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A08441	The heroicall aduentures of the knight of the sea comprised in the most famous and renowned historie of the illustrious & excellently accomplished Prince Oceander, grand-sonne to the mightie and magnanimous Claranax, Emperour of Constantinople, and the Empresse Basilia; and sonne vnto the incomparable Olbiocles Prince of Grecia, by the beautious Princesse Almidiana, daughter vnto the puissant King Rubaldo of Hungaria. Wherin is described ... his owne losse, strange preseruing, education, and fostering (by Kanyra Q. of Carthage) his knighthood, admirable exploytes, and vnmatchable atchieuementes, graced with the most glorious conquestes ouer knights, gyants, monsters, enchauntments, realmes, and dominions; with his ... combating, affecting, and pursuites in his loue towardes the rarely embellished princesse and lady-knight Phianora, daughter vnto the inuinicible Argamont King of England, by the gracious Princesse Clarecinda.		1600 (1600)	STC 18763; ESTC S110204	176,990	254

in the middest of our enterprises Mahomet our holy Prophet and great Termagant forefend it and defend mee from those who for a flea-bite in respect wil chaunge their mindes and vnmindefull of their eternall honours refrain from finishing euen the last act of these Christians tragedies who will not sticke to thinke and talke that their God in whom they beleeue hath by his heauenly power dedefended them and preserued their citie from being sacked by such an infinitie of as they call vs misbeleeuing Pagans whose holy Gods are not in potency halfe equall to their Christ Iesus Oh holy and most mighty Mahomet what a blemish wil this be to thy diuine maiesty To the dimming of whose resplendent glory rather then any accident should ankly happen I would first teare downe the stony wals of Constantinople with my nailes or hazard my selfe to a doubtlesse destruction Brammadon vttered these last words with such a wonderous vehemency of spirit as the whole assembly both admired and admitted what he had counselled And thereupon with great ioy they stedfastly resolued so soone as the blushing morne appeared next by their sodaine assaults to bring confusion on the Christians by the speedy conquering of Constantinople to make all Grecia destitute of any fortified place of refuge for to repugne them in their attemptings CHAP. XXIIII ¶ How the Christians by the politicke counsell of Duke Zabier of Alcazar were vanquished by the Infidels the Emperour Claranax the Empresse the king of Bohemia and all the Estates of Greece put in stronge prisons and manacled the Constantinopolitans forced by tortures and feare of death to belieue in Mahomet And how by the sodaine arriuall of the wise Magartes the knight of the sea knewe himselfe to be a Christian ZABIER the good ould Duke of Alcaazar though hee well had proued by experience that haste bringeth wast yet he determined willingly not to affront eyther Brammadon or any of the others in their resolues Neuerthelesse as one somwhat displeased that the whole counsell had so rashly consented vnto the youthfull vnaduised deuise of Brammadon as to surmise the sodaine surprise of Constantinople wherein the better part of the powerfull prowesse of Christendome was strongly engarrisonned he turned to the one side as a male content from the company of such young Counsellers and leaning his arme vpon his helmet he there rested in a melancholie dumpe vntill seing both the kings Tomarin and Tangut with silence to expect his verdicte as one whome they knewe most prudent with his snow-white hand smoothing downe his whiter beard he grauely endeauoured in this sort better to aduise them It is not vnknowne vnto ye my noble Lords how at that time the Emperour Claranax Zabiers sage counsell vnto the Pagan Princes with his millions of manful Christians embattelled himselfe against the armed bands of Tunis I bouldly met him in the face not only cōbatted him but woūded him in the head very sorely yet I but little preuailed for I scaped not scarrelesse I assure ye in my enterprise Also at the battels of Tangur and Tabarca I bouldly bad him battell and hand to hand three times in one afternoone affronted him but to no purpose For by my vnaduised rashnesse I stil lost more then I gained went away with the disaduantage yea euen when I had my enemies at most aduantage The Christian Emperour Claranax my worthy Countrimen is not only warlike but wary wise and wily is not therefore to be dealt withall so rashly and headily as any of our neighbouring nations in Barbarie Lidia or the rude Arabians the foster themselues in the desert wildernesses by base pillage petty pilfry whom in a moment with a band of Laūciers or at the most with a small army ye may presently put either to the flight or the foile But this nation with whom wee now contend are Christians whose forces wee haue to our costs so throughly felt as they seeme in armes rather to bee like those valiant Heroes their auncestours on whose helmet creasts is engrauen Assured victory then to haue fetched their pedigree from puling Paris who more delighted in amours then in armours as one who cared not for bloody Bellona so he might enioy his harmelesse Helena to dally with These are no such simple soules O ye worthy knights of Africa therefore not to be dealt withall scarbugge-like as young Brammadon would haue thē For it is not one battels losse will ouercome them but sundry slight skirmishes that must first weaken them for they are both prewe and pollitique Where the Lions skin will not serue wee must piece it with the soxes case hauing some of their knights in armes whilest others be in ambush And therfore it is ill for vs with the eagre mastiffe to venture to far in pursuite after the subtill Panther least vnawares entangled within his renting pawes we finde our selues subiect to ineuitable daunger and destruction Oceander harkened most attentiuely to the briefe oration of the good ould Duke of Alcaazar who had no sooner ended but by the holy Alcheron Zabier quoth he thy counsell is both politicke and profitable for hereby we may both weaken the Constantinopolitans and yer long Mahomet and his holie Angels fauouring vs take them at such aduantage as all the prisons in Greece may easily be filled with their captiue carcasses Hereunto the whole counsell condescended and thereupon each one departed to his owne pauilion except Tomarin Tangut the knight of the Sea and Zabieir who The Pagan princes goe to view the city with their pages six other attendāt knights secretly stale out of the campe poasted to the city which they saw so exceedingly wel watched warded with bands of souldiers at that time as they all wondered to see the Christians so vigilāt in their defēcings Whereupon Tomarin quoth Tangut I would to the Gods my men had bin Christians on that condition they would thus safely haue guarded themselues from their Grecian surprisements Wherat they al fetched a deepe sigh speedily departed to their campe again Where they were no sooner entred but they might perceiue on their pauilions the brightsome glimmering of the blushing morning to bid good morrowe to those Martialistes whose eyelids the drowsie slumbers of the former night had neuer closed When speedily prouidētly embattelling their souldiers before it was fully daylight Brammadon Xamaru Taliertez tooke their way with a strong battaglion of 3000. stout and valiant souldiers as spéedily as they could vnto a little nooke of the forrest adioyning wtin half a league of Cōstantinople An ambuscado of Pagans Within whose bushy entrails they closely enambushed themselues whilest the knight of the Sea Bamaru Tomarin a selected battaglion of Tunis marched celerously forward to encoūter their Christiā enemies Who vnder the generall conduction of the wounded Prince of Hungary Labasto of Sparta and Prince Curan of Thessaly with their eager bands of Huns Moldauians Bulgarians Bohemians Budans

destructions CHP. XXIII ¶ Of the great battaile betweene the Pagans the Christians cut of by the comming of the night begun a-fresh the next day wherin the Grecians went by the worse their reuēge by the death of 17000. Barbarians how the Pagan Potentates enraged concluded the speedy destruction of the whole City YF the Pagan Embassadours admired the vnheard of clemencie of the royall Emperour it was no maruaile since both for magnanimous prowesse merciful patience hee was vnmatchable Wherefore with the greater reuerence they respected his highnesse courteously replying that whatsoeuer he had commaunded them for answere they would on their honors truely refer vnto their Soueraignes and thereon engaging their credits they presently departed after honourable entertainement from the Palace of the Emperour to the tents of the kings of Tunis and Tangur Where to the relating of the good Emperours answere wee will leaue them to returne to the by this time returned Commaunders of Christendome Who with a mighty nauie hauing passed ouer the Adriatike seas speedily alanded their troopes of trained souldiers in sight of their enuious enemies vpon the plaines of Constantinople to the exceeding comfort of the Constantinopolitan Christians Aide of Christians in succour of Constantinople with Morcauil 3000. horse Rubaldo 1200 foote Fiarden Arcanio 100. horse 9000. foote with Curanand Kauisco●●0000 who from their wals battlements espyed where first the stout young Prince Morcauill of Hungaria with his battalion of 3000. horse after whom followed the king Rubaldo with 2000. Huns and stout Bulgarians on foote proudly passed alongst the forefronte of the Pagans pauilions Next whom the ould king of Bohemia with his forward sonne the Prince Arcanio marched with a strong battaglion of an hundred horse and 9000. foote all worthy knights from Thessaly and Transiluania came also forty thousand sturdy souldiers marching vnder the ensigne of the valiant princes Curan and Kauiscon at whose arriuall the Constantinopolitans so loudly showted as the whole citie trembled therwith Then a great Lord of Sparta with 4000. vnder his leading well approued Grecians disembarqued themselues Who hearing of the timelesse death of their young Prince Ismerion solemnly vowed to make a slaughterhowse amongst the pauilions of the pittilesse Pagans with whome also the like sware the thrice-excellent Erimaro and Orbano the worthy Gouernours of the French and Spanish armies protesting till the death resolutely to wreake vengeance on their misbelieuing molesters who had encaptiuated their yong Soueraignes All these in martiall order couragiously passing close by the pauilions of the Pagans marched 3. times round about the plaine before the Citty where though greatly against the minde of the carefull Emperour Claranax who fore-warned them of some treacherous mischiefe that might there befal them they straight wayes strongly encamped their companies whose courages yearned to be grappling with their Pagan enemies With exceeding gallantnesse they marched in this order into the Cittie where they were graciously entertained of the good ould Emperour Claranax Who with great gentlenesse gaue to euery seuerall soldier such singular welcomes as euery one vowed willingly to spend their liues in defēce of him and his whole countries such and so vnheard of was the forwardnesse of the Christians in Constantinople who no lesse comforted the drooping spirits of the Grecians then discouraged the stout hearts of the rude barbariās Kings of Tunis Tangur Whose hostes as they were huge in multitudes so they were haughty in maners diuerse in dispositions contrarie in condition therfore not onely gaue often occasion of quarrels and debates Tumult in the Pagās Cāpe but also of sodaine destruction to the whole armie had not some malitious malefactours been the more speedily corrected by the good aduice of the Knight of the Sea Who assuredly seing how many multitudes of mischiefes were likely to secōd each mutiny causing a fit place by the hādy-works of painefull Pyoners with a loude voice and an vndaunted courage in this sort played the Proloquutor to the Pagan princes who encompassing him about with their armed chariots yeelded an attentiue auscult to his oration Sacred Emperours of Tunis Tangur and Tabarca Oceanders oration to the kings of Tunis T gur Tabarca if I were able in wordes like a cunning Oratour or another Hermes but euen halfewise to expresse the very colon of my conceite your mightinesse should thoroughly pe●ceiue the great pittie that I would plainely prostrate before the eyes of your excellencies of the sodaine confusion of our complotted enterprise But alas I am insufficient to performe my pretence and therefore in plaine tearmes I shall truely lay open vnto you my proposed purpose Vnderstand you therefore my Lordes that not onely euer since our arriuall but euen at this instant our armie hath been and is so pestered with pernitious traytours and conspiratours as neuer a day nor houre nay nor scarcely at this present our friends and loyall followers can rest free from their disturbances whose hearts are still conceiting whose heads euer complotting and whose handes are ready to the accōplishing of all wickednesse and treasonous insidies that can possibly be plotted or performed Such conspiracies were contriued by Cascar and Ombator against the holy Alcheron of Mahomet and such was the blasphemie of Blandulon against his deitie The like was that of Raphan who enterprised the sodaine surprisage of your maiesties liues in your pauilions and no whit differed that same abhominable action of A●tior Esson who in armes openly oppugned against the profitable proceedinges of your potencies Infinite more of molestours could I number that within these few dayes haue trayterously conspired against the common good of our glorious armie But what became of them They dyed either by perishing or punishment and more vndoubledly will followe them should not our holy prophet Mahomet the better prouide by his diuine prouidence for our perfect prosperitie Let vs therefore on our knees magnifie his holy name and with our handes manfully maintaine his true beliefe against all his misbelieuing aduersaries that peruersly oppose themselues against his holy heastes and against our hostes for his sake And so shall wee not onely profite the perfectnesse of our religion but also preserue our campe and countrey from the trayterous complots of some wicked wretches whom idlenesse and ambition egge on to the worke of their deserued endes and our dolefull confusion The Knight of the Sea with so great vehemencie of spirit pronoūced this his speech as the Barbariās being exceedingly amazed at his bould braue behauiour in token of their great good liking of his counsell rendred him a grations applause with excessiue shouting all in generall reioycing that they had so good a chieftaine and courageous a champion to conduct them except Ebator Ebator Whose heart yearning for anger of the remembrance of his brother Ombators treacherie caused him secretly to conceiue no small hatred against the Knight of the Sea for euer after And therefore with