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Don Henriquez de Castro, or, The conquest of the Indies a Spanish novel / translated out of Spanish by a person of honour.; Historia tragicomica de Don Henrique de Castro. English
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Loubayssin de Lamarca, Francisco.
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1686
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Francis de Gonzaga This great General disputed with us the passage of the Texin and we were forced to come to blows I was so happy in this fight as to save the life of the Marshal de Gie who commanded our Van-Guard his Horse having been killed under him I gave him mine and after having dismounted with a blow of my Sword a Horseman who had his Sword at the Marshals back mounted upon his Horse the Marshal was so thankful to me for this Service that he would not suffer me to make use of any other Table but his and lodged me in his House when I came to Paris He had a Nephew in his House called Keroline with whom I contracted a strict Friendship and the chief employment of the French being to visit the Ladies in time of peace I accompanied him in a visit he made to a Kinswoman of the Dutchess of Candale for whom the Duke of Orleance had a great passion this Lady whom I had the honour to please introduced me into that Princes service whose Favourite I became soon after few days after this the Dutchess of Beaujeu whom the Duke courted to marry having discovered this Intreague became jealous of it and complained to the King who sent my Master Prisoner to the Tower of Bourges I remained some time at Paris for my Master's service but having heard that Keroline reported every where that my indiscretion had been the cause of the Duke's disgrace I could not avoid challenging him and fighting him we fought with Sword and Daggar upon the Road to the Bois de Vincent many of our Friends ran after us to part us but they came too late for our Combat was ended by the death of Keroline And Duels being forbidden then in France the fear I had of being taken Prisoner made me without delay take Post for Lyons and then repassed the Alpes I heard at Turin that Ferdinand was come back into his Dominions that King Charles was dead that my Master had succeeded him by the name of Lewis the twelfth and that he had entered into a League with Spain for the Conquest of the Dutchy of Milan and the Kingdom of Naples Although I had a great deal to hope for in France from the goodness of the new King who had been so kind to me when I served hm yet the love of my Countrey made me resolve to take a Command in the Spanish Army so soon as it was raised I came thither in all diligence and I waited upon Ferdinand Gonzalez de Cordoua Marquess de Leve who commanded it he had heard of me to my advantage when I went by the name of Demiguel Cardegnas which I had taken in France this induced him to make me Lieutenant of his own Lances Ferdinand having been a second time Stript of his Countrey the two Kings quarrelled about the dividing of their Conquest and I was forced to bear Arms against the French at the Battel which the Marquess de Leve fought aginst the Duke of Nemours I took several Prisoners in this fight and amongst others Blessac who was a near Kinsman to the Lady that had given me to the Duke of Orleance he made himself known to me and being very glad to have this opportunity to acknowledge the favours I had received from his Kinswoman I sent him back without ransom which afterwards saved my life as I shall tell you I was taken at the Battel which the French won neer Ravenna under the Command of Gaston de Foix and being so unhappy as to render my self to Keroline's Brother he would have killed me to revenge the death of a Man I had killed without treachery but Blessac who was present could not suffer so great a baseness he took my part with so much warmth that it came to blows and they fought at the head of the Camp this quarrel happenning in the presence of so many they were soon parted but however in this disturbance I found an opportunity to escape I got back to Ravenna whither the remaining part of our Army had retreated where I remained sick for many Months for the wounds which I had received in the last fight having been long without dressing inflamed and put me into a Feaver and out of which I recovered with great difficulty a Spaniard named Don Alvarez who had been my dearest Neighbour when I lived at Sevil lodged in the same House where I lay sick he came by chance into my Chamber and knew me although I was very much altered he offered me his service with so good a Grace that I spoke to him without disguise I enquired of him what had passed since my departure and he informed me that my Son who was but four years of age when I was forced to leave my Countrey and who is the same Don Lorenzo whose Son you are was gone into the Indies with Ferdinando Cortez he told me also that although he was very young yet he had gained a great Reputation which was a great comfort to me The Wars of Italy being ended by the loss of the Battel of Pavie and by the Imprisonment of Francis the First King of France who had succeeded Lewis the twelfth I found my self without employment and not daring to return into Spain I resolved to go to Naples to pass my time there till a new War should find me an employment I had done great services the last time this Town was taken to Alexander Cappaccio who made there a considerable Figure and although he was since dead his Wife did not forget it I went to give her a visit and she would not suffer me to lodge in any other House but hers she had with her a Daughter who was the only fruit of her marriage Flavia for so she was called was grown as much in Beauty as in Age since I saw her and her Charms raised jealousie in the greatest Beauties of Naples her Lovers were in great number but in that Crowd she had cast her Eye more especially upon two Brothers who were no less considerable for their Merit than their Birth the name of the Eldest was Scipio and the Youngest Octavius there was so great an equality between them that Flavia durst not chuse the one for fear of displeasing the other I having the opportunity to see her at all hours she told me her thoughts with great freedom One day after having related to me what these two Brothers had done to deserve her kindness and having described to me the Character of each she asked my advice concerning the choice she was to make I answered her pleasantly to make them agree her best way was to give me a Heart for which these two Rivals disputed with so much heat to hinder Love from distinguishing in them the Sentiments of Nature She looked upon me smilingly and seeing in my eyes an amorous languishing which she had never before observed she began to think I spoke this only to discover her thoughts My humour was not
that there is no body who may not be deceived by him and who would not trust his discretion It is not that which I mean replied Don Henriquez but that she is a Lady disguised in the habit of a Man and that therefore your Daughter is in great security with her This discourse increasing the wonder of the Lady the Company desired Don Henriquez to relate what had passed between Don Garcia and him and what he had learnt of the History of his Life he gave immediately this satisfaction to the strange Lady but she could find no ease by it Don Henriquez for his part had not less impatience to discourse in private with the old Man and to know from him who that Julia was who so perfectly resembled Leonora So soon as it was day he engaged him to walk with him and having shewed him her Picture he asked him if he there discovered the Features of Julia after the old Man had assured him that it was the true Picture he asked him by what accident he had lost her I cannot replied the Stranger satisfie your curiosity without opening again a wound which has bled for a long time but which now begins to close but if it be any service to you I will endeavour to overcome my grief to relate to you the accidents with which my life has been crost Don Henriquez told him it was very important for his quiet to hear this relation and having conducted him into a private place that they might not be interrupted he made him sit down in the shade and desired him to satisfie his Curiosity which he did in this manner The History of Don Estevan I am called Don Estevan de Castro What interruped Don Henriquez are you the Father of Don Lorenzo who was thought to have died in Prison at Tunis I am he replied Don Estevan Fortune which reserved me for other Crosses rescued me from Slavery to make my sufferings the more lasting And I replied Don Henriquez am the Son of the same Don Lorenzo and of Teresamendez I had replied Don Estevan some suspition of it before for I observed his very Features in you and Mendez Brother to your Mother who was in my Grotto when you came thither had the same thought for this reason I was not willing to refuse you a confidence which may give you some satisfaction and I will continue my relation if you are disposed to hear me and seeing that Don Heriquez kept silence he thus pursued his discourse I believe Son you are not ignorant of the reasons which forced me to leave my Countrey and have made me for fifteen years last past wander from Kingdom to Kingdom Yes my Lord replied Don Henriquez I know that Don John de Fonseca was in love with your first Wife and that not being able to obtain his desires he was resolved to be revenged of her and of Don Lopes de la Quevae who had had better success with his own Wife that to bring about this design he had made you be informed by a Maid who was gained by him that Lopes kept with your Wife a Correspondence which was prejudicial to your Honour that you having in Friendship told him of it he confirmed you himself in these suspicions and promised you he would so order it that you should find them together at their first meeting That to effect this treachery he told his Wife that yours had talked every where in publick that Don Lopes bragged of the favours he had received from her and that she was desirous to Justifie her self in his presence in the House of a Sempstress who was one of their Confidents that Don John who knew the Hour they pitcht upon went with you thither and made you come in at one door whilst his Wife went out at the other that your Wife being come thither to clear her self was by these means left alone with Don Lopes and that finding them together without any body with them you were fully perswaded she had betrayed you and being transported at it with jealousie you killed them both him with your Pistol and her with your Sword and that thinking after having committed these murthers you could not expect any safety in Sevil you departed from thence immediately I know but confusedly all that happenned to you afterwards because you changed your Name that you might not be known You have done me a great pleasure replied Don Estevan to spare me the confusion I should have been in if I had been forced to relate to you my self the Crime which my Credulity made me commit with too much precipitancy but since you are so well informed of these Circumstances I have nothing more to tell you but what happened to me after I left Sevil. I went from Sevil to Seragossa where Ferdinand and Isabella then kept their Court. It was easie for me to hide my self in the throng of Strangers who came thither from all parts but fearing I might at lest be discovered I resolved to go into some other Countrey to serve in the Army I heard Charles the VIII of France was then designing for Italy with a strong Army to recover the Kingdom of Naples which he pretended belonged to him as descended from the House of Anjou from which it had been unjustly taken away by Usurpation They told me also that the King of Spain took no part in this War which made me resolve to serve in the French Army rather than in that of Alphonso who was not now in a condition to resist so great a Monarch I took Post immediately and having crossed the Pyrenian Hills I came to Lyons where was appointed the general Rendezvous of the Army I found the King ready to pass the Alpes and having no Acquaintance in France I followed the Army in the quality of a Volunteer I had a pretty handsome Equipage and spending liberally I soon got Friends in the Army We passed through Italy as if the King had only travelled through his own Dominions so great a Veneration had all the little Soveraigns of the Countreys where we passed for this Prince When we were come to the frontiers of the Kingdom of Naples we heard that Alphonso frightned by the approach of our Army was retired to Mazara in Scicily where he made himself a Monk his Son Ferdinand indeavoured to make some resistance but seeing all places open their Gates to the French without staying for their Cannon he feared lest his own Subjects should deliver him up to King Charles and therefore retired into the Island of Chio leaving us by his retreat masters of his Kingdom Charles made himself be Crowned King of this new Conquest and after having left there a Vice-Roy departed in order to his return for France and it was to speak properly in this Voyage that we began to make War These great successes of Charles had allarmed all the Princes of Italy who being leagued together raised a great Army under the Conduct of