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A17883	Admirable events: selected out of foure bookes, vvritten in French by the Right Reverend, Iohn Peter Camus, Bishop of Belley. Together with morall Relations, written by the same author. And translated into English by S. Du Verger; Occurrences remarquables. English. Selections	Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652.; Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652. Relations morales. English. Selections. aut; Du Verger, S.; Brugis, Thomas, fl. 1640?, attributed name.; T. B., fl. 1639.	1639 (1639)	STC 4549; ESTC S107416	192,146	386

Father she took him not only for her husband but also for a second Father and esteemed her selfe very happy that she might serve as a recompence to him who had so liberally drawne her Father out of prison she served him with all reverence and entire affection that Venon thought himselfe much bound to him whom he had obliged Who finds a vertuous woman saith the wise man findeth a price inestimable the heart of her husband relyes only upon her and she waiteth on him diligently and faithfully you cannot imagine with what ●ffection this young woman loved this old man and how passionately this old man affected this his young wife Of so amorous an union of these two hearts and bodyes issued Rosana as a creature destined to love honourably and generously shee was but two moneths old when her Grandfather Teudas overcome with sorrow and griefe for the losse of his goods left this life to enjoy a better Her Father Venon who had much weakned his estate in drawing his deare friend out of prison daily felt necessity approaching but God who guardeth the just and seeth no good deed passe unrewarded provides for him beyond all hope or expectation for those that seeke him can never want any thing Venons greatest griefe was much like that which Teudas felt in prison because that seeing himselfe old he feared that he should not leave his wife wherewithall honestly to maintaine her selfe and to bring up and match this daughter Comfort thy selfe O Venon with good Tobias and bee assured that although poverty overtake thee yet thou shalt have meanes sufficient provided that thou feare God hope with Iob that all shall be restored to thee againe double Scarce had Rosana beene a yeer at her Mothers brest but she was pluckt from thence by an apparance of good fortune There are two powerfull houses in Slesia whose owners are reckoned in the ranke of Princes The Duke of Lignits and the Duke of Swednes The wife of one of these great men of which my Author could not assure me being ready to cry out a nurse was sought out for her to give sucke to the child which she expected Ermige was chosen for one of the best that could be found in all Breslaw this came in good time to keepe this poore family from necessity which daily as I have shewed before encreased The Dutches was delivered of a sonne whom we will name Sapor he was delivered up to Ermige to nurse and Rosana was put to another And now Ermige and her husband are made part of the Dukes houshold and are wholly imployed in bringing up the young Prince Sapor when time came that Rosana was weaned and of some stature she was put to rocke the Prince and finde him sport as the manner of children is Thus growes Rosana gently like a Vine by ●'s E●me tree When the P●ince came to age and understanding he love● Rojana as his foster sister with the ordinary fondnesse of children towards them that make much of them and find them sport to passe away the time and Rosana serves and waites upon him as her Lord and Master Sapor was not above three or foure yeeres old when Venon paid nature the tribute which all humane creatures owe leaving both his wife and daughter to the Dutchesse who looked for no other fortune then what proceeded from her bounty The little Prince affected his nurse and foster sister in such a manner that although he was now weaned yet they both tended him and waited on him But here we must observe that as fire elevates the matters whereinto it takes although they are of themselves heavie so likewise love raiseth the hearts wherein it takes an impression and stirres them up to motives and actions farre surmounting both the age and condition of the parties This I say in respect of the love and affection which Rosana bore to Sapor of whom even in her infancy she was so taken that this flame increasing with her yeeres arrived at last to perfection None will deny but that it is an errour condemnable to say that parents beget the soules as well as the bodies knowing that their beginning comes immediately from God but since the disposition of temperature and of the organs through which the spirit exerciseth it's functions hath great effect in regard of the firme union of the soule and the body It is no great wonder if that Rosana being sprung from parents whose inclinations were wholly to friendship that her bloud and heart should be addicted to this passion otherwise might she have beene rather thought a monster in nature if she should not have partaked of the qualities of those that begat her let us neither spare the rehearsing nor let passe the praise due unto her faithfull affection since that both honesty and generosity have beene the wings wherewith it hath mounted thus high Things that are ashamed of sight most commonly seeke darknesse wherin to shroud themselves but those that are vertuous walke in the light of the day why should we blush for being in love there is nothing so much commendable as that which is guided by purity The law of Christians is wholly grounded upon love we are not ashamed to shew our love to a picture to a horse or a hound we thinke nothing to good for them why then should we bee ashamed to cherish a reasonable creature a person well descended well bred who respects nought save honour and vertue which are the most amiablest qualities For beauty is but the weake wind thereof and a thing which ought to be taken but as the badge of goodnes even as the blossomes on a tree are onely praised for the fruits which shall come of them Verily the Elements which give us our being and life are not more necessary then mutuall love and friendship But whither doth this thought carry me against the promise I have made not to let my penne flye out too far nor insist too long upon any particular but the reason is that I have in hand a vertue so heroicall that the singularity thereof hath drawne from me those few words in it's commendation Rosana as you have heard loved Sapor in her infancy with such an extraordinary fervour that assoone as she lost the sight of him she did nothing but weepe and complaine for this Prince was the Adamant of her heart and she was the Marigold whereof he was the Sunne never was there seene in so tender yeeres so strong a passion all the world wondred at it and the Duke and Dutches tooke therein an incomparable pleasure they often passed time in vexing this little creature by threatning to put her away from the Prince to which she would reply in such a manner as could not be expected from so small an age or so little strength and like an Amazon sought to fight with all those who sought to take her joy from her Alas we see many love dogs more for their trustinesse then for any handsomnesse

propose nothing but what is vertuous and tending to salvation the bad doe but invite to unlawfull passions which darw unto eternall ruine there is the distinction betwixt the Hiblean and the Heraclian hony that the first is good and wholsome being gathered upon Thyme a bitter hearbe it is a little unpleasing in taste but good for the stomack whereas the second being gathered upon the sweet but venemous hearbe aconitum hath increase of sweetnesse which is mortall for it provoketh swimmings in the head strange convulsions and in fine death if it be not speedily vomited up even so it is with good and evill love the first free and plaine but the pure hath I knowe not what in it rough and simple but it troubles not the soule nor overturnes not the Oeconomie of its health which consisteth in the right use of reason and of all its faculties whereas bad love is sugered full of quaint wantonesses faire smooth speeches sweet but dangerous mortall unto reputation pernitious unto salvation and quite contrary to reason which she puts out of order to establish in its place the tyrannie of an unruly passion Now as it is the end which giveth the beginning unto a thing the means being justified by the intention I generally call that bad and unjust love which hath not marriage for its end and which by wanton wooings letters presents and other such arts tends unto the entire ruin of honesty I call that love good which is lawfull and honourable and hath the eyes of a Dove yea of a Dove washed in the milk of purity whose teeth are of Ivory the symbole of its integrity whose lips are bound with a red riband in signe of pudicity and modesty of speech whose cheekes are like the opening of a pomegranat it witnesse of modest shame whose feet are seated upon bases of gold for a foundation of cleannesse In briefe whose thoughts words countenance actions and intentions are all pure upright and sincere all cleane and honest It there were ever any of this sort we may be sure that the love of Maximian to Hermile had all these qualities At the beginning of their frequentation the father of Hermile was troubled in mind Hermile her self had a good share in that trouble because that considering the extream disproportion which was betweene the qu●l●ty of the one and the other of the parties they could not imagine in what manner heaven could tye them together But nothing is impossible to him that hath made heaven and earth and hath set such a tye amongst the elements whose qualities are not onely different but contrary each to other depending them on divine providence who hath wrought greater miracles After a thousand protestations of purity of intention and honest pretention Hermile was permitted by her father to hearken unto Maximian and not to reject after a froward manner the vowes of his love and service Vnder the aspect of this starre of fatherly permission shee imbarqued herselfe in this affection with so much staydnesse and discretion that she proved the Proverb a lyer which saith that Wisedome and Love never go together The eyes of her mother were alwayes spectators of her carriage although her ears could not alwayes understand the words wherewith Maximian entertained her which although ful of modesty might have lost their point if they had had lesse liberty in conclusion their love went on so far that nothing wanted but marriage to put it in its apogeon but forasmuch as the publique laws forbid children to contract it without the consent of their parents the consent of Rogat was absolutely necessary that of Hermiles father being sure enough Maximian in whom love and desire bred great unquietnes and impatience writ unto his father that beeing ingaged in an affection which hee could not cast off but with his life he humbly intreated him to give thereto his consent and blessing whereby he might make him the happiest gentleman in all Brittain Rogat who went not so fast on in a matter which cannot be too much thought upon having inquired of the qualities and condition of the maid I meane of those which the world chiefely regards in marriages to wit bloud which is the riches of birth and wealth which is the bloud of life and having learned how extreame the inequality was between his sonne and this party like a prudent man as hee was he would not wholly cut off his sonnes hopes therof for feare of raising his spirits to drive him unto some great extreamitie but he imitated Physitians who turne backe a rheume which by their remedies they cannot wholly dry up he cunningly takes time to thinke upon it and in that time seemes desirous to see his sonne to conferre with him viva v●ce on this matter Lovers easily beleeve what they desire for what doe they not hope that love This deceitfull language seemed unto Maximian to bee a kinde of consent and he concludeth with himselfe so dexterously to husband the minde of Rogat that he will worke him to condescend unto his desires The father sends him word that for his own part he is now in an age which dispenseth him from great voyages but that Paris is not too far a journey from Brittaine for a young Academicke Love of the Countrey desire to see it and paternall invitation sets on the backe of Maximian such wings as are attributed to the god of Love he promiseth an inviolable loyaltie to Hermile in presence of her father and mother and takes leave of her but onely to goe and take leave of Rogat to be wholly hers He depends thereon as on a thing already done yet reckoning without his host he may reckon twice Hermile accompanies his departure with sighs and tears sweet and chast witnesses of her affection exhorting him to constancie and to take heed that winde and absence beare not away his faith and promise It 〈…〉 to tel you the vows and protestations which this Britton made of an immutable stability yet so it is as effects have showne that he spake even from the bottome of his heart and that his speeches were oracles Being then arived in Brittaine he found not in the minde of his father that condescendence which he imagined Contrariwise he met with reproofes which he expected not and whereunto his soule was not prepared he resembled them in war who thinking to retyre among those of their owne party see themselves ingaged in the hands of their adversaries in vain did he alledge the beauties and vertues of Hermile Rogat sees them not so far off and besides he thought there were beauties and vertues in Britaine as well as in France Moreover that which he desired in a match were beauties of silver and vertues of gold which Hermile wanted Then did Maximian judge that his minde would never yeeld and that those gentle letters which hee had written were but onely lures to call him backe into his countrey from the object of his passion

truth consumed those mists and brought backe unto light the face of her innocence and shee was served as aforetime for as tempests purifie the sea so did these stormes justifie her reputation Berard whose naturall inclination was to love sailed not long ere he found a new rocke wheron he made shipwrack of his liberty it was at the feet of Ginnesinde that he yeelded himselfe and although his fickle and detracting humour made women doubtfull of him yet his quality and meanes bore such a lustre that they hid these defects unto those who hoped to make a fortune by him and besides it was thought that he might be cured of these imperfections and that if he could once be fastened with the indissoluble bond of marriage he would be constrained by the law of Hymen to be constant and likewise to be m●re reserved in speeches for feare least others might speake ill of his wife as he hath spoken ill of others and indeed it must be granted that Hymen is a soveraigne remedy to stay a fickle man and to stop his mouth it is time for him then to be wise or never on this perswasion and by the like permission of Parents Gunnesinde no lesse vertuous then faire received the proffers of his service and gained such great advantages on his spirit that it seemed this chaine could never be undone but who can hold the winde in his hand or stay a minde wherein lightnesse is not so much accident as substance Gunnesinde had neither more merit nor more charms than Stratonice and therefore no wonder if she had lesse power to retaine this man under her lawes pride like unto smoake is alwaies mounting the more this man sees himselfe made of the better opinion he takes of himselfe and this presumption leading him forth of the bounds of duty bore him unto such insolencies as a well-bred Mayd could not suffer without anger and indignation presently he enters into a chafe and as the prick of bloud-letting cureth the heat of a Feaver so the heat of this mans love was alayed by the sting of despight and whereas contrariety sharpeneth the desire in others this mans was extinct by opposition proud imperious spirit who would have all stoop to him and under the name of servant would take the authority not onely of a husband but of a Master and a tyrant Gunnesinde whose noble bloud was accompanied with a great spirit seeing her selfe affected among divers other by one Servulle a yong Gentleman whose humours pleased her well and who honoured her with submissions approaching even unto idolatry could not suffer the haughty humour of Berard who would raigne alone and absolutely as if he should give a law unto her from whom he ought to receive it often did he complaine unto her of the jealousie which Servulles presence bred in his head and would have her not onely to shunne him but to drive him from her by a kinde of affront whereunto Gunnesinde would never condescend unwilling so unworthily to reward the manifold respects and honourable services which she received of this yong man Berard unable to beare this jealousie and seeking but only some faire pretext to passe from the love of Gunnesinde unto that of Macrine whom he had already chosen for the object of his humour made use of this occasion to breake the bands and forsake Gunnesinde from a tongue like to his accustomed to sharpenesse and gaule nothing could be expected but scoffes or murmurings true it is they were but as arrowes shot against a rock for Gunnesinde by a severe manner of proceeding had established such a foundation unto her reputation that all Berards brags were as so many spittings vomited up against heaven which to his shame fell backe upon his owne face notwithstanding Servulle who had a farre more sensible feeling of these words darted against her whō so fervently he loved then she her selfe had retorted backe in so many places such biting replyes unto Berard that had he had but as much care of his credit as of his haire hee would have sought to redresse it with an iron Servulle seeing he had to doe with a man who either understood him not or seemed not to understand him was on the point many times to give him the lye to his teeth or to challenge him but hee was kept backe by Gunnesinde who strictly forbad him wisely knowing that calumnies despised vanish away wheras vexing at them seemes to acknowledge them now is our Berard in the third quarter of the wayne of his liberty which if he easily lose he gets againe with as much facility Macrine grown wise at the others cost often twits him with his former ficklenesse thereby to keep him from stumbling at the same stone and the more she wils him to return back to his former suits the stronger hee fastens his affection on her This Mayd was under the power of a brother who watched her like a Dragon and would willingly have seene her settled on Berard because in effect the match was very advantagious but to have her exposed to the tatling of tongues was a thing he feared like death this brothers name was Accurse a man very valiant of his hands but hot brained he had had many quarrels and had issued out of them advantagiously his sword was to be feared Berard before this had beene a Paris before Achilles it may be heaven reserved him to prevent the brags and detractions of Berard who at first stood in more awe of the sisters eye then of the brothers hands but in the end the chance will turne the sword of Accurse shall be more hurtfull to him then the looks of Macryne To take away the blacknesse of a Moore and the spots of a Leopards skin are two things noted for impossible to take from an evill tongue and unconstant man his evill custome is in my opinion the like it seemed unto Berard that having to deale with a Mayd who was not under the subjection of a father nor mother he should have more freedome and power but he found his insolency abated as well by the honesty of Macrine who was not of an humour fit to indure fooleries as by the severity of Accurse who loved honour more than life to speake of marriage to an unconstant man is as much as to threaten a vagabond with imprisonment Accurse one day said roundly and dryly to Berard that if he intended to marry his sister he should make haste and end it if not he might goe elsewhere to divert his fantasie These raw words were of a hard digestion to so weake a minde as Berards that made him presently change countenance for there is nothing so stings a proud heart as a repulse the roughnesse of the brother made the conversation of the sister lesse sweet unto him Macrine who made the will of her brother to be a law unto her selfe being commanded by Accurse to let this man know that she would not be made the fable

accident happened But God who never leaves a wickednes unpunished and who rewards in their season the secret of hearts and things hidden in darke esse brought to light and to the confusion of Tygris all that he had plotted against Nilamon for this man being now growne insolent by reason the sayles of his desires were swelled with the winde of good fortune began to use his wife ill not considering that all the wealth wherein hee gloried proceeded from her and that although he were now a Lord but for her he should be but a simple Captain And as arrogance is never without impudence hee had been so unwise as to declare unto his wife the stratagems whereof he had made use to cause Nilamon to perish in the snares he had set for him This woman provoked by the il usage of her husband could not hold her tongue but one day being overcome with griefe she upbraided him with all his treacheries laying them evidently open And as a mischance never goes alone it happened that one of those who had assisted Appolinaire in the murther of Nilamon being taken for another crime before his execution confessed likewise this which hee did declare to have been done by a plot betweene Tygris and Appolinaire The words of Crispine and of this man joyned to the conscience of Tygris which was to him as a thousand witnesses cast such a terror into his soule that like another Caine he went his way wandring through the world imagining that the bloud of his brother in law cried still to heaven for vengeance against him His place was given to another and he thus voluntarily banishing himselfe from the sweet aire of France and the conversation of his wife and children fled into Germany where at warres he dyed in an incounter this was the miserable successe of his wretched designes and how God would not permit him to enjoy that wealth which to purchase had made him violate the lawes both divine and humane and prophane the most Sacred bonds that are in nature he that by just labours and lawfull industries gathers up any thing shall see his goods prosper like a tree planted neere the current of waters which brings forth fruite in its season but it shall not bee so with him that wrongfully heapes up riches for he shal be set like dust in the face of the wind and all that he hath gathered shall bee scattered and consumed this proverbe proving ever true that ill gotten goods goe away in the same manner THE FORTVNATE Misfortune The Sixt Relation MArcel a gentleman of Touraine comming from Saumur was returning to his house not farre distant from the River of Indre it was in the long dayes of Summer when the greatest heates make the shades to bee more affected his man who caried his male and his two footmen being more thirsty then their Master were stayed at a Tave●●e to drinke and refresh themselves mean while Marcel went on dreaming and arived alone at the River side and as he staid there for his men to passe over with him there came a young man reasonable well clothed with a comely face who proffers to take the bridle off his horse this faire presence stroke into his eies and takeing pitty on his youthes fortune who had as good a countenane as ever he beheld questioned with him what he was the young man with a voice able to inchaunt the Rockes said Sir I am an Orphant having neyther Father nor Mother and of the Countrey of Boulonnis forsaken by all there am going to Chasteleraud to find out an Vnckle of mine Brother to my Mother and see if he will take pitty on me or find me out some place where by serving I my get my living youth said Marcel it is easie to bee seene that you have not beene brought up to serve at least wise in painefull offices it is true said he if it had pleased God to have spared me my Father who was an honest Marchant I should not be reduced to this misery but Merchants are not knowne till they die his shop was faire and his credit great but as soone as he died all fayled and his debts were found to bee farre greater then all that he had so that being destitute of any meanes I must make a vertue of necessity and seeke to eate my bread by the sweat of my brow Marcels heart was mollified at this youths disaster and resolued to retaine him in his service imagining that hee had on his forehead a certaine ray of freenesse and fidelity weary with staying for his men he goes into the boate with this youth who named himselfe Geronce hee had a little Satchell on his backe long Flaxen haire waving on his shoulders a Suite reasonable good but a ravishing grace hee held the Horse raines after such a manner as it was easie to be seene his only courage upheld his weaknesse Marcels Castle was from thence some two little leagues wherein Geronce found himself but a bad footman yet on the way he entertained his new Master with such good discourses that the time seemed not long Being arrived home and saluting his wife he said unto her Madam I bring you a new guest whose good countenance serves for letters of credence I have destinated him to wait on our sonne this was a childe of some nine or ten yeares of age I beleeve he will keep him neat and cleane and if this little boy take after him he shall neither want comelinesse nor good behaviour this Lady looking on Geronce found him to be perfectly acceptable and praysed her husbands judgement for applying him so worthily as to wait on their sonne Sulpice for that was the childes name was in a short time so taken with the conversation of Geronce Geronce be took himself with so much care diligence to tend serve him that father Mother and Sonne were equally satisfied therewith all the Bees run to the hony-comb Geronce was one and both Master Mistresse and Servants strove who should love him most there was nothing so modest so gentle nor so beautifull as this young mans qualities which charme the savagest spirits But alas beauty that acceptable gift of heaven is a dangerous thing this pleasing illusion of the sence this snare of the soule this short tyranny extendeth his power even over the heart of Fursee for so will we call the wife of Marcel Good God with what convulsions was it tormented this poore thing tossed between love and honour at one and the selfe same time the one of them striking it with cold feare and the other with burning desire doe you not pitty the violence of this feaver what indeavours did she not use for the combat the safety of this illusion but they were vaine for she had rooted this poyson so deep into her heart that she was forced to yeeld how unequall is the wra●●ling between reason and passion in a weake spirit and what stedfastnesse soever is imagined to