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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60008	The famous history of Aurelius the valiant London-prentice shewing his noble exploits at home and abroad, his love, and great success. very pleasant and delightful. Written for incouragement of youth, by J.S. This may by printed, R.P.	J. S. (John Shirley), fl. 1680-1702.	1686 (1686)	Wing S3506BA; ESTC R219626	6,934	26

occasion and that their Treachery might be rewarded with disgrace he caused them to unstrip and with such Tackling as their Garments afforded he bound them to four several Trees stark-naked where these hot-brain'd Lovers took a fit of Cooling till the morning which discovering the whole Intreague their rash Valour became for some time aftter the Mirth of the Country but most of all it pleased the fair Lucinda whose favour they lost thereby CHAP. V. How his Father put him Apprentice to a Merchant and the leave he took of Lucinda THe Father of young Aurelius having received an exact account of all that had happened and fearing these Lovers might study a further Revenge to repair their Disgrace as also to prevent any Amours that might happen between him and Lucinda to whom he was not willing he should be Married he took an opportunity to discourse him about putting himself in a way that might render him capable of living in Credit in the World when finding him plyable and ready to submit to what he should propose he told him it was his pleasure he should go to London and there be put an Apprentice to some Honourable Calling that he might be a comfort to him in his Old days and that it should be in his power to chuse him a Master of any Profession Vpon this he had not long considered e're he rep●y'd That seeing it was his pleasure he was contented and for the desire he had to Travel and see strange Countries he could fancy none better than a Merchant To this the Old Man agrees and shortly after he was sent up to London and placed to a Turkey Merchant upon London-Bridge and upon his departure directed these Lines to Lucinda Pardon me Beauteous Maid if Love as yet No power a Conquest o're me has to get That you deserve what e're Love can bestow I must confess but I alas must go And wander o're the World e're I can Love Then be contented and for me ne'r grieve Subscribed Aurelius This flat denyal made the fair Lucinda shed many tears and bewail her hard fortune in loving where she was not repayed with an equal passion but soon after a Rich Farmers Son offering service to her she having with much strugling over come her former affection she changed her passion and Sacrificed her Virginity to the pleasure of this new-come Lover where Revelling in excess of joy we will leave them and follow Aurelius to his new preferment CHAP. VI. How he gained the love of his Master and became Enamoured of Dorinda his fair Daughter OVr Youth upon his Tryal proved so diligent and respectful that it was not long e're he was bound according to the Custom of the City and then doubling his diligence he won the love of the whole Family not omitting any thing that might please or be for his Masters Interest and what time he had to spare he imployed in Manly Exercise of recreating himself in the Fencing-School and in Martial Exploits gaining every where the name of a bold and hardy Youth and one that promised great things In this happy state he lived near three years when Fortune who is as unconstant as the Wind conspired to give him some disturbance for Dorinda his Masters Daughter a beautiful Virgin of about 14 Years of Age returning from the School where she had been brought up at Board her Modesty winning behaviour and Charming Graces by his often gazing on her prompted him to admire her and by degrees to conceive such a passion for that excellent Creature that he was no longer master of his heart which his eyes had given away A while he smothered the flame but in the end it broke out the fiercer and then he knew experimentally what Dorinda had suffer'd often he attempted to discover his passion and as often fear to offend stayed the words at his Tongues-end and all he could do was to sigh and stand confounded in her presence whilst the innocent Lady would frequently ask the reason but had no answer but what his eyes delivered in burning Glances Thus he continued for a month or more at the end of which he resolved one way or other to make his passion known and soon found an opportunity to drop a Letter in the way of the lovely Dorinda containing these words Beauteous Dorinda after many sighs and eager looks I have presumed to let you know if this come to your fair hand that I love you dearer than my own life and to be requited with your Love there is not any thing so hazardus that I would not undertake for your sake the inequallity I must confess is great yet Love is a power obedient to no Law but his own pitty me then as a Lover that love you above all Earthly things and look not on me as your Fathers Servant but your devoted Slave by whose Smiles I live and without which my Life must need be miserable Subscribed Aurelius This did not a little surprize the beauteous Maid who considered that although she might have cause to love him yet he being as then a Servant it would be highly displeasing to her Parents if she should countenance his affections wherefore preferring her duty and obedience before her fancy or the passion of Aurelius the next time she met him her words were That she cou'd not but wonder he should presume to make Love to her who was his Masters daughter e're half his time was expired wished him not to make mention of it any more by Letter or Word least her Father were made acquainted with it to his prejudice and so with a kind of a scornful frown left him as one in a Maze of Grief CHAP. VII How he got leave to go for Turkey and what ensued AUrelius being thus repulsed in his first Love found himself altogether restless and that as often as he beheld his beautiful Mistris his flame increased and his torture was more and more augmented and though he tryed many ways to give way to his labouring mind he found them in vain and therefore concluded unless he was removed from the lovely Object he must be always miserable and perceiving her looks and carriage every day more scornful towards him he resolved to request his Master that he might go for Turkey as his Factor in the next Fleet Which Request of his was granted without much difficulty and in a gallant Equipage took leave though not without some tears of his scornful Mistris who by this time began somewhat to relent that she had so unkindly repulsed his Address but being young and beautiful and considering that those advantages her Indulgent Father would add a large Portion her thoughts of a higher advancement hushed that care and so they parted the valiant Aurelius to the Ship and the Lady to her Chamber where we must leave her who shortly after Marryed a Rich Merchant and followed him into Turkey CHAP. VIII How he arrived in Turkey and of his Reception How he

The Famous History of the Valiant London-Prentice Printed for J. Back at the Sign of the Black-Boy on London-Bridge 1686. THE Famous History OF AURELIUS The VALIANT London PRENTICE SHEWING His Noble Exploits at home and abroad his LOVE and Great Success Very Pleasant and Delightful Written for Incouragement of Youth By J. S. This may be Printed R. P. Printed for I. Back at the Sign of the Black Boy on London-Bridge The History of the London-Prentice c. CHAP. I. An account of his Birth Education and early Valour c. IN times past there was Born in the Famous County of Cheshire a young Man of excellent beauty promising very great things even in his infancy to promote which his Parents being wealthy spared not to Educate or bring him up in the best manner the Country wou'd afford nor did he as he grew up fail in any thing their expectation In learning he was well seen and in many other matters but nothing so enflamed his mind as the desire of Exercising himself in ●eats of Arms and was the more incited thereto by Reading the Famous adventures of Knights-Errant how successful they were in over-coming Gyants and Monsters and rescuing beauteous Ladies from death and misery and as these heroick thoughts increased so he found his strength abound nature not sparing to give him manly limbs and an able body so that in his Childish Encounters those that far surpassed him in Years were not able to resist his force nor come near him in Wrestling Iumping Runing casting the Bar Stone or Dart which made not his Parents but a little proud of such a blessing whom they had named Aurelius as one that promised great things CHAP. II. An account of his first adventures and Enterprizes where he won the Virgins hearts c. WHen Aurelius was at the age of fourteen he went to a Wake or Mercy meeting to recreate himself with other Youths of the Country where he so well behaved himself that his courage activity strength and beauty gained great applause and took so mainly with the Virgins that some of them began to fee a Feavour in their minds which Cupid who at such mercy meetings is seldome wanting in Promoting the Business of Love failed not to increase but he as yet not capable of feeling the flame of passion that way regarded not their amorous glances nor understood the silent Language of inflamed hearts though it notwithstanding created him those Enemies that were causelesly jealous of him as a most dangerous Rival and who gathered their reason for it from the many praises their Mistresses bestowed on him in his absence CHAP. III. How the fair Lucinda fell in love with him and how those she despised for his sake conspir'd against him OVr Youth increasing his Strength and beauty with his years and continuing as occasion offered to appear in publick amongst those admiring Virgins that in a manner doted on him and often wished to be Mistris of his affections Lucinda the fair Daughter of a Wealthy Shepherd was the chief who sought by many ways to oblige him and to let him understand her passion but Modesty sealing her Lips he did not or wou'd not Interpret her dumb signs but kept on his Merriment without any regard of her passion which made her sigh and grow Melancholly refusing to entertain the Address of those that adored her and doted on her Beauties more than she did on those that adorned our Heroick Youth This sudden alteration made them restless till they knew the cause of it which was not long e're they did from her Virgin Compan●ons to whom she had droped some words of her pass●on as likewise by a Letter she had written in order to send to him by a trusty hand but had accidentally droped it in which were these words Dear Aurelius seeing you do not understand the Language of a Love-sick Virgins Eyes pardon my Boldness if with Blushes I have taken the liberty to let you know Lucinda doats on you and begs you wou'd requite her Love with Love who for your sake renounces the rest of Mankind Then have Compassion or Lucinda must be miserable Subscribed Lucinda This giving the Amorists a full knowledge upon whose account they found such cold Entertainment from their beloved Mistris whom every one of them feared to loose they bent their study how to remove that Screen that stood between them and their much-desired happiness some were of opinion that nothing but the death of Aurelius could effect it but others of a milder disposition declared that it would not onely be too much Cruelty but bring their own lives in question therefore considering woman-kind was generally more taken with the Beauty of the Body than with that of the Soul they thought it fit to Deform him with Poyson but where to get it they knew not and so came to re●u●t that disfigure his Face c. with Wounds might work the same effect and put an end to the passion of their dear Lucinda which they knew not any other ways to distinguish CHAP. IV. How they attempted to destroy Aurelius but were overcome and left naked in the Wood. THe Plot thus lay'd against our valiant youth many ways were sought for an opportunity to put it in practice till at last they understand he was gone to pay a visit to an Aunt of his who lived at a Village about two miles from his Fathers house and that he must return by a Wood This Lucky opportunity as they imagined it made them all Leap for Ioy there being four in number they Armed them with mischievous Weapons and in disguise placed themselves in Ambush under a Thicket of Trees in the way he must pass each Swearing to the other to keep the thing secret though they keep not their Oaths as you will hear Long they had not stayed but as they wished our Valiant Youth not dreaming of such Treachery came on but hearing the Bushes rusle he made a halt to see what it meant when out leaped the Lovers and incompassing him after they had uttered many big words and reviled him at an unseemly rate they made in to graple with who ignorant of their intent and scorning to stoop to fear took the two foremost in either hand and by main force brought their heads together that they rung like a Barbers Bason so that stunded with the violent Knocks after staggering some paces down they fell and having by this time wrested a Weapon from one of them he set upon the other two with such fury that giving them several Wounds they when they found the blood run about their ears fell on their knees and cryed for mercy as did the other who by this time were recovered from their Trance yet could not they obtain their wish till he had Thrashed them into a Confession of the whole matter and thereby became sensible of the Love Lucinda bore him and that she might come to the knowledge of what had happened on this