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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88552	Dianea an excellent new romance. Written in Italian by Gio. Francisco Loredano a noble Venetian. In foure books. Translated into English by Sir Aston Cokaine.	Loredano, Giovanni Francesco, 1607-1661.; Cokain, Aston, Sir, 1608-1684.	1654 (1654)	Wing L3066; Thomason E1452_1; ESTC R209558	186,621	375

is raised The one is having occupied it as a thing altogether abandoned by the first and legitimate possessors The other is having defended it through so many ages against all the strength of Armes and envy of all their Enemies in the world It is a thing without the jurisdiction of Doubt or Dispute that those things which have no Patron or because they never had or because the lawfull Lord slighted the Possession belong to those that first seize them and defend them and such an one hath a just Title and a Legitimate Command to be accounted the true Owner By the very same right the free Princes have made themselves Masters of the Lakes in the which they founded their City beleeved by all the Miracle of Nations and a Modell of that of Heaven For the first Founders which were the most noble of the most noble Cities retiting themselves to avoid the cruelty of Barbarians and finding them unoccupied and abandoned by the Owners as a thing of small moment gave the beginning to the glorious Foundation of their City not finding any that had the boldness to oppose they became Lords of the place as of a thing that ought to be his who came the first to possess it VVhereupon the Emperours of the East and VVest dividing between them the Empire declared That the City of the free Princes should remaine free and that it should be understood to belong to neither of them The very same just Title then that the free Princes have of their City they have also over this Sea This Sea of Saturne which is enclosed by Istria Albania Pulia and Abruzzo and Romania did formerly appertaine to the Emperour of the East The vicissitude of things which never suffers greatnesses to continue in their heights debilitated in such wise the Emperours Maritimate Forces that being unable to defend this Sea he left it exposed to the Incursions of all those which would infest it The Narentines a people accustomed to Thefts and Rapines becomming potent by molesting it daily imposed a tribute upon the Navigation as absolute Patrons The Emperour never supprest so great a presumption although the teares of his Subjects who were robbed by these Pirats acquainted him with the Losses they received by it The free Princes perceiving the Emperour had abandoned and neglected the possession of this Sea leauing it in prey to Pirats who arrogated to themselves the Dominion of it and made themselves Lords of it took Armes and by the space of an hundred and seventy yeares fought continually against the Narentines These made such a resistance favoured and succoured by the King of Croatia that in the end they were overcome and constrained to sue for peace The free Princes gave it them but with a condition that leaving their Piracies they should never more demand any Tribute for Navigation And so they became Lords of this Sea the Emperours of the East themselves assenting to it although Malignity Envy or Force should deprive them of it In the maintaining of which the Gold and Bloud which they have spent would buy and replenish a world I could say that the prescription of time which is of many entire ages admits not of putting to doubt a verity rendred so indubitable by yeares I could say that a thousand and a thousand Historians not obliged to their Interest but to the duty of truth affirm this lawfull possession and that for above three hundred years without ever being contradicted they have received Tribute for Navigation I could adde that the greatest Princes of the world are witnesses to this who confirming this most just possession have upon many occasions by publick writing confessed this truth Neither have they ever had the boldness to passe with their Fleets before they have got leave which hath many times been denyed them and many times granted according to their Interests I could adjoyne many other Reasons that vindicate this verity above suspicion but speaking to a Prince that understands all things I have peradventure trespassed too farre in saying so much It is very true that I cannot conceale with pardon from your benignity an annuall Ceremony no less great then ancient which these Princes use in signe of Soveraignty ever the Sea One day of the most solemne in the yeare the Duke and Senate of the free Princes with the Ambassadours of the greatest Kings with that State which is agreeable to their greatness go to espouse the Sea the Prince throwing in a rich Ring saying We wed thee O Sea in signe of a true and perpetuall Command Can your Majesty desire more true or Reasons more satisfactory VVonder not then if I conforming my selfe to Custome and so good cause for it have done the Obedience that was due The Thracian seemed to be satisfied saying These Reasons beare a great strength but how come so great Interests knowne to you accustomed onely to plow the waves and know the windes how grew you acquainted with the Jurisdictions of these people Your Majestie may please to know the Mariner answered that I am not such as my Habit and Profession shew I am not a Mariner but through pure necessity Fortune that blindfoldly dispenses her Inconstancies hath made me rather trust to the Infidelity of a Sea then that of a Prince I was borne in Catalonia the onely sonne of a Duke who for his vertues might have pretended to the greatest matters although hee had not an Ambition to desire them My King knowing me an emulator of my Fathers example suspected he should neither keep his Life nor Kingdome if I should have Children or should come into a way to have any I was compelled to rebell against my Genius and to put on an habit different from my heart This did not satisfie to secure the feares of my King who perhaps was suspicious of punishment for his owne violences Comforted with hope I undertook a voluntarie Exile I went into the Kingdome of Fortune and even into that City which is accustomed to allure every one by the Name of Love although in the effects it returns death There I had the occasion to detest Covetousness and Ambition that triumph in that Court Adulation is there in an excess every one endeavouring to advance himself in some Degree of Favour with his Patron for his owne advantage The pillage and sale of Places sacred to the gods is not reputed a Crime because it is practised by the greatest Cruelty there keeps residency they not knowing Love who know nothing but to destroy Nature Gold becomes a recompence to the most vile and the most ignoble Holiness Innocency and goodnesse professed in words but by deeds altogether trodden under foot All there is vendible and many there sell themselves at the low price of a Mercenary hope so much the more uncertaine in that it depends on a life for the most part consumed of Physick and Years The Kings there are Elective whereupon they attempt all meanes to enrich themselves though to

He would have added how being transported with the favours of the Princess he assumed the confidence to reveale his affection and how meeting there with a correspondency he attempted to attaine her for his wife But he broke off his Relation being interrupted with the Acclamations of the Souldierie that attended the King of the Thracians He was met in a splendid pompe by the Duke of Filena The Souldiers were placed in a decent posture Squadrons of Horse and Foot so interwoven in so delightfull an order that the Thracian could not satisfie himself in beholding them He was accompanied but only by an hundred of his Thracian youth of the noblest birth Their Apparrel was wondrous rich The Chaines and Jewels they wore exceeded Estimation Yet the strangeness of their Habit was more admirable then the costliness of it He upon a Courser all covered with Velvet made an excellent shew of his dexterity Hee took pleasure to make that Horse curvet as if he were also ambitious to make himselfe obeyed even by Beasts Hee submitted to the Bridle with so much readinesse that it well appeared his Genius instructed him that he was not to be handled by Grandees but with his Obedience Though Horses know not Adulation this seemed that with his motion and neighings hee intended no other but to flatter him The Thracian had the Duke of Eilena on his left hand with whom he discoursed of Military Armies Each other of his Court was attended on by a great Field-Officer And in this state they approached Arsinoe At the Gates he was waited for by all the Councell And come to the Pallace King Vassileo met him without the Gates of the great Hall The Welcomes and Complements were redoubled on both sides with so high an expression of affection as if nature had obliged them to love one another They both sate them downe under a cloth of State which covered two most rich Chaires Vassileo took the right hand though he feigned himselfe willing to have resigned it to Dorcone Here those keeping silence that were come to be present at this first Audience The Thracian in his own Language said That he was come in person to confirme that peace which had ever been preserved inviolate by his Predecessors That Accidents never had the power to alter that disposition which had alwaies rendred his heart obliged to love King Vassileo as a Father That the Reports that he had raised men against the Kingdome of Cyprus had extreamly afflicted him so that his Affection could not suffer him that the security of that Kingdome should grow jealous at his preparations for warre That he had built a Fleet to make shew of his power not to usurpe upon the States of others or disturbe his friends He spoke long upon this matter and with so much eagernesse that it was impossible to conceive whether those Words were the Daughters of Truth or of Dissimulation King Vassileo answered that he ascribed to his greatest Fortune in seeing himself honoured by the visit of such a King that it grieved him he was not young that he might have prevented him but yet that this was an Adjunct of Glorie to the Thracian that he would yield to one who was inferiour to him in merit and that he would oblige without a hope of correspondency That he thanked him for the trouble hee had took and the peace confirm'd he having not greater desire in his so declining yeares then to enjoy quietnesse He plied him with so many expressions of Affection that he enforced the Thracian to an humiliation Rising they were led to the Princesse Lodgings who hearing of it came to receive them The Thracian stood still fixing his eyes upon the Face of Dianea with such an Alteration that it was easily observed by all Dorcone first bowing to her said Fair Princess it is a greater felicity to be borne slaves in Cyprus to enjoy the sight of such a Beautie then a King in Thracia I that have brought peace to this Kingdome cannot vouchsafe it to my heart which will ever be assaulted by so divine Rarities I beseech you disdaine not that I should love you that I might expresse my ambition to serve a Princess who to enrich the world it was necessarie she should receive Trophies from all the Beauties of Heaven Dianea that with a discontented mind heard of the Arrivall of the Thracian not onely for being ravished from the Embracements of Diaspe but also for the hatred she bore that Nation could not but with a disdaine afford her eare to these words Neverthelesse with that dissimulation which is borne in the mouthes of great Personages She answered She besought him to moderate those commendations that he might not put himselfe into a danger to undertake the Defence of an unjust Thing that in her there was no desers that might move the Affection of a King in whom Nature and Fortune were met to render him superiour to the greatest Amidst such Complements Dorcone parted from Dianea leaving neverthelesse his soule in pawne for the usurie of the Delight of his eyes King Vassileo would wait on him downe staires although the Thracian by all meanes possible refused it They were on the last steps ready to part when they were both stai'd by a noise of Armes which made them both suspicious of Treason Dorcone saying to King Vassileo Friend are we secure of our Lives King Vassileo made no reply but with a great deale of danger to his owne person hee quieted the Tumult and passing through the croud went where it received originall Diaspe who had met the Thracian was resolved to follow accompanying him to the Court. In this while Celardo incited by report of the comming of so great a Prince was also arrived there to see those meetings which seldome happen and also to satisfie the curiosity of a Knight who some dayes before was become his Guest He was presently taken notice of by Diaspe who remembring his ancient Contempts and imagining him come into that place in a Rivalship for the love he bore Dianea unable to containe himselfe he said Rash man Hast thou yet the Confidence to approach him whom thou hast so often offended If the Majestie of King Vassileo deserved not all Reverence you should soone finde I know well how to chastise the fond folly of those that depart from their Duty Celardo not accustomed to receive Injuries answered him with advancing his hand to strike him on the face without delay unsheathing his sword Diaspe avoiding the box on the Eare drew likewise his forth They that were neare them were not slow to take Armes crying out they should cease that Tumult The Souldiers that were far off supposing themselves betray'd by the Thracians began to deale blowes with so great an insolency that though King Vassileo was a great way off it was an inconvenience of consequence for him to goe thither His Majestie all this while holding Dorcone by the hand made every one draw backe and