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A17883	Admirable events: selected out of foure bookes, vvritten in French by the Right Reverend, Iohn Peter Camus, Bishop of Belley. Together with morall Relations, written by the same author. And translated into English by S. Du Verger; Occurrences remarquables. English. Selections	Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652.; Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652. Relations morales. English. Selections. aut; Du Verger, S.; Brugis, Thomas, fl. 1640?, attributed name.; T. B., fl. 1639.	1639 (1639)	STC 4549; ESTC S107416	192,146	386

in them only because they are loving to them and if beaten away yet they will come and creepe at their feet love is not repa●ed nor satisfied but with love It was a thing impossible but that Sapor should love this little creature who so much affected him for to love is the powerfullest charme wherby to make our selves beloved of others he could not be without her and if at any time she chanced to be away there was nothing could make him merry Love equalls lovers these were equall whether it were that love abased him so low as her condition or elevated her unto his quality love breeds a resemblance because it 's property is to transforme the lover into the thing beloved This effect appeared in Rosana who framed her selfe unto all the humours of the Prince that she seemed rather to be wha● she was not she imitated him in all and forsaking him no more then her shadow she did the same things she saw him doe The Dutches seeing this humour caused her onely for recreation to be cloathed like a little page a habit which pleased her so well that she neve● put it of but with teares In their first infancy which unites the tongue they without ceremony called brother and sister and every one wondred at the courage and boldnesse of this little girle when she grew bigger she called the Prince her Master and he called her his Page All the exercises which the Master learned the Page did learne and which is the more to be admired she learned them with such a grace that she seemed afterwards for a mirrour or example to her little Master As Physicke is given to the nurse that so through the milke the child may be cured so was it with Sapor for when they were to give him any lesson either of dancing study or any thing else they first taught it to his Page she learned the faster to please him and he tooke the greater care that he might not be outstript by a girle an emulation of vertue without envie You would not chuse but thinke that nature by a pure instinct taught these children the most grave Philosophy that Plato hath discoursed of the effects of honest love They being now growne up from the innocency of their first age they entred into the limits of civility and the ceremonies of the world and they began to attaine to the knowledge of themselves what shame soever they sought to breed in Rosanna who now was growne pretty tall to draw her from the Princes conversation shee would never give eare thereunto for her conversation being unsp●tted she feared no reproach she was so much affected to bodily exercises as dancing leaping vaulting riding fencing shooting with bowe and piece running playing at tennis at pell mell and hunting that they had marvellous much adoe to draw her from it and not wholly for it was impossible the Prince incessantly calling for her not onely when he was at any exercise but at all other times when she was absent At last her age permitting her no longer without decency or modesty so freely to frequent with Sapor The Dutchesse placed her among the other Gentlewomen and unto some small exercises whereunto she applyed her selfe but not without much contradiction except it were in such works which might yeeld some service or pleasure to the Prince for unto those she setled her selfe with so much diligence that it sufficiently witnessed the ardour of her affection It hapned sometimes that the other Gentlewomen would blam her for this her extream affection which she shewed towards the Prince seeing the difference of their estates and the modesty which she owed to her sexe but thereunto she answered that she loved him as a sister ought to love a brother and with the same reverence that a slave beares to his Lord. The Prince on his part bore with no lesse impatience the privation of his Pages conversation and it was his greatest contentment when he could slip in amongst the Gentlewomen thereby to entertain her at will who possessed his thoughts Lewd desires being entred into his spirits with knowledge changed his love intosensuality which could not be just being that marriage was not his ayme notwithstanding as he long since knew the honesty of this creature who for a kingdome would not have blemished her integrity he dissembled a long time his pretention but being not able any longer to beare the impetuosity of his appetites he would on a time have passed unto some unseemely and unbefitting action which this generous Amazon would by no meanes endure but told him that she would desire their loves might continue as vertuous as ever they had beene for said she if you spoyle the foundation the edifice cannot but fall to ruine if vertue be wanting then farewell friendship These words comming from the mouth of a servant as from a Princesse bridled for a time the furious appetite of Sapor so much majesty hath vertue in it selfe But not long after temptations gave him new alarums so that being unable any longer to oppose their violence he resolved to speake rather then perish in silence Vnto his lewd suite so little expected by this wise maid he received answer as followeth Remember O Prince that poore as I am and destitute of fortunes favours I am rich in honesty I love Sapor as my life but as I love mine honour more then my life so I love it also more than Sapor If you truly love me as you have given me many pretious testimonies therof then love me honourably otherwise I freely renounce your friendship and all the advantages that I may hope for from you thereby I say not this to the intent to breed more love in you nor to draw you to desire me for your wife such a vaine presumption never yet flattered my spirit I know the basenesse of my descent and that so great an elevation would soone cast me into a most horrible precipice I love you without interest without pretence and without any other desire then to see you great and glorious in the world and in the armes of a Princesse worthy to be the spouse of so great a Prince And both you and she will I waite upon with all the humility and affection of a faithfull slave who will seeke no other reward but the only glory of serving you and of loving you next after God and mine honour above all that is in the world and if fortune so frown that you dye in deeds of armes I will perish at your feet that on my tombe may be mixt the Lillies of my chastity with the palmes of my valour and mirtles of my incomparable loue to my so deerly esteemed Master whom I conjure to banish from his spirit all bad and unjust intentions and to be ●●ther the protector then the destroyer of the modesty and purity of a creature who saving that is entirely his For helpe herein consider that I am your sister if not by birth

yet by fostering love me then and preserve me as a brother and I will honour you as my Lord my Prince and the only light of mine eyes Whosoever hath seene a strong North wind sweeping away in short time all the clouds which obscured the face of heaven hath seene the effects that these generous words uttered forth with such a grace and sincere feeling wrought in Sapor If it happen sometimes that a multitude having begun a mutinie excite a furious sedition that fire and sword march in the field and Cities that stones flie and rage makes a weapon of any thing that comes next And in the middest of all this hurliburly a grave man of authority presents himselfe unto this so many headed beast for to appease it's violence and bring it gently back unto it's duty you shall on a sudden see what effect this will worke in their eares and what attention they will yeeld unto his words wherewith he can so well winne their hearts that weapons fall from their hands fury vengeance disperse themselves in place of so furious a tempest succeeds a joyfull calme In the soule of Sapor was risen a tumult of passions revolting against reason and this torrent bore him away into a precipice of dishonesty but being become wise by the generous remonstrance of the Amazon peace returned to his soule with a glorions resolution to vanquish himselfe wherein certainly he deserved more praise then if he had overcome a whole Army For this is the highest degree whereunto vertue can raise a courage seeing that many overcome others who else would never have subdued themselves After that time the Prince purifying his affections and for ever banifhing uncleane intentions from his thoughts never after importuned Rosana with any thing which might in any wayes offend her chastity And so farre was he from being cured of this ardent feaver by despight or contempt that contrariwise his love founded on the estimation of this virgins invincible vertue did much increase if what was arrived at it's extremity could receive an increase true love only aimeth at the good of the object beloved even as Rosana delighted only in the honour and glory of her Prince and to see him daily increase in vertue and reputation which are the true earthly riches that cannot perish so Sap●● had nothing that he so much desired as to raise her whom he truly loved as if she had beene his naturall sister the flame of his love having then no more but a moderate heate without blacknesse or smoake The Duke his Father being dead and he the eldest and next lineall successor in that house being entred into the honours and the ranke whereunto his birth had called him amongst many Gentlemen his followers he had an inclination to favour Numerian a younger brother well descended and of a good house a younger brother which is as much to say as one seeking his fortune in his courage Friendship is not idle where it settles it presently falls to worke that it may make it selfe more knowne by effects then by words Sapor desirous to advance this young Gentleman thought he could not more befriend him then in giving him for his wife her whom he affected as his sister And her whom hee could well have wished for himselfe if the glory of his birth had not obliged him by reason of state to seeke a match conformable to his quality Numerian held for a great favour the motion which the new Duke made him of this marriage considering with himselfe that it was the onely meanes to establish his fortune in this great house The Prince himselfe also moved it to Rosana who answered him with her accustomed generosity as followeth Master said she will it not be a treason to give this body to a man who shall not possesse the heart being so filled with the honest love it beares you that there is no place voyde for any other subject permit me my deare Prince to die a virgin and with the glory of a vestall who hath not let her fire goe out The permission which I have had to love you I hold for so great an honour and the happineffe of your reciprocall friendship is so precious in my memory that I should think my selfe a bastard Eagle that having fastned mine eyes on so great a light should now remove them on some lesser starre permit me to be an Heliotropean the hearb Turnesole and that I may close up the leaves of my affections to all other lights but only to that which gives me day It is not that I pretend any other thing in my love but the contentment I finde in honouring you and you know that I have often protested that the happinesse to waite upon you sufficiently payes the reward of all my services For all the recompence which I looke for from you is to be and so to dye yours Neither doe I disdaine Numerian being a brave and vertuous Gentleman and of whose merit although I had no other proofes save your estimation it would be sufficient to make me respect him For your judgement is my law and your will my rule No unto what degree soever your goodnesse shall raise me yet I shall never forget the meanenesse of my condition But I am of that opinion that I should love that faire image which love for you hath graven in my heart if I should lodge another therein which hath made me desire to live and dye as I am Sister said the Prince ravished in admiration at the courage of this female if I thought the marriage which I propound unto you should never so little diminish the affection you beare me I would never consent thereunto nothing being so pretious to me as to see my self beloved and so fervently by a subject so amiable but because the love that you shall beare to him as your husband shall not bee contrary to that which you beare to me as being your brother I did verily believe that this marriage would bring neither to me to him or to you any manner of prejudice Love is like honour which varies it selfe according to the qualities of the persons or like unto the Pourcontrell or Peake fish who becomes of the same colour the things are whereon it fastens so that a man may love divers persons with all his heart according to divers respects a father as a father a mother as a mother a husband as a husband and a brother as a brother This flame of love extends it self like unto the flame of a torch which lights many others without wasting it selfe and it is thus that I intend to give you unto Numerian you know I love him but with a far inferiour affection to that I bare you my desire is to advance him and likewise you so that when you are joyned together I shall have a double cause to do you good and to gratifie you in what I may By these reasons which were as plausible as true Rosana who saw

there is no doubt to be made but that felicity doth necessarily as a shaddow follow the solide body of vertue and honesty since that to be vertuous and honourable is the highest point of felicity whereunto an honest man can aspire and although vertue be unto it selfe a more then sufficient recompence he being unworthy thereof that seeks rewards for it any where but in it selfe for the greatest price of vertuous actions is to have done them yet so it is that accessarily sooner or later either in this world or in the next the acknowledgement therof cannot faile for Gods goodnesse and justice is such that he will render every man according to his workes It is true that ordinarily fortune seems an enemy to vertue prodigally bestowing her favours not only upon the unworthy but most commonly upon vitious persons so that recompence flying from desert it seemes that by vertues contrary one may arrive soonest to prosperity But let us consult with the said Scriptures and wee shall find that these felicities of the wicked passe soone away as the wind and smoake or as the leafe of a tree And that he who was yesterday exalted as high as the Cedars of Lebanon to day is no more then yea not so much as a low shrub of the field not the least image of his greatnesse appeares to them that seeke after him whereas the vertuous man is happy even in the greatest mishap his vertues growing more and more perfect in adversity and in fine drawing profit out of his harmes and l●ss●s he constraines fortune to doe him homage and to become tributary unto his merit And to say the truth amongst the humane Events which I carefully observe I alwayes have a speciall attention and a particular regard unto those wherein I see vertue triumphant over fortune Neither are there any pictures which more delight me nor about which I more willingly apply my pensill in the delineation then those which represent fortune at the feet of vertue It is most certaine and assured by holy writ as I have before shewed you that either in this life or in the next no vertuous action shall passe unrewarded since an account is kept thereof even to a glasse of cold water like as vitious acts shall be punished even to idle words And wheras here I set the good fortune of honour or honesty which will appeare in this history which I am preparing for your view wherein I study to accommodate my selfe to the cleere seeing eyes of the vulgar who esteeme felicity as pieces of Gold which weighes most that is to say when they are most materiall and sensible not making any account of the spirituall so much the more worthy estimation as the soule is more worthy then the body and the body then the cloathing and moreover to say the truth it is in this our age a singular thing and worthy admiration to see vertue accompanied with good fortune yea a remarkeable rariety and as it were a kind of monster I have extended my selfe more then I intended but the merit of the subject hath driven me thereunto and I will confirme it in this History which I shall make so much the shorter that I may not passe the limits of brevity in which I study to contain my selfe in all these my Events The vanity of Spaniards is so great that all their grandes thinke themselves Princes by reason wherof they call their landes and Lordships their states as if they were Soueraignes from thence growes the proverbe among them that grandes in Spaine are little Kinges in in their demaines and indeed divers of them have some reason three fore being descended from those royall houses of Arragon of Valence of Leon of Navarre as much as what we call Provinces in France are kingdomes in Spaine whereunto may be added their Dukes and others to whom they attribute great titles who have some image of Soveraignty in their jurisdictions because in criminall causes there is no appeale from the judgement of their Courts and as for civill matters they may judge without appeale also to a certain period limited them This I speak therby to shew the absolute power they have over their subjects with which they beare great authority amongst those people that are under their jurisdictions and this power will serve as a ground and foundation unto what I shall represent In Arragon one of those whom they call titled I am not certaine whether he were of the number of the grandes or no lived in his Marquisate with the aforesaid power and authority no lesse feared by his vassalls for his humour both Arragonian and arrogant then beloved for his magnificence and liberality which pierced the eyes of the people and made him commendable And because his daily care was that the poore should be assisted and helped with his meanes which was exceeding much whether it were to the end to maintaine his credit and reputation or through charity which I had rather beleeve it cannot be expressed in what good esteeme he lived He had beene married but his wife dyed in childbed having lived with him but three or foure yeeres and had left him but one sonne for a pledge of their love living in this his widdowhood as a man that aspired to other nuptialls and who would not spend the rest of his daies in melancholy no wonder if he were assaulted by those soft temptations whilest he expected fortune to offer him a second match like unto that which death had taken from him and conformable to his estate and birth In this ease and idlenesse of life gorged with wealth he was hit as the Elephant of Antiochus in that part of him which was weakest Those that call incontinency the sinne of great persons do ground themselves upon the proverbe which sayes sine Cerere Baecho friget Venus Ceres and Bacchus are harbingers to the goddesse Venus Amidst the honours and pleasures wherein he lived it had bin a wonder if voluptuousnesse should not have presented it selfe unto him and filled his mind with illusions and his soule with sundry desires Seeking then a subject to appease his concupiscence he casts his eye on a maid that was one of his subjects she was poore in worldly wealth but so rich in honesty and honour that her chastity triumphed over bad fortune and left her good hap even unto her posterity her poverty made the Marquesse imagine the conquest to be easie according to the words of that ancient who saith that some courages are driven unto dishonourable acts through necessity who otherwise would never stoope thereunto yet he found in this creature an exception unto that maxime of Alexander the greats Father who boasted to make a Mule loaden with gold enter into any Fortresse whatsoever Ctesiphon so will we call this Lord wanted not some to second him in his bad designe great persons find but too many furtherers of their pleasures and unruly passions but all his Engineers lost

he verified what is commonly reported that punishments light not alwayes on the guilty but sometimes on the unfortunate and if we shall reflect on that which led him into the mishap of this murther there is no doubt to be made but Demetry was more criminall then he since he but lent his arme to the execution of that vengeance which she had inspired him withall Youth may here learn to avoyde evill counsells as rocks stained with thousands of shipwracks and to withdraw themselves from the unfortunate acquaintance and familiarity of these shamelesse women who not contented to fill those with scandall who are spectators of their disordered lives led those that follow them unto brutish and inhumane actions not only of the flesh but also of blood whereof antiquity furnisheth us with a thousand examples amongst which the judicious reader may see if this that I have now related may not be placed THE LONG Vengeance The Tenth Event AS the least follyes are the most commendable so is the least continuance of anger Those revenges which are executed in the heate of choller when the bloud is boyling although not excuseable forasmuch as we ought neither to excuse a vice nor flatter a passion which should be subdued by reason yet are they lesse to be blamed then those which are taken in cold blood and whose continuance shewes a black and diabolicall malice the French are subject to violent passions whose suddenesse and fury proves very dangerous but those people that live beyond the mountaines are possessed with hereditary hatred and as if vengeance were one of the sweetest things belonging to life they lengthen and continue it as much as they can when they have once gotten their adversaries in their power making them endure many torments whose prolongation is worse then a thousand deaths which made that cruell Emperour Domitian say that hee would cause those whom he tormented to feele themselves dye and being petitioned by one of them that he might be quickly dispatcht by death since when answered he is this man entred into favour againe with me Although death be the last of all worldly paines yet some deaths are farre worse then others and which by their lingring length multiplye deaths and therein doth consist the tyranny of those vengeances which preserve life but only to lengthen paine Ceraste a Gentleman of Millaine continued a suite for many yeers with Trophime a Lord of great note and also bearing the title of Earle because the said Ceraste would not acknowledge to owe him fealty at length by the decree of the Senate of Millaine he was acquitted from this homage and his land declared free it was but little and lying within the County and Earledome of Trophime whose great courage could not there suffer a fellow wherefore what he could not obtaine by law which was to make Ceraste his vassall he thought fit by violence to take revenge thereof Now this Ceraste was growne something ancient and either by the intemperancy of his youth or by issuing from a gowty generation for this disease is said to be hereditary he was so afflicted with the gowt that he could hardly goe besides hee was so indebted that if the gowt decayed his body creditors did no lesse to his purse whether it were that ill husbādry had caused it or else along continued quarrel which he had had with a neighbouring Gentleman whose name was Procore so it is that he felt himselfe extreamely diminished in his estate but he was delivered out of all these miseries by an extraordinary meanes as you shall here in the sequell Vpon a day being mounted on a little mule as he was taking the aire about his groūds Trophime who watched for him as a vulture for his prey came well accompained and suddainly surprised him Ceraste who thought no other but that his throat should presently be cut for to move Trophime to compassion cried him mercy and begged for life Thou shalt have life answered Trophime because thou doest begge it but thou shalt not have death when thou wouldest this being said he caused him to be led vnto his house and cast into a darke prison where he made him endure paines lesse sufferable then death Cerastes mule was found grasing in the feild but as for tidings of him none could be heard his wife and two children caused all the enquiry and search to be made that possibly they could but never were able to discouer what was become of him upon the quarrell that he had had with Procore many conjectured that he had killd him On these weake surmises the Iustice seases on Procore and a lusty fellow who ordinarily waighted on him armed with sword and dagger for want of witnesses they are both put upon the wracke where the vehemency of torments made them confesse what they never did accusing themselves to have murdered Ceraste wherevpon Precore was beheaded and his man hanged not long after this Trophime caused miserable Ceraste to be led by night vnto a strong castle which he had on the bankes of the lake Maior and therto be locked vp in the bottome of a tower where he sawe no other light but through a little hole at the top and was fedde by the house keeper with nothing save bread and water the ground being his bed and the roofe for his couerled in these obscurityes and miseryes he often desires them to put him to death but he that tooke delight in his paine would not grant him this cruell favor he remanied there vntill the death of Trophime which was about thirteene or foureteene yeares after his taking who left this hatred and vengeance for an inheritance unto his sonne Castalio who succeeding his father in cruelty prolonged the imprisonment and bad vsage of Ceraste During this time Cerastes wife dyed and his two sonnes hauing devided the estate made away the best parte thereof to pay his dets thinking themselves to have lost their Father also when behold the power of heaven whose eies are ever waking on miserable creatures and who suffers not the rod of the wicked to continue on the heads of innocent persons by an vnexpected meanes opened a way unto the liberty of Ceraste Castalio being in mind to repaire some ruines about the castle wherein Ceraste was rather buried alive then imprisoned it hapned that the Masons working thereat digged so deep about the foundations of the tower that they made a little trench therein through the which they perceived this miserable man who at the first affrighted them but at last hee moved so much pitty in them that having heard the History of his disaster they made him a passage for to escape away this hapned after nineteene yeeres imprisonment Presently he repaires to his owne house meager pale and in the worst case that can be imagined where no body at the first knew him at last he was knowne by his children unto whom he related the time aad manner of his taking and his long continuance

next day these maids which were thus lockt up durst not yet cry thinking still to have the knife at their throat at last being farre on in the day hearing no manner of noyse in the house they call out for helpe they are delivered it was found that the best things were stollen and carried away Never could they discover either winde smoke tracke or marke of this robbery Oderife let us thus call this gentlewoman shee writ there of unto her brother who the same night that it was done which they verified by the date of a letter had dreamt it in his sleepe and which is admirable the very features of the faces and maner of the theeves apparell were perfectly presented unto him and remained so ingraven in his imagination that during so long time as passed between the deed and the tydings he had therof by letters they could not be blotted out He writ at length unto his sister that she should make enquiry thereabouts if there were not such manner of men clothed in such manner and fashion the search was made the theeves were growne so bold beleeving to have so well covered their mumming that they have not removed from their ordinary dwelling presently they are taken upon so weake a conjecture but before they saw the prison gate they confessed more then was required of them they related the whole circumstance of their theft whereof they had wasted a very small matter notwithstanding their restitution they were executed We will observe in this Idea an evident marke of divine justice upon the wicked whose chastisement it can further by admirable means by reason whereof God watches over those that doe evill for to blot their memory out of the earth had I not beene well certified by the selfe same person unto whom this kinde of revelation didhappen I would not have givē it place amongst these relations but the certainety which I have thereof hath made mee set it downe as an event worthy of consideration THE VNCONSTANT ambitious Woman The Fifteenth Relation THose who sayle one the sea of this world which the wind of ambition commonly make wofull shipwrack if Arduine passionately loving over extremely beloved of Leopert had beene contented with the mediocrity of her fortune wherein she enjoyed a repose and a felicity which are not found in the most eminent estates we should not now have cause for this tragicall relation wherein her example will shew us how those that will soare up into the ayre of fame by evill meanes often find themselves precipitated into a bottomelesse pit of shame Westphalia saw the the birth of this Maid and even in her tender years she shewed forth rayes of beauty which made many judge this Sunne-rise would produce a noone-tide of perfection wherewith Leopert a Gentleman of the same countrie was the first touched and having not sowen his affection in ungratefull ground they bred reciprocal love in Arduine as he aspired but unto her so she respired but to him and this wooing was carried with so much judgement on both sides that although the parents found some difficulties in this match yet were they overcome by the constancie of these lovers the agreements then were made and in short time they were betrothed staying for to accomplish this marriage but onely till such time as the preparations which were to be sumptuous should bee made but as betwixt the roade and the port ships sometimes run great hazard so this match so long pursued so ardently desired so constantly expected had like to have bin thwarted by a tempestuous blast Adelard a Lord of great quality and whose lustre dimmed all the merits which Leopert could have found in himself was so fiercely overtaken by the graces of Arduine that he resolved to have her for his wife and to attempt all meanes possible for to breake off the promise betwixt Arduine and Leopert yea and for to make his minde plaine hee addresses himselfe to the parents knowing that on the maides side preoccupated by affection thee place was impregnable and out of butterie these who had but unwillingly consented to the alliance of Leopert having in their eyes the bright sunne of Adelards greatnesse were easely perswaded to uphold his designe and to seeke meanes to hinder Leopert from marrying Arduine but they found not therein so much facilitie as they expected for Leopert besids the love wherewith he was inflamed had so great a courage that hee would never yeald to Adelard how great soever he were above him and Arduine in this occasion shewed that amaides constancie is not alwayes a leafe which turnes with the least winde for as her betrothed became inflexible to breake his word so shee would never break hers so that notwithstanding all the perswasions of parents and all Adelards labouring the marriage was consummated withall the solemnties necessarie thereunto These contrarities did but redouble the coutentment of the two lovers who saw themselves by these indissoluble bonds arrived at the top of their desires but it fell out with Arduine as with those blades of steele which breake not with the greatest blows and yet snapp in peeces sometimes when they are bended as if they were of glasse those marriages which have a great order of love for foundation are not alwaies them that last longest in vigor they must in this wise bargaine beled by more judici●ll reasons that will have it to succeed well Adelard was greatly discontented to see himselfe frustrate of his pretentions and if Leopert only had been an obstacle in his way hee had sought way by violence to have beene rid of him but seeing that the minde of Arduine was so farre from him that made him lesse desirous to make away his rivall imagining that it would rather purchase him the hatred then the love of Arduine not knowing how wholly to extinguish the flame which hee had conceaved for this Gentlewoman he continues to testifie unto her that his affection was not dead and to seeke indirectly that which hee could not pretend by lawfull wayes Arduine satisfied it may bee with the pleasures which she promised unto herselfe in the possession of Leopert began to turne her eyes towards the mountaines of ambition without considering that high places are subject to tempests accompanied with downfals in short time this thought which was but a flie became an elephant and representing unto her selfe how shee had refused to bee great by matching with Adelard sorrow repentance seised her and presently made her thinke on meanes to recover what shee had lost I might said she in her heart have had the same delights which I have with Leopert I had been adored by Adelard who loves mee with an extreme affection and besides I have gone beyond many of my fellowes which I behold now aboue me how unadvised was I not to prefer such great wealth and such eminent state before simple delights which passe away so lightly truely there is nothing like unto being in