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A02151	The pleasant historie of Dorastus and Fawnia VVherein is discovered, that although by the meanes of sinister fortune, truth may be concealed; yet by time, in spight of fortune, it is manifestly revealed. ... By Robert Greene, Master of Arts in Cambridge.; Pandosto	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1636 (1636)	STC 12292; ESTC S103413	39,826	56

THE PLEASANT HISTORIE OF Dorastus and Fawnia Wherein is discovered that although by the meanes of sinister Fortune Truth may be concealed yet by Time in spight of Fortune it is manifestly revealed Pleasant for age to avoyd drowsie thoughts Profitable for Youth to avoyd other wanton Pastimes And bringing to both a desired Content Temporis filia Veritas By ROBERT GREENE Master of Arts in Cambridge Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci. LONDON Printed for Francis Faulkner and are to be sold at his shop in Southwarke neere Saint Margarets Hill 1636. THE HISTORIE OF DORASTVS AND FAWNIA AMongst all the passions wherewith humane minds are perplexed there is none that sogalleth with restlesse despight as that infectious sore of iealousie For all other griefes are either to be appeased with sensible perswasion to be cured with wholesome counsell to be relieued in w●nt or by tract of time to be worne out Iealousie only excepted which is sauced with suspitious doubts and pinching mistrust that who so séekes by friendly counsell to raze out this hellish passion it forthwith suspecteth that he giueth this aduice to couer his owne gui●tines Yea who so is pinched with this restlesse torment doubteth all disturbeth himselfe is alwayes frozen with feare fired with suspition hauing that wherein consisteth all his ioy to be the breeder of his misery Yea it is such an heauy enemy to that heauy estate of matrimony sowing betweene the married couples such deadly séeds of secret hatred as loue being once razed o●t by spightfull distrust there often ensueth bloody reuenge as this ensuing History manifestly proueth wherein Pandosto furiously incensed by a causeles iealousie procured the death of his most louing and loyall wife and his owne endlesse sorrow and misery IN the Country of Bohemia there raigned a King called Pandosto whose fortunate successe in Warrs against his foes and bountifull courtesie towards his friends in Peace made him to be greatly feared and loued of all men This Pandosto had to wise a Lady called Bellaria by birth Royall learned by education faire by nature by vertues famous so that it was hard to iudge whether her beauty fortune or vertue w●n she greatest commendations These two linked together in perfect loue led their liues with such fortunate content that their subiects greatly reioyced to sée their quiet disposition They had not béen married long but fortune willing to increase their happinesse lent them a Sonne so adorned with the gifts of Nature as the perfection of the Child greatly augmented the loue of the Parents and the ioy of their Commons in so much that the Bohemians to shew their inward ioyes by outward actions made Bone-fires and Triumphes thorowout all the Kingdome appoynting Iusts and Turneis for the honour of their young Prince whether resorted not onely his Nobles but also diuers Kings and Princes which were his neighbours willing to shew in their friendship they ought to Pandosto and to win fame glory by their prowesse valour Pandosto whose mind was fraught with Princely liberality entertained the Kings Princes and Noble-men with such submisse courtesie and magnificall bounty that they all saw how willing hée was to grat●fie their good wills making a generall feast for all his Subiects which continued by the space of twenty dayes all which time the Iusts and Turneis were kept to the great content both of the Lords and Ladies there present This solemne Triumph being once ended the assembly taking their leaue of Pandosto and Bellaria the young Son who was called Carinter was n●rsed vp in the house to the great ioy and content of their Parents Fortune enuious of such happy successe willin● to shew some signe of her inconstancy turned her whéele and darkned their bright Sunne of prosperity with the misty clouds of mishap and misery For so it hapned that Egistus King of Sicila who in his youth had béen drought vp with Pandosto desirous to shew that neither tract of time or distance of place could diminish their former friendship prouided a Nauie of ships and sailed into Bohemia to visit his old friend and companion who hearing of his arriuall went himselfe in person and his wife Bellaria accompanied with a great t●aine of Lords Ladies to meét Egistus es●ying him alighted from his horse embraced him very louingly protesting that nothing in the world could haue hapned more acceptable for him then his comming wishing his wife to welcome his old friend and acquaintance who to shew how she liked him whom her husband loued entertained him with such familiar curtesie as Egistus perceiued himselfe to be very well welcome After they had thus saluted and embraced each other they mounted againe on Horsebacke and rode toward● the City deuising and recounting how being children they had passed their youth in friendly pastimes where by the meanes of the Citizens Egistus was receiued with triumphs and shewes in such sort that he maruelled how on so small a warning they rould make such proparation Passing the Stréets thus with such rare sights they rode on to the Palace where Pandosto entertained Egistus and his Sicilians with such b●nque●ing and sumptuous chéere so royally as they had all cause to commend his princely liberality yea the very basest flaue that was knowne to come from Sicilia was vsed with much curtesie that Egistus might easily pereiue how both he and his were honoured for his friends sake Bellaria who in her time was the flowre of courtesie willing to shew how vnfainedly she loued her husband by her friends entertainemet vsed him like wise so familiarly that her countenance bewraied how her heart was affected toward him oftentimes comming her selfe into his bed chamber to sée if nothing should be amisse to dislike him This honest familiarity increased daily more and more betwixt them for Bellaria noting in Egistus a Princely and bountifull mind adorned with sundry excellent qualities and Egistus finding in her a vertuous curteous disposition there grew such a secret vniting of their affections that the one could not well be without the company of the other insomuch that when Pandosto was busied with such vrgent affaires that he could not be present with his friend Egistus Bellaria would walk with him into the garden there they two in priuate pleasant deuices would passe away their time to both their contents This custome still continuing betwixt them a certain emelantholy passion entrring the mind of Pondosto droue him into sundry and doubtfull thoughts First he called to mind the beauty of his wife Bellaria the comelines and brauery of his friend Egistus thinking that loue was aboue all Lawes therfore to be staied with no law that it was hard to put ●●re flax together without burning that their open pleasure might bréed his secret displeasure He considered with himselfe that Egistus was a man and must needs loue that his wife was a woman and therfore subiect to loue and that

commanded them that they should not presume to reade it before they came to the presence of Pandosto unlesse they would incurre the displeasure of Apollo The Bohemian Lords carefully obeying his command taking their leaue of the Priest with great reuerence departed out of the Temple and went to their Ships and as soone as Wind would permit them sayled towards Bohemia where in short time they safely arriued and with great Triumph issuing out of their ships went to the Kings Palace whom they found in his Chamber accompanied with other Noble-men Pandosto no sooner saw them but with a merry countenance he welcomed them home asking what newes They told his Maiesty that they had receiued answer of the god written in a Scrowle but with this charge that they should not read the contents before they came in the presence of the King and with that they deliuered him the Parchment But his Noblemen intreated him that sith therein were conteined either the safety of his Wifes life and honesty vr her death and perpetuall infamy that hee would haue his Nobles and Commons assembled in the Iudgement Hall where the Queene brought in as a prisoner should heare the contents If she were sound guilty by the Oracle of the god then all should haue cause to thinke his rigour procéeded of due desert if her Grace were found faultlesse then she should be cléered before all sith she had beene accused openly This pleased the King so that hée appointed the day and assembled all the Lords and Commons and caused the Quéene to be brought in before the Iudgement Seat commanding that the Iudgement should be read wherein she was accused of Adultery with Egistus and of conspiracy with Franion Bellaria hearing the contents was no whit astonished but made this chéerefull answer IF the Diuine powers be priuy to humane Actions as no doubt they are I hope my patience shall make Fortune blush and my vnspotted life shall staine spitefull discredit For although lying report hath sought to appeach mine honour and suspition hath intended to soyle credit with infamy yet where Vertue kéepeth the Fort report and suspition may assayle but neuer sacke How I haue led my life before Egistus comming I appeale Pandosto to the gods and to thy conscience What hath passed betwéene him and mee the gods onely know and I hope will presently reueale That I loued Egistus I cannot deny that I honoured him I shame not to confesse To the one I was forced by his vertue to the other for his dignities But as touching lasciuious lust I say Egistus is honest and hope my selfe to be found without spot For Franion I can neither accuse him nor excuse him I was not priuy to his departure And that this is true which I haue here rehearsed I referre my selfe vnto the Diuine Oracle BEllaria had no sooner said but the King commanded that one of the Dukes should reade the contents of the Scrowle which after the Commons had heard they gaue a great shoute reioycing and clapping their hands that the Quéene was cleare of that false accusation But the King whose conscience was a witnesse against him of his witlesse sury and false suspected iealousie was ●o ashamed of his rash folly that hee intreated his Nobles to perswade Bellaria to forgiue and forget these iniuries promising not onely to shew himselfe a loyall and louing Husband but also to reconcile himselfe to Egistu and Franion reuealing then before them all the cause of their secret flight and how trecherously hee thought to haue practised his death if the good minde of his Cup-bearer had not preuented his purpose As thus hee was relating the whole matter there was word brought him that his young Sonne Garinter was suddenly dead which newes so soone as Bellaria heard surcharged before with extreme ioy and now suppressed with heauy sorrow her vitall spirits were stopped that shée fell downe presently dead and neuer could be reuiued This sudden sight so appalled the Kings senses that hée sunke from his Seate in a swound so as hée was faine to be carried by his Nobles to his Palace where hée lay by the space of thrée daies without spéech His Commons were as men in despaire so diuersly distressed there was nothing but mourning and lamentation to be heard throughout all Bohemia their young Prince dead their vertuous Quéene bereaued of her life and their King and Soueraigne in great hazzard this tragicall discourse of Fortune so daunted them as they went like shadowes not men yet somewhat to comfort their heauy hearts they heard that Pandosto was come to himselfe and had recouered his spéech who as in sury brayed these bitter spéeches O Miserable Pandosto what surer witnes then conscience What thoughts more sowre then suspition what plague more bad then Iealousie Vnnaturall actions offend the gods more then men and causelesse cruelty neuer scapes without reuenge I haue committed such a bloudy fact as repent I may but recall I cannot Ah Iealousie a hell to the mind and a horrour to the conscience suppressing reason and melting rage a worse passion then frenzy a greater plague then madnesse Are the gods iust then let them reuenge such brutish cruelty my innocent Babe I haue drowned in the Seas my louing wife I haue slaine with slanderous suspition my trusty friend I haue sought to betray and yet the gods are siacke to plague such offences Ah vniust Apollo Pandosto is the man that hath committed the fault why should Garinter silly Child abide the paine Well sith the gods meaneto prolonge my daies to increase my dolour I will offer my guilty bloud a sacrifice to those guiltlesse soules whose liues are lost by rigorous folly And with that hée reached at a Rapier to haue murthered himselfe but his Péeres being present stayed him from such a bloudy act perswading him to thinke that the Common-wealth consisted on his safety and that those sheepe could not but perish that wanted a Shepheard wishing that if he would not liue for himselfe yet he should haue a care of his Subiects and to put such fancies out of his mind sith in sores past helpe salues doe not heale but hurt and in things past cure care is a corrosiue Withthese and such like perswasions the King was ouercome and began some what to quiet his mind so that so soone as he could goe abroad he caused his wife to be imbalmed and wrapt in Lead with her young Sonne Garinter erecting a rich and famous Sepulchre wherein he intombed them both making such solemne obsequies at her Funerall as all Bohemia might perceiue he did greatly repent him of his fore-passed folly causing this Epitaph to be ingrauen on her Tombe in Letters of Gold The Epitaph Here lyes intombde Bellaria faire Falsly accus'd to be vnchaste Cleer'd by Apollo's sacred doome Yet slaine by Jealousie at last What ere thou be that passest by Curse him that caus'd this Queene to die THis Epitaph being ingrauen Pandosto would once

the one and thy high dignities the other Beggers thoughts ought not to reach as farre as Kings and yet my desires reach as high as Princes I dare not say Dorastus I loue thée because I am a Shepheardesse but the gods know I haue honoured Dorastus pardon if I say amisse yea and loued Dorastus with such dutifull affection as Fawnia can performe or Dorastus desire I yeeld not ouercome with prayers but with loue resting Dorastus hand-maid ready to obey his will if no preiudice at all to his honour nor my credit DOrastus hearing this friendly conclusion of Fawnia embraced her in his armes swearing that neither distance time nor aduerse fortune should diminish his affection but that in despight of the destinies hee would remaine faithfull to death Hauing thus plight their troth each to other seeing they could not haue the full fruition of their loue in Sicilia for that Egistus consent would neuer be granted to so meane a match Dorastus determined as soone as time and opportunity would giue him leaue to prouide a great masse of mony and many rich and costly Iewels for the easier carriage and then to transport themselues and their Treasure into Italy wherethey should lead a contented life vntill such time as either hée could be reconciled to his father or else by succession come to the Kingdome This deuice was greatly praised of Fawnia for shee feared if the King his father should but heare of the contract that his fury would be such as no lesse than death should stand for payment Shée therefore told him that delay bred danger that many mishappes did fall out betwéene the cup and lip and that to auoyd danger it were best with as much spéede as might be to passe out of Sicilia least fortime might preuent their patience with some new despight Dorastus whom loue pricked forward with desire promised to dispat●h his affaires with as great haste as either time or opportunity would giue him leaue and so resting vpon this point after many embracings and swéet kisses they departed Dorastus hauing taken his leaue of his best beloued Fawnia went to the Groue where he had his rich apparell and there vncasing himselfe as secretly as might be hiding vp his Shepheards attyre till occasion should serue againe to vse it hée went to the Palace she wing by his merry countenance that either the state of his body was amended or the cause of his minde greatly addressed Fawnia poore soule was no lesse ioyfull that being a Shepheardesse fortune had fauoured her so as to reward her with the loue of a Prince hoping in time to be aduanced from the daughter of a poore Farmour to be wife to rich a King So that she thought euery houre ayéere till by their departure they might preuent danger not ceasing still to goe euery day to her sheepe not so much for the care of the flocke as for the desire she had to sée her Loue and Lord Dorastus who oftentimes when opportunity would serue repaired thither to feed his fancy with the swéet content of Fawnia's presence And although hée neuer went to visite her but in these Shepheards ragges yet his oft repayre made him not onely suspected but knowne to diuers of their neighbours who for the good will they bare to old Porrus told him secretly of the matter wishing him to kéepe his daughter of home lest shee went so long to the field that she brought him home a young sonne For they feared that Fawnia being so beautifull the young Prince would allure her to folly Porrus was stricken in a dumpe at these newes so that thanking his neighbours for their good will he hyed him home to his wife and calling her aside wringing his hands and shedding forth teares hee brake the matter to her in these termes I Am afraid wife that my daughter Fawnia hath made her selfe to sinne that she will buy repentance too déere I haue newes which if they be true some will wish they had not proued true It is told me by my neighbours that Dorastus the Kings sonne begins to looke at our daughter Fawnia which if it be so I will not giue her a halfe-peny for her honesty at the yéeres end I tell thée wife now a dayes beauty is a great sta●e to trap young men and faire words and swéet promises are two great enemies to maides honesty and thou knowest where poore intreat and cannot obtaine there Princes may command and will obtaine Though Kings sonnes daunce in nets they may not bee séene yet poore mens faults are espied at a little hole Well it is a hard care where Kings lusts are lawes and that they should bind poore men to that which they themselues wilfully breake Peace husband quoth his wife take heed what wee say Speake no more then you should least you heare what you would not Great streames are to be stopped by sleight not by force and Princes to be perswaded by submission not by rigour Doe what you can but no more then you may least in sauing Fawnia's maiden-head you lose your owne head Take heed I say it is ill iesting with edged tooles and bad sporting with Kings The Wolfe had his skin pulled ouer his eares for but looking into the Lyons den Tush wife quoth he thou speakest like a foole If the King should know that Dorastus had gotten our daughter with child as I feare it will fall out little better the Kings fury would be such as no doubt we should both lose our goods and liues necessity therefore hath no law and I will preuent this mischiefe with a new deuice that is come into my head which shall neither offend the King nor displease Dorastus I meane to take the chaine and the Iewels that I found with Fawnia and carry them to the King letting him then to vnderstand how shee is none of my daughter but that I found her beaten vp with the water alone in a little boat wrapped in a rich mantle wherein was inclosed this treasure By this meanes I hope the King will take Fawnia into his seruice and wee whatsoeuer chance shall be blamelesse This deuise pleased the good-wife very well so that they determined as soone as they might know the King at leisure to make him priuy to this case In the meane time Dorastus was not slacke in his affaires but applied his matters with such diligence that he prouided all things fit for their iourney Treasure and Iewels he had gotten great store thinking there was no better friend then mony in a strange Countrey Rich attire he had prouided for Fawnia and because hee could not bring the matter to passe without the helpe and aduice of some one he made an old seruant of his called Capnio who had serued him from his child hood priuy to his affaires who séeing no perswasions could preuaile to diuert him from his setled determination gaue his consent and dealt so secretly in the cause that within short space he had gotten a