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A73047	The second booke of Primaleon of Greece.And Prince Edward of England Continuing the course of their rare fortunes, knightly aduentures, successe in loue, and admirable escape from verie perillous enchauntments: as the like delightfull historie hath sildome been heard of. Translated out of French by A.M. one of the messengers of her Maiesties chamber.; Primaleon (Romance). English. Selections.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1596 (1596)	STC 20366A; ESTC S124829	11,939	29

these glad tidings for should not the Knight of the clouen Rocke finde you well at his comming I know it would be his death immediately These newes made Gridonia excéeding ioyfull and looking about for the Dwarffe she beheld a Man of a tall stature olde and wrinckle-faced standing by her which greatly astonished her saying What great wunders are these My friend by the reuerendfaith thou bearest to God I charge thée tell me if the tidings I haut heard be true or no and what is become of the Dwarffe that spake to me euen now whome I at the first tooke to be Risdeno seruant to the Knight of the clouen Rock whose absence thus gréeueth me Madame said the old man doubt not any thing ye haue heard for they are most certain concerning the dwarffe yea aske for my selfe was he who did it to acquaint yee with my powerfull skill that the better credit might be giuen to my spéeches My good frend replyed Gridonia heauen quite ye for this kindnes how much haue ye eased my troubled minde by this gladsome report But séeing your skill is such I pray ye tell me more concerning the Knight of the clouen Rocke say of what race he is discended séeing you are so well acquainted with him Faire Quéene answered the old man know that the Knight is of so high linage such great valour and esteeme as he hath not his equall in the world except Primalcon onely to whom you beare such deadly hatred and héere of resolue your self no Knight is able to bring ye Primaleons head but this famous Knight of the clouen Rocke who indéed shall giue it ye and raise ye to such dignitie withall as you shal be the onely happie Ladie of the world Loue him therefore with all your hart for yee haue great reason to doo so as for describing him more openly to ye that will I neuer yéeld to because I should therein offer him no meane iniurie in regard he desires to trauaile thus concealed Alas my friend replied Gridonia in that poynt I account my selfe most vnfortunate because I can attaine to no certaintie thereof and séeing you refuse therein to satisfie me tell me then the reason why he is so loth to haue himselfe knowen Because hee tooke such an oath quoth the olde man when hee left his Countrey but the tyme will come when you shal better know him and then wil you estéeme your fortune matchlesse being Ladie of such a Knight compleat in all perfections nor can hee be fellowed by anie one but he that must deliuer him from this Enchauntment who is of no lesse vertues than hee and trauailes shadowed in such manner as he doth Great friends will both these Knights be in this voyage but in time hereafter their loue shal be conuerted to meruailous hatred which wil cause more griefe in you than euer as yet ye endured neuerthelesse be of good chéere and dismay not for all your fortunes shall haue a successfull conclusion All this I aduertise yee of before hand to confirme your patience the stronger and when ye remember mee to thinke on these spéeches for more at this time may I not reueale vnto ye Ye haue said alreadie 〈◊〉 much quoth she as both reioyceth and astenisheth me I pray God I may sée the happy time whereof you talke in meane while I knowe not how to expresse sufficient ●ratitude vnto ye for this your kinde preseruing of my life Madame said the old Man I will require nothing of ye at this time your gentle offer shall stay till more néedfull occasion rather let me now giue you a gift which is this King of verie great vertue this shall assure ye that whatsoeuer ye haue heard of me is no dreame but a sound truth At these words hee put the Ring vpon her finger wherein was set a most fayre Emeralde which she graciously accepted and while shee looked downe but to behold it the old Man was vanished she perceiuing the Ring to beautifull and of great value looking vp againe to thanke the olde Man for bestowing it on her wundred what was become of him gréeuing because he had so suddenly left her yet determined to be of better courage afterward This olde Man was the Knight of the Enclosed Isle who knowing Gridonia at the verie point of death by the false newes of the disloyall Knight transported himselfe thorough the ayre and came thus to comfort her So troubled was her minde with this straunge accident that she awaked the Quéene Mother to whom she shewed the Ring and rehearsed beside vnto her al the old mans spéeches The aged Quéene admyred her Discourse aplauding the heauens for these ioyfull newes saying Vndoubtedly Daughter all this cannot chuse but bee of certaintie as partly ye may perswade your selfe by his great skill entring this place in such sort as ye haue declared Chéere vp your hopes than faire Daughter and so soone as the Knight of the clouen Rocke returneth we wil intreat his trauaile to Constantinople because hee is the onely man that must reuenge our wrongs vpon Primaleon then in short time after shall both your desires be effectually concluded Madame answered Gridoma I shall thinke it ouer-long till he be héere arriued our affaires can haue no good successe till then and gladly would I sée the Knight by whom he shal be deliuered but I could not well vnderstand all the Wizards woords because hée said that to reuenge my wrongs himselfe was become a prisoner It may be the same Knight which sent me Zerohira who is reputed as valiant as the Knight of the clouen Rocke I pray God it may be he then will I labour to set vnitie betwéene them else shal I haue but little ioy by their dissention Happen what may quoth Quéene Mother God will d●fend them both from harme beeing so valiant as they are reported In these and such like conferences they spent the whole night vntill such time as breake of daye appeared then did Gridonia recite all these things againe to Zerphira whereby she receiued great ioy and contentment

The second Booke of Primaleon of Greece And Prince Edward of England Continuing the course of their rare fortunes Knightly Aduentures successe in Loue and admirable escape from verie perillous Enchauntments As the like delightfull Historie hath sildome been heard of Transtated out of French by A. M. one of the Messengers of her Maiesties Chamber Patere aut abstine Printed at London by Iohn Danter for Cuthbert Burby and are to be sold at his shop nere the Royall Exchange 1596. To the right Worshipfull Maister Fraunces Young of Brent-Pelham in the Countie of Hertford Esquire and to the vertuous Gentlewoman Mistres Susan Young his wife and my kinde fauouring Mistres health and all happinesse AFter I had sent vnto your Worships the first Part of my translated Palmerine of England and considered withall that the same tooke his original from the third Part of this present Historie of Primaleon which I am now translating and purpose by Gods leaue shortly to publish I thought it necessarie to make you both my Patrones of this likewise and the third when it shall bee finished that yee maye see the whole Chronicle of these famous Princes in their full perfection And albeit it was not my hap to doo the first Part of Primaleon but onely the first foure sheetes thereof by reason of my vrgent occasions at that time so please yee to read it it will giue ye the better entraunce into this historie though I could haue wished there had been more paines taken in the Translation thereof Notwithstanding this second Volume the third and all the rest in order euen to the verie conclusion of Palmerin of Englands famous historie wherof I haue two Parts yet to put forth will I present to you as my most affected Patrones and to whom I confes myselfe verie highly beholding I haue no other meanes whereby to expresse my thankfulnes for so manie fauours I beseech ye then make acceptance of this the rest in order with whatsoeuer else remaines in me at all times heereafter So being onely yours at commaund I humbly take my leaue A Mundy To his good Friend M. Anthony Mundy HAuing met Primaleons second Part in the Printing-house whence I haue long loytered and where it hath been longer looked for I haue done all my diligence to further the Edition the rather for that in my simple conceit I haue not seen a Historie more delectablie continued nor to be plaine with ye anie thing by your selfe more pleasingly translated I would not be here taken for commending this to be a condemner of anie VVorke by you before Englished yet giue me leaue to note that reproofe how euer causelesse makes him that can doo well striue to make his good better that his begun credite may be the more increased and the needlesse find-faults absurditie more worthely pointed at This in you haue I especially obserued since the Translator of Amadis de Gaule his second Part seeming to dwell farre from neighbors speaking in his owne praise saith That betweene the first Part which you translated and that of his there should be found more than a dayes difference This peremptorie conceipt of himselfe made me expect somwhat extraordinarie wherein I w●● not dea●i●'d for within a few lines I found where he tells vs of a King that married the Emperour of Constantinople which error beeing but one among manie as grosse this bolde Censurer will needes cast vpon the Printer I tell ye M. Mundy this tutcht me neere for a hundred such burdens haue I borne The custome is common when an Author or Translator either ignorant or negligent palpably erre then the Printer forsooth as if hee had deserued to stand with a paper on his head at euerie Stationers stall must make a great Errata calling the Title Faults escaped in the Printing when God knowes should he let but halfe the faults passe of manie such VVriters he should make them be as well laught at as an vpstart atturney lately was at a Leete who beginning to open his Clients Title to the Iudge said Vnderstand Sir that Robert Norman late of Brampton Yeoman tooke to wife Iohn Beeden daughter to Walter Beeden of the same parish widdow whereat the whole Court laughing he would haue laid the burden on his man who in drawing his Remembrances had writ Iohn for Ione Walter for winefride I would wish that Translator so to excuse his Kings marriage with the Emperour Or let him say he found it so in the French Copie for those Printers are far hence and because he would be singular for translating verbally being an absurditie in French he let it passe in English But for our Printers in England were he Diues who in these dayes can doo more than Lazarus I dare affirme there is none of them will let so grosse a fault passe except of purpose to make a grosse Braggart ridiculous So leauing him and wishing you to hasten your Translation of the third part I end Your old Well-willer H. C. Printer Of the VVorke and Translation IF in opinion of iudiciall wit Primaleons sweet Inuention well deserue Then he no lesse which hath translated it Which doth his sense his forme his phrase obserue And in true method of his home-borne stile Following the fashion of a French conceate Hath brought him heere into this famous I le Where but a Stranger now hath made his seate He liues a Prince and comming in this sort Shall to his Countrey of your same report M. D. Of the Translation against a Carper DElicious phrase well follow'd acts of glorie Mixture of Loue among fierce martiall deedes Which great delight vnto the Reader breedes Hath th'Inuenter kept t' adorne this Storie The same forme is obseru'd by the Translater Primaleon sweet in French keeps here like grace Checking that Foole who with a blushles face To praise himselfe in Print will be a prater Peace chattring Py be still poore Lazarus Rich are his gifts that thus contenteth vs. H. C. the mountaines with two Lyons in a chaine like a lease and a bow in his hand Much harme hath hee done béere since he liued among vs for sometime hee will steale abroad into the fleids and if he méete with any body hée presently kills him which hinders the Tillage of the ground in many places because none dare follow their busbandry for feare of him And albeit wee haue made diuers assemblies of our people in hope to dispatch his life yet hitherto our labour hath prooued all in vaine for be weares a Cornet about his necke which whensoeuer hee wyndeth suddenly comes a number more of his Patagons to helpe him in regard whereof wee finde it better for vs not to meddle with him expecting when the heauens will strike him by his hand fréeing the world and vs that way from his horrible tyrannie CHAP. XXXIII How Primaleon being on hunting with Palantine diuers other strayed from them with his Squire found the Grand Patagon whom he ouercame and