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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03402	Histoire des larrons, or The history of theeves. Written in French, and translated out of the originall, by Paul Godwin; Histoire generale des larrons. English	Calvi, François de.; Godwin, Paul, fl. 1638.	1638 (1638)	STC 13523; ESTC S104108	74,053	330

bound up he was brought unto the same place where they had formerly taken him up there did they uncover his eyes and set him on foot delivering him a Billet sealed with greene Wax wherein was written these words in great Letters THE GREAT BANDE HATH LET HIM PASSE and withall advised him if he met with any one that would offer him any kinde of violence to shew unto him this Passeport telling him That by that means he should be permitted quietly to passe So Polidamor parted from them happy to have escaped out of their hands with life But scarce had he gone into the second street but he found three other Theeves ready to rifle him and now he who at first made no account of the Billet which they had given him bethought himselfe that perhaps it might stand him in stead he therefore presents it unto them which was read by one of them that carried a dark Lanthorne so they suffred him to passe and return unto his house where his wife remained in great perplexity not knowing what was become of her husband but her anxious feare was soone turned into joy by his presence and into delight by the Relation which hee made unto her of his adventures She like a loving wife not regarding the losse which he had sustained seeing smile-frowning Fortune had shewed her constant inconstancy by converting his former losse and danger into a safe returne CHAP. VIII A prodigious History of the treacheries of Valesio THose men who are perswaded that they can bring the greatest things to perfection finde themselves most often entangled by their naturall imbecility and weakenesse and most commonly the mischiefes which they contrive against their neighbours and the evills which they project against them take not successe but to their owne losse and disgrace yea those very darts which they most despightfully cast at others doe often by Gods justice reverberate against themselves Antiquitie furnisheth mee with many examples but our latter Age hath noated out one above the rest as prodigious and fearefull as beyond the sence and common opinion of men There hath not past an Age wherein the great Creator hath not made some signes of his just indignation appeare to punish the treacheries of those that imbrace actions so wicked and abominable as if hatcht in hell rather then sprung from mans invention The History which I now describe unto you is true and happened not long since the sequell whereof is as much to be admired as his end who was the cause of it was prodigious and horrible Valesio was borne in Berne a Canton of Switzerland and was sent by his father to the City of Lucerne to bee there instructed hee had a spirit full of subtilty and fit to undergoe great matters had he been honestly enclined In Lucerne hee for a time studied the Law where during his abode hee often resorted to the house of an Inn-keeper named Lucio of Zurich a man rich and wealthy with whom he grew so familiarly acquainted that he could neither eat nor drinke but in his company he lodged over against his house and it seem'd that heaven was not favourable unto him when he enjoyed not the company of this man but his affection increased when it had taken footing within his house and when hee became enamor'd with the beauty of his onely daughter This yong Valesio being inflamed with an earnest desire of injoying the feature of this maid the oftner frequented the house under pretence of visiting the Father when as indeed his greatest happinesse consisted in beholding the beauty of the daughter their eyes had already given to each other friendly enterchanges and had privately practised an alliance in their thoughts by the encounter of their rayes and their hearts quickly approved of that within which their eyes had practised without so that Valesio perceiving his affection seconded by a favourable Zephir resolved to acquaint his Love with that which his heart as yet concealed The father being advertised therof and perceiving that the inclinations and affections of these Lovers were mutuall knit them together in marriage under the sweete bonds of Hymen happy and thrice happy had they been had they not abused it but finished the number of their yeres without straying from the path of Vertue They lived two yeeres and an halfe together in all sorts of Temporall delight at the end whereof the father died of a lingering feaver happy in that he survived not to bee a spectator of the ensuing Tragedy By the death of Lucio all the inheritance fell into the possession of Valesio for his wives mother deceased long before He therefore resolved to take the same course of life as his father in law had done before him being that he found the house so well furnished The good entertainment which he at the beginning gave unto his guests purchased him a good report of every one so that if any man desired to entertaine a friend sumptuously whither must they go but to the house of Valesio there were they joyfully receaved and used with all kinde of contentment but at length the swinge which Valesio had taken made him so swell with pride that he began to forget his family that he might the better forget himselfe the courtesie which he formerly shewed unto his guests was now changed into most cruell tyranny which he often exercised upon travellers killing and massacring them like unto another Licaon his house heretofore the receptacle and seat of courtesie was now become the cut-throat and deadly place where poor Passengers were entrapped he hacked them most cruelly in peeces and made Pies therewith an unnaturall and monstrous barbarisme hee durst not have practised these cruelties towards the Citizens of Lucerne for so his wickednesse had beene discovered the delicate relish of his meat which hee provided drew unto him a multitude of guests which they with joyful greedinesse devoure whiles that he Villaine laughs at their simplicity little thinking that he himselfe should shortly feele the just judgement of God heavily lighting upon him for his monstrous and barbarous cruelties A strange blindnesse in humane conceits which perswade themselves that there is no Divinity to revenge or punish their heynous crimes and misdeeds we so flatter our selves in our wicked prosperities that we cannot beleeve we shall ever fall into those miserable punishments which wee deserve Valeio could never beleeve that the Heavens would reveale or revenge the death of those innocent Soules which hee had most barbarously slaine but the Great mover of the Heavens could no longer suffer so cruell crimes the bloud of so many poore wretches unjustly shed cried for vengeance before the glorious majesty of his face and yet this great and mercifull God staied for a time the furie of his justice to hearken to the sweet requests of mercy but hee wretched Caitiffe deferred so long repentance for his heinous misdeeds untill the weight of so many deadly crimes drew the arme of the just vengeance

market saying withall that he would not make two mishaps of one and that his Master would pay him againe The Citizen without any difficulty delivers him 20s. saying that that was all hee had about him and goes on his way with all speed supposing to finde his Farmer in great danger of death and little misdoubting of the deceit for Maillard had named unto him his grounds how and where they were seated and what store of Corne they were like to yeeld that yeer and many other particulars which he had learned at the Farmers owne house Maillard returnes and not contented with the twenty shillings hee had cheated of the Citizen resolves to doe the like to his wife he therfore makes all possible haste to the Citizens house where hee found the wife dressing her selfe and saith unto her Mistris your husbands worship hath sent me hither he is now with the Bone-setter who gives us good hope and assurance of the recovery of my Master hee desires your worship to send him twenty shillings to give the Chyrurgion in hand towards the Cure my Master will pay you assoone as his Corne is sold. The good woman being glad to hear that the Farmer was in good hope of recovery makes no scruple but delivers him twenty shillings so he departs the house and goes to his companions to whom he related his adventures but hee did not long glory in his wickednesse for the Goldsmith from whom he had cheated the Chalice chanced to espie him in Saint Germains Faire lying in wait to entrap others and by him was himself entrapped and for that and other the like cheats and robberies hee was broken upon the wheele as hee most justly deserved Divine Justice seldome suffering any long to escape who so unjustly lay hands on the goods of others and lead their lives as it were in deffiance of his Commandments who hath said Thou shalt not steale but shalt love thy neighbour as selfe and doe unto others as thou wouldest bee done unto CHAP. XXI The multiplicity of Theeves THe antiquity of theeves I have already spoken of I will now speake of the moderne and those daily conversant among us The Taylor steales demanding a third part of cloth more then needes to make a suit and when hee that causeth it to be made suspecting his honestie would bee present at the cutting of it out he troubles him and so dazles his sight with the often turning and winding the breadth and length of the piece that he makes his senses become dull with his long attention in the meane time the Taylor taking his opportunity casts the cloth into a false pleat under the sheares and so cuts it out as single when the piece is double whereby hee makes a great gaine besides what he extracts out of silver or gold Lace Buttons Silke and the like of which a good part hee condemnes to his Hell from whence there is no redemption The Weaver steales in demanding more Warp then the cloth requires weaving fifty yards in stead of fourty five and with the abundance of divers broken threds he makes one continued which is worth unto him the eighth part of what he robs The Shoemaker restores with his teeth that which he stole with his cutting knife biting and stretching the Spanish Leather to the end that out of what is given him to make one paire of shoes hee might gaine at least an upper leather unto himselfe and if the leather be his owne he puts therein a scurvie sole and sowes it with rotten threed to the end that it may weare out the sooner and hee gaine the more from his either simple or prodigall Customer The Physician and Chirurgion steale the one prescribing and the other applying medicines which may increase the disease to the end that prolonging the time of Cure they may increase their fees The Apothecary robs with a Qui for a Quo selling one Drug for another and taking that which is best cheape without considering what humor it should purge or what vertue the drug hath which he applieth by which he robs the Physitian of his reputation and the patient of his life and if by chance there is asked of him an oyle which he hath not hee will not faile to give some other instead of it that hee may not loose the credit of his shop The Merchant robs in taking extraordinary use and exceeding the just price of his Commodity and sometimes by writing downe in his booke a debt which hath beene already paid The Notarie and Clerke robs with an c. a whole inheritance for a little money will by false writing give away a mans life by a voluntary mistake writing guilty for not guilty The Lawyer and Atturney robs selling an hundred lies to their poore Clients making them beleeve that their Cause is good although they apparently see he hath no right to that he claimes And it often comes to passe that one Atturney agreeth with another to sell the right of the parties and divide the gain between themselves The Judge robs men of justice becomming passionate on the behalfe of that man who by some present hath beforehand corrupted him and violently wresting the text of Bartol and Baldus for his owne gaine The Grocer and such as sell by weight rob by nimbly touching with the little finger the tongue of the beame whereby he turnes the scale which way he pleaseth and so cheats the buyer of his weight The Booke-seller robs by selling an imperfect Booke for one perfect by recommending a Booke to his Customer for good which hee knowes to be dull and lies heavie on his hand and also by selling a Booke of an old Edition in the stead of a new The Vintner robs after divers sorts mingling and confounding one wine with another besides the water which hee puts in it and when the wine being often baptized hath lost his strength hee hangs in the vessell a little bag full of Cloves Pepper Juniper and other Drugs with which hee makes it yet seeme good and right The Butcher robbes blowing the pieces of flesh with a quill to make them seeme a great deale fairer and that they may yeeld more then they are worth The Perfumer robs by sophisticating the perfumes and by multiplying the muske with the burnt liver of a Cow the Amber with Sope and Sand and Civet with Butter The Scholer robs stealing from Saint Augustine and Aquinas c. the best of their workes and utters their doctrine as his owne seeming an Inventour of that hee is not Thus you see all rob and every Tradesman hath his way and particular craft for the deceitfull working of his owne ends CHAP. XXII A Facetious Relation of a Parisian theefe condemned to the Gallies at Marseilles SIr you may perhaps thinke that wee live disorderly without either Lawes or Discipline but you are therein mistaken for wee have first our Captaine or Superiour who ordaineth and disposeth what Thefts shall bee committed by whom and