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A19042 A certayn treatye moste wyttely deuysed orygynally wrytten in the spaynysshe, lately traducted in to frenche entytled, Lamant mal traicte de samye. And nowe out of frenche in to Englysshe, dedicat to the ryght honorable lorde henry Erle of Surrey, one of the knyghtes of the moste honorable ordre of the garter, son[n]e and heyre apparaunt to the ryght hygh and myghete prynce Thomas duke of Norfolke, hygh treasorour, and erle mershall of Englande.; Tractado de amores de Arnalte y Lucenda. English San Pedro, Diego de, fl. 1500.; Clerk, John, d. 1552.; Herberay, Nicolas de, sieur des Essars, 16th cent. 1543 (1543) STC 546; ESTC S108933 39,984 135

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Than nede thynuerter of all thyngꝭ gaue me counseyll that by my payge who often frequentyd y ● house of Lucenda taccompanye her brother I myghte make her knowe my passyon by thoccasyon wherof I wylled he shuld hante yet more often with the other than he had done before whiche he dyd ryght sadlye and dylygentlye for my remedye in suche sorte as beynge in nothynge suspected he went when he wold to the lodging of Luceda Wherfore after y t many tymes I had shewed hym to be the secret offeryng hym dyuers chaste mentes yf he were contrary I gaue hym a letter conteyning this that foloweth RAther wolde I Lucēda y t thou knewest my faythe than thou diddest y ● reding of my letter for yf it so were in seynge me thou shuldest easylye knowe the passyon that I beare beyng the same none other but suche as myght well purchaise me y t whiche I truste to gayne by wrytyng to the. For that onely by my letter thou shalt vnderstand my sorofull proposes but by my teares thou shuldest se my desperate lyfe So that my great dolour wolde supplye my lytell vnderstandynge and make the certayne of that wherof thou mayst now douit For thoughe the ylles suche as I fele them can not be declared yet thy Judgemēt shulde gyue the very fayth of them by my passyō neuertheles aswell as I possyble may I wyll make the to vnderstand them ¶ Kuowe Lu●dena that the selfe same day that thy father was put in the earth myne affectyon and thy great beaulte made me all thyne yf y t thou than dydest retorne to thy howse and endyd to wepe his death I enteryd in to myne to begyn to lament of the yll that thou haste done me Whiche I pray y t to byleue For that I haue no lesse feblenes to vanquisshe me Than thou hast force to constrayne me And further I assure the That more for the wekenes to resyste Than of great wyll I am gcuyn to be thyne For yf it were in my power I woldeste the And I seke the Thou baste so moche domination vpon me And I in me so little liberty That whan I haue wylled not to loue the I coulde not Bycause my heuy harte is ▪ By my constauncy and thy good graces ioyned to the. ¶ I aduertyse the that yf it had ben possyble I had rayther absented me from the Than in any thyng to trust to y ● But yf by predestinacion I were condempned to be thyne I haue not had the power to eschewe y ● yll of this good otherwyse it can not be Deny me not thā thy good grace for by the greatnes of myne yil I haue well me ●y●ed it seynge that in so lyttle tyme thou haste so dysmesurely ault ●ayged me ❧ ☞ ❧ ¶ Consyder in what Obligaciō thou arte bound agayn to me That more wolde esteme my Perdycyon for the than my Saluacyon without thyne occacyon ❧ ❧ ❧ ¶ And further that sythen thou arte the cause of my tormente This trauayle is to me pleasure And my destruccyon vyctorye Yet wolde I not despere me of this begynnynge But myne affection I declayre vnto the ▪ wherof albeit at this tyme I aske the no recompence yet trust I that hereafter thou shalt know the state where in I lyue And that where as shal be the knowlege reason shall not fayle yf there be reasō the same can not be without recompence ❧ ⚜ ¶ So with suche trust wyll I neuer despere But sythē I am moche more dysposed to fele my payn Than to do maunde the remedy I wyll ende this matter to fynysshe my letter And with an humble request I pray the that thou wit●afe to s● me To th end y ● my vysage may be wy●●enes to the of ❧ my dolour ❧ SO ended my letter but before I gaue it to the Page I enstructed hym in what sorte he shulde procede wysely to chose the place ▪ And the tyme cōuenyent to the●ecutyon ¶ And albeit that pe●case Lucenda wold not receyue it yet neuertheles he shulde leue it there ☞ ❧ ¶ Now were my cōmaundementes and thobedy●●●e of my Payge confer mable in suche sort as for my conten tacyon he made suche extreme diligēce as one day amonge other when he sawe Lucēda alone he founde meane to approche to her And the moste secretly he coulde Desyred her to wytsaufe to take that whiche I wrote to her But she seynge her selfe importuned coulde not so dyssymule that she gaue not knowledge by mut●cyon of coulor howe moche she thought the mater straunge ☞ ⚜ ☞ ❧ ¶ This notwithstandynge my payge as wel aduysed consydering my torment ●●●onned hymselfe of nothyng ¶ Where vpon it happened that she seynge her selfe more and more constryued thynckyng to redde her selfe of hym Departed with great dysplea sure from the place where she satte wherfore my payge seynge her to go wente dylygently before and cast my letter to her ī such a place as necessite forced her wyll to take it vp howbeit the takynge ther of was suche as she tare it in a thousande peses wherof afterwarde I was aduertysed which was a recharge and augmentacyon to my dolours For seynge my lyttle hope and felynge my dysmesured tormēt I trusted no comforte but with the death For this cause I found me somoche enemie to my selfe and frend to the payne that more thā before I wylled to haue recours to my sorowful thoughtꝭ w t the which a very lōg tyme I passed my dayes vnto y ● one Mournynge my Payge who carefull dylygent was of myne affayre came taduertyse me y ● Lucenda had determyned the nyght folowynge to go to matyns which I casely beleued for it was Chrystmas yeuen Wherfore to gyue some repose to my harte I determyned to dresse me in maner of a damoysell wherby I myght the more easely approche to her ¶ Trustynge by y ● meane to auoyde all daunger ▪ So with suche habyt cōferme to he●● I went to put my selfe Joynynge to the place where she had accustomed to be in suche festes And not suspectynge this to be de●epte at her arryuall she saluted me Than thobs●urite of y ● nyght ▪ the place and the lacke of cōpany fauoured me so moche y t I had ameane to saye to her Lucenda HA Lucenda yf I had so moche wytte to complayne me of the as thou haste power to cause me to lament I shuld be no lesse wyse than thou art fayre Therfore I dysyer the not to regarde that whiche I shall say to the. But the passion of my harte and thabundaūce of my syghes whiche nowe I put to the to be wyttenes of my martyrie I knowe not what gayne thou doste truste of my losse ●e what good of my yll I haue wrytten to the that I am all thyne And thou w t great dyspyte hast torne my letter in pecys It shuld haue suffised the to haue done y ● lyke to my lyfe by thy great beaultie
than thou haue determyned to put thy payne in repose with whome canst thou better do it than with her who neuer is wery to desyre thy benyfyte for yf thou wyl●e dyscharge it thou and I to gethers may beare it yf thou haue desire that we w●pe neuer let vs do other thyng yf thou wylt that in thyne yll we comforte vs let it so be dōne yf thou wylt that it couer it self thou and I better thā thou alone can do it yf thou wylt that the remedy do gyue mean thou of thy syde and I of myne may easlye fynde it sh●we not I praye the so lyttle amyti● to her that hath no thing but is thyne And beleue that thy dyssymulatiō hath no power to vanquishe my Judgemēt For thy sighes ryght well do manyfest that whiche thou endeuerest to couer Consyder thou y ● by reason lesse ought not to be y ● loue than the fraternitye And that moste agreable shal be to me y ● death yf thou by the same mayste receiue the more ●oye use lyfe seyng that I se the in the state ouer muche to suffer and longe tend●ure But call agayn the ●perites and regarde y ● fortune is of the prosperus enemye and of the myserables the moste great hope So sythen that ver condycion is mouable and inconstant yea and suche as the most happye ought not to reioyse of her fauor thou oughtest not than in any wyse to dispay●e the of her ●eueuolēce for she con●u●●eth alwayes new accidētꝭ to folkes hertes to then●e y ● necessyte haue ▪ not knowledge of her power Therfore reserue not to the alone y ● solytarines dyspleasant in thy displesures Thou knowest wel that y e most sorowfull dothe comforte hym selfe whā his passyō is cōmunicate to his frende for the recreatiō of the worde doth demynishe the dolor of y ● mynde So than yf the keys of my consayll may open any remedy wherfor refusest thou them takyst thou pleasure so to thynke day nyghte in thy paynes losenge so muche tyme to speake to thy selfe alone Beleue me I knowe y ● in the greater is the yll that thou couerest than that whiche thou manyfestest but how soeuer it be the daunger is greater to couer it than to disclose it Specyallye to me who berith the more Amyte in the mynde than the mouthe can tell Nowe fearynge to be displeasāt I wyl no more Importune the of my requeste but nowe ende this matter dyspleasant whiche endyd Desyrynge to gyue my suster some contentacyon I made her this answere ▪ ❧ ❧ ❧ THou holdeste me madame my suster so passyoned for thy passyon that I muste of force declare to the that whiche my demonstrations shewe the And that more for thyne importunytye than for the wyll y ● I haue therof For y ● yf I had not se●e thy wepynge vnfayned thou haddeste neuer knowen of me this trew answer neuertheles before thou knowe ●ny thyng I pray the y ● sythen that my tonge shall reuele the myne yll that for y ● same wyll not to payne the. For my lyef shall ende before the begynnyng therof take ende ¶ Thou shalt vnderstonde than my suller that more by an estrange force than by my propre wyl I am cōstrayned to submit me to the lawes of lo●e Wherby my fortune hath made me so great in obeisāce as lyttel in repose And more yet in suffrynge For in the myddes of my sorowfull espryte all myne ylles haue assieged me and yet of suche sorte holde me assiged that for all the resystance that I can doo my good agaynst the yll by mynes in myneng nether by ladders in mowntynge can not attayne y e victorye For that the loue defendeth it selfe rudely agaynst my fortune whiche dothe assaylle so slowlye y t yf I haue no soccor by the deth late otherwyse shal I recouer it ❧ ❧ ❧ ❧ ¶ Therfore suster I praye the payne not thyselfe for my dyspleasure but rather reioyce the that thou hast suche a brother as can by the force of his vertue endure so muche yll And yf thou euer desyre me to do any thynge for the cause that I se no more thys● thy teres to water thy fayre vysage for yf by wepynge I colde helpe me myne alone without helpe of thyne shoulde warrant me ☞ ❧ ☞ ¶ Than sythen y ● for them the passiō augmentith and the yll dem●nisheth not it is muche better to refrayn thē and to remoue thoccasyon to empyre my torment Accordynge to y ● whiche thou hast tolde me thou closest y ● port of my consell and openest it not to my wyll We a●●or●e thou to lyue in Joye and I in sorowe in this worlde For y ● pleasures that for me I woold choyse I remyt to the for that only to the they are iustly d●we and to me apperteynith the possession of displeasures ● trauayles seynge that I can manly better suffer them than thou and considerynge that in the ther is to lytell lodgyng to lodge suche aduersities Therfore I pray the be co●tē● that we lyue thou in Joye and I in sorow● And yf otherwyse thou do I wyl beleue that thou wylt not me the good that thou sayest sythen y ● thou knowyst that it is my wyll y ● thou seest that thy tormente doubleth my passyon learne than nomore to sorow for the torment that I endeure other wyse I shall haue more trauayle felynge the more to trauayle THis Purpose endyd my suster seynge that otherwyse I dyd not satisfy her request determined without more to importune me tenquyre by subtel meanes y e cause originall wherof ꝓceded my very great ylles And as theffectes a more ous do present to the Judgemement of men dyscrete the passyons of the tyme to come So infynite sorowes and dyspleasures made me ordynarye cōpeny wherfore after that my suster was retyred I gaue place more than before to mine accustomid dolor Helas who coulde nombre the quantytye of my passyons yf it be not he that hath exthewyd lyke fortune what anguishe what playntes gaue than knowledge to my tormentyd herte of her great power duryng y ● which I was w tout any repose weryeng without cessyng my varyable memorie to the sownde of my thoughtes And as I aryued to the poynte of my desperation it cam to my romēbrance that albeit I had here tofore declared to a gentylman companyon and frende parte of the loue that I bare to Lucēda and that he hymselfe had endeuored somwhat to tast it also by thoccasyō wherof I spake not sy●s to hym of the same for seynge the daunger that myghte ha● therof and knowyng also right wel y ● in suche affayres yf the silence be not of commendacyon he that is in the pursewte putteth hymselfe in totall perdycyon seynge that the only secret is the crowne of y e louer yet neuer the les omitting all theise doubtꝭ behynd I concludyd agayne to dyscouer to hym of whome I speake
¶ A certayn treatye moste wyttely deuysed orygynally wrytten in the spaynysshe lately Traducted in to Frenche entytled Lamant mal traicte de samye And nowe out of Frenche in to Englysshe dedicat to the ryght honorable lorde Henry Erle of Surrey one of the knyghtes of the moste honorable ordre of the Gartier Sōne and heyre apparaunt to the ryght hygh and myghtie prynce Thomas duke of Norfolke hygh Treasorour and Erle mershall of Englande ¶ To the ryght honorable lorde Henry erle of Surrey John̄ Clerc wysheth contynuall helthe ALbeit this worke right honorable lorde is in the Frenche entytled as aforesayd onelye dysposeth of suche lyght matyer of folysshe Loue as by a longe season reygned betwene Atnalt and Lucenda Yet neuertheles thynkynge assuredly your Lordshyp shall fynde that herein with per●●ce the same shal mysse in some others And knowyng by lōge experyēce not onely the great wysdom and synguler iudgement ●●er ●●th God the dysposer of all thynges ▪ hath moste abundantly endowed you But also the excedyng great paynes and trauayles susteyned by your selfe in traductions aswell out of the Laten Italien as the Spanyshe and Frenche wherby your Lordshyp ●u●moūteth many others not onely in knowledge but also in laude and cōmendacyon lyke as I distrust not the same wyll rather prudently accordynge to your accustomed fasshyon regarde and consyder the wytty deuyse of the thynge the maner of Locucyons the wyse sentences and the subtyll and dyscret answeres made on bothe parties in my power opynyon not vnworthy to be noted than otherwyse without 〈◊〉 ge the same wyllengly reic●●● it So I thought cōuenyent by these to sygnyfye that in this traduction I haue not estemyd the order of the wordes in ● other tonges as it is seen some haue done i sōdry places of theyr trāslacions wherby it is not only thought they publysshe theyr owne folye but also vndoubtedly certayne that they by the same in the place of lybertie submyt themselfes to seruy eu ●e without hauyng res●●●●e to tho●seruacy●n of that thyng whiche in this case ●o moste specyally 〈◊〉 wherby the sence of the Aucthour is oftē deproued and the grace ne perfection of tho●●●e other tonge dewly expressed but vnderstandynge that euery tonge hath his ꝓperties maner of Locucyons perticuler vehemēcies dignyties and rychesses I haue arrested my self onely vpon the sentēces maiesties therof so curyously as I fyrmely trust thin●euciō of thauthor is truely expressed i ● declaratiō wherof lyke as I humbly beseche your Lordshyp to take thyse my lytell laboures great good wyll in acceptable yt as y e monumēt of my power herty affection alwayes borne to the same So hauyng most fyr●e confydence in your great bountie I dystrust not the same wyll take for satisfaction not that I do but that I desyre ▪ wrytten at Lamby the the .xvii. daye of Marche 1●4● ¶ The Auctour AFter that I had this somer passed en●prysed a voyage more for y e necessyte of another than for my pleasure for the accomplysshement wherof it was conuenyent for me to absent my selfe farre from this countree had after y t also conforma blie therunto by a longe tyme trauay led in the same I came by chaunce in to a great deserte no lesse solytarie of people than displesaunt to passe thorughe And as this coūtree was vnknowen to me So thynkyng to go y e right way I strayed ī such sorte as I coulde not eftsones directe my self aswel for y e great displeasur y t I had as for the lacke of some one of whom I might demaūd y e same lyke as beyng in such necessytie I knew y ● yf the pla te was abundaūt of solytude desert that in me moch more excedyd y e passyon So than aduysynge all ꝑtes suthe vertue had myne ●yes as they gaue some cōforte to my tormented hert when y ● in a forest far from me beyng the wether fayre clere I had know ●●dge that in y e place by some smoke that yssued from thense ther was ha ●yta●ion of people wherfore I thoughte it beste to trauayle thyther And albeit passing thorugh y e thyckenes of the wode I founde the way so rude diffycyle as I repented me no lesse to haue enterprysed it than I desyred y t yssue therof Yet neuertheles euyn as I had begonne it So determyned I ●●ot to surcease but to passe thorughe And pursewyng in my Jorney as the ●onne begon to ●ouche I arryued on ●n hygh hyl syde frō whens I might easelye deserne the origynall place of the sayd smokes that yssued from the howse of a certayne gentylmā which ●he had newly in y t place caused to be edefyed was all paynted w t coloure blacke from y e foundacyon vnto the hygbest parte of the same Wherof I receyued suche meruayle that aswell to mu●e ther of as for y e desyre that I had to repose me I forgat all my pa● sed trauayles approchyuge to the same I was by chas●●e very nyghe vnto a place where certayn men dyd walke who in theyr countenaunces apparell resembled to be replenysshed with great doloure and heuynes of the whiche one lykelye to be estemed mayster and gouernoure amonges them walked before who w t heuye syghes passed y e tyme yet neyther his coulour ●● leane vysage had not alte ●yd his gētyll noryture educacyon ¶ And albeit wel he shewed hym selfe aduysyng me beyng nere vnto hym howe woche at y e fyrste syght he was ther of estouned ▪ yet neuerthelsse he dis symuled it receyued me most genty● ly desyrynge me to dyscende come a fote After knowynge my trauayle he caused furniture to be made for my repose toke me by y e hād to cōduct me in to this his sorowfull house Than ●● who of y ● straunge place receyued great maruaile endeuored myself no ●sse ▪ than I could well so note y e syngularyties of the same amonges the whiche beynge aryued at the gate I ●awe aboue it thre whyte rolles wher ●● was wrytten ☞ ❧ This is the sorowfull howse verament Of one that dyeth and doth lament Bycause death to his death wyll not cōsent WHen I had very intentyuely red them we passed further sawe that all thinges of that howse repre●ented greuous dolour For from the ●oundacyon of y e same vnto the hygh ●st parte therof other thynges appered not but sorowe heuynes Wher ●ore I wolde not than demaunde the ●ause therof but reserued it vnto a ty ●e more conuenyent ❧ ❧ ❧ ● From thense he brought me in to the halle where without long● tary enge was brought the supp●t wit● great abundaunce of vitayles goo● ordre of seruyse ⚜ ❧ ☜ ¶ Shortly after y ● sorowfull knyght knowynge the trauayle that I ha● sustayned brought me hymself in t● a chambre where he left me and ret●red with so sorowfull a vysage tha● it was meruayle Than beynge alon● I
Seest thou not that it is impossyble for the to receyue helth of the yll that thou hast and that clerely the signes present make the knowe thy perdyo●ō to come bycause that thyne eyes or the ladde●s of thy fayth are situat in so hyghe a place that thou oughtest fonner truste to ●alle than to mounte Thou shalt be he that shal haue more yll For thou were he y ● leaste of good ought to presume ❧ ⚜ ❧ ¶ O es●●a●●● of thy selfe that arte so wery of lyfe and not of desyre Alas howe great was thyne infortunye in brynging the forth I se that by lyttle and lyttle thouendyst and that thy de syre at th ende shall vanquisshe y ● Hast thou not than great reason to wyshe the death yf for the welth of the hart thou desirest it yet thou oughtest to refuse it to exchew y ● ꝑdiciō of thy soule ¶ Now knowe I not what to chose what to saye ne what to ▪ demaunde O my sperite so dessolate why haste thou choysen an habitacion so sorowfull And thou myne eye ▪ the mortall ennemye of my sorowfull harte haue I deserued that thou shuldest● so submyt y ● to the deceipteful lawes of loue Thou knewest not that the recompēses of hym are vayn whan the seruyses are moste great and mass●fe And yet thou knewest ryght well that in y ● order of trew loue yf the lyef fall not the tormētꝭ are euer at y ● ●ot● Thou knewyst well thy feblenes wherfore woldest thou than submyt the vnder so stronge an hande But thou mayst answere me that thou hast had so lyttle power to dysobey hym at the fyrste as nowe to forget hym whiche is all the yll y t I se therin O thou vnhappy than that the more puysaūce lackyth the the more thy playnt again renforceth it selfe And where by thy dedes thou thoughteste to enryche thy memorye thou haste now lesse meane to do it wherof thou shalte receyue the more shame beyng thyne honnor affē dyd and thy lyefe in daunger For accordyng to this recōpence thou haste more occasyon to cōmplayn the than to allow the of eny well doynge ¶ Than sythen it is so take pacyence in paymente of the warre that thou haste be gone and in y e same suffer the strokes y t thou trusteste whiche hereafter shal be sharpe for the but as yet easy and lyght howbeit tendure them to th ende the lyef and vndrestandyng wyll war werye and yf by that thou ease not thy selfe haue recouers to reason wepe thy solytarynes and holde the gates open to deathe For whan thou shalte not thynke therof thou shalt fynde that remedye whiche the vnderstāding reason shal denye the. ¶ Arnalte to the Auctoure MAnye other thynges aparte I tolde my selfe whiche to th entent not to moleste the I wyll at this tyme cōmyte so sylēce But being so farre alyenat from my selfe I begā to rowe the galle of my passyons and yet beyng there tōrmented of so great anguyshe colde I not attayn the port of repose wherfore w t somache trouble I put in obliuion all myne accusto myd pleasures withoute more to goo but verye seldome or lyttle with the kynge or elswhere And forasmoche as my frēdes dyd cōtenually enquyre of myne estate I determeni● one euynynge to go to y ● palais where so sone as the kynge had perceyued me after he had asked me of my helth he commaunded me to be at a torney whiche certayn Jentylmen of the ●ourte had enterprysed And albeit I was than more dysposed to solytarynes than to great assemble Yet to obbey hym I determyned to force my wyll tellyng hym that sythen he had cōmandyd me I was redy to doo it whereuppon he made me tunderstande in what sorte it shoulde be and the daye that euery one shoulde be redye ❧ ❧ ¶ Nowe the tyme appoynted beynge cōme wherin it was necessarye texetute tha●●ayres by effect I desired the kynge he wolde caūse to cōmaūde the ladyes of the Citie to be as well at the mōmerye at nyght as at the tornay in y ● day wherunto he was agreable ¶ So was I assured that Lucenda wolde not be left be hynde Wherfore great trybulacyon sodenly inuadyd myne heuy hert and myne anguyshes were than medled w t excedynge great and soubdayne motions So that in one instaūt I was so ioyful as I was woont to be melancolique The tyltes erected prepared and the assaillaūt● begynnynge to put them vpon thee rankes I came to passe before the escaffaulte of the Quene makynge ●●y horsse to flynge and praūce Than by chaunce through the syght of my ●rmet I sawe Lucenda ba las howemuche agreable to me was this pleasaunt aduenture Neuertheles for y ● busynes wherin I was occupyed the best that I could I dyssimuled it and to make y ● ●understand what was the tokyn that I bare it was a payre of balaunces with the● weyghtes th one of them was grene and tother blacke the grene was hygh and the blacke very lowe and wryten abowte ¶ The lyttle that my trust doth pease Sheweth clery howe moche heuye To my suffrance styll without ease Bycause● the nyghte approched the ●orney endid wherfore y ● men of armes went to dyfa●●he them and the kynge with the ladyes retired them to the palais After the howre cōme to maske the maskers entred in to the hall some toke them to daunce some to cōmen with he● y ● he woolde ch●wse But alas I sorowfull put me more to complayne of my mysfortune than before seynge me so power of the good that was to me ne●ssarye and so ryche in part●rbacion and syghes yet I assured my selfe and came raddresse me to Lu●enda dowting neuertheles more to be refused of her than otherwyse that not withstāding I desyred her to 〈◊〉 wherunto she had not wyllynglye agreed yf the custom had not forced her So she rose put me ●urth her hande alas who coulde expresse the Joye and the yll that I felt than togyther For my dolours to muche augmented them selfes seyng my benifete so nere and my remedy so farre absent thapparell that I ware witnessyd it ryghte well For I had that daye a Cloke brodered wherein was wryten ❧ ❧ ❧ ¶ Doulefull he is as he that dyeth ▪ And yet the death doth hym not streke But more and more styll hym he flyeth whiche he most pensif ●othe to seke WHen the dawnce was en dyd Lucēda retyred her so nere●● quene y ● it was not possyble for me y ● I colde holde her purpos without to be vnderstand of others wherfore I determyned to god to make a letter and cause her to vnderstond by wrytynge that whiche I could not than tell her by mouth Than I with drewe me in to a gardrobe but so soone as I had the penne and the paper in my hande I felt the passyons of the mynde ●●pproche me by the meane wherof with excedynge great payne I endyd my
to the all my affections trustyng that he wold haue petye and wold besaythful also that whiche harded me to do it was for that he was next neyghboure to Lucē●a whom I myght se yf I were loged in the howse of my frende ¶ Therfore I sente to praye hym to cōme to see me whiche he dyd at his aryuall I told hym the cawse wherfore I sent for hym And y ● truste that I had in hym wherfore he thankyd me affectuouslye And so muche as at the fyrste he assayed to dystracte me frome this loue so muche he shewyd me vysage to fynd it good to soccor me by thoccasiō wherof The more to moue hym to take compassyon of me I sayde to hym ❧ ☞ ⚜ My faythfull frende yerso yf nowe I shewe y e and present before the y t whiche hetherto I haue dylygenly kepte in sylence The cause therof is the trust that I haue of thy great vertue And thou oughtest not to fynde yll y ● longe delay that I haue made therin For thou knowist right well how muche in amoreus affectiō the splen●● is estemed the dysclosure worthy great reproche by y ● mean wherof I was in great confusyon neuertheles thy bo●tye hath put an end to all this doubtes So that therby I haue felt my payne wekyned than sythen it is so where sholde I knowe better to lodge my secret thā betwen thy hādes seynge that thy vertue and the loue that thou bearest me shal be confome to kepe it well Nowe Brother and ●r●nde I aduertyse the that agaynst the death and the lyfe I haue susteyned by a longe tyme. ❧ ❧ ¶ The assault of a breche much dimynysshed with the death for y e she wyll not haue me and with y e lyfe for that the greuyth me Whiche assaulte so crewell I began whan the father of Lucenda dyed whiche was the daye that fyrste I sawe her and vnto this present hath contynewyd w tout knowynge any meane to peace me tr●uce in the same For loue seynge me so submytted to his cōmaūdementes hath woūded me with all his power by his pāges enpoysonid in suhe sorte as he beynge his fyght rude and my force weke hath brought me euen to amortall ende So contynewell haue ben his assaultes my defence of so lytle effecte That by this occasion y ● folkes of whome I was woont to ayde me haue betrayed me leauynge me sole retyrenge them selfes into other places And that wors is the trust doth leaue me the remedye flyeth me The reason hydeth it selfe and the socoure hurteth me so that by necessety forced I must yelde me into y ● hādes of crewell death And yf thou thinke y ● in tellynge y ● this I am alyenat of spyryte ¶ Beleue yerso that it shoulde be to me a great benyfyte not to haue any iudgement For hauynge not knowledge of my great losses I sholde not ●e●ey●● for them any sorowe for that beyng of vnderstāding iudgemēt de pryued 〈…〉 should neither trust to haue 〈…〉 ●● 〈…〉 ●e ●et haue feare of yll ●● So 〈…〉 not trusting for any thyng ● sh●●o● not despere of my soccor of 〈…〉 as I doo at this tyme presēt Therfore de●e frende seyng me suche as thou seest me I haue not knowyn more wherof to fortyfie me than by the force of thy amyte and the armes of thy consayll and to helpe me therin I ha●e thought that sethen thy lodgyng is so ●ere to y ● same of Lucēda and that other good I can not haue therof tha● to see her that at y ● leaste I may be ●f so lytell athing satysfied whiche is the cause y ● I haue sende to seke the ▪ To th ende that after y ● thou hast know in my tormēt thou soccour me as muche as thou canst and as I truste of the and as the amyte which knowith it selfe in y ● necessite wyl and entēdeth seinge y t now thou art come in tyme to do it And for bycause I beleue y ● thou woldest haue more desyre therof than I haue to demaund it I wyll nomore imporune y ● of the same ¶ The answere of yerso to Arnalte FRende Arnalte I playne me to the and of the for the doubt end dystruste that thou hast had of me and with greater reason that the● oughtest not by so longe tyme to dyssymule thyne yll towardꝭ me though it were so that by the lawes of trewe loue it was otherwyse ordeynyd ¶ But they that be so secret lose com mōly by holding theyr peace y ● which they shoulde obteyne without doubt declarynge it ❧ ❧ ❧ ¶ Nowe Arnalte suffice y ● that more shall oure in me the yll that I haue to see y ● yll to suff●e Thā the discours of my complaynt to lament the for y ● which greuyth the dysplesith me so y ● I can not comprehende it in my memorye aduertysyng thy surely that yf thy tormēt myght part it self in two I woolde take wyllyngly the greatest part thereof But to the wyll I remit that whiche with y ● worke I can not execute ❧ ☞ ❧ ☞ ¶ Thou sayest that the beaultye of Lucenda destroyeth thy lyfe of one only occasyon thy care myne ꝓcede for yf sh● cause the to haue passyō she falleth myne helth Neuertheles to th entent that dyuersyte knowe not it selfe in thy wyll and myne I wyl frōhensforth forget to thynke so geuyng the sewerty to doo the pleasure to put peas in my warres Albeit greuouse payne it is to me whiche thou beyng in the state y ● thou art haste no mean to knowe and the lesse thanke shalt thou can me to do this yet neuertheles aswel to render me fre as to leaue the in the seruytude y ● thou desirest I wyll do it to assewre so muche my lybertye as I haue of dystrust of her recompence And so by my w torawynge I shal be free and thou shalt rest in y ● puysāce of her Thou prayest me also to gyue the consaylt and receyue thy playntes yf my consayle could pro●●et the so muche as thyne yll hath power to cause me to lament thou shouldest tarry without any payne But to tell the that whiche I thynke therof I maruaylle howe thou hast wylled to consent that the force of thy vertue is vanquysshed by a thynge of so lytell pryse And that thou y ● was vāquer or of thynges more daungerous nowe art by a woman vanquysshed Remēber the how muche is dyspraysed the renowme whiche rēdrith it selfe infamyd by suche infamye And as far as I can parceyue thyne espyryte vnbyndeth thy fayth and thy reason leauyth y e in suche sorte as thou thyselfe to thy power doste endomage thyne owne lyberty Auoyde thou suche abuses and resyst manly suche extremyte of loue not that I wolde consayle the that thou altogyther absent thyselfe But that thou esteme it feare serche and refuse it for there is no lesse danger to moche to auoyde