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A07458	The most famous and renowned historie, of that woorthie and illustrous knight Meruine, sonne to that rare and excellent mirror of princely prowesse, Oger the Dane, and one of that royall bond of vnmatchable knighthoode, the twelue peeres of France Wherein is declared, his rare birth, and stranger bringing vp, with his most honorable conquest of Ierusalem, Babilon, and diuers other cities from the pagan infidels: with many other memorable accidents of wonderous consequence. By I.M. Gent.; Meurvin. English.	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637, attributed name.	1612 (1612)	STC 17844; ESTC S112619	217,166	362

place detained the ancient armie there was also with him in the towne the king Brandus Herades and Isay the king of Iuda In briefe there was fiue kings and their powers at that time in the citie of Damascus When Esclamart sawe how gallantly the Danes had besieged him hée called Bandus and the other kings and sayde vnto them You kings of Asia and defenders of Alcheron let vs issue out courageously and visite these christians and I doubt not but if wée vertuously shew our resolutions we shall before the Sunne touch the highest point in the heauens vanquish and amaze them for they imagined to haue found vs altogether vnprouide● because mine vnkle king Baucamont is at Montment prisoner and so in his absence thought suddenly to surprise vs. T is true sayd Bandus therefore you haue my consent to sallie out immediately To this stratageme euery one concluded therewith arming themselues and then with a crie able to deafen thunder they sallied out of the gates and in a trice cast themselues into battalion order Bandus sayde Esclamart beare you the standard and for your garde take twentie thousand of the best souldiours You Herades shall haue other twētie thousand and incompasse them about through yonder valley my selfe with the rest will charge them in the faces and doubt not but soone to behold th●ir destructions In this politike sorte Esclamart trained his troupes who burnt with desire to bring our good christians to confusions but they as too wise to bee foyled by inuention had aduertisement by their espials of this approching wherefore Guion called his brothers and sayd● Princes remember you the blood from whence wée are descended and the vertues of our famous father Gualtier whose backe was neuer turned to the face of the proudest pagan Remember you also our renowmed vnkles whose almightie prowesses haue conquered the realmes which they now gouerne euen now is the time for vs to imitate their vertues and with lik● prowesse to obtaine to our selues crownes of perpetuall indurance And for mine owne part I vowe by him that died for me this day to giue my name such life amongst the pagans that the rumor of mine honour shall indure beyond all ages To this they all answered with an equall desire of honour whose courageous spirites like lions were neuer tamed yet they were all excéeding yoong the oldest amongst them hauing not as yet attained to the age of xxj yéeres Now God of his goodnesse prosper their procéedings for immediately begins the battell which will be both fierce and dangerous When ensignes were displaied on all sides and the signe of battel giuen by the trumpets sounding Bertran tooke a mightie lance in his hand and spurring his horse was the first that charged whom when a Turke named Butor who was king of Ecalion beheld he d●sranged himselfe and ranne to encounter him but Bertran who tooke his flight like a tempest came against him after such a fashion that at one blow both horse and man tumbled to the ground which when Bertran had perfourmed he returned with his sword drawen vpon the Turke who with the blowe was so astonished that locking his hands together and li●●ing them vp basely begged life and pardon Then Bertran dema●nded if hee would renounce Mahomet and beléeue thence●foorth one onely Iesus Christ to this the Turke answered no. Then by heauen sayd hée in me thou shalt finde no mercie and at that word strake his head from his shoulders then turning to his brother Guion who ●hen was come vnto him h●e sayd Brother if to euery one I pay this payment I beléeue the pagans will game nothing by my tendure Nowe began the batttell to bee mightie on both sides and Guion leauing his brother thrust himselfe amongst the middest of the pagans where the first hée met he threw dead to the gronnd and in like maner made an end of the second Briefly before his lance was broken he sent some to the earth to acompany their forefathers but when his lance was broken then he drew his sword and méeting with a pagan he cla●e his head to his teeth and then pursued another Bertran this while being amongst the thickest bandes of his enemies encountred a pagan who was the cosin to Esclamart to whom he lent such a salutation that he claue him downe euen to the girdle which another pagan beholding ran to Esclamart and sayd Generall thy noble cosine is slaine by a christian see where he lieth and see where his foe rangeth When as Esclamart saw Bertran possessed with a fellonious rage of immortall reuenge hee thrust spurres to his horse and assailed Bertran with such puissance that with the force of his present blowe he strake his horse dead vnder him but Bertran quickly vawted on his feete againe and with his sword in his hand ranne against the pagan against whom he boyled to obtaine but one straight blow but by any meanes he could not for the prease yet notwithstanding reaching one he light so violently on the head of his horse that it was more then time for Esclamart to beare him companie on foote also and Bertran then running against him had there slaine him but there swarmed such innumerable troupes of pagans about him that if God himselfe had not bene his defender Bertran then had breathed no longer Yet for all this the gentle yong gallant miraculously behaued himselfe for he strake not any pagan but he seuered the life from the body Isay the king of Iuda seing Bertran thus courageous thrust himselfe against him but there was mightie follie in his worke for Bertran met him in the middest of his carier with such a blowe that hee claue his head to his collar O Mahomet said Esclamart this christian is possessed with some deuill what mischiefe he doeth me and then he cried to all his souldiers promising prizes of great worth to him that could take him Then was the famous gallant assayled on euery side but like an inraged bore he ranged amongst them and in such sort defended himselfe that the pagans like larkes fell vnder the houerings of his wings But yet alas all his prowesse had profited him but litle and he was at the point of taking or killing when Thyery Florion his brothers with Huon of Burdeaux with diuors christians by great chance came to his rescue Brother Bertran said Florion now or neuer remember who you are and banish the feare of a pagan infidell and with that word he thrust into the prease ouerturning and killing al that stood betweene him and his brother When Bertran saw him he tooke new courage and like a lion rouzed himselfe with greater furie in so much that he strake Esclamart to the earth whom Florion like a gripe seized vpon and deliuered him to two stoute christians who bare him to their tents Then began the battell Hydra-like to renew in which the pagans died without number for whom soeuer Bertran touched neuer more stood need of the phisition on the

Is this thy Wife thou carriest vp downe this Countrey She is said Drohes And whither intend you to goe with her quoth the other Sir said Drohes to Saint Katherines where our Iourney shall haue his ending By heauen replyed the first againe I know thou artfull of gold which thy deuotion hath got from charitable giuers there is no other remedie but we must bee thy partners and with that offering to st●ike Drohes rose lightly vp and with his palmers staffe gaue him such a blow that he sprinkled his braines about the Field The other two séeing their companion slai●e assailed Drohes who wonderfully defended himselfe In the ende Adaine with her Palmers cudgel strake one of them behinde so that shée felled him to the earth and Drohes slewe the other Then turning himselfe to Adaine he louingly imbraced her and praised her feminine resolution of which at that instant euen as he was speaking he perceiued him whom Adaine had strucke to reuiue againe wherefore taking him he sayd Uillaine thy death is certaine vnlesse thou tellest me truely what countrey this is and whether thou hast anie more consorts of this damned qualitie He whom feare of death did terrifie thus answered Good Sir the verie truth is we are full fi●●ie in all who are gouerned vnder our captaine Raoult sometimes of Ro●q●ilon who banished from France brought vs into these parts where we liue onely by rapine and the spoile of passengers Then tell me said Drohes which is my readiest way to finde out the Heremite that continueth in this wildernesse Sir answered the villaine you must keepe along this way till you come to a great rocke then turning vpon your right hand towards it you shall find out the Hermitage This said Drohes tolde him theft was not pardonable and with that beat out his braines with a cudgell and ther went and found out the hermitage and knocked at the doore till the ancient Hermite comming forth demaunded what he would Right reuerend and graue ●●r quoth Drohes we are Christian Pilgrims When the Hermite heard they were Christians he louingly embraced them and bade them welcome because that he neuer had séene Christian in that place before asking them whither their iourney bore them God sir answered Drohes our steppes are vncertaine for I trauell to finde out some meanes for the deliuery of the onely excellent creature of the world incomparable Meruine who traiterously is imprisoned at Minor vnder the guard of a diuell and for that cause am I come to thée diuine man to learne means for his restitution because Experience hath made thee to be wise in all things especially in matters of verie great secret It is true quoth the Hermite yet in this I can say nothing at all but I will and if thou be so pleased send thee vnto a place where as I doe verily imagine thou shalt vnderstand any thing and thus it is Thou must goe into Iuda and inquire for the Hermite of that Countrey and to him tell thy desire and he will gladly resolue thee for he is a great Clarke a great Prophet a●d a man of great excellencie Drohes gaue him many ●hanks and then taking his leaue went towards Iuda whither by his trauell he soone arriued and came into the Forest where the Hermit liued wherein as he wandered he was set vpon by two cruell and rauenous Beares but in the end he ●●ew them so great was his courage and resolution And then they trauelled forward vntill they had found the Her●ite who being set in the portall of his Hermitage Drohes reuerently saluted The Hermite requited his salutation demaunding whither they trauelled To you quoth Drohes who are the wonder of this age for diuine wisedome and this reuerend sir is the verie cause of our wandering The onely accomplished man of all the world and he whose presen●e was my life rare Meruin my companion hath most treacherously béene imprisoned in Minor now about fiue yeares and onely garded by a flend of hell whom no mortall strength can vanquish now my desire is to know some meanes for his deliuerie without whose redemption my life shall consume in sorrow Pilgrime said the Hermite I vnderstand all that thou séekest wherefore for thy loues sake which I find to be so perfect I will doe mine indeuoure stay here then till my returne and thou shalt haue thy séeking Then went the Hermite into his study and beganne to coniure till a spirit appeared vnto him and demaunded his will Tell me quoth the Hermite where is Prince Meruine prisoner and by what meanes may he be deliuered He which will haue him restored answered the spirite must goe into the I le of Dordon where dwelleth an Hermite named Robaster t is hée that must deliuer him for it was predestinate to Meruine in his Birth that he should bée imprisoned till he were deliuered by a man whose mother died before he was borne and that is Robaster More of this I cannot nor I will not report vnto thée and then the spirit departed with such a tempest that all the corners of the spacious Earth trembled Then came the hermit to Drohes and tolde him what he had vnderstood by Magicke giuing him withall this caneate that when he came into that I le he should be well and sufficiently armed for that there was ther●in a Griffon an inuincible monster whose hugenesse was incomparable and who had power to flye swifter than an Eagle who suffred not anie to come into that I le but he destroyed them Graue Father sayd Drohes I most humbly thanke you and will from hencefoorth for this vnspeakeable and incomparable good turne bée both your Knight and your Beadesman Then taking his leaue hée and Adain departed towards the I le of Dordon and at length came to a great Riuer that descended into Orbe which passeth vnto Minor King Butors chiefe Citie where the Princely Meruin lay so trecherously imprisoned Ouer this Streame for their passage money hée and Adain were conuayed and thence came to a little Uillage where during the time of their small repose hee caused a new Palmers staff● to bee made for him of great Barres of yron with pykes halfe a foo●e in length and then beeing readie to depart he said to Adain Thou art too exceeding vehement thus to pursue my footsteps I beseech thee at my intreatie stay heere till my returne But she by no meanes would consent saying in all things she would be partner of his fortune then they departed together and came into the I le of Dorbon 2 Into which they had scarcely entered ere they discouered a Griffon who no sooner had set his eies vpon them but h●e came towards them and first thinking to take Drohes Drohes with his staffe gaue him such a mightie blowe as might haue felled a Lion but hee esteemed it not then Drohes with one of the pikes stroke him thorough the foote that hee cryed extreamely yet notwithstanding againe he came against him thinking to flie