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A03432	Certaine tragicall discourses written out of Frenche and Latin, by Geffraie Fenton, no lesse profitable then pleasaunt, and of like necessitye to al degrees that take pleasure in antiquityes or forreine reapportes; Novelle. English. Selections	Bandello, Matteo, 1485-1561.; Fenton, Geoffrey, Sir, 1539?-1608.	1567 (1567)	STC 1356.1; ESTC S101952	453,531	632

moderacion in his pleasures the tyran and morderor moued to compassion touching the cause of thin nocent and the vnthrift reclaymed to an honest staie of lif whiche makes me of opynion that this passion giuen vs by nature albeit it be an infection of it selfe yet it serues also as a contrepoison to driue out another venym according to the propertie of the Scorpion which of her selfe and in herself carieth the sting of mortal hurte and oyntmēt of spedie remedie thoccasiō of presēt death and meane to preserue life not meaning for all this to perswade that it is of necessitie we make our selues subiect altogether to this humor of good and euill disposiciō nor allow them that willingly incurr the perill of such fre ymprisonment but placinge it for this tyme amongest thinges of indifferent tolleracion because he neither seamed blind nor void of discreciō on the behalf of those whose erāples I meane to prefarr in this historie I maye boldlie aduoche that which we call affection to be a passion resembling in som respect the condicion of true amytie and yet not muche vnlike for the moste parte the generall euill whiche the Grecians ●al Philautia and we tearme by the title of loue or vaine flatterie of our selues chiefly when we see any so frently to his desiers that to satisfye the inordinat thruste or glot of his gredie appetit he forgettes hothe honor and honestie with the respect and duetie of his conscience besides what ymages of vertue curtesie or bowntiful dispocision soeuer our louers do ymagyn in theim whom they serue dymming the eyes of the worlde wyth a miste of dissembled substance as thoughe the cause of their liberall offer of seruice were deriued of an intent of honest frendshippe yet their trauailes that way concludes we se with other end for that they hunt only the chase of pleasure procedinge of the viewe of an exterior bewtie wherin their meaninge is sufficiently manifeste in the sugred oracions discourses of eloquent stile which those amarus orators seme to prefer when their mindes occupied whollie in the contemplacion of their mistresses do commit the praise of the perfection in their Ladies to the filed fordge of their fine tongue in which what other thing do they more chiefly commend then a deuyn misterie or conninge worke of nature painted with a dy of white or redd in her face A delicate tongue to dilate of matters of fancie an entysinge countenance with a grace and behauiour equal with the maiestie of a princes al which as they argewe the vanitie of him that reapose delite in such fondnes differinge altogether from the true ornamentes of the soule or pattorne wherby the perfectiō of vertue is discerned by thunfayned workes and absolute accion So dismissing this fond philosophie not cōtending greatly whether loue be a natural corrupcion or a thing perticipating with vertue we may be bold to aduouche his power to preauile in things which seame of ympossibilitie to thother passions that be common vnto vs for what thinge can be of greater force in a man then that which constrainynge an alteracion of custome and breach of that which by contynuance hath taken rote within vs doth make as it were A new body and the mynd a meare straunger to her former cogitacions which I neither inferr without cause nor menteyne this argument without great reasō for that as of al the vices which spot the lif of mā ther is none except y e excecrable syn of whoredom which makes vs soner forget god good order then the detestable exercise of vnlawful game neither are we so hardly reclaymed frō any thing as that cutthrote delite for that it is almost as possible to conuert the crueltie of a she wolffe or lyones into a present mekenes as to mortefie the desier of plaie in him which hath bene norrished and nozelled therin frō the beginning of his yeres Euen so notwithstanding the force of loue wrought such a misterie in an vnthrist of Naples that of the mo ste prodigall and ryotous spendor that hath bene noted in any age hee made a most staide and sparing gentlemā that Italy hath brought furth of many yeres since or afore his time Albeit euen vpon the point and beginning of his new fondacion beinge redie w t all to expose frutes of his happye chang frome euill to good trade he was encowntred wyth the malice of his destinies which abridged hys felicytie and life in one moment wherof you maye discerne a manifeste profe in the sequeile of the historie folowing PERILLO SVFFRETH muche for the loue of Carmosyna and marienge her in the ende vvere both tvvo striken to deathe with a thonderbolte the firste nighte of their vnfortunat mariage IT happened not long synce in the riche and populus Citie of NAPLES who norrisheth ordinarylie an infinitie of youth of all degrees that amongest the rest of the wantons broughte vpp there at that tyme there was one named Anthonio Perillo who enioyenge a libertye more then was necessarye to one of so younge yeres and greene vnderstandyng made absolute declaracion affore the race of youthe did stopp in hym what it is to passe the yeres of correction without the awe of parentes tutour or controller for his father hauyng performed his Jornaye whiche nature appointed hym in this woorlde resigned hys bodie to earthe and his goodes and possessions to his sonne who fyndyng so manye golden cotters and chestes full of treasure to assiste his prodigal and wanton dispocision forgat not ymediatly to enter into the trade of a licencius life Wherein he founde no staye nor ympedyment to his will for that the necligence of his father had lefte hym withoute the awe or authoritie of any And albeit in the life of his father he was a continuall hawnter of the Berlea or common house of vnthriftie exercises where for wante of sufficient demers to furnishe his desier with skill in casting the three deceitfull companions of blacke and white vppon a square table he was forced often tymes to forbeare to playe and learne conynge in lokyng vppon yet tyme with his owne diligence made hym so artificiall that beyng but a cryer of awme there were fewe hable to excede his sleyghte in castinge twelue affore sixe of two dyce or tooke halfe so good accomte or regarde to the course of the cardes and yet notwithstanding he was not so wel grownded in the principles of his arte but often tymes his conyng beguilyng hym he was preuented with a contrarie sleighte and onelye his purse paide the charge of the whole companye whiche was not vnmarked of some two or three of the famyliars of hys father the respect of whose frendship and vertue with sondrie argumentes of ymynent destructiō to his sonne moued theym to enter into tearmes of admonicion layinge affore him the circumstance of his sondrie faltes but chiefly reprehendinge the greate wronge he did to his owne estimacion for that the waye to atteyne to renowne

and consolacion of their whole howse made a frank promyse of her ayde in this sort like as saith she I was neuer hable to ymagyne y t your delyuery was wrought by so Rare a meane nor y t our enemyes dissoluinge the remembraunce of aunciente quarrell wolde retire to a care and conseruacion of the healthe and lyfe of the MONTANYNS euen so I thinke youre debt is the greater by the awthoritie of him that hathe done the benefyte and more worthye of am ple consideracion thenne if the good torne hadde bene don by any of your parentes and allies for thymitacion of a vertue oughte to excede the example of the awthor chieflye wher thoccasion is deryued of suche an vnlikelihod that the compasse of brayne seames insufficiente to ymagine so verteous an acte wherin for my parte if I were as hable as I am willinge his curtesye shoulde bée retorned at soo large an intreste that hymselfe shoulde thinke his benefyt nothinge in respecte of the recompence and the worlde to witnes the generositie of the MONTANYNS but hauynge no waye thassistaunce of fortune to presente him with any thinge that may ballance with the merite of hys curtesye and beinge besides a maide withoute accesse to his house by reason of the smal hawnte I vse with the ladyes his kinswomenne I can do no more but yelde honoure to hys vertue wythe secrete thankes in my harte wythe acknowledginge the debte vntill wee bee hable to discharge it wyth equall recompense albeit brother if you haue deuised the meane wherin you accompte mee necessarye to be ymploied doubte not of mee in anye respecte soo that myne honoure onely bee not distressed Amongeste ann infinitte discourses appearynge seuerallye in my vnquiette mynde saythe hee I canne not reste vppon anye likelye cause or meane to worke theffecte of soo Rare a curtesye in thys gentlemanne on my behalfe nor to procure hym in soo soddayne a momente to breake the bonde of annciente grudge and to conuerte his naturall hate into a frendeshippe withoute a seconde or comparison if it be not the fyer of a couert loue kindled of longe time within the tender parts of his intrails and suppressed with a wonderfull greife to himself til now that encountringe so conueniente an occasion to sette abroache the vessell of his burninge desier withe meane to euente the flame that wyll no longer smother but bulke out into open show he makes open declaracion of that whiche he can no longer conceile ah wonder full force and vertue in loue who hath power to conuerte the minde oppressed w t passion of collor into a disposition tractable beyo nd all exspectacion and in one momente to chaunge that wherein all mē iudged an ympossibylitie of conuercion it is only thy bewtie ANGELYQYA with respect of other thy perfections whiche haue transformed our late enemye into the parson of a perfecte frende it is the generall ●ame of thy honest and verteous life y t hath sommoned SALYMBYNO to deliuer thy miserable brother abandoned of all his frendes and in dispaire of any good fortune Oh noble gentleman and harte of a kinge lackinge no kinde of magnanymitie what meanes alas haue 3 to approche that honest liberalitie wherunto thou haste bownde me by so sewer obligacion I lyue to serue the and am ready to dye to do the pleasure mine honor is reserued to be ymploied by the and my goodes and lyuinge attende thy sommonce to dispose of them at thy pleasure thow haste also made suche a stealthe of my harte that onely death is hable to redeme it what is there thenne remaininge but that y u ANGELIQVA remoue incontynent the vaile of al supersticion and vnseamely crueltie in disposinge thy selfe to be thankefull to hym who hath won thy goodwill by the wager and warranty of verteous loue and who as a fyrste earneste penny of his seruice and dutye towardes the dyd presente a thousande ducekettes for the raunsome of myne honour and lyfe whyche if they remeyne of equall care vnto the nowe as thabundance of thy late teares with dollorus regardes did earste argue to all the worlde whereof also thou gaueste a chiefe declaration in thy free consente to se● mine inheritance for the redemption of my thraldom Sticke not to dispose thy selfe now so frankely on my behalfe that I maye reuenge the fauor whiche SALYMBYNO hath don me for the respect of thy loue with a present no lesse precious and rare then his acte is iustly meritorious of perpetuall fame in all ages And as hee refuced not turne vp the bottom of his coffers to raunsome my libertie So lackinge the consente of equal fortune to retorne his curtesye with semblable payment lett vs make a present of your bewtie whiche I am sewer he wil not abuse any waye consydering that he wantes no furniture of vertue whiche is necessarie for the adorninge of a noble harte which as it is al the meane I haue to make a counterchange of his benefytt and bringe me out of debt with him whose money lyethe in pawne for the libertie of my life So I beseche you good sister consider the iustice of my requeste and prono wnce a resolucion in suche sorte as requitinge that whiche is due to him I maye yelde you alone al homage and holde my life only of you but if your aunswere putt me eyther in doubte or dispaire of this meane to make euen with so true a creditor assure your selfe I wil rather abandon both citye and countrey and disclaime the company of al my frends then liue amongest you with the name of an vnthankeful parson or be pointed at of the worlde not to requite so great a good torne as the deliuerie and sauinge of my life wherefore seinge that in you alone consistes the whole reappose of your desolate brother determine eyther his abode and companye with you for euer or els his departure within these thre daies to wast the remeinder of his wretched life in continual wander in forreine soiles with absolute intente neuer to sett foote within any parte of ITALY hereafter Wherwith the pore ANGELIQVA became no lesse astonied and voyede of sence then if she had bene of a soddayn assailed w t an APOPLEXIE al be it the passion of her mynde quarrellinge so longe with in that her stomake seamed to pant as it were the breathe of it litle bellowes vpon a fordge brake oute at laste by a watery vent at her eyes distillinge whole riuers of teares and restored her to the vse of her speche which she vttered to her brother in this sorte I haue often rede saithe shee that it is easye for an innocente to fynde wordes to speake and verye harde for a man in myserie to kepe a temperaunce in his tale but I doubte I shall finde by a present experience of my selfe that the defence of a prisoner is not only superfluous but also hatefull seaminge rather to reproue then enforme the iudge wherein I am the

such indeuor to make declaration of the dutifull zeale he bare her that she shoulde fynde hym nothing inferior to any gentilman that euer made profession of loue or other seruice to his Ladye nor haue cause any way to mislike her choise for y t he wold neuer be so rash in promise as redie to expose an effect nor she so willyng to require as he twyse diligent to parforme thuttermost of her cōmaundements she felyng her selfe clawed in y t place that ytched most replyed with a smyling countenance that ther perience of the often breache of promisse in suche as vse to court vs simple Ladyes wyth the marchandise of loue doth argue so much thincōstancye of men saith she that for my part if I sawe a present effect of true loyaltye before myne eyes yet could I hardlye he brought to repose eyther credit or assurance in any promise seing men them selues nowe a dayes are infected wyth the ayre of such fragility that they neyther respect the honestye of their word nor the vertue in parformyng the least effect of a thousand liberal offers they make at vnwares Albeit as he y t chargeth the guyltles with the offence of the murderer doth wrong to his innocencye so I haue learned that it is a speciall vertue to be persiall in opinion toward straūgers and iudge the best of euery man wherfore for your part syr if you will enlarge the offer of your fyrst faith with this addicion that I may be bold to imploye you in one spectall affaire of mine at suche time as I shall sommon you therunto I am content not onely to put you in possession of your request But also to bynd my selfe to no lesse loyaltye on your behalfe then euer appeared in any Ladye to wards her faythful seruant The captayne that would willyngly haue sacrifised hym selfe for the raunsome of her fauor stoode not to examine what charge she would enioyne him vnto but cōfirmed an assurance with sundry sorts of othes being no lesse rashe in y e promise of euel thē hastie to performe th executiō as herafter you shal heare Here was brewed the broth or preparatyue of the fatall obsequies of her former loue the earnest penny gyuē of the blodie bargayn death of Seigneur Valpergo for she by the too liberall vnhoneste vent of her honor made him the Borreau vnnatural executioner of noble blod defacinge by y e same meanes the gentrie of his house which he ought to haue preserued til the last drop of blood in his body And remaining there al that night she made him so pleasant a bāquet of delicat kysses other exercises of y e bed that the more he tasted of y e pleasure the more he thrusted with desyre to cōtinue y e sport y e subtil Cirses for her part semed so vehemēt in loue with dissimuled arguments of vnfayned affection that in persuading himselfe of the victorye of her good wyl he thought he had made a conquest of the whole easte parte of the worlde seming so drowned in the deuocion of his new Sainte charmed with the enchauntmentes of her art which peraduenture lente her some power or assistance of legierdemain to force his humor of earnest zeale that if she had sayd the worde he had made no conscience to haue committed the whole Citye of Myllan to the mercie of fyre and gunpowder lyke as Blouse de Cume was redye to put fyer into all partes of the cytie of Rome if the Sedicius Tyberyus Gracchus had geuen it hym in charge suche is the rage and frantyke folye of youth when they suffer their amarous transport to excede the caryr of reason or discression and from this fountayn haue distilled heretofore many destructions of Realmes with subuerciōs and alteracions of monarchies wherin also may be noted a maruelous corrupt and vaine disposicion in such as wyl rather affect and haunte the companye of a publike curtysan then honor the vertue of a chast lady although she were his lawful wyfe and companion of bedd and yet those gallandes wyll not sticke to Ieste and point at the maried man gouerned sometime by the sage aduice of his lawful wife wher they seme readye at the commaundemente of a strompet or arrand whoare not only to hazarde the price of their honor but also in fauoring thinstygaciō of her wickednes to make their testament vpon a skafolde layinge their heades vnder the edge of the sworde of Iustice wherin I nede not torne ouer many bokes for copy of exāples seing you may be sufficiently satisfyed wyth y e view of the folye of this bastarde of Cardonne in performinge the suggestion and malice of this mordering corntesse who seinge her captayne sufficientlye framed to the postey of her wyll thoughte it was now time to put him in remembrance of his promise and somon him to the reuenge of them that thought no more of her cōspiracyes nor traynes of treason wherin as the howre approched that her Lasciuious trade of life shoulde be enioyned to open pennance and the wrong violacion of faith to her husbād with her pernicious intentes effectes of murders receyue theire due hyre and punishment and that the rage of destenie woulde not be appeased tyll som man weare committed to execution so for a more expedicion of the fatall ende of her miserable lyfe she entised her bastard louer into a close arbor in the gardin where only y e byrdes weare witnes of their discours and brake with hym in this sorte Yf nature Sir hath gyuen to euery one a speciall care to holde the vse of lyfe moste deare with a peculyar desyer to fauor the cours of our dayes wyth so lōg a tearme as we can how much more are we bounde to embrace and be carefull of that whiche causeth vs to lyue wyth a singuler renome from amongst the rest of the baser sort of people who lyenge alwaye in watch to marke oure order of lyuing are no lesse glad to haue an occasion of slaunder then redye to impart it to all the worlde with such percialitye of vnworthie bruit y t the greater we seame in degrée the more hainous they make our offence and mortal fautes not only scarse noted but also tollerable in meaner personages wherin as we women are most incident to the awe of that malicious clymat of people both for that they Sift vs and our doings more narrolye thē the rest and because we beinge the weaker companye are not armed with sufficient force to resiste their rage so the indifferēt sorte ought not to be rashe in iudgement on their sydes nor gyue sentence of discredit or dishonesty againste vs the rather by a sinister suggestion of suche a vulgar and barbarous crewe neyther ought we to spare or feare anye sort of reuenge whiche maye aduaunce the recouerye of that wherof we are wrongfully deuested Thus much I haue inferred syr as a preamble to the request I meane to make which I take

or felicities of men be of perpetuytie and euery thinge hath hys proper tyme so fortune disposed to compassion and wearye at last of the sondrye wronges she had don to the penitencier of Geniuera lent hym a meane to ●lymbe the higheste staffe of her whéele wherein certeinly appered a speciall effecte of the prouidence of God who only doth and is hable to prefer a facilitie in thinges that seame most harde and ympossible in the iudgement of man like as also the meanes whereby he workes and makes the ministers of hys wil are so secret and far from the knowledge of vs wretches that when we thinke vtterly to loase any thyng yet then our exspectacion is deceiued in reteyning that whych ear●● we yelded for lost in such sorte that as what fauor soeuer fortune dothe geue vs we are not hable to assure oure owne estates So likewise oughte wée not to dispaire or desye oure selues for any aduersatie how great soeuer it appeare seing that god exposing dayly effectes of mercy vpon vs willeth vs to reapose our hope and assurance in his goodnes which as he hath declared by manifolde examples in the person of our deare frendes so our owne eyes haue bene witnesses of the wonderfull merueiles he hath wrought in like cases for howe many haue we séene in our tyme who beinge in the power of their enemies iudged to dye yea brought to y e place wher the last and fatal blowe of execution shoulde be giuen were not only taken by great meruaile out of the handes of such perills but for a more wonder and admiracion of the misteries of god called to the state of a kingdom which royal authoritie ouer a whole people which because it is necessary to instefye by som authoritie auncient profe I haue thoughte good to ympart vnto you in this digressiō y t which I haue no ted out of y e records of Plyny an exāple albeit not famylyar yet of vndoubted truth for at such time as Ladislas son of king Anbart raigned in Hongarye Boemya being of tender yeres semblable experience for the direction of hys state was constrayned to reapose all his creditte in thopynions of his barones and lordes of aduise amongest whome by occasion of ciuil sedicion grew a peculiar grudge betwen the childrē of the Lord Iohn Vnyades vvayuode deceased not long affore and in hys lyfe the only protector af the king and tutor of the multitude and Henry earle of Celye next consing and parent to the kyng that then liued This quarrell grew to such tearmes of reuenge that therle of Celye beyng one day in a churche in one of the chief Cities of Hungarie was mordered by the handes of the sayde Vnyade whych beyng brought ymediatly to the eares of the kynge hee was aduised to dyssymule hys iuste wrathe for that at such hower he was not of sufficiente power to gyue correction to o greate a presumption albeit retiringe ymediatlye to Budo thordynarye place of hys abode and where hys greatest force remeyned he seased vpon bothe the children of VVayuode and stryke of the heade of the theldeste called Ladislas deferring iustice to the other named Mathias for the respecte of his young yeres albeit he inclosed hym in sewer prison within the kingdom of Boemia where as he remayned without hope of longe life or ende of his imprisonment but by death So it chaunced not longe after that the kynge Ladislas comminge to do execution of thinfāte of wyuado dyed in the same towne where he indured his miserable captiuitie whereupon the Boemians chosed for their king one George Pogibracehio the Hungariens on the other side aduertised of the death of their soueraine began to enter into compassion towardes the prisoner and preferringe to memory the vertue of his father at such time as he bare authoritie in their publike weale they proclaimed Mathias king of Hongarie who beinge in the custodie and daunger of George newly adopted kyng of Boemya was not only delyuered by hym but also he gaue hym his doughter in mariag by which meanes of a pore desperat prisoner he becam in one instant a puissant Kinge wherunto as he durste neuer before aspire by any hope or likelihod y t appered so if it had not ben for his aduersitie he had neuer sit in y e seate royall of Hungary bothe for that they woulde haue chosen an other his elder brother Ladislas hadd bene afore hym the countie whiche they slewe woulde haue resisted suche preferment but chieflye it is lyke the Hungariens would not hau giuen hym suche large title of dignitye if it had not ben for the respecte of cōpassion they vsed vppon his miserable captiuitie who as he came to y e crowne as you sée by y e same meane which y e other lost it so the famous Historiographer Titus Liuius makes mencion of the like accidente happening to Iacques de Lusi●ano vncle to Petre kyng of Cipres at y e solemne feast of whose coronatiō the Ieneuoys Venetiens cōtended for superioritie either of theim striuing for the prefermente of the firste place in that assemblie in the presence of whome Iacques de Lusiuano partiall on the Venetiens side caused certeine of the Ieneuoyes to be executed wherof the state of Ieyne being aduertised determined to take cruel vengāce where vnto they added such expedicion that in a moniēt they had leuied a great armye vnder the conduction of Pierro Fregose a most excellent captain by sea who discarged y e creditt of hys cōmission w t so good fortune that the toke y e yle put the citie to sacke reseruyng notwithstandyng the life of Iaques Lusyuano whom he caried prisoner to Ieane wher the senate enioyned him to perpertual ymprisonment w tin the strongest tower of their citie wherin albeit he continued without hope of libertie or exspectacion to enioy any parte of his auncient dignitie by the space of nyne yers yet yt happened in y e ende of the said tearme that fortune torning her whéele gaue sa● feconduit to the king Pierro to passe into thother world with out heire of hys body by reason wherof thinhabitātes of the yle consideryng Seigneur Lusyuano was of the blodd royal and nexte parent to their dead lord tooke such compassion of hys captiuitie with a remorce of his long pennance that inconsideration of his misery procedynge by their occasion they redemed his liberty with a great exaction of money and annoynted hym kinge of Cypres which peraduenture he hadd neuer possessed yf the desolacion of his ymprisonement had not wroughte the meane albeit he had enioyed his libertie and pursewed it to thuttermost such is the wonderfull prouidence of God punishynge the wicked at his pleasure and restoring the misery of such as dispaire of worldly succour exposeth effectes of his omnipotencie excedynge thexspectacion and ymagynacion of the creatures of the earthe suche was also the case of Dom Diego who determined wholly to spende the remeynder of his lyfe in the