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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10813	Pheander, the mayden knight describing his honourable trauailes and hautie attempts in armes, with his successe in loue : enterlaced with many pleasant discourses, wherein the grauer may take delight, and the valiant youthfull, be encouraged by honourable and worthie aduenturing, to gaine fame / written by H.R.	H. R. (Henry Roberts), fl. 1585-1616.	1595 (1595)	STC 21086; ESTC S947	122,117	195

fathers sonnes vnto whom my minority denyed such reuenewes and liuinges as might sufficiently maintaine my estate which caused me to employ my stock in trade of merchandize by which in time of peace I gained in your countrie wealth sufficient which with my body I offer in your highnesse seruice and doubt not but to frée thy princely daughter from this vsurper whose vertue the worlde so much renowneth for by that faith which I receiued at the Font-stone so long as I may breath life neuer shal vnhalowed Cur triumph in your Graces ouerthrow nor in her dishonor The king ouer ioyed at these frank affaires of his champion expressing by his outward signes the inward delight of his heart and the desire he had to accept this yonglings offer taking great pleasure in his countenance which was louelie and no way inferiour to the best in his court for person wisedome and other good graces which with aduise considered he saith Pheander wel doest thou showe thy selfe a Gentleman for vnder the habit of a Merchant Gentilitie cannot be hid no poore estate can blemish the Noble nor aduerse fortune whatsoeuer but as golde is soone brought from the baser mettels to his forme by the skilfull finer so are the Noble knowne by their vertues Pheander I haue cause to honor thée for thy loue and forwardnesse as also for thy countrey which without slattering thée or any ther abiding I loue for your Kings sake But to our matter thou séest my déer Pheander the millions of cares heaped vppon my gray head through the oppression of this heathen Prince whereby I am made more miserable than the meanest subiect in my dominions and the more is my miserie by recounting the wretched estate of my louing subiects whom I hold as deare as my life and with that by resigning my life and crowne I might frée them from bondage were it nothing els the tyrant required But toward Gentleman whose loue wretch that I am I cannot requite my daughter oh sorrow worse thā death to recount Nutania the only solace of my life and lines sole good in whose weal consisteth my good by violence offered her what good can be tide me she she my deare Pheander it is that drencheth my soul into so déep a hel that almost forgetting my self liuing I dayly dy only recounting the miseries ●he should endure if y ● tyrant triumpht in our ouerthrow but he that in extreams sendeth comfort hath reuiued me relieued my ouercharged hart by thy kind offer whose courage and hope of victorie being such as thou wilt hazard thy déerest blood for my daughters fréedom Thanks my good Pheander is all that I can yet yéeld thée yet t●ad more courage to thy noble mind fighting for vs our honor my daughter for whose good thou aduenturest shall inuest thée with the order of Knighthoode the first honour that euer she gaue to man of Armes and shal pray for thy good successe so calling for the Princesse who was so discontent that nothing could be pleasing vnto her who being come before him after her humble dutie done desirous to knowe her kingly Fathers will hée recounted the zeale of the merchant vnto her who had not onely offered his goods but also his proper life to trie in battel his fortunes against their enemie wherefore Nutania quoth the king for that he hath so voluntarily offered the same for thy sake and I relying on my God and in his prowes haue accepted him for my Champion by thy hand he shall receiue the honour of knighthood his title The maiden Knight and so prosper he in his honorable action and in all others as we wish and himselfe desireth The Princesse which diuers times had noted the courtlie behauiour of Dionicus was not a little pleased at her fathers motion as one that in hartie good wil wished him better then modestie would suffer her to vtter yet harkening to her fathers speaches shee behelde him with more gracious countenaunce and vewing the lineamentes of his person each grace well regarded she inwardly bewailed his hard hap that the goddes had framed him of no better reputation than a marchant who might well deserue the title of a king put from her memento by recounting her fathers wordes pausing thereon sometime with modest blushing countenance she said Kind sir whose honorable seruice offered for my fathers good and all our weales his subiectes if I yéelde you not such recompence as your desertes doe merit blame me not of discourtesie which haue no better knowledge of you but accept the hartie thanks of a Virgin vnto whome I holde my selfe so farre indebted as I can no other way recompence then wishing your good yet in earnest of better good refuse not at my hand to receiue the honour of Knighthood séeing my Lords pleasure is such and drawing his rapier the Prince knéeling shee inuested him with the order by name of the Maiden Knight pulling a iewell of rich price frō her gowne she tied the same in a most beautiful scarffe beséeching him to weare it for her sake wishing all happie fortune in his attempts The new adopted Knight whose heart ouer ioyed for so great a fauour receiued from the saint his heart wholy honoured with manie thankes dutifully rendered kissed the Princesse hand vowing himselfe her humble seruant and in all places to maintaine her modest bewtie Princely honour with his dearest bloud The time thus passed word was brought the King that dinner was readie whereby they were interrupted whome for a time we leaue to their repast discoursing diuersly at table of the valour of the Mayden Knight whose towardnesse the King admired which made his hopes the greater not doubting but his Champion would proue no lesse valiant in Armes then they exspected At which the Princesse gloried not a litle and the Nobles pleased at both their comforts passed the time with more content then many dayes before whome we leaue to their mirth and the Mayden Knight to the ordering of his affaires The Numedian King exiling himselfe from his Court in habite of a Pilgrime trauelled many vncouth places in search for his sonne of whom he could hear no tidings neither could Barnardine for all the industrie he could vse attaine to any knowledge of him his heart so much desired through which the heauines both of the Péeres Comons were daily increased And no maruel when their soueraign the mirror of all princely curtesie had thus vnknowne in the declining of his age when his yeares required rest banished himselfe his countrey louing subiects and what else he enioyed the griefe of which so oppressed the heart of the Quéene that nothing might yéeld her any comfort But pining in continuall sorrow vtterly abandoning the worlds comfort to séeke her comforter whose dwellings are in the highest heauens she yéelded her due to death whose funerals with the effusion of many brinish teares of the Nobles and sorrowfull lamentations of her subiects was performed with

liegeman shall I euer continue and be readie at your pleasure to do you seruice Here Gentlemen the story telleth vs that the Thracian King as flesh is mortall vexed with an extreme sicknes was so oppressed therewith that nature failing through weake age all phisicke helpes were friuolous so that perforce he must pay his due to death which commandeth all whose breath failing at the sommon of this tyrant which may not be intreated his soule departed this earthly trunk to sée the ioyes of the euerlasting kingdome whose death his subiects so with pittious plaintes bewailed as might haue changed the most hardest heart into a Caos of lamenting sorrowes beholding their teares whose bodie was most royally intombed amongst his Ancestry But among those which sorrow ouerwhelmed and had like to haue drowned in deaths gulph the Princesse whom nature forced in some sort to lamēt as a child hauing lost her father was so weakened with her plaints and hearts sorrow that long time it was not to be thought she could recouer it so much was her tender heart touched eftsoones bewailing her fathers death and then againe gréeuing for the want of her Loue and Lord the Mayden Knight of whose safetie whom she more desired then to be Lady of the whole earth could not be perswaded Long did she languish in these extreames and could not be comforted in so much that she rather desired death then to liue But he that in extreames is our best comfort preseruing her for the Commons benifit sent her health who being recouered the Coronation finished and the Crown by common consent of the Parliament confirmed vnto her many offers of marriages were made vnto her for which humble sutes of her Counc●ll were not omitted who desired nothing more then to haue the issue of her noble bodie succeed her But no perswasions might moue her from the Knight who had the chiefe interest of her hart to whom she had vowed her selfe protesting likewise neuer to grant her loue or liking to any one but onely to him This resolution so much gréeued her nobles that nothing could breed more discontent yet as dutie commanded framed themselues to her gouernment who with such wisedom directed all things for the benefit of her common weale that it was admirable to behold that wisdome in one of her sexe But to return to our matter The Thessalian King who minding his honourable word with the noble Pheander finding opportunitie ganne question his sister in this maner Phedera since the decease of our deare parence thou hast bene left vnto my gouernment for whom without boast or desire of benefit of thée or any I haue had that care as of mine owne good and euer will so thou be ruled by me And for I sée thy yeares requireth to be linked in marriage that thou maist participate in loue with thy husband and spend the prime of thy yeares as is fitting thy estate I haue found a Gentleman of honor and valour such a one as on my word loueth thée and I haue cause for his paines in my seruice imployd to honor Therefore good sister if thou loue me as a brother and hast not bestowed thy loue elsewhere in this matter be ruled by mée and in dooing whereof thou shalt finde mée thy brother and most assured friend who will euer be as carefull of thy well doing and honor as of mine good Say therefore thy minde plainly and let me knowe whether thou doest loue or canst loue The Lady whose wisedome was such as balanced her honor not knowing whether her brother were in in iest or earnest thus modestly said Gracious Lord and my dread soueraigne pardon I humbly beséech you your subiect and suffer mée not through my fond answering so friuolous a question which you vrge but for my triall to procure your displeasure or mine owne shame Why Phedera quoth the King you mistake me if you thinke I ieast for on my honor I meane what I say therfore dally not with mée if you hope of my good But tell me if thou doest loue or wilt loue my friend The Ladie hearing the King in earnest although shée could be well content to haue enioyed the swéet pleasures of loue in marriage thus sayd Dread Lord and my most gracious soueraigne sithence it is your pleasure I should answere your demaunde Know that as modestie is the ornament of Maydes and chastitie the garland that bewtifieth all our sexe so haue I carefully weyed mine honor in such manner that I neither loue nor as yet euer made choyce of any in loue but haue eschewed all such friuolous motions of the flesh to my greatest power as beséemeth a Lady of such honor That I may loue I doubt not because it is the commandement of our maker and incident to all creatures who in their kindes make choyce of some one to participate with yet shall my loue neuer be such as may disparage your highnesse loue towards me but such as shall be to your content And for your graces pleasure is to bestow me on a man so honorable so standeth it with your will to let mée knowe him I will answere more directly God a mercy for that wench quoth the King then I doubt not but wée shall haue a match or else thy wisedome is not such as I wish it were But tell mée vnfeinedly my Phedera canst thou loue the Lord Cariolus a man for birth honorable for valour to compare with most aduenturing Knightes in the worlde in person comely and so dibonire in his behauiour as for curtesie hée is to bee matched with the best Hée is the man Madame whom if you can fancie thou honourest mée in thy loue and thou shalt finde mée a brother nay a father if fathers loue may excéed the brothers Say therefore thy minde and let me know thy answere The Ladie whose hope was her brothers sute had bene for the Mayden Knight with whose loue she was a little touched yet modestie mastering such fond motions would not let affection take such roote but that shée could at her pleasure expell it After the Lady had heard her brother whom she perceiued by his earnestnesse in vttering his sute would not willingly be denied she said Pardon me my good Lord if I passe modestie considering your great praise of the Gentleman beléeue me he is much beholding vnto your Grace who could haue thought you would haue prooued so good a soliciter had your studie bene the Lawes of this Realme no doubt but you should haue had many Clyants were the Gentleman here himselfe he could not haue sayd thus much and therefore he may thinke himselfe beloued and honored of your highnesse But for answere as I would not haue you in your first wooing disgraced least it discourage you in your owne enterprises being a batcheler so can I say little of my selfe who is to be gouerned by you to whom in all humblenesse I referre me and shall so you be pleased be content if it were