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A66697	The honour of merchant-taylors wherein is set forth the noble acts, valliant deeds, and heroick performances of merchant-taylors in former ages, their honourable loves, and knightly adventures ... together with their pious acts and large benevolences, their building of publick structures, especially that of Blackwell-Hall, to be a market place for the selling of woollen cloaths ... / written by VVilliam VVinstanley.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1668 (1668)	Wing W3064; ESTC R41412	58,050	83

heresay cannot be good since misreport hath wronged many defer your guar●el therefore till you are fuller satisfied of the grounds of it and if William hath done you wrong no doubt but he will acknowledge it and given you satisfaction Ralph herewith as half perswaded but principally because he could not do otherwise in the presence of his Captain put up his sworn res●rving his r●venge tell another season and so without speaking any more words he went his way Sir John Hawkwood perceiveing that Ralphs malice was implacable perswaded William to list himself under some other Captain till such time as he had gotten some experience when he would not be wanting to use his best endeavour to give him preferment William according to his directions went and listed himself under that renowned Champion Edward the black Prince where in a short space through his industry and Sir John Hawkwoods good word who loved him entirely he attained to an Ensigned place This vexed Ralph to see his Rival advanced for where envy is harboured in the brest of a man he takes anothers good to be his hurt and now his only studdy was revenge but wanting other means to effect it he sent him a challenge in these words If thy heart be as good to fight as it hath been to invent mischeif then meet me to morrow morning at thy own appointed place and weapon where I shall attend ye to revenge those injuries and affronts offer●d unto me and to the fair Arabella which if thou shalt refuse to perform I shall proclaim thee a Coward and not fit to bear Armes or to usurp the name of a Souldier Ralph William having received the challenge was very much discontented for though he was of an invincible courage not dreading any danger yet being conscious to himself of the injury he had offered to Ralph he could willingly have wished the challenge might have been waved yet being loath to undergo the aspertion of a Coward he resolved what ever hapned to undertake it and thereupon returned him this answer Lievtenant Ralph What passion moves you to these extreame I know not but seeing you will needs be so fool hardy as to venture a Duel upon it your challenge shall be answered and since you have put it to me for the choice of the place and weapon I shall appoint the field on the North side of the Camp for the one and back-sword for the other so till I see you farewel William The next morning accer●ing to appointment they met with a full resolution the sword should end all difference betwixt them but Sir John Hawkword having some inkling of the business was in the field as soon as either of them where seeing them come fully resolved to fight he spake unto them in this manner What desperate folly or madness rather hath thus bewitched you as I am not of your counsel so I wish it had never come to my knowledge If your stock of valour be so surpassing great bestow it upon the common enemy and let it not be employed to private disadvantage there you may fight your belly full with honour whereas here he that gains the victory purchases only disgrace and danger what is your feud so deadly that nothing can wash it away but blood or is your malice so irreconcilable that the breaches may not be made up again is life of so little worth to throw it away thus idlely and doe you set so slieght a price of your souls as to hazard them thus for a thing of nothing what is there no other remedy but that one of you must dye and can death only make expiation I you can no better command your own passions then thus you will never be fit to command others CHAP. VII The valiant Acts of Sir John Hawkwood in Italy and how he married with the Daughter of Duke Barnaby THe renowned Marchant Taylor Sir John Hawkwood having now compleated his army consisting of sir thousand Horse and Foot took his march towards Italy making great spoyl all the way he went in the East harts of the Kingdome of France his name carrying such a terrour before it as struck dead the hearts of all opposers coming into Italy he joyned himself with the Marquess of Mountferrat under whom he ●ectormed such noble services as equalled if not exceeded that of the Antient Romans he having an exceeding ripe and quick conceit to force occasions to frame his resolutions and to make speedy execution being also as occasion required both hot in his fights and notable for his delays so that he soon grew to be the wonder and admiration of all that Nation for martial Discipline Soon after Lionel Duke of Clarence sonne to Edward the third King of England came into Italy to marry the Lady Violent● Daughter to Galeasins Lord of Millain Sir John Hawkwood hearing thereof resolved to make one in that royall solemnity and thereupon forsook the Marquess and attended the Duke to his marriage At which time Barnaby the brother of Galeasius had great warrs with the State of Mantua who having heard of the noble acts of Sir John Hawkwood humbly desi●ed his assistance for he being himself a warlike Prince had a great desire to make some tryal of the discipline prowess of the Englishmen Sir John accepted of his proffer in a short time gave such proofs of his manhood valour as made Duke Barnaby highly to admire him defeating his Enemies in several skirmishes so that those who before were almost Conquerers now became humble suppliants and them who ere while stood on high demande now come to as lowly terms Duke Barnaby having now found by experience that Fame was sar short in the praises of the noble Hawkwood he grew into such a likeing of him and that likeing producing such love that he greatly desired to have him his sonne in law and thereupon bestowed on him in marriage his daughter Domnia a Lady of a most transcendent beauty and whose wit and eloquence ran paralel with her beauty one in whom he found such ●acts as he l●st in his Arabella who could not choose but beleved being an lovely one of such a rare fortune and composition that had the Trojan Paris seen her naked he would have strighted his Hallen of Grece for her This alliance bring made in respect of his valour in war was the occasion of the encrease both of his pay and of the renown of the Englishmen throughout all Italy that a most pulssant Prince in war●● had not without sufficient cause to induce him conceived so good opinion of the valour of a man that was a stranger and for this cause his hel● was desired by all the Princes and free Cities of Italy For at that time all marital affairs amongst the Italians were managed by forrain forces and Captains But Prince Barnaby growing ungrateful for those many benefits received by the English men the noble Hawkwood notwithstanding their alliance revolted from him and joyned

with their Enemies giving thereby a shrewd turn of the scale to the other side taking by force the strong Towns of Fuera and Banacanalo with many other places of importance all which he sold and disposed of at his pleasure William under him acting his part so well that he was promoted from a Captain of frot to a Collonel of Horse and now new adventures pre●enting themselves to their hands they went to aid Pope Gregory recovering for him many Cities and places of importance with were revolted from his obedience afterwards he aided the Florentiques against the Pisans doing such noble feats of arme● that the ver● dread of his name was enough to make his Enemies ●un all Princes courtted his friendship he having as it were chained the Goddess Victoria to his side wheresoever he came those who loved not his person maligned his perfections for virtue is alwaies attended on by envy yet was he of such an affable carriage that he wan both love and respect together thus seated on the top of Fortunes wheel● we will leave him for a while to speak of Williams Return into England and how he was entertained by his dea●est Dorothy CHAP. VIII Williams return into England his proof of Dorothies constancy and how they were married together THe renowned William having thus in Italy by his extraordinary valour purchased to himself an honorable Character being reputed next to Sir John Hawkwood the most experienced Commander of that age He having now béen absent from England the space of seven years and remembring the promise he had made unto Dorothy which was to return in a little space knowing how far he had d●viated from that his promise he therefore resolved with all exp●dition to return into England and there withal acquainted Sir John Hawkwood with his determination who was vary loath to part with his company being a person of an exquesite carriage and approved valour and therefore to disswade him from his purpose he used these expressions William you are now mounting on the Theater of Honour have already gained an indifferent good blast in the Trumpet of Fame but what should make you now have off running when you have almost attained to the Goale what shall deter you now from the pursuit of that which hitherto you have been so forward in what strange resolution hath thus on a suddain allter'd your determination what are you resolved to throw off the Name of a Souldier and to take up that of a Lover to abandon the Camp of Mars and to follow the Court of Cupid to put off your steely Cors● and to put on a silken Robe will you thus bury your ●orme ●ur to lye in a Ladies lap who ha●e the tears of ●reckadiles and the songs of Syren● to enchant men from the pursuit of honourable Atchievements remember your self then William and stain not the reputation of the noble society of Marchant Taylors whose fame or deeds of Armes hath hitherto remained unblemished But no persw●sions 〈…〉 the resolutions of William who thought every minute 〈…〉 he had enjoye a si●ht of his beloved Dorothy and the 〈…〉 of Sir John Hawkwood he emb●r● 〈◊〉 England 〈…〉 banks he had not beheld in man 〈…〉 by Neptune and Eolus having a ●air wind and 〈…〉 he in short time arrived at London the happ● Port 〈…〉 his ●●ishes were directed Being come on Land he resolved not to discover himself at the first instant to his beloved Dorothy which he might well canceal his commenance by the length of time end difference of Climate being much alter'd He therefore went to a Tavern ha●d by from whence he informed her by a messenger that a Gentleman from a friend of hers in Italy would gladly speak with her Dorothy at the hearing of the news was much overjoyed and promised the Messenger to be with him presen●ly which she accordingly performed and entring the chamber where he was being almost perswaded yet not fully confident it was her dearest William she began with kind words to bid him welcome home but William with a counterfeit spéech giving her to understand that she was mistaken spake to her in this manner I do not wonder dear Mistres that you are so mistaken since many times before the like hath hapned even by those who knew us both very well the most percingest eye hardly discerning any difference betwixt us either in height phisyogmony couller of the hair or other outward part long time were we acquainted together our intimacy producing strong affection betwixt us whether it were that likeness were the cause of Love or what other motive caused the same I cannot tell but so it was that in weal or woe prosperity or adversity nothing could seperate us many times would he discourse to me of the love and affection passed betwixt ye and of the solemn engagement he made to you for his quick return blaming himself for not performing his promise and resolving upon the first opportunity when he had in some measure set his affaires in order to return unto you which no doubt he had performed had not Death by a cross accident cut him off in his determination which hapned in this manner The Duke of Millaine had proclaimed a solemn Justs to be holden in the honour of his birth day to which resorted many Knights and gallant commanders of great renown and valour to exercise their skil in seats of Armes in honour of their Mistresses at the time appointed none was more forward in those laudable encounters then your true and faithful Lover William whose turn being to Just with an Italian Knight named Lopenzo at the third encounter a splinter of the Knights Lance chanced to run into Williams Helmet and peirced his eye-sight so that feeling himself mortally wounded he desired to be carried to some place near at hand where he might in quiet breath his last which friendly curtesie I and some others performed for him and now feeling the near approach of death because of the great love and familiarity betwixt us and of the near likeness of one person he earnestly desired and perswaded me to think of no otherwise but you as the only maid in the world worthy to be beloved for your noble constancy and high deserts which whosoever shall not love shewes himself to be a hater of virtue and therefore by that former affection betwixt you desiring and by the Authority of love commanding you that the love you bore to him you should turn to me assuring you that nothing could please his soul more then to see you and I matched together wherefore according to his desire Iam come with faithful love built upon your deserts to offer myself and to beseech you to take the offer Here he made a stop to hear what Dorothy would say who first making most hearty sighs doing such obsequies as she could to her supposed dead ●riend William thus answered him Sir for the great love you shewed to my dear Friend I give