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A16156	Donzella desterrada. Or, The banish'd virgin. VVritten originally in Italian: by Cavalier Gio. Francesco Biondi, Gentleman Extraordinary of his Majesties Privy Chamber. Divided into three bookes: and Englished by I.H. of Graies Inne, Gent; Donzella desterrada. English	Biondi, Giovanni Francesco, Sir, 1572-1644.; Hayward, James, of Gray's Inn.	1635 (1635)	STC 3074; ESTC S107083	279,563	246

this dishonest calumny and that not content to injure him alone hee had basely let runne his lying tongue on the honour of his innocent Lady and Mistresse forgetting now all the rules of patience clapt his hand on a skeane that hung at his neck Olmiro doing as much with another such weapon and then either of them redoubling his blowes on the other did his utmost endeavour not to wound but like cruell enemies to speed each other so as one of them had soone beene slaine but for the arrivall of five Knights But I must now crave leave to get me else-where undertaking to deliver them you in in a short time woundlesse and friends We left Polimero and his company parted from Greete with their prow to the Westward who as they sayled with a gentle Loome-gale discovered the second night of their voyage a farre off in the Iland of Cithera a great number of fires which seemed to goe and meet one another an effect not to be judged of in respect of the motion of the Vessell whereupon to satisfie their curiosity they steer'd directly towards it where drawne neere they perceived them to be Torches wherewith some dead man was accompanied to his last home The pompe was considerable both for quantity and variety the men were all hooded with Capuchios and the more principall wore long traines the horses trapp'd with black velvet downe to the hoofe the Funerall contrived into a curious forme of lights and banners the military Musick orderly devided into correspondent spaces whereof those of voyces next about the Biere enforced with their sweetely-mournefull consort the stoniest affects to grieve and sorrow Polimero could by the great pompe he there observed judge no lesse than that the dead man was some great Prince for which cause and because also the shee-warriers were desirous to see him he commanded to runne a shore there yet could they not land so soone but that the Biere was before entred into the Temple whilst they stood wondering that there could be in so small an Iland so stately a shew and such a number of Nobility There stood placed in the mid'st a Piramide-wise-built Scaffold with staires to get up on it and so high as it seemed to contend with the hight of a Cube there sustain'd it twelve great Pillars and under it was laid the Biere with the corps whose principall ornament were many Armes the fairest of them which for being enriched with precious stones glittered at the flaming-light of the Torches were on the nethermost of the staires whose corners were adorned with statues even to the uppermost of all the first foure of the foure cardinall vertues the others of the succeeding wrought with such exquisite artifice as they seemed to be of finest Marble the Torches in great quantity orderly ranked from the top to the bottome in great silver Candlesticks and the whole circumference lighted by an infinite number of wax-lights proportionably contrived and moulded The Princes passing by all other curiosities hastened to see the coarse which being a youth of about nineteene yeares of age exposed to the eye though dead a shew of such lively beauties that the privation of life seemed counterfeit onely that he might be gazed on hee lay arm'd all save the head A Mantle of fine purple within lin'd quite through and without down to the waste with white Ermins a Crown which for being set full of precious stones shone on his head manifested him to be undoubtedly some great Prince There sate at his feet two damozels cloath'd in blacke whose habits together with their nethermost border without were lined with faire white vailes They lamented him singing in a tone so mournfull that there was not an unbeteared eye among all the spectators Another such paire was placed one of each side of him with two great rich winde-fannes in their hands busied they were in fanning him ayre till the two first having by then given over their song successively underwent their office But the sweltry heate which for being encreased by the lights and pestering throng of people made them feele it still more and more stifeling enforced them to retire to the ayre into a Cloyster hard by where being by a Priest knowne for strangers they were by him courteously offered the commodity and sight of the house seeming desirous withall to relate unto them its beginning and how there was there nursed the faire Goddesse of Cyprus But they mov'd with the curiosity of that lugubrous spectacle besought him though they had understood the generality of it already to tell them its particulars how that Prince came to dye in that Iland of Cithera the good man willing to obey them following a great Torch that hee caused to be carried before them and walking right on to a long Gallery that led to that part of the house that was called the strangers Lodging thus satisfies their curiosity Some two yeares sithence may there bee saith hee expired since the Queene of Macedon a kingdome not hence farre distant having sent of three sonnes that shee had the two eldest to bee educated and taught else-where holding native homes especially those of Princes unfit and prejudiciall in respect of the authority which they there possesse to the institution of their youth was taken with a longing desire to goe see him disguised but yet in the habit of a noble pilgrim and of them unexpected came to the marveilous City of the Meridian Lake where taken with the rare delightsomnesse of the site and other excellencies there remarkeable shee made for some while her abode the scope of her desire was to goe see Egypt and thence to returne to Macedon but was not so soone launch'd forth into the sea of Creta than that Corideo the eldest of the two sickned whereupon being necessitated to come a-shore here she thereof advertized her husband who hastened good Prince with all possible speede to the beloved sight of his wife and sonne though the joyes of seeing her part of himselfe were corrupted by the likelihood hee faw of losing his son part of them both Wherefore when he had in vaine experimented all the remedies of Art to be bootelesse he then as though his recovery lay in his sonnes owne hands thus bespake him And wilt thou then leave me my Corideo now that I am runne hither unto thee of purpose that thou might'st not aband on me Cheere up thy spirits my sonne for behold mee here ready to accomplish thy wishes and if the wide world can raise up thy drooping courage there is not assure thy selfe any one thing in it that I 'le not procure to give thee content We have here hard by Macedon where thou art wisht for and where thou shalt be cured so thou be but pleased to be merry Wilt thou by dying deceive the expectation which the world hath of thee living as if thou distrusted'st to accomplish with effects what thou promised'st by the hopes conceived of thee No doe not

Sunnes nor could it have other in respect of us though it were contrary to the spheare in respect of the firmament that same thing representing in the artificiall the convex which indeede is naturally the concave the eclipses likewise might be there seene when any were by a plate of darke-coloured Iron 's covering so much of the Moone as was requisite The figure of the Sunne drawne to a correspondent circumference corresponded to the truth of the Eclipses of the true Sunne covered or rather vailed by his fister according to astronomicall suppositions And being not able to imitate the spheare in setting and rising it shewed instead thereof the eclipses that were out of our sight in the other Hemispheare Vpon the spiry roofe stood a brazen statue of excellent workemanship representing time that in its footestall with the but-end of its cive struck the houres and quarters with so dainty an artifice as the eare could discerne no noyse of counterweights or wheeles nor the imagination conceive that any such could be contained in the streightnesse of so narrow a concave The doores standing one of them towards the East equinoctiall and the other on the opposite side were both of them adorned with seemely pillars the Easterne of snow-white Alablaster with staires threshold and lintell of the same The Westerne with its supplements of a cole-black touch-stone that garnished with a white Eagle being the Hieroglyphick of heaven this with a barking Cerberus sad embleame of hell never opened but when sacrifice was done to the infernall Deities for Gelinda's ghost For the same purpose also stood erected two Altars and on either of them an Image These briefly survaid all of them entred into the Temple where the sacrifices were the hearts of two white doves burnt upon the quick embers that done they retired to the house and were invited to sit at the table where the two guests were strucken with amazement at the servants and order of service they admired at such abundance without excesse and such delicacie without defect and withall to see conform'd to the humility of faire white earthen dishes such a royall personage place and service The Druide entertained them with pleasant discourse apparelling his countenance with an aspect to outward seeming cheerefull and blithsome shewing them withall how that Countrey was the utmost bound of Greece to the sea-ward and then made them a gratefull expression of the great courtesies hee had received at the hands of the Prince of Feacia Lord of that I le and was about to particularize somewhat thereof when altering his conceit upon turning towards the Count hee besought him to impart some occurrences of the Westerne parts it being ten yeares space sithence he had heard any newes from thence The Count willingly embracing the occasion of assaying to perswade him to returne home making no shew of knowing any thing thereof exprest a forwardnesse to satisfie him so as having made some prelueds proper to his ends he spake in this manner Irinico King of Gaula Belgica had besides two sonnes the eldest whereof died one onely daughter whose beauty though singular was yet surpassed with so many vertues that the people thought her the compend of the Kingdomes glory desired shee was of many wooed by few and wonne by one that was litle thought of among her Suitors the principall man was Teuton King of Scandinavia a Prince who though rich both in yeares and posterity was not yet by his yeares brought to any disability of body and now his disgusts which hee received every day more than other from his sonnes made him desirous of new heires since hee was growne resolute to raise wals against wals till he had levelled with the ground those which to his confusion were by them built against him a thing practised by him many yeares before to the cost of the lives of some of them and the brothers too Now hee had already taken many wives and had used them all very ill as indeede hee married them not for love but altogether for meanes nor ever admitted he any one of them to his bed on other than the sole hopes of their patrimoniall Kingdomes which conformable to his expectation failed him not Knowne it is not whether it was pollicie or nature in him to affect not one of them the sole ayme of his love being levelled at the enlarging of his Monarchie and making himselfe great Hee had already by the meanes of some Kings of his alliance gotten a great footing in neighbouring Countries whereupon growne desirous to become one day owner of Irinico's Kingdome hee made suit for his alliance meerely to ground thereupon a foundation for his pretentions and not to enjoy those incomparable beauties the onely white whereat the desire of all other Princes aymed And having gotten an use of letting himselfe to be seene but of a very few by withdrawing himselfe sometimes for many moneths together from the popular sight a fancie tooke him in the head to goe himselfe in person to Irinico and so under the vaile of an Embassadour to prie into the secrets of his Kingdome corrupt his subjects and winne himselfe a wife and by her in time a Kingdome Having then left such order as he thought requisite to such as were to manage the secrecie of his absence hee parted accompanied with very few increasing by the way his retinew with such persons as had never seene him before travelling with all the litle that he went by land so secretly by an invention that he had got to confine himselfe for some retired imaginations within his horse-litter that no man in the whole dominions could come to see him in the face Irinico receiving him with all possible courtesies understanding the summe of his embassie would not suddently dispatch him though he were already resolved of what he meant to doe but referr'd the businesse to his privy Councell not so much to understand their opinions as to know those who some while before were suspected to have beene corrupted Hee in the meane time being admitted to the sight of the Princesse prov'd to be in love indeed a strange effect in him and yet more strange by reason of his so fretting thereat for perswading himselfe that he could not choose but love his owne person the lesse by such a portion of affection as he setled upon any other so as hee could have heartily wished the possiblenesse of distinguishing the person of a Prince from that of an Embassadours had beene within the reach of his power that so in personating either he might exercise his cruelty over the other But love as the case stood domineering over the fury of his furious projects brought his pride to so low an ebbe as from a States-man he would have gladly subjected his stout spirit to any inferiour servile condition had it not shewed it selfe too too apparantly contrary to the issue of his desires No whole day suffered he to passe without visiting Doricrene this sollicitous Embassadour labouring to

would be undone That then which concernes me to know more particularly is Whether they will deprive me of my dominion totally or with it subject me to another or neither this nor that but afflict me with long warres If no man can tell it me how shall I then behave my selfe for not opposing the divine will Nature teacheth me to defend my selfe The Gods forbid me not to doe it and men will commend me for so doing none will blame me for it save mine enemies to whom only my vertue will be detestable for being prejudiciall unto them If to conserve my state I bow my neck to the yoake of subjection I shall then oppose the Gods in case their will be to have me either afflicted or utterly ruined the same may I say of any other election of mine The Gods when they are disposed to subject ruine or afflict me will not send me Geniuses to buzze or trumpet it in my eares they need no meanes but can make my selfe serve for the instrument of my owne raising or downefall yea my owne ill directed actions will conduct nay hurry me to the end prefixed me by their will so as under such a pretext to doe this rather than that will give them cause not onely to crosse me but to be withall justly displeased at me for pretending to pry into that which is inscrutable whilst I should rather second it with the meanes bestow'd upon me which is defence As for the reason that Princes have no just title in their possessions presupposing their comming by them anciently to have beene by violence I would here faine know how the new may be termed just if the old justified by ancient possession with the prescription of times assent of subjects and confirmed with blood oftentimes spilt in defending it yea with the death of the Princes themselves be unjust And as touching the scene and its representations the Gods would not be spectators if there were no stage-players whose parts to act one Prince must defend if another assaile But if there be this day any Prince obliged to the defence of his Subjects you Prince of Venedotia are surely he you having no brother your father being sickly and weake your people left for a prey to their enemies without any Prince or defender With which prostrating himselfe at his feete he proceeded Therefore I humbly beseech your Highnesse that abandoning your incertaine deceivable conceits you reassume the filiall affection that you have forgotten the inclination of a Prince which you have left off and the duty of a Cavalier by you some while sithence abandoned More he would have said but that his tender-heartednesse restrained him so as with an affectionate respect kissing his knees he besought him with silence and teares more effectually than he could have done by either perswasions or entreaties But he graciously raising him up off the ground after a short pause said unto him Cataulo no more since you have already by doing your duty taught me mine and though ought otherwise than good should come thereof yet will I preferre the publick good before my owne private interesses I thanke you for the paines you have taken which shall not on my word prove to be sowne in the sands Behold I am now perswaded to goe and restore my selfe to my father and Countrey in hope the Gods will bee therewith well pleased At these words all of them rising up did him humble reverence with congratulating and praysing the resolution he had taken All that day passed they over exceeding joyfully and the ensuing the Prince desirous to know them enquired who they were especially the young Knight who now standing in a muse discovered by his face a confused minde he seeming at the instant of Feredo's resolution to ruminate some till then unthought of deliberations and to contemplate that site with greater curiosity than before Of which new passion of his the Prince taking notice could not choose but tell him that he much marveiled to see him so transported My Lord with blushing thereat said he I beseech your Highnesse not to take it ill I obey you not my fortunes and quality being so meane as the knowing them cannot be any way serviceable unto you and though that the concealing thereof might disadvantage me in the way of begging a favour at your Highnesse hands neverthelesse such is the opinion that I have of your generous and noble disposition that I hope you will grant it me by so much the willinger by how much the lesse my silence merits it And withall I should thinke my obligation doubled to your Princely favour if vouchsafing to admit of my excuses you deeme me the lesse discourteous by beleeving that I conceale my selfe for an urgent and necessary occasion Feredo that by this young Knights Squire had secretly learn'd who he was not caring to know thereof any further answered him Your aspect Sir promiseth so much as your quality and unseene merit cannot without injury be doubted of therefore if the desire I had to be acquainted with you onely to serve you made me desirous to know your being the same now teacheth me to content my selfe with what best pleaseth you so as your silence should no whit disencourage you from commanding me since it deprives me not of the will to obey you The young Knight blushing at this courteous answer with doing him humble obeysance said I must then my Lord in begging this favour at your Princely hands first tell you this much of my selfe that being a distressed Gentleman exil'd from my Countrey and in disfavour with my Prince I thought my heart indeede so giving me when first I had the fortune to see you that the tempest had brought me hither to shroude me here as in a sanctuary But seeing your Highnesse now resolved to returne home I bethought me of a new course which was to implore of your liberality the resignation of this place under such vassallage and obligation as might stand best with your Highnesse good liking Much wrought this request on the noble heart of Feredo who by his owne case had learn'd to have a feeling of that of anothermans full loath was he to say his demand nay and yet having beene informed of his desperate love he feared that the subscribing to his desire might turne to his prejudice Taking him therefore aside hee praid him to acquaint him with the occasion that moved him to settle himselfe in that Iland But seeing he could not draw any thing out of him he then by laying before his eyes his owne example counselled him to alter his resolution for the suspition or rather beliefe he had that some desperation had guided him to some ruinous resolution but the young man with a gladsome countenance assur'd him no manner of desperation now troubled him any passion tending that way being cured by that climate where it behoved him to stay some time to take the benefit of that ayre for confirming it Feredo would not

the Generall leaving there a strong Garrison and a Squadron of thirty galleyes returned back passing and repassing in a braving manner before the channell of Birsa so to hinder Catalampo from joyning with Arato It was my chance to bee then there where I saw the Mauritanian King stand a good while in a muse not knowing what to resolve of at length hee thought of dispatching me into Sardinia for counselling Arato to send privily to fetch away the litle Princesse with a swift shallop under my conduct saying that in desperate cases unlook'd for attempts thrive best Since he could not possibly unite himselfe with him and Majorica for being hindered by the fleete that coasted his kingdome but much more for the danger hee remain'd in if when he wanted his fleete the enemy came and assail'd him besides that although they were joyn'd yet lay it not in their power riding as they must have done in the open sea to shunne the fight wherein if they chanced to have the worst then they lost all if the better yet could they not reape from that victory other fruite than forcing the enemy to a retreate their forces being too weake to assault him at his owne home the ordinary disadvantage of all those that warre in defence Having received my instructions I passed over to Sardinia upon a galley re-inforced to the full where having delivered my embassage to Arato I added That if the counsell seemed dangerous in his eyes it might then very well be suspended there being not any urgent necessity that required for ought I knew the returne of the Princesse in that instant since that Metaneone and Eromilia tendred her deerer than any daughter of their owne and would be loath to hazard her unnecessarily to so great a danger Vpon this Eromena seeming to sparkle fire out of her eyes turning towards her father thus bespake him My Lord and Soveraigne it is a foule shame for us to endure to be so braved and cubb'd in as we are the returne of my daughter though nor otherwise necessary than to enjoy the favour you have done me should be hastened were it but to let the Tingitan see that hee with all his forces are not able to hinder it my opinion therefore is that embracing the King my father-in-lawes counsell you send the Count of Bona to fetch her away The King consenting thereto gave order to the Admirall to arme secretly the shallop of the Royall and to double-man her with the best and choysest of the whole fleete I embarked my selfe the very same night leaving my owne galley riding in the bay which made every one thinke that I was in Caleri the King giving out that I was sick and causing a fame to be spread abroad by a most trusty physitian of his that my disease was both infectious very dangerous and past all hope of recovery with strictly forbidding all men from comming to visite me I in the meane time resting neither day nor night but changing rowers every five miles and leaving some to repose themselves whilst the others laboured arrived by force of oares in the still calm of summer with fresh ghing at Majorica where wondring to see me come in such a vessell so unexpectedly they expected some bad newes after the subjection of Melita but the letters being read they resolved to deliver me the Princesse that I might depart with her that very night and shee being already informed of the altering of her grandsires humour was now most willing to returne for though shee loved well her aunt yet had shee a great desire to see her mother whom though shee did not otherwise remember than as it were in a dreame yet hearing that shee was fierce and martially given shee thought every houre an yeare till shee might feast her eyes with the delightsome spectacle of seeing her clad in compleate armour that she also might arme her selfe with her Shee was then neere thirteene yeares of age of a stature somewhat taller than ordinary and withall so well proportioned and in her deportment so gracefull as that shee had not her equall her manners and demeanour were formed altogether after the Idea of honour by nature education and hight of courage for the rest shee was endued with peculiar pure spirits and inclinations quite different to those of all other girles yea and unto her very sex It griev'd her to be a woman because shee could not endure man should be term'd her superior which made her professe him open enmity Love shee would and hate too without any mediocrity friendship shee would have to exceede reason and reason to be trampled under the feete of disdaine being all affects extreame and unjust but yet generous Whilst then it was thought that I wearied with my sea-voyage lay sleeping in bed having taken leave of the King and Metancone and of Eromilias teares the children-children-princes and all the rest knowing nothing of this my parting I embarked this martiall girle accompanied with one onely damosell and two Knights and returned in the same manner as I came without any breath of winde when the third night the arising of a thick dusky cloud the Moone then not appearing for being weary of running through almost all the Signes of the Zodiake so deprived us of the benefit of our sight that in the maine sea we thinking we were runne against some rock fell foule on the larbur side of a fleere-galley of pirates which carried by the tide fell towards us The shallop entangled in the shrowdes could not put off the pirates perceiving themselves shrewdly bruised fell to their Armes and killing some of our Oare-men became master of our shallop ere wee could well put our selves in defence My griefe for this unexpected disaster cannot be described whose unsupportablenesse would surely have forced me to drowne my selfe had there not sprung from my heart I know not what kinde of hope which raised my spirits to that hight of boldnesse as to aske who they were whereunto they as boldly answering mee prov'd to be such as I well knew yet doubting lest they should violate the Princesse I turning towards the principall among them said thus unto him Captain you have in your hands a prey of a great value from which you may raise as great an utility I beseech you then to use her with all due respects for which I promise you such a ransome as shall well merit your being courteous unto her upon this hee asking me who I was I told him freely and for the Princesse though I once thought to faine her my daughter yet doubting my being found a lyar would redound the more to her prejudice and knowing that the worst was but a matter of ransome I preferr'd her security before any interest of treasure whatsoever Hee glad of so rich a booty promised me to use her with all the respects that could be praying me onely to bring her aboord the shippe where shee should be well accommodated more at her