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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31541	Select novels the first six written in Spanish by Miguel Cervantes Sayavedra author of that famous history Don Quixote de la Mancha ; the other by Francis Petrarch an eminent Italian poet and one of the first restorers of learning ; all translated from the originals by Dr. Walter Pope.	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.; Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Historia Griseldis.	1694 (1694)	Wing C1779; ESTC R37542	167,491	368

first least the suddain and unforeseen Accident should disturb you To which words she replied I told you before Sir and now I repeat it to you I can neither will or refuse any thing but what you please to have me do I have no share in those Children but the pain of bringing them into the World you are my Lord and theirs dispose of your own as you think fit and ask not my Consent for the same moment I put my Feet into your House as I put off my Raggs so I did my Will and Affections and put on yours therefore in all things whatever you will I will also If I could fore-know your Will I would desire the same and execute it before you should declare it to me but since I cannot do that tell what your pleasure is I 'll willingly perform it say 't is your pleasure I should be put to Death I 'll go to it with a good will for nothing at all not even Death shall diminish my Love and Obedience The Marquess admiring his Wifes constancy went from her with a stern and troubled Countenance and presently sent to her the same Officer whom he sent before who begun with a great preamble of the necessity of Soldiers obeying their Prince tho the Actions were never so ungrateful to those who did them and hurtful to those who suffer'd by them and much begging Pardon and desiring her not to have hard thoughts of him for he was but a Servant and came unwillingly to disturb her Highness Having made such an harangue as if he was about to put in execution some cruel and wicked unheard of Vilany which he durst not mention he demanded the Child of the intrepid and patient Mother who without changing her Countenance took the Child from the Nurse into her own Arms it was very beautiful and shew'd early hopes of excellent Endowments of mind and was not only belov'd by the Mother but by all that saw it she sign'd it with the sign of the Cross bless'd it and kiss'd it as she had her Daughter before then looking a little while upon it without discovering any sign of Grief she put it into the hands of the Officer Here said she take the Child and do with it as thou art commanded but one thing I desire of thee suffer not the Flesh of this beautiful and innocent Infant to be devour'd by wild Beasts and the Birds of the Air. The Officer return'd to his Master giving him an account of the execution of his Commands which caus'd wonder and amazement in the Marquess that had not he known that she tenderly and passionately lov'd her Children he would have suspected this female Constancy to have proceeded from a rugged and fierce Nature or at least from an apathie and want of Passion and maternal Affection but he knew well she was compassionate and lov'd every one but lov'd her Husband above all things The Officer was commanded to dispose of the Son as he had done before of the Daughter to carry him to Bolonia to be taken care of by the Marquess's Sister which he did One would have thought that these trials of his Wifes Patience Fidelity and Obedience might have been sufficient to have satisfied the most cruel and rigorous Husband But there are some who when they have once begun never know when 't is enouf and when 't is time to leave off of this number was he who resolv'd to proceed and push farther this cruel Experiment fixing his Eyes therefore upon his Wife to try whether he could discover any change in her and doing this daily and continually he could perceive none at all but that she was still more faithful and more obedient if it could be possible than before she had suffer'd such cruel and inhuman usage It seem'd that they two had both but one Will or rather that she had none at all but his was hers The Marquess began insensibly to loose his Reputation and to be accounted a cruel and unjust Person thus to make away his Children born of so vertuous obedient and every way accomplish'd Wife All his Subjects admired and pitied her and did not stick to say that tho she was the Daughter of a Labourer yet she was too good for him and that the worst Wife that ever was in the World did not deserve such usage This discontent and murmuring of the People came to the Marquess's ears but were not prevalent enouf to turn him from prosecuting his Experiment The Children did not appear and no body knew what was become of them which made him who before this act was belov'd and dear to all become infamous and hated Twelve years after the birth of his Daughter he sent Messengers to Rome who were to bring thence the Popes pretended Bull or Licence to be divorc'd from his Wife and spread a report amongst his Subjects that he had obtain'd leave of the Pope to annull the first Marriage and to marry again for his own quiet and the satisfaction of his People for it was not an hard matter for him to make this believ'd by the ignorant Mountainers especially so far distant from Rome this news mightily disgusted them but they were forc'd to submit to the will of their Prince tho not without grumbling and hard thoughts When this report came to Grissels ears tho I believe she was sad yet she was unshaken being resolv'd to undergo with an undaunted courage whatever the Marquess should inflict upon her she patiently expected the event and what he would do to whom she had unchangeably submitted her self and all her concerns The Marquess wrote to his Brother in law at Bolonia to send back his Children and gave out a report that he had made choice of the young Lady to be his Wife A few days after the receipt of this Letter the young beautiful Maid now marriageable richly apparell'd and her Brother a Youth seven years old attended upon with a great troop of Nobility and Gentry with much pomp and solemnity set forwards from Bolonia in order to make their public entry into Saluzzo upon a day appointed The Marquess according as he had done before to sound his Wife and try whether her patience would hold out against so many cruel and repeated assaults and to heap upon her shame and grief sent for her and in the presence of a great number of by-standers he spoke thus for a good while Grissel I delighted in having you for my Wife but 't was before I was thorowly acquainted with your temper but now I can endure you no longer I perceive that all great fortune is a great slavery and that it is not lawful for me to do that which every poor man may My Subjects compel me to divorce you and the Pope has granted me his Dispensation to marry again my Bride is upon the Road and will be here to morrow carry your self magnanimously then and deliver up your place take back your Portion and return to your

not to trust either my Words or Actions yet I doubt not but to carry my self in such manner that you shall be convinc'd that you had no reason to harbour any such distrust And tho' you will not admit of my help either by Counsels or Actions yet I will not fail to do what is convenient for me and what I shall believe conducible for your good There is no Person in all this Countrey who has more Interest than my Master the Cady your Patron tho' he is Bassa of Cyprus can never have so much This being granted for Truth as it is I may say without vanity that I am the Man of the greatest Power in this City because I can do what I please with the Cady I tell you this that if we can find any opportunity to make you his Slave and so we both being in one House time will instruct us what we ought to do as well to comfort you if you will accept of it as also that I may turn to a better Life or at least in some part that when I loose it my Soul may be secure I heartily thank you replied Ricardo for the Favour you offer me yet I believe all that you can do will be to no purpose Nevertheless for the present let 's leave off this Discourse and go to the Tents for I perceive a great number of People coming out of the City without doubt the Bassa is coming into the Field to leave the entry free for my Patron to take possession of the place of his Residency You are in the right said Mahomet Let 's go for I doubt not but you will be pleas'd to see the Ceremonies which the Bassas use on that Occasion withal my heart replied Ricardo perhaps I may have need of your Interest with the Guardian of the Slaves of my Patron who is a Renegado and an unmerciful Corsican who may treat me ill finding me discoursing with you Thus their Converse ended and they arriv'd at the Tents in the same time when the Bassa was come thither and his Patron went to the entrance of the Padiglion to receive him Ali Bassa for that was the Name of him who quitted the Government of the City accompanied with all the Janisaries who made up the Garrison of Nicosia to the number of Five Hundred who had been there ever since the Turks took it march'd in two Bodies one with Harquebusses and the other with naked Scymitars in their Hands to the Tent where Assan the New Bassa was and made a Guard round about him then Ali Bassa bowing low made a great Reverence to Assan and he with a lesser bow re-saluted him then presently Ali enter'd into Assans Padiglion who immediatly mounted a stately Horse richly equipp'd and after having waited upon him round his Tent and a good part of the way towards the City with Acclamations and Applause crying out in their Language God save Sultan Solyman and Bassa Assan They repeated these words many times crying louder and louder till he arrived at his Tent where Ali Bassa waited for him within that Tent the Two Bassas and the Cadi staid above an hour Mahomet told Ricardo that they were lock'd in there to treat concerning what was to be done in the Reparations of the City which were began by Ali Bassa Then the Cady came to the entrance of the Padiglion and cried with a loud voice in the Turkish Arabic and Greek Language That all those who had any Complaint against Ali Bassa might have free access because Assan Bassa whom the Grand Signior had constituted Bassa of Cyprus was there ready to hear them and do them all Justice This leave being granted the Janisaries left the Passage free that whosoever pleas'd might enter Mahomet took with him Ricardo for he might go in being Assans Slave Some Christian Greeks and some Turks demanded Justice but their Complaints were of so little Importance that they were soon dispatch'd by the Cady without the trouble of making Acts or writing the Interrogatories and Answers for amongst the Turks all Causes except those which concern Matrimony are determined upon the spot according to the Judgment and Conscience of the Cady rather than by any Law For amongst those Barbarians the Cadi or if you please you may call him the Bishop is Supream Judge of all Causes and Differences which he summarily decides and without delays as he thinks fit and from his Decree there is no appealing to any other Tribunal Then there enter'd a Chiaus which is with us a Commander and after him an ancient Jew leading a young Maid richly dress'd after the Moorish Fashion the richest Lady of Fess or Morocco who much exceed the rest of the Africans even the Algerines who are adorn'd with so many Pearls could not appear in a better Garb her Face was cover'd with a crimson Velvet Veil she wore upon her Legs and Insteps which were a little discover'd Bracelets of Gold and on her Arms two such enamell'd and set with Pearls which she wore under a fine transparent Smock easily to be seen in fine her Garments were rich fashionable and becoming The Bassa and the Cady were astonish'd at the first appearance of her but before they ask'd any questions they commanded the Jew to lift up the Veil that they might see the Christians Face he did so and discover'd a Countenance which dazled the Eyes and rejoyced the Hearts of the by-standers as when the Sun after having been obscur'd with a black Cloud shews himself to the Eyes of those that desire to see his Splendor so exquisite was the Beauty and the Grace and the Behaviour of that Christian Slave But Ricardo penetrated furthest into that marvellous Light as one that knew it better than the rest for it was his Dear and Cruel Leonisa for whom so many times he had shed Rivers of Tears believing her dead Ali was struck through the Heart and quite overcome at the sight of the singular Beauty of that Christian neither was the Cady exempted from the Wounds of those Eyes whereupon fixing his he appear'd as if he was without motion and more to express the Power of Love you must know that all at one time the three equal Rivals nourish'd a firm hope to obtain and enjoy her and without further enquiry when and how she came to be in the Jews possession they demanded what he would take for her The covetous Jew answer'd he would take no less than four Thousand Dubloons in Gold He had scarce set his Price but Ali told him he would give it and that he should come to his Tent and receive it But Assan who was resolv'd Ali should not have her tho' it cost him his Life replied that he would give for her the summe which the Jew demanded adding that he would not have profer'd this nor opposed Ali but that the Slave was too good for any but the Grand Signior and that he would therefore purchase her for his Highness Let me