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A17883	Admirable events: selected out of foure bookes, vvritten in French by the Right Reverend, Iohn Peter Camus, Bishop of Belley. Together with morall Relations, written by the same author. And translated into English by S. Du Verger; Occurrences remarquables. English. Selections	Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652.; Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652. Relations morales. English. Selections. aut; Du Verger, S.; Brugis, Thomas, fl. 1640?, attributed name.; T. B., fl. 1639.	1639 (1639)	STC 4549; ESTC S107416	192,146	386

by Taddees confession and held for innocent being that only in their owne defence and without any other designe they had committed this murther Androgeo absented himselfe for a time but by change of aire he changed not his evill manners nor the malice he conceived against the two brothers of his Step-mother but on the contrary being doubly animated by the death of his brother and thinking it a dishonour if he revenged it not he resolved to dispatch them to take them both together he had at his owne cost experienced how dangerous it was therefore he determined with his complices to take them asunder and rid them one after the other Returning backe secretly into the City and having divers times watched his adversaries hee at length met with Willerme going alone in the street thinking on nothing lesse then on the misfortune which happened unto him for he lost his life having not so much time as to lay hand on his sword it was by a pistoll shot wherewith Androgeo hit him in the head and dasht his braines about the pavement an infamous act unworthy not onely of a Christian bu● of any man that hath never so little honour before his eyes upon this he betakes himselfe to flight therby to save himselfe for had he fallen thereby to save himselfe for had he fallen into the hands of justice nothing could have prevailed towards the saving of his life pardons being never granted for such deeds notwithstanding it was presently knowne that he was the man that had done this filthy action whereof Sostene was no lesse sorrowfull than his new wife for the losse of her brother The other brother which was Tibere sweares by all the Starres that Heaven containes hee will bee righted either by way of justice or by force the bloud of his brother calling on him daily to seeke revenge but time the Physitian of all the wounds of the mind moderated a little his fury so that hee slackned the pursuite of justice Sostene deprived of his eldest sonne by death and his other sonne by exile sees now though too late that his indiscreete passion and unseasonable love were the grounds of all these mischiefes yet will he not cast the helve after the hatchet nor let that sparke of his race goe out which only remained in Androgeo and to conjure this tempest hee makes use of his wifes wit who moderated the boyling anger of her brother and in fine for his better satisfaction Sostene gave him his eldest daughter in marriage with such a competent portion that Tibere had no reason to thinke ill of any thing that had past all matters where hereupon accommodated and mercy taking the place of justice Androgeo by an abolishment of his former malice reenters into his estate But what agreement soever was made it was never possible to reunite the devided hartes of these two brothers in law nether the alliance by their two sisters nor the thought of the misery past nether the entreaties of freinds nor the teares of the poore old man could ever recall the fury of Androgeo he lookes awry sowrely and doggedly at Willerme who seeing this could not but do as much for being no lesse haughty minded than he by the like despisalls hee mockt his arrogancy from these lightnings of looks proceeded thunders of threats and from the thunder of wordes tempests ofdeeds For behold in mid-day meeting in open street they quarrell draw and Willerme receiving a hurt in the shoulder repaid Androgeo with two others the second whereof laid him dead on the ground although this was done by incounter in combat● and in heate of bloud yet Willerme got away chusing rather to justifie himselfe a farre off then neer Imagine now the poore old mans sorrowes when he beheld his last sonne lye wallowing in bloud and dead before his eyes and moreover kild by him that was his brother in law and son in law Let us leave his teares and despaires as a disease contagious because perhaps his griefe may passe into those who have the reading of these lines more for recreation then to procure pensivenes he now sees himselfe without heires male and his inheritance like to passe into the hands of strangers yea even of those who are imbrued in the bloud of his children O what a heart breaking was this too late did the scales fall from his eyes whereby he saw and felt that his foolish love had beene the spring and originall of all these deplorable Events at length being cast downe with languor and overwhelmed in sorrow and discontent a sicknesse seased on him which in few dayes layd him in his grave whereunto this griefe accompanied him to see all his house turned topsie turvie as we may say his estate disordered his second wife taking what she could get his two younger daughters unprovided his sonnes killd and his eldest daughter married unto a fugitive O old men learne hereby to overcome and moderate your doting passions and endeavour to become so prudent and wary as to avoyd any occasion which may induce such fooleries both dishonouring you shortning your life and hastning your body into the grave trust not too much unto the Snow of your head the Ice of your blood nor the coldnesse of your stomacke The flesh is a domesticall enemy which ceaseth not to molest us untill death The flesh is that enemy who lyeth in ambush for the heele that is to say to the extremities of our life so long as one breath is in our lips so long there is a spark of that fire still in our bones moreover it is a very ridiculous thing and no waies pardonable to see an old man foolishly passionate and who thinketh of a marriage bed when he had more need thinke on his grave THE GOOD FORTVNE OF HONESTIE The Seventh Event THE Romans in times past built two Temples the one they consecrated to Honour the other to Vertue These were so joyned and contrived together that none could enter the former but they must goe through the latter this served as an Embleme to shew that there can be no progresse to honour but by vertue And that glory is a perfume fit to smoake no where but before the Altar of vertue and indeed doe but marke what cleere lustre and bright sparkling you see in a Diamond or what light comes from a great fire the same is honour in vertuous actions which are of themselves so resplendent that they produce rayes of esteeme and praise to reflect on those out of whom they issue The Psalmist goes further and will not only have glory to accompany the just man but also riches to enter into his house and to remaine there from age to age in his posterity so that if the ancients had had any knowledge of this doctrin they would surely have added a third Temple unto the two former which they would have dedicated unto good hap or good fortune which should have beene entred through that of honour for

but through the eyes of Sapor suffered her selfe to be drawne to this match whereof none was more joyfull then Numerian in so much that it is hard to expresse the contentment he tooke being as it were in extasie or transportation of his spirit The first time that the Prince made them talke together Rosana with that manly and generous gesture which was both usuall and naturall in her spake to this Gentleman as followeth Sir here is your Master and mine who hath a desire to joyne us together in the lawes of Hymen But before I embrace his proffer and before I will be made subject to your power I must propound two conditions without the which I cannot nor will not be perswaded to take you for my husband my body shall be thine and so entirely thine that never any but thy selfe shall have part therein I shall come a Virgin to thy bed and if it be so that I must loose the flower of that integrity which I did intend to preserve all my life time yet it shall perish at least with honour in lawfull wedlocke first then thou shalt not need to watch over my fidelity because I shall be more jealous thereof then thou canst and if I should chance to offend therein although I rather wish all the thunders of heaven to fall on my head yea the earth to open and swallow me up my hand should prevent thine in the revenge of so great a wrong and if death permits me to survive thee be sure that even to thine ashes I will keep a body pure and a troth inviolable I will love thee as my husband with all my heart but for to prevent jealousies know thou this that I will love Sapor as my Prince and deere Master but imagine not him to have any part thereby in any thing which shall appertaine to thee nor to be arrivall or sh●rer in thy bed he hath no such thought and if he had he should finde his expectation frustrate and if thou dost 〈◊〉 that this friendship which is so pure honest just ●●● lawfull should be contrary to the loyalty I owe to thee and that it may be a meanes to d●vide my heart Then even at this present I renounce thy love and alliance for I am resolved to carry to my grave this first and glorious flame wherewith my heart hath beene fed and my spirit pleased even from my cradle hitherto and if you thinke these things agreeable with the duties I shall owe to thee heere I am ready to obey him whose desires are lawes to me The other condition is that thou take me not as a house Dove to imploy my selfe in spinning sowing and keeping the chimney corner thou knowest that I have beene bred in another manner and according to that I desire that thou permit me to exercise my selfe in armes and hunting and such like recreations and if thy courage doe call thee at any time forth to warre either of thy owne accord or with our Master that thou then make me partaker of thy labours and thy hazards and also of thy laurells and palmes On these conditions I am ready to obey and to follow thee in life or death Numerian no lesse ravished at the spirit and courage of this maide then with her beauty which indeed though meane yet embellished with extraordinary graces agreed unto all she desired joying much in having met with a mate with whom hee might reape as many laurells as myrtles The young Duke honoured this marriage with such pompe and magnificence that he could not have expended more liberally at the marriage of his owne sister he gave also large gifts to the married couple which were but in earnest for greater things that he intended to effect for their advancement Numerian remained still with the Prince and in greater authority in the house and Rosana with the Dutches Dowager who was very glad of this marriage which freed her from the feares she had that her son passionately affecting this maid should have a desire to marry her Not long after Sapor wedded a young Princesse of Bohemia and at this wedding did Rosana among the joyes she had to see her Prince so highly matched make her grace and ability appeare in the Maskes Turnaments and other things which Knights did to honour this feast she bore away many prizes which wonne her great praise yea without envy of her competitors who admired the good carriage and dexterity of this Amazon But the richest Iewell that she then wonne was the heart of the young Princesse who tooke such an affection unto her that she seemed to dispute the preheminence thereof with her husband thus doth vertue purchase estimation wheresoever it comes and in this manner doth it draw hearts unto it She with Numerian had such credit and authority in the Princes house that all passed through their hands and nothing was well thought on but what came from them Thus they passed some yeers rich in wealth and children when the warres of Hungary a kingdome neighbouring unto Slesia came to disturbe this calme The Prince Sapor being call'd by the Emperour had great command in the Army whereunto he went with a traine befitting his greatnesse Numerian who was alwaies at his side intended not to forsake him in this voyage whereunto his owne courage was a sufficient sollicitor beside the loyalty and love he bore to his Master He intended to leave his wife to waite upon the young Dutchesse but she unwilling replied unto him as followeth Numerian said she thou dost ill remember our contract of marriage thou wrongest our love in desiring alone to runne the hazard of warre heaven having made me thy partner and I shall continue so as well in things that tend to profit and also in those that tend to the hazard of your person neither is it thy part to hinder me from entring into the least part of the honour thou art going to purchase I can despise life and defie death chiefly if I see my noble Master and thy selfe witnesses of my valour and fidelity Never had I said Numerian the least distrust either of thy faith or thy courage neither is it that which makes me desire thee to abide with the Princesse but only to be a comfort and an associate in the absence of the Prince besides the events of war are uncertaine and I wish that thou maist survive me to bring up our children and to preserve my memory No no replied Rosana I am d●stinated to some other matter then to governe a family others shall have that charge the love I beare to my Master and to thee permits me not to forsake you if you die I will die also if you live I will live whether you go I will follow separation cannot have place in our union Be it than as thou wilt said Numerian I will not envie the glory which thou mayst purchase it shall be common to us both let us goe and hazard our lives in the service of

service was no sooner presented but received And although he had no permission from her parents to become a suitor unto her never thinking on this leave which is so necessary to make a love lawfull which tends to marriage she applyed her selfe to love him with so much affection that being not able to dissemble her fire her actions burst out into flame and made it known unto proud Gelase who jealous of his owne shadow was so wroth to see he had a rivall that he conceived no other thought but to rid him by any means whatsoever yet ere he thundred by deeds he flasht out lightning by threates But although Octavian was not so rich nor of so ancient nobility yet was he a Gentleman and had a heart so well seated that his humour could not suffer bravadoes Gelase having said unto him scoffingly that he tooke it ill he should encroach upon his bargaine in the suite to Pauline and that if he abstained not from it he should find himselfe to be but a bad Marchant Octavian answered that he never knew but marriage affections were free but that whensoever he should purchase this maid that way hee then should strive to put her out of his mind but till then he was not resolved to forbeare being his courage was as great as his love these words seconded by sundry replyes would haue urged them to have fallen presently to deeds if their friends that were present had not endeavoured to hinder this contention Gelase told Octavian that hee would make him pay interest for his temeriry whereunto the other answered that since hee barked so much hee would bite but little and that hee would alwayes make himselfe halfe the feare if he durst set upon him like an honest man without treachery Meane time Gelase who possessed the parents of Pauline as much as Octavian the heart of the maid caused them that had all power over her to forbid her the company of Octavian unto whom they interdicted the entry into their house endeavouring therein to please Gelase whose alliance they wished by reason of his meanes and of his noble parentage This so incensed the maides minde against him that as shee shunned his encounter and avoyded all occasions of his approach so shee sought carefully and subtilly all manner of meanes to speake to Octavian or at least to write unto him who by secret practises advanced himselfe as farre into the affection of Pauline as he● drove out his competitor who being not able any longer to beare the rigorous contempts of this maid and being desperately jealous of Octavian whom he knew possessed that part in her affection that he sued for with so much desire he resolved to put all in a venture and set an end to this businesse by the death of Octavian whereupon he causes him to be watched night and day and at length he learnes that his usuall walk was by night up and downe before the house of Pauline after the manner of passionate men then Gelase like to a jealous person that seekes nothing more eagerly then that which they are least willing to find went in the evening and hid himselfe neere that house with a friend of his whom we will name Megatime and one of his men a lusty tall fellow and one whose courage and fidelity he much trusted long had they not lien in their ambuscado Octavian but coms accompanyed with his friend Leobell to walke his accustomed round it being the property of those that are possessed with any passion to walke circularly and at certaine signes which he made Pauline appeared at a window with whom he entred into those discourses which are ordinary betweene lovers whilest Leobell being a little wide from them gave them time and liberty to talke What furies of jealousie did then invade the minde of impatient Gelase then was the time that the appetite of vengeance seased him and that hee intended to cut this rivall in pieces who to his disadvantage was thus favoured he commands his man to goe set upon Leobell and to hold him tacke whilest Megatmie and he would chastice the insolence of Octavian at this command they all three start out of their hole at once and parting runne with their swords drawne to assayle their adversaries Leobell in two or three stroakes gives the Servingman two wounds whereof one laid him on the ground as if hee had beene dead from thence he runnes to helpe his friend that calles him Octavian had set his backe to a wall and by the helpe of a shop warded and put by the blowes and thrusts which his enemies made at him Leobell came furiously and the first he met at his swordes point was Gelase whom surprising behind as he was eagerly thrusting at Octavian he ranne his sword into his backe up to the hilt and with this only thrust he drave the soule out of his body and laid him on the ground Then Octavian entering upon Megatime gave him a slight wound in the arme and had likewise beene his death had he not sought his safety by flight which he could not looke for from the hands of the other by defence Leobell was without any hurt but so was not Octavian who had two wounds in the body whereof the one was such that had he not beene speedily drest he had beene in danger to have lost his life by reason of the abundance of bloud which flowed from them The people runne forth of their houses at the noise of this combat and finde Gelase starke dead on the stones and his man some few steps from thence yeelding up the ghost Leobell holding up his friend whose heart fainted by the losse of so much bloud and prayed the lookers on to helpe to carry him to a Chirurgion where he swounded in such manner that he was for a while thought to be dead yet by force of remedies they brought him to himselfe againe and after the first dressing they laid him in bed Meane time while all this passed Megatime advertised Gelases parents of this sad newes and of the untimely death of their son and relating the matter best to his own advantage told them that they both had bin assaulted in a treacherous manner by Leobell and Octavian this first tale takes such impression that it is beleeved for an Oracle whereupon recourse is had to justice who ordaines that Octavian Leobell shal be cast into prison on this decree Octaviā is seased sick weak as he was drawn into the goale Leobell gets away in hope to prove his owne innocency and his freinds by shewing that they had done nothing but in their owne defence and that the fortune of armes had fallen on them who had vnjustly assaulted himselfe and his freind by treason and advantage but the case went quite otherwise then he expected because that Gelase had parents and kindred so powerfull and authorised in in the Citty of Vilne that in few dayes Octavians arraignement was at hand and upon the

he was dishonoured by his wife Immediatly then how to reveng it at full he makes shew of lying forth and by the helpe of Leobarde hides himselfe in a closet neere the chamber of ●ursee this woman who tooke great delight in conversing with Geronce and in makeing him him relate perticularities of his house and Country of his love and fortune fayled not to make him come at night for to put him into his discourse and to fall a sleepe thereon but whilst she is in bed and Geronce sitting at her beds head talking to her Marcel is preparing fire and sword to reveng the injurie which he belieues to be but too apparant he starts forth of his ambuscado and comes with his pistoll in hand crying with full mouth ha accurfed woman now is the time that thou shalt wash my spoted honour in thy blood and that thou and thy adulterer shall both of you pay interest for the wrongs you have done me and without hearing any answere shoots off his Pistoll thinking to pash out Fursees braines but she turning her head a little the shot went into the feathers without any other effect but onely that it burned the cheeke of this poore Lady who in this trouble misdoubted the cause of her husbands wrath had no more leasure but to cry out O Sir Geronce is a woman whereat Marcel whose sword was already drawne to end therewith what the fire had spared as if a flash of lightning had dasled his eies stood in suspence at these words when Geronce more dead then alive cast her selfe at his feet and with the discovering of her breasts assured him that Fursees words were but too true presently to cleere his understanding of so many confusions wherewith his soule was troubled Geronce though trembling related unto him the whole history as you have heard of her miffortune and pittifull adventure which drew teares from the eies of Marcel and made him infinitely repent what he had done meane time remedies were applyed to the burne on Fursees face which besides the paine threatned her with a great deformity but whether it were the inflamation that redoubled or through the extreame terror which she had felt in hearing a Pistoll thunder in her eare and see her selfe nere loosing her life she fell into a strong fever which in three daies laid her in the grave Marcel lamented much for her both because he truely loved her and for that he saw himselfe to be the cause of her death he had almost discharged the burthen of his wrath on Leobarde and sacrificed her to the Manes of her Mistris but when hee knew that shee her selfe had been first deceived and that the conjectures of the evill had been so strong he was contented only to drive her away from his house Meane time Geronce hauing changed her habit and being become Saturnine appeared so faire in the eies of Marcel that loue being entred into his soule by the two gates of beauty and pitty he resolved to marry her as being a Gentlewoman of a good descent and the widdow of a Gentleman Saturnine seeing her fortune to bee desperate if shee with open armes received not this occasion laide hold on her foretop and consented to Marcels will by a solemne marriage and since Gaudence Father to Saturnine being dead Marcel had that part of the inheritance that fell to her thereby which amounted to as good a portion as hee could have had with a wife chosen out of his owne Countrey thus in the secular or civill life the harme of the one is the profit of the other as in the naturall the corruption of one body is the ingendering of another so the misfortune of inconsiderate Saturnine was by divine providence changed into a good fortune and that moment of time intended for her death was to her a beginning of a happier life it may be that the patience which she shewed in that extreame adversity of the losse of Volusian and her wise carriage and behaviour in the governement of Marcels sonne brought her to this felicity not without great wonder to little Sulpice who saw his tutor in a short time changed his mother in law THE IMPVDENT ATTEMPT The seventh Relation NOt pride onely but also temerity ever mounts there be men who cannot play foolish prancks but they must extend them to the uttermost poynt of impertinency impudence elevating them so much the higher by how much the lower she meanes to cast them downe doing by them as the Eagle by the Tortoise which she carries up into the ayre but onely to let her fall on the point of some rocke to breake her in pieces and then devoure her Speusippe a Gentleman of the Province of Aquitaine will shew us here the image of an impudent traytor whose attempt unworthy of a man of honour was punished by heavens permission when he had thought to take his prey in his hand and to triumph insolently in the honour of another This man in the warres had entred in friendship with another Gentleman of the same Province named Liberat and this friendship was grown so great that they called brothers and the one had nothing but what was the others Peace being returned to France by the victorious hand of great Henry sent every man backe under his owne figge-tree and under his owne Vine and changed swords into Sythes and head-pieces into hives these two friends with drew themselves to their houses which were not so far asunder but that they saw each other often enough living with a freedome and familiarity wholly fraternall Liberat took a desire to marry and wedded a faire and vertuous Gentlewoman whom we will call by the name of Mela for the honeyed sweetnesse of her disposition her conversation being wholly without bitternsse it was a Dove without gall but a chast Dove having no eyes but for her mate Speusippe failed not to expresse at this wedding how much it joyed him to see his brother of alliance so well matched he called Mela sister and this young Lady who saw but through the eyes of her husband knowing how much he esteemed Speusippe could do no lesse then hold him in estimation as the best friend Liberat had in the world shee called him likewise brother and cherished him in the same manner as if she had indeed been his sister It is to be beleeved that the first moneths of this marriage passed with much innocence on Speusippes part and that he thought onely to honour Mela as his sister of alliance but trayterous love who blindeth all and surpriseth even the most wary and is so good an Archer that he hits none but hearts setting himself in ambuscado in Melas eyes hit the heart of Speusippe with a mortall str●ke Now though all that Liberat had were in his power excepting his wife yet he desired what was prohibited and despised what was permitted this stinking flame burned not long ere he made the blacknesse and smoake thereof appeare to Mela

dayes of his life and I will so well provide for your daughter that both she and you yea and all yours shall bee glad thereof This newes was carried by Bonit to Metran who poore young man receaved it as the sentence of his death and indeed to rende so strong a love from his heart was no lesse then to teare his soule from his body hee cannot answer but with teares like to the Stag when hee stands at a bay Bonit pressing him to an answer hee fell presently in a swoune shewing thereby that hee could not grant so hard a request but by death here pitty gave new assaults to the soule of his Father and truly hee had beene very barbarous if hee had not beene touched with compassion seeing his daughter so extremly beloved of him whom he had chosen to be his son in law then goes he to his daughter to try her mind who had no other answer but sighs and sobs at last amongst many interruptions hee learned that her will was in the hands of Metran and that having given herselfe unto him shee could noe more dispose of herselfe her Father having left her shee opened the ●●●dgat● of her teares tore her haire had almost spoyled that faire complexion which nature had set on her face so much did she hate that beauty which seemed pleasing to any other then Metran● eies then Bonit returns to this yong man who having with incredible convulsions of mind digested the bitter thought of the ruine of his love which he saw to be evident tooke at last a couragious resolution and such an one as taken contrary to the true intent may seeme blame-worthy but understood aright shall appeare excellent Philosophers distinguish betweene loues say that that which is perfect hath no other end but the good of the person beloved and that which is imperfect tends to thee utility of the person that loveth Metran would shew the perfectiō of his love to his deare Valeria and seeing the Marriage so evidently advantageous for her freely tooke the bit out of his owne mouth to put it into Armentaires this was the sum of the answere he made to Bonit who tenderly imbraced him and mixing their teares together hee promised ever to account him as much the raiser of his house as the Earle being that herein Armentaire sought nothing but his owne content and on the contrary Metran deprived himselfe of his only in consideration of Valerias good this newes was presently carried by Bonit to his daughter who incredulous desires to here it from her beloveds owne mouth whereupon Metran being come into the presence of Valeria could hardly endure her lookes which seemed to up●raid● him with disloyalty so to forsake her and to give ●●● over unto another and before they could speake both of them fainting fell to the ground palenesse seizing on their faces their lips were forsaken by their naturall colour and they were thought to be yeelding up their lives but at length being a little recovered and come to themselves Metran made it well and sufficiently appeare unto Valeria that she deceived her selfe in accounting that for basenesse of heart and disloyalty which was the greatest act of magnanimity that his heart could shew to renounce its owne proper interests and pleasure in favour of the thing beloved Valeria could not at first conceive this subtilty her soule being united unto the soule of Metran that shee beleeved death it selfe could not divide them what said she hath caused thee so easily to forsake me and so willingly to give mee unto another Ah Metran Metran call you that loving and perfectly loving as for my part I should not onely have preferred you before an Earle but before a King also for I esteeme not men for their wealth and their greatnesse but for their own proper merits Deare Valeria replyed Metran the affection I beare you being as strong at death workes now in mee the same effect since it seperates me from you my vehement desire of your greatnesse makes mee deprive my selfe of the greatest contentment that I could have wished and without which my life hence forward shall be but a death live then great honoured happy rich most deare Valeria and by marrying with Armentaire become the glory of your kindred whilst I goe miserable poore unhappy and forlorne Metran spinning out the remainder of my sad dayes amongst the lovers of solitude much adoe they had to plucke these lovers from each others presence a heart as hard as Adamant could not but have relented at so hard a separation The words of betrothing being rendred backe the very next morrow Valeria is promised to Armentaire who in few dayes makes her a Countesse and withall becomes so idolatrous of her that both his eyes were not enough for him to view her withall meane while Metran who could rather have dyed then indured to see his Mistresse in the armes of another went his way wandring through Italy for the space of some few yeares often changing place but never heart nor affection Armentarie had but one sonne and hee was married but had no childe and that was partly the cause why the Earle did marry againe to get issue but age and the gowt opposed themselves to his desire Moreover it was generally reported that hee was so charmed by the love of a Courtezan that he disdained his lawfull wife but as the kinde of bad women resemble the materia prima which is never satisfied with formes what expence soever Hilaire was at for to stay the covetousnesse of this creature she still flew out and daily bred new distractions in his brain so that on a time being throughly vexed at her he used her like a woman of her trade and marked her face with the slash of a sharpe Rasor which they there call Coustillade This lewd creature seeing her selfe deprived of that little beauty which made her to be esteemed grew so desperate that she caused Halaire to be murthered by another of her lovers with whom she imbarked and got into the Venetian Territories a receptacle for such sort of wares This his sonnes death unmeasurably afflicted the Earle seeing himself deprived of heires and out of all hope of having any children yet the love he bare to his young wife was a charme to all his griefes But indeed this praise must onely be attributed to the vertuous discretion and carriage of Valeria that shee could so well frame herselfe to his humours and so win his heart that he had been insensible if hee had not acknowledged her respects the gowt by little and little wasting the Earles naturall vigour brought him to the threshold of his ●om be and what could he then doe better in the acknowledgement of the service received from his prudent mate then to make her his heir as he did by his solemne will and testament and after that he went the way of all flesh which is the way to the grave so long as he lived

and mummings every day some assemblie was made where Eleusipe with her brightnesse dimmed the lustre of those beauties which were in the City Iule and Adiute left no occasion of seeing her which much vexed Audifax but he could not remedy it because they saw her not in Fabians house but in such placesas where hee could not forbid them to come Some affaires forced Adiute to an absence for some few dayes during which time Iule invented a mask in favour of Eleusipe and caused her to be invited to a friends house of his where being masked hee might entertaine her at will Among those whom he entreated to be maskers with him was one Fluriel young man who danced exceeding well and had formerly beene page to Adiute the Masque goes on it is not for me to relate the invention it sufficeth for my history to say that it was don with the admiration of all the spectators although they were ignorant both who was the principall author and for whom it was made so secret had Iule been in his enterprise Audifax was there present being come in that company where he knew Eleusipe was to be In masques the liberty of Masquers is very great by reason of their disguise they may as long as they please entertain with discourse those whom they chuse out and it were a grosse incivility to interrupt them in their conversation they beeing not bound so much as to answer any one that speaks to them except they please that so they may not bee knowne by their speech The masque being ended Iule made use of the priviledge and having taken Eleusipe aside talked with her in secret so long till jealous Audifax was offended thereat Hee had stil kept both his eies upon the actions of this Masquer who was talking to Eleusipe with the countenance of a passionate man which put Audifax into a fume and for to breake off their discourse he bethinkes himself to pray Eleusipe to dance she excuseth herselfe in that she cannot without the Masquers permission who seemed to be unwilling This provoked Audifax and was the cause that thrusting the Masquer and calling him importunate man would have taken Eleusipe from him the masquer counterfeiting his speech sayd that hee made use of the maskes lawes without any importunity but that he for his part did violate them with as much indiscretion as incivility Audifax stung with these words and more yet by his jealousie presently layd hand on his sword but Iule was not without defence for he made a Pistol ring in his eare which had shot him through the head had he not stopped it The other Masquers bestirred themselves likewise so that there was an horrible confusion Iule was in the house of his friend who helpt him at need Audifax was slightly hurt but evill fortune would that as the Masquers were retyring poore Fleurid got a thrust with a sword in the backe whereby he fell dead on the staires Being unmaskt and knowne Audifax made no doubt but that this maske had been made by Adiute in consideration of Eleusipe The reason of this conjecture was that Fluriel had beene his Page and that commonly he had made use of him when he would make any masque The absence of Adiute since some dayes shewed the contrary but the jealousie of Audifax made him beleeve that it was but feigned and that it was so given out the better to cover the mumming Thereupon Audifax resolved to challenge Adiute who beeing returned to towne saw himselfe saluted by a letter of defiance which marked him out the houre and the place where he should come with a second to make satisfaction for the affront which Audifax pretended to have received from him Adiute who would willingly have payd deare for a good cause of quarrel against Audifax receiveth this challenge with a free courage asking no better than to decide by combat which of them should have Eleusipe Further being netled by the death of his Page he resolves to fight both for his Love and for his revenge two strong spurres to animate a spirit Hee goes into the field with a second where before they went to it he protests by great oathes unto Audifax that hee had not made the masque but that he was two dayes journey from thence when it was made that he knew not what satisfaction Audifax would draw from a wrong that was not done by him that he had courage enough to accoast Eleusipe openly without hiding himselfe under a masque This replied Audifax is the language of a coward who to avoyd strokes frames frivolous excuses wee are not come hither to stand and doe nothing I am but too certaine that it was thee who didst make the Masque entertain my mistres notwithstanding that thou wert forbidden so to do the death of thy page hath been the beginning and thine shall bee the end of my revenge trifle not out time thus wee must fight The wrong thou even now didst mee replied Adiute in giving me the name of coward which belongeth not unto me would make me lose a thousand lives rather than want the washing of its spot in thy bloud the bloud of my page killed treacherously askes this vengeance the love of my mistres commands me to punish thy temerity and my own honour obliges me to make thee lie This said they went to it and it appeared in three bouts that the great●st talkers are not the greatest fencers because that Adiute extraordinarily provoked pressed Audifax so lively and strongly that he never made thrust but hit so that without having the least hurt himselfe he layd him on the ground at the third making his soule passe out at a large wound and presently goes to helpe his second who had reduced his man to bad tearmes They made him yeeld up his weapons and so left him in the field from whence being brought backe he died the next day Adiutes Second having but a flight wound in the arme Audifax was of so great parentage that after this it behooved Adiute to take flight towards the Pyrenean mountaines and to seeke shelter in the territories of Spaine from the justice of France although he went unto this duell being challenged and had been provoked against reason and unmeasurably wronged in the field and that his act was rather a defence of his honour and his life than an assault yet the power of Audifax parents made him feele the rigor of the edicts which oft times falls rather on the least fortunate than on the most culpable he was be headed in efsigie his goods were confiscate and he was constrained to change his native country for a strange land Thus is Iule rid of both his Rivals and might have sayd as the Raven in the Fable who seeing the wolfe and the dog fight on which side soever the victory fals the profit shall be myne hee had a new permission to be a suiter to Eleusipe whome hee had much a doe to comfort on the losse of Audifax and