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A08542	The first part of the Mirrour of princely deedes and knighthood vvherin is shevved the worthinesse of the Knight of the Sunne, and his brother Rosicleer, sonnes to the great Emperour Trebatio, with the straunge loue of the beautifull Princesse Briana, [and] the valiant actes of other noble princes and knights. Now newly translated out of Spanish into our vulgar English tongue, by M.T.; Espejo de principes y cavalleros. Part 1. Book 1. English.	Ortúñez de Calahorra, Diego. aut; Tyler, Margaret, fl. 1580.	1580 (1580)	STC 18860; ESTC S113508	256,667	370

That if at anie time Fortune being alwaies vncertain variable shewed hir selfe more friendlie to the Greekes than to all men besides if euer the Grecians were feared in all the world it was in the time of Trebatio the sonne of Alicante which man by right line descended from the noble ancient bloud of Molosso the second sonne of strong Pyrrhus and in the third discent from the great Achilles which was slaine in the warres at Troye This Trebatio in the xxv yeare of his age reigned in Epyrus where the said Pirrhus and his auncestours had bene Kings He was strong and valiant in armes and endowed with so manie graces that his fame in that time was spred ouer all the world and that there was neither King nor Emperour but he was glad to hold him for his friend Now it happened in his time by the death of the Emperour Theodoro the state of the Empire to be void for that Theodoro had no sonne and the Empire was to bée giuen by election so that the Electors not finding any whom with se good reason they might choose for Emperor as the great Trebatio as well for his great valure as for his discent from so noble a race They with the willing ioynt assent of all the Emperialls named him vnto the Empire and brought him with great honour to Constantinople Where if before for his great fame they had praised and honored him now much more they held him déere hauing in some part seene knowen him Because he was of conditions very noble pleasant louing to all liberall curteous sufferable pitifull and aboue all very desirous to entertein in his Court valiant and worthy Knights whom he honored aboue all the Princes of the earth So that his court flourished with Princes and Knights as well subiects as straungers which much magnified his great estate himselfe held continuall excerse in armes with them as being lyke enclined to nothing His vertue by the report of such as knew him was so rare that it was generally thought none of his predecessors to haue had aduauntage ouer him but rather he was of greater force then any one of them all For many men were witnesses of his mightie strokes He was called the great Trebatio because he was 8. foote in height very strong timbred so that without proofe of his manhood they might thereby make coniecture of his force In his life customes and conditions he was alway so affable curteous that neuer might be noted in him one little fault Wherefore his Historians saye that he was the crowne of the Greekes the cléere mirrour of all the princes knights of the world Whence also this his Chronicle boroweth this title especially hauing therin to remember the meruailous deeds of the Knight of the Sunne with Rosicleer both sons vnto Trabatio Since whose time all the aduentures of the ancient famous knights wer clean forgotten and since whose time neither Vlisses of whome Homer speketh neither any other songs or sonets ballads or enterludes wer heard in Greece onely with these two Knights they were familiarly acquainted Of these they made great volumes and with a thousand deuises in verse they sang of their loue They made no building nor painture without some storie of them their memorie therein declared In such sort that you might passe by no parte of all Greece where was not recited sung or painted the histories noble déeds of these Knights as if no other thing but armes or loue were fitting for them And because that in the time to come so noble things shuld not be put in obliuion some of the Grecians compiled this noble Historie to the encouraging of all Nations that shall either heare or read this Historie The King of Hungarie pretending a title to the Empire setteth himselfe against the Emperor Trebatio Cap. 2. IT appeareth by an ancient Greeke Cronicle that the Emperour Helio the third predecessor in the Empire of Trebatio had two sonnes the eldest of the which two the father being deceased was chosen Emperour the other was married with a Princesse inheretrix of the kingdome of Hungarie wherby he became Lord ruler of that kingdome The first sonne which was elected for Emperour departed without issue For which cause the Grecians chose another which was the predecessor of Theodoro This séeing the second sonne of Aelio which then reigned in Hungary and iudging that with most reason the Empire was his as gréeued with the election he assembled his power against the Grecians thinking to be Lord ouer them by force In the ende as he was not so mightie as they so he was vanquished and slaine before he might attaine his purpose Yet from that time forth all the kings which succéeded in Hungary pretended alwaye that the right of the Empire rested in them by way of inheritaunce and there neuer failed warres dissentions betwéen the Hungarians and the Greekes vpon this occasion In lyke manner when the great Trebatio was chosen for Emperour then reigning in Hungarie the King Tiberio a verye strong man and of great courage besides of more might then all his auncestours For he had in his subiection beside the Kingdome of Hungary many other Prouinces as Holland Zeland Flaunders Zweueland Bauare Austrich Almaine Alba Denmarke Marcomandia Persia and other Regions with the which he déemed himselfe one of the mightiest Kings in the world This Tiberio knowing the election of the Emperour Trebatio and being more attached with the desire of the Empire then any of his predecessours were as it was to be gotten by warre so he assembled by summons the greatest of estate throughout his land and declaring vnto them his will he commaunded to gather all the people they might for to inuade Greece Besides this to the ende his power might yet be greater hée determined to marrie his Daughter vnto such a one as would and could maintaine his quarrell This Mayden was called Briana the most beautifull Princesse that was to be found in all those parts being by the onely report of hir excellencie sued vnto by manie worthie Princes especially by Prince Edward sonne of Olyuerio King of great Britaine This young Knight strong and valiant greatly enamoured on the Princesse Briana through the great fame of hir beautie had before dispatched his Ambassadors towards the King hir father to request hir for wife To the which hir Father because he hadde already vndertooke the battaile against the Emperour Trebatio easely condescended vpon condition that the Prince should come into Hungarie with 20000. chosen men of warre for to aids him in the pursute of his claime against the Emperour This when Prince Edward vnderstood he had so great desire to haue the Princesse Briana that by and by he granted his request and so as speedely as he might he gathered the people that the King Tiberio required of him and with the consent of his Father he departed from great Britaine toward Hungarie

hewed it in péeces But that most valiaunt Gréeke no lesse strong then anie of his auncetors bearing his fine and sharpe swoord turned himselfe among them in such manner that he sheathed it in their bodies The first whom he met he cleaued vnto the eyes the seconds arme he cut off by the elbow being sore wounded hée ouerthrewe the thirde at another blowe neither staied hée héere but in his rage he dealt blowes and wounded many which for feare accounting him rather a Diuell of hell then a knight put themselues to flight Albeit they might haue recouered some courage in that they wer many and chosen knightes alwaies against one knight onely But the reason was for that at this time the Emperours knightes shewed themselues out of the woode So that indéede by the great manhoode of their Lord they found none left on liue saue two knightes of the kings which were knowen by their Hungarian bases Those the Emperour commaunded to be kept carefully for the thing before touched This béeing done the knights and other footmen which the Emperour had brought with him to guide his carriage tooke all the dead bodies vpon their horses without leauing any thing which was theirs altogether they caried them into the thicke of the woode from whence they before came out there in the thickest thereof they made a great pit into the which they threw the Prince and the knights saue the English bases the kings letters which were néedfull for his purpose they couered them with earth in such sort that there was neuer memorie of them At the time that the Prince was entered the Emperour beeing of conditions pittifull felt so great dolor in his heart that the teares issued abundantly from his eyes ruing the losse of so great a Prnce slaine out of his owne Countrie in the beautie of his age which also yéelding a great sigh which séemed to haue come from the bottome of his heart he saide with a troubled and low voice in this wise O vnhappie and vnfortunate Prince God knoweth how sorrowfull and grieuous thy death is to mée and howe faine I would haue giuen remedie in some other manner to that I most desired and although thou wast mine enimie and come in fauour of the king Tiberio to take from me my land and high estate yet would I not haue bene so cruell an enimie vnto thée but the entire loue of the princesse Briana draue me more thereto then mine owne enmitye Now I wish that by some other meanes I might haue bene relieued and not to haue bought my life by thy losse But as loue is tyrannous so meruaile not though he want pittie towardes thée which coulde not otherwise purchase it to himselfe Pardon me therefore O mightie and worthy Prince and iudge if thou wert aliue what thou wouldest doe if by my death thou mightest finde remedye of thy loue The Emperours knights which heard these words and sawe the teares trickling downe his manly chéekes perceiued well howe much the death of the Prince disquieted him And they sayde amongest themselues that by good right the Emperour deserued the prayse of the most noble and worthy Prince of the world But hauing made an end the Emperour caused to be brought before him the two knights belonging vnto Tiberio These two were very fearefull of the death séeing the things which were already done especially when they knew him to be the Emperor Trebatio whom they held as their mortall enimie Nowe when they came before him the Emperour said to them If you will do that which I command you kéepe secret that which I tell you I will not onely pardon you the death which I haue giuen to your fellowes but also I wil bring you with me into mine Empire where you shall bée verye well contented The knights better satisfied then they wer because he promised them life before not hoping but the death with good will they yéelded themselues to doe all that hée would with all swearing into his Emperiall hands their faith obeisance Then said the Emperour that which I wold haue you do is this I haue great desire to haue the Princesse Briana for wife this may not be done except I go in the name of Prince Edward to ensure my selfe to her in the monastery of the riuer for the which it is necessarie that you two being knowen of the queene the Princesse shuld go in my company say that I am Prince Edward Now sirs discouer not my secret to any person vntill that you be licensed therevnto by me and in so dooing you shall doo nought either against your Lorde or Kingdome sith in this bargaine the Princesse looseth not and the King with all his subiects win perpetually for that by this means the great warres and contentions begun shall take ende After that the Emperor had said these and other things whereby the Knights vnderstoode his will it greued them not a whit of this talke but they wer rather ioyous weieng the benefit which the King the kingdome the Princesse Briana and all his shoulde reape thereby and especially the Princesse by obtaining to husband the most noble and worthy Prince of all christendome as well for his person as for his estate and so with good will they submitted themselues to doo him pleasure and what els he commanded them With this the Emperour his Knights tooke the letters which wer directed to the Quéene the Princesse and with more hope to atchieue their enquest they put on the English bases which made them séeme English men then taking their way toward the Monestarie of the riuer In the way the Kings knights fold the Emperour how two of their felowes were gone before to giue notice vnto the Princesse of Prince Edwards comming and that therefore it were good to goe well aduised for they should méete them by the way The Emperour allowed their aduice charged his people vntil they approched néere them not to disclose themselues least they retiring their secretes might be layde open Now fortune iumped so euen with the Emperour as that all things succéeded on his side vntill the accomplishment of his desire which shall be recited in the chapter following ¶ The Emperour Trebatio was receiued at the Monestarie by the Archbishop of Belgrado and there betrothed by the name of Prince Edward Cap. 6. THe Emperour with his Knights departed from the woode where the vnfortunate Prince was slaine and tooke their way towards the citie of Buda vntill they came within vi miles of the Monestarie where they saw a farre the two other Knights which had retourned to bring the Prince on his way When their fellowes had espied them they told it to the Emperor vpon this the Emperor commaunded his Knights to kéepe together least they shuld be knowen and so they kept on till they met The other two séeing the English bases thought him to be the Prince of England with his knights But the Emperours

either the sumptuous building of Mansolus tombe or the famous Pyramides of Aegypt or that maze of Daedalus making found in Crete may wel be forgotten And as the Emperour mused on all this the gentlewoman knowing him to be distraught caught him by the hand brought him to a paire of stayers the steps whereof were all of Iasper by them he mounted with her into a chamber foure square of the largenesse of a stones cast In this yet she opened another dore with thrée steps of siluer plate out of the gold-smiths shop through which she brought the Emperor into a more stately chamber foure square as the other was very rich whereof the séeling roofe were ingrauen gold embossed with many precious stones sending foorth such a light as it was meruailous The Emperour tooke no kéepe of the riches of the place but of the beautie of a nūber of faire gentlewomen whom he sawe sitting richly apparelled in euery part of the chamber among these one séemed to be the principall stalled in a seat higher then the other passing them all so well in beautie as rich apparell She as ladie and mistres aboue them all held in her hand a Lute whereon she played and sung together with such an harmonie that it was no lesse daungerous vnto the poore Emperour then the alluring song of the Mermaides should haue bene vnto Vlysses companie She sang swéetly and she with all reached her warbling notes so high so shrill that it much pleased the Emperour Her faire and golden haire hung downe her backe and couered both her shoulders And you must pardon the Emperour if by this he was wholy possessed with her loue and forgot his late wife the Princesse Briana The enterteinment was great and yet this chaunge procéeded not through she beautie of the enchauntresse for his owne wife was much fairer but rather by the secret vertue of the place which was thereto deuised according as shall be recited héereafter By this time the Emperour had cleane lost the remembraunce of his wife his Empire Countrey and what els pertained to him onely reioycing in the loue of Lindaraza for so this Ladie was called this he estéemed for his principall happe and good fortune When the Emperour had stoode stone still a while this Ladie rose from hir seate and laieng downe hir Lute which she helde in hir hande with hir Gentlewomen waiting on hir and with a good grace shée made towards the Emperour to take him by the hande saieng vnto him You are welcome most noble and worthy Emperour Trebatio for whose comming I haue long time wished The Emperour glad of such a welcome and making not straunge of his courtesie albeit he coulde not finde whereby she shoulde knowe his name he aunswered hir Madame my arriuall cannot be but good sith by it I may beholde the pricke and price of all the beautie in the world conspiring as it were in your excellencie sith you receiue me with such fauour I beséech you tell me who you are least by not knowing you I might foreslowe that dutie which I owe vnto your person This account replyed the Lady shall be made in better time Now knowe you that I am all yours and there shall not be done by me or my Gentlewomen other thing but to doo you pleasure in my Pallaice The Emperour was intrapped with hir pleasant speach and knew not whether he were in heauen or in the earth and willing to kisse hir hande for the grace she shewed him she thought no scorne of a kisse on hir chéeke when it was profered Then she led him by the hand vnto the place where hir owne throne was there the Emperor felt in himselfe a great contentment by the touching of hir white and delicate hands imagining with him selfe that he was transferred into a second heauen Some of the Ladies helped to vnarme him and other were not idle either plaieng on their harpes or singing and making such musick as well eased the mindes of the enamoured some brought rich robes to attire the Emperour withall other conserues and comfets very comfortable with delycate wine in great plates and cups of gold to refresh him as he had néede by reason of the trauaile he had taken on foote although other meate liked him better which was the sight of the faire Lindaraza and hir company and shée no lesse enamored with him behelde him goodly and with hir knife in one hand a napkin in the other she hir selfe carued vnto him of those plesant conserues I doo not think that the Emperour refrained vpon strangenesse but she to quicken his stomacke with many a pleasant deuise and other amorous perswasions made him eate a good and very swoote were those morsells vnto him When this collation was ended with some solempnitie the faire Lindaraza led him aside into a great bay window opening vppon the fresh and gladsome gardein through which the Emperour with the Gentlewomen had before passed Ther they both beguyled the time with pleasant speach and melody which the Ladies made in a fresh arbour vpon the top of two trées the Laurell and the Cipres the Tenor being maintained among them onely by Nightingales I denie not but the sauour also of the swéete smelling flowers refreshing their spirits did encrease their appetites and gaue hope of better ioye to come When it was time to suppe the tables being spred they were serued of exquisite dainties Supper being done the two estates fell to their wonted discourses It was now night and yet there néeded neither torch nor candle the brightnesse of the stones enchased in the walls made the chambers as light as the daye when it was time to sléepe the faire Princesse Lindaraza brought the Emperour to hir owne lodging richly adorned with silke and golde wherein was a rich and statelye bed and ther vnclothed by hir Gentlewomen both of them went to bed and remaining thus both of them reioyced of their loues to their contentations As the Emperor had thus liued wantonly many dayes depriued of his vnderstanding sauing onely in honouring hir which was before him In the ende the beautifull Lindaraza was great with childe and bare him a daughter of rare beautie called Lindaraza by hir mothers name from whom issued a great noble race which because in his place it shall be largelye declared I shall ouerpasse now briefly touching such occurrents as I read of in the meane time ¶ The Emperours knights finde not their Lord and the Hungarians misse the Prince of England Cap. 10. WHen the Emperour Trebatio was in his quest of the inchaunted chariot the storie telleth that his knights might not come néere him some because they could not take their horses and some because his horse ran so fast for hée ouercame in halfe a dayes iourney the trauayle of eyght dayes as I thinke for that he was caried both by his own desire the diuels driuing otherwise it had bene impossible to haue endured so

aduenture which brought mée hether hath béene by occasion of a storme which draue me on this shoare and this is the first lande whereon I set foote since this tempest tooke my shippe and courtesie commaunded mée to lend mine aide when I sawe you ouermatched with number And thus much for aunswere to your demaund but now agayne that I haue tolde you that which you required so I praie you tell me your name and for what cause this cruell battaile hath béene fought betwéene these Gyaunts and you While the Knight of the Sunne spake thus Rosicleer beheld him verie sadly and hearing him say that he was the Knight of the Sunne and that he knew no more of his estate hée thought that peraduenture this same might bée his brother of whome Artemidoro had tolde him such meruailes but leauing this suspition till he might question of it more at large he satisfied the knight of the Sunne as to his question in short speach after this manner Your friendshippe was great and so I make reckoning of it otherwise I should not haue happened on so good a time to tell you my name in which because you would learne of mée you shall vnderstand that my name is Rosicleer and that I was of good report in the Court of king Oliuerio the king of great Britaine although my mishappe causing it I doubt me so much that my name is once mentioned amongest them but that matter I will leaue off as not pertinent this which you require about our fight sprong vpon this occasion and so he shewed the whole order both of the receiuing of his Auant Cheualier at the kings hands the first dayes iusting the seconds dayes combat with Candramarte the honour of the iusts the enuie of Candramarte point by point the whole storie as you heard before Which tale Rosicleer had searcely finished when the Gentlewoman which all this while remained in the ship cryed out whereat they turning their heads sawe in what manner shée outraged saieng O spightfull Fortune doe what thou canst for the succour which I haue wanted on lande I hope to finde in the bottome of the Seas and the God Neptune which hath power ouer the swelling waues shall kéepe me from farther vengeaunce wherewith she leaped into the Sea but being clad in large garmentes shée could not drowne presently The knight of the Sunne and Rosicleer séeing her in that estate pittyed her greatly but she was too farre off for them to wade néere so the knight of the Sunne tooke his boat hastely to helpe the Gentlwoman where otherwise then he looked for the boate was carried by violence another way and albeit hée stroue to bring it towardes her yet preuailed he nothing for it sayled in the Sea as swiftlye as sometimes the cloudes racke in the aire béeing driuen by the windes presently Rosicleer with greate griefe lost the sight of the boate werefore fetching a déepe sigh as for that his former hope was cleane dashed to haue found his brother he said as followeth Fortune the thing which I most detest therein thou shewest thy selfe most fauourable vnto me This is my life which now twice thou hast restored me without my wish but that which my heart most desired and with which my lyfe should finde most ease therein thou shewest thy selfe an aduersarie to me so that whatsoeuer good happeneth vnto me thou makest me thinke that it happeneth for the worst for the longer I liue the more are my paines increased Now by that time that he had lamented a while for this sodeine losse of the straunge knight he sawe the gentlewoman cast vppon the sandes not yet dead whome he caused those Knightes which were escaped in the battayle to carrye vnto the Castle and there to finde some remedie for her Thus the knights did with whom he went to one of the Castles where for this time we will leaue him to follow the knight of the Sunne on his iourney by Sea ¶ The Knight of the Sunne was carryed to the Ilande of Lindaraza where hee atchieued manie straunge and fearefull aduentures Cap. 44. WIth great swiftnesse and incredible hast the Boate whereas the Knight sayled was carryed passing in short time the déepe Atlantike and West Occean néere the vttermost Cape of the Ponent till from thence it droue vppon the Pillours of Hercules where his mightie arme and stéeled forke made place for the Occean to enter and water the earth This Sea is called Mediterraneum Sea and into this Sea the Knight of the Sunne shooued his Boat where he found well peopled Townes and greater delight then appeared in the winde and West Occean and he beganne to receiue some ioye of his hether arriuall as if not without cause he were carried in such hast and that some great thing was thereby hoped for but as sorie for his sodaine acquaintaunce with Rosicleer he beséeched his Gods with all his heart that they might once méete againe and at more leasure recount each to other of theyr aduentures Well on all griefes whether for his fréendes Brandyzel and Claueryndo or this vnacquaynted Rosicleer or the vnskilfulnesse of his waye were extinguished by that his learned Gouernour guyded theyr Barke whether it was conuenient So still hoping for the Porte and Hauen wherein his little boate shoulde ride he sayled as I sayde in the middle earth Sea where on the lefte hande he sawe Spaine Portugall and those Countreyes where he coulde gladly haue bestowed himselfe but that he was not to commaund the stéeres-man but in good time came he thether as shall be recited in the Historie heereafter Although by shoare on the right hande he lefte Affricke Carthage and Tures and forwarde as he sayled he discouered the Ilandes Baleares and Sardinia with the warlyke Italy and the fertill Sicily where the flames of Aetna hill a while stayed him There might hée sée the ruinous Relyques of olde Syracusia and many perilious Mermaydes haunting those shoares much feared by all the Marriners Then sawe he the fresh water of the riuer Nylus which entereth the Sea by seauen mouthes From thence on the other hande might hée sée Greece where-with hée woulde more willynglye haue fed his eyes if he had then knowen the right which he hadde theretoo But from thence he lawnched into the broade Euxino where the wide Sea conuayed all thinges out of sight that nought appeared but clowdes aboue and waues beneath Long thus he sayled meruayling when his Nauigation shoulde take ende After this as it were a faire calme following a stormy tempest there appeared aboue the water a faire Iland vnto the which his boote draue whereat he was merry and pleasaunt thinking that there abode him some aduenture wherein he might trye his manly prowesse and full fayne he was to leaue the Sea héere I saye at this Ilande his Barke stayed whereby he knewe that his iourney was thetherward Then the Knight leaped to lande vppon the enterie whereof there was a banke cast of harde stone