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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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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