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A08441	The heroicall aduentures of the knight of the sea comprised in the most famous and renowned historie of the illustrious & excellently accomplished Prince Oceander, grand-sonne to the mightie and magnanimous Claranax, Emperour of Constantinople, and the Empresse Basilia; and sonne vnto the incomparable Olbiocles Prince of Grecia, by the beautious Princesse Almidiana, daughter vnto the puissant King Rubaldo of Hungaria. Wherin is described ... his owne losse, strange preseruing, education, and fostering (by Kanyra Q. of Carthage) his knighthood, admirable exploytes, and vnmatchable atchieuementes, graced with the most glorious conquestes ouer knights, gyants, monsters, enchauntments, realmes, and dominions; with his ... combating, affecting, and pursuites in his loue towardes the rarely embellished princesse and lady-knight Phianora, daughter vnto the inuinicible Argamont King of England, by the gracious Princesse Clarecinda.		1600 (1600)	STC 18763; ESTC S110204	176,990	254

vrged them at this time by mee to summon thee in all hūble and submissiue sort disroabed of thy royal vestures with an halter about thy necke and a white wand in thine hand presently to repaire vnto the pauilions of the Barbarian Potentates Before whome if proudly thou refuse to make thy personall appearance wee heere in the names of our dread Soueraignes proclaime vtter ruine and destruction against thee and all thy kingdome within whose territories no Christian shall be left aliue so extreamely and rigorously shall our Pagan Curtelaxes within these fewe daies punish thy inconsiderate contumacy With such presumption and hautinesse was this speach deliuered by the knight of the sea against the Emperours honour fame as for very anger at his bouldnesse his eyes waxed bloudshot his forehead was furrowed with so feareful a frowne as al the lookers on trembled at the terrible aspect of his bunched browes which notwithstanding were but the very shadows of his hearts substancified impatience Whose cholericke humour so choaked vp the mouth of his voices organ as he was vnable to render any reply vnto his expecting enemies Which Oceander perceiuing he turned vnto his fellowes and in great derision See yee not quoth he Bould bitter with a lowde laughter with what patience the Emperour endures our Embassage No doubt but by that time he hath studied a little longer wee shall receiue some stout answere he struggleth so mightily to speake to vs. The young Prince Ismerion of Sparta and the brother to the faire Rodasilua with little patience brooked this shamefull indignity offered vnto his Soueraigne and therefore doing his obeisance to the Emperour with an high voice he beganne thus to correct their in ciuilitie It better befitteth the grauitie of Embassadours to vse themselues with reuerence before a Potentate and not in such iniurious manner to miscarry theirselues before so mighty a Monarch as the Emperour Claranax my dread Lord Soueraigne Whose sword like the mowers sithe being discontinued frō correcting of your misdemeanours hath giuen leasure to your carelesse cōceits in your prides to perpetrate newe controuersies which with a greater vēgeance will speedily procure you a more dreadfull destruction By Mahomet quoth Oceander very scornefully the boy prattles pretily and on mine honour it were pittie to let the little vrchin to die of a consumption that craued his present confusion so pithilie And therwith he smote the young Spartan Prince such a buffet vnder the temples with his armed fist as he quite felled him to the ground Ismerion slain by Oceander and with his feete there prosecuting his pittilesse furie as he made his mouth together with a streame of clotted bloud to belch out his miserable life O who hath seene the sad countenances of Priam Heccuba Polixena bedeawed with the teares of true sorrow for the death of their deare sonne Hector saw but euen the very tipe of the torments that Claranax Basilia and most wretched Rodasilua endured at the woful sight of so sorrowfull a spectacle whose cōceiued griefe was in such excesse of sadnes as No Rhetoricians tongue in words can paint The sorrowes great that did their soules attaint For with teares their azury eyes were drowned with trembling their armes and hands shaked their hearts for horrour panted from out their places their tongues faultred their temples trauailed with sweate to conclude all their bodies were distempered they shrieked at the sight they left their throanes thronged about him threwe themselues vpon the ground felt his pulses found no life fainted vnder him reuiued not to relieue but renew their lamentings ouer his cold carcasse whom they most loued being aliue and most lamented being sodainely sequestred from himselfe from those he more affected then himselfe In this dolefull sort they passionatized themselues ouer the departed Princes body which they bathed in the deawe of their teares vntill anger and magnanimity drawing the good Emperour from such wailing effeminacy enforced his cogitations Embassadour The Emperours resolute answere to the Embassadors to vtter forth this couragions resolution Sleepe in thy soules securitie sweete Prince of Sparta whose vntimely death as my eyes haue relented ouer thee so mine ire shal reuenge with an vnplacable fury on the heads of thy wicked enemies Harken therefore O ye mercilesse miscreāts and behould my more then deserued clemency towards yee that I should harme Embassadors is against the lawes of Nations yet you manifestly see that your misdemeanours haue merited no mercy which notwithstanding though euen contrary to iustice I willingly and graciously grant you that in my rage it may not be reported rather of your words wherin your masters wrong mee highly then of your deeds wherin your selues haue proffered me most intollerable indignity I tooke reuengemēt Which though it be warranted in all religious both Christian Pagan yet with multitudes I will not wreake it nor with so many as I might cōmand to punish yee Honorable patience will I oppresse yee but quietly permitting you to depart my Palace remit the tryal of our causes to our fortunes followed in the field where fierce Bellona shall decide the Iustice of our quarrels without partialitie Depart ye therfore in peace discourteous knights to your Pauilions where humbled on your knees you shall denotifie vnto your Soueraignes that they shew their pride inconsideratenesse so presumptuously to commaund one that is far better then their selues so basely at their sole summons to submit himselfe and safety vnto their doubtfull censures since what they lay vnto my charge is altogether vntrue and of malice falsly forged to picke quarrels against mee For where Tunian Tomarin inferreth treason vnto mee The Emperour Claranax wrongfully accused to haue treacherously murthered Tumanto practised against his sonne Tumanto he should haue said that rightly that I was too trusty vnto his treacherous sonne whose Barbarian manners grewe so barbarous as after I had promoted him to the highest dignitie in Grecia he falsly hauing feloniously stollen away my Neece Marinda of Moldauia frō mee fled ouer to my foes of Tripoly and Syria Vnder whose banner he bouldly bandied against mee vntill by the iust iudgement of the heauens he in the Adriaticke seas according as he had deserued by a sort of seruile sea-roauers Tumanto taken by Rouers slaine receiued the right recompence of a traitour to wit plain hanging yet nether by my consent nor countrimen Therefore tel your misinformed masters of Tunis and Tangur that they done iniurie to my innocencie by inuading my territories vnder the pretence of my committing treason against Tumāto since in my conceipt they rather complot the cōprizing of my Crowne and city of Constantinople yet I will not take knowledge therof But since they will needs accuse me thus wrongfully in words tell them I will yer long excuse with deeds rightfully willingly for with my sword I hope on their gorgets to plead guiltlesse to their peril

mifortunes and at the last consented with patience to commit her silly soule to the tuition of the calmed Seas In which determination taking the babe in her armes bestowing on his heart whereon by Nature were liuely depainted the billowes of the Ocean which by his hearts panting waued vp and downe like the maritime deepe a thousand kisses into his opened bosome af a whole volley of sighes shee breathed out this affectionate farewell ¶ The Princesse Almidianaes farewell to her most deare Infant MY pretty babe whome royall Sire begotte On beautious mother in vnhappie time In whose natiuity kinde starres daign'd not To future happinesse for to combine Their prosperous glory foreshewing shine Behold thy mother sitting in my lappe With watry eyes bewailing thy mishappe Thy wicked happe which wofull fate aboads thee To crosse thy sweete spring with sad winter sower Which from thy infancy poore soule o'reloads thee And chiefely for thy infant-yeares want power To shadowe thee from saddest sorrowes shower Whose stormie gust's and frosty nipping blast Thy faire youths heauen with griefe shal ouercast For why vnkinde I must against my will Euen in a moment thy poore selfe forsake And to thy lucklesse lot must leaue thee still Vnto the senselesse Ocean to betake Thy tender corpse whose pitious cries might make An harder hearte then mine God knowes to rue Yet I poore soule cannot the facte eschewe Ah what will others say when they shall heare How cruell I am proued to my childe Will they not bounce their brestes and tresses teare Cursing fell vengeance on a deede so vilde And say Medea neuer proued so wilde For shee did only slay her infant brother But thou thy sonne O most tyrannous mother Her fact may be excus'd her shame may leaue her Consuming time her crueltie may hide But thy most sauage deede shall blamed euer Within the memories of men abide So as though time doe neere so swiftly slide Yet shall he on his winges transported still Cary remembrance of my wicked will What then vnhappie wretch wilt thou effect Which way wilt thou determine his relieuance Wilt thou for feare his safety neglect And still retaine him to a farther grieuance If heare he stay he dies if goe perchaunce Some happie star may guide him to good fortune Which otherwise might too much ill importune Then silly soule why should I longer stay From prosequuting what I haue intended What though a while from me poore babe thou stray Vnto the raging billowes safe commended It must be borne which can not be amended And since withouten helpe I must forsake thee Sweete boy to Gods tuition I betake thee CHAP. 4. ¶ How Olbiocles Alfortio Orthisius and other knightes put themselues in enquest after the Gyant Ortolomorgantell to reskew the inthralled Princesses And how Olbiocles arriued on the Round Iland where in reuenge of the Damosell Alluas quarrel he fought with the Knight of the Tygre and of the exceeding ioy of the Queene of Carthage for the young Sea-borne babe that her brother Artimagus sent her DEliuering forth together with sobbes and sighes this sorrowfull farewel she set her last loues signet vpon the tender lips of the young infant whom hauing wrapped in warme swadling clothes Hard shift shee put into the ruines of an olde chest which by the helpe of an honest mariner who pittied her case was with pitch so cūningly fastned from taking any violence from the waues as hoping the Gods would as well in this little planke as wel as in a greater vessel protect him speedily she deliuered the silly infant vp vnto the tuition of the Ocean But the Almightie pitying the childes miseries most gratiously prouided for his safety for by his diuine institution prouidence he caused a poore fisherman who was casting his nets about the shoares of Asia to draw nigh vnto the ship hauing neuer seene any such before to stād houering about it in amazement to gaze exceedingly vpon the strangenesse thereof Wherof the Ladies being aduertised called him vnto them and some of them giuing him their purses others their bracelets girdles cheines or whatsoeuer else might seeme of worth to carry that childe vnto the Emperour of Grecia which he promising to doe they deliuered the childe yet before they would depart with him as well as they could they gaue him his christendome by the name of Oceander The childe christned Oceander and deliuered to K●lus a Fis●man which greeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth a man of the Ocean Whereafter suffering the poore fisherman to depart with his charge th●y al with one consent returned vnto the mastes againe whereto being as they were erst chained they expected the cōming of their furious keeper Ortolomorgantell who hauing ended the combat waued vnto their ship to follow more neerely vnto them which they did and because there was none but Christians in the ship the Gyant cōcluded to haue the same guarded by a certaine nūber of Barbarians who seeking to dominier ouer the poore Christian mariners caused that the miserable Ladies indured the greater seruitude We returne to them again in the 18. chap which don Ortolomorgantel with al hast possible made towards the Rocky Iland where we will leaue him til time fit to tell his tyranny to talke a while of our wofull knights of Greece and Hungarie Such was the extreame anguish that both the Emperour Claranax the king Rubaldo with all the rest of the knights of Grecia conceiued for the sodaine surprisement of the Ladies as also the death of Meroander duke of Athens as they were all at the point of going out of their wits Meroande deceased but especially the young prince of France who reuiuing out he fell into by reason of his wounds receiued by the fury of the Gyant being enraged with despight of his owne misfortune his sister Eristamas losse presently called for his horse and armour in the company of the valiant Impe of the king Oruntio of Spaine Orthi●ius and Al●ortio emberqued thēselues in reskew of the Princesses he hyed him vnto the hauen of Constantinople where imbarquing himselfe he put out to the Sea But yet for all this hast of Orthisius Olbiocles hatting heard of his Ladies il fortune had armed himselfe and before euer Orthisius could attaine the hauen he went aboarde and hoysing vp his sailes made away so amainely from the coastes of Greece as in short while he was past ken of his country inhabitants which he perceiuing and with teares lamenting at last brast forth into this agony of passions How vnaduised are those foolish Poets which sticke not in their laboured penworkes to praise Fortune as a Goddesse and how indeliberate are those makers which impute vnto her fickle Deitie more then a diuine potencie too farre doe they reach their fancies to attribute such infinite power to such an inconstant guide Oshiocles inuectine agianst Fortune Since if she were what they faine her to be

he so speedily executed as hauing takē off the charmed Coronet after some striuing from the Princes heade in a moment the Castle sunke and all the rest of the faire Orchards sweete-smelling Gardens christalline Fountaines on a sodaine vanished only he sawe Ptoladine Briarostes himselfe The inchaūtment dissolued and the knight of the fiue swordes stand beside him on the plaine large chāpeine vallie amazed both at the things that vanished and also at the sodaine approaching of the two mighty kings Alcaazo and Maridomir attended on by a great troope both of Aegyptian and Mesopotamian knights and gentlemen who kneeling downe at the feete of the magnanimous knight of the Sea with most hearty thankes rendered a gratefull guerdon for his incomparable valour shewed in deliuering both them and their disiressed sonne Ptoladine from the furious abuses beastly cruelty of the wicked inchauntresse Mardigun Which their thanks the worthy knight rendering in orisons to the fauouring heauens shewed his great pietie to the Gods and his small delight taken in the transitory praises of earthly creatures But now for a while let vs forsake him to returne to the vnfinished enterprise of the two valiant knights Orthisius and Alfortio by whose aduenturous atchieuements both Fraunce and Spaine shall eternally be renowned CHAP. XI ¶ How the Princes of Fraunce and Spaine arriued at the kingdome of Volcama where they combated the vsurper Termidantez Who seeing he should be conquered murthered the imprisoned Queene Mabina and then desperately throwing himselfe from the porch of the palace being not altogether dead was afterwards put to a most cruell torture LOng those valiant princes Orthisius and Alfortio by reasō of their desire they had both to do Iustice as also to followe in enquest after the most beawtious Grecian Princesses Almidiana and Eristama could not remaine amongst their newe-wonne friendes in the Citties of Hybla and Siracusa wherefore courteously with thankes for their good entertainement taking their leaue of Oezima and her brother the Duke Oriardey who with teares in his eyes giuing them a most kinde farewell with vnfained orisons for their safeties he committed them to the Seas Ouer whose calme bosome hauing sayled they happily surged on the coastes of Volcania Where being in the chiefe Cittie by their Page prouided of a requisite lodging Orthisius and Alfortioariu● on the Iland of Volcania they rested their weary limbes for the space of two dayes when giuing notice to the chiefest and most loyall fauourits of the wronged Queene Mabina●s cause the third day they repaired in armes with the people flocking after their heeles vnto the vsurpers palace Out at a window of whose gate-house they heard the sorrowfull Queene thus dolefully to effuse her soules sad lamentations Queene Mabinaes complainte And shall I still O gods in this distresse With brinish teares from mine eyes fountaines spring Bewaile my miseries remedilesse And wearying my handes with often wringing Continue in this dungeon euermore My sad mischaunces thus for to deplore Which being tould vnto these prison walls That are both reasonlesse and life-lesse thinges Whil'st that my tongue me wretched caitife calles Their Eccho from their bowels wretched wrings And when that I do tyre them with exclaiming They answere sadly as lamentinges framing I sigh and say alas they doe replie Alas alas and when that I doe groane They seeming to lament my miserie Doe ecchoing reanswere mee with loane So as where I condole without reliefe They do lament as partners in my griefe And were it not for them I should become Heart broken franticke mad and melancholy For by their wofull ecchoing alone I doe receiue my soules refreshing wholly Which onely keepe themselues from wanting pittie To be sad consorts in my carefull dittie Which euermore I sing with sobbing breath As prep'ratiue before approaching death SHee had no sooner sighed out her sorrowes but that the vnmercifull vsurper entering the prison reprehended her sharply for being so lauish in her laments with menacing words threatning her most cruelly to cut out that apt delicate organe of her speach if she continued any longer in her lamentations Which when the Noble minded Spaniarde heard he thus began canuasse him for his beastly and treacherous cruelty In humane monster vnciuill tyrant who hath instituted thee a sterne corrector of most disconsolate Ladies What is thy heart waxed so haughty since the vsurpation of thy tyrannie as thou canst not onely be contented to disgrade and disgrace but also to sight-reaue and not only that but to speec●-ba● thy wrōgly oppressed prisoner whose iniuries crie for iustice whose vnregarded wrongs inuocate the high commander of the firmament to powre downe iust vengeance on thy accursed head at whose hands we are come in armes Quamuis ●e●a veniet vinditta tamen Terindantes appeached by Alfortio to require the respitelesse restitution of her right and sufficient satisfaction for all the outrages that thou hast vniustly offred her Come downe therefore vnto me who will enter the Lists against thee in defēce of thy Soueraignes iust quar●ell to whome thou hast vsed such Satiricall actions Tyrindantez though he was gallen to the very heart with these obiections yet the better to make the common citizens to beare the better liking to his cause he very patiently seemed to brooke these menaces But as the fire cannot long lie hidden vnder the drie flaxe but that by the smoke it should be discouered so for al the tyraunt sought by not answering to cloake his anger yet the fiercenesse of his countenance so manifested his indignation as both the Prince of Spaine himselfe as also all the beholders did plainely perceiue out of what mettall the quintessence of his meekenesse was extracted But to say the truth he refrained from replying till with his launce he might batter an angry answers on the stomack of his aduersarie And therfore speedily causing his Squires to arme him he descended his palace-hall staires and mounting h●mselfe on a mighty Courser hee praunce● vp and downe proudly before the Lists till being vrged by the Prince Alphortio he presētly rendered him this disdainfull answere Proude Knight straunger Terind●nces answere in armes knowe that I so lightly accompt of thy brauing challēge as wert thou the Mars-like chāpion to the gods I should scorne to enter the listes against thee much more as thou art now a proud young Princocks whome wante of yeares hath made so vndiscre●tely attempt this daungerous enterprise Come on therefore vain-glorious young man and at my handes receiue thee a iust guerdon for thy foolish hardinesse Herewith setting spurs to his hor●e hee gallop●d so fast to the incountring of his enemies as his Palfrey stumbling hee was cast quite headlong out of his saddle to the groūd Malum omen Which he taking to be malum omen of any future good fortune on horsebacke resolued to trie out the combate on foote Wherfore drawing out his courtleax he pased towardes Alfortio to haue

ouertooke the Infant Ciafa whome in reuenge of their fathers death they would haue murthered but were repulsed by Briarostez and Medion and how the Knight of the sea was carried in his inchaunted boate to the Ilande of Malagda NOrin in the meane time and Nigramonde the diuelish issue of that damned Gyant Cardigan beeing rouzed from their rests which they tooke in a most strong fortresse by the lamentable out-cries which bellowing-like thundered into their eares of their massacred and distressed Father with all the hast possible they presently hyed vnto him whome finding both armelesse and in a maner lifelesse they hoisted vp into his irō charriot hauing carried him vnto their castle to be carefully tended by their Chirurgions Cardigan caried vnto his Castle causing their Lyons to be humbled vnto the seruile saddle they presently mounted on them with their battleares on their shoulders Norin Nigramonde haste to reuenge the death of their Father they hastily galloped after their Fathers mischiefe-worker to be reuenged on him for his too too audacious crueltie but all in vaine For taking a cleane contrary way they left their aduersarie Oceander though vnknowing in his combate against the Inchantresse cursed Mardiguaes champion the beawtie vnmatchable the fairer then fairenesse it selfe Phianora and with an angry haste they cut forth their iournies towards the neighbouring mountaines whither they vainly thought their aduersarie to be galloped Now as the valiant Briarostez and the valorous Knight of the fiue swords high minded Medion were with their princely charge the faire Infant Ciafa returning leasurely towards the castle of late wronged Lidia the wofull wife of Zadolin whom the eleauen Knights murthered for the death of Milodez they were sodainely recalled by one of the younge Gyantes who being come with in voice-reach with a hoarse throat in this sort sounded out their sodaine retreate Thinke not most vile and wicked traytors by this your sodaine taking flight to passe thoroughly vnpunished for the cruell murther of our deare father the mighty Cardigā whose princely blood shed cowardly by your peasant blades presents a sorrowfull remembraunce of wrathfull vengeance to be wreaked on your carrion carcasses In an euill hower quoth Briarostez art thou come thus vniustly to challenge vs but since thou wilt needes be meddling come on a gods name and by the power of almighty Mahomet who guide my hand to gaine the victorie I shall giue thy proude approach so pearcing a welcome as thou shalt with shame wish thy farther safetie whē by my Launces point thou shalt bee borne to the grounde shamed Norin and Briarostez encounter foiled and ouerthrowne Therewith they both met together so fiercely as breaking their pinetree speares against their pouldrōs they were both sent headlōg frō their horsebackes to finish the rest of their Monimachy on foote who nimbly recouering themselues from the fall presently drewe out their steele-heawing weapons and so stoutly belabred one another about the crestes as it might well haue made them dissy for their intollerable stroakes made the other foure behoulders very exceedingly amazed Briarostez with his broad fawchon Cordelue sent such a strong blowe on the shield of Norin as nigh therewith he parted it in two peeces and then slyding betweene the breast-plate and the arme-hole it straight descended vnto the grounde where doing no other harme it stayde but so was it stricken into the muddy substance as before Briarostez could thoroughly vnloosen it Norin flourishing his battleaxe with a stronge whirle about his heade stroke Briarostez such a sound buffet ouerthwart his shoulders as with the furie thereof he was forced to stagger backwarde at least three yardes from the place where he first stood But as hap would in his retyring he gaue such a twitch at the hilt of his sword Cordelue as he vnburyed it from the bowels of the earth wherein it was so fast enclosed And hauing recouered both himselfe and it in his hand now holy Mahomet quoth he and Termagaunt on whose Mecā altars I vnmissingly offer a precious annuall sacrifice but inspire mine arme at this time with some inresistable flauour of your sacred vigours and I here make a solemne vowe for euer steadfastly to maintaine your holy deitie and heauenly lawes written in your diuine Alcaron against any mortall man whosoeuer it oppugning as indeed he did for in defence thereof he manfully dyed vnder the resistlesse sword of Oceander who had newly embraced the holy fayth of Christ as you shall heare in the second part of this present historie Briarostez hauing in this sort ended his short orisons he added such a fierce furie to his vigorous arme as therewith mounting vp his fawchon aboue the helmet of his strong aduersary the same descended with such violence betweene the cuirace and the shoulder of Norin as it not only pared away a great peece of his left arme but with such a diuelish decline rushed on the hard temperature of his steely gauntlet Norin sorely wounded by Briarostez as with an vnresistable furie it cleane parted the hand from the arme of Norin who instantly with hideous teares and bellowings exclaimed vpon his brother Nigramonde with an inuincible courage to take iust vengeāce on his ouermatching enemies and herewith he thought to haue fled But Medion who as yet had not meddled in the conflict Slaine by Medion gaue him such a recall with his courtleaxe on the cuirace as he fetcht him downe backewards from his fierce beast with a vengeance to trie if hee durst to hazarde the second combate and therewithall aduauncing his shielde before him he stoode watchfully expecting the vndoubted assault of enraged Nigramond whose stomack was so taken downe by his brothers misfortune and the Egyptian honourable manhood as horsing his wounded brother Norin vppon his furious beast before him he made feare adde spurs to his feete Nigramon de betaketh him to flight and hastily flying from his vnpursuing enemies he left the field open to his foes who glad they were so well freede from their troublesome guests speedily hied them to Lydias castle where we will leaue thē to their recreation Briarostez to his wounds recuring and returne again to our former forsaken chāpion Oceander who as you haue heard being left all alone by the witch Mardigua and the worthy Princesse Phianora sauing onely accompanied with the approaching night Oceander amazed and enflamed with the beauty of Phianora and the huge inuironing Cliffes casting an admiring amated and amorous sight after the fleeting boate wherein the beautious Princesse sailed from him his thrōging thoughts amazed at the misse of their blessednes began to charme his trembling mindes Embassadour thus dolefully to lament his irreparable misfortune Of sodaine griefes and heart-amating wronges Why sit I in this silence vncomplayning Since raciturnitie in griefes-explaining My inward heart with woe so ouer-thronges As if I had whole infinites of tongues They scarcely to my torments could giue vente

time prefixed by the Gods wherein after thou hast done thy parents the most extreame wronge that may be offered thou shalt by this come to the true knowledge of thy pedigree and the true and euer liuing sauiour to thy owne great happinesse and the wonderfull astonishment of all creatures that shall heare of so strange an happened accident But deare sonne though the time be somewhat long yer these things come to passe tempt not thy fortune by the ardent desire of knowing these secrets yer the time is fully expired of the accomplishing of these wonders For at that very instant shall my deare daughter Magartez to whose vse I leaue both my Cell and learning present the same vnto thee then thou maist bouldly vaunt thy selfe to be the most happiest knight that euer was borne of any mother Also deare Prince for now it concernes me to entreate thee since euery creature is subiect vnto death let me request thy patience for my departing out of this wretched life and though thy loue thou bearest vnto me for my manifold adiuments in thy necessities bee incomparable yet when thou shalt with those cleare shining glasses of thine eyes behold this crazed carcase withered body of mine both cold and liuelesse suffer not thy sorrowes to goe beyond their bounds but with a moderate meane in greeuing with some fewe teares trickling from thy eyes fountaines bathe ouer my colde pale age-nipt chéekes in token of thy vnstained affection that Marga●tez to whose artfull tuition I betake thee may the more willingly oblige her selfe in an eternal dutie to thy preseraance preferment in the field of glorie triumphant honour wonne by the virtue of thy neuer ouermatched chiualrie and now hoping that you will rest somewhat satisfied with my sad departure I humbly print on your stéely gauntlet the last signall of my affectionate and loyall friendshippe when sweetely kissing the iron gloue Artimagus depar●eth this life hee plucked his armes downe into the bedde and turning his face from the attendants hee quietly y●elded vp his ghost whilest his daughter Margartez with a cast-down countenance and a trembling voice equiualent to the cunning couch of a sweete sounding Lute dolefully sighed forth this sorrowfull knell verse O Prophet great which in the heauens aboue Thy residence dost keepe eternally Looke downe vpon his soule with eyes of Loue Which languishing in mickle misery With sighes and groanes would to compassion moue Thy sacred soule that since hee needes must die His fleeting ghost may to the skyes remoue There to attende vpon thy deity As soone as he was throughly deade they most dolefully lamented ouer his deade bodie with such greeful groanes Carthaginians lamēt the death of Artimagus cries and clamoures as the whole Castle rang againe of their mourning so loudly did their shreekes eccho and penetrate euen into the vnder-cloudes of heauen so dolourously they bewailed the death of the most wise and learned Lord Artimagus Which their sad ceremonies beeing ended they pretiously embalmed his disentrailed body and perfuming it with infinitie of most sweete odoures they caused it the very same night to be carried in an Ebon Chariot into the middest of the market place of Carthage where before the sorrowfull Citizens they consumed it vnto ashes and ouer the place where it was burned the louing Carthaginians with a huge masse of pearles and treasure Artimagus funerall rites speedily erected a most faire Chappell consecrated vnto Mahomet wherein for many yeares together they kept sad ceremonies in commemoration of this most wonderfully wise Artimagus Whose departed soule leauing to the censure of the Highest let vs againe r●●eit our speaches backe to the famous Court of Grecia where after her daungerous combat wee left the beautious and warlike Phianora in a pitifull plight vnder the hande of well-experienced Chirurgeous CHAP. XVII How Phianora being recured of her woundes deliuered the Knight of the Leoparde from the enchauntmentes of Gola and her sonnes Norin and Nigramounde whome she vanquished and departed with him to the Rocky-Iland of Ortolomorgantell RIght sore and daungerous were the woūds that the worthy daughter of Argamonte K. of fertile England receiued in her late-foughtē combate with the Knight of the Sea neuerthelesse they nothing so much in comparison grieued her as the vexation she receiued by reason of the great care she had to keepe her selfe vndiscloased from the cunning Surgeōs Phianora still cōceleth her selfe whome onely by the continuall wearing of her helmet shee kept from the knowledge of her sex and features But as the more the mistrusting spie seeks by his subtle carriage and honest fained conuersation to hide his secret intent from his entercoursers the more he is suspected of all men his wicked drifts farre narrowlier looked into so with how much the greater diligent care the beawtious Princesse conserued her selfe from the knowledge of all men by so much the sooner insearching lyer shee was watched by the suspitious Surgeons who vsed all indifferent meanes possible to finde out the cause of her concealing but to no purpose though at length they espied her in her secret closet with her helmet vnlaced The Princesse discouered by her Surgeons and her yellowe golden lokes such as the Poets haue fained Ariadnes smoothly dissheuelled adowne her shoulders proude to beare the burthen of such sun-excelling beautious tressalines Which so admired wonderment so soone as they descried they presently ran to tell the Empresse and the Queenes Basilia and Zaama who were then walked abroad into the royall ga●den Who no sooner heard the humiliated Chirurgeons to man●fest the worthy knight of the Oliue brannch to bee a Princesse but that all amazed they held vp their lillie hands to heauen and shedding teares of ioye Oh God quoth they and is it possible that in our sexe should remaine so vnualuable valour now God forbid but that wee speedily goe and see so peerelesse a paragon And therewith in all hast they ranne vnto the lodging of the Princesse Phianora Phianora departeth in secret from the Court. where they founde her missing her armour gone and onely one Page in all the Palace that could tell any tydings of her departure Wherefore with greate griefe they searched about the chamber to see if they coulde finde any thing of her for to reserue as a lasting remembrance and finding nothing but onely a ruffled-vp piece of paper they vnfoulded it open and with teares in their eyes they ioyntly read these verses in manner of a sonet following The Mariner amid the Marine deepe Phianorae Epitimen By boystrous blast of winde vnkindely tost His mounting barke from ragged rocks can keepe By cunning skill of euery neighbouring coaste Eake trauailers amongst their daungers most Can shield themselues in sured safety From birde from beast from fiercest fomans host In quietnesse and ease and only I Of creatures euery one in misery Done leade my lingring life which euermore Is subiect vnto each

calamitie To nightly paine the day doth paine restore Which pitilesse of my endured spoyle Doth adde encreasing torments to my toyle To which false Fortune neuer shall lende ease Vntill my death procure her freakes appease Mundi nulla quies Wretched Phianora of England Now on my faith quoth the good empresse Basilia Basilia I had rather then my life that she had not thus sodainly departed that before shee had left vs I might haue done her more honour then I haue done for which I am most heartily sorrie But since I cannot now pleasure her I will earnestly pray for her speedy returne that once againe yer I die I may in part recompence her princely courtesies Truely madame quoth Anaxia Anaxia if shee haue not receiued that honour from you as befitted the estate of so high and worthy a Princesse shee may thanke her owne selfe for it that of so long a season held such a nice point to discouer her selfe and for my parte I doe reioyce that I flacked my courtesie to her since as it should seeme she scorned to make her selfe knowne vnto vs. But the good ould Queene Zaama Zaama beeing of a more milder nature then the Queene of Hungarie with a smiling countenance began gently to excuse the young Princesses departure auerring that shee rather thought the younge valorous Princesse wise in concealing her selfe in such a place cōsidering that that happeneth in a day that chaunceth not in seauen yeares and perhapps shee hadde some secret intelligence of conspiring traytours whose lasciuious lustes shaddowed vnder the smoth vaile of loue might call her chastity in question moreouer what knewe shee whether my Lord the Emperour would royally entertaine her considering she came so vnaccōpanied of attendants such and so many as befitted the traine of so great a Princesse And for her sodaine absenting of her selfe in this sort from her lodging peraduenture it was by reason shee feared beeing discouered to receiue some checke of the Emperours highnesse for her such a-bearing Therefore we are rather to bee blamed for finding out her driftes no sooner and not shee for not discloasing her selfe no speedilyer Phianora embarqueth for the coast of A●a In this sort excused the ould Queene Zaama the sodaine departure of the English Princesse who by this time was farre inough departed on shipboard from the shoares of Grecia and with such speede and celerous haste she sailed as to make a briefe report in steed of tedious descriptions shee verie quickly arriued on the coast of Asia where onely refreshing her sea-sicke selfe in the cittie Tripoly a port towne of that same countrey she tooke shippe anew dauncing on the mounting billowes of the Mid-land Sea shee safely put a shoare at the territories of the huge Gyantesse Gola the woefull widow of the mighty gyāt Cardigan When trauailing all alone in her armour with her goulden shield on her arme farther vp into the country wherein she wearily iourneyed so long vntill such time about the third appearance of Appollos radiancie she was mounted vp though not without great toyle the tree adorned vertice of a most steepe and rocky mountaine Frō whence despecting shee beheld a most goodly strong built Castle right at the foote thereof whose high towers almost equalling her cloude-menacing station gaue her sufficient cause to wonder Gazing at whose artificiall greatnesse shee had surely for a great space remained had not her eares conducted her eyes to a place of farre greater wonderment For in the Orcharde of the Eastermost Tower shee espyed the most pittifullest spectacle that euer eye looked on For Phianora arriueth at Golas castle by the vttermost boughes of a large spreading and highe Cedar tree shee sawe a leane scraggenly flesh-consumed creature hanging by both his handes as fast as could be which a most hunger-starued rauenous Vulture or Eagle continually with his sharpe horned beake vnmercifully pecked The terrible and intollerable tormēt of Olbiocles and Huguy whilest about his owne necke and feathered winges a thousand slender long and venemous Aspides a most pernitious kinde of Serpents vncessantly pierced his owne body and pineons quite through and through with their paine-procuring stinges Wherwith hee then beeing all empoysoned did swell so monstrously as it was almost impossible that his skin should vncracked containe any longer his puft vp intrailes Which putting him to more then an infinitie of torments made his troubled soule to breath out such sorrowfull sighing shreekes without ceasing as the neighbouring ecchoing the dolefull sounde of his sad canzons as shaken by the violent motion of some sodaine earthquake instantly trembled at the shrilnesse Certes if the magnanimous English mayde was amazed hereat it was no meruaile since had that bigge boand tamer of vsurping tyrants Hercules himselfe heard such an hideous and fearefull yelling his very eares woulde haue ringled thereat and his heart haue little mist of fayling him Wherefore with a long silence Phianora sadly sighed at so sorrowfull a spectacle which brought her wits almost to an end and her white alablaster bodie to a sodaine shiuering such stronge possession had faint feare taken in her heart vntill remembring her selfe that what shee eyther saw or heard was but a false illusion raysed by the strange enchantments of the wicked gouernour of the Castle whosoeuer she resolued putting her confidence in her almighty redeemer Iesus Christ Phianora resolueth to redeeme him and next vnto him in the rare vertue of her golden shield vnder whose shadow she was safe frō all hellish sorceries to dissolue so harde doubtfull and dangerous an aduenture And therefore seing there was no safer way vnto the Castle shee submitted her soule to the mercie of her sauiour and then casting her shield at her back with her handes shee let her selfe downe by little and little by the steepie side of that mighty mountain where by that time the brightsome rayes of Phaetons faire father reflected so sweltringly as the wearied Princesse all to scorched with such hoatenesse beganne to wa●e faint for lacke of water to coole her wesand which was all to wrinkled with the great thirst that sun had caused And knowing not wel how to prouide for the remedying of her want she determined to put all to the regard of the highest and then passing by litle little to the one side of the rocke shee espied where out from betweene a quarrey of red marble there sweetely issued a most swift running riueret which intruding in here there betwixt the hollownesse of the hill made many pretty semicircles in his speedy descent vnto the valleyes vnderbounding it To this brooke the thirstie Princesse no sooner approached but that in her steely helmet shee dranke whole carrouses to her following fortunes and being wel refreshed with this as thirst taught her to thinke Nectarean liquor she relaced on her helme againe and all alongst the side of the little brooke she softly slid downe safely vntill comming within a

Brammadons horses slaine vnder them Xamaru with the scattered legiō of Sarasens enforced violently to betake themselues by little and little to the retreat Whom the King Rubaldo pursued so couragiously as the whole cōpany of christiās aswell within as without the cittie of Constantinople clapped their hands shouted for ioy praysing god for giuing them such good prosperitie and almost an assured victorie ouer all their misbelieuing enemies whome at that time they had vtterly vanquished or at least exceedingly foyled had they not for greedinesse of getting the conquest disarraunged themselues and run headlong after their enemies Through disorder of the ch●istians they lose aduantage ouer their enimies and fall into disaduantage thēselues Which the couragious and wise leader of the discomforted Sarasens no sooner aduised but he presently tooke thereby occasion of aduantage For horsing himselfe againe by pure force on the palfrey of a sturdy Knight of Thessaly named Radoron whome at one blowe hee seuered to the breastbone hee spurred speedily into the middest of his daunted souldiers and there strongly brandishing his courtleaxe with a loude voice and a commaunding action hee stoutly recalled his slying fellowes saying For shame for shame my worthy countrie men flie not so fearefully before your following enemies but remembring the iustice of your quarrell and for what cause yee vndertooke this enterprise viz for the death of Tabarcan Tumanto and the exalting of the holy Alcheron cheare vp your disconsolated courages and turning your faces towards them like a streame dammed vp make your recoyling be the recouering of more furie and on the sodaine with farre greater violence breake out vpon their resisting troopes and by the resistlesse vigour of your armes make them to breake now who earst made you to bend or refusing to performe it prepare your selues to receiue the guerdon of your cowardize at the hands of him who esteemes his life lesse then the losse of so assured and glorious a victory These wrathful words were so excellently graced with irefull actions as his Pagan souldiers partly for shame partly for feare were incontinently enforced to follow him Whervpon ioyning himselfe with Xamaru Tribarte Vibrante and Cammatu he thundred in with such furie amongst the disarayed troopes of the suspectlesse Christians as at the first brunt there were ouerthrowne to the very ground The Transiluanians and Thessalians recoyle thirty of the most approued Transiluanians and Thessalians and the valourous Princes Curan and Cauiskon both at once enforsed to loose their stirrops and embrace their horses neckes to saue themselues from falling The dismayed Christians with wonder made way for the Paganne Champions who neuer rested vntill such time as they approached vnto the strong garrison of Bulgarians who had all this while encompassed in the braue knight Brammadon though in vaine who had so couragiously maintained the combat against them The Bulgarians giue back as eleauen of their fellowes being slaine the rest stoode a loofe off without once daring to approach him Whereof the good king Rubaldo being aduertised he presently poasted vnto the Paganne with him hand to hand entred to sore a combat as had they not beene both of the most approued Knights in the whole armie the battel had in a moment on one or other side beene finished But ha good good that Rubaldo was so farre in yeares for had he beene in his prime two Brammadons could scarcely haue matcht him Neuerthelesse he so brauely behaued himselfe against the Barbariā as despoyling him of certaine parcels of his empaired armour he had in a short space put him to the worst had not the Knight of the Sea and the whole knighthood of Morocco seconded with fortie thousand Tabarcan souldiers A supply of Tabarcans brought freshly in vnder the conduct of the Arabian Argostas set so fiercely vppon the garrison of Hungaria as making a bloody lane quite thorough them they presently parted the combate hauing though not verie easilie taken Rubaldo Rubaldo taken prisoner prisoner sent him pinioned backe vnto their pauilions by a stronge bande of Sarasens and Brammadon whilest they hotly pursued after the discomfited Hungarians The Hungarians discōforted who like sheepe before the wolues fled fearefully from the furie of their mercilesse pursuers Who followed thē so fiercely as before they could gaine the gates of Constantinople there fell three thousand christians vnder the slaughtering swordes of the mercilesse miscreants against whose endeauours the Lord of his mercie oppose his power or else the perill of all christendome is perpetrated in their proceedings Which brought extream sorrowe to the verie soules of the controwled souldiers who entred the gates of the Cittie with such sad gestures and heauie countenances as if the destruction of Phrygian Troy had been counterenacted by the woefull Grecians For some came in with their armes off other with their helmets cleft and more with their bodies wounded all hanging downe their heads and houlding downe the points of their weapons and trayling their pikes and launces by the club endes on the ground in such sorrowfull sort as who hadde seene them and would not pittie their perplexities Duris genuit se cautibus horrens Caucasus Hyrcanaeque admôrunt vbera Tigres Hard Caucasus within his marble maw had got him first And by the milke of Hircan Tigres he was after nurst Curan his Transiluanians put to the retreit Assoone as these were in this sort entred there came flying vnto the Cittie Curan with his Thessalians and Transiluanians who brought such a sorrowful relation of the conflict as there was neuer the like terrour within the amazed hearts of the wofull Constantinopolitans before But oh when the Emperour Claranax the Empresse and all the rest of that worthy rout heard the taking of Rubaldo prisoner and the death of Kauiscon related with what an irefull geasture did they teare their tresses beate their breastes and bewaile their miseries But in especial the Queene Anaxia so extreamely bewailed the captiuitie of her deare husband as for agony of heart shee fell into such an hot burning ague as shee neuer while she liued recouered perfectly therof againe And surely at that instant shee had yielded vp her weary life had she not beene the better comforted vp by the sage councellings of the Princesses Almidiana and Eristama who had as you haue heard proued by experience that the only remedy in aduersity was patience If these were woful how wroth on the other side was the good Prince Olbiocles who was angry at nothing so much as that he was so shrewdly taken downe by a feauer as like another Hector he coulde not patronize the notable performances of his country men whose body should haue beene the buckler to his Christian followers Wherefore Olbiocles impatient for his extreame weaknesse hee smote himselfe sorely on the stomach and beating his head against the boulster hee continued for a while almost in a franticke passion Vnhappy wretch quoth hee