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A36282
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Don Henriquez de Castro, or, The conquest of the Indies a Spanish novel / translated out of Spanish by a person of honour.; Historia tragicomica de Don Henrique de Castro. English
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Loubayssin de Lamarca, Francisco.
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1686
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Wing D1844; ESTC R11561
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that there is no body who may not be deceived by him and who would not trust his discretion It is not that which I mean replied Don Henriquez but that she is a Lady disguised in the habit of a Man and that therefore your Daughter is in great security with her This discourse increasing the wonder of the Lady the Company desired Don Henriquez to relate what had passed between Don Garcia and him and what he had learnt of the History of his Life he gave immediately this satisfaction to the strange Lady but she could find no ease by it Don Henriquez for his part had not less impatience to discourse in private with the old Man and to know from him who that Julia was who so perfectly resembled Leonora So soon as it was day he engaged him to walk with him and having shewed him her Picture he asked him if he there discovered the Features of Julia after the old Man had assured him that it was the true Picture he asked him by what accident he had lost her I cannot replied the Stranger satisfie your curiosity without opening again a wound which has bled for a long time but which now begins to close but if it be any service to you I will endeavour to overcome my grief to relate to you the accidents with which my life has been crost Don Henriquez told him it was very important for his quiet to hear this relation and having conducted him into a private place that they might not be interrupted he made him sit down in the shade and desired him to satisfie his Curiosity which he did in this manner The History of Don Estevan I am called Don Estevan de Castro What interruped Don Henriquez are you the Father of Don Lorenzo who was thought to have died in Prison at Tunis I am he replied Don Estevan Fortune which reserved me for other Crosses rescued me from Slavery to make my sufferings the more lasting And I replied Don Henriquez am the Son of the same Don Lorenzo and of Teresamendez I had replied Don Estevan some suspition of it before for I observed his very Features in you and Mendez Brother to your Mother who was in my Grotto when you came thither had the same thought for this reason I was not willing to refuse you a confidence which may give you some satisfaction and I will continue my relation if you are disposed to hear me and seeing that Don Heriquez kept silence he thus pursued his discourse I believe Son you are not ignorant of the reasons which forced me to leave my Countrey and have made me for fifteen years last past wander from Kingdom to Kingdom Yes my Lord replied Don Henriquez I know that Don John de Fonseca was in love with your first Wife and that not being able to obtain his desires he was resolved to be revenged of her and of Don Lopes de la Quevae who had had better success with his own Wife that to bring about this design he had made you be informed by a Maid who was gained by him that Lopes kept with your Wife a Correspondence which was prejudicial to your Honour that you having in Friendship told him of it he confirmed you himself in these suspicions and promised you he would so order it that you should find them together at their first meeting That to effect this treachery he told his Wife that yours had talked every where in publick that Don Lopes bragged of the favours he had received from her and that she was desirous to Justifie her self in his presence in the House of a Sempstress who was one of their Confidents that Don John who knew the Hour they pitcht upon went with you thither and made you come in at one door whilst his Wife went out at the other that your Wife being come thither to clear her self was by these means left alone with Don Lopes and that finding them together without any body with them you were fully perswaded she had betrayed you and being transported at it with jealousie you killed them both him with your Pistol and her with your Sword and that thinking after having committed these murthers you could not expect any safety in Sevil you departed from thence immediately I know but confusedly all that happenned to you afterwards because you changed your Name that you might not be known You have done me a great pleasure replied Don Estevan to spare me the confusion I should have been in if I had been forced to relate to you my self the Crime which my Credulity made me commit with too much precipitancy but since you are so well informed of these Circumstances I have nothing more to tell you but what happened to me after I left Sevil. I went from Sevil to Seragossa where Ferdinand and Isabella then kept their Court. It was easie for me to hide my self in the throng of Strangers who came thither from all parts but fearing I might at lest be discovered I resolved to go into some other Countrey to serve in the Army I heard Charles the VIII of France was then designing for Italy with a strong Army to recover the Kingdom of Naples which he pretended belonged to him as descended from the House of Anjou from which it had been unjustly taken away by Usurpation They told me also that the King of Spain took no part in this War which made me resolve to serve in the French Army rather than in that of Alphonso who was not now in a condition to resist so great a Monarch I took Post immediately and having crossed the Pyrenian Hills I came to Lyons where was appointed the general Rendezvous of the Army I found the King ready to pass the Alpes and having no Acquaintance in France I followed the Army in the quality of a Volunteer I had a pretty handsome Equipage and spending liberally I soon got Friends in the Army We passed through Italy as if the King had only travelled through his own Dominions so great a Veneration had all the little Soveraigns of the Countreys where we passed for this Prince When we were come to the frontiers of the Kingdom of Naples we heard that Alphonso frightned by the approach of our Army was retired to Mazara in Scicily where he made himself a Monk his Son Ferdinand indeavoured to make some resistance but seeing all places open their Gates to the French without staying for their Cannon he feared lest his own Subjects should deliver him up to King Charles and therefore retired into the Island of Chio leaving us by his retreat masters of his Kingdom Charles made himself be Crowned King of this new Conquest and after having left there a Vice-Roy departed in order to his return for France and it was to speak properly in this Voyage that we began to make War These great successes of Charles had allarmed all the Princes of Italy who being leagued together raised a great Army under the Conduct of
and the other Alvarez I put her into the hands of a Souldier who served long under me and whose fidelity was well known to me his name was John Becaio our parting was very passionate altho' I did not think I should have lost her as I have done without ever having been able to learn any news of her After the Siege of Diu was raised I went to the Molucca's where I made some stay and from thence took passage to Portugal where I could not hear any news either of Zulemaide or of John Becaio I searched for her in all the Courts of Europe and not having been able to discover any thing which could quiet my mind I returned to Lisbon where I heard the King of Portugal was sending a Fleet to the Molucca's and I obtained a Ship I had during this Voyage a quarrel with the Admiral of this Fleet and separated my self from him in the Night with a design to return for Lisbon My Lieutenant to whom I had not communicated my design opposed me when he saw me change my Course Upon this Contest we fell to words and drew our Swords upon the Deck our Souldiers took parties each following his own inclination and the fight was so bloody that of above 500 which we were at first there remained alive but 50 and those almost all wounded and for a full Complement of our misfortunes we were driven by so cruel a storm that we thought every moment our Ship was going to sink we were driven near an Island and altho' we knew it was not inhabited yet we put out our Long-Boat to land there fearing our Vessel should run a ground coming too near the Land It was almost night when we landed and we passed the Night in great disquiet under some Banian Trees the great Leaves of which defended us from the injuries of the weather when it was day we travelled further into the Island to get some fresh water but we were very much amazed to meet there that Lady said Mendez shewing the unknown Lady vvith a Man in a Spanish habit vvhich we afterwards found to be Don John de Serano vvho vvent out vvith Magellan to discover the Straights to vvhich he gave his Name they told us by vvhat accident they came into this Island vve offered them to carry them vvhither they pleased and the Lady in return offered us to procure an employment for us of the King of Borneo her Father if vve vvould conduct her into that Island We used so much diligence in repairing the dammages vvhich the Tempest had done to our Ship that in a fevv days vve vvere in a condition to set sail again We vvent on Board with this Lady and Don John de Serano and the Wind being favourable vve arrived in a short time at one of the Ports of this Island When we had landed we mounted upon Beasts little differing from our European Stags of which the great ones are made use of here instead of Horses and they being very nimble we came in a short time to the King of Borneo's Court who gave us a favourable reception upon the account and for the sake of his Daughter This Prince having sent an Army under the Conduct of Don John de Serano against Mucitapan King of the Island of Cuba I had the Honour to serve him in this War with my Ship we overcome Mucitapan and after his death this Lady was married to Don John who was crowned King of Cuba My Lady was baptized by one of the Priests aboard my Vessel and was named Isabella all the Ladies of our Court followed our example and in a short time the Exercise of the Christian Religion was â—etled in this Island with as much freedom as in Spain I remained still at the Court of the new King who had always a great value for me looking upon me as a Man to whom he owed his life Sometime afterwards the Emperor Charles the fifth sent Don Garcia to Timâ—ala where Don John kept his Coursâ— but this Embassadour instead of acquitting himself of the Commission the Emperor had given him minded nothing but his private interest and stole away the Princess Constantia Daughter to King John This Prince went after him with the lightest of his Ships and I remained with the Queen to take care of the Government of the Island in his absence Some days after the Kings departure the Queen had notice that Constantia was carried away with the consent of Don John that he had pretended to pursue Don Garcia only to take that opportunity to go to Charles the fifth's Court who promised to marry one of his natural Daughters to him provided he would quit to him the Soveraignty of the Island of Cuba The Queen desired me to conduct her to the Imperial Court to demand justice of the Emperor against Don John for his Treachery I would not undertake this Voyage until I had consulted how I was to behave my self with Don Lorenzo who knew better than I the humour of the Ministers whereof the Emperor made use We went to Penco to seek for him but we heard at our arrival that he was gone from thence some days before to find out Rominagui and they telling us at the same time that Don Estevan was his Father and that he had retired himself into this Grotto we sent to desire him to come to the Queen to Penco in the mean while I was very much amazed that the Land-Lord of the House where we lodged was the same John Becaio whom I had intrusted with the Princess Zulemaide I asked him what he knew concerning her one day when I was alone in my Chamber and he thus related to me what had hapned to him since our separation The History of John Becaio YOU know Seigneur that I went on board Winchester's Ship with the Princess Zulemaide of whom you gave me charge I observed that this Privateer lookt upon her with great earnestness but I never stirred far from her and he durst scarce speak to her This constraint being uneasie to him he endeavoured to find out some way to be rid of me without using any violence he stayed till we were in the narrow Seas and putting upon the Coast of Brittain in France he sent me on Shore in the Long-Boat under pretence to buy him some Provisions which we wanted it was above half a League from the place where I went on shore to St. Maloes and it was already almost Night I made all the haste I could that I might come to the Town before the Gates were shut But I found in my way some Recruits which were newly raised who stripped me without leaving me so much as my Shirt I continued my Journey to St. Maloes and thought my sell very happy that I got into the Town I came under a Shop where I would have sheltered my self and have slept all Night But I had not been there above half an hour before I had been sprinkled with some water