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A19128	The famous, pleasant, and variable historie, of Palladine of England Discoursing of honorable aduentures, of knightly deedes of armes and chiualrie: enterlaced likewise with the loue of sundrie noble personages, as time and affection limited their desires. ... Translated out of French by A.M. one of the messengers of her Maiesties Chamber.; Histoire palladienne. Part 1. English	Colet, Claude, 16th cent.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1588 (1588)	STC 5541; ESTC S105031	117,949	193

after he had saluted he requested to knowe whether he trauailed I go Sir answered the Knight to Bulgaria to make proofe of my fortune against a strong and puissant champion who maintaineth the Ioust against all that come for the loue of the Duchesse Brisalda estéemed the fair●st Princesse in the world being yet scant seuenteene yéeres of age I like well his attempt said Palladine whatsoeuer he be but knowe ye not how he is called Dardalon the prowd men name him quoth the Knight and fitly doth that surname agrée with him for he is one of the most vaineglorious men that euer was heard of beside excéeding in crueltie to Knightes that deale with him for if he vanquish any one he neuer pardons him no though he yéeld himselfe to his mercie Beleeue me said Palladine small commendation gets he thereby being rather esteemed a coward then valiant for he vseth such crueltie to terrify those as shall afterward deale with him But the enterprises of Tourneys for the loue of Ladyes should not extend to such extremitie but rather for honor and fame onely yea though to a mortall enemy mercy should be giuen him when he yéeldeth himselfe The brute beasts shew greater humanitie as we may reade in examples of Lyons Beares Dogs and diuers other who ceasse from rage and furie on a yéelding pray It is necessarie then answered the Knight that such men should haue such measure serued them and no greater mercie ought they to haue then themselues tofore haue shewed to other as for my selfe if fortune fauour me against him he shall find as little pittie as he hath giuen By my Sword quoth the Prince I so desire to see that cruell Knight as I will beare ye companie so you please to accept thereof for perhaps the great villaine is some Deuill and then it is necessarie he should be well coniured Great honor and pleasure quoth the Knight shall you héerein doo me for I desire nothing more then companie So leauing the marches of Dace they tooke Shipping on Danubium and coasting Valachia entred Bulgaria landing at the Citie of Varr● where Dardalon kept his Iousts and Triumphs But the Duchesse Brisalda tooke small pleasure in his labours for as he was a man of huge and monstrous stature so was he mishapen and of ougly countenance yet by his prowesse he imagined to gaine her loue wherein he was greatly deceiued albeit the feare of his mightie kinred chéefely of a Giant that was his Cousin made the poore Lady giue him good looks because by rigour he held the whole countrey in awe Palladine and the Knight being come on shore went presently to the place where the Ioustes were kept 〈◊〉 they entred the throng they sawe that Dardalon had euen then ouercome a Knight who knéeling on his knees cryed I confesse my selfe vanquished I yeeld I yeeld But Dardalon feigning he heard him not nor the Princesse who called to saue his life because the Knight was néere allyed to her smote his head from his shoulders shewing it in great brauerie to the Duchesse Palladine séeing the monstrous crueltie of this huge villaine could stay no longer but stepping to him sayd Dardalon I neuer saw thée before this instant when I beheld thée to shew horrible crueltie putting the Knight to death that yeelded himselfe vanquished had it béene but for the Ladyes sake 〈◊〉 called to thée to saue his life me thinks of dutie thou shouldest haue spared him and were it not I sée thée wounded thou shouldest perceiue I dare iustify my words Dardalon beholding Palladine without his helmet and so yong in yéeres scoffingly thus aunswered Alas good Gentleman didst thou neuer sée me before I thinke thou wilt say thou séest me too soone as for any wound I haue it cannot hinder me from correcting such a saucy companion Without any more words they mounted on horssebacke and Dardalon taking a verie strong Launce thought to giue the Prince an vnhappy welcome but he sate more sure then he expected and but that himselfe caught hold by his horsse mayne he had béene sent to fetch an errand on the ground A long and dangerous Combate was fought betwéene them the Prince many times in danger but worthely escaping and in the end so wearied his monstrous enemie as he got him downe vpon his backe Then taking off his helmet looked to the Duchesse Brisalda if she would haue his life preserued but séeing that neither she or any of the Ladyes made signe for it he tooke off his head to the great ioy of all the standers by except such as were allyed to Dardalon who presently drew their weapons to reuenge his death but other Knightes stept in to assist the Prince so that not one of them escaped aliue yet Palladine and his company receyued no wounds of danger The Duchesse noting the valiant prowesse of a Knight so yong and louely would faine knowe of whence he was wherefore causing the Ioustes to end for that day she sent to intreate him come lodge in her Pallace where her Chirurgions should haue care of his wounds Which courteous offer the Prince accepted not so much for the daunger of his hurts as for his desire to be fauoured of the Duchesse whome he imagined the fairest that euer he sawe Then was he conducted by two Gentlemen into one of the seemeliest Chambers in the Pallace where he was vnarmed and his wounds visited by the Chirurgions attending on the Duchesse who sent him a faire night mantle of blew Sattin embroidered with gold and furred with Martins for which most humbly he thanked her carying good opinion to enioy her loue so he could compasse the meane to speake with her For he imagined this to be the Lady or whome the wise Orbiconte had foretold him and for whose loue he should passe many dangers as now he had done against the prowde Dardalon CHAP. XVIII ¶ How the Duchesse Brisalda came to see Palladine what speeches they had together and how he slew the Gian● Brandidoll Cousin to Dardalon the prowde BRisalda the yong beautifull Duchesse to whom the inueigling God had giuen a liuely attaint of loue to the Prince Palladine determined to go see him in his chamber to vnderstand of his health and in such sort to perswade him as he should still remaine in her Court. So clothing her selfe in most sumptuous garments and being attended on by her wayting Ladyes she went to the Princes lodging and after two or three gracious courtesies passed betwéene them she said Sir Knight right welcome are ye to our Court commaund me or any thing else héere to your liking for so much doo I account my selfe indebted to you hauing slayne the cruell and proud Dardalon as while I liue I shall neuer returne sufficient recompence The Prince falling on his knée and killing her faire white hand thus answered If I haue done any thing Madame that contents you I am very glad thereof thanking the God of heauen that fauoured me in the attempt

for by ought I can perceiue there is no signe of life left in them They haue no more aunswered Manteleo then they worthily deserued ought they to misprise or detract strange Knightes cheefely such as are of one nation yet let vs see in what estate they are So comming to the Knight that was first dismounted and finding him dead by reason of the aboundance of blood he had lost as also because his Helmet hindered him from the aire Unhappy man said his Brother oftentimes haue I told thee that thy pride and ouer-wéening would one day cause thy death Be thou warned heereby sayd the enchaunted Knight and learne another time to vse more courtesie to Knightes how yong or old soeuer they be for thou and thy companions did imagine that be●cause these two yong Princes were no further entred i● yeeres that therefore they were vnprouided of courag●● and vertue but by outward behauiour neuer iudge o● men heereafter Too well doo I perceiue your words ar● true but I beseech ye looke if my Cosins haue accompanied my Brother in death or no. Palladine finding them to be aliue offered with his Sword to haue smitten off their heads Uillaines quoth he you are but dead men if you will redeeme your liues you shall promise me to go ●ubmit your selues to the King of Englands mercie recounting to him wherefore how and by whome you haue beene vanquished Sir answered one of them there is nothing that we will not gladly promise and perfourme for the ●aunsome of our 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 I sweare to yee that I will not faile 〈◊〉 you haue commaunded You must auouch the like quoth the Prince to the other Knight wherevpon he that was so sore hurt with his fall from his horsse could make no aunswere but by signes so that with many sad countenances he shewed his consenting Now may yee depart when ye please said Palladine and say that Englishmen are better Knightes then Spanyards So hauing buried the Knight that was slaine they departed not a little glad they were so well escaped but they tooke small care of perfourming their promise as you shall perceiue by the sequell of our historie CHAP. XI ¶ How Palladine and Manteleo with their company arriued in the Realme of Hungaria where the Gentleman remayned that stole the Lady from the enchaunted Knight and what fortuned to them by the way AFter the Princes had left the Spanyardes they rode on their iourney and comming to the port of Gorforte they tooke Shipping when the Seas were still and calme expecting a winde to passe into Holland which fitting their expectations crossing through Zeland they came to Triell where Palladine furnished himselfe with new Armour because his other was greatly battered in Iousting with the Knightes Hauing contented themselues with the sight of Holl●nd they passed the Rheme and entred Almayne where arriuing on the frontires of Bohemia they beheld a Lion comming toward them carying a yong Infant wrapped in swadling clothes in his mouth and a yong woman running after the beast with verie pitifull cries and acclamations Behold quoth Palladine how a sauadge beast hath gotten a yong Infant let vs alight to sée if we can force him forgoe his pray The poore woman seeing how readie they were to helpe her cryed aloude to them that they should get betwéene the Lion and his Caue least entring with the child there should remaine no hope of recouerie When the Lion saw he could not enter his denne he let fal the Infant and furiously assailed the Prince Manteleo who gaue the beast such a wound on the head as made him cry and rore very dreadfully At which noyse a Lionesse came foorth of the Caue from her yong ones and she likewise ranne on the noble Manteleo but Palladine and his Squires so valiantly assisted him as the beastes were in short time ouercome and slaine Then came the poore woman and tooke vp her child which when she beheld had escaped all daunger on her knées she humbly thanked the Princes for their good assistance One of the Damosels taking the child in her armes and séeing it both beautifull and comely said to the mother Great had béene the losse good woman that these cruell beastes should haue deuoured so swéete an Infant but why were you so negligent to endaunger it so much Madame aunswered the poore woman not by my fault did this inconuenience happen for I earning my liuing by dayly labour by binding faggots which my husband cuts in the wood left my child with one of my neighbours in kéeping How she suffered this mishap I know not but as I returned from the wood and méeting the Lion with my child which full well I knew by the swadling cloathes I made what haste I could after the beast hoping by some meanes to recouer my child which now I thanke God and you I haue done Nor is this the first time we haue béene thus serued for in this little Uillage béeing but tenne or twelue housholds in number three children haue béene lost within these sixe moneths the parents still thinking some Boores or peasants had stollen them but now in good time haue wee founde the Théefe And seeing these Gentlemen haue slaine the Lion and Lionesse it may be they haue some yong ones in this Caue which I gladly would haue destroyed likewise so shall we be in no further daunger heereafter That will I soone trie said Palladine go to your house and fetch me some fire and withall bring some sheaues of thrasshed corne for Lions cannot abide the sight of fire and by this meane shall we see what is in the darke Caue Right soone did the woman accomplish her charge bringing strawe and fire with her and sixe or seauen sturdy fellowes with staues flayles and pikeforkes when Palladine hauing set the strawe on fire with the cou●trey peasants entred the Caue where he found thrée yong Lionesses like little dogs and the clothes of diuers children deuoured by the beasts To behold this strange sight he called the two Damosels and the poore woman into the Caue saying These beastes should haue dined with your child to day but God hath appointed his end in better sort and because you shall remaine in no further dread of these yong ones were I not so farre from England I would send them to the King who I am sure would accept them for our sakes My Lord quoth one of the poore countreymen I will vndertake to fulfill your mind in this and will carie them to England if you please to commaund me full well doo I knowe how to vse them for my Father nourished one like to these a long time and when it grew great he gaue it to our King who sent it as an especiall present to the King of Fraunce In sooth quoth the Prince if thou will perfourme what thou hast promised I will giue thee money to defray thy charges and theirs likewise whome thou wilt take with thee Letters will I also send

Ship and taking his Squire Lycelio with him Many Cities Castels and Fortresses he séemed to see in the fire yet nothing did so much amaze him as the voyce and dollorous cryes hée heard in the middest of the flame Ah loue sayd one why doost thou still hold me in this miserable paine doth my offence committed against thy Maiestie deserue so gréeuous punishment as this how ill aduised then was I to set so light by thy religious lawes and soueraigne authoritie Pardon oh pardon him tha●●epenteth and ceasse thy iust indignation against them who while they liue will continue thy faithfull subiects else graunt them death which they would endure with willing mindes Such was the complaint of this sorowfull creature which moued the Knight without rest to such pitie as the teares trickled downe his chéekes with remembrance of the words and then he called to minde his great discourtesie to the Duchesse Brisalda whome he had left without intent to sée againe by yéelding to the aduertisements of the wise Orbiconte and so was his minde caryed away with the conceite of this aduenture as he stoode a good while silent not able to speake one word which when Lycelio perceiued he sayd Let vs returne againe my Lord from hence for we are not able to passe any further by reason of the flame that still encreaseth as you see Lycelio aunswered the Knight without rest if thou doost feare or doubt any thing I pray thee goe backe againe to the Ship and leaue me to consider better on these meruailes I will not leaue my Lord quoth Lycelio rather will I die first but if you thinke to goe any further you must doo it on foote for your horsse can not endure the fire On foote will I goe then aunswered the Knight without rest for I neither see or feele any thing as yet that should hinder me from passing further With these words he alighted giuing Lycelio his horsse to leade but he was no sooner dismounted and had drawne his Sword and put on his Sheeld but he heard another voyce thus complayning Alas commeth he now that shall deliuer me from this torment or to giue me the death I haue long desired ah death death how swéete would thy stroke be now to me why doost thou deferre to exercise thy office on me I fréely yeeld thée my life and thou refusest or scornest to take it Then heard he another voyce alittle further from him saying How dooth my miserie excéed all that euer liued béeing desirous of death to liue in rest and yet by no meanes I can attaine it The Knight without rest greatly mooued at these spéeches thrust his Shéeld before him and would enter the flame but he had so many strokes with halbards and other weapons and yet not able to see who smote him as hardly could he passe any further But hauing long time fought with these shadowes at length he came to a Rocke of white Marble where he was suddenly smitten downe and the fire seeming to vanish away such a darkenesse couered him as he could sée neither heauen or earth but had innumerable strange visions presented him First he sawe a huge multitude of Harpies flying about him making offer to seaze vpon him with their tallants Then he beheld as many Serpents houering with their wings ouer him casting flame and fire out at their mouthes yet could not these and many other apparitions cause him to dismay but trusting onely in the God of his strength they vanished away and he falling in a sléepe the wise Orbiconte presented her selfe to him saying Knight without rest of whome the heauens haue care Abide not in this place so sad and full of woe But follow thy intent which doth more good prepare And shall on thee thine owne desires bestowe Another man must these aduentures end So fortune willes to whome I thee commend This sayd she presently departed leauing the Knight to finish his dreame whereat he meruailed when he awaked to see himselfe alone in that place not knowing which way to returne to his company and as he considered on the words of the wise Orbiconte he arose and looking on the Rocke beheld in the middest thereof a Statue of blacke Marble holding betwéene his armes a Table whereon these words were written in letters of golde When the inuincible Dragon shall be chased into this place by the faire Serpent he shall giue end to these enchauntments by passing the flame and those two ●●all louers for whome the King Brandaliseo made these charmes shall bee then discouered Hauing read this prophecie long time he was thinking on the meaning thereof yet could he not by any meanes compasse it but true it is that he doubted according to the words of the wise Orbiconte that the ending of this aduenture was destenied to another and not to him yet if he could he would haue passed further to see if there had béene any more such matters of regard but as he made offer to goe the fire and flame appeared as it did before and many voices breathed foorth bitter complaints How happie is the man quoth he whose high good fortune shall finish these enchauntments and thereby deliuer the miserable soules whose cries are able to rent a hart of Adamant When he perceiued he might not passe further but that he was resisted by the flame and diuers that smote him he returned to the place where he left Lycelio and mounting on horssebacke came backe to the Ship Then recounted he to the Pilote what he had heard and séene in the Isle and how it greeued him that he could not end the enchauntments onely to release the poore soules that cried to him So setting Sayle they coasted along Dalmatia which then was vnder the Turkes gouernement and so rode merily toward Aquilea being then likewise in the Turkes obeysance but now subiect to the Venetians CHAP. XXVII ¶ How the Knight without rest arriued in Aquilea where he was deliuered from danger by a Knight named Broantine who brought him into the fauour of the Gouernour of Enna And of an aduenture that happened at dinner time which Broantine and Liboran the well aduised brought to end AFter long and dangerous sailing on the Sea at length they are come to the Realme of Aquilea where the Knight without rest landing with his companie left the Pilote directing their iourney vp into the countrey By the way the Knight without rest slew a hidious Serpent preseruing the life of a yong Damos●ll readie to be deuoured and comming to the Citie of Enna tooke vp his lodging where he might most conueniently The name of a Christian being highly hated among the men of this countrey the Knight without rest was carefull to kéepe himselfe vnknowne being able to speake the language and Lycelio likewise but Lyboran to preserue his life counterfeited himselfe to be dum accounting any shift good to escape daunger The Gouernour vnderstanding that strangers were entred the Citie sent one of his Captaines named

said the Princesse much more must I be then for me thinkes it is impossible to finde his second so would you haue said had you but seene his valiant combate with the Giant Sulberne If then quoth Orbiconte you knowe so well what he is he louing you as his own life you him in like sorte I would aduise ye with all speede to consumate the mariage betweene ye albeit vnknowen to the King Queene and let me deale for their good will afterward Alas Madame quoth the Princesse héerein would I willingly obay ye but that in religion we are too farre a sunder For that take you no care saide Orbiconte in that before it be long all your Fathers Kingdomes shall be conuerted to Christianitie therfore boldelye make promise to the Knight that you will be baptised so soon as you come into England he hauing first sollemnely sworne to marrie with you as well I knowe he hath no other intent Héerewith shall his parents be well pleased and yours heereafter likewise for then and not before they shall vnderstand that this is for your eternall honor and profit Nonparelia who desired nothing more then the conquest of his loue and withall the swéete benefite ensuing thereby whome she had made Lord and maister of her heart thus answered I knowe Madame that my honorable preferment is the full of your intent and that you will sheeld me from any blemish or reproch I therefore commit all to your discretion and will obey whatsoeuer you commaund me This night then said Orbiconte shall you be assured of your louely Knight and holy vowes of mariage shall be passed betwéene you afterward agrée as you can your selues for I will accōplish what I haue promised So went they both to the Princes chamber where they found him walking with Captaine Broantine one that knew the deapth of his desire yet ignorant what Orbiconte and the Princesse had concluded Many deuoute courtesies passed betwéene them and Orbiconte taking the Prince aside thus spake to him You remember my Lord your vowe when you called your selfe the Knight without rest that you would neuer entertaine quiet of minde till you had found your onely beloued in the world to whome you were destenied before your birth now be of good chéere for this night shall you be resolued of the Lady who being frée in affection from all other doth honor you with the vnspotted loue of a virgin estéeming of you as her Lord and husband No meruaile if these newes were welcome to the Knight without rest who giuing credit to the words of Orbiconte sealed many a sweete kisse on the daintie lippes of Nonparelia as pledges of a full contract in the sight of heauen not to be recalled but by death onely Short tale to make Orbiconte that night brought them together and ioyned their hands with sollemne and sacred vowes he to carie her with him into England and she there to receiue the faith of a Christian. And thus will we leaue them in their amorous purposes each comforting other with the arguments of loue and now let vs returne to the Princes and Knightes whome we left in Fraunce England and elsewhere CHAP. XXXIII ¶ How the Prince Don Robert of Freeze surnamed the Knight of Fame hauing taken his leaue of the King Milanor of England and Lydiseo the Prince of Hungaria found a Knight wounded to the death and what hapned to him afterward YOU remember how the Knight of Fame being vanquished and sore wounded by the Prince Palladine at y e Iousts which Caesar maintained for loue of the faire Rosamond departed with Lydiseo of Hungaria and crossed the Sea into England where they were graciously entertained by the King Milanor to whome Lydiseo presented Letters from the Prince his Sonne and an other from Landastines to his Daughter Floraea These two Princes hauing soiourned awhile in the Court of England tooke leaue of the King and the Ladyes and afterward sundered themselues in trauaile Lydiseo iorneying toward Hungaria to sée the King his Father who as he vnderstood was fallen into a verie dangerous disease And the Knight of Fame coasting through a part of Brittayne and Normandie went to Burdeaux and from thence into Spayne as much to expell the mellancholly which the remembrance of faire Rosamonde charged his thoughts withall as also to make proofe of his valour against the Knightes of Spayne who accounted themselues the most valiant in Europe Being thus landed in Spayne he trauailed through diuers Forrests till night ouertaking him he was constrained to alight while his Squire cut down certaine boughes of trees for his maister to rest himselfe vpon After they had laid themselues downe as willing to sleepe not farre from them they heard the voice of a man breathing foorth many bitter and dollorous complaints and as it séemed to them he was nigh his end for his words faultred in the vtterance as wanting abilitie to deliuer them whereupon the Knight of Fame awaking his Squire said doost thou not heare one complaine very greeuously I doo my Lord answered the Squire and belike he is in some great danger I pray thee then quoth Don Robert let vs go a little néerer that we may vnderstand what he saith So claspping on their Helmets and Sheelds they walked soft in to the place where they heard the voice when they alight heare him continue his complaints in this manner Unhappie that I am must I néedes die by the traitorous hand of him whome I trusted as mine owne selfe Ah wretch why didst thou not tell me thy cruell pretence it might ●e I would haue found meanes to haue satisfied th●e of if thou hadst yeelded me better reason I might haue desisted from my pursuite Pansnite alas Madame all the torments in the world shall not withdraw me from your gracious loue nor death it selfe which I feele hath a●endicentred me O monstrous treason oh false dissembling and traiterous C●stillian Prince What say I Prince if thou be a Prince thou art one of the very worst that euer liued Ah my Lord quoth the Squire to this wounded Knight you may well beléeue and hold for certaine as I haue sayd to you many times that loue can abide no companion so by the often comming and going of this traytour to Madame Minoretta he could not but seeke to deceiue ye and to frustrate the hope you had in her all which you must now endure with pacience seeing we are all subiect to fortunes changes If fortune then reward me with death quoth the Knight iustly may I accuse her of treason as one that procureth all the mischiefes in the world Ah traiteresse and wreakefull Lady why didst thou not suffer me to enioy that honor which her diuine nature and beautie had grounded in my heart and whereto I was sollemnely vowed and dedicated Alas I féele my strength more and more to forsake me Ah Minoretta Minoretta what wilt thou say when thou hearest of my misfortune I feare thy loue is