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A78507	The troublesome and hard adventures in love. Lively setting forth, the feavers, the dangers, and the jealousies of lovers; and the labyrinths and wildernesses of fears and hopes through which they dayly passe. Illustrated by many admirable patterns of heroical resolutions in some persons of chivalry and honour; and by the examples of incomparable perfections in some ladies. A work very delightfull and acceptable to all. Written in Spanish, by that excellent and famous gentleman, Michael Cervantes; and exactly translated into English, by R. C. Gent.	Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616, attributed name.	1651 (1651)	Wing C1781; Thomason E647_1; ESTC R3681	201,675	280

such diligence that all men marked that they were not carelesse but painful and industrious Yea they won such favour and commendation in every mans eye as their beauty was not onely praised in the Country but also spoken of in Cities farre from them And yet was their submisse modesty such that although their praise dayly increased yet they nothing puffed up with pride humbled themselves and scorned not to kéep company with the basest swain in all the Country Every day they went forth with their flocks to the field defending their faces from the heat of the Sun with no other scarf or vale then a garland made of sundry kinds of flowers that attire becomming them so bravely that they seemed to be daughters unto the Goddesse Flora for their exquisite beauty marching with their shéep through the pleasant Downs and green fields more like to some heavenly Nymphs then mortall women If it chanced there were a meeting of all the Farmers daughters then were they I mean Euphilia and Perina bid thither as the mistresses and chiefest of the feast Perierio their brother likewise missed no feast nor game being invited by the richest and chiefest farmers sons whereof many became sutors unto his sisters and many of their sisters enamoured of his beautifull and comely disposition wished themselves married unto him But he delighting more in tuning his pastorall Harp rejoyced his companions with a round or twain whilest that others courted their mistresses not so much because hee would not debase himself to love a shepheardesse as for that he shunned so Lordly a Master as Cupid estéeming his liberty and freedome from fancy the onely cause of all his joy and pleasure But fortune who thitherto had favoured both Perierio and his sisters began to withdraw her lovely looks from them and in lieu of a smiling countenance intended to shew them a lowring face and frowning forehead For not long after it chanced upon a pleasant morning betimes before Phoebus golden lines had gréeted the Southern plains that Perierio haunting his accustomed hunt in a passing pleasant wood not far from the place where his sisters fed their flocks having left his shéep unto their kéeping as he was wont to do espied a brave damosell her beauty being comparable to the colour that Venus face is dyed withall sitting on a hillock and resting her head on her hand At the sight whereof Perierio greatly amazed retired behind a bush where he not séen might perfectly both sée her and hear what she said for he marked by her countenance that she was in a melancholy mood and vexed with extraordinary grief Her words were these being expressed with a lamentable voice moving the very trées and bushes to yéeld tears Ah Fortune as often as Phoebus appeareth in the woods as often as he riseth in his Eastern glory and as often as his penetrating rayes warn me to leave my restlesse rest and harnesse my self to my endlesse toil and never ceasing labour so often thou doest renue my grief and multiply my sorrows What Fortune hast thou made all other women so happy through my mishap that to make me an instance of the miserablest wight that liveth thou hast delivered all others from their miseries to throw them all on me O most injust doom O most cruell Goddesse Though by reason of the excéeding injustice thou deservest to be crossed out of the catalogue of divine powers And therewith she rose from the hillock and looking round about which way she might take she espied Perierio behind the bush coming towards her which she marking staied unill he came near her and saluting him with a most gratious countenance said Shepheard for so much thy apparell betokeneth though thy beauty be such as maketh me to mistrust if and think that thou art but a counterfeit shepheard pardon me if I be too bold in demanding thy name and country which if it may please thee to tell me thou shalt bind me to owe thee a good turn Perierio whose heart was pierced with Cupids shaft and on suddain made captive to that Lord whose service he so shunned so gazed on this Lady for she was no lesse as you shall hereafter learn in whose beauty all his desire rested that he could scarce speak one word at last plucking up his spirits answered Madam for your exquisite perfections and stately countenance deserves no lesse where no offence is committed pardon is craved but in vain I am an Italian born called Perierio the happiest man that ever was named if occasion were presented wherein I might do any service acceptable vnto you Madam I thank thée Perierio replied the young Lady for this thy undeserved curtesie and seeing I am not able at this time to make thee any recompence I can but pray the Gods to grant thee thy hearts desire And with that shooting into the midst of the woods she was out of Perierios sight before he thought she was departed For when she heard by his name and Country that he was not the man she doubted of and gathering by his countenance that he was suddenly strook in love of her least he should become troublesome and importunate unto her hasted thence supposing that she being out of sight should also be out of the shepheards mind and that by ●eason of her absence he should recover his liberty and freedome which her presence had caused him to loose But alasse where she thought by her departure to ease his grief contrarily she increased his passions For he séeing that the sum of his conceived pleasures were fled and she missing in whose golden locks his soul was intangled began to cry out with a loud and pittyfull voyce My soul my soul whither art thou fled Why hast thou left my body séeing that thou being separated from me I may not live Ah poor Perierio wretched Perierio Die die miserable Perierio Ah cruell Gods that have alotted me a life worse than death and a body without soul Ah discurteous Lady and is this the gratefulnesse you wished to shew me as a due recompence for my readinesse in doing you pleasure Is this the thankfulnesse you talked of Is this the good turn you should owe me To steal away my heart and carry my soul with thee imprisoned in the snares of thy alluring looks leaving my body breathlesse and so giving me sufficient occasion to accuse them both of theft and murther considering that thou hast robbed me of my soul and thereby deprived me of life For now have I no life of mine own but live onely in thée Ah unhappy man that live and know not where I live for I live in that body which is in place as far unknown unto me as that body ●t self So that I live in a body I know not what which unknown body is in a place I know not where Forgive me Cupid divine power and mighty God I confesse to have offended in contemning and neglecting thy puissance Which my contempt thou hast punished

body whereas you say that the Gods strive against fortune to free us from her frowardnesse I am constrained to say no lesse seeing that it hath pleased their Deity by him to lose me from this danger of death by reason of whom though not by his procurement all my troubles and miseries took beginning Wherefore seeing that our luck is such that as the evil successe of your fortune was cause of my misery so the recovery of your hap hath bred my blisse and delivered me frem the extream perill wherein my life was placed What may I say lesse but that the Gods knowing how we have by fortune been wronged have rescued us from her fury But because it would be too long for me to rehearse and tedious for you to hear the end of his speech and the other talk which we had between us concerning such matters as had happened by reason of our great likenesse I will onely tel you that after we had had some conference touching our parents and other matters we caused those Egyptian villains to be tied to the horse tails and so trailed along the ground till we came to Naples where the hangman saved his labour seeing that no person thought he had done his duty unlesse he had helped to pull and tear the flesh of some part of those Egyptian wretches that had caused such confusion and wrought so much harm had not the foresight of the mercifull Gods hindered their intent Insomuch that within two hours after these Egyptian slaves had entered the gates of the City they were by the people halled and pulled into a thousand pieces I will not here make long rehearsall how honourably my brother was used by the King but it shall be sufficient if I declare how that the King after he had welcommed my brother in all courteous manner with a pleasant countenance as wel bewraying grace and mildnesse as Majesty and glory remembring his promise made unto me in word did perform no lesse indeed and Knighted us both together the same day Now most excellent Princes and worthy shepheards did we think that we had so troden fortune under foot that she was not able ever to rise again or impair us any more Now lived we as two brothers in all kind of prosperity and so high hoised to the top of blisse that we little thought that any power had béen able to cast us down and deprive us of our present felicity But alack we found the contrary by triall and were compelled to acknowledge our error by experience Better had it béen for us with the carefull and waxy Mariner to consider that an extraordinary calm is token of some future tempest to come on the sudden for then as he at such times striketh his sails and shunning the dangerous seas commendeth his bark to the secure haven so we foreséeing the danger unto which we were subject in our great prosperity might have escaped the events which brought our adversity But séeing things past may be deplored not recalled and repented not amended I must needs say that we bought had I wist at a dear price as you shall understand by the sequell of this history But seeing I have not yet mentioned any thing concerning my father and the Captain my brothers father since that they fled from C●nqueni at the time that we were brought from thence to Naples I mean first to let you know what luck they had in their flight before I go any further in declaring the success we had so securely triumphing in the Court after we were delivered from so much misfortune and evill hap as for a time we suffered onely by the malice of those Egyptian villains which were suborned by fortune to shake the foundation of our felicity When Cinqueni the place whence we were brought to Naples was by the souldiers sent by the King to execute his wrath on the inhabitants thereof pilled and spoiled Coreandro my father thinking that I was dead for he had heard that none in all the village were left alive neither men womē nor children and he did not know that I was saved by a Captain and led unto Naples thought to return home again to his countrey and there live among his friends seeing hee had no other comfort in the world being by fortunes pestilent hatred bereft not of goods onely but of wife and child also Insomuch that he having resolved to return home to the place of his birth took his way from the said village along the coasts of Italy towards Aragon where after he had marched one day the next morning rising betimes to take the advantage of cool Aurora before Phoebhs rayes compelled the travellers to seek for shadow amidst their journey he passed through a little short wood where he heard the other Coreandro the good captain my brothers father lament and bewail his hard fortune in this manner Ah Fortune men paint thée standing upon a Globe as thereby decyphering thy inconstancy which their opinion made me always deceive my self with vain hope trusting that thou wouldest once turn thy frowardnesse into lovingness and thy frowns into favors But I perceive thou hast made choice of me by experience of mine own miseries and adversity to oppose my self against al men in thy defence séeing that where as they all generally hold opinion that thou art the very essence of inconstancy and mutability each one particularly exclaiming upon thee and blaming thee for thy fléeting unstablenesse I in contrary manner am forced and compelled to affirm against them all that thou art not inconstant or unstable but rather too much constant persisting and stiff in thy purpose hard to be moved stiffe-necked continuing to the end tough and hard to be overcome All which may be manifestly proved by the course of my life by the adventures that by thy appointment have chanced and happened unto me which all of them have béen so unhappy so infortunate and so unluckie that it were a hard matter to judge which of them deserveth the superiority in name and title of infelicity In all which my abversities thou hast so constantly remained in thy envious and malicious frowardnesse that in this my latter mishap thou hast not any whit deflected or turned aside from that cruelty which thou didest use against me in all my other misfortunes What shall I then say shall I call thee constant because I am forced to say that thou art inconstant or mutable No no constancy is too laudable a vertue to be attributed to such a spightfull and hard-necked Goddesse Thou art not constant because not inconstant for the extremity which corrupteth the vertue is as contrary to vertue as vertue to vice Insomuch that I cannot attribute unto thée the name of constant unlesse it be in envy spight and cruelty for so thou art ever in hatred rancor malice doest thou cōtinue alwaies Thy delight is to see others grieved thy sport to sée others spurnod with the kick of adversity

stand upon it any longer but let you know how that my father having had some fore-intelligence of the Kings intent as many more of our neighbours did among whom I place the Captain my mothers second husband and therefore thought best to flie unto some other place yet the Kings command being something hastily put in execution it hapned that my father with all the rest were so suddenly assaulted in the night time the they were compelled to leap out of their beds in their shirts and take their flight leaving all they had behind them so that neither my father had leasure to take me with him nor the Captain to save his Philorenus yet was our luck such that though no child escaped untimely death yet we the one not knowing the other found mercy at the souldiers hands that were sent to execute the Kings pleasure For they taking pity on us thought it was then a sacriledge to kill us that were so young and by the disposition of our bodies séemed likely to prove comely men In so much that we were both of us priviledged from death and carried to the City of Naples I by a certain Captain whose hap it was to light on me the other Philorenus by a Sergeant who séeing his father fled ran towards him to bath his sword in the poor innocent child his bloud for spight that his father had by flight escaped his fury coming near him hearing him cry his choller turned into affection and he so loved the child being about thrée years and a half old the he having neither wife nor child intended to carry him to Naples bring him up as his own son Thus we lived in Naples seven years yet had no knowledg one of the other CHAP. XXVI How Philorenus the elder was brought to the Court by the King of Naples who sent him Ambassador to the King of Persia I Shall intreat you most excellent Princesse and ye worthy Gentlemen and shepheards to mark by the way that as we were both alike in name so wee were in like manner so like one the other in favour in plight of the body in colour of hair and in voice that it was impossible for any one by the judgement of the eye to discern the one of us from the other when I had attained the eighteenth year of my age and the other Philorenus to the fifteenth year of his age at which time hee was fully as tall as I and in growth reached to the full proyortion of length and thicknesse that I was of The reason where of was that we both attained to our full bignesse at fourteene yeares of our age in so much that when he reached to fourteen years he was fully in bignesse equal to me This therefore being committed to memory you shall know that after I had dwelled three years in Naples with the Captain who had brought me thither it happened that the same Captain marrying the daughter of a certain Knight of great account celebrated the feast of his Wedding in very solemn manner For not onely the chiefest Noble men of the country were invited thereto but the King himself also who disdained not in proper person to honour my Masters Wedding day The ceremonies of the marriage being finished according to custome in memory of Hymenaeus there was a most sumptuous banquet made ready for the King and those Nobles that were ministred And it came to passe that the King casting his eye upon me who among other my fellows served my masters guests at that feast liked me so well that he asked the Captain whether I was of his affinity or kindred The Captain said that I was no kin unto him but that he esteemed of me as of his son in that a father can but give life to his son as hee had done to me shewing to the King where he had me and how he brought me from the village Cinqueni The King glad that he had saved such a proper lad from so unhappy and peremptory death prayed my master to resign over the title he had to me unto him promising that it should be both for his profit and my welfare To make few words of a Captains boy I became a Kings Page and that day taking leave of my old master I went to the Court where I so served the King that I could not but please him insomuch that his Majesty loved me as dearly as if I had béen some Noble personage suffering me to want nothing allotting me no worse company then his own son being about the same age that I was of who affected me as if I had béen his natural brother Thus I lived in this happie estate about two years till Fortune remembring that she had brought me to the top of her wheel began to threatem my haplesse dawnfall from all felicity into the depth and profundity of adversity wishing me no better luck then my parents had had in their time though she had at the first gladded me with such good hap thereby to make me the more impatient to suffer her crosse and malicious entreatments in time to come For it is a thing most certain that among all men that are oppressed with adversity none can so ill away with their mishap as they that before lived in great prosperity But lest I digresse from the matter know that the King having had intelligence by certaine Merchants out of Persia that the King of Persia mustered his men through all his dominions intending to make a voyage into Spain and to bring a mighty Army to invade the country of Spain because the Kings of Castile Aragon and Portugal had refused to give their daughters in marriage to his son fearing lest if Spain were invaded Italy should become subject and considering that he had entered into league with the King of Persia and divers times joyned with him against other Kingdomes but loth in this expedition so likely to turn to his wrack to become a helper or confederate purposed to send me into Persia unto the King to procure a peace between him and the aforesaid Kings of Castile Aragon and Portugal I though I thought my self altogether unfit to be imployed in such honorable kind of service and matters of such importance yet seeing it was his Majesties pleasure as I thought it no manners to seem unwilling so I prepared wy self to put his Majesties pleasure in practise and to provide all things necessary for such a journey Therefore knowing the Kings pleasure and the effect and sum of my message I took my leave of his Majesty and the Queen and in like manner of his son Hyppolito who was so sorry for my departure that he could scarce bid me farewel so dispatched my selfe from the Court being accompanied with nine men What successe I had since my departure from Naples you shall hear afterwards CHAP. XXVII How the younger Philorenus being taken for the elder was imprisoned by the King of Naples

upon the expiring of thrée moneths on a certain morning betime that I rising somthing early walked abroad in the fields without the City to a little wsod not far off to recreate my self with a solitary walk being as it were wearied with the turbulent multitude of people both Citizens and Courtiers Which wood when I had but even entred me thought I heard one sorely lamenting his estate and by the voice knowing that it was my brothers I listened very attentively to know the cause of his complaints whom I heard thus to cry out against fickle fortune Yea Fortune yea Thou art Mistress and wilt be Mistress Philorenus must testifie the same and register in the bottome of his heart that he was born to be crossed by Fortune I thought that the Gods had forbidden thee to vex me any more but I perceive thou wilt do what thou wilt though heaven deny But accursed mayest thou be of heaven earth and hell for so denying mortal wights that thou séemest to have no Deity but such as is procured by the glory which thou takest in making men miserable Yet why do I so blame Fortune séeing that if another man were in my case he would think himself infinitely beholding to her in causing all things to fall out so agreeing to his humour For thou lovest Aureola how much thou knowest then séeing thou hast had sufficient token of her love towards thee and considering that he that loveth desireth nothing so much as mutualsy to be loved of her whom he doth love how canst thou complain of Fortune Again when your mind was such that you wished her to be wholly your brothers and desired that she should be his wife you sée al things happen to your pleasure considering that Aureola hath promised to marry her self to him and yet you will will exclaim against Fortune all this is true But the Hag doth let all things fall out according to my mind knowing that in doing so she doth most torment me For she hath made my life so miserable that no content can be harboured in my disquiet breast being the very habitacle of restless thoughts And in this thing is the means which she useth in vexing me contrary to all other mishaps and evils in that she vexeth me with effecting those things the effect of which I most wish for and desire Which thing how strāge it is I leave to the consideration of those that have the use of their wits séeing by fortunes envie I am my self deprived of that benefit Alack what shall then poor Philorenus do seeing he is so entangled in the love of Aureola that he must either die or injoy her as his own and yet so loveth his brother who cannot in like manner live if separated from the same Aureola th●t he will die a thousand deaths rather then be disloyal to him Die therefore Philorenus die and seeing there ore not as wel two Aureolas as there be two Philorenus's make thy self lifeless and thy brother happy he being one Philorenus alone and enjoying one onely Aureola And put case thou wert dead Philorenus and dead for no other purpose but to make thy brother happy in the highest degrée oh how swéet a death would such a death be unto thée But yet thou mightest be deceived for thou knowest nay so knowest that thou canst not doubt but that that life will be but a bitter life unto him thou being without life and so thou mightst by thy death procure to him either a bitter death or a life worse then any death What then resteth thrice miserable wretch if that thou canst neither live to thy mind nor die to thy mind Die living and live dying and yeeld thy heart to receive each print of grief that thou mayest always die being torn with tormenting pain and yet never be dead least thy plague rebound from thée to thy brother and therefore I bid thée farewel Aureola farewel my brother must enjoy thee and I must suffer you both After that he had so shut up his complaint as if he had signed it with the seal of death he fell down on the ground being unable to stand on his feet any longer there he lay strugling as if soul and body would have parted so strong and vehement was the pang that pinched him Insomuch that although I was loath to shew my self vnto him there lest he should know that I had heard and seen him yet compassion becomming master amongst my affections for that he needed help in that case forced me to runne happily to him to aid him But he no sooner espied me but leaped up again so suddenly that if I had not both seen and heard his former scrikes and cries I would have surely been perswaded that he did but shew me a tumbling trick and that he had been exercising his body to some acts of nimblenesse And besides also before I could salute him by reason that I so marvelled at the strangenesse of his change he spake unto me so chearfully that I could scarce answer him for admiring at the force which his love towards me had suddenly procured him His legs were scarce able to hold his body and seeing me his heart commanded them to support him his eys which were so hiddē with the tears which he shed that no man could have séen them as soon as they beheld me séemed to have recalled the flouds that came out of them and to have in a moment swallowed them up and his face which did as it were swim in tears seemed to drink up the moisture at my comming as the morning dew vanisheth in the presence of Phoebus when he sendeth his golden beams from his fiery chariot to cherish the pleasant fruits of the earth after they have wept by reason of the dark coldnesse of the mirthlesse night Wherefore I séeing that my brotherly brother was so loth to make me acquainted with his passions onely because he would not give me occasion of grief but kept it all to himself I dissembled as much as I could lest I should by letting him know what I knew quite discomfort him and truly make him comfortlesse And although by reason of that which I knew of him pity caused such grief in me for his discomfort and passionate torment that I think if he had not been in place I had sunk to the ground for a stronger foundation to hold up my distracted body oppressed and weighed down by the heavinesse of passing sorrow then my legs which séemed to shake like the pillors of a Church that is falling yet neverthelesse for that time I plucked up my spirits and though not so wel able as he yet as wel as I could I dissembled my passion and answered him as chearfully as possibly I might entertaining him with such talk as I thought most expedient to cause him not to misdoubt of any thing Insomuch that he neither thought that I had heard him nor knew that I felt the pain which he

reach to the one or by falling come to the other So that his mind being thus suspended he perpended the reasons for both parts which were most forcible to perswade him to the one or the other yet in such order that neglecting fully his own case as one altogether careless of his own welfare he referred all matters to the effecting of that which seemed most expedient and necessary to make me happy and to work my felicity Insomuch that he began to consider that if chance he should have left Aureola and commit himself to the laboursome seeking and uncertain finding of me the loving Gentlewoman might have taken the absence of us both so heavily that she might have thereby fallen into some desperate sickness and perchance remediless Well quoth he put the case should die were it not better that she should die then that I should suffer my brother to live in despair to run round about the world to carry hell with him wheresoever he goeth having his affections like furies and fiends teaxing rending his brotherlike heart to irrisate the barren ground with millions of tears to disturb the guiltless air with lamentable shrieks cries accompanied with sighs and sobs and in a word to be always dying and yet never die Death is the lock that shutteth up misery and endeth all calamity and trouble If Aureola then die O happy she but unhappy I Nay my swéet brother thrice unhappy thou For no doubt if Aureola should die the pain which thou wouldest sustain the grief which would molest thy soul and the torment which would ravish thee in the very gulph of all vexation would so far in extremity pass the anguish wherein thou now doest pine that it would be greater then the pain which causeth the soul to depart from the body Why then I will rather remain by Aureola and so both save her life thine and mine own though scarce mine own seeing that I shall scarce be able to live he being absent And what will he think nay what will all the world say but that I forsooth for love of my brother entertain his love and that I so love him that to shew my love towards him I must needs love his Lady and so defraud him of that wherein his chiefest felicity consisteth the jewel of his heart the treasure of his desires the object of his delight the subject of his conceits the hold of his hope the onely and chief pillar of his life and cause of his being swéet Aureola worthy to be all this unto him he deserving to be as much unto her none of them both owing less one to the other As he was thus quite turning from that mind to the other and resolving to leave all to follow me the beams of Aureolaes beauty reverberating the window wherein he lay musing what he might best do warned him that that Sun was in the garden whose light was able to strive with the Rays of Phoebus for force séeing that his beams may well shine upon men not in them whereas the bright lines that glister from the golden forehead of Aureola did penetrate mens bodies and shine not upon them onely but also within them and through them He therefore espying Aureola walking in the garden alone wept that he saw not me with her saying O sacred powers of heaven séeing that your Deities have been divinely worshipped by me since my Cradle why hate ye poor Philorenus your Servant so that the sight which ought to be unto his eys as gold to the covetous man is unto him as poyson to them that wish to live long Not for that I take any disgrace by the gracious presence of Aureola but that my joy is eclipsed when I behold her without him by her who seemed born to be inseparably joyned with her as white unto snow cold to ice and to use a more familiar comparison as beauty to Aureola Having so said as carried away with a sudden strong gale of wind he hasted to the garden and having passed the courtesies used in salutation and gréeting being asked for me for she knew him by reason of a secret token which we had given to her onely to discern him from me and me from him he up and told her all the matter concerning my sudden departure yet so colouring the cause thereof that she thought that I was gone because I despaired that she should love him better then me For he thought that so she might be moved to pity and by pity to sharpen her affection which should have encreased her love towards me Whereas if he had let her know the true cause of my absence that I was gone to leave her to be his she might have been moved to disdain me which disdain should have nourished the fire which was kindled in his brest by the affection which she bore him and so might she have allured him to to leave me in my pilgrimage and enjoy her to displease whom he did count it a sacriledge But she construing of the matter as my most carefull brother and his brotherlike carefulness enformed and being subject to that custome which by nature is an unseparable companion to the desires of all women I mean to wish and covet that which seems most impossible and to long for such things as cannot be gotten or very hardly had now she heard that I was gone no man knew where whereas before her love inclined rather to my brother then to me she was so ravished with desire to be with me that she presently concluded to her self in heart to take the pains to seek me and although she did conceal the same unto him and dissembled the passion which she felt by reason of my absence by words whilest he was by her yet by deed she sufficiently afterwards shewed it unto all the world For after shee was separated from him by the hastiness of her resolution to execute that which she had purposed she went to her chamber where after she had made her handkerchief drunk with sipping up and drinking in the tears which abundantly issued from out her eys most fertilly yielding fruit of the séeds of sorrow sown in them and having astonished the stones and walls with the admirable shrieks and moved the lifeless pictures that hung in her chamber to pity she impoverished her rich apparel by laying it off and enriched her sisters Cooks wives poor cloaths putting them on her ivory body and so making provision of nothing but a knife to conquer Fortunes envy if chance she would go about to make her miserable in the highest degrée by prolonging her life when as she could not live but discontented she committed her self to her journey and her journy to the Gods calling upon their Deities to be directed in her way O ye sacred powers called she that in heaven take care of us poor mortals who wholly depend upon your favour or disfavor if ever my vows have béen acceptable unto you and my offerings

account it gain Life hates my hap shall I it call my blisse I loth to live but more the life I live Sweet death unto my joys beginning give Yet death you make no hast to pity me Whil'st life the tyrant still his part doth play And makes me grieve and grieve to call for thee But I will make you both learn to obey Know I your Mistresse am who with one blow Can teach you both your duties quickly know This is is the wand that beateth life away This is the wink to which death comes in hast This is the cast that maketh double play This bringeth sweetnesse wrapt in bitter tast How sweet must Death needs be since Life is sow'r For contraries be of contrary pow'r My Brother knowing her by her voice and hearing her desperate resolution would not stay the end of her tragical Sonnet fearing lest it might have brought unto his eys too tragical a spectacle but stepping out of the bush behind her as she was proceeding forward beginning the next verse thus Death therefore now I call and Death must come I will not live more therefore needs must die Why die I will die Which my brother thus interrupted Nay rather sweet Aureola let Philorenus die to redeem thee from death She incontinently looking back and thinking that it was I for that she knew not certainly whether my brother had followed from Naples to seek either of us fixed her so stedfastly in his face that her soul seemed to issue out of her body through them to joyn it self unto him For she sunk down and the knife fel out of her weakned hands her lips were knit her tongue tied her eys turned her colour gone her body as if it had been without life at all Which dismal sight so dismaied my brother that unlesse provident Nature had strengthened him where he so much néeded his force he had certainly véen in no better case then Aureola her self But falling down by her he strived to wake her out of that unnatural kind of sléep where with much a doe he felt her crush his hand between her thumb and her other fingers while he pulled her sweet hand to have some token of recovery And at length obtaining the power of her sight again turning her eys towards him she unsealed her fast closed lips and with a sigh breaking the knots wherewith her tongue was knitted she said Ah Philorenus why doest thou not revenge the injury offered thee by her that is cause of thy exile My guilty conscience accuseth me and therefore crave I pardon My brother was so galled with that because he knew that he was the onely cause indeed though sore against his will himself which made me leave the Court yet because he had told her that I was gone because she seemed to love him better then me and perceiving that she now took him for me purposed for her better comfort to hold her in that opinion and therefore framed her this answer Lovely Aureola thou blamest thy self to make me blush who cannot but be ashamed that I have put thee to all this trouble in taking so tedious and dangerous a voyage fraught with so much grief and sorrow and onely for my foolish and rash departure being grounded upon no reason moving me thereto but onely the force of my passions becomming masters over reason brought me to this absurdity and thy self to this extremity wherein I find you in this place whither no doubt the Gods pittying your case and hearing your vows sent me to stay so pittifull and tragicall event as otherwise had happened For the Gods themselves with tears of bloud would have deplored the death of such a heavenly person as is Aureola Why then what would all the world have done what mourning would all mortals have made had they been deprived of that beauty whereof men glory in the East and West and where not Ah sweet Aureola what should miserable Philorenus nay and more then thrice miserable being the cause and author of so great losse have done who would have nay doth yet think that no ●orment neither in hell nor elsewhere would have been sufficiently extream to punish his offence in offering unto thee the world and himself such wrong Whereupon Aureola replied No no my heart thou canst not offer me no wrong unlesse it be in doing thy self injury For I for my part am in thee I am not thine but thy self I am not any more Aureola separable from thee or any other distinct person different unto thee but I am even thine own self And therefore in hurting thy self thou mayest harm me not else But here may we leave them noble Princes and shepheards talking together of their adventures hapned to each in their journey noting this as I have already admonished that Aureola knew not but that she was with me and that it was I that came so happily unto her in her uttermost extremity For my brother to comfort her though so doing he did me displeasure seeing that I rather wished him that happinesse then my self still dissembled not revealing unto her who he was and suffering her to delight her self in that pleasing opinion thinking she injoyed my presence which she then wished for above any other in the world yea and above his own whom she before seemed to love better then me Which her change did so tear his loving and brotherlike-heart that he was pestred with incredible grief and yet gloried in himself that the matter succeeded so well for me wishing for nothing else but that he might find me to give me Aureola and to see us married For he doubted not but he might use such means that if ever he could find me she should not know but that it was he whom they joyntly together sought and not I. For whereas Aureola very earnestly urged him to return to Naples to be married my brother to hinder that purpose spake thus unto her I have been said he by certain shepheards informed that my brother you must consider gentle reader that this is spoken of himself and so to be understood seeing he is now of Aureola taken for me in which opinion he did continue her after he had let you know of my sudden departure and afterwards had heard that thereupon you were gone secretly from Naples to seek me he in like manner taking his leave of the King having of his Majesty license thereto left Naples and pursued his quest after us both Wherefore said he dear Aureola let us first seek my nay our dear beloved brother that we may all three together return to the Court and so have our marriage feast celebrated in full joy no cause of sorrow eclipsing our mirth Which perswasion printed so good a liking in her heart that he obteined the same of her she being ready to go any where so she went as she thought with me Here noble Princes and shepheards seeing the Lady Felicia expected our coming to supper will to morrow or