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A07482	The famous historie of Chinon of England with his strange aduentures for the loue of Celestina daughter to Lewis King of Fraunce. VVith the worthy atchiuement of Sir Lancelot du Lake, and Sir Tristram du Lions for fair Laura, daughter to Cador Earle of Cornewall, beeing all knights of King Arthurs round table. By Chr. Middleton.	Middleton, Christopher, 1560?-1628.	1597 (1597)	STC 17866; ESTC S109998	50,146	96

THE Famous Historie of Chinon of England with his strange aduentures for the loue of Celestina daughter to Lewis King of Fraunce With the worthy Atchiuement of Sir Lancelot du Lake and Sir Tristram du Lions for faire Laura daughter to Cador Earle of Cornewall beeing all Knights of King Arthurs round Table By Chr. Middleton AT LONDON Printed by Iohn Danter for Cuthbert Burbie and are to be sold at his shop by the Royall Exchange 1597. To the right worshipfull Master Edward Stanley Esquire SIR were I not more comforted with assurance of your Generous disposition than perswaded of anie merit on my part by offering the Patronage of this Historie to your hands I should as certainly dispaire of the acceptaunce as I am vncertaine whether it bee worthie to bee accepted From the time of my first entraunce in Printing till now it is the first Booke of this kinde I euer had power to dedicate from my first yeres of capacitie to read anie printed thing my affectionate dutie hath to your W. been dedicated Enisham one of your Lordships was my birth-place and as my Frends there pay dueties for the place they liue in so tender I this here as part of my duteous loue The Authour of the Booke hath left it to the wide world without a Patron perchance esteeming it vnworthie protection neyther doo I thinke it in the least part worthie your protection before whose excelent iudgement so daily conuersant among the most iudiciall it cannot but vanish like light smoake before a bright flame All my excuse is loue all my request is pardon which as I first inferd your noble disposition assures mee of On which foundation building I cease now to bee more bold Your VVorships most dutifully affectionate Iohn Danter The famous History of Chinon of England Sonne to Lord Cador Earle of Cornewall with his rare atchiuements for faire Cellestina daughter to Lewes King of Fraunce CHAP. I. How Chinon the Earle of Cornewalles Sonne was borne a foole and of the excellent ornaments of nature wherewith his faire Sister Laura was beautefied IN the beginning of this flourishing Kingdome when Arthur then Monarch of this little worlde with his attendant Knights whose valorous exployts euery where acted for theyr Countries honour hath eternized their euerliuing names euen in the farthest coasts of the barbarous Pagans where yet in despite of consuming time liues their eternal Trophies as spectacles for all posteritics In this time liued there in England an auncient Knight whome this famous king for his many merits and well deseruing déedes had installed in the Earledome of Cornewall a dignity as hee thought fitting the deserts of this famous man that had so often vndergone the furious attempts of the vnciuill Pagans enemies to God foes to his countrie and great hindrances to the then but young plants of springing Christianity as also endeuoring himselfe euery where to defend the fame of his countrie then of all other only fame worthy the Honour of his order euery where honored and the dutie belonging to his Knighthood which hee alwaies performed till at the last when the waight of many wearie yeares gan bow his declining bodie downe to the lowly earth making his oft tried Armour too heauie a burthen for his now war weakned body his brandishing sword beating downe his age fallen armes and euery supporter of his lustie limmes beginnes to faile of their former force he determins to end his life in peace at home whose beginning he had spent in warres abroad incouraging younger men with the spectacle of his former valours couragiously themselues to attempt the like indeuors In which time of his home aboad the heauens blessed him with two goodly Children a Sonne a Daughter but yet as it is the continual course of al ruling fortune to mixe with euery good some ill with euerie swéet a sowre with euery sunshine show of promising hap a tempestuous storme of ill boading hurt so fared it in the issue of this yet vnhappie Prince for when the stealing houres of all ripening time had brought them from their Infant Cradelles to some participation of sencible knowledge his Daughter whose name was Laura so forwardly prospered in euery Liniament of her beautifull bodie all eternall quallities of a vertuous minde so that in short time she became the censured subiect of all wise iudgements in determination whether nature had better beautified her bodie where indéede shee had excéeded her self or the Gods quallified her mind wherin they had made her the only similitude of themselues No penne that was not busied in painting her praises though all too little for that purpose and no tongue but was still telling her perfections though they neuer could attaine them for too bright was her beautie to be shadowed in the couloring cunning of a mortall capacitie and too high her heauenly minde to be enstauld with the earthlie wéedes of mans base wit that as the toile some Sailers in the dangerous Seas watching the misfortunes of a tedious night doth with themselues mightily admire the gorgeous state of many twinckling stars till when the siluer Moone proudlie rising from her glorious bed drawes backe their daseled eies to behold her more than common countenance so fares it in this age of theirs where no starre may compare with her state no face with her faire fortune nor no grace with the least glimce of her glorie so to leaue to expresse that in wordes which could not bée comprehended in all wits neuer did nature before compose of so rude a Chaos so comely a creature But her Brother whose name was Chynon outwardly formed in as faire a fashion as might well beséeme the sonne to such a fire but in his minde more than a maimed man wanting that portion of sensible capacity which commonly doth accompany euen the meanest seruillitie So that by how much his Sister excéeded in extraordinarie wisedome by so much was hee scanted in ordinarie witte where in stéede of Princely feature was nothing found but foolish behauiour for high atchiuementes boyish follies for that which is required in a man not so much as is commonly found in a childe vncapable of the rudiments of good counsaile and vnsit to conceiue the commoditie of comelie quallitie whence as all men with admiration wondred at the one so none but with commisseration pittied the other that so well fashioned a body should containe so ill formed a minde strongly had nature forged hys limbes which promised his valour but weakely had the enuious Fates framed his mind wher was no hope of better So that heere nature vnnaturally handling so good a subiect had enclosed in the perfecte body of a man little better than the vnperfect soule of a beast like almost the imitating of an apish artificer that in faire showes deciphers a formall substance in curious cunning colours painting a Princely perfection which satisfies the outward sence as the same but cannot content the inward conceit 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then with Epethites accents of honour telling the victorious tale of his fight as Aeneas the Tragicke storie of their fight he concludes hys spéech with the performance of hys promise which was the solemne orders he commonly vsed at the instalment of any of his Knights and dubbing him therewithall appoints him his place at the Table where a while he remained as well to comfort the decaying date of his Fathers yeares whome wrestling age had almost now layed along in hys graue and as Mariegold that neuer spreadeth her flowers but against the sunne So he neuer opened his age dimmed eyes to beholde the chearefull countenance of any creature saue his Son Chinon and like the melancholly Turtle when her mate is from her sight So fares it with this aged Earle that neuer sléepes but dreames of hys Sonne neuer is well waking when he sées him not neuer contented with any sounds if he heare him not as also the intire affection of hys King and Captaine Arthur of England that inamored with his curtesie was lost to leaue hys company he was forced a while to refraine his affections whose body thought it was walled in at home yet was his minde wandring abroad which the fates foreséeing as do the careful Parents prouide for their forward children séeke meanes for theyr furtherance in that quallitie whereto they are most inclined loath that so many vertues should be cooped within the compasse of a 〈◊〉 Iland and not spread their braunches abroad to the wide world carefully contriued a meanes to conuaye hym away CHAP. VII How Chinon was by the Fairies conuaied into Egipt THus hee spending the pride of his dayes at home in daliance letting rust eate away his well tempered Armour that warres before had scoured lying one day vppon a pleasant ouerspread banke vnder the couert of a nature framed Canopie bound together with the bowes of swéet smelling roses vpon whose pleasant spraies sate the seuerall sorts of musicke making ●irdes that with theyr naturall notes calles on inchaunting sleep to possesse the quiet organes of his body with all pleasing rest in the midst of a swéet slumber suddainely appeares to the view of his drowsie thoughts two airie bodies such creatures as we call Fairies whome some immagine to be those spirites that fell dawne vpon the earth and since that time inhabit the seuerall corners thereof sometimes deluding mens senses with the showes of that they are not other somtimes showing themselues in the semblances th●y commonly accustome to put on dancing roundelayes ouer the plesaunt ●neades searing the secrete corners of euerie shade in which sort it should séeme they found thys Knight to whom they gan shewe a rich embrodered armour curiously carued and richly set with all manner of precious stones and a faire sword with all the formall furniture thereunto belonging faire passing that which before he had pulled out of the Rocke and there withall ginnes féed his fancie that they nourished his imagination in the perfectest ioye of all naturall delight with the show of a faire Virgin whose rare countenaunce promised more than her outward colour of attire for that meake were her wéeds such as commonly we read of the Arcadian Shepheardesses whose perfectiōs haue put to silence so many pens in labouring to portrait their picture But her selfe more than a mortall Maid looked vppon with the impartial censure of a iudging eye might draw into an endlesse Laborynth the labouring thought● of an i●●euoring wit striuing with it selfe to picture forth her worth Where a while we must leaue him 〈◊〉 like spending his time in this swéete speculation and for a time talke of this rare fight here showed hym in his sléep This Ladie was daughter to an ancient Lord named Bessarian cheif Counseller to ●gba●a● then King of Egypt and was th●re earnestly beloued of a noble Man named ●●●osin who for that he saw by no way he could compasse h●● desire neither by amorous demeanor of himselfe instance of his frends nor earnest soliciting deserts of his dumb intermissiue gifts could-preuaile to drawe towarde him the dutye of her loue he determining by another drift ether to win her to himselfe or to w●are her out of conceit with all other ●●●re●ly 〈…〉 ●e with an old Witch whose name was Eurropa who hyred by him hammered about to work some meane how she might change the setled affections of her maidenlyke minde somwhat to encline themselues to his intent which when by no meanes she could bring about she straight works a way to remoue her quite ●rom all companie to liue on the vnpeopled Plaines among ●rute beasts and to that ende aiming her actions by meanes of an ayrie Spirit attendant vppon her suddenly conueyed her from the Courtly presence farre off to an vnfrequented Plaine scit●●●te by the ●tiuer Nylus where shee percesuing her ●●l●e displaced but séeing no reason of her remooue straitwaies begins to consider with her selfe what luckles occasion might thus crosse her in her hopefull course and when after long search in the selfe knowen recorde of her inward conscience shée could finde no readie reason how her offences should anie wayes haue procured so great a punishment as this vnnaturall diuorse not onely from the comfort of her kindred but ●ll other ●●●nds 〈◊〉 with all humble dutie alwaies honore● her superi●is wyth carefull turto●●●intr●a●e● her in●●●w●● beeing euer held as the my●rrc●● of good demeanor 〈◊〉 thus findi●g her selfe as cle●●e ●rom those veng●●unc● meriting ●●nes that ●●●wes do●●●● the heauie wr●●h of all-iudging Gods so sharply with such seuere plagues to punish the o●●●●ces of men shedding manie showers of a●ber warēs whose power were able to haue drawne pittie from the stéely hearts of h●ll-holden fu●ries ●●ts her downe by the side of that siluer streame that with his seauen heads still sends fre●● supplie to the all eating sea and tuning her voice to the bubling musick of his gliding course to the flocking sortes of sundry-fishes that ●●ke the dancing Dolphins at the swéete sound of Arions Harpe gather themselues together She singes this Dittie Ye free borne people from th' inthralling b●nds That we poore soules perforce are subiect to You glide with pleasure ore these golden sands And feeles no hope of weale nor hap of woe Time fortune foes nor any other power Changes casts downe or turnes your sweet to sower But we whome nature wrought vnto the best Triumphant time still tosses vp and downe And they whome former fortune whilome blest Cruell misfortune with a suddaine frowne Casts from a throane where sur'st we seeme to dwell To worser woes than death dispaire or hell Thus while●● with this song ●●ee sought to please her sorrow sodainely this wicked woman by whose meanes shee was brought thether carried through the emptie 〈◊〉 in ●●erie flaming 〈◊〉 such as was that secret searching Medea 〈◊〉 the sable shadow of the ●●ilent night ouerr●●● so many toys of hilles to ●●●ade those hearbes that in the age worns