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A04555	The most famous history of the seauen champions of Christendome Saint George of England, Saint Dennis of Fraunce, Saint Iames of Spaine, Saint Anthonie of Italie, Saint Andrew of Scotland, Saint Pattricke of Ireland, and Saint Dauid of Wales. Shewing their honorable battailes by sea and land: their tilts, iousts, and turnaments for ladies: their combats vvith giants, monsters, and dragons: their aduentures in forraine nations; their inchauntments in the holie land: their knighthoods, prowesse, and chiualrie, in Europe, Affrica, and Asia, with their victories against the enemies of Christ.; Most famous history of the seven champions of Christendome. Part 1	Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?	1596 (1596)	STC 14677; ESTC S109165	135,141	216

him selfe vppon his owne sworde but that he thought it an honour to hys countrie to die in the defence of Christendome So like a true innobled Knight fearing neyther the threates of the Iewes nor the impartiall stroake of the fa●all sisters gaue this sentence of his own death First he requested to bee bounde to a pine tree with his breast laid open naked against the Sun then to h●ue an ●owers respite to make his suplication to his Creator and afterwardes to be shot to death by a pure Uirgin Which wordes were no sooner pronounced but they disarmed him of hys furniture bound him to a Pine trée and laide his breast open readie to entertaine the bloody str●ke of some vnrelenting maiden but such pittie m●●ke mercy and kinde len●ty lodged in the heart of ●●rie maiden that none would take in hand to be the bloody Executioner of so braue a Knight At last the tyrranous Nabuzaradan gaue strickt commandement vpon paine of death that lot● shuld be cast amongst the maidens of Iuda that were there present and to whome the lot did fall should be the fatall executioner of the condemned Champion But by fortune the chaunce fell to Celestine the Kinges own Daughter beeing the Parragon of beautie and the fairest Maide then liuing in Ierusalem in whose heart no such deede of crueltie coulde be harboured nor in whose hand no blood● weapon could be entertained In stéede of deathes fatall Instrument she● shot towards his breast a déepe strained sigh the true messenger of loue and afterward to heauen she thus made her humble supplication Thou great commaunder of celestiall moouing powers conuert the cruell motions of my Fathers minde into a spring of pittifull teares that they may wash away the blood of this innocent Knight from the habitation of his stained purple soule O Iuda and Ierusalem within whose b●somes liues a Wildernes of Tygers degenerate from natures kinde more cruell than the hungrie Canibals and more obdurate than vntamed Lyons what merciles Tyger can vnrip that breast where liues the Image of true Nobilitie the verie patterne of Knighthood and the map of a Noble minde No no before my handes shall be stained with Christians blood I will like Scilla against all nature sell my countries safetie or like Maedea wander with the golden Fléece to vnknowne Nations Thus and in such manner complained the beautious Celestine the Kings Daughter of Ierusalem till her sighes stopped the passage of her spéech and her teares stained the naturall beautie of her Rosie Cheekes her haires which glistered like to golden wiers she b●sm●●de in dust and dis●obed her selfe from her costly garments and then with a traine of her Amazonian Ladies went to the King her Father where after a long 〈◊〉 she not onely obtainde his life but libertie yet therwithall hys perpetuall banishment from Ierusalem and from all the border● of Iuda the want of whose sight more grieued her hart than the losse of her owne life So this Noble praise worthie Celest●ne returned to the Christian Champion that expected euerie minnute to entertaine the sentence of death but his expectation fell out contrarie for the good Ladie after shee had sealed two or three kisses vpon his pale lips beeing exchaunged through the feare of death cut the ●andes that bound hys body to the trée in a hundred péeces 〈◊〉 with a ●●oud of fault teares the motions of true loue she thus reuealed her minde Most Noble Knight and true Champion of Christendome thy life and libertie I haue gainde but therewithall thy banishment from Iuda which is a hell of horror to my soule for in thy bosome haue I built my happines and in thy hart I account the Paradice of my true loue thy first ●●ght and louely countenance did so rauish mee when these eyes beh●ld thée mounted on thy Princely Pa●fray that euer since my hart hath burnde in affection therefore deare Knight in reward of my loue be thou my Champion and for my sake weare this ring with this pos●e ingrauen in 〈◊〉 Ardio affectione and so giuing him a ring from her finger and there withall a kisse from her mouth shee departed with a sorrowfull sigh in compani● of her Father and the rest of hys Honourable traine backe to the Citty of Ierusalem béeing as then néere the setting of the Sunne But now Saint Iames the Champion of Spaine hauing passed the danger of death and at full libe●●●e to depart from that vnhappie Nation hee fell into a hundred cogitations one while thinking vp●n the t●ue loue of Celestine whose name as yet he was ignorant of another while vpon the cruel●ie of her father then ●ntending to depart into h●s his owne countrie but l●●king 〈◊〉 to the Towers of Ierusalem his minde sodainely alt●red for thither hee purposed to goe hoping to haue a sight of hy● Ladi● and Mistresse and to liue in some disguised ●ort●● her presence and bee her loues true Champion against all 〈◊〉 So gathering certaine blackberies from the trées he coloured his body all ouer like a Bla●kamoore But yet considering that hys spéech would discouer him intended likewise to continue dumbe all the time of his residence in Ierusalem So all thinges ordered according to his desire he tooke his iournie to the Cittie where with signes and other motions of dumbnes he declared his intent which was to bée entertained in the Court and to spend his time in the seruice of the King But when the King behold● his countenance which seemed of the naturall colour of the Moore little mistrusted him to be the Christian Champion whome before he greatly enuied but accounted him one 〈◊〉 the brauest Iudean Knights that euer his eye behelde therefore hee instauld him with the honou● of Knighthood 〈◊〉 ●ppointed him to bee one of his Guard and likewise his Daughters onlie Champion● But wh●● Saint Iames of Spaine saw● himselfe in●ested in that honoured place his soule was ra●ished with such excéeding ioy that he thought no pleasure comparable to hys no place of Elisium but the Court of Ierusalem and no Goddesse 〈◊〉 hys beloued Celestine L●ng continued he 〈◊〉 casting foorth manie a louing sigh in the presence of his Ladie and Mistresse not knowing how to reueale the secrets of his minde So vppon a time there ariued in the Court of Nabuzaradan the King of Arabia with the Admirall of Babilon both presuming vpon the loue of Celestine and crauing her in the way of marriage but shée exempted all motions of loue from her chaste minde onlie building her thoughtes vpon the Spanish Knight which shée supposed to bee in hys owne Countri● At whose melancholie passions her importunate sutors the King of Arabia and the Adm●●all of Babilon 〈◊〉 and therefore intended vpp●●●n Euening to pr●sent her with some rare deuised Maske ●o choosing out fi● consorts for their Courtly pastimes Of which number the King of Arabia was chiefe and first leader of 〈◊〉 traine the great Admirall of Babilon was the second and

earth and to rattle against the walles of the Castell like mighty thunder claps and had not the polliticke Knight continually skipped from the furie of his blow hee had béene brused as small as flesh vnto the potte for euerie stroke that the Giant gaue the roote of hys Oake entered at the least two or thrée foote déepe into the ground● But such was the wisedome and pollicie of the worthie Champion not to withstand the force of his weapon till the Giant grew breathles and not able through his long labour to lift the Oake aboue his head and likewise the heate of the Sunne was so intollerable by reason of the extreame haight of the Mountaine and the mightie waight o● hys Iron coate that the sweat of the Gyants browes ran into hys eyes and by the reason that hee was so extreame fat hee grewe blinde that hee coulde not see to indure Combat with him any longer and as farre as hee coulde perceiue woulde haue retired or runne backe againe into hys Castell but that the Italian Champion with a bold courage assailed the Giant so fiercely that he was forced to let his Oake fall and stand gasping for breath which when the noble Knight beheld with a fresh supplie hee redoubled his blowes so couragiously that they battered on the Giants Armour like a storme of winters ha●le whereby at last Blanderon was compelled to aske the Champion mercie and to cra●e at his hands some respite of breathing but his demaunde was in vaine for the valiant Knight supposed now or neuer to obtaine the honour of the day therefore neuer resting his wearie arme but redoubling blow after blow till the Gyant for want of breath and through the anguish of his deepe gashed wounds was forced to giue the world a farewell and to yéelde the riches of his Castell to the most renowned Conquerour S. Anthonie the Champion of Italie But by that time the long and dangerous encounter was finished and the Giant Blanderons head disseuered from his bodie the Sunne sate mounted on the highest part of the Elements which caused the day to be extreame hote and sulthie whereby the Champions Armour so extreamely scalded him that hee was constrained to vnbrace his Corslet and to lay aside his Burgonet and to cast his body on the cold earth onely to mittiga●e his ouerburthened heate But such was the vnnaturall coolen●s of the earth and so vnkindely to his ouerlabored hart that the melted grease of his inward parts was ouercooled sodainely wherby his bodie receiued such vnnaturall distemperature that the vapors of the cold earth stroke presently to hys heart by which hys vitall aire of life was excluded and hys body without sence or moouing wherein the mercie of pale death he lay bereaued of féeling for the space of an houre During which time faire Rossalinde one of the Daughters of the Thracian Kinges beeing as then Prisoner in the Castell by chaunce looked ouer the walles and espied the bodie of the Giant headles vnder whose subiection shée had continued in great seruitude for the time of seauen monthes likewise by him a Knight vnarmed as she thought panting for breath the which the Ladie Iudged to bee the Knight that had slaine the Giant Blanderon the man by whome her deliuerie should be recouered she presently descended the walles of the Castell and ran with all speed to the aduenterous Champion whome she found dead But yet béeing nothing discouraged of his recouerie féeling as yet a warme blood in euerie member retired backe with all spéede to the Castell and fetcht a box of pretious Balme the which the Giant was wont to poure into hys woundes after his encounter with any knight with which Balme this curteous Ladie chafed euerie part of the breathles Champions bodie one while washing his stiffe limbes with her salt teares the which like pearles fell from her eyes another while drying them with the tresses of her golden haire which hung dangling in the winde then chafing hys li●eles bodie againe with a Balme of a contrarie nature but yet no signe of life could she espie in the dead Knight which caused her to growe desperate of all hope of his recouerie Therefore like a louing méeke and kinde Lady considering he had lost his life for her sake shee intended to beare him companie in death and with her owne handes to fin●● vp her dayes and to die vpon his breast as This be died vpon the breast of her true Pyrramus therfore as the Swanne singes a while before her death so this sorrowfull Ladie warbl●d foorth this Swan-like song ouer the bodie of the Noble Champion Muses come mourne with dolefull mellodie Kinde Siluane Nimphes that sit in Rosie bowers● With brackish teares commix your harmonie To waile with me both minutes monthes and houres A heauie sad and Swan-like song sing I To ease my hart a while before I die Dead is the Knight for whome I liue and die Dead is the Knight which for my sake is slaine Dead is the Knight for whome my carefull crie With wounded soules for euer shall complai●●● A heauie sad and Swan-like song sing I To ease my hart a while before I die Ile set my breast vpon a siluer streame And swim vnto Elisium lillie fields There in Ambrosian trees Ile write a Theame Of all the wofull sighes my sorrow yeelds A heauie sad and Swan-like song sing I To ease my hart a while before I die Farewell faire woods where singes the Nightingales Farewell faire fields where feeds the light foote Does Farewell you groues you hilles and flourish dales But fare thou ill the cause of all my woes A heauie sad and Swanlike song sing I To ease my hart a while before I die Ring out my ruth you hollow Caues of stone Both birds and beasts with all things on the ground You sencsles trees be all assistant to my mone That vp to heauen my sorrowes may resound A heauie sad and swanlike song sing I To ease my hart a while before I die Let all the Townes of Thrace ring out my knell And write in leaues of brasse what I haue said That after ages may remember well How Rosalinde both liude and dide a Maid A heauie sad and Swanlike song sing I To ease my hart a while before I die This wofull Dittie béeing no sooner ended but the desperate Ladie vnsheathed the Champions sword which as yet was all besprinkled with the Gyants blood and béeing at the verie point to execute her intended Tragedie and the bloody weapon directly placed against her Iuorie breast but shee heard the distressed Knight giue a grieuous t●rrible grone whereat she stopped her remorc●les ●and with more discreation tendered her owne safetie for by this time the Balme wherewith she anoynt●d hys bodie by wonderfull operation rec●uered the dead Champion insomuch that after some few gaspes and earnest sighes hee raised vp hys stiffe limbes from the cold earth where like one cast into a trance for

bl●w which fatall spectakle incouraged her to a spéedy performance and by the light of the two lamps shée vnbraced her vestures and stripped her selfe into her milke-white smock hauing not so much vpon her head as a Caule to hold vp her golden haire After this she tooke her siluer bodkin that before shee had secretly hidden in her haire and with a wrathfull countenance vpon whose browes sate the image of pale death shee came to her n●we married sister béeing then ouercome with a heauie slumber and with her Bodkin perced her tender breast who immediatly at the ●●oke thereof started from her sléepe and gaue such a pittifull ●●rike that it would haue w●kened the whole Court but that the Chamber 〈◊〉 farre from the hearing of all company except her bloody minded sister whose hand was ready to redouble her furie with a second stroke But when Marcilla beheld the shéetes and ornaments of her bed bestained with p●●ple gaze and from her breast ran streames of Crimson blood which like to a fountains trickled from her Iuorie bosome shee breathed foorth thys earnest exclamation against the crueltie of Castria O sister said she hath nature harboured in thy breast a bloody minde What Furie hath incenst thée thus to commit my Tragedy In what haue I 〈◊〉 or wherein hath my tongue 〈…〉 What cause hath béene occasion that thy remorceles hand against true nati●●●y hath conuerted my ioyfull Nuptials to a wofull Funerall This is the cause replyed Castria and therewithall shewed her wombe growne big through the burden of her Childe that I haue bathed my handes in thy detested blood Sée see Marcilla said shée the vnhappie bed wherin thy accursed husband oath s●wen his séed by which my virgins honour 〈◊〉 fo● euer stainde this is the spot which thy heart blood must wash away and this is the shame that nothing but death shall 〈◊〉 Therefore a swéete reuenge and a present murther will I likewise commit vppon my selfe whereby my loathed soule incompany of my vnborne babe shall wander with thy Ghost along the Stygi●n lakes Which wordes béeing no sooner finished but she violently pierced her owne breast whereby the two sisters 〈◊〉 were equally mingled together but now Marcilla beeing the first wounded and the nearer drawing towards death she wofully complained this dying Lamentatio● Draw nere said shée you blazing starres you earthlie Angels and imbrothered Girles you louely Ladies flourishing Dames of Scythia behold hir wofull end whose glor●●● mounted higher than the elements behold my marriage bed which is beautified with Tapestrie now conuerted to deaths bloody habitation my braue attire to earthly mould and my Princely Pallaces to Elizium 〈◊〉 being a place appointed for those Dames that liude and dide true virgins for now I feele the paines of death closing my liues windowes and my heart readie to entertaine the stroke of desteni● Come Floridon come in steed of armes get Eagles wings that in thy bosome I may breath my murthered Ghost world fare thou well I was too proud of thy inticing pleasures thy Princely pompe and all thy glistering ornaments I must for euer bid adue Father farewell with all thy masking Traine of Courtly Ladies Knights Gentlewomen my death I know will make thy Pallace ●●aths gloomie regiment and last of all farewell thy Noble Floridon for thy swéete sake Marcilla nowe is murthered At the end of which words the dying Ladie béeing faint with the abundance of blood that issued from her wounded breast gaue vp the Ghost No sooner had pale death ceazed vpon her ●●eles body but Castria likewise through 〈…〉 of her wound was readie to entertaine the stroke of the fatall sisters who likewise complained in this manner Harken you louing Girles saide shee to you I speake that knowes what endles griefe disloyall and false loue br●●des inconstant mindes the thought whereof is so intollerable to my soule that it excéeds the torments of Danaus daughters that continually filles water into the bottomles tubs in hell Oh that my eares had neuer listned to ●●●fugered spéeches or neuer knowne what Courtly pleasures meant where beautie is a baite for euery lustfull eye but rather to haue liude a Countrie Lasse where swéete content is harboured and beauty shrowded vnder true humility then had not Floridon bereaued me of my swéet virginity nor had not this accu●sed hand committed this cruell murder but oh I féele my soule passing to Elizi●● shades where Crusas shadow and Didos Ghost hath their abiding thither doth my spirit flye to bee entertained amongst those vnhappy Ladies that vnconstant loue hath murdered thus Castria not béeing able to speake any longer gaue a verie grieuous sigh and so bad adue to the world But when the morninges sun had chast away the darksome night Floridō who little mistrusted the tragedy of the two sisters repayred to the chamber dore with a Consort of skillfull Musitians where their conspiring h●rmonye sounded to the walls and Floridons morninges salutations were spente in vayne for death so stopt the two Princes eares that no resound of thankes at all reanswered his wordes which caused Floridon to departe thinking them to be a sléepe and to returne with in an hower 〈◊〉 who with out any company came to the chamber dore where be a gain found all silent at which suspecting some further euent burst open the dore where being no sooner entred but he found the two Ladies w●ltring in purple ●ore which wofull spectackle presently so bereaued him of his wits that like a franticke man he raged vp and downe and in this maner bitterly complained Oh you immortal powers open the wrathfull gates of heauen in your Iustice punish me for my vnconstant loue hath murthered two of the brauest Ladies that euer nature framed reuiue swéet● Dames of Scythia heare m●e speake that 〈◊〉 the wofullest wretch that euer spake with tongue If Ghost may here be giuen for Ghost deare Ladies take my soule and liue or if my hart might dwell within your breasts this hand shal equally deuide it What are wordes vaine although my proffer cannot purchase life nor recouer your breathing spirits againe yet vengeaunce shall 〈◊〉 haue 〈◊〉 shall 〈◊〉 my fatall 〈◊〉 and here 〈…〉 bloody brest of soule ●hereby my vnhappie Ghost shall followe you throug● 〈◊〉 Tartar gulfes through burning lakes through the low 〈◊〉 shades of dreadfull Coffitus gape gape 〈◊〉 earth 〈◊〉 wombe make all our toombes together 〈◊〉 wofull lamentation being no sooner br●athed 〈◊〉 hys sorrowfull brest 〈◊〉 finished his dayes by the s●●●ke of that same accursed ●●●kin that was the bloody instrument of the two sisters deathes the which he found shall remayning in the remorceles hand of Castria Thus haue you heard most worthie Knight the true Tragedy of thrée of the goodliest personages that euer nature framed but now with dilligent eares listen to the vnfortunate discourse of mine owne miserie which in this vnhappy manner fell out For no sooner came the ●l●ing ●●●sicke of

in the fore●runt of the battell so aduenturously behaued them selues that they slew more Negars than a hundred of the brauest Knights in the Christian Armies At last Fortune intending to make saint Georges prowesse to shin● brighter than the rest singled out the Moroco King betwixt whom and the English Champion was a long dangerous fight But saint George so couragiouslye behaued him with his trustie sword that Almidor was constrained to yeeld 〈◊〉 his mercie The Armie of the Moores séeing their King taken prisoner presently would haue fled but that the Christians béeing the lighter of foote ouertooke them and made the greatest slaughter that euer hapned in Barberie Thus after the battell ended and the ioyfull sound of victorie rung through the Christian Armie the souldiers furnished themselues with the enemies spoyles and martched by saint Georges direction to the Cittie of Tripolie being then almost vnpeopled through the late slaughter In which Cittie after they had r●sted some few dayes and refreshed themselues with holsome food the English Champion in reuenge of his former proffered iniuries by the Moroco King gaue hys seuere sentence of death First hee commaunded a brazen cauldron to bee filled with boyling Lead and Brimstone then Almidor to be brought to the place of death by twelue of the Noblest Pieres in Barberie therein to be consumed flesh blood and bone which was duelie performed within seauen dayes following the brazen cauldron was erected by the appointment of saint George directlie in the middle of the chiefest Market place vnder which a mightie hot fire continually burned for the space of of eight and fortie houres whereby the boyling Lead and B●imstone seemed to sparckle like the fierie furnaces in hell and the heate to e●ceede the burning Ouen at Babilon Thus all thinges béeing no sooner prepared in a readines the Christian Champions present to behold the wofull spectakle but the condemned Black●more King came to the place of Execution in a shirt of the finest Indian silk his hands pinniond together with a chaine of gold his face couered with a Damske Scarfe his attendants chiefe conducters twelue Moroco Pieres clad in Sabl● gownes of Taffetie carring before him the whéele of fortune with the picture of a Usurper climbing vp with this Motto on his breast I will be king in spite of Fortune vpon the top of the whéele the picture of a Monarke vaunting with this Motto on his breast I am a King in spite of Fortune Lastly on the other side of the Wheele the picture or perfect image of a deposed Potentate falling with hys head downewards with this Motto on hys breast I haue beene a King so pleaseth Fortune which plainelie signified the chaunce of warre and the constancie of destenie hys guard was a thousand Christian souldiers holding fortune in disdaine after them attended a hundred of Moroco virgins in blacke ornaments their haire bounds vp with siluer wiers and couered with vales of black silke signifiing the sorrow of their countrie for the losse of their Soueraigne In this mournefull manner came the vnfortunate Almidor to the boyling C●ulderne which whē he beheld hys heart waxed cold and his tongue d●ueide of vtterance for a time yet at last he brake foorth into thes● earnest protestations proffering more for his life than the whole Kingdome of Barberie can performe Most mightie inuincible Champion of Christendome quoth he let my life be ransomed and thou sh●l● yearely receaue ten tunnes of ●ried gold a hundred inchs of wouen silke the which our Indian maides shall sit and spinne ●ith siluer whéeles a hundred Arguses of spices and ●efined suger shal be yearely paid thee by our Barberie 〈◊〉 a hundred waggons likewise richly laden wit● 〈◊〉 a●d Iasper stones which by our cunning Lapidisies ●hall 〈◊〉 yearelie chosen foorth and brought ●hee home to England ●o make that blessed countrie the richest land within the Dominions of Europe Likewise I will ●eliuer vp my Diadem with all my Princely dignities and in companie of these Moroco Lordes like bridled Horses drawe thée daylie in a siluer Charriot vp and downe the ser●led earth til death giues end to our liues Pilgrimage Therefore most admired Knight at Armes let these salt teares that trickle from the Conduits of my eyes obtaine one graunt of comfort at thy handes for on my bended knées I beg for life that neuer before this time did kneele to any mortallman Thou speakst in vaine replyed saint George it is not the treasures hidden in the déepest seas nor all the golden mines of rich America that can redéeme thy life thou knowest accursed Homicide thy wicked practises in the Egyptian Court where thou profferedst wrongfully to bereaue me of my life Likewise through thy treachery I end●red a long imprisonment in Persia where for seauen yeares I dranke the Channell water and suffizde my hunger with the breads of branne meale My foode the loathsome flesh of Rats and Mice and my resting place a dismall dungeon where neither sunne nor the chearefull light of heauen lent me comfort during my long continued misery For which inhumane dealing and proffered iniuries the h●auens inforceth mee to a spéedy reuenge which in this manner shall be accomplished Thou seest the Engine prepared for thy death this brazen Caldron fild with boyling lead and brimstone wherein thy cursed body shall be spéedily cast and boyled till thy detested limbs bee consumed to a watry s●bstance by this sparckling lickour therefore prepare thy selfe to entertaine the violent stroake of death and willingly byd all thy kingly dignities farewell But yet I let thée vnderstand that mercy harboreth in a Christians hart and where mercy dwels there faults are forgiuen vppon some humble penetence though thy trespasse deserues 〈◊〉 pitty but seuere punishment yet vpon these considerations I will graunt thée liberty of life First that thou wilt forsake thy false Gods Termagaunt Mahomet and Apollo which he but the vayne imaginations of man and beléeue in our true and euer liuing God vnder whose banner we Christians haue taken in hande this long warre Secondly thou shalt giue commandement that all thy barbarous Nations be christened in the faith of Christ Thirdly and lastly that thy thrée Kingdomes of Barbary Moroco India sweare true alleagance to all Christian Kings and neuer to beare Armes but in the true quarrell of Christ and his annoynted Nations These things duly obserued thy life shall be preserued and thy liberty obtayned otherwise looke for no mercy but a spéedy and most ●yr●ible death These wordes more displeased the vnchristian King of Morco than the sentence of his condemnation and in these briefe spéeches set downe his resolution Great Potentate of Europe replied Almidor by whose mightines fortune sits fettered in the chaines of power my golden Diadem and regall Scepter by constraint I must deliuer vp but before I forsake my countrie Gods I will indure a hundred deathes and before my conscience be reformed to a new faith the earth

therefore the gorgeous sunne shall loose his light by day the siluer Moone by night the skyes shall fall the earth shall sinke and euerie thing shall chaunge from his kinde and nature before I false●●e my faith or prooue disloyall to my beloued George attempt no more my Noble Lord to batter the fortresse of my good name with the Gunshot of your flatterie nor séeke to staine my honour with your lustfull desires What if my Lord and Husband proue disloyal and choose out other loues in forraine Lands yet will I proue as constant to him as did Penelope to her Vlisses and if it bee hys pleasure neuer to returne but spend hys dayes amongst straunge Ladies then wil I liue in single solitarines like to the Turtle Doue when shee hath lost her mate abandoning all companie or as the mournefull Swan that swimmes vppon Maeanders siluer streames where she recordes her dying tunes to raging bellowes so will I spend away my lingring dayes in griefe and die This resolution of the vertuous Ladie daunted so the Earle that he stoode like a sensles image gazing at the Sun not knowing how to replie but yet when they had daunced the third course he began a new to assault her vnspotted chastetie in these tearmes Why my deare mistresse haue you a heart more harde than Flint that the teares of my true loue can neuer molefie can you behold him plead for grace that hath beene s●de vnto by many worthie Dames I am a man that can commaund whole countries yet can I not command thy stubburne heart to yéeld Diuine Sabra if thou wilt graunt me loue and yéelde to my desier Ile haue thee clad in sliken Robes and damaske U●stures imbost with Indian Pearles and rich refined gold perfumed with Camphier Bisse and Syrrian swéet perfumes by day a hundred Uirgins like to Thetis tripping on the siluer sands shall euermore attend thy person by night a hundred Euenukes with their strained Instruments shall bring thy sences in a golden slumber If this suffizeth not thy swéet content I will prepare a sumptuous Charriot made of gold wherein thou shalt be drawne by Sable spotted Stéedes along the fieldes and gallant pastures adioyning to our Cittie walles wheras the Euening ayre shall breath a coolenes far more swéeter than Balme vpon thy cheekes and make thy beautie glister like the purple Pallace of Hiperion when he leaues Aurora blushing in her bed whereby the heauens and all the powers therein shall stand and woonder at thy beautie and quite forget theyr vsuall courses All this my deare diuine and daintie Mistresse is at thy commaund and more so that I may enioy thy loue and fauour which if I haue not I will discontentedly end my life in woodes and desert places Tygers and vntamed beasts shall be my chiefe companions These vaine promises and flattering inti●●●ents caused Sabra to blush with bashfulnes and to giue him this sharpe answere Thinke you my Lorde with golden 〈◊〉 to obtaine that precious Gem the which I will not loose for Europes treasurie henceeforth be silent in that enterpr●●e and neuer after this attempt to practise 〈◊〉 dishonour which if you doe I vowe by heauen to make it knowne to euery one within the Cittie and fill all places with rumors of thy wilfull lust A Troupe of modest maidens I will procure to haunt thée vp and downe the stréetes and woonder at thee like an Owle that neuer comes abroade but in the darkest nights this I am resolued to doe and so farewell Thus departed Sabra with a frowning countenance whereby the rest of the Ladies suspected that the Earle had attempted her dishonour by secret conference but they all assuredly knew that she was as farre from yéelding to hys desires as is the aged man to become young againe or the azurde firmament to be a place for siluaine beastes to inhabit In such like imaginations they spent awaie the day till the darke night caused them to breake off companie The Earle smothering his griefe vnder a smiling countenance till the Ladies were euerie one departed whome hee curteously caused his seruants to conduct homewards with Torch lightes because it began to be verie darke After their departure he accursed his owne Fortune and like a Lyon wanting foode raged vp and downe his Chamber filling euerie corner with bitter exclamations rending hys garments from his backe tearing his haire beating hys breast and vsing all the violence he could deuise against himselfe In this manner spent hee away the night suffering no sléepe to close the windowes of his body such a melancholy and extreame passion discontented his minde that he● purpose● to giue an end to hys sorrowes by some vntimelie death So when the morning appeared hee made hys repaire to an Orchard● where Sabra commonlie once a daie walked to take the Ayre The place was verie melancholy and farre from the noyse of people where after hee had spent some certaine time in exclaiming against the vnkindnes of Sabra he pulled his Poyniard from his backe prepared hys breast to entertaine the stroke of death but before the pretended Tragedie with his dagger hee ingrau●d these verses following vpon the barke of a walnut trée O hart more hard than bloody Tyger fell O eares more deafe than senceles troubled seas O cruell foe thy rigor doth excell For thee I dye thy anger to appease But time will come when thou shalt finde me slaine That thy repentance will increase thy payne I here ingraue my will and testament That my sad griefe thou mayst behold and see How that my wofull heart is torne and rent And gorg'd with blooddy blade for loue of thee Whome thou disdayndst as now the end doth try That thus distrest dost suffer me to dye Oh Gods of loue if so their anie be And you of loue that feeles the deadly payne Or Sabra thou that thus afflictest me Heare these my wordes which from my hart I straine Ere that my corpes be quite bereaud of breath Let me declare the cause of this my death You mountaine Nimphes which in the desarts raigne Cease off your chase from sauage beasts a while Prepare to see a hart opprest with paine Addresse your eares to heare my dolefull stile No strength nor Arte can worke me any weale Sith she vnkinde and Tyrantlike doth deale You Fayrie Nimphes of louers much adorde And gracious Damsels which in Eueninges faire Your Closets leaue with heauenlie beautie storde And on your shoulders spread your golden haire Record with me that Sabra is vnkinde Within whose breast remaines a bloody minde Yee sauage Beares in Caues and Dens that lie Remaine in peace if you my sorrowes heare And be not mooued at my miserie Though too extreame my passions doo appeare England farewell and Couentrie adue But Sabra heauen aboue still prosper you These verses béeing no sooner finished and ingrauen about the Barke of the Walnut trée but with a grisly looke and wrathfull countenance he lift vp hys hand