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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73047	The second booke of Primaleon of Greece.And Prince Edward of England Continuing the course of their rare fortunes, knightly aduentures, successe in loue, and admirable escape from verie perillous enchauntments: as the like delightfull historie hath sildome been heard of. Translated out of French by A.M. one of the messengers of her Maiesties chamber.; Primaleon (Romance). English. Selections.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1596 (1596)	STC 20366A; ESTC S124829	11,939	29

that I am let mee nowe die a most desperate death séeing I haue ouerthrowne the only faire flowre of chiualrie These wordes she vttered with such intire feeling passion that she fel into a swoun for a pretty whiles space when Quéene mother beholding her in this dangerous estate and fearing her life to bee now on the latest period of expectation clapping her on the chéeke thus said Alas swéet Daughter what shall I doo with thée I lookt for vengeance on that traitour Primaleon and shall I now sée thée die in whome my comfort thereof consisted Ah miserable mother Quéene much better were my death than to sée my faire hope in this extreamitie Then turning to the Knight who had deliuered this false message Away quoth she with this blacke tel-tale of sad misfortune for I cannot but thinke him a messenger of lies because if the Knight of the Clouen Rocke were dead as thou labourest so to perswade vs all the other that went with him would haue returned as well as thou Rather tell me false traitour where hast thou left him betraied by some trecherie deuised in thy disloyal hart rather than otherwise els can no one in the worlde perswade me that the famous Knight of the clouen Rocke is dead After she had thus spoken she caught her Daughter to her againe in her Armes and by casting cold water on her face chafing her temples and other such like meanes she recouered her former spirits when looking about her and seeing euerie eye wet with pittie in consideration of her case she thus began to complaine Faire Knight of the clouen Rocke is it certaine that thou art dead I cannot thinke the auspitious heauens so much enuy my good fortune neither had they so slender regard of thée offering thy life to so many dangers for my sake Be well assured that so soone as I am more certaine of thy death my soule which only depended vppon thine will quickly kéepe thée companie to the end it may enicy the pleasure and repose in another World which in thys life it was so vngently debard of there shalt thou perceiue the vnfained loue I beare thée for I might be reputed as monstrous ingratefull if I would make anie spare of my life séeing thou wast depriued of thine for my loues sake Since first thou hadst knowledge of me nothing fell to thy share but paine and trauaile hazarding still thy person for defence of mine now let not me burie thy kindnesse in obliuion but by conuersing with thée familiarly in death make knowen the true sympathie of my affections with thine Peraduenture it may be that I was vnworthie to enioy thée as myhusband and therefore Heauen thought it méete to cut thée off so soone onely to forestall me of so high a happines and that Primaleon might liue in better assurance than hee did while thou liuedst for none in the world was more likely to take downe his presuming thoughts than thou nor anie able to finish my solemne vow but onely thou These and a number such like lamentations she vttered swouning manie times whereby Quéene Mother greatly despaired of her life when weeping ouer her she thus spake Alas Daughter why séekest thou to kill me with this griefe of thine Had I knowen what entyre loue thou didst beare the knight I would haue giuen better scope to it than hether too I haue done Beléeue not I pray thée that hee is dead because the reporter of these newes is a lyer and a traitor as euermore all his kindred haue béen let vs send for the other which came home with him to the end we may perfectly know the certain truth of these things Send for them quoth Gridonia and let vs heare what they say for if the Knight of the clouen Rocke be dead indéed make no question but I shall spéedely follow him After the other people of the shippe were brought before them she commaunded them to tell the truth in dooing of they shold sustaine no harme otherwise to assure themselues of greuous punishmēt Hereon they told how al had happened that Purente likewise said there would a Knight arriue there who should deliuer him marie their Captaine had no will to stay there such leasure but would néedes depart thence leauing all the rest behinde in hope to recouer him Traitour said Quéene mother I knew my conceit of thée would not prooue false fayre daughter leaue to torment your selfe with these tormenting passions your good Knight will return with spéed I warrant ye and all this gréefe shal be conuerted into mirth and iouisance Afterward the lying Knight was commaunded to prison the rest were set frée and recompenced because they had told the truth being not faultie in returning backe to Poland in regard their Captaine enforced them theretoo These tidings were not so displesing to both the Quéens onely but the Infant Zerphira tooke them as heauily yet not daring to expresse her gréefe outwardly she conferred with her priuate thoughts alleadging her misfortune to be cause of the worthie Knights death But being a Ladie both wise and vertuous shee concealed her sorrowes verie discréetly vsing manie comfortable perswasions to Gridoma desiring her not to credite the report of her Knights death but rather to expect his happie return and that spéedely Sister quoth Gridonia I am so vnfortunate and euermore haue béene subiect to so manie mishaps that rather ill is alwaies readie for me than good or anie taste thereof and I wunder you expresse no more heauines for his death considering what reckoning and estéeme hee euer made of you My gréefe quoth the Infant would equal yours were I assured of his death but reputing it a fable I were but vnwise in néedlesse hurting of my selfe All this day Gridonia continued like one halfe dead refusing sustenaunce and companie at night throwing her selfe carelesly vpon her bed Quéene Mother lay down by her to comfort her and sléepe she could not till extremitie of heauines enforced both her theretoo No sooner were they both asléepe but a strange deformed Dwarffe entred the chamber and taking Gridonia by the arme softly awaked her whereat she being amazed and taking him to be Risdeno she said Tell me I pray thée how camest thou hither at this vnfit time where is thy Lord and mine for Gods sake tell me is he aliue or dead Madam answered the dwarffe I am not Risdeno but one as desirous as he to doo ye anie seruice onely for the Knights sake ye loue so déerely whom you imagine to bee dead as I gather by your sad and wofull lamentations I come to assure ye that he liues though a while enchaunted and shal be deliuered by a most valiaunt and worthie Knight who will set him frée that to reuenge your wrongs hath made himselfe a prisoner and of this assuredly perswade your selfe that you shall sée him re-returne verie shortly Now in regard ye should not dye with conceit of gréef I am expressely sent hether to tell yee

these glad tidings for should not the Knight of the clouen Rocke finde you well at his comming I know it would be his death immediately These newes made Gridonia excéeding ioyfull and looking about for the Dwarffe she beheld a Man of a tall stature olde and wrinckle-faced standing by her which greatly astonished her saying What great wunders are these My friend by the reuerendfaith thou bearest to God I charge thée tell me if the tidings I haut heard be true or no and what is become of the Dwarffe that spake to me euen now whome I at the first tooke to be Risdeno seruant to the Knight of the clouen Rock whose absence thus gréeueth me Madame said the old man doubt not any thing ye haue heard for they are most certain concerning the dwarffe yea aske for my selfe was he who did it to acquaint yee with my powerfull skill that the better credit might be giuen to my spéeches My good frend replyed Gridonia heauen quite ye for this kindnes how much haue ye eased my troubled minde by this gladsome report But séeing your skill is such I pray ye tell me more concerning the Knight of the clouen Rocke say of what race he is discended séeing you are so well acquainted with him Faire Quéene answered the old man know that the Knight is of so high linage such great valour and esteeme as he hath not his equall in the world except Primalcon onely to whom you beare such deadly hatred and héere of resolue your self no Knight is able to bring ye Primaleons head but this famous Knight of the clouen Rocke who indéed shall giue it ye and raise ye to such dignitie withall as you shal be the onely happie Ladie of the world Loue him therefore with all your hart for yee haue great reason to doo so as for describing him more openly to ye that will I neuer yéeld to because I should therein offer him no meane iniurie in regard he desires to trauaile thus concealed Alas my friend replied Gridonia in that poynt I account my selfe most vnfortunate because I can attaine to no certaintie thereof and séeing you refuse therein to satisfie me tell me then the reason why he is so loth to haue himselfe knowen Because hee tooke such an oath quoth the olde man when hee left his Countrey but the tyme will come when you shal better know him and then wil you estéeme your fortune matchlesse being Ladie of such a Knight compleat in all perfections nor can hee be fellowed by anie one but he that must deliuer him from this Enchauntment who is of no lesse vertues than hee and trauailes shadowed in such manner as he doth Great friends will both these Knights be in this voyage but in time hereafter their loue shal be conuerted to meruailous hatred which wil cause more griefe in you than euer as yet ye endured neuerthelesse be of good chéere and dismay not for all your fortunes shall haue a successfull conclusion All this I aduertise yee of before hand to confirme your patience the stronger and when ye remember mee to thinke on these spéeches for more at this time may I not reueale vnto ye Ye haue said alreadie 〈◊〉 much quoth she as both reioyceth and astenisheth me I pray God I may sée the happy time whereof you talke in meane while I knowe not how to expresse sufficient ●ratitude vnto ye for this your kinde preseruing of my life Madame said the old Man I will require nothing of ye at this time your gentle offer shall stay till more néedfull occasion rather let me now giue you a gift which is this King of verie great vertue this shall assure ye that whatsoeuer ye haue heard of me is no dreame but a sound truth At these words hee put the Ring vpon her finger wherein was set a most fayre Emeralde which she graciously accepted and while shee looked downe but to behold it the old Man was vanished she perceiuing the Ring to beautifull and of great value looking vp againe to thanke the olde Man for bestowing it on her wundred what was become of him gréeuing because he had so suddenly left her yet determined to be of better courage afterward This olde Man was the Knight of the Enclosed Isle who knowing Gridonia at the verie point of death by the false newes of the disloyall Knight transported himselfe thorough the ayre and came thus to comfort her So troubled was her minde with this straunge accident that she awaked the Quéene Mother to whom she shewed the Ring and rehearsed beside vnto her al the old mans spéeches The aged Quéene admyred her Discourse aplauding the heauens for these ioyfull newes saying Vndoubtedly Daughter all this cannot chuse but bee of certaintie as partly ye may perswade your selfe by his great skill entring this place in such sort as ye haue declared Chéere vp your hopes than faire Daughter and so soone as the Knight of the clouen Rocke returneth we wil intreat his trauaile to Constantinople because hee is the onely man that must reuenge our wrongs vpon Primaleon then in short time after shall both your desires be effectually concluded Madame answered Gridoma I shall thinke it ouer-long till he be héere arriued our affaires can haue no good successe till then and gladly would I sée the Knight by whom he shal be deliuered but I could not well vnderstand all the Wizards woords because hée said that to reuenge my wrongs himselfe was become a prisoner It may be the same Knight which sent me Zerohira who is reputed as valiant as the Knight of the clouen Rocke I pray God it may be he then will I labour to set vnitie betwéene them else shal I haue but little ioy by their dissention Happen what may quoth Quéene Mother God will d●fend them both from harme beeing so valiant as they are reported In these and such like conferences they spent the whole night vntill such time as breake of daye appeared then did Gridonia recite all these things againe to Zerphira whereby she receiued great ioy and contentment