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A15791	The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania. Written by the right honorable the Lady Mary Wroath. Daughter to the right noble Robert Earle of Leicester. And neece to the ever famous, and renowned Sr. Phillips Sidney knight. And to ye most exele[n]t Lady Mary Countesse of Pembroke late deceased	Wroth, Mary, Lady, ca. 1586-ca. 1640.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.	1621 (1621)	STC 26051; ESTC S122291	691,315	600

greater taking away the inheritance of others as from me your friend who haue as much right to misery as any liuing in as great excesse of it and hauing as large possessions in that gouernment then spare me liberty to complaine with you permit mee to say misfortune is as much mine as yours and then like fellow subiects let vs bewaile the weight of that vniust tyranny Pardon mee deare friend said he● if I would wholly take ill to my selfe since it is to free you and all worthy people from that which I am fittest to beare as a creature fram'd for the vassalage of Loue and his crueltie but since you aske liberty to bewaile take it and let that bring your freedome while it redoubles on my breast as being mine and yours tell mee then all your woe and know you speake to woe it selfe in speaking vnto me Then Dolorindus beginning with the set order of louers which is with sighes and teares began his discourse thus Free from the knowledge of harme it was my hap to meete a Lady hunting in a great Forrest attended on by many braue Gentlemen and Knights but being more then woman-like excellent in riding she had left her Ladies or rather they had left her not able to attend her in that surpassing quality I young and affecting sport fell into the company marking more that braue Diana then the chase shee followed which was of a Stagge who though hee tooke pride in being so pursued and that it was in him to make her follow stoutly commanded her attendance yet cowardly flying from her thinking it better to trust to his speed then her mercy yet was he rewarded at last fit for his merit for standing at bay as if to threaten her doggs and euen before her face gazing on her she stroke him with a Crossebow to the heart then weepingly hee fell downe at her feete groaning for her vnkindnesse yet was not this the cruelst blow she gaue for O me shee did likewise wound my breast Then came they all about her admiring the hurt while I admired any seeing her could liue vnwounded Some prais'd the hounds that so truly hunted I prais'd mine eyes that neuer were at fault till they brought home the honor of the day which was the losse of my poore heart hunted by mine eyes vnto that bay When all the rights were done and doggs rewarded I alone vnsatisfied for my great gift shee nobly intreated the company to goe with her vnto her house which all agreed vnto and my selfe vnknowne to any there tooke my way with them boldly aduenturing on that inuitation We sat downe at dinner all the discourse was still vpon the sport that morning the Stagge afforded them to which I gaue a poore assistance for hauing been bred abroad to learning and to armes I was an vnexperienced hunts-man which she marked and accordingly made vse of telling mee that sure the hunting was not pleasing to me or the want of that exercise had made me vnskilfull in the discourse I said the latter was the true reason for till that day I neuer saw that sport though I had knowne the field delights in many sorts Then fell she to discourse of martiall things being excellently learned in all the Arts knowledge no way scanting her Thus dinner past when horses againe were brought forth and she waited on by vs went forth to see Haukes flee spending the after-noone in that delight inuiting vs againe with her when before supper choyce of musique was bestowed vpon vs all these did well and best to serue her best beloued selfe but these alas prou'd but more hurts to mee making mee by them see my greater losse loue like a se●pent poysoning my ioyes and biting my best daies venomd all my blisse making my new pris'd wound death to my hopes and sorrow to my soule Pitie I wanted pitie I sought but pity durst not ask and thus did griefe take me in me make abiding commiseration was the mark I aimed at but feare held my hand I saw her faire and delicate and therfore imagined soft pity to be within so sweet a cage yet had her eies such powerful might as gaue command that none should dare to claime so rich a blisse ouerwhelmed with the cruelst spite that Nature could inflict vpon a man I remaind which was fild with a youthfull bashfulnesse which ouerswaied my humblest heart disasters glorying in my patient suffering excessiuenesse of sorrow flowing in me for now was the time to part or if I would remaine I must not hide my selfe or longer stay vnknowne for then was her husband to returne from a iourney made vnto the neighbour I le wherefore I thought it not amisse the company all gone to take my time and thus I spake vnto her If that which I must say should turne to giue offence accursed would I thinke the time and words I go about to vtter but comming from a man wholly deuoted to your seruice I hope they will produce such ends as they are now directed to and so may make me blessed if blessing can descend on one so much vnblest yet as my self this time wherin I haue enioied the full of outward ioy beholding you hath yet brought loues attendants losse feare with it losse of my libertie tyed wholly to your wil feare in my heart if you despise my loue cause of affection I can challenge none for me if not in gratitude to me who giue my self for it a strangers name may make you scorne me not knowing worth in me but boldnesse fitting all contempt these yet you may cast by for this stranger your seruant am sonne to the King and your humblest louer Dolorindus She who before did in her lookes manifest the breeding of a curst reply a little smoothed the tempest of her rage and wi●h sober reuerence demanded pardon for her vsing me with no more respect and yet my Lord said she the fault may sooner be pardoned since 't was you which were the cause of it Then did I againe solicit she modestly but confidently much refus'd Her husband then arriued who knowing mee gaue free and noble welcome I sought how still to induce the man to loue my company and to seeke it which hee did also hauing his ends which surely he might gaine so I might compasse mine to which for all her chast replies and curious preseruing of her honour in her words at last I did obtaine and so her loue in as equall measure as mine was to her which was without compare had hers not equald it Thus it continued for some yeeres all the mirth and sports that were in Negropont were still at her Castle Maskes Iusts Huntings nothing can bee thought on that was not in plenty at her house My selfe though sonne vnto the king yet my sister being to inherit the kingdome was not so much lookt after if not by no●le minds as shee who was to rule so as I gain'd by that meanes both more

that the Queene wrought cunningly enough vpon it to mixe iealousie with the fathers loue to his sonne shee neuer ceasing to wish the subiects loue as great and firme to his Maiestie as shee and all others saw their hearts were placed vpon his worthy sonne which though he for his affection to him did not yet make vse of yet it is a fine thing said she to bee a king and a terrible matter to be tempted were you not safely blessed with so honest a son And therefore you must trust more to the loyaltie of Antissius then the faith of his people who he might perceiue regarded nothing lesse then their due respect to him Sparingly she spake well of him but freely to make suspition Thus now was he falne into the path which led to the court of her malice for buzing these things in his old and fearefull eares shee at last brought to this fulnesse of ill One day as she had appointed being priuately with the King in a Gallery two of the Counsell came in in hast yet a dissembling feare in their faces counterfei●ing need but doubt and vnwillingnesse to discouer what mou'd in them this sudden approch The King vrg'd them when with teares they told him that they had gaind knowledge of a dangerous conspiracy which was plotted to be instantly executed vpon the persons of his Maiesty and his most royal Queen by Antissius and my self the treason being this to depose him kil the Queen banish the Counsell I make himselfe Monarch of Romania dispose the offices already disposed of among his fauourites and the whole realme as he best liked to his followers and associats and in this kind make a conquest of it Then alas sir said they what will become of poore Romania when your vertue and wisdome shall be put by their gouernment and his greene capacity and those young wild headed Counsellors shall rule ouer vs who were fitter at schoole to learne obedience and loyalty then to sway a Scepter besides the wrong and sin of taking the lawfull Prince from among his people This related and seconded by the Queen who stil in a double maner clear'd condemn'd poore Antissius whose iust and vertuous heart neuer thought of such a treason nor of her if not with sorrow for her wickednes It wrought so far in the iealous brest of the old man as he manifested his crediting it and with all the feare hee conceiu'd of it expressing as much hate to his son as such a wicked practise might iustly challenge Then hastily as feare is alwaies sudden he demaunded aduice with the best and readiest way to auoide the danger They yet hauing gone but halfe way of their diuelish progresse replied That since it pleased him to haue such confidence in them as to aske their aduice in so great a busines they would as honestly discharge themselues and this they held the safest and the best course which was that the Prince who they must still loue and reuerence and whose fault cut their hearts to thinke of should be sent for but in such manner as he should haue no cause to distrust lest then he went about to gaine by force what they before had been inform'd he hoped to compasse by a priuate conspiracie This aduice and the plot it selfe he imparted to some more of the Counsell who already were sufficiently instructed in their parts and so accordingly agreed consenting nay commending the graue carefull and honest aduice of the other two Then was a Messenger straight dispatched to the Prince who like a braue but innocent Hart came into the toile with order to come himselfe his wife and So●ne vnto the King whose age and weaknesse being great and his affection only left strong in him towards him and his would haue them neerer to him and for that he would recompēce him for the iniuries in former times done to him I was not at home for had I bin the iourney surely had bin hindred while Antissius doubting no treason his noble heart being free from thinking any in haste hoping that way to expresse the ioy hee felt by these vnexpected glad tidings posted to the Court leauing word that I who was to returne in a very short time after should with all conuenient speed accompany his wife and sonne to the King Few daies he had rid before he was encountred with a troope of horse vnder the commaund of an ancient friend of his and a friend indeed he was in this action being betrayd as well as he sent vnder colour of loue to the Prince who since hee had or at least it being thought hee had so much dislik'd his father as hee had forbid him his once heeld-deerest sight and that the people had taken notice of it in a dangerous kind to preuent any bold or hazardus attempt might happen by a rude multitude the Queene had sent this troupe to guard him and that she knowing the loue this Gentleman bare Antissius had made choice of him to conduct his person thither Antissius was somewhat troubled with this accident wondring why she should be on the sudden so kind knowing th●t there was none whose ruin she and her godly crew more shot at yet could not he who saw only with the eies of vertue pierce into this plot Mildly and gratiously hee saluted the Captaine and his men yet telling them his innocency had been guard enough for his person They went on but when they were within ●ight of the great Citie of Constantinople the Court then being there they perceiued a farre greater number of Souldiers with which sight hee saw his end and soone heard he sentence of his death for then did they set vpon him crying Downe with that Traytor that disobedient child the incurable griefe of his louing father the dishonour of our Countrie and the Canker of the States quiet With these cries they rushed violently vpon the Prince The first troope seeing this Treason did their best to defend Antissius but their liues could not buy his safetie in vaine striuing to alter destiny the period of his dayes being come with a blow giuen him by a trayterous villaine which strake his head in two Griefe of this accident turn'd to fury his party ●ighting as if Antisius had beene in euery one and so to bee defended but that was past their loues onely liuing to him Yet dyed it too for none were left of the whole Troope but the Captaine and some tenne more The Queenes men hauing gain'd almost what they sought fully to giue her satisfaction in his death yet wanted part since they could not get his bodie to be made a present to her cruelty For the Captaine perceiuing their drift hinder'd them of it taking him vp when he saw the vnluky blow giuen and in the heate of the ●●ight fled away with it knowing this a better piece of seruice then to haue lost his life in reuenge at that time since to better purpose he might saue it in

so he is the treasure of all hellish properties the best of his qualities which are smooth fashion and eloquent speech turnd and imployd to no other vse then flattery and deceitfull glozings These worke on my father and so haue they their part in me hee beleeues and loues him I perceiue and hate him but which workes most with my father is that he so much seemes to desire me out of affection as he sayes that hee will take mee with nothing such affection and fondnesse my father beares and carries ouer a young sister of mine as to make her Princesse of his Ilands he consents to giue mee to this Prince of wickednesse I hauing no meanes to saue my selfe from the destruction this loathed match would bring me I went to this Lord mine Vncle to whom I declared my misfortune and ensuing ruine if I did marry so Hee taking pitie on me conueyed me thence with these Knights and Ladies whose affections to me are such as not to leaue me in such distresse but accompany mee rather in aduenture of ill then assured ill but alas what shall I say I am the miserablest of women if I fall into his hands againe which I hope you will keepe me from I was by the aduice of these my friends put into the search of Amphilanthus the honour of Knights of Parselius Rosindy Perissus Steriamus or Selarinus all which are famous men whose honours shine equally and either of whose assistance had been assured gaine but some of them are as I perceiued by one I met so farre off and there in such imployment as I ventur'd not to obtaine their fauours after I met a knight who told mee Amphilanthus and Perissus with the valliant Ollorandus were gone into Morea wherefore thither I purposed to goe but a storme tooke me casting me vpon this place where I haue gaind this happinesse as I hope it to my selfe by finding you wherefore I pray honour me with telling me who you are Most worthie Ladie said hee since you had desire to haue some of these named Knights you may thinke your fortune the worse in finding mee and putting confidence in mee so farre short of those Princes wherefore I would desire to conceale my name till my actions may allow the bold discouerie of it let mee then I beseech you bee so fauoured by this second honour as to giue mee leaue onely to bee called your Knight till I merit by my seruice to you your knowing more of mee Shee granted his request verily imagining him to be some of them by his speech and thereupon her comfort increased Then did she bestow a very rich and costly armour on him his owne hauing been but hardly vs'd by a curst but ouerthrowne enemy which hapned in this manner After he had left Athens and at his returne receiud the honour of knighthood it was his determination to seeke his brother Parselius and to that purpose he pass'd through his fathers Countries vnknowne not leauing any aduenture vnattempted wherein hee might make triall of his force which hee made so good testimony of as he was feared in all those parts being calld the Knight of the Speare by reason he carried the figure of one in his sheild as he did that shape on his arme but hearing no newes of his brother hee tooke to the sea and among the many Ilands it was his fortune in Metelin to win and loose where his greatest honour he obtaind his freedome hee lost happening thus Passing by a strait way into a faire meadow hee saw a maruellous rich and costly Pauillion placed about it many Tents and before them all a shining Pillar of Gold whereon were written these words The worthiest Knight and Seruant to the fairest Lady defends this and the honour of themselues against any bold man that dares gaine-say the worth or beauty of them He scorning such presumption strake vpon the Pillar whereupon one came to him telling him his Lord would soone encounter him Straight came he forth being one of the cruellest and hard-fauoredst men that could be a man and no monster his bignes extraordinary his fiercenesse such as could not be withstood with ordinary strength armed he was with plates of yron and his horse answerable to his master in all things so as an excellent choice was made as if both framd for one another and neuer were two beasts better matched none fit to ride the one but he who was fittest to be master of the other This creature came with a troope of his vassals before him for so he calld them into the field each of them carrying the Sheilds and Helmets of those knights he had conquered before that Pillar all which they placed in order as they were wonne but for his greater glory on the ground Then aduanced he to the Greeke Prince scornefully pitying him who so boldly ventured his youth against such an experienced conquerour But hee in whom vertuous modesty liu'd mixt with manly strength only desired the fight rather then discourse so they ran one against the other with such comlinesse fiercenesse and strength as in either part was seene rightly placing those properties The Prince had his Helme strooke off the other was run thorow the shoulder part of the staffe staying in him withall he fell from his horse but being recouerd and seeing the danger the other was fallen into by losse of his Helme he in regard of that forgot his hurt and with furious rage set vpon the Prince who couering himselfe with his Sheild as nobly and brauely defended himselfe they fought till the bloud ran as fast from their wounds as dropps from a louers eyes comming from as heart-bleeding a cause for at last the Monster was killed and the Prince taken out of the field for dead but who except loue could be such a Chirurgion for whether was hee brought but to the Princesse who lay but one league thence an excellent Chirurgion and as excellent a Ladie who so carefully tended him as hee in short time recouered but to a more lasting paine for fauour and cures bringing tormenting wounds shee put balme to the hurts giuen by the enemy but shee a friend foe-like did make much deeper and more harmefull ones piercing the heart which in the fight kept it selfe secure now fallen into extremitie of losse but what was gaind besides this danger and threatning ruine for the younger sister cald Erinea fell inamord with him and so passionate was she of him as she ran to her father cast her selfe at his feete besought him to get that stranger for her or to see her soone buried He whose fondnesse was and is without expression vowed to satisfie her The Prince got notice of it and so priuately stole away his affections being gratefully and passionately placed on the other kindnesse wounding and bringing loue Then passed he where he heard still of the flourishing fame of his kindred lastly his Brothers losse which hee gaind by the meeting of the Squire Clorinus