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A68435	Vienna Where in is storied, ye valorous atchieuements, famous triumphs, constant loue, greate miseries, & finall happines, of the well-deseruing, truly noble and most valiant kt, Sr Paris of Vienna, and ye most admired amiable princess, the faire Vienna.	M. M. (Matthew Mainwaring), 1561-1652.; Pierre, de la Cépède, 15th cent. Paris et Vienne.; Gifford, George, fl. 1640, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 17202; ESTC S111866	129,892	196

native home and the cruell aspect of my sinister Starres hath quite lately slayne all hope of future returne My last request is that I being the last of my Tribe and the first of our declyning Family you would comfort your age with the better hope of my Friends more worthier worthinesse and that you will repute and take him for your Sonne And when Nature shall pay the duty you owe vnto the Earth that then you will inherite him in all such Landes and Goods as Fortune in your fortune and ability shall then leave behind you So shall you yeeld desert his due honour mee and eternize your owne fame The Lord give you patience enrich me with your blessing comfort your gray hayres and redouble with treble happinesse your aged dayes Your haplesse Sonne onely happy in being your Sonne but most unhappy in being himselfe Paris Sir Inques having read the sadde contents of his Sonnes resolved last farewell fainted under the burden of his so unsupportable griefe but revived and comforted by La-nova that was himselfe to be comforted he betooke himselfe unto his carefull bedde where though his attached tongue could pay no tribute to his dumbe sorrow yet did his silent woes shewe his speaking griefe Such was his woe that it was a woe to see his woe In somuch that La-nova swolne with his owne griefe was ready to burst to see his sorrow And therefore having neither temperance to cover the one nor a heart to looke upon the other he returned to his erected Chappell where he pierst the very Heavens for the preservation of his Friend and powred forth his Prayers for his returne This done he held himselfe undone in so inestimable a losse And after a long and sadde meditating with himselfe he fearefully went to acquaint Vienna that all their sorrowes might be compleate at once Her he found all pensive and heavie as one presaging her further mishap and no sooner she saw him but that drawing forth the true portracture of sorrow out of his carefull countenance she hastily yet fearefully demaunded what newes The Heavens Madam sayd La-nova grant you patience and more comfortable newes Vienna agast gastly asked if Paris then were dead Not dead he said and yet departed Departed ah said Vienna how whether or to whom from life to death or from me to a causelesse change If dead why live I then If alive why then dead to me Say say La-nova where lives or lyes my Paris Paris said La-nova lives in his sorrow and dyes in your griefe But where alasse I know not for madde in your affliction he is gone in his fury to dye else-where for his fancie Vienna whose eyes overflowed with teares and whose heart was wounded with his words stood like a second Niobe and then falling suddainlie into a deadly trance she no sooner came to her selfe againe but that againe she lost her selfe But after her full recovery her remembrance then recording how all her nourished woes had begot many crosses that miserably fell upon her like haile-stones that strives to overtake one another she could not refraine but thus bewailed her selfe What fault of mine cruell and unkind hath caused thus thy causelesse flight Is this ah this and woe is me in this the hoped harvest of devoted Love Deserves my endured miseries this ingratefull guerdon O Paris Paris thy love comforted me in my cares but thy losse hath confounded me in my love O that I had never seene thee whom yet I wish to see or seeing thee had never affected thee whom ever I most affect My hap is hard that can neither have nor hope and the fault I finde in my selfe followes me still whiles death doth follow me Ah La-nova what now availes thy doubtfull diligence to thy Friend under the zealous shew of thy simulate sanctitude To what end now intends my pyning imprisonment the due chastisement of my neglected duty Am I now become the onely Daughter of sorrow and the cashiered Childe of disgrace O happie Portia thy dead sad woes are all buried in my long liv'd griefes and Heccubaes teares are all drowned in the sea of my sorrow Why then doe I live longer in dolour since my preordinate life is predestinate to a dolent death I will cruciate my effamished Bodie and satiate the angry Fates with my mortall and tragicall end The end of my woe shall be the woefull end of my life and the life of my laments shall be the wounds of my death And therefore leave me La-nova leave me that at last I may honour the Carthagenian Queene by breathing out my last These last wordes so sore appaled La-nova that iealous of her weaknesse her enfeebled estate being unable to support her oppressing and confounding sorrowes hee much feared least overcome with griefe and passion shee should yeeld to mischiefe her misery To prevent which he buried for the time all his owne griefe in the heedfull care of her safety and closely wiping his bedewed eyes he began Pastor-like to Preach patience Faith Hope and Comfort to her sad dismayed Soule Let not said he I beseech your Excellence any sinister crosse chance or mundaine affaires overthrow or oppresse the lively force of your requisite Faith Nor let any pusalimity weaken the wonted courage of your prudent minde but build your Faith and hope on him who as Roy royall rules and over-rules all chances and accidents that befalles humane Creatures Then embrace not a mischiefe to prevent an ill since God sends good for evill as he made light out of darkenesse Joseph was in prison before he could be Governor of Egypt and the Jsraelites were in bondage before they could come into Canaan You see your soare but not your salue Though with Job you lye now in ashes yet when with Iob you be tryed there shall be no more sorrowes left to afflict you then there were sores left to torment him For as the power of God is above our capacities So doth his succours and comforts come quite contrarie to our hopes To him therefore referre all things and in him onely repose your selfe and be you assured that in the assurance of your better trust you shall finde comfort unexpected and hope well rewarded Crosses your Grace knowes are but-touch stones to try our patience and patience is both a vertue and the true Physitian of distresse And in managing of affection and affliction is the true proofe of discretion To overcome an other is the guift of Fortune but to vanquish our owne willes is the true proofe of wife courage and a glory proper to our selves I confesse said Vienna that Patience is a Vertue but a poore one and that Hope is a heavenly thing but long hopes consume patience and water a farre off doth never quench fire at hand And when two Winters come together Death may fall before Summer Yet time sayd La-nova heales griefes by killing of cares Nay Time shee replyed is rather a devourer of our expectations then a Chyrurgion to

conceit exasperated his anger and added more fewell to his enflamed fire and in the heate of his irefull indignation hee step'd to her adulterous bed and like a tempestuous storme hee fell upon her giving her stab upon stab saying oft withall Nay thus much more and more And the more hee sayd so the more hee thrust his Semitar not yet dryed with the bloud of the Sarazen into her body This speedy and suddaine execution was Siraps preservation For it tooke away all further knowledge of the cause The Court was now all in combustion and the City hearing that the Sultan was slaine instantly did rise and confusedly did runne to the Pallace bearing all downe before them in such a distract sort that the Turkes Guard was glad to shut the gates against them and to entreate the Sultan to shew himselfe out of the Casement vnto them which so well appeased them that they quietly returned to their houses Then was inquisition made after the knowledge of the Sarazens apparell which was so base that all men wondred not onely that he was there but how he came there His mangled body kept him vnknowne and his meane habite made him no appertenant to the Court. When no notice could be had neither of the one nor of the other the appeased Sultan sent for the Eunuckes that attended his Emperesse and caused two Mutes to strangle them in his sight After he caused all the dead bodies with the two beds and all their apparell to be caried forth of the Citie and to bee burned all together and further gaue in charge that the two Chambers should be conuerted into houses of base vse and that no one vnder paine of death should after speake thereof Now Sirap who during these tempestuous stormes lay at anchor in his owne private harbour as one that knew well that great men euer enuying the glory and fortune of strangers would in this tumults be ready to stab at the bosome of merit and that mischiefe the cursed Captaine alwayes of the vnruly Commons might in a disturbed vprore endanger his safety hearing now that the sight of the Sultan had allayed the windie Allarum of his rumoured death and that the present murther of the Sultanesse with her Mayde and vnknowne Paramour was the occasion of such disorder rising He grew jealous of the cause suspitious of the errour and timorous of his welfare For though guarded with innocencie yet was he fearefull lest Mentiga had cast some scandalizing aspersion vpon his vnspotted honesty In this fearefull doubt he kept himselfe within himselfe vntill report had further manifested not only the manner of all their deathes but the ignorance of the cause This dispierced all cloudes of care and made him a perfect Iudge both of the errour and the event Then lifting vp his erected heart hee said O Vienna thy love I see now hath given me a second life and my constant loyalty hath kept me from the grave Justice hath preserved the guiltlesse and righteousnesse hath found mercy in iudgement Now praised be my God my strong defence For hee hath covered me under the wings of his protection and kept mee from the death of the wicked Hee hath cast downe lightning and burnt up the daughters of Babell that I might be safe in their suddaine destruction The storme is past and these cloudy occurrants threaten another tempest The Sea cannot be so calme in Summer but that it may swell again with the rage of wrathfull Winter There is more wisedome in preventing then in redressing a mischiefe Security lives not in tyranny For though the Tygar hide his clawes yet in the end will hee shew his Rapine Revenge hath now smoothed the Sultans angry browe and Time hath given some peace to his displeasure The Tide serves me and my prophane aboad with the heathen is displeasing to the heavens My Captived Lord cals me away and Vienna sayes I am too slowe my marke is set and I levell straight I will commend my ayme and therewithall casting off all further deliberation he went to the Court to take his leave of Solimon Who seeing him stand upon his departure after some private conference protestations that he would crowne his returne with highest honours advancement he vouchsafed graciously to imbrace him and so bad him farewell The next morning Sirap having before caused all things to be in readinesse the windes summoning him to Sea hee tooke shipping and sayling by the Ilands scituate in part of the Mediteranian Sea he landed at Sidon a Port Towne in Syria and there taking Horse hee poasted through the Country and part of the Desarts of Arabia and so came to Babylon Where we will leave him to looke into France and see how Vienna brookes her continued thraldome which was not so grievous unto her as the tormenting suppose of Sir Paris losse Great was her sorrow in feare of him and many her bemoanings for not hearing from him In so much that La-nova seeing the increase of her growing cares thus sadly spake unto her Madame these ruthlesse walls neither melt with your teares nor yet shake nor shrinke with your sighes Comfort dwels not in restraint nor lives Remedie in Lamentations Though your Father be absent yet hath he left a iealous Keeper You may ever weepe and bewayle your estate and lye still in the bed of sorrow If you never seeke after redresse you shall ever finde your selfe a Prisoner You know the secret way I made to releive you If so you please I will convey you through the same to some private place where Metamorphosed we will eyther hunt in quest after Sir Paris or you shall rest unknowne in some forraigne Nation till eyther my travaile shall gaine knowledge of his aboade or that the death of the Daulphin shall leave you for your right to the tryall of your Friends Then cast off these mortifying dumpes and leave now your sorrow to the Governours as a pawne for your returne and let us stand upon our Fortunes Hope lives in Industry and my Adventures shall ever wayte on your pleasure This kinde offer did moove her much but could not remoove her at all Liberty she said was sweete to that life that might take the pleasures of this life But to a deiected heart whose banisht content could promise no wished delight there a Close-prison was better then a glorious Pallace To travaile she said to my Paris would be more pleasing then painefull to Vienna but not knowing where he is I might perhaps extravagantly goe further from him then Iam that am already further off then I would be Here for his Love was I made a Prisoner and here will I still rest a Prisoner for his Love If he be living and loving here shall I soonest heare from him and if he be neither in Love nor in Life here will I end both my Love and Life Onely take thankes for thy loving care and kinde respect and be still a true Friend to Paris that Vienna

a Prince Why the Daulphin your liege Lord for ought that any knowes liueth and the Princesse his apparant heire is not dead Doth any vsurpe your rights or oppresse you with wrongs Why justice shall giue to euery one his owne and I am heere ready to shed my bloud in your behalfes Or doth the bare suppose of your Soueraignes death thus vntimely moue you to create and inuest a new because Mal-Fiance is returned without his Lord A proiect trust mee that will being forth some notable deceitfull designe If needs he must be dead because none can heare tell that he is aliue Why then should hee not be as well liuing because here no one knowes that hee is dead But admit that our sinnes haue which God forbid depriued vs of him doth it follow that the ambitious Daulphinis or that degenerate Bastard Maligne should succeed him What though Vienna bee a prisoner to her Fathers will and my faith must keepe her still a thrall to his severity yet the Father dying the daughters bonds are broken I discharged and you tyed to enthronize her for your lawfull Princesse Why then should there be any such disparity of minds or diversity of affections amongst you since you are all sudiects born to one end and Viennonians sworne to one right What shall become of this Principality when those that should unite themselves to maintaine the Weale-publique doe thus divide themselves to overthrow the publique weale Know you not that by thus banding your selves you doe altogether abandon your selves Will not your insulting and enchroaching neighbours the proud Savonians our inveterate and irreconciliable enemies take advantage of your weakning of your owne strengths enter forceably upon your rights dispossesse you of your habitations and make you aliens to your inheritances Yes yes be you assured that hatred amongst friends gives ever succour to Strangers and that civill warres within you will bring forraigne warres upon you Looke on the Daulphinis of whom I am loath to speak ill yet in this I know not how to speake well Doth not her unwasted corruption and pride shew that shee loves a Pallace better then her Paradice that thinkes by shamefull rebellion to make her selfe a sinfull Queene Know you not that they that are so greedy so vnlawfully to get will be ever as ready to doe wrong What colour of claime can she have that is neither royalized by propagation nor extract from Princely or Noble blood Shee had no authority given her in his highnesse rule nor hath she any left her at his departure It is I see onely her pride that can suffer no equall and Malignes ambition that can brooke no Superiour two fire-brands that burnt up Romes most glorious Monarchy O let them both then fall in their pride that seeke so uniustly to flye before they have wings and wash not your eyes and hands like Envy in one anothers fall In persisting to maintaine evill Maligne doth condemne himselfe otherwise hee would not seeke to obtaine that with blood and shame which he can neither get nor keepe without sinne and death In all the Scriptures there was but one sole Bastard only Iephiha that did come to any good and yet hee had the marke of the curse for his all onely daughter was most sorrowfully sacrificed for her great Fathers offence And this was but to shew that there is no perpetuity nor long prosperity in hatefull and condemned bastardy And will you then make the corrupt and cursed seed and excrement of sinne your unlawfull Prince that by all divine nature and nationall lawes hath no inheritance on earth and whom the Iewes counted as no part of their congregation If the Father be an Adulterer and the Mother a Fornicator the Sonne must in reason bee a bad liver and a wicked governour For he that is borne in double sinne must of likely hood in nature bee both subiect to many faults and guilty of many offences And how can polluted hands make foule vessels cleane or how can he that is but the sonne of the people be the sonne of the Daulphin The Mothers acknowledgement and protestation is no proofe that ever fathers them on those that can best maintaine them Shee cannot be true to one that is untrue to her selfe Corruption will still breake out there where it is once festered How then can you affect the sonne of shame or without shame yeeld your selves subiect to the Sonne of a strumpet If his desire be beyond his merit and reach let him fall besides his hopes and receive just guerdon for his deserts As for the vertuous Princesse whose right I reverence and whose worth I admire Let her yet remaine though with better respect where shee is For it is not good over-suddainely to open a wound that hath long beene closed up The greatest right may doe the most wrong and the omission of a good action is no sinne when it cannot be done without committing of sinne I have sworne to her Father and would bee found faithfull to my Lord I affect not government For in this I am but like the Sunne that carries his Lanthorne for others and not for himselfe It is better to be doubtfull then over-credulous and the uncertainty of his death is no warrant for my discharge nor your disobedience There is time for all things and the Moone that is not yet risen may rise shine in full glory though now she be eclipsed What more would you have or what further O you fond Viennonians doe you endeavour to affect Will you turne Traytors to your Lord rip up your owne bowels make your wives widdowes and your children fatherlesse and helplesse Will you put fire to your owne houses possesse your foes with your wives and wealthes see your daughters deflowred and make an utter devastation of your Countrey Alas I see your wilfulnesse betrayes your wits drawes on your overthrowes into your enemies tryumphes and griefe makes me to shed teares of blood for your owne purchased destructions Let me at last O let me in love and tender care of your welfares dehort you from wounding of your selves and leave these ill presaging jarres amongst you and like birdes of one flocke flye together Maintaine your sacred oathes for the preservation of your Soveraignes right till better assurance acquite you from your obliged faithes To hasten the knowledge whereof I will wing many Messengers with speede to enquire and learne what is become of our Soveraigne Lord with that the teares did trickle downe his face which struck such a compassionate regard in all their hearts that being before made sensitive of their errours and now fully satisfied and reclaimed by his tongue of perswasion they ioyfully threw up their Hattes and some lifting him up cried God save the Daulphin and the Lord Vray Esperance under whose government we will onely live Thus did his pleasing words powerfull authority milde behaviour refined and probable seasons and subtilized distinction allay the force of the approaching

of this stormy Sea into a more quiet Port Fortune should have no power over fortitude and courage What thou never hadst that thou dost not loose Thy inability and imparity could never promise thee any hope and thy long nourished dispaire shall now finde a period that in the end would have brought thee to thy end Let necessity then make the now suffer constantly and custome will make thy sufferance easie Sir Paris who did heare but not hearken to what his friend had so discreetly delivered regarded him no more then a greedy Lawyer doth his impoverished Clyent but still deepely excogitating how hee might intercept or pervert the intended match at length he all sighing said This Gordian knot must be cut asunder though I want an Alexanders sword Industry and Policie oft effects unlikely things and we should not judge that which is possible nor that which seemes unpossible as it is credible or incredible to our capacities The eternall wisedome hath I know a reserved power and a secret intention to bring things to passe which the wisedome of man cannot conceive nor see till it happen and be done What though Vandoume be mighty A small Rocke may ruinate a great Ship I will not so loose Vienna but where I want force to play the Lyon there will I assay to gaine by fraud La-nova he said welcome thou comest in a usefull time thou must secretly fit me with a gray beard a payre of Beades a Fryers Gowne and Hood I must turne Fryer and Prophet all at once It must be so the plot is layd and we must be Actors both in the play La-nova knowing that his undaunted courage could never brooke a Corrivall though he were never so great did much feare that he intended some stratagem and therefore he told him that unlesse he might know his purpose he would make no such provision Why said Sir Paris my thoughts dwell in thy breast and in thy heart doth my love next to Vienna live How then canst thou be a stranger to my purposes that art the Treasurer of my secrets Thou knowest La-nova how jealous the Daulphin is of his safety His rigorous I might say cruell Nature hath taught him to feare many whom many doth still feare Thou knowest also that Kings are ever suspitious of their Successours Experience makes them to feare least they should loose that which they and many others seeke with greatest dangers to obtaine My project is to make the King and the Daulphin my instruments to breake the marriage give me Pen Inke and Paper and thou shalt see what a fearefull fire I will kindle to burne up all their matrimoniall hopes and agreements But to give more life hereunto thou must play thy part Thy Vnkle is Steward to the Duke of Vandoume and thou thy selfe art gracious in his presence To him must thou poast in shew of love to see him and in all duty to tender thy service And when oportunity shall fit thy purpose thou must take occasion to wonder that so great a Prince hath his Armoury so ill stored and by way of perswasion thou must tell him that no mans title is so right and just but that it may finde worke upon their best advantages and therefore it is a provident policie for his Highnesse to be presently furnished for all contingents This La-nova will so feede and sway his ambition that he will make over-hasty and unadvised provision The knowledge whereof will so prepare and fortifie the Kings jealousie that it will crowne my device with beliefe and successe La-nona glad to see him so well resolved promised his best endeavours and in the performance thereof had his wished successe But before he went he brought Pen Inke and Paper whereupon Paris more Prophetically then he thought writ as followeth When Vandoumes first borne shall Vienna wed The Daulphins Land shall doome the Daulphin dead Pride scornes that time should check Vandoumes French Fate Thy death must helpe to Crowne his Royall pate La-noua divining that this procreated conceit would bring forth some good issue could not but laugh thereat and in that joy he went immediatly to make provision both for himselfe and his friend Now each Wednesday in every weeke the Daulphin more for applause then to doe good received himselfe as he went to heare Masse all the Sutors Petitions and in the afternoone viewed and considered of them Vpon this day Paris having lapt vp his fraudulent Libell like a plaine Petition went to the Court well furnished for the purpose where he did so well personate a holy Fryer that Linxes eyes could not discover him There did he vnsuspected deliver it and returned without perseverance Afterwards the Daulphin upon the perusing of them found and read amongst the rest Paris his threatning and suffocating Prophesie which did so poyson and swell him with suspitious thoughts and most fearefull surmises that in his irefull indignation he cryed out with the King of Moab How shall we avoid the deepe dissembling of Ehud Plaine dealing I see is dead without issue and all Honour and due respects are buried in the insatiable desire of Rule Surely this is no enigmaticall nor promiscuous Oracle but a plaine prediction sent by God or some good man in zeale and favour of Princes and in tendernesse of our safeties O most treacherous and perfideous Duke that in the bonds of Aliance wouldst cut off the small remainder of our dayes to worke thy further bloody ends My daughter shall not so be Queene by our death Nor shall our Subjects be so slaine in his unnaturall and rebellious Warre I will not suffer the true Vine to be so displanted nor shall my connivence traduce me for his impunity For though wisedome permits not that I detect him openly for feare of making him my implacable enemy yet will we send a private and an unknowne Messenger secretly to his King who shall upon his Royall word for the concealement of our intelligence discover and lay open Vandoumes most impious and pernitious intended Treason and after shall he cast by our instructions such store of oyle up on that jealous flame that it shall at least burne up all Vandoumes hopes of further proceeding with us Thus did such hate proceed from feare that after a small respiration hee sent accordingly to the King who was no sooner possest thereof but that his divided thoughts made such intestiue warre within his breast that he knew not what to say or doe His fraternall love made him weepe to see Nature so monstrous and unkinde and fearefull jealousies a disease incident to Kings called upon justice and sayd that corrected Treason was the life of a Prince Distrust now still dreamed upon Murther and unquiet feare could not be secured but with execution Then Affection tolde him that then wee come nearest unto God when we judge with pitty and pardon in mercy In this doubtfull Combate of the minde he sent for the Duke who no sooner came but that taking him alone

age till his returne misfortune so blindeth those we will overthrow as that she gives their desires wings to draw on and hasten their owne decayes At last he came and humbly delivered the scrowle importing this much Viennois heire to thraldome still belongs vntill her Fathers bonds shall set her free Who captiv'd is in place confus'd with tongues by Ismaels brood detayn'd shall be Both shall live in doubt in care and wee vntill the banisht Sonne of forlorne Troy Shall succour give vnto his greatest foe and bring him home with hope with love with joy Then shall Vienna wed a sable Moore And happy live in peace and not before The Daulphinis whose over sad surcharged heart was unable to disgest such heavie and bitter Cates found this sawce too sharpe for her dyet For it was no sooner read but that finding as shee thought all the gates of comfort shut up with intricate threates and impossibilities being too weake a vessell to beare so sharpe a liquor she shrunke under the waight of her sad burthen and fell suddenly dead and so left the Daulphin a cruell Father and a carelesse Widdower This mournfull accident rather exasperated his irefull displeasure towards his daughter in making her disobedience the originall cause of her death then in any wise extenuated his execrable resolution against her determined endurance But hee had not lived many dayes in dolour but that burying the remembrance of his dearest spouse in the hope of future happinesse his obdurate heart became as unsenceable of her losse as of his Daughters misery Love found love and the madnesse of age made him such a slave unto his slave that before one yeares period he married one of his Wives meanest Attendants One who knowing her owne unworthinesse having neither Vertue to strengthen her fortune nor good nature to incite her to pittie or goodnesse nor any merit to winne applause was notwithstanding so potent over him that she guided the stearne of his flinty and unpennitrable heart And though she feared the scorne of abiect basenesse yet to maintaine the stolne pride of her enhansed heart shee cunningly gave fewell to her Husbands enraged will and covertly blew still the coales of his displeasure For feare shee did least that her Daughters liberty should in the aspect of true honour cloud both her swelling conceited glory and detract from her proud insulting greatnesse To frustrate which she cautely one day leaning on his brest and stroking his frosted beard thus sadly sayd When my deerest Lord I looke upon the breach of the Princesse your Daughters obligation I finde the penaltie you take to be most iust though severe Since the iust Iudger of all did for the sole disobedience of onely one cast both him and all his Posteritie out of Paradice How like unto him you shew your selfe herein your unpartiall Iustice well demonstrates who rightfully punisheth the sinne of disobedience in your owne members as God did in his owne creatures Iustice is the badge of vertue the state of peace and maintenance of honour and the will of a Father should be a religious law unto the Child And they that preferre theyr owne Iustes before theyr Parents pleasures looseth the benefit both of natures right and a Fathers regard For reason would not we should respect those that forsake us The Husbandman cuttes and loppes off all unkindly Branches from the good Vine Jove held his Children part of his substance of whom he did and might dispose and the noble Romans deprived their Sonnes of life that infringed but theyr commaunds I alleadge not this most worthy Lord to aggravate your Daughters foule offence whose other deserts I honour whose wellfare I affect and whose merited punishment I condole Nor yet to detract from the worth of your thrise worthy chasticement which all men commend and iustice allowes But feare of I know what and the love of your safety enforceth me in love and duty to manifest what I feare and to prevent what I doubt Vienna you know my endeered Lady is the immediate apparent Heyre to this Principalitie and the uniust desires that waite upon a Crowne begets oft most inhumane unnaturall and unlawfull Acts Nature in that expectation looseth her sight Vertue her strength Dutie her obedience and Love her respect Nothing can outballance ambitious desire either in the reach of dignity or revenge Nor is there any limitation in the adventurers Her restraint is I feare like fire raked up in embers that covertly will kindle and openly burst foorth into a flame For the harder she deemes her selfe handled the more will she seeke after her release if not after revenge Nor can she want instigators thereunto Since all men like and preferre the rysing of the Moone before the setting of the Sunne And to win advancement in that hope they will contrive practise and execute whatsoever and howsoever Such occasions gives fire to corrupt Humorists and such grounds sets repugnant Malecontents a worke I would my death might free you from such dangerous intendments or that my life could acquit you from such heavie accidents And therewithall her heart having taught her eyes to weepe she threw her selfe into his bosome the more to endeere her selfe unto him and without any sorrow she sighing said Ah what shall become of me when I shall loose my loving Lord Craft gave her teares Deceite shew'd griefe Fraud a forst á feare to win beleife Thus to nourish debate after she had fedde on slander and instil'd in his eares a fearefull iealousie which over-credulous mindes easily apprehends and covetously entertaines The better to acquit her selfe from all suppose of malice or detraction She weeping told him That the night before her Mothers Ghost appeared unto her all in white her unsmoothed haire displayed about her shoulders her ruefull falne face pale her eyes hollow and in eyther hand a Taper burning dimme which so affrighted her that had she not comfortably spoken to me when I had no power to call to you I had awaked you and cryed for helpe But sodainely with a feeble voyce she mildly said Feare not my Daughter to looke upon thy Mothers harmelesse Ghost who in tender care of thee and thy espoused Lord have left my bed of rest to come to premonish thee of your ensuing ill Treason doth threaten the Daulphin Subjects mislikes workes upon Viennas discontentments Her liberty will be his death and in his destruction shalt thou finde thy grave Now thou knowest it looke to it and so farewell With that she gave a wimpe darkenesse possest the place and I lay wounded and affrighted with remembrance both of her sight and of her words This Apparision the happy Angell of our God for visions are cleere revelations where dreames are but delusions hath moved me out of an affectionate feare of you to deliver what I saw heard and have said which otherwise in my love to your Princely Daughter I would willingly have concealed And therewithall she wept againe and kissing him

he stayed at the Barriers of the Lysts untill the Officers appoynted for that service demanded what he was and wherfore he came who answered that hee was Turbulent the fierce the invincible Tartar that came to proove by his sword that he being onely subject to the greatest Monarch on earth who had no equall ought not to vndergoe the censure of any other inferiour power and thereupon demanded entrance which being permitted hee put vp his sword and was conducted to the vpper end of the Lysts where lighting he was seated in a rich Chaire suitable to his Basses to repose himselfe in Neere vnto which was pitch'd a most stately Tent for the Ambassador and his Trayne Then the Herauld was commanded to summon the Defendant by sound of Trumpet but no one appeared which made Solimon fearefull of disgrace Then he sounded the second time but no one presented himselfe which made the proud Tartar in arrogancie of his redoubted puissance to stand vp and drawing his terrified sword hee brandished it ouer his head in such tryumphing and daring manner that the great Sultan seeing his insulting pride could scarce containe himselfe within himselfe Then as the Herauld founded his last summons a lowly Hermit clad all in gray leaning on a staffe of Ebony stayed him with his other hand and required that hee might speake with Solimon the Emperour who being brought before him bowed himselfe thrice before him and then prayed in zeale of justice and for the honour of the Turkish Empire he might haue Horse and Armour to tame that vnciuill and vntutored Tartar whose pride hee said was not so high but that Vengeance did sit aboue it The Sultan glad that any one durst and would in his honour vndertake so great and fearefull a hazard commanded that presently he should be withdrawne and brought to his Armoury and there at his choyse be Arm'd mounted as his proper Champion which was no sooner said but that the Hermit being attended on thither tooke vpon the view of all one of the largest and one that fitted his owne conceit best wherewith being Armed and mounted he shewed himselfe at the Barriers end of the Lyst in a bright Azure Armour like vnto the skie with a halfe Moone in the midst both before and behinde His Basses Caparizons and other furniture waved like a Sea full of silver Fishes that seemed as he rid to stirre and play under so bright a Planet On his Shield hee had a Ship stayed in the midst of a Sea by a little Fish called Remora and his impresse was Vertue not force As thus hee stood looking for entrance The appointed Officers demaunded what he was and wherefore hee came who answered that he was a Man of peace a devout Hermite and one of the least of the most humblest Servants of Great Soliman Who for the love of Honour and to honour his Lord came to approove that the Sultan of Turkie was a greater and a more Emperiall and a more magnificent Monarch then the Tartarian Emperour and much more renowned in his person And that Turbulents shamefull and criminall offence was punishable by all Nationall lawes where the fault was committed and this he would make good on his body and desired to enter the Lysts Vpon this all the Turkes gave a great showt and cryed God and Mahomet for the Hermit And so putting up his Sword hee was conducted by one of the Basshaes to the other end of the Lysts where dismounting himselfe hee was seated in a rich Chayre of State curiously wrought with halfe Moones in silver and set with pretious Stones During theyr small repose the elected Officers viewed theyr Armes and theyr Armours to see whether they were of equall length and that there were no wrong done to Chivalry and then the chiefe Herauld proclaimed that no one vnder paine of death should enter the Lysts but the Officers appoynted to the service and that no one should cast any thing into the Lysts nor vse any words nor signe to discourage or encourage either party This done he bade the Combatants to rise and mount themselves and at the sound of Trumpet to begin the assault At the setting foorth it could not be discerned who was first The Tartar bearing his Mast-like Staffe over high carried away part of the Hermites Plume But the Hermite unto whom Iudgement and custome gave an advantage bare himselfe so evenly in his winged Course that he hit the Tartar so forceable on the brest that though the goodnesse of his Armour denyed entrance yet did it make him doe homage to the strength of the blow For Turbulent keeping his seate was notwithstanding by the breaking of all his Girthes set on the ground with his Saddle betwixt his legges This not onely moved great laughter but stroke all men with such a wonder that where before they could not harbour the least hope now they began to looke after good hap The Tartar swelling with irefull disdaine like unto the disturbed Ocean breathed out direfull revenge and furiously drawing foorth his dreadfull Sword called for him who needed no summons at all threatning death and destruction not onely to him but to all others But the Hermit whose undismayed courage could not be shaken with any boysterous windes upon his stopage turned his Horse and seeing him on foote scorning the advantage alighted and unsheathing his correcting Semitar advisedly came towards the Tartar who rudely saluted him with so mightie a blow that notwithstanding his full ward with his Shield hee was forced to stagger a little whereby hee knew the unresistable strength of his Foe and more warily stood after rather upon motion then warding Yet did his superlative valour equall the others incomparable strength But the Hermit in guerdon of Turbulents cold curtesie returned him such powerfull thankes as made his dazeled eyes ready to start out of his disturbed head This interchange of puissant stroakes ecchoing like the Ciclopes blowes upon theyr fiery Anviles begot such spightfull disdaine and malitious rage in both that the tempestuous furie of theyr stormy blowes came like thunder to the amazement of the beholders The great stature and unresistable strength of the one shewing both might and courage and the unmatchable valour and practive skill of the other shewing great prowis and judgement Turbulent madde with hatefull and angry contempt that any one should or could so stand against him trusting to his never fayling strength layd on such loade on the magnanimious Hermite as all men wondered how he could keepe his standing or standing durst once stand to withstand him But the bold haughtie Hermite whose watchfull care and vsed skill had made him expert in such threatning tempests gaue some way vnto that stormie shower auoyding the danger sometimes by motion of his Bodie and sometimes by strong and warie wardes neuer loosing any aduantage to offend nor giuing ground in his defence In the end finding the Tartars wasting fury to consume it selfe In the abatement thereof he

that not only canst without pride conquer thy foes but also without folly beyond nature command to owne and deerest affections If that wanton Trojan had had the like sympathie of minde and the same stable sincerity of heart as he had the likenesse and unity of thy name Troy had beene unconquered and hee had lived longer and in greater glory But let us returne to the Lord Vray Esperance who after the overthrow and ejectment of the Savomans had posting newes brought him that the masicious and imperious Daulphinis upon notice of the victory fell suddainely dead She could live no longer that had no hope to rule any longer He pride and desire of Soveraignety could neither brooke subjection nor endure controlment Besides the guilt of her owne evill proclaimed her death and the feare of loosing her life was the losse of her life Such is the nature of greatnesse that but crost in their ambitious courses they shrinke under the waight of their owne burthenous pride But her remove moved not so much the good Governour as the misse of their glorious preserver that invincible and all admirable Knight of the Daulphin that to their amazement had so oft relieved their weakned forces rescued their fainting endangered friends repuls'd their oppressing Enemies slaine most of their best Commanders daunted the whole Armie at two blowes overthrowne and killed the malignant Maligne and the proud ambitious Duke that potent Generall Then hee caused inquisition to be made throughout all his territories after him and rich rewards promised to him that could or should give knowledge of him but no one could shew what he was nor where he was onely some declared that his Beaver being broken in Battaile they sawe his face as blacke as darknesse and his eyes as bright as fire which made the Governor doubtfull whether he were a man that did more then many men or no man that could not be subdued by an hoast of men or that the all-mercifull God in favor of their distressed right had sent some of his correcting Ministers to chasten and powre vengeance on the hatefull heads of their uniust foes But the Warre being thus ended Peace called a counsell for the further establishing of tranquillity And the consideration of these bloudy iarres condemned poore Mal-Fiance to dye not onely for leaving his Lord and being unable to give account of his Soveraignes life but also for being the first cause of perturbation in the State and after of forraigne invasion The losse of so many of their lives made them all thirst after his death To hasten which they brought him the next day to the place of execution where happily the Daulphin and Sirap with his man Boufoy came by all in Pilgrims gownes as they were by agreement going to the Citie who seeing and understanding the cause of that Assembly withdrew themselves and upon short consultation they sent Boufoy to the Governour who needes would bee there to heare his latest Confession that he might learne somewhat concerning his beloved Lord. Of him did Boufoy knowing now the cause in the name of his Master the Knight of the Daulphin require that Mal-Fiance should be delivered unto him which granted hee would undertake to bring them to the Daulphin In assurance whereof he unfolding his Gowne tendered the honour of his Masters shield as a pledge for his performance which when the Lord Vray Esperance saw hee knew it by the devise thereon to bee the same that the Knight of the Daulphin carried in Battaile and therefore he joyfully tooke it and kissing it reverently sayd That that remarkable badge of his all-vertuous and most glorious worth besides the glad tydings he delivered of their gracious Lord was more then sufficient to redeeme a world of lives And therefore presenting Mal-Fiance unto him hee prayed that they might both see the Daulphin and the Daulphin Knight whom next to the Daulphin both hee and all the Viennonians did and would ever honour as their sole and onely preserving Patron And then taking his Chayne from about his necke hee gave it him saying Let this bee a witnesse of my gratefulnesse and truly tell thee with that true joy I entertaine thy welcome tydings Boufoy humbly thanked his honour and requested him that he would bee pleased to see how hee bestowed Mal-Fiance whom he brought unto the other two Pilgrims that were walking a little aside from them But when the Daulphin had discovered himselfe unto him Mal-Fiance fell downe at his feet for mercy and rising threw up his Hat into the ayre and cryed aloud the Daulphin the Daulphin God save my Lord the DAVLPHIN This unexpected and most fortunate accident made all the company at the hearing therof to showt for ioy And the good Vray Esperance hastily lighting from his Horse fell upon his knee and kissing his hand sayd Long may my Liege Lord the Daulphin live Whereat the Daulphin raysing him embraced him and told him that as his loyaltie was crowned with renowne so would he adde honour and reward to his vertues But forget not sayd hee my Lord to welcome this noble and heroicall Moore the thrice worthy Knight of the Daulphin that both hath preserved mee from death and thraldome and delivered you my Country from our oppressing foes O with what ioy and astonishment did then this loyall reioycing Lord hasten to kneele unto him For though he held him lesse then a God yet he thought he could not be but more then a man But Sirap staying him greeted him with all the demonstrations of love and reverent respect This done they mounted both the Daulphin and this magnificent Moore who needs would both ride bare-fac'd in theyr Pilgrime Gownes through the Citie Mal-Fiance waited on the Daulphins stirope and Boufoy manly carried his Masters Shield before him and after went the Lord Vray Esperance with all the rest of their retinue Now their approach was no sooner knowne in Vienna but that they knew their welcomes by their rejoycing bels stately boone-fires and triumphing hearts Hardly could they passe for presse of people still they came running to see them especially the Knight of the Daulphin whom they admired for his fame honoured for his great atchievements and lov'd for their protection Sirap seemed much to admire the French whom the French themselvs did more then admire But in viewing the whole Troupe his observing eye light by chance on his fast friend La-nova at which sight hee sighed yet thought himselfe happy in the sight Thus rode they on triumphant in themselves and honoured of all At length they came to the Palace gate where dismounting themselves the Daulphin now happy in being the Daulphin could not but shed swelling teares in tender remembrance of his too well beloved Wife But as the Generall of an Armie buries all the remembrance of his lost friend in the pride and triumph of his Conquest so did the Daulphins freedome from many perils and the artainement to his neere lost