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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04989	The resolued gentleman. Translated out of Spanishe into Englyshe, by Lewes Lewkenor Esquier; Chevalier délibéré. English	La Marche, Olivier de, ca. 1426-1502.; Lewkenor, Lewis, Sir, d. 1626.	1594 (1594)	STC 15139; ESTC S108201	70,399	158

I hope of his infinite goodnesse will there graunt rest and quietnesse to his soule which heere his body so much abhorred If warre be to be praised as an honorable exercise then great ought your sorow to be ò souldiors for the losse of such a prince whose like in that profession neuer liued any yet notwithstanding al this incomparable losse it doth not a little comfort me in that it is to the whole worlde notorious that he was not ouercome by any that were worthy of such a conquest but onely through the diuine power permission by which fortune holdeth in her handes and handleth at her pleasure all humane woorkes For the sentence permission decree and secret iudgment of the heauens farre exceedeth our science deceyueth our knowledge and maketh vaine our wisedome If a man liue in this world fortunately and possesse what so his hart desireth then the common opinion is that he is an happy man was borne in a good houre but if by aduerse fortune he afterwardes chaunce to become poore and afflicted with aduersities miseries or losse of honor then euery one crieth out that he is vnhappy that it is pitie that euer he was borne To auoyde therefore these inconueniences and vncertainties of the worlde let euery mortall creature turne him selfe with a pure and penitent minde vnto the eternall creatour of all things to whom both heauen and earth are obedient and then shall he be assured that there shalbe no errour in his course neither being ankered vppon so sure a rocke shall he neede to depende on the vaine fleeting blastes of worldly so soone deceyued opinions In fine though Accident victoriously triumphed ouer this famous Prince yet neuer in any age shall the glorie and valorous endeuours of great Charles be forgotten whose vncomparable valour and magnanimitie all nations and histories haue beautified with the surname of Hardie But now though with tearefull eyes yet shal my penne proceede and leaue the wofull storie of this worthy Duke vnto some happier writer whose muse may be glorified with so great a subiect Accident presently thirsting after a new pray put on his armour of deepe-pirceing Dispaire and with a sharp grounded Iauelin of Misfortune leapt out into the high way putting to his side a Sword of Sodaine griefe which only hath shortened the life of many worldly creatures but to make the matter more speedy his Dagger was of Secret melancholy which being ioyned to Sickenesse were able to consume a marble With this there began a musique so well accorded so variable sweete and delicious that it rauished with delight the hearers To-wardes the which as the people ioyfully flocked to know whence or from what cause the same did proceede they might beholde a Litter that approched supported by two milke-white Vnicornes of which the one was Perfect bountie and the other Sweete demeanour The riches ornament and sumptuousnesse of this Litter was such that it exceeded all estimation The Vnicornes were guyded by foure Princes the first good Fame the seconde Flower of Youth the thirde Noblenesse of Hart and the fourth Disdayne against villanie and all foure linked togeather by Reason Straight folowed a great troupe of Cauallerie and withal a companie of so choyce fayre and beautifull Ladies as though each one had bin selected and chosen out of the greatest Courtes of the worlde But now it is time to say somewhat of that royall personage that came within this sumptuous Litter though to touch rightly her perfections be farre beyond the compasse of mine or any mortall penne It was a glorious young Princesse armed at all peeces and resolued there in that passage to shew her power where she had receyued her griefe In her seeming one woulde haue deemed her to be a very Penthesilea that came to reuenge the death of Troyan Hector But cruell and vnhappie Destinie had conspired her ouerthrow Her Harnesse was of Contentment her head was armed with Vertuous Thought therwith the better to defende her selfe in this dangerous conflict Her Sworde was Desire to do well sharpe and well poynted wherewith she came determined to reuenge the wronges that had bin offered her Her Dart was of Debonairnesse and her Shielde of Faythfull vnspotted Loue neuer to be altered Her vpper garment was wrought and rounde about adorned with thousandes of vertues who finding her pure soule free from all euilles had therein made their quiet and blessed mansion This excellent Ladie as Loyaltie her Heralde at armes in loude speeches proclaymed was Marie the great and puissant Archduchesse of Austria worthie of the worldes gouernment Accident stoode all this while trembling to see so imcomparable a beautie ioyned with so vertuous a courage woondring that those many excellent rare partes and vertues shoulde be all so viuely vnited in a young Princesse of three and twentie yeeres whereas they are rare and scarce to be founde in the many setled yeeres of longer ages But Furie his trustie Counsayler seeing his amazement bade him be of good courage for the victorie shoulde assuredly be his if so be he would folow his counsell which was that he shoulde not assay her with any other weapon or stroke then onely of a deepe Hart-Sorow which the gentle temper of her wel framed minde not enduring he was assured would soone ouerthrow her Accident folowed his aduise and ashamed of his former fayntnesse with a cruell Vnkindnesse gaue her so deepe a Sorowes-wounde and thereupon a feruent Ague that the gentle Princesse loosing by degrees the perfection of her beauties though she apposed her vertues in resistance was finally vanquished and taken out of this vnworthy worlde in prime of her yeeres and beautie leauing behinde to vs nothing but griefe heauinesse and compassion though God wot bootelesse sorow and weeping teares be of small effect and moment to equall so great an occasion Thus now hath cruell Accident taken from vs our rarest iewell that precious Palladium which while Burgundie enioyed it reigned in all prosperitie and happinesse But now alas the name of that noble house is finished and Death hath taken away this excellent Lady whose glorie shall yet liue heere eternally and her soule there I hope in endelesse blisse This was shee that refreshed our languishing spirites and comforted our former distresfull calamities as Troilus did who with vertue and courage bare vppon his shoulders the burden of besieged Troy when Hector fayled And if heauen would haue graunted vs so much happinesse as to haue left vs onely her aliue we should haue bin able to haue suffered and endured whatsoeuer els could haue hapned But what I might thinke and what griefe might be mine let the compasionate Reader iudge seeing in so short a space three Princes dead whom I serued and had such cause to loue and honour I was brought vp young and nourished in their court They were alwayes my shelters against all tempestes stormes and aduersities But alas there is none now lefte to shelter me

But then twise wounded Accident enraged and betweene feare and furie desperate shall strike the triumphant King so cruel a blow with his Sworde of Distemperature that though styll remayning in courage inuicible yet shall he in his health and strength finde him selfe greatly impayred Neuerthelesse drawing the weakenesse of his body vp to the worthynesse of his mynde he shall enforce him selfe styll to mainteyne the fight tyll traytor Debilitie mercilesse like a preuayling cowarde shall while the King contendeth with Accident powre downe vpon him with all his violence so vnreliueable a blow of remedilesse Sicknesse that the neuer-before yeelding Prince shall now seeing such he knoweth to be the diuine pleasure with a quiet yet magnanimous resolution couering him selfe with his Target enrich the earth with the noble burden of his fallyng body and the heauens with his freed soule empouerishing onely the worlde whose griefe for his losse shalbe such as though the greatest pyller thereof being gone it coulde not but attende a speedie ensuing downefal and ruine But herewith as Sommons woulde haue proceeded in his wofull hystorie I feeling my very soule ouerburdened with an insupportable greatnesse of sorow entreated him to spare my alredie enough miserable eares and not to afflict them with hearing of further tragedies but yf euer he would do me pleasure then to shorten the time of my prolonged combat For alas what shoulde I miserable wretch that I am desire to lyue or wherein should life be sweete vnto me seeing the glorious lights of the worlde so soone extinguished no vertue no wysedome no loue no honour no beautie no conquest no nobilitie no goodlinesse no scepter no force no prayer being able to stay the stryking hand of vnmercifull DEATH Whereunto Sommons replying I had thought fayd he to haue reuealed vnto you two future Combats more of two great and Princely aduenturers The one of the most valourous and towardly young Prince of the worlde eldest sonne and successor to this great Englysh King The beames of whose sayre rising Sunne shall no sooner begin to glimmer in our Orizon but they shall warme the whole worlde with his loue The other of his eldest daughter lykewise succeding him in the royall Diademe who wereby Accident both soone depriued of their lyues and dispossessed of their thrones But seeing thee alredie of apprehensiue of forow and afflicted with such extremitie of passion I will forbeare to perplex thy eares with any farther griefe yet woulde not I haue thee to repine at the diuine ordinance For though the Almightie in his secrete iudgement shall thinke good to depriue the worlde of these most excellent Princes yet shal he not leaue it altogeather desconsolate and abandoned For he shal blesse the perished Princes with successors of such worthinesse that lyke true heyres as wel of the Vertues as Crownes of their predecessours they shal afresh brighten the worldes obscured face and with the goodly shyning of their wel deserued glorie returne the estate thereof into the former blisfulnesse But aboue all the rest so shall he ennoble the memorie of the late Englysh Monarch with so excellent and glorious a DAVGHTER that in her alone shalbe seene vnited all the seuerally dispersed Vertues that made so glorious the forenamed Princes in so much that all the worlde with one agreeing consent shal proclayme her to be the most admirable Princesse that euer lyued And which is a thing not of the lightest consideration but perchaunce one of the greatest wonders that euer any age hath seene In her onely shal not Fortune contende with Vertue but contrarie to her nature lyke a submisse and willing Handmayde attende vpon her noble desires constantly effecting them yea sometimes in things most rare and marueylous Likewise there shalbe so sweete a consent so fit a proportion betweene the great richesse of her minde and the fayre ornaments of her body that as the one shal atteine to the height and perfection of fortitude wisedome temperance iustice and all other diuine vertues wherewith a royall minde should be garnished so shall the other in goodly lyneamentes and beautifull features so without all degree of comparison surmount the rest of her sex that the worldes eye shal neuer more beholde a sweeter and more louely obiect as being in deede Delitiae humani Generis singular in her selfe and excellent beyonde al comparison And to make vp the full poynt of her happinesse as she shal both in rules of gouernment and vertue of gouerning serue to all Christian Princes as an excellent Paterne and example preseruing her Subiectes in a quiet estate full of reposefull blessednesse when round about her some through the tyranous exactions of their Prince and some through the vnskilful gouernment of their Prince and some through his negligent and contemptible loosenesse shall murther them selues with mutuall woundes and be torne within them selues to peeces As she I say shall by her princely care and prudent foresight maynteine her Subiectes in this calme securitie of vntroubled peace so shal they againe with so quiet and unmurmuring a course of faythful obedience loue and honour her that she if euer any Prince shalbe blessed in her Subiectes and they yf euer any Subiectes blessed in their Prince But which is strangest comming to the royal Diademe in the fayre youthful spring of her virgins yeeres she shall finde the estate of her Realme diuided in faction differing in religion and through the troubles of the late preceeding gouernement exceedingly discontented All which incōueniences being by the vnfortunate successe of the former gouernment wherein the Sworde was more employed then the Scepter styrred vp and in apparance tending to some feareful and dangerous issue she shal with the sweete breathing gale of her well tempered Mildnesse so pacifie alay and vtterly extinguish that she shal reduce her Subiectes from the deepest degree of constreyned feare to the highest pytch of faythful loue and duetiful obedience that euer Prince was honored withal Neither shall her inuincible armes in iustly vndertaken Warres abrode be lesse glorious vnto her then this her admirable Peace and iustice in ciuill gouernment at home Neyther shall be most warlike nations of Europe onely as Spayne Portugall France Scotlande and Irelande but euen the remotest regions and concealed partes of either Tropique the frozen Poles and the middle burning Zone be constreyned to bow vnto the victorious Englishe Enseignes nothing being more rife in the mouthes of men yea as well of the farthest Indians and sauage people as of the proude neighbouring nations then the name of great ELIZABETH written in the blood of those that resist and the pardoned lyues of those that yeelde of all victories the fayrest register and best enduring monument To recount vnto you the seuerall egregious victories that shee shall giue both by sea and land to the most fierce and warlike nations that then shall possesse the world were fitter for the large relation of a Chronicle then this my short