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

betided him this one comfort to encourage him that he was as yet in a countrey free from all dangers and remote enough from any power of his enemy Polimero likewise grew to be thereat exceedingly confused in minde till lighting on the selfe same reasons he beckened unto the other to discover himselfe The Lady having the meane while dried her beteared eyes boldly tooke him by the left hand and smilingly observing it For certaine said shee you are undoubtedly Coralbo To this he now o're-come with the confidencie of her affirmation answered I cannot imagine noble Lady what should move you to say I am hee what markes I beseech you descrie you in me that denote me to be such What markes said shee mary the age of seventeene yeares as hath Coralbo a face shaped and favoured like his when he was as yet but ten yeares old and this scarre that Coralbo cut in his hand at table his mother being present when shee came seven yeares sithence to visit him at Nepa other markes too I yet know besides but will not tell them you unlesse you confesse that you are he Coralbo now looking on his hand and therewithall calling to minde that cut and how his owne mother had drest it and bound it up remained more astonished than ever so as he now could hold no longer from saying Much honoured Lady the markes and description which your goodnesse and noble courtesie have vouchsafed to impart and particularize to me are so punctuall and unrefuteable that I cannot deny me to be Coralbo whom if I were not I would yet heartily wish to be were it but to serve you At these words shee rising off the table with her daughter and embracing him about the neck Since you then said shee are my sonne Coralbo behold here your disinherited mother and sister not altogether unhappy since their eyes are once more blest with the now heart-extasing sight of you Coralbo who at their first motion of rising up was risen with them at the instant of his hearing these words prostrates himselfe on his knees to her whence shee raising him up stood some while embracing him with a motherly tendernesse Nor had shee so soone freed him from out the weake prison of her armes but that reason commanded her to communicate him to her daughter his sister the affects thereon ensuing proving such as even Polimero himselfe was so o're-mastered with an extreame tendernesse of a fellow-feeling compassion as he could not refraine from bearing a part in their weeping consort The Mother afterwards understanding who he was and wherefore come thither could never be satisfied in manifesting by most lively affects the gratefulnesse of a royall minde obliged But seeing that the night was by this time farre spent Right noble Prince said shee it is not convenient that my joyes become discommodious to you the present reason requires repose and Coralbo's wounds ease and rest To morrow is a new day and then wee will conferre together at better leisure With that shee leading him on to a withdrawing chamber there hard by consigned him to the care of certaine Gentlemen to helpe him to bed Whilest Coralbo not having the power to part from her would needs know of her the manner and occasion of her comming to reside in that place But shee differring it till the ensuing day got him at length with much adoe to goe to bed where sleeping litle or nothing by reason of such alterations of affections he got up earlier than his passed toyle would have another time permitted him The day being come there needed no consort of Musick to summon them to come together their severall desires being sufficiently powerfull to effect that office The Queene finding Polimero just as he had made an end of cloathing himselfe entertained by Coralbo who was already drest leades him into the garden to take the benefit of the fresh ayre when seating her selfe betweene them both under an arbour of Gelsomine and her daughter close by her brothers side she thus framed her speech I know that I cannot well deferre the relation of your affaires Coralbo though I would gladly doe it since they cannot but prove unpleasing unto you yet since it pleaseth the heavens they should so be we must not repine at their unresistable predestination I perswade my selfe that you came hither in hope to make triall of your valour But alas such a triall should be of the fortitude of the minde and of other vertues thereto correspondding the strength and valour of the body comming now too late any way to steede you This much I thought good to acquaint you first withall for preventing of those passions which Nature Reason might administer you And now to goe on with your story At my comming to Nepa I left in Cardamina the onely residing-place I had then left me Dariacan a servant once deare to your Father who having sent secret intelligence of my departure to King Bramac my sonne-in-law capituled to yeeld him up that Hould on condition that all the treasure there found should be his Bramac made a shew of being well contented for the treasure but not for the rest pretending to have delivered up into his hands together with Cardamina your person imagining it should seeme that I would at my returne bring you back along with me which induced him to deferre the effecting as then of his first complotted treachery for the assurance that he had of putting in execution at the selfe same time both the one and the other Faining then to have beleeved that I was gone to the Oracle he commanded the bordering Governours to have a care of my estate that it were not incroach'd on nor prejudiced by any whatsoever making by this seeming-good office a shew of being not only alienated from any evill intention but also tenderly carefull that no other should offer me any injury So that at my returne I had cause to give him tharkes for it hee then also making a shew of honouring me by sending me Embassadours who under pretext of congratulating my returne came to espie whether you were come with me or no But getting afterwards out of Dariacan all my secrets he bade him counsell and perswade me your returne as being the request of the greater part of the Barons ill satisfied with the present government I simple woman beleeving him taking his having conserved me Cardamina whereof I ever doubted for an assured testimony of his inviolable fidelity resolved to send you Cogamar the brother of Stelinete your Squire him whom from among a number of others Sotiro had chosen for your service which happened the selfe same time that Sotiro for not having heard any newes from me since my parting from Etrunia had sent to mee Stelinete And as fortune would have it the brothers met by the way and reciprocally trusted each other with the summe and privity of their severall commissions There Cogamar through the intelligence he held with Dariacan being acquainted with

content And in this present occasion I had to tell you the truth rather doe than promise For to bee plaine with you this match never liked mee My Cozen Erpandro is indeed a good Prince but yet no fit husband for you I am sorry wee have suffered the disease to have his course for so many yeares without curing or stopping it since its remedies can at this present prove but slow in operation if not almost bootlesse I will worke with my father as much as possibly I can but wonne he must be by degres for the affaire is delicate and yet to handle it gently we are disadvantaged by the brevity of time that precipitates it I many times thought to goe and conferre with my Mother about it but yet refrain'd out of the beliefe I had that shee would never openly declare her selfe opposite to that match were it but for her love to the King of Thrace to whom shee stood so highly obliged when he with my Father conveyed her away from Cyprus but would I am perswaded beleeve shee did an act unworthy of the friendship and gratitude shee owed him More for the present I cannot promise you but that I am resolved sithence no other expedient course can be therein taken to waite for an opportunity to speake of it to the King who is so discreete and just as I presume hee will not force you to match against your liking These considerately-stayed reasons of her brother whom in all other things shee knew to be most resolute made Deadora perceive that shee might not relie upon any prevailing offices to her ends in this businesse considering that to content her there was a necessity of offending Serpidoro wherefore having sent for to come to her the Prince of Cyprus shee thus bespeakes him Behold mee now Cozen resolved to have none of Erpandro what therefore I pray you is now to bee done I have thereof spoken to my Brother and finde him contrary to his ordinary temper cold and seeming to despaire of furthering me rather than otherwise he indeed accuseth mee for not having thereof acquainted him sooner by occasion of which neglect the remedy saith he is growne to be more difficult a difficulty which conjoyned to some other considerations may be interpreted an impossibility Which being so it stands me upon to prevent it for not being constrained to what I am most unwilling to doe Gradamoro seeing her now come to the point he wisht for returnes her this answer It s remedy divine Dadame is easie enough so you but give way to it Be pleased to reade over the Annals of the King your Father whom you know to be so vertuous and valorous and by that Rule square your deliberations looke if you can there light on such another case and then I am perswaded that by that time you have considered the modesty and other vertues of my Aunt the Queene your Mother you will comprehend that necessity sometimes tramples upon reason Inextricable knots Madame are not undone but by either cutting or bursting A Matrimony contracted from the very swathing-bands betweene two Fathers so deere friends without having beene in so many yeares time any way disavowed by the least opposition of either side as hath beene discreetely considered by the Prince your Brother cannot possibly bee broken off without violence which because it cannot be expected from the King must needs proceede from you Your onely way therefore is to steale away for which you want not a president to imitate Nay more the very accident will be adjudged to bee a premeditated plot revenge done by a blow given in quittance for a blow received But this might perhaps rather withdraw you than otherwise if the so patly-counterhappening of the selfe-same accidents to the very same persons made not the world beleeve it to bee an effect of divine providence A document for Fathers to be indulgent to their Children for such faults as themselves are presidents for which in case you would doe you should have the advantage of not being followed after especially if you would resolve to lift mee into heaven by blessing mee with the title destinated to Erpandro I Madame am of that stocke whence your Mother was stolne away you the Daughter of him that stole her the King of Thrace complice of the delict his sonne will I rob you of Vincireo sprung from him whom your Mother was promised to will accompany me in conducting you to Cyprus not without divine disposing to the end there might bee by our so rendring like for like confirmed betweene us all an indissoluble bond of perpetuall friendship No whit pleased was Deadora with such discourse as this there springing in her first a suspition that Gradamoro's love was as wee say but from the teeth outwards and too withall although shee knew all this before yet gladly would shee have seemed to have beene ignorant of it for that shee conceived those historicall considerations of rapes complicites delicts revenges disobligements received and requited rather aggravated than extenuated her fault Rather could shee have wish'd to have erred in simplicity without penetrating so maine considerations But Gradamoro for being of a free nature suffering himselfe to be wholly guided by affection quite forgot all circumspection a quality most necessary in such an affaire which ministred her an occasion to vent out her passion in these tearmes I thought so that it was nothing but meerely your owne ends that mov'd you Gradamoro And though with sophisticall reasons you have endeavoured to make me beleeve the contrary yet doe you now against your will discover it by an affect of meere revenge taking me to bee so simple as not to conceive you but assure your selfe that I will neither beleeve you nor bee ruled by you But content my selfe to have beene deceived in the good opinion I once conceived of your love rather than in the false effects of it in a time when my repentance will come too late Now the Gods keepe mee from being an instrument of such revenge I will neither marry Erpandro nor follow you but will rather than do either languish and dye Whether Gradamoro's griefe were great or no may bee well conjectured by the unexpectednesse of any such language nothing avail'd him either arguments oathes or teares all was but vaine the Mayden-princesse rejecting his reasons in respect of her being fully fraught with jealousie diffidence and fury no remedy then but part needs he must and leave her in that extreamely-passionate moode And left he had the City too but for his being in his returne to his lodgings seised on by an excessive coole shivering accompanied with vomiting and swoundings no fire was there that could warme him the Physitians ranne to him the like did the Princes and Queene yea the King himselfe would be carried to him A long time lay hee motionlesse with lither artirs dead clouded eyes grinched teeth and grappled hands in so much as there was none thatby sight thought him

matter did the best shee could to comfort her till seeing shee could get no answer of her shee opened the windowes and then seeing her looke so pale shee was againe amazed yet finding no drop of blood about her though her lips and eyes looked of a pale blewish colour shee gently tooke her by the hand and respectively kissing it besought her to speake one word to her but was answered with a gastly grone wherewith shee expired because of her wounded heart's being by then quite suffocated with blood The Gentlewoman searching over her body a-new and yet finding nothing considering that the occasion of her death was not to be divulged shut the doore and went and acquainted therewith the King who because hee could not beleeve that shee died without violence commanded to view her better himselfe casting the meane while an eye on her pulses and paps under one whereof as hee more heedfully observed hee came to discover the bodkin by a litle blood that trickled off the orifice of the wound and so comprehending the cause of her death he charged that no words should be made thereof giving out the morrow following that shee was dead of an apoplexie Feredo in the meane time hastned on his journey beleeving that the farther hee went from Venedotia the neerer he came to content and quietnesse till hee chanced to come to the famous Court of Logria whose then King Alfrido observing him besides the comelinesse of his person to be endued with incomparable qualities had a minde at first sight to make him his Son-in-law for establishing the dominions which hee possessed lying open to divers hostile incursions with the alliance and stay of a King for territories and power next himselfe the greatest of all Albion One sole Daughter had he of some eighteene yeares of age named Alite for beauty singular among the fairest and one sonne as then absent addicted to exercises of Chivalry No sooner was Feredo seene by her than that shee began to affect him seconding her Fathers secret designe with an honest open love and the correspondencie as it was fitting it should had beene by him as forwardly repaid her but that at his first comming thither he began suddenly to feele strange passions of mellancholy which transporting him to turbid imaginations would never suffer him in quiet for that he thought hee saw Gelinda every houre in an horrid shape with a naked and bloody brest settle her selfe by him whether hee were laid in bed or walking any where abroad so as he passed most nights without closing his eyes which made him desire to watch with merry company who upon his corrupted affects wrought just such an effect as doth one single drop of water on one tormented with a burning feaver that thinkes all the rivers of the world too litle either to coole his heate or quench his thirst Many a time have I thought upon these visions whether any such really be or no and whether that which appeared was the very spirit of Gelinda or nothing but the meere imagination of Feredo For if the Gods permit the dead to walke why more for hatred than for love since we heare not for the most part of any such apparitions save in the likenesse of such as have come to their deaths by violent meanes betweene husband and wife father and sonne brother and brother and friend and friend in whom Nature and long practice imprint reciprocall affections with greater efficacie wee seldome or never heare of any such though they should be ordinary Which though they also were yet could they then neither be no arguments making for imagination and use would discover unto us those of reason Nature being not able to worke ordinarily by extraordinary reasons contrary to it selfe The Count who attentively listned seeing him looke as if he expected an answer said unto him Nature gentle Sir cannot give a reason for all things as it seemes you expect it should since we have for attaining to it onely the two meanes of the practick and speculation By the practick we cannot shee requiring time and we being short-liv'd By speculation much lesse she never soaring higher than the pitch of sense Hence comes it that our common knowledge obscure even in things manifest is subject to the censure of contradictions where of such as were Antagonists choosed for the surer side rather to doubt of all than to affirme any thing for certaine out of the uncertainty of our understanding and the same knowledge though in much deceivable is yet neverthelesse embraced for want of a better which well may I beleeve be hoped for but not found by the meanes of humane organs without a long and almost eternall life If then we be so ignorant in things subject to our very senses what can we be in those of the soule abstracted from them yet should not for all this the insufficiencie of meanes of attaining to the knowledge of things make us deny their effects if any be and yet the curiosity of seeking out for them is hurtfull because speculation too much subtilized makes a man unfit not only for the active but even for the contemplative life so as if he be but short in conceiving the first heads he becomes quite dull by that time he comes to the second so blunted shall hee finde his intellect with the hardnesse of what hee understands not therefore a mans choyser course were to rest at quiet and to beleeve that which common opinion both drawne from all the lawes and approved by all the prime Schoolmen of the world in all ages induceth us to beleeve which if otherwise it were not so this Prince his very case might be a sufficient argument for it Since hee was in perfect health when he came from home nor was he ever troubled with any infirmity of his fancie till after the death of his Sister and then too without knowing whether shee were dead or no. So as we must of necessity either deny all and by consequence make the Prince a lyar or in beleeving him beleeve the generall terient which is a reall apparition of the dead a beleefe due to the obedience of the Lawes The Gentleman that stood listning unto him litle satisfied with what was alleadged and loath to let the discourse fall replied My doubt honour'd Sir neither toucheth nor arrives to the law but is as I may say an abstract from it touch it perhaps it might if it were incorporated with it and partaked of its substance and colour as wine doth with those of water The lawes have all of them the selfe same principals and the selfe same ends at leastwise in appearance that is God and good dealing or piety the end of this is to feare those It will not be denied mee that apparitions belong to piety and by consequence make wonderfully for it my doubt doth but question the power of Nature for if Nature could but be united or conform'd to the Law in things supernaturall and that

what the one affirmes might be visually proved by the other then had neither wee occasion to doubt nor the Lawes to multiply as they have ever hitherunto done so as all that I say is but to attempt their union if it may be if not I rather retire to the Law being well assured that in so doing I cannot erre though the intellect remaine for all that subject to be snapp'd at by its naturall enemy ignorance Let it not then I beseech you courteous Sir offend you that I say that the denying of the effects of things when any such really are is but an ignorant presumption Now our question is whether any such be or no but how can they be if neither reason nor sense comprehend them Nature shewes them us not the intellect conceives them not the relations of them are uncertaine the Prince his example absolutely concludes them not conclude them perhaps it might had he not knowne his Sisters intention But because imaginations cannot be fully illustrated otherwise than imaginations I will fall againe to my story Alfrido having had intelligence of the death of Gelinda by the Fathers owne letters endeavoured by charging all the Court to make no words of it to conceale it from Feredo though hee become by his continuall visions most certaine as he thought of the truth incessantly bewailed it with such excesse of griefe that hee at length conceived Gelinda's ghost seeming to be therewith in some sort appeased if not satisfied had left him in quiet How be it he could not for many dayes recover himselfe from the great weaknesse he thereby was reduced unto To weane him from those his mellancholy fits hee was accompanied with all the Court by turnes Alite shewing her selfe in a deede so pious more fervent than any other though most cruell to herselfe for her continuall conversing with this right noble Cavalier kindling every day more than other her affection towards him brought her at last to that passe as shee could no longer conceale it from him Feredo was in one respect a naturalist desirous of posterity especially in consideration of his being brotherlesse insomuch as he began already to be sorry he had left his home not for being taken with any domestick pleasures but because he considering to how many dangers travell was subject unto would gladly first have seene a sonne of his owne to secure the succession in case the heavens disposed of him otherwise than well Looking therefore with a no lesse judicious than amorous eye into the merits and affection of the faire Alite he thought himselfe bound to assure her as much as by words could be express'd of the gratefull correspondencie of his re-affection entitling himselfe her Knight and servant The night following arose a tempest so cruell that at the ayre 's being filled with haile thunder and lightning the better halfe of the Citie was burnt amidst a deluge of water and the innocent Alite strucken with a thunder-bolt found on the morrow in her naked bed converted to ashes The desolation of the Court the griefe of the King the complaint of the Queene and the ruine of so faire a Citie would have moved even Tigers to compassion and Feredo that thought himself the sole cause of all these disasters raving exceedingly thereat banishing all further hope of fortune or content abandoning his servants and all that ever he had secretly stole away from this destroyed Citie when poasting to the next haven hee suddenly embarked himselfe on the first ship that launched out which was bound for Gallicia whence travelling whither fortune carried him he came to Catalonia making his first residence in the Citie of Barcelona To acquaint you with his designes or intentions for parting from Logria so unaccompanied and unattended and wherefore thence to Gallicia and so to Catalonia without any regard of his quality or determinate end of his intentions would prove but superfluous nor are you to expect of mee any reason for it for that desperation and love worke not by any reasonable or orderly meanes Scarce was hee come when eyed by the Catalan Prince and in him observed his disposition and a certaine majestie farre different if not contrary to his then present-seeming fortune a humour tooke that Prince to have him for certaine ends of his to the service of the Princesse his wife and Feredo thinking thereby to vaile himselfe from the eyes of both the world and fortune willingly accepted of the proffer Become so from a Prince a subject and from an onely sonne a punie servant sealed this metamorphosis with his name which hee by altering Feredo into Calaplo endeavoured with his present condition to raze out the memory of his past misfortunes hoping to appease at full his Sisters Ghost with the severity of such a penance Wherein for now seeing himselfe no more tormented hee grew to be so confirm'd as he resolved with himselfe never to returne home more conceiting that very place to be subject more than any other to the influence of his horrible visions Few moneths had he continued in that Court when Don Peplasos for so was the Prince called taking him with one other Gentleman and a Gentlewoman in his company went with his wife on pilgrimage to the Temple of the Goddesse Iuno in the Pyrenean Mountaines That Princesse was one of the fairest and most vertuous Ladies of the world but for antipathy of qualities extreamely hated of her husband who being resolved to rid himselfe of her intended to have her slaine in those Mountains and then by procuring at the selfe same time the death or flight of Calaplo to make the world beleeve that shee being enamoured of him was runne away with him hoping this report would bee the rather beleeved in respect of his comelinesse and bodily perfections and much more for that hee having beene with mortall passions wooed by the fairest and noblest Dames of all that Kingdome had poore as hee seemed to be rejected great fortunes in marriage which would be thought hee did meerely for the correspondencie of affection hee hoped for at the hands of the Princesse Eleina a worthy occasion of slighting that of all the rest But come to the Temple and considering that two murthers could not without great danger be committed in one and the same time hee gave Calaplo a litle wallet stuff'd full of Coyne and Iewels brought thither it should seeme for that purpose together with a menacing charge contained in a few words but concluding that without any reply he should take it and get him gone so farre as hee might never be more seene nor heard of Hee not imagining the occasion of it knowing the Prince to be no lesse mischievous than cruell and therefore doubting lest his denying to take the wallet might prove dangerous unto him thought it his best course to obey him so as taking it with prompt obedience from before him hee set himselfe onwards on his way which the Prince himselfe had shewed him