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A10807	Haigh for Deuonshire A pleasant discourse of sixe gallant marchants of Deuonshire. Their liues, aduentures and trauailes: with sundrie their rare showes and pastimes shewed before the King in Exeter. Besides many pretie mery ieasts by them performed: as well in forraine countries, as in their owne. Very delightfull for the reader. Written by H.R.	H. R. (Henry Roberts), fl. 1585-1616.; Deloney, Thomas, 1543?-1600. Thomas of Reading.	1600 (1600)	STC 21081; ESTC S110648	47,670	80

to explaine for his better satisfying the occasion of her disguise and place of habitation armed in such maner Know my deare Loue quoth she for so let me entreate to call thée my husband of whom thou shalt heare much honour when thou shalt arriue at Cheries hauing a deadly quarell ah deadly I may too well say for to him so it proued being by his enemies watched as harmelesse he was following for pleasure his Hawkes was suddenly by the wretched homicyde surprised and by his slaues blood-thirstie villaines ●utchered whose death in mine owne person sundry times as you sée me disguised I sought to reuenge working many meanes to accomp●●●● my will therein as this day I did hauing assurance by some neare him which with money I haue subborned to giue me intelligence of his trauel which vnhappie I haue vnfortunately missed to my great discontent Beléeue me gentle friend that speakes no more but trueth for no more but trueth will I say to thée whose ioy thou art and whose loue shall be more pleasing then the worlds treasury as thy selfe shalt manifest when thou shalt come to thy iournies ende if Cheries be the place thou entendest to go Deare Loue quoth she I am troublesome vnto thée which art weary and discontent wherefore pardon me and with this kisse let me commit thée to thy swéete rest which I hope shall proue both our contens Iames that was not so bad a Pylat but he had learned how many ancors longed to the Trade commended her likewise to rest albeit his owne was not like to be much so many sundry thoughts encreasing of his swéet bedfellow with whom he could wish friendship to be cōtinued as wel in regard of her person as her honour and great abilitie which more affected considering his estate desirous to cleare with his good friendes in England whom in a humour he had wronged consuming their wealth how euer he liketh or disliketh in spirit is he cumbred taking it for a great fauour of God in his distresse to giue him this comfort in ieopardie of his life in a wildernesse vnfrequented where no reliefe was to be found by her to be fauoured and preferred he determined how euer to procure her Loue and requite it but not with sure promise to tye himselfe that may not with conscience be recalled While he was at his Memento in an extacie what should betide him the Lady awaked imbrasing him in her armes in in such kinde manner and proffers of loue as might haue giuen life to Pygmalions Image Whether it be Englishmens vnkindnesse to requite such fauour with disdaine I referre to your censures But how so euer it fell out betwéene them the Lady was so excéedingly well pleased as shée loued euer after Englishmen better then her owne Country men to her death The wearisome winters night is not more displeasant to a troubled spirit then the griefe both conceiued in enioying so short a time of familiar contentment well content of either part to haue entertained their hard lodging for longer time But Iames hastening to sée the end of these hoped fortunes desired to be on his iourney though better pleased with his Spanish bedfellow then with all his Country men protesting by no small vowes that if all Spaniards in bed brought such contentment he would neuer desire to lye with Englishman more CHAP. XX. How Iames accompanied the Ladies to Cheryes and what entertainment she gaue him there THe Sunnes bright beames so gloriously displaying telleth these contented Louers the morning is farre spent which hastened them to arise making all the spéede they could to performe their iourney for which being prouided Iames tendered mony largely for his vyands which of the Hoast and Mistresse of the house was refused wherefore bountifully rewarding the seruants attendants they tooke their leaues taking their horses which were well refreshed spéeding them with all haste to Cheryes where being arriued Iames as it was betwéene them agreed taketh his lodging in an Ostrey by her assigned him her selfe by a backe way secretly conuayed to her owne house appointing Iames to stay the comming of her Messenger which should be his conduct to her No sooner arriued Iames in this place of contentment but sundry of his Country men and acquaintance he meeteth by whom he had certaine knowledge of the welfare of his Maister all his friends in England With this company a while he merily conuersed perusing his Letters and taking order for discharge of such goods as they brought consealing the heauinesse of his hearts sorrow and colouring his thoughts with showes of content The houre being come of appointment when he should visit his new acquainted friend who fayled not her time as carefull thereof but accordingly dispatched her conducter for her Loue Iames of whose comming assoone as Iames had knowledge taking leaue of his companions he followed his guide to the house of the Gentlewoman whom in her owne forme we call Madam Petronella who desirous to shewe all kind welcome to her friend prouided to giue him entertainmēt with most costly and rare cheare thinking all things too little how costly so euer that mony or loue could procure for a guest of so high extéeme which might commaund his Mistresse and all she had Iames that came not before he was expected was espied a farre off of his kind Lady Petronella who attended his comming at the gate where louingly unbrasing him she bad him most hartily welcome to his owne house leading him by the hand to place appointed for supper Iames seeing this straunge chaunge of his new bedfellow being now her selfe most sumptuously apparelled and adorned with rich Iewels of great value was striken into a dumpe eftsoones admiting her stately personage beautie and grace her modest countenance and costly furniture of her mansion which rather resembled a Paradice then any other thing In midst of these extremities which reason required to ende calling himselfe to minde and not forgetting his dutie to the kind Lady he rendered many thankes returning her imbrasings with kisses and interest farre aboue ten in the hundred The Lady hauing welcommed her Loue as you haue heard to beguile time while supper was readie led him to her bed Chamber which for the rare and rich hangings of Embrodery he neuer had séene the like in which the armes of her late husbands auncestries and her owne was with cunning wrought in such manner as Art could not amend To please his minde yet farther she openeth her Closet her Casket of Iewels Chests of Plate and bagges of mony all which with her selfe she againe tendered him Long had not Iames contemplated on this heauenly blessing of God prouided for him when word was brought that supper attended their comming on the Table at which they past the time with much pleasant parley but chiefly the Lady desires to discourse of English Ladies and their guise the maner of the Country and such which Iames with rare perfection fitted to her

and the care hée should haue to please a Mistresse had many knauish deuises hammering in his head to breake the match and to kéep his Master a Batcheler still Amongst many other his practises one onely hée intended to effect if oppertunitie would giue him leaue which not many dayes after sorted to his desires and thus vnhappily he practised it Diuers Marchantes of Exeter Williams very good friendes being ready to put to sea inuited as their custome is their familiar acquaintance to their parting banquet amongst which guests William was solemnly bidden Iames knowing his Maister safe for stirring prouided a horse and in al the hast poasted to Ioane entending to try his wittes whither hée came in the euening neare bedde time who séeing the old man and his wife sitting at the doore earnestly desired to speake with Ione vnto whom he deliuered a very solemne message in name of his Maister desiring her of all the loue shée doeth professe spéedily to come vnto him if she tooke pleasure in his life that was dangerously sicke on the suddaine so strangely taken as no life was expected This suddaine newes appalled the whole houshold Ioane cried the father lamēted and the mother with wringing hands bewailed this vnhappie fortune of William to satisfie whose minde preparation was made for Ioanes iourney Iames hearing what was broached amongst them laughed to himselfe and verie earnestly hastened the olde man to sende away his Ioane vnto whom he made tender of his seruice to be her conuoy for so small a iourney if it pleased them wherof her father was glad loth so late to be troubled himselfe or his seruants to Iames deliuered her commending them to good spéed Iames possessed of his adopted mistresse hauing her from her fathers house bethought him of his entended knauery hauing then the best oportunitie with a déep sigh voice mournfull as a graue man moued to pitie began to commend her bewty personage good gifts honest parentage and wealth likely with other her excéeding vertues worthie for the best man in the Citie to be vtterly cast away by marriage with his Maister William Ioane hearing these protestations albeit her mind was cumbred with Iames his tydings yet gaue good eare to his spéech whereof taking the aduantage cut him off and with kinde words besought him to explaine his meaning that marrying his maister she were cast away Which Iames by no means either for promise of fauour gifts or entreatie would graunt against his maister whose welfare he estéemed as his life although it mightily concerned her good These latter spéeches put her into further dumps causing more desire to be resolued But Iames in no wise would grant vntill by great oathes he swore her to conseale from all people either the cause or reuealer of the same To all which couenants Ioane sware to be iust and faithfully to kéep which done he said Sweete Mistresse Ioane though my yeares deny me that experience which many good men proue yet am I not so sencelesse but can conceiue the pleasures parents haue in vertuous children the ioyes in wedlocke and the swéete content therein where husband and wife participate in one simpathie of loue and so much the more greeue to sée such a one as your selfe marked of God to be the mother of many swéet Infants wherein your fathers aged yeares should be blessed and the world by procreation encreased should be depriued of al rights due in marriage to the poorest begger robbed of mothers honorable name and pleasure therein all procéeding from the imperfections of nature in him whose wife by full graunt you are Ioane hearing these reports from Williams owne seruant who thought she sorrowed to the death for his supposed sitnesse wished his head off so she were rid of him entring into consideration of Iames particular spéech the losse of wombes pleasures and mothers delight so nearely touched her that as in a trance she had like to haue fallen from her horse if Iames had not the more regarded her Whose extremitie whē he saw stricken with fear of his mistresse Ioanes wel doing he wished that vndone which was begunne yet taking heart of grace knowing care must be comforted cheared her with the best spéech he could so long perswading that she reuiued againe calling to minde the great losse of that she most hoped for the thought of William was loathsome vnto her wishing neuer to heare or sée him more earnestly desiring Iames as he tendered her life to returne to her fathers house for if she procéede there is no hope but to expect death Iames more willing to entreat her then Ioane to craue for fashions sake be sought her to go forward to his maister But nothing might preuaile home she would no deniall could serue whither Iames made such haste that they came before the old man was in bedde The sudden comming of Ioane with her guide Iames much amazed them especially séeing their dearest childe in such a pittifull case and not-knowing the cause thought verily that some hobgoblings or theeues had frighted them which to assure them finding Ioane in weake case and not to be questioned the mother and her maides were very carefull in hauing her to bed meane while the father earnestly enquired of Iames what the occasion of his daughters griefe was who like himselfe so suttelly pleaded that the olde man was not a whit the wiser Iames hauing broached this deuise how wel or ill so euer it spéedeth in the end After he had in secret coniured Ioane by her holy oathes to remember her promise with all spéed hasteneth to Exeter where he discharged his horse and recouered his maisters house long before the company brake vp William little suspecting what his man had bene about CHAP. VIII How the Father and Mother of Ioane seeing their daughters sicknesse increase sent for VVilliam IOane languishing in this conceited feare of her Williams want gā grow so weak that her friends had smal hope of her recouery being in best cōfort when she might be alone where with sighes and gréeuous cōplaints of her fathers rashnesse she exclaimeth on her hard fortune being so vnhappily marked aboue all the women she hath knowne vtterly inueying against William that knowing his imperfections durst seduce any woman to his deceitfull loue defying wealth honour and not caring to be married to the greatest Monarke hauing those necessary wants Her good Father whose comfort was his Ioanes health when he could not learne by all possible meanes the occasion and sicknesse rather encreasing then ceasing aduised by his kindred sent for her Loue William hoping his presence might comfort her who like a kind man leauing al to his man Iames presently procured from the Apothecaries such comfortable drugges as he could get for mony with sugars and spices of his owne store hastning to his loue Ioane where to her father and mother he was a welcome man But Ioane tooke little pleasure in his sight or company his presence being so