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A05203	The most pleasaunt and delectable historie of Lazarillo de Tormes, a Spanyard and of his maruellous fortunes and aduersities. The second part. Translated out of Spanish and into English, by W.P.; Lazarillo de Tormes. Part 2. English.	Phiston, William, attributed name.; W. P., fl. 1596.	1596 (1596)	STC 15340; ESTC S109360	55,784	74

all such as then were drowned with vs and began to thinke with my selfe that peraduenture although they had dronke as I did they would not all haue béen so wilfull and obstinate as my selfe because they were not all Lazaroes de Tormes who learned the Arte at that notable schoole of the Tauernes and Cellars of Toleda in the companie of my masters the Dutchmen In this manner calling to memorie these and manie other things I perceiued a great quantitie of Fishes to approach vnto the place where I was some rising from the bottome of the Sea others descending downward and all of them ioyning together besieged mee round about where I sate I saw and knew verie well that they came with an euill intent and meaning wherewith hauing more feare than will I began to rise and with much paine stood vppon my féete thinking to defend my selfe against them but all in vaine being at that instant in a manner spoyled and stiffe with colde by meanes of the euill water which had entered into my bodie whereof I was so sicke that I could not by anie meanes sustaine my selfe nor yet once lift vp my sword for to defend mée And as I perceiued my selfe to approach so néere vnto my death I looked if I could finde anie remedie against that miserie and to séeke it in my sword there was no long hope for the reasons before alleadged Wherefore going vppon the Rocke as well as I could as GOD would I found a little hoale wherein I entered and beeing within I perceiued it to bee a Caue made into the Rocke and although the entrie were but strayght and narrow yet was there space inough within to tourne and wynde my selfe and vse my weapons at pleasure whereinto there was no other entrie but that onely which I had luckely found out It séemed the Lord himselfe had sent me thither for by that onely meanes I recouered againe some part of my former strength which before I had almost vtterly lost Wherewith taking againe to my selfe fresh courage and reuiuing my drouping spirites I turned my face towards my enemies placing the poynt of my sword at the entrie of the Caue and so began with most fierce Stoccadoes to defend my Fort. By that time the whole multitude of fishes had besieged me round about giuing most great flashes and assaults against me in the water and approching very neere vnto the mouth of the caue but such as séemed to bee most hardye presuming to eate in I thinke escaped not scot free For as I stood directly with my sword against the entrie of the caue they thinking to enter fell vpon my sword and so lost their liues and others which with great furie approached néere vnto me got their reward with blowes All this notwithstanding made them not breake vp their siege but in the meane time it waxed darke and night approaching made the fight somewhat to cease although they left not off manie times to assaile me proouing whether I slept or if by anie meanes they might perceaue me to be wearied and weake This thus continuing poore Lazarus being in this great extremitie perceiuing my selfe assieged by so manie enemies in so strange a place without all remedie or hope of reléefe and considering that my good conseruator I mean the wine began by little and little to consume within me in place whereof the salt water entred and that each houre I began to waxe weake because it was not possible for me to sustaine my self my nature being altogether contrarie vnto theirs that remained and dwelt in the water and that likewise my strength failed me by reason that of a long time I had not eaten any thing wherwith to strengthen the same but to the contrarie laboured and trauelled my wearie bodie as also because the water doth disgest and consume verie much I still looked for no other thing than when my sword would fall out of my weake trembling hands which should no sooner be perceiued by my enemies but they would put me to a most cruell and bitter death making their bodies my sepulcher All which by me well weighed and considered and on the contrarie not finding any remedie or meanes of releefe I turned vnto him to whom all good Christians haue recourse recommending my selfe vnto him that giueth ayde and reléefe to all such as craue it at his hands that was the most merciful God our Lord Iesus Christ Then I began afresh to sigh lamenting and bewayling my former sinnes asking mercie and forgiuenes for them and committing my selfe vnto his diuine will and pleasure I besought him to deliuer me from that cruell death with promise that if it pleased him to giue me life I would become a new man euer after Then I made my prayers vnto the most glorious Saint Marie his Mother and our Ladie promising to visite her in her houses of Monferrat of Guadalupe and on the borders of France After that directing my supplications vnto all the Saints but specially vnto S. Eli●●us and vnto Monsieur S Amador which both haue power ouer the waters This done I rehearsed certaine oraisons as manie as I could remember learned of my master which with most great deuotion I vttered besides diuers other prayers which haue force and power against the perills of the water Which done in the ende the Lord Iesus by the vertue of his passion and by the force of the Saints prayers and for the pitie of my great miserie which as then appeared before mine eies wrought in me a most maruellous and rare miracle although in respect of his mightie power it séemed nothing which was that I being thus in manner without a soule sicke and halfe choaked with the great quantitie of water which as I said before had entered into my bodie to my no little damage and likewise being stiffe and as it were dead with cold that still assailed me which as long as my preseruer the wine remained in his force I neuer once did feele My sorrowfull bodie being wearied and as it were broken in péeces by meanes of the anguish and continuall persecution thereof together with the discontinuance of eating meate I sodainly felt my selfe to be changed from the shape of a man which I had béen not féeling either hand or foote vnto the verie shape and forme of those which had and did at that present besiege me round about Whose shape when I perceiued my selfe to be changed into I presently knew them to be fishes called a Tonnie and then I vnderstood how they sought my death saying This is the traitor and the enemie of our sauery and most sacred waters this is the aduersarie not onely of vs but also of all other Fishes which at this present hath made such an execution and slaughter among vs killing and murthering so great multitudes of our nation it is not possible for him to escape from hence but day once appearing wee will bee reuenged on him Thus I heard the iudgement which my

God and began to confesse our selues one vnto the other because the two Clarkes that were in our ship naming them selues as they say souldiers of Iesus Christ went with the Captaines and left vs as base companions vnto the mercie of the seas But I for my part neuer heard so wonderfull a confession as the poore men made being readie to die and I am assured that there was not one among vs at that present that was not halfe dead and diuers which at euery waue of the sea that entered into the broken ship felt in a maner present death in such sort as it might be sayd if it were possible that they were one hundreth tunnes and to say the truth their confessions were of bodies in a maner without soules Among diuers of them which I confessed there were some that vttered not one worde out of their mouthes but only sighes and sobbes a thing common vnto men troubled and in aduersitie and as much did I vnto them In the ende we being in a manner drowned in our weake shippe and wholly out of all hope of any remedie or aide to be looked for I began to lament my death and to repent me of my sinnes but much more of my comming thither and hauing recited certaine deuout Orazons which I learned in my youth of my first maister fit to be said at such a time with the feare and horror of death I fell into a most horrible and deadly thirst and considering with my selfe that it would soone be quenched with the salt and vnsauory water of the sea it séemed vnto me a point of great inhumanitie to vse small charitie vnto my selfe wherewith I determined that it were good for me before that euill water entered into my bodie to fill it first with most excellent wine whereof at that present there was great store in the ship which at that time was as well without a maister as I without a soule so that with great desire and much more haste I beganne to drinke and with the great thirst and the feare of death wherwith I was oppressed togither with the extremitie thereof withall I being no scholler but rather a maister in that Art and the great folly I conceiued at that present because I perceiued not any one desirous to beare me company I stood to my tackling so earnestly and drunke in such maner and so much sometimes resting my selfe and then beginning againe that from the head to the foote I felt not any part of my sorrowfull bodie but was all filled with wine which I had no sooner done but the ship brake in péeces and we all drowned in the sea as for my part I was nothing else but wine when the ship suncke it was about two houres after day appearing at which sight by reason of that wine that wrought in my head féeling my selfe wholly vnder the water and perceiuing not any meanes of helpe nor knowing what to do I laide hand on my sword which then I had at my side and therewith I began to sinke downeward into the sea At which time I might perceiue great quantitie of fishes both great and little and of diuers kindes to draw nere vnto vs and verie nimbly with their téeth assaild my dead companions soone tearing and renting their bodies in péeces which I beholding was in great feare they would doo the like to me if I should stand vpon termes with them Wherwith I left shaking of mine armes as those which were drowned in sinking did thinking thereby to escape death but for I could not by anie meanes swim I sanke downwards into the Sea and so laboured my heauie bodie that I out-went that wicked companie and great multitude of fishes that at the cracke which the ship gaue in breaking came thither And in this manner I descending downeward into the déepe sea I perceiued comming behinde mee a great and mightie Armie of other Fishes and as I thinke they came with great desire to learne some newes of me and with great hast approched nere me that with their teeth they might teare me in peeces and so eate me vp but I perceiuing my selfe so compassed about with death with the rage and feare whereof not knowing how to escape I began to skirmish and flourish about me with my sword which I held naked in my right hand for that as yet I had not let it fall and I plaid my part therewith so well that in short space I made such a riddance of them laying about me both on the right side the left that in the end they concluded among themselues to recule backe and for a time to leaue me in peace and letting me rest began to busie themselues about the dead bodies of their companions that I in defending of my selfe had slaine which they presently eate vp and deuoured and surely I did it with little labour by reason those Fishes hauing small meanes of defence and their armes much weaker it laye in me to kill and destroy as manie of them as I would In the ende a good space after I had left them descending and sinking still into the sea and that so straight and directly downward as if my féete beeing fixed vpon some certayne thing my bodie had stood vpright In the ende I chanced vpon a great rocke which stood in the middest of the déepe sea and as I felt my féete vpon the same I stayd my selfe for a time and began to rest after my great trouble and labour sustained which vntill then by reason of the alteration that I found in my selfe and feare of death withall I had no time to thinke vppon And as it is a common thing vnto all those which are afflicted and wearyed to sigh being readie to fetch a great sigh which cost me full deare negligently opening my mouth which notwithstanding I shut presently againe the wine hauing by that meanes gotten some vent it being at the least more than thrée houres after I drunke the same at the issuing foorth made place for the salt and vnsauerie Water of the Sea which as then entred into me causing great paine and torment in my bodie striuing with her contrarie as then within me Then I perceiued and saw the wine was the onely meanes that my life had so long béen preserued in the sea by reason that my bodie euen to the verie throate being filled with the same the Water of the Sea had no power nor place to enter in And then likewise I knew the Prophecie to bee true that my master tolde me of touching the same saying vnto me in Escalona that if Wine could euer preserue the life of man it should surely preserue mine Then it gréeued me to thinke vpon my dead companions in the sea because they bare me not companie in drinking which if they had done they surely had béen liuing as well as I and their companie would haue ministred some comfort vnto me I did likewise in my selfe lament the miserable case of