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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61845	The famous history of the valiant London-prentice shewing his noble exploits at home and abroad: his love and great success. Very pleasant and delightful. Written for encouragement of youth. By J.S. This may be printed, R.P.	J. S.; J. S. (John Shirley), fl. 1680-1702, attributed name.	1693 (1693)	Wing S60; ESTC R222123	7,161	26

The Famous History of the Valiant London Prentice Printed for I. Back at the Black-Boy on the middle of London-Bridge 1693. THE Famous History OF The VALIANT London-Prentice SHEWING His Noble EXPLOITS at Home and Abroad His LOVE and great SUCCESS Very Pleasant and Delightful Written for Encouragement of Youth By J. S. This may be Printed R. P. Printed for I. Back at the Black-Boy on the middle of London-Bridge 1693. The HISTORY of the London-'Prentice c. CHAP. I. An Account of his Birth Education and early Valour c. IN times past there was Born in the Famous County of Chester a young Man of excellent Beauty promising very great things even in his Infancy to promote which his Parents being wealthy spaxed not to educate or bring him up in the best manner the Country would afford nor did he as he grew up fail in any thing their expectation In Learning he was well seen and in many other matters but nothing so enflamed his mind as the desire of exercising himself in feats of Arms and was the more incited thereto by Reading the Famous Adventures of Knight-Errants how successful they were in overcoming Gyants and Monsters and rescuing beauteous Ladies from death and misery and as these Heroick thoughts encreased so he found his strength abound Nature not sparing to give him many Limbs and an able Body so that in his Childish Encounters those that far surpassed him in years were not able to resist his force nor come near him in Wrestling Iumping Running cutting the Bar Stone or Dart which made not his Parents but a little proud of such a blessing whom they had named Aurelius as one that promised great things CHAP. II. An Account of his first Adventures and Enterprizes where he won the Virgins Hearts c. WHen Aurelius was at the Age of fourteen he went to a Wake or Merry-meeing to recreate himself with other Youths of the Country where he so well behaved himself that his courage activity strength and beauty gained great applause and took so mainly with the Virgins that some of them began to feel a Fever in their Minds which Cupid who at such Merry-meetings is seldom wanting in promoting the Business of Love failed not to increase but he as yet not capable of feeling the Flame of Passion that way regarded not their amorous glances nor understood the silent Language of enflamed Hearts though it notwithstanding created him those Enemies that were causelessly jealous of him as a most dangerous Rival and who gathered their Reason for it from the many praises their Mistresses bestowed on him in his absence CHAP. III. How the fair Lucinda fell in Love with him how those she despised for his sake conspired against him OVr Youth increasing his Strength and Beauty with his years and continuing as occasion offered to appear in publick amongst those admiring Virgins that in a manner doated on him and often wished to be Mistriss of his Affections Lucinda the fair Daughter of a Wealthy Shepherd was the chief who sought by many ways to oblige him and to let him understand her Passion but Modesty sealing her Lips he did not nor would not Interpret her Dumb Signs but kept on his Merriment without any regard of her Passion which made her sigh and grow melancholy refusing to entertain the Address of those that adored her and doated on her Beauties more than she did on those that adorned our Heroick Youth This suddain alteration made them restless till they knew the Cause of it which was not long e'er they did from her Virgin Companions to whom she had dropped some words of her Passion as likewise by a Letter she had written in order to send to him by a trusty hand but had accidentally dropped it in which were these words Dear Aurelius seeing you do not understand the language of a Love-sick Virgins Eyes pardon my boldness if with Blushes I have taken the liberty to let you know Lucinda doats on you and begs you would requite her Love with Love who for your sake renounces the rest of mankind then have compassion or Lucinda must be miserable Subscribed Lucinda This giving the Amorists a full knowledge upon whose account they found such cold entertainment from their beloved Mistriss whom every one of them feared to lose they bent their study how to remove that Screen that stood between them and their much desired happiness some were of Opinion that nothing but the death of Aurelius could effect it but others of a milder disposition declared That it would not only be too much Cruelty but bring their own Lives in question therefore considering Woman-kind was generally more taken with the Beauty of the Body than with that of the Soul they thought it fit to Deform him with Poyson but where to get it they knew not and so came to a result that to disfigure his Face with Wounds might work the same effect and put an end to the passion of their Dear Lucinda which they knew not any other ways to extinguish CHAP. IV. How they attempted to destroy Aurelius but were overcome and left naked in the Wood. THe Plot thus lay'd against our Valiant Youth many ways were sought for an opportunity to put it in practice till at last they understood he was gone to pay a visit to an Aunt of his who lived at a Village about two Miles from his Father's House and that he must return by a Wood This lucky opportunity as they imagined it made them all leap for Ioy there being four in number they armed them with mischievous Weapons and in disguise placed themselves in Ambush under a Thicket of Trees in the way he must pass each Swearing to the other to keep the thing secret though they kept not their Oaths as you will hear Long they had not stayed but as they wished our valiant Youth not dreaming of such Treachery came on but hearing the Bushes russle he made a halt to see what it meant when out leaped the 〈◊〉 and incompassing him after they had uttered many his words and reviled him at an unseemly rate they made in to grapple with him who ignorant of their intent and scorning to stoop to fear took the two foremost in either hand and by main force brought their Heads together that they rung like a Barber's Bason so that stunn'd with the valiant knocks after staggering some paces down they fell and having by this time wrested a Weapon from one of them he set upon the other two with such fury that giving them several Wounds they when they found the blood run about their Ears fell on their Knees and cried for mercy as did the other who by this time were recovered from their Trance yet could not they obtain their Wish till he had Thrashed them into a Confession of the whole matter and thereby became sensible of the Love Lucinda bore him and that she might come to the knowledge of what had happened on this occasion and