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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03434	Straunge, lamentable, and tragicall hystories translated out of French into Englishe by R.S.	Bandello, Matteo, 1485-1561.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.; Smythe, R.	1577 (1577)	STC 1356.5; ESTC S141	53,770	122

the chamber where he behelde the stretched Corps of Cayme and where yet was the Emperour with a smal company who seing Mahometh although hee was surprysed with feare seeing hym in such array yet making a vertu● of necessitye comming to incounter with him sayth Ah Villayne sonne of a Villayne art thou yet liuing Yea sayth Mahometh I liue in despight of thy Menaces and false ●●●entions ready to send thee to all the diuils to serue for their pray trusting in God that he will geue me strength to reuenge vpon thee most disloyal of al disloyals the death of thy innocent parentes of whome thou haste bene the inhumayne bloodshedder In saying these wordes putting their handes to their ▪ weapons they ioyned togythers and although the Souldan defended himselfe alwayes very● brauely yet the slaue a man very strōg braue hardy and always brought vp in warres and who for his good deede had the ayde and fauour of the God of that Coast acquyteth himselfe so well in lesse then an howe 〈◊〉 at the Tyraunt was able no longer to supporte the strength of the blowes of Mahometh but in the ende began to declyne towarde the earth the slaue by little and little became victoryous setting his shield vpon his throat to make him to yeelde himself which being done he causeth him to be streightly bound and deliuered vnto the people who sodaynly rente him into a hundred thousand peeces so that he was not esteemed to be the chyld of a good mother that had not done some iniury to the car cases of the miserable tyraunt O iust iudgemente of God he that tofore neuer thoughte himselfe ynough worshipped of his subiectes is now slayne by their sedicions handes to the ende that euerye one shoulde euidently perceyue that goods vniustly gotten alwayes geue the salary of their vniustice to the greedy desyrer the vyolater of right and of all religion After the death of the Souldan they made dilligent inquisytion of the complicis and executers of his cruell murders who being accused and conuicte were rygorously punished according to their lawes and ordinances The people perceyuing themselues so bound to Mahometh for that he had beene the deliuerer of all their Countrye and the punisher of such an offence which they dissembled by constraynt gaue vnto him the gouernment of the I le and woulde absolutelye haue inuested him in the seignory But the sage olde man knowing very wel both the inconstancy of fortune and the vndurable good will of a multitude and not ignorant also that he which vnder the tytle of good fayth occupyeth the goods of another cannot choose otherwyse then ingender the ruine of his successours and commonly giue cause of his infamy and totall dishonor therfore hauing set the affayres of the I le in good order hee causeth vpon a day all the estates of the countrey to be called in counsell before whome he made this Oration There is none of you my good Lords which are ignoraunt that I was borne in this your Iland and much lesse of the blood and race of them which ought to raygne ouer the people I haue bene brought vp and nourished as a slaue in the Court of the former Souldan father of this wicked parracyde of whome and vpon whome you haue taken condigne vengeance for his wickednesse I beseech you refer all that which I haue done or yet shal do to the honour and obedience of the vertuous deceased Lord and to the memory of those goods which I haue receyued of him and also to establish and pacifye the Signory to the yongest sonne of hym who as you know is fugitiue in the Mosque sith the day that his brother the Tyraunt made the horrible slaughter of them of his blood I therefore am of thys mynde if you also shall thinke it good that the successyon he being of the right ligne shoulde be by you rendered vnto him for I haue not at all purposed to vsurpe anye Lande from the sonne of him to whose name during my lyfe I haue borne such honour as the seruaunte to his mayster and the Vassall and subiecte to his Lorde Therefore I resygne and remyt into your handes the supremidence whiche of your good wils you haue giuen me both ouer you and ouer the Landes of my Lorde and your Prince vnto whome by your meanes I maye serue to gyue counsell in all his affayres by which if hee will gouerne himselfe I will assure you that you shall vnderstande you haue o●elye chaunged a man and not a vertuous and gentle Prince alwayes thanking you for the amitye and good affection which you haue borne me which if God gyue me lyfe I hope to satisfye by all kynde of humanitie and duety of a good friend and as an obedyent seruaunt of your commynaltye The people abashed of the vertue and continencie of the good olde man who forsaking the honours vnte which their election had called him louing better to lyue a pryuate lyfe then to enioye a whole countrey wythout hauing iust tytle of possessyon doe easily accorde to the counsell and sage opynyon of Mahometh So the yong Prince was fetched from the Temple and placed in the seate of his father wyth thys condicyon that hee should haue alwayes the olde man for assystaunte and counceller and by whose handes shoulde passe all the affayres of importaunce that might chaunce wythin the I le Beholde a notable and rare example of two great extremities in the vertue of one man the assuraunce and Magnaminitye to reuenge a publique iniurye vpon one that of him selfe was publique if by his vyce he had not made himselfe more abiect then the leaste of the common and popular multytude and the modestye conioyned wyth great reason and foresyghte to despyse that wherefore almoste all men at these dayes doe take and adresse for what occasyon soeuer it bee the bloody battayles profayning the sanctitude of Religyon peruerting the order of iudgementes redusyng and rendryng all thinges into wynd and adnychylatyng the charity that euery one oweth to hys Neighboure for wyth a huge heape of sinnes curses they a●tayn their Lordships and within a whyle they forget the effusyon of bloud of the good cittizens not appeasing the incursyo●s that in the end they ouerthrow themselues as is the flower by the heate of the Sonne in his full force and as was latelye seene in the tyrannous rule of the Myllinois of our tyme and once in the raygn of the Persians and Greekes the Monarchie of whome was lyke a flame that vanisheth away quickly as did their domynyons after their establishement FINIS ¶ The Marques of Ferraria without hauing regarde to fatherly loue caused his owne Sonne to be beheaded for that he was found in Adultery with his faire Mother in law who lykewyse lost her head in Pryson by his commaundement IN the lyfe of Phillip Vicont Duke of Millayne sonne of Iohn Galeas he y so often made warres against the Florentynes and their Lyne then

the Countye is hee O GOD the onelye remembraunce makes me blushe in wytnesse whych is the Liefetenant of the bedde ● and the incestyous ●●●yuall of hys owne Father it is hee that for your sake bryngeth vengeaunce vppon hymselfe and which thinky●g to remedye you● greefes hath composed a medi●yne so bytter that the onely smell will cause such an horrour that hee wyll curse the hower a h●●dered tymes ▪ wherein he began that whyche as I perceyue he hath executed Alas woulde God that I were a false D●●ynatresse in this But as for you Madame hold you assured of my fayth by whiche I sweare vnto you that what torment soeuer shall happen whether it be sorrowe or death how ignominyous soeuer it be shall not force me to say any thing that may denigrate the honour of my Mistresse conserued hitherto with so great good reputatiō Moreouer Madam imploy me in what it shall please you for syth the thing is done the counsel thereof is alredy taken you shal see by experience effect how I am mynded to do you seruyce in that it shall please you to imploy me Ah my dere friend thē sayth y Marchyones how your wordes haue pierced my harte ▪ whereby I knowe you haue told me the truth but what the force of loue is so great vehement that I cannot tell how to withdraw myself now from it that I thynke my desteny hath done it for my contentment also because amongst all the humayn passions this is it that hath the preference that cannot be auoided with any forc● or study that one bestowes therfore I des●re you to talk no more of this misfortune vnto me for we wil vse such prouidence that the most clere sighted shal not know what to think only ins●ruct you y County of that he hath to do of the howers at which he may cōmodiou●ly come vnto my chamber it is now in your hands my friend that you may end both my lyfe honour and that yet holde the good or euill Fortune of the Countye in your power Thus there passed certayne Monthes that the two ●oners reioysed togyther wythoute any of the Coortyers suspectynge anye thyng of so detestable a Felonye and exeerable abhomynacyon who although they behelde the courtesyes that the Marchiones shewed to the County whom she then intertayned verye familliarlye But they thought that she did it to please the Marques to the end that hee should not thinke she hated the children of his fyrst wyfe and also for that as I sayde before the County was so honest and curteous that he rauished the hart of euery one towards him which did yet confyrm the opynyon of the Gentlemen that this amity of the Lady towards the yong Prince was extended onely for the sole vertue gentle nurture of the Countye But Fortune that cannot forget her Nobillitie and the heauens angry for an acte so infamous and an iniurye so detestably committed both agaynste God and agaynste the Father and husband of both the offenders styrred vp a more wyly and subtle discouerer of secrete faults which is Time who did the offyce of a good Seruaunt after that by the very foolishnesse of the two louers their folly was made euydent they gouerning themselues so vndiscretly togythers and with so small respecte of persons tyme and place that in the ende blynded in their pleasure and glutted in their ease they thought that Tyme woulde alwayes haue bene so fauourable as she had bene almoste the space of two yeares Now let alone the Marques of Ferraria that doubted nothing of the great dishonoure that his sonne did vnto him and of the false connaye of his wyfe which sent him vnto Cornouall wythout a Boate. It chanced that a y●oman of the chamber of the myserable County beganne to suspecte something of that whyche passed betwyxte the two infortunate ●onglinges for he saw ordinarilye that as soone as the Marques was gone anye nighte into the Towne to vysyte some of hys Concubynes the Countye fayled not to goe all alone oute of his Chamber whych was the cause that he assured him of his doubte and therefore purposyng to seeke out the truth beholde the iuste iudgements of God which seeing the mallice that men haue to commit euill and detestable sinnes often tymes giueth speech to yong Infantes or wysedome vnto Beastes to publishe it For this cause hee beginneth to spye all the deedes countenaunces actes and wordes of the Prince and the enterpryse of the gallant succeeded so well that after he had be thought of it beeing in a Wardrope adioyning to the Chamber of the Marchyones marke the dyuyn● permissyon The sinne being come to the rypenesse of hys abhominatyon he espyed by chaunce a small hole in the wall whyche was iust ouer agaynst the Bed wherein she lay ordinarily by this Creuyse then the cleare eyed spye hoped to see that whych so long tyme he had desyred and imagyned and as he saw the enemy of nature before him he makes a thousand sygnes of the crosses ▪ with such an abashment that then hee woulde not beleeue that which he saw euidentlye with his eyes in the end beholding the thing more merely and perceyuing that he was not deceyued at all hee sayeth very so●tly to himselfe and by God it shall not be long before I will also make the Marques to vnderstand it to the end he may punish the one of hys foule temeritie and the other of her great wantonnes lasciuious incontynencye now he attending oportunitye to cause the Marques to view this pittyous and v●ruely Spectacle behold it chaunsed two or three dayes after the infortunate Prynce not doubting the treason which the yeoman of hys chamber did cōmit that so sone as he saw hys father gone into the stable to view his Horses euen then he wēt into the chāber of the Lady to continue the way begon within the bed of his Lord father but his Argus which slepte not at al following him by little and little and hauing seene him enter the listes returneth towards the father to shew him that which so long tyme he had desyred to make him iudge of the vnfortunate Louers This Traytor although his fact hath some aparēce of Iustice arriued before the Marques saith vnto him al abashed astonied for that he had sene My Lord if time did suffer me to shew and declare one of the most wicked factes that euer chaunced in Italy I should cause you to maruayle and as it might be by resyting so straunge a thing I should make your cheekes to blush and inrage your hart so abhominable is the case but because I would not make you loose that discourse may it please your noble Lordship to come alone whether I will conduct you where you shall see with your eyes that which I cannot commodyously resyte vnto you in order The Marques which was a mā of a good corage desyrous to know rare strange