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A15791	The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania. Written by the right honorable the Lady Mary Wroath. Daughter to the right noble Robert Earle of Leicester. And neece to the ever famous, and renowned Sr. Phillips Sidney knight. And to ye most exele[n]t Lady Mary Countesse of Pembroke late deceased	Wroth, Mary, Lady, ca. 1586-ca. 1640.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.	1621 (1621)	STC 26051; ESTC S122291	691,315	600

by a new creation fall to my old place againe These and some other open disgraces truly changed my heart or wrought so much in me as I grew to loue lesse then not to loue and now am come to be more careles of him and faine almost would shun him yet I cannot directly do that though I hate the fortune I am fallen into and this is the cause I am vext with hauing this Lot Vrania and Philistella pitied her especially when she cryd Alas said she why was loue so cruell or rather to clothe loue in such cruelty as to giue hope of purpose to ruine as if one would giue a delicate banket and poyson the Guests when he had done els might hee haue left mee despaire for charities sake and not luld me with hope to martyr me againe The Queenes perswaded much with her and so at last she was pacified so farre as to giue him the Iewel and accept the name of his Mistrisse as other faire Ladies doe the like name further their friendships increased not so long as this story lasted Philistella was left heere with her deare Selarinus shee being crowned with all solemnitie as hee had been before Steriamus and his Vrania iournied on to their Kingdome where likewise shee was crowned and liued the rest of their dayes in all happinesse and ioy the like did Selarinus and Philistella Antissius and Selarina in their voyage by Sea meta fine Aduenture in a sweet and dainty Iland where they staid the Queeue not well brooking the S●a in which time they walked vp into the land comming into a delicate Pallace built curiously of white stone a braue Riuer or arme of the Sea running a little on the other side of it Gardens were round about it or walkes which made it appeare the Pallace of delight and much perfecter had it bin but the Lord of it was called by lifes concluder to obedience dying and leauing two sonnes and one most faire Daughter with his noble Lady whose vertues were such as shinned in her for the honor of all other women and examples to Maydes to liue Virgins and wiues and widdowes as she had done and did She met the King and Queene at the first Gate being enformed who they were with all reuerent respect welcommed them attending them into the Gardens shewing them the pleasures of them and giuing them such fruits as that time yeelded then waited on them into the house which they admired for curiositie sitting downe to rest them in a braue Gallery which delighted them infinitely by reason of the sweete prospect which though not so far as others yet was it as pleasing beeing able to iudge of what they beheld which was one way delicate meadowes and that great Riuer beyond it fields and hills downe the Riuer an ancient and famous Citie well built and of many miles compasse vp the Riuer pasture grounds and fine inclosures thus were all sorts of delights round about and in sight of this place but the richest and finest sight was the graue Widdow the sweet youthes and the excellent young Lady whose perfections were such as no description can come neere or any thing but admiration tell whose fulnesse will not permit expression Her stature was of the brauest and best chosen height her skinne although her hayre was browne white as milke soft as downe and fine as silke her eyes black as if mourning for the murders they would commit yet so spritefull as gaue comfort and blessed content to him should bee honourd with their fauours and hope of life to the dying if they repented their ambition She was sixteene yeares of age but of such beauty as if each minute had bi● employd to fetch excellencies to her a graue and braue fashion she had which to strangers seemd pride but to them that knew her true noblenes abounded in her which they published else she had bin vndeseruingly condemned With the King there was a braue Lord but somewhat in yeares exceeding her he yet had a young and new desire to obtaine her his worth would not seeke her but as her worth warranted him a strangers name hee feared would be distastfull yet he was so neare a home borne man in affection as that might speake for him he was an experienced man and therfore knew time the most pretious of any thing wherefore he applyd himselfe vnto her Her fashion was discreet like herself respectiue according to his owne hart which was not the meanest but such an one as might haue dwelt for noblenes in a king but being in him made him a king for bounty A Cosin-german shee had who trauelling with this Lord was so imped into the quills of his loue as he was himselfe and so wooed for him she was confident of her Cosins loue and trusted his iudgement so receiued the Romanian as on trust from him he was in great fauour with the King who spake for him and of purpose stayed in that Island belonging vnto his Crowne till his seruant had gaind his desire the weather so temperat and pleasing as his Maiesty resolued to stay there and lodge in tents for pleasure and the more commodiously to let his Fauourite court his Mistris although the Lady most earnestly besought his gracing her house with lodging in it but the delightful Island carryed him about to view it and so left him to woe and win if he could In his Progres he met many fine aduentures the Island being large and plentifull of all delicacies but the king fel to sports the Queene affected only prety delights none so violent as hunting the house where they then kept court was a large and auncient house belonging to an Noble-man built square of stone standing rather vpon a flat then a Hill for the highest of the ascents was scarce sencible There ranne behind the Garden and Orchard wall a sweete Brooke on each side whereof fine and enamiled Meadowes lay shewing their finesses to each eye in this place Selarina tooke delight and heere walked but she was with-drawne a little from the Brooke and plaine to a little hill which had some few trees to grace it selfe withall and helpe others from the scorching heate a voice to this place inuited her whither being arriued she found two men in Shepheards weeds their countenances spake for them that they were not borne to that estate yet their complexions shewed that they had not beene curious to preserue them selues from the Sun but followed their fortunes or choyce as men ought to doe any profession they take they were not so young as it might bee said they had want only taken that life the ripnes of their yeares tooke away that suspition for they were towards forty so as iudgment to content them selues or discontent one might see had brought them to it they were together when the Queene first saw them but they seeing her soone parted one as if flying company the other remayning to yeeld account of his going

and because it self betokened truth By this time her husband was come who told vs 't was time to goe rest We obay'd and this was the last time that euer I saw my deere and most worthily accounted deere Limena for the next morning I was by day to be at the Citie and so from thence to returne to the Campe. Thus tooke I my leaue and my last leaue of vertuous Limena whose sad face but sadder soule foretold our following harme and succeeding ruine For within few dayes after my returne to the Camp there came a Messenger early in the morning and O too early for my fortune whom I strait knew to be Limenas faithfull Seruant At first it brought ioy to me seeing a letter in his hand but soone was that turn'd to as much mourning cursing my hands that tooke it and eyes that read so lamentable a letter the contents nay that it selfe being this and the verie same my Mistris sent and wo is me the last she ere can send Vrania read it while he with teares and groanes gaue the true period to it The Letter said thus MY onely Lord thinke not this or the manner strange I now send knowing already some part of the vndeserued course taken with me only pitie her who for your sake suffers patiently accept these my last lines and with them the sincerest loue that euer woman gaue to man I haue not time to speake what I would therefore let this satisfie you that the many threatnings I haue heard are come in some kind to end● for I must presently die and for you which death is most welcome since for you I must haue it and more pleasing then life without you Grant me then these last requests which euen by your loue I coniure you not to denie me that you loue my poore memory and as you will loue that or euer loued me reuenge not my death on my murtherer who how vnworthy soeuer hee was or is yet hee is my Husband This is all and this grant as I will faithfully die Yours Alas faire Shepherdesse said he is this a letter without much sorrow to be read and is not this a creature of all others to be belou'd Neuer let him breath that will not heartily and most heartily lament such a misfortune T is true said Vrania reason and worth being companions but yet I heare not the certaintie or manner of her death then will I not faile to lament with you Alas said hee heare it of mee onely fit to tell that storie After my departure from his house to the Citie and so to the Campe the iealous wretch finding my Ladie retired into a Cabinet she had where she vsed to passe away some part of her vnpleasant life comming in he shut the dore drawing his sword and looking with as much furie as iealous spite could with rage demonstrate his breath short his sword he held in his hand his eyes sparkling as thicke and fast as an vnperfectly kindled fire with much blowing giues to the Blower his tongue stammeringly with rage bringing foorth these words thou hast wrong'd mee vild creature I say thou hast wronged mee shee who was compounded of vertue and her spirit seeing his wild and distracted countenance guest the worst wherfore mildely shee gaue this answere Philargus saide shee I knowe in mine owne heart I haue not wrong'd you and God knowes I haue not wrong'd my selfe these speeches said he are but the followers of your continued ill and false liuing but thinke no longer to deceiue me nor cousen your selfe with the hope of being able for in both you shall finde as much want as I doe of your faith to me but if you will speake confesse the truth O me the truth that you haue shamed your selfe in my dishonour say you haue wrong'd me giuing your honour and mine to the loose and wanton pleasure of Perissus was I not great enough amiable delicate enough but for lasciuiousnesse you must seeke and woo him Yet Limena I did thus deserue you that once better then my selfe I lou'd you which affection liues in the extremitie ●till but hath chang'd the nature being now as full of hate as then abounding in loue which shall instantly be manifested if you consent not to my will which is that without dissembling speeches or flattring finenes you confesse your shamefull loue to the robber of my blisse you may denie it for how easie is it to be faultie in words when in the truth of truth you are so faultie but take heede vnfainedly answere or here I vow to sacrifice your blood to your wanton loue My Lord said she threatnings are but meanes to strengthen free and pure hearts against the threatners and this hath your words wrought in me in whom it were a foolish basenesse for feare of your sword or breath to confesse what you demaund if it were true● farre more did I deserue eternall punishment if I would belye him and my selfe for dread of a bare threatning since sure that sword were it not for danger to it selfe would if any noblenesse were in it or his master choose rather to dye it selfe in the blood of a man then be seene in the wranglings betweene vs yet doe I not denie my loue to Perissus in all noble and worthy affection being I thinke nurst with me for so long haue I borne this respectiue loue to him as I knowe no part of my memory can tell me the beginning Thus partly you haue your will in assurance that that vnseperable loue I beare him was before I knewe you or perfectly my selfe and shall be while I am yet alwayes thus in a vertuous and religious fashion O God cry'd out Philargus what doe I heare or what can you stile vertuous and religious since it is to one besides your husband hath shame possest you and excellent modesty abandoned you you haue in part satisfied me indeed but thus to see that I haue iust occasion to seeke satisfaction for this iniury wherefore resolue instantly to die or obey me write a letter straight before mine eyes vnto him coniure him with those sweete charmes which haue vndone mine honour and content to come vnto you Let me truely knowe his answere and be secret or I vow thou shalt not many minutes outliue the refusall Shee sweetest soule brought into this danger like one being betweene a flaming fire and a swallowing gulfe must venture into one or standing still perish by one stood a while not amazed for her spirit scorned so low a passion but iudicially considering with her selfe what might be good in so much ill she with modest constancy and constant determination made this answer This wretched and vnfortunate body is I confesse in your hands to dispose of to death if you will but yet it is not vnblest with such a mind as will suffer it to end with any such staine as so wicked a plott and miserable consent might purchase nor will I blott my fathers house

I take the authoritie of banishing you while our beasts are so beastly naturall as to loue one anothers conuersation so well as not to be willing to part so as though tyred with your suite and wearied with the noise of your loue yet I must by a tired beasts fault longer remaine to weary my selfe withall I know not said hee whether I shall thanke your beast now or no since against your will I haue this fauour but I see I may chide and blame mine iustly whose lasie or vnfortunate body keepes me here to offend you I see not said the young Duke of Wirtenberg why you should be vncontent with beeing still together since I neuer saw in contrarietie so much agreement Wee haue these two yeares liued thus said the old man and for all I see must weare out more time in wrangling The Lady seemd wondrous strange and would scarce looke on them outwardlie yet she leared vildly vnder her Hat at the smug Youth shee thought his daintie round pretty mouth deserued kisses and when he spake imagined they parted but to procure kisses and so they did for they kissed kindly at returne to meeting Shee was faire and as wanton as beautifull and as beautif●ll as would intice most to her wantonnesse shee was in fashion as chaste as in minde and bodie lasciuious and lasciuious as a wicked soule could bee in a damnable body so as a rare example shee was of the worst kind of an ill woman dissembling excellent in craftie beyond measure false beyond expression and what not that might make a woman change nature with a beast Another mans wife shee was yet a wife or w●rse to all men that would hunting after them as Nimrod did after Deare and more deare were they to her and indeed to many of them when they payed for their courtesies or ambition to meddle with such a creature who was not onely great in birth but as great in ill This disguise shee had put on to trie Aduentures not beeing any otherwaies knowne then to bee a franke Gentlewoman this old man she had with her had been her seruant made elder by her seruice then his yeares called him vnto and so much hers as shee made him an instrument to bring in others to her seruice Natious she had knowne many● yet not so many as shee desired wherefore she would yet trauell a little farther and learne though not by experience yet familiar knowledge her worst ends Lord how shee smircked on the young sweet Youth but he in whom before beliefe of fauor sprang would yet not shew to loue if not mooued handsomly to it so he saw it not or regarded it not but Clauterino more heeded her eyes and as them his owne fickle mind which soone thought shee was worth winning to his purpose which was but for discourse and neuer held Constancy in absence worth obseruation wherefore hee began to complement with her She rather then misse both would take either acccepted of his fauour and after some busines of his intreaty and her modest-like bashfulnes she told her story thus shaking her head like a bowgh in a storme of wind or nodding like and old wife sleeping in an afternoone licking her lips and glaring like a Cat in the darke Sir said she alasse what shall I say I am as you see a woman but as I know an vnfortunate one I was marryed by my owne consent though little knowledge of my friends to a young Gentleman I chose for loue but little I found in him since so as I feare he had only the face of Venus but not the affections much busines I had to get him and great ones vsed in it for my sake and some whom I could for all my loue to him haue wished they would a while haue kept me rather then giuen mee away yet willingly for one end or other I studied to gaine and got him but alasse it prooued the beginning of the marryage betweene Ifis and Inath He was a Youth t is true and not a man for which I married him but this was my Destiny which finding and the want of what I hoped for I complained and iustly I thinke some of my owne Sex spake loudly of mee for it● but were it their cases I assure my selfe they would doe as I did but this was my ill and heerevpon I seeing my friends what with matching without their consents and since taking this course leaue me I vndertooke a iourney into Pamphilia where it is said there is a water that will recouer all diseases ease all griefes especially take away all melanchollies I chose a Troope fit for mee but I met some few dayes since an vnruly consort who mooued with my beauty as they pleased to call this poore part of mee would needs haue that and all but my men defended mee so well as they left mee not but for death and in death so as I could not blame but only pitie them there remained none of them neither but this old man who louing more then hauing reason for vndertooke to ride with mee to the next Citie where I meane to prouide my selfe of company and in truth I must needs say of the poore man hee hath carried himselfe honestlie but foolishly loueth mee who cannot requi●e him So it seemed by your Dialogue answered the Dukes but said the Brunswick Duke though you loue not him you may in time and by desert like another That is not forbid mee said shee While they were thus discoursing came another Damsell riding fast and looking with as much haste who indeed needed succour The Duke of Wirtenberg seeing her demanded what shee so earnestly and speedily sought Helpe Sir said shee a thing wee may all want and I at this present stand in great neede of What troubles you said hee The life of a Villaine that seekes my dishonour How said hee Hee hath long sued to mee but refused replide the Damsell sought to betray mee and this day laid an Ambush for me but with the speed of my horse and the assistance God gaue mee out of his mercie I fled hither more spirit then being in mee then I could euer haue thought I should haue found in my selfe and pray Sir euen now for honours sake assist mee at least keepe mee from the danger of those Creatures You are I see by your habits a Stranger heere yet let not iustice or pitie be set as strangers from you you seeme a braue worthy Gentleman I can appeare but a miserable creature that I hope or beseech to gaine compassion Faire Damsell said hee guide mee to these men and I will loose my life or saue you Nay Sir said shee that needeth not for let mee by your fauour be safely at home and I desire no more nor so much as that you should meete them or I euer see them againe Direct mee and I will cond●ct you said hee so together they went shee telling part of her tale to him while the other three tooke