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A67169	The glory of God's revenge against the bloody and detestable sins of murther and adultery express'd in thirty modern tragical histories : to which are annexed, The triumphs of friendship and chastity in some illustrious examples / by Thomas Wright ...	Wright, Thomas, M.A., of St. Peters Colledge in Cambridge.	1686 (1686)	Wing W3709; ESTC R23283	216,722	350

left leg and Paulina's right arm The furious Horses ran away with the Coach which was torn all a pieces At this instant came by Orlindo's Coach with his Page Varini in in it going to his Master who seeing the Lady Paulina whom he knew in so distressed a condition alighted and took her up into his Lords Coach and Curanto with her and so speedily returned to fetch his Lord whom he found in the same Grove dead Varini strangely amazed at this ruful spectacle cries out and tares his hair for grief not knowing what to say or do At last he resolves to stay by the body and send the Coach for his Lady and her Father Seignior Sterlin Paulina and Curanto went back to Florence in Orlindo's Coach where she had leisure to consider the mischiefs she had drawn upon her self by her violent passion and insatiable malice Seignior Sterlin and the Lady Lucretia are now arrived where they see and bewail the one his Son the other her beloved Lord with sorrows inexpressible The Criminal Judges being acquainted with the murther of Orlindo send out their Officers into the Fields to apprehend all persons they found there and bring them before them but they found no more but one poor ragged Boy who was keeping of Cows on the other side of the hedge and gave them this account That he saw the Gentleman walk alone at least an hour and then an old Fryar came to him who shot two Pistols at him and kill'd him and then the Fryar went away and he saw him no more but there was a fine Coach which stood a little distance from the Grove where a fine Lady came out and went into the Grove and after the Fryar had kill'd the Gentleman the Lady went back to the Coach and drove away They asked him what colour the Horses were and what Livery the Coach-man had on The Boy said The Horses were white and the Coach-man had a red Cloak with white Lace Varini observing this affirmed it was the Lady Paulina her Coach and Coach-man and so related in what a condition he had found them two hours before Upon this they were suspected of the Murther and the Officers at their return to Florence commanded to apprehend them which they did as they were going out in a fresh Hackney-Coach and brought them Prisoners to the common Goal of the City Two days after Orlindo had been solemnly interred Paulina and Curanto were brought before the Judges and charged with the Murther of Orlindo which they both stoutly deny'd The Boy is called to give in Evidence against them who stands to his former ●epositions but cannot think the Lady was the Fryar nor can he truly say that this was the Coach-man The next morning Curanto was rack'd but the torments could not make him confess any thing Presently after Paulina was put to the same torture which not being able to endure she confessed her self to be the sole Author and Acter in the Murther of Orlindo in all the circumstances as before represented and strongly affirmed her Coach-man Curanto was Innocent For which she received Sentence to be hang'd next morning and accordingly about ten the sorrowful Paulina was brought between two Nuns to the place of Execution where after a very penitent and religious Speech she was turned over Honest Curanto though he was thus cleared by Paulina yet by the sollicitations of Lucretia was adjudg'd to the double torments of the Rack which he patiently endured without confessing any thing The Judges therefore moved in conscience to make him some satisfaction for enfeebling his body and impairing his health decree the Lady Lucretia to give him three hundred Duckatoons which was paid him accordingly and he discharged May the reading of this Tragical History learn us all to hate from our hearts the Inconstancy and Ingratitude of Orlindo and from our souls abhor the Cruelty of Paulina who though at first she seems to triumph in sin and praise the success of her Revenge and bloody Enterprize yet the Iudgment of God immediately overtakes the bold offender and brings her to open and condign Punishment HIST. XIV Castlenovo and Perina Jacomo de Castlenovo lusts after Perina his own Sons Wife hires Jerantha to poyson his own Lady Fidelia and then his Son Francisco for which Perina murders him in his bed Jerantha ready to die confesses the two Murthers is hang'd and burnt Perina's right hand is cut off and she condemn'd to suffer perpetual Imprisonment where she dies of a Consumption BEyond the Alps not long since lived Seignior Antonio de Arconeto a rich and noble Gentleman who by his Lady lately deceased had a Son named Seignior Alexandro and a Daughter called Perina the Son the Darling the Daughter a Cast-away who bears her Fathers frowns with admirable patience but the Son building too much on his Fathers fondness grows Debauch'd and gets a Surfeit at a Banquet which cast him into a pestilential Feaver and that in three days into his Grave Perina is now sole Heiress to her Fathers Lands and Favour whom he yet looks upon with disdain which brought her into a melancholly and that into extreme sickness which was so ill resented by the Lady Dominica her Aunt that she prevailed with her Brother to let Perina be with her at which the Aunt was very glad but the Niece overjoy'd Perina being thus settled there her Aunt hath a Daughter who was suddenly to be married to a Gentleman of Nice where she was chosen Bride-maid and Don Francisco de Castlenovo a Native of Nice Knight of Malta and sole Heir to Iacomo de Castlenovo a rich and ancient Baron of Savoy Bride-man who is enamour'd of Perina and understanding that her Birth and Quality answer'd his during his stay there made his court to her and in fifteen days obtain'd her consent to be his Wife with which he acquaints the Lady Dominica desiring her assistance to obtain her Fathers which in a short time she effects Castlenovo posts away home to his own Father and speedily returns with his approbation whereupon they were married in great pomp and solemnity and Perina brought home to Nice where she was honourably receiv'd by his Father with great Feasting and Mirth at which the young Couple thought themselves in Heaven But old Castlenovo being threescore and eight years old forgetting both his Duty to God and himself lusts after his young daughter-in-Daughter-in-law Perina which makes him wonderful complaisant to her but not daring to express his beastly Desires whil'st her Husband is at home he tells him That his Honour and the service of his Prince and Countrey invite him to the expulsion of the Spaniards out of Piedmont His Son nothing suspecting his Fathers treachery notwithstanding all his Wifes tears and intreaties takes his leave of her for three or four months and fitting his Equipage goes to the Camp Now old Castlenovo plays the part of a young Lover is still with Perina and ever and anon kissing

less abhorr'd The Commands of God the Laws of the Jews and other Nations at this day inflict death on the miserable Criminal however it has obtained more favour amongst the debauch'd Sparks of our Age who esteem it but a slight Peccadillo a piece of Gallantry and account it rather the Glory than the Shame of their youthful heat and vigorous Extravagance But let such know that God has promised by a severe threat That he will judge the Whoremonger and Adulterer nor will they find the punishment so light as they imagine This it was that brought a Deluge upon the old World and this it is which hath since overturn'd Kingdoms and laid wast the most flourishing States And as there is no Place nor hath been any Age free from notorious Examples of this Crime so also are there no degrees of Persons exempted from the commission of it Princes of the highest Dignity being as well guilty as those of more inferiour Rank and Quality But let such know that they shall both tast the bitterness of punishment for God will as soon fling his Thunderbolt on the one as the other the Princes Purple shall no more excuse him than the poor mans Rags can defend him If our Body is the Temple of God let us then keep it undefiled and not make it a Sanctuary for Murthers and Adulteries for that Holy Spirit will not endure the impurity of our thoughts much less our polluted actions our hands must not only be free from the stain of Blood but our hearts from the guilt and the very desire of Revenge Incontinency is one of the Devil's Light-Horse with which he at first skirmishes till he can draw us into those Ambuscades of more dangerous Enemies he has laid to entrap us and then charges us with his desperate Train of Adulteries and Murthers and the whole body of succeeding Villainies In Adultery he baits his Hook with the honey and sweets of the temptation paints the hidden Thorns and sticks them with Flowers guilds the Chains and studs them with Diamonds makes every curling Tress the Witchcraft of the Fair of the most soft and shining Silk which he ties up in True-Love-knots for garniture but when once we have swallowed the deceitful Potion we quickly lose the relish of those mistaken sweets and find that bitterness and sorrow were the chief Ingredients in the fatal Composition and a speedy Repentance our best and only Antidote I could here inlarge upon the various Punishments inflicted by different Nations according to the rigorous or more merciful inclination of their temper on the horrid sin of Adultery but then I should transgress the modest bounds I intended to this Discourse I shall therefore leave the Reader to the following Histories in which I hope he will receive both delight and satisfaction and conclude with the Remarque of a witty and observing Traveller The Italian says he poysons the Adulterous Wife the Spaniard stabs her the German beats her the French man puts her away and the English man won't believe it THE GLORY OF Gods Revenge Against the Bloody and Execrable Sin of MURTHER HIST. I. Grand Pre and Mermanda The proud Hautefelia hires Le Fresnay an Apothecary for 200 Crowns to Poyson her Sister in Law Mermanda then sets her Husband De Mallery at variance with her Brother Grand Pre who kills De Mallery in a Duell She afterwards gives Le Fresnay 300 Crowns more to Poyson Grand Pre which he does and being Condemned for a Rape Confesses the two Murthers and accuses Hautefelia who is apprehended and both suffer the severity of the Law HAD the Precepts of God or the Laws of Man been able to restrain the Extravagance of our debauch'd Natures within the limits of our Duty we shou'd have had not only no Occasion but no Examples of such wicked Wretches whose Lust Ambition or Revenge has made them the unhappy Arguments of humane Misery Their vicious Courses have plung'd them into Crimes which could not be expiated here but by the severest punishments both which the Faithful Historian has transmitted to us that by the Obliquity of their lives we may be perswaded to amend our own since we see that Sin always proves fatall to the Offender and an Ignominious Death is the certain consequence of a Corrupt and Vicious Life If perfect Innocence was the beauty of our Creation and that happy Dowry which God Almighty gave when at his Command the Soul and Body first espoused each other which the more Wily Serpent stole from us Oh let us not be again Cheated by the same Deceiver and sell our Integrity for the guilded Shows of Sin and Misery exchange our Glory for Shame and to satisfie one burning Lust endure the Torment of Everlasting Flames The following Histories are all Tragical and the parts of the chifest Actors writ in Characters of Blood which are not so much designed to divert the Reader with the Variety of surprising Circumstances as to afright him by the sad Examples from the Commission of that horrid Sin of Murther of which sincerely to repent is highly difficult but to make Satisfaction for Impossible When once the Golden Bowl is broke which the wise man speaks of Ecclesiastes the 12 th by the Impious hand of some bold Assassin he fills full the Cup of Gods Indignation against him which will be a draught more bitter than all the glozing pleasures Life or Fortune can sweeten with their greatest advantages Humane Laws have provided Shackles and Dungeons Racks and Gibbets not only to punish but deter such sanguinary Bravo's who if they chance which but rarely happens to escape the latest hand of Justice yet are they constantly haunted with the horror of the Crime and antedate the Torments of a future by the present Hell of an evil Conscience But I proceed to the History which is thus NEer Auxone upon the Frontiers of Burgduny dwelt an Antient Gentleman nobly descended whose name was Monsieur De Grandmont his vertuous Lady was Madamoyselle De Carny this happy pair were bless'd with a plentiful Offspring and a fair Estate to support the Honour and Grandeur of the Family They had three Sons and two Daughters of which Grand Pre who was the first and chiefest Pillar of the House applyd himself wholly to Arms and obtain'd leave to serve his Apprenticeship in the Wars under the Command of that Incomperable Captain Grave Maurice then Earl of Nassaw and since Prince of Orange Vileneufe who altogether delighted in Books was sent to Pont au Mousson and Masseron was for his Beauty beg'd a Page by that great Marshal of France who unfortunately lost his Head in the Bastile of Paris Hautefelia the Eldest of the two Daughters liv'd at home with her Parents and de Cressy the youngest had the honour to attend a great Lady of Burgundy where she receiv'd all the advantages of a Noble and Vertuous Education But see here how soon the Pleasure of Heaven can overthrow our most