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A68653	[Riche his farewell to militarie profession] [conteinyng verie pleasaunt discourses fit for a peaceable tyme: gathered together for the onely delight of the courteous gentlewomen, bothe of Englande and Irelande, for whose onely pleasure thei were collected together, and vnto whom thei are directed and dedicated / by Barnabe Riche gentleman.]	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1581 (1581)	STC 20996; ESTC S94895	141,129	192

blinde Lanterns because thei tourne them and hide their light when thei liste And because he was a yong manne of verie good strengthe and had brought with him instrumentes of Iron to open the Toumbe and lift vp the stone that couered it he gat it open and hauyng vnder propped it surelie He went into the Vaute and tooke the woman straight waie in his armes mindyng to bryng her out and carrie her awaie so a sleape as she was But the force and vertue of the pouder beeyng finished and spent assone as he moued her she awaked out of her sleape and seeyng her self clad in that sorte emong ragges and dedde bones she began to tremble and to cry alas where am I Or who hath brought me hether wretche that I am Marie that hath your cruell and vnfaithfull housebande aunswered the Scholer who hauyng poisoned you to Marrie a common Strumpet hath buried you here whether I come to trie if by my skill I could reuiue you and call backe your soule by those remedies which I had deuised vnto your bodie againe Whiche if I could not haue doen as I intended I was resolued to haue died hereby you and to haue laied my dedde bodie here by yours to reste vntill the latter daie hopyng that my Spirite should in the meane while haue come and enioyed yours where euer it had been But since the Heauens haue been so fauorable vnto me as in this extreame daunger wherein you were to graunte suche vertue vnto the remedies whiche I haue vsed towarde you as the whiche I haue been able to kepe vndissolued your gentle Spirite with your faire bodie I hope my deare that you will henceforthe consider what the affection of your wicked housebande hath been toward you and how greate good will and by consideration thereof discerne and resolue which of vs twoo hath beste deserued to be beloued of you Agatha findyng her self in that sort buried in deede did easily beleeue the truthe whiche the Scholer told her and to her self concluded that her housebande had shewed hymself in her behalf a man of all other moste cruell and dis●●all Wherfore tournyng her self toward the Scholer she saied vnto hym Alonso I can not deny but that my housebande hath been to me not onely vnkinde but cruell also nor I can not but cōfesse that you haue declared your self to be moste louyng and affectioned toward me and of force I must acknowledge my self beholding vnto you of no lesse then of my life since alas I se my self here emong dedde bodies buried aliue But for as muche although my housebande haue broken his vowe to me I haue not yet at any tyme failed my faithe to hym I doe require you that if you desire that I should esteme this kind and louing office of yours as it deserueth to be esteemed or make accompt of this life whiche you haue giuen me you will haue due regard and consideration of myne honestie and that you will not by offering me any villanie whiche neuerthelesse I can not any waie missedoubt where I haue alwaies found so muche and so great courtesie make this your courteous and pitifull acte to be lesse commendable and praise worthie then it is Whiche if you do bridle your vnlawfull and sensuall appetite and desire will remain the moste vertuous and worthie of honor and fame that euer courteous Gentleman hath do●n for a miserable woman since the worlde beganne Alonso failed not with affectuall and manifest argumētes to perswade her that her housebande had now no more right or title to her at all and that although he had yet if she were wise she should not commit her self vnto his courtesie again since by this mortall token he had giuen her a sufficient testimonie of his ranckor and euil will towardes her whereby she might well enough bee assured not to escape when soeuer she should resolue to put her self againe into his handes and that therefore she was not to make any accoumpte of hym but to shewe her self thanckfull for so greate a benefite as she had receiued and to requite hym so with her fauour and courtesie as he might now in the ende attaine to gather the frute of his long and constaunt good will and of his trauell sustained for the saffegarde of her life And with those woordes bendyng himself toward her he would haue taken a kisse of her lippes But Agatha thrustyng hym backe saied vnto hym againe If my housebande Alonso haue broken those bandes wherwith I was knitte vnto hym by Matrimonie through his wicked and leude demeanour yet haue not I for my parte dissolued them neither will I at any tyme so long as I shall liue As for committing my self vnto his courtesie or going any more into his handes therein I thinke it good to followe your aduise not that I would bee vnwillyng to liue and dwell with him if I might hope to finde hym better disposed but because I would bee lothe to fall eftsones into the like daunger and greeuous perill And as for requiting you for this your commendable trauaile in my behalf I knowe not what better recompence I am able to giue you then to rest bound vnto you for euer and to acknowledge my self beholdyng vnto pour courtesie for my life whiche obligation if it maie satisfie you I will be as glad and as content as I maie be in this miserable state wherein I am But if your meanyng perchaunce be that the losse of mine honestie should bee the reward and hire for your paines I doe beseche you to depart hence out of this tombe and to leaue me here inclosed for I had rather die here thus buried quicke through the ●rueltie of my housband then through any suche compassion or pitie to saue my life with the losse of mine honour and good name The Scholer by those wordes perceiued well enough the honest disposition of Agarha whiche he wondered at consideryng that the terror of death it self was not able once to moue her from her faithfulnesse and cōstancie of mind And though it were greeuous vnto hym to finde her so stedfast yet hopyng that by tyme in the ende he might ouercome her chast and honest purpose aunswered that he could not but commende her for her disposition though he deserued a kinder recompence of his long and feruent loue and she a more louing and faithfull housband But since she was so resolued he would frame him self to be content with what she would and not craue of her any thyng that she would not willyngly graunt hym to haue And therewith helpyng her out of the Sepulcher he led her home vnto his house and left her there with an olde woman that kept his house to whom he recomended her and whose helpe he was assured of to dispose the good will of Agatha towardes hym and the next mornyng returned into the Citie Gonsales after a fewe daies seeming not to be able to liue without a wife to take care of his familie

to remoue him from pleasuryng of his freend For that now adaies aswell were thei accompted and esteemed Phisitions that killed their Pacientes as thei that did cure them and because the thyng beeyng kepte secrete betweene them twoo alone he needes not to doubte or feare any daunger of his life by the Lawe For if it should by any mischaunce happen that he should be imputed or burthened with poisoning of his wife he assured him that he would neuer whilest he had breathe confesse of whom he had the poison but would rather suffer his tongue to bee pulled out of his hedde or endure any torment that might bee deuised The Scholler at the laste seemyng to bee wonne by the earnestnesse of his petition Saied that vppon that condition and promes of not reuealing him at any time he would be cōtente rather to shewe hymself freendlie vnto hym then a true professour of his Science or an exacte regarder of his conscience and that he would doe as he would haue him And hauyng lefte Gonsales verie glad and ioyfull for that his promes he wente home and made a certaine composition of mixture of pouders the vertue whereof was suche that it would make them that tooke any quantitie thereof to sleape so soundlie that thei should for the space of certaine howers seme vnto all men to be starke dedde And the next daie he retourned to Gonsales and to deliuer it vnto him saiyng Gonsales you haue caused me to dooe a thyng I proteste I would not dooe it for my life But since you maie see thereby that I haue regarded more your freendshippe then my duetie or the consideration of that whiche is honest and lawfull I must require you eftsones to remember your promesse and that you will not declare to any creature liuing that you haue had this poison of me Whiche thing Gonsales verie constauntlie vpon his othe did promise him againe and hauyng taken the pouder of him asked hym in what sorte he was to vse it And he tolde hym that if at Supper he did caste it there vpon her meate or into her brothe she should die that night following without either paine or torment or any greeuous accidentes but goe awaie euen as though she were sleape That Euenyng at Supper tyme Gonsales failed not to put the pouder into his wiues potage who hauyng taken it as sone as Supper was doen feelyng her self verie heauie and drousie wente to her Chamber and gather to bedde for she laie not with Gonsales but when he liste to call he whiche had been verie seldome since he did fall into loue with the Strumpet and within an hower after the operation of the pouder tooke suche force in her bodie that she laie as though she had been dead and altogether sencelesse Gonsales in like sort when he sawe his time went to his bedd and liyng all that night with a troubled mynde thinkyng what would become of Agatha and what successe his enterprise would take the morning came vpon him before he could once close his eyes whiche beyng come he rose not doubtyng but that he should assuredlie finde his wife dedde as Alonso had promised him And as soone as he was vp he wente out of his house and staied but an hower abroad and then he retourned home againe and asked his Maide whether her Mistres were vp or no. The Maiden made him aunswere that she was yet a sleape And he makyng as though he had meruailed at her long liyng in bedde demaunded her how it happened that she was so sluggishe that Mornyng contrarie to her custome whiche was to rise euery Mornyng by breake of the daie and had her goe and wake her for he would haue her to giue hym some thing that laie vnder her Keyes The wenche according to her Maisters commaundement went to her Mistres bedde side and hauyng called her once or twise some what softelie when she sawe she waked not she laied her hande vppon her and giuing her a shagge she saied withall Mistres awake my Maister calleth for you But she liyng still and not awakyng for all that the Maide tooke her by the arme and beganne to shake her good and harde and she not vnderstandyng neither aunswering nor stirring hande or foote The Maide returned to her Maister and tolde hym that for aught she could doe she could not gette her Mistres to awake Gonsales hearyng the Maide to saie so was glad in his minde But feinyng himself to bee busied about somewhat els and that he regarded little her speeche he bidde her goe againe and shake her till she did waken The Maide did so and rolled and tumbled her in her bedde and all in vaine wherefore commyng againe vnto her Maister she saied vnto him that vndoubtedlie she did beleeue that her Mistres his wife was dedde for she had founde her verie colde and rolled her vp and doune the bedde and that yet she stirred not What dedde ꝙ Gonsales as if he had been all agaste and amazed and rising therewithall he wente to her beddes side and called her and shaked her and wrong her by the fingers and did all that might be as he thought to se whither she were aliue But she not feeling any thing that he did laie still like a dedde bodie or rather like a stone Wherfore when he sawe his purpose had taken so good effecte to dissemble the matter he beganne to crie out and to lament and to detest his cruell Destinie that had so soone bereued him of so kind so honest and so faithful a wife and hauing in th'ende discouered her bodie and finding no spot or marke whereby any token or signe of poisonyng might be gathered as one that would not seme to omit any office of a louing husbande he sent for the Phisition to looke vpon her who hauing vsed some suche meanes as he thought meete to make her come to herself finally seyng her to remain vnmoueable and without sence concluded that some sodaine accident had takē her in the night wherof she had died and for dedde he left her At whiche his resolution though Gonsales were very glad yet to the outward shewe declaryng himself to be verie sorie and full of woe and heauinesse he behaued hym self in snche cunning sort as he made all the worlde beleeue that he would not liue long after her And hauyng called her freendes and lamented with them her sodaine death and his misfortune in fine he caused her Funerall to bee verie sumptuouslie and honourablie prepared and buried her in a Vaute whiche serued for a Toumbe to all his auncestours in a Churche of a Frierie that standes without the Citee Alonso that was verie well acquainted with the place and had hymself a house not verie farre from that Frierie wente his waie that same Night vnto his saied house and when he sawe the tyme to serue for his purpose he gatte hym to the Vaute or Toumbe wherein Agatha was laied with one of these little Lanterns that thei call