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A10668	The triumphs of Gods revenge against the crying and execrable sinne of (willfull and premeditated) murther VVith his miraculous discoveries, and severe punishments thereof. In thirtie severall tragicall histories (digested into sixe bookes) committed in divers countries beyond the seas, never published, or imprinted in any other language. Histories which containe great varietie of mournfull and memorable accidents ... With a table of all the severall letters and challenges, contained in the whole sixe bookes. Written by Iohn Reynolds.; God's revenge against murder	Reynolds, John, fl. 1621-1650.; Payne, John, d. 1647?, engraver.	1635 (1635)	STC 20944; ESTC S116165	822,529	714

a Ianuarie and such a May but disdaines to enter into consideration with himselfe that hee is every way fitter for his grave than for her bed and for death than marriage yea hee flatters himselfe so far in his affection to her as heehopes hee shall bee the joyfull father of many prettie children by her so that hee is so deeply enamoured with the sweet youth of our Bellinda and his heart so fast chained and intangled in the tresses of her haire and the lures of her alluring beautie that hee upon his first sight of her incessantly thinkes of her by day dreams of her by night and neither thinks nor dreams of any thing but of her and of his love to her so now he advanceth raiseth the standards of Venus and Cupid as high as ever he formerly dejected them and delights in nothing more yea Imay truly say in nothing els but in feasting his eyes and surfeting his heart upon the heavenly Idoea of her Angelicall ●…ace and feature hee thinkes so much of love as if he were now wholly composed of love and therefore purposely made to love Bellinda and none but Bellinda His hauks and hounds are now as far out of his mind as he is out of himselfe and no other delight or recreation whatsoever can take up any place in his heart or thoughts because love had already tane up all Hee revokes to mind how Macare●… was transformed into a bird for speaking against Venus and that it is not his cause alone to bee so deeply plunged tormented in love but that the greatest Captaines Philosophers and Kings of the world and as poets assirme the Gods themselves have beene subjected and vanquished with this passion and so constrained to make it their chiefest delight and glory to ador●…e the temples and altars of Cupid with the oblations of their sighes and the sacrifices of their teares Thus our De Mora being at the first sight wholly inflamed with love towards his faire and beautifull intended mistris Bellinda hee to seeme far younger than hee is hee is so vaine in his affection as contrary to his custome hee shaves his beard dights himselfe in an ash-collour sattin suit and cloake with a white Beaver hat a hat-band of Diamonds a rich plaine cut worke band and a paire of greene silke stockings with garters roses laced with silver sutable thereunto and so to performe his promise to Cursoro takes coach the next morning and rides over to him but not so much to tast of his good cheere as to feast his enamoured eyes on the dilicious rarities and dainties of his daughter Bellinda's beautie where he finds his entertainment and good cheere at least to equalize if not to exceed his birth rancke and expectation but this is not the end and object of his visit not the summe and period of his desires dinner being ended hee acquaints Cursoro with his affection to his daughter Bellinda and his suit to seeke and obtaine her for his wife Cursoro wonders that so great a Lord should des●…nd so low from himselfe to seeke so meane a young Gentlewoman as his daughter in marriage But finding De Mora to bee in earnest and not in jeast and understanding that his age was deeply passionatly enamoured of her youth and beautie hee therefore thankes him for that undeserved honour of his promiseth him his best assistance towards his daughter and gives him no dispaire but all hope and assurance that hee shall shortly obtaine and injoy her to his wife De Mora having thus wonne the affection and consent of the father hee now seeks that of the daughter hee takes her apart in his parlour where of an old man hee plaies the young oratour and lover and in sweet tearms and sugred ph●…ses and speeches seeke to gaine her to his wife but Bellinda more considering De Mora his age than the greatnes of his nobilitie or estate shee bites the lip and hangs the head at this ●…s motion yea and see●…s to be a●… 〈◊〉 as hee was forward in this his research and pursuit H●…r father lai●…s his commands on her to embrace this match and no other hee conjures her now to confirme and not to cast away her good fortunes in marrying this great Nobleman and vowes that hee will for ever renounce her for his da●…ghter if shee disobey him herein so hee conducts her into the arbour of his garden and there freely and cou●…eously againe gives De Mora the opportunitie and benefit to speake with her and the desired happines to kisse her but Bellinda is as much perplexed in mind as they are obstinate in their motion ●…owards her when composing her countenance rather to sorrow than joy and to mourning than mir●…h she makes a modest excuse to her father gives no absolute or pe●… p●…ie deniall to De Mora but fairly and discreetly ●…aves of both of them a moneths time of respi●…e to resolve on th●…s great busines which shee saies so much imports her happines or her misery her content o●…her affliction which answer and request of hers both her father and De Mora finding so full of discretion and reason they severally grant and jointly consent to give her but in all this interim such was De Mora's deare and tender affection to Bellinda that hee visits her many times in person and verie often with his rich gifts and presents as holding it no irregular way but a pertinent and prevalent course first to make a breach in a young Ladies mind and affection and then to enter and take possession both of her body and of her selfe But before I proceed further in the narration and progresse of this history I must here unlocke and reveale a secret mystery to the reader of no small consequence and importance for he must understand that our Bellinda is not so chaste as faire nor so honest as her education youth beautie presuppose and promise her to bee for her mother being dead and her father giving her too much libertie and too little vertuous counsell and exhortation shee for two whole yeares hath beene in love with a poore yet with a verie proper and resolute young Gentleman of some twentie five yeares of age being a neighbour of her fathers named Don Fernando Palura who being deeply enamoured of her had laine so close so constant and so strong a siege to her chastitie as not to conceale the truth first unknowne to her father then to De Mora and next to all the world hee had unparadised her of her maiden-head and under colour and hope of marriage had verie often tane his lustfull use and pleasure of her body but his means being verie small and her belly not growing great shee was not yet fully resolved but therefore still delaied to marrie him true it is that her father Cursoro was formerly acquainted with Palura's affection and desire to marry his daughter but as heretofore his poverty made him reject him for his sonne in law so

Dorilla receiving this Letter from Castruchio she puts it into her purse and promiseth him her best care and fidelity for the delivery thereof to Seignior Borlari although she confesseth that she neither knew him nor his house But see here the providence and mercy of God which cleerely resplends and shines in the deportment and action of this beastly old bawd for she meeting with some of her gamesters and gossips in the street though contrary to the custome of Italy away they goe to a taverne where they all swill their head and braines with wine especially Dorilla So the day being farre spent her businesse for Castruchio is ended ere begun for shee forgetting her selfe cannot remember his letter but as fast as her reeling legges will permit her away shee speedes towards her owne house which was some halfe a mile off in the Citty But when she was in the streets and had a little taken the aire then she cals Castruchios letter to minde and her promise to him to deliver it but to whom through her cups she hath quite forgotten for she cannot once hi●… on the name Borlari But at last remembring the letter to be in her purse and she by this time in the midst of the Citty she takes it out in her hand seeing a faire yet sorrowfull young Lady to stand at the street doore of her house all in mourning attire and no body neere her after she had done her duty to her she reacheth her the letter and humbly requesteth her to tell her the Gentlemans name to whom it was directed when God out of the profundity of his power and immensity of his pleasure having so ordained and ordered it that this faire young Lady was our sweet Felisanna who for the death of her deere husband Planeze had dighted her selfe al in mourning attire and apparel thereby the better to make it correspond with her heart who reading the superscription therof and finding it directed to Seignior Borlari by some motion or inspiration from heaven her heart could not refrain from sending all the bloudof her body into her face when demanding of this woman from whom this letter came Dorilla as drunke in her fidelity and innocency as shee was guilty of her drunkennesse tels her that the letter came from an Apothecary who lay in prison named Castruchio At the very repetition of which name our Felisanna againe blusheth and then palleth as if God had some newes to reveale her by this Letter because shee remembreth that this Castruchio as we have formerly understood was the very same Apothecary who gave her husband Planeze physicke a little before his death Whereupon she praying Dorilla to come with her into her house because she purposly and politikely affirmed she could not read written hand herselfe but would pray her father to doe it she leaves her in the utter hall and herselfe goes into the next roome where breaking up the seales of this letter she at the very first sight and knowledge that her husband was poysoned and by whom and that God had now miraculously revealed it to her through the ignorance and drunkennesse of this old woman she for meere griefe and sorrow is ready to fall to the ground in a swoone had not her father and some of his servants who over hearing her passionate outcries come speedily to her assistance which yet could not awake Dorilla who had no sooner sate her selfe downe in a chaire in the hall but being top heavy with wine she presently fell a sleepe Miniata rousing up his fainting and sorrowfull daughter brought her againe to herselfe and seeing her in a bitter agonie and passion of sorrow demands of her the cause thereof when the brinish teares trickling downe her virmilion cheekes she crossing her armes and fixing her eyes towards heaven had the will but not the power to speake a word to him but reacheth him the Letter to read Miniata perusing it is as much astonished with griefe as his daughter is afflicted with sorrow at this poysoning of her Husband and his sonne in Law Planeze so enquiring of her who brought her this letter she after many sighes and pauses tels him that it was the mercy and providence of the Lord who sent it her by a drunken woman who was forth in the Hall They both goe to her and finding her fast sleeping and snoring Miniata puls her by the sleeve and wakes her and then demands of her before his daughter and servants where and from whom she had this letter who as drunke as this Baud is she is constant in her first speech and confession to Felisanna that she had it from Castruchio an Apothecary who lay in prison but she had forgotten to whom she was to deliver it and then prayes them both to deliver and give her backe her letter againe But Miniata seeing and knowing that it was the immediate finger of God which thus strangely had revealed this murther of his sonne in Law Planeze he calls in two Gentlewomen his next neighbours to comfort his daughter Felisanna and so leaving Dorilla to the guard of two of his servants he with two other Gentlemen his neighbours takes his Coach and having Castruchio's Letter in his hand he drives away to the State-house where he findes out the Podestate and Prefect of the Citie and shewing them the Letter which revealed the poysoning and poysoners of Planeze his sonne in Law they in honour to justice and out of their respect to the sorrowfull Lady his daughter take their Coaches and returne with Miniata home to his house Where they first examine Felisanna and then Dorilla who is constant in her first deposition Whereat these grave and honourable Personages wondring and admiring that a Gentleman of Barlari his ranke and quality should make himselfe the guilty and bloudy Authour of so foule a Murther they likwise admiring and blessing Gods providence in the detection thereof doe presently send away their Isbieres or Serjeants to apprehend Borlari and so they goe to their Forum or seat of Iustice and speedily send away for Castruchio to be brought from the prison before them Who at the very first newes of their accusation of him and the producing of his Letter to Borlari he curseth the person and name of this old Bawd Dorilla who is the prime Authour of his overthrow and death and then confesseth himselfe to be the Actor and Seignior Borlari to be the Authour cause and Instigator of this his poysoning of Planeze but never puts his hand on his conscience and soule that the strange detection of this lamentable murther came directly from Heaven and from God The Serjeants by order from the Podestate and Prefect finde Borlari in his owne house ruffling in a new rich suit of apparrell of blacke Sattin trimmed with gold buttons which he that day put on and the next was determined to ride to the City of Bergamo to seeke in marriage a very rich young widdow whose Husband lately died

all the streets and corners of Granado that almost all the people of that Citie flocke the next morning to the place of execution to see this cruell Mistresse and her bloudy Chamber-maid take their last farewell of this world for the Lady Dominica must likewise die notwithstanding her Mother Cervantella's teares and her Husband Andrada's importunate requests and passionate praiers to her Judges to the contrary And first Denisa is caused to ascend the Ladder who was a tall and comely young woman to whom God was so mercifull to her soule that there with many bitter sighs and teares she was wonderfull sorrowfull for these her two foule murthers especially for that of her poore Infant babe whom she had almost as so one dispatched out as she brought into the world She earnestly besought all her auditors and spectators to pray unto God to forgive her and to bee mercifull to her soule shee affirmed that her Lady Dominica's enticements and Gold first drew her to be accessary to the poysoning of her Master Roderigo the which againe and againe from her heart and soule shee prayed God to pardon her when entreating all young people especially all young women to be more wise and religious and lesse prophane and bloudy minded by her example and now recommending her soule into the hands of her Saviour and Redeemer she is turned over When immediately after this our wretched Lady Dominica is likewise brought to her execution whom the vanity of her heart and the impurity and prophanenesse of her soule had purposely dighted in her best dresse and richest apparell which was a purple wrought Velvet Gowne and a curious great laced Ruffe with all things else sutable to it but which is lamentable to see and fearefull to consider she was as carelesse of her soule as curious of her body for the Priests and Friers in her prison could not abate or beat down her impiety but as there so here on the Ladder she enters into many deepe execrations and curses as well against her second Husband Andrada as against her Chamber-maid Denisa who she said was now rather gone to the Devill than to God but no spark of grace no shew of sorrow or signe of repentance could appeare in her looks or bee heard in her speeches for poysoning of her first Husband Roderigo but with much choller and vehemencie shee there uttered many other lewd and lascivious speeches the which grieved her Christian Auditours to heare and therefore I will not defile my pen or offend the Readers religious and chast hearts with the knowledg thereof so this miserable and wretched Lady was turned over the Ladder who made her death answerable to the foulnesse and enormity of her life being not so happy in her death as her bloudy Chamber-maid Denisa and I feare me as exempt of grace and goodnesse as the Devill could wish her But God is the Lord of Justice and father of mercy to whom I leave her They youth and beauty of this cruell and inhumane Lady Dominica was pitied of many but her foule fact abhorred and detested of all who were present at her death may we who reade her History cherish our Vertues by the sight and knowledge of her Vices and fortifie our soules with Religion and Piety as she ruined hers by the neglect and want thereof Amen GODS REVENGE AGAINST THE CRYING AND Execrable Sinne of Murther HISTORY XXIX Sanctifiore upon promise of mariage gets Ursina with child and then afterwards very ingratefully and treacherously rejecteth her and marieth Bertranna Ursina being sensible of this her disgrace disguiseth her selfe in a Fryers habit and with a case of Pistolls kills Sanctifiore as he is walking in the fields for the which shee is hanged IT is a poore profit a wretched pleasure for the satisfaction of choler and revenge to imbrue our hands in the innocent blood of our neere kindred sith in seeking to wound him wee more properly kill our selves in soule and body striking him who is the figurative image of God wee presumptuously stab at the Majesty of God himselfe by whom our soules must without whom they can never bee saved Therefore if wee will not know as wee are men yet wee ought firmly both to know and beleeve as wee are Christians that revenge and murther are the two prodigious twins of Sathan the last being engendered and propagated of the first and both from Hell For revenge is nothalfe so sweet in the beginning as bitter in the end nor murther by many degrees so pleasing as it proves pernitious to her Authors as this ensuing History will verifie and make apparant unto us LEt your thoughts be carried over those high hills of Europe the Alpes and Appenins to the noble and famous citie of Naples the head and capitall of that flourishing kingdome and from whence it receives and derives its denomination a city exceeding rich populous and faire and graced and adorned with more Nobilitie and Gentrie of both sexes than any other of Italy whatsoever Wherein of very late yeares when the Duke of Ossuna was Viceroy thereof there dwelt two rich and beautifull young gentlewomen the one named Dona Vrsina Placedo the onely daughter and child of Seignior Agustino Placedo the other Dona Bertranna de Tores likewise the only child and daughter of Seignior Thomaso de Tores the first native of Ferenzolo in Pulia and the second of Materana in Calabria both of them being exceeding rich and well descended Gentlemen who with their wives and daughters for the most part built up their residence in Naples but especially all the winter time Now because these two young gentlewomen whom henceforth wee will tearme by their Christian and not by their Surnames are two of the chiefest personages which give life to this History therefore I hold it not impertinent for mee superficially to give the Reader their different caracters and delineations Vrsina was past the twentieth yeare of her age and Bertranna entring into her eighteenth Vrsina was tall and slender Bertranna short and somewhat crook-backed Vrsina was the fairer of the two but Bertranna by far the subtiller and wiser Vrsina was of a deepe Amber hayre but Bertranna of a coale blacke to conclude this point Vrsina was affable and courteous but Bertranna coy proud and malitious The truth and order of this History must here informe us that although these two rich young Gentlewomen had divers brave Gallants who were sutors to them for marriage yet none of them so dearely and passionatly loved Vrsina as the Baron of Sanctifiore of Capua a verie rich young Nobleman but far more proper than wise and withall far more lascivious than rich nor did or could Bertranna in her heart and mind affect any other but the said Baron neither was it possible for her father De Tores to perswade or draw her to desire any other Nobleman or Gentleman for her husband than him Thus wee see Sanctifiore deeply to love Vrsina and Bertranna him