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A16156	Donzella desterrada. Or, The banish'd virgin. VVritten originally in Italian: by Cavalier Gio. Francesco Biondi, Gentleman Extraordinary of his Majesties Privy Chamber. Divided into three bookes: and Englished by I.H. of Graies Inne, Gent; Donzella desterrada. English	Biondi, Giovanni Francesco, Sir, 1572-1644.; Hayward, James, of Gray's Inn.	1635 (1635)	STC 3074; ESTC S107083	279,563	246

which as it attoned all my mothers kindred so was it the occasion that those of Rotildo retired for absenting themselves from the City the time of that marriage to my Fathers exceeding content for being so secured from any more contrasting untill the full accomplishment of his designe Timocle being advertized of what he had to doe parted one night arriving at Chio so suddenly as her Citizens had not time to shut their Gates And my Father gathering together his old and new kinred and alliance and guarded with a great squadron of arm'd followers as himselfe was too from head to heele hee bade them cheere up their hearts since that Fleet was come thither at his request Heere without staying for any answer they being bid follow him did so nor had they indeede time to consider of a deniall His Brother he met at the Gate without the City who accompanied with many Captaines salutes him by the title of Prince pitching with that the colours royall of Persia on the Walls of the City and publick Pallace wherein the new Soveraigne immediately lodged expelling thence the Magistrate and altering the Orders of the Government over which he placed Timocle President Vnexpressible was the amazement of the Citizens seeing themselves baffled with the most maligne and envenomed hypocrisie that ever was heard of the justest honestest and most zealous among them having bin under pretext of justice and zeale betrayed and put to death whilest the other complotted such a businesse by wayes twice as wicked as wylie who yet had made them beleeve yea and see too the contrary in the contrary and gotten himselfe to be deemed the best whereas he was full of all imaginable wickednesse and villany and was whilest hee tooke on him to bee the sole vindicator of the Common-wealth's liberty a-mounting up to the throne of his tyrannie at the cost of their simplicity and folly And yet their evils had beene lesse if they had here ended But the Persians being departed after having first left him secured by a strong band of their old milice hee called before him the Citizens the greater part whereof hee caused in divers Temples to bee put to death by sundry torments But I will passe over this relation serving now no more for my purpose it behooving me to come to the story of my selfe I was borne the fourth moneth after that the Matrimony was contracted by my Parents they adding to the summe of their former hatred and infamies that of adultery before not publickly knowne which for declaring me theirs was by them themselves most shamelessely published The Gods were pleased to shew in me their Omnipotencie in my creation by giving mee the fairest body and the foulest soule that ever creature in this world was composed of I grew in beauty and with it in the worst conditions my parents having no other ayme than to please mee nor I other examples than their dishonesties At three yeare old I was mistresse of shamelessenesse Growne to sixteene my brother borne a yeare after mee was my sweete-heart and lover but we had both of us rivalls I my mother and hee my father wee therefore had runne away together so worried were we with their importunity hinderances that they brought us if they perceiving it had not given us way I conceived almost presently the occasion of providing mee for husband the Tyrant of Samo's sonne who a few yeares before had also usurped that Principality by my Fathers meanes The young man came and married me with an intent to bring me home immediately but I for being gone by then five moneths of my time would not assent to goe for feare of subjecting my selfe in case I were discovered to the dangers of any mans passions The first night that we came together I shew'd my selfe a daughter worthy of him that had begotten me There was not any species of simplicity that I counterfeited not affectately nor teares seconded with sobbes skritches that I seemed not to showre abundantly and act to the very life The toyle and adoe he had to possesse himselfe of mee were sufficiently manifested by his sweating and wearinesse There was not the least marke nor symptome of untouch'd virginity to be desired in me that I had not sufficient to beguile the best experientest living in that kinde Nay I was not ashamed with my crying and frequent skritches to turne the house topside-turvie In runnes my Mother as was before betweene us accorded on to act her part of the tragicomedy and shewing how I was forsooth swounded shee revives me by besprinkling me with vineger and odoriferous waters My time of childe-birth being come as I was laid a-bed upon the very point and instant of my delivery in came my husband so as I was forced with compressing my cries and teares to bring forth my burthen under the quilt in his presence smothering the babe with my knees lest its crying might bewray me I called my disease fits of the Collick And the very fame night supped as I was wont to doe out of my bed and had so impudently bold was I layne with my husband too but for my mother who said shee would sleepe with mee her selfe to helpe mee with medicines if my fits returned Hee in the meane time all enflamed with love of me could not endure the want of mee nor beleeve mee to be his as long as I abode among my owne kindred Every day would I promise to goe along with him but the incestuous blinde love of my brother had mored my anchors so fast that my ship could not be loosened from those shores and my husband impatient of my stay did the more importune mee for conceiving this brotherly affection to bee of another sort than that of them which were borne of one and the same wombe Hee therefore began now to open his eyes better though better it had beene for him that he had not For chancing to come suddenly into a chamber and finding us there together in an act not of the honestest hee drew out his sword my brother doing the same with his and so there being no body to part them miserably kill'd one another in my presence my brother dying suddenly to whom I ranne and affectionately kissing him reviled my expiring husband with such injurious language that had but for my being in the highest degree impudent beene capable to make me for a third dye for meere shame But being used to care for nothing this disaster being past I cared litle for it and lesse for my brother whom I had lov'd meerely for my pleasure which failing with him I was to supply by others This disaster was as others were masked by the subtilty of my father and mother who considering how prejudiciall my presumption might in time prove began to hate me upon the aggravation of Timocle's perswading them either to curbe or kill me All affections in him though in all vices extreame ceded to that only one of reigning so as

presupposed that you must both aspire to and expect it Lucano whose soule is I am sure ever present with you cannot choose but be much agreived at your so litle esteeming that deere pledge of his love he left you Doe him not then oh doe him not such an injury hee already pretends to live againe to you in another quality and yet you because you cannot enjoy him alive that way that you would will in another quality put him to death againe in the person of another This the Dutchesse told her in so gentle and yet feeling a manner of delivery that the Princesse recollected all her weake powers to returne her this answer Mother the reasons of one that comforts are ever the same though the griefes of the afflicted be never so different if I had but one sole losse and one onely griefe as I have the Gods know but too too many of either I am perswaded you would still comfort me with the selfe same arguments as indeed the intellect hath not conceits proper for all misfortunes nor can one and the same salve serve to cure all manner of sores some afflictions there are that admit of no consolation for want of comfort proper and proportionable to their peculiar degrees make triall of it in mine and you shall see that every one is of it selfe worthy of those reasons you inferre for all Can there any griefe come neerer ones heart than the losse of ones countrey how many have chosen to die miserably in it rather than to live any where else Our goods and meanes are not they numbred among our chiefest felicities yet alas I have lost them all Now for my state and quality what woman will not for this onely respect deeme me the most unfortunate of my sex that am from an adored Queene become an ordinary unknowne yea and disrespected woman And to come to my parents what greater misery can there be imagined than to lose the loving care of a provident Father and the sweete comfort and charilytender affection of a deere Mother and to remaine an orphant depriv'd of the priviledge of ever more invoking those endeered names then for my husband 't is I grant to a disaffecting wife a happinesse to be rid of a bad husband but otherwise where there is true reall indissoluble and reciprocall love 't is a misery that cannot be paralleld The losse of countrey meanes fortunes state dignity and parents bring with them a multitude of heart-stinging anguishes but yet with limits because time may weare them all away but the losse of a loving and a deserving husband being withall a man every way most worthy and accomplish'd is to an affecting wife the summe of all misfortunes in so much as that shee is not able to endure the want of him without ever leading an ever-dying-life Moreover yet if things in this world be not such as they seeme but such as wee imagine them to be especially in subjects of extreame affection then certainely my misfortunes farre surpasse those of all others since for the enjoying of a husband agreeable to my owne hearts desire I esteemed it an happinesse to become unhappy with the losse of my countrey meanes dignity fortunes state and parents nay I would have bin contented to have lost more too had I but had more to lose Here the Dutchesse would wilingly have replied but shee commanding her silence proceeded Besides all this I have lost mine honour oh that mine inestimable jewell mine honour which you have not as yet reckoned supposing perhaps that for being placed among imaginary things it was not at all to be esteemed of but in my case my disobedience to my Father my breach of a marriage concluded on my owne word and my flight from my native countrey have all relation to the rule of common honour against which I have not imaginarily but really offended As for the talent you say Nature hath bestowed on me I am full litle God wote beholding to her for it Since priviledged spirits have besides the acutenesse of the understanding an equall quicknesse of sensibility so as who-so is most apprehensive is likewise most sensible Againe to contrast with crosses and to overcome them proceeds not from the priviledge of Nature but from an habit acquired by us which if I owne as it is not likely since I have not beene yet much enured to ill fortune I then have it among so many thornes that it is a great marvell if it be not by this time torne to pieces To game with-fortune is the trade of all that live so to be of the losing hand is ordinary but yet not to be quite undone for that is incident onely to persons extraordinary as I am Princes seldome lose without being utterly ruin'd yet should I not be for all that much blamed for hazarding so much as I did for great and right precious was the stake that I hoped to winne which cannot be valued either by quantity or weight One pretious Iewell is more prized than many masses of gold Now for what concernes the Gods I know not how to answer you for I neither know nor comprehend their wayes no I have I confesse but too much straid besides them yet if their mercies exceed our offences wherefore have they not then exceeded mine They will raise mee up you will say and againe restore me to my former state In good time but if I voluntarily forsooke it for Lucano's sake and they taken him from mee how can they then any way ease my griefe seeing hee is the onely thing I want and desire Is their Omnipotencie can you tell mee so regulated as to extend even to contradictories Can they let mee have him in the same instant both dead and alive More shee would have spoken but the good Dutchesse well knowing that extreame passions minister unwholsome conceits interrupted her by inferring consolative reasons and shee after patiently listning unto her finding her selfe at length convicted with her discreete arguments returned to tell her Mother the Gods are not so firmely bound by the unabsolveable oathes they vow by the infernall Lake as you have bound me to let him live to me upon the interest of the burden I goe now with childe of Live then I will that he may leade a living and I an ever-dying life among perpetuall teares in eternall sorrowes Here shee thought to have proceeded further thereby to have vented out her griefe but the watry humour abundantly flowing from her eyes so suffocated her words as she could not In the evening she was perswaded to taste of some restorative conserves continuing so to doe the other dayes following untill the marriners touch'd in this Iland to refresh themselves But then shee leaving us a-boord with the goods attended only by her women would by all meanes goe ashore where espying by chance the cave you saw shee boldly entred it and out of the litle esteeme shee had any more now of her life a desire tooke her to

apparent greatnes or eminency above the other prime Senators This cockarrice of ambitious Soveraignty was then but a-hatching in his braine for acquiring whereof he with more than common wyles and subtilties made a shew of those vertues which indeede he never own'd concealing those vices which being borne with him were both his nurse and nourishment Hee fell enamoured of my mother not for any great beauty of hers but because the malicious subtilty which hee discovered to be in her pleased him extreamely a thing ordinary to the worst people to have an inclination to such as live by quillets and inventions choosing and indeed loving to be rather deceived by such than well served by better Now Nerca my mother in the beginning of this their love was married and wife to one Rotildo a personage of conditions most noble and to praise them well quite contrary to hers Many times had shee tempted him to bring his Countrey into servitude with the favour of the Persians who then ruled as they doe also to this present day all Asia Shee would alwayes be a shewing him the facility of the enterprize by him rejected without making any account of her words which being sharpned on the whet-stone of ambition endeavoured to foine him as if generosity a royall vertue would bee lodged with tyrannie and treacheries But seeing it nothing availe her and considering withall that though shee could have perswaded him in time that yet he was not for all that to be trusted seeing that a minde fast cleaven to vertue cannot be from it dissevered without danger of repentance shee cast an eye on Pridale my Father the state and nature of whom being well examined shee thought by his meanes to withdraw her selfe from equality by her so much hated and to be reduced to principality which so impatiently shee long'd after taking for example the Tyrants of Mileto Epheso Colofone and Pirene The first step to the enterprize was Adultery wherein they found such sweetnesse that the avidity of enjoying each other waxed so insupportable as they began to thinke of the making away of Rotildo and then of the subjection of Chio and climing to the right of their pretended greatnesse 'T was strange if not marveilous that they should have as they had both of them ere ever they knew one another the selfe same designe and after being acquainted that this second which I now told you of should serve them for a reciprocall instrument And yet a man when hee well considers it may see that both these make no greater matter of marvaile among the good and yet lesse among the wicked if their thoughts strike all in one white Shee judged him to be the prime and most ambitious man of all the Citizens and he knew her to be of great parentage which might afford him matter if not more apt for servitude at least lesse difficult for being lesse subject to envy and dangers But Rotildo's death must not be effected by violent meanes his Nobility and power accompanied with the favour of the Lawes supprest their principall end sithence the very suspition of being his murtherers had beene as much as their lives were worth by so much the rather that hee being endowed with no lesse milde than amiable conditions and having no enemies no man could misse of conjecturing the truth So as the most favourable sentence that could be denounced against them must have beene banishment which would burst the neck of their principality whereunto they could never aspire as long as they were exiled persons and deprived of their estates goods and fortunes The best course then they could thinke of was to cause him to be put to death legally by laying to his charge that crime which he most abhorr'd and which was indeede particularly theirs by plotting the treacherie with malicious accusations so subtle as might deceive the world the Magistracie and the Lawes themselves Now my Father had a bastard-brother named Timocle more mischievous yet than himselfe to whom he had no sooner communicated his designe and what he had to doe than he picking against all reason a quarrell with one of the principall Citizens slew him and then getting a-boord a Vessell for that purpose mann'd passed over into Asia and thence to Susa whilst his brother then chiefe of the Magistracie seeming to detest more than all the rest both the foule fact and the guilty actor banished him under a capitall paine for ever returning againe to his Countrey for any occasion whatsoever subjecting to the selfe same punishment all such as should but propose his recalling The infamie of so enormous a fault was in a loud crie supprest by the justice of his brother for which the people adored him as a restorer of the ancient integrity and as the true Idea of a just Citizen in a well-governed republick Timocle arrived at Susa laying aside the popular Greekish arrogance adored the King after the Persian manner and told him hee was rent from Pridale a brother of his and the prime Citizen of Chio not concealing the abominable murther committed expressely to shadow the plot and offered him the Soveraignty of the I le under the principality of Pridale Hee proposed for bringing the affaire unto a head that under pretext of demanding a revocation of his banishment the Persian King should send thither an Embassadour because in case they did not as he knew they would not grant it they should then be constrained to send him another to acquaint his Majestie with the reasons why they did it not That then Pridale would cause to be chosen the most potent of them to the end that taking occasion of calumniating him as corrupted by the Persians hee might be put to death which succeeding the City would then rest wholly under his brothers authority This was not the first time that the King had treated with other Grecians of the like affaires so as their legeritie inconstancie were already known to him though he would never have beleeved them to have beene so mischievous But the insatiable desire of domineering having no regard to either vertue or vice he being already possessed of the greater part of the Cities of Ionia in the Continent deemed the occasion most opportune for getting footing in the sea And therefore accepting of the proffer after being sundry wayes but more especially by Pridale's Letters assured that Timocle's relations were no false alarums hee wrote to Farnabazzo his Lievetenant in Asia to execute as much as by him were proposed him Farnabazzo readily obeyes sending a Captaine to Chio to demand on the Kings behalfe the revocation of Timocle To whom Pridale making a shew of being now a more irreconcileable enemy than before cried out That such favours from a King so long since a pretender to the subjection of Greece could not be obtain'd of a Timocle without conventions dangerous to both the State and Liberty and though it so were not as it could not but be so since hee would

though enclined to all kinde of mischiefe he became to be in outward shew vertuous for not falling at the fall or decease of his brother from that state wherein he in his conceit liv'd happily And my father knowing that as hee was the instrument of his greatnesse so he might be also the like for his depression stood so in feare of him as he doubted he would be angry if he followed not his counsels having a perpetuall eye to the good opinion the King of Persia and many great ones had of him to whom he was become gracious by his nature pliable to all humours so as Cameleon-like he with the good would appeare in the best colours and with the wicked in the worst Nerea my Mother an hundred for one more malicious and mischievous than my Father and that for her owne ends had esteemed his brother more than he entertaining him with the carriage rather of a strumpet than a sister-in-law and salving her husbands jealousies with the selfe same cunning endeavouring to make him beleeve that so shee must have done to save them both from being undone Reasons at first perhaps good but no longer now after the disaster of his sonne doubting and with reason too that shee carried her selfe towards him as shee had done towards her other husband observantly therefore examining her demeanour towards his brother he considered it to be the fabrick of his danger ruine All my Mothers wit was after the death of her sonne employed in expugning the interessed continencie of Timocle which being once battered shee hoped to be whole directresse and commandresse of all Much adoe shee had in assaulting it but at last shee wonne it Timocle as wylie malicious and mischievous as so many more subjecting himselfe by degrees to the webbe of the ill-warpt thread of a worser spinster The businesse went not far onwards because my Father was now resolved to make sure worke of them who considered that the Principality being to him and his heires tooke from all others all pretext thereunto as long as he and I stuck together not without forethinking that womens disability to tyrannie an engine to bee managed with forces and terrours conditions farre distant from the nature of their sex and my being horribly detested of every one would have brought him no small disadvantage Yet howsoever having no other prop to leane upon hee choosed this for his present ends any shade serving his turne that lyes scorched by the Sunne And though that innovating might goe neere to spoyle all and move on to a certaine end uncertaine perils yet thought he it not his best course to put it in doubt since preventing a mischiefe and surprizing the mischiefe-plotter is better than to be prevented and surprized Hee therefore began to honour mee using me as presumed heire with much respect by participating to mee his affaires calling me into counsell and giving mee a Family and among them some of the best reputed and honestest Matrons of Chio perswading me to vertue good conditions and more especially to a modest and honest course of life framing himselfe also to the same in outward appearance so punctually as hee now seemed to be no more that first Pridale And to the end that Nerea and Timocle might prove the authors of their owne ruine hee seemed to be hoodwink'd at their actions by cherishing and making more of them now than before making an account that their becomming odious unto the world would preserve him in his Principality for doubt of a worse if not for choyse of the better Timocle penetrating his brothers thoughts by his behaviour considering how the government had wonne him many all favours having beene done either mediately or immediately by him and all rigours and injustice imputed and conceived to be Pridale's although his conscience told him that he was ever hated but in an equall degree with himselfe who was a murtherer a betrayer of his Countrey and good men a complotter of tyrannie an adulterer and an incestuous miscreant abandoning therefore all domestick hopes hee fastned on forraigne better founded and more certaine Hee wrote to the Persian Court and complain'd of Pridale not in termes of enmity but as a well-meaning man proposing the dangers of sedition in the people who were like enough so they but once recovered their liberty to breake the hedges not onely of Ionia but even of all the Provinces of Greece That therefore order should be given for some number of good Souldiers and Galleyes to keepe the I le in awe Hee obtained as much as he desired upon a conformable letter of Farnabazzo Lievetenant Generall in Asia an ancient friend of Timocle's and conserved such by presents and by the common opinion of the Peeres that hee was rather a Persian than a Grecian My Father looked pale at the hearing of the order of sending him Galleyes and Garrisons And seeing himselfe in such a streight resolved to clip his brothers ambition's wings by having him guided to the precipice of his downe-fall Hee surprized Timocle and his wife together on the fact or as wee say with the manner whilest they were more carelesly licentious for thinking themselves secure enough from him and shewed them in the act both to the Principall of the City and to the Persian Captaines and Officers and then speedily convicting them put them to death the most welcome accident that had befallen Chio since shee had lost her liberty which shee judged to be a very good beginning Faine would my Mother have seene me before her death but that last boone of hers was not granted her Having stepped this irrevocable pace my Father not knowing how to refuse the destinated milice bethought himselfe of sending me into Persia that I serving for a silent hostage might more handsomely excuse him thereof hoping that my beauties were sufficient to obtaine of the King Court all that I knew how to demand Having received my instructions we gave out to vaile with a modest pretext this till then unheard-of feminine embassie that I went to be entertained in the Queenes service till I married againe Come to Asia accompanied with a Noble Family of Knights and Ladies I came to speech with Farnabazzo I stood not to praying but commanded him so much authority conceived I to have over him in an instant to forbeare to send the forces either of men or galleyes destinated for Chio till he had further order from the Court I was obeyed passing afterwards from place to place without any expence besides my being gratified by all even till I came to Susa reserving all the while apart my naturall conditions to the end the coyne of my beauty being conserved in its full weight might be the more currant to steede mee where I went to spend it I arrived in Court with a noble conduct of such as beyond any expectation of mine came to meete mee by the way although indeede I strongly relied on my winning qualities Being presented to the King