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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78507	The troublesome and hard adventures in love. Lively setting forth, the feavers, the dangers, and the jealousies of lovers; and the labyrinths and wildernesses of fears and hopes through which they dayly passe. Illustrated by many admirable patterns of heroical resolutions in some persons of chivalry and honour; and by the examples of incomparable perfections in some ladies. A work very delightfull and acceptable to all. Written in Spanish, by that excellent and famous gentleman, Michael Cervantes; and exactly translated into English, by R. C. Gent.	Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616, attributed name.	1651 (1651)	Wing C1781; Thomason E647_1; ESTC R3681	201,675	280

of silk almost in pieces in his left hand This Knight séeing Perierio and his sisters could not enough marvell that he had found shepheards so far surpassing in beauty And drawing near them he was so curteously saluted by them that he was amazed to have such an unlooked for Salve And requiting them with like curtesie asked them whether they had not seen any men riding that morning through the same wood Perierio answered no. And as the knight thought to take his leave of them Euphilia desiring to know what he was found occasion to stay him and therefore spake unto him in this manner Sir Knight it seemeth that you are sorely wounded by the abundance of bloud which hath issued out of sundry parts of your body and therefore I think it were not amisse if you should alight from your horse and tie up your wounds ere you travel on any further And for as much as we are far from any town or village if it will please you to take in good part such homely fare as my fathers country cottage can afford you shall find us ready to lead you thither and to welcome you to such chear as may content nature though it be not comparable to courtly dainties The Knight being very weary and fearing least he might incur extream danger if it should happen to be long are he might reach to some town though he was ashamed necessity forcing him thereto accepted of Euphilias offer thinking that God had sent him in that wood to méet with those curteous shepheards who beyond all expectation proffered him such friendship and succour he being a meer stranger unto them Therefore thanking them for their excéeding curtesie he did bear them company to their fathers house Where the old man rejoycing to see so comely a person by his son Perierio and his two daughters feasted the Knight in such manner that he easily might perceive that he was welcome After they had ended dinner Euphilia asked the Knight how he had gotten all those wounds and what ill fortune had brought him into such danger Whereupon the Knight began to make this discourse of his tragedy Gentle shepheards to the end that you may know that you have the miserablest man in the world before your eyes here present with you I will as briefly declare you the history of all my life as I may so I be not troublesome unto you to hear the tragicall events happened unto me since my cradle I am loath to give you any cause of grief But séeing that it pleaseth you to know the cause of this my mishap I hold my self bounden to pleasure you and do according to your desire And to be as little tedious as I possible may I will use as much brevity as the greatnesse of the matter will permit me Know therefore gentle shepheards that fortune threatening me bad luck began to lower on me before I came into the world for she conspired my death before I was born You must note how that my father before I was born had no children but his brothers son was his adopted heir and should have inherited all his lands had he died without issue So that this adopted heir having intelligence that my mother was big with child very careful●y w●ited for the time that she should fall in travell which hour being approached he corrupted the midwife with a great sum of money to smother me at my first entry into this world and to spoil me of my life before I perfectly lived But no fortune would reserve me to worser events and I was not so happy to be dealt withall as my unkind cousin had appointed For the midwife being pricked with remorse of conscience and overcome with pity could not find in her heart to stifle me in her hands when as I was committed to her to be tenderly handled and looked to with all the care and diligence that might be but she invented another manner to content Silvestro for so was my cousin named which was secretly to steal me from my parents and to convey me into the house of a poor labouring man whose wife was wont to serve for nurse unto such poor mens wives as for weaknesse or sicknesse could not bring up their own children about twenty miles from the place where my parents dwelled which was the renowned City of Constantinople my father at that time being generall governour over the same City The Midwife made the same poor labouring man and his wife believe that I was son unto one of her cousins that she had in the abovenamed City being called Bradasso and therefore willed them to take all the care and diligence that might be in fostring me as a child ought to be and that she would accordingly reward them as ste did for she payed them duly wéek by wéek as long as she lived Thinking her fault more excusable seeing she caused me to be brought up with part of the money which she took of my cousin to spoil me of my life I omit for brevities sake what grief my parents suffered for the loue of their long desired sonne especially becau●e they kn●w not what was become of me but they thought nothing so ●u●e as that I was dead and that the midwife would not let them know of it least they should have been too suddenly oppressed with such sorrowfull news When I was thrée years old or thereabout the midwife died such a sudden kind of death that she could not take order with my nurse for me The nurse therefore having intelligence of her death fearing least she should kéep me for nothing which she was not able to do being a very poor woman borrowed her neighbours horse and rode with me to the City of Constantinople where at the midwifes she inquired for the same Bradasso whose child she thought it was this Bradasso being a young man of some four or five and twenty years of age and unmarried swore by all that he might that he never had to do with woman in his life time so far as to g●t her with child Whereof the woman wonderfully amazed wist not what she should do with me And so poor Maffeo for that is my unfortunate name was become a bastard that had neither rath●r or mother that would know him or receive him as their child and yet had both father and mother who would have thought themselves to be the happiest parents that lived under the v●●l of he●●en if they had found their own beloved infant whom they thought to be dead long since But my cousin being informed by the rumor spread through the City that a child nourished thrée or four years by the industry of such a midwife could find neither father nor mother after the same midwife was dead began to calculate the time of my birth and finding it to be full just at the time that the nurse avouched that I was brought unto her remembred that the midwife had told him that she had dispatched the

child taken such order that he should never be heard of And therefore he never thought any otherwise but that I was dead But after he had heard this rumor spread through the City of me he began to think how women are pittyfull therefore doubted whether the midwife had caused me to be fostred or no in that place because he should not hear of me he considered also that my parents had told him divers times that I was not dead but lost or rather stoln though in truth they thought I was dead and imagined that the midwife had but made them to understand that I was lost or stoln to diminish their grief with hope He considered also that the midwife was no woman to be the mother of the child her self-séeing that she had béen widow a long time and was above 70 years old when she died which age was not convenient for wantonnesse to be short he concluded that it was I and fearing lest if the nurse should make too diligent search to find out my parents it might at length come to my fathers ear and himself thereby deprived of his heredity he caused the nurse to come unto him and told her that séeing no man would father me he would have me brought up to be his page séeing that I was a pretty fair complexioned boy And agréeing with her for my board charged her to let me want nothing and to use me well After that time he came oftentimes to the place where the nurse dwelt to sée whether I was wel handled and sent me apparel by his men and money to discharge my expences for my board When I was about ten or eleven years of age he took me from that place and made me his page but in truth he used me as if I had béen his brother rather then his boy by reason whereof my father though I then did not yet know that he was my father made the more of me for my cousin dwelled with my father and was as his son In the mean time I thought my self most happy séeing that I had no father to have hit upon so good a master Whom I served as faithfully as he dearly loved me After I had served him the space of thrée or four years his father by adoption and my father by right though fortune had beguiled nature died and my mother within thrée moneths after his burial So that my master being in possession of all my fathers goods lands and lordships began to Court all the chiefest gentlewomen of the city thinking himself worthy to be matched with the chiefest Among all others unto whom he made love he chiefly offered his service to the daughter of a Spanish Knight that lived in Constantinople called Don Francesco de guerdona a man of great valour wealth and policy So that my master to obtein the love of fair Eleonora for so was the gentlewoman called sued sought watched warded praied protested and did what service a man might be said to do in the behalf of his mistresse sometimes he plaied late in the night before her window on his Lute Cytharen Bandora sometimes he turneyed and justed in her presence to move her to love him for his manhood and sometimes he sent her lettters songs and sonnets therein bewraying his passions hoping she would receive him to her servant being overcome with pity But all served not for she could no way be moved to bear him affection whereat I marvelled greatly nor could not imagine at the cause thereof For he was a brave valiant young Gent. of great authority and estimation favoured by fortune as wealthy rich and abundant exorned by nature being beautifull and fair of complexion tall and well proportioned and of a couragious and resolute mind wise politick and witty All which considered no man could but condemn the Gentlewoman of cruelty séeing that no man so faithfully served her as sir Sylvestro for so was my master called But at length I had sufficient occ●si●n offered me not to marvel any longer at her frowardnesse towards my master For Eleonoras mind was more setled on the Page th●t was wont to bring her letters and papers wherein was his masters message then on him that sent them Which she at last shewed and bewrayed so openly that I began to perceive what affection she bore me and how she both despighted and despised my master For I being sent unto her upon a certain morning with a pair of silken garters from my master all edged with gold and invironed with pearls most sumptuously and artificially wrought she taking the garters out of my hand gave me a Portugal Crusado being worth sir English Angels for my pains Whereof I was very gl●d partly because I was so wel rewarded and partly because I thought she began to make more account of my master in accepting the present so bountifully rewarding the messenger But as I was departing out of the house to let my master know of the good news hoping thereby to have augmented my Crusado with my masters liberallity she called me again and leading me into her bed-chamber alone burst out into these words Ah M●●teo thou doest serve thy master too trustily to do me pleasure and thou art an instrument against thine own welfare How so Madam quoth I I will soon shew thee how quoth she but first you must tell me whether you think not that he hindereth himself that sueth to obtein that thing for another which is wished unto himself Yea Madam quoth I. Then replied she do you harm your self in indeavouring by your carefull painfull industrious and diligent service to satisfie your masters desire in that he wisheth her to be his wife unto whom thy self mayest be a wedded husband And so if thou grant that thou wouldest be glad of such a wife as Eleonora I conclude that thou strivest against thine own commodity and that thou art an instrument against thine own self When I heard her conclusion it so well liked me that I considered not whether the consequence followed according to the premises or no. Yet howsoever it was so contrived that it set me at a non plus insomuch that I stood am●ed and knew not what betided me I had never yet followed the Court of Cupid though I had served one of his souldiers and therefore I was to séek of mine answer and wist not what to say Notwithstanding that I felt an amourous passion creeping in my heart contrary to any motion that I had felt before For I know not how my thoughts were surprized with love after Eleonora had argued in such order with me and I feared that she had béen but in some merry vein to iest taking her pastimes in mocking with me And therefore I made this answer Madam you are very mery this morning whatsoever the matter is God grant it be towards your good luck And you are the bolder with me because you may But least my master long for my coming I

séeing that I am so happy as to see thee But what is not Alcida by thee Or doth she perhaps hide her self in some secret place of the Grove I beseech thee to let me know some newes of her if thou knowest any deliver me from the torment which I suffer Herewith Polydor his sister knew Marcelio and imbracing him said O most blessed day O most happy hour Ah brother to our soul what cruel disaster hath been cause that thou art deprived of the company of Alcida and us of her presence Why dost thou march thus disguised Why dost thou wear such counterfeit apparel Ah cruel Fortune It is most certain that there is no perfect content in any thing whatsoever On the other side Maffeo with the other Lovers seeing that Marcelio had so luckily met with Polydor and Clenarde were very glad and so they marched altogether toward the Temple of Diana And by that time that they had gone two leagues the Sun being at the highest forced them to take the shadow of certain trees that grew about a pleasant Fountain Where they all sat down and washing their hands in the Christaline water that issued out of the Fountain each one setting out such provision as they had brought with them they refreshed themselves and having satified their hunger after that Marcelio had told Polydor and Clenarde what fortune he had after his departure from them he desired Polydor to let him know what adventures he had had since that time that he left him with old Eugerio in the Ship when he with Alcida and Clenarde leaped in the ship-boat and so were separated from their sight by the tempestuous waves thinking sure that they had miserably perished with that unfortunate ship Whereupon Polydor began thus to rehearse how he and his father escaped the danger of the Sea using as much brevity as he possibly could because he thought it would be troublesome to the rest of the company to hear matters that were full of sorrow recited After that I was hindred by the Pilot and the Mariner quoth Polydor when I had prepared my self to leap into the ship-boat with my father so that we were compelled to remain in that unfortunate and dangerous ship our aged father was so distressed as we may suppose that a loving father may be who in the latter end of his old age séeth both his own life and his dear childrens also in such present danger He did not greatly complain of the waves that battered the flanks of the ship neither did he regard the boisterous winds that beset our Vessel of all sides but when he beheld the boat in which you were with Alcida and Clenarde which séemed at every moment to be overwhelmed and drowned in the rising waves which séemed to flée over the boat he thought that his heart was pulled out of his belly and when you were separated from us that we could not see you any more he was so grieved that I feared lest he should have presently died The ship being led by Fortunes will went astray up and down the sea for the space of five dayes after we had lost the sight of the boat at the end of which space Phoebus being néer his Western home we found our selvs to be in sight of land Whereof the Mariners rejoyced marvellously as much for that they had recovered the hope which they had altogether lost and given over as for that they knew in what coast they were arrived for the land which they saw was the pleasantest Countrey and the most delectablest place that the Sun penetrated with his beams abounding with all kind of delight and pleasure Insomuch that one of the Mariners began thus to cry out O blessed and happy land of Valentia receive those which the Sea being irrited and provoked to ice doth vex and afflict Happy are they that being out of danger to be swallowed up by the greedy waves enjoy thy fertility and the méekness of they aire With far more labour doth the Ship eare the Sea then the labourer doth thy fields O favourable land before the sea become more enraged against us receive us into thy pleasant bosome séeing we are almost spoiled and forlorn and thou shalt do as much for us as hée that saveth anothers life Receive us I say O beautifull Countrey of Valentia that we having once set foot on land never return to sea again By these words of the Mariner we gathered that we were néer Valentia which countrey is famous through all the world But while the Mariner thus called to the merciless land the Ship bring driven with a furious wind arrived so néer the land that if we had not wanted the boat we might have reached unto it Nevertheless certain fishermen fishing not far from us and seeing our Mast rent our Anchor lost our sailes torn and our ship pittifully buttered perceived in what extremity we were Therefore with all speed they came to succour us and with much trouble they fetched us out of the Ship and led us to Land The joy which we conceived thereof was such as every man may and ought to imagine Eugerio and I we thanked the Fishers for their help in that our great necessity according to our duty But they as men of a good and simple heart by nature pitttifull regarded not our thanks nor would take any reward at our hands for their paines one of them making us this answer Sirs thank us not for this déed for you shall know that we are bound to succour and help all men that are in like necessity and therefore take our readiness and good will in good part which forceth us to do good unto all men whose extremities want our aide And perswade your selves that as often as such occasion shall be offered as this we will do the like although we should thereby hazard our lives and intrude our selves into danger For this morning happened such a chance that if we had not remedied the same as we now have done this we had been grieved therewith all the dayes of our life The chance was this At the point of the day we went out of our lodges with our nets and our other ordinary preparations to fish withall and before we came to the sea side we saw that the ayre was overcast with a dark myst and heard that the sea raged by reason of the boysterous winds which blew very ruthly in so much that we were twice of opinion to return home again fearing to commit our selves to the dangerous streames in such a malicious and perilous time But some of us thought good that we should go to the shore side to sée whether the tempest would slacken and the weather change For it happeneth somtimes that after a great tempest the weather changeth on the sudden and spreadeth a calm over the whole sea But as we came to the sea side we espied a great boat so shaken with the wind and bruised with the waves