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A16202	The moste pleasaunt historye of Blanchardine, sonne to the King of Friz; & the faire lady Eglantine Queene of Tormaday, (surnamed) the proud ladye in loue; Blanchardine and Eglantine.	Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.; Goodwine, Thomas Pope.	1595 (1595)	STC 3125; ESTC S104613	89,731	138

recouer their pauilions and tentes But being pursued with all celerity that might be were cut off by the way before they coulde reach thi ther. Blanchardine followed so hard that he came euen to the entry of Alimodes pauilion before the which he found the kings daughter sitting to beholde the battell whom when Blanchardine espyed he bowing himselfe downe tooke vp the Damosell and set her before him on his courser and posted as fast as hee could to Tormaday Alimodes hearing of this hard aduenture as a man desperate and halfe frantick posted after with foure thousand souldiers to recouer his daughter againe and one making more spéed then auailed him comming some what néerer Blanchardine was presently slaine by him but in this staye the enemy rushed so fast vpon him that Blanchardines horse was slaine vnder him but he trusting in God so behaued himselfe with his shielde and sworde that not the prowdest Sarasin durst approch him When the King Alimodes perceiued the great prowes that remained in Blanchardine that among so many none durst encounter him he cryed out amaine vnto his Knights Fye on you all vntrue and faintharted Pagans that one Knight is able to affright so many with these vpbraidings the vnruely rabble of rascall Sarizens ranne all at once desperately vpon Blanchardine and so surprised him by maine force but in his taking hee slew among many others a Knight that was Nephew to Alimodes a man of great accompt and prowes In good time Beautrix the daughter of King Alimodes hauing wisely perused the excellent beauty of Blanchardine seeing the likelyhoode of his present death prostrated her selfe vpon her knees vnto the king her father humbly requesting him to pardon the life of the yong Knight The King beholding the pittifull demaund of his daughter whome aboue all creatures in the world he loued answered her in this wise My déere and welbeloued daughter I wishe it had not béene your chaunce at this time to haue béene present or I would you had not entreated for him who hath done vs all this domage but since it is your demaund and that I cannot deny what you request he shall not dye héere but I will presentlye send him away vnto the Realme of Salmandry vnto the King of Giants brother to Rubion whome he hath ssaine and whome I tendered as my owne person who if he had liued had béene your espouse and husband But the Quéene of Tormadar vnderstanding of the great distresse wherein Blanchardine was commaunded the Prouost presently to post and ransome him how soeuer But the King made the more expedition and hast to send him away to Salmandry that there with all cruelty he might be massacred swearing by his Mahomet that no ransome should set him free but death The Prouost hearing this absolute and resolute answere of Alimodes reported to Blanchardine the desperate estate he now was in whereof Blanchardine was not a little sorry but finding no remedy willed him most humbly to commend him to the good grace of the Quéene When the Prouost was returned home and now was entred the court he found the Quéene out of measure sorrowful sor the losse and absence of Blanchardine vnto whome he made a true report according to the answere of Alimodes which vncomfortable message did so daunt the heart of the Quéene that euery one expected her present death But leauing her in her pasions returne we to Alimodes Chap. 17. Darius carrieth away with him Blanchardine to be conueyed into Salmandry and how the ship wherein Blanchardine was perished by a tempest and all were drowned except Blanchardine who approching to the Court of the King of Spruse gained the place of generall in his wars AFter the departure of the Prouost Alimodes commaunded his sonne Darius to returne to Cassidony where hee was king and to carry with him his sister Beautrix And in his absence gouerne the land and people in quiet whilst his seidge lay against Tormaday And like wise deliuerred vnto his custody Blanchardine whome be charged to send into Salmandry to the king of Giants whose brother Blanchardine had lately slaine there to be tortured to death at the discreation of the king Darius presently at the commaund of his father rigged two ships for his passage in the one he and his faire sister Beautrix in the other Blanchardine garded by thrée score men was put When all things were in a readines for their departure the marriners weighing ancor and hoysing sayle floted away So Blanchardine finding no remorse like a lamb to the slaughter was carried towards Cassidony and as he imagined to his death The Quéene of Tormaday looking out of her window might discerne the ship wherein Blanchardine went whome with millions of teares she bewailed But the continuall skirmishes with her people had with the Pa●…ms bred her sometime ioy sometime sadnes as the fortune of war gaue cause then remembring the swéet kisse which Blanchardine gaue her shée was ready to sound But recomforted by her Ladeis she began to complaine in this manner In fortune thou blind guidresse of this vnconstant world will thy tottering whéele neuer stand still but being at the highest turne topsey turuey Ah most vniust goddes if thou be a Goddes that contrary to all godlines dost peruert al things to the wors●… couldst thou not haue suffered me a while to enioy my loue Blanchardine but in the first shew of happines to turne me to dispaire hast thou none other to vomitte vp thy venym but vppon mee ah most vnhappie of all vnhappines Wel in thy dispight ile liue and in thy dispight ile die The Ladies fering least this perplexity might bréed a far greater disease and daunger to her person recomforted her with milde and swéet spéeches still willing her not to distrust but that her Blanchardine would safely return Blanchardine now on the sea sayling towards Cassidony with Darius and Beautrix his sister ancored euen at the hauen of the Citty where Darius and his sister went a shore gaue streight charge and commaundement to the saylers to conduct the ship which Blanchardine was in to Salmandry there to present him vnto the king of Giants And with all to certifie him that he was the man who flew his brother Ru●…ri before the walles of Tormaday where his father Alimodes continued yet his seidge They incontinently departed from Cassidony to sayle to Salmandry whereof faire Beaut●…ix was most displeasant and if she could by any possible meanes haue staied his course he should not haue gon to his slaughter into Salmandry but although her beauty were great yet her power was little Thus being vpon the Seas a day or two after their departure the windes roarde the lightnings flasht and thunder crackt so teribly that the marriners dispairing of all safety suffered the ship to holl with the waues and windes whether fortune and their fates should lead them the tempest still more and more encreasing at the length the maine mast rent in twaine the rudder was

be baptised with himselfe his Quéene and followers vpon paine of death and presently sent out his Edict and proclamation that al the inhabitants within those dominions should with all possible spéed come to Cassidony there to receiue the holy Baptisme fayth in Iesu Christ. After all which solemnities with great reuerence performed he tooke to wife the faire Quéene Beautrix to the exceeding contentment of all the beholders I néed not here make mention of the sumptiousnes of the feasts the applause of the late imprisoned Christians the concourse of the common people to behold this magnificent wedding but leaue it to the reader to imagine But of one thing especially I must giue you to vnderstand that the Bride was so adorned with gemmes ouches and precious stones that day that if all the worlde should haue imployed their paines to obtaine the like I thinke they are not to be gotten all which that most cruell homicide and periured miscreant Alimodes had by exaction extorted from all his neighbours Christians by force and villany But when all these tryumphes which endured the space of thrée daies were finished Sadony reforming y e diabolicall customes which had many yeres continuance within that region in steed thereof established Iusttice religion and godlines to the great comfort of the inhabitants of Cassidony in which long after they continued in most prosperous and happy estate and tranquilitie Chap. 4. How Blanchardine found his father the King of Frize imprisoned within the Citty of Cassidony and deliuered him from thence IT fortuned not long after this solemnity was finished that Sadony Beautrix and Blanchardine walking abroad for their disport heard the most pittifull outcry and lamentation of certaine other prisoners neere the Citty which were almost famished for want of bread which dolefull noise so penetrated the gentle hearts of these three Princes that Sadony demaunding what voice the same might be a knight attendant made this reply Know noble King that not long since our quondam Lord and Prince Darius bending his course to the renowned Citty of Tormaday to mannage armes in the ayde of hys father against the faire Eglantine surnamed the proude Lady in loue was by a suddaine tempest at sea dryuen from his course and without their compasse into a land which as the inhabitants called the land of Frize where by great hap within that little Iland at that time a great Lord of that Country came with diuers Gentlemen of great account to disport themselues both for the holsomnes of the ayre the fertiity of the soile and the swéet recreations that place did afford vppon our arriuall wee ranging the thickets and plaines of the Country tooke prisoner one who for feare discouered the whole state of the country and the resedency of this Lord and gentlemen at that time there by whose direction we secretly marching to the Palace on the suddaine surprized the said Lord with all his braue troop who at our enterance seemed to resist but finding their forces vnable to encounter a multitude yeelded themselues to mercy Darius whome pitty could not peirce vtterly refusing raunsome commaunded them presently to be conueighed to this Citty there to remaine during their liues captiues And these most mighty Princes are the prisoners whose lamentation you heare When Blanchardine heard him speake of Frize ablushing red beautifying his chéekes he began straight to coniecture that out of all doubt this Lord was desended of his linage and house commaunding presently to fetch them before him the other princes which the posting messenger spéedily performed and hauing presented them to the three Princes Blanchardine fixing a stéedfast view vpon them knew his father although the hard imprisonment and hungry diet had masserated and made him leaner then he was wont to be whereat Blanchardine began secretly to lament the hard distresse of his aged Sire But incurraging himselfe to speake he demaunded of him what country man he was and the chaunce that brought him into these calamities The aged king faint by reason of famine and feble by his age after a little pause made this reply Know sir that I am a most distressed and captiue King my Country which of long time I gouerned with happines and quiet is called Frize scituated néere the sea but through the mutabilitie and chaunce of fortune my land hath béene depopulated and layde waste my subiectes slaine and my selfe with diuers of my nobles taken prisoners by Darius the Sonne of Alimodes who not pittying my age and gray haires hath too too long inclosed vs within a most obscure and darke prison full of venim and fylth in which I and my poore company are ready to famish for want of sustenance against the law of God manand nature vtterly refusing all ransomes that haue béene proffered for our deliueries But a Sonne I had whose yeares and countenance presaging valure made both my selfe and his mother to haue too tender a care ouer him fearing some worse euent thē wee had cause to dread and for this onely cause we rather tooke care to instruct him in learned sciences then to pricke him forward to beare armes who like a Lion vnwilling to bee tamed and spend his yeares in subiection and home bred toyes because I refused to inuest him with the order of knighthood one day very secretly without all our priuities went away and since his departure wee haue not so much as receiued any newes or tidinges of him which hath bred in me such sorrow griefe that I wish rather a thousand times to die then thus to liue depriued not only of my liberty and kingdome but of my Sonne whose towardlines being a child was of all admired and whose losse through my fault of all pittied Therefore my humble petition is if it rest in your powers to rid me by some kind of death out of this lothsome and gréeuous thraldoms wherein I now liue who rather account it a happines to dye than thus distressed with misery to liue After which his pittyfull complaint the teares distilled doune his waterie eyes vppon his aged face so thick that made all the company to be waile his hard aduenture mishap but especially Blanchardine his sonne within whome loue and pitty made their combat Sir quoth Blanchardine may it be that if your son were héere at this time considering his long departure from you doe you imagine that you shoulde knowe him by his fauour and countenance Ah answered the king to well I knowe that these my drooping eyes which pore still vppon my graue shall neuer receiue such content as once to infix them selues on his amyable face Blanchardine not able any longer to conceale himselfe from his aged father sayd vnto him know noble King that not long since this noble Gentleman Sadony and my selfe not only sawe your Son but accompanied him long time And betwéene vs were all things common so that the mutuall kindnes and loue which we conceiued of echother was by no meane to