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A91838	The right, pleasant, and variable tragical history of Fortunatus. whereby a young man may learn how to behave himself in all worldly affairs and casual chances. First penned in the Dutch tongue: there-hence abstracted, and now first of all published in English / by T.C.; Fortunatus.	Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604, supposed tr.	1676 (1676)	Wing R1509; ESTC R43912	86,094	193

THE Right Pleasant and Variable TRAGICAL HISTORY OF FORTVNATVS Whereby a Young-man may learn how to behave himself in all Worldly Affairs and Casual Chances First Penned in the Dutch Tongue There hence Abstracted and now first of all Published in ENGLISH By T. C. LONDON Printed by A. Purslow for George Saubridge at the Sign of the Bible on Ludd-gate-Hill near Fleet-Bridge 1676. The Moral Documents and considerations which are to be noted in this Book The example of Theodorus Cap. 1. HOw careless youth to pleasure bent when wealth doth flow at will Till raging riot all ●ath spent they never had their will The Crafty Servan● Robert Cap. ● How fashood wrought by flattery the simple doth assail When spite with open enmity by no means can prevail Appearing 〈◊〉 Andrew an unthrifty Merchant Cap. 6 7 ●nd 8. How bankro●●● pincht with poverty when g●ace is not their stay Do seek relief by villany to work their just decay Expressed by the death of Je ●nimus Roberti Cap. 8. How these which murder do conceal to plague the Lord is bent Which all men ought for to reveal though guiltless of consent Example of the Thievish Host Cap. 16. How thieves by custom in their need do venture for their prey Vntil when they think best to speed they work their just decay Appearing Cap. 31. and 32. How some that fe●r their state to stayn for dread of worldly shame Will sin procure for private gain deserving no less blame To be noted Cap. 34. How Venus lust in●y●ing may soon force the Amorous Knight His greatest se●●● to bewray to Work his woful plight Appearing by the whole course of the History especially by the divers dispositi● and final destinies of Fortunatus and his two Sons How strength beauty soon do fail and health and wealth decay All fortunes gifts do nought avail where wisdom bears no sway How vertuous life an honest end doth commonly ensue And they which sin do still pretend with violent death shall ●u● To the Reader AS in the Writings of Fabulous Poets and Witty Apothegms of Aesop Diogenes and such like Pleasant-Conceited Philosophers are to be found many pithy and wise Lessons behoveable for the state of Mans Life as well as in the severe precepts of the Sage Stoicks so in this Tragical History though it be somewhat fa●ced and enterlaced with Poetical Imaginations is to be noted by the discreet Reader sufficient matter concerning most Estates to bring the mind in remembrance of the fickleness of Fortunes transitory gifts of the reward of vertue the punishment of vice and the end of folly Moreover in this History is often occasion taken partly to describe the names scituations commodities of the chiefest Countries Merchants Kingdoms Cities of the Earth which to the valiant mind bringeth no small delectation These few causes considered I doubt not but this History shall seem to Men of good Judgement more worthy the Printer's travel than many vain pamphlets ballads songs and dallying devices tending only to the artificial cloaking of vice and m●zling of Amorous Heads therein And forasmuch as by consideration and conference in perusing thereof I found much childish and superfluous inventions intermingled also with some sparks of prophane superstition according to the manner of penning used in that barbarous Age which might seem odious to the godly and loathsome to the learned the matter and substance of the History being notwithstanding most Variable Pleasant and Delectable to read I thought it most convenient by rejecting what was unseemly rather to collect an Abstract of the substance thereof in a plain and English Phrase than to have respect to the litteral Translation Which if I have ●ot accomplished so precisely as perhaps some of our English Rhetoricians would have done I crave pardon for my offence and give them leave to mend that is amiss not doubting but the courteous Reader will rather accept thereof with the like affection as it is offered than disdain my ab●lity to offer it so perfect in all points as I would CHAP. I. Of the Birth of Fortunatus IN the Isle of Cyprus there is a great City called FAMAGOSTA wherein dwelt a Rich Citizen descended of an Ancient and Renowned stock whose name was Theodorus unto whom his Progenitors had left so much Goods and Revenues that through the abundance of Wealth he esteemed himself mighty and puissant He was of Age young of Disposition lusty and retchless and little considering the Frugality and thrifty sparing of his Ancestors whereby they carefully augmented their goods and possessions which he without care enjoyed So that his mind being wholly addicted unto honour pastime and worldly pleasure he presumed to bear the countenance of an high and costly estate by usual frequenting of Princes Courts Iustings other such-like Martial games by which means he soon wasted much of his goods and tresure His friends being greatly displeased with such his outragious prodigality determined to marry him unto a Wife supposing thereby somewhat to alter his mind Theodorus willingly condescended to their desires whereupon they diligently searching to find out a comly and convenient Espouse for him found at length in the City of Nicova which is the Head City of the Isle of Cyprus where there Kings commonly keep their Courts a Noble and Rich Citizen which had a fair Daughter named Gratiana whom he forthwith was content to give in Marriage unto Theodorus without any further inquiry what manner of man he was And thereupon was the Maiden brought home unto him only upon the great Fame of his Riches and Puissance who was at her Comming entertained with a Costly and Sumptuous Banquet as the manner is of the Rich to shew at such times their Wealth and Magnificence After the Feast was ended all things accordingly finished and every Guest taking their leave were returned home Theodorus taking his Espouse unto him lived for a season friendly and vertuously with her wherewith both she and her friends took great pleasure thinking they had atchieved a very good deed in so taming the wild Theodorus by tying him to a Wife but yet they considered not the property of Nature which bendeth only to that which she is inclined unto So in process of time Gratiana became great with Child and was delivered before the year was fully compleat from the day o● the Wedding whereof the friends of both parties were very glad Then was the child christned with the name of Fortunatus And although Theodorus herewith rejoyced yet ceased he not to follow his old Trade in Iusting keeping a great train of Men and Horses and daily haunting of Princes Courts not without intollerable and excessive charges insomuch that he began to sell and morgage now one piece of Land and then another leaving both Wife and Child unregarded Then in Selling Gaging and Wasting he continued so long till all was gone and so fell into such extream poverty that he was neither able to keep Man-servant nor Maiden

as her Grace never saw the like They promised so to do and presently shewed the rings to Agrippina which they said the Merchant had given them to the intent they should procure that he might come before her and sell unto her Grace some of the best Iewels for he had many which were very fair and costly Agrippina said I believe well that he hath excéeding rich Iewels for that he would not stick fréely to give such fair Kings therefore will him to come unto me for I long to see his Wares When he had laid forth the Iewels before Agrippina she liked very well of them and cheapened those that she best fancied whereof some were worth a thousand Crowns for which she offered not half the Money The Merchant said Gracious Lady I have been informed that you are the richest Princess in the World which moved me to seek out the most costly and fairest Iewels that are to be be found to bring unto your noble Grace for the which I have sustained painful travel and great danger Therefore I trust your Grace would not I should be so much looser by them as to sell them for less money than they cost me But if it please your grace to choose and lay out those that you best like they shall be yours for as easie a price as I can afford them Then did Agrippina chuse out ten Iewels whereof the price amounted to five thousand Crowns but she would in no wise give so much Andolocia hoping she would bring the Purse was contented to agree for four thousand Crowns So that Agrippina took the Iewels and went unto her Chamber where she took the Purse out of a Coffer and knitting it carefully to her girdle came forth to pay the Merchant As she came near unto him beginning to tell the money he clasping her suddenly held her fast and wished that he were in some Wilderness with her wherein was no dwelling nor resort With that they were carried through the Air in a small space unto a desart place in an Isle that bordereth upon Ireland and were set there under a tree whereon were growing fair Apples As Agrippina was thus suddenly under the tree having the Iewels in her Lap and the Purse at her Girdle she said to the Merchant Lord for thy mercy where are we now or how came we hither I am exceeding faint and hot therefore I pray reach me some of those Apples to refresh me The Iewels that he had left poured he into her lap also and set the hat on her head to shadow her from the parching heat of the Sun lest it should trouble him in climbing As he was thus on the top of the tree looking for the fairest Apples she sitting under full heavily began to say would God I were in my Chamber again With that she was presently in her Chamber The King the Queen and the Courtiers asked where she had been and where the Marchant was become that carried her away She said God bless me from such Merchants I suppose it was the Devil himself or some of his Angels Howbeit I left him on the top of a tree but I pray you trouble me with no more questions for I am exceeding faint and weary and must needs rest me a while How Andolocia by eating two Apples had two Horns growing on his head Chap. 37. VVHen Andolocia sitting on the tree saw that Agrippina was gone with the Hat and with all the Iewels he bitterly cursed the trée the fruit and him that planted it saying moreover cursed be the hour wherein I was born and the days and hours that I have lived O death why hadst thou not strangled me before ever I came into this miserable danger distress and ere ever I knew or beheld the bewitching beauty of Agrippina would God my brother were with me in this wilderness then would I surely strangle him and hang my self so that we being both dead the purse should lose his vertue the false Queen cruel Agrippina should enjoy no further comodity nor pleasure thereby As Andolocia went wandring thus to and fro the night came on that he could go no further so that he sat him down to rest but could not sleep for fear neither thought otherwise than to dye in the Wilderness Thus lay he all night as a desperate man desirous rather to dye than live any longer When it was day he arose walked every way but could not hear nor see any man and being very hungry came at last unto a tree whereon grew very fair red Apples whereof as soon as he had eaten a couple there sprang out of his head two horns like as it were of a Goat which he could by no means get off Then began he more inwardly to feel the vengeance of God for his theft and whoredom before time committed and asked mercy for his sins saying O wretch that I am O unhappiest of all other men thus monstrously disfigured like a beast for that I have beastly lived and have not taken small correcttion therefore patiently Wherefore O God Almighty sithence I am deprived of all mens help and succour forgive me my offences take from me this deformity and assist me in this extream calamity How an Hermite helped Andolocia to be rid of his Horns Chap. 38. IT chanced that an old Hermite which had been xxx years in that desart and never had seen any man heard this piteous lamentation of Andolocia and going to him he said Alas poor man who brought thee hither for what seekest thou in this desart Andolocia said good brother God be thanked that hath sent thee hither somewhat to my comfort verily full sore against my will do I here remain Then Andolocia being very hungry and faint asked the Hermite for some meat he brought him into his Hermitage where was neither meat bread nor wine but only fruits and water whereby he lived Andolocia therefore took a small refection and then asked if he could shew him by any means how to get his horns away The Hermit wished Andolocia to follow him going through a little path from his Hermitage and there plucking down two Apples from another tree willed Andolocia to eat them So soon as he had clean swallowed the two Apples his Horns were vanished away Andolocia thereof was exceeding glad demauded of the Hermit how it came to pass that he had so soon gotten Horns and was so soon rid of them again The Hermit said The Creator of all things hath given this secret nature to these two trees neither be there their like on earth but in this desart only Then desired Andolocia that he might carry some of these Apples with him The Hermit willed him to take as many as he list But saith he I perceive thy mind is greatly cumbred with temporal and transitory estates but it were far better to content thee with a com●●cent life and not to bring thy soul in danger for a small pleasure But these