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A07482	The famous historie of Chinon of England with his strange aduentures for the loue of Celestina daughter to Lewis King of Fraunce. VVith the worthy atchiuement of Sir Lancelot du Lake, and Sir Tristram du Lions for fair Laura, daughter to Cador Earle of Cornewall, beeing all knights of King Arthurs round table. By Chr. Middleton.	Middleton, Christopher, 1560?-1628.	1597 (1597)	STC 17866; ESTC S109998	50,146	96

where Chinon casting off his disfiguring maske begins now to shew himselfe in his owne likenes and with a watch word calling for his fellowes brauely sets vpon these their enemies where in short time they had sent to hell all the rest saue the Soldan himselfe and taking him prisoner carries him away bounde when Triamore now once againe reuelling in the treasury of his loue gins with all humble submission attribute to the honour of Chinon all the fore passed proofe of this their fortunate se●uice which they had performed But Celestina that nowe like the Thracian Damosell returned with the Lorde of her loue from the dismall Gates of Hell beginnes with the teares of true ioy to prostrate her selfe at his honorable féete whose force had againe restored her from the tedious slauerie of loathsome captiuitie to the pleasant presence of life féeding libertie vowing deuoted seruice for this her second life But Chinon disdayning that the foule faced earth shoulde enioy so much as touch of her heauenly hew with gentle intreatie rayses her vp and thus replied to her suppliant spéech Fairer quoth he than is the common composition of earthly creatures and therfore of more worth than millions if I haue ought done in this that hath bred thy content it is no more than the beséemeth the dutie of my degrée Then doe not thus attribute more honor for my méede than is due by deserts to my deed more is thy smile towards the reward of a well deseruing worke than the rich rewards of many millions of an others vowes more pleasant is the sight of an houres sunne than the show of twenty shadowed daies but thy sight excéeding the brightest shining sunne that day is at the mid dayes height the pearcing beames of euery bright eyes sight more welcome to vs than day to the wearie watch or the repose of a quiet Inne to a tyred trauailer gracest our paines with thy presence More worth is his worke that rifles in the rich bowels of the gold growne earth than hee that drudges in the bottome of a dunghill ditch and yet the last labor is more than the first but that the subiect excéeding in worth excels the reward of his work more than the trauaile graces the thing but the worth of the subiect dignifies the desert of the déede whereby our credit by thee is maintayned and not thy matchles selfe by our might magnified Looke on hym that for thy loue aduentured his life and the rewarde of my paynes is this that they redound to thy pleasure and for thée Triamore fish ●ew againe thou hast thy hearts content remember the estate of thy old father as thou toldest mee is compassed within the circle of yonder beséedged walles still expecting the spéedy help of his forward friends but yet hath this nights worke so weakned hysfues as that there is no doubt of further danger By this with such like that had they chased awaie the sable show of this silent night and next the sunne gins with chearefull countenance to looke vpon the honorable actes of their thrise prayse worthy exployts when by this time they were wandred farre from the place where they first gaue the onset to atchiue this honour where Chinon calling to him his two countrymen giues this carefull charge You two quoth he whose honors accents is euerie where blayed for your valours shal hencefoorth leaue these wandring wayes and returne with me into our Countrie where I will present to my longing Father this Pagan Prince the first frints of my Mayden manhood dooing all my humble dutie to hys Honorable age but first in safety let vs conueye these Fayre friends to their fathers Court and set them there safe from further sorrow at home that haue sustained the hard brunt of fell misfortune abroad where may as many pleasures attend them there in peace as honorable accidents happen to me in warres CHAP. VI. Of Chinons returne into England accompanied with Sir Lancelot and Sir Tristram with their most honorable entertainment there AFter that hee had thus aduentured for the recouerie of beauteous Celestina from the handes of the Soldan that had traiterously tane her away from Syr Triamore sent them home to her fathers Court to solemnize their marriage Lancelot Tristram and himselfe tooke the direct way that led then home into theyr own country that there they might in quiet tell those thinges with pleasure amongst theyr friendes which they had in trouble performed with l●bour amongst their foes In which i●u●nie no occasion of further let encountered them anie more but as fareth with ordinary trauailers they peaceablie passe ouer their iournie till they came home into Corne wall to Earle Cadors Court that was not a little glad to sée the returne of his sonne with good hap to answere the long expectation of hys faire hope he entertaines them with such curtesie as commonly passe betwixt lost friends at theyr vnacquainted méetings Chinon discoursing to hys old father the storie of their trauailes whose very wordes bréedes new life in the dryed sinnowes of hys old limmes as deeth the approaching sunne cherrish the decayed winter worne strength of the earths increase Lancelot hee presents to hys loue the Trophies of his victorie with many perswasions how for her loue hee had aduentured his life in winning those Princely Prizes the chiefe wherof whose worth exceeded all except herselfe he had bounteously bestowed vppon sir Triamore Tristram he followes on his friends with the praises of them both first how by their meanes the Lady was atchieued then how by Chino●s deuise she was secondly attained with all the whole History of their former fortunes where what ioy was generally receaued as well of the King himselfe and her that whose life still lasts in the euerliuing acts of succéeding ages famoused as much for the renowne of his round table as Alcides for his twelue labors Iason for hys iournie to Caicos or the Gréekes for theyr triumphes at Troy Hee now in the winter of hys waning age affecting to heare that now of others which before in his youth he had effected the like himselfe welcomes home all these wearie wanderers that had béene so long abroad writing in the Registers of other realmes the courage of their own country as also the poore inhabitants of this pappy Kingdome that ioyed to sée their neighboring lands dispoyled of such riche rewardes as was brought home by their countrymen Thus when euery man had filled his eares with t●● report A●thur willing also to further the courage of this young Caualéer summons a solemne méeting of all the Nobles and Péeres of his country to his Court where when at the time apointed all were gathered together the King at a Royall banket gins to declare the cause of this their calling together that themselues should sée how Princely he had and would still pay the rewards of such deserts as by the aduentures of their yong countryman Chinon had béene prosperously performed and

hope of his fruite for the bad blasted bud so let euery man especially condemne the soules secret friende when her turnes to a sore serching ●●e which simile I to thy selfe must now a●plie that vnder the faire show of friendship hast secretly gone about to ouerturne my estate bring this welgouerned common weale to a ruinous decayed wracke which fault is so apparant both by thine owne hand sufficiently set foorth as also confirmed by the Testament of others as that my pacience scarce ●●●t●●ning it selfe within the bounds of euill behauior cannot abide to heare any excuse and therefore will I against thée pronounce this heauie doome for thy ill deseruing déedes the punishment of death were a pleasure to thée so that so I should ease thée of a great deale of sorrow if thou shouldest still continue in thy best state thou wert likely to sustaine and therefore from hencefoorth like a cursed creature shalt thou wander in the world and eate the bitter bread of banishment in a forraine soyle that whilome liuedst so swéetly in thine owne naturall seat and so for euer I banish thée from the compasse of this Kingdome to burie thy siluer haires in sorrow that haddest such hope to harbour them in their graue with ioy At which wordes the olde man not able to speake for the abundance of feares that stopped vp the way of his wordes was forced to leaue him without further replie and hopeles of any helpe patiently to departe By this time had the King more to punish his supposed amis seazed vpon all his goods to the ende he might leaue him no succour to saue himself abroad which when he saw sorrowfully sighing to himselfe desperately departes away without any further following the King for the repeale of this his punishment and straight way betakes himselfe to hys trauaile which when Perosus perceaued how they now had brought euery thing euen to the bent of their own bow gins glorie to themselues in their likely prosperitie purchased by the hard hap of an others aduersitie but on a sodaine Eu●ropa the Witch by whose counsell all this trecherie was contriued looking further into the matter what was likelie to follow by these meanes perceaued in the speculatiue glasse how that the rig●tful reuenging gods had by many means determined her release 〈◊〉 first by Chinon whom for that purpose they had brought out of England then by her brethren who had vndertaken to search all the world for their sister and lastly by her father whose giltles banishment could not long be concealed thē beeing called home to hys former place woulde séeke such meanes for her recouerie as their power coulde hardly preuent and therefore to escape these insuing illes he thus determined to deale The maide who though she was from thence far remote and in a place whether lay no ordenarie passage yet foreseeing how at length that all would hit vpon that way incloses by her wicked workes this faire Damsell within the ruine of an olde Rocke hard by the riuer side vpon whose bankes before shée made her abode where accompanied with shadowes of naturall creatures hauing faire womanly faces like her selfe that seemed to outward sence of the far beholders to make her merrie with melodious musicke but to her selfe she found it far contrarie proouing nothing els but a harsh discord of misliking sounds which outward semblance was for this purpose by them prouided that it might somewhat satisfie any idle beholder to sée that her prison was rather a pleasure than anye such paine as should mooue the mindes of men to venture any thing for her release where poore soule shée now coopt vp in a Cage that before tooke her pleasure vpon these spacious plaines like to the beguiled bird that vnwares falling into the Fowlers gin is nowe raged vp in a little compasse that whilome was went to play vpon the broad branches of euery springing Plant. CHAP. VIII How Bessarian her father was by the Witch turned into the likenes of a Beare and how hee met with his sonnes in that shape THVS hauing determined of her they straight waies begin to striue with themselues how they might deuise some drift to remooue the feare that they had of her Fathers rising againe to his former state which by the meanes of Eutropa the Witch they thus contriued Shée calling to counsaile her attendant spirits by whose meanes shee brought to passe all this matter gins giue them seuerally in charge to vse their Artes in plaging of this poore man which they should so surely effect as no hope should be left of any more comfort to ●ome vnto him where beating together their hell bred braines they thus concluded with thēselues that they woulde chaunge hym from the shape of a man into the big body of an vgly Beare and so let him die a beast that was borne a man and further yet to aggreuate hys woes which might notwithstanding this enuie haue an end they intended in his disguise to hasten on hys death leas● by some crossing occasions as oftentimes are vsually séene vnexpectedly fall out for the release of Magicke bandes which they thus determined when they had wrought their willes in his transformation about his necke they hang a scroule wherein were written two verses which were these He whose good hap shall kill this beare That man shall haue his hearts desire Thinking by this meanes the better to drawe on euery mans might to the effecting of their former plotted purpose for that all men by a naturall instinct ar gréedie to get any hope of pursuing their purposes though oft times they doe it with the danger of theyr liues where the oldman turned after this manner wanders through the woods clogged with the burden of selfe féeling sorrow and in dispayre of reliefe settles himselfe to that thraldome without hope of release Many w●re the miseries in this shape hee susstained as the many hungry dayes that in spite of himselfe he was forced to spend for that his stomacke was not vsed to féede vpon such filthie carion as those beasts accustomably deuoure the raw restlesse nights without couert hee must now continue the want of his friends and feare of hys foes with a countlesse company of more griefes than the capacitie of man can conceaue was conteyned in him being then as a beast sauing that still he retayned the vse of his reasonable soule which they by no meanes could make to miscarie In the meane time the Witch now in the midst of her busines séeing in her speculatiue Glasse wherein sho vsually saw what accident soeuer was likely to happen the approach of her Brethren who by tracing vp and downe in the World were some of them come néere at vnwares to the place where she was poasted her selfe with all spéed the better to prosper her purpose and with violence inforces a spirit one of her owne Attendants to vse the organes of her bodie to an ende which her selfe had deuised that was to