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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88621	The loves and adventures of Clerio & Lozia. a romance. Written originally in French, and translated into English by Fra. Kirkman, Gent.	Du Périer, Antoine.; Kirkman, Francis, 1632-ca. 1680.	1652 (1652)	Wing L3260; Thomason E1289_2; ESTC R202767	66,013	191

THE LOVES AND ADVENTVRES OF CLERIO LOZIA A ROMANCE Written Originally in French and Translated into English By Fra. Kirkman Gent. LONDON Printed by J. M. and are to be sold by William Ley at his shop at Pauls Chain 1652. TO His much honored Friend WIL. BEESTON Esq Worthy Sir DIvers times in my hearing to the admiration of the whol Company you have most judiciously discoursed of Poësie which is the cause J presume to chuse you for my Patron and Protector who are the happiest interpretor and judg of our English Stage-Playes this Nation ever produced which the Poets and Actors of these times cannot without ingratitude deny for J have heard the chief and most ingenious of them acknowledg their Fames Profits essentially sprung from your instructions judgment and fancy J am vers'd in Forraign tongues and subscribe to your opinion that no Nation ever could glory in such Playes as the most learned and incomperable Johnson the copious Shakespear or the ingenuous Fletcher compos'd but J beleeve the French for amorous language admirable invention high atchievements honorable Loves inimitable constancy are not to be equalled and that no Nation yeilds better Arguments for Romance Playes the onely Poëms now desired then the French Therefore and for you have I translated the Adventures and Loves of Clerio and Lozia and I doubt not though they fail to receive incouragement from you your son Mr George Beeston whom knowing men conclude a hopeful inheritor of his Fathers rare ingenuity may receive them with a gracious allowance And sir though the work be not entirely happy in your construction for my years are not arrived to knowledg to add where the Author wants matter or to lessen where he abounds yet you will find much newness in the Story worthy an excellent Poët to insoul it for the Stage where it wil receive ful perfection equal to the ambition of The constant admirer of your Excellent Parts Fra. Kirkman jun. THE Loves and Adventures OF CLERIO and LOZIA THe Fortune of Man is an obscure riddle which Time only the most Orthodox Interpretor of the Heavens of the Gods and Nature can truely explicate My Ladies The Fortune of the Famous Clerio and the fair Lozia whose lives and loves are both delineated in this insuing History I present to you with this perswasion That as a pleasant Land-skip it will yeild some small contentment to your mindes and recreation unto your Spirits In the Description of whose variable conditions I will first begin with Clerio whom with my pen I will portrait before your eyes as our chiefest and choisest Judges This young Gentleman from his youth being indued with courage and induced by curiositie went abroad into Forraign parts to see the customs of those places to add by industry some higher degree of perfection to that which Nature amorous of him had so freely bestowed upon him After he had seen Germany and the Eastern Countries he stayed three whole years in Italy where he was accounted so perfect and exact in all sorts of exercises becoming a Gentleman that it was impossible to finde any man more perfectly accomplished then himself This Merchant for honour having made a successfull adventure returned home to the Court full fraught both with glory and renown which durst I say so was empty during his absence of the greatest part of its splendor who was not like a star of the first Magnitude shining brightly in the firmament thereof but as a glorious Sun whose presence brought a day and whose absence a night upon the Horizon of the Court which did not only inlighten it but sliding from the eyes it crept into the hearts of the fairest Ladies the Court afforded who at the first sight of so lovely a wonder were wonderfully enamored of him Clerio not setling the circumference of his desires in the center of any of their hearts which were so desirous of his but as a triumphant Conqueror carried al theirs captives into Spain leaving them behind to bemoan their misery in so happy yet unhappy affections where also he murthered a Million of innocent lovers by an over-rigid disdain of their beauties but they were soon avenged on him for this rigorous dealing for not long after he became exceedingly in love with the Princess Lozia who was young rich and very beautiful equally adorned with pulchritude in her face and perfection of parts in her mind And although Clerio was a gentleman but worth fifteen thousand Francs of revenue yet did he undertake to serve so noble a Princess who since the decease of her Father and Mother was under the Gardianship of the Duke of Blanfort her Uncle who intended to match her to the Duke of Doudonne his Son and for fear any other should espouse her he watched her so narrowly above the common custome of the Country both with Argo's and with Lynk's eyes and kept her within so straitned limits that if Clerio could by chance see her yet could by no means come to speak to her Fill'd with love and despair he did so diligently inquire and carefully pursue his desired wishes that at last he came to know her Lady of honour which was named Vincia and was a French Gentlewoman the death of whose husband did so exceedingly afflict her that she was constrained to banish her self by a voluntary exile into Spain Clerio being very joyfull of this news procured the sight of her whom at the first view he knew not although she was his neer Kinswoman because he had not lately seen her and which was the strangest she was acoutred after the Spanish fashion but in fine after a thousand hearty congratulations and welcome imbracements they promised to owe each the other so much service and affection that under this pretext Clerio visited Vincia every day not so much because his respects unto his Cousin did oblige him thereto as he was drawn thither by the attractive loadstone of lovely Lozia The Moon had six severall times received its borrowed light before Clerio durst discover unto his Cousin that affection which he bore to her Mistress but at last not being able to resist those fervent flames that the eyes those two glorious Suns of that famous Princess had kindled in his heart meeting one day with Vincia in the Garden thus aboarded her Vincia do not you know seeing my countenance altered and my face so wan that there is also a change in my heart which appeareth thus upon my brows and that if you were very quick sighted and had but a window to open into my heart you would see the Characters of love so deeply ingraven thereon that the very perusall of them would sufficiently acquaint you with my dolefull condition Vincia being overtaken with sorrow and impatience interrupted his discourse saying Clerio I never had so sensible an apprehension of any afflictions as of that which your dolorous speeches have caused in my heart alas whence hath so sudden a change as since yesterday happened

were gone out after that manner and then they began their Dance in seven or eight different airs with a world of Characters and Figures interlaced which caused them all to admire As it was done Mars and Love fought and after a world of blows Mars perceiving his eyes wounded with a bolt which Love had secretly shot at him in stead of being daunted by so sweet a wound was rather madded and vexed that he should be thus vanquished and so fell on so courageously that coming something near him he snatched away Cupids band which blindfolding his eyes caused him to strike a many fruitless blows But Love recovering his sight the loss of which had made him so often fail took one of the sharpest arrows in his Quiver and shot it so directly that piercing the very heart of his enemy he gained his honour and his life The gods which were upon the Heavens of these Clouds quitted their divine Seat and came presently to put the band again about Cupids eyes lest this divine Archer should see to dispeople the Heaven of gods the Earth of men and that sharing in the Empire of Pluto they should dwell together in those obscure shades Jupiter as the greatest and also the most incensed of them all spake thus unto them Mortals who not being able to comprehend and dive into the reasons of divine actions offend us often by your rebellious ignorance That it may not happen to you to fall any more into this disobedience know that Love having taken its original from Heaven doth yet retain some sparks of Divinity among you earthly humanes and that you are not to give him battel but obedience If we bind up his eyes it is not to blind his sight but only make him a little more submissive and that we may set him free when any one is so foolish as to disdain and contemn so great an infant as to equal his strength to his These words ended the gods returned into their proper places and Jupiter to demonstrate his anger suddenly did eclipse the glorious Sun and in stead of light gave the company a sweet showre of rain with hail of Pearls and Sugar-plums Whilest the company was busie in the gathering of them this superbe Vanquisher receiving the Trophies and the Laurels that Mars had upon his head went to sacrifice them with his heart and liberty to the beauty and graces of the fair Lozia and kneeling unto this sacred Deity after he had kissed the border of her Gown spake as followeth Fair Princess I give unto your eyes all the honor of this glorious Conquest to whom I consecrate these Laurels as an acknowledgment of this favour and these Mirtles as the first homage after my new subjection If their sweet flames have inflamed my Soul with an amorous heat their dainty darts serving themselves with my hands have utterly extinguished it in mine enemies I hope this Mask hath not given you any mistrust of my love and beleeve what I have untertaken hath been to deceive this peoples eyes and not yours my fair Princess To which I wish that the violent flames that I have received therefrom these six moneths and the entertainment which I shall keep always ready for your service may be as continual as is my countenance which carrieth both my love and heart upon the front thereof as the most weighty testimony of the truth of my words And saying so he plucked aside his Mask to shew Lozia his face and put it on presently again for fear of being seen of others The Lord and Ladies supposed it to be some Country Gentleman and his companions thought he would tell her some tale and so without suspicion he deceived both the one and the other and continued his discourse saying Fair Princess whose Sun may it never set permit me this day to call you the Mistress of my desires and all my wills together that I may have the honour to receive the honorable quality of the most humble servant of yours which I shall esteem as great a favour as your beauty your graces and merits making you the noblest Paragon of all others give me desires and knowledg of so great an happiness swearing to you by the faithfullest oaths a constant Lover can make unto his Mistress That I will rather dye then disobey the least of your Commandments and shall honour nothing more then the flames of love and passion which your beautiful eyes have kindled in my brest If love transformed into your face animateth my heart with the sweet heat of your eyes with an impatient desire to serve you the vertue under the sweet object of your merits much more ravishing by its admirable attractions takes away with a thousand delectable transportations my will from my will to leave me nothing but the inclination to honour you for ever as the Soul of my Soul which giveth motion to my life by that of mine affection Fair goddess were I to write thy delicate loves I would not invoke as did the ancient Apollo for his divine heat but would come unto thy fair eyes to animate so effectually my spirit and my pen that my discourse may be so gravely sweet that it may delight the most delicate ears of those which read it and so learnedly grave that the most elevated spirits may highly esteem it who seek rather for the steeled points of weapons to satisfie their minds then the quaint and alluring sweetness of fair words to please their ears which is the outward bark of all unto generous spirits Princess I finish my words to give beginning to those which you shall say to your servant Clerio saith Lozia your noble spirit and your gallantry are sufficient not only to oblige Lozia but the greatest and graciousest Queen in the world to honour your love and merits I perceive my self so happy in the amorous assurance of your affections that I ten times more esteem the possession of your good grace then of twenty Realms A Lady which sate somewhat near her not dreaming of any thing less then of these Loves came nearer to hear their discourse to whom Lozia breaking her discourse said without any appearance of alteration Madam you do me a pleasure to come hither for this hour hath this same Maskman talked to me in Italian and I know not what he saith therefore I pray you be mine Interpreter and you will ease me of a hard task This Lozia said purposely that Clerio who speak perfect Italian might quckly deride her for her broken language and drive her away for shame He being of a quick apprehension knew his Mistresses intentions and so began to tell an hundred jests which so amazed this poor woman that she knew not what to do but that others did come to participate of the pleasure which Clerio seeing stole away and unmasked himself and went to his Cousin with whom he discoursed till the Dance was ended of the contentment he had received by the honour Lozia did

theirs Clerio live in the belief of this that as you are the first so the most faithfully loved by Lozia in all the world Fortune yesterday gave you this ring on your finger and Lozia gives you to day her heart and her pourtraiture which is in this Box as an earnest of her true affection wear it for my sake I desire you And giving it him gave him likewise a kiss which did so amorously conjoyn their lips and loves that from thence their souls and hearts were knit in an insolvable knot This is not all quoth Vincia Mistress to give such happy beginnings to so firm amity if withall you do seek out some ways to continue it you know that all the rest in the house depend upon your Uncle and I only solely upon you who will rather dye then expend my life upon any other service and so necessary is our diligence in the pursuing of our affairs for to preserve my life and safety with my Cousins that our neglect to regard them will ruine us I know if you will both be advised by me how to actuate this present business as to finish it to our contentment Those which are passionate if they are prudent must be governed by the directions and dictates of those which are exempted from it Clerio you must as I have formerly hinted to you continue your simulation of loving me I am neither so old nor ill-favour'd yet that none will credit it that every time you are discoursing with my Mistress they may think it is to employ her in our loves You must first collogue with the Duke of Blanfort and the Prince of Doudonne because it is needful that they should be first gulled who are most interested in the business And my Mistress you must not make any shew of sorrow and if you cannot altogether impede its entrance into your heart yet let wisdom so curb your natural inclination that you discover it not unto your familiars which that you may the better perform from henceforth make as if you loved reading which will be an excuse for that little alteration any one shall perceive and still have a little book in your pocket which take out and read when you cannot rid your self of those troublesom thoughts which break in upon you and for my part leave me to act that without the advantage of instructions Lozia and Clerio concluded of this as their securest course and intended to pursue it and so received reciprocal assurances of each others affections with abundance of joy and contentment That as those Lands which are nearest to the Sun have their fruits soonest ripe and ready to gather so these two faithful Lovers equally passionate did in the midst of their ardent flames approach so near to love that by the vertue of its vicinity like the Orange trees they put forth in few days the leaves flowers and fruit Hence-forward did this superstitious Lover so dote upon his Mistress that he kissed her hands now a thousand times which before he durst scarce look on Consider noble Knights that Ladies sometimes cause you to pass beyond the narrow limits of your first condition honorably to enlarge them Knights I beseech you once again as a testimony of your birth and breeding to respect Ladies and think not you have less honour for the honorable performance of this duty then you should have if it were freely tendered by the greatest of the world They are capable of making you more glorious and renowned then all your own perfections and deservings There is nothing in the world so perswasive as them who with their words and actions do inchant our wills and deprive our senses of their proper function and with their eyes give life and motion to our spirits and desires We are the true Chameleons of their humors who receive in our hearts all the various and vive impressions of so fair and divine objects These are those glorious Suns whose splendid light our eyes cannot any more remove then can our hearts the heat thereof which they receive according to the disposition of our minds and not the strength of these divine and amorous beams If there is any spirit so agitated that it never could see the dawning of a glorious day nor a sparkle of light as a pledg of future Sun-shine such must rather weep for and complain of then any ways desire and expect a favorable aspect from these frowning malign Planets Briefly he who knoweth not this gallantry is accounted more fit for a Clown then a Courtier and a simple Sot rather then a Noble man Thus far are we indebted to them they give grace to our actions eloquence to our words a day to the obscure shadows of our spirits a Soul to the hearts and spirits of those which have none Fair Ladies little but little indeed gods upon Earth who are the absolutest Commanders of men tyrannize not over Nobility who alone knoweth and esteemeth your merits Live so discreetly with them that none may ever go discontented from your company It is no graceful thing to make your selves pensive on purpose to excuse that sottish humor wherewith you are troubled in the company of those whose society you do not affect All those whom you see are neither your Husbands nor your Cousins that you should impatiently bear their imperfections Cannot you courteously entertain a Gentleman which will be gone within an hour without a discovery of rancor or malice or at least contempt Do not make signs to your consorts nor brabble and tattle with them without sufficient reason whilest any Gentleman is in discourse with you which will make him think you do deride him rather if he be a Sot then if a sweet-behavior'd and ingenuous Gentleman for foolish persons will expound all texts to their own disadvantage and thence proceed stinging words and netling speeches which well-bred women should avoyd as a dangerous Precipice which always bringeth fears or hurts Frequentation with foolish company is a contagious air that will infect the most perfect reputation and taint the most unstained honour this gives the first motion of life to the calumnies and opprobrious speeches which active men fruitful mothers and well-fed nurses do bring forth and hatch up Thus fair Ladies to invite these unhappy accidents I set your souls and hearts at liberty from inthraldom to any but honor all and above all the Nobility who draw their swords in your service who is of the same quality as you your Sex only making the difference and those whose spirit and parts you do sometime misprise do often enter into your service advantaged by their means only If fire hath neither the quality nor the name of fire so long as it is contained in the stone which conceives it your vertue likewise is not truly vertue because of the secret possession thereof but because of the publique cognizance that there is had of it Men have not the nature of gods they know not the cause