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A08441	The heroicall aduentures of the knight of the sea comprised in the most famous and renowned historie of the illustrious & excellently accomplished Prince Oceander, grand-sonne to the mightie and magnanimous Claranax, Emperour of Constantinople, and the Empresse Basilia; and sonne vnto the incomparable Olbiocles Prince of Grecia, by the beautious Princesse Almidiana, daughter vnto the puissant King Rubaldo of Hungaria. Wherin is described ... his owne losse, strange preseruing, education, and fostering (by Kanyra Q. of Carthage) his knighthood, admirable exploytes, and vnmatchable atchieuementes, graced with the most glorious conquestes ouer knights, gyants, monsters, enchauntments, realmes, and dominions; with his ... combating, affecting, and pursuites in his loue towardes the rarely embellished princesse and lady-knight Phianora, daughter vnto the inuinicible Argamont King of England, by the gracious Princesse Clarecinda.		1600 (1600)	STC 18763; ESTC S110204	176,990	254

such diligence tended his hurtes as greater could not be expected at the hands of the best Chirurgion in the world But yet for al her applying of medicines and doing whatsoeuer other necessaries about him he continued still in a dead swoune so as the poore Damzell doubtfull of his reuiuing most wofully despaired of his happie recouerie and for verie griefe to thinke on his wofull disaster she remained in a quandarie almost in a maner besides her selfe But to the ende you may the better vnderstand the occasion of this Damzels affection I will briefly relate vnto you from the beginning the cause of her louing him This Damzels father being called Acconumbo hauing spent his youthfull yeares in following of knightly aduentures in his older age Acc●●u●bo a wicked gouernour kept his abiding in a certaine castell in the round Iland which he held as his patrimonie Now he being a verie cruell man and of a most seuere nature not contented onely to taxe and rate his loyall subiectes but also at most base prices would deliuer vp the liues of his people into the hāds of their enemies which the cheifest men of the Iland seeing by no meanes they could remedie consulted togither to bereaue Acconumbo of his gouernment amongst whom this knight of the Tygre called Troglador was one of the chiefest who by his professed loue to the yong Damzell Allua for so was this Damzell called obtained means to enter into Acconumbos Castell Allua for T●●glado●s ●●ue be ●a●●●● her fa●her Acconu●bo where he got her entised by his faire loues promises with her owne handes to helpe strangle her distressed father who in the pangues of death on this wise exclaimed agaynst her beastlike crueltie Acconumbos curse Vnnaturall not my begotten daughter Some hellish hagge hath mee with thee beguild● Harde is thy heart for to commit this slaughter More fit for sauage beastes Tygres wilde Yet scarcely shall wee see their pawes defil'de Or iawes beraide with murdered parentes goare And yet wilt thou prooue so vnkinde a childe To him who thee hath nourished of yoare Thinke heauens at last will plague thee for this ill And damne thy soule to euerlasting fire Inhumane then refraine thy wicked will T is not a petty sinne to slay thy Syre But if thoul ' needs performe this wicked acte And fathers cryes can not thy anger swage Beare to thy graue with terror of thy facte The cruell curse of my declyning age If heauens be iust account hereof withall By him thou louest best thy life shall fall But nothing relenting at her fathers wordes this hard hearted Damzell proceeded in her enterprize which being performed Acconūbo ●●rangled and Acconumbo now by her vnnaturall means depriued both of his life and dignitie she curtezanlike fawned vpon succeeding Troglador who being a knight of no lesse beauty wisdome then fortitude magnanimity was chosen as Gouernour vnto the liberties of the Round Iland wherein established he kept aloufe from the Damzels loue and made a may-game at poore Alluas affections Trogladorcasteth Allua off and setting his fauour on an higher Phoenix thought by force of armes as you haue heard to bereaue in his folish brauery the Prince Olbiocles of his new married bride Thus was poore distressed Allua had in contempt by him she most affected yet was her loue so exceeding towards him as all the while he remained in his amazement she did nothing but weepe sigh groane wring her hands wherew t tearing her haire frō her head she would blame her ha● lamēt her misfortune curse the time that euer she was borne vnto such misery Oh vnfortunate wretch that I am said she how am I able once to lift vp my eyes vnto the heauens True lo●e n●●er 〈◊〉 the greate● danger who haue most iustly made me thus miserable since both my wickednesse is so exceeding as it can not be pardoned and my misfortunes so extreames they may in no wise be remedied Haplesse woman that I am woe worth the hower wherin first I breathen for euen from my infancy haue bin nourished vnto mishap tended vp vnder an vnlucky planet to be the only anatomy of hate wretchednesse O my deare heart loue Troglador why doe my wofull eyes endure to beholde thy faire sweete body thus massacred and thy manly limbes so cruelly mangled I would I had beene harmed for thee so that thou wouldest haue pittied mee I would I had beene wounded for thee so my trickling bloud might haue mollified thy heart to haue taken compassion on mee At these last words Allua shed such abundance of teares as her sight thereby failing she fell in a swoune at the side of Troglador but by the dwarfes diligence being recouered she prepared her selfe to her second lamentation but perceiuing the knight of the Tigre begin to open his eyes Troglador waketh out his swoune she ran vnto him to imbrace him comfort his drooping senses but hee maruailing how he came thither remembring himselfe of the battaile had with Olbiocles knowing by his receiued woūds that he had suffered the wracke of his honour verily supposing that the Damzell was cause of his disparagement he fiercely rose out of his bed which seemed to blush with the bleeding of his woundes and taking his Semiter in his hand he came vnto the trembling Damzell renting her vp and downe the cabbin wherein hee lay hee tare of all her golden haire from her swollen head He cruelly murthereth Allua beating bouncing her with his fists kicking her with his feete remorselesse at her cryes obdurate vnto her clamors at length thinking therein to prooue the more cruell vnto her he cast her into the ship-boate and binding her hande and foote with his dagger he nayled her to the ribs thereof dipping his finger in her blood he wrote these horrible verses for her Epitaph The loue the father bare the childe Condemn'd forsaken scorn'd Conuerted vnto curses vilde Impietie against pa●ēts neuer passeth vnpunished This wicked wretch forlom'd Whose foolish fansie frenzie-like Fell furie did compell To seeke her death at champions hands Whose soule condemn'd to hell Couets with nought but vgly bands Of hideous fiends to dwell Where hundred tongues can scarcely halfe Her suffred torments tell And a little vnderneath to the Spectator If hatefull horror may Thy harmelesse heart affray Bewaile this heauie sight With s●d and sorrowing sprite Contrarie vnto him That did commit this sinne Whose heart shall neare repent The c●us● of 〈◊〉 torment W●●●●ickednesse was such To father and to mee As torture none too much For her I thinke to bee Hauing written these inscriptions on the side of the boat he cut the cable wherwith to the ship it was fastned letting the same go at rādon he returned towards his cabbin againe where finding Toydell the dwarfe crept behind a fardell of marchandize halfe dead for feare to saue himself from Trogladors furie he dragd

arme with the battered shielde of Oceander and Phianora resuming her trustie Courtleaxe keene Calibine they descended backe againe into the Castle court where on the pauements they founde foureteene of Ortolomorgantels seruants Submission of the rest of Ortolomorgantels seruants with their weapons scattered hempen haulters about their naked necks whose endes deliuering into the hands of the Princes they trembling● expected that doubtfull answers of their liues or deaths With whose humble submissions their tender hearts were soone moued to compassion therefore vncasing their neckes of such vnkinde collers the Prince Olbiocles in this sort pronounced the sweete sentence of their safeties Olbiocles oration to them Well wote I well wote I poore Paganized soules that not only against your consciences you became the false adorers of Mahomet but also against your wils you were enforced for feare of death to bee the cruell keepers and as I feare killers of the most beautiful Princesses of Christendome Wherefore wee heere mercifully pardon you and forgiue your offences for onely as instruments you serued to satisfie the insatiate minde of your bloud-thirstie master whose soule by this time hath participated with such malefactors the endlesse torments of neuer to be extinguished fire and brimstone In regard of whose sorrowes wee charge you to discharge your soules of all such wickednesse as makes you to incurre hels wretchednesse where that monster to mankinde lurking Leuiathan raignes in his euer damned royaltie Repent therefore deare brethren and relinquishing all further remembrance of your long retained false Alcheronticke Acharonticke religion submissiuelie vnfainedly in your soules subscribe vnto the suspectlesse supremacie of our deare Sauiour Christ Iesus whose pretious bloud hath bought you and whose fatherly patience hath preserued your soules as I hope from the gaping gulfe of Gehenna whose tushes are vnable to touch you and whose roaring throate shall neuer swallow your soules if by your vnfained repentance you obtaine your sinnes remission at the hands of your righteous Redeemer who though we pardon your bodies can to your soules adde infinitie of euerlasting torments Speake therefore and that truely whither aliue or dead our worthy mistresses are remaining within your custodies These wordes they willingly answered that of all the faire Ladies of Grecia Only Almidiana Eristama aliue of all the Grecian Ladies onele but two of them were liuing whose vertues were vnspeakeable and whose beauties were far more brightsome then the eye-bedimming sunbeames named as with teares they often tould them the vnhappie daughters of the two most happy kinges of Fraunce and Hungary and therewithall one of the slaues ranne speedilie vnto their loathsome lodgings to fetch them whome hee knewe he should make happie bp the two Christian knights reknowledgement If the good prince Olbiocles were exceedingly reioyced with the tidings of his true-loues happy health A ioyful meeting of Olbiocles and Almidiana it is not to be wondered at since his newly coceiued ioyes then were but as shadowes to following substance of his soueraigne gladnesse receiued by the sodaine approach of his sweetest spouse Almidiana whose entertainementes bredde such astonishment in the hearts of the amazed beholders as euen the veriest butcherliest Barbarian thought his heart for ioy of their kinde embracements would leape out of the mansionized concaue of his breast and in conceipt being rapt into the court of heauen hee clearely commemorized the pleasing daliance of greate Saturnes sonne with his sweete Semele enwrapped within the misty mantles of the crime-cōcealing cloudes so heauenly and happy were the sweete imbraces of the regreeted louers who in a moment Viewed embraced kist Sense failed falled swounded Relieued yer they wist That so they had beene grounded But to bee briefe their louing encounter being ended they all togither kindly embraced each other and on their knees rendring most hearty thanks to the Almightiest for such their fortunate remeeting after so many multitudes of mischieuous miseries they pased into the Castle hall Where causing themselues to be vnarmed they were presented by the Princesse Eristama Eristama who was not a little glad that the worthy knight of the golden shield by vnlacing his helmet had discouered himselfe to bee a Ladie with a most ritch basen and Ewer of massy Siluer whereon were cunningly engraued the victories of Ortolomorgantels auncestours Wherewith the faire Princesse of England bathing her bloudie and bolne face all ouer Phianora feeleth her selfe ill at ease founde herselfe somewhat fainte by reason of a sodaine chilnesse which assaulted her sweating temples whereby in a great distemperature shee was conducted into a costly chamber Where wrapping her in warme mantles they somewhat refreshed her feeble senses which notwithstanding coulde not that night be so throughly recomforted as that with ioyfull heartes they could betake themselues either to their repast or repose So soone notwithstanding as the Celestiall waggoner had in a franticke fury forsaken the watry lappe of his welbeloued Goddesse Thetis and issuing out at the latticed portals of the easterne Ocean had swiftly followed the flying darkenesse which with sable winges had tane her speedy iourney to the westerne India the worthy Phianora was wholy recouered of her sicknesse and with infinite incitements They embarque for Grece so well preuailed with her companions as they al cōsented that morning to take shipping Which their determination in such a happy hower they performed as their sailes full filled with a gentle gale of winde they in great safety and with no lesse speede furrowed ouer the azury face of the midland sea towardes the Iland of the good ould hermit Calander of whose habitation before hath bin declared At whose sandy shoares by that time that Triton the trumpetter of the seagods They arriue at the Round Iland had eleauen times shrilly sounded the Hunts vp on his shelly Shackbut they pleasantly approached Where what was their entertainement by the good ould father welcome vnto his solitary Cell or entercoursings with him about more then most straunge accidents I will not at this time tediously treate of only let this suffice Eget qui cupit qui non cupit habet that they were so well contented with his kindenesse and so well pleased with his plainenesse as for the space of fiue daies they continually conuersed in his company repairing from their shippes to his Cel and from his Cell backe againe euery morning euening Content a kingdome is as duely and with as great delighte as if they had pased to the pleasure-abounding Pallaces of the most mightyest monarche in Europe But Remembrāce of the Parents cannot be easily rooted out of the mindes of the childrē as the Fawne cannot bee alwaies weaned frum the company of the Damme so these faire ofsprings of most famous parents could not now any longer remaine absent from their deare father whose death they feared would if it had not already depriue them yer long of all earthly comfort And therefore

THE HEROICALL ADVENTVRES OF THE KNIGHT OF THE SEA COMPRISED IN THE MOST FAmous and renowned Historie of the Illustrious Excellently accomplished Prince OCEANDER Grand-sonne to the mightie and Magnanimous CLARANAX Emperour of Constantinople and the Empresse Basilia and sonne vnto the incomparable Olbiocles Prince of Grecia by the beautious Princesse Almidiana daughter vnto the puissant King Rubaldo of Hungaria WHERIN IS DESCRIBED HIS PArents misfortunes and captiuities his owne losse strange preseruing education and fostering by Kanyra Q. of Carthage his Knighthood admirable exploytes and vnmatchable atchieuementes graced with the most glorious conquestes ouer Knights Gyants Monsters Enchauntments Realmes and Dominions with his fortunate comming to the knowledge of his Parents in the greatest extreamitie of their captiuitie his combating affecting and pursuites in his loue towardes the rarely embellished Princesse and Lady-knight Phianora daughter vnto the inuincible Argamont King of England by the gracious Princesse Clarecinda AT LONDON ¶ Printed for William Leake 1600. Fauourable Readers whosoeuer IN the exposing of this Historie vnto you I thought it best to deale with you after the manner of that puissant Kinge of the Lacedemonians Agesilaus who being chosen according to the custome at such friendly meetings by drawing of lottes the maister of the banquet whose office was to prescribe how much each guest should drinke and being asked of his Sellerer how much wine he should set before each of them If there be store saith hee giue euery one as much as he requireth if there be but little diuide it equally amongst them to the ende there should neither be want of wine nor any man enforced to drinke more then hee thought sufficiently conuenient So I tracing his steps herein wish no man to spend his pretious time in reading this my historie any longer then it standeth with his owne liking neyther will I discourage any one that taketh liking therof frō the cōtinuall reading promising to him that desireth most inough and leauing to them that at the most esteeme the least for inough leaue inough to vse therein their owne discretions As for those who hauing once perused the same and are desirous once more to renewe some especiall matters as also for thē whose waightier affaires will not lend leasure to the reading of so long an Historie I haue set downe my Chapters so as some of them are almost full histories at least amongst other straunge aduentures containe sundry Tragicall and lamentable relations The names wherof you may finde in the table What faultes are eyther committed for want of good heede in the writing or haste in the reviewing it resteth in thy patience to pardon it if in the historie it selfe it remaineth to my power to perfect it Which till my leasure shall giue me better leaue to performe I leaue you to the perusing of what already is proposed The Table of the Chapters HOw after great warrs the Emperours sonne of Constantinonople was espoused to the beautious Princesse of Hungarie how Olbiocles combated the Knight of the Tigre who wrongfully challenged the espoused Princesse for his ladie and by what meanes the knight of the Tigre escaped death Chap. 1. The extreame crueltie the Knight of the tigre inflicted on Allua the Damosell of the Round-Iland how he caused the Dwarfe Toydell to cast himselfe headlong into the Sea Chap. 2. How the Princesse Almidiana in the absence of her husbād the prince Olbiocles was surprised with the princesse Eristama and all her Ladies by the sterne Gyant Ortolomorgantell And how the princesse Almidiana was deliuered of a most beautifull infant and to what exigents she was driuen to saue it from destruction Chap. 3. How Olbiocles Alfortio and Orthisius with other Knightes put themselues in enquest after the Gyant Ortolomorgantell to rescue the enthralled Princesses and how Olbiocles arriued on the Ilande of Acconumbo where in reuenge of the damose● Alluas death he fought with Treglador the knight of the Tigre And of the exceeding ioy the Queene of Carthage made for the young sea-borne babe her brother Artimagus sēt vnto her Chap. 4. How after Orthisius and Alphortio had put themselues to sea they arriued at the Isle of Sycily where they encountred with a strange aduēture of Oezima the dutchesse of Siracusa whome they deliuered from the terror of death to which she was betrayed by the treacherous dealing of her wicked Aunt Atryelph who by the cōsent of the Cittizens was put to a most cruell death Chap. 5. How Oceander excited by the lamentable discourse of his foster-mother the Carthaginiā Queene Kanyra vndertooke to reuenge the deathes of her husband Asdrey and her son Sygandez on the tyrant Marcymodez And how he valiantly assaulted and slewe the Duke of Thaebes yōger brother to Marcimodez and hung his carcasse ouer the walles of the castle Carzar to the terrour of his enimies Chap 6. How the Gentleman of the sea attempted the aduēture of the enchaūted shield which he atchieued And how he was presented by a Dwarfe with a most gorgeous coate-armour frō the wise Artimagus in the which he receiued the order of knighthood of Marcimodes whose nephew Nigrasto he combated for whose death hee left all the campe in an vproare Chap. 7. Of the knight of the Tigres arriuall at the Hermit Calander his Cell and the comfort the ould father yeelded him by the relating of his owne misfortunes Howbeit Troglador enraged with the remembrance of his cōmitted wickednesse with his owne hands ended his life in the Hermits groue And how Olbiocles finding him dead deliuered his bodie vnto Calander to be buried Of whom hee receiued straunge directions cōcerning his enquest Chap. 8. The assault of Marcimodes against the Castle of the Queene Kanyra of the cruell combate betwixt him the knight of the sea and how by Marcimodez treason hee was caught captiue and was redeemed by the valour of the straunge Knight of the Fiue swords by whose aideance Oceander slewe Marcimodez and discomfited his whole armie Chap. 9. How Oceander departed frō Carthage with Medion knight of the fiue swords to the enchaunted Castle of Bryarostez where he conquered the Gyant and dissolued the inchauntment of the Sorceresse Mardegua whereby hee recouered the valiaunt prince Ptoladine to his senses and finished the aduenture of the Fountaine c. Chap. 10. How the princes of Fraunce and Spaine arriued at the kingdome of Volcania where they combated the vsurper Terindantes who perceiuing he should be vanquished murthered the imprisoned Queene Mabina and desperately throwing himselfe headlong from the Tower of the palace being not altogether dead was afterwardes put to a most cruell torture Chap. 11 How the knight of the Sea accōpanied with Briarostez and Medion in the way as they trauailed to the fiery caue of the Egyptian princesse Cyafa encountred with xi Knightes who would haue forced a Lady whome they ouerthrewe And how Oceander freed the Infant of Egypt from her fierie prison and entred combate with the Graund

of Carthage he presētly leaped into one of them Cōflict betwixt the Pyrate Tolurnio Ortolomorgātoll and smiting all those that hee mette vnder his feete hee met with Tolurnio who resisting the Gyants rage was occasion that betweene them two there grew a most bitter bickering which no doubt has beene daungerous vnto both of them had not the darke secrecy of the silent night come sodainly stealing vpon them whereby being vnable any longer to continue combat they were inforced to vngrapple their Barques and cease off the conflict But now returne wee to our prisoners No sooner was the conflict begonne betweene this mercilesse Giant and the menacing pirats but that the Princesses Almidiana and Eristama recouered their senses and reuiuing out of that their long continued traunce they fell most wofully to bewailing of their miseries Eristama wonderfully for death of her brother Orthisius But Almidiana more grieuously both for the losse of the Prince of Fraunce as also for the vnlucky absence of her deare husbande Olbiocles thus lamented Ah deare and loyall husband Olbiocles how exceedingly will thou grieue when thou shalt heare of my captiuitie And how bitter wil be thy anguish Almidianas lamētation when thou shalt know of my miseries Little wilt thou brooke with patience my penury and lightly thou wilt not sorrow at my mishappes but wilt fret with anger to be partaker of my mischiefes Dangerously thou wilt aduenter for my releasement but in thy attemptes God shield thee from the author of my euill who worse then a deuil True loue desireth no copartner in misery houldeth forth horror and hazard to destroy venture not sweete Prince endaunger not thy selfe so much for my sake deare Olbiocles But since my destinie declines to dire destruction and that necessarily I must abide in this thraldome cheare vp thy heart deare husband and let this one thing suffice to comfort thee That as I liued so I will die none but thy deare and loyall Almidiana On this maner did the distressed Princesse both lament and comfort her disconsolate thoughts vntill such time as enforced by her griefe the time of her lying downe appreched and for griefe of her heauie burthen giuing great shriekes and gromes the Marriners mooued by her distresse vnto compassion and the rather because they had beene Christians geue her Ladies leaue to conuey her downe into ●inner cabbinet her painfull throwes comming vpon hereafter grieuous torment suffered she was within a while deliuerer of a most goodly infant whose beautie causing her greater sorrow ●nfo●ced her ●ongue on this sort to lament the childes mis ortune Ah deare Infant in what vnhappie time I haue trauelled in childbed with thee the Gods doe know and thou art vnable to acknowledge but what great miseries after this lucklesse tinte of thy birth thou art like to suffer thy selfe I feare shalt too exceedingly feele whilest I thy vnhappy mother shall grieue at thy misfortune Herewithall she kissed the childe and with the teares falling from her eyes weeping most extreamely in the excesse of her passions she was thus comforted by the Princesse Eristama Eristama comforteth her Doubt not deare Madame of your poore Infants happinesse neither affright your selfe concerning his future fortunes Heauen no doubt hath not blessed you with an husband that you shoulde die in thraldome neither graced this Infant with a Prince to his father to the ende hee should suffer the wracke of his happinesse What though at this time you continue a captiue to the tyrannie of your fierce enemie Ortolomorgantell yet you ought to be patient and although your childe bee borne in this time of disaster will you therefore torment your selfe Nay rather thanke the Almightie who shewed you such fauour in your distresse and become not impatient by your miseryes but haue a firme hope that hee the God of heauen who hath blessed you with such an ofspring will daigne in his mercye to prouide for all following casualties The distressed Princesse Almidiana was somewhat recomforted by the good aduice of Eristama wherefore she cleared vp her cloudie browes and with a more mild fare according as her sorrow would suffer her looking vpon the infant he seemed to her thinking to smile vpon her Wherewith she said God grant my sweete childe that after a sūshine there come not a cloudie tempest Herewith they heard some knocking at the doore of the cabbinet who reported vnto the Princesse the successe of the fight and how he thought that very speedilie the conquest between Tolornio Ortolomorgantel would be finished which strake the Ladies to the heart but knowing they had no remedie but pacience they remained quiet consulting by what meanes they might saue the harmlesse Infant from the furie of this diuelish monster But alas The Ladies deuise for the childs safety what should they doe On what should they so in vaine consult Two wayes onely there was both doubtfull either of life or death If they should keepe him still who coulde tell whether Ortolomorgantell would saue him or offer him according to his wicked custome vp on the aultar of his heathenish God Metrath Agorah Or if peraduenture he did decline from his diuelish custome and saue his innocent bloud yet it was too manifest that hee should for euermore continue a most wretched captiue where if he had not what was sufficient to maintaine him hee was like enough eyther by colde or hunger to suffer daunger What then should be done This one way wrought assured mischiefe and the other brought as mickle daunger For if they should commit him to the mercie of the Ocean who knowes not that the Seas are senslesse and therefore mercilesse An hard choyse If they place him in a boate where will he haue victuals or hauing victualling prouision in this haplesse miserie what man shall helpe him Who shall feede him or what kinde heart shall cherish him Helpe himselfe he cannot yea though meate be put into his mouth hee can not eate it He is but an hower olde and can not shift he is but tender and of no force and therefore can not helpe it selfe what then shall hee doe What meanes shall the wretched mother deuise for his deliuerie Cast him into the Seas Perhaps some nature-incited Dolphin wil on his back take pitie on him Who knowes that were hee Aryon he could not without an harpe be saued or had hee an harpe being he could not vse it it were bootlesse or coulde hee vse it yet being so tender the windes would haue power of him and the chilling colde of the billowing waters would with a sodaine stifnesse stifle him Oh poore childe how vnfortunate is thy fate and how vnhappie thy chaunce to be borne in such a time of miseries Yet God shall purueye thee of better fortunes With these sorrowfull considerations the wofull mother exceedingly terrified for very griefe was readie to giue vp the ghost but being recomforted by her ladies shee receiued courage to crosse her

towardes the coastes of Greece fully hoping for the presenting of so bewtifull an Infant to receiue of his Landlord who was a great Gentleman of his countrey some rich recompence for his labour But as no Garment sooner receiueth staine then that which is most brightly coloured nor any man sooner deceiued then hee who by hope was most assured so this man in his chiefest expectation of good Kalus ouertaken with a tempest was sodainely crossed wyth vexation For while Kalus was thus merily making way crosse the billowes in his Ferry-boate there rose such a sodaine Tempest that he being in the middest of the vaste Ocean without hope of any harbour was so tossed vp and downe by the bounding waues as thereby hauing lost the vse of his sea-skill he was forced to commit his Barke to the furie of the waters In this plight hee remained for the space of thrée whole dayes dangerously ryding on the rising surges most wonderfully amazed at the swiftnes of hys Ferry-boate which for the roughnesse of the Seas and the rage of the Storme slyced her course crosse the Ocean with such a speedinesse as contrarie to all naturall reason hee safely arriued at the thirde dayes ende at a certaine Iland He arriueth on the Iland of Artim●gus on the confines of Africa where at that time inhabited a cunning Magitian named Artimagus who knowing by the secrets of his arte of his infantes miserye hadde framed his whole science to the bringing of this fishermans boate to the place of his abiding Wherefore hauing now brought to effect his intended purpose hee attended at the marble staires of his Castle which by arte was so framed as none but when hee consented Artimagus his Castle coulde descry it hee attended his comming whome with what ioy hee receiued my penne nor my tongue is scarcely able to make manifest but onely thus much I will willingly insert that hee hauing reserued him to some necessary purpose whereof in place conuenient you shall bee enformed s●nt him by his daughter Magartez to the wronged Queene of Carthage his sister who accepted his present so thankefully as euer after shee thought her selfe more bounde vnto him by this good turne then by her naturall consanguinitie In which her ioy wee must bee faine to leaue her vntill such time as Oceanders yeares giues vs a more sufficient occasion to treate of him and turne our stile to other accidentall occurrences CHAP. 5. ¶ How after Orthisius and Alfortio had put themselues to the Sea they encountred with a strange aduenture of the Dutchesse of Siracusa whom they deliuered frō the terror of death to which she was betrayed by the vniust dealing of her wicked Aunt who by the consent of the Estates of the city was put to a most cruell death and the young Dutchesse reinstalled in her inheritance EVen as these thinges were thus in acting the two valiant Princes of Fraunce and Spaine hauing put themselues in enquest as you haue heard after the Gyant Ortolomorgantell bending their course towards the west end of Europe they furrowed so spedily crosse the Greekish Seas as into the Mare Mediterraneum wherein they sayled a good space vntill such time as by the rage of the rising billowes they were enforced to seeke for harbour on the Coastes of Sicilia where surging at the porte of Sicacusa a citie in the forenamed Iland they were very ioyfully receiued by the young duke of Hybla who was brother to a most beautifull Ladie ●●●hisius and Alsortio arriue at Siracusa being Dutchesse of Siracuse named Oaezima For the redresse of whose miseries her brother Oreardey hearing of the arriuall of the worthy Princes attended their aduent with exceeding diligence whome hee causing to land after most courteous embracements in this sort most kindly welcomed Faire knights and as I guesse noble princes of Grecia If vnknowne Choraebus Kindly entertained by O●y 〈…〉 H●●●● with his troupes of vpdaunted souldiers were in Troyes extreamity welcome to the distressed Priamus or the resolued bandes of Achil es with his fierce and fearefull Mirmedons acceptable to the Grecians in the time of intestine skirmishes then thinke braue minded Champions that your cōming is not vnwelcome vnto my country or that I will prooue vnthankefull to the Almighty for your most lucky arriuall in my hauen in this time of disaster wherein I haue more neede of your heroick actions then either Priam or the Grecian Heroes of their proffered succouring aiders The Princes were ready to reply vpon him when hee thus cut off their inceptions But yet for all my miseries which I endure let them not any whit aggrieue you vntil such time as hearing the whole circumstance of our misfortunes ruthe may driue you to rage your conceiued anguish moue you to such exrreame anger as by your knightly vertues you may dissolue the Gordian knot of our miseries Herewith he led them with him towards the Dutchesses Palace where the two princes found exceeding good entertainement both for delicate cheare as for sweete sounding musique which though it somewhat solemnely sounded yet exceedingly delighted the noble Champions so as with great content after their royall welcomes they betooke their wearied bodies vnto the downe-soft couches with which they were not a little contented finding themselues so safely seated from the furie of their late feared tēpest In this quiet they remained vntil the morning at which time Apollo the daies glorious directour had no sooner chased away the coale-blacke night but that the noble Princes of France and Spaine presently brake off their slumbers and attiring themselues in scarlet coloured veluet mantels they were by an attending Page conducted into the Palace garden wherein by the varietie of most sweete smelling hearbes flowers and diuersitie of Indian shrubs their drooping senses were exceedingly delighted and refreshed There they walked vp and downe meditating and asking many questions of the boy concerning his Lord and the young Dutchesse Oezima whereunto the Page in this manner answered My Lords it is not the part of an honest seruant to delay the delating of his mistresses sorrow neither should it be the propertie of a curteous Siracusan bluntly to deny any interrogant asking whatsoeuer is lawfull and more necessary for the required than the inquirers to be declaclared Therefore in that which I can I will resolue you especially touching my selfe But as for any thing touching my Lady the Dutchesse of Siracusa I neither can nor may informe you since it is a matter onely to bee resolued by her selfe after her deliuery to the contrary whereof shee hath sworne neuer to performe any thing to the infringement of her determination though shee dye therefore The two knightes seeing they could get no more concerning this Ladie Dutchesse being loath to vrge him to tell any thing against his will or the oath of his deare Ladie required the relation of his owne misfortunes wherunto the Page willingly consenting reported vnto them the same after this manner

Zamez put to death betooke himselfe once againe to solicite his loues suites not attempting any more to winne her to his lust but wed her to his wife And therefore with purse promises he at once sollicited her constāt heart and by all meanes possible enticed her to yeeld to his affections But all in vaine for Ericlea still reseruing the memorie of her husbande Zamez death freshly in her minde and knowing how by the most vniust dealing of the Vicegerent Tantanez he was against the order of law most rigorously condemned and executed determined vtterly to refuse Tantanez offers A virtuous honest resolution rather to abide the chast widow of her first chosē Zamez then to be held the chaunging concubine or wretched if she should be wife of Tantanez Whereupon shee not onely denied his lustfull suites but firmely auowed if hee did euer againe proffer her such an iniurie eyther in worde or writing she would not onely be her owne executioner and by her death disappoint him of her loue but also woulde by her acclamations excite her friends and allyed kinsfolkes to the reuengment of her husbands death and her own wrong to his vtter discredit and destruction All these absolute denials notwithstanding Tantanes remained in his purpose so resolute as seing hee could not by fa●●e meanes ●oue reiected and despis●●n● 〈◊〉 to ●●●t hee decermined by fowle to ouer-maister her reiections Wherefore he sent for her by certaine Placeboes who were the Pandors to his wicked lustes hauing her before him he condemned her vniustly to be famished in a d●ngeon at the side of a great wood where for all his allurements and inticing words she remained for the space of two dayes ●●ricle● con●emned and ●mprisoned free from any consent or thought of yielding to his wicked will a●d so had remained to her death had not he euerwhelmed in his last the third day offered her violence and by force attempted her chastities disparagement Wh●ch his wickednesse she very illcontentedly brooking se●ng by no other meanes she could eschewe dishonour shee determined to put her life in daunger ●mpatient vi●●ence repeled with in●omparable ●irtue rather then to yielde her bodies fruition to so manifest a ieopardy and therefore resoluing her s●lfe of this remedy she desired that before she consented to this wicked entent she might be suffered to meditate with her s●lfe of her safest way of cōdescending Which her request Tantanez little suspecting any stratagem hauing graunted the virtuous Lady arose vp on her feete and presently pacing vnto a deepe Well of puddle water in the one side of the dungeon standing vpon the brinkes she sayd aloude vnto the Vicegerent Speake Vicegerent whether shall Tantanes leaue his lust or Ericlea her life Which words when Tantanez heard and withal perceiued to what ende her resolution tended he presently fell downe on his knees and promising neuer againe to proffer her any violent wronge with the teares in his eyes he most earnestly intreated her to desist from her so desperate enterprise auowing neuer any more whilest he liued to persist in his pretēded purpose of her surprisage or once againe so much as to harbor one ill meaning thought wtin the secret closure of his pancing penitēt brest With which earnest spokē words of recōcilemēt the lady somwhat pleased though not altogether pacified for her husbāds death causing Tātanez to sweare by the sacred deity of celestiall Iupiter to forsake his intended villanie ●hee remoued from the Well receiuing humble thankes of the poore vicegerent Ericlea deliuered she was immediately s●t at freedome from imprisonment and being returned home vnto her house shee remained there quietly without so much as once looking out of her doores for feare of the like surprisage vntill cruell Atropos hauing shred her liues thred gaue a full period to her long-lasted languor Thus deare mother haue you heard what I can answere vnto your propounded question whereon if I haue not sufficiently dilated I beseech you saue mee checklesse by remembring my bookes are left at home and that I am not come as a Scholler but a souldier to pleade in armes before your maiesty The Queene answered him very pleasantly againe some time reprehending him and some time reioycing at his handsome saluing of his ignorante dispute with excuses and therewith shee beganne to propound her second question to Sir Luganto who excusing himselfe by shewing them the toppe of the rocke of the charmed shielde gaue Kanira occasion to reprehend Oceander a little for his so long tarying in his related story as also the rest to haue a needfull care of both the Prince Oceander and their owne abilliments to the end that when they should attempt any dangerous aduenture they might not the sooner miscarry by reason of some vnlooked to misse in their armour In this like worke they busied themselues vntill they might perfectly beholde the stony rocke glister like the reflexion of the Sun all about the brims of the inchanted shield which the gracious Carthaginian Gouernesse reputing as a signe of the young gentleman of the seas good fortune goshopping her palfrey close vnto him she thus began to assure him of good and happy finishing of his aduenture O my most deare and louing foster-sonne how happy may I thinke my selfe to bee that haue brought thee vp with such care from thy childhoode and made thee endosse on armour in thy young yeares since to thy glory I see thy actions to tend and the very senselesse things by the goodnesse of the Gods by strāge signes to prognosticate thy happy fortune For to what other purpose doth the rocke effuse so exceeding a splendour about the shield but therby to manifest how thy exceeding valiancy shall make thee wondersome and thy heroicke atchieuements shall make thy glory to illuminate the earth as in a sommers day doth the glorious raies of light-bringing Tytan begild the billowes of the Ocean with his brightsome reflexions Feare not therefore noble gentleman of the Sea to attempt nay by force of armes thy well boading fortune to atchieue this straunge aduenture of this shield which is here only for thy fame and honoures encrease placed thus wonderfully by most cunning Inchauntments The forward young Prince hearing his mothers comfortable excitements of him to vndertake the performance of the enterprise though hee foreknewe it to be somewhat difficult in atchieuing yet with an vndaunted stomach hee determined to hazard the aduenture and in this resolution setting spurres to his Palfrey he galloped a pase towardes the rocke ●ceander vn●orsed by an ●uisible op●onent determining in spight of his inuisible resisters on horsebacke to approach the shield But yet he came nigh it by a metrodde he receiued so strong an encounter from some vnseene enemies launce as with force of the pushe hee was dispossessed of his saddle enforced whether he woulde or no on foote to try out the euent of the aduenture This notwithstanding

were Lugonto Piresty Maruall Gerardo and Trosny withall speede possible departed to the Rocke of the Inchaunted shield But because the tourney was somewhat long and such extreame posting so exceeding painefull and their accompanying woulde bee tedious without conuersing they agreed to passe awaye the tyme with merrie Stories and that euerye one according to his turne should deliuer forth some pretty theame for his following friend to treate of Purposes to deceiue the wearinesse of their iourney Content quoth Oceander and first of all the Queene my mother shall propound her question Agreed replyed the Queene but then I must bee exempted from telling my tale Be it so Madame replyed the Gentleman of the Sea and on that condition I will beginne and therewithall hee thus answered to his giuen question Whether virtue or violence is the stronger ALthough perhaps some man whose insight might bee more deepe and whose wisedome and iudgement bee sounder to conceiue more sharply of this matter thē my selfe might happily maintaine violence to bee the stronger in regard it so often and almost euer ouerthroweth and ouerwhelmeth the vigour of Virtue yet not him which continually giueth the foyle Virtue may be for a while dashed but not quite destroyed but him which longest endureth I accompt the victour And although for a time the beawtie of virtues forces be by violence ouershadowed and in a maner almost dashed yet shall I needes iudge virtue to bee the stronger since euen in a moment after so huge a tempest her troubled skie being cleared of such darke clouds of violence Reuirescit vulnere virtus she at the last re-enioyeth a far more glorious splendour and thereby with speede ouercommeth her foe and vnburdeneth her selfe of such violent disgraces And to the ende that thou shall not thinke that with onely my bare wordes I seeke to proue it I shall alleadge you a fitting example of the virtuous conquest of a bewteous Damosell ouer the violent attemptes of wicked iniurers The storie of vertuous Ericlea reported by Oceander IN the famous Cittie Memphis in former auntient tyme the Metrapolis of the Egyptian Monarchy there gouerned as Vice-gerent in place of the puissant King Arcabanus who was departed into the kingdome of Armenia against Arsainez to reuenge an iniurie one Tantanez a worthy Knight and of exceeding valour and reputation who for his vertues was no lesse renowned and for his Iustice honoured then any Memphian of what estate soeuer within the Egyptique territories Notwithstāding as the winde cannot be alwaies at one corner nor her horned Moone be all times in her waining but the one must needs change and the other by the strict necessity of ould antique Tyme must decline vnto her wayning So this vnhappy Tantanez could not for euer so obserue a moderation in his matters but that at length he was conuicted of vniustice and his graue abearing found out at last to bee turned into gracelesse attēptings For it was his though most vnlucky chance one day as hee was going in progresse with greate pompe and Maiesty about the walls of Memphis to espy frō out the chamber windowe of a Knights house where he thē reposed himselfe a most bewteous Lady named Ericlea to walke hand in hand Tantanez en flamed with Ericleas loue very louingly with her husband Zarmez a man whose deformitie and ill fauoured Vulcan like countenance very ill befitted so faire and louely a Venus about her Garden with whose bewty he was sodainly so enflamed as he could not be at quiet vntill such time as he had made knowne his passions vnto her by this following Epistle that he sent to her house by a most secret and trusty messenger 1 With penne in steede of pearled teares I doe my passions paint Then Venus match lend listning eares Vnto my sad complaint 2 Complaint of my tormented heart Exhibited vnto Thy charming eyes which worke my smart And euer-during woe 3 Therefore let graciousnesse proceede From vndisdainefull minde And what your beawty made to bleede Salue wth your being kinde 4 Least fondly staying ouer-long From lending remedie I doe complaine of suffered wronge By double crueltie 5 Seeke not therefore deare Dame to cure My sorrowe with disdaine Least that thereby thou dost procure Vnto thy selfe the paine 6 For knowe if thou denie remorse Vnto my kind entreates I will not wooe but I le enforce Thee to my will by threates 7 Resolue thee therefore and with speede What answere thou maist make For I determin'd am thy fruit Of beautie for to take Or missing narrowly my marke To make the Tree to shake Adieu He that may commaund and yet entreates thee Tantanes ERiclea poore Ladie hauing verye well entertained the messenger of Tātanez Letter withdrew her selfe into her closet to peruse the contents Which so soone as she had read and thoroughly pondered the meaning therof in her thoughts and thinking verely that the Vicegerent writ it to no other purpose but to trie her honestie towards her husband Zamez A wise determination whome though none of the comelyest she as dearely as her life affected she determined so to answere him as if hee meant in iest he might know her constancie or if in earnest he might thoroughly perceiue her wife like fidelitie Wherfore taking penne in hande she answered him thus briefly Desist deare Lord to vndermine the fauour I doe beare Vnto my husband whō I loue euen thē my selfe more deare And let not such polluted thoughts once harbour in your minde As to request I false should be vnto my Zames kinde Wert thou the mightiest amongst men Artabanus himselfe Thou shouldest not wrack my honesty vpon dishonors shelfe A Lais may a Lais play but shee that is a wife Like Lucrece with her Collatine should lead an honest life Therefore desist solliciting but if it will not be Seeke forth a Lais for thy lust and not dishonest me Shee that scorneth thy threats Ericlea the constant wife of Zames THis letter deliuered to the messenger who presented it vnto the Vicegerent did so nippe the Memphian to the heart as for griefe falling sicke for a greate while he remained in great perplexitie for sorrow that he could not obtain his hoped for fauor at Ericleas hands whom he so dearely loued But thinking that the cause of her refusall was by reason that her husband was yet liuing hee resolued with himselfe by some cunning stratagem to make away Zamez And therefore he presently sent for him by an Herauld to come vnto the Court. At whose summons he presently repaired vnto Tātanez Imbrobe Amor quid non mortalia pectora cogis who causing certaine knights of the post hired with goulden coyne to accuse him of hygh treason against the Egyptian Maiestie without suffering him once to answere or excuse himselfe vniustly wtout any law or equitie he cōdemned him to a most cruel death Which being executed on him Tantanez supposing he could not now lightly misse of obtaining Ericlea

giuing the ould Hermit to vnderstand of their departure they earely the sixt day awaited his comming on the shoares side where the holy father after morning salutations ended with teares like pearles bespangling his snowy bearde deliuered them togither with a letter of import vnto the Emperour their father this kinde farewell Calāders farewell to the Grecian Princesses Deare friendes and my royall Lords and Ladies of Constantinople how many diuers dangers are incident to al trauailers as well by sea as land I will not at this time dispute of but leauing such straunge secrets to the sole al-commaunding potency of the highest directour with thāks for your gentle acceptance of my homely entertainement accordant to my poore abilitie I tender your excellencies all hopefull assurance of a most happie iourney to the fertile territory of Greece Hungary Tto whose inhabitants what infinity of intestine casualties shall shortly occurre my tongue doth tremble to tell and my heart rende almost in sunder to thinke on but God for his mercy shall at last yea euen at the last gaspe of good fortune deliuer it The right relation of al which this same Letter within this little casket so largely discloaseth as I hope the good Emperour Claranax to whose highnesse hands I most earnestly entreate you to deliuer it shall haue A Letter from the Hermit to Claranax though not altogether sufficient yet indifferent time to prouide himselfe of all thinges necessarie for the repelling if it might be possible of so ineuitable a mischiefe These wordes not without weeping ended hee commended them all to the protection of the most powerfull and then humbly taking his leaue hee presently departed backe againe vnto his melancholy mansion where for a while we will let him rest and returne to our trauailers who with faire wordes riche promis●s so incessantly allured the toyling mariners as with a neuer slacking celeritie they sliced through the salt seas as it were in a moment They arriued at Constantinople vnto the hauen of Constantinople Whose wide wombe they no sooner espyed impleate with a great sort of swift-sailing shippes but that with wonderous gladnesse they clapped their hands with excesse of ioyes they speedily entred into the harbour Where the fame of their arriuall was no sooner spread abroad but that in great multitudes the citizens clustred about them to beholde the only hopes of al following good fortune When they had not any long space through the cristall casements of their eyes fedde the couetize of their fancies but that the aged Emperoure Claranax with his good Empresse Basilia the kings of Hungary and Bohemia with their louing bedfellowes Anaxia and Zaama who accompanied with Rosamira the beautifull Princesse of Sparta and a huge multitude of worthy attendants both Ladies knights and gentlemen of all states and conditions approached gallantly vnto the hauen Where after the Emperour had louingly embraced his most be loued children Their ioyfull louing entertainemēts by their parents deare friendes and after him both Kinges Queenes and Ladies hauing ioyfully giuen their louing welcomes vnto the late arriued Paragons they altogither not without excesse of gladnesse manifested by their sundry stoppes of heart-delighting harmonies conducted the Prince Olbiocles the knight of the goulden shielde Absentia reuersos reddit amicis chariores Almidiana and Eristama to the greatest Temple of Constantinople where diuine seruice ended amongst the rest the Emperor in this sort powred out his gratefull thanks before the Maiestie of the most maiesticall Thāksgiuing of the Emperour for the return of his long absented children Glorious God who for thy loue of thy deare and onely begotten son Iesus Christ hast had a gracious and fatherly care ouer me thy poore and base hanidworke thanks yea vnfained thāks doth my submisse soule render vnto thy diuine maiesty that with the incomparable power of thy mighty right hand hast thus mercifully released me at last from so many multitudes of miseries which encompassed my soule and in a maner ouerwhelmed me Hauing finished his thankesgiuing hee turned towardes his obedient ofspring of whom after many kisses bestowed he receiued this following Letter of Calander To the sacred Constantinopolitan Maiestie all health and happynesse MIghty Emperour The hermite Calanders Letter and most puissant Princes of Greece and Christendome c. Vnderstand you by these presents that at this time the whole Knighthood of Tunis and Tangur are in most warlike manner well accoustred safely shipped and swiftly sayling towards the territories of Sicilia which by arms cōuerting to the false worship of their heathenish Mahomet they wil celerously surge on the coast of Constantinople vnlesse By the prouidence of God they be speedily preuented From my solitarie Hermitage CALANDER NOw vpon my honour quoth the Emperour in a maze by this letter of the Hermit I wotte of wonders Belike these barbarous Barbarians are growne of late to conceit a conquest ouer Constantinople thinking Claranax by reason of his approaching age to be growne to so cold a constitution as hee is either too feeble or too much affraide to enter any combat Well well let Tomerin and Tangut commence their conflicts by the help of God and his good grace I shall neuer be saide to flie their furies as long as my withered bodie is able to beare armour against their forces But considering Claranax preparation against the inuasion of Tomarin that not wordes but warinesse was the repelling of warre in great wisdome hee caused his hauens mouth to bee chained vp that they might not with their iron Rammes by water any whit endaunger the citie wals and as for the city it selfe hee engarisoned it with infinitie of approued and vndaunted souldiers of that same Religion Also to all his neighbouring Princes of Christendome he presently sent ayde-requesting letters as to Sparta Thessaly Transiluania the kings Rubaldo also and Fiardon spedilie departed vnto their seuerall prouinces of Hungary and Bohemia to leauie a competent number of their country souldiers for the defence of Greece and Christendome To which their warlike expedition wee will leaue those worthy Princes to returne vnto our huge host of the Pagan Potentates CHAP. XXI ¶ Howe Tomarin of Tunis Tangut of Tangur the knight of the Sea Tolurnio and the rest of the Pagan armie accoasted the Iland of Sicilia where they slewe the Duke of Hibla tooke Alfortio and Orthisius prisoners and enforced King Dionine and all his subiectes to forsake the Gospell of Christ and become Mahometans WOnderfull was the ioy that the cruell Barbarians conceiued in their hearts for the notable conquest that they hoped to gaine against the Christians whome they thought vtterly either to conuert or conuince by the fiercenesse of their diuelish furies whose irresistable forces they first and formost bent against the poore inhabitants of Hybla and Sicilia where at this time raigned that terrible Tyrant Dionine Dionine The fleete of Tunis arriue at Sicilie Vpon