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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68435	Vienna Where in is storied, ye valorous atchieuements, famous triumphs, constant loue, greate miseries, & finall happines, of the well-deseruing, truly noble and most valiant kt, Sr Paris of Vienna, and ye most admired amiable princess, the faire Vienna.	M. M. (Matthew Mainwaring), 1561-1652.; Pierre, de la Cépède, 15th cent. Paris et Vienne.; Gifford, George, fl. 1640, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 17202; ESTC S111866	129,892	196

le laugh in Envies face But more considerately weighing his owne case hee entertained better thoughts and therefore writ in the next stage of the window Jf Rivers great from smallest Brookes doe flow Poore hopes in time farre better haps may know But now Fortune that wayted though yet a farre off on Paris unknowne merit gave him a befitting occasion to doe Vienna though still covertly more pleasing and more glorious service For there had lately falne out in the French Court a great contention betwixt the native Barons and some severall noble Forraigners that then for their pleasures followed that Court in honour of the King The controversy was whether was most fairer or the more vertuous of these three Ladies Valentia the great Duke of Burbons daughter Vienna the Daulphins sole heyre of Viennoys or the Lady Margaret sister to the King of England Great was their debate and many there were that maintained each severall Ladies beauty In so much as they fell from arguing to anger from anger to blowes and from blowes to wounds The French King offended with their offending uproare and great neglect of their due respect to place and person commanded peace upon their Alleageances And after being pacified and fully possest with the cause he held the occasion well worthy dispute but their faulty courages and our furious proceedings punishable in the place Yet fearing the further ill that might in many particulars well ensue thereof out of his deepe insight he pardoned their great over-sights and calling them all before him after some few reprehending words hee thus with a milde majesty briefely and wisely appeased them all First he commanded that a solemne and royall Iusts in honour of the three Ladies should be proclaimed throughout all his Kingdome to be holden in Paris at Pentecost following free for all commers and that she whose Knight should honour her with the honour of the day should bee ever had and held for the fairest of the three and that his Queene should crowne her with a Crowne of white Lillyes beset with precious stones as Soveraigne Queene of most perfect beauty This milde and pleasing shower so kindly distilling from the King so well allayed their stormy furies that calming theyr over-enraged wills in the shame of their amisse they humbly on bowed knees craved pardon for their offences and thanked the King for the grace and honour that he did them Then sent the King his Ambassadour to acquaint the English King and specially Messengers to the Daulphin and Duke entreating the King and willing both the other to honour him and his Court with their persons his sister and theyr two daughters at the assigned day and that each of them would be pleased to prepare and bring some beseeming prize of value befitting both themselves the cause and the worth of the Victor All which they promised in the word of a Prince holding themselves no little honoured in so honorable a contention Before the day the day drawing neere there came so many noble well appointed Knights that the French Kings 〈◊〉 seemed an Alexanders Campe. Great was theyr F●●●ti●g and full Royall was all theyr entertainements But th● d●y of tryall being come Aurora no sooner shewed her ●●●●ings blush but that the French King ashamed of 〈…〉 rose and rid to see the three high Artificiall Mounts which he had caused to be erected and made for the three Ladies to sit on who no sooner were come and placed but that the Duke of Burbon came marching in with a rich Garland made all of orient Pearle hanging on a Blew Banner with his coate of Armes on the other side and placed it on the Mount belonging to Valentia on her left aside Then followed the Daulphin of Viennois with a rich Coller of Esses beset all over with Rubies hanging on a white Banner with his armes displayed on the other side and plac'd it on Viennas Mount on the right hand of his Daughter Then came Englands royall King with an imperiall Crowne of burnisht gold set with Indian Diamonds and blew Saphirs supported betwixt two regall Lyons hanging on a red Banner and plac'd it on the middle mount before his Sister the Lady Margaret In the face of each severall Mount some foure degrees under the Ladies sate each severall Ladies Father in a strange devised Seate so curiously made and so gloriously deckt that each one seemed to be Apollo sitting in the Chariot of the Sunne The Knights whose rare Devises discovered theyr secret and severall fancies as they were affected so they betooke themselves to the Mount whose honor they were to maintaine The French King sitting in his rich Pavillion powdered with Flower-deluces opposite to the Mounts caused Proclamation to be made on paine of death that none but the Knights Encounterers should stay or enter into the Listes and that no Knight unhorsed should Iust againe nor any make offer of Combate This being done the King of Armes stood up and after a third sound bade them goe too and doe theyr best devoyres like valiant Knights And no sooner had he ended his words but that there came from Valentias Mount a Knight well mounted on a speedy Bay his Armour Bases and all other his Furniture Azure full of fiery flames and on his shield he bare a Phoenix enclosed within a bright shining Sunne and under it a hand reaching towards it with this underwritten Motto O vtinam Towards him came from the Lady Margarets Mount a greene Knight full of eyes and bleeding Hearts mounted on a fierce Blacke bearing on his Shield an Armed Knight prostrated undera Ladies mercy his Launce lying unbroken by him with his Motto All-ready conquered These two Knights encountred each other so furiously and forceably that their Staues shivered in the ayre and witnessed theyr courages in their fall but in the counterbuffe the knight of the Phoenix was borne to the ground so that the greene Knight rode on overthrowing twenty other Knights that came from both the other Mounts the last of whom bare in his Shield the Picture of Vienna most richly pourtracted with a vaile of lawne all over her and from the dexter part of the Shield there was a Hand and an Arme comming forth of a Cloud holding a fayre Labell whereon was written Such an one as such is none Great was now the glory of the Lady Margaret and all malecontented sate the other two Ladies especially Vienna who now seeing her shadowed selfe lying in the dust mist and wisht for her White and vnknowne Knight And as her wandring eye romed up and downe still looking whether she could espie him she suddainely both heard and saw a well proportioned Blacke Knight rudely rushing from her Mount who so fiercely saluted the Greene Knight that he made him pay tribute for his former honour in the overthrow of his fortune Threescore other assayling Knights he dismounted before Vienna who now joying wondred and wondering prayed that he might be her desired knight that wonne her