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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31544	The famous history of Auristella originally written by Don Gonsalo de Cepedes ; together with the pleasant story of Paul of Segovia, by Don Francisco de Quevedo ; translated from the Spanish.; Español Gerardo. Parte 1, discurso 2. English	Céspedes y Meneses, Gonzalo de, 1585?-1638.; Quevedo, Francisco de, 1580-1645. Historia de la vida del Buscón. English.; W. B.	1683 (1683)	Wing C1782; ESTC R9238	26,201	146

in my furious indignation I might not give her time to justifie her self That same Maid related also to me how Auristella had oblig'd him to do what he did because that hearing of the knocks I gave at the Gate which one of my people had shut unawares she apprehended that I would enter into some just suspition of her Ah! dear Bennato said she wherefore did your prudence permit it self to be governed by the ill grounded fears of a Woman I was a thousand times about to take vengeance on my self of the tragical end of my friend but Heaven thought it not fit that it might reserve me for something more cruel I could not yet have any news of Auristella whom I sought in vain therefore I concluded 't was best for me to hide my self so leaving the House in that confusion as cannot easily be imagined I went to the Convent of the Carthusian Fathers who recieved me with all possible humanity and secur'd my unhappy Life which has been destined to infinite troubles a thousand times worse than death it self I was privately visited by my particular friends who took all imaginable pains to represent my innocence and procure my pardon Auristella was retired to a Nunnery as soon as she recovered her fall into the street which was not without much hurt and with some difficulty first got as well as she could to a House which she saw open and there discovered to the master what she was who charitably received her But the next morning they were informed with what diligence the Officers of Justice searched after her and me and therefore they thought it convenient to lead her to a Nunnery I had notice thereof all most as soon as it was done which gave me as much comfort as I was capable to recieve but Heaven would not that I should long have it and I was but at the beginning of my miseries All these mortal discontents so strongly seiz'd on Auristellas heart together with the dismal bruises she receiv'd by her fall that she fell into a great sickness her memory perpetually tormenting her with the consideration to find her self exposed to the evil tongues of the people guessing at what risque her Honour and Reputation was subjected so that in few dayes there was a period put to her unhappy Life But first she applied her self to the superior of that Nunnery to whom she gave sealed written with her own hand and requested that it might be instantly delivered unto me I received it about the same time as I heard of the deplorable news of her death Nothing is capable to express the griefs of my Soul the alination of its Faculties and the subversion of my Senses I was a long time as it were hovering betwixt death and life which was protracted onely to bring eternal afflictions on me And to conclude this mournful Discourse behold what remains to be further known in the proper terms of the Letter to me Auristella to Philander THE Day is come my Dear Philander on which I must pay to Death an inevitable Debt 'T is an execution of that rigour which no person can be exempted from Although I have resentments of all that humane weakness can on such occasions produce he who stands ready to be my Judg truly knows that the greatest torment which I suffer is to be separated from your amiable Company and my chiefest sadness is not able once more to see you to bid you farewel to clear up your suspitions and to assure you of my fidelity which has been inviolable ever since the happy day of our Marriage to the last moment of my Life And since I am come to the time to speak the truth which relates to the Eternal Salvation of my Soul It is but just dear Philander that you be informed as well as the whole world of a Secret which I have so long concealed to the prejudice of my Conscience Read carefully this Letter and you will pardon my offence if it be true that it was done against your Honour to have done a thing which was executed against my consent against my will and before vve vvere married I persvvade my self that you vvill do Justice to my Innocence that my Reputation be not stained either before you or before those vvho shall have notice of my misfortune I doubt not but you still remember the unhappiness which so much afflicted our Family on the day you came to Toledo which possibly might prognosticate the present disgraces You may call to mind also the diligence which was used to find the Assassinate of our Andreo the Biscaner which then proved unsuccessful and still might be so to the Day of the last Judgment if this which is my last did not oblige me to declare and protest that my unhappy Self was his Murdress his infamous Treachery will I hope obtain my pardon at the Sovereign Tribunal next to my extream and hearty repentance for my sins Know then dear Philander that no sooner had the Biscaner been informed of my Fathers Return and that our Marriage was concluded on but he fell sick of a Feaver which in the beginning seemed very dangerous my Parents who loved him as their own Child procured the most renowned Phisitians of the City to attend him who could find no remedy that could relieve him and said his Malady proceeded from an excess of Melancholy which made our whole Family very mournful for him The Night before you came thither he made me know to my utter ruine what it was that reduced him to that miserable condition It was about Midnight yet I was not asleep that I heard some walking in my Chamber where to my sorrow I was that Night without a Bed-fellow and opening the Curtains of my Bed I saw our sick Biscaner appear whom I supposed to have some Delirium by the excess of his Feaver and I not seeming to be angry for his audacious coming into my Chamber and so late at night when I was laid in Bed spoke to him in as affable a manner as if I had been his Sister and far Heaven knows from suspecting any ill design against me But he with a profound sigh looking on me with a furious eye spake to me in these Terms It is most certain Auristella that the grief I feel can have no remedy but from your hands in which is my Life You have obligations enough which I hope will deter you from being ungrateful to me for the good offices and services I have rendred you and in a time too when your cruel Father treated me with so much rigour I waited not for a requital of the pains I took in your Education nor of that which I suffered in his absence towards the subsistance of his Family with honour all which I did with a kind of delight and satisfaction in hopes nevertheless of some acknowledgment at least to have granted me to pass my remaining daies in the beloved Company of the fair Auristella which

him the good service he had done and particularly during his absence that I could not condemn the resentments of his unfortunate End nor the strange reception I found This occasioned hower the delay of our Marriage for two daies which seemed so many long years for having seen the fair Auristella and enjoyed her lovely society my desires were inflamed with greater violence At last the happy day was come and the night so mutually desired But alas no sooner was I faln asleep but the hands and cries of Auristella awakened me in a strange afright lowdly calld me to the assistance of her Fathers House which at the same time was consuming by dreadful flames I hastily put on my Gown and immediately ran from my Apartment being lighted by the sparkling Flames that this pitiless Element sent upwards to its Sphear then running to the place where they appeared most violent I met Lorenzo his Wife and others of the Family and in a moment the Bell giving the occustomed Signal all the Neighbourhood being alarmed came and used all possible diligence to put some stop to the force of the Fire All the House being filled with noises and cries in that confusion I saw and heard my Auristella my greatest and chiefest care in this misfortune was for her to whom I came being called by the sad Ecchoes of her Sighs I found her in a Swoon between the arms of her loving Mother near to a deep Well where all the servants were which redoubled my afflictions when they told me that the cause of that mortal Aecident was no less dolorous than the death of the miserable Biscaner and that a young Damosel named Mariana servant to Auristella employing her self among the rest to draw water out of the Well to give it to others to quench the Fire was faln into it in the sight of her Mistris and was therein drowned before she could be taken up but when with much adoe she was taken out it did so much augment the Tears of the Mother and Daughter who loved her dearly having bred her in their service from her Childhood that nothing was able to comfort them and I could add less consolation to them than others in the pitiful Estate which these sad adventures had reduced me to In fiine Time which is a Grand Master heald all these troubles though they still seemed present to my remembrance as sad Auguries and unhappy Presages of our Marriage Having passed some months at Toledo I received Letters from my Father to require my return and Auristella took leave of her Parents which was not performed without many Tears We set forwards and Bennato with us who returned from the Court to Seville from whence he went about the same time as I did he came very opportunely and was so kind as to keep us company by which means our Journey seemed very agreeable At length we came to my Fathers House where we were expected with much impatience by whom and our Kindred we were received with many marks of the greatest welcome which much contributed to moderate the griefs which Auristella by being now removed from her own Parents We had convenient Lodgings assigned us where we were daily visited by my dear Friend Bennato I lived so contented a life with my dear Auristella that I could hardly consent to be one moment from her but the Fates envying my Repose permitted me not longer to enjoy the pleasures which I had done above four years past The friendship which was contracted between Bennato and my self was so great that seldome a day passed without an interview he coming to me or I to him and we lived with such conformity as if we had lain in the same Belly and been nourished with the same Bloud But one day that Bennato could not meet me nor I him being as it were jealous of each other attributing it to some neglect which would at the same time give some marks of our careful respect and seeing it was late I resolved to wait for him at his Lodging and he at the same time came to mine with design not to stir from thence till I returned Auristella who was indisposed kept her Bed near whom Bennato staid expecting my return whilst I weary with expectation of him at length came home remitting my Visit to some other time But finding the Door shut which was never done when I was abroad I knockt several times e're it was opened I must protest that this gave me some slight suspition I drew near to a little Crany which appeared through the ill-joyned Boards to see or hear what passed in the House would Heaven had rather made me blind than permitted me to have had such a Curiosity I saw a Slave descending carrying a man on his shoulders towards the Garden-door where leaving him he came and opened that at which I stood One may judg of the trouble and alteration that this sight gave me I no sooner entred but I ran to the Garden where I perceived a man to hide himself among the Myrtles which more than my Transport was the cause of his Death For being not well able to put himself in a posture of Defence nor disengage himself from the Branches of the Trees I with my drawn Sword gave him three thrusts through the Body e're I could through excess of my blind passion observe that he called me by my name or tell me who he was At length falling at my feet I observed it was my intimate and faithful Bennato whom I had treated with this inhumane severity I was so surprised that I remained dying as he who with a feeble voice requested me to cause a Confessor to come unto him I had lost all sense knowing the Crime I had committed and could not but with some pain hearken to his last words which proved his Innocence and my Injustice My dear Philander said he is it possible that Heaven should consent that the Sword of my best Friend should give my mortal Wound In what has your Bennato offended that you with so much cruelty should resolve to avenge your self But I wrongfully complain against you I forgive you my Death it was a scruple ill-grounded that I had that being alone near Auristella and your Door being shut you might not suspect her hnour or my fidelity which I call Heaven to Witness has alwaies been for you inviolable Death gave him no more time but shut his Eyes he yielded up his Soul within my arms I know not how that mine took not the same way being so oppressed with Grief and Repentance I was at length constrain'd to quit this unfortunate Corps and went to Auristellas Apartment where I found her not nor in all the House through which I heard nothing but the cries of her Maids who were seeking their Mistress when suddenly one of them told me she had cast her self in her Shift out of the window into the street having been inform'd of the death of innocent Bennato fearing that