as before they deemed them as a number of wolues vp in armes agaynst the shepheardes The Emperyalles themselues that were theyr executioners lyke a Father that wéepes when he beates his child yet still wéepes and still beates not without much ruth and sorrow prosecuted that lamentable massacre yet drumms and trumpets sounding nothing but stearne reuenge in their eares made them so eager that their hands had no leafure to aske counsell of theyr effeminate eyes theyr swords theyr pikes theyr bils their bows their caléeuers slew empierced knockt downe shot thorough and ouerthrew as many men euerie minute of the battell as there fals eares of corne before the sithe at one blowe yet all theyr weapons so slaying empiercing knocking downe shooting through ouerthrowing dissoule ioyned not halfe so many as the hailing thunder of their great ordenance so ordinary at euerie footstep was the imbrument of iron in bloud that one could hardly discerne heads from bullettes or clottered haire from mangled flesh hung with gore This tale must at one time or other giue vp the ghost and as good now as stay longer I would gladly rid my hands of it cleanly if I could tell how for what with talking of coblers tinkers râ—apemakers and botchers and durtdaubers the marke is cleane gone out of my muses mouth and I am as it were more than dunsified twixt diuinitie and poetrie What is there more as touching this tragedie that you would be resolued of saie quickly for now my pen is got vpon his féet again how I. Leiden dide is y t it he dide like a dog he was hanged and the halter paid for For his companions do they trouble you I can tel you they troubled some men before for they were all kild and none escapt no not so much as one to tel the tale of the rainbow Heare what it is to be Anabaptists to bée puritans to be villaines you may be counted illuminate botchers for a while but your end wil be Good people pray for me With the tragicall catastrophe of this munsterian conflict did I cashier the new vocation of my caualiership There was no more honorable wars in christendome then towards wherefore after I had learned to be halfe an houre in bidding a man boniure in germane sunonimas I trauelled along the cuntrie towards England as fast as I could What with wagons bare tentoes hauing attained to Middleborough good Lord sée the changing chances of vs knight arrant infants I met with the right honourable Lord Henrie Howard Earle of Surrey my late master Iesu I was yerswaded I sâ—oulde not be more glad to sée heauen than I was to sée him O it was a right noble Lord liberalitie it selfe if in this yron age there were anie such creature as liberality left on the earth a prince in content because a Poet without péere Destinie neuer defames her selfe but when she lets an excellent poet die if there bee anie sparke of Adams paradized perfection yet emberd vp in the breastes of mortall men certainely God hath bestowed that his perfectest image on poets None come so néere to God in wit none more contemne the world vatis auarus non temere est animus sayth Horace versus amat hoc studet vnum Seldom haue you séene anie Poet possessed with auarice onely verses he loues nothing else he delights in and as they contemne the world so contrarily of the mechanicall worlde are none more contemned Despised they are of the worlde because they are not of the world their thoughts are exalted aboue the worlde of ignorance and all earthly conceits As swéet angelicall queristers they are continually conuersant in the heauen of artes heauen it selfe is but the highest height of knowledge he that knowes himselfe all things else knowes the means to be happie happy thrice happie are they whome God hath doubled his spirite vppon and giuen a double soule vnto to be Poets My heroicall master excéeded in this supernaturall kinde of wit hee entertained no grosse earthly spirite of auarice nor weake womanly spirit of pusillanimity and feare that are fained to be of the water but admirable airie and firie spirites full of fréedome magnanimitie and bountihood Let me not speake anie more of his accomplishments for feare I spend al my spirits in praising him and leaue my selfe no vigor of wit or effectes of a soule to goe forward with my history Hauing thus met him I so much adored no interpleading was there of opposite occasions but backe I must returne and beare halfe stakes with him in the lotterie of trauell I was not altogether vnwilling to walke along with such a good purse-bearer yet musing what changeable humor had so sodainly seduced him from his natiue soyle to séeke out néedlesse perils in these parts beyond sea one night verie boldly I demaunded of him the reason that moued him thereto Ah quoth he my little Page full little canst thou perceiue howe faâ—re metamorphozed I am from my selfe since I last sawe thée There is a little God called Loue that will not bee worshipt of anie leaden braines one that proclaimes himselfe sole king and Emperour of pearcing eyes and chiefe soueraigne of softe heartes hée it is that exercising his empire in my eyes hath exorcized and cleane coniured me from my content Thou knowest stately Geraldine too stately I feare for me to doe homage to her statue or shrine she it is that is come out of Italy to bewitch all the wise men of England vpon Quéene Katherine Dowager shée waites that hath a dowrie of beautie sufficient to make her wooed of the greatest kings in christendome Her high exalted sunne beames haue set the phenix neast of my breast on fire and I my selfe haue brought Arabian spiceries of swéete passions and praises to furnish out the funerall flame of my folly Those who were condemned to be smoothered to death by sinking downe into the softe bottome of an high built bedde of roses neuer dide so swéete a death as I shoulde die if her rose coloured disdaine were my deaths-man Oh thrice emperiall Hampton court Cupids inchaunted castle the place where I first sawe the perfect omnipotence of the Almightie expressed in mortalitie tis thou alone that tithing all other men solace in thy pleasant scituation affoordest mée nothing but an excellent begotten sorrowe out of the chiefe treasurie of all thy recreations Deare Wilton vnderstand that there it was where I first set eie on my more than celestiall Geraldine Séeing her I admired her all the whole receptacle of my sight was vnhabited with her rare worth Long sute and vncessant protestations got me the grace to be entertained Did neuer vnlouing seruant so prentise like obey his neuer pleased mistres as I dyd her My lyfe my wealth my friendes had all theyr destinie depending on her command Uppon a time I was determined to trauell the fame of Italy and an especiall affection I had vnto Poetrie my second mistres for which Italy
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
the Elephant vnderstands his countrey speach so euerie beast vnderstood what men spoke The ant did not hoord vp against winter for there was no winter but a perpetuall spring as Ouid sayth No frosts to make the greene almond â—rée counted rash and improuident in budding soonest of all other or the mulberie trée a strange polititian in blooming late and ripening early The peach trée at the first planting was frutefull and wholesome wheras now til it be transplanted it is poysonous and hatefull Yong plants for their sap had balme for their yeolow gumme glistering amber The euening deawd not water on flowers but honnie Such a golden age such a good age such an honest age was set foorth in this banquetting house O Rome if thou hast in thée such soule-exalting obiects what a thing is heauen in comparison of thée of which Mercators globe is a perfecter modell than thou art Yet this I must say to the shame of vs Protestants if good workes may merit heauen they doo them we talke of them Whether superstition or no makes theÌ„ vnprofitable seruants that let pulpets decide but there you shall haue the brauest Ladies in gownes of beaten gold washing pilgrimes and poore souldiours féele and dooing nothing they and their wayting mayds all the yeare long but making shirts and bandes for them against they come by in distresse Their hospitalls are more like noble-mens houses than otherwise so richly furnished cleane kept and hot perfumed that a souldiour would thinke it a sufficient recompence for his trauell and his wounds to haue such a heauenly retyring place For the Pope and his pontificalibus I will not deale with onely I will dilate vnto you what hapned whiles I was in Rome So it fell out thaâ— it being a vehement hot summer when I was a soiourner there there entred such a hotspurd plague as hath not béen heard of way it was but a word and a blow Lord haue mercie vpon vs and he was gone Within three quarters of a yere in that one citie there dyed of it a hundred thousand Looke in Lanquets Chronicle and you shall finde it To smell of a nosegay that was poysond and turne your nose to a house that had the plague it was all one The clouds like a number of cormorants that kéepe their corne till it stinke and is mustie kept in their stinking exhalations till they had almost stifled all Romes inhabitants Phisitions gréedines of golde made them gréedie of their destinie They would come to visite those with whose infirmities their arte had no affinitie and euen as a man with a fée should bee hyred to hang himselfe so would they quietly goe home and dye presently after they had béen with their patients All day and all night long carre-men did nothing but goe vp and downe the streetes with their carts and crye Haue you anie dead to burie haue you anie dead to burie and had manie times out of one house their whole loading one graue was the sepulcher of seuen-score one bed was the altar whereon whole families were offered The wals were hoard and furd with the moist scorching steam of their desolation Euen as before a gun is shot off a stinking smoake funnels out and prepares the waie for him so before anie gaue vp the ghost death araied in a stinking smoke stopt his nostrils and cramd it selfe full into his mouth that closed vp â—is fellowes eyes to giue him warning to prepare for his funeral Some dide sitting at their meate others as they were asking counsell of the phisition for their friendes I saw at the house where I was hosted a maide bring her master warme broth for to comfort him and she sinke downe dead her self ere he had halfe eate it vp During this time of visitation there was a Spaniard one Esdras of Granado a notable Bandetto authorized by y e pope because he assisted him in some murthers This villain colleagued with one Bartol a desperate Italian practised to breake into those rich mens houses in the night where the plague had most rained and if there were none but the mistres â—nd maid left aliue to rauish them both and bring awaie all the wealth they could fasten on In a hundred chief citizens houses where the hand of God had bin they put this outrage in vre Thogh the women so rauished cride out none duâ—st come nere them for feare of catching their deaths by them some thought they cried out onely with the tyrannie of the maladie Amongst the rest the house where I lay he inuaded where all being snatcht vp by the sicknesse but the good wife of the house a noble and chast matrone called Heraclide and her Zanie and I my curtizan he knocking at the dore late in the night ranne uâ—to the matrone left me and my loue to the mercie of his companion Who finding me in bed as the time requird ranne at me full with his rapier thinking I would resist him but as good lucke was I escapt him betooke me to my pistoll in the window vncharged He fearing it had bene charged threatned to run her through if I once offered but to aime at him Foorth y e chamber he dragd her holding his rapier at hir hart whilest I stil crid out Saue her kil me Ile ransome her with a thousand duckets but lust preuailed no praiers would be heard Into my chamber I was lockt and watchmen charged as he made semblance when there was none there to knocke mee downe with theit halberdes if I stirde but a foote downe the staires So threw I my selfe pensiue againe on my pallat and dard all the deuils in hell now I was alone to come and fight with me one after another in defence of that detestable rape I beat my head against the wals and cald them baâ—ds because they wold see such a wrong committed and not fall vpon him To returne to Heraclide below whom the vgliest of all bloud suckers Esdras of Granado had vnder shrift First he assayled her with rough meanes and slew her Zanie at her foote that slept before her in rescue Then when al armed resist was put to flight he assaied her with honie spéech promised her more iewells and giftes than hee was able to pilfer in an hundred yeres after He discouâ—st vnto her how he was countenanced and borne out by the pope and how many execrable murthers with impunitie he had executed on them that displeasde him This is the eight score house quoth he that hath done homage vnto me and here I will preuaile or I will bee torne in pieces Ah quoth Heraclide with a hart renting sigh art thou ordaind to be a worse plague to me that y e plague it selfe Haue I escapt the hands of God to fal into the hands of man Heare me Iehouah be merciful in ending my miserie Dispatch me incontinent dissolute homicide deaths vsurper Here lies my husband stone colde on the dewie floore If thou béest
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