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spirit_n	father_n	person_n	son_n	33,804	5	6.4746	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10718	A right exelent and pleasaunt dialogue, betwene Mercury and an English souldier contayning his supplication to Mars: bevvtified with sundry worthy histories, rare inuentions, and politike deuises. wrytten by B. Rich: gen. 1574.	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1574 (1574)	STC 20998; ESTC S106077	75,348	199

at this day Truely the father is not well assured of his sonne the neighbour dothe feare the ambushes and deceipts of his neighbour And the Prince oftentimes is in daunger of his person enuironed and compassed on euery side with his garde and ministers for the foolishe desire to haue blindeth so rightly the sences of man that he betrayeth his Lorde to enriche him selfe and he to the same end dothe sell his friende another aduaunceth the death of him for whose life he oughte continually to pray And the thing is come to suche disorder that euen the sacred or holy thinges them selues haue felte the poyson and venime of this cursed beast the whiche howe farre foorth she extendeth hir forces so muche dothe this worlde become more mischeous and men more trayterous and disloyall Now to returne againe to our bloudy Lawyer whiche did nothing but as it were buylde castles in the ayre vpon the deliberation taken in the death of hys wife for he held as they say the wolfe by the eares not knowing howe to leaue him nor yet with what assurance to holde him without the danger and perill of hys person Firste he deliberated to assay by poyson to ende hir daies but that way seemed vnto hym verie daungerous Then he caste in hys mynde to make hir to bée murdered by hym whiche had before by his commaundement committed the murder on the person of the Sonne of the L. of Chabry but that way lyked him not for the chast dame seldome or neuer wente out of hir own house Finally ledde by his owne foolishe appetyte and lefte in the handes of the deuill he determined to vse none other meanes for this exployte but his owne proper handes And therfore one night being in bed with his wife wrything a table napkin with force about hir necke strangled hir and as she was vpon the ende and laste gaspe of hir life the varlet thinking to make his matter good made an outcrye saying to thē that came in that the rewme falling into the throte of his wife choked hir and brought hir to that poynte that she was past remedie of life the which thing was easilie credited and beléeued of them that came in and had passed without further question or accompte to be made of it but that the father of this miserable deceassed came to this crye the whiche the nighte before hadde supped wyth his daughter leauing hir as whole and sounde and in as good case as euer shee had been in all hir lyfe before Nowe the Father beholding the vysage and throote of hys myserable Daughter perceyued by and by that hee hadde ended hyr dayes by violente deathe and that the Rewme that hadde chooked hyr was eyther the handes of hyr Husbande or of some other by his appoyntment whiche he perceyued by the blacknesse and swelling about hir face and throte Neuerthelesse dissembling this anger and couering his mourning he purposed to aduenge him selfe in such sorte that he would make him an example to all murtherers of their chast and honest wiues And the better to attayn his purpose he sayde vnto Tolonio My sonne I pray thée take order for the preparation of hir Obsequies and Funerals according to the demerites of bothe our houses and in the meane time I will go into the Towne minding to make quicke returne and to ayde you in any thing that shall be requisite The Aduocate occupying him selfe about the pompe and preparation of the Funerals of his wife his father in lawe halfe transported with dolour and griefe went to séeke out the criminall Iudge of the Towne whome he prayed to come to sée the moste detestable facte that man could imagine to thinke and of whiche he would haue compassiō if he were not more cruell than Timon the Athenian whiche for his fierce and cruell nature was surnamed the common enimie of mankind The Magistrate aswell to be readie as his office required to render to euery man iustice as to sée what newe thing that shoulde be whereof he had made to him relation followed him accompanied with a troupe of Sargeants and neighbours to backe him and arriued at the house of Tolonio wondering out of measure séeing the dead body in that order and yet more maruelled vnderstanding the father of the deceassed to vse to him these or suche like words Syr if this present spectacle be not straunge vnto you or if the teares of a sorrowfull father loosing his child so mischieuously moue you not to compassion I suppose that all impunitie of vice and sinne hathe place on your behalfe I knowe neuerthelesse that at the first blushe you will thinke straunge of that I pretende to say vnto you but the thing beeing well and exactly vnderstoode you shall be made certayne of my vprightnesse and of the iniquitie of him whiche hath so gréeuously wounded my heart that I feare it will cause my death the whiche I woulde rather haue wished a thousande folde than to see this lamentable and piteous Tragedie vpon my daughter whome I say hathe bin trayterously slayne in hir bedde by the detestable murtherer whiche you sée and whom amongst all other I had chosen for the loyall spouse and husband of my daughter and the successor in time to come of the goods that God hath giuen me You sée sir the euident signes open marks howe she hath bin strangled and it is well knowen that she layde hir downe as sound and mery as any of vs Alas syr haue pitie on my desolate house venge with the sworde of Iustice the iniurie done to my daughter and the heartbreake that afflicteth the soule of the father punishe with extremitie the most mischéeuous deede that euer was done in this countrey to sée so straunge and barbarous crueltie of a husbande a man of such qualitie and knowledge yea the husbande of one of the most vertuous Dames that mighte be founde and neuerthelesse without iust occasion hath murthered hir as vniustly as he is mischieuous and abhominable Alas si the onely hope I haue is that euen the Gods wil make you to know the wicked acts of this vngracious mā and thervpon to extend iustice haue letted me to venge the wrong that I assure my selfe to haue receiued of this homicide And willing to continue his talke further his tung fayling he began to weepe in such sort that the Iudge moued to pitie sayde vnto the Doctor You heare that which your father in Law sayth agaynst you neuerthelesse I see you not answere one poynt of those accusations that he hath laid before you But the infamous and adulterous murtherer iudged by the testimonie of his owne wycked conscience and condemned by the memorie of his filthy and abhominable factes paste coulde not expresse nor vtter one onely worde to refute and reproue the accusation layde before hym by hys Father in Lawe The Iudge hauing maruelled as muche as was possible of thys knowing the Doctor to bée a man verye Eloquente prompte and readie in

after that thys trap was thus prepared he fayled not to come into the Galarie where hauing made two or thrée turnes sette hys foote vppon the ende of the disioynted boordes and sodaynely fell downe vpon the Rocke so was he moste mischieuouslye brayned and hys members all to bruzed and broken with the fall dying before he almoste felte the apprehention of death Who woulde euer haue once thought that the Mother had beene so follonious cruell and vnmercifull as to sée by hir owne vile and wicked meanes hir owne sonne brused mutilated and deformed seeing that this name and tytle of mother is so sweete and amarous that the hearts of the moste stubborne are thereby mitigated or mollified and we see that euery one holdeth their owne so deare and in suche price that the very beastes them selues pricked by nature although incapable of reason haue suche affection towards their yong ones that they feare not to ▪ oppose them selues to all perils to conserue and defende them Also the greatest comfort or good that man may haue beeing in the continuall waues of the Sea of this troublesome worlde is to sée him selfe as it were regenerate and borne anewe in his children and in the propagation and increace of his seede and yet this shee diuell and madde furie of hell hauing alreadie lost the affection that the spouse or wife ought vnto hir husbande put also in obliuion the natural loue she ought to haue borne to the frute of hir body engendred After the fall of this yong Gentleman you should haue heard nothing within the house but lamentations and cryings one crying his Brother another bewayling his Cousin another lamenting the sodayne and vnlooked for death of his Master but all this was nothing in respecte to that which this detestable Murdresse dyd for she tormented hir selfe so desperately and of suche sort that you would haue thought all the worlde should haue sunke she faigned hir selfe to be so excéeding sorowful So this same Megera vnder a huge heape of dolours she couered the extreme ioy of hir heart and vnder the shewe of a certayne exteriour sorrow nourished the venemous hony which lay hidde in hir stomacke The obsequies of this yong Gentleman were celebrated somewhat pompeously and his body was buried by his father to the ende he might participate both in tome and misfortune him whiche had begot him The Lady seeing hir selfe discharged of a great hartebreaking not hauing any more hir Sonne in hir companie to suruey or mark● hir dealings began nowe more familiarly and boldly to intertayne and imbrace hir Doctor not fearing so muche as she dyd in the life of hir eldest sonne But the seconde sonne not knowing any thing of the occasion of the death of his brother and where before he had not taken any great regarde of the fonde gouernment of his Mother began nowe to suspect hir and declared the same so wel in countenaunce that he could not speake one onely worde to Tolonio but suche as contented him not and suche as made to appeare the euill will that he bare to this infamous knaue and if perchance he spake at any time to his mother he did it with suche disdayne that he could not well beholde hir with a good eye wherof she being maruellously vexed as angry as was possible did deliberate and determine to bloudy wholly hir renowne and to fill hir whole house with parricide murthers intollerable tending to that ende to celebrate the nuptiall song of hir wicked mariage And so this vngentle harlot conspired agaynst hir seconde sonne so sware his death as she had done the other with the minister of hir abhominable wickednesse Tolonio which tooke vpon him the charge and promised to bring to effect that which she before so earnestly desired This worthy Lawier brought vp in the schole of Pluto and rather learned in his lawes than in the lawes of Emperours and Pretorierum Edicts or ordinances of the Senate addressed him to a wicked companion of his that before had murthered the Lord of Chabry the whiche he very easily corrupted for an euil heart and a mischéeuous nature can not but shewe the frutes of their corruption and malice This knaue hauing receiued a certayne sum of money of this Doctor assured him to make him a good accompt of that he hoped for and he fayled not of this promise for certen dayes after they béeing on hunting as the moste part of the seruants were folowing the chase of the Hare the poore young man resting him selfe vpon a high rocke from the which the going downe was very perillous for the headlong steepenesse thereof vpon the one side This murtherer whiche all the whole day had not ceassed to ride and followe by trace to finde occasion to performe his enterprice very glad to see that he had founde so good oportunitie came behinde him and thrust him downe from the toppe of the rocke so forsibly that thys poore Gentleman was depriued of this mortall lyfe before he coulde perceyue who it was that had aduaunced him selfe so outragiously to finishe and ende his dayes Neuerthelesse thys cursed Hagge of Hell borne to spoyle and tormente hir owne children thinking to keepe secrete hir detestable and abhominable filthinesse and to appeare a woman of great honestie before the worlde which had made no curtesie to sprinkle the earth with the bloud of Innocents whiche cryed vengeance bothe agaynst hir and agaynst hir Varlet whiche had béene the cause and mouer of all these murthers After the funerals of this young man séeing that all hir seruaunts began to suspect of their priuie dealings and doubted of their ouer muche familiaritie she communicated and conferred with hir beloued Doctor of the ende of all their enterprises that is howe they might bring it to passe that they might ioyne togither in mariage but Tolonio béeing alreadie married to a wife as sage and vertuous as he was vile and mischéeuous deliberated to make some secrete riddaunce of hir by death how deare soeuer it cost him Wherfore he certified his Lady and louer who liking very well of his deuice prayed him to hasten and dispatche the execution therof with as muche spéede as he possible mighte This wicked and couetous Doctor did this not for any great or extreme loue he bare vnto hir when he desired so muche to marrie for he knewe very well that commonly they are wont to intertene and imbrace traytours to ayde them with their diuelishe and subtil inuentions euen so Tolonio knowing that the Lady of Chabry was riche and well monied purposed his wife béeing dead to marrie hir to haue the spoyle of hir goods and then after peraduenture to make hir to treade the same pathe traced by so many murthers committed by the meanes bothe of the one and of the other Neuerthelesse he did not yet knowe which way to perfourme his wycked desire O wicked and vnbrideled couetousnesse how hast thou depraued and bewitched the spirites of men