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A34922	The voyage of the wandring knight shewing the whole course of man's life, how apt he is to follow vanity, and how hard it is for him to attain vertue / devised by John Cartheny, a French man ; and translated out of French into English by W.G. of Southampton, merchant ...; Voyage du chevalier errant. English	Cartigny, Jean de, 1520?-1578.; N. R.; Goodyear, William.	1661 (1661)	Wing C681A; ESTC R34789	91,602	121

that he would never disclose his Death nor the manner how he had bestowed himself which thing he did of a Vain arrogant proud and ambitious mind even to this end that the people might report and believe that the Gods had drawn him up to Heaven invistble but it chanced not as he desired Yet notwithstanding quoth Folly I perswaded the lying Greeks that it was so and made them worship him as a God I governed fair Paris King Priams Son whose sirname was Alexander At the first he made no account of me but leading a Contemplative life be followed the Lore of Pallas the Goddess of wisdome mine Adversary but when Juno Pallas and Venus were at strife for the golden Ball which was thrown amongst them with condition that the fairest of them should have it they committed the matter to the Iudgement of Paris firnamed Alexander who was upon point so give Sentence in the Behalfe of Pallas mine Enemy but by my perswasson afterwards he gave it unto Venus my good friend and my old acquaintance then for Recompence of his foolish judgment I counselled him to go to Greece where he ravished fair Helen Hereupon the Greeks in a great and mad rage prepared all their force against the Trojans and after ten years Siege against their City they took Ilion and put King Priam to death insomuch that the whole Realme was thereby defaced In that War were killed many Princes and Noble Knights as Hector Achilles and Paris also was slain by Philactetes the Companion of the lesse Hercules in a Combat fought hand to hand The weapons which they used were Bowes and forked Arrowes wherewith Philactetes wounded Paris in three places First in his left hand secondly in his right eye thirdly in beth his legs which were fastned with the stroak together Being thus wounded the Trojans carried him into the City where shortly after he died I governed quoth Folly fair Helen the bastard Daughter of the third Jupiter King of Crete begotten of Laeda the Wife of Tindarus which Helen by my counsell went from her Husband Menelaus and suffered her self to be ravished by a young Lecherous Trojan named Paris sirnamed Alexander the Son of King Priam she brought blood and death to Troy instead of Dowrie for by her occasion Troy was destroyed and Priam with the most part of his Children killed And to the end that her adulterous Mate Paris or Alexander should not leave her and go to his own lawful Wise Pagales Oenone she bewitched him with certain drinks wherein she was her crafts Mistresse which thing when one doth use he is in such case that he forgets all things past and all sorrows present When she was thus arrived at Troy the good man her Husband Menelaus with Ulysses and other Greek Embassadours came to fetch her away and King Priamus commanded that she should be brought into his presence offering unto her frankly with loud boyce that she should if she thought good freely and with full liberty depart again into Greece with all her retinue people and pelfe Whereunto she answered in the hearing of her Husband and King Priam with the rest of his Counsell and Commons that she was not disposed to retire to her Countrey wishing also that her Husband Menelaus that good man might go to God that she was none of his wife neither would she have to do with him and that she came not to Troy against her will neither did she esteem of his marriage To conclude at length Troy by Treason was taken and ransackt eighteen years after she had been from her Husband and all that space had lived in Leachery with two Adulterers she grew to agreement and made peace with her Hasband Menelaus But when she was waxed old she looked in a glasse and seeing her lace far from fair she fell into a loud laughter and flouted at the Fools that fought ten years together for the love of a thing that faded so soon away but when her Husband Menelaus was dead two chief men of the City Sparta named Nicostratus and Magapentus men of great authority hunted Helen out of the Citie and Realm of Lacedemonia without appointing unto her any place or provision to keep her Vpon which Banishment she came to Rhodes to her ancient Companion and Friend Queen Polipo which was also then a Widow by reason of the Death of her Husband Tlepolemus who was stain before Troy And when she was at Rhodes Queen Polipo used her very well but the young Gentlewomen her waiting Maids hated her deadly for that she was the cause that their King Tlepolemus was killed insomuch that upon a day they conspired together against her and got her into a Garden where they fastning a Rope about her Neck hung her upon a Tree and strangled her to death This was the miserable end of Helen who being dead quoth Folly I put into the heads of the blinde people that she was a Goddesse by reason of her incomparable Beauty For which consideration they being not only Idolatrousty and heretically but also damnably deceived built her a marvellous costly and stately Temple and named her with great Devotion The Goddess of Beauty and devised many false Miracles and Lyes the which for brevity I let pass I governed quoth Folly Pharaoh Amenophis and Pharaoh Bacchoris both Kings of Aegypt who by my counsell caused all the Male Children of the Iewes to be drowned which people the first Pharaoh held in marvellous subjection As for the second I instructed him so well that he would not suffer she Children of Israel to depart out of his Land but in the end being scourged by God he was constrained to let them go and when they were gone I gave him Counsell in revenge to pursue them with all their Chivalry and Power of Aegypt which thing he did but the Tyrant and all his Company were drowned in the red sea I governed Chore Dathan and Abiram counselling them not to obey the commandment of Moses whom God had ordained chief Governour over the Children of Israel but Chore in offering Incense contrary to his Office was attainted and five hundred more of his Faction with him And for the Rebellion of Dathan and Abiram the Earth opened insomuch that they their Wives children and goods were all swallowed up alive I governed Saul the first King of Israel at the beginning of his Reign he was good and Godly but at last I enchanted him so that he caused many of Gods Priests to be killed insomuch that in one day he put to Death fourscore and five I counselled him to persecute good David and to ask counsell of witches and Sorcerers contrary to Gods Laws then at the last being sorsaken of God he was vanquished by the Philistines and with his own hands stew himself upon the Mount of Gilboa I was so hold as to enter into King Davids House and by my counsell I made him commit adultery with Bathsheba the wife of Urias And notwithstanding that

him to Dinner chap. 9. Dinner being done Voluptuousness sheweth the Wandring Knight the rest of the Palace of worldly Felicity with the superscription of the Towers thereof and by the Author is declared the evil fruit of certain notorious sins chap. 10. The scituation or standing of the Palace of worldly Felicity chap. 11. The Author declareth how the Wandring Knight and such like voluptuous livers in the World transgress the Commandements of Almighty God chap. 12. The Knight going for to recreate himself and to view the Warrens and Forrests which were about the Palace of Worldly Felicity anon he saw it sink suddenly into the Earth and perceived himself in the mire up to the Saddle skirts chap. 13. The Author cryeth out bitterly against Worldlings and their Felicity chap. 14. The Second part of the Voyage of the Wandring Knight GOds Grace draweth the Knight out of the filth of sin wherein he stuck fast chap. 1 Gods grace sheweth Hell unto the Knight with all the Voluptuous company that he saw in the Palace of Worldly Felicity chap. 2. The Knight declareth how he entred into the School of Repentance and of his entertainment there chap. 3. How true Repentance begins in us and how the Knights Conscience accused him with the pains he had deserved chap. 4. By the Commandement of Gods Grace Remembrance read to him the goodness of God with the promises made to the repentant Sinner chap. 5. A Sermon which Vnderstanding the good Hermit made unto the Knight upon the History of Mary Magdalen chap. 6. The Knight having received the holy Communion heard the Sermon and Dinner ended mounted into a Chariot of Triumph and was by Gods Grace carryed to the Palace of Vertue chap. 7. The third part of the Voyage of the Wandring Knight THe Knight declareth the great good solace and pleasure which he found in the Palace of Lady Vertue chap. 1. The description of Vertue chap. 2. The description of Faith and how we ought to believe in God for our Salvation chap. 3. The description of Hope and how we ought to hope in Almighty God chap. 4. The description of Love and Charity and how we ought to love God and our Neighbour chap. 5. The effects and praises of Love and charity chap. 6. The description of the four moral Vertues Prudence Justice Fortitude and Temperance chap. 7. How Faith from the top of the Tower sheweth unto the Knight the City of Heaven chap. 8. The desires that the Knight had to come to Heaven and how Gods Grace brought perseverance chap. 9. Good Vnderstanding sheweth the Knight how to keep perseverance alwayes with him chap. 10. The Protestation that good Vnderstanding taught the Knight to make every day to avoid temptation that he ought to humble himself before God and what he should ask in his prayers chap. 11. The Authors Peroration or Conclusion to the devout Readers or Hearers chap. 12. THE VOYAGE OF The Wandring Knight The First Part. CHAP. I. The Wandring Knight declareth his intent and foolish Enterprise supposing in this World to find true Felicity MAny Historiographers both Poets and Orators as well Prophane as Divine have by Writing notified divers persons with their Voyages and Adventures First Justin and Diodore of Sicilie have made mention of the Argonautes Voyage by Sea that is to say of Jason and his Allies Castor Pollux Hercules and other Peers to the I le of Cholcos to winne the Golden Fleece which a great Dragon kept Also Homer a Greek Poet writ in Verse the wandring and Sea Voyage of Ulysses and his Companions at their return from the Trojan Wars After him Virgil a most eloquent Latine Poet set down in Verse the Voyage of Aeneas into Italy with his fortunes after the subversion of Troy Now if we come to the sacred Histories we shall find first how Moses wrote of the Children of Israel their going out of Aegypt into the Land of Promise and of the two and forty Mansions that they made in the Desarts for the space of forty yeers And how the four Evangelists likewise most faithfully have written of the holy peregrination of the Blessed Son of God our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ who took upon him our fraile and humane nature The self same Saviour hath set down the Parable of the boluptuous Voyage of the prodigal Child and his returne S. Luke very notably and sincerely hath delivered in writing the painful and holy perigrination of that great bessed of Election Saint Paul together with the great travel he took to preach the Gospel and the Faith of Iesus Christ to all the Gentiles And now by Gods grace I mean to declare mine own Voyage and Adventures much like to that of the Prodigall Child who left his Fathers house and ranged into strange Countries wasting all his goods living licentiously but after he knew his lewdnesse he returned back to his Father of whom he was very lovingly received So I by great Folly counselled in absenting my self farre away not only in body but also in mind from God my Father and Creator have wasted and consumed all the goods which the same my God and Father had bountifully bestowed upon me in following bain pleasures of this life But in the End I being inspired with Divine grace acknowledged mine effences and leaking the dark Region of sin and vanity through the aid and conduction of Divine grace am returned to mine Eternall Father humbly requiring pardon and mercy who of his unspeakable mercy hath lovingly received me But how all this hath been done I will declare unto you praying you patiently to give me the hearing and attentively consider my talk and well to note the whole from the beginning to the End When I had passed in all Folly and Lastiviousnesse three weeks of the years of mine age that is to say My infancy Child age and Youth which make together one and twenty years I entred into the age of a young man which is the fourth week of my age which is between two and twenty and four and twenty years At five and twenty I was minded to make a Voyage by my foolish industry to seek where in this World I might stud true Felicity and Happinesse which seemed to my sortish sense an easse matter being Young Strong wild Hardy and Couragiously disposed Me thought in my mind to live in the world without Felicity was a Life worse than Death But alas being plunged in deep darkness of Agnorance I considered not that true Felicity was the Gift of God from above and cannot be attained without his help Being robbed of Reason I thought it might come easily of my self without the help of others so that then I sought true Felicity where she is not was not nor ever shall be as in Riches worldly Pleasure strength Honour and Delights of the flesh But I was in so thinking as very a Fool as he who hopeth with Angling Lines to catch Fishes in the Air or with Hounds to