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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16211	A relation of the death of the most illustrious lord, Sigr. Troilo Sauelli, a Baron of Rome who was there beheaded, in the castle of Sant-Angelo, on the 18. of April, 1592. With a preface, conteyning diuers particulers, which are wholy necessary to be knowne, for the better vnderstanding of the relation it selfe.	Biondi, Giuseppe, 1537-1598.; Matthew, Tobie, Sir, 1577-1655.	1620 (1620)	STC 3134; ESTC S102706	52,485	246

sayd Mihi mundus (k) The world is crucified to me and I to it crucifixus est ego mundo In a word let not the soule be touched but let my Honour be blasted according to that accoumpt which the blinde world is wont to make of Honour that it may serue as a part of the punishement which is due to me The third that at the same instant his hat was brought him and one of his people being desirous to take his Montiera from off his head what are you doing sayth he They answered they would giue him his hat But he bad them let it alone saying That it imported not and he added with a soft voyce Looke heer a whyle they would faine honour this head of mine which I am to loose within few houres for my sinnes The VVill being then read and shut he throwing himselfe as it were vpon me with a most modest kind of sweetnes said Father I am already reconciled but I would faine make a generall Confession of my whole life to your Reuerence And althogh since I came into prison I did the same in effect at the instance of my Lady my Mother yet know that I had then no light or feeling of my sinnes in respect of that which now I discouer in my hart For One thing it is deare Father for a man to confesse himselfe when he is in the sight of death and another to do it not thinking of death or at least but considering it as a far off And so calling for a (l) There are euery wher to be had litle bookes of addresse wherby men are taught how to confesse their sins exactly little booke which he had aboue in the prison shewing a man the way how to confesse his sinnes exactly well which his good MOTHER had ●rought to him some dayes ●efore he began his confes●●on Wherin my Lord God ●oth knowe that as it is ●awfull for me by that most ●mple authority which himself gaue me to declare as much therof as I should thinke fit so if I were able to expresse it I say not that Rome would be astonished at it but all Italy would be so For if I speake of the exact manner that he held for as much as concerned the particuler descending euen to idle wordes an● anie other (m) Confession is no such cursory or superficiall thing as they which know it not conceaue say such littl● thing me thought I wa● hearing some well exercise● Religious man In the explicating of circumstances● and the vnfolding of intricate and intangled cases i● was as if he had bin some profound Deuine In relating the determinate number the various kindes of his sins he made proofe of one who had a most fresh and happy memory This rare Gentleman pawsing now and then betweene the Confession of his sinnes and suffering certaine teares to fall quietly vpon my knees he would be wiping them away and that being done he would often vse to say with sighes O Father how (n) He had great reason to say so good hath our Lord been to me Let him now be blessed as often and yet more often then I haue offended him in my former life Why lest he was accusing himselfe of his faults he would expresse thē in certaine few but they all liuely and most pious wordes and in som particuler cases so dearely tender that in his countenance one might see euident signes of how his very hart was euen rent within So that between (o) He pawsed sometymes between both to resthimselfe to recall his sins more freshly to his memory for though it were interrupted it was al but one Confessiō till the Absolution were giuen the times of his confessiō the Confortatori doubting least perhaps he might grow to faint would be asking him if he needed not somewhat to restore comfort himself To which he answered speaking priuatly more then once to me This (p) An admirable Contrition only comfort or restoratiue I would desire That my very hart might burst for griefe and satisfaction might so be (q) To the iustice of God his sorrow being dignified by the death passion of Iesus Christ our Lord. giuen for my sinnes if perhaps euen that would serue the turne But for as much as to my thincking he did melt as it were by so enlardging himselfe in his Confession I had an eye vpon him and I ventured to say thus vnto him My deare Signor Troilo be not so excessiuely curious and particuler in accusing your selfe especially of those your former sinnes which lye not now vpon your soule O (r) See how truely this hart was touched with sorrow for his sins and the knowledge of himself Father sayd he I haue wasted my whole life in offending God and will you haue me or shall I content my selfe in one single houre to demaund pardon of so many offences So long in sinning and so short in confessing my sinnes That I am trouble some to you my deare Father I well discouer but what can I doe withall if I be forced to it And heer againe he began to make for himselfe a very bath of teares And interpretinge what I had said after his owne conceite he added with teares redoubled And this also do my sinnes deserue by way of punishment that hauing cast so much and so much time away in preiudice of my saluation I should now want time wherein I might euen confesse my sinnes Pardon me deare Father and endure this trouble for the loue of God for you shall (s) To do a good worke by the grace for the loue of God is meritorious for so Christ our Lord hath made it merit in his sight by helping this poore soule of mine towards saluation I will remaine with obligation to you when I shall go by the mercy of God your good meanes into the place of rest And finding that still he grew in teares I confesse my weaknes for I was not able to containe my selfe from expressing also tendernes by teares As soone as he perceaued this he said Father your Reuerence weepes and yet you weepe not for your selfe but for me and yet you will not haue me weepe for my selfe But then both of vs being silent for a time he after began againe to confesse with those accustomed short words but full of substance and propriety making me write down al those things which he confided to me for the dischardge of his conscience Whilest I was writinge he would needes for his contentment hold the Standish in his owne hands and read those lines when I had done and kisse them and then bath them in teares But of nothing did he accuse himselfe so much as of all that which had any relation to the Lady his Mother Nor am I able by any meanes to expresse with what aboundance of teares he accompanied those accusations of himselfe For beginning euen from his very Infancy Father sayth