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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16157	Eromena, or, Love and revenge. Written originally in the Thoscan tongue, by Cavalier Gio. Francesco Biondi, Gentleman extraordinary of his Majesties Privie Chamber. Divided into six books. And now faithfully Englished, by Ia. Hayvvard, of Graies-Inne Gent; Eromena. English	Biondi, Giovanni Francesco, Sir, 1572-1644.; Hayward, James, of Gray's Inn.	1632 (1632)	STC 3075; ESTC S107086	212,008	210

not sithence seene by whom they beleeved the Prince to bee betraied and so by the helpe of the rest murthered by the Admirall They sent suddenly to the gates where they understood that the Admirall with eight Companons all well horsed went out at the gate of Castlemuni They resolved to send after him and having to that end sent for the Count of Montereale Generall of the horse and shewed him the body of the Prince they committed to his charge what he was to doe The Count who adored him living and now being dead could not satisfie himselfe in bemoaning him considering that the present state of the businesse required somewhat else than teares went on his way most resolute to use all possible diligence to revenge his death The Lords of the Councell in the meane time after they had taken such order as was requisite touching the bodies of the Prince and of the guiltie Traitors returned to the Palace But the Citizens having I know not how understood of the accident and telling it one unto another were seene to shut up all their shops in an instant with lamentations so manifest that the King perceiving it asked the Marquesse what was the matter who answered him that he knew not but the King seeing it more and more increase bade him goe call the Prince and learne what the matter was Wherein whilst the Marquesse tooke on him to obey him there appeared in his presence the Privie Counsellors who when the King saw come thronging so many together he imagined that some great disaster had hapned for all of them pitifully lamented insomuch as the President who was to be the Speaker could not utter a word whereat the King impatient turning towards the Marquesse and seeing him make greater moane than any of the rest asked him angerly if the King of Corsica were in Caleri or if the Kingdome were lost My Soveraigne Leige answered then the President would to God I could bring you that newes in exchange of this other a thousand times more wofull for there might be hope to recover againe the Realme whereas the losse that both you and the Kingdome have now sustained is irrecoverable What can it then be replied the King Is Perosfilo dead At which demand all of them kneeling downe and pitifully lamenting him with grieuous sobs and mornefull cries answered that he was The King hereat astonished would have runne towards the Lodgings of the Prince thinking to see him there Whene the Queene comming out thence accompanied with Eromena with their heire hanging disorderly about their eares more like Bacchanals or mad women than themselves met him at a doore full-but The Queene strangely gazing on the standers by with reiterated words cried out Perosfilo Where is hee where is my Sonne Come give him mee withhold him not rom mee for I will have him This incounter was to the King even as a fire which come neere a dry tow-like matter fuming and halfe consumed puffs it up in a flame in an instant for seeing his wife and daughter in so strange a fashion his spirits and courage so failed him as he sunke downe to the ground But the Queene without taking any notice of him running about while here while there continued in calling out for her Sonne till become all hoarse with crying she held her eyes immoveably fixt where once she let fall her sight without shedding a teare Eromena the mirrour of beauty and Prudence stood in that instant with her faire eyes concentrated pale and wan She wept not and yet she wept for her weeping were exclamations and sighes she called on the beloved name of her brother she sought for him all over his Lodgings and hehind the Tapistrie as if she had hoped to have found him there hidden The King was raised up from the ground and laid in his bed so would the Ladies have likewise disposed of the Queene but she become frantike ran up and downe the Palace and round about the Lodgings complaining of the heavens and cursing men till she brought her selfe to that passe as she was not able any more either to move or crie The numerous companie of Ladies that pittifully wept about her had not beene able to re-conduct her to her Lodgings if Eromena fearing with her brother to lose also her mother had not with her presence and teares importuned and perswaded her to retire her selfe It boots me not to tell you of the revolt of the Citie when the corpes of the Prince were about midnight brought to the Palace The dolefull Eromena considering how her father was by reason of his great griefe fallen sicke of a Feaver and her mother growne distracted of her senses was not therefore willing to let them know any thing but went her selfe with a few others to veiw the body but then although all her vitall powers ran unto her heart although all her force and vertues whereof the heavens were unto her so graciously liberall united themselves together to fortifie her courage yet could not all this save or sustaine her spirits and almost her life from failing her at that instant she grew pale shee swounded she fell dead at least in all likelihood and died she had indeed if a spirit more feeble had given shape and being to a lesse generous heart In the end come to her selfe and sitting by the corps as she watered his breath-losse face with a fountaine of her teares she said Are these then the joyes Brother which we expected of thee Are these the hopes that the world had of thee which with all reason is expected of thy valour Is this the flourishing age by so short a space of life so cruelly cut off to bring therewithall to an end with no lesse crueltie the lives of those that brought thee into the world why did not thy resplendent vertues dazle the eyes of him that slew thee maugre the spectacles of envie O cruell starres To what end served such and so great influences of beautie and exquisite feature in a body peerlesse for prowesse and adorned with so divine a soule seeing a little blemish an error in youth so tender so excusable hath caused and pro●ured the corruption and ruine of all those excellent perfections to give the whole world cause to lament the losse of them yet are they not lost for what ascends from above must returne to whence it came so as we have no cause to grieve for thy generous soule but yet can we not chuse as we are mortall but lament the dissolution of the perfectest composure that ever nature put together neither can we without death chuse but bewaile thy death depriving us of the life which from thy sweet life we received for in thee were indivisible all those graces which the Graces participate not to others but in such measure as is requisite for the delight of humane kind We cannot chuse but mourne seeing our selves threatned at home and abroad being since we are deprived of thee without

in his royal estate nor were all those dangers that were proposed to be likely to spring from the keeping of him alive able to remove Eromena from her innate clemencie who onely kept him secure under the charge of a faithfull guarde whereof there was no great neede for he having understood of the losse of his kingdome and of the resolution taken touching his person growne furiously mad thereat and wanting wherewithall to kill himselfe ranne his head at the wall with such a horrible force as he therewith dash'd out his braines for the others were prepared new wayes of torture as pinsers sheares hot irons and fires but the Princesse thereto consented not leaving such inventions for hellish furies contenting her selfe that they though worthy of all torments paid the law its due and satisfied by example the necessitie and publike desire of justice which was executed with so great a concourse of spectators as that the field was not capable to containe so great a throng The Traytors dying all of them penitent of the offence except the obstinate Admirall In the meane time was the Count of Bona held in suspence almost two montehs space without receiving any publike answer being neverthelesse well informed of its occasion and sumptuously entertained The newes being afterwards come of the totall possession of Corsica and Polimero desiring there should be sent thither a Vice-Roy to governe it a generall assembling of the states of the kingdome was resolved of to which end came together the feodatories deputies of every one of the Cities and Provinces The first thing in that Parliament decreed was the Prince's funerall exequies which were celebrated with such an orderly pompe as that they might with more reason bee termed triumphs there not appearing other lugubrous object than the habit and affection to the deceased Prince There were to be seene the representations and modells of sacked cities battells won people tamed and vanquished of Kings and Giants taken and led captives of wilde beasts trampled downe and monsters slaine the liberalitie used towards the vanquished the giving of cities and whole kingdomes not for avaritious but for honourable ends the Virgins preserved and the women cared for the dangers of the land and sea voyages and discovering of new regions In summe all whatsoever could in such a subject bee imagined for the expression of his a thousand-fold happinesse if there had not among so many ornaments of glorie violently beene inserted in the minds of the beholders the occasion of his death At the second sitting was in solemne forme established the incorporation of Corsica to the kingdome of Sardegna with a law of never alienating it more for any occasion whatsoever Some there were that would have their lawes and priviledges quite abolished but thereto would not the Princesse abosolutely consent thinking it best to see first how they demeaned themselves who though conquered by force should not be for that respect worse used than before being fallen not through their owne but through their Prince's faultinesse whose remembrance shold bee defaced out of the peoples hearts by good vsage and continuation of favours rather than by harsh usage and withdrawing of favours to give them cause of endeavouring to regaine their former freedome As for the lawes she well knew their abolishing to be necessarie being that a body cannot be formed of two soules and those different and would therefore have the Sardan lawes serve for and be common to both kingdomes nominating the Marquesse of Oristagnio Vice-roy of Corsica with generall applause of the universall assembly There being propounded afterwards at the third sitting the demand of Mauritania not for obtaining of consent thereto but to have it confirmed by counsell upon recitall of Polimero's merits and of the conquest of Corsica there was not so much as one that gainesaid it The Marquesse of Oristagnio parted suddely to the end Polimero might come to celebrate the marriage Now he had received daily intelligence from his Eromena the Marquesse and the Count of Bona of all that was done in Sardegna wherefore though he were desirous to dispatch himselfe thence yet waited he with all patience the orderly proceeding of his affaires conformable to the necessitie of the times setling in the meane time the places he had gotten in such order as they might be easily conserved fortifying every place whose site or necessitie required it having a speciall eye to the assuring of the ports but chiefely to the remotest from Sardegna in the face of Liguria So as when the Marquesse came and found all things so well setled he said that Corsica might well be kept without his government it being so well ordered as it was impossible for it for a long time to fall into any disorder Arrived in Sardegna and as its Prince reverenced of every one he came to Caleri met with great pompe and extraordinary applause where having kissed the Kings hands he would needes doe no lesse to Eromena's also the presence of the multitude prohibiting them to embrace one another according to their internall amorous affects so as they greeted each other with outward apparances according to the stile of convenient ceremonies The King for all these rejoycings never once joyed at all but the more he observed his sonne-in-law in his actions resemble his sonne the more he felt his heart rent with the memorie therof which he so loved as for it he disloved every thing else not excepting himselfe Polimero's first resolution was to licence the Mauritanian forces wherewith he well pleased the whole kingdome he re-sent them enriched with the pillage or Corsica and therefore passing well contented sending backe also with them all the Fleet except the Galleyes which he sent for Metaneone to come to his marriage and he by entreatie of his father and mother-in-law got leave to bring also along with him Eromilia Having then ship'd themselves after they had by a Fleet-Galley sent their brother word of their comming they sayled the two first daies with prosperous windes but were the two following greatly troubled with Southerly windes so as they had much ado to keep in the maine from crossing over to the Gaulan cost But the winde increasing and blowing with extraordinary furie they having lost their direct course were driven into the Lygustike sea without being able to touch the Iland of Corsica The sweet Eromilia found her selfe heart-sicke being unable to taste any sustenance sore was she troubled with vomiting so as having nothing in her stomack she cast up the very pure bloud to the extreme griefe of her husband who would willingly have died rather than have seene her so languish He had once hoped to come by some meanes or other to strike on the Corsan shore but seeing himselfe transported beyond Capo-Corso he commanded to take the winde in poop and to runne a-shore on the neerest place of landing North-ward from that Cape stood a little disinhabited Isolet where having with much adoe cast anchor