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A00574	The famous history of George Lord Faukonbridge, bastard son to Richard Cordelion King of England Begotten in his royal tower, vpon the princely Clarabel, daughter to Don Iohn Duke of Austria, surnamed the worldes faire concubine. Shewing his knightly adventures, dignified victories, with his life and death, spent in the honor of God and his countrey: never wearing any other garmet, but that lyons skinne, by which his kingly father challenged his lyon-like title.		1616 (1616)	STC 10709; ESTC S118329	29,067	48

Seas of blood CHAP. IIII. A wofull report of King Richards death Of faire Clarabels lamentation for the same Of her grieuous punishment by famine and of other accidents AFter some little ease like the swéet returne of some long absent friend had mittigated the inward sorrowes of faire Clarabell and that a little the remembrance of her Infants losse some-what ceased her former laments thinking to cheere her sad heart with infusing delights that shée hoped to enioy by the swéet presence of King Richard wishing hourely his company little dreaming of his departure for Austria but that he reuealed in his owne Court to her great ioy and his owne renowne that at his first arriuall into her presence they might like Mars and Venus surfet in delight or like Paris with his Helena seale vp the true quittances of desire but all was not as shée wished for her hearts beloued King Richard flourished in the royalties of Belonaes battels wading in blood and mounted vpon his vndaunted courser treading vpon mangled men and marching after the cheerefull melody of warre Which when the poore distressed Lady hard off like a condemned exile banished from all solace shée exclaimed against cruell desteny reuiling the angry Quéene of chance accounting all her hopes ominous and her selfe the onely patterne of misfortunes Oh quoth shée what vnlucky planet predominated my birth why was I borne to these miseries I liue destitute of friends in an vnknowne kingdome dishonoured with the title of a Curtizan a pointing marke for vertuous Ladies a staine of woman-hood Oh why was I borne to commit so foule a sinne that blemisheth the glory of all Princes Oh vnkind King Richard now I sée thou heapest vpon my backe a second misery as thou hast disrobed me of virginity making me neither wife widow nor maide so wilt thou orphane me and intitle me by the name of a parentlesse child Woe vpon woe I sée pursues me calamity discontent sorrow despaire yea and all the miseries that euer haplesse woman indured now like whirle-winds or tempestuous gusts tumbles my care kild heart into the gulfe of vnpitied afflictions be iust thou punisher of blacke trespasses for my skarlet sinnes knocke at Heauen gates for reuenge and my desert excéedeth Tarpies that sold Rome or the daughter of Ninus that betraied her fathers kingdome for euen as the Viper I féed vpon my Parents woe and as the curse of nature haue gloried in disobedience what good fortune can I challenge at the hand of destiny in louing my fathers foe yéelding that vnrecouered iem to his pleasure as being well bestowed might haue merited the worlds fame but being lost to satisfie his lust hath placed me for a strumpet in the blacke booke of infamy who can pitty my extremities or what gentle eye will vouchsafe thereat to shed one teare Teares from a remorslesse bosome are most comfortable dewes and the swéet waters of hearts ease These or such like passions breathed shee from her discontented bosome which manner of lamentations once a day shée made to the sightlesse aire till the time of sixe moneths ouerpassed at the end whereof there arriued at her lodging the two Earles of Arundell and Oxford newly returned from Austria being the onely counsellors to King Richard in all his procéedings which two Lords brought the heauiest newes that euer néerely touched England such newes that might euen haue broke a sauage heart newes of death and dolour the signification thereof sate like characters in their foreheads and as it were made dumbe shewes of discontent being with heauy countenances both come into the presence of Lady Clarabell the good Earle of Arundell said as followeth Prepare swéet Lady with a gentle silence to entertaine the wofullest tale that euer man at armes reported for it tels of blood and death and of the ruine of imperious soueraignety Know faire Clarabell that in one day by the fury of relentlesse warre thou hast lost both thy Father and thy Loue First thy Father when the battel 's ioined closed with high spirited Richard in such Princely resolution as euen fired his whole army with the liuely sparkes of valour and so proudly managed himselfe against the gun-shot of chance as if Hector and Achilles combated each other On the other side English Richard vnder whose ensignes our selues marched so nobly and so beyond expectation he behaued himselfe as if Mars fought vpon the earth both Heauen and Earth thundered forth their glories Our two Armies were in number like the Campe of Scythian Tamberlaine which as it were made the huge earth to grone Neuer since the ten yéeres warres at Troy did mans eye behold so numberlesse a multitude all valiant fearelesse and aduenturous we for the honour of England they for the honour of Austria Seas of blood couered the gréene fields and the féete of horses trampled out dead mens braines the cries of dying souldiers séemed like thunder and the christ al Aire spread forth her sable Canopy mourning at so wofull a massacre After thousands lay breathlesse on the hungrie earth glutted with the blood of so many thousand Christians the victory grew so doubtfull that Lady Fortune sate wauering not resolued to what side to yéeld it But woe is me euen then the glory of both our Armies faded and the eluminating light of two Princes was by consuming death extinguished Austria lost royall Don Iohn your Father and wee imperious Richard our King Two such losses as Europe for them weepes blood and may well consume in griefe Vpon whose deaths both our Armies sounded retreate a peace proclaimed and both their bodies had such funerals as befitted the persons of such high dignities Our Leaders and Captaines hauing lost their Princely Generall imbraced peace and with the Swordes sheathed Cullors rolled vp and with heauy hanging countenances are now arriued in England where with the generall consent of the whole Nobility we haue crowned Iohn his brother King of this Countrey whom in all allegiance we will henceforth honour and obey More would they haue spoken but the griefe of Clarabella so abounded that shee could keepe silence no longer but in great extremity of passion burst out into these spéeches Héere quoth shée let the World end for the terrible extremity of woe like the raging Ocean breakes in and ouerflowes all my ioyes I haue lost my Father Friends Countrey Kinred Acquaintance yea and my Child and the dearest of all Iewels Royall King Richard by whose death I am made most vnfortunate Descend some vnlucky starre fall vpon me you fatall planets and strike me blinde that my sightlesse eyes may behold no further miseries Where art thou mischance afflict me with some fearefull confusion that like the wife of Oedipus the whole World may report my shame Heauens blessings I sée hath refused me and like an out-cast loaden my blood-red heart with more then earthly sorrow and with which it is rent torne and most lamentably tormented At these wordes shée offered to teare forth her

thereby came to bee called Richard Cordelion and of other accidents ACcording to the heauy and bitter command of the angry Duke in reuenge of his sonnes death the Nobility and Knights of England departed Don Iohns Kingdome leauing the wofull King in prison as ashamed of so haplesse a voiage where being no sooner come and the reports thereof bruted in the eares of the Earles of Arundell and Oxford but like two English spirited gallants not able to brooke this forraine disgrace they resolutely departed England protesting either to bring their Soueraigne Lord safely to his Kingdome or to leaue their bodies buried in Austria that blood quoth they spent in the honour of our King and Countrey is the sweet sacrifice of Knight-hood and the true vermillion colour that beautifies the rich robes of honour Thus nobly minded they with all speed crossed the Seas which they were ioyfull off so with so glorious a burthen and the whisling wind proud of these Princely resolued Gentlemen louing kind and loyall set open their gentle portals and beyond the expectation of man set them safely vpon the costs of Austria where being no sooner come but they attired themselues in the disguised habits of Fryers the most secret and fittest pollicy to attaine the wished presence of their imprisoned King and by that meanes thought they to relieue him if his extremity so much required so comming to the prison gate in a professed zeale as they said they had of King Richards soules health they desired accesse and that the Lord Marshall would admit them to the Kings presence who being a man of a curteous nature could doe no lesse then grant their request being so honest and vertuous a demand Frowning Fortune beganne now a little to smile and a little to ease his languishing sorrowes for no sooner had his gentle eies cast their dimme sights almost blinded with teares vpon his two deare friends but a sudden reioycing hope assailed his heart and like a royotous heire newly possessing his patrimony surfetted in pleasure all dispairing passions by the delightfull presence of these two English Earles were immediatly conuerted into iollity their imbraces were as the closes of new married Damsels where the extremity of ioy so swelled in their bosomes that euen their eyes distilled teares and their hearts as it were danced These two supposed Friers had no other Orisons but comfortable reports from his loyall Subiects in England their Bookes were their loues and their Beades their fealties Thus in this secret manner vnsuspected of any repaired they daily to this distressed King expecting hourely his liues metamorphoses either of liberty or death Freedome or confusion royalty or captiuity in which wauering doubt while these three subiects of sorrow remained the displeased Duke still harbouring in his heart blacke malice called a counsell of flattering sicophants such as be still the attendants of Monarkes where against both the law of Armes and Nations it was decreed that King Richard should combate with a Lyon which if he ouercame his liberty thereby might be purchased but being ouercome he should endure the sharpe punishment of this mercilesse beast whose greatest fauour were but death vpon which pittilesse doome this bloody counse●l concluded and thereupon appointed the time and houre to the extreame griefe of many thousadns whose whose gentle harts euen trembled at this remorslesse iudgement But now marke the difference in nature of a cruel Father and a kind Child the Father mercilesse the Child mild the Father proud the Child humble the Father vnreasonable the Child reasonable the Father cruell the Child louing betwixt whom tyranny and remorse strous for superiority for Don Iohn bore not more extreame hate against the English King then his daughter faire Clarabella extended loue In her heart partiall Cupid builded his Bower and pitty with his smooth countenance sent dumbe messengers to the distressed King which were modest sighes bashfully sent from her maiden-like breast fearing to offend in affecting her Fathers enemy yet loue which hath commanded euen the Gods themselues and still blindly leades earthly Monarkes with vnequall affections making no difference betwixt Kings and Beggars so ruled the desires of diuine Clarabell that shée wished no other consolation in this world but the sacred loue of English Richard whose presence if shée might possesse were to her soule as the pleasures of Paradice duty and obedience by nature her Fathers right were now exchanged into desire and loue the Princely behauiour of King Richard guided her thoughts and though as yet vnknowne to him intangled her loue-sicke heart in the toiles of Venus wherein was no hope of recouery but the vniting of them both in the equality of desire These were faire Clarabels discontents which as an vncurable wound dismembred all the liuely wishes of virginity offending onely in thought and with the chilling feare of her second solues destruction by the terrible censure of her angry Father shée grew like madde Medea lunaticke and distraught expecting the sauage murther of royall Richard shée railed both at Heauen and Earth conspiring thus against all her good Fortunes For in loosing him quoth shée the bloome of my maiden-head withereth and I am like to pine in the languishing estate of misery made onely miserable by the Eagle like pitch of my lofty desires In this manner spent shée away the day till the sable Canopy of Heauen couered all the earth a time of silence a time of peace and rest a time that the eyes of all things closeth vp yet sléepe the comforter of distressed minds could not locke vp her eyes for care had made them watchfull griefe and distrust like two dreadful companions waited in her chamber euery idle imagination buzzed in her cares the misaduenture of her loue fighting with all the misdoubts of desire shée consumed away the slow night where euery minute séemed a day till morning came and then like a carefull bride shée cloathed her selfe in her richest attire and by the Sunnes rising came vnto the prison where shée found royall Richard vpon his Princely knée pleading for his soules saluation preparing himselfe ready for his Lion-like combat the night before brought to the Lord Marshall in a warrant from the Dukes counsel Farewell vaine world quoth he thy flattering pompe hath béene to me as water bubbles in a rainie day or as Aprill showers or the flourishes of Gardens sudden and variable Comfort me God only in thy power is my deliuery and without thy assistance this day is like to be my doomes day and the last day of all my liues fortunes At these words faire Clarabel sunke into a swound and so abounded in griefe that her sences were hardly recouered but being againe come to her selfe shée fell at King Richards knée and in a most milde nature spake as followeth Most imperious Potentate in whose happines consisteth my liues ioy and in whose welfare my glory shineth In thée thou pride of manhood haue I built my hopes and in louing thée