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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14313	The pilgrime of Casteele; Peregrino en su patria. English. Abridgements	Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635.; Dutton, William, attributed name.	1621 (1621)	STC 24629; ESTC S113948	85,702	157

THE PILGRIME OF CASTEELE LONDON Printed by John Norton 1621. THE PILGRIM OF CASTEELE VPon the shore of Barselon betweene the plankes of a Ship which had suffered wracke there appeared as if it had beene a fardell of cloath couered with weedes which being perceiued by some Fishermen they tooke it into their Barke and carryed it along the shore about the space of two Miles where vnder the shade of some Trees they clensed away the weeds mud and found that it was a man in a trance who was almost past sence and without life These Fishers moued with compassion with some branches cut from an olde Oake kindled a fire and he who had been so neere the loosing of his Life now recouering it let them know what Countriman he was by his complaint discouered his admiration by his lookes and the feeling hee had of the good which they had done him by the desire which he had to acknowledge it Nature doing the accustomable office of a pittifull mother sent his blood to restore the more infeebled parts and hauing brought him almost to his former strength hee was about to haue discouered himselfe But not thinking it fit in so strange a fortune he concealed his birth name Only saying that this Ship suffering wracke in the sea and ceazing of these plankes which the Waues had cast vpon the shore he was two dayes floating amongst the billowes of the Sea who sometimes pittifull and then againe cruell did bring him neare and farther from the Land vntill such time that the refluxe of the water vanquishing the impetuositie of the tempest he was cast vpon the sandes where the violence of the stroke hauing as it were plowed vp his tombe hee thought himselfe buryed His returne hee said was from Italy and the occasion of his voyage the indulgences of the Iubile which was while Clement the Eight sate Bishop And sighing much amongst the broken speeches of his story hee let them vnderstand that he wanted a companion of his trauels of whom there was no newes to be had as it seldome hapneth that those who doe free vs from bodily misfortunes can also ease those of the minde So he rested this day within one of their Cabens while the colde night discending all crowned with starres did impart vnto mortall Creatures rest conformable vnto the quality of their liues giuing desires vnto the poore cares vnto the rich complaints vnto the sad vnto the contented sleepe and iealousie vnto the amourous In the middest whereof he heard a Lyra played vpon and according with a voyce which in singing complained of a Shepherdesses cruelty The Pilgrim who although hee were weary was yet more amorous and loued Musique rather then rest went out of his Caben into a meadow from whence seeing about a dozen Houses and amongst some Oziers the Author of those plaints Hee called him a great way off the other answered with feare But the pale light of the Moone which hid vnder the mantle of a Cloude beheld the secrets of the night made him see that it was a poore man and without armes hee then shewed him a little lower a planke lying amongst reedes ouer a little Brooke vnto which the solitarinesse of the place and silence of the night did giue no subiect of murmuring which when hee had passed they saluted one the other curteously especially he which came for strangers are alwayes curteous out of necessity and sate downe together vpon the Grasse Already had the Pilgrim informed himselfe of the name of this Village of the Lord therof and how farre it was distant from Barcelon when they vnlooked for saw two men comming who in stead of saluting them presented two Harquebushes to their faces a thousand feares in their hearts The stranger tolde them that they could take nothing from him but his life which hee esteemed little and sixe houres agone much lesse the other said hee was the sonne of a Seaman betweene a Fisherman and a Pilate and that all his goods consisted in this his Instrument with which hee did charme his cares The Souldiers did not witnes any desire vnto their clothes because one was of Canuas the other of course cloth And there is no Robber who is not liberall of that which is of no worth But they intreated them to conduct them vnto the Village which in regard of the incertainty of the way they could not finde in a great time The Fisherman tolde them that in recompence of their curtesie hee would aduise them not to goe forasmuch as the Inhabitants were a warlike people and did not willingly lodge men of their fashion And that it would be a thing impossible to escape from their hands if they were discouered because that vpō the sounding of the first Laram all the other Villages wold answer them from whence would come a multitude of Laborers who with diuers Armes would stop the passages and they knew the wayes so well that there was neither Brooke Tree nor Rocke which they had not at their fingers ends To this counsell the Bandoleers replyed that they were not alone but that there was aboue Fifty in their troope fighting vnder the colours of a Catalonian Knight who had been iniured by another more mighty then hee in meanes and Parents although not in force reason nor courage Hardly had they ended these wordes when by the reflection of the starres they sawe the Armes of the squadron and Captaine which they spoke of And now being ioyned all together they lodged by force in diuers houses of this Village The Pilgrim curious to learne a generall inclination of all such as trauaile in forraigne Countries mingled himselfe amongst the Souldiers no way disliking his company but contrariwise inuited him to supper after which the floore seruing them for Beds they entertained one the other with discourse vntill the slowe morning then at the end of February rose out of the armes of her spouse they knew from the Pilgrim his Fortune and hee being desirous to learne from them the cause of so euill an assured life his feature and his vnderstanding being very agreeable vnto them one of them called Ramond told it in this manner The History of Doricles IN this famous Citty which with a wonderfull greatnes opposeth Italy and astonisheth Africke there was borne a Lady of noble Parentage who hauing been a firebrand vnto her Countrey had no small conformity with the Greeke Helen her name was Florinda her beauty heauenly and her spirit diuine she hauing attained vnto yeares fit for Marriage two Knights equall in youth greatnes of meanes and Noblenes of blood did seeke her Loue with like hope but vnlike fauour Loue naturall inclination a simpathy of manners or an influens of the starres did constraine Florinda to loue Doricles and to hate Filander who to shorten his way betweene hope and possession and to preuent his riuall demaunded her in Marriage of her Parents who would willingly haue kept the respect which

vnto Thesander hee rather found the euill then the remedy For it is impossible that young men should knowe much because that to bee wise requires experience and that is gotten with time Nisa was much grieued at Thesanders passion although hee had neuer spoken vnto her about it But as hee which is Amorous so often speaketh as he looketh vpon that which he loueth she easily read in his lookes the depth of his thoughts and willing to disabuse him so that not being vnderstood by others shee might let him vnderstand the vanity of his Loue one night after shee was healed being intreated by all the company she sung these Verses following I wot not what is Loue nor yet his flame Nay more to knowe it I haue not the mnde In others t' will suffice a man may finde The woes this Tyrant in their soules doth frame That I for him doe sigh hee cannot say Hee mastreth not my will that bideth free His bad and my good Nature disagree And free me from his Empires Lawes for aye To cast his Darts else where I him require My heart as Rockes of brasse doth scorne his might Let him not grieue I from him take my flight Because I am all yee and hee all fire But they rather increased the fire which was too much kindled in Thesanders soule who taking the Lute from Nisa answered her with these Verses which hee had conceiued in his minde the night before The great Gods supreame puisant to deny Vnto my soule as rashnes I doe holde This to deny with truth I may bee bolde Mine euill nor yet my selfe I can desory My knowledge Loue hath rauisht whome you blame I thinke hee hath no might nor yet discretion If I bee thus tormented for Confession You that deny his power feele not the same He makes the widest breach in strongest Brasse From coldest yce he greatest fire can drawe Not one can ftye him for none euer sawe Ought else his shafts in swiftnes to surpasse Very aptly might Nisa at that time haue reuenged the motions which Pamphilus had to agree vnto Flerida's will It Loue had beene a Spirit as some haue beleeued which might haue toled them vnto her But it was not iust that so rare a Faith should be spotted with any infamy Thesanders Loue in the meane time springing from this first sparkle increased by Nisa's resistance like a Fire which a little Water maketh more violent or like Palme Trees growing most when a waight is layde vpon them Nisa waxed strong and walked abroad when desperate Thesander discouered himselfe vnto a Physician who incouraged him either to manifest his euill or else as the best remedy against his Loue to worke from his imagination this deepe melancholy and to diuert it by some honest exercise and that the courage of the practiser is the first matter vpon which the Heauens doe imprint the forme of their succors for as much as their fauour is not obtained by womanish prayers and vowes but by the vigorius actions of men agreeing vnto which the Greeke adage sayeth that the Gods doe sell their blessings vnto men in exchange of their labors Thesander was animated by these councells but finding that diuisions were weake remedyes against the splendor of Nisas beautie he fell into a relapse and grew so weake that he was constrained to discouer the cause of his sicknes The pittifull Father who was already informed of Nisa's quality coniured her with teares to be Mistres of his wealth and marry his Son of whose sicknes there was no other remedy Nisa admiring at the seuerall wayes whereby Fortune sought to seperate her from Pamphilus discouered then vnto the good olde man the whole history of her life and layde before him all the impossibilities which did excuse her from satisfiing so many curtesies the chiefest whereof was in his willingnes to admit her to the highest degree of Honor and affection that was possible for him to doe shee being a stranger and in such an vndecent habit for a woman fit to be his Sonnes wife By this meanes she satisfied the Father But the poore Thesander was so desperate that falling into greater extremity hee was at the last point of his life like vnto Trees whose boughes doe not loose their greenenes vntill that their humour which doth quicken them doe absolutely fayle because that hope is the radicall moysture which doth keepe vs aliue and is vnto vs as Oyle vnto our fire Nisa seeing that Thesander was for her sake vpon the point of losing his life and shee herselfe had not now liued but out of his Fathers pitty was exceedingly perplexed that shee could not satisfie so iust an obligation and not being able to rest in these confused thoughts the representations of Pamphilus labours did alwayes appeare in her minde who she thought to be Prisoner still at Valence Thesanders euill increased Nisa deferred the remedy the Father accused this poore amorous man in my opinion innocent because that in thinges naturall we doe neither merit nor Demerit In briefe all the whole family intreated Nisa that she would haue pitty of Thesanders young yeares and that at the least she would asswage his passion with one amorous word Amongst all the variable Fortunes aswell by Land as Sea which our Pilgrim had suffered there was none so difficult vnto her as this Neuertheles shee resolued to entertaine Thesander vntill hee had recouered some strength that thereby he might the better bee able to beare the subtilty which shee intended And in this she did not deceiue herselfe for our spirits haue some resemblance with the nature of young Horses which are easilyer managed with gentle Bits then with hard The sweet wordes the fained hopes and imbracings of Nisa within few dayes restored Thesanders weakened spirit during which time Celio was deliuered out of Prison with an exceeding desire to see her aswell because hee had heard newes of her health as because he imagined that if Finia were not in her company yet at the least he might heare some newes of her Neuertheles the sorrowfull Nisa beleeuing that Celio desired to kill her not knowing what Pamphilus had told him of her disguising in the habit of a Pilgrim so soone as she heard of his inlargement fled secretly from Barcelon In the meane time Lisard the Eldest brother vnto Celio and Nisa who as you heard was a Soldier in Flanders Disimbarquing in the same Towne of Barcelon farre from thinking that persons so neare him were there hauing met with Finia vpon the way on the first day of her trauell althogh almost in the last of the tragecall Comedy of her fortunes sorry to see so faire a Pilgrim goe a foote vnderstanding which way she was bound offered to accompany her into Casteele Finia willing to be gone from Celio whom she thought neuer to bee able to appease and not knowing that this was his Brother accpteth his offer and goeth with him to Toledo Where being receiued of his Parents