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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43907	The history of Reynard the Fox, and Reynardine his son In two parts. With morals to each chapter, explaining what appears doubtful or allegorical: and every chapter illustrated with a curious device, or picture, representing to the eye all the material passages. Written by an eminent statesman of the German Empire, and since done into English, Dutch, French, Italian, &c.; Reynard the Fox.	D. P.	1700 (1700)	Wing H2137; ESTC R215189	71,523	173

of Treasure and how he had befriended him in preventing the Treachery designed against him he caused him immediately to be taken down from the Gallows and questioned him where the great Riches he spoke of was who told him it was hid by him in a Wilderness call'd Hulsterlo under the bottom of a Beech-tree by the side of the River Creckneypet that runs thro' the Wilderness At this the Lion stared on him as if he believed it not saying he had heard of most Places in the World as well Cities and Towns as Forests and Rivers but never heard of these O my Lord replied the Fox as I am a dying Creature unless your Mercy be extended to me it is certainly true and if my Words gain no belief even Keyward the Hare tho' he declares himself without Cause my Enemy if he be sworn will give you an Account of the Wilderness and River Then was Keyward call'd and put to his Oath to answer nothing but the Truth to such Questions as should be demanded of him Then said the Fox Keyward let not Prejudice hinder you to answer my Question Know you Creckneypit Yes very well replied the Hare it is a great River that runs thro' the Wilderness of Hulsterlo where Father Simony the Monk was taken coming false Money many Years before Ringwood the Hound and I scrap'd Acquaintance I may well remember it for there I have endured many bitter Winters Upon giving this Testimony he was ordered to withdraw Then said the Fox May my Relation be now credited Yes Reynard said the King and I intreat you to excuse my Jealousie which could not be less since you have so many times deceived me but however it will be convenient that you go with me and shew me the Place Alas said Reynard I should be proud to attend upon your Majesty and the willingest Creature in the World to do it had I not Yesterday made a Vow if I escaped with Life and Liberty I would immediately take a Pilgrimage to Rome to be absolv'd of the Pope's Curse which I lay under for perswading the Wolf to run away from a Monastery where he had enter'd himself a Monk upon his complaining to me that he was almost famished for want of Food tho' indeed he eat as much as six and from thence I intend to pass to Jerusalem and to mortifie myself by Fasting and doing good Works that I may wash off the Stains my Crimes have fixed on me Well replied the King if such a Vow be upon you and you under the Censure of the Church you shall not accompany me but depart and perform what you have promised I will take Keyward the Hare and some others with me who may direct me as well The Fox greatly rejoyced at this and the Conference was no sooner over but the King and Queen mounted on a Scaffold in sight of all Beasts present placing the Fox between 'em and Silence being commanded the Lion thus began All you my Subjects who are here assembled give good Attention to what I shall say In Reynard I find no Fault or at least such as he has repented of therefore I constitute him one of my supream Ministers in State-affairs and of my Houshold the chief Officer freely acquitting him of all his Trespasses and consigning to him a general Pardon for all Crimes committed by him to this very Moment and therefore command you upon your Allegiance to do to him his Wife and Children that Reverence as is due to their Characters for he is going a Pilgrimage to Rome to repent him of his Sins and obtain the Pope's Absolution When the Wolf Bear and Cat heard this they were much griev'd that his Flatteries and Lies had prevail'd against the Truth so that the Wolf could not forbear complaining against the Fox to the King with such Arrogance that being seconded in the manner by the Bear it was taken so heinously that they were both arrested for High-Treason and bound hand and foot so that they could not stir from the Place where they lay afterward they were cast into a Dungeon which not only overjoyed the Fox that his Project had taken so well but struck the rest of his Enemies with such Fear that they immediately departed yet here he stopped not but petitioned the Queen to have as much of the Bear 's Skin as would make a Male as also to have the Wolf 's two Foreshoes and his Wife 's Hinder shoes to keep his Feet from the Stones and and Gravel which were taken from them with great Pain and Danger of their Lives yet notwithstanding the intolerable Pain they durst not revile the treacherous Fox who had been the Occasion of their Miseries When Reynardine had greas'd and fitted on his Shoes he desired that his Staff might be blessed and delivered to him according to the Use of Pilgrims which the King commanded the Ram to do as also to say Mass over him before he departed but he refused it because he was under the Pope's Curse unless the King would secure him against the Bishop and Ordinary but when he saw the Lion angry he trembl'd for Fear and immediately sung Mass over the Fox who little regarded it more than to have the Honour of it then giving Benediction to his Staff and Male he deliver'd it to him so the Lion and all the Beasts attended the Fox part of his Way who seemed loath to depart tho' inwardly he desir'd nothing more than to be rid of their Attendance so that he intreated the King to return for his Health's sake and to prevent the Danger that might happen if the Wolf and Bear should get loose and raise Tumults and Commotions so taking solemn Leave the King return'd with all the Beasts except Keyward and Sir Bellin whom Reynard perswaded to go further with him so by degrees with pleasant Tales and Discourses he drill'd 'em by unknown Ways to Malepardus that being his furthest intended Pilgrimage and now he was fully resolved to be revenged on the Hare for accusing him to the King wherefore at the Gate of his Palace he said Sir Bellin if you 'll but stay a little here I and Keyward will step in a few Moments and take Leave of my Wife and Children where he shall be Witness to a few Passages and Vows between us that if either break 'em the Law may inflict due Punishment so going in they found the Shefox and her young Ones at their Ease yet she no sooner see Reynard return in Safety but leaping up she run to embrace him and ask of his Welfare and how he sped at Court which he told her from Point to Point with all the Honour that had been done him how he had left the Bear and Wolf in Prison and deceived the King and as for this Keyward he 's my Enemy and has vehemently accused me and I have decoyed him hither to take Revenge and feast on his Carcase Keyward no sooner heard this but he trembled and cried