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blood_n	abel_n	cain_n	murder_v	631	4	9.9594	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04989	The resolued gentleman. Translated out of Spanishe into Englyshe, by Lewes Lewkenor Esquier; Chevalier délibéré. English	La Marche, Olivier de, ca. 1426-1502.; Lewkenor, Lewis, Sir, d. 1626.	1594 (1594)	STC 15139; ESTC S108201	70,399	158

Histories but obscurely touched by the Author in this Treatise which I thought fitte to annex for the greater delight of those that shall reade it especially Gentlewomen and those that are vnacquainted with such historicall discourses There are some sacred Histories which I do but brieflie touch referring the Reader for the better vnderstanding them to the holy Bible whence they are taken imagining that they are or at least ought to be familiarly knowen to all CAIN through enuie that the offering of his brother Abel was more pleasing and acceptable vnto God then his murdered him and was the first that embrewed his handes with humane blood Sampson being by Delilah entreated to tell him wherein the greatnes of his strength consisted discouered it vnto her and was by her betrayed vnto the Philistians who tooke him and put out his eyes brought him downe to Azzah bound him with fetters and made him to grinde in the prison house and when they were merrie in a banket they called him one day foorth in derision and set him betweene two Pillars which grasping in his armes he pulled downe and together with the same the Pallace burying vnder the ruines thereof himselfe and an innumerable number of the Philistians Hercules the famous Grecian begotten by Iupiter vpon Alcumena wife of Amphitrion extreamely louing the beautifull virgin Deianira daughter to Oeneus King of Calidonia comming to her fathers Court to demaunde her in mariage with the terrour of his presence caused sundrie youthful Princes that pursued her loue to desist their suite Onely K. Achelaus preferring his loue to the delicious Princesse before all death and danger whatsoeuer refused to yeelde his clayme and interest to youthfull Hercules but after scornefull wordes vpbrayding him of bastardie came to ioyne with him in Armes but being wounded ouerthrowen was constreined to yeelde and to leaue the young Ladie as a rewarde to the victorie of Hercules who rauished with extreamnesse of ioy returning with his beloued pray to his fathers Kingdome was retarded by the ouerflowing of the Riuer Euenus about the shoares of which as he walked to see if he coulde finde any Foorde or passage he met with Nessus a Centaure who bearing from the girdle vpwarde the shape of a Man and thence downwarde of an Horse was exceedingly enflamed with the loue of Deianira and with an humble dissembled looke offered so Hercules coulde make shift to swimme or passe the riuer himselfe that he would vppon his backe safely transport his Lady Hercules thankfully accepted his offer committing vnto him his fearfully trembling Lady and throwing off his quiuer and bowe to the farther side of the riuer betooke himselfe vnto the streame which hauing past and taken vp againe his bow and arrowes he heard his Lady in lamentable accent cry for helpe with whom the trayterous Centaure ran away with all possible speede but Hercules taking heedfully his leuell pursued him in such sort with an Arrow that he strake him in the chine of the backe a mortall wound which Nessus feeling in the instant of death meditating reuēge gaue vnto Deianeira the shirt which he ware bestained and infected with his owne blood which issued out of his body mingled with poyson because the arrow with which he was wounded had bin by Hercules dipped in the contagious blood of the serpent Hydra which shirte he tould her that if she should at any time send vnto her husband when he should be in loue with any other Lady would reclame his loue from the other to her alone The Lady receiued it and with secrecie many yeeres did keepe it as a iewell of rare and singular price It happened after that Hercules amid his great victories with fame of which he filled the world chaunced to beholde the admirable Iole the fairest and most goodly virgin that the world in that age affoorded Her he honored and loued and at length obteined The greefe of which so deeply wounded the gentle hart of Deianeira that neuer poore Lady liued more abandoned ouer to sorow One day it chaunced that her husbande being to doe sacrifice to Iupiter vpon the mountaine Ceneus sent vnto her his faithfull and trusty seruant Licas for certaine rich and sacred garments that of purpose he kept to were at such times as he did sacrifice vnto the gods The innocent Lady sent him those superstitious ornaments which he required and withall bethinking herselfe of the dying Centaurs gift sent him by Licas the enuenomed shirt beseeching him for her sake to weare it which he had no sooner put on but the venom so ragingly pearsed euen to his very intrals that thinking to teare it of he pulled therewith away great gobbets of his owne flesh and so furiously laying handes vpon guiltlesse Licas and tearing him to peeces bequeathing to his deare freend Philoctetes his bowe and fatall arrowes he threw himselfe into a fire which he had made vpon the mountaine Oeta and there sacrificed him selfe which Deianeira hearing after many detestations and maledictions of her selfe concluded with a violent and desperat death her miserable and hated life Iulius Caesar hauing victoriously brought vnder the yoke of the Romane empire Germanie Fraunce England Scotland and Spaine and filled the whole circuit of the world with the greatnes of his renowne demaunded by letters the Consulship suborning and brybing with money in that behalfe sundry great personages in Rome but so formidable grew the report of his ambitious greatnes to the Romaine senate that they sent him worde that if he would leaue his forces behinde and come vnarmed and peaceable to the citie they would graunt that or any other his lawful request but perticularly they commaunded him not to passe the riuer of Rubicon with his armie threatning him if he should otherwise do to holde him as an enemie to his countrie but he scornefully disdaining this commaundement of theirs and exceedingly enuying the greatnesse of Pompeis glory who bare the greatest sway and gouernment at Rome passed the Riuer with his armie and came still conquering vp into Italy the terror of whose approche wrought such astonishment in Rome that Pompie with the greatest part of the Senatours and nobilitie fledde whom Caesar after hauing taken possession of Rome pursued and finally ouerthrew at the battaile of Pharsalia and thence passed conquering into Fgipt where he subdued young Potolome the K. that rose in armes against him he placed faire Cleopatra in the royall seate with whom he liued a while in amorous delights and had by her a sonne called Casario who was afterwardes murdered by Octauian thence hauing taken order with matters of the Orient he returned in triumph to Rome where he vsed incredible liberalities to the people pardoning his greatest enemies and those that had been sharpest in warre against him yea and some of them he honored with great dignities as among others Cassius and Brutus who were both made Pretors But so vnsure is the seat of honor especially being

liues of braue and lustie youthes in the prime strength of their vnmellowed yeeres yea and sometimes he sporteth himselfe in the death of olde men women and chyldren But hydeous Debilitie with inuisible blowes killeth onely those that are weake and languishyng They are so nusled in blood that their dayly exercise and practise is nothing but to murder and destroy mankinde neyther is their puissance by any pollicie to be deluded nor by any agilitie or stratageme to be auoyded This being so iudge then with thy selfe in how great degree these myghtie foes are to be feared Thou hast been long agone summoned to this battayle by Excesse their heralde at Armes and therefore the fyght being so full of perill and the matter of such importaunce I cannot but much maruell at this thy carelesse vnreadinesse especially seeing at thy very birth-day thou wert waged therunto Thou doest not exceede Sampson in inuincible strength Hercules in valorous courage Salomon in profound wysedom Tullie in powerful perswading eloquence Diomedes in vigorous vnderstanding nor Absolon in delicious beautie yet no one of these was able to resist these death-bringing Champions that euen now attende thee in the lystes The farther that the vncertayne race of thy miserable lyfe lyngreth on the nearer approcheth the houre of thy ineuitable conflict to which attende no other trumpet then the dolefull knowlling of a deadly Bell. Therefore with all instance I aduise thee to looke well about and to call well all thy wittes tegeather that thou mayst be the better prepared agaynst the hard brunt of so terrible a reckoning Herewith my thoughtfulnesse ending I awaked as it were out of a drowsie traunce or dreame thanking her in the highest degree for these her carefull admonitions and withal tolde her that for mine owne part I was redy to performe as much as to a true resolued Gentleman did appertaine and therewithall presently without delay put on my armour and lyke a Knight aduenturous passed foorth onward on my way My horses name was Desire my harnesse tempred in the water of Puissance my shielde of Hope my launce of Aduenture and my sworde of Courage In this equipage I entred into the quest of my so much renowned aduersaries at the ende of two dayes trauaile in which I had not found any aduenture worthy the wryting I came into a very greene and florishing Medowe the name whereof was Worldly pleasure The outwarde shew whereof presented vnto my senses such pleasure and delyght that rauished with contentment forgetfull of my iourney and vndertaken enterprise I euen determined to remayne there But sodainely I myght espie a galant Ruffler that came fiercely coursing along the Medow bidding me defende my selfe for without farther delay he meant to iust with me I was much moued with the roughnesse of his speach and iesture as also that he had interrupted me in the sweetenesse of those delyghtes wherein my senses were lulled a sleepe I askt hym yf he were a Gentleman and withall of what name and Countrey My name quoth he in an ill tuned harsh and queasy voyce is Ill Diet My office is to put all out of order where I come My linage is noble for Gluttonie is my mother and I am her eldest sonne I am maynteyned with ryches norished in delices and hyghly esteemed in the court of Princes Are you then quoth I eyther of these warriours that do with such vnuanquished puissance keepe the forest of vnmercifull Atropos Neyther of them quoth he but yet their great familiar friende and lyue by the same chase which they do which is by persecutyng of lyfe And therewithall he gaue me such a blow with his launce of lytle witte vpon the bosse of my guylded target that I do yet full well feele the weight of his encounter neuerthelesse pullyng my spirites vnto me with an eagre desire of reuenge with a full carrere I brake my Lance on his bosome and foorthwith we both layde handes on our swordes with which being tempered in folly we gaue one an other mightie blowes of banquettes bathings quaffings watchings wantonnesse and such lyke wherein Time the treasure of life is consumed and nothing hoorded vp but griefe and repentance When he had almost weeried me with these kindes of blowes then he let driue at me a freshe with many disorderly strokes of dauncyng running leaping playing at tennis immoderate exercise sweatyng sodayne colde takyng and other such lyke so deadly and dangerous greetings that without all doubt he had then made an ende of my daies had not a Lady called Reliquia iuuentutis commen to my succour who though in a maner tyred with often helpyng me in such lyke combates yet did in defence of my health put foorth the vttermost of her force and vertue requestyng my aduersarie to leaue the fyght and to geue me respit to see yet somewhat farther on in the worlde I am contented quoth he for the farther he runneth on in the worlde and the more trust he putteth in his owne forces the more certaine is his destruction yet before he depart because he hath behaued himselfe so stoutely with me I wyll bestow a Cappe vpon him dyed in my colours of such operation and vertue that it shall distyll a fountayne of rhewmes and humors into his eyes legges thyghes armes and ioynts so that in one part or other of his bodie while he liues go where he will he shall haue cause to remember my acquantance In geuing me which present he departed with exceeding haste leauing me extreamely turmoyled and sore in my bones with the weerinesse of this combate But my greatest griefe was that wheras in this last conflict I had beene relieued through the helpe of that litle youth that was remaining in me the same also being my chiefest comfort did now of a sodaine abandon me bidding me hereafter gouerne my selfe well for of her I neyther coulde nor shoulde receiue any farther assistance Being thus forsaken I folowed on my way desolate and comfortlesse not knowyng whither Onely my thoughtfulnesse still suggested vertue and valour vnto my minde animating me to perseuere on in this important voyage But as my mynde doubtfully wauered in sundry and diuers thoughts amidde this vncertaine way the night drawing on I might espie an aged fatherly Hermite not farre off standing before the doore of his Cell whose graue and courteous aspect encouraged me to acquaint him with my wandering vncertaine voyage and in frendly sort to entreate him of harbour for that nyght The good Hermite bade me from his hart welcome and by his countenance worde assured me that I should finde him a most freendlie and comfortable Hoste He himselfe disarmed me and bringing me into the inwarde part of his lodging did cast a warme mantle about my shoulders Me thought I did neuer beholde a man of more pleasing behauiour nor one whose conuersation did more delight me After that he had called for water to