should be conuerted into houses of base vse and that no one vnder paine of death should after speake thereof Now Sirap who during these tempestuous stormes lay at anchor in his owne private harbour as one that knew well that great men euer enuying the glory and fortune of strangers would in this tumults be ready to stab at the bosome of merit and that mischiefe the cursed Captaine alwayes of the vnruly Commons might in a disturbed vprore endanger his safety hearing now that the sight of the Sultan had allayed the windie Allarum of his rumoured death and that the present murther of the Sultanesse with her Mayde and vnknowne Paramour was the occasion of such disorder rising He grew jealous of the cause suspitious of the errour and timorous of his welfare For though guarded with innocencie yet was he fearefull lest Mentiga had cast some scandalizing aspersion vpon his vnspotted honesty In this fearefull doubt he kept himselfe within himselfe vntill report had further manifested not only the manner of all their deathes but the ignorance of the cause This dispierced all cloudes of care and made him a perfect Iudge both of the errour and the event Then lifting vp his erected heart hee said O Vienna thy love I see now hath given me a second life and my constant loyalty hath kept me from the grave Justice hath preserved the guiltlesse and righteousnesse hath found mercy in iudgement Now praised be my God my strong defence For hee hath covered me under the wings of his protection and kept mee from the death of the wicked Hee hath cast downe lightning and burnt up the daughters of Babell that I might be safe in their suddaine destruction The storme is past and these cloudy occurrants threaten another tempest The Sea cannot be so calme in Summer but that it may swell again with the rage of wrathfull Winter There is more wisedome in preventing then in redressing a mischiefe Security lives not in tyranny For though the Tygar hide his clawes yet in the end will hee shew his Rapine Revenge hath now smoothed the Sultans angry browe and Time hath given some peace to his displeasure The Tide serves me and my prophane aboad with the heathen is displeasing to the heavens My Captived Lord cals me away and Vienna sayes I am too slowe my marke is set and I levell straight I will commend my ayme and therewithall casting off all further deliberation he went to the Court to take his leave of Solimon Who seeing him stand upon his departure after some private conference protestations that he would crowne his returne with highest honours advancement he vouchsafed graciously to imbrace him and so bad him farewell The next morning Sirap having before caused all things to be in readinesse the windes summoning him to Sea hee tooke shipping and sayling by the Ilands scituate in part of the Mediteranian Sea he landed at Sidon a Port Towne in Syria and there taking Horse hee poasted through the Country and part of the Desarts of Arabia and so came to Babylon Where we will leave him to looke into France and see how Vienna brookes her continued thraldome which was not so grievous unto her as the tormenting suppose of Sir Paris losse Great was her sorrow in feare of him and many her bemoanings for not hearing from him In so much that La-nova seeing the increase of her growing cares thus sadly spake unto her Madame these ruthlesse walls neither melt with your teares nor yet shake nor shrinke with your sighes Comfort dwels not in restraint nor lives Remedie in Lamentations Though your Father be absent yet hath he left a iealous Keeper You may ever weepe and bewayle your estate and lye still in the bed of sorrow If you never seeke after redresse you shall ever finde your selfe a Prisoner You know the secret way I made to releive you If so you please I will convey you through the same to some private place where Metamorphosed we will eyther hunt in quest after Sir Paris or you shall rest unknowne in some forraigne Nation till eyther my travaile shall gaine knowledge of his aboade or that the death of the Daulphin shall leave you for your right to the tryall of your Friends Then cast off these mortifying dumpes and leave now your sorrow to the Governours as a pawne for your returne and let us stand upon our Fortunes Hope lives in Industry and my Adventures shall ever wayte on your pleasure This kinde offer did moove her much but could not remoove her at all Liberty she said was sweete to that life that might take the pleasures of this life But to a deiected heart whose banisht content could promise no wished delight there a Close-prison was better then a glorious Pallace To travaile she said to my Paris would be more pleasing then painefull to Vienna but not knowing where he is I might perhaps extravagantly goe further from him then Iam that am already further off then I would be Here for his Love was I made a Prisoner and here will I still rest a Prisoner for his Love If he be living and loving here shall I soonest heare from him and if he be neither in Love nor in Life here will I end both my Love and Life Onely take thankes for thy loving care and kinde respect and be still a true Friend to Paris that Vienna
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
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 preferâ—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
he either would woe her with gifts or with his countenance or with variety of gestures But hee no sooner came to the Castle but frustrating their expectation he requested them by Bousoy to stay and stand a while aside When winged with the hope of Loves assurance he instantly boldly and all onely entered saluted and in French thus courteously assaulted his faire and friendly foe How fares said hee the imperious Mistresse of my inthralled heart As a prisoner not like a Princesse she said fares the Mistresse of a thralled and wofull heart But how came you Sir Knight so Frenchified that erst was so strangefied Love sweet love he said hath made my tongue your Country-man and my heart your servant Then hath love shee replyed wrought a wonder in you an admiration in me Such said Sirap is the divine power of Loves Deity such the vertuous force of your heavenly beauty and such the happy issue of our decreed destiny Therefore yeeld Vienna Vienna yeeld to that which the Gods have decreed Love commands thy beauty requires our Fortune allots thy Father wills and I thy friend request Vienna thus charged could not tell how to discharge her selfe of him but by having a recourse to her wonted and hidden policy And therefore uncloathing her Ivory brests she all sighing said Alas Sir Knight thy commendable demeanour and Princely worth well merits favour and thy inticing tongue is sufficient to entrap a well advised minde and a far more stayeder conceit But know most noble and most Magnificent Moore that I am farre worse then I seeme and much better then I would be For behold shee bared her breasts that he might behold the untimely corruption of my blasted beauty looke on the loathsome fruit of my long and grievous imprisonment and but feele O feele not the filthy sent of my ulcered and rotting body and then tell me whether I am not rather to be loathed then loved fled from then followed Sirap astonished at her words but beyond all amazement danted with the smell neere fainted thereat such was his insufferable sorrow for her that hee curst himselfe for her And yet such was the constancy of his never dying love that encouraging himselfe the better to cheere her up he with a joyfull countenance said Be it Madame so or worse then so or what so you will it shall not matter I rest wholly yours if for yours you will accept of mee that am none but yours For know most constant and my endeered Lady that Paris if Paris bee not forgotten pleadeth now in person for himselfe and here offereth his life and service for your love In confirmation whereof see here the happy seale of your love and the sole comfort of my absence the loyall and unvaluable Ring your Highnesse gave mee when first being pursued by your Fathers Knights I departed from you like a hungry Infant pulled from his Nources breast or a thirsty Hart chased from a sweet Fountaine Then then in the pride of your perfections you paradiz'd mee in the heaven of your love and now in the decay of your glory will I wed my ever-living constancy to your never dying loyalty Looke nay looke not on me so strangely my black hue is but an Artificiall vizour and my borrowed countenance but the assurance of my safety Vienna not able on the suddaine to entertaine so great a ioy shrunk downe deprived of her vitall spirits but chafed reuived and enabled by Jzabella shee with teares of ioy distilling downe her cheekes sadly said Ah Paris Paris thy love made me a contented prisoner but thy long absence hath made my prison a tormenting hell But now O happy now thy thrice happy returne makes my prison seeme a Paradise and my hell a most glorious heaven with that falling on his brest and enclosing him within her fainting armes she often redoubled her double doubled kisses Paris being likewise surprized with fulnesse of ioy lost himselfe in her armes but being acquitted of that extasie he payd her large interrest for her kindnesse pleaded sorrow for her martirdome and meere necessity for his absence Cease Paris shee said my Paris surcease these needlesse excuses of faultlesse iniurie since to over-fortifie innocencie is to breed suspition There is none but I that have if offended offended As first in being cause of thy exile then of thy dangerous travailes and now in reiecting thy love but impute the first two to my Fathers severity not to my love and the last of my ignorance not to my inconstancy For proofe whereof see heere here shewed shee the Capons legges the triall of my truth which but in pollicy I vsed in all extremities to withstand importunate Suters and all onely to love none but thee earst the sole hope of my life but now the onely life of my soule Thus pleaded shee to please him and thus it pleased him to praise her and both of them still ioying in that they enioyed each other Then turning to Jzabella he kist her many times and vowed that out of his best fortunes he would bee thankfull to her for her love to him but especially for her comforts to Vienna And taking them both by the hands he told them how and by what meanes the Daulphin her Father had freely and absolutely given her to him And therfore he requested them to conceale their knowledge of him and to go along with him for that he ment to have her Father to deliver her to him all which they both so willingly and cheerefully did that the Gent. attending his leasure no little marveiled to see him lead them so familiarly by the hands and so pleasantly talking with Vienna in a private manner But when they were come before the Daulphin Paris for now is Sirap turned againe to returned Paris holding her still by the hand humbly requested him in the presence of his daughter Barons to ratifie his vowed guist Which the Daulphin both misliking and admiring demaunded of her whether her liking and consent stood to that blacke irreligious Moore that had so often refused so many potent Lords and most accomplished Princes To which shee in all reverence praying pardon said That the blacke smeared Smith was most pleasing to the Queene of beauty That tha constant colour unfadible in it selfe well argued constancie in the person That his barbarous nature was both reclaimed and refined by his more civill education and that his religion would easily be conformable to their profession But howsoever it sufficeth that I love him and love yeelds no reason of choyse nor hath any respect of persons His blinde deity blindes our fancies and fancy lives not in desert but in desire We love altogether by liking not for honours and our wills cannot command our affections that are not in our powers Then vouchsafe my Soveraigne Lord and most gratious Father of my destinied desire and admit of his wel-merited demand let me with your free consent enioy him for my Husband that hath so well purchased me for his Wife so shall you honour your selfe in doing him right reward his services enworthy your posterity and repayre my decayed glory The Daulphin seeing that it was but in vaine to resist celestiall influence preordinate be providence divine and that he could neither in honor nor conscience infringe his obliging oath nor reject his pleading and glorious worth shewed a vertue in necessity and freely gave and delivered her unto him Now Paris being thus possest of his desire cast off his artificiall maske and lowly on his knees shewed and presented himselfe the humble and thankfull seruant of his Lord. The Daulphin finding himselfe thus deceived by him that happily deceived the Soldan and his Keepers for him could not but commend his loyall love and love him for his saving service His superlative valour and unvaluable vertue shewed that his great fortunes were but Ministers to his will And therefore he cheerefully said In France was I honoured by Paris In Babylon unthralled by Sirap And at home both I my Countrey and people were protected by the Knight of the Daulphin To Paris therefore I returne my love To Sirap I give my daughter And to the Knight of the Daulphin I yeeld my Principality Then my beloved and renowned sonne giue me thy hand and let me embrace thee with thy valour And here I sweare by the all-ever-living-God that if I were sole Monarch of the whole Vniverse thou onely shouldst rule for me and after me More I cannot give thee for thy Asian lost honors lesse thou shalt not have then my whole Europian dignities To confirme which he presently caused him to be proclaimed his sonne in law and the next lawfull and immediate heire to all his Royall Territories Great was now the wonder of all men great the preparation to solemnize their Nuptials and more then great the joy and tryumphes made and ordained for them But amongst them all there was none Vienna excepted that reioyced more then old Sir Jaques whose silver beard was all embossed with pearles of swelling teares for the ioy of his so famous found sonne As for his endeared friend La-nova his glad heart shewed the triumphes of ioy and all his thoughts were ravished with delights and contentments To him after many embraces did Paris give infinite thankes for his comfortable friendship and carefull regard of Vienna and his Father Thus lived they long happy in each other untill the Daulphin summoned by death payd Nature his due and olde Sir Iaques wasted by age yeelded to death Then was Sir Paris created Daulphin of Vienna who enjoyned La-nova to marrie Jzabella unto whom hee gave all his Fathers Lands and Boufoy he made his Steward And so they fortunatly raign'd and lived together many yeares with great comfort and full contentment in Princely state and height of terrestiall dignity The Jmage of God the wrath of Mars and pledge of Nuptiall rite Records his name that for his friend this triviall toy did write FINIS