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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72050	The First and second part of the history of the famous Euordanus Prince of Denmark With the strange aduentures of Iago Prince of Saxonie: and of both theyr seuerall fortunes in loue.		1605 (1605)	STC 10566.5; ESTC S121626	137,776	203

vnto the Princes minde as not any thing might be greater The shield also he tooke on his arme and although it was impersable yet was it framed of such a substance that it was as light as any ordinary shield the deuice béeing in a fielde Verte thrée Lyons rampant or signifying indéede thrée Lyons which the famous Lyonell slew in the Kingdome of Spayne as you may reade in that History and from which likewise hee was called Lyonqueller CHAP. V. How the Prince Euordanus departing out of Walles arriued in Ireland naming himselfe the Knight of the Lyons and what hapned vnto him on his way towards Dublin THe Prince hauing throughly recouered him selfe of his wounds which he receiued of the Monster and hauing gained the Armor and shielde of the famous Lionell departed towards the harbor of Milford taking his leaue of the courtious Hermise and the rest of the inhabitants of the Country many of whome were desirous to haue kept him company but he would not in any wise accept thereof And now being come vnto the harbor he found his shippe in a readinesse and hauing the wind indifferent faire they set saile towards Ireland where the next day they arriued in the famous Riuer of Waterford where beeing come to an ancor they went on shore to view the pleasantnesse of the Country Which at that time was indifferent delightfull by reason of the many pleasant springs which descended from the Mountaines causing with their rumbling noise a most delightfull harmony The next day the Prince accompanied only with his owne Squire and the Squire of Lenarda whom hee willed in any wise not to make him knowne otherwise thenby the name of the Knight of the Lions Departed towards the Citty of Dublin whereas Adresto remained in the delightfull companie of Valeria for so was the Merchants daughter named of whom he was so greatly enamored and for whose sake he accomplished diuers and sundry combats defending her beauty against al commers to his no small fame and renowne for that within the space of two yeares he had ouer-come and subdued aboue a thousand Knights not at any time himselfe hauing receaued the foyle Thetherwards rode the Knight of the Lyons coasting ouer Mountaines and Vallies the first day not hapning on any aduenture worth the recitall The next day in the morning a little after hee was departed from the place whereas they had line that night there met him a Damsell mounted on a small hackny making meruailous hast and comming vnto him casting her selfe from her horse to the ground spake in this manner Most courtious and valiant Knight for so much my minde assureth you to bee let the humble petition of the most distressed Damsell in the world mooue your nohle hart to pittie and relieue this my cruell disaster which without the ayde of you or some other valiant Knight is now vncurable wherefore by your solemne oath of Knight-hood by which you are bound to defend all distressed persons especially Ladies and Damsels and also by her whom you loue most I coniure you to ayde and defend me in a most right and iust quarrell The Knight beholding her wofull iesture with her solemne coniurations which she vttered with such aboundance of sighes and teares flowing downe from the fountaines of her eyes as might haue mooued the hardest hart to relent caused her to stand vp and willed her to declare the effect and cause of this her complaint assuring her that if her cause were corespondent to her sorrowes she had met with one who would either loose his life or worke her content The Damsell béeing comforted with this his promise rose vp from the ground and wiping the teares from her eyes began thus Most woorthy Knight know that not passing fiue leagues hence there dwelt sometimes a famous valiant Knight who in the flowre of his age prooued still fortunate in all his enterprises especially in his loue towards a noble Dame of this Country named Molenda whom at length by the consent of theyr friends hee inioyed in lawfull marriage and liued together a long time in great ioy and content and in their latter yéeres GOD blessed them with a faire daughter whom they named Modesta happy in that shee was discended from so vertuous Parents but afterward most infortunate as by the processe of my spéeches you shall vnderstand For Eugenius for so was the auncient Knight my father called béeing striken in yéeres hauing no more children but my selfe who then had attained vnto the age of twelue yéeres my Father as I haue before sayd béeing striken in age and also grieuously vexed with an extreame malady called vnto him my mother and my selfe and after some fatherly exhortations to me giuen he turned vnto my mother sayd My déere and most beloued Molenda knowing that my fatall time is at hand and that death who spareth no man hath already seased on my body I haue thought good before my death to recommend this our daughter vnto your most louing and motherly care desiring you in any case not to permit or suffer her béeing come vnto ripenesse of yéeres to match with any of this Prouince which vnto my soule would be most grieuous and that during her nonage you would sée her most carefully instructed in vertue wherby she may be worthy of this patrimony whereunto shee is borne My father hauing vttered these or such like spéeches and finding himselfe to draw towards his end imbraced vs both in his armes and turning about his face immediatly departed out of this wretched world leauing vs to bewaile this our crosse fortunes Now after wee had solemnised his funeralls and had according to the vse of thys Country by the space of one whole yéere in mournfull attire bewailed his death it hapned on a time that my mother béeing desirous to recreate her ouer-troubled minde with some delightfull pleasures desired a great number of her neighbours as well Knights Ladies Gentlemen and Damsels as also others of meaner sort to come vnto her Castle where they were all hartily welcome and worthily feasted by the space of thrée dayes during which space they past away the time with many sundry disports to the content of vs all But alas héere began the head or spring of all my griefe as by the sequell of my spéeches you shall perceiue for amongst this company there was a Knight whose liuelihood ioyned with ours a man indued with rites sufficient had the Gods graced him so well with vertue and good conditions This Knight I say fayning himselfe to be attached with my beauty desired mee of my mother in marriage But she respecting more the riches of the mind then the worldly wealth of the man gaue him a flat deniall alleaging my youth to be such as was very vnfit for a husband and that to match a young gerle without a setled affection was the next way to leade her into a life farre worse then death for then to be matched where one cannot

and take part of those continuall paines and torments the which not only for the hate I beare thée but also to bee reuenged on her for her most odious whorish and execrable dissimulation towards me I meane to inflict vppon thy wretched carkas The good King being no longer able to forbeare these inhumane and oprobrious reuilings proffred him by his currish and spightfull enemie replied in this sort Griffory I cannot but muse how God hauing indued thée with reason and vnderstanding like vnto other men that thou notwithstanding shouldest abound in vicious wicked and detestable conditions aboue all other men which canst not be content with the miserie which thou séest me brought into being thy prisoner and at thy disposition to be either kept or ransomed wrought by the most base odious meanes that might be yea after such a sort that the beriest Infidell vnder the heauens would not so much as once haue gone about or imagined but also now contrarie to all humanitie reuilest me with such oprobrious spéeches whom héeretofore thou durst not to looke me in the face for feare and also reuile at her whom neither thy selfe nor no man liuing is able to touch with that least crime whatsoeuer and that would I make good against shée and thrée of the best of thy Knights with my body were I at libertie hauing horse and armor T is true t is true replied the Duke we knowe your vallor to be great but we will soone abate that your hote courage and place you where your Goddesse whom you so much estéeme shall neither haue power nor meanes to helpe you Doe thy worst replied the King and sith it is the will of God to inflict this punishment vpon me I will indeuor my selfe with patience to indure what torments soeuer shall happen hoping in the world to come to inioy therefore eternall blessednesse but in the meane time thinke not thou but that thou maist fall in like mishap and that I haue yet remaining in the Kingdome of Denmarke such Subiects that when they shall knowe of this my ill fortune and thy crueltie will not leaue bearing Armes till such time they shal haue layd wast this thy accursed Country not leauing thée any Towne or Fort to hide thy selfe from their reuengefull swords wherefore aduise thee and determine either to set me at libertie or otherwise expect those euils which will surely fall on thy Country If thou consent to my inlargement for my ransome thou shalt receaue a whole million of gold which shall bee payed thée foorthwith out of my treasurie No no replied Griffory thy gold is but drosse and cannot worke in me that content which my hart shall inioy by thy imprisonment neither doe I feare thy power which thou so much vauntest of for thou shalt sée and that shortly that I will not onely possesse my selfe of thy darlings County of Flaunders but also by the strength of this right arme in despight of all thy power Crowne my selfe King of the Kingdome of Danske whilst thou in the meane time shall lie rotting thy bones in my prison Thē turning about to a Knight of his named Sir Ragdand hee willed him to conuay the vnhappie King prisoner vnto his Castle of Coruew and there to put him into the dungion of the sayd Castle and to alowe him euery day for the continuance of his most wretched life a quart of water and apound of bread made of the coursest branne thinking this that continually pining away by reason of his course faire would be a farre greater paine and torment vnto him then any present death whatsoeuer Likewise for the more sure keeping of him hee ordained a gard of fifty Knights alwaies to bee within the Castle who should sée that no Knight should enter therein This Castle of Coruew was of meruailous strength inuironed about with déepe ditches and mighty heigh walls and had but only one way in which was ouer a drawe bridge the which was alwaies defended by ten of the sayd fifty Knights fiue at the one end and fiue at the other this gard grew at length to a custome by reason of the hundred Knights of Denmarke which went in search of their King and was deuised only to intrap and imprison them as you may reade towards the latter end of this booke Héere now will we leaue the woful King inclosed in a miserable prison bewailing his crosse fortune where hee passed away many a yeare although his fare was as we haue sayd before both course and short yet did God so blesse him that he continued alwaies healthy and stronge of body neuer grieued with any kind of sicknes sauing onely discontentednesse of minde which with patience he much delayed returne we to speake of Martinus who had not long after the imprisonment of the King quietly inioyed the cittie of Hanstance withall the profits thereof before granted him to the extreame griefe of the chiefest of the Cittie who disdained much to bee in subiection to so base a person for the Duke some eight daies after possession deliuered fell in consideration with himselfe of the great benefit which hee had lost by giuing away the chiefe Citty in his Dukedome deuised which way he might with his honor recouer the same againe at length hauing resolued with himselfe he brought it thus to passe One day béeing with diuers of his Nobility and Martinus béeing in company the Duke fained himselfe to be very merry and in his mirth for his further content desired Martinus to declare how hee hapned to take Frederick prisoner Martinus not distrusting any thing began to make a large repetition beginning with his former life in France then the cause and manner of his banishment and their ariuing in Denmarke with their robbery and murder committed in the Forrest of Maiance with their cruell storme sustained at Sea as is before declared by which they were put on that Coast and lastly the profer of a hundred thousand pound by the King which hee refused onely to pleasure the Duke All which when Griffory had attentiuelie listned vnto hée suddenly start vp from the place where hée sate commaunding the standers by to lay hands on Martinus saying that it was not lawfull to suffer such a one who had so many waies deserued death as by his owne confession did appeare neither to liue nor to be accepted into the societie of men wherefore he willed thē forth-with to leade him to the place of execution Which when Martinus perceiued and saw that the Tyrant was fully minded to execute whatsoeuer he had said hee fell downe on his knees desiring mercy and offering for the safegard of his life to redeliuer his right of the Citty of Hanstance But hee who neuer was acquainted with mercy or compassion doubtting if he should pardon him his life the whole world would condemne him of iniustice and séeing he might as well by his death as his life inioy his will aunswered that by the Law hee had deserued