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A17883	Admirable events: selected out of foure bookes, vvritten in French by the Right Reverend, Iohn Peter Camus, Bishop of Belley. Together with morall Relations, written by the same author. And translated into English by S. Du Verger; Occurrences remarquables. English. Selections	Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652.; Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652. Relations morales. English. Selections. aut; Du Verger, S.; Brugis, Thomas, fl. 1640?, attributed name.; T. B., fl. 1639.	1639 (1639)	STC 4549; ESTC S107416	192,146	386

he is constrained to crave pardon for his suspitions and to cry her mercy for the wrong which she her selfe does to him Whilest she continues in this manner of licentious living after she had as he thought purchast Fusbert for her husband she caught into her nets a new prey with whose good p●rts she was extreamly taken and this was a yong Gentleman who was a younger brother and had little else but his sword indeed for beauty and v●lour he was inferiour to few bearing the heart of Mars with the face of Adonis hardly had hee attained two the age of two and twenty yeeres but that he had both by sea and land manifested his valour so that he gave hopes of proving a very compleat knight This Circe having by her charmes made him her captive was not her selfe neverthelesse exempt from slavery because she became as it were an Idolater of his perfections insomuch that being as desirous of him as he could be of her she needed not much intreating to yeeld unto his will These unlucky women have this property to breed more passion in men after they have possessed them then whilest they woe them by reason of the cunning allurements wherewith they season familiarity Richard so will we call this young Gallant became so inamoured on this Thais that as she could not live without him no more could he live without her blindnesse a quality inseparable in love drave them unto a commerce so evident that it was perceived even by the dullest sighted much more by Fusbert whose jealousie made him now see the very atomes the smallest things who before let slip much greater presently rage and vengeance enter his spirit sometimes he was minded to kill this rivall and this wicked woman then recalling that he determined to forsake this wicked creature and to breake his word with her who falsified her faith with him Having by the ordinary motions of jealousie spied out all their actions and found that his suspitions were undoubted truths he resolved to breake the bonds in which he was obliged to this disloyall person and endeavouring by all meanes possible to learne particularly what reputation shee had he found in all companies that she was counted for a very lascivious woman whereupon he intended to turne bankerupt in the promise he had made her and to leave her infamous as shee was farre more worthy of his anger and revenge then of his love Having remained some few daies from seeing her during which time he endeauoured to cure those wounds by absence which his heart had receaved by the presence of this deceitfull beauty Demetrie who would faine hold him still in leash mistrusting his inconstancy writ letters to recall him but he returned her answeres so full of reproaches and spitfull termes accompanied with protestations so contrary vnto the promise he had formerly made her that shee presently thought that this horse had slipped his brdle and would scape away After shee long time to no purpose imployed her whole arte and skill to reconquer his minde which contrariwise became more froward by her submission and grew sharper by her entreaties shee fell to threats of constraint protesting to sue him on his promise thereby to make him acknowledg● it and to performe the contents thereof This put Fusbert into such a rage that not content to scoffe at her menaces and at the writing which she had he compiled a legend of her life so full of the most filthy and shamefull things accompanied with such beastly and dishonest truths That Demetrie animated by a furious despaire vowed to revenge her selfe thereof or to dye in the attempt but finding her selfe over weake to performe so notable a deed and being not able to recall this fugitive and so to worke him some mischiefe she bethought her self that she could not better bring her bloudy designe to passe then by Richard her new favourite who being desperately intangled in her love would hazard his life in all dangers whatsoever to content her The shamefull reproaches that Fusbert cast forth in all companies of this wicked woman were spread so farre that every one spake thereof and besides he nominated Richard more then any other who being descended of noble bloud and being of a brave couragious mind was not able to indure these invectives which so meerely touched his honour together with the reputation of that woman to whom he was so much devoted and therefore might the more easier bee induced to take the revenge thereof whereunto Demetry imploying her charming teares he vowed by her eyes which hee called his light and which were indeed his soules deadly torches that he would not sleep untill such time as he had presented her with the heart and tongue of Fusbert And in fine after he had often watcht him accompanied with some bravadoes as the manner of Italy is he tooke him at such an advantage that Fusbert being pierced through in divers places remained dead in the place The kindred of this murdered man being the greatest and most eminent of the city caused such a search to be made after Richard that not long after he was found and taken by the Magistrate who cast him into prison and in these obscure dungeons did his eyes open whereby he came to know his fault whereof he could hope for no pardon in that he had such powerfull adversaries assuring himselfe therefore of death he declared the truth of all he confessed and acknowledged that the only counsell and perswasions of Demetry had urged him unto an act so detestable wherof he repented himselfe from the very bottome of his heart Hereupon Demetry is attached and put in hold where she denyed nothing of what Richard had said but confirmed it beleeving verily that she had reason to avenge her selfe on him whom she had found a traitor perfidious and a violater of her chastity this her malice being knowne all the Iudges were of opinion that she deserved death only the youth of Richard suborned by this accursed woman bred compassion in them whereunto adding the glory of his birth and moreover the merit of his valour there were none but lamented his misfortune seeing that by the rigour of justice he was condemned to dye in the prime of his yeeres but his parents and kindred who feared that this execution would be an everlasting reproach unto their generation and not knowing by what meanes to avoyde it they with money corrupted a turne-key of the prison who gave him the meanes of escaping away within few dayes sentence was given against the evill counsellour who was condemned to loose her head on a scaffold which was done accordingly and Richard should also have borne her company if he had not beene gone After this meanes were made to appease the friends of Fusbert and Richards valour which made it selfe famous of in Flanders added unto the consideration of his kindred obtained a pardon and abolition of his fault and license to returne into his country where

sorrow even as an enclosed ardour doth continually augment and encrease If Philapian had but never so little perceived that Metell had been so foole-hardy as to have raised his thoughts towards his daughter or if he had had the least suspition that Aldegond had bowed downe her minde so low as this Gentleman doubtlesse hee would soone have made an end of the businesse a banishment for ever must have deprived Metell of a sight dearer to him then the day and for which alone he preserved his affections and yet to dye through a hidden languishment without hope of remedy was a thing whereunto these yong spirits could hardly frame themselves for who can hide quicke coales in his bosome and not be forced to discover them but as they are in this state like a ship at sea wanting wi●de and so becalmed that it cannot goe either backward or forward they finde no better remedy then pa●ience and by a sweet and gentle conversation they moderate the violence of their wishes but the world is a Sea which remaines not long quiet and here comes a boysterous blast that will trouble that little calme which they have Epolon an old Lord os the same Province whose warlike humour could not long be at rost had beene to seek the theater of Mars amongst the rebels of the Belgicke Provinces and weary of this exercise some what ill befitting his age which then required nought save good cheere and tranquility he came backe unto his owne house where he was in great ease and magnificence by reason of his large possessions This man had been some few yeares a widdower and had children which might seeme to oblige him not to enter any more into marriage but single life agreed not with his inclination which was no lesse amorous then martiall whereof here is a sufficient testimony Some little time before his voyage into Holland he was ensnared by the beauty of Barsim●e a yong widdow who flattered by the ambitious desire of being a great Lady had given eare unto this old mans suit which began three moneths after the death of her husband even when shee was yet in her great mourning Epolon pressed by the heat of his affection like dry straw which is as soon consumed as kindled desired to have this marriage forth with solemnized but Barsimee retained by a certaine shamefastnesse and by the consideration of publicke decency would by no meanes yeeld to marry before the yeare of her mourning was expired but the old man could not suffer so long delay and Barsimee was also unwilling to loose so good a fortune at length her foolish imagination dictated unto her a meanes to accord these contrarieties which was to permit unto Epolon what he desired upon a promise which hee made unto her to marry her as soone as the yeare of mourning was consumed Truely in this occasion she shewed but little discretion in not foreseeing that this restlesse heat of the old man would presently be quenched by enjoying and that being powerfull as he was It would be very difficult for her to constraine him to hold his bargaine the souldierly humour being commonly bruitish and capricious The good mans appe●ite was soone satisfied and his warlike fantasie returning he went into Holland as well to content his minde in warre as to rid himselfe of this widdow whose facility and ambition caused her since to be despised and mocked a faire looking-glasse for foolish i●considerate women who venture their honour which should be dearer to them then their life since life without honour is a living death upon the vaine promise or oath of a lover Well Epolon returns from his military affaires but no more remembring Barsimee then the sinnes of his youth and no sooner saw he Aldegond in a company wherein hee also was but he felt himselfe taken with her beauty and so stung to the quicke that his life seemed to depend in that object but he was not alone wounded by that dart for Tharsis a Gentleman of that neighbour-hood favoured by a wealthy fortune advantageous enough to aspire unto the conquest of Aldegond had wholly set his affections on this M●id he was also an intimate friend of Victor brother to this Gentlewoman who passionately desired to have him for his brother in law and had wrought the matter that he had caused Philapian to like thereof but as the greater light dimmes the lesser so as soone as Epolon appeared in the lists whose quality and wealth farre surpassed those of Tharsis and the golden rule by which all things are measured made Philapian prefer him before yong Tharsis whereupon the ●●●●●ment is soone made between Epolon and the 〈◊〉 of Aldegond because this amorous old man yeel●ed to all conditions whatsoever he propounded Philapian hereupon speakes to his daughter of this businesse who assures him that Tharsis and Epolon are alike indifferent to her and when her father would have excused the age of Epolon thereby to make her swallow the bitternesse os this pill by guilding it over with the consideration of so great wealth Sir said Aldegond the youth of Tharsis doth not tempt me nor the age of Epolon distast me I will let you treat according to your pleasure with either of them both which you shall best like The father taking this for a perfect obedience in his daughter praised her much for shewing her selfe so tractable but he found afterwards how this sexe can so well faine that what is in their lips is commonly very farre from their heart Now Tharsis seeing himselfe cast off by Philapian went presently unto his deare friend Victor who being vext that his father should breake his word and that an old man charged with children should enjoy his sister yeelded unto the desire of Tharsis which was to steale her away making no question but he should be able to make his peace when the action was done and could not be irrevocated being it was grounded on a commission given him by Philapian to be a sutor to Aldegond but whilst they prepare themselves for this designe let ut look backe to another Mine that is in digging The widow Barsimee having intelligence of the marriage that was intended to be betweene her perfideous Epolon and faire Aldegond went on a day to this Gentlewoman and having first obtained liberty of telling her some matters of consequence in private she freely declared unto her under the protestations of secrecy all that had passed betwixt Epolon and her selfe upon the promise of marriage which she likewise shewed her Aldegond who desired nothing so much as to meet with some lawfull occasion whereby to breake off the propositions of marriage as well of Epolon as of Tharsis by reason of her deare Metell to whom she intended to prove constant counselled Barsimee to make an opposition by vertue of Epolons promise but this widdow who feared the formalities of justice and the credit of Epolon could not resolve with her selfe to doe that but she

that she would have him cripled if he were so bold as once to strike hir Anaclete moved with choller lifts up his hand and makes so faire an impression therewith on her cheeke that the mark of his fingers remained there a good while printed by reason of the bloud which thereby mounted up to her face adding moreover with a solemne protestation soundly to curry both her and her minion if ever he found them talking together Eudoxe let us call this woman full of despight by such an affront resolved with her selfe to take deepe vengeance therof neither wanted she means so to doe having the sword of Opile at her command but because this Captaine intended not to marry her shee desired not that he should goe so farre as to kill her husband but only that by threats and some blowes he should keepe him in awe having then made hir complants unto him and told him how Anaclete had said that if he found them together he would currie them both Opile who was not wont to be used in such a manner promised to teach her husband to speake in another fashion and so severely to revenge the blow which she had received that shee should have cause to be satisfied therewith Meeting on a time with this poore man he beganne to vent and utter his bravadoes against him and to sweare that if he continued in his fantasticall humours he would hack and hew him in so many peices that the skilfullest anatomatist should hardly set him together againe Anaclete answered him coldly that if he were of his profession and had bin bred up in armes he would answer him in the same tearmes but that the condition of a souldiour and that of a merchant are not used to ioyne together the ell and the sword being weapons farre different that the law of marriage gave him full authority over his wife whom he had forbidden to come in his company to the end that the evill reports might be wiped away which were spread abroad to the disadvantage of her honour and that he beleeved that there passed no dishonest act in their conversation but that an honest woman ought to be exempt both from the crime and the suspition and that if his wife abusing him with her tongue he had made use of his hand to hold her peace it was not for Opile to thinke himselfe offended therewith ●xcept he would shew to have some share in her who no way that he knew to be lawfull appertained to him From this answer that might have satisfied any man that knew reason Opile tooke occasion to encrease his choller and passion which made him like a tun filled with new wine the which foules it selfe with its owne foame because that the rashnesse of the discourse made him utter many words not only outragious against the person of Anaclete but which plainely discovered that he sought to have more part in her whose cause he defended then either law or honesty could permit which so hardly oppressed good Anaclete that he was constrained to reply that if ever he saw him approach his wife he would do his endeavour to resist force by force and to drive disgrace from his house Whereunto angry Opile replyed like a souldier if I were said he asleepe in thine owne bed thou wouldest not dare to awake me yet thou hast said that thou wouldest currie both thy wife and her minion speaking of me if thou didst finde us together but be thou sure that I will speake to her when it shall please me in despight of thy threats and foretidings and since thou hast spoken of currying me as if I were a horse assure thy selfe that it shall not be before I have well rubbed thee to my mind and thereupon he lifts up a great staffe wherwith he would have accompanied his words but the legs of Anaclet● by a quicke flight saved him at that time from a basting The proud souldier boasted of this discomsiture as if he had wonne the field but he sung the triumph before the victory he continues his filthy action with this wicked woman more openly and impudently then ever but it will not be without punishment Lead is long ere it be hot but then it melts on a sudden the Diamond is difficult to bee broken but when it doth breake it goes all to powder so is it with slow heavy and timorous humors they must have time to increase their choller and when it is at the height they are as red hot iron which long retaines it's heat Anaclete wronged beyond all measure resolved to end his dishonour or his life he makes his complaint to his kindred and friends who all taking part in his misfortune and hating the insolence of Opile promised to assist him in this revenge being just and authorized by the lawes Accompanied then with three or foure good fellowes resolved to surprize the adulterers and to punish them as they deserved it was an easie matter to find them together some few dayes before Anaclete intended to put in practise his designe he fained a certaine kind of reconcilement with his disloyall wife he makes extraordinary much of her as if his former affections had renewed but they were Apes ●uggings which smother with their imbracings this woman growne expert in deceits returnes him the like he faines a voyage whereunto he said that his commerce obliged him for to make provision of some certaine wares at a Faire his wife counterfeits a sadnesse at his departure where unto she added a few Crocadiles teares hardly was he gone but Opile came to possesse his place and that in a manner so openly that all the neighbourhood was scandalized thereat two dayes after Anaclete returnes who accompanied by foure or five of his trusty friends all armed as was fitting enters with false keyes even unto his owne chamber wherein they were no sooner entered but the adulterers whom they found in bed together awakened Opiles sword was seased on as also his poyniard and pistoll he sees himselfe naked and unable to defend himselfe among five or sixe men well armed and every one his pistoll in hand ready charged and cockt presenting them to his head now stands our braggard well amazed and of a Lyon that he had beene is now become as gentle as a Sheepe and dares not bleate they sease on him and he is forthwith bound hand and foot and in this manner laid on the bed againe the woman on a sudden awaking sees this spectacle and presently her conscience expects nothing but death for her punishment she cryes she weepes she craves mercy for her selfe and Opile in briefe she playes the woman a creature insolent in prosperity and faint hearted in misfortune Opile askes Anaclete forgivenesse with the fairest protestations in the world but Anaclete is wounded in his honour a wound that is not healed with words and seeing his enemy now in his power caused one of his armes to be untyed and putting a wispe of straw into

who being as full of mildnesse as discretion laboured to quench it by the most prudent and most reasonable remedies she could devise unwitting that prudence and reason cure not a folly which is not capable thereof this mildnesse was oyle in Speusippes fire his hopes which would have been extinct by a rougher usage were inflamed by the swavity of this humour so naturall in fayre Mela he passed unto importunity and insolencies whereupon Mela shewed him the wrong he did unto his friend so impudently to undertake against the honour of his wife he replyed that the advantages of love were so farre above friendship that albeit he cherished Liberat as a brother yet she had beauties which constrained him to be perfidious for to satisfie his passion behold how this blinded man would be victorious by what hee confessed himselfe vanquished and make his triumph of his perfidiousnesse Mela being her selfe reduced unto great extremities by the pressing fooleries of this impudent man threatned him to tell her husband thereof Madame said he you may worke meanes to make me dye but not to leave loving you your husband may take life from me but not love and yet will I give him halfe the feare too if he set upon mee like a man it lyes in you to avoyd this mischiefe by yeelding unto reason so did this bruitish man call his foule desire at length Mela who fearing to bring a bloudy quarrell on her husbands hands having tryed by her patience by her mildnesse by her perswasions by her intreaties and by all manner of honest meanes to put this incurable spirit into his right senses againe constrained by the persecutions of this furious creature whose rage passed into actions so insolent that they were insufferable to an honest woman disclosed unto Liberat Speusippes impudent attempt against the reverence of his marriage and the honour of his bed although Liberat had cause to seeke by armes the revenge of so great a wrong yet giving unto his eminent friendship and the violence of love a pardon which could not have beene wrested from his anger he was contented onely to forbid Speusippe the entrance of his house till absence had put water on his fire and time had made him wiser although this presumptuous man bore this forbidding without much impatience as if he had been banished for ever from his Country neverthelesse he dissembled his discontent resolving to attaine unto the end of his enterpriseat what perill soever his flame must needs have been great being it lasted without having the sight of its object to feed it passing away his sad dayes in obscurities and incomparable disquiets After he had tryed in vaine all manner of meanes to approach Mela he be thought himselfe of an industry wherein the Foxes skinne should precede the Lyons roaming night and day about Liberats house he learned that this Gentleman was on a point to take a journey from home for some dayes he tooke occasion on this absence to play his stratagem which was this he caused his beard to be cut after another fashion than he used to weare it and having blackt himselfe with a certaine compound he had quite changed the countenance and complexion of his face Then disguised like one of those that carry bone lace in boxes about the Country to sel he came to Liberats house Mela having occasion to buy of this ware caused him to come in He unfolds his laces of divers sorts and at cheape rates which invites this Lady to buy a good quantity Speusippe seeing himselfe in the chamber steps to the dore lockes it and discovering himselfe begins againe to presse her according to his former importunities to take pitty on his languishing torment Mela seeing her selfe surprised sought by her accustomed sweet perswasions to appease his mind but this Tyger growing more fierce by this harmony and intending to hazard all draws out a poignard which hee sets to her throat threatning to kill her if she yeelded not Mela affrighted cries out This cry was heard by a maid that was in a Wardrobe neere she comes to the noyse and sees her mistresse calling for helpe and defending her selfe couragiously against this impudent man the maid runnes against the chamber door gets it open and set all the house in an uprore the servants flock thither incompasse Speusippe on all sides hinder him from ravishing Mela. He lays hold on the collar of one and in a desperate rage stabs him through divers times with the poignard he had in his hand and so kills him Meane time Mela got away leaving Speusippe bestirring himselfe among these servants like a wilde Boare among a kennell of hounds hee hurt more of them and was hurt himselfe and in the end taken and put into a chamber which served him for a prison untill the returne of Liberat who to do good unto this perfidious man in stead either of punishing him according to his deserts or causing him to be punished by justice he got him healed of some sleight wounds which hee had received and lest the Magistrates should lay hold on him for the murther of the man and the attempted rape he gave him meanes to escape only admonishing him to be more stayd thenceforward and pardoned him his folly which he attributed to the rage of an excessive love Wherein this good man resembled the Goat in the fable who suckled the young Wolfe which beeing growne great did afterwards devour her This furious and impudent attempt so friendly forgiven could not yet mollifie the wickednesse of his heart but seeing all passages shut and no way left him to approach Mela who shuns him as the sheep doth the wolfe hee sends a challenge to Liberat whereby he lets him understand that his extreame love making him more worthy than he to possesse faire Mela. Hee calls him to combat to see unto whom the fortune of armes will give the conquest Ah Foole who knew not that by the Law a woman cannot marry the murtherer of her husband but she must make her selfe accessary and guilty of his death Liberat pressed as well by this foolish and false rule of honour which passeth for a maxime among the Nobility and Gentry of France as by the desire of punishing at once so many wrongs which he had received by this insolent man goes to the place assigned where after hee had upbraided Speusippe with his perfidiousnesse they began a terrible combat for if Speusippe set on by love and despair two inraged passions bestirres himselfe with might and maine as a man that will overcome or die Liberat pressed by the representment of so many indignities which he had received from this impudent creature was no lesse eager to make him feele the point of his sword Already they had hurt each other in divers places and their bloud served to animate them more on when fortune which is not alwayes on the right side permitted Liberats sword to breake in the middle against the hilt of

in the time of Alexander Farnese Prince of Parma that the Marquesse de Varambon Knight of the golden Fleece one of the greatest Noblemen of the County of Burgoigne and who for his courage and experience had at that time faire imployments in the armies received commandement to besiege Bliemberg a very strong little town and neer Rhinberg This brave Captain made his approches and without making here a long description of this siege which I leave unto these that have at large written the history of the troubles of the Low-Countries it sufficeth me to say that well assaulted and wel defended the place was battered the breach being reasonable a general assault was given so furiously that the assailants repulsed divers times at last launched themselves with so much violence through the blows the bodies of the dead and of the hurt that they forced downe the defendants and entred into the towne which taken in this sort suffered all the insolencies and outrages which victors were wont to practise upon the vanquished who have bin subdued with their weapons in hand Let us adde moreover that the place had so obstinatly held out that those within would never hearken unto any composition but resolved to dye rather than to yeeld unto the Spaniard it sufficeth to say that it was entirely sackt and that they pardoned neither age nor sexe nor honour nor riches all was desolate when the Marquesse made himselfe absolute master thereof and that order was given to bury the dead for feare that the infection should corrupt the aire and overthrow health two souldiers were found on the breach so streightly embraced that even in this state which hath no more strength it was hard to part them The vanquishers ardent after prey and booty for to have the spoils of these two who were reasonably well cloathed stripped them quite naked one of them as white as snow and of a wonderfull beauty was found to be a woman Presently amazement ranne through all the troupes and curiosity laboured to know the successe of this memorable adventure it came unto the eares of the Marquis and as a man that made much account of valour and of love hearing talke of the death of this armed Venus who had beene found fastned with her Mars Hee passionately desired to know who were these two lovers for to honour the memory of their courage and of their fidelitie A souldier who had made proofes of an incomparable generosity and who being wounded in divers places had yeelded himselfe under the faith of a Burguignon Captaine who in favour of his vertue took care to have him drest sayd that he was alone in the City and it may be in the Countrey that could satisfie the curiositie of the Marquisse and of so many others who had an extreame desire to know the truth of this amorous and warlike history This hurt prisoner beeing not able to stirre the Surgeons having but an ill opinion of his wounds the Marquisse went to see him accompanied by divers Captaines for to learne from his mouth the particulars of this event The sicke man resuming an extraordinary vigour made the discourse therof in this manner in his naturall tongue which was high Dutch and which the Marquesse and most of those that were about him understood very well My Lord sayd he I render thankes unto heaven that hath given me but so much life as I wish for to yeeld in so honourable a company the glorious testimony which I owe to my love and to my friendship which done thinke it not strange if I die for the causes that made me live being no more it were a cruelty and not humanity for to dresse my wounds and the way to prolong my death rather to preserve my life I can no more live without friendship than enjoy the light of dayes without eyes and without sunne even from my birth I have had an inclination to love but an inclination so strong that I remember not to have ever lived without some particular affections but I had never any stronger than for these two lovers my friend and my mistresse which have been found dead and embraced on the breach O happy couple why must the order of warie have separated our affections and make me fight in another place how freely for to save you from death would I have suffered my selfe to have beene hewed in a thousand pieces or at leastwise I had beene your companion inseparable in death as I have beene in life but you have out-stript me of a small time Stay for mee deare soules and I shall soone be at you Alas the desire to see you rather than to preserve my life made me yeeld my armes unto this young man in whom my courage hath bred pitty but being you are no more in the number of the living I will bee blotted out from thence and remaine there no longer time than needs must for to consigne unto mens remembrance the memory of our friendship Hee made this fine speech with so many sighes sobbes and teares and with so great a voyce that falling suddenly into faintnesse they thought he was expiring his last This was attributed unto the paines of the wounds of his body but it may be those of his heart were rather the cause thereof Yet so it is that the Marquisse for feare this disturbance should kil him retyred into another chamber resolving to put off this matter untill he might be stronger but when he was come to himselfe againe and that hee saw no more this faire troupe which had appeared about his bed hee entred into such sorrowes and plaints for that he could not dis-burthen his minde as moved so much compassion that the Marquesse being pierced therewith came backe to see him who after he had with opportunity craved favor to be heard proceeded in a more stayd manner and with a grave and hardy countenance sayd thus My name is Aleran my birth noble my country is the Lantgraviat of Hessen the place that saw my entrance into the world is Melsignam neer unto Cassel the seat of my Prince being in his Court I bound my selfe in so straight a friendship with Incmar a gentleman Native of Rottenburgh who had beene bred up as page unto the Lantgrave that wee were commonly called the Inseparable those impatiences which lovers feel when they are from their mistresse we felt when we lost sight one of another being together dayes were unto us houres and houres were moneths when we were asunder a moment was unto us an age even in sleeping sleepe which is a benumming of the powers was unto us tedious if we were severed by reason whereof wee commonly made but one bed we had but one purse and one table one and the same house the same servants the same Livories the same retinue and when any of our servants were asked unto whom they did belong they answered Vnto the two friends if those that are but one may be called two Wee went