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A59703	Fortunes tennis-ball, or, The most excellent history of Dorastus and Fawnia rendered in delightfull English verse, and worthy the perusal of all sorts of people / by S.S., Gent.	S. S., Gent.; Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592. Pandosto.; Sheppard, S. (Samuel)	1688 (1688)	Wing S3165; ESTC R41391	9,387	25

Fortunes Tennis-Ball OR The Most Excellent History OF Dorastus and Fawnia Rendered in Delightful English Verse and worthy the Perusal of all sorts of People By S S. Gent. Lucis Anecreon Licensed according to Order Printed by A. M. for I. Deacon at the Angel in Guilt-spur-street 1688. The most Excellent History OF DORASTUS and FAWNIA CANT I. Bohemia ' s King is visited By Sicil ' s Prince who hath been bred In King Pandosto ' s Royal Court Who doubts his Queen and he do sport Between the sheets and though in vain Contrives a way to have been slain Egistus sees the snare and flies By Sea to escape these Treacheries INspire me gentle Love and jealousie Give me thy passion and thy extasie While to a pleasant Air I strike the strings Singing the Fates of Lovers and of Kings Fertile Bohemia fam'd in German stories For happy government and of her glories Had once a King Pandosto nam'd by birth Exceeding Royal and for innate worth Every way excellent his royal Mate Bellaria call'd a woman blest by Fate With learned Education fair by nature For Vertue famous earths divinest creature This happy pair had not been married long Scarce had they reach'd the Key of Hymens song When generous Lucina gave a boy To their hearts comfort and the general joy The King to manifest his high content Proclaim'd a solemn Just or Turnament Fame bears the Embassie on Eagles wings His Court is now a Parliament of Kings Great feastings masks mirth deeds of arms While Honor sits inthron'd with all her charms But when this great Assembly takes her leave And Royal Present from the King receive The Infant Prince Garinter doth consort With careful Nurses in his Fathers Court What can the powers Etherial add to this Can great Pandosto wish for better bliss Or sweet Bellaria covet more than Fate Already hath confer'd But what Estate Can boast a firm fixt Basis if the blind False sickle Goddess hath its fall design'd Sicilia's King Egistus who had found His Education on Bohemian ground From 's Infancy until the gods had given Him power on earth like to the powers in heaven To manifest no tract of time could race His friendship out nor distancy of place Estrange his love in ships well rig'd man'd If cause requir'd the pyrats to withstand Burthens great Neptune's back a chosen train Of peers attending on their Soveraign The winds were still no noxious blast has power To sally forth from Aeolas brazen tower The seas are calm the crooked Dolphins play Doris fair daughter dancing all the way Till great Egistus treads that happy earth Had been his Foster-mother from his birth Bellaria in whose breast the Graces rested With all the Glories of her sex invested Imagining her Husbands Kingly heart Would be the more her own did she impart All special favours to his friend admitted Perhaps more intimacy than befitted Egistus to her private walks her Eye Revealing her mind's just captivity His Chamber oftentimes she would frequent Which caus'd suspicion tho' no ill was meant For these two Constellations still did move Within the Orb of true Platonick love Pandosto marks their meetings and doth fry In the blue flames of baneful jealousie He calls to mind the beauty of his dear And then Egistus merits do appear Full bloom'd he next begins to scrutinize Their private union and their Coloquies He straightway fancies and concludes at last Egist. a Villain and his Wife unchast These erring fires shall lead him up and down Till he grows weary of his Life and Crown But yet he knows not which way to compose A ruine which may falsly crush his Foes He knows Egistus is a mighty King And cannot sink without his ruining He knows his Wife has every subjects heart Paying just homage to her high desert Since then there is no force of publick force He now resolves to take a private course Egistus shall not fall by steel but die By poyson this must Franion's industry Accomplish he that bears his cup must kill His gentle friend and he 'l reward thee ill With numerous dignities but Franion's soul Dreadly abhors to act a deed so foul He therefore sets before the King what guilt He would accrew what blood must needs he spilt What miseries must follow but in vain Does Franion charm his Serpent soveraign He must perform 't or die O killing words But Franion who by millions of swords Had rather perish than to give consent Unto his Prince to kill the innocent Resolves what ever haps to break the thing Though 't break his neck unto Sicilia's King To him he opens all Egistus scarce Can credit Franion's tale though his discourse Have secret truth for warrant Can it be Pandosto should be treacherous quoth he First I 'le believe earth moves heaven stands still I never propt his foes or sought his ill But Franion to remove all doubts declares If that Egistus will forsake these snares And sail into Sicilia if when there Safe in his fulgent throne free from fear The truth of this Narration were not shown To seize his life by tortures yet unknown Egistus now believes and craves advice Of Franion whom he finds maturely wise He counsels him if now the winds sat right To weigh his Anchor and set sail that night Fortune though blind favours this righteous cause With busie care nor doth Egistus pause But by the help of Franion secretly With winged haste by help of Luna's lunacy He passes through the City Postern-gate With all his train and is so blest by fate To find the Skies serene the Surgos came Within the sight of Syracuse the shore Is throng'd with loyal subjects to adore Their lawful Prince their cheerful ecchoes ring Heavens bless our Soveraign GOD preserve the KING CANT II. Pandosto seizes on his Queen What various griefs and woes are seen She brings a Daughter forth whom he Leaves to the mercy of the Sea In a frail boat Bellaria ' s try'd For looseness and for Paracide But by Apollo ' s upright doom She scapes a wisht-for Martyrdom The Prince Garinter dies whose death Bereaves the Queen Bellaria ' s breath Pandosto ' s penitence too late Who builds a Tomb to humour fate EGistus thus delivered by the god From eminent ruine all their Altars loads With Sacrifices for their blest support When death did want him in Pandosto's Court Whose Citizens are all in uproar they Believe that the Sicilians went away Doubting some curst contrivance since their flight Was shrouded with the sullen mists of night But King Pandosto now will Pawn his life That his Cup-bearer Franion and his Wife Bellaria had plotted this protection Prov'd by the fervency of her affection So swoln with rage he instantly commands Thsse of the Guard to lay their guity hands Upon his guiltless Queen there 's no denial And make her Prisoner till the day of tryal The Guard with much reluctancy perform The

's courting her that 's easily led Black news is brought that Prince Garinter's dead which soon as fair Bellaria hears she dies Her soul ascending to the Deities The King affectionate too late so much Laments her death his inward grief is such For 3 days space he 's speechless but at length Recovering his forfeit speech and strength He pours forth seas of tears and makes such moan Rocks would relent to hear him sigh groan But time asswages these laments the King Makes preparation for the burying Of chast Bellaria and his lifeless Heir Whom in one sumptuous tomb he doth interr Making such solemn Obsequies as told How dear he did his Queen Bellaria hold Upon whose Tomb the glory of her kind In golden Letters were these numbers sign'd Here lies intomb'd Bohemia ' s blessed Queen Bellaria whose fame shall flourish green While Sol shall dart a beam accus'd to be Vnchast and conscious of Adultery But by Apollo ' s sacred arbitration Restor'd with glory to her former station Yet slain with grief at last grief that had long Surchang'd her soul caus'd by her Husbands wrong Therefore whoe'r thou art that passeth by Curse him that caus'd this Royal Queen to die Into this Monument once every day The King Pandosto would repair to pay A dolorous Tribute where lamenting we Will leave him and review the raging sea Where his young Daughter floats on Neptunes back High Providence protecting her from wrack CANT III. The Child that floated on the Main Is sav'd by a Sicilian Swain Who fosters her with happy care Till she is almost fit to bear Her glorious beauty is made known To King Egistus ' s only Son Who comes to gaze but when they part Fawnia secludes his Princely heart Doubting his Father's rage they flye VVith an intent for Italy But by a sullen fate are driven Into a fair Bohemian Haven Dorastus is to Prison sent To Fawnia ' s direful discontent VVho now is known Paridosto ' s Heir All to Sicilia then repair There these two Lovers crost by Fate Till now becomes incorporate Pandosto kills himself and leaves His Crown Dorastus it receives THe Infant Princess by a cruel doom Allow'd in bright-hair'd Thetis angry womb Tost by the merciless winds and angry seas Avoids the horrid shock for two whole days But had not scap'd the third if she that guides Saphire-hew'd Neptune and in triumph ride Over the surface of the swelling deep Had not commanded Spio safe to keep The Royal babe the plyant Nymph obeys Guiding the boat through Neptunes pathless ways Till on the Coast of Sicily it stands There Spio leaves it sticking on the sands It fortuned a shepherd that had lost One of his Flock implores about the Coast His sheep he seekt in vain but in 's retreat The shepherd hears this pretty Lamb to bleat He stands amaz'd a while being crampt with fear But taking heart of grace he comes more near Finding the fairest Babe e're seen with eye Wrapt in a Mantle broidered curiously The shepherd who 's astonisht at the thing Resolves to bear the Child unto the King The pretty Bantling in his arms he bears And presently unto his Cot repairs But as the shepherd seiz'd the Royal Child A Purse of Gold he at her feet beheld His mind is altered now himself will keep The Infant who does writhe his head weep Wanting the dulcide Dug but he hasts home And is no sooner to his Mansion come But the Child cries aloud the shepherdess Amaz'd with both her hands her self doth bless Women tho' excellent are so much accurst By Nature that they still believe the worst She thinks it is some Bastard seizes on A Cudgel vowing Chastigation The good man seeing her who wore the Breeches Arm'd with her Mace strives with the fairest speeches To pacific her rage but his sweet Honey Cannot be won until the Purse of Money Greet her gray eyes declaring all the matter How he had found the Infant on the water She then began to simper somewhat sweetly And in her arms she takes the Babe most neatly Be sure quoth he you never blab our store Profit qd she is a good Hatch to th' door All things in order fet he carefully Doth keep his sheep she sings a Lullaby At home unto her Babe the Child grew tall Inrich'd with all those Graces which we call Supreamly excellent she 's Fawnia nam'd Fawnia that shall in future time be fam'd The honest shepherd and the shepherdess Her Father and Mother she doth guess Whom she obey'd in all things yet her face Was so Coelestial and with such a grace She bears her self so young and yet so sage All men might run and see her Parentage The Swainlings who live near do wonder sore That Porrus who was once so very poor Should on the sudden have such wondrous store Blest with a daughter too whose wit feature Almost declar'd she was no mortal creature Who now such favour finds in each man's eye Sicilia's Prince hears of her fulgency Egistus Son Dorastus whose rare parts Wan him the peoples wonder with their hearts Now by the gods qd he speaking in laughter I will go see the shepherds handsom daughter Who kept her fathers sheep with solemn care The chearful Sun did for the West prepare When Prince Dorastus goes from Court set on And finds the fairest Fawnia all alone Somnus had seiz'd her senses on the ground Cloth'd with sweet grass she slept her head was crown'd With a fine flowry Chaplet Flora she Or arrow-loving Cynthia seem'd to be But while the Prince doth feed his greedy eyes His noble heart becomes her beauties prize Who waking wonders she conceits some god Had left the pleasures of his bright aboad To bless Mortality upon her knee She falls Incomparable Mago quoth he I am no Deity though Princes are Call'd gods like other mortal men they fare And travel to the Grave the self-same way I am thy slave most beautious Fawnia Behold Dorastus King Egistus Son Implores thy love sure Fawnia can be won The shepherdess whose colour went and came To hear of Love and Prince Dorastus Name Replies My gracious Lord it is your will To jest with her who shall adore you still But simple shepherds never aim so high As Princes Courts the brow of Majesty Breaks their frail senses Odours poyson them They dare not gaze upon a Diadem This said she rose and reverently bow'd While 1000 thoughts about her soul do crowd The Prince repay'd her courtesie with a kiss Can Heaven qd he afford a greater bliss Now by the Powers coelestial should my father As sure he will all earthly Kings together Conspire to hinder my Resolves I 'de do What my unbounded thoughts do prompt me to I 'le wed thee Fawnia we this night will fly From hence my Dear to fertile Italy Good store of Gold and Jewels we will bear Along the rich find friendship every where Fawnia replies Your