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A00574	The famous history of George Lord Faukonbridge, bastard son to Richard Cordelion King of England Begotten in his royal tower, vpon the princely Clarabel, daughter to Don Iohn Duke of Austria, surnamed the worldes faire concubine. Shewing his knightly adventures, dignified victories, with his life and death, spent in the honor of God and his countrey: never wearing any other garmet, but that lyons skinne, by which his kingly father challenged his lyon-like title.		1616 (1616)	STC 10709; ESTC S118329	29,067	48

barren that therein they found no other thing to succour their distresses and preserue them from famishment but onely fresh water with the which they sufficiently stored their ship giuing Heauen thankes for so blessed a fauour But this suffised not the desires of noble Faukonbridge hoping to find better reliefe for him and his men resolutely aduentured further vp into the Iland to discouer if he could wherewithall to vittaile his ship But woe is me to report it this aduenturous Gentleman trauelled so farre that he lost his way not being able to returne backe vnto his company by which meanes he was constrained to stay all night vpon the top of a trée for feare of wilde beasts whereof the Iland was full But now marke how vnlucky all things fell out the same night the wind rose and so violently droue the ship from the shore that the Pilot was inforced to leaue Lord Faukonbridge a Land and commit his Fortunes to the Sea where before day light they were cast vpon the coast where Saint Peters charitable Hermitage was scituated they being Infidels and Moorish natured people neuer expected the safety of Lord Faukonbrdge being a Christian but left him comfortlesse in the barren Iland and cast a shore where faire Clarabell abode where comming a Land desired her for his sake that created her to affoord them some reliefe whereby their liues might be saued and their ship sufficiently replenished with food fitting their intended voyage Pittifull Clarabell good Lady shée greatly reioiced that it lay in her power to furnish their wants most willingly gaue them entertainement and yéelded them such refreshing comforts as preserued both their ship and liues from perishing Likewise they meaning to expresse no vngratefull thankes for so kinde a fauour as an humble signe of good will curteously bestowed vpon her the twelue barrels of gold which Lord Faukonbridge reported to be red lead all which according to her gentle nature noble minded Clarabell receiued So parting with thankes to each other the Pilot returned to Morocco very ioyfull for the riddance of Lord Faukonbridge their Countries supposed enemy and shée no lesse delighted in the performance of her bountifull charity extended to the preseruation of so many dying men All this while Lord Faukonbridge remained in the barren Iland almost hunger-starued for want of food in which place was nothing found to satisfie his gentle nature but the flesh of wilde beasts which hee killed with his owne hands which for want of fire hee rosted in the sun and with the same to his content made more pleasinger banquets then when he feasted in the Morocco Court onely patience chiefly guided him but being thus lost and exiled from the society of humane creatures he liued a long time in the woods in such penurie and want that his strength began to faile sicknesse grew on and danger of life tormented him for want of naturall sustenance caused a grieuous kind of leprosie to grow quite ouer his body in such sort that his Princely countenance was suddenly changed into a most vgly visage and pale death as it were sate perching vpon his heauie brow betwixt life and death hee sate him down vpon the root of a dead withered trée making this complaint vnto himselfe If euer pitty quoth he entred the celestiall gate of Heauen or euer remorsfull mercy tenderly lookt into the poore estate of a miserable Gentleman then by this my liues ruine may be séene the true patter●e of calamity woe vpon me crosse vpon crosse and extremity vpon extremity makes a vnity and all conspires together to worke my good Fortunes confusion Here am I now left in a wildernesse of desolation friendlesse without comforter not knowing which way to get forth but committed to the vile tyranny of vntamed Tygers euen ready to intombe my dying body within their blood-thirsting bowels a graue most vnfit to close vp my new created life In speaking these words he heard from a farre as it were out of a hollow vaute a voice sounding forth these spéeches Faulkonbridge rise vp and follow me Fate and good chance will prosper thée This séemed to be the voice of the Fairy Quéene his old Nurse being still most carefull of his liues preseruation as it was indéed which no sooner ecchoed in the eares of Lord Faukonbridge but he arose from vnder the trée where he lay and being ready to goe forward all weake and sickely as he was he espied before one of the Fairy Instruments which was an Ignis Fatuis the fire of destiny or a going fire which by nature fully leadeth wandring trauellers out of the way This as his guide went still before him he with a slow pace followed after not intercepted by any misaduenture till hee came to the Sea side where being ioyfully arriued in good time he beheld a Barke sailing by to which he made shew of entertainement as one desirous to be taken into their ship and to be conducted in to some better resting place both his motions and his intent the Mariners soone perceiued whereupon they satisfied his desire and within few ●aies set him safely vpon the next inhabited kingdome which was the happy place where Clarabell affoorded such bountifull liberality Being thither come the Countrey people and such as beheld his perplexed estate led him as diseased as he was vnto Clarabels Monastery where being arriued and standing shaking at the gate he desired for his sake that pardoneth all sinnes and requiteth all good déeds that shée would with the oyle of her skill balme his grieued paines and with the mercy that shée fréely bestowes vpon distressed soules cure his malady Gentle Clarabell at this his humble request called him in leading him vp inio a close chamber prepared onely for the comfort of such wofull creatures in which place after shée had receiued his drooping sences and by the vertues of the same ring he in former times had bestowed vpon her recouered his wonted health shée séeming in his face that beauty replenished againe which before that time shee supposed to haue séene and calling to remembrance his former Fauour shee perfectly knew him whereupon seeking to imbrace him shee sounded in his armes and for the sudden ioy that he receiued by his strange returne lay for a good season in a dying trance but being by great diligence recouered they recounted each to other the wonderfull Fortunes passed betwixt them from the first loosing of one another to that houre Likewise he spake how hee neither knew Father nor Mother nor from whence he descended and withall opening his bosome he shewed her the golden Faulkon by nature pictured vpon his breast which when shee beheld her very soule as it were eleuated it selfe to Heauen and more then mortall ioy possest her heart By this shee knew him to bee her onely Sonne begot by King Richard Cordelion King of England and so made it knowne vnto him Which when good Lord Faukonbridge vnderstood he in the true duty of a Sonne newly created downe vpon his knées craued her blessing and in great humility of mind gaue thankes to heauen in that it was his Fortune to defend his mother in an vnknowne Land from so many dangers and shee likewise made many deuout Orizons to God that in his mercy had so preserued them and in this manner brought them most strangely together FINIS

before him by a naked Indian all agréeable to his blacke desires for the stéeled point of his Launce and the kéen edge of his sword were both impoisoned his motto was True honour hath no equall Immediately after entered Richard of England mounted vpon a Spanish Gennet as milke white and spotles as were his thoughts his Armor bright and glistering his Helmet of the fashion of a sunne sparkeling fire expressing both malice and mercy Vpon his breast he had the honorable red crosse of England platted with Arabian silke his Motto was Honour tainted in vaine repented Thus all things in readines for this royall turnament the chéerefull reports of relentlesse Drums and Trumpets thundred a charge whereupon the two couragious Princes fired with resolution so fiercely assailed each other that a strange admiration of their man-hoods possessed all the beholders The old Duke Don Iohn himselfe sitting with a longing desire of his sonnes victory was immediatly discontented wich the spight of Fortune for after he had wounded the English Prince with his impoisoned weapons to the great danger of life couragious Richard expressing his Lion-like nature closed Prince Phillip with such a manly power that with his heauy courtelax at one blow he broke his necke Folly it were to resist destiny for euen at that instant he yéelded vp the ghost and in the sight of his old father imbraced death This sudden accident aduanced not so much the honours of King Richard as it setled fury in Don Iohns heart for hauing lost the hopes of his Kingdome his onely sonne and glory of his age like a man desperate of all good fortune ioy and consolation he raged both against heauen and earth blaspheming his Creator swearing both by God and the world that the treasures of Europe should not redeeme King Richards life nor the vnknowne treasures of the déepe Ocean were they laid at his féet preserue him from a dishonourable death for quoth he in loosing my Sonne the sight of the World displeaseth me I will pine in griefe I will famish with woe I will liue foodlesse féeding vpon nothing but desires of vengeance Assist me thou spirit of destruction that in wrath I may confound the murtherer of my sonne in whose life I more delighted then in my royall crown for in wanting him I liue as a forlorne wofull and deposed King exild and banisht from this worlds royalty my second soule adores the smallest drop of thy déere harts blood shal be quittanced with the purple goa●e of King Richards bosome Hauing spoken these or such like wordes he commanded the Marshall of Austria to take the English Prince vnto his charge and to kéepe him close prisoner in a square Tower of Marble stone adioining to the vttermost part of his Court and likewise to discharge all the followers of his Countrey vpon paine of death not any one of them to bée séen in his territories after the date of seuen daies All which according to the angry Dukes command was by the Marshall spéedily accomplished the wofull King he to prison and his sorrowfull followers to their natiue countrey where his loyall Subiects made not a little moane for his hard misfortunes Don Iohn with his Nobility mourned as grieuously for Prince Phillip whom in most solemne manner they enterred in a Princely Tombe where we will leaue him sleeping in peace and perseuere in this our wofull History King Richard hauing now neither Crowne Kingdome nor liberty but by his late receiued wounds from Prince Phillips poisoned weapons lay bléeding in prison to his liues greatest danger and being destitute of friends and all hopes of recouery he dolefully breathed out this lamentation Oh vniust Fortune said hee why in the prime of youth hast thou thus deceiued me and by thy flattering promises of aduancement thus betraied my Knightly aduentures Those blessed warres where the standard of Christ by their incouraging flourishes makes cowards inconquerable must by mee bee forsaken and my vnhappy daies by Don Iohns vnprincely doome haue ending sweat with teares Oh you ingrateful wals that with your pittilesse bounds claspes in a royall Prince mercilesse woe like a cruell tyrant féedes vpon my heart and the sunne shine of delightfull consolation is now for euer dimmed with the blacke cloudes of despaire banisht be all hopes of liberty and the freedome that attends on Kings is curbed with the base pennance of captiuity Farre more fortunate is the humble estate of the Plow-mans life he suffers onely the crosse of priuate disgraces when principalities indure the generall scandall of dishonour wherein Kingdomes and the glory of Diadems lose their illustrious dignities Where are now all my courtly traines of starre-bright Nobility my attendant followers my gardiants and humble seruitors my pompous state roiall banquetings and delightful musicke all so my soules eternall griefe now vanished and conuerted into continuall lamentations no fellowship haue I to comfort me but discontent sighes and melancholy dispaire Care is my food and teares my drinke nothing but the imaginations of woe intercepts all hopes of fréedome Oh vnhappy England thou nurse and mother of my life dishonoured in thy Kings disgraces and made most miserable by this iniurious and most vnprincely dealings Heauen I hope with blacke vengeance deadlier then the feare of hell will in time spie out a most dreadfull quittance written in the bloody brow of a cursed Austria stained with inhumane murther of a King whose death the child as yet vnborne shall rew and after ages shall speake off pitty my distresses thou reuenger of mankind that my soule may sléepe in peace and rest in that blessed mansion prepared for Monarches These or such like heart-breaking complaints being breathed from his grieued bosome the paine of his impoisoned wounds so inraged and so furiously tormented his body yet bléeding that poore King he fell into a swound liuelesse and breathles sauing a little panting breath moued in his breast a signe that the sparkes of life were not quite extinguished But now euer as this sudden trance assailed King Richard there entered into the prison the Lord Marshall vnder whose charge he was then kept where when to his great amasement he beheld as he supposed the King bereft of life hauing a mind framed of a noble disposition began to pitty his misfortunes and to accuse his Lord and Master of iniustice whereupon according to his gentle nature hee dressed his wounds with a precious kind of balme by nature so excellent that it not onely recouered life but also health and in lesse then in three daies made him as sound as he was before his combat with Prince Phillip where we shall leaue King Richard making his praiers to heauen for his deliuery from death and speake of other accidents that followed hereafter CHAP. II. How the two English Earles of Arundell and Oxford disguisedly comforted King Richard in prison of the loue betwixt him and Clarabella the Dukes daughter how he how hee pulled out the Lyons heart and