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child_n	write_v	young_a	youth_n	132	3	8.2049	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31541	Select novels the first six written in Spanish by Miguel Cervantes Sayavedra author of that famous history Don Quixote de la Mancha ; the other by Francis Petrarch an eminent Italian poet and one of the first restorers of learning ; all translated from the originals by Dr. Walter Pope.	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.; Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Historia Griseldis.	1694 (1694)	Wing C1779; ESTC R37542	167,491	368

first least the suddain and unforeseen Accident should disturb you To which words she replied I told you before Sir and now I repeat it to you I can neither will or refuse any thing but what you please to have me do I have no share in those Children but the pain of bringing them into the World you are my Lord and theirs dispose of your own as you think fit and ask not my Consent for the same moment I put my Feet into your House as I put off my Raggs so I did my Will and Affections and put on yours therefore in all things whatever you will I will also If I could fore-know your Will I would desire the same and execute it before you should declare it to me but since I cannot do that tell what your pleasure is I 'll willingly perform it say 't is your pleasure I should be put to Death I 'll go to it with a good will for nothing at all not even Death shall diminish my Love and Obedience The Marquess admiring his Wifes constancy went from her with a stern and troubled Countenance and presently sent to her the same Officer whom he sent before who begun with a great preamble of the necessity of Soldiers obeying their Prince tho the Actions were never so ungrateful to those who did them and hurtful to those who suffer'd by them and much begging Pardon and desiring her not to have hard thoughts of him for he was but a Servant and came unwillingly to disturb her Highness Having made such an harangue as if he was about to put in execution some cruel and wicked unheard of Vilany which he durst not mention he demanded the Child of the intrepid and patient Mother who without changing her Countenance took the Child from the Nurse into her own Arms it was very beautiful and shew'd early hopes of excellent Endowments of mind and was not only belov'd by the Mother but by all that saw it she sign'd it with the sign of the Cross bless'd it and kiss'd it as she had her Daughter before then looking a little while upon it without discovering any sign of Grief she put it into the hands of the Officer Here said she take the Child and do with it as thou art commanded but one thing I desire of thee suffer not the Flesh of this beautiful and innocent Infant to be devour'd by wild Beasts and the Birds of the Air. The Officer return'd to his Master giving him an account of the execution of his Commands which caus'd wonder and amazement in the Marquess that had not he known that she tenderly and passionately lov'd her Children he would have suspected this female Constancy to have proceeded from a rugged and fierce Nature or at least from an apathie and want of Passion and maternal Affection but he knew well she was compassionate and lov'd every one but lov'd her Husband above all things The Officer was commanded to dispose of the Son as he had done before of the Daughter to carry him to Bolonia to be taken care of by the Marquess's Sister which he did One would have thought that these trials of his Wifes Patience Fidelity and Obedience might have been sufficient to have satisfied the most cruel and rigorous Husband But there are some who when they have once begun never know when 't is enouf and when 't is time to leave off of this number was he who resolv'd to proceed and push farther this cruel Experiment fixing his Eyes therefore upon his Wife to try whether he could discover any change in her and doing this daily and continually he could perceive none at all but that she was still more faithful and more obedient if it could be possible than before she had suffer'd such cruel and inhuman usage It seem'd that they two had both but one Will or rather that she had none at all but his was hers The Marquess began insensibly to loose his Reputation and to be accounted a cruel and unjust Person thus to make away his Children born of so vertuous obedient and every way accomplish'd Wife All his Subjects admired and pitied her and did not stick to say that tho she was the Daughter of a Labourer yet she was too good for him and that the worst Wife that ever was in the World did not deserve such usage This discontent and murmuring of the People came to the Marquess's ears but were not prevalent enouf to turn him from prosecuting his Experiment The Children did not appear and no body knew what was become of them which made him who before this act was belov'd and dear to all become infamous and hated Twelve years after the birth of his Daughter he sent Messengers to Rome who were to bring thence the Popes pretended Bull or Licence to be divorc'd from his Wife and spread a report amongst his Subjects that he had obtain'd leave of the Pope to annull the first Marriage and to marry again for his own quiet and the satisfaction of his People for it was not an hard matter for him to make this believ'd by the ignorant Mountainers especially so far distant from Rome this news mightily disgusted them but they were forc'd to submit to the will of their Prince tho not without grumbling and hard thoughts When this report came to Grissels ears tho I believe she was sad yet she was unshaken being resolv'd to undergo with an undaunted courage whatever the Marquess should inflict upon her she patiently expected the event and what he would do to whom she had unchangeably submitted her self and all her concerns The Marquess wrote to his Brother in law at Bolonia to send back his Children and gave out a report that he had made choice of the young Lady to be his Wife A few days after the receipt of this Letter the young beautiful Maid now marriageable richly apparell'd and her Brother a Youth seven years old attended upon with a great troop of Nobility and Gentry with much pomp and solemnity set forwards from Bolonia in order to make their public entry into Saluzzo upon a day appointed The Marquess according as he had done before to sound his Wife and try whether her patience would hold out against so many cruel and repeated assaults and to heap upon her shame and grief sent for her and in the presence of a great number of by-standers he spoke thus for a good while Grissel I delighted in having you for my Wife but 't was before I was thorowly acquainted with your temper but now I can endure you no longer I perceive that all great fortune is a great slavery and that it is not lawful for me to do that which every poor man may My Subjects compel me to divorce you and the Pope has granted me his Dispensation to marry again my Bride is upon the Road and will be here to morrow carry your self magnanimously then and deliver up your place take back your Portion and return to your

compassionate Father With these prudent Words the Father comforted his Daughter and the Mother did the like in tenderly embracing her she sigh'd and fell a fresh into Tears and brought herself to live retired under the Protection of her Father and Mother in a neat but humble Dress In the mean time Ridolfo return'd to his Chamber and miss'd the Crucifix and guess'd who had it but he valu'd not the loss of it being rich and not fearing his Father would would enquire after it three Days after being to undertake a Voyage he gave a Note to one of his Mothers Maids of what things he left in his Chamber not inserting the Crucifix long before Ridolfo had determin'd to go into Italy upon the perswasions of his Father who had been there telling him they were not to be esteem'd well bred Gentlemen who had never been out of their own Countrey this and such like Reasons dispos'd Ridolfo to conform himself to the Will of his Father who gave him Credit for great Summs of Money in Barcellona Genua Rome and Naples A little while after he parted with two Companions who were incited by what they had heard from some Soldiers of the plenty in Italy and the Liberty the Spaniards had there These Words were pleasing to their Ears to behold the good Pullets the good Pigeons the Gammons of Bacon and the Saucidges with other such like Dishes which the Soldiers used to talk of at their return from those Parts into Spain where they suffer so much inconvenience and misery finally he parted with as little Memory of what pass'd betwixt him and Leocadia as if there had no such thing ever been In the interim she liv'd so strictly retir'd that she saw no body fearing they might read her Disgrace in her Forehead but in a few Months she found that she must do that by force which till then she had done willingly perceiving herself with Child This caus'd her Eyes which were yet scarce dry to return to Tears her Sighs and Lamentations began again to fill the Air neither was the Discretion of her Mother sufficient to comfort her Time pass'd and the hour of her being deliver'd came which was so private that her Mother herself did the Office of the Midwife not daring to trust any other She brought forth the beautifullest Boy that ever was seen with the same secrecy that it was born it was nurs'd in a Country Village for the space of four Years at the end of which his Grandfather took him home and bred him tenderly they call'd him by his Name Lewis he was Beautiful of a mild Humour and sharp Wit and all his Actions in that tender Age were evident Testimonies that he was begot by a Noble Father so that his genteel Deportment Beauty and Discretion made his Grandfather and Grandmother so much enamour'd with him that they esteem'd their Daughters Disgrace to have been an happy Accident As he walk'd in the Streets showers of Benedictions rain'd down upon him some praised his Beauty others bless'd the Father that begot him others the Mother who brought into the World such an admirable Creature others those who had given him so good breeding With this Applause of those that knew him and those that knew him not the Child arriv'd to the seventh Year of his Age at which time he could read Spanish and Latin and write more than indifferently well The Intention of his Grandfather and Grandmother was to make him Virtuous for they could not make him rich as if Virtue and Knowledge were not riches upon which Thieves have no Power nor that which the World calls Fortune Now it happen'd that one Day the Child was sent on an Errand by his Grandmother and going by the Street where some Cavaleers were running at the Ring he stopp'd to see them and to get a better place was crossing the Street but he could not do it so quickly but one of the Horses against the will of the Rider run over him and left him strech'd upon the Ground as if he was dead there issuing out of his Head a great quantity of Blood Scarce had this Accident happen'd but an Old Gentleman who stood to see the Courses with incredible swiftness lighted from his Horse and ran to the place where the Child lay half dead and without considering his Age or Quality which was very Eminent he took him in his Arms and went a great pace to his Palace and sent away a Servant presently to call a Surgeon many Gentlemen follow'd him being much concern'd for the Misfortune of so beautiful a Child presently it was nois'd about that he that was over-run by the Horse was Luisetto Nevew of such a Gentleman nameing his Grandfather this pass'd from Mouth to Mouth till it came to the Ears of his Grandfather and Grandmother and his conceal'd Mother who being inform'd of this unhappy Accident as if they were distracted ran out of their House to seek their dear Pledge And because the Gentleman who carried away the Child was one of the Chiefest of the City many that met them directed them to his House where they arriv'd just as the little Boy was under the Surgeons Hands the Gentleman and his Wife Master and Mistress of the House comforted those whom they thought to be Parents of the Child desiring them not to weep and take on so bitterly for it would do the bruised Child no good The Surgeon who was a very Famous one having with great Care dress'd him said the Wound was not mortal as he at first fear'd In the dressing the Child who seem'd senseless recover'd and return'd to himself and rejoyc'd to see his Grandfather and Grandmother they ask'd him mournfully how he did he answer'd well enouf were it not for a great pain he felt in his Body and his Head the Surgeon commanded they should let him sleep which was done then his Grandfather humbly thank'd the Master of the House for the great Compassion and Charity he shew'd to his Nevew To whom the Gentleman answer'd that he did not deserve those thanks and told them that when he saw the Child fall down upon the Ground and trampled upon by the Horse he thought he saw in him the Countenance of his own Son whom he loved equally with his Life and for this reason he took him into his Arms and carried him to his House that he might remain there till he was cur'd and that he would treat him with all imaginable Care His Wife who was a Noble Lady said the same and yet more The Grandfather and Grandmother of Luisetto marvell'd at so much Charity but his Mother more her mind being something quieted by the hopes the Surgeon gave her she began to view the Chamber wherein her Son lay and concluded from many Marks that it was the same wherein she had left her Honour and altho it was not hung with the same Tapestry yet she knew it by the Window that look'd into the Garden as she was