over themselves to these magick charmes now rane and rage be you mad distraught and lunaticke dig vp the bowelles of the earth and wander far beyond the Antipodes but ob for euer weepe weepe thou most miserable soule howle and lament that griefe may split asunder thy sad heart for such a woful heart neuer lin'd in womans breast thus and in this maner spent she in deepe lamentations both minutes howers weekes and moneths fill her wombe grew big and the fruit therein ripe and ready to fall How the inchanted Queene was deliuered of feawen daughters at one time and how she lay in child bed one and twentie yeares after Chap. 3. NOw betwirt her prodegious and vnlucky mariage ten times had the siluer moone renewd her brightnesse and the time of her deliuerie drew neare vnto the appointed hower when in great torments both of soule and bodie she ascended from her darke habitation where for fortie weekes her rhiefest foode was sorow griefe and care but now like vnto the owle ashamed of the light she came abroad and caused prouision to be made fitting for her deliuery and although her Ladies inwardly hated her life and conuersation yet in charitie and christian love they attended her safetie being conducted to her chamber where the painefull hower of chlide bearing were to be inbured the pinching throes so tortured her womb bearing so strange a burthen that she in verry griefe and agonie thereof with her natles tore out her owne eies and wonld haue rent the fruit aliue out of her wombe had not the tender care of her Ladies preuented her Thus sightles and comfortlesse fell she in labor wherein she centinued in great extreamltle for the space of seauen daies making such bitter mone and breathing from her painefull heart such dolefull groanes as would haue forced euen merciles Tigers to pittie and so straunge was her daliuerie that the report thereof might fill large volumes with bitter lamentations for in seauen daies she brought forth seauen maiden children euery one as hateful to the world as the seauen deadly sines all at one birth a thing sildom seene but that God in instice will shew his iuogement vppon so inhumane a woman The first was borne vpon the sunday which we compare vnto pride as the course of verlise hereafter shall because which childe was called Sola after the dates name The second vppon the munday which we liken vnto enuy according to her liues quallitie and bore the name of Lucina The third vppon tuesday which we alude vnto wrath and therefore named Martia The fourth vppon wednesday supposd to be couetousnes which we call Mercuria The fist vppon thursday which we imagine to be dronhennes and therefore we name her Iouina The fixt vppon friday which we place for letchery and giue her the name of Venorina The seauenth and last of this ominous brood was borne vppon the saturday which weterme to be sloth and so call her Saturnia Thus was the seede of shame brought into the world at whose birthes seauen black rauens set croaking directly vppon the top of her chamber and the howlets of mischaunce with fatall wings flustered against the christall windows eache one of them borne with teeth in their mouthes whereat the midwife and other her asistants the Ladies there present were much amazed and with trembling hearts seared to behold so strange a spectacle of nature but as fate and destinye had alotted they of their owne fres willes prouived for these seauen monsters thus borne seauen seuerall nurses the wiues of seanen shepheares which anely had their habitations in woddig die caues where they were diligently brought vp and not once suffered till their full age to come within the Court gates where we will leaue them to fortunes direction for a time The wofull mother of these vnfortunate children being now safely deliuered through her owne extreame violence lying sightlesse in her childbed the onely foe to worldly delights in the hearing of many standers by breathed forth this pittifull complaint oh how happy is the silly worme saide she that hath neither soule nor vnderstanding whereby the threatning of euerlasting torments may not affright it the miseries of this worlde wherein I now deseruedly lie are but as delights sports in regard of them I shall feele when the doomes daye of my life is past I lye now as it were vppon a bed of pricking thornes stung with a thousand serpentine stings but woe is me my guiltie conscience doubts that for my wilfull loosing of my soule I shall lye boyling in the red hotte chaldron of damnation more thousands of yeares then blades of grasse growe vppon the earth leaues vpon trees or starres in the christall firmament and more which terrifies my condemned soule I shall ye there in consuming paine but neuer consumed more millions of yeres then as if a heap of sand should lye on earth whose toppe should reach to heauen and once in euery million of yeres an eagle should fetch away but one sand yet would those yeares of torments haue an end but mine can neuer finish for selling that sweete soule that my deere sauiours life was shed for me thinkes I heare seauen sucking babes knocking at heauen gates for vengeance against me for giuing vp their tender bodies as a foode for spirrits me thinks I heare seauen virgins all the daughters of mightie Potentates accusing me for inchanting them to a heape of senceles stones me thinkes I heare seauen aged men whose heads were beawtified with milke white pledges of wisdome all comming as witnesses against me for sucking way their blood by spirrits in the likenes of aspes and adders and after sacrificing the marrow of their bones to the chiefe Prince of darknes for which my conscience now tels me the heauens yron hand of vengeance in euen ready to strike and that hells wrath is inuenting now tortures for my soule and now there is a horred voice thunders in mine eare that this my euer stained crime shall be also scourged in my seede and all my kinred washt from the face of the earth into the vnknowne vault of forgetfulnes and now in speaking these words all her ioints grew lame and numbe thereby to ioyne in equall misery with her sightles eyes where we will leaue her now as the picture of calanutie lying in childbed for the space of one and twentie yeares and speake of her childrens misfortunes whose liues were as ovious to the world as the seauen deadly sinnes Prides Tragedie The life and death of Sola the prowd the first daughter to the inchanted Queene a history ful of dole woe calamitie CHAP. 4 THeeldest and first childe of this viperous Queene borne vppon a sunday hearing the name of Sola and being the true picture of pride in life and nature perseuering in that deadly sinne for being no sooner growne to the ripenesse of age and that the yeares of discreation had grafted hir with vnderstanding she was by the nobles and ladies
THE Famous renowned History of Morindos a King of Spaine Who maryed with Miracola a Spanish Witch and of their seauen daughters rightly surnamed Ladies with bleeding hearts their births their liues and their deaths A History most wonderfull strange and pleasant to the reader LONDON Printed for H R. and are to be solde at his Shop in the Poultrie vnder Saint Mildreds Church 1609. How Morindos a King of Spaine married with Miracola a Witch and how he was transformed without shape for polluting the Temple of God CHAP. I WHen Spaine was nursed with the milke of paganisme vertue not knowne nor God honoured there liued a people so ripe in sin that the kéene edge of shames sickle lay euen ready whetted to reape them downe for confusions haruest yet the subiects then liuing where not so wicked as the King vitious a King we name him if illustrious title of maiestie may grace so pernitious a foe to nature with so royall a stile his birth was fatall for when the midwife pulled him from the cradle of his conception the earthquake and heauen rained blood his parents ominous the one deuoured by wolues the other burnt to death by thunder his youth full vnlucky chances his age tirannous and mischieuous and all his life subiect to blacke misdéedes When his parets by heauens wrath had ended thus their dates he raigned King and wore the imperiall Diademe but such a King good men thought neuer sprong from womans wombe Morindos for so we name him being seated vpon the throane of maiestie ruled not in loue but by force making his nobles flaues to his sinne and their wiues feeders of his lust for every day in the yeare hee had a seuerall concubine all young beawtifull and louely nature framed their bodies faire though sinne made their soules blacke for both art and riches indeuored to delight his insatiate desires earths chiefest pleasures were at his command and all the lullabies of content rockt him in the cradle of securitie thus careles of heauens wrath he more honoured the Deuill then he loued God and what was the vilest to nature he most doted vppon But now after al these pleasures of his wanton youth the kind imbraces of his fayre concubines which like earthly Angells made him happy in natures sports he wickedly fell inamored vppon one of the Deuills blacke saints one Madam Miracola a Witch of damnation now burning in heli for her blacke deedes this Madam Miracola borne of noble parentage brought vp in the deepest artes skilfull in Magick charmes and incantations who hauing spent seauen yeres in that déepe mistery of coniuration sildome sleeping without the sosciety of spirrits fayries goblins or nigtly shapes hir chiefest studie and ayme was at principallitie to rule sole Queens and gouernour of the Kingdome and no way was there to attaine to that imperial seat but by marying with king Morindos though not a match fit he being discended royally she but nobly yet by sorceries witchcrafts and magicke deuises shee obtained hir purpose and in this manner obtained it Vppon a time when King Morindos in the height of his reuelles whilst some of his fairest concubines daunced before him naked in their cambrick smockes the more to inkindle lustes fire shee entred the chamber of their licentious sports with a maske of wonder the like neuer seene in Princes court for all the Maskers except hir selfe were infernall spirrits vissible but not tangable all in the shape of young Ladis attired in more changeable silkes then the collours of the Rainebowe hir selfe in a robe of such richnes as it sémed to exceede the glorie of the sunne for brightnes hir owne bodie shee imbathed and supled with a water of such inchantment that what man soeuer first set eye vppon her either present loue or present death had destinie allotted him for well knew she that no man presumed his presence during this time of pleasure This Madam Miracola asisted by the blacke states of hell by delusions won the kings loue whose vnconstant eyes no sooner firt their inflecting beames on this killing cokatrice but all on a sodaine fire his loue inflamed that nothing could quench it but hir loue ioyned to his which were imediately sealed togither loue desire and lust so conspired against his bewitched heart that he presently avoided the chamber of his intifing damsels and shee of hir deluding spirits remaining then but two bodies two hearts and two tongues he began to reueale loues secresie in this manner Madam quoth he knowing hir to be a long attender in his court good or euill fortune hath inchanted me and now thy present loue or hate must either glorifie me with earthly happinesse or send me wandring to the dark some walkes of death where no soscietie but crawling wormes and dead mens benes are resident deny me not therefore good Madam I am this countries Potentate I can commaund both wealths and power cities towers and townes Statesmen stoope and humly kneele vnto my soote royalties dignitles and al other kingly promotions are at my disposing vnto my pleasurs all the land submits delights are my vassels both land sea as subiects striue to make me happy I am an earthly God be thou my Goddesse take all these honours I will attend on thee I le bee thy subiect thy seruant I will kisse thy foote deny not my loue for thou hast bewitcht my heart inchaunted me fired mee with a quenchlesse flame all my boddie burnes and nothing but the sweete Dewe of the graunt can quallifie it make mee either vnfortunate or happy sweet Madame This being breathed from his longing soule she farre more tractable to loues motions then he made a full conclusion of a willing acceptance in this fort I haue a minde imperious monarche said she soaring vp to the batlements of heauen no bace desires nor lowebred thought shall any whit aspire my princely will I ayme at a kingly bed where maisstie sleepes whose chamber is imperious garded with commanding statesmen seauen weary winters and as many sommers haue my hopes bene climing vp this kingly ladder and now on the top of fortunes wheele am I fallen into a princes bosome in louing me great King thou conquerest fate thou subiectest hell thou maist by my assistance commaund legions of the black hoast to houer ouer thy Pallace and in the twinkling of an eye blast vp all thy wicked consperators if our mindes but once proue equall in the cheare of soueraingty the earth shall be farre too little for thy gouernement my magick charmes shall vnbowell the earth rip vp her bosome ransack her rich treasures for thy vse my magicke charmes for thee and for thy pleasure shall empty the vast Drean and cram thy kingdome with those riches that mans eye hath not séene since the worlds creation my charmes for thy content shall paue thy Court with pearles emrodes and Diamonds commaund great king and the marble stones that now compase thy pallace shal daunce and the ayer
answered that neither heauen nor earth God nor man should take her kingdome from her the third and last question was to know the number of her children and their following fortunes to this they answered that from her boodie should spring seauen braunches whose tops should reach to heauen These answers to this accursed womans eares came more ioyfull then the reports of pardon to a condemned man and more pleasing to her heart then for a moorish slaue from the cheaned gaily to be aduan'st vnto a kingdome therefore with a setied trust and assurauce of the spanish crowne and gouernment litle mistrusting the flie defeates of these misticall answeres with all conuenient speed prouided a chamber wherein she might performe her damned condition and deliuer vp her husbands body to the gluttony of hell therefore ascending to the top of her pallace into a marble tower she caused her husbands bodie to be bronght thether and after commaunded the walles to be hung round about with blacke mourning cloth to signifie her damned and fatall enterprise this being done she purposed to deuide the seruice of her seauen bauquets into seauen seuerall daies and in this manner were they accomplished the first day vppon a table of blacke Ebony in two pron plates or platters she set the two legs of her vnhappy husband which so often in his good daies of fortune bestride the warlike palfrey in the honour of his country the second day vppon the same Ebony table she placed his fine wd thighes in two vessels of lead whose blew veignes signified the force strength of manhood the third day the likewise brought to the table his secret partes and bowels in a vessell of tin or pewter wherein lay the seed of procreation the fourth day she furnished the same table in a charger of brasse with the belly and inward partes of his body which had so often bene cherisht with delicious and princely banquets the fift day in like manner in a vessell of compounded mettle named alchemye she brought to the table his manly breast which as a tower had many yeares clos'd vp his heart the sixt day in a platier of fine siluer she serued in the two arms of her husband which whilst vertue gouernd held both thescepter of peace and the sword of warre the seauenth and last day in a vessell of pure gould being the dearest and richest seruice she brought in his head which had so often bene ornafied with an imperiall diadem centaining a tongue that could in former times haue giuen thée life or death all these vnnaturall seruises by the hands of a woluish natured woman Being no sooner finished the fatall table auosded but both heauen and earth land sea as it were gaue echoes of terror hell it selfe seemed to tremble and spewed vp corrupted sauors from her fiery furnaces cast abroad such sparckling flames the euen the imbrodered vestures beset with goldsmiths workmanship so gorgeously beautifing her bodie were fiered and she golden traniels of her haire burnd from her head notwithstanding all this nothing amazed the shameles minde of Miracola nor any way affrighted her with the teror of heauens wrath for the thirst of promotiō so bewitched her ambitious pride so inchanted her and the desire of a diadem so imboldned her that thinking both crown and kingdom her asurance for euer by the false promises of hel imediately vpon this same tower or chāber wher she had thus sacrificed her husbands body she caused certaine characters or letters to be ingrauen vpon the marble walles concerning her perpetuall happiness The first superscription was to this effect following Vpon this earth Miracola shalliue till the seauen daies of the weeke be forgotten which she thought was foreuer The second superscription was That neither heauen nor earth God nor man should take her kingdome from her The third That her children like seauen braunches should reach to heauen These three promises she regarded as Oracles and beleeued that through them her earthly happines should neuer end but suddainely this violent ioy turned into an extreame griefe for as she stood contemplating of these neuer-ceasing delights there entred inuisiblie into the chamber one of the blackepotentates of hell and vnder euery one of these superscriptions ingraued these significations Vnder the first this The seauen daies of the weeke be thy seauen daughters now breeding in thy wombe who no sooner ripe but rotten no sooner borne but forgoten Vnder the second Though neither heauen nor earth God nor man will take the kingdome from thee yet hel and the deuill shall Vnder the third The seauen braunches whose tops should reach to heauen be the seauen deadly sinnes that shall spring from thy wombe whose bloody enterprises and blacke deedes shall clime heauen for an eternall Iudgement These dismall and ominous reuelations were no sooner ceazed vppon by the eyes of this accursed Queene but all the partes of her body trembled with feare not a member but the terror thereof distempered now feare of Gods vengeance by little and little entred into her heart and the quiuering thought of hells damnation filld her bosome full of dispaire without all hope of saluation she inclos'd herselfe in the centorie of the earth in a caus where neither light of sunne nor the glimmering brightnes of the moone might discend nor any voice of man or other creature could yeeld her comfort thus excluding her selfe from all worldly solaces committing the gouernment of hir kongdome to Scicophants and carelesse guiders she wasted away the time of ten moneths in this dark and solitarie dungeon both day and night making these or such like wofell lamentations Oh Nature quoth she thou nurse of euery liuing thing why did it not thou end me in my first beginning why did my mothers wombe bring to light this my damned soule why did my cradle rock this my body of perdition to so many lullabies I wish my nurses pappe had peelded nought but venomed poyson and that my swathing clothes had ben sheetes of boyling lead that both life and body at one instant had been both consumed but woe is me I am resecued for an eternal torment my tongue bath consented to my soules everlasting damnation and my hand seald to to a band that can neuer be cancel'd till I becast into hels deuowring bowels fall vpon me thou great frame of heauen cover me thunder-claps descend whirle windes arise and cast me beyond the bounds of mans imaginations thou spirit of red vengeance transforme me to some venemous worme make me without soule or feeling that my torments be not everlasting woe vppon woe pursues me for the gayning of a crowne and kingdome haue I sould and foreuer lost my deare soule whome all the treasures both of earth and sea nor the prasers of good men can euermore redeeme curst be mine eies that traind me to this damned studdy band be my tongue that pradisd first these incantations and woe to all my wits and senses that so cursedly gaue
I will onely be thy wife Vpon these strict conditions or rather Nerculian labours these three gallants without any further reply departed each one his seurall way striuing which of them should accomplish the taske proposed vnto them where we will leaue them for a while trauailing straunge cuntries dilligently seeking to bring these their straunge labours to an end and speake of the woful miseries that the heauen aflicted this prowd Ladie withall Many months passed ouer the head of this hated woman after their departures and as she grew in age so did her pride increase in somuch that for the mainteinance of her vaine beautie she had atending vppon her a hundred of faire and yong wiues that once euerie day with the milke of their breasts fild a cestern of fine gould with the which euery morning she bathed her bodie onely to make her beawtiful faire and white skin more smooth and amiable and that foode which nature gaue for the nourishment of young infants according to Gods will she wickedly abulediu the mainteinance of pride and in the seruice of the deuill This vile course of life she long wandred in loosing herselfe in the wildernesse of blacke iniquitte till the all-seeing seeing eies of wrath descended heauen and in a moment strooke this prowd exeature into such on ovious leaprosie that neither eye could indure her sight nor nostrellavide her corrupting sauours now that bodie so finely framd of natures chiefest mould that lately would not indure the whistling of the gentle windes were now more lothsome then the spotted adder and that cleare celestiall face that disdaind to entertaine the comfortable heate of the warme sunne was now more ovious to mans sight then the swelling toad and all those Ladies that had wont to atend vppon her forsooke her company and fled her chamber as from adenne of snakes they that kept nearest to her were distressed people and vile malefactors such as were lately deliuered from loathsome prisons and deepe dungeons and these in contempt of heauens iudgement caused she with sharpe rasers to flea off the vpper skinne from her spotted face and leaprous bodie in hope that a new young and fresh skinne would againe growe and that her beawtte in a liuely manner would againe be replenished and not as now blemished with one stained spot or soule vlcer all this according to her will was imediately performed but to small purpose for the enuy of heauen cloathed with red vengeauce had doomed her to a miserable death for neither art nor nature by any practise could euer after couer her hated bodie with any kind of skin but that all hir flesh contine wed rawe and loathsome and putrified vnto her bones in this torment as a iudgement of hir pride remained she desiring death but could not dye til the moone had twice twelue times renewd her brightnes and that the earth had twice put on her spring times liuery and twice frostie bearded winter disrobd dame natures Gardens then oh then returnd the three wandring louers with conquest of their straunge adventures earth one hoping to reape the deserts of their true merrits The Soldier whose taske was to finde a bedde fild with a solter substance then the downe feathers of swans in this daungerous manner brought he his labour to an end First after his departure from this prowd Lady Sola he trauelled many strange countries meeting with many straunge people and in searching many strange places he happend into a caue where liu'da Satyr of such bignes as mans eye had hardly seene this Satyr liu'd vppon the spoile of traueliers within whose Caue lay the signes of such as he had murthered and deuowred the number of the dead bones and sculles which lay heaped there together draue such an admiration into the soldiers heart that for a time his feare so abounded that hee stood as it were senceles but at last being ornefied with the bould courage of manhood hee drew foorth his short semiter and with one blow smote of the Satyrs head whilst he lay sleeping vppon a bedde stuffed with nothing but winde the which the soldier no sooner perceiued but he verily beleeued his taske to be ended and that a bedde stuffed close with winde were farre more softer then the downe of signets so taking vp the same bedde and packing it vppon his Bennet behinde him he arriued as you heard at the pallace of this prowd Ladie whose misfortunes with fatall newes no sooner gaue him intertainement but he fell into a melaucholly dispaire and now seeing his long and dangerous trauailes reaping no better successe as one wearied both of life and good chaunce conuaide the saide windie bedde into a field vp to the toppe of a high mountaine where vppon he laide his brused bodie and was by the saide winde imediatiely carried away for euer The Scholler whose long tranells and deepe studdie nothing inferiour to the Soldier after he had spent two yeares practice in framing a Fountaine that should yeelde such a Water that neither rayned from heauen nor sprung from the conduits of the earth a taske as he thought impossible yet good chaunce so directed his steps that he ariued in the I le of Delphos at the Dracle of Apollo who after his deuine sacrifice had this pleasing answere reuealed to him The dew of heauen is neither water from the clowds nor water springing from the earth replenith a fountaine therewith and so conquer fate for inded he conquered fate for at his returne to the prowd Ladies court in hearing of heauens iudgement laid vppon her and how that he had consumed two yeres labor to no effect he presently fell lunaticke and dyed Lastly the marchant tasted of deaths cup as dearly as the others did for after he had brought a bread far better then the bread of wheat which is the bread of saluation the sacred bible of God which he fetcht from the temple in Ierusalem but when he saw the end of his hopes rewarded with a vision of calamitie he departed to a desert wildernesse onely inhabited with wilde beastes where for want of foode he famished himselfe to death Then Sola after she had inteligēce of the liues ruins of those 3. gallāt gentlemen whom she had so cruelly doomed to miserable trauailes and that for her sake they all three lost their liues she in great dispaire of eternall happinesse breathed her soule into the aire wishing her sir sisters by her example to imbrace humilitie Enuies Tragedie The life and death of Lucina the enuious the second daughter to the inchanted queene Chap. 5. LVcina being the second daughter to the inchanted queene bearing in her breast the burning fier of enuy neuer differed from that deadly sinne all the date of her wretched life for after the dicease of her prowd sister no long time passed on before Iulianus then king of France tooke her in mariage whose nuptiall rights these two countries solemnized in most princely manner and the chiefest delights and pleasures belonging