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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03395	The true history of the tragicke loves of Hipolito and Isabella Neapolitans. Englished; Amours tragiques d'Hyppolite et Isabelle. English	Meslier, fl. 1610.; Hart, Alexander, fl. 1640, attributed name.	1628 (1628)	STC 13516; ESTC S118793	47,048	162

THE True History of the Tragicke loves of HIPOLITO and ISABELLA Neapolitans Englished London Printed by Tho Harper and Nath Feild 1628. To the Volume BY sale of all things humane and diuine Since all sorts liue what selles lifes sacred line And with that life the soule puts vnder Presse Me thinkes should render rich Men Midasses Here then th' Immortall soule is sold with life Of two by Loue made one in Man and Wife Loue breedes Opinion and Opinion Loue In whose Orbs all the liberall Sciences mooue All which contracted in one Tragedy Sell great Octauius and Augustus be In all worth for thy sale commoditie G. C. THE TRVE HISTORY of the tragicke loues of Hipolito and Isabella Neapolitans AMongst all the accidents that vsually draw men into the greatest admiration astonishment there are none so strange or prodigious as those which Loue produceth A passion or rather fury so violent as that ouerthrowing the reason and vnderstanding of those it seazeth it leaues them no consideration of the euent of what it makes them vndertake And although the examples of the warres euersions of Kingdomes and estates with the errors it hath caused the wisest men to commit and the ruines into which it hath precipitated the greatest Personages be so ordinary as no man can be ignorant of them yet wee finde scarce one that will make the right vse of them neuerthelesse they ought to be knowne to the end that some more happy than the rest may by the representation of others miseries be diuerted from falling into the like Amongst the chiefest where this passion hath displaied her tragicall effects This of which I now vndertake to write deserues a remarkable place Italy hath beene in all times a region fertile in high and noble spirits and capable of the greatest and fullest fruits of vertue or vice and also the most amorous and subiect to loue of all other Nations which hath beene the occasion that the men finding this inclination so common and naturall to them haue ordained the lawes for the liues of women so strict seuere in their restraint to which they subiect them as not assured of their chastities without the interdiction of the sight and frequentation of men excepting onely the conuersation of their neere allies Now amongst all the Townes of Italy where vertues and faire exercises are in greatest recommendation and where is commonly the best and noblest company Naples is one of the chiefe and where there is a greater liberty then in other Cities of the Countrey In this Citie there liued a Gentleman Fabritio by name who as well for the much desert of his vertues as for the noblenes of his descēt held the place of one of the most honoured Magistrates of the Citie In which charge he so wel demeaned himselfe and got himselfe so good a reputation as hauing buried one Wife hee married a second of birth and meanes much aboue his owne for though both Nature and Fortune had yeelded him enough yet they both had more aduantaged her than him This Woman by name Liuia had to her first Husband a Lord of the best bloud of the Countrey who left her two children the eldest named Pompeio the other Cornelio Fabritio had by his first Wife amongst other children a daughter named Isabella the which besides an excellent beauty with which she was adorned was endowed with so great an vnderstanding as she seemed not onely to surpasse those of her age which was then about fifteene or sixteene yeares but to leaue short of her all those that euer nature had produced excellent of her sex in such sort as shee was esteemed and admired of all as the wonder of her time And that which yeelded her more luster was a certaine braue and proud fashion but suted with a sweetnesse agreeable to her age and condition that made her loued and feared both at once Those whom Nature hath giuen to taste the sweetnesse of a fatherly loue may imagine what pleasure and contentment Signiour Fabritio receiued in being father of many hopefull children especially of so rare a treasure as this daughter being withall fauoured with so great an increase of fortunes and conuenience by this second marriage to breed more highly aduance his children and chiefly his Isabella for whom he his wife Liuia had designed a marriage with Pompeio her eldest Son by her first Husband who of her part also was most glad to haue so happily found for her selfe so good a Daughter her Son so faire a Wife breeding her more carefully then if she had been her naturall childe The good and commendable proiect of this marriage being agreed on by these Parents and whereon they built the principall happinesse of their house and family brought them much more ruine then it had promised them contentment being the ordinary pleasure of fortune to build vpon the foundation of our designes euents most contrary to our hopes This Maid to whom the greatnesse of her wit with her knowledge of Letters did aduance the discourse of her soule to the iudging of things farre aboue her sex or what her age might seeme to beare did make her also disdaine that which she thought vnworthy of her faire parts bestowing her time more on priuacy than conuersation partly in studie partly in Musicke sometime marrying with her Instrument her voyce which she had perfectly sweet sometime vsing her Needle in working some rare storie or curious Hieroglifique that euery thing might be a witnesse of the well-spending of her time Being arriued at the seauenteenth yeare of her age she had notice giuen her by her father of her appointed husband with much discourse of the sence she ought to haue of so good a fortune To which she made such answer as a Father may expect from such a daughter who besought him onely to leaue yet awhile some liberty to her youth and time to frame her selfe to the obedience of a Husband Liuia being discreet and wise and knowing many imperfections in her Sonne had left him to abide euer since her marriage in a Countrey house of hers some eight or ten miles from Naples where she kept discreet and well-fashioned people about him to the end to correct and some way amend the ill habits of his minde and body for certainly he was borne vnpleasing to the eye and very vncapable of any thing gentle or vertuous but as it is vnpossible to ouercome so great an enemy as Nature which though you beat from you yet will returne againe so proued the care of his Mother and the paine of those about him most vnprofitable to this young man who hauing attained to the age of twenty two yeares was then aduertised by his Mother of her intention for his mariage of which the beauty of this faire Maid made him so greedily desirous that after his first fight of her he had no disposition to be from his Mistresse who then began to looke better vpon him then she

that might happen you marriage often bringing conuenience to loue Next you loue one that you cannot marry Well and hath loue no other ends for his contentment then marriage since it as often disseuers affections as it ioynes them while being subiected to the lawes of an obligation and dutie you disarme him of his chiefest forces A wife though neuer so faire is like a guest or the raine that becomes a trouble in three dayes But you will say I loue one whom the lawes doe forbid me both all desire and all hope to enioy which so distracts me in this thornie way as I am there ruined with the impossibilitie of getting out You are not the first that haue vndertaken things as much forbidden which haue yet attained to a happie end Thinke vertue consists in great and difficult things and is pleased in a resistance and the more paine and difficultie there is in an affaire the more glorie followes the enterprize and pleasure the excution the attempt may content you whether you gather the desired fruits of your paines or fall vnder an impossible enterprize and where your fortune failes you not your courage In summe you stand not in ill ●earmes I find in these Letters ground enough to build hope enough on leaue the gouernment of this businesse to me it may be I shall giue you a better account then you expect of it Be you of good cheere goe see your Mistresse and procure her repaire hither vpon our Ladies day to heare the Vespers and faile not to be here your selfe All these faire promises of the Nunne wrought little in her Brothers beleefe onely they so farre restored him to himselfe as that commending his loue to her care with more affection then he would haue done his life he returned to his Brother the Notaries house till the next day after dinner when hee went to see Fabritio and vnder that pretence his Daughter Isabella where he receiued the gladdest welcome from Brother Sister Neece and Signiour Pompeio that might be That afternoone past in the discourse of his sicknesse and how much euery one suffered for him Euening being come hee returned home deferring the speech with his Neece till next day which was our Ladies Eue when he was to dine with his Brother Fabritio and Pompeio should be gone home He then intreated her to go the next day to the Nuns to Vespers if she could get leaue which she easily obtained her Mother in law being sicke and accompanied with an old Gentlewoman her neighbour She carried with her onely her Maid Iulia in whom she wholly affi●d This commoditie gaue Hipolito a presage of his good fortune and her the first danger of her ruine whereof she had some apprehension at her departure for getting vp into the Coach a weaknesse seized her with a head-ache and a cold sweat all ouer her bodie and hauing been a while in the Coach the Horses that vsed before times to be quiet enough began to start and rush one vpon the other with such force and confusion as droue the Coachman into danger of his life who had much a doe to bring them into order againe These accidents not a little affrighted the vnderstanding of the vnfortunate Ladie but the force of our destinie violently driues vs to what is fatally ordained to vs so these things could nothing hinder her from the persuit of her misfortunes in spight of all the contradictions of either her feare or reason Being arriued at the Nunnerie shee found her Vncle and her Aunt walking together in a Garden there attending her comming who assoone as they had perceiued her and seeing her paler then she vsed to be her Aunt said to her Certainly Neece you haue not brought your best lookes hither me thinks you are afraid of shaming my Brother and therefore will partake with his sickly lookes Then Isabella told them what had happened her in her comming and occasioned that feare which perhaps her lookes had still retained Well then said the Nunne since ye are both of you ill at ease my counsaile is that ye repose your selues and dispence with to daies deuotion Iulia and I will go heare the Vespers for you No good Aunt said Isabella I came not here to see your Garden I will go heare seruice with you and I thinke my Vncle is here for the same purpose too God will be no lesse pleased answered the Nunne with your wills and perhaps more then if ye did what might preiudice your healths The Diuines say that although in the affirmatiue precepts of pietie one be not alwaies busied in the action affirmatiue yet that the sight alone sufficeth in precepts negatiue the troth is we must be conuersant and bent to the action negatiue Stay here stay I will take your sinne vpon me and with that went away carrying Iulia along with her Well Neece said Hipolito let vs stay then since it is my Sisters counsaile and taking her by the hand led her to sit vnder a hanging roofe couered with Gelsomines and Musk-Roses and gan to speake to her in this sort If euer man had reason to praise Heauen it must be I for the happinesse I now receiue in this meanes offered me to returne you my due humble thankes for the honour of your Letters in my sicknesse and to vnfold the thoughts of my soule to you to the end that comprehending them better then heretofore you haue suffered your selfe to do you will daine to receiue my griefes and relieue them I beseech you then take my words in that good part that my affection deserues and with such pitie of my afflictions as your goodnesse ought to moue you to I will not importune you with the repetition of any my former discourses you may haue remembred enough to found your determination vpon and to know the bounds of mine intentions so limitted as that I nor pretend nor desire ought of you that is not in all honestie and honour permitted nor more then a preheminence of affection such as loue may stablish in a heart that is to giue the fruits to others for whom they are by the superstition of our lawes and their fauourable destinies more happily reserued All I desire is that as all my thoughts are dedicated and vowed to the seruice honour and loue of the heauenly vertues of your soule and all my wishes but to be acceptable to you yours may so farre answer them as to set all other friendship and affections behinde mine so farre distinguish my portion in you from other mens as not to receiue them in comparison or equalitie with me Pay me no more then for Gods sake with the loue of a Neece which may be common to many more and iudging aright of my deuotions receiue them since they tend not to your preiudice nor to any thing vnlawfull or interdicted I had thought Vncle answered Isabella I had so satisfied you by my Letters as you had remained as well content as you haue