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A06166	The famous, true and historicall life of Robert second Duke of Normandy, surnamed for his monstrous birth and behauiour, Robin the Diuell VVherein is contained his dissolute life in his youth, his deuout reconcilement and vertues in his age: interlaced with many straunge and miraculous aduentures. VVherein are both causes of profite, and manie conceits of pleasure. By T.L. G.	Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.	1591 (1591)	STC 16657; ESTC S109566	59,414	92

this is hée what greater 〈◊〉 before my God than Emines testim●nie hath not God giuen her an instrument to open desert which before time was closed with dumnesse and that this is hee what greater proofe than the very Armour the very Sword the very Steede concealed and kept by me for greater secrecie Behold the wound not inforced by a voluntarie stroake as is the Souldans but by a fauouring hand who laboured to discouer him if therefore trueth being opened bee preferred before error and co●digne worthines before impietie and wickednesse Emperour accept this Prince of Normandy for thy sonne who procured thy securitie for thy kinsman who reskewed thy Countrie so shalt thou performe the duetie of a iust Prince and be commended for thy prouidence This sayd he discouered Roberts th●gh and presented all the titles of his claime and crauing priuate conference with him was permitted to conuerse with him alone in a hidden chamber meane while the Pallace was in an vprore and some swords were drawne to assaile the Souldan who abashed ashamed at his discouerie seemed rather a dead than a liues man But the Emperour who sawe in his lookes the tenour of his loosenes being a gracious and benigne Prince withstood the assailants and after thankes giuen to the heauens and kinde embrace to Emine he spake in this manner to the Souldan Pagan though it be in my power to cut thee off it is not my pleasure to vse discourtesse I see it was fancie that made thee faine and follie that hath procured thy fall I know thy estate is desperate thy souldiers spent thy Musulmahs discomforted and in that I disdaine to combate with these who are welny conquered I pitie thee and pitying thee grant thy peace If therefore thou wilt presently depart my Court di●lodge thy Campe and leaue Christendome thou and thine shall enioy both life and libertie and that for Emines sake if not resolue thy selfe to dye to see thy Nobles destroyed and the memorie of thy name entirely exterminate and extinguished The Souldan pondering with himselfe his perilous estate seeing his loue recureles and his libertie rechles except he accepted the opportunitie answered the Emperour in this sort If my fancies haue made me foolish beare with me Emperour more mightie than I haue fallen for the attainement of Emine if I haue fained I must now onely repent it bearing a deepe wound in my thigh but more woe in my heart for my life I respect it not were it not I regard my subiects for thy bountie I accept it and will depart Christendome and so relying on thy word I take my leaue surrendring thee thy Christianitie since thou hast here●t me of mine Emine This sayd reuiling and exclayming on destinie the Pagans departed and tru●●ing vp their baggage shipped themselues leauing both the siege and Christendome which was mightily comforted by their departure By this time had the Recluse absolued Robert and acquited him of his penaunce and aduising him to put on a robe of maiestie he brought him into the great Hall vnto the Emperour when as kneeling vpon his knee the braue Norman began thus Since my penaunce is performed and my conscience discharged most mightie Emperour I must acknowledge thy inestimable bountie who for this seuen yeres space hast maintained me being an abiect in mine own countrie and ●dious both to God man for which bountie if I haue done your maiestie or Christendome any seruice it was my duetie who hauing defaulted in my former life time ought in my reconciled yeres to follow honorable actions The Emperour hearing his graue and wise salutation seeing him an amiable and comely Prince embraced him and lifte● him vp replying thus I thanke my God braue Norman Prince that he hath opened truth to discouer trecherie in stead of a Pagan hath recommended my Emine to a Christian for which cause hold take the honour of my estate and the hope of her father take Emine who by diuine prouidence was ordained for thee and by right and duetie appertaineth to thee and in so saying hée caused the Ceremonies of Marriage to bee solemnized betweene them to the wonderfull reioyce of all the assistance Pepin of Fraunce séeing one of his Péeres so fortunate wept for ioy neither was there any one Potentate that entertained not Robert with heartie loue and kind●esse the Empresse reioyced in him Emine hartely embraced him and such was the sollace throughout the Citie as may not be expressed During these pompous solemnities the Emperour bethinking him on his promise caused the Princes to be assembled where hee inuested Robert with the Emperiall Diadem proclayming him heire apparant of the Empyre after his decease In which pompe and triumph I leaue them returning a while into Normandy where our Historie began How A●bert hearing no newes of his sonne after the terme of seauen-yeares dyed leauing the possession of his Dukedome in the hands of Editha and the Lord Villiers with the lamentable treasons that thereupon ensued AVbert the olde Duke of Normandy after the departure of his haplesse sonne Robert liued a desolate and discontented life hearing no certaine notice of his safetie or securitie for which cause he tooke such inward thought that at such time as seauen yeares were ouergone and expired he gaue vp the ghost leauing the charge of his Dukedome till Robert his sonne might bee founde out in the handes of Editha his Duchesse and Villiers a Peere of his signorie At such time as his funerals were fully finished Villiers sé●ing Editha was a Princesse of a milde and mercifull nature nothing delighted with troubles or worldy affayres tooke vpon him the handling of all controuersie and so swéete was the baite of signorie to him in a short time that from being an agent for another he began to imagine the meanes how to take the whole possession into his handes Little suspected hee that Robert was liuing and as for Editha since she was a woman he supposed it an easye matter to supplant her and her power for which cause after many conclusions and melancholie deliberations he suborned two false witnesses who accused the Dutchesse of poysoning her deceased husband so couloring the accusation with probabilities and corrupting great men by bribes that Editha was emprisoned and after a while adiudged which was either within the tearme of a yeare to finde out a Champion to defend her truth or else to be consumed with fire The chaste Princesse seeing iniquitie preuaile against equitie perceiuing the Iudges eares were sh●t and the great mens toongs silent and beholding her former friends how like sommer birds they forsooke her she cast off all care of life grounding her selfe vpon her innocencie and returning to prison led therein a solitarie and lamentable life whilst Villiers enioyed the Signiorie Often and many were her complaints accompanyed with feruent prayers and diuers times called she to remembrance her former offences and bethinking her selfe of her sonne wept bitterly One day looking out of

of Fraunce was vpon his returne sent to warre in the ayde of the Loraynes against the Vermandois and how at his returne from the warre Robert his sonne was borne who for his villanies was surnamed the Diuell NO sooner was Aubert returned to his Court but certaine messengers saluted him with letters of credence from King Pepin crauing his ayde in the behalfe of the Loraynes against the Vermandoies The noble Duke being naturally inclined to famous exploites not effeminate pleasures reioyced at this occasion and taking kinde leaue of his Dutchesse he leuied his men at armes marching by long iornies so speedilie till at last he arriued where both the battailes were pitched in fight of one another his present assistance encreased the hope of the Loraynes and ruinated the hearts of the Vermandoies who that night dislodged themselues in secret seeking all occasions of delay whereby they might either weaken their enemie or strengthen their armie Fiue moneths and more dallied they the time with light skirmishes wherein Fortune now smiled on the one part now laughed on the other but Aubert who detested delaies and by their protraction suspected their policie so incessantly incensed the armie of the Loraynes that finally they disolued either to decide the controuersie in fight or die in the enterprise so that following y ● Vermandoies in to what place soeuer they withdrewe themselues at last they inclosed the Eneme in a faire plaine encompassed with high hills where was neither hope of flight nor expectation of delay whereupon both the aduersarie hoasts vpon a prefixed day encountered where the Loraynes had the victorie losing onely sixe hundred men in the battaile and the Vermandoies beside those that were taken prisoners lost the flower of their Nobilitie beside nine thousand Commoners who fell in that fight But Auberts courage was of no small expectation in this encounterie for with his owne hand he slewe the Generall on the aduerse partie and renting the Colours from the staffe trampled it vnder the feete of his horse in contempt of his maligners The Loraines in this sort being Lords after they had raunsomed their prisoners and concluded their peace returned to their countries and Aubert no lesse inriched than honoured returned to his Citie of Roan where discharging his traine of Souldiers hée intended his accustomed pleasures But Editha during the absente of her husband was so fortunate and fruitfull after their last intercourse that she increased daylie and at last the quickning babe in her wombe depriued her of all her wonted suspect but at such time as y ● Duke was returned and the appoynted time of her deliuerie expected the heauens intimating some prodigious sequell were afflicted with continuall thunders the earth shooke as if amazed at Nature the lightnings flashed with great furie and midst all these Commotions Editha was brought a bed of a sonne who by his fathers ordinance was in great pompe carried to the Church of S. Owens in Roan and christened by the name of Robert This infant in his swathing cloutes gaue certaine testimonie of his future outrages for being borne beyond the custome of nature with all his teeth according to the opinion of the Historiographers was inchaunted for in stead of drawing nutriment from his Nurse hee bit off her nipples and being kissed in the cradle by the Ladie of Sanserres hee bit off her nose in his foode he was rauenous in his fashions behauiour rigorous in stead of his infantly cries vsed seuere smiles planting in his parents more occasion of suspition than ca●se of hope At seauen yeares of age his mother diligently intending his amendes sought out a man of good life and great learning who might instruct him in the feare of GOD and resolue him in the secrets of Arts she accompanied him with his equalles in birth his companions in studie leauing no meanes vnsought to reclaime him nor perswasions vnapplied to reforme him but as the Oke sooner breaketh than boweth and the Sallowe being bowed in the twig is crooked in the tree so Robert by nature inclined to vice coulde in no wise bee induced by aduice hee was in wit pregnant but applied the same to loosenes reioycing as much at diuelishnes as other in their doctrine in reading the Poets he despised the precepts of worth and delighted in the poems of wantounes hee was eloquent but in impietie diligent but in mischiefe hauing nothing in more estimate than murther flying nothing more earnestly than modestie and in regard of this his intemperance it was by some supposed that his mother at such time as he was begotten was inchaunted each one seeing his inclination fled him as a Serpent his equals he banished from him with buffetings his elders with reuilings hauing neither feare of God nor regarde of godlines If his mother went to see his wretchednesse he became more wicked if Aubert sought to reconcile him with good counsailes he laboures the more to defile himselfe with larcenies and cruelties yea such and so many were his mischiefes that it was wondered at y ● the earth did not sink vnder him in respect of his vngratiousnesse no one of his fellowes escaped from him vnwounded Hearing his Tutor one day discoursing vpon the nature of C●euta he gaue diligent attention to his doctrine and finding out the simple he prepared the same according as hee was instructed and presented it to his masters sonne a childe of rare towardnesse who no sooner tasted thereof but with vehement and bitter agonies gaue vp the ghost the father wonderfully astonished at this action and inquiring the cause of him with many pitifull bemouings he receaued this answer Master sayd he I haue but put in practise that which you haue taught me in precept and since I find you a man of such credite I will boldly write vnder your lesson probatum est he was naturally inclined to intort all good principles of Philosophy and to apply the earnest secrets of antiquitie to notable insolencie hee dissembled most holines when hee was irreligious supposing it vertue to inuent sinne and shame to be ignorant in sinne his prouident Tutor knowing as the Prouerbe runneth the Tree by his fruite the Lyon by his naile and the Crocadile by his teare knowing by daylie experience that too much impunitie is the cause of too much impietie that it is easier to stop the riuer in the spring than withstand it in the streame that the Lyon restrayned being a whelpe is tractable in his greatest yeares that Custome was a meane if not to subdue yet to alter Nature thought good by crueltie to correct that which by le●●●ie hee could not confound for which cause seeing that gentle admonition preuailed nothing he exchanged his strict perswasions to sterne lookes his sound rudiments to sharp rigor hoping to recouer that by displing which he could not reforme by discipline But as their labour is frustrate who seeke to bring Cancasus into a plaine to bereaue India of gems Candia of oyles Cochim

and distressed Ladie she fained a pretie shadowe of complaint and foulding her armes as if she had béen Loues forsaken she tuned this Elegie whilest from out the hart of the desert a strange sound of melodious musick accorded to her cōplaint Plucke the fruite and tast the pleasure Youthfull Lordings of delight Whil'st occasion giues you seasure Feede your fancies and your sight After death when you are gone Ioy and pleasure is there none Here on earth nothing is stable Fortunes chaunges well are knowne Whil'st as youth doth then enable Let your seedes of ioy besowne After death when you are gone Ioy and pleasure is there none Feast it freely with your Louers Blyth and wanton sweetes doo fade Whil'st that louely Cupid houers Round about this louely shade Sport it freelie one to one After death is pleasure none Now the pleasant spring allureth And both place and time inuites Out alas what heart endureth To disclaime his sweete delightes After death when we are gone Ioy and pleasure is there none The finall conclusion of this Canzon was shut vp with a pleasant Couranto in which frō out the groue foure Satyres antiquely entertained foure Nimphs and sodainly vanished whilest this faire Hamadriade in semblance approached Robert wantonly casting her armes about his necke proffering dalliance but he whose loue was planted on heauenly not on earthly delights sodainly cast her from him and lifting vp his hands to heauen began thus O thou maker of the heauen tye me to thy loue intice me to thy lawe incense me to vertue subdue in me vanitie let not temptation conquer though it trie me nor Sathan compasse though he tempt me The prayer was no sooner finished but a horrible cracke of thunder fell from the heauens the Woods were inflamed with lightnings and this wanton vision sodainly vanished in steade whereof succéeded horrible Eathquakes the Curtaines of the heauen were darkened the compasse of the world was clowded and on the face of the Center there appeared through the light of lightning hideous shapes of Giants threatning him monstrous Tygers assayling him but he constantly putting his trust in GOD and boldly walking on his way at last attained into an open plaine in the middest whereof there stood a poore Chappell with a little Cottage hard beside and by that time the dangers were ouerpast the dimmy approach of the euening foretold him that the day was spent for which cause he hasted into the Chappell to doo his deuotions where he found before the Alter a graue old man performing his deuine prayers neither of these two intended worldly salutations but solemnely fell to their deuotions which being performed the olde man seeing so goodly a personage cloathed in a Pilgrims weed with great reuerence saluted him deeming him for no lesse than he was beseeching his companie in his Hermitage for that night in that other lodging was not nere at hand Robert easilie condiscended and entering the homely Cottage he was feasted in friendly sort with such dainties as his poore estate could affoord During the time of their repast Robert desirous to knowe the secret of the inchaunted Wood began to question with the olde man about the same who al amazed to heare that Robert had passed it in manner of admyration he answered thus Truely my sonne thou art happie that through the mercie of GOD hast ouerpassed those dangers which thy predecessors could neuer attaine vnto for this Wood my friend is called Le bois du temptation the wood of temptation where through many holy men haue attempted to passe but they haue either béen withdrawne by delight or driuen backe by feare and finally perished through their owne follies But since thou hast so constantly perseuered procéede in thy deuotion and let humilitie be thy companion and doubtlesse my sonne thy ende shall bee farre better than thy beginning Robert wondering at his doubtfull conclusion replied thus And why father doest thou knowe my beginning I sonne sayd he thou art of the earth as I am borne of a Princesse as I was not sonne to a Duke yet of detested life Robert of Normandy I knowe thee thy chaunge was foreshowne mee in vision now therefore prosecute thy pretence followe thy repentance for in so doing thou shalt performe mightie things The sorrowfull Prince hearing but the repeticion of his former life wept most bitter teares being sore ashamed to behold the graue father But the olde man comforted him and knowing the expedition of his iorney so animated him that hee presently set forward in that the louely Moone assisted him with sufficient light the aged sire conducted him on his way in which they had not long trauailed but they tooke their leaues the one of the other Robert continually prosecuted his iorney In trauailing the Alps diuers Gentlemen offered him their Moyles to ride vppon but he refused them In Italy sundrie Merchants inuited him wondering at the maiestie of his countenance but he replied that hee was vnworthie and so with teares forsooke them If any his fellowe Pilgrimes fainted on the way hée bare him on his backe if any thirsted hee sought them water he was comfortable to those that were comfortlesse and where he sawe the innocent wronged he was agréeued Trauailing about Ancona he sawe a villaine who cruelly handled a poore countrie maiden and drawing néere him he so rigorously reuenged the iniustice that the poore mayd falling at his feete was faine to intreate for her persecutor Such blind men as he met hee called them happie assuring them that the losse of their outward eyes kept them from beholding much vanitie seeing a lame man complayning of his imperfection make straight thine inward man sayd he good friend for that shal mount to heauen through thy vertue when these limm●s shall dissolue to earth and become the pray of vermine In all his trauailes he was constant patronizing the weake punishing the wicked and in this manner trauailed he till at last hée arriued at Rome How Robert the Diuell entered Rome and what there chanced vnto him TWo moneths was Robert ere he attained his iorneys end and at the last entered the Citie on the feast day of S. Peter at which time in great solemnitie the Popes are accustomed to goe to diuine Seruice and humbling him with other Hermites as it was the custome in those supersticious daies hee attended there for his benediction Great was the solemnitie on that day and throughout the streetes where the Bishop should passe each one deuoutly humbled him on his knees to entertaine his blessing At the enterance of the Church among other deuout Hermites hee behelde Prince Robert bathed in his teares humbled on his knees and wondering at his manly countenance tall proportion he questioned with himselfe as touching his estate the penitent Norman with bitter sighes made him a due relation of his birth estate life alterations and cause of trauaile beseeching his fatherhood of absolution The Pope amazed at the name of Robert