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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

them which in the ende were euery one foyled Palentine Torques and all the other Knights shewing great valour and were not a little proud of so great a victory All the Patagons being dispatchy they holp one another to dresse their hurts for not one of them escaped vnwounded two Knights of Ormeda gaue their horses to Primaleon and Torques rather chusing themselues to trauaile on foote than suffer men of so great desert to bee so vnprouided All the way as they rode such wunderment was made at the Graund Patagon as euery one enquired to knowe their deliuerer from so hideous a monster when Primaleon was shewen thē imagin you what triumphs and honours they bestowed therefore vppon him The Lord of the Island to whom Primaleon thus farre had disclosed himselfe that hee was called the Knight of the clouen Rocke embracing him for this great good fortune said Pardon me Sir if I haue not hitherto honored yee to your high deseruings and let my ignorance of your vertues excuse so great an ouersight Immediatly he commanded his Chirurgions to haue especiall care of his wounds as also those which the Graund Patagon had receiued because Primaleon was so desirous to kéepe him aliue but he would not suffer them apply any medicines to his hurtes wishing rather to die than bee recouered Seluida for so was the Lords daughter of the Island named came in great feare to sée Patagon mary hee was well pleased in beholding her and shewed himselfe not so rough and impacient as before he did participating with the beasts nature of whom he was engendred who only delighted in womens company When they perceiued his gentlenes in the Ladies sight and how obediently he behaued himselfe to her her doubt and feare of him being well remooued they perswaded her to come the oftner in his sight and shee so preuailed with him by faire demeanour that shee could gouerne him as she pleased intreating him by signes to permit his hurts be cured but he declared by his signes how he had néede of no other Chirurgion than himselfe and licking his wounds with his huge broad tongue ●aue shew that this was Phisicke sufficient for him Thence forward Seluida tooke charge of him leading him vp and downe with her in his chaine so that much good issued by the taking of him for the Patagons afterward would neuer hurt any one in the Island Palantine and his brethren did manye honours to Primaleon and Soluida their sister hauing diuers conferences with him still laboured to winne him to continue there with them but all her perswations proued in vaine in regard his affections called him to another place Now Palantine imagined if any meane might preuaile for his abiding there it was to giue him his Sister in marriage which deuise he imparted to his Father and he on the other side no lesse willing thereto than his son sent him to acquaint Primaleon therewith so comming into his chamber sitting downe by him on the beds side he began as followeth Sir Knight of the clouen Rocke my father and we all doo loue ye so dearely as wee are verie loath to forgoe your companie wherefore he giues you to vnderstād by me that if you please to accept my Sister Seluida in marriage her dowrie shall answere your own expectation he will repute himselfe happie by enioying such a sonne Sir Palantine answered Primaleon I thanke both him and you for the great loue ye beare me Seluida is so faire and vertuous as I would account my self fortunate hauing her my wife if there were not an especiall hinderance in this case then let me plainely tell yee my hart is els where countermaunded and in heauens faire forehead are my vowes engrauen which makes mee thinke my stay here is ouer tedions though I could as willingly die as part from your companie but that yee perceaue what an vrgent occasion thereto constraineth me If it be so quoth Palantine then I vow to trauaile a long with you and neuer to returne hither againe while you haue any seruice wherein to imploy me He accepted his kinde offer and so he went to aduertise his father thereof who albeit he was loth to forgo his sonne yet for the company of so good a Knight he dispensed with fatherly affection agréeing to his sons commendable resolution Primaleon was no sooner cured but prouision for departure as spéedily appointed to the Ladies no little griefe who had good hope that better acception would haue been made of her loue for indéed shee affected Primaleon entirely Thus by the meanes of her was Patagon embarqued wher taking a heauy farewel of her vain-bestowed loue the teares standing like pearles on her faire chéekes she thus spake Sir Knight of the clouen Rocke much better had it béene for me neuer to haue seene ye for ye take from me my brother Palantine leauing my poore heart fettered in stronger chaines than those wherein Patagon is manacled but would that mine were comparable to his then were I assured to go along in your company with these words she went on shoare againe not hauing the patience to heare his answere which mouing cōpassion in him made him thus shape his spéech to Palantine I am partly sory that I cannot doe your sister such seruice as I would and desertlesse on my behalfe is the loue shee beares me but what I cannot accomplish for her shall binde me in a stricter bond to you reckoning you alwaies as my déere friend and brother Now was Patagon euermore affraid when he looked on Primaleon for he knew him to be the Knight that vanquished him therefore when he menaced him he presently was humble and at his commandement standing more in feare of him than any other in the company CHAP. XXXIIII How the Knight that would not stay the deliuerance of Primaleon when he was enchanted in the Isle of Cantara returned home into Poland where he reported the Knight of the clouen Rocks death the great mone Gridonia made for him and what was strangely tolde her by the Knight of the enclosed Isle THus sailes Primaleon toward Polonia with all the spéed possible earnestly desiring to sée his Grydonia fearing least she should heare some sinister tidings of him and thereby change her minde to like of some other Knight which doubt in him was altogither néedlesse because she could like nor loue any other but he Now as ye haue heard beforeone Knight of the company would néeds be gon from the Island of Cantara not willing to stay the deliuerance of Primaleon because he bare him no good affection this Knight is now come home into Poland where being in presence of Quéene mother and Grydonia he declared what had hauned them and said that the Knight of the clouen Rocke was dead these newes brought Grydoma to such extremity of gréefe that leaning in the lap of Quéene mother breathing foorth a sigh able to rent a farre stronger hart in péeces she sayd Vnhappie wretch