I have cast my selfe to oblige you Well bee gone presently if you would not that I should shew Cleander the true Dragon which hee saw but in his dreame Thereupon Clarinda rising up of one side and Lisander forbearing of the other Calista's voice was a little quieted but not her heart what words or submissions soever Lisander said or did who was constrained to goe away with this biting sorrow that hee had lost the favour of his Mistresse with too much importunity Was not this well rid well waited well suffered and well frighted to buy with the price of so many feares so bleeding a griefe I doe wonder that hee did not presently kill himselfe before her at least to worke horrour and feare in her seeing he could not stirre pity but he did better in doing nothing but going away fuller of sorrow than of life lighted onely by Clarinda unto the doore who durst goe no further fearing lest hee might bee discovered so that hee being in the dark grabling his way with one hand upon the raile of the staires and a Pistoll ready bent in the other as hee was against Cleanders chamber doore which was somewhat lower than Calista's his feet slipt from him so that hee fell down the staires even to the bottome and besides the noise which hee made in falling the Pistoll which hee had in his hand went off and gave such a report that it awaked all the house Cleander Berontus and as many as were in the house rose in a fright and began to cry out all together asking one of another what was the matter others calling for light Calista who was not asleepe nor any way disposed thereunto hearing her husband and brother-in-law cry and not knowing whether Lisander had shot his Pistoll against them or whether they had taken him was in more than a deadly agonie Clarinda fearing to be discovered and punished desparately cryed out All was in disorder and confusion Lisander being at the foot of the staires more amazed than hurt and more hurt than seene his Pistoll being fallen out of his hand and his hat from his head and fearing to bee discovered if hee should leave them behinde him vvas a good vvhile before hee found them in the middest of the darkenesse and cryes which vvhen he had done hee runnes tovvards the Garden gate through which hee entred but as hee passed by the Kitchin doore vvhere there vvere seven or eight servants and tvvo or three dozen of dogs hee was follovved and barkt after untill he found his man vvho had his horse and getting speedily upon his backe he escaped avvay over the fields without being knovvne by any that follovved him The End of the second Booke A TRAGI-COMICALL HISTORY OF these Times THE THIRD BOOKE I Shall now want apt words to expresse the griefes wherewith in the third part of this Story wee begin to bee travelled Hitherto they have beene but feared now they are to bee felt But not to raise more sorrow in you than the relation of the truth will bring with it I will returne to our amorous Lisander disgraced not alone by fortune but which was most insupportable to him by his Mistresse gallopping towards Paris whilst Cleander and Berontus having gotten lights visited all the house to finde what it might be that had so unexpectedly troubled their deepe but quiet sleep but although they searched both high and low within and without the quest ended with no more knowledge than it began and not being able to imagine the true cause of this Alarum they judged that some theeves would have robbed them For confirmation of which some of the servants who with eyes hardly awake had seene a glance of Lisanders running by for one whom they had not well seene they said that they had seene sixe and there was one who to seeme more valiantly fortunate assured them that the Pistoll was shot at him and that the bullet came whistling so neere his eares that it blew and shaked his haire Thus Lisanders escape passed for an attempt of robbers in Cleanders opinion who failed not to goe presently to Calista's chamber to tell her that the noise was made by theeves that were fledde wherefore hee wished her to take her rest this morning for the day did begin to break and recompence her nights unquiet rest Truly he had reason for shee had but small yet this last comming was much more welcome unto her than the first Thus was appeased this trouble greater in Calista's minde than in all the house beside Dorilas being with Lidian arrived at Fountaine Bleau and willing in some measure to shew himselfe thankfull unto Lisander obtained his pardon and Lidians of the King for their combat as also Clarangeus and Alcidons who was now healed of his wound But as they went to Paris hee received letters from Normandy by which understanding that Otranta was sicke he riddâ— directly to Bellaire where the joy of his returne and the good newes which he brought her of her children helpt much to the recovering of her former health Lidian and Alcidon meeting with Lisander and Clarangeus they went to Fortlevesque to have their pardon entred with the great Provost from thence all together they went to Beauplaine Cleander Calista and Berontus bid them most exceedingly welcome and after accustomed embracings and complements were over the first discourse wherewith Cleander entertained them was how he was likely to be robbed telling it particularly unto Lisander in the presence of Calista who could not tell almost what countenance to hold He shewed them the Kitchin door where he thought the Pistoll was shot at his man hee shewed also the Garden gate where as hee said they came in and went out leaving all the company either in deed or in shew wondering at the accident finally after so tedious a discourse to the two Lovers they altered the subject of their speech of which though there were divers opinions yet none thought the truth For three or foure dayes while they stayed at Beauplaine Lisander used all his endevour to speake with Calista and shee all that she could to avoid him unlesse it were in company Lisander seeing himselfe barred of that meanes had recourse unto Clarinda and unto the woman who had delivered his first letter both of them excused themselves upon Calista's expresse forbidding not alone to speake for him but also to deliver any letter for him When hee saw all his instruments faile him he resolved againe to banish himselfe from the presence of his Mistresse and to goe into some place where hee might at least ease himselfe by complaint Holland which was then the seat of the warre and is at this day the Schoole thereof by the valour and capacity of that brave Earle who hath better understood it and better made it than can be said furnished him with a brave occasion The Archduke threatned to attach Reyne Berk with a siege and the States prepared themselves to defend it Of the one
serve you to my desire because if hee should complaine unto my Brother and he be willing to know the occasion I must be constrained to utter that which were no way fit for him to know but if you thinke well to write a Letter such as your discretion can devise I will cause it to fall into his hands as it were by chance and by this meanes I beleeve that honouring you as he doth he will rather willingly banish himselfe from your presence than trouble the peace both of your house and minde Calista approved of the advice and in this resolution without being discovered by Lisander they went to the house whither also Cleander instantly returned with a fat Stagge accompanied with those who had hunted with him Shortly after came Lisander who did not know that his complaints had sounded so neer unto his Mistresses eares and lesse did he thinke that Berontus had heard them They supped joyfully together Lisander and Calista discreetly dissembling the divers thoughts wherewith their mindes were troubled and when bed-time came Cleander Berontus and almost all the company brought Lisander unto his chamber where after some few words of courtesie they left him alone with his servants He going to the cupboord to take some of his night-cloaths found upon his Cap a Letter to this purpose CALISTA'S Letter to LISANDER HEaven which many times maketh small and unprofible things bring hidden matters to light and draweth light from darkenesse hath made use of the shady wood to discover thee and by their silence to accuse thee and by their solitarinesse to convince thee of the vilest and basest thought that ever the heart of a Knight was capeable of Thou hast attempted Lisander with more ingratitude than can be imagined against the honour of thy friend Cleander and against the chastity of his wife either of which were thy attempt come to their knowledge could not draw a punishment upon thee lesse than thy life but heaven more carefull of thy preservation than thou thy selfe hath kept it from their knowledge that thou mightst have leisure to repent and to retire thy selfe from a place where the crime which thou committedst can give thee no assurance If Calista were surprised with Lisanders complaint he was much more astonished at Calista's Letter which Berontus in going last out of the chamber had privily let fall upon the table He could not imagine who had written or who had brought it well hee knew that the complaints which had escaped from him in the wood were heard and from thence came the knowledge of his most secret thoughts O what newes were these to bring rest unto a man opprest with amorous passions All night hee did nothing but muse who should give him this advice That it was Cleander there was no appearance because hee had beene all day a hunting and after his returne hee did not leave his company neither was it likely that he would have proceeded in this manner Hee could not also imagine that it was Calista because that he did not know that shee had walked abroad with Berontus Besides the Letter expressely said that neither shee nor Cleander knew of it And that it should be Berontus hee had already found that he did not love him neither did he thinke if this young man had had such an occasion against him that hee would have used it so discreetly To be short he knew not to whom to returne answer neverthelesse hee resolved upon his departure and upon the meanes whereby hee might make Cleander like well of it as also to speake particularly to Calista The day appearing he quickly dispatched one of his Footmen to Fountaine Bleau where the King then was commanding him to carry some Letters which hee had written unto his friends and with all speed to bring him answer The footman departed with all diligence and returned the next day with Letters from his friends who sent him word that he must make speed unto the Court out of some important reasons which they could not write During the absence of his man hee endevoured by all meanes to accost Calista which he could not effect possibly for she prevented him with so much care and with such premeditated avoydings that he judged she had knowledge of his designe and that from thence came the Letter which had given him so much paine seeing that before nothing was more easie than his accesse unto her When his man was returned from the Court hee went unto Cleander who was then alone in his chamber with his wife and having communicated his letters unto him he entreated him not to take it amisse if he did deprive himselfe of the happinesse which hee enjoyed in his company for a small time which he did assure him should bee as little a while as hee could yet would it neverthelesse seeme long unto him in regard of the contentment and honour which he received in his so deare conversation Cleander was very sorrie that hee must lose the presence of his friend and said unto him Yet shall it not be so hastily but that I will importune you to give this day unto mee for I have some businesse at the Court which I will communicate unto you if you bee not pressed with your owne Now as we said Cleander had many other friends with him whom according to his courtesie willing to entertain he left Calista alone in the chamber with Lisander as if hee had contributed unto his desires Lisander seeing himselfe alone with her said that hee had communicated newes unto Cleander which he had received from the Court but he had others from the deerest person in the world which he could not utter but unto her alone entreating her to see them in this little Letter whose shortnesse was such that shee could not have the leisure to bee troubled with the reading And in saying this he presented her the Letter which she her selfe had written Calista knowing it and not being able to keep her countenance inflamed with indignation and shame from confessing that shee had done it answered him in this manner Silence or flight were much profitabler for you Lisander than either your discourse or stay here Content your selfe that I have not acquainted Cleander with the wrong which you procure both unto him and unto mee and that such a one knowes it as doth onely forbeare to tell him because hee would not hazzard my honour with the losse of your life Madam answered Lisander then hee cannot but say that I love Cleander with as perfect an affection as hee doth me and that I doe adore you with as much respect and devotion as can be yeelded unto Divinity it selfe which is farre from endevouring to wrong either the one or the other It is true Madam that if the advantage which the affections of love have over those of friendship and the priviledge of your beauty which is as impossible to bee beheld without being beloved as it is to come neer the fire
by such a testimony and that hee could no longer disguise a thing so visible related from point to point the quarrell which hee had with Clarangeus as you have heard beginning with the great friendship which had been betweene them untill their love unto Olinda for whose sake only being jealous one of the other they had fought being never provoked by any injurious words the Challenge delivered by Alcidon to Clarangeus with whom Lisander casually being offered himselfe to be a Second finally hee told them how Lisander having wounded and overthrowne Alcidon parted Clarangeus and him when they were both wounded and when his owne sword being broken he made a full account to have had them both upon him exalting the valour and courtesie of his enemies but principally Lisanders who he said was author both of his safety and life with so many words of praises and commendations that Cleander could not expresse nor Calista dissemble their contentment After that Lidian had finished his discourse Dorilas began in this manner You sonne for your pleasure have runne a dangerous fortune but that which happened to me was no lesse neither was there above a night betweene in time nor above a league in place for yesterday going from Paris to Fountaine Bleau and comming late into the wood I was set upon by tenne or twelve theeves who wounded almost to death two Gentlemen whom I have left at Fountaine Bleau and put two or three other of my people to their heeles that without helpe in my opinion more than humane which came to mee when I was resolved for death I had not now beene alive Then did hee tell them how he was succoured by the valour of one man who comming in miraculously either killed or put to flight all the theeves further said hee I never saw him but by night yet me thought hee had the fashion and figure of an Angell neither in all my life did I see any thing more courteous or more humble neverthelesse he did me this displeasure to conceale his name although his refusall was accompanied with the fairest and gentlest excuses that could bee telling further that hee came from these parts and that he understood by good intelligence you were both in good health Sir said a servant of Dorilasses who stood waiting behinde his chaire hee who succoured you in the wood was called Lisander for his man told mee so and also that he came from hence yet when he heard his Master conceale his name he entreated me not to speake of it and I doe verily beleeve that hee is the very same who this day fought with Alcidon for it was said this morning at Fountaine Bleau in speaking of this quarrell that one of them came but late last night to the towne You have reason said Cleander for yesterday after dinner hee went from hence and he might well reach the wood about the houre you speake of By this second newes Lisanders praises were augmented and every one spake of his vertues of those services which he had done in the persons of Calista's parents who could have beene so ungratefull as not to acknowledge the merit and fidelity of so perfect a lover Let us now confesse that vertue hath no prevailing enemies and as the beauty thereof producing admirable affections justified the honest love which Calista afterwards bare him so had it justly condemned her of an unexcusable ingratitude if shee had not loved him Now the nature of envie being most to fight and bite against vertues when they are most commended the more Lisanders lovely qualities were commended the more was Berontus his courage incensed against him for hee having heard the complaint walking with Calista which Lisander made in the wood and thereby knowing that all his services had no respect but unto her was justly spighted to see aswell his brother as all the rest take them to their advantage which Calista discreetly marked gathering Lisanders commendations with so much modesty that her coldnesse did not discover any dissimulation nor her liberty affection Fifteene dayes did Dorilas and Lidian stay at Beauplaine and fifteene Lisander and Clarangeus at Paris during which time both their wounds were healed but that which Calista had made in Lisanders heart grew every day worse neither absence nor diversion nor company nor businesse proving apt remedies for his healing which made him almost resolve once againe to appeare before his onely remedy if the divers obstacles which concurred had not retained him For hee knew that Dorilas and Lidian were both there and Berontus also whose presence was more dangerous than all of them and what hope could hee have to entertaine her opportunely with any speeches amongst so many watchfull eies He was not willing to lose Cleander and above all things be feared to offend Calista wherefore hee resolved before the remembrance of two such fresh obligations should slippe out of her memory to write unto her to know whether he might ever hope for time or place when without disturbance hee might see the onely object for which hee cherished his sight and having called one of his Footmen an old servant whom hee had long knowne to be faithfull commanded him to goe unto such a Village neere Beauplaine where hee should finde such a woman unto whom he should give this Letter and wait for an answer in her house but upon his life he should take care that he were not seene and for that cause hee should not come thither before it was night and should goe away before day Now Lisander had long before practised this woman while he lay at Beauplain where she was as frequent as if she had beene of the family and had given her great gifts yet not telling her that he was in love with Calistaâ— but with her woman whose name was Clarinda whom he had also so far gained that she promised to deliver his letters unto her Mistresse The Lacquey departeth after dinner from Paris and comming in the night to this woman delivereth his Masters commendations unto her and together with a Letter hee put two chaines of gold into her hand one for her selfe and another for Calista's woman unto whom he entreateth her to give it together with the Letter The woman shut the Lacquey into the house and going the next morning unto Beauplaine easily gave the Letter and the chaine unto Clarinda and Clarinda only the Letter to Calista who retiring her selfe into her Closet and opening it found that it said as followeth LISANDERS Letter to CALISTA MAdam if you knew how my heart beateth and my hand trembleth now when my Love commandeth me to send you this you would have lesse apprehension at the sight hereof than I have feare in the writing and more pity of my passion than I have courage to expresse it It is a wonder Madam to see me suffer so much and that I can live so long in so rigorous an absence but it must bee referred to your beauty through
with some friends of his to write unto his Master in his behalfe Truly said Cleander if it bee no other matter I will write in thy behalfe so soone as wee returne from hunting come and lye at Beauplaine and I will give thee a Letter Sir said the footman there is another who labours for my place who I feare will get it before to morrow night therefore seeing you are pleased to doe me so much good I humbly intreat you to write a word or two upon this paper while the rain staies you here that by my too long stay I do not find my place gone herein you shall binde me to pray for your prosperity Hast thou an inkehorne said Cleander I sir answered the Footman hee had found an ill-favoured one by chance upon the cupboord with which not knowing else how to spend his time hee had beene scribling all the day Give it me said Cleander and taking the pen in his hand hee writ these words CLEANDERS Letter to LISANDER WEe have found your footman lost in sorrow for his disgrace which hee having told us desired also that wee would give him a Letter unto you to restore him to your favour if he be no more deceived in the effect which it shall have than in the love which hee judgeth wee beare you his desire is effected Sir Dorilas my father joineth in this intreaty commanding me also to tell you that hee complaineth of you for that after you had saved his life you concealed your name Lidian also sendeth you word if he had knowne the obligation wherein hee was tyed for that service hee would not have thanked you for what you did afterwards for him because his life is not dearer than his father is and the first obligation is so great that it could not bee augmented by a second For my owne part I complaine of nothing but that you did not come to see us according to your promise for I thinke I lose no time but what I spend out of your company Wee hope to morrow to bee at Fountaine Bleau and a few dayes after at Paris where you shall not scape without yeelding us a reason for all those grievances Farewell I am Cleander your best and most affectionate servant This was a tricke of oâ—â— footman which had not been amisse if our messenger woman returning the same houre from Beauplaine all weâ— finding her house full of such unexpected guests had not almost marked all If the footman were surprized she was more amazed and thinking that they were there waiting for her and that Clarinda had deceived her or that the Footman had discovered all shee was ready to fall upon her knees at her entrance into the doores and to give Calista's Letter to Cleander and aske forgivenesse for a fault which shee did suppose had beene already discovered Behold the perils into which those expose themselves who to attaine their ends by any meanes whatsoever put their lives and honours into the hands of such persons Yet she seeing their cheerefull countenances and the Footman comming towards her before them all as if hee had not yet seene her she recovered the spirit and judgment which she had before lost and ascribing her troublesome countenance to the foule weather which beat with violence in her face shee made a low reverence unto all the company Gentlewoman said Cleander we have surprized your house which hath done us good service against the rain and having found here Lisanders Footman who stayed for you we have vvritten in his behalfe unto his Master How said shee Footman have you forsaken your Master It is hee Gentlewoman answered the Footman who hath put me away and Cleander here I thanke him hath entreated him by a Letter to take mee againe being also come unto you to entreat you in respect of your ancient knowledge of my friends and your acquaintance with my Master to doe the like for me Truely said she where his recommendations have no power I am assured mine will not be availeable neverthelesse because you shall not thinke that I say this in excuse I will write unto him Shortly after the raine ceasing and the weather being cleere Dorilas and his company left the Gentlewoman with Lisanders Footman under colour of the Letter and the time of hunting being past they returned all to Beauplaine where they supped as hungerly as if they had spent the time in hunting In their supping they discoursing from one thing to another began to speake of Lisanders Footman which gave a warme alarum unto Calista who as all those who finde themselves guilty thought that every word spoken would have tended unto the discovery of her fault untill by the end of their speech she found that they knew nothing of her affaires The Footman having told the woman all that had past betweene those Gentlemen and him at their meeting and receiving Calista's letter returnes in extreme hast to his Master whom hee almost put into a fever by the recitall of this accident and having given him aswell Calista's letter as Cleanders hee resolved to ride instantly without any company but the same footman who also ridde and so they two together tooke their way towards Beauplaine from whence the very same day Cleander together with Berontus departed to accompany Dorilas and Lidian to Fountaine Bleau but the good old man would not suffer them at any hand to ride farre but made them though unwillingly returne backe so that his returne being more speedy than Calista expected much perplexed her yet shee wisely dissembled it by a fained joy which seemed true although her light supper did manifest unto Cleander that some thing did trouble her and shee her selfe confessed she was not well but he judged it to be onely sorrow for Dorilas and Lidians departure This indisposition of health did aptly serve to colour her sudden retyring to her chamber which shortly after supper Clarinda alone being with her bidding the rest of the company good night shee did and Cleander also who was somewhat weary did the like into his chamber and all the rest by their example The night was darke and all the house in silence when Clarinda going softly out of her Mistresses chamber went unto the garden gate where Lisander was appointed to be who because hee would not faile his appointed time had almost killed his horses to get thither Having found him with his faithfull footman she tooke him by the hand and without being perceived by any body shee brought him to his unspeakeable joy to Calista's bedde side where shee then was lying When hee saw this incomparable beauty which hee could not religiously enough adore waite him within her bedde with so many graces he was about loosing that respect which hee did accustomably beare her to forget the condition upon which hee was permitted to see her But Calista who had no lesse severity to make him feare than sweetnesse to make him love stayed this motion of his and with
side was the Marquesse Spinola Generall of his Highnesses army who by his exploits against Ostend and Sluse had gotten immortall renowne with the Spaniards and Walloones who without bragging may be called good Souldiers and who doe best observe the discipline of warre of any nation of the world and among all other the brave Count Bucoy and our French Terraile Of the other side was the valorous Prince Maurice of whom we spake even now under whose name alone in one word may be comprehended all warlike vertue accompanied with his young brother who doth nobly imitate him as the most perfect example which hee can follow with a brave army but not so strong as the enemy composed for the most part of French and English two of the warlikest nations this day or which ever have beene upon the earth over whom shined like two great starres in a cleare night the dead Bethune and the brave Castillion The first dying with the reputation of knowing better the art of warre than any man of France and the other having had a grandfather an uncle a father and a brother who in these our dayes have filled the world with the knowledge and admiration of their valour liveth this day in estimation worthy of their memory Lisander propounding these reasons unto Cleander the better to build lawfull excuses of his departure made them appeare so just and honourable unto him that in stead of diverting him hee resolved 〈◊〉 accompany him and to take part in the danger intending to leave with Calista his brother Berontus who not thinking it honourable for him being young and a batchelor to remain shut up in a house whilest his elder brother exposed himselfe into the dangers of warre entreated to be excused Alcidon Lidian and Clarangeus hearing also of it would needs goe along Lisander seeing so brave resolutions promised in himselfe to do such deeds of armes in their company that hee would force Calista's obstinacy and make her as amorâ—us of his valour as hee was of her beauty Calista knowing that Lisander not being able to endure her angry presence did deprive her of her beloved husband was so extremely grieved therewith that shee began much to repent that ever shee had driven him to that resolution by her â—igour And not finding a better meanes to breake off this journey than by his meanes who had first propounded 〈◊〉 she endevoured to fall into some speech with him before their departure were fully resolved upon with as much earnestnesse as formerly shee had avoided his entertainment hoping to effect so much with him and hee with Cleander that this enterprise should be laid by To that end therefore â—he the very same day willing to entertaine him came unto the window faining to leane there where he was standing Lisander seeing her come seeming to apprehend her comming thither to bee onely to rest her selfe with a great reverence forsaketh the place and goeth to talk with Alcidon and Clarangeus It is not to bee told whether despite or shame were greater in Calista she onely said in her selfe I will run no more after him although I should lose whatsoever is deerest unto mee Cleander comming thereupon unto her and seeing her alone and sadde in the window incontinently judged one part of her griefe but not all for besides that which was wrought in her through his going whom shee so dearely loved she suffered much through Lisanders disdain there being nothing whereof a proud Lady is more sensible than to see her selfe despised of one who had so entirely loved her so religiously adored her There were all the reasons which might serve either for or against this voyage brought and debated betweene them and although Calista's teares were more plentifull than his discourse yet they gave place unto his will and consented to that which they could not hinder It was therefore determined that during his absence she should go unto Bellaire to Dorilas and Otranta who passionately desired to see her he further assuring her that she should hardly bee returned home before hee were come backe Cleander having brought his wife unto this resolution two daies after he took leave of her to go unto Paris to accommodate him there of such things as were most necessary for his voiage again were their teares renewed at so pitifull a departure Lisander had much adoe to containe having his heart so pierced with anguish that he could not utter one word Truly Cleander himselfe went away lesse sad than he But Calista upon a sudden reduced into so great a solitarinesse and deprived of all things which were most dear unto her in the world was most afflicted The Knights being come unto Paris and in two daies accommodated especially of good armes they went into Holland and to make short put themselves into â—eine Berke a little before it was besieged My intention is not here to write the generall or particular actions of the siege because it is not the subject of my Pen onely I will say That among those which got extraordinary fame of my knowledge besides our adventurers were Monsieurs de Sowbisse de Fleis de Bâ—r quart and de Canaillaice and that in one of many brave Sallies which were made Alcidon and Clarangeus being carried away wounded with two Musket shot the one in the shoulder and the other in the legge Berontus taken prisoner and Lidian and Clarangeus so ingaged that they could expect nothing but death or imprisonment they were succoured so valiantly by Lisanders incredible vertue that it might be truly said their lives and libertie were preserved by him A strange felicity of a man and more worthy to bee envied for the joy he felt that he had so obliged her whom he loved not onely in the person of her father her brother but in her husband also than for the glory which he received for although hee were then publikely honoured of all and after the siege highly commended by Count Maurice and admired of all the States yet the occasion which Fortune lent him to serve his Mistresse and to acknowledge Cleanders love vvas more esteemed than the honour for which he had so nobly hazzarded his life Novv as the skill of besieging places in these our dayes and rather in that countrey than any place of the vvorld is come to such perfection that there is no towne vvhich is impregnable Reyne Berk having held out three moneths against the attempts of the besiegers rather by the valour of the besieged than by the strength thereof yeelded upon composition The States having paid Berontus his ransome and Alcidon and Clarangeus being healed of their wounds our Warriours covered vvith Lawrell returned into France Calista in the meane time having stayed three or foure dayes after her husbands departure at Beauplaine left the house in the guard of a keeper and taking an old Gentleman with her whom Cleander had left to attend her and two maids with Clarinda earely in a morning entred
poorely to dye shamefully that if his divinity had not beene witnessed not alone by men living and dead but by Angels and by Devils the obeying of the windes and waters by the trembling of the earth and darkning of the Sunne it would bee impossible to receive it in our beleefe Lisander eased by the voiding of these things which hee had vomited and comforted by the remonstrance of this good religious man lifted up his â—yeâ— to his face and having earnestly beheld him a good space labouring to recover his speech and to remember where hee had seene him in a feeble and broken voice spake unto him in this manner Father I have alwaies little feared Death assuredly trusting in Gods mercy wherefore my hope of one surpassing my feare of the other I cannot be affraid of a passage which is common to all men I know nothing is more naturall that living is not more ordinary than dying And so farre am I from being astonished at it that I confesse I have desired it with lesse â—eare than impatience That which afflicteth me and feareth me is to see things come out of my body which never entred into it nor cannot bee framed there and therefore cannot come naturally from me And if any wonder can have place in my minde next unto that 〈◊〉 is to see my selfe knowne and to heare my selfe named in this agony by a man whose face I think I have seene and heard his voice in another world and in another habit This good man discovering then his head which was almost hid under his Coule and making himselfe knowne unto Lisander with teares in his eyes in kissing him said if nothing were wanting unto your health but the removing of these two causes of astonishment I durst promise my selfe to see you well no lesse astonishing the company with the Miracle of your healing than it is yet with the wonder of your evill For the things which you have vomited although they are true and seeme to be truely come out of your body ought rather to bee ascribed to the illusions of the evill Spirit who hath deceived our sense than unto the testimony of our owne eyes And it is to bee beleeved that they are reall seeing they are palpable But it is to be beleeved also that hee hath charmed our sight as the Operator who last healed you charmed your wounds and healed them in applying salves to your Doublet And it is likely that from this first charme proceeds now this second For the Devill hath done nothing for nothing and did not succour you in that extremity but onely to reduce you into a greater As for your astonishment which proceedeth from my knowing you I thinke it is now wiped away And Clarangeus having beene so perfect a friend unto Lisander cannot be unknowne by so strange a change as mine or by the violence of a sicknesse like yours For the rest you have reason in saying you have seene me in another world for this wherein I now am is much differing from that wherin I then was Lisander who knowing Clarangeus who cast from serving and banished from the presence of Olinda had confined himselfe into a Cloyster embracing him with a joy mingled with sorrow and astonishment to see him in this habit answered Is it possible that my eyes doe not deceive me Clarangeus and that it is not one of the illusions of my sickenesse how have you left the world As those replyed Clarangeus who being beaten by stormes at Sea doe search for some safe Port where they may bee covered from the tempest O how happy are you said Lisander to have that power of your selfe Yea if you knew the happinesse said Clarangeus and if after so many stormes wherewith you have beene beaten you would with mee prove the sweetnesse and quietnesse of a religious life you would despise and mocke at Honours Loves and other vanities which cast away the most part of men I would to God said Lisander I could doe it but I know my selfe so weake so chained to the world that though I should leave it to day I should take it againe to morrow and as it ordinarily happens my second entrance would bee much worse than my first You have reason replied Clarangeus For as there is nothing worse for health than to passe from one extremity to another so there is nothing more dangerous in the world than to goe from a religious life unto an irregular one From thence it comes that there is nothing more evill than a Monke who hath cast away his frocke and that the most parâ— of our errors owe their birth unto these Apostata's who as vipers doe endevour in their birth to rend the sides of their mother Ambrisia and many Gentlemen of the Countrey who were come to see her in this sicknesse of her brothers were no lesse joyfull to see him so well recovered than of Clarangeus his discourse knowledge Unto whom Lisander in continuing his speech said that not finding himselfe strong enough to observe such a perpetuall vow he promised 〈◊〉 the least if it pleased God to restore him to his former health the first voiage he would undertake after his sicknesse should be unto our Lady of Mount Serraâ— Clarangeus confirmed him in this devotion and afterwards taking his leave hee returned with the other religious man into the Covent Shortly after were it by the prayers of those good Fathers or through Lisanders vow hee began to amend but as the proverbe faith sickenesses come on horsebacke and goe away on foote of a Snailes pace It was fifteene dayes before hee could rise out of his bedde and fifteene dayes more after hee was out of his bed before hee could get strength which being past and having visited his friends but principally Clarangeuâ— and taken leave of his Sister Ambrisia hee secretly caused a â—acket of gray Serge to bee made and a Cloake of skinnes over it and having gotten a Palmers staffe in a faire Evening hee began his Pilgrimage In the meane time some of those who had left him sicke going unto Paris not onely carried newes of his sickenesse but of the habit which Clarangeus had taken which brought forth no lesse astonishment than sorrow in the minds of their Friends Olinda herselfe witnessed some feeling of pity which shee had of poore Clarangeus and it was encreased by the griefe shee had for Lidians losse But this was nothing in respect of what Calista suffered for Lisanders sickenesse she being so much the more afflicted by how much shee durst not make it appeare although her brothers and her husbands absence had been colour enough for her to have justified her griefe Alcidon being advertised of these accidents which happened after the departure of his friends determined to goe see them and taking his leave of Argire took his journy towards Burgundy But finding Lisander gone and being no lesse glad to heare that hee was well recovered than sorrowfull because
was a longtime in the armes of these two last not being able to breake from them Afterwards hee kneeled before Olinda saying Pardon me Madam although I have not offended if not for the penance which I have suffered yet for the reverence of this habite which I here lay at her feete who made mee take it I know not whether he blasphemed in saying so or no but Clarangeus was offended with hearing and Olinda with understanding yet all things being permitted to the amorous this word was given to Lidians passion who was not accustomed to preach unto others what hee practised so indulgent are we in our owne faults and severe in others Olinda answered that he should not excuse faults imagined not done with such low humility nor make her blush with his submission which was the greatest fault whereof she could accuse him And at these words Lisander enterposing and particularly entertaining Olinda told her so much of Lidians love and fidelity made now so cleare by so strong and manifest a proofe that first Clarangeus and after all the company joyning to Lisanders prayers who interceded for Lidian the faire Olinda promised marriage and the same Priest who had betroathed Argire to Alcidon did also the like for Olinda and Lidian the same day and in the same place so that Lidians being made sure was knowne before his comming home The contentment of all the company is easier imagined than expressed Presently was it knowne through the Towne that Cleander Lidian and Lisander were returned for they were men of that eminent quality that their presence was no more to bee concealed than the light of the Sunne with the religious man Clarangeus who that night retiring himselfe into his Covent left Lidian in company with Olinda Alcidon with Argire Berontus with Ambrisia Cleander with his mother in law Otranta and the valiant Lisander with the incomparable Calista The End of the fifth Booke A TRAGI-COMICALL HISTORY OF these Times THE SIXTH BOOKE WEe left our lovers joyfully met to all their great contentments where long they could not possesse their Mistresses presence for Fortune an irreconcileable enemy and a continuall torment unto vertue would never have beleeved that they had sufficiently suffered if that they had continued in this contentment The day of their arrivall being expired and every one of them bâ—ing retired with the pleasure of so favourable a successe they rose the next morning to goe to Masse about eleven of the clocke Cleander ledde his mother in law Lisander ledde Calista Berontus Ambrisia the two contracted either of them their betroathed and Leon led Clarinda who seeing her selfe supported by Berontus although hee were ignorant of her wicked life and placed againe with her Mistresse abused her patience and beleeved that in marrying Leon which she hoped to doe she should not need to care for her The Masse was almost finished when a Gentlewoman comming behinde Lisander gently pulled him by the cloake and seeing him turne towards her she intreated him to please to heare a word which shee had to speake in private Jesus Gentlewoman said Lisander command me what you please and where you please In this little Chappell upon the right hand replied she where I will attend you Saying this she departed and Lisander letting her goe a little way before went into the Chappel by another way because he would not be observed discoursing with himselfe as he went what businesse the Lady might have with him hoped of some good fortune Being come into the Chappell where they were all alone but for a Lacquey who waited upon the Gentlewoman shee gave him a love letter which shee entreated him to read and answer Lisander opens it and findes it said thus Cloridons Letter to Lisander THis Page whom to come to you with lesse suspicion both of your friends and mine I have put into Gentlewomans apparell will give you together with this Letter a Lacquey who will shew you the place where I stay for you in my shirt and without any company but my horse and my sword to demand reason of you for the blood which you had of me I know you spilt it nobly and without advantage but to avoid blame for being lesse sensible of my evill than those who died to revenge it and indeed rather to conforme my selfe unto common opinion than to satisfie mine owne proper feeling I am constrained to recover that with my sword which you gained of mee with the Lance Not that I approve their action or blame yours onely I will shun the reproach which may fall upon me for leaving mine honour in the hands of so brave a Knight who will never refuse any honourable condition to restore it Our combat at the least on my part shall be without any passion but what proceedeth from glory for which a great courage ought alwaies to despise his life Cloridon Lisander receiving this Letter contrary to his expectation was sorry to see this new occasion which Fortune did prepare to separate him from his love and desiring to avoid it said to the disguised Page that if the Lacquey did follow him to his lodging he should have an answer which being yeelded to by the Page Lisander returned with all the company into Cleanders house where retiring himselfe into his chamber while dinner was getting ready he answered Cloridons challenge in this manner Lisanders Answer I Doe not conceive what reason you would have done you for an injury which was never offered you and seeing it is the will onely which offends and that I never had any to offer you the least injurie I thinke you doe unjustly complain of an action which you confesse you doe not blame I will alwayes avow that the advantage which I had of you proceeded rather from your misfortune than your want and to be ascribed to my good fortune and not to my valour and I had your blood with so feeling a sorrow that my honour saved I would willingly give you as much of mine to satisfie you You are too wise to suffer your selfe to bee transported by other mens passions rather than your owne reason and have too much courage and honour to propound persons whose memory is rather to be abolished than their example followed I represent all these things having your friendship in deerer esteeme than your honour which I doe entreat you to beleeve cannot rest in any others hands than in your owne and to accord my affection with that which the King beares you my naturall obedience and the desire I have to please him in honouring you besides your owne merit which doth oblige me unto it and enforceth me to desire you to satisfie your selfe any other way than by the sword yet if you doe not apprehend these reasons send me a Gentleman upon whose word I may send you answer for I should justly be accused of rashnesse if after narrowly escaping with my life when I went out of my chamber upon the assurance of a
Page I should now againe goe out of the towne upon a Lackeyes word Lisander having closed this Letter went himselfe downe unto the street doore where having found the Lackey who stayed for him hee said Hold friend tell thy Master I will wait all day to morrow to heare newes from him so turning into the hall where dinner was ready hee sate downe with the rest of the company All that day and the next night he was in a deep meditation of what should become of him after the combat if God were so mercifull unto him that he were the last alive knowing well that in respect of Cloridons favour with the King hee could have no sure aboad in France The next day hee stayed in his chamber all the morning expecting every houre when he should be challenged and therefore caused a man to stand at the street doore to bring him who should be sent without any further enquiry directly unto him But when he saw noone past and after the whole day without hearing a word hee did thinke that Cloridon was satisfied with his reasons or was contented in himselfe that hee had witnessed his courage in challenging That night there was a Cooke who amongst other meane wherewith they were plentifully served drest some rost-meate made with the marrow of Beefe and in stead of chopping of Parsley which was usuall he put in Hemlocke which was likely to kill all the company and especially Lisander who having had a most sicke night was constrained to be let blood and take physicke the next morning Hardly had he swallowed it when one came to tell him that a Gentleman at the doore desired to speake with him Presently he imagined that he came from Cloridon and although hee did not then looke for him and that things which come beyond our expectation doe most nâ—ly and most lively pierce our mindes when they happen yet without any alteration he commanded he should be let in The other who was a brave Knight called Chrysantes as soone as hee came into the chamber seeing the Surgeons sawcers full of blood upon the table and the glasses wherein the Physicke was empty was about to returne backe without a word yet hearing Lisander aske who was there hee entred in and being set downe close by the bedde every one being commanded away hee said thus I came hither Sir to have spoken with you about a businesse but now I see the state wherein you are will not permit you to heare of it wherfore if it please you I will hold other discourse expecting a time when the disposition of your health may better fit both you and mee for the uttering thereof Pardon mee said Lisander my sickenesse is not so great that it can let me from hearing and lesse from giving you satisfaction I pray therefore forbeare not to deliver your message for I know already the contents thereof and if you had come yesterday as I did expect it had beene by this time dispatcht Sir answered Chrisantes I could not come yesterday and I beleeve you cannot goe this day whither I would have you without endangering your health for by the tokens which I see upon the table you have beene let blood and taken Physicke this morning It is true replied Lisander but he who by the consideration of the danger of his life cannot be retained will not refraine in consideration of his health which is lesse You have reason said Chrisantes because sometimes one may lose his health without losing his life but never his life without his health yet because in this businesse the conservation and losse of one dependeth upon another I would perswade you to stay untill you are in better health Sir answered Lisander you cannot be my enemy and counseller in one and the same businesse I know you come from Cloridon and the notice hee gave mee two dayes since of his designe may make him thinke that my indisposition is rather fained than true therefore to make him lose this thought or to keepe him from having it tell mee where he is and I will goe to content him with my arme in a skarfe and my physicke in my belly for seeing he will not receive the satisfaction which I would have given him he shall never have it now Seeing you are so resolved replied Chrisantes I will onely entreat you to take a friend with you who may witnesse with me your endevour in this action I have no friend answered Lisander having too many for there are many in this house who will not yeeld that point one unto the other so that in stead of a particular combate we should fight a battell and put you to trouble in finding friends to oppose them But to satisfie your desire which you have not to be idle I promise you that if Cloridon leave me with life I will give you some exercise Let us goe then Sir said Chrisantes and not suffer him to wait any longer for hee hath stayed a great while in his shirt Lisander presently rose and his faithfull footman who onely stayed in his chamber no body doubting of a quarrell having made ready a Courser which Cleander had sent him out of Naples hee went out of the house with Chrisantes accompanied onely with his footman to finde Cloridon who stayed without S. Honorius gate in a wide field which is betweene Roul and Mountmaâ—tre Chrisantes seeing him said unto Lisander Sir yonder is my friend if you please I will goe speak with him one word yet if you thinke not fit I will presently leave you together untill a better or worse destiny part you Doe what you please replyed Lisander but dispatch Hee then set forward towards Cloridon who came towards him and seeing Lisander have one arme in a skarfe hee asked the cause Chrisantes in few words told him what had past and so retired two or three hundred paces on the one side Cloridon then gallopping towards Lisander who made towards him wearied with so long stay spake unto him in this manner Knight so farre as I can perceive your indisposition makes me dispence with you for fighting wee will therefore if you please deferre it untill your health will better permit it for this present estate of yours can neither be commodious for you nor honourable for me No no answered Lisander two men of our quality and making cannot returne out of this medow without fighting Resolve therefore to overcome or dye seeing you will not live in friendshippe with him who hath sought it at your hands Go too then said Cloridon let us prove whether you have done well or no in despising a courtesie from one who did thinke to have obliged you thereby I will neither aske it nor affoord it to you answered Lisander and therewith furiously spurred one upon another Lisander who as we have said ridde upon a lusty and strong courser but such a one as in regard of his long resting idle in the stable was not so steddy a runner
possible to get her out by any agreement When the Eve of the feast of Kings was come the Master Gaoler of the prison intended to make merry according to his ancient custome with his wife and her friends the chiefest of whom was the Register and the Hangman his Gossip they were to choose a King by a beane and afterwards fall to drinking for this cause the Porter had made choice of this night as fittest for this purpose well knowing that sleep doth ordinarily follow drunkennesse Calista and Lisander were advertised to bee ready the one to goe out of the Castle the other to bee out in the street about eleven of the clocke as it was agreed with this charge that if they lost this opportunity they must hope for no other nor yet think to prolong Calista's judgement any longer which must needs bee both mortall and infamous Lisander came about ten of the clock with Alcidon and foure other Gentlemen every one armed with Pistols and well mounted to prevent all Treason and rather to kill all the Provosts and Archers of Paris than suffer themselves to be taken The Porter had received the thousand Crownes which were promised and Lisander and Calista did impatiently wait for the clockes striking eleven which in the end strucke yet in vaine both for the one and the other when Lisander heard the clocke strike eleven and could not see his man he thought that hee was betrayed yet long hee was not of this opinion before the Porter appeared but when Lisander saw him come alone hee was about to have killed him verily beleeving that hee would breake his promise neverthelesse he forbore desiring to heare what he would say which was that having heard the clocke strike eleven and not being able to execute his designe he came now to intreat him to have patience and not thinke much at his waiting for if his Master were asleepe who was not yet retired into his chamber hee would without faile deliver the prisoner This comforted Lisander but not Calista who having expected eleven with so much longing and told it with so much earnestnesse when shee saw it passe without hearing any body shee accounted her selfe lost and confirmed her selfe in that opinion because the Porter had no meanes to come into her chamber to give her that advertisement which hee had done unto Lisander yet there remained some weake hope which flattered her griefe while the clock struck twelve but that being struck she utterly despaired of her liberty and consequently of her life In this agony more deadly than death it selfe came the Porter when she had lost all hope who opening the doore of her chamber a thing so far from her thought expectation at an houre when all things else slept troubled so much her minde with his unexpected comming and with the first motions of a sudden joy from an extremity of the contrary passion that in stead of going out as they had projected she fell down upon the floore in a swound The Porter was infinitely astonished and running unto her said Madam will you undoe mee who have had a desire to save you sake courage rise up and see your friends who are here hard by waiting for you Yet at these words Calista stirred not the Porter was made his wife who was appointed to wait upon Calista was desperate all was in disorder and confusion if Calista had not come to her selfe again who seeing the danger which shee did run by her stay with a lively apprehension of her infamy and punishment rose up instantly went out of the chamber to the Porters infinite contentment and his wives But as she was hastily going down the stairs which were an ill-favoured paire of stone her feet light against an old Cauldron of brasse wherein they did use to put fire in cold weather which tumbling downe from the top unto the bottome made such a noise that all had been spoiled if by great good fortune for them the Gaoler and all his friends had not beene so buried in wine and sleepe that they would not have heard a Petar Calista thus went out of the Castle with the woman who tended her and the Porter leaving the gates open and with no lesse feare than joy came into the street where she gave her selfe into Lisanders armes and Alcidons who received her with an incomparable joy and having placed her in a Caroch with the woman who alwaies after remained with her they retired themselves unto Alcidons bidding the Porter first farewell who was resolved to retire himselfe into some other place To tell you Lisanders joy Alcidons pleasure the thankes which Calista gave them the words the teares the kisses and embracings which afterwards past between Olinda Argire and shee I should never have done Onely having spent the best part of the night they went towards morning to rest and sleep after so many dangerous stormes and so many sorrowes where I will suffer them to remaine in peace as unwilling to trouble their rest untill we come to the eighth part of this History where with more contentment we shall see her innocency verified whose imprisonment and liberty we have already seene The End of the seventh Booke A TRAGI-COMICALL HISTORY OF these Times THE EIGHTH BOOKE THe accidents of this world are so mingled one with another that feare ordinarily succeedeth hope and good and evill do follow one the other like day and night so unto the joy for Calista's delivery succeeded the sorrow for her departure with a thousand important reasons made necessary And whereas shee had thought that being once out of the Castle she had been free from all care more than to justifie her selfe with time shee then saw herselfe wrapped among difficulties and griefes which gave little place unto the former A poore condition of mortals who alwaies longing for what is to come and earnestly thirsting after them when wee have swallowed them wee finde our selves as unsatisfied as wee vvere at the first After then that the Gaoler had digested his vvine and rising earely in the morning according to the manner of such people vvho never sleepe but vvhen the Devill rocks them found his prison doores open his Porter gone and Calista vvith her Keeper escaped there vvas no small noise in the house yet after hee had in vaine tormented himselfe not knovving vvhere to search for her nor vvhat to do he advertised the Justice and the adverse parties who were Berontus and Verasco who diversly apprehended this newes for Berontus who was most interessed in the death of his brother and who ought to have stirred most at Calista's flight was least troubled although he dearely loved Cleanders memory and extremely desired revenge But were it that hee would doe it himselfe with more courage and knowledge or that he did thinke Calista innocent he was in his heart very glad that shee had made an escape But contrariwise Verasco made earnest request that hee might bee suffered to search Olinda's
him to walk him and lying along under a tree upon the fresh grasse she opened her enemies as she thought letter wherein she found these words Lisanders Letter unto Calista ONely death can shew you that the separation from my soule is not so unsupportable as my being divided from you but the interest you have in my life makes mee carefull to preserve it because I would not deprive you of the absolute power you have over it and lessen the number of your creatures by my losse The cause of my Martyrdome lesseneth the paine for although it be without example and that my passion is neither capable of counsell nor remedy yet it is a sweet imagination that I suffer for you and the image of your beauty which is the onely present object of my mind maketh my torment easie and withall maketh mee to confesse it is both just and reasonable that I suffer the extreamest griefe in the world for the most excellent beauty let mee finish the rest in silence seeing my words will rather lessen my conceits than expresse them You who know the wounds which your eyes have made in my soule by the knowledge which you have of the power of their strokes and who cannot be ignorant of the amorous flames which you have so lively kindled in mee behold the pitifull feelings of my true languishing and thinke that your perfection is the cause thereof which could not be infinite as it is if it could be told Farewell faire one and judge of my exceeding griefe by the failing of my voice whereby all meanes of complaining is taken from mee neither doth it suffer me to live but by the glory which I have to be your Lisander Ah disloyall creature said shee in reading this letter with what cunning doest thou disguise the perfidiousnesse of thy heart these words her deep sighes and warme teares which like great pearles rowled over the roses of her cheekes easily let the Porter know that there was jealousie in her passion which made him say unto her I am sorry Madam that I have brought you such ill newes to afflict you and doe no lesse wonder why Lisander should use mee in this businesse seeing that next after God there is nothing in the world which I doe reverence so much as your image Are you belonging to Lisander said she Yea Madam answered he ever since he delivered me out of the hands of the Marshals men who were carrying mee to Paris where without his helpe I should have beene made a pitifull spectacle Then he told how Lisander had delivered him as you have heard Friend replied Calista you serve a man who of all men in the world doth best acknowledge services done unto him and who doth more for all them who deserve of him I would to God he were as good a servant as he will be a good Master but unto me he is the vilest Traytor that ever was God forgive him hee hath beene the losse of mine honour out of the love which hee hath borne mee and by his perfidiousnesse hee will also be the losse of my life Madam said the Porter doe not so much wrong unto Lisanders vertue in depriving your selfe of the greatest glory that a Lady of your quality can have in this life which is to bee served and adored by the most accomplisht Knight in the world Then Calista said unto him come hither and if thou also hast not lost that affection which heretofore thou hast witnessed unto me and if from being faithfull as thou wert by being conversant with thy Master thou art not become so perfidious as he let mee conjure thee by the light of the Sunne and by the first causer thereof to tell me the truth Is is not the greatest treason that can bee in Lisander not alone to abuse mee with so many false protestations as he hath done but now to write me letters of love whilest he in his owne countrey serveth and loveth a new Amazon called Hippolita It is true answered the Porter he hath seene this Hippolita and is pressed to serve her by all the remonstrances and commandements which his parents may lay upon him But I wish the ground may open under my feet and swallow me up before you if hee hath not left the countrey fearing hee should bee constrained to sue unto her and is now gone into England to a Tournament which is held there with an intent to come from thence hither From whence hee will never returne into Gascoigne untill Hippalita bee married although next unto your beauty which surpasseth all those of your sexe there is none who equals her Although Calista were well satisfied with these newes yet could she not put off the desire which shee had to dye thinking that though Lisander were innocent of the crime of infidelity hee was guilty of suspition which had inforced her to this discontented and unseemely course after which there was no joy left her to live or bee seene in the world and willingly would she have confined her selfe within the cloisters of Longchampe with the religious women of that Abbey but that she thought she should not be received neither would shee at any hand present her selfe in the habite which now shee wore together also that not being able to suffer the condition of a free life being a Mistresse how was it possible for her to endure the strictnesse of a religious obedience All these things considered in her minde she confirmed her selfe in her first resolution of fighting with Lucidan and in dying by his hands in the sight of all the world revenge her selfe of Lisander and end her ill fortune which had prosecuted her with that outrage wherefore shee said unto the Porter shee would have him stay a while with her that hee might witnesse unto Lisander her actions and that after shee would give him an answer So retiring unto Longchampe she accommodated her selfe as well as she could in the house of a poore Peasant adjoyning unto the Abbey where having left her horse and her armour after dinner she went to see the religious women with whom she not onely spent this day but eight more which were remaining of the three weekes granted unto Lisander In the meane time Dorilas seeing the day for the combate granted unto Lidian approach and hearing no newes of Lisander and lesse of Lidian whom hee had sent unto the other determined in their absence to present himselfe not so much for love unto Lisander against whom he was extremely angry by reason of Calista's losse as because he had already ingaged himself by his overture made before the King wherfore going from Clarvall unto Paris without acquainting any body with his designe hee caused blacke armes to bee made taking for his device a great greene oake shaken with two contrary windes his Motto was Tanto pui fermo quanto pui scosso whereby he would shew that the adversities wherwith he was assailed of late had rather confirmed than shaken