who most complained of his cruelty and had the truest feeling of it was Tiberia his Sister who was both faire and discreet aboue all the Ladies in Valence who affecting the gentlenes and faire spirit of our vnfortunate Pilgrim did not see but by his eyes and did not breath but from him Iacinth told them that Pamphilus was mad and that it was necessary hee should be cured before the disease increased too farre The Father of this Knight who was very Learned blamed exceedingly this precipite course saying that in all infirmities there was nothing more dangerous then Physicke out of season and swore that he should be had out of the Hospitall to bee cured in his house Tiberia confirmed this piety saying that reward due vnto him they being not so poore but that they had meanes sufficient to haue him cured in their house with greater care of his health and lesse scandall to his honour Iacinth replyed that he was a Stranger that no body knew him But all the houshold were so much against him blaming him for ingratitude especially his Father his Sister that he was constrayned to tell them what he knew Whereat in imagining the cause all of them were astonished and wondred They thought that Pamphilus was a spy who went disguised vnder the habite of a Pilgrim and that fearing to be knowne by some one hee vsed this subtilty to saue his life for although he spake Spanish neuerthelesse by his faire face and exceeding beauty he seemed a stranger and by his actions a Gentleman With this confession Iacinth remained in their good opinion the house was much troubled and Tiberia was full of pittifull griefe and care for Pamphilus his life who being in Prison among the mad folkes in the iudgement of many the very center of greatest misery imagined himselfe to bee in most glorious happines To this new Madman the more ancient gaue place and Pamphilus with diuers faynings counterfetings of his face endeauoured to expresse his madnes which fashion of his seeming vnto them as tokens of rashnes they put him into the Prison with Irons on his handes where to confirme them the more in their opinion of his madnes hee said so many wordes so farre from the matter that hee did merit a beleefe There he stayed some fewe dayes before he could see his beloued Nisa suffering most insupportable discommodities difficult to be spoken and almost impossible to bee beleeued In the meane time Celio went by Saragosse into France to finde his beautifull and beloued Finia whom hee had lost where being come hee heard the newes of the Peace which was proclaimed betweene the two Nations which made him rest that night with more contentment out of the facility which it brought to his designe staying for the Light of the morning to cleere his passage ouer the Mountaines into France The end of the Second Booke The Third Booke WHilest the sad and afflicted Celio entred into France by the Mountaines of Iaca to see if hee could finde his deere Finia our Pilgrim Pamphilus hauing gotten out of the Prison as a mad man whose fury was ouer was admitted to the table where others did eate where also sate his saire Nisa neare vnto whom he did alwaies indeauour to sit and there and in all other conuenient places he tolde her his Fortunes She blamed him for putting himselfe into this place although shee did acknowledge how she was tyed vnto him for this his great folly Pamphilus as a true I ouer who onely aymed at the end of his loue which was to Marry her and who had sworne by a thousand oathes to resist the violence of his desires vntill a lawfull marriage would suffer him to accomplish them said vnto her in comforting her that if shee had suffered this misery for him and that they ought to be all one there was no reason but hee should haue his part of this misery to the end that equall in all thinges their marriage might bee without aduantage of one side or other and that his Loue vnto her did preuaile so farre as not to let passe one day without seeing her notwithstanding any danger and although his honour were thereby in hazard The seruants of the house did not hinder their speaking together because that Nisa being apparelled like a man and hauing a care that her hayre should not discouer her sexe euery body did beleeue that she was as she seemed to bee For although that her beauty were extreame yet the world hath not any so great but it appeareth little being much neglected especially seeing that if Art doe not polish the beautifullest and finest Diamonds and that they bee not set in golde with inamilling and other necessary ornaments they shew not the luster grace nor beauty which they haue being artificially cut and set in a foyle by cunning workmen The misery of this kinde of life seemed vnto our two Louers as nothing in regard of the former trauels which they had suffered as I haue heard it often said by many and I my selfe know by experience that if two Louers may see and speake together they haue no feeling of the miseries which doe serue them as meanes to attaine thereunto Oh what will not those which Loue resolue of What is it which doth not seeme possible vnto them Whar trauels can weary them And what dangers can make them feare O Loue strong as death seeing that a Louer liuing in that which he loueth and being dead in himselfe hath no more feeling of torment then a body depriued of a soule With what teares were these two seperated at night by the cruell officers of this Prison If it bee cruelty to deale rigorously with mad folkes with what care and languishment did they attend the day that they might see one the other what discreet follies did they vtter in publicke full of equiuocations to deceiue those who heard them and to diuert the euils which they suffered And with what amorous discourses did they in particuler warme their desires to marry How much doth he commend Nisa's vertue and the chast but louing defence which shee made of her honour for Pamphilus being a man had yeelded often vnto his passion if shee had not moderated his violence With what grace they gaue madly fauours one vnto another of the vildest thinges they could finde vpon the ground which Pamphilus stucke in his hat in steed of Iewels or feathers which he was wont to weare But fortune enuying their contentednes euen in this misery would not let them liue in this place at rest but arming himselfe a new against them euen at that time when as they thought by Iacinthes helpe to get out of that Prison There came vnto this Citty an Italian Earle of the house of Anquilora called Emelio who desiring to haue a Foole with him promised a great Almes vnto their house if they would giue him a mad-man who hauing lost his fury might entertaine him with sport Those
my Death didst not thou suffer new Shipwracke at Marselles And finally wounded by thy iealous Brother lyest now in a strange Countrey either sicke or dead Seeing all this is so how can I apprehend the least motion of leauing thee Where is my courage or am I not Pamphilus of Luxan Is this the vertuous blood of those valiant Gouernors who so nobly defended the walles of Madreele from the Moores of Toledo It is not possible I am not my selfe my misfortunes haue changed me into something else To bee in Loue and to be a Coward is a manifest contrariety yet to deny that I Loue is to say the Sun is darkenes and the night Lightnes especially since I cannot say but that I haue seene Nisa But seeing I doe confesse that I haue seene her how can I say but that I loue her And if I loue her how can I leaue her And if I haue left her wherefore doe I liue So did Pamphilus accuse himselfe for hauing left Nisa for any danger no more nor no lesse then as one who trauailing vpon the way remembreth something of importance which he had forgotten at home breaking off from his discourse and from his company turneth back againe to his lodging where hee thinkes he shall neuer come time enough with the same hast Pamphilus taketh his way back again to Barcelon from which both in hast and feare he had departed A strong chayne of Louers which tyed to their desired beauty shortens it selfe by the force which lengthens it vntill it returne vnto its centure Beauty without doubt which lifting vp the vapors of the Louers eyes seemeth to drawe vnto its selfe the very waighty and earthy part in despite of all resistance made by the naturall waight and as the Sun oftentimes conuerteth into burning beames the humor which is concealed in the Clouds so Beauty conuerteth into fire all the teares and sadnesses of Louers Fewe Leagues had Pamphilus iourneyed from the famous Collony of the Romans when as going downe a Hill it being so late as that the Sunne had left no light in the West but as it were a golden girdle which inuironing the Horizon did seeme as a Crowne vnto the neighbouring night hee heard a voyce grieuously complaining in a Meadow which shadowed with high Rockes was very darke The couragious Pilgrim went into it and sawe a man lying vpon the Grasse amongst the Trees which were watered with a fresh Brooke of whome demaunding the cause of his complaint hee intreated him to come vnto him if he desired to knowe before he yeelded vp his soule caused by three mortall woundes which were made in his body Pamphilus approached vnto him although with some distrust and lifting him vp leaned his head against a Tree I am a Knight said the wounded man treacherously murthered by his hands who hath receiued most good turnes from mee There is a Monastery in these fields which is not farre from hence if thou canst carry me vpon thy shoulders thither thou shalt bee the Encas of my soule and I the Anchises saued peraduenture from the eternall Fire which I haue merited Pamphilus layde downe his Palmers staffe oh how hurtfull it is to leaue ones weapons vpon any occasion whatsoeuer taking him in his armes And remembring that he had so carryed Iacinth hee thought with himselfe that seeing he was come to carry others vnto the Graue hee was not farre from thence himselfe and comforted himselfe with this that if he were not Death himselfe he was yet his Beere So iourneying towards the Monastery with the wounded man who with broken speaches interrupted by his approaching Death recited the cause thereof The Pilgrim being come vnto the Gate and seeing by the cleere light of the Moone in the front thereof the Image of our Blessed Lady the Virgin said vnto the wounded man that hee should recommend his soule whilest he knocked at the gate At whose knocking the Porter being come and informed by the Pilgrim of the accident answered tht with like dissimulation certaine Bandoleers of Iara had one night robbed the Monastery and for that cause hee could not open the gate without the superiours License Pamphilus intreated him to dispatch but there being a long Garden betweene the Monastery and Cell before he could return the Knight dyed in his armes Pamphilus looked pale dismayde with the accident and almost as dead as he and incouraging him to this fearefull and sharpe passage layde a Crosse of two Mirtle bowes vpon his stomacke Instantly hee heard a troope of Horse whose masters being diuided into diuers paths did seeke for the Dead man By their words and their diligence the Pilgrim knewe their designe and calling them shewed them him whom they sought for telling them how hee had found him Amongst them was his Brother who seeing Pamphilus bloody and in a Pilgrims habit which is enough to make an honest man suspected cryed out Oh thou Castillian traytor thouhast murthered him to rob him And at the very instant the same friend who had killed this poore Knight and who the better to couer his treason accompanying the Brother tooke holde of the Pilgrims arme thou robber infamous assassiuator what hath made thee murther the noblest Knight which was in this Countrey Sirs replyed Pamphilus I found him in a Meadow hard by bewayling his death which hee said was wrought by the hand of one whome he did accompt his best friend and out of compassion and at his intreaty I brought him to this Monastery where he departed this life in my armes But Tansiles who was this Traytor which had killed him fearing least the Pilgrim might discouer something which hee might haue heard from the dying man concerning his treason pulling out a Pistoll from the pommell of his saddle gaue fire and aymed it directly at his head Yet Heauen not permitting that it should goe off for Saintes and Angels doe alwayes assist the innocent the Pilgrim liued O let him liue said Tirsus so was the dead mans brother called for it is much better that keeping him in Prison hee may confesse his owne crime and whether he killed him for to rob him or whether some enemy of my Brother Godfreyes did not hyer him to murther him The traytor answered to Tirsus and to the others who did accompany him that blood yet warme of his friend would not suffer him to delay his reuenge so long Yet all their opinions preuailing against his the innocent Pamphilus was bound hand and foot vpon a Horse and dead Godfrey laid vpon another It is a iust Iudgment said Pamphilus by the way for my leauing of Nisa wounded and Iacinth almost dead Doe you not heare said Tirsus without doubt this Nisa is the woman for whose sake he hath committed this murther and Iacinih some friend who led my Brother to the place All of them beleeued what Tirsus said and the traytor Tansiles iuterpreted Pamphilus his dispaires in such sort that euery one beleeued that
the Giants when as the miserable Pilgrim woman imbracing him with prayers begged the Pilgrims life saying vnto Doricles that this man was hee whom she did onely acknowledge for her Master and on the other side assuring her desperate Husband that she had not transgressed against her honour neither in deed word nor thought because his prayers had not vanquished her and his threats should neuer I doe not know if it ought to bee beleeued of a woman the History commendeth her Chastity and I doe religiously beleeue the vertue of this sexe so much esteemed by me and so greatly had in accompt all my life Doricles would willingly that the Pilgrim should haue bin contented with his life which he would leaue him and that hee should haue gone away without the woman But the incensed Castillian defying him to a single combate began to defame him and prouoke him in such manner that he commanded his Soldiers to hang him vp at the next Tree of the mountaine hardly was the word out of the Captaines mouth when the Pilgrim sawe himselfe carryed out of the Village by these barbarious fellowes and vpon his way towards the Wood where hee should be branched vp Seeing himselfe then at the place of execution and in the presence of an vncuitable death hee intreated them with teares that they would let him recommend his soule to him that was the author thereof which being permitted vnto him hee drew out of his bosome an Image of the blessed Virgin which holding vp with his eyes and his hands to heauen he began his prayers deuoutly hauing the match of one of their peeces about his necke neere vnto him who tyed it to a bough of a great Oake onely wayting for the end of his deuotions Neuerthelesse euen as hee fastened the last knot the faire morning reioycing the world with new light cleerly discouered the amiable colour of his face Who will beleeue that in the space of one night so many fortunes should happen to one man if it were not knowne that things are written to bee marked and that euils doe seldome come alone seeing that the euils which happen in one night to one vnfortunate man doe surpasse all the prosperity which can happen to a fortunate man in all his life The Soldiers seeing the honest graue countenance of this Pilgrim his youth and his Innocency and being otherwayes molified with his prayers or hauing their hearts secretly touched by the handes of God for hee who hardned Pharos heart can molisie others they resolued to let him liue not willing to bee more cruell then the Sea which the day before had cast him vpon Land from drowning and thinking it was an infamous cruelty that hee who had been spared by thinges without sence should bee destroyed by them who ought to haue reason The Pilgrim giueth them thankes for their liberality and referring their reward vnto heauen intreateth them that if by chance this Woman which hee had left did perseuer in the firmnes of her speech they should tell her that she should finde him at Barcelon This said he tooke his way towards the Citty and the Soldiers towards the Village But the fained newes of his Death which they were constrained to deliuer vnto Doricles so much depriued the sorowfull Pilgrim woman of sence whom he had before thrust out of his Chamber being vexed with her cryes that shee remained a long time as dead and when as she was come againe vnto her selfe she did and said so many pittifull thinges that these fierce men most accustomed to shed blood did now shed teares So that the Captaine despairing of euer being able to pacifie her and thinking that the beginnings of extreame griefe doe easily passe to a frenzy commanded that she should be caryed vpon the great high way where the miserable woman was left drowning her selfe in teares and murdering her face with her hands she made herselfe looke with great deformity from thence following the way by the Sea side shee went to Valence The Pilgrim in the meane time was at Barcelon where hauing stayed two dayes to view the goodly strong walles of the Citty the third day as he was beholding the Viceroyes Pallace this Fisher whose voyce had so vnhappily drawne him from the Cabens of the other Fishermen and as a deceitfull Hiena had called him to bring his life into such danger knew him and demanded of him if hee were not the Theefe which entertained him the other night with wordes vntill his companions came and entering by force into the houses of the Village had robbed them and pilled them It is true answered the Pilgrim that I am hee who by the sound of thy voyce came out of the Cabens of men of thy profession but not he who came with the robbers which you speake of vpon this they contested one against the other insomuch that the people runne to the â—oyse And as to bee pursued with hue and cry there needs no more cause but to bee a stranger so all the world beleeuing in the naturall Catalonians words the poore Pilgrim was impetuously carryed away by the people and as a robber put into Prison The infamous rable who for crimes great or small are accustomed to possesse these places which are like so many true representations of Hell put him into a dark corner worse then the worst sink of Constantinople where it is impossible to recite the blowes they gaue him and the iniuries they said vnto him because hauing no mettall about him but the Bullet which Doricles shot into him the night of his misfortune hee had not wherewith to pay his garnish or entrance nor ability to finde better meanes to appease them Night victorious ouer humane cares imposing rest vnto their labours and their thoughts and reducing their actions to a deepe silence came amongst these barbarous people and the miserable stranger onely not so much as closing his eyes hee felt not the griefe of his wound not the infamy of his imprisonment all that which troubled him and all that which he feared was the Pilgrim womans loosing of her honour which wrought so with him that whilst others slept in this confusion without that the want of beds the importunity of many noysome creatures which runne vp and downe in the Prison the feare of Iudgement to come nor the present misfortune could wake them our Pilgrim onely is awake complaining against Heauen the Sea and his cruel fortune which had preserued his life then when hee had no feeling of death to make him suffer it now in a state so sensible At the length the Sunne with a countenance full of shame and as if he had bin constrained shined through the thicke barres of this Prison windowes shewing in the pale colour of his beames that hee feared he should bee stayed there when the pleasant blowes of the Iaylor and the sweet noyse which his Keyes made in the strong lockes awaked from their forgetfulnes those vnto whom the
feare of punishment for their faults could worke no remembrance But the Pilgrim was not waked because hee was not asleepe he came out amongst the rest neuerthelesse to giue thankes to the day for hauing passed ouer so miserable a night There began this miserable body to mooue his parts going many leagues in a little space prayers importuned some care wearyed others necessity called out heere hunger sighed there and Liberty was wished for euery where The Lawes called vpon execution Ministers vpon punishment and fauour importuned for delay those who had wherewith went out by the ayre others not hauing wherewith could not finde the Doore the confusion of voyces the vnquietnes of the Iudge the comming in of some the going out of others and the noyse of Fetters made in this discording instrument a fearefull striuing In this time a Knight who for the noblenes of his blood and the antiquity of his Imprisonment was generally respected as the Master cast his eyes vpon the Pilgrim and considering his deepe melancholy his habite his person incited by his good countenance and aspect for there is no letter of fauour which worketh greater effects in all necessities called him to a little alley which answered to the doore of his Chamber and asked his name his Countrey and the cause of his imprisonment The Pilgrim recited vnto him the successe which you haue heard beginning his life from the time that the Sea gaue it him by casting him vpon the shore not farre from the walles of Barcelon The Knight wondred at it and collecting from his reasons and the manner of his speech his vnderstanding and his gentlenes tooke such affection vnto him that hee placed him in his Chamber where hauing restored his weake forces with Conserues which he had hee made him discouer his Arme and he himselfe healed the wound with medicines and wordes which he had learned being a Soldier for if Herbes and stones haue this vertue wherefore should it be wanting to holy words The contented Pilgrim afterwards turning his eyes round about the Chamber hee sawe written vpon the walles with a Coale according to the ancient manner of Prisoners certaine Herogliffique verses at the sight whereof he knew that hee who had written them was not ignorant Ouer the picture of a Young man who had the chiefe place was written this Verse out of Virgill Antes sus oios Hector triste en Suâ—nnos After that was painted a Heart with winges which flewe after Death with the Letter of Eneas sending the body of his friend to his father Euander Muerto Palante Forcado en esta vida me detengo Neere vnto that was figured Prometheus or Titius who being tyed with strong Chaynes to the rockes of Mount Caucasus nourished an Eagle with his intrayles the word was from Ouid and said thus O quanta pena es viuir vida enoiosa y forcada Y quando la muerta agrada Ser impossible mori In a flood betweene two infernall shoares Forgetfulnes was painted being a Young man who carryed a Charger full of remembrances which hee did endeauour to fling into the water with this word of Lucrece Buelue acaer quando al estremo llega The Head and Harp of Orpheus were portrayed vpon a gate amongst the waues of the Riuer Strimo into which hauing been cast by the Bachantes they came vnto Lesbos the word was this Aqui lloraro seluas fieras et Aspides There was also painted a Lady lying dead with a Sword through her body with this word of Scalliger vpon the Death of Polixena Nobasta Griegos que veucais los Hombres In the distance which might bee betweene the window and the flower was painted the Shepheard Argus with his hundred eyes and Mercury charming him asleepe with this line of Strossas Amor sutil al mas Zeloso angana With such and other curiosities which the Knight writ as aptly fitting his aduentures did hee adorne his Chamber and passed away his tedious imprisonment Whilest that the Pilgrim was busie in beholding these conceipts he was called before the Iudges to answere the accusation against him and hee relating simply the truth by the little Art which hee brought with him in his speech he plainely shewed that there was no guilt in him his cause being recommended vnto the Iudges by the Knight who writ his innocency vnto them hee was acquited brought back againe into the Knights chamber where they did eate together Their discourse which at the end of Dinner serued for their last dish amongst other things fell vpon their misfortunes because that there is nothing which more aptly and readily doth ease the minde then relation of our owne misaduentures The master of the Lodging who could willingly haue spared that name being intreated by the Pilgrim to relate the cause of his imprisonment began to speake in this manner The History of Mireno IN a little Towne not farre from this great Citty there was a Gentleman named Telemaquus marryed with a faire Lady not so chast as the Roman Lucrece although shee caryed her name the report was that this Marriage was made against her minde it is likely to be true as by the effects it was afterwards witnessed her melancholy increased her beauty and clothes neglected did shew a languishment like Roses when the radicall moysture of their boughes doe decrease Telemaquus did inforce himselfe to diuert her from this sad kinde of neglect least it might seeme vnto some which should see her that this sadnes proceeded from his default for oftentimes innocent Husbands are accused for their wiues euill conditions He apparelled her richly carried her to solace and recreate her selfe to Sea and to see the choisest Gardens And this being not sufficient hee opened his house to all good company Amongst the young Knights which did ordinarily frequent and conuerse with them there was one called Mireno so much my friend that if Death had not set a difference between vs I could not haue bin perswaded he being aliue to discerne which of vs two had bin my selfe This man cast his eyes vntill this time busied in the consideration of anothers beauty vpon Telemachusses faire wife who looking vpon him more earnestly then vpon any other had it may bee incited him for although it bee said that Loue can pierce as a Spirit into the most close and secret places Yet I doe thinke it impossible that any man should Loue if he bee not at the first obliged thereunto by some little hope He concealed from me the beginning of his thought for loue is alwayes borne discreet and dumbe as a Childe But the same sweetnes of its conuersatioÌ„ doth so quickly teach it to speake that like a Prisoner at the Barre he oftentimes casteth himselfe away by his owne tongue So after hee saw himselfe admitted in Lucrece her eyes an euident index that he was already in her soule not being able to suffer the glory of that whereof hee easily indured the paine hee made vnto me a
was constrayned to leade hee resolued one night to lye in some place where he might be better accommodated then in these Deserts and entring into a Citty which diuideth the two Kingdomes hee enquired for a Lodging But no body being willing to entertaine him seeing him so euilly apparelled his feete bloody his face tanned his hayre knotted shagged he went vnto the Hospitall the last refuge of misery Pamphilus found the gates open at that time but without light asking the cause he was tolde that in regard of a strange noyse which euery night was there heard which hath happened euer since the Death of a stranger who came thether to Lodge no body hath dwelt there yet hee might as they said enter in if he would for he should find there a man of holy life in a little Chappell who indured for the honour of God all those illusions and who would shew him a place where he might lye without danger Pamphilus then entred into a darke obscure place and after some fewe steps he might see a great way off a dim light of a Lampe vnto which place hee addressed himselfe and called the holy man What wouldst thou haue thou wicked Spirit answered the holy man Thou doest mistake mee said Pamphilus I am a Pilgrim who doe endeauour to seeke a lodging for this night Then he opened the doore where Pamphilus sawe a man of a middle stature and age with a long Beard and hayre a Gowne of course rugge downe vnto his anckles the Chappell was little and Altar venerable the basse whereof did serue him for his Bed hee had a Stone for his pillowe his Staffe for his companion and a Deaths head for his looking-glasse How durst thou come into this place said hee vnto the Pilgrim did no man aduertise thee of the disquiet Lodging which is heere I haue beene tolde it answered the Pilgrim but I haue suffered so much Labour in my trauailes so much Cruelty in imprisonments so many heauy misfortunes and colde entertainments that no disquiet can be newe vnto mee The poore man then lighted a Candle at the Lampe which burned before the Altar and without saying any thing commaunded the Pilgrim to followe him he went through a Garden which lay wilde as a Forest or wildernes where hauing shewed him a part of the house amongst some Cypres Trees hee vnlocked the doore of a Chamber and said vnto him seeing thou art young and accustomed to trauailes enter heere make the signe of the Crosse and bee not dismayde nor astonished but sleepe Pamphilus taketh the Candle and setting it vpon a stone which lay there biddeth his Host good night and shutteh the doore There was a Bed in the Chamber good enough to rest vpon especially for a man who hath layne so many nights vpon the ground this inuited him to vncloath himselfe and taking one of the shirts which Flerida at his departure had giuen him he put it on and went into it Hardly had he reuolued in his imagination the confusion of his life a thing which often the body being at rest is represented vnto the minde when as sleep which is truely called the Image and brother of Death possessed his sences with that force which doth accustomably vse vnto weary Pilgrims All that part which the Sunne abandoneth when it goeth downe vnto the Indyes was in a deepesilence when as the noyse of some Horses awaked Pamphilus he thought he was stirring as it many times happeneth vnto Trauailers and that his bed did moue as a Ship or a Horse which did carry him Neuertheles remembring that hee was in the Hospitall and the causes for which it was vnhabitable he opened his eyes he sawe Horsemen enter by two and two into the Chamber who lighting Torches which they had in their handes at the Candle which he had left burning by him they cast them against the seeling of the Chamber where they stucke fast with their bottomes vpward and their tops downwards which dropped downe burning flames vpon his bed and vpon his clothes He couereth himselfe aswell as possibly he could leauing a litle hole to looke out that he might see whether his bed did burne or no when as instantly he sawe the flames out and that vpon a Table which was in the corner of the Chamber foure of them were at Primero they passed discarded and set vp money as if they had truely playde so long till at length they debating vpon a difference they fell into quarrell in the Chamber which made such a noyse with clashing of Swords that the miserable Pamphilus called vpon for helpe our Lady of Gadalupe which was onely left of all the shrynes in Spaine vnuisited although it were in his owne Country of Toledo Because holy places neare vnto one are many times left vnuisited out of a hope which is had that they might bee visited at any time Neuertheles the clattering of the swordes and all other noyse for the space of halfe an houre ceased and he was all of a sweat out of the very feare he had yet now well satisfied to see himselfe in their absence at some rest not thinking that they would come againe when instantly hee felt that the bed and the clothes were pulled away from him by the outtermost corners and he sawe at the same time a man come in with a Torch in his hand lighted followed by two others the one with a great brasen Bason and the other sharpening a little Knife Then began hee to tremble and all his hayre stood an end he would haue spoken but he was not able when they were neere him he who held the Torch put it out and Pamphilus thinking that they would kill him and that the Bason was to receiue his blood put his handes forth against the knife and felt that they laide hold on him hee gaue a great cry the Torch instantly kindled againe and he sawe himselfe betweene two Mastiffe dogs who held him fast in their teeth Iesus cryed out Pamphilus at which name all these fanstasticke illusions vanished away leauing him so weary and so affrighted with their company that hee would not stay there any longer but going out into the Garden by which he was entred he went vnto the Chamber of the good Hermite who seeing him so pale weake and naked opened him the doore and said vnto him haue your Hosts heere giuen you an euill nights Lodging So ill said Pamphilus that I haue not rested all night and yet I haue left them my clothes to pay for it The good man receiued him aswell as he could telling him how many others with like successe had beene so vsed and many other discourses wherewith he past away the night vntill morning Those who doe not knowe the nature quality and condition of Spirits will accompt of this history as a fable wherefore I doe not thinke it vnfit to aduertise them that there are some fallen from the lowest Quire of Angels who out of the