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A08840	The second tome of the Palace of pleasure conteyning store of goodly histories, tragicall matters, and other morall argument, very requisite for delighte and profit. Chosen and selected out of diuers good and commendable authors: by William Painter, clerke of the ordinance and armarie. Anno. 1567.; Palace of pleasure. Vol. 2	Painter, William, 1540?-1594.	1567 (1567)	STC 19124; ESTC S110236	560,603	890

therfore was there redie to sacrifice his life at his maiesties disposition and pleasure Acharisto by nature coulde tell his tale excedyngly well and the more his tongue stode him in seruice the greater appered his eloquence Whiche so pierced the minde of the King and persuaded the Counsellers and other of the Court as he was demed giltlesse of the treason and the matter was so debated and the King intreated to graūt him pardon as he was accompted most worthie of his fauour Then the Kyng by the aduise of his Counsell was persuaded that by force of hys proclamation his daughter should be giuen to Acharisto in mariage and his Kingdome for a dowrie bicause hée had offered his owne head accordyng to the effecte of the same So the King repenting him self that he had offended Acharisto in the ende agréed to the aduise of his counsel and gaue him his daughter to wife Whereof Euphimia was so ioyful as they bée that atteine the summe of their heartes desire The father liued one whole yeare after this mariage and Euphimia so pleasant a life for a certaine time as was possible for any Gentlewoman Hir father was no sooner dead but the vnkind mā nay rather brute beaste had forgotten all the benefites receyued of his kinde and louing wise and hauing by hir only meanes gotten a Kingdom began to hate hir so straungely as he could not abide hir sight Such is the propertie of cancred obliuion which after it crepeth into ambicious heades neuer hath minde of passed amitie ne regardeth former benefite but like a monster and deadly enimie to humane nature ouerwhelmeth in his bottomlesse gulfe all pietie and kindenesse and determined in the ende for recompence of such great good turnes to despoile hir of hir life Howe thinke you faire Ladies was not thys a faire rewarde for the loue the trauailes and sorrowes susteined for this ingrate and villainous man by that royal ladie to saue his life and to take him to husband Here is manifest probatum that in a vile and seruile minde no vertue no duetie no receiued benefites can be harboured Here is a lesson for yong Gentlewomen to beware how they contemne and despise the graue aduise of their auncient fathers Here they maye sée the damage and hurt that vnaduised youth incurreth when neglecting their parentes holeseme admonitions they giue them selues to the loue of suche as bée 〈◊〉 their estate and calling For what should aile the gentle pucell borne of gentle bloud but to match hir self in like affinitie not to care for currish kind or race of 〈◊〉 Bée there no Gentlemen to be founde of personage and beautie woorthie to ioyne in loue with them Bée they so precious in nature or tēder in education as their like can not be vouchsafed to couple in mariage yoke Compare the glistering golde to drossie durte and such is the difference betwéene gentle and vngentle But perhaps bringing vp may alter nature and custome transforme defect of birth As Licurgus the lawemaker dyd trie betwene the Currish whelpe and the Spaniell kinde both by training vp running to their contraries the Spaniel not vsed to hunte eigre vpon the potage dishe the other nouseled in that pastyme pursuing his game But that Metamorphosis is seldome séene amongs humane sort and therfore I aduise the gentle kind to match them selues in equall lotte and not to trust sir Customes curtesie in choise of féere Returne we then to vnkind Acharisto who now in full possession of his desired praio reuerting to his puddle of carlish will and cancred nature after many thousande wrongs done to this moste noble and gentle Quéene accused hir to be an adulteresse and as one in déede although most innocent she was condemned to the mercilesse fire Philon King of Peloponessus which as we haue said before loued Euphimia as did the balles of his owne eyes vnderstanding the crueltie that this wicked mā vsed towards hir to whom both his life kingdome did belong moued with nobilitie of minde determined to declare to Euphimia the inwarde feruent loue which 〈◊〉 bare hir and to chastise Acharisto for his ingratitude with due correction Wherfore depely debatyng with hym selfe of this aduenture thus hée sayde Nowe is the time Euphimia that Philon shewe what faithful loue he hath euer born vnto thée and that he deliuer thée bothe from the present daunger wherein thou art and from the hands of that vnkynde wretche that is farre vnworthie of such a wife For if thou haddest agréed to thy fathers will and yelded to the pursute of him that loued thée best thou haddest no néede of rescue nowe ne yet bene in perill of the wastful flames of fire which be readie to consume thy nesh and tender corps full tenderly sometymes beloued of thy deare father and of thy louing friend Philon. When he had spoken those wordes he earnestly disposed him selfe vpon that enterprise There was in those days a custome in Corinth that they which were condemned to death were caried iii. miles forth of the Citie and there the sentence pronounced against them wer put to execution Philon hauyng intelligence hereof did put in readinesse a good troupe of horsemen and being secretely imbarked arriued at Corinth and closely the nyght before Euphimia shoulde be brought to the fire harde by the place where the miserable Ladie should be burnt into a wood he conueyed his people and so soone as the Sergeants and officers were approched nere the place with the ladie he issued forth and did set vpon the throng not suffering one of them to remaine aliue to carie newes When he had deliuered Euphimia from that prcsent daunger of hir life the companie dispercled he said to the Quene Now thou mayst sée faire Quéene the diuersitie betwene the disloyaltie and vnkindnesse of Acharisto and the faith and loue of Philon. But for that I meane not to leaue hys ingratitude vnreuenged thou shalte stays here vntill thou heare newes of the due 〈◊〉 whiche I shall giue him Those dire and cruell wordes foretolde of hir husbandes death moued hir honest and Princely hearte which by no meanes coulde be altered from the gentle nature which it had first tasted and receiued And although she had suffred mortall solemne iniurie of hir vnkinde husband for manifolde benefites yet she good Gentlewoman woulde permit no duetie of a trustie and faithfull wife vnperformed Wherfore she besoughte Philon vpon hir knées not to procéede to further reuenge of Acharisto telling him that enough it was for hir to haue escaped that presente perill from which he like a Princely Gentleman had deliuered hir and therfore during hir life was most bounde vnto him Philon greately wondred at the goodnesse of this Ladie howbeit the ingratitude of that 〈◊〉 by no meanes he woulde suffer to bée vnpunished And béeing aduertised that Acharisto remained in his Palace without any suspicion of this aduenture banded neither with Guarde or other assurance committed Euphimia to safe

cal hir home againe I were a very foole sayd he to kepe in my house so pernicious and fearefull an enimie as that arrant whoore is who one day before I be ware wil cause some of hir russians to cut my throte besides the violation of hir holy mariage bed God defend that such a strumpet by hir presence should any longer profane the house of the lord of Celant who is wel rewarded and punished for the excessiue loue which he bare hir Let hir goe whether she list and lyue a gods name at hir ease I do content my self in knowing what women be able to do without further attempt of fortune other proofe of hir wicked life He added further that the honor of so noble a personage as he was depended not vpon a womans mischief and assure your selfe the whole race of womākind was not spared by the Coūte against whom he then inueyed more through rage 〈◊〉 any reason that time in him he considered not the good and honest sorte of women which deface the villanie of those that giue them selues ouer to their own lusts without regarde of modestie and shame which ought to be familiar as it wer by a certaine natural inclination in all women and maidens But come we again to Bianca Maria holding hir Courte and open house at 〈◊〉 wher she got so holy a 〈◊〉 as mistresse Lais of Corinth somtimes was neuer more comon in Asia than this faire dame almost in euery corner of In 〈◊〉 whose conuersation was such as hir frank libertie familiar demeanor to ech wight wel witnessed 〈◊〉 abhominable life True it was that hir reputation there was very smal and the hired not hir selfe ne yet toke 〈◊〉 by setting hir body to sale but for some resonable gain earnest pain Howbeit she of whom somtimes the famous Greke orator wold not bie repētance for so 〈◊〉 a price was more excessiue in sale of hir marchādise but not more wanton For 〈◊〉 no sooner espied a beautiful gentleman that was youthly wel made but wold presently shew him so good countenance as he had ben a very foole which knewe not after what prouender this Colt did neigh whose shamelesse gesture Messalina the Romane princesse did neuer surmoūt except it were in that she visited haūted cōmon houses this dame vsed hir disports within hir owne house the other also receiued 〈◊〉 Carters Galey slaues porters and this half Greke did hir pastime with 〈◊〉 mē that were braue and lusty But in one thing she well resembled hir which was that 〈◊〉 was sooner werie with trauaile than she satisfied with plesure the 〈◊〉 vse of hir body like vnto a sink that receiueth al 〈◊〉 without disgorgyng any throwne into the same This was the chast life which that good lady led after she had taken flight from hir husband Marke whether the Milanois that was hir first husbande were a grosse headed person or a foole whether he wer not lerned skilful in the science of 〈◊〉 time for him to make redy the rods to make hir know hir duetie therw t to correct hir wāton youth to cut of the lusty twigs proud sciēces that soked that moisture hart of that stock brā ches It chanced whiles she liued at Pauie in this good honorable port the Coūte of 〈◊〉 called Ardizzino Valperga came to the emperors seruice therby made his abode at Pauie with one of his brothers the Coūte being a goodly gentlemā yong trim in apparel giuen to many good qualities had but one onely fault which was that he was lame in one of his legs by reson of a certain aduēture blow receiued in the warres although that same toke away no part of his beauty fine behauior The Coūte I say remaining certain days at Pauie beheld that beauty grace comlinesse of the Coūtesse of 〈◊〉 stayed with such deuotion to viewe gaze vpon hir as many 〈◊〉 he romed vp down the strete wherin she dwelt to find means to speake vnto hir His first talk was but a Boniour and simple salutation such as Gentlemen commōnly vse in company of Ladies and at that first brunte Valperga coulde settle none other iudgemēt vpon that Goddesse but that she was a wise and honest dame and such a one not with standyng as there neded not the Emperors camp to force the place which as he thought was not so well flanked rampired but that a good man of armes might easily winne and the breache so liuely and sautable as any souldier might passe the same He became so familiar with the Lady and talked with hir so secretly as vpon a daye beyng with hir alone hée vsed this kynde of speache Were not I of all men moste blame worthie and of greatest follie to be reproued so long time to be acquainted with a Lady so faire and curteous as you be and not to offre my seruice life and goodes to be disposed as shall like you best I speake not this Madame for any euil and sinister iudgement that I 〈◊〉 of you for that I praise and estéeme you aboue any Gentlewomā that euer I knew til this day but rather for that I am so wonderfully attached with your loue as wrong I shold do vnto your honestie and my loyal seruice towards you if I continued 〈◊〉 and did conceyle that which incessantly would consume my heart with infinite numbre of ardent desires and wast mine intrailes for the extreme 〈◊〉 burning loue I beare you I do require you to put no credite in me if I doe not all that which it shal please you to commaund me Wherfore Madame I humbly beséeche you to accepte me for your owne and to fauor me as such one which with all fidelitie hopeth to passe his time in your companie The Countesse although she knew well inough that the fire was not so liuely kindeled in the stomacke of the Coūte as he went about to make hir beleue and that his wordes were too eloquent and countenance too ioyfull for so earnest a louer as hée séemed to be yet for that he was a valiant Gentleman yong lusty and strongly made minded to retaine him and for a time to stay hir stomake by appeasing hir gluttonous appetite in matters of loue with a morsell so dainty as was this mynion and lusty yong Lord and whē the corage of him began to coole another should enter the listes And therfore she sayd vnto him Although I knowing the vse and maners of men and with what baits they hooke for Ladies if they take not héede hauing proued their malice and little loue determined neuer to loue other thā mine affection ne yet to fauor man except it be by shewing some familiar maner to heare their talk and for pastime to hearken the braue requests of those which say they burne for loue in the mids of some brooke of delites And albeit I think you no better thā other

nourishment and me of mine 〈◊〉 The Gentlewoman whether she was weary of that 〈◊〉 or rather doubted that in the end hir chastitis should receiue some assault through the dismesured passiō which she saw to endure sayd vnto him with rigorous words You haue talked and written inough you haue 〈◊〉 well sollicited hir which is throughly resolued by former minde to kepe hir honor in that worthy reputacion of degrée wherin she maintaineth the same amongs the best I haue hitherto suffred you to abuse my pacience and haue vsed that familiaritie which they deserue not that goe aboute 〈◊〉 to assaile the chastitie of those women that paciently giue them 〈◊〉 for the opinion they haue conceiued of some shadowing vertue of such foolish suters I now doe sée that all your woords doe tend to beguile me and to depriue me of that you cannot giue me which shall be a warning for me henceforth more wisely to looke about my businesse and more warely to take hede of the charmes of suche as you be to the ende that I by bending mine open 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not both surprised and ouercome with your enchauntments I pray you then for conclusion and the last sentence of my will that I heare no more these woords neither from you nor yet from the Ambassadour that commeth from you For I neither will ne yet pretend to 〈◊〉 to you any other fauoure than that which I haue enlarged for your comfort but rather do protest that so long as you abide in this Countrey that I will neither goe forth in streate nor suffer any Gentleman to haue accesse into this place except he be my neare kinsman Thus for your importune sute I wil 〈◊〉 my self for 〈◊〉 vnto you in those requests which duety womanhode ought not to haue 〈◊〉 And if you do procéede in your folly I wil séeke redresse according to your desert which 〈◊〉 now I haue deferred thinking that time would haue put out the 〈◊〉 heat of your folly and wanton youth The infortunate Lord of Virle hearing this 〈◊〉 sentence remained long time without speach so astonned as if he had bene falne from the clouds In the end for all his despaire he sayd to Zilia 〈◊〉 countenaunce indifferent mery Sith it is so madame that you take from me all hope to be your perpetual seruaunt that without other comfort or contentation I must 〈◊〉 depart your presence neuer perchaunce hereafter to speake vnto you again yet be not so squeimish of your beautie and cruell towards your languishing louer as to deny him a kisse for a pledge of his last farewell I demaund nothing here in secrete but that 〈◊〉 you may performe opēly It is all that alone which I craue at your hands in recompēse of all the trauails paines afflictions suffred for your sake The malitious dame full of rancor and spitefull rage sayd vnto him I shall sée by and by sir if that loue which you 〈◊〉 to beare me be so vehement as you séeme to make Ah Madame sayd the vnaduised louer commaūd only and you shal sée with what deuotion I wil performe your wil were it that it should cost me the price of my proper life You shall haue quod she the kisse which you require of me if you will make promise and sweare by the sayth of a Gentleman to doe the thing which I shall commaund without fraud couin or other delay Madame sayd the ouer wilfull louer I take God to witnesse that of the thing which you shall commaund I will not leaue one iote 〈◊〉 but shall be executed to the vttermost of your request and will She hearing him sweare with so good affection sayd vnto him smiling Now then vpon your othe which I beleue and assured of your vertue and Noble nature I wil also perfourme and kepe my promise And saying so she embraced him kissed him very louingly The pore gentleman not knowing howe 〈◊〉 he had brought that dissauorable fauour and bitter swéetenesse helde hir a whyle betwéene his armes doublyng kisse vpon kysse with such pleasure as his soule thought to flie vp to the heauens with that impoisoned baulme which he sucked in the swéete and sugred breath of his cruel mistresse who vndoyng hir selfe out of hir louers armes sayde vnto hym Sith that I haue made the first disclosure bothe of the promise and the effect therof it behoueth that you perform that whiche resteth for the full accomplishment of the same Come on hardily saith he God knoweth how spedily you shal be obeyd I wil then quod she commaund you vpon your promised faith that frō this presēt time vntil that space of thrée yeres be expired you speake to no liuing person for any thing that shal happen vnto you nor yet expresse by tongue by sounde of worde or speach the thyng you want or desyre otherwise if you shall doe I will neuer trust liuing man for youre sake but will publishe your same to be villanous and your person periured and a promise breaker I leaue for you to thinke whether this vnhappie louer were amazed or not to heare such a straunge request and cōmaundement so vniust and therwithall the difficultie in the performance Notwithstanding he was so stout of heart and so religious an obseruer of his 〈◊〉 that at that very time he began to do the part which she had commaunded playing 〈◊〉 and vsing other signes that he would do his duetie accordynge to hir demaund Thus after his right humble reuerence vnto hir he went home wher fayning that he had lost his speach by means of a Catarre or reume which distilled from his braine he determined to forsake his countrey vntil the time of his penance was expired Wherfore settyng staye in his affaires and prouidyng for his traine he made hym redie to depart Notwithstanding he wrote a Letter vnto Zilia before hée toke hys iourney whych was towards the countrey of France that in olde tyme hathe beue the solace and refuge of the miserable as well for the pleasantnesse and temperature of the ayre the greate wealthe and the abundaunce of all thyngs as for the curtesie gentlenesse and familiaritie of the people whyche maye compare with any other Nation vppon the earth Nowe the Letter of Philiberto fell into the handes of Ladie Zilia by meanes of hys Page instructed for that purpose who aduertised hir of the departure of his mayster and of the despaire wherein hée was Whereof shée was somewhat sorye and offended but yet puttyng on hir aunciente seueritie tooke the Letters and breakyng the seale found that which foloweth THE very euill that causeth mine anoy The matter is that bredes to me my ioy Which doth my wofull heart full sore displease And yet my hap and hard yll lucke doth ease I hope one day when I am franke and free To make hir do the thing that pleaseth me Whereby gaine I shall some pleasaunt gladnesse To supply mine vndeserued sadnesse The like whereof no mortall Dame can