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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01059	The famous historie of Montelyon, Knight of the Oracle, and sonne to the renowned Persicles King of Assyria Shewing his strange birth, vnfortunate love, perilous adventures in armes, and how he came to the knowledge of his parents. Interlaced, with much variety of pleasant and delightfull discourse.	Ford, Emanuel.	1640 (1640)	STC 11167.5; ESTC S120140	156,123	202

reward and that would be worse then death Thus troubled in mind he betooke himselfe to his rest scarce able to giue his eyes one minutes rest vntill morning and then againe as voyd of comfort as if he dreamed of a thousand impossibilities neither able by the counsell of Persicles nor otherwise to devise a meane to speake to her for his loue was now so violent that it could not be permanent Fortune intending quickly to overturn the same for Paly●n by indirect pollicy dealt so cunningly that by often recourse vnto her he at the last wonne her to such an absolute consent that she rested wholly at his disposition never comming to her but in secret and so late that all lights were out besides Lanula being old first taking him for Montelyon never made question but that it was he by which meanes he passed still vndiscried and betrayed the secrets of her heart to his privity that whatsoever he desired she would performe and whatsoever he counselled her vnto was but to prevent all meanes of discovering his disloyalty perswading her to kéepe her Chamber for many dayes which she likewise performed That contrary to her expectation with distemperature of watching and kéeping her selfe in the close Chamber she began indéed to wave sickly which Lanula made knowne to him appointing him the next day to come to her and he should know when againe to visite her in the meane time she had wrought so with the King and Quéene that they had appointed her to be her Kéeper and none might come at her but by her sufferance which pleased Praxentia well Night being come Palyon got him to Lanula's Chamber where he found her of purpose to méete him declaring all that had hapned appointing him that night to come thither Lanula returning to Praxentia would not make knowne his comming to her that night with no other intent but that Praxentia should not breake her sléepe At the time appointed Palian was in the Garden and Lanula ready to receiue him conducting him vp the staires of Praxentiaes Chamber who was in her bed and fast asléepe Palian senting himselfe close by her although the Lights were extinct yet by the light of the Moone which with her cléerest light shined vpon the Bed hée might take a perfect view of her who by reason of the heat lay with all thy Curtaines folded and the Covering that lay vpon her so thin that the full proportion of her delicate body might easily be discerned the same being turned downe beneath her wast with her necke naked and her Iuory brests passing description laying forth their beauties her armes spread the one aboue her head the other downe by her side Palian beheld this pleasant sight which was able to ravish the Sences of a most modest beholder where with his heart was so enflamed that he had much a doe to abstaine from touching that beauty After he had not stood long but Praxentia being distempered with some slumbring motion awaked and espying one so neare her Bed-side was ready to giue a shrike but with more regard marking his habite she knew him shrowding her selfe from his sight vntill hée entreated her to pardon his boldnesse Protecting his intent was not to disquiet her Neither am I disquieted quoth shée how I know you but I marvaile I was not acquainted with your comming it is Lanulas doing hath thus immodestly vsed me I humbly beséech you quoth he take no offence thereat but pardon vs both the greatest fault being mine for which I am contented to bide any punishment Your punishment quoth she cannot be great your offence being done to me that loue you more then my selfe having given my selfe to you that if I haue discovered modesty will not permit yet the offence being procured by you you may pardon it The sight qd be can procure no offence for that it hurteth not therefore in séeing I committed not injury but where there is mutuall loue and consent in loue there nothing can bréed offence but disloyalty which is as farre from me as impossibilities therefore I trust I can offend no way but in that and in that I will never offend All this quoth she may be granted in you but not in me For I account it a great offence to be immodest and nothing more contrary to perfect vertue You cannot offend in that quoth he to mée for having given your selfe mine why should I not both sée touch and enjoy you the first being granted the last cannot be denyed It is not the outward action that vniteth th●e heart but the inward consent I deny not quoth she all that I haue is yours by mine owne gift and frée consent yet you must forbeare possession vntill the bargaine be confirmed by witnesses otherwise your Title is not good Yes quoth he my Title is better by your gift then by a thousand witnesse for if you deny they cannot availe me therefore since you cannot deny me interest yéeld me possession These words were intermingled with many kisses and embracings able to stirre affection in sencelesse creatures so that Praxentia vnderstood his meaning more by his behaviour then by his words that she said Deare Knight I vnderstand your meaning which I will not nor cannot grant but in any thing else you shall command me onely I desire and am resolved to preserue my Virginity without blemish therefore good Knight request not that having so much as you cannot desire more my selfe my company my loue my life and all are at your disposition onely I challenge you as you are a Knight not to blemish my vertue Notwithstanding he so much prevailed with her at the last that she gaue her consent he should the next night be joyned to her in marriage by such meanes as she would compasse and then he should without deniall attaine his desire This contented him not but he grew to such importunate requests intermingled with such Oathes and Protestations being such as no reasonable creature but one of a shamelesse disposition would haue vttered or requested withall framing in himselfe such a kind of desperate behaviour that she could not tell well how to deny him that at last she called Lanula vnto her whispering a few words in her eare whereupon wée presently drew the Curtaines and went out of the Chamber Palian séeing that put off his apparell and laid himselfe downe by her folding her delicate body in her armes with swéet embracings expressing both their loues but Praxentia kept her word for notwithstanding he did what else hée desired yet she reserved her Virginity vndissolved Adjuring him by so many entreaties to leaue that vnattempted and often intermingling her words with such effusion of teares that the hardest hearted and most remorselesse creature in the world would haue yéelded vnto Promising him if she did not compasse her marri●ge the next night yet he should assuredly attaine his desire though she hazarded her selfe to accomplish it In these and such like spéeches the night was

the Court I will hazard my life in her defence and to my vttermost power procure her hearts desire Then know Pisor that Persicles heareth thy kind spéeches and hath not sailed in his kind opinion of thy vertues For I am he though thus disguised With that Pisor knew him and humbled himselfe with great reverence vnto him on his knée Persicles rising vp embraced him telling him that he came in a most fortunate houre to doe him pleasure Constantia with this was comforted againe and forget her former passion and feare The old Shepheard and his wife were halfe amazed vntill Persicles said Father be not any way disquieted with my knowledge for though I am King of Assyria I am thy Ghest and will for thy kindnesse reward thée liberally desiring thée not to discover me to any For if thou shouldest it might hazard this Ladies life and mine that are now in thy hands With that they both knéeled downe vowing that nothing should make them so disloyall Then he said to Pisor of old experience I know thou louest me and therefore I make no question of thy Fidelity or doubt that thou wilt vndertake any thing to pleasure me Therefore I would haue thée with as much hast as might be to Post into Assyria vnto Parenus and Thrureus whom I left my substitutes and to them make my estate knowne telling them that my desire is that they come to me into this place with a sufficient number of Horsmen to Guard me and the Princesse Constantia home but to let none know their intent which I take is the best course for our safety For if we should séeke other meanes by trauell Constantia is not able to endure it which also might be a meanes to discover vs so many being abroad in our search Pisor presently obeyed him and taking his leaue departed onwards on his Iourney leauing Persicles and Constantia in the Shepheards cottage CHAP. VI. How Helyon was in love with Selia and hearing of his Fathers sicknesse obtayned leave to depart And of the Desolation that was befallen in Assiria by the treason of Duke Oretus NOw Helyon remembring the pleasure he had with his Countrey Louer desired much to sée her againe with whom he was more déepely in Loue then euer he was with Constantia for the Loue he before bare to her was turned to hatred and the cause of his importunacie to the King to haue her found was with a malicious disposition of Revenge not of any Honourable inclination being of such variable and inconstant Nature that the least occasion altered his wauering minde either to loue or hatred Which was vnfit for a man of so great a birth as he deriued himselfe from And now hauing past many dayes colouring his pretence vnder the shadow of fained sorrow he longed to visite his Louer Selia Therefore finding a time fit for his intent he with his Seruant Aldrus rode thither At his comming finding Selia againe cloathed in her Countrey Wéedes Who espying him with a modest blush came to méete him Whom he imbraced most kindly in his armes asking her how she fared My Lord said she your Handmayd rejoyceth to sëe your worthy person in this homely Cottage whose heart can attaine no quiet but by your remembrance By this time her Parents were come in who séeing the Prince did him humble reuerence He like wise saluting them with great curtesie When he had stayed there most part of the day in priuate conference with his Loue he departed The next day repairing thither againe Which he like wise did for many dayes after In the end growing to such extremity of passion that he told Selia he woul● Marry her And withall made her Parents acquainted therewith who willingly gaue their consent thereto and by this meanes he enjoyed her company of all times according to his desire In this sort did he visite her many dayes doting excéedingly on his Countrey Selia thinking no Lady in the Court comparable vnto her and like wise dissembling excéeding griefe for Constantia so that the King highly commended his Constancy estéeming him the more for not altering his mind Within few dayes Newes was ●●ought to the Persian Court that the King of Arabia was very sicke which caused Helyon to desire the King of Persia's consent to his departure which he granted First hauing receiued his faithfull Oath to marry Constantia which he sware to performe at his returne Most of the Knights that went in search of Constantia were returned not one of them bringing newes of her Which draue the King into such a rage that he séemed quite bereft of sence causing them to make more open enquiry and to promise great Reward to those that could tell of her By this time likewise Pisor had béene in Assyria and againe returned to the Shepheards house Whom Persicles welcommed as glad that he was so soone returned But Pisors countenance bewrayed some ill Newes which Persicles soone perceived and being vnwilling Constantia should heare ought that might bréed in her any di●content walked aside with him into the Thicket of a Wood hard by the house where Pisor said My Lord I haue a Tragicke discourse to reveale that maketh my heart melt to thinke thereof which I would had not béene my ill Fortune to haue brought you newes of At my comming into Assyria I passed many miles before I found an Assyrian to converse withall For that the Townes and Villages which before were repleat with store of Inhabitants were now consumed by Fire and not a house standing alone but was dispoyled and the people from their dwellings fled away which caused me make the more hast hoping that all was not destroyed And comming more neare the Court in my way I found the bodies of the Assyrians lying dead and confusedly strowed vpon the Earth as i● some battell had béene lately fought in that place Those which lay dead seeming to haue fled to saue their lives And the farther I past ●he more did the number increase which I followed so long that I was perswaded those that destroyed them were not farre off but yet went so farre before me that I could not overtake them for the boyes of some were not yet cold and others lay strugling to over ma●ter Death Where with I was so amazed that I set spurres to my Stéeds sides and rode withall the hast I could vntill at last I espyed ● mighty Army of Souldiers right before me vpon the Mount Silo whose multitude séemed to be innumerable Neare vnto which I was no sooner come but I espyed an Assyrian wounded grievously ●o whom I drew nigh and soone knew him to be Parenus and dis●overing my selfe vnto him desired him to tell me what Treason had ●rought him to that dangerous estate With that he knowing mée ●ayd Pisor such misery is befalne vs Assyrians as wée shall be a re●roach and scandall to all the World Which I would repeate but before that I can make an end Death will stop my spéech

Gyant kéeping him within sight so long as he could which at last he lost Séeing himselfe so disappointed and vnhorst he began to study what to doe at last being past hope of either finding them or recovering his horse by reason of the darknes of the night he went wandring vp and downe to séeke a place of rest and by chance lighted on a Wood into which he entred but fearing to rest lest some wild Beast might devoure him he wandred on with purpose to passe through the same where suddenly he heard the sound of a big voice which made him stand still and listen with soft steps drawing thitherwards he perceived it was the Gyants that curst and hand him for crossing their Iourney What shall we do quoth one of them shall we stay here or no Wée shall wander I know not whether a plague vpon that white Divell that haunted vs. I am sure he is no man for we are men and one man should be as good in fight as another but you two like Cowardly slaues haue suffered such a wretch to haue advantage against you Hold thy prating quoth the other thou couldest haue done no more then wée thou néedest not vexe me I am vext enough with the losse of mine Arme. Let vs rest here vntill it be day and then we will away for hée hath worke enough to find his Horse Philotheta was so affrighted with feare that she lay like one in a dead traunce to whom one of them said Swéet Philotheta bée not discomforted nor offended with mée I haue loved thée long and long expected this happy houre to enjoy thée be content to Lodge on the cold Earth one night for my sake that haue lost many a nights sléepe for thine neither shalt thou lye on the Earth for my body shall be thy bed whilest mine armes imbrace thée Then did he take her in his Armes bestowing many a loathsome slavering kisse vpon her but she for feare durst not cry being almost dead with griefe Montelyon stood and heard all their vnreverent vsage wishing it were day that he might revenge their disloyalty They had not laine long but first the one and then the other fell fast asléepe which Montelyon easily perceived by their routing thinking it no discredit to slaughter such miscreants that delighted in no Knightly action but in wrong and oppression there withdrawing vnto them Philotheta espyed him and at the first sight by reason of his white armour knew him desirous she was to speak to him but feare to awake her Kéeper withheld her and yet she knew the care of her affright detained him from revenge At the last so boldly as she durst she lifted vp her hand beckning Montelyon to her and pointing to the Gyant Montelyon vnderstanding her meaning thrust his Sword into him that had her foulded in his Armes who striving with the pang gaue her liberty to leape from him roaring forth such a groane as all the Wo●d rung therewith and his fellow halfe amazed started vp ready to run away but Montelyons Sword overtaking his hindermost legge at one blow cut in sunder the sinewes and he fell downe holding vp his hands for mercy Montelyon with the next blow pierced his braines and so he dyed a most miserable death The other had received no deadly wound for the point of his Sword lighting vpon one of his ribbes was stayed from ending his life who whilest Montelyon was slaughtering the other he had recovered his staffe bending a full blow at Montelion who by good Fortune and Philothetaes strike turned about and espying the same comming broke halfe the force and running in withall ran his sword quite through his Adver●aries body and with the bruise he had received fell downe himselfe in a traunce Philotheta thought he had béene dead running to him with great striving with her tender hands to vnbuckle his Beaver and vnlace his Helmit to giue him breath which though long yet at last she attained but in vaine for he lay as a man quite bereft of Life her Lamentations were such as would haue turned revenge to remorse and those sencelesse trées into teares yea the Birds hearing her moan left off their pleasant notes to listen to her cōplaints the very Earth séemed to wéepe to receiue her moystned teares and all the empty Ayre resounded as repleat with her waylings Aye me vnfortunate Creature quoth she to be the cause of so worthy a Knights death How shall my vnhappy life make recompence for his losse It had béene better these Savage and inhumane monsters had devoured me then this Knight should haue lost his life in my rescue better it had béene that I had dyed in my Cradle then to liue to sée this dismall day though he be a stranger to me and I haue had no tryall in his vertues yet his actions shew the honour of his mind his valour his noble education and his courtesie his wo●thy birth I know by his Armour he is not of Arabia his honourable mind not hope of requitall procuring him to venture his life in my rescue which he hath too vntimely both hazarded and lost which no doubt will be as great a losse to his Country and Friends as ever any endured Were he once revived I would not care what became of my selfe nor néeded I not to care for his vertuous Valour would shrowd me from injuries and be as safe a harbour as security can affoord Her Lamentations could not so end but she lengthened them sometimes with wéeping sometimes with lamenting and then againe ready to drown her sorrowfull heart in salt teares Aye me said she what shall now become of me How shall I escape further misery Here I am left alone ready to be devoured of wild beasts yet what néed I feare any mischiefe when so great misery is befalne me as greater cannot be Her laments conducted the steps of an aged Hermit that dwelt in those Woods vnto the place where she lay wéeping over Montelyon She suddainly espying him being halfe affrighted said If thou be a man pitty me and helpe me to reviue this Knight If thou béest a Ghost thinke not to affright me for I am already full of feare and if thou béest neither then tell me what thou art Damzell said he feare not for I am a living Creature as thou art I pitty thy distresse and well doe my best to helpe you With that he knéeled downe by Montelyon rubbing his chéekes and laying his hand vpon his brest felt some signe of life in him and séeking for an hearbe which presently he found he bruised the same letting the juyce fall into his Nostrels with the vertue whereof his vitall sences returned to their former operations and his eyes received their sight With that raising himselfe vp vpon his arme hée said I perceiue I haue troubled you and as it were halfe ashamed of himselfe he desired her not to be disquieted with his misfortune Philothetaes heart rejoyced to sée him revived now he