of his bread he would make conserue of chippings Out of boanes after the meate was eaten off bee would alchumize an oyle that he sold for a shilling a dramme His snot and spittle a hundred tymes he hath put oâ—e to hys Apothecarie for snowe water Any Spider he would temper to perect Mithridate His rheumatique eyes when he went in the winde or rose early in a morning dropt as coole allom water as you would request He was dame Niggardize sole heyre and executor A number of olde bookes had he eaten with the moathes and wormes now all daye would not hee studye a dodkin but picke those wormes and moathes out of his Librarie and of their mixture make a preseruatiue against the plague The licour out of his shooes he would wringâ— to make a sacred balsanâ—um against barrennes Spare we him a line or two looke backe to Iuliana who conflicted in hir thoughts about me verie debatefully aduentured to send a messenger to Doctour Zacharie in her name verie boldly to beg me of him and if shée might not beg me to buy me with what summes of monie so euer he would aske Zacharie iewishly and churlishly withstood both her sutes and sayde if there were no more Christians on the earth he would thrust his incision knife into his throate-boule immediatly Which replie she taking at his hands most despitefully thought to crosse him ouer the shins with as sorâ— an ouerwhart blow yet ere a moneth to an end The pope I knowe not whether at her intreatie or no within two dayes after fell sicke Doctor Zacharie was sent for to minister vnto him who séeing a little danger in his water gaue him a gentle confortatiue for the stomack and desired those néere about him to perswade his holynes to take some rest and hee doubted not but he would be forthwith well Who should receiue this mild phisicke of him but the concubine Iuliana his vtter enimie shée beeing not vnprouided of strong poison at that instant in the popes outward chamber so mingled it that when his grande sublimitie taster came so relish it he sunke downe starke dead on the pauement Herewith the pope cald Iuliana and askt her what strong concocted broth she had brought him She knéeled downe on her knées and sayd it was such as Zacharie the Iew had deliuered her with his owne hands and therefore if it misliked his holines she craued pardon The Pope without further sifting into the matter woulde haue had Zacharie and all Iewes in Rome put to death but shee hung about his knees with crocodile teares desired him the sentence might bee lenified and they bee all but banisht at most For doctor Zachary quoth she your ten times vngrateful phisition since notwithstanding his treacherous intent he hath much art and many soueraigne simples oiles gargarismes and sirups in his closet and house that may stand your mightines in stead I begge all his goods onely for your beatitudes preseruation and good This request at the first was seald with a kisse and the popes edict without delaye proclaimed throughout Rome namely that all fore-skinne clippers whether male or female belonging to the old Iuriâ— should depart and anoyde vpon payne of hanging within twentie dayes after the date thereof Iuliana two dayes before the proclamation came out sent her seruants to extend vppon Zacharies territoriâ—s his goods his mooueables his chattels and his seruants who perfourmed their commission to the vtmost title and left him not so much as master of an vrinall case or a candle boxe It was about sixe a clocke in the euening when those boot-halers entred into my chamber they rusht when I sate leaning on my elbow and my left hand vnder my side deuising what a kinde of death it might be to be let bloud till a man dye I cold to minde the assertion of some Philosophers who said the soule was nothing but bloud then thought I what a filthie thing were this if I should let my soule fall and breake his necke into a bason I had but a pimple rose with heate in that part of the veyne where they vse to pricke and I fearfully misdéemed it was my soule searching for passage Fie vppon it a mans breath to bee let out a backe-doore what a villanie it is To dye bleeding is all one as if a man should dye pissing Good drink makes good bloud so that pisse is nothing but bloud vnder age Seneca and Lucan were lobcockes to choose that death of all other a pigge or a hogge or anie edible brute beast a cooke or a butcher deales vpon dyes bléeding To dye with a pricke wherewith the faintest hearted woman vnder heauen would not be kild O God it is infamous In this meditation did they seaze vpon mee in my cloake they muffeld mee that no man might knowe mee nor I see which waye I was carried The first ground I toucht after I was out of Zacharies house was the Countesse Iulianaes chamber little did I surmise that fortune reserued mee to so faire a death I made no other reckoning all the while they had mee on their shoulders but that I was on horse-backe to heauen and carried to Church on a a béere excluded for euer for drinking anie more ale or béere Iuliana scornfully questiond them thus as if I had falne into her hands beyond expectation what proper apple-squire is this you bring so suspitiously into my chamber what hath he done or where had you him They aunswered likewise a farre of that in one of Zacharies chambers they found him close prisner and thought themselues guiltie of the breach of her Ladiships commaundement if they should haue left him behinde O quoth she ye loue to bee double diligent or thought peraduenture that I being a lone woman stood in néede of a loue Bring you me a princockes beardlesse boy I knowe not whence hee is nor whether he would to call my name in suspense I tell you you haue abused me and I can hardly brook it at your hands You should haue lead him to the Magistrate no commission receiued you of me but for his goods and his seruants They besought her to excuse their ouerwéening errour it procéeded from a zealous care of their duetie and no negligent default But why should not I coniecture the worst quoth shee I tell you troth I am halfe in a iealozie hee is some fantasticall amorous yonckster who to dishonor me hath hyr'd you to this stratagem It is a likely matter that such a man as Zacharie should make a prison of his house and deale in matters of state By your leaue sir gallantâ— vnder locke and key shal you stay with me till I haue enquirde further of you you shall be sifted thoroughly ere you and I part Goe maide show him to the further chamber at the ende of the gallerie that lookes into the garden you my trim pandars I pray garde him thether as you tooke paines to bring him hether When you haue
lyke an owle sitting on the top of this iuie on his bases were wrought all kinde of birdes as on the grounde wondering about him the word Ideo mirum quia monstrum his horses furniture was framed like a cart scattering whole sheaues of corne amongst hogs the word Liberalitas liberalitate perit On his shield a bée intangled in shéepes wooll the mot Frontis nulla fides The fourth that succéeded was a well proportioned knight in an armor imitating rust whose head piece was prefigured like flowers growing in a narrowe pot where they had not anie space to spread their roots or dispearse their florishing His bases embelisht with open armed handes scattering golde amongst trunchions the word Cura futuri est His horse was harnished with leaden chaines hauing the out-side guilt or at least saffrond in stead of guilt to decypher a holie or golden pretence of a couetous purpose the sentence Cani capilli mei compedes on his target he had a number of crawling wormes kept vnder by a blocke the faburthen Speramus lucent The fift was the forsaken knight whose helmet was crowned with nothing but cipresse and willow garlands ouer his armor he had on Himens nuptiall robe died in a duskie yelow and all to be defaced and discoloured with spots staines The enigma Nos quoque florimus as who shuld saie we haue bin in fashion his stead was adorned with orenge tawnie eies such as those haue that haue the yellowe iandies that make all things yellow they looke vpon with this briefe Qui inuident egent Those that enuie are hungrie The sixth was the knight of the stormes whose helmet was round moulded like the Moone and all his armour like waues whereon the shine of the Moone sleightly siluerd perfectly represented Moone-shine in the water his bases were the banks or shores that bounded in the streames The spoke was this Frustra pius as much to say as fruitles seruice On his shield he set forth a lion driuen from his praie by a donghill cocke The worde Non vi sed voce not by violence but by his voice The seuenth had lyke the gyants that sought to scale heauen in despight of Iupiter a mount ouerwhelming his head and whole bodie His bases out-layde with armes and legges which the skirts of that mountain left vncouered Under this did hee characterise a man desirous to climbe to the heauen of honour kept vnder with the mountaine of his princes command and yet had hée armes and legges exempted from the suppression of that mountaine The word Tu mihi criminis author alluding to his Princes commaund thou art the occasion of my imputed cowardise His horse was trapt in the earthie stringes of tree rootes which though their increase was stubbed downe to the grounde yet were they not vtterly deaded but hop'd for an after resurrection The worde Spe alor I hope for spring Uppon his shield hee bare a balâ— striken downe with a mans hand hat it might mount The worde Ferior vt efferar I suffer my selfe to bee contemned because I will climbe The eighth had all his armour tharoughout engrayled lyke a crabbed brierie hawthorne bush ouâ— of which notwithstanding sprung as a good Childe of an ill Father fragraunt Blossomes of delightfull Maye Flowers that made according to the nature of Maye a most odoriferous smell In middest of this his snowie curled top rounde wrapped together on the ascending of his creast sate a solitarie nightingale close encaged with a thorne at her breast hauing this mot in her mouth Luctus monumenta manebunt At the foote of this bush represented on his bases lay a number of blacke swolne Toades gasping for winde and Summer liu'de grashoppers gaping after deaw both which were choakt with excessiue drouth and for want of shade The word Non sine vulnere viresco I spring not without impediments alluding to the Toades and such lyke that earst laye sucking at his rootes but nowe were turnd out and neere choakt with drought His horse was suited in blacke sandie earth as adiacent to this bush which was here and there patched with short burnt grasse and as thicke inke dropped with toyling ants emets as euer it might crall who in the full of the summer moone ruddie garnished on his horses forehead hoorded vp theyr prouision of grain agaynst winter The word Victrix fortunae sapientia prouidence preuents misfortune On his shield he set forth the picture of death doing almes déeds to a number of poore desolate children The word Nemo alius explicat No other man takes pittie vpon vs. What his meaning was héerein I cannot imagine except death had done him and his brethren some greate good turne in ridding them of some vntoward parent or kinsman that woulde haue beene their confusion for else I cannot see howe death shoulde haue béene sayde to doe almes déedes except he had depriued them sodainly of their liues to deliuer them out of some further miserie which coulde not in anie wise hée because they were yet liuing The ninth was the infant knight who on his armour had ennameld a poore young infant put into a shippe without tackling masts furniture or any thing This weather beaten and ill apparelled shippe was shaddowed on his bases and the slender compasse of his body set forth the right picture of an infant The waues wherein the ship was tossed were fretted on his steads trappings so mouingly that euer as he offered to bounde or stirre they séemed to bounse and tosse and sparkle brine out of theyr hoarie siluer billowes Theyr mot Inopem me copia fecit as much to saie as the rich praye makes the théefe On his shielde hée expressed an olde Goate that made a young trée to wither onely with biting it The worde thereto Primo extinguor in aeuo I am frost-bitten ere I come out of the blade It were here too tedious to manifest all the discontented or amorous deuises y t were vsed in that turnament The shieldes onely of some few I wil touch to make short worke One bare for his impresse the eies of yong swallowes comming againe after they were pluckt out with this mot Et addit et addimit your beautie both bereaues and restores my sight Another a siren sâ—â—ling when the sea rageth and ships are ouerwhelmed including a cruell woman that laughs singes and scornes at her louers tears and the tempests of his despaire the word Cuncta pereunt all my labor is ill imploid A third being troubled with a curst a trecherous and wanton wanton wife vsed this similitude On his shild he caused to be limmed Pompeies ordinance for paracides as namely a man put into a sack with a cocke a serpent and an ape interpreting that his wife was a cocke for her crowing a serpent for her stinging and an ape for her unconstant wantonnesse with which ill qualities hee was so beset that thereby hee was throwen into a sea of grief The â—orde Extremum malonim mulier
of more power than God to strike me spéedily strike home strike deep send me to heauen with my husband Aie me it is the spoyl of my honor thou séekest in my soules troubled departure thou art seme deuill sent to tempt me Auoide from me sathan my soule is my sauiours to him I haue bequeathed it from him can no man take it Iesu Iesu spare mee vndefiled for thy sâ—ouse Iesu Iesu neuer faile those that put their trust in thée With that she fell in a sowne and her eies in their closing séemed to spaune forth in their outward sharpe corners new created séed pearle which the world before neuer set eie on Soone he rigorously reuiued her tolde her y t he had a charter aboue scripture she must yeld she should yeld sée who durst remoue her out of his hands Twixt life and death thus she faintly replied How thinkest thou is there a power aboue thy power if there be he is here present in punishment and on thée will take present punishment if thou persistest in thy enterprise In the tyme of securitie euerie man sinneth but when death substitutes one frend his special bayly to arrest another by infection and dispearseth his quiuer into ten thousand hands at once who is it but lookes about him A man that hath an vneuitable huge stone hanging only by a haire ouer his head which he lookes euerie Pater noster while to fall and pash him in péeces will not he be submissiuely sorrowfull for his transgressions refraine himselfe from the least thought of folly and purifie his spirit with contrition and penitence Gods hand like a huge stone hangs ineuitably ouer thy head what is the plague but death playing the prouost marshall to execute all those that wil not be called home by anie other meanes This my deare knights body is a quiuer of his arrowes which alreadie are shot into thée inuisible Euen as the age of goates is knowen by the knots on their hornes so think the anger of God apparantly visioned or showne vnto thée in the knitting of my browes A hundred haue I buried out of my house at all whose departures I haue béen present a hundreds infection is mixed with my breath loe now I breath vpon thée a hundred deaths come vpon thée Repent betimes imagine there is a hell though not a heauen that hell thy conscience is throughly acquainted with if thou hast murdred halfe so manie as thou vnblushingly braggest As Moecenas in the latter end of his dayes was seuen yeres without sléepe so these seuen wéekes haue I took no slumber any eyes haue kept continuall watch against the diuell my enemie death I deemed my frend frends flie from vs in aduersitie death the diuell al the ministring spirits of temptation are watching about thée to intrap thy soule by my abuse to eternall damnation It is thy soule only thou maist saue by sauing mine honor Death will haue thy bodie infallibly for breaking into my house that he had selected for his priuate habitation If thou euer camst of a woman or hop'st to be sau'd dy the séed of a woman spare a woman Deares oppressed with dogs when they cannot take soyle runne to men for succor to whom should women in their disconsolate and desperate estate run but to men like the Deare for succour and sanctuarie If thou bee a man thou wilt succour me but if thou be a dog a brute beast thou wilt spoile me defile me teare me either renounce Gods image or renounce the wicked minde that thou bearest These words might haue moou'd a compound hart of yron and adamant but in his hart they obtained no impression for he sitting in his chaire of state against the doore all the while that she pleaded leaning his ouerhanging gloomie ey-browes on the pommell of his vnsheathed sword hee neuer lookt vp or gaue her a word but when he perceiued shee expected his answere of grace or vtter perdition he start vp and took her currishly by the neck and askt her how long he should stay for her Ladiship Thou telst me quoth he of the plague and the heauie hand of God and thy hundred infected breaths in one I tel thée I haue cast the dice an hundred times for the galleyes in Spaine and yet still mist the ill chance Our order of casting is this If there bee a generall or captaine new come home from the warres hath some foure or fiue hundred crownes ouerplus of the kings in his hand his souldiors al paid he makes proclamation that whatsoeuer two resolute men will goe to dice for it and win the bridle or lose the saddle to such a place let them repaire and it shall be ready for them Thither go I finde another such néedie squire resident The dice runne I win he is vndone I winning haue the crownes he loosing is carried to the galleys This is our custome which a hundred times and more hath paid mee custome of crownes when the poore fellowes haue gone to Gehenna had course bread and whipping there all their life after Now thinkest thou that I who so oft haue escapd such a number of hellish dangers only depending on the turning of a few pricks can be scare-bugd with the plague what plague canst thou name worse than I haue hat whether diseases imprisonment pouertie banishment I haue past through them all My owne mother gaue I a box of the care to and brake her neck down a pair of stairs because she would not go in to a gentleman when I had her my sister I solde to an olde Leno to make his best of her anie kinswoman that I haue knew I shee were not a whore my selfe would make her one thou art a whore thou shalt bee a whore in spite of religion or precise ceremonies Therewith he flew vpon her and threatned her with his sword but it was not that he meant to wounde her with Hée graspt her by the iuorie throate and shooke her as a mastiffe would shake a yong beare swearing staring he would teare out her weâ— and if she refused Not content with that sauage constraint he slipt his sacriligious hand from her lilly lawne skinned necke and inscarfte it in her long siluer lockes which with strugling were vnrould Backward hee dragd her euen as a man backward would plucke a trée downe by the twigs and then like a traitor that is drawen to execution on a hurdle he traileth her vp and downe the chamber by those tender vntwisted braids and setting his barbarous foote on her bare snowie breast bad her yéeld or haue her wind stampt out She crid stamp stiflle me in my hair hang me vp by it on a beame and so let mee die rather than I shoulde go to heauen wyth a beame in my eie No quoth he nor stampt nor stifled nor hanged nor to heauen shalt thou go til I haue had my wil of thee thy busie armes in these silken fetters Ile infold
Disâ—â—issing her haire from his fingers and pinnioning her elbowes therwithal she strugled she wrested but al was in vain So strugling so resisting her iewels did sweate signifieng there was poison comming towards her On the hard boords hee threw her and vsed his knée as an yron ram to beate ope the two leaude gate of her chastitie Her husbands dead bodie he made a pillow to his abhomination Couiecture the rest my words sticke fast in the mire and are cleane tyred would I had neuer vndertooke this tragicall tale Whatsoeuer is borne is borne to haue end Thus endeth my tale his boorish lust was glutted his beastly desire satisfied what in the house of any worth was carriage-able he put vp and went his way Let not your sorow die you that haue read the proeme and narratioÌ„ of this elegiacal history Shew you haue quick wits in sharpe conceit of compassion A woman that hath viewd all her children sacrificed before her eies after the first was slaine wipt the sword with her apron to prepare it for the clenly murther of the second and so on forwarde till came to the empiercing of the seuentéenth of her loines will you not giue her great allowance of anguish This woman this matrone this forsaken Heraclide hauing buried fourtéene children in fiue dayes whose eyes she howlingly closed and caught many wrinckles with funerall kisses besides hauing her husband within a day after layd forth as a comfortlesse corse a carrionly blocke that could neither eate with her speak with her nor wéepe with her is she not to be borne withall though her bodie swells wyth a tympanie of teares though her speach be as impatient as vnhappy Hecubaes though her head raues and her braine doates Deuise with your selues that you sée a corse rising from his heirce after hee is carried to Church and such another suppose Heraclide to bee rising from the couch of enforced adulterie Her eyes were dimme her chéekes bloudlesse her breath smelt earthie her countenance was ghastly Up she rose after she was deflowred but loath she arose as a reprobate soule rising to the day of iudgement Looking on the tone side as she rose she spide her husbands bodie lying vnder her head Ah then she bewayled as Cephalus when hee had kild Procris vnwittingly or Oedipus when ignorant he had slaine his owne father and knowen his mother incestuously This was her subdued reasons discourse Haue I liu'd to make my husbands bodie the béere to carry me to hell had filthie pleasure no other pillowe to leane vpon but his spreaded limmes On thy flesh my fault shall bee imprinted at the day of resurrection O beauty the bait ordained to insnare the irreligious rich men are robd for theyr welth women are dishonested for being too faire No blessing is beautie but a curse curst bee the time that euer I was begotten curst be the time that my mother brought me forth to tempt The serpent in paradice did no more the serpent in paradice is damned sempiternally why should not I hold my selfe damned if predestinations opinions be true that am predestinate to this horrible abuse The hogge dieth presently if he loseth an eye with the hogge haue I wallowed in the myre I haue lost my eye of honestie it is cleane pluckt out with a strong hand of vnchastitie what remaineth but I dye Die I will though life be vnwilling no recompence is there for mee to redéeme my compelled offence but with a rigorous compelled death Husband Ile be thy wife in heauen let not thy pure deceasing spirite despise me when we méete because I am tyrannously polluted The diuell the belier of our fraylâ—ie and common accuser of mankinde cannot accuse me though he would of vnconstrained submitting If anie guilt be mine this is my fault that I did not deforme my face ere it shuld so impiously allure Hauing passioned thus a while she hastely ranne and lookt her selfe in her glasse to sée if her sinne were not written on her forhead with looking shee blusht though none lookt vpon her but her owne reflected image Then began she againe Heu quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu How hard is it not to bewray a mans fault by his forhead My selfe doo but behold my selfe and yet I blush then God beholding me shall not I bee ten tâ—â—es more ashamed The Angells shall hisse at mee the Saints and Martyrs flye from me yea God himselfe shall adde to the diuels damnation because he suffred such a wicked creature to come before him Agamemnon thou wert an infidell yet when thou wentst to the Troian warre thou leftst a Musitian at home with thy wife who by playing the foote Spondaeus tyll thy returne might kéepe her in chastitie My husband going to warre with the diuell and his enticements when hee surrendred left no musition with me but mourning and melancholy had he left anie as Aegistus kild Agamemnons musition ere he could be succesfull so surely would he haue béen kild ere this Aegistus surceased My distressed heart as the Hart when he looseth his hornes is astonied and sorrowfullie runneth to hide himselfe so bee thou afflicted and distressed hide thy selfe vnder the Almighties wings of mercie sue plead intreate grace is neuer denyed to them that aske It may be denied I may be a vessell ordained to dishonor The onely repeale we haue from Gods vndefinite chastisement is to chastise our selues in this world and so I will nought but death bee my pennance gracious and acceptable may it bee my hand and my knife shall manumâ—t me out of the horror of minde I endure Farewell life that hast lent me nothing but sorrow farewell sinne sowed flâ—sh that hast more weeds than flowers more woes than ioyes Point pierce edge enwyden I patiently affoord thée a sheath spurre foorth my soule to mount poast to heauen Iesu forgiue me Iesu receiue me So throughly stabd fell she downe and knockt her head against her husbands bodie wherewith hee not hauing béene ayred his full foure and twentie houres start as out of a dreame whiles I through a crannie of my vpper chamber vnséeled had beheld all this sad spectacle Awaking hee rubd his head too and fro and wyping his eyes with his hand began to looke about him Feeling some thing lye heauie on his breast he turnd it off and getting vpon his legges lighted a candle Heere beginneth my purgatorie For he good man comming into the hall with the candle and spying his wife wyth her haire about her eares defiled and massacred and his simple Zanie Capestrano run thorough tooke a halberde in hys hand and running from chamber to chamber to search who in his house was likely to doo it at length found me lying on my bed the doore lockt to me on the out-side and my rapier vnsâ—eathed on the windowe where with hee straight coniectured it was I. And calling the neighbours harde by sayd I had caused my selfe to bee lockt into my chamber
Iew contriued by a woman in reuenge of two women her selfe and her maid I haue told you or should tell you in what credit Diamante grew with her mistres Iuliana neuer dreamed but she was an authenticall maide she made her the chiefe of her bed chamber she appointed none but her to looke into me and serue me of such necessaries as I lacked You must suppose when wee met there was no small reioycing on either part much like the thrée Brothers that went thrée seuerall waâ—es to seeke their fortunes and at the yeres end at those thrée crosse waies met againe and told one another how they sped so alter we had béen long asunder séeking our fortunes wee con mented one to another most kindly what crosse haps â—ad encountred vs. Nere a six houres but the Countâ—sse cloyd mee with her companie It grew to this passe that either I must finde out some miraculous meanes of escape or drop away in a consumption as one pin'd for lacke of meate I was cleane spent and done there was no hope of me The yere held on his course to domes day when Saint Peters day dawned That day is a day of supreme solemnitie in in Rome when the Embassador of Spaine comes and presents a milke white iennet to the pope that knaeles downe vppon his owne accord in token of obeisaunce and humilitie before him and lets him stride on his backe as easte as one strides ouer a blocke with this iennet is offered a rich purse of a yard length full of Peter-pence No musique that hath the gift of vtterance but sounds all the while coapes and costly vestments decke the hoarsest and beggerliest singing man not a clarke or sexten is absent no nor a mule nor a foote-cloth belonging to anie cardinall but attends on the taile of the triumph The pope himselfe is borne in his pontificalibus thorough the Burgo which is the chéefe stréete in Rome to the Embassadors house to dinner and thether resorts all the assembly where if a Poet should spend all his life time in describing a banquet he could not feast his auditors halfe so wel with words as he doth his guests with iunkets To this feast Iuliana addressed her selfe like an Angell in a littour of gréene néedle-worke wrought like an arbor and open on euerie side was she borne by foure men hidden vnder cloth rough plushed and wouen like eglantine and wood-bine At the foure corners it was topt with foure round christall cages of Nightingales For foote men on either side of her went foure virgins clad in lawne with lutes in their hands playing Next before her two and two in order a hundred pages in sutes of white cipresse and long horse-mens coates of cloth of siluer who being all in white aduanced euery one of them her picture enclosed in a white round scréene of feathers such as is carried ouer great Princesses heads when they ride in summer to kéepe them from the heate of the sun Before theÌ„ went a foure-score head women she maintaind in gréene gownes scattring strowing hearbs and floures After her followed the blinde the halt and the lame sumptuously apparailed like Lords and thus past she on to Saint Peters Interea quid agitur domi how ist at home all this while My curtizan is left my kéeper the keyes are committed vnto her she is mistres fac totum Against our countesse we conspire packe vp all her iewels plate money that was extant and to the water side send them to conclude couragiously rob her and run away Quid non auri sacra fames What defame will not golde salue Hee mistooke himselfe that inuented the prouerbe Dimicandum est pro aris focis for it should haue béen pro auro fama not for altares and fires we must contend but for gold and fame Oares nor winde could not stirre nor blow faster than we â—oyld out of Tiber a number of â—ood fellowes would giue size are and the dice that with as little toyle they could leaue Tyburne behinde them Out of ken we were ere the Countesâ—e came from the feast When she returned and found her house not so much pestred as it was wont her chests her closets and her cupbords broke open to take aire and that both I and my kéeper was missing O then shee fared like a franticke Barchinall she stampt she star'd shee beate her head against the walls scratcht her face bit her fingers and strewd all the chamber with her haire None of her seruants durst stay in her â—â—ght but she beate them out in heapes and bad them goe séeke search they knew not where and hang themselues and neuer looke her in the face more if they did not hunt vs out After her furie had reasonably spent it selfe her breast began to swell with the mother caused by her former fretting chasing and she grew verie ill at ease Whereuppon shee knockt for one of her maids and bad her run into her closet and fetch her a little glasse that stood on the vpper shelfe wherein there was spiritus vini The maid went mistaking tooke the glasse of poyson which Diamante had giu'n her and she kept in store for me Comming with it as fast as her legs could carrie her her mistres at her returne was in a â—wound and lay for dead on the floore wherat she shrikt out and fel a rubbing chafing her very busily When that would not serue she tooke a keye and opened her mouth and hauing heard that spiritus vini was a thing of mightie operation able to call a man from death to life shee tooke the poyson and verely thinking it to be spiritus vini such as she was sent for powrd a large quantitie of it into her throate and iogd on her backe to disgest it It reuiu'd her with a merrie vengeance for it kilde her outright only she awakend and lift vp her hands but spake nere a word Then was the maid in her grandames beanes and knew not what should become of her I heard the Pope tooke pitie on her and because her trespasse was not voluntary but chance-medly he assigned her no other punishment but this to drinke out the rest of the poyson in the glasse that was left and so goe scot-frée We carelesse of these mischances helde on our flight and saw no man come after vs but we thought had pursued vs. A théefe they say mistakes euerie bush for a true man the winde ratled not in anie bush by the way as I rode but I straight drew my rapier To Bolognia with a merrie gale wee posted where wee lodged our selues in a blinde stréete out of the way and kept secret manie dayes but when we perceiued we saild in the hauen that the winde was layd and no alarum made after vs we boldly came abroad one day hearing of a more desperat murdrer than Cayn that was to be executed we followed the multitude and grutcht not to lend him our eyes at