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A60163	The novels of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, knight of the order of St. James Faithfully Englished. Whereunto is added, The marriage of Belphegor, an Italian novel. Translated from Machiavel.	Quevedo, Francisco de, 1580-1645. aut; Salas Barbadillo, Alonso Jerónimo, 1581-1635.; Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527. Novella di Belfagor. English. aut	1671 (1671)	Wing S369A; ESTC R219865	64,311	169

Commands replyed the other first continued they thou must stay here and keep this body while we go to execute the Commands of a Superiour Power stir not from hence as thou tenderest thy safety Immediately without slaying for his answer they rose up and going out at the door shut it after them upon our Adventurer Don Diego seeing himself left alone with a dead Man began to recommend himself to the protection of God Almighty and all his Saints covering himself with signs of the Cross from top to toe The two Mourners had not been gone above a quarter of an hour when he began to hear horrid groanes and the noise of iron Chains with such rumbling as if the House had been falling down this having produced in him a strange terrour he went towards the door with a design to get out if possible but as he was almost at it he heard a fearfull Voice behind him which in a sad tone cried to him stay Don Diego do not think to flie from me thou hast not yet leave to depart come back or I 'le follow thee At these words looking back he perceiv'd the dead Man a rising up and found that the Voice came from him who continued thus Know that I am he whom thou didst deprive of this life a few daies ago without having received any injury from me Barbarous Man canst thou hope to avoid the vengeance of Heaven 't is by its order that thou art brought hither to hear my just complaints draw near therefore that I may reproach thee with all thy crimes This discourse put Don Diego into a mortal Trance he certainly believed that it was the Ghost of dead Leander come from another World to torment him nevertheless he drew nearer not daring to do otherwise and the dead Man pursued thus I must confess that thou didst kill me in the Field and fighting bravely with me but because I had not learned in my Youth to fence thou hadst an easie victory over me but now thou shalt do me reason come let us wrastle body to body upon condition that if thou dost give me a fair fall my death shall be forgiven thee and neither I nor any of my Camerades shall ever disquiet thee more But if I overcome thee thou shalt be bound to come every Year upon the day of my death and passe the Night upon my Grave in the Church-yard where I am buried Don Diego seeing that the match was like to be very unequal desired in submissive Language to be excused as not being able to Cope with a Spirit but the Ghost not consenting and being ready to fall upon him whether he would or no Don Diego put himself into as strong a posture as his fear would let him immediately the dead Man rose up and shew'd himself to be much above the stature of an ordinary Man at the same instant the four Lamps that lighted the room fell down with a horrid noise and the Ghost lancing himself upon frighted Don Diego struck him down and left him in a swoun out of which he recovered not till about two hours after As soon as his Spirits were come again he opened his eyes and not knowing in what World he was looked about him and found that it was day He considers the place where he was sees nothing but four bare dead Walls he rises and endeavours to find some footsteps of those horrid apparitions but could not so much as find the Lamps he had seen fall to the ground The day breaking in upon him gave him courage enough to visit the rest of this dismal house which he did every where but found nothing but his Sword he took it and went away being asham'd to be seen in such a place though he would fain have informed himself of the Neighbours whose house it was and how it came to stand thus uninhabited Being come to his own door he went in and immediately put himself to bed to refresh his wearied Limbs and comfort his affrighted Spirits The little sleep he took was disturbed with frightfull dreams and at last quite interrupted by a very great knocking at his door Almanzor who came to him upon the noise talked with him a great while and heard from him the narration of his whole Adventure before he would stir to let in those who by their reiterated knocks did seem to be in great impatience at last to be delivered of their opportunity he went to the gate he that had stayed all this while was one Don Antonio an intimate Friend of Diegos and a very merry Companion Having saluted our Adventurer he asked him how he had passed his Carnaval having had some slight answer For my part said he strocking his Munchadoes I failed last night of trepanning a fellow for whom I had prepared a most ingenious trap 'T is one that you know 't is the Cordouan Gentleman that we call Don Diego but I shall have him in one time or another Why what is the matter between you replyed Lucifugne the matter is answered Don Antonio that he has vanity enough to be my rival and to court a rich Lawyers Daughter whom a Friend of mine long designed for his Wife Now you must know that this Ladies Windows look directly upon a certain Church-yard which gave a pretty hint to my Friend to be revenged of his Cordouan and put an obstacle to all those walks which he takes on Nights about her house having heard that Don Diego was no very valiant Man he told him one day in my presence that of late there had been buried in that Church-yard a Man of a notorious ill life who did alwayes walk there about three of the Clock in the Morning making fearfull groans and a dreadfull noise of Chains insomuch that many of the Inhabitants were ready to forsake their Houses that therefore he did advise him as his Friend though his Rival to retire betimes for fear of some ill rencounter with the dead Mans Ghost I joyned my perswasions with his and endeavoured to increase his terrour by exagerating the honour of the apparition But here our Gentleman was proof against our Plot for though he made as if he had believed all we said yet he continued every Night to walk in the same place and give his Mistress Serenados without fear of being interrupted by the dead Mans groans Our design being thus averted I bethought my self of another in which I used a much more terrible apparatus I have of late you must know a house thrown upon my hands it stands in a by-street and a solitary part of the Town and though divers have offered to take it of me yet I have still deferred letting it in hopes to make it the Theatre of a piece of revenge which I had meditated for my Friend upon Don Diego the Cordouan and no later than last Night it should have been executed had not a most unlucky accident prevented it I had obliged three Scholars newly come from the

break through a separation of Boards which divided the House from the rest of the Church-yard that guided him to the door which a little about and just as he was going in was he trod upon a dead Mans rib which breaking under him had like to have given him a fall at the noise a mans voice cried Who goes there and immediately Don Diego saw a Person of a noble mean come towards him having his Sword drawn in one hand and a dark Lanthorn in the other at the sight of the naked Sword Don Diego immediately drew and was putting himself in a posture of defence when he heard himself named and knew the Voice to be that of the Knight of Wonders Diego full of admiration asks him What he did there Alas my dear Friend answered the Knight you find me here in the greatest perplexity imaginable a young Lady of quality whom I have privately married without the consent of her Friends is here just now delivered for you must know that having lived in her Fathers House all the time since our marriage she let me know this morning that she did begin to feel some symptoms of her labour and beg'd of me that I would convey her away from her Friends fearing a hard usage from her Father who is a most passionate Man I not knowing in so short a time whither to carry her was resolved to have brought her to your house as knowing your frankness and generosity to distressed Persons but by the way she was so overcome with her pains that we were glad to get into this Charner-house where she is just now delivered At that they drew near and Diego saw with amazement a young person of admirable beauty lying in a weak condition upon a heap of dead Mens bones and a Childe newly born by her which by its cries seem'd to bemoan its destiny in being born in the very Empire of Death In this confusion the Father takes the Childe and wrapping it in his Cloak went away recommending the mother to Don Diego s care who remained there all alone with a Lanthorn in his hand comforting the poor disconsolate Lady But for an increase of misfortune the wax-candle which was in the Lanthorn was at an end so that going out it left him the Lady all alone in the dark the terrour of which was much augmented by the native horrour of the place In the mean time while our Charitable Adventurer was thus employed one of the subtlest thieves in all Madrid had set spies upon his Ducats and having advice that he had forsook the guard of them that night made haste to use the happy occasion he picked all the locks of the House and took the money divers jewels and two very good sutes of Cloathes he makes a bundle of all this and wing'd with speed and fear gets away safe into the Street He had not gone above a Streets length when he heard the Watch coming that way whereupon being well acquainted with all by-passages he slips cunningly into the Church-yard hard by and coming into the Charner-house where Don Diego and his Lady were throws down by them his bundle The Lady was frighted and Don Diego immediately with his Sword drawn goes towards him being very ignorant of the Present which fortune did make him of his own goods The thief hearing some body walk upon the dead mens bones and frighted besides with his own guilty Conscience runs away as hard as he can drive just coming out of the Church-yard he meets the Watch who went about to lay hold on him as a suspected Person but the imagination of being pursued by a Ghost gave him courage enough to force his way through them with a quarter-staff which he understood the use of very well Don Diego hearing no more noise thought it not discretion to follow any further and leave the distressed Lady alone he therefore went back to her and found that she had recovered a little strength whereupon he proposed to her to lead her to one of his servants Houses who was married and lived there hard by she consented they were very courteously received when the people of the house saw their master Don Diego as soon as lights were brought and that Don Diego could freely contemplate the face of the Person he had done so good an office to it was all he could do to refrain from falling at her knees so admirable was her beauty and certainly had not the concern for his Ducats and his usual trueness to his Friend been his Antidotes he could never have kept the Poyson of Love from killing all his reason Immediately a Mid-wife was sent for to tend the Lady who was put into an excellent bed There let us leave her and see what became in the mean time of her lover the Knight of Wonders He having found a Nurse with much trouble and being yet desirous to stay a little to see the Childe tended it being somewhat ill desired the Nurses Husband to go and excuse his delay to Don Diego and his Lady and intreat him to dispose of her somewhere where she might receive help and assistance when this Man came to the Church-yard Don Diego was already gone the man coming in finds no body there whereupon he makes haste to get out of so horrid a place and as he was near the door sets his foot upon the bundle which the thief had thrown there finding it yield under him he thought it was some dead mans body and giving a great shreek was ready to run away when by the favour of his Lanthorn he perceived his errour he views the bundle and seeing the outside pretty rich begins to deliberate whether or no he should carry it away He easily concluded to the affirmative thinking it no small favour of his fortune to meet with such apparel in a place where every body comes naked Don Diego all this while having seen the Lady well disposed of thought that how he might pay a visit to his Ducats which had run in his mind ever since his going out he comes to his House goes streight up to the Chamber where his Cabinet stood and finds the doors of it open and his Money gone as well as his Jewels and Cloathes immediately not knowing whom to accuse he suspects the Knight of Wonders to be the author of this feat and that he had taken the time to do it while he was busie in conducting the sick Lady to a place of safety and refreshment This thought having transported him with anger he immediately went out resolving to go straight to the Church-yard whither it was probable that the Knight would come that he might seem lesse guilty As good luck was Don Diego came into the Church-yard just as the man whom the Knight of Wonders had sent to him was getting up his bundle and going away with it suddenly Don Diego blinded with rage falls upon him taking him for the Knight and not only made him loose

not touching on them till they should come to Faustinaes Street being resolved to wake no body but those who should be so unlucky as to have so ill Neighbours as these two Sisters were The Chariot beginning to move in solemn dump in the silence of the Night and being environ'd round with Torches its self filled with antick Persons and followed by others in a Mascarade dress might have been a spectacle worthy the loss of some sleep It got at last with much ado being drawn by 8. Coursiers called Porters to the entrance of Faustinaes Street where they had subject to think all their labour lost for the passage was strongly barricadoed the business was that a person of very great Quality being fallen sick in it had obtain'd leave of the Magistrate to plant some posts across the Street to hinder Coaches and Carts from passing and interrupting that little rest which his distemper would allow him to take Don Lucifugne having called a Council it was resolved not to go back but to force through this obstacle thereupon the posts were attaqu'd and in a trice thrown down every one having put to a helping hand the breach being wide enough the Machine entered and being come under Faustinaes Windows first gave her a Salve of the Serenade to prepare her attention to the rest but this so Diabolick a noise having put all the sick Lords house in an uproar out came his Master of the Horse to know what the matter was and to desire them to be gone Don Diego met him and with good words having a little quieted him promising to withdraw as soon as he had turned his back commanded the Dialogue to be begun but by this time the Lords family had by his Command taken Arms and the Coachmen Grooms Cooks and Scullions issued out with their respective Weapons Pitch-forks Spits Tonges c. and seeing that Chariot there still came furiously on to overthrow it and the Actors but on the other side Don Diego and his Camerades with Link-boys and Porters interposing there began a fray in which many a head was broke as well as the Peace on each side and at last after a pretty smart conflict each party well satisfied with their bangings retired carrying off their wounded Friends Faustina and Popaea who were come to their Windows and had perceived that all this tintamarr was for them had an exceeding joy to see it disappointed with an addition of revenge upon the Actors which they could never have hoped for but their transports were soon at an end for the next day the Lord their Neighbour being informed that they were the cause of these Night scandals caused them to be banished Madrid Some of the Combatants on each side were clapt up and came off for small fines Don Diego for his part got clear of the Lords pursuit by pleading his priviledge of being judged by an Ecclesiastical Court having also found favour in the Kings for bating his Nocturn Extravagancies he was a Man of most excellent Convensation and very VVitty Company Adventure the third Almanzor weary of Don Diego's extravagancies and almost out of Charity with himself for his indulgency in enduring them seeing him at last delivered from the pursuit of the Law and all its evil consequences resolved also to free himself from all the terrours and fears he was continually in for his Friends safety VVhereupon he told Don Diego that the greatest part of the blame of his inordinate life lighting upon him as one who had the greatest share in his education he could do no less than let the World see by his retreat that he did entirely dissent from all vicious courses and that not being able to hinder them he was at least resolved not to countenance them any longer Don Diego having heard him out answered very fairly that he was sorry things were come to that pitch as to necessitate a Rupture between them but that since his life was of so little conformity to his Friends inclinations it was best for them both to separate Almanzor was a little surprized to see himself taken at his word for it was not his intention to withdraw but did only hope by the severe reiteration of his admonitions and demonstrations to leave Don Diego so to perplex him as either to better his own condition in staying or make him resolve to live more regularly but however being thus answered he thought he could do no less for his honour than effectuate his parole which accordingly he did and retired into a private Lodging in the Town but at the end of a few dayes he found that his huffing cost him pretty dear for having never before had the experience of the trouble of living at his own charges he soon began to compare it with the pleasure of living cost-free upon anothers purse and found a vast difference between those two things but the value of things is never so well understood as when the enjoyment of them is past being weary of the inconveniencies of his new life he got some persons of Quality to interpose towards Don Diego and to mediate his return to him they found him well inclined in regard of their ancient friendship but to put an invincible obstacle to all future fallings out Don Diego fastned these Articles upon the favour of his re-admittance 1. That all authority of a Governour should be suppressed 2. That each of them should live according to his own fancy taking no notice of one anothers comportments 3. That for the better execution of this agreement Almanzor should live in that apartment which Don Diego did use to keep for his Friends This was accordingly executed and Don Diego vexy well pleased to see that he had at last shaken off the yoke of Almanzors pedantick jurisdiction the natural disposition which Don Diego had to play upon divers instruments and sing to them being followed with so great an excellency in that Art that most Masters did admire him made him very inquisitive after all that excelled that way so that at last he came to hear of a young Lady who was said to have attained so great a perfection in the same thing that she was talked of by all Madrid for her skill both in Composing Playing and Singing This was a great incitement to our Adventurer to be acquainted with her but her Beauty which was more Charming having at the first sight he had of her ' made deeper impressions in his Soul he never gave over till he got an opportunity of seeing her at a Kinswomans house there he omitted no sort of Courtship to win her inclinations but could not bring her to any greater condescendencies than such civilities and modest favours as might have been granted to indifferent Persons The Ladies Name was Sirena and she was Married to a person of quality but prodigiously jealous of her a great journey which he had made towards the remotest parts of Spain had given Don Diego all these opportunities of making

his hold but threatned to have him hanged At that very instant a Catchpole who had in vain wandered all Night in hopes of a prey comes in at the noise and seeing two Men strugling about a bundle commands them in the Kings Name to keep the Peace and answer his interrogations and in Spain every petty officer of Justice being much respected he was presently obeyed The day was just then breaking and Don Diego's anger being a little evaporated in the scuffle gave him leave to consider the man he had attaqu'd and to perceive his mistake on the other side the man seeing that no body did lay hold on him and being afraid lest being found seised of an unknown bundle he might be called in question for stealing of it slunk away very diligently leaving Don Diego to answer the Catch pole Just as he was beginning his examination in comes the true thief who had stayed till it was day to come and fetch from the dead the Packet of which he had made them receivers he perceives Don Diego and the Serjeant disputing together he draws near and being a very bold fellow and of a present Wit comes to them with his hat in his hand as if he had been some ordinary person drawn thither by his curiosity the Serjeant after some dispute having touched Don Diego with his wand and commanded him to follow bids this thief the stander by to take up the bundle and come along with them to the Judge As they went the cunning rogue takes the first turning and slips away a little after Diego looking about misses him and tells the Catchpole angerly that he should be responsible to him for that bundle the Catchpole taking him to have been of the confederacy with the other and vexed to see such a trick put upon himself answers very sawcily in so much that our Adventurer not able to endure it draws and cuts him over the pate at the Catchpoles out-cry the Neighbours came out and Don Diego is seised and carried before a Magistrate who having learned his quality and the nature of the business was content to give him his own house for Prison and two Serjeants to guard him The Knight of Wonders in the interim impatient to hear from his dear Lady goes to the Church-yard and from thence finding no body there runs to Don Diego's house at which place he heard of his being robb'd but could get no account of his distressed Wife not knowing whither to go next he resolv'd to see whither his Nurses Husband was come back again or no but he was in a strange perplexity when coming to the house he found the Woman in such a fright that all her milk was gone and so the poor infant in danger of being famished the business was that her Husband had come to her almost out of breath and told her that he must run away for fear of being apprehended for a certain bundle of Cloathes of which he had been found seised and which were stollen goods At this new accident the Knight of Wonders was extreamly troubled and all that he could do in order to the preservation of the Childs life was presently to hire a Coach and taking the infant with him carry it to a little village within a League of Madrid where people used to put their Children out to Nurse The true thief did no sooner see himself at liberty but without any more delay for fear of some new accident he resolv'd to leave Madrid which he did accordingly hoping to enjoy his prey in quiet The sick Lady was infinitely tormented to see her self forsaken by her lover Don Diego was almost mad to find himself a prisoner and so hindred from prosecuting the Knight of Wonders and in a word there was a general confusion amongst all these Persons but Providence at last unridled all these mysteries and gave a quiet calm instead of these storms The Knight of Wonders being come to Checafé for so was the Village called made such diligence that in lesse than an hour he found a Nurse and was with the like haste getting up into his Coach to return to Madrid when he heard a very great noise in the Inn where he was and going in found a Man who had seised another and was ready to strangle him crying traytor rogue I am the Man thou didst rob about a year ago at Toledo and I will now have thy life for my satisfaction at this mans out-cries the people came in and the Knight of Wonders drawing near and putting some questions to the other about the bundle he saw there with him began to suspect that he might be Don Diego's thief immediately the Judge of the place was sent for in whose presence the bundle was open'd and an Inventory made of all that was found to which the Knight of Wonders laied claim for his Friend The thief was clap'd up and the Knight went back post to Madrid to carry Don Diego these glad tidings who to requite his favour carried him to see his distressed Wife who was drowned in tears for his absence there by the Ladys own confession Don Diego learned that it was by her means who was the only Daughter of a rich Man that the Knight of Wonders did subsist so handsomely whereupon he was very sorry that he had harboured so ill an opinion of his Friend but yet very glad there was no ground for it Leaving the two Lovers to their mutual enjoyment he went to the Judge who had given him his house for Prison and having acquainted him with the business easily obtained a Commissary to go and fetch the thief and his thieft The one was hanged and the other restored to Don Diego not without some diminution as having past through the hands of the Officers of Justice Being once again in possession of his Ducats he resolved to keep them with more care hereafter and in the mean time for an acknowledgement of their recovery he thought himself bound to assist the Knight of Wonders his Friend in appeasing and softning the angry Parents of his Wife who when they should come to the knowledge of their Daughters action whom they now lamented as lost would certainly disinherit her he by the assistance of a great many people of quality his intimate Friends laboured so effectually in the business that at last the Father and Mother seeing there was no remedy and being informed that the Knight of Wonders was of an ancient Family though poor consented to the match the more to solemnize this happy success there was a great meeting of kindred and Friends where the VVedding was kept in great state Don Diego much pleased at his Friends good Fortune made a new League of Friendship with him and one would have thought that having so many times tried the fickleness of fortune he should at last have been content to take her and marry her while she was in a good fit rather than be exposed to court once more in his