he might from out the window see passing by his old Camerade Erinnio his somtimes fellow-waiter in Lucano's Chamber upon this he hems and spits to make him cast up his eye The other not knowing him with a close-shaven beard in such an habit seeing him make signes to him to come up and make no words of him beheld him more observantly till by a peculiar gesture of Olmiro he came to know him Glad then that it was he he likewise made signes that hee was comming up to him Now some of Lucano's meaner servants were sometimes wont to goe drinke in that house so as it was an easie matter for Erinnio to finde an excuse to goe thither to aske for a horse-keeper But being answered by the Hoast that none of their houshold had beene there since their Lords death he affirmed that he had seene him at the window The Hoast assured him that hee was mistaken praying him withall in case he beleeved him not to goe himselfe up and see telling him that all the roomes above-staires were open without any other living soule in them save a poore pilgrim Erinnio gotten up the staires in great haste told him at a breath that he could not speake with him there but wish'd him to come at two a clock at night to the secret doore that lead to their Masters Lodgings where he should finde him ready to let him in And then returning downe he told the Hoast that he was indeede in the right howbeit that the pilgrim from a farre off resembled much the horse-keeper who wore his beard close shaven as this man had his Olmiro missed not the houre appointed the first thing he ask'd Erinnio was How he got to stay in the house after the death of their Lord My Lord answered him Erinnio is God be thanked yet alive ' though hee can leade but a dying life till such time as he recover the Princesse and accommodate their affaires Olmiro rapt with unexpected joy with a countenance of one transported beyond himselfe gladsomely replies Is it possible my deere Erinnio that my Lord is yet alive oh let mee blesse mine eyes with the deere sight of him bring me oh bring mee quickly unto him and I 'le bring him newes of the Princesse for shee it was that sent me hither Erinnio embracing him anew lead him the way in having already made the Duke acquainted with his comming Ascended that they had the staires they found him with a vissage pale and wanne laid all along on a low velvet couch Olmiro knew not whether hee were awake or no or if he were yet did Lucano Erinnio the Chirurgeon that stood apart and the very house it selfe seeme in his extasied eyes to bee visions and ghosts howsoever his joy was such as hee falling flat to the ground lay melting himselfe for meere over-joy into brinish teares deprived of the power of stirring from thence Lucano more yet transported than hee had not freed his speech for a long time from the prison of a more than extazied passion if his impatient desire of knowing how the Princesse did had not burst open the gates of his silence Olmiro acquainted him with all that had befallen her the place shee dwelt in the griefe that tyrannized over her the daily selfe-wasting life shee lead her dreames of him and imaginations that the wind was his spirit come to see her of his beloved name's being call'd upon invoked and cried out unto both in light and darkenesse with the orders given him to goe learne what had happened since her departure That in case Lucano were according to the relation of signes alive hee might then come to finde her out and if dead that shee might begge of death the favour of being joyned with him In summe Olmiro forgot no one particular to make even cruelty it selfe become compassionate and the direct hatred well-affecting But all was God wot but superfluous for Lucano to whom the sufferings of Corianna were aggravations of hearts griefe he could not endure to heare the end of her story so rent was his affectionate heart with what hee had already heard of it though by fits eased by the hope hee conceived of corresponding her obligements with equivalent gratitude The relation being ended Olmiro said hee I will not thanke thee for thy fidelity because honest men as thou art pretend not such a foundation for their merits nor yet for the toyle thou hast endured since I perswade my selfe that the love thou hast ever borne me not onely takes away the irksomnesse of it but withall makes it pleasing and delightsome unto thee I only thanke thee for having endeavoured to keepe me whom thou thought'st to be dead alive in the life of her for whom alone I desire to live or dye I thanke thee for the good newes thou brought'st me and for having taken me out of the jawes of a more-than cruell death which was the not knowing where she was But first of all I render hearty thankes unto the immortall powers that have raised mee up so benignely from so low a fall But tell me Olmiro shall we goe now presently And with that starting off his bed hee hastily walkes the round of the Chamber love causing him to make that way in an instant which lay subject to the measure of time But Olmiro that saw him so heart-sick of an heart-burning feaver of affection that hee raved with desire thus answered him Our parting shall be when it shall please you my Lord. Wee cannot sollicite it so much as for the Princesse sake we should an houre to her is an eternity Time as your selfe have found by proofe is in consolations and pleasures most swift in afflictions and hopes slow if not immoveable Yet should I for all that be sorry to see harme done by seeking to doe good which cannot but happen in case you being not I doubt me as yet well recovered should hazard your life in too soone undergoing this voyage the same Erinnio also told him But hee still standing constant to his determination of parting suddenly was at length disswaded by the consideration of the want of a fit habit to goe disguiz'd in and the necessity of referring the resolution thereof to the will of his Mother for not causing her to fall from one griefe into another Here seeing how impatiently-desirous Olmiro was to know how hee was brought to life againe I will recount unto thee my selfe said he the things succeeded since Carildo and thou parted'st leaving me to your thinking dead The clashing noyse of the swords awoke the Captaine of the Castle who thereupon came downe and finding us both slaine could not imagine how wee came by our deaths much lesse how wee entred into the Castle so as he being thereat no lesse amaz'd than afrighted grew to bee yet more afraid when he found the gate to the sea-ward wide open which because none save the Princesse had any key of hee went instantly to her lodgings where causing her
to have place in your Majesty since at the very name of God I see you shake off the shackles of that benumming droopingnesse wherewith you were fettered Humane afflictions have Royall Madame two most potent arguments or rather meanes of shunning extreames the one practised through the helpe of Philosophicall vertue the other infused by celestiall grace that common to all this onely to those whom God communicates it unto From the first we may learne that ordinary accidents should not in any extraordinary measure afflict us that the gifts of Nature are bestow'd upon us for use not possession that riches children and honours are more suddenly lost than gotten that prudent and discreete persons receive from reason that consolation in an instant which others are wrought unto by time and perswasion and that such comfort too depends on our imagination and our imagination on us so as the prefixing to our selves things either burthensome or light is to shut or open the gates of comfort The second teacheth us that the death of the just is precious before God that humane capacity conceives not the joyes of such as have an eternall seate amongst the blessed that the life of such is not taken away but conserved till that long expected day which must bring us being freed from the tyrannie of time and fortune to the enjoying of a truly-perfect life that that death which terminates the course of an holy life is not properly death considering the sweete quietnesse that ensues it the faire advantagious exchange it makes and the undoubted assurance it receives of it that the good are called before their time for ridding them out of the hands of the wicked and from being by them either molested or corrupted that God makes no difference betweene the rathnesse and latenesse of time but that man arrived to the terme prescribed him becomes old even in his very childehood and that therefore we should with a cheerefull mind accept what he sends us to offer him in gift what we owe him of duty The Queene listned unto the Priest with great attention and seeing him now silent with a countenance composed to constancie whose milde serenity shewed shee had chased away the cloud of passion shee return'd him this answer Father I yeeld the Gods hearty thankes for having voutchsafed to remember mee through your meanes I could not I confesse answer your arguments if I had the power to practize them but wanting it it behoves me to search for it in the secret of your precepts And first I beseech you to teach mee how I shall conceive to bee ordinary that which never was heretofore I lament not as I am a woman the generall death of man but bemoane as a mother the particular death of my sonne I know that it is an ordinary thing that every man dye but to dye in youth to breake the order of Nature to have befall us in our more pleasing yeares that which should not happen us before our decrepit loathsome old age is I am sure no ordinary thing For the gifts which wee receive alas I grieve not for being debarrd the possessing them which I pretend not but for being deprived of the use of them which was violently taken from me If it were ordinary for mothers to bee deprived of their sonnes the world would then be soone ended for in one sole age there would not be either fathers or sonnes to be found that worldly things are transitory our very sense shewes us but ere sense can renounce the griefe that followes the privation of them Nature must first forbeare the forming it of passions For the discreete I know not in what sense to conceive them conceive them perhaps I might if the proprieties of affects were punctually knowne but who can fit mee one pleasure or one paine to two that be just equall to them and reduce withall their constitutions to such a parity that tense make not a difference of them which if it could be done too yet could there be no great matter of prudence in it since wee are tyed to worke with such equality And againe if it cannot be done I must then call it rigidnesse of nature declination of sense stupidity or defect of apprehension at the least The procuring in fine that meere imagination should bring us to comfort is beyond the reach of my understanding And I would faine know if such an effect shall be conformable to its cause which if it be then must such a consolation needs be false the imagination being formed of things not true To your second Arguments I make no answer their authority being but too great and their truth most manifest But the supreame truth not being comprehensible otherwise than by the minde it should not me thinkes seeme strange to you if I for being governed with the sharpe sense of my griefes comprehend it not in its owne rayes whereunto I for all that submit both my selfe and my griefes so I be but permitted to evaporate them a litle lest the principall be exceeded by the interest Vpon the hearing of these words the Assistants who till this time were all tongue-tyed by a drooping silence made resound the Cube of a confused lamentation the aged Priest weeping with the rest Till observing a litle after that the Queene dryed up her teares and that return'd to her former quiet temper shee stood expecting some further speech of him he thought to reply when shee continued the file of her speech saying Father there are some passions which have more need of sword than shield which a man must either quite defeate or still live withall which if it so bee where then shall I alas for shunning such deadly company finde Armes to defeate mine ere I be first by them quite ruin'd Philosophicall reasons are God wot but feeble wards they are shields fram'd by wit which many times either speakes what it is not sensible of or practiseth not what it speakes 'T is but too difficult a thing to put off the habit of humanity there is not any man that disburthens himselfe of it without sorrow at parting from it In heaven answered the Priest where in the hight of blisse lives the glorious Prince Corideo you Madame by that time I have assured you of your glory shall finde this vitall sword And being asked how hee could know it and if the places appointed for the happy were not the Elizean Fields These are mysteries said hee which I should indeede conceale if the imparting them you were not the unguent wherewith I should heale you The ordinary place then appointed for the happy is indeed the same you now mentioned but yet there are of them others granted but to a few for but few such are there as was the Prince Corideo The soule Madame is a fire a ray or sparkle taken from the divinity infused by the Gods into bodies in different degrees the cause of the differences that are seene betweene soule and soule All the
hounds imagined what was there a doing following therefore the crie shee arrived unawares just as the Prince the Marquesse and I were alighted to the fall of a goodly Stagge Shee leaping from off her horse into her husbands armes that with great amazement was by then runne to helpe her downe having affectionately kissed him with out answering to his demand of her sudden comming would needs come benignely to greete us and all the rest one after another The Prince most glad of this unexpected encounter said unto her Your comming sweete Lady of my blisse cannot prove but most welcome and happy unto me be it for what occasion it will though in token of my extreame content I cannot at this present dedicate to your welcome other than the life of this Hart. The tired beast lay on the ground expecting his death with beteared eyes grieving perhaps that Nature having beene liberall in enduing him with so long a life if what is thereof reported be true humane cruelty for an inhumane delight corrupted his enjoying it without the curiosity of as much as trying in him whether his life could extend it selfe to many ages whether hee had in himselfe any such discourse or no I know not though I well know that the gentle Eromena accoasting and seeing him a goodly one and to seeme at the very point of death to begge favour at her hands answered Be your present my endeer'd Lord waited on by a good augury which I accept with a better and will so please you that he live with this calling for the huntsmen shee asked them what yeares he might be of But because the Gods gave us the world in controversie not excluding as much as those things whereof practique and observation are our masters they could never accord about his yeares by reason of their disagreeing in the markes of his age The beliefe then of knowing any thing certaine so as others thinke they have not their certainties to contradict it is a beliefe notoriously false The Princesse whose minde was busied in a more important thought remounting with the rest rode towards the Citie where being come shee would needs have the Marquesse and my selfe to be partakers of her relation contained in a few words By which shee unfolded her fathers obstinate minde her departing without his leave and resolution to live and dye with her husband discourse there was enough without for all that so much as once proposing any thing that savoured of violence the Marquesse and I being old enough to know what are the troubles of a civill warre especially of such a one which for all the reasons making for it cannot but bee unjust against a father with the schisme of subjects and states and they though young and undeservedly hardly used being yet of a sweete nature patiently bare with the author of their injuries choosing rather to suffer than to endeavour to avenge or right themselves The whole difficulty consisted in the choyse of a place to reside in for Majorica and Mauritania being prohibited they knew not whither to betake themselves wee argued a long time whether or no it were her best course to follow him and leave the Realme in the hands of a frantick father whose infirmity might encourage the Corses to attempt innovations spurr'd on by the Tingitan with promises of men and shipping Besides the ill constitution of Sardinia whose dangers were manifest by reason of the intelligences of bandities beeing the reliques of the Admiralls conspiracie who back'd by the Tingitan daily wrought and perswaded their kinsfolkes and allies to revolt which once hapning who alas was there then to sustaine the ruine shee being farre off the Corses become rebels and the King for his weakenesse contemned these reasons the Princesse would neither give eare to nor admit of Polimero knowing them to be good as he opposed them not so contradict his wife hee durst not yet wish'd he that some body else would perswade her to stay but because the decree was not as yet come thither and that for the executing thereof there was no necessity of an immediate departure they resolved to stay till it came their deliberations in the meane while ripening with the priviledge of this short time Arato gone out from the Councell was by the Earle of Toralba presented with Eromena's letter whereat he asking if shee could not come to speake to him her selfe No my Liege answered the Count for shee is some two houres since gone aboord the vice-admirall and lanch'd out without acquainting any body whither shee went but for ought was seene shee made towards the Promontory of the East Arato confused in mind opened the letter which I afterwards often read so as I beleeve I shall not faile much in repeating it whose tenor was such My Soveraigne Liege I goe to Corsica to finde out Polimero a husband taken by me by your Royall assent a Prince every way worthy and accomplish'd to whose vertue and prowes the kingdome owes its conservation and you both the Crowne of Corsica and Perosphilo's revenge I know not whether I ought or no to excuse my selfe for departing without your Royall leave nor yet in case I should know I to whom to doe it to a King or to a father your Majestie using towards me the power of the distinct person of a King and quite debarring me from the priviledge of the other I well know that I speake to a King yet forget I not that I am a Kings daughter and heire and that I ought to be used as such a one I am sure I have ever honoured you as a daughter served you as a vassall and borne with your passions in so obsequious a manner as other than such as have the gift of obedience as I have could not have done I will not my Liege exaltmine owne merits though the having the power to transgresse and not to doe it is in some respects esteeme-worthy Onely I must tell you that as I have from you the right of the Realmes succession by nature so have you from me the possession thereof by prowes for though as then a may den I onely with the assistance of Prince Polimero saved both it to you and you to it and did when your infirmities brought you to be uncapable of holding its scepter binde it to your hand and with my owne hands fastened on your head the kingdomes Crowne whereas you now suffer your selfe to be upbraided rather than you will acknowledge much lesse remunerate the deserts of others so constraining mee to leave you for your unjustly-depriving me of my husband and more cruelly bereaving me of my daughter to whom by the Lawes both of God and nature the mother is so expressely bound to tender and bring up from which since I cannot otherwise conjecture than that your pleasure is to live all alone in the world I leave you to live so in Gods name and pray Heaven to the end you may the longer live to showre on
not dead and bemoaned him not The Queene who as a childe of her owne deerely tendred him was even heart-broken with griefe for him The King sollicited the Physitians for fresh Pittims and new Cordialls but nothing avail'd him since they penetrated not into the nature of the disease nor its true occasion Ridden hee had and danced too that morning but without excesse exercises to him ordinary Dined he had too but yet sparingly repletion and disorder had no place in him Deadora seeing him in such a plight too late now repenting her being the causer of it taking him by the hand warm'd it betweene hers calling to him with so many throbs and teares that happy he had he but seene them Nor did such demonstrations any way impeach the reserved modesty of her sex their neernesse in blood education and domestick amity sufficiently priviledging her so to doe At length hee came to himselfe just in that time when litle better than abandoning him for dead every ones thoughts were busied more about his funerall than life for now the King Queene Princesse and Princes were all of them parted save onely Vincirco who staid behinde with the Physicians and was now set a weeping over him as dead The King having notice thereof returned with the rest and finding him laid in warme cloathes in a feaverish fit shaking every joynt of him he began to hope the best of him And because the throng of Courtiers that came in with him might not disturbe his cure he tooke them all againe out with him leaving there onely the Queene with Deadora The former where of being told by the Physicians that the accident proceeded from some great oppression of the heart much marveyled thereat for that shee had observed him to be ever merry yet beleeving that some internall humour falling on that part had caused that accident shee ranne to her lodgings for a most delicate paste made for that purpose leaving with him her daughter and Vincireo Shee seeing the Physitians retired and her selfe all alone with Vincireo whom shee cared not for concealing her selfe from accoasting his bed-side cures the wound given by the weapons of her former sharpe by the balme of these her milder words My Princely Lord and deerest Cozen said shee I confesse my selfe faulty and pronounce my selfe most worthy of chastisement for having beene against all reason the cause of endangering your life by bringing you thus to deaths doore I confesse yea I now from my soule confesse your interesses to be full of love and most worthy of being really corresponded with an equall affection Behold mee here now my endeer'd Lord most ready to make you plenary amends Cheere then up your selfe I beseech you for loe I am disposed and immutably resolved to goe whithersoever you please Banish then from you all melancholy since I am ever yours and never will be any others which that you might be the more assured of I have not you see abhorr'd the testimony of the Prince of Pontus your Cozen and mine here present which shee expressed with an affection so sincerely-ardent as both amazed Vinciero and restor'd Gradamoro to life It is naturall for an oppressed heart to disgorge in teares in the very instant of its being eased that maligne humour that suffocated it a token of health and a signe that Melancholy departing leaves roome and way for joy to enter Right so befell it now the Prince of Cyprus hee stood a good while taking first the Princesse's hands betweene his and distilling rivulets of teares out of the fountaines of his eyes and then affectionately kissing them return'd her this answer I know not incomparable Madame when I shall be ever able to serve you conformable to the great obligation to your more than excelling courtesie You Madame cannot be faulty where you have soveraigne power nor bee subject to punishment whereas you sway the scepter over all the lawes of my affections Your nobly vouchsafing to comprehend in the better sense my interesses and out of your goodnesse to accept them in good worth is to me a supreame favour but your benignely daigning to correspond them surpasseth even all expectation of mine much more the slendernesse of my merits so as I am so farre unable from really requiring your nobly-obliging favours by deeds as I cannot finde apt words to expresse or acknowledge them For the rest could I but have thought nay hoped that the King your Father upon any earnestly-sollicitous Embassie of mine could have beene wrought to bestow you on mee I then would I protest unto you never have presumed to have preposed you your flight but being promised as you are alas what likelihood is there for you to have by his consent other husband than Erpandro And the example of your mother that I proposed you with the revenge that thereupon ensued were never by mee intended for arguments to perswade you since I knew them farre from being availeable in that behalfe but to shew you how by them you might assure your selfe that your resolution should be lesse blamed and censured Besides that I pretend not to robbe what 's any other mans for so you Madame be but pleased to make me by your noble assent but worthy I will marry you ere wee part to the end our faults if such they be may seeme by so much the lesse in the eyes of both heaven and the world The Princesse resolved both to felicitate and cure him here thus interrupts him Well my Lord to the end you may see that there is no neede of justifications behold me here at your disposure therefore so you be therewith pleased marry me a-Gods-name right now in the presence of your Cozen here who astonished to see them at that point without imparting any inckling thereof to him till then taking off his finger a rich Diamond Gradamoro having then no Ring ready reached it him to marry her therewith as instantly he did remitting the rest to another time The Physicians being called found his pulse at a good passe and the Queene come he would needs take what shee brought him to make her the Authresse of his health and then got out of his bed the day following so healthsome and blithsome as if he had not beene sick at all But then Vincireo could not forbeare from taxing him with discourtesie for the small signe of love he shewed him in this occasion of making use of him When he craving him pardon told him that at first he had concealed it with out knowing himselfe the reason why having entred into this businesse beyond all expectation and that afterwards doubting that hee would have disswaded him he was confirmed in his silence judging it a lesser evill to offend by concealing his affection than after communicating it not to follow his counsell or be in some way ruled by him And being thereupon demanded how he meant to carry the businesse now that his resolution had excluded all other either deliberation or counsell He answered
Carildo But scarce was he entred when for missing to finde his Lord within he came out againe upon this enquiring of the man of the house for Erinnio they were shewed him with heavy downe-cast lookes comming droopingly towards them Being asked for the Duke he with a deepe sigh answered that hee was slipt away no man knew whither But espying with that Carildo he stoop'd downe for a stone when Olmiro seizing on his hand briefly reaccounted unto him how the case stood Whereupon after friendly embracing each other they went so long enquiring after Lucano by counter-signes that in the end they learnt he had taken the path of the wood whitherward they were then a-going Carildo by the way relates unto the others the life led by Corianna with the manner of their mistake but now come to the wood they could not finde him out although they with exquisite diligence sought for him all over what way therefore to take they knew not when Olmiro thus bespeakes the other two Here doe wee being as we are all three together but trifle out the time it were therefore better that thou Carildo went'st to the Princesse to comfort her and that done to returne hither or to our lodging if thou hast but time then one of us may keepe hereabouts to hinder the Duke to come to fight with the Knight whilst the other goes to his lodging lest he chance to come thither and the first of us that happens to finde him may impart him the good newes and send word to his fellowes But how shall I said Erinnio finde the way to the cave in case it should behoove me to come thither Mary very well as I shall now direct thee replied Carildo For ere we walke an hundred paces farther I will put thee on a path that leades directly thither and will withall give thee such counter-signes as thou canst not misse of it though thou would'st But scarce were they gone fifty steps on their way when they might heare a faint voyce whose pittifull lamentations were often parenthesed with sighes and teares whom upon their passing further on Carildo perceived to be the Dutchesse Corianna was parted from Almadero in a bodily state exceeding feeble as I told you having refused to accept his courteous proffer of causing her to be carried to the Barke which for keeping conceal'd the place of her abode shee made him beleeve shee had waiting for her returne but went not farre ere her heart was so choaked with the extreame agony of her passionate griefe that shee sunke breathlesse to the ground a benumming cold that seized on her corps depriving it of all likelihood of her ever reviving any more and the soule-afflicted Dutchesse having experimented on her all the remedies that place could afford her and seeing them all bootlesse was now set a bemoaning her and stood a crying over her with rending her cloathes and tearing her haire when the three Squires arrived who seeing a litle way off the Princesse in such a plight were ready to drop downe for griefe On the other side Lucano who remain'd in his lodging accompanied with none save Erinnio whom because hee knew not how to bee handsomely ridde of that so he might effect his intent he bethought himselfe of sending him to learne out who that Knight might be and accordingly straightly charged him not to returne without a distinct relation thereof But no sooner was Frinnio gone than that the Duke got him out of his bed and then making the best shift he could to cloathe himselfe hee tooke the way of the wood with an intention to stay there till such time as the Knight his reputed rivall came forth that then he might slay him or dye Laying then himselfe along under a tree that grew a-part he might espy a good way off the three met together who having sought him in vaine went to observe the way that led to the cave he marveiled to see them so loving together whereat conceiving an unthought-of hope hee followed them a-farre off to see what they meant to doe till seeing them make a stand he likewise rested him behinde a tree from whence he might heare the Dutchesse utter these despairing speeches And is it possible Madame that you will burthen poore innocent mee with those vengeances which you inflict on your as innocent self whereas they should bee inflicted on no other than injuring Fortune wounding thereby my very soule for not reserving them for a time more desperate Open deere Madame alas open I beseech you those faire eyes of yours oh let that gentle soule of yours respire in you or if you have such power over the Heavens as to dye when you list then befriend mee therewith too by procuring that I may follow you for I trust I have deserved that favour at your hands you know I associated you voluntarily in your sufferings and travels therefore I hope you will not shake mee off from accompanying you in your sweet repose Besides sithence I forsooke all to serve you it befits not a magnanimous noble Princesse as you are to recompence me with this to you suddaine to mee unexpected death and so leave mee a miserable-exild-stranger depriv'd of you even in that place where among the torments of your inexplicable sufferings it was my hight of glory to be neere you both to lament and participate of them Thou Lucano thou woe is me art he who not content to have while thou lived'st robb'd her of her free-will wilt yet now that thou art dead deprive her of her life too But sweete Madame alas will you leave your sweete litle Prince Lucandro motherlesse as well as fatherlesse his quaint prettinesse and taking graces must then dye too since that when you both his mother and nurse are once dead there is none then to give him poore infant any more suck The disconsolated Dutchesse stood so attent to her griefes that the three were come at her ere shee saw them so as the first motive that drew her eyes on them were these words of Carildo Why what meane these strange alterations Madame am I come to bring you good newes and pretend you to receive them with so dolorous a spectacle my Lord Lucano lives nobly-honest and loyall as ever nay more he is here too and will then his more than life beloved Princesse dye because shee will not see him At that word the Princesse opened her eyes and faintly sighing peer'd Olmiro in the face when hee prostrating himselfe on the ground thus bespake her Right excellent Princesse if any tardance of mine bee the occasion of your Highnesse sufferings I then pray Heavens that yours be my death But know my liege Lady that more than is could not possibly be done I beseech you strive with your selfe to pluck up a good heart for to your comfort know that the Duke my Lord is here and by reason of a mistake lyes in as bad a plight for you as you doe for him Bee pleas'd then