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A51270	The famous history of the life of the renowned Prince Palmerin of England: or, The glory of knightly prowess In three parts. Containing his parentage, birth, education, travels, strange adventures, noble exploits and victories; combats with monsters, gyants, armies, and armed knights, dissolving inchantments, delivering distressed ladies; and his success in love. The whole being a compleat series, inter-woven with the heroick actions of many valiant emperours, kings, princes, and knights of undoubted fame, whose matchless deeds have won them immortal honour. A book worthy the perusal of either sex. Written originally in French; and now faithfully done into English (for the better satisfaction of the reader) by J.S.; Palmerin of England (Romance). Part 2. English.	Morais, Francisco de, ca. 1500-1572, attributed name.; J. S.; Hurtado, Luis, ca. 1510-ca. 1598, attributed name.	1685 (1685)	Wing M2613C; ESTC R213883	128,505	222

best Souldiers and breaking through the Ranks of the Enemy made such slaughter that the field was afresh bedewed with blood and the Trebesonians routed in all parts which brought such a fear upon the whole ●agan Army that they began to shrink together and were only restrained from flight by pure shame During this Battel King Edoard rode through all parts succouring his men where he saw most need and making great slaughter of the Enemy with his own hands being attended every where he rode with an hundred choice Knights when as the Emperor Palmerin who from a Tower beheld the fight together with the Ladies greatly marvelled at the Prowess of the Warriours desiring nothing more than to have been amongst them had his Age permitted as not in his Youth being accustomed to be an idle spectator whilst others fought yet mindfull of the charge of so great a Potentate he hourly sent such succours as could be spared to reinforce the fainting Regiments and charge the Enemy with fresh vigor and to give such orders as he thought convenient The Battel being in the highth the chief of the Princes dismounted and with their Swords cutting their way entered the Battalian of the Foot men where Primalion and the King of Trebesond meeting a dreadfull Combat began but such was the fierceness of the Fight between them that for want of breath and through loss of blood they were obliged to pause a while When as Palmerin with a Thousand Knights charged the Battalian of the Souldian of Babylon and made exceeding slaughter insomuch that they fled from him as from their certain death none being able to resist his force On the other side fought Florian whose death the Great Turk had strictly injoyned when those that had it in charge perceiving him far entered amongst the Ranks of his Enemies inclosed him on every side and gave him many strokes that bruised his Armour which roused his Courage to that degree that with a force exceeding he so dealt that soon they opened on every side yet fought he so long till ramparts of dead Bodys hemmed him in But so well fared not Prince Majortes for being inclosed by a Squadron of Persian Horse he fought in hopes of succour till through wounds and loss of blood falling he gave up the Ghost whose death much grieved the Christian Princes especially Prince Palmerin who intirely loved him insomuch that to revenge his death he so furiously charged the King of Trebes●nd that breaking his him Armour in many places and infixing divers wounds upon he in spight of his men who laboured to rescue their Lord brought him to destruction And so long and dreadfull did the fight continue between Dramusiand and Framustant that through loss of blood and weariness they fainted and were carryed out of the Battel by their friends on either part Great was the sorrow of the Ladies who from the Battelments beheld the fight there being few of them but had a Husband Relation or Friend ingaged so that some of them seeing the field bestrewed with slaughter swounded away and others retire their beautious eyes not being able longer to behold the Tragick action not knowing what to think of the Battel or to whom fortune owed the Victory During the fight the City was strongly guarded on all parts to prevent a surprize King Edoard retiring from the foiles of War to take breath and dress a wound he had received within a short time came on afresh with a commanded party of Horse and made great slaughter insomuch that the Infidels gave back and the Christians on that side recovered the ground they had lost taking new vigor and charging couragiously insomuch that Albayzer coming thither to restore the Battel was over-set with the furious Charge of the Greecian Horsemen and himself thrown to the ground but soon recovering his Legs he drew his Sword and killed divers Knights yet was so strongly resisted that there he had been taken or slain had not his Gyants who alwaies guarded his Person bestirred themselves with their mighty Battel-Axes yet one of them fell by the Sword of Prince Primalion and another was carryed off sore wounded of which wounds he soon after dyed By this time the Right Wing of the Turks was broken and disordered being pierced by Recinde and the Gyant Almorol to rally which Albayzer strove in vain till such time as he had reinforced them with Ten Thousand fresh men and clapped into the front two of his Gyants viz. Dromorant and Tramfamore between whom and King Recinde seconded by his trusty Servant Almorol began a fierce Combat but being hemmed round by the Infidels the King after two houres fighting against infinite odds and no succour coming fell wounded from his Horse and was slain by the Gyant Tramfamore which so inraged Almorol that leaving the side where he fought he came to revenge his Masters death overthrowing with his Mace all that stood in his way when coming upon Tramfamor with a fierce blow he bruised his Helm and Head so much that he fell dead with a horrible groan breathing out his last Prince Palmerin and Primalion hearing of the death of Recinde were greatly inraged and to revenge it redoubled their strength fighting like Lybian Lyons so that all the ground where they fought was covered with blood and slaughter but Primalion having lost much blood in the fight and finding himself faint by the advice of his friends after having killed above an hundred Turks with his own hands retired into the City Yet the Fight waxed hot on all sides upon the coming in of fresh supplies so that Victory hovered doubtfull over either Army Arnedes King of France having notice that his Couzen Recinde was slain came with Onistaldus to revenge his death but after a long fight in which many of the Turks Persians and Babylonians were slain the King having his Horse killed under him and his Helmet burst was slain as also was Onistaldus in endeavouring his rescue but long their Deaths were not unrevenged For King Edoard and Prince Florian coming with a fresh Troop of Horsemen pierced the Squadron of the Turkish Horse where they found many of their friends inclosed yet valiantly fighting against Dromorant and divers others upon which the King and his Son put themselves between making great slaughter of the Enemy though not without some wounds received but so eager was the Prince against the Gyant that after a dreadfull Combat with him he gave him a wound on the right side of his Head which brought him to the ground when setting his Foot upon him he divided his Head from his Body Whilst this was doing King Polendos and Belcar entered the Squadron of the King of Aetolia and made great slaughter insomuch that Prince Berolde desirous to revenge his Fathers death coming to their assistance the routed Pagans in great disorder fled not regarding the Person of their King who labouring to restrain their flight was overborn with the trampling of the Horses Then

Primalion Palmerin and Florian put the Army in Array and with many Heroick speeches encouraged the Souldiers to revenge the death of their friends and drive the Enemy from their Camp when in good order they marched out with loud shouts wounding the Ayr with Drums Trumpets Clarions Flutes and Phyfes which greatly alarum'd the Pagans and made them instantly betake themselves to their Arms yet so discouraged were they that their General was long e're he could draw them out of his Camp when standing in Array he mounted upon a little Rising and from thence began to encourage them in this manner Fellow Souldiers you see Fortune hath brought us to this place to revenge Injuries and try our Valours which we have already done and the Enemy not gained as yet any considerable advantage over us Therefore this day let your prowess witness you men of daring resolution and the price of your labour shall be the spoyl of you Wealthy City which I design to leavel with the Dust and race out of the memory of succeeding Ages This said he ended and did sound the Charge CHAP. LXVII Of the second Battel between the Christians and Infidels with their overthrow and the Emperor Palmerin THE Charge sounded on both sides the Armys after a flight of Arrows joyned with the Sphere and Sword in a dreadfull manner insomuch that the field was again strewed with new slaughter and many worthy Knights sore wounded the Turks being now desperate to overcome which Palmerin and Florian perceiving charged the Squadron lead by Albayzer with great fury insomuch that it gave back Albayzer himself in the Encounter being unhorsed and in much danger of his Life when as the King of Caspia coming to his relief stayed the fury of the Princes and slew divers of the meaner sort of Greeks who adventured too far in the Battel But King Edoard coming to that part fought so couragiously that he pierced the Caspian King's Array and being seconded by the aforesaid Princes put the Infidels again into disorder to reinforce whom advanced Prince Argelao with Eight Thousand Africans but being received at the point of the Launce by Palmerin of England he was ran quite through the Body and tumbled dead from his Horse in imitation of whom Prince Florian encountering another of Albayzers great Captains slew him The Fight being at this pass Dramusiand and Framustant charging through the Squadrons at last met and encountered each other with great fury when as another Turkish Gyant named Dramator came to the assistance of Framustant whose puissance was little inferiour to the former which Florian from the Squadron where he fought perceiving came to the assistance of his friend so that leaving him again upon equal terms a dreadfull fight continued which ended in the Death of Dramator slain by Prince Florian and the disorderly Retreat of Framustant The Soldian of Persia fighting in the Right Wing and finding his men worsted and greatly slaughtered by Prince Floriman came resolutely to ingage him but was welcomed with such noble force that had not his men again rescued him he had there been slain Yet the fight waxed hot on all sides and loud were the crys and groans of the dying and wounded men so that they were plainly heard into the City yet both sides animated with hope of Victory stood stoutly to their Arms But upon the arrival of a fresh Squadron of Horse and a strong Battailian of foot under the leading of Esterlant King of Hungaria the Christians redoubling their Courage made great havock of their Enemies whereupon Albayzer who had his eye upon every place came thither and brought Three Hundred Knights to succour his friends being desirous of nothing more than to be revenged of Prince Florian whom he beheld slaughtering his men whereupon he addressed himself to the Combat and layed many strokes upon him which made the Prince recollect his force and leave fighting with such as shunned Death to charge his Capital Adversary which he did with such fury that he tumbled him from his Horse when alighting to unclasp his Helm the Pagans on all sides came running in throngs to the rescue of their General that the Prince was constrained to relinquish his purpose and remount during which Albayzer was conveyed thence Yet so dealt the noble Florian that his anger fell not in vain but with such fury he charged all that fell in his way that they dreaded him worse than Death flying from him on every hand but at length being weary with subduing he retired to refresh himself when as Albayzer having recovered from the amazement he was in came and restored the Battel on that part King Edoard perceiving the Battel at a stand Victory as yet inclining to neither side commanded his reserves to charge the Left Wing of the Enemy which they did with such vigor and bravery of mind that the battel soon began to swerve When Prince Palmerin and his Vncle Prince Primalion coming on the King of Cambia who commanded that part of the battel was slain and the Wing roured notwithstanding a reinforcement of Three Thousand Parthian Archers came in whose Arrows gauled the Christian Horse and caused divers of them to cast their Riders and now was the body of the Pagan Army consisting of Forty Thousand Foot left open amongst whose Ranks the Horse entering put them into such confusion that they lost all order and shrunk together notwithstanding the endeavour their Commanders used to prevent it and so far pierced they that came upon the Soldian of Persia who was retired thither from the Right Wing against whom Prince Palmerin addressed himself and fought with him so long that fainting through wounds and loss of blood he fell dead which so dismayed his men that they fled from that part and left the Victory there intirely to the Christians But the Right Wing fighting strongly and the Left reinforced with Eight Thousand Scithians newly arrived to the assistance of Albayzer Polinardus was over-born and slain by Ferrebroque Captain of the Scyths which greatly grieved the Princes and gave the Infidels occasion to take heart and the rather because with these new supplys came Pandolf a monstrous Gyant but Florendos coming to the aid of his friends and finding the Gyant with a mighty Mace slaughtering the Greecian Souldiers bore upon him with great fury and after a terrible Combat burst his Helm at what time falling he cut off his Head and gave him an unlooked for welcome for that this Gyant boasted himself of ability to contend with ten of the Emperors best Knights all at once Berolde Prince of Spain yet seeking to revenge his Fathers Death desperately charged into the thickest of his foes and there had been slain had not the Soldian Bellagris come timely to his rescue and brought him out of the Battel but so wounded was he that his Souldiers constrained him to retire to the City to have his wounds carefully regarded Yet the fight continued hot on all sides for

a prosperous wind arrived at Constantinople banishing with their presence the sadness their absence caused Where for a while I will leave them and proceed to the Third Part of this Famous History FINIS THE Famous History OF The Renowned PRINCE Palmerin of England Part the Third CHAP. LXIII How the Princess Targiana sent the Emperor notice how her Father the Great Turk Albayzer now made Soldian of Babylon and the Sultan of Persia were coming against him with a powerfull Army Of the arrival of those Armies at the Port of Constantinople and the conflict between them and the Emperors Forces upon their Landing THE Princess Targiana observing the great preparations that were made to War upon the Emperor of Greece for refusing to deliver up Prince Florian and weighing the kind entertainment she had received in the Court of Constantinople she sent a private Messenger to acquaint him with all that was intended against him not having been able by her Prayers and Intreaty to divert her Father and Husband from the War This News greatly consternated the Emperor and many of the Princes but like valiant men inured to bear the worst of Fortune they resolved to provide against the Tempest that was bearing upon them Wherefore the Emperor caused Forces to be raised in all parts of his Empire and provided Armes in abundance resolving to give the Enemy such a welcome as they should but badly relish But e're the preparations were fully finished the Enemy's Fleet came before the City and from the Chief a Herauld was sent to bid defiance of War unless Florian and the City of Constantinople would be surrendred But the first being accepted rather than the later the Christian Army drew out in this order King Edoard being made General of the Forces lead Ten Thousand choice Knights whose Rear was brought up by Dramusiand next him marched Arnedes King of France with Five Thousand on whose Right advanced Recinde King of Spain with Three Thousand his Rear being brought up by the Gyant Almorol and to strengthen them Verner the German Emperor advanced with Eight Thousand and by this time the Soldian Bellagris was arrived with Five Thousand Horse having ordained his Son Blandidon his Leivetenant after him marched King Polendos with Four Thousand Thessalian Archers on foot As for Palmerin Florian Platire Florendos Berolde Gracian Gurein German of Orleance Pompides Don Rousel Onistaldus Floriman Belcar and divers other Flowers of Chivalry they would be confined to no setled place by reason that upon all occasions they might assist where need require The Rear of this Army was brought up by Tarnaes King of Lacedemon and the City committed to the charge of Prince Primalion who acted there as the Aged Emperor's Leivetenant who by by reason of his Yeares and Infirmities was not capable of managing affairs as he ought in such a necessity The Army being drawn out hasted in good order to the Port where they found the Enemy under the leading of Albayzer who was made Captain-General of all the Heathen Forces about to land when as between them began a dreadfull Incounter insomuch that all the shore was dyed with blood and the waves discoloured For King Edoard his Son Palmerin and Dramusiand fighting against Albayzer and his Gyants made a dreadfull destruction killing two fearfull Gyants and about an hundred common Souldiers but not without receiving many wounds Nor were the rest of the Knights idle but imployed their whole force for the Honour of Christendome the Glory of the Empire and the keeping up their Renown so that dreadfull deeds in Arms were done yet the Pagan Host was so numerous that the places of the slain was still filled up with fresh supplyes which the Emperor and Prince Primalion from an high Tower perceiving the later by the appointment of the former issued out with Seven Hundred chosen Knights to recrute his friends and coming freshly on he made great slaughter But Night casting her dark Mantle over the Earth King Edoard caused the Retreat to be sounded retiring and incamping under the Walls of the City being desirous of nothing more than that the Enemy might land that so they might come to a pitched Battel CHAP. LXIV How the Turks c. Landed and incamped their Forces And of the supplys that arrived at Constantinople to succour the Emperor Palmerin THE Emperial Army retiring and strongly incamping under the Walls of the City the Turkish Army consisting of upward of Two Hundred Thousand men forcibly running their Ships on ground leaped on shore and drove back such as were left to hinder their landing though not without great loss on their side and not losing time under the covert of the night they incamped along the shore strongly insomuch that the Emperor did not think fit presently to hazard a Battel but to stay till the supplys that were on their way from the Countries of those Kings that were in his Camp arrived which accordingly did in seven dayes arrive to the number of Twenty Thousand besides Eight Thousand Horse and Foot under the leading of Esterlant King of Hungary and Four Thousand Foot-men sent by Roramant King of Bohemia Who having refreshed themselves prepared to give Battel when in the mean time leave was given to view the Camps on either part And Prince Florian understanding for his sake the War was made relying upon his strength and fortune resolved to go in disguise to the Heathen Camp and require the Iust and Combat which he accordingly did overthrowing and putting to the foile all that he encountered and then returned to his beloved Leonarda who was bedewing her beautious eyes with tears for his absence And after that divers Encounters happened by agreement wherein the Turks were alwayes worsted but most dreadfull was that upon a chalenge between Dramusiand and Framustant a Persian Gyant but after a dreadfull Combat and great effusion of blood on both sides at the earnest Instance of Targiana who fortunately arrived during the Combat they were seperated the one retireing into the City and the other into the Heathen Camp When the Empress and her Ladies had notice that the fair Sultaness was arrived there she sent to invite her into the City who accepting of her invitation came Nobly attended but stayed not there as being sent for back by her Husband by reason the dreadfull day of Battel was at hand on which the fates of Nations did depend CHAP. LXV Of the Dreadfull Battel fought between the Turks and the Christians before Constantinople and what happened therein NOW the Captains and Souldiers being impatient of inglorious ease urged the Battel and so prevailed on both sides that the day was appointed which came quickly on when as King Ed●ard General of the Field divided his Battel reduced it under the Leading of the following Commanders The first Squadron he committed to the Soldian Bellagris consisting of five Thousand Horse and foot the second to Recinde King of Spain consisting of Three Thousand the third to

and Salmanzer against both whom he fought with such fury that in the end he slew the Gyant and carried off the other Prisoner though his ●an laboured at the expence of many of their lives to prevent it And now come on Berolde and Dramusiand making fatal havock whilest Prince Florendos with a detached party brake through the advanced Squadrons of Horse and entering the Ranks of the F●t ushent put them into confusion opening a passage to charge them on every side which they perceiving and that the Right Wing was almost all cut in pieces gave ground amain of which the Christian Princes taking the advantage advanced with Ten Thousand fresh men and put all it confusion Prince Floriman like Lightening breaking through the thickest Squadrons but being unfortunately wounded between the joynts of his Harness with a Persian Arrow impoisoned he soon after to the grief of all the Princes ●yed in Babylon The Infidels now in rout slaughter raged so dreadfully that all the Plains were crimsoned afresh with the blood of the slain Albayzer weak as he was and in a mad mood in vain endeavouring to rally his men when finding he must yield to necessity he retreated in the best order he could with his broken Troops being pursued till the Christians tired and night coming on were by the order of their General restrained least the Enemy taking the advantage of their strugling should turn Head and again dispute the Victory In this Battail the Soldian lost Thirty Thousand of his best men amongst which were many of his Chief Commanders and Twenty Thousand the night following deserted him and privately retired to their respective Countries filling all places with fear and amazement upon rumouring the approach of the Christian Army Which Albayzer well noting and finding himself far too weak to hazard a second Battail in great perplexity returned to Babylon to encourage the Citizens by his presence to defend it till new supplys should come from his Alys if the Princes should approach as also to have the company of his fair Sultaness Targiana whose beautious eyes during his absence were never dry from tears But scarcely had he put things in a posture of defence e're he had notice That the Christians approached having all the Towns in their way put into their hands CHAP. LXXII How the Army of Christians besieged Babylon and took it by storm And what happened during the Siege ALbayzer from the Watch-Tower weak as he was taking a view of the Christian Army and in what order they marched resolved to sally with the chief of his strength for two reasons the one to amate the Christians least they should conclude him utterly vanquished and the other to keep up his credit with the Ladyes and men of War to whom at his setting out he had promised such great things Whereupon with Forty Thousand well appointed men he Marched out at Four Gates when placing the Persian and Median Archers in the Front he caused the Charge to be sounded and with a dreadful shout charged the Avaunt-Guard but they being seconded by Prince Florendos fought so manfully that many on both sides were slain which horrible conflict made the Ladies who from the Wall beheld it fill the Ayr with shrieks and crys And now Prince Florian desirous to let his quondam Mistriss the fair Targiana know what he was able to do layed on so furiously that being seconded by the Squadron and Battailian lead by his Brother and Dramusiand he caused the Enemy to retire to their main Battail where stood the Standard of Albayzer when killing the Standard-bearer and divers that undertook to rescue it they threw it down which so disheartned the Pagans who supposed their General was killed that they began to retire under the City Walls and had presently fled had not Albayzer shewed himself though fatal it proved For being about to draw up his men a Greecian shot his horse into the head who falling on him bruised him that of the bruises and through grief for the disgrace he sustained he in three days after dyed filling the City with Lamentations for his Death This second misfortune of the General caused the rest of the Pagan Captains to despair of success whereupon sounding the Retreat they retired in as good order as they could into the City but being furiously pursued Palmerin Florian and Dramusiand with Six Thousand men pressed in with them before they could close the Gates or let down the Portculls and fought bravely for the passage insomuch that the streets ran blood the Citizens and Souldiers earnestly labouring to destroy the Princes and their followers having for that purpose by this time inclosed them on every side but their danger being known to the remaining part of the Army without the Walls they in a great fury stormed the Bulwarks at Twenty several places to defend which the Pagans running from every part Dramusiand with a strong Bar of Iron forced the Gate and let in the Squadron under the leading of the Prince Florendos making good his ground but as he advanced to his station where the Princes fighting drove whole streets before them a huge stone was cast from a Turret which falling upon his Helm burst it in sunder and cast him dead upon the place so that he who was never but once vanquished in fight dyed by the cowardly hand of some base Artifice The Death of Dramusiand known the Princes gave order to fire the City which was done in divers places During which consternation King Edoard the Soldian Bellagris and divers other great Commanders had seized on the Towers and Bulwarks and planted their Ensigns thereon Yet the defendants fought in every corner hurling Stones Tyles melted Lead Pitch Tar and Rozen on the assailent insomuch that many brave Captains were killed and wounded King Edoard himself having received a wound in the Arm by an Arrow from a Loop-hole and Prince Florendos grievously hurt by the fall of scalding Sulpher which almost roasted him in his Armour But in the end the streets being paved with the slain and Albayzer not present by reason of the great grief he sustained to animate them they threw down their weapons and begged quarter yet such was the fury of the Souldiers that notwithstanding the Generals express order to the contrary that they killed a great number of them But in the end the slaughter being stayed the General drew up before the Palace which yet held out and summoned it but was answered by a showre of Arrows and Stones from the Walls Loop-holes and Towers which greatly inraged the Souldier so that having prepared combustable matter they fired it in divers places whereupon contrary to the mind of Albayzer who lay grievously ill of his bruises a parley was sounded when as the Princes pittying the loud laments and dismal shreiks of the Ladies who were for their safety retired thither drew off whereupon giving their promise that no violence should be offered the Gates were opened to the

time some got into fenced Cities others to Albayzer's Camp filling all with fear and consternation at the news of that dreadful disaster These great Captains having made so successful a beginning with the loss of a few of their own men returned with huge spoiles to their General who highly welcomed them and caused publick thanks to be given to Almighty God for the Victory he had been pleased to grant them over the Enemies of his name And so having refreshed themselves they set forward to meet Albayzer whom they understood by some scouts of his to be on his March towards them Nor were they misinformed for the next morning they could from the tops of the Hills discern the fore-runners of his Army Whereupon the General called a Council of the Princes and great Captains to resolve what was to be done whether they should pass the hills to meet the forward Enemy or imbattail themselves there to expect him in the Plain The reason for the former were That the forwardness of the Christian Army in attempting to meet them would in some sort discourage the Enemy and give new vigor to the Souldiers on their part But it being urged on the contrary That they were in a strange Country with which they were altogether unacquainted the Enemy might lay ambushments to intrap them or might hide his power in divers Forrests and thereby by perpetually renewing his Battail might greatly discourage the Souldiers who would be apt to suppose that like Hydra's heads the more they cut off the more they increased Whereupon it was agreed that the Battail should be fought on that Plain if the Enemy durst attempt it and if he delayed then should they March on towards the City of Babylon VVhereupon all that night they kept great Fires and a strict watch to prevent any surprize that might happen to their prejudice CHAP. LXXI Of the great Battel fought in Asia between the Christians and Infidels And of the great Victory obtained by the former THe aforesaid resolutions being taken by the Princes Albayzer early the next morning as they wished drew up his Army on the top of the Hills and there incamping sent down a Herauld to defie the Christians and to denounce to them all themselves attendant on VVar swearing by Mahomet that not one of them should remain alive but had answer returned him by King Edoard in the name of the rest That the Princes were come so far to seek him that so they might finish that revenge his flight would not permit them to do under the walls of Constantinople and that if he refused or shunned the Battail they would besiege him even in his Capital City of Babylon Albayzer having received the answer aforesaid groaned with anger and thorowly fired in hopes of revenging the indignity put upon him caused his Army to be set in array dividing it into six Divisions The first consisting of Twenty Thousand Horse himself lead the second of Thirty Thousand Footmen he gave to the King of Cambia the third consisting of Ten Thousand Horse that made the Left Wing he gave to Tomandarus his Cozen at that time Prince of Palastine the fourth consisting of Fifteen Thousand Horse he committed to the Charge of Gondrominus Son to the Soldian of Persia slain in the Battail before Constantinople and these he ordained for the Right Wing the last Battail he committed to Salmanzer Son to the Great Turk and Brother to the fair Targiana consisting of Twenty Thousand Foot which he ordered for a Reserve setting Framustant the Gyant as Guardian to his Person by reason but young and unexperienc'd in Feats of Armes All things being in a readiness Albayzer commanded the two Wings to move as also the gross Body of his Foot and that the rest should keep their station till further order The Christians beholding them descend the Hills in great haste stood from in their order to prevent being over-born when each Captain encouraging his men to incite them to noble and brave Exploits King Edoard commanded the Charge to be sounded whereupon the Armies joyntly moved and King Pompides with his Six Thousand Horse charged the Enemies Left Wing with great bravery over-bearing all that stood before him and with his Spear wounded the Prince of Palastine to whose rescue on all sides his Men came in and pressed so furiously that Pompides weary with killing was obliged to retire within the Ranks of his Men to recover breath By this time the gross of the Armies joyned with such fury as made the Earth beneath them tremble and the Hills eccho with the shouts of the vanquishers and crys of the vanquished There might you at once behold Men fighting like Lyons and others flying like timerous Deer when to give the more encouragement to his men Albayzer left the command of his Squadron to Orcadamus his Lieutenant and accompanied with Morcador Arock Gramandor three terrible Gyants he went from place to place to give orders till at length he came to the Right Wing where he found Prince Palmerin fighting at the head of Six Thousand chosen men making piteous slaughter which so moved him that he interposed between the Prince and such as were in confusion that they ●ight have the better leave to put themselves in a posture and ●●t-face their fear of which the Prince was very glad as desirous of nothing more than to be revenged on him that had been the cause of the death of so many of his friends when without any words a sharp Combat ensued so that wounds were given and received in a plentious manner till their Armour was discoloured with their blood their men fighting the mean while as eagerly on either side them so that the slain lay scattered round them which Prince Palmerin perceiving and w●ll noting the havock the Gyants made of his men redoubled his force so furiously that with a full blow on Albayzer's Cre● he so dented his Helm into his Head that stunned thereby he stagger'd six paces backward and fell to the ground but e●●e the Prince who laboured to take him Prisoner could effect his desire the Gyants came to his rescue two of them carrying him off whilest the third viz. Gramandor combated with the Prince but had not so good luck as his Master For after a terrible fight he falling through wounds and loss of blood had his head smitten off in spight of the endeavours that were used to rescue him The disaster of Albayzer greatly disheartened his Souldiers insomuch that they began to shrink together of which he having notice wounded as he was would again have taken the Field but his great Favourites that were about him would not permit it yet immediately he sent orders for the Reserves to descend and if possible by wheeling about charge the Christians in the Rear which stratagem being perceived by Florian he drew of Ten Thousand men and went ●o meet them giving them a furious charge till breaking through the Ranks he found Framustant