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A02151	The pleasant historie of Dorastus and Fawnia VVherein is discovered, that although by the meanes of sinister fortune, truth may be concealed; yet by time, in spight of fortune, it is manifestly revealed. ... By Robert Greene, Master of Arts in Cambridge.; Pandosto	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1636 (1636)	STC 12292; ESTC S103413	39,826	56

guiltlesse crime But Pandosto was so enflamed with rage and infected with iealousie as he would not vouchsafe to heare her nor admit any iust excuse so that shée was faine to make a vertue of her néed and with patience to heare these heauy iniuries As thus shée lay crossed with calamities a great cause to increase her griefe shée found her selfe quicke with childe which as soone as she felt stirre in her body shée burst forth into bitter teares exclaiming against Fortune in these termes ALas Bellaria How infortunate art thou because fortunate Better thou hadst béene borne a Begger then a Prince so shouldest thou haue bridled Fortune with want where now shée sporteth her selfe with thy plenty Ah happy life where poore thoughts and meane desires liue in secure content not fearing Fortune because too low For Fortune thou séest now Bellaria that care is a companion to Honour not to pouerty that high Cedars are crushed with tempests when low shrubs are not touched with the winde precious Diamonds are cut with the File when despised Pebbles lies safe in the sand Delphos is sought to by Princes not Beggers And Fortunes Altars smoke with Kings presents not with poore mens gifts Happy are such Bellaria that curse Fortune for contempt not feare and may wish they were not sorry they haue béene Thou art a Princesse Bellaria and yet a prisoner borne to the one by descent assigned to the other by despight accused without cause and therefore oughtest to die without care for patience is a shield against Fortune and a guiltlesse mind yéeldeth not to sorrow Ah but infamy galleth vnto death and liueth after death Report is plumed with Times Feathers and Enuy oftentimes soundeth Fames Trumpet the suspected Adultery shall flie in the Ayre and thy knowne vertues shall lie hid in the Earth one Mole staineth a whole Face and what is once spotted with Infamy can hardly be worne out with Time Die then Bellaria Bellaria die for if the gods should say thou art guiltlesse lesse yet Enuy would heare the gods but neuer beléeue the gods Ah haplesse wretch cease these Termes Desperate thoughts are fit for them that feare shame not for such as hope for credit Pandosto hath darkened thy Fame but shall neuer discredit thy Vertues Suspition may enter a false Action but proofe shall neuer put in his Plea Care not then for Enuy sith Report hath a blister on her Tongue and let sorrow bite them which offend not touch thée that art faultlesse But alas poore Soule how canst thou but sorrow Thou art with Childe and by him that in stead of kinde pity pincheth thée in cold Prison And with that such gasping sighes stopping her breath that shée could not vtter any more words but wringing her hands and gushing forth streames of teares shée passed away the time with bitter complaints THe Iaylor pittying those her heauy passions thinking that if the King knew she were with childe he would somewhat appease his fury and release her from prison went in all hast and certified Pandosto what the effect of Bellaria's complaint was who no sooner heard the Iaylor say she was with childe but as one possessed with a frenzie hée rose vp in a rage swearing that shée and the bastard brat shée was withall should die if the gods themselues said no thinking surely by computation of time that Egistus and not he was father to the child This suspitious thought galled afresh his halfe-healed Sore insomuch as hée could take no rest vntill hée might mittigate his choler with a iust reuenge which happened presently after Bellaria was brought to bed of a faire and beautifull Daughter which no sooner Pandosto heard but he determined that both Bellaria and the young Infant should be burned with fire His Nobles hearing of the Kings cruell sentence sought by perswasions to diuert him from his bloody determination saying before his face the innocency of the childe and vertuous disposition of his wife how she had continually loued and honoured him so tenderly that without due proofe he could not nor ought not to appeach her of that crime and if she had faulted yet it were more honorable to pardon with mercy then to punish with extremity and more Kingly to be commended of pitty then to discredit her And as for the Childe if he would punish it for the mothers offence it were to striue against nature and iustice and that vnnaturall actions doe more offend the gods then men how causelesse cruelty nor innocent blood neuer escapes without reuenge These and such like reasons could not appease his rage but hée rested resolute in this that Bellaria being an Adultresse the childe was a bastard and hee would not suffer that such an infamous Brat should call him Father Yet at last séeing his noble men were importunate vpon him hée was content to spare the childs life and yet to put it to a worse death For he found out this deuice that séeing as hée thought it came by Fortune so hée would commit it to the charge of Fortune and therefore hee caused a little cock-boate to be prouided wherein hee meant to put the babe and then send it to the mercies of the seas and the destinies From this his Péeres in no wise could perswade him but that he sent presently two of his Guard to fetch the childe who being come to the prison and with wéeping teares recounting their Masters message Bellaria no sooner heard the rigorous resolution of her mercilesse husband but shee fell downe in a swound so that all thought shée had béene dead yet at last being come to her selfe she cried and scréeked out in this wise ALas swéete infortunate Babe scarce borne before enuied by fortune would the day of thy birth had béene the terme of my life then shouldest thou haue made an end to care and preuented thy Fathers rigour Thy faults cannot yet deserue such hatefull reuenge thy daies are too short for so sharpe a doome but thy vntimely death must pay thy Mothers debts and her guiltlesse crime must be thy gastly curse And shalt thou swéet Babe be committed to Fortune when thou art already spighted by Fortune Shall the seas be thy harbour and the hard boat thy cradle Shall thy tender mouth in stead of swéete kisses be nipped with bitter stormes Shalt thou haue the whistling windes for thy Lullaby and the salt sea some in stead of swéet Milke Alas what destinies would assigne such hard hap What father would be so cruell Or what gods will not reuenge such rigour Let me kisse thy lips swéete Infant and wet thy tender chéekes wilh my teares and put this chaine about thy little necke that if Fortune saue thée it may helpe to succour thée Thus since thou must goe to surge in the gastfull Seas with a sorrowfull kisse I bid thée fare well and I pray the gods thou maist farewell Such and so great was her griefe that her vitall Spirits being supprest with sorrow shee

death then dishonour Pandosto séeing that there was in Fawnia a determinate courage to loue Meleagrus and a resolution without feare to hate him fléeing away from her in a rage hee sware that if in short time she would not be won by reason he would forget all courtesie and compell her to grant by rigour But these threatning words no whit dismayed Fawnia but that shee still both despighted and despised Pandosto While thus these two Louers stroue the one to winne loue the other to liue in hate Egistus heard certaine newes by Merchants of Bohemia that his sonne Dorastus was imprisoned by Pandosto which made him feare greatly that his sonne should be but hardly intreated yet considering that Bellaria and hée were cleered by the Oracle of Apollo from the crime wherewith Pandosto had vniustly charged them hee thought best to send with all spéede to Pandosto that hée should set frée his sonne Dorastus and put to death Fawnia and her father Porrus Finding this by the aduice of counsell the speediest remedy to release his sonne hée caused presently two of his ships to be rigged and thorowly furnished with prouision of men and victuals and sent diuers of his Nobles Embassadours into Bohemia who willing to obey the King and receiue their young Prince made no delayes for feare of danger but with as much spéed as might be sayled towards Bohemia the wind and seas fauoured them greatly which made them hope of some good hap for within thrée dayes they were landed which Pandosto no sooner heard of their arriuall but hee in person went to méet them intreating them with such sumptuous and familiar courtesie that they might well perceiue how sorry he was for the former iniuries he had offered to their King and how willing if it might be to make amends As Pandosto made report to them how one Meleagrus a Knight of Trapolonia was lately arriued with a Lady called Fawnia in his Land comming very suspitiously accompanied onely with one seruant and an old Shepheard the Ambassadours perceiued by the halfe what the whole tale meant and began to coniecture that was Dorastus who for feare to be knowne had changed his name But dissembling the matter they shortly arriued at the Court where after they had béene very solemnly and sumptuously feasted the Noblemen of Sicilia being gathered together they made report of their Ambassage where they certified Pandosto that Meleagrus was sonne and heire to the King Egistus and that his name was Dorastus and how contrary to the Kings mind he had priuily conueyed away that Fawnia intending to marry her being but daughter to that poore Shepheard Porrus Whereupon the Kings request was that Capnio Fawnia and Porrus might be murthered and put to death and that his sonne Dorastus might be sent home in safety Pandosto hauing attentiuely and with great maruell heard their Ambassage willing to reconcile himselfe to Egistus and to shew him how greatly he estéemed his fauour although loue and fancy forbad him to hurt Fawnia yet in despight of loue he determined to execute Egistus will without mercy and therefore hee presently sent for Dorastus out of prison who maruelling at his vnlooked for courtesie found at his comming to the Kings presence that which hee least doubted of his fathers Ambassadours who no sooner saw him but with great reuerence they honoured him and Pandosto embracing Dorastus set him by him very louingly in a chaire of state Dorastus ashamed that his folly was bewrayed sate a long time as one in a maze till Pandosto told him the summe of his fathers Ambassage which he had no sooner heard but he was touched to the quicke for the cruell sentence that was pronounced against Fawnia but neither could his sorrow nor perswasions preuaile for Pandosto commanded that Fawnia Porrus and Capnio should be brought to his presence who were no sooner come but Pandosto hauing his former loue turned into disdainefull hate began to rage against Fawnia in these termes THou disdainefull vassall thou currish kite assigned by the Destinies to base fortune and yet with an aspiring minde gazing after honour how durst thou presume being a begger to match with a Prince by thy alluring lookes to inchaunt the sonne of a King to leaue his owne Country to fulfill thy disordinate lusts O despightfull minde A proud heart in a begger is not vnlike a great fire in a small cottage which warmeth not the house but burneth it assure thy selfe thou shalt dye and thou old doting foole what folly hathbeene such as to suffer thy daughter to reach aboue thy fortune looke for no other meede but the like punishment But Capnio thou which hast betrayed the King and hast consented to the vnlawfull lust of thy Lord and Master I know not how iustly I may plague thée death is too easie a punishment for thy falshood and to liue if not in extreame misery were not to shew thée equity I therefore award that thou shalt haue thine eyes put out and continually till thou dyest grind in a mill like a brute beast The feare of death brought a sorrowfull silence vpon Fawnia and Capnio but Porrus séeing no hope of life burst forth in these spéeches PAndosto and ye noble Ambassadours of Sicilia séeing without cause I am condemned to die I am yet glad I haue opportunity to disburden my conscience before my death I will tell you as much as I know and yet no more then is true wheras I am accused that I haue béen a supporter of Fawnia's pride and shée disdained as a vile beggar so it is that I am neither father vnto her nor she daughter vnto me For it so hapned that I being a poore Shepheard in Sicilia liuing by kéeping other mens slocks one of my shéep straying downe to the sea-side as I went to seeke her I saw a little boat driuen vpon the shore wherin I found a babe os sixe dayes old wrapped in a mantle of scarlet hauing about the necke this chaine I pitying the child and desirous of the treasure carryed it home to my wise who with great care nursed it vp and set it to kéepe shéepe Here is the chaine and Iewels and this Fawnia is the child whom I sound in the boat what she is or of what Parentage I know not but this I am assured that she is none of mine Pandosto would scarce suffer him to tell out his tale but that he required the time of the yéere the manner of the boat and other circumstances which when he found agréeing to his count sodainely he lept from his seat and kissed Fawnia wetting her tender chéeks with his teares and crying My daughter Fawnia ah my swéet Fawnia I am thy father Fawnia this sudden passion of the King draue them all into a maze especially Fawnia and Dorastus But when the King had breathed himselfe a while in this new ioy he rehearsed before the Ambassadours the whole matter and how hee had entreated his wife Bellaria for Iealousie and that this was the child whom he sent to float in the seas Fawnia was not more ioyfull that she had found such a father then Dorastus was glad he should get such a wife The Ambassadors reioyced that their young Prince had made such a choice That those Kingdomes which through enmity had long time béene disseuered should now through perpetuall amity be vnited and reconciled The Citizens and subiects of Bohemia hearing that the King had found againe his daughter which was supposed dead ioyfull that there was an heire apparant to the Kingdome made Bone-fires and shewes throughout all the City The Courtiers and Knights appointed Iusts and Turneis to signifie their willing mindes in gratifying the Kings hap Eightéene dayes being past in these Princely sports Pandosto willingto recompence old Porrus of a Shepheard made him a Knight which done prouiding a sufficient Nauy to receiue him and his retinue accompanied with Dorastus and Fawnia and the Sicilian Ambassadours he sailed towards Sicilia where he was most princely entertained by Egistus who hearing this Comicall euent reioyced greatly at his sonnes good hap and without delay to the perpetuall ioy of the two young Louers celebrated the marriage Which was no sooner ended but Pandosto calling to mind how he first betrayed his friend Egistus how his iealousie was the cause of Bellaria's death that contrary to the law of nature he had lusted after his owne daughter moued with these desperate thoughts hee fell in a melancholly fit and to close vp the Comedy with a Tragicall stratagem he slew himselfe whose death being many daies bewayled of Fawnia Dorastus and his deare friend Egistus Dorastus taking leaue of his father went with his wife and the dead corps into Bohemia where after it was sumptuously intombed Dorastus euded his dayes in contented quiet FINIS

fell againe downe in a trance hauing her senses so stopped with care that after she was reuined yet shee lost her memory and lay for a great time without mouing as one in a trance The Guard left her in this perplexity and carried the childe to the King who quite deuoid of pity commanded that without delay it should be put into the Boat hauing neither Saile nor Rudder to guide it and so to be carried into the midst of the Sea and there left to the windes and the waues as the Destinies please to appoint The very Ship-men séeing the swéet countenance of the young Babe began to accuse the King of rigour and to pity the childs hard Fortune but feare constrained them to that which their nature did abhorre so that they placed it in one of the ends of the Boat and with a few gréene boughes made a homely Cabbin to shroud it as well as they could from wind and weather Hauing thus trimmed a Boat they tyed it to a Ship and so haled it into the maiue Sea and then cut in sunder the Cord which they had no sooner done but there arose a mighty Tempest which tossed the little Boat so vehemently in the waues that the Ship-men thought it could not continue long without sincking yet the storme grew so great that with great labour and perill they got to the shore But leauing the Childe to her Fortunes wee will returne to Pandosto who not yet glutted with suffcient reuenge deuised which way he should best increase his wiues calamity But first assembling his Nobles Councellours hee called her for the more reproach in open Court where it was obiected against her that she had committed adultery with Egistus and conspired with Franion to poyson Pandosto her husband but their pretence being partly spyed shée counselled them to flie away by night for their better safety Bellaria who standing like a prisoner at the Barre and féeling in her selfe a cléere conscience to withstand her false accusers séeing no lesse then death could pacifie her Husbands wrath waxed bold and desired that shée might haue Law and Iustice for mercy she neither craved nor hoped and that those periured wretches which had falsely accused her to the King might be brought before her face to give in evidence Pandosto whose rage and iealousie was such as no reason nor equity could appease told her that for her accusers they were of such credit as their words were sufficient witnes and that the sodaine and secret flight of Egistus and Franion confirmed that which they had confessed and as for her it was her par to deny such a monstrous crime and to be impudent in forswearing the fact since shée had passed all shame in committing the fault but her countenance should stand for no coyne for as the bastard which shée bare was served so shée should with some cruell death bée requited Bellaria no whit dismaid with this rough reply told her Husband Pandosto that hée spake upon choller and not conscience for her vertuous life had ever beene such as no spot of suspition could ever staine it And it shée had borne a friendly countenance to Egistus it was in respect he was his friend and not for any lusting affection therefore if shée were condemned without any further proofe it was rigour and not Law The Noble-men which sate in Iudgement said that Bellaria spake reason and intreated the King that her accusers might bee openly examined and sworne if then the evidence were such as the Iury might finde her guilty for seeing she was a Prince shée ought to be tried by the Péeres then let her have such punishment as the extremity of the Law will assigne to such malefactors The King presently made answer that in this case hee might and would dispence with the Law And that the Iury being once pannelled they should take his word for sufficient evidence otherwise hee would make the proudest of them repent it The Noblemen séeing the King in choller were all whist but Bellaria whose life hung in the ballance fearing more perpetuall infamy then momentany death told the King if his fury might stand for a Law that it were vaine to have the Iury yéeld their verdict and thereupon she fell down upon her knées and desired the King that for the love he bare to his yong Sonne Garinter whom shée brought into the world that hee would grant her request the which was this that it would please his Maiestie to send sixe of his Noblemen whom hée best trusted to the Isle of Delphos there to inquire of the Oracle of Apollo whether shée had committed adultery with Egistus or conspired to poyson him with Franion and if the god Apollo who by his divine essence knowes all secrets gave answer that she was guilty shee was content to suffer any torment were it never so terrible The request was so reasonable that Pandosto could not for shame deny it unlesse he would bée counted of all his Subiects more wilfull then wise Hée therefore agréed that with as good spéed as might bée there should be certaine Ambassadors dispatcht to the Isle of Delpos and in the meane season he commanded that his wife should be kept in close Prison Bellaria having obtained this grant was now more carefull of her little Babe that floated on the Seas then sorrowfull for her owne mishay for of that shee doubted but of herselfe she was assured knowing that if Apollo should giue sentence according to the thoughts of her heart yet the sentence should goe on her side such was the cléerenesse of her mind in this case But Pandosto whose suspicious head still remained in one song chose out sixe of his Nobility whom he knew were scarce indifferent men in the Quéenes behalfe and prouiding all things fit for their iourney sent them to Delphos They willing to fuffill the Kings command and desirous to sée the situation and custome of the Island dispatched their affaires with as much spéed as might bée and embarked themselues to the voyage which the wind and weather seruing fit for their purpose was soone ended For within thrée wéekes they arriued at Delphos where they were no sooner set on Land but with great deuotion they went to the Temple of Apollo and there offering sacrifice vnto the god and gifts to the Priest as the custome was they humbly craued an answer of their demand They had not long knéeled at the Altar but Apollo with a loud vo●ce said Bohemians what yée find behind the Altar take and depart They forthwith obeyed the Oracle found a scrowle of parchment wherin were written these words in letters of Gold The Oracle Suspition is no proofe Jealousie is an vnequall Judge Bellaria is chaste Egistus blamelesse Franion a true Subject Pandosto trech●rous his Babe innocent and the King shall die without an heire if that which is lost be not found AS seene as they had taken out this scrowle the Priest of the god